In the camp.

The soldiers, each holding a bowl, lined up in a long queue to receive their food.

The soldiers who had received their meals carried their bowls back to their tents to eat.

The soldiers who were passing by queuing behind them saw the bean sprouts in the bowl from a distance. As if they had planned it together, they all rubbed their eyes in disbelief.

After rubbing his eyes, a soldier watched the soldier with the bowl leave, then craned his neck to look into the bowl of the soldier who had just received his food.

After confirming that there were bean sprouts inside, he whispered to the squad leader in front of him.

He took a step forward and leaned close to the person in front of him, saying, "Squad leader, why has the food in this military camp suddenly improved? A few days ago it was fruit drinks, and today it's bean sprouts again."

Bean sprouts are not something ordinary people can afford to eat.

This stuff isn't very durable when cooked, so farmers who are a little better off use it to make tofu.

Impoverished farmers would only keep the beans as seed, hoping to plant more and more next year.

Wan Shun also noticed that the food had changed, and it seemed that all of this had happened after he went to the wounded soldiers' camp and the township head of Kangle examined his pulse.

A thought flashed through his mind for a moment: he suspected that these were all bean sprouts that the head of Kang Le Township had brought for them.

But he quickly dismissed the idea, after all, with an army of 70,000, how easy would it be to get bean sprouts to eat every day?

Perhaps there was a problem with the grain supply, which is why they had to turn these bean sprouts into a dish.

Just as Wan Shun was beginning to guess the reason, the cooks who were distributing the meals shouted, "Hey you, what are you standing there for? If you want to eat, come over here, or get out of the way."

Although Wan Shun was a squad leader, there were many squad leaders in the military camp.

The cooks responsible for distributing meals were not people the cooks could afford to offend. If they held a grudge, their hands would tremble twice when distributing meals, and the cooks would go hungry.

No one would do something like that unless they were completely brain-dead.

So he quickly replied with a smile, "Coming, coming."

With the help of soybean sprouts, Lu Qiqi and the doctors in the wounded soldiers' camp quickly found that scurvy was under effective control.

For a moment, the doctors in the wounded soldiers' camp cheered as if they had won a battle.

Seeing the fighting spirit of these doctors, whether old or young, made Physician Ren very happy.

His gaze toward Lu Qiqi became increasingly loving.

Ren Yuan howled like a rabid dog, venting the emotions he had been suppressing for days.

Song Yanqing had personally witnessed patients with scurvy, and Ren Yuan had heard his father talk about how terrible the disease was since he was a child.

The illness that could not be cured ten years ago is now not only under control, but can also be cured in the future. Ren Yuan's decision not to take off his clothes and dance in front of everyone is already a sign of his composure.

Looking at his son's silly appearance, Physician Ren felt disgusted and wished he could go back to more than ten years ago and have another son!

...

In another part of the main camp, in the commander's tent.

Song Yanqing sat high in the seat of honor, listening to An Jiu's investigation report.

"A few days ago, Commander Zhao sent someone to inform a deputy general at the East Gate. Before he could see the man, he was killed to silence him and has now been thrown into a mass grave."

On the battlefield, swords and spears have no eyes; when war breaks out, people die every day.

That's how the mass grave came to be.

This pit was dug by the laborers, and the number of skeletons at the bottom is unknown.

Song Yan said calmly, "The East Gate is guarded by General Wu. Have you found out who the deputy general is?"

An Jiu replied, "It has been confirmed that it is General Wu's right-hand man, Deputy General Gu."

Then, An Jiu added, "This person was recommended by the Second Prince."

Just as he expected.

However, upon hearing that it was the Second Prince who did it, Song Yanqing's heart skipped a beat.

The brotherly love and respect that once existed will eventually be destroyed in a fire!

Song Yanqing said, "Since this person was recommended by the Second Prince, we should also investigate whether Wu Guangping was involved."

Despite all the previous events, as the garrison general of the East Gate, he remained untouched, like a flower in full bloom.

Being too clean can arouse suspicion.

The Tatars attacked the West Gate several times more often than the East Gate, and the Shadow Guards discovered that the West Gate had the most Tatars infiltrating.

On the contrary, no such phenomenon was found at the East Gate.

To say that General Wu's strict military discipline was the cause is even more impossible. A person who wants to return to the pleasure quarters every few days is unlikely to be a suitable general if the current emperor did not value civil affairs over military affairs and could not find a suitable general when war is imminent.

It's not General Wu's turn at all, as the general guarding the border!

Once the Shadow Guards have investigated the matter thoroughly, the soybean sprouting process at the grain camp will gradually get back on track.

Then those three centurions will be punished!

......

Grain camp.

The three centurions had no idea that the executioner's blade would soon be at their throats.

At this moment, they are in the grain camp, following closely behind the head of Kang Le Township.

All three are over forty years old and are chauvinistic men who have the final say at home.

It's really asking too much of them to go to such lengths to please women just to save their own lives.

Lu Qiqi looked at the soybeans she had selected; these soybeans were not spoiled.

Instead, it was broken in half with a stick during the shelling process, and it's perfectly fine to eat.

So she instructed the three commanders to have people dry the beans and store them in a dry place.

They were also asked to repair the roofs of the granaries. Previously, the beans in the Jiazi granary of the First Battalion had sprouted because the roof was leaking and damp.

After giving her instructions, Lu Qiqi went to the Yi-character granary and watched as everyone picked beans with winnowing baskets. She then slipped inside.

These past few days, she's been at the grain camp, and she soon discovered that one-tenth of the beans grown there were shriveled and unable to sprout.

Therefore, if you want to sprout beans, you can only reduce the amount by one-tenth.

Soybeans were already in short supply, and the daily food needs of the 70,000-strong army were like locusts swarming across the land.

This is not a solution at all.

It seems that Song Yanqing will have to find a way to get some soybeans from somewhere else.

Otherwise, a short-term supply will not achieve the desired therapeutic effect, and things will become even more difficult afterward!