The stars twinkled, and the bright moonlight shone on a Western Rong military camp in the grassland, where bonfires burned.

In the firelight, groups of Western Rong soldiers gathered around the campfire, drinking and eating meat, some sitting, some standing, chatting and laughing.

A cavalry force of over a thousand men thundered into the camp. Luna jumped off one of the cavalrymen's horses and waved goodbye to him.

He patted the bag containing the pills again to make sure the medicine hadn't been lost along the way, before running toward a golden-topped tent in the camp.

Upon arriving at the tent entrance, two guards raised their hands to stop him: "This is the commander's tent; unauthorized personnel are not allowed to enter."

Luna said, “Commander Lupin is my elder brother. Go and tell him that his younger brother Luna has arrived.”

A guard looked him up and down and said, "You wait here, I'll go in and report to the commander."

Luna waited in place for a moment, and then a guard came out of the tent and said, "The commander of ten thousand lets you in."

The guard's words were neither polite nor respectful, but Luna didn't mind. He and his older brother were not on good terms to begin with, but he needed his brother's introduction to see the king, so it didn't matter if his brother treated him poorly in terms of etiquette.

He entered the tent excitedly. There he saw his elder brother, Lupin, sitting at the head of the table.

Lupin and Luna are brothers and look very similar. However, Lupin has a full beard, a strong physique, and wears full armor, making him look stronger and more imposing than Luna.

He glanced at Luna and asked unhappily, "Why aren't you running your business? What are you doing in my camp? I have no money here."

He looked down on his lazy, good-for-nothing brother.

Luna wasn't very ambitious; all he thought about was making money. But he wasn't very bright and often got tricked by his business partners. In the end, when they lost money in their businesses, they came to him for loans.

They are nothing like the men of the Western Rong; if they lack anything, they simply mount their horses and rob the neighboring Great Jin.

Luna disliked the look of disdain his older brother gave him the most.

He knew his elder brother was a renowned archer in the Western Rong, and that he had just been promoted to general of a ten-thousand-strong army. But deep down, he felt that doing business properly was better than fighting and killing.

Even the best of men make mistakes, and even the most skilled horse can stumble. In the midst of constant battles, you never know when you might get hurt. It's nowhere near as safe as doing business.

He didn't come to borrow money this time; he brought the goddess's medicine. If it could cure the king's heart ailment, rewards would pour in, and he could repay the money he owed his elder brother, so he wouldn't have to put up with his brother's attitude anymore.

Thinking of this, he puffed out his chest and said loudly, "Brother, I'm not here to borrow money this time, I'm here to offer medicine to the King."

After saying that, he took out a paper packet containing pills: "This is a divine medicine that I obtained from the goddess."

He should have kept quiet, because as soon as he finished speaking, Lupin stood up and spat, his spittle almost flying onto Lupin's face.

"You want the goddess's medicine? With your pathetic appearance, you'd be lucky to even see the goddess's servants. Do you think you can get your hands on the goddess's medicine? The king sent people to search for so long in the Great Jin Dynasty and they still couldn't find it. You keep talking about the goddess, why don't you take a good look at yourself? You've gone mad from doing business. You should give up this nonsense and come work for my army to earn some money to support my mother. That's what's the point of seeing the king. If the king knew I had a useless brother like you, I probably wouldn't even be able to keep my position as commander of ten thousand men."

This barrage of insults left Luna completely bewildered and displeased.

He arrived full of joy, only to be thoroughly berated by his elder brother the moment he saw him. Without his brother's introduction, he, a commoner, would have had no right to meet the king.

He swallowed his anger and said, "This medicine is really good. I just couldn't go to see the King, so I came to find my elder brother."

Lupin glanced at the small paper packet in his hand and gave a mocking smile: "That little paper packet you're holding? Does it even contain an ounce of medicine? Do you even know how doctors prescribe medicine for our king?"

"How did you drive it?" Luna asked curiously.

“We previously invited an old doctor from the Great Jin Dynasty. He prescribed medicine for the King, with each herb weighing three ounces or more, and each prescription required eight herbs.”

"Ah, wouldn't one dose of medicine require two and a half pounds of medicinal herbs?"

"That's right. Two and a half catties of medicinal herbs are boiled in a large pot with water for half a day, and finally concentrated into a small bowl of medicinal juice for the king to take. Three times a day, that yields seven and a half catties of medicinal herbs."

Luna was dumbfounded. What kind of person needs seven catties of medicinal herbs a day? Is this for treating illness? This person is clearly a walking pharmacy!

He subconsciously touched the paper package; each pill inside was only the size of a soybean, and he couldn't help but feel guilty.

Lupin noticed his guilty conscience, pursed his lips, and continued, "Do you know how much silver a dose of this medicine would cost?"

"How much silver?"

"One hundred taels of silver, and that's just for one meal. It costs three hundred taels of silver a day."

Hearing this, Luna's eyes lit up: "So being a doctor is this lucrative?"

He planned to go back to Su Wan and they could work together to prescribe medicine for others. If each dose cost 100 taels, they could prescribe 10 doses a day, which would be 1,000 taels, and 30,000 taels a month.

This kind of doctor is practically robbing people.

Just as he was lost in his fantasies, Lupin's next words poured cold water on his enthusiasm.

“If it works, that’s fine, but the problem is it doesn’t work,” Lupin sat down again. “The king said that doctor was a quack and has already been beheaded. You’re taking such a small paper packet now? Do you want to die? If you ask me, you might as well go home and sell the cattle and sheep; you’ll get a few hundred taels of silver anyway.”

Luna broke out in a cold sweat upon hearing this.

If I take the medicine to see the king and it doesn't work, that would be a serious crime. If I don't go, and my mother asks me about it when I get home, saying that I traded sixty head of livestock for five pills, she'd be furious.

He was caught in a dilemma, filled with regret for his foolish mistake. He'd inexplicably believed Su Xiaodi when she said the medicine was from a goddess. Now, thinking back, the medicine was probably just dough.

But he also felt that Su Xiaodi didn't seem like a swindler. How could a swindler be the doctor of the Jade-Faced General?

While they were hesitating, a soldier came in from outside the tent to report.

"Commander, the King is feeling a tightness in his chest. I heard your brother has come to offer medicine. I order you to take your men there immediately."

Lupin stood up and asked, "How did Your Majesty know?"

Luna knew perfectly well. It must have been the cavalryman who had carried him who had been so talkative as to report the news. Now he was in trouble; he had no choice but to go.

The thought of what would happen if the pills didn't work made his legs tremble uncontrollably, and he almost collapsed.

Lupin came over and pulled him up: "Since the king wants you to go, you should be happy. Why are you paralyzed? Come on."

After saying that, Lupin dragged Luna out of the tent and headed towards the royal tent at the back of the camp.