Lu Yanzheng and Qin Shen came from the Western Qiang region, crossing the Yunshan Mountains.

Before this, they led two thousand men to raid the granary of the Western Qiang and steal the grain from the Western Qiang army. After the success, the general led him and more than one hundred other soldiers to lure the Western Qiang away so that Eagle and his men could transport the grain back smoothly.

However, the more than one hundred men who followed the general were injured and had difficulty walking in the mountains. So the general took him ahead, thinking that he could get grain from Yongshan County as soon as possible and send it back to the border army to relieve the border army's food shortage.

Lu Yanzheng pursed his lips and told Qin Shen what Zhu Youcai had just said, "According to him, that batch of grain should be in Dingshui Village."

"Dingshui Village?" Qin Shen was taken aback. "The village we rescued last night? General, is that your hometown?"

Lu Yanzheng nodded, "Yes, but Zhu Youcai's words cannot be entirely trusted."

There was a major flaw in his statement: ten thousand bushels of grain, several boxes of military pay, and weapons, etc. Just moving all these things would take a considerable amount of time.

However, according to Zhu Youcai, the time it took for Dingshui Village to go to Qinggang Mountain to steal grain that night was just enough to move the things away.

The timing doesn't match up, and there are only so many people in Dingshui Village. At that time, they were also fighting a life-or-death battle with the bandits of Qinggang Mountain. Under such circumstances, where would they have found the manpower and time to get those things from the cave?

But now that the One-Eyed King is dead, he still has to go to Dingshui Village to find out exactly what happened that night.

"The people of Dingshui Village are really brave! After their grain was stolen by Qinggang Mountain, they still managed to think of taking it back. Even the greenhorns in our army aren't as brave as them," Qin Shen exclaimed in amazement.

Upon hearing this, Lu Yanzheng smiled slightly, a faint sense of pride welling up inside him; that was the place where he was born.

That's good, they're all still alive and well.

He knew that a large number of people from Yongshan County had fled famine, and he also knew that the imperial court was not doing its job and could not provide the people of Yongshan County with a guarantee of survival. Therefore, he would turn a blind eye to the famine refugees who were passing through the border town.

Lu Yanzheng had someone summon the six departments of the county government overnight to arrange the work for the next month.

The sky was already showing the first light of dawn, and only Lu Yanzheng and Qin Shen remained in the study.

"I'll leave the county government affairs to you. I'll take some men to pick up Langya and the others," Lu Yanzheng said calmly.

Wolf Fang was the centurion of the hundred-plus wounded men, judging by their pace, as they were almost at the valley where they had found the water source.

Qin Shen asked with a pained expression, "General, can we switch places? I'm really afraid we'll mess things up here!"

“You can’t, and besides, I still need to investigate the matter of those ten thousand shi of grain and salary,” Lu Yanzheng glanced at him, “or do you think you can find out about those ten thousand shi of grain and salary as soon as possible?”

Qin Shen quickly waved his hand, "No, no, no, you know I'm terrible at finding things, General, you should go!"

He even used honorifics, which shows how much he disliked looking for things.

Lu Yanzheng looked at the rising sun outside the window, wondering how things were going in Dingshui Village.

...

After Lu Yanzheng left, Jiang Qinyu and the others quickly settled the wounded, and Village Chief Li sent Chen Shao to town to fetch a doctor.

There was a pharmacy on the first floor of Jiang Qinyu's shopping mall, which stocked some common medicines. She didn't know anything about medicine, but she could tell with her naked eye which people were seriously injured, so she took out some medicine to prevent infection and secretly put it into the water given to those people.

Whether it's useful or not, just consider it a purchase for peace of mind!

At the entrance of Dingshui Village, Liu Yazi, who was guarding the watchtower, saw Chen Shao driving over in the distance and quickly shouted down, "The doctor is here!"

"Quickly, please ask a doctor to take a look at us..." Village Chief Li said anxiously.

Several people were seriously injured tonight, and one of them could be left with a disability. How could he not be worried?

Chen Shao drove his mule cart swiftly into the village, followed by another mule cart and several people of all ages.

When Village Chief Li saw this, his heart jumped. He pulled Chen Shao aside and asked, "Chen Shao, what's going on? Are these all doctors?"

Chen Shao didn't reply to him. Instead, he helped the old doctor out of the car and said respectfully, "Doctor, please go and examine the injured person first. As for what you mentioned, I will tell the village chief right away."

"Alright, alright, I'll head over right away." The old doctor nodded to Village Chief Li and the others, and followed the guide to the ancestral hall.

Village Chief Li looked at Chen Shao with a puzzled expression. "What's going on?"

Chen Shao looked at him somewhat nervously, then pointed to another mule cart and the others, saying, "Uncle Village Chief, these are the doctor's family members. When I went to invite him, he was about to take his family to Qiongzhou to stay with relatives. How could I let him go? So..."

Chen Shao told the old doctor's family that Dingshui Village had water and land, and the crops in the fields could be harvested next year. He suggested that instead of going to seek refuge with relatives, he should stay in Dingshui Village for a while.

No elderly person wants to leave their hometown, especially someone of the doctor's age, who is afraid of dying on the road, which would be a tragic death far from home.

Upon hearing Chen Shao's explanation of the situation in Dingshui Village, he immediately agreed, and sure enough, he brought his whole family directly to the village.

"Uncle Village Chief, you won't blame me for bringing them back without telling you, will you?" Chen Shao was a little uncertain. What if he did something wrong? Wouldn't he lose face in front of Liu Yazi?

Village Chief Li slapped him on the back, "Good for you, kid! You've done our village a huge favor!"

It's already difficult for villagers to see a doctor, and now so many people are injured. If we had to keep going back and forth to call a doctor, who knows how much time we would have wasted. Now that a doctor has come to the village, the problem has been solved immediately.

"Hehe, it's all thanks to the good teaching you all, Uncle Village Chief." Chen Shao smiled broadly, revealing his tiger teeth, when he heard that no one blamed him.

Village Chief Li smiled and turned to instruct Meng to settle the old doctor's family.

When the others heard about this, no one objected. After all, what happened tonight was too dangerous. Having a doctor in the village and not having one made a world of difference. A doctor can save lives, and having him around would put their minds at ease.

Inside the ancestral hall, the old doctor stumbled upon seeing so many injured people. "So many people? How many bandits came?"

Jiang Qinyu and the others tacitly kept quiet and only urged the doctor to examine the patient quickly.

The senior doctor naturally examined the seriously injured first, but after taking the pulse, he asked in confusion, "Huh? Why doesn't this pulse match the severity of the injury?"

The injuries looked serious, and a high fever should have developed soon, but the patient's pulse remained stable.

Jiang Qinyu stood there nonchalantly, without saying a word.

"Oh dear, maybe it's our ancestors appearing again!"

"That's right, that's right, I feel very safe as long as I'm standing inside the ancestral hall..."

The women who had been assigned to care for the wounded spoke in hushed tones.

Jiang Qinyu and the other doctors left only after they had finished their consultations and confirmed that the villagers were all alright.

She needs to go back and check on the two children; they must have been terrified tonight.