Two days later.
"Have you caught him?" Xiao Changqi sat down at the table and used his injured hand to bandage Sun Jianchou.
Sun Jianchou said helplessly, "Your Highness, please don't lead troops into battle again, otherwise your wounds will reopen."
When Xiao Changqi led his troops to infiltrate the city of Gela to "rob" the winter clothes and food of the Lidan nobles, he successfully seized a lot of things, but he was still discovered. During the fight, Xiao Changqi was shot in the arm with an arrow.
There could be no delay on the way, so Xiao Changqi didn't even remove the arrowhead, but only cut off the fletching. It was only after returning that Sun Jianchou removed the arrowhead.
"We've caught him. What does Your Highness intend to do with him?" Luo Ying asked with a serious expression.
Yuan Qing sat to the side, tapping his fingers on the table intermittently: "The Censor is His Majesty's man, and he has the Crown Prince backing him up. If we deal with him without authorization, I'm afraid the Crown Prince will impeach the Prince again."
"When a general is in the field, he may disobey orders." Xiao Changqi said coldly, "Cut off his head and send it to the capital by express courier."
"The remaining accomplices were all beheaded and their heads were hung on the city gate as a warning to others."
"Yes." Luo Ying accepted the order and left.
Only Xiao Changqi, Yuan Qing, and Sun Jianchou remained in the hall.
"Your Highness, do you know what kind of pill Xiao Yuanyuan gave you?" Sun Jianchou asked Xiao Changqi, picking up a pill.
Sun Jianchou had brought only a limited amount of medicine from the capital. One day, a soldier who had lost an arm was brought back and was screaming in pain. Coincidentally, Sun Jianchou was out of medicine, so he asked Xiao Changqi for a few pills.
After Sun Jianchou fed the soldier one of the pills called painkillers, the soldier's pain from having his hand cut off was significantly relieved.
Sun Jianchou also had herbs that could relieve pain, but the effect was not as immediate.
He didn't know that an anesthetic was added to the painkiller on New Year's Day, which numbed the pain nerves rather than relieved the pain.
Xiao Changqi didn't say anything, but reached out and snatched the pills, putting them into a sandalwood brocade box.
The pills the little bird gave him have been squandered by Sun Jianchou, leaving only five pills.
So Xiao Changqi simply had someone find a brocade box to put the remaining pills in.
“I’ve never seen a bird as clever as Xiao Yuanyuan before,” Yuan Qing suddenly said with a smile.
Which pet bird knows how to make pills?
"In my opinion, Xiao Yuanyuan is just a mischievous little bird." Sun Jianchou smiled meaningfully. "Your Highness, don't you agree?"
Xiao Changqi said in a calm voice, "She is the little bird I raised."
Whether she is human or demon, she is Xiao Changqi's pet bird.
Sun Jianchou calmly packed up the medicine box: "Your little bird is practically being raised like an ancestor."
Back when he asked Xiao Changqi for the pills, Xiao Changqi looked at him with an extremely cold gaze, as if what he wanted was not the pills, but Xiao Changqi's life.
Sun Jianchou knew, of course, that Xiao Changqi wasn't reluctant to part with the pills, but rather that they were a gift from Xiao Yuanyuan.
Because it was a gift from the prince's beloved bird, it was considered exceptionally precious.
Yuan Qing smiled and retorted, "Isn't what you're raising a princess?"
Sun Jianchou: "Speaking of which, Your Highness, if we win this battle, what do you think the Emperor will reward you with?"
Yuan Qing: "Gold and silver treasures?"
"Every year you give out gold and silver jewelry as a reward, shouldn't you try something new this year? The Prince's mansion is not short of money, but it is missing a princess."
Yuan Qing and Sun Jianchou took turns speaking, and as soon as Sun Jianchou finished speaking, Yuan Qing continued, "There are several eligible young ladies from noble families in the capital, but I wonder who will be fortunate enough to become the princess consort."
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