Chapter 51: Frog in the Well



"It's better than worrying all the time and doing nothing." Su Jinyue said in a light tone.

Bai Yingxue's face changed after hearing this, but she was concerned about Xiao Duo and couldn't get angry yet, so she could only endure it for the time being!

She secretly looked at Su Jinyue with hatred, knowing that she would suffer sooner or later!

"Let me take a look at your defense first." Xiao Duo said.

Zhao Datong nodded immediately, "Yes, this way, young general."

Su Jinyue stood up and said, "I'll go check on the wounded in the camp."

Xiao Duo looked at Su Jinyue, and they nodded in tacit understanding.

Zhao Datong immediately shouted, "Captain Wang! Take Miss Su with you to our wounded camp!"

A man immediately came in from outside the tent, cupped his fists and said to Su Jinyue, "Miss Su, please."

After watching Su Jinyue leave the tent, Bai Yingxue walked to Xiao Duo and said in a familiar tone, "Xiao Duo, the military situation is urgent this time, why did you bring her to the barracks? You were not like this before."

Zhao Datong saw Xiao Duo looking at the sand table, as if he didn't hear Bai Yingxue's words, and immediately tried to smooth things over, "The military situation is indeed urgent now, so don't worry about it."

"It's not that I care." Bai Yingxue said, "I just think that under the current situation, we still need someone to take care of that young lady. The brothers in the camp will definitely have complaints."

"This..." Zhao Datong hesitated.

Xiao Duo looked at the sand table without even raising his head, "She doesn't need your care."

"but……"

Bai Yingxue wanted to say something else, but was interrupted by Xiao Duo, "General Zhao, I need to discuss strategy with you again."

"Okay, okay!" Zhao Datong raised his head and waved at Bai Yingxue, "Yingxue, go out and calm the soldiers down first. We can talk later if there's anything else."

This was obviously an attempt to send her away. Bai Yingxue was unhappy, but seeing that Xiao Duo didn't even look at her, she could only grit her teeth, obey the order and turn around to leave the tent.

Bai Yingxue's face turned cold as she walked out of the tent. She headed towards the tent of the wounded.

The situation in the wounded tent was worse than Su Jinyue had imagined!

Some soldiers were already dying, and the smell of blood was strong in the tent. One could imagine how badly these soldiers had suffered injuries.

The doctor accompanying the army was a middle-aged doctor, who was accompanied by two children who prepared medicine and were busy bandaging the wounded.

After Captain Wang entered the tent, he called out to the doctor, "Old Zhou, this is... Miss Su, General Su's legitimate daughter, who has come to the camp to check on the soldiers."

The doctor called Lao Zhou looked up at Su Jinyue, who was dressed in bright clothes, and lowered his head to write the prescription. He said in a cold voice: "The soldiers are seriously injured and have no strength to get up. Miss, please be sympathetic to the people."

Hearing the impoliteness in his words, Captain Wang took a few steps forward, coughed lightly at Lao Zhou, and said in a low voice: "She is General Su's daughter. We can't afford to offend her."

Old Zhou snorted and wrote the prescription in silence.

Su Jinyue didn't care at all about what Lao Zhou had just said. Since she came in, she had been paying attention to the situation of the soldiers in the tent, and it seemed that a few of them did have symptoms of fever.

"Doctor Zhou, among these wounded soldiers, how many have symptoms of fever and the high fever won't go away?" Su Jinyue asked.

Old Zhou raised his head and glanced at Su Jinyue again, and said unhappily: "There are few injured soldiers who don't have a fever. Why are you asking these questions?"

"Did the symptoms start recently, or did they occur before?"

"It happened before, but the symptoms were milder..." Old Zhou paused while writing the prescription, raised his head and looked at Su Jinyue again, "Do you know medical skills?"

Just as Su Jinyue was about to speak, the curtain of the tent was opened from outside. "What kind of medical skills does she have? I think she just wants to pretend to care about the soldiers so that she can gain fame when she returns to the capital!"

Bai Yingxue walked in and looked at Su Jinyue with disdain, "This is not the capital, Major General, why don't you use the same tactics you used in the capital in the military camp!"

She made no secret of her dislike for Su Jinyue, "You little girls from the capital, what else can you do except eat, drink and have fun!"

Su Jinyue didn't bother to be polite with her. She turned around and said to her coldly, "A frog in the well, I'm talking about people like you!"

"What did you say?!" Bai Yingxue didn't expect Su Jinyue to talk back.

Su Jinyue said: "Your vision is so narrow, I don't expect you to say anything nice."

"Are the young ladies from the capital so rude and unruly?" Bai Yingxue said.

Su Jinyue smiled, "Are you talking about yourself? I'm new here, and it seems like I've never offended you before, but you ridicule me time and time again, so can't I refute you?"

She walked up to Bai Yingxue, looked into her eyes and said, "If I cried out of shame because of what you said today, you would say that I am a delicate young lady from the capital, and that I cannot say anything."

"Now that you are not in the right and you can't make a point, you start to ridicule me for being unruly. Then I would like to ask this lady, should I follow the rules or not?"

Su Jinyue's words were sonorous and powerful. Bai Yingxue looked at her and took two steps back. "You... you are just talking nonsense! You are... you are just sweet talk!"

"How can we, the rough folks at the border, win over a woman like you?"

Su Jinyue looked cold, "I don't need you to judge me as a woman."

Lao Zhou put down the pen in his hand and looked at the two people, "General Bai, Miss Su, if you want to argue, you'd better get out of the tent."

"There are wounded soldiers here who need to recuperate. You guys making noise here will only hinder their recovery."

Captain Wang said, "Yes, Miss Su, you have seen all the injured soldiers. You and General Xiao have been traveling a long way. I will take you to the tent to rest first."

"Get out now." Bai Yingxue said, "Don't get in the way here."

After she finished speaking, she said to Old Zhou, "Doctor Zhou, please give me the prescription. I will go to the pharmacy in the city to get the medicine."

"I went there last time." Old Zhou shook his head. "The military pay is a little insufficient now, and we need a lot of herbs. Many pharmacies in the city are unwilling to sell medicine on credit."

Bai Yingxue slammed the table in excitement and said, "They are really too much! We are fighting in the front and fighting for the people from time to time, but they are unwilling to even sell us these herbs on credit!"

"It's not their fault." Old Zhou said, "There are too many injured soldiers these days, and the medicine shop is running out of money. The whole family can hardly afford to eat."

Hearing what Lao Zhou said, Su Jinyue looked at him and asked, "How many pharmacies are still open in this city?"

"There are only two left." said Old Zhou.

Bai Yingxue didn't care about the owner of the medicine shop at all, and said directly: "I'll take some people with me to the medicine shop to borrow some medicine! You don't have to worry about other things!"

Hearing Bai Yingxue's meaning, Su Jinyue raised her hand to stop her, "You are not going to borrow, you want to bring people to rob!"


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