Chapter 222: War Smoke Rising
Hearing Zhuang Shihan's nonchalant tone, Song Yanxi couldn't suppress her anger and asked, "What about you? If you don't want to cure diseases and save lives, why did you choose to study medicine?"
"Oh, you mean this? Originally it was to treat that person, but he died before I graduated."
Zhuang Shihan lowered her eyes, her voice sounding incredibly sarcastic. "How ridiculous! You studied medicine, but you still can't save the people you want to save."
Song Yanxi looked at her quietly. She could feel her real sadness, but she couldn't feel any sympathy at all.
Her deceased relative is indeed pitiful, but aren’t the innocent people in this city also pitiful?
As a medical practitioner, how could she say with a straight face that it didn't matter to her how many people died?
If she wanted to stand by and watch, she could have chosen not to save them from the beginning, instead of saying that she had a way to help and give hope to the sick people, while watching coldly like an executioner.
There are many doctors in the border town, not just Zhuang Shihan.
Even if she doesn't save him, there are plenty of people who are willing to save him.
She really wanted to ask her what these people in the border town meant to her.
In her mind, do these lives have no other use except to earn her a good reputation?
Zhuang Shihan raised her eyes and met Song Yanxi's extremely angry eyes. She asked in confusion, "These people are not related to you at all. Why are you so angry? Didn't you say that your master deceived you when you started studying medicine?"
She thought of something and suddenly laughed, "You weren't being deceived so much that you really thought you were a miracle doctor who saved the world and took it as your responsibility to cure diseases and save lives, right?
Those words you said when you took the oath are just to fool yourself, who would be so stupid as to take them seriously? "
Song Yanxi's eyes grew colder, "I'm different from you."
"Yes, you are noble, you are the savior, okay?"
Seeing that she couldn't be persuaded, Zhuang Shihan stood up irritably, said "You'd better not regret it", and turned away.
Staring at her back, Song Yanxi suddenly asked, "Princess Shihan has been busy all day and probably hasn't had time to eat yet. How about I treat you to some eagle meat?"
Zhuang Shihan suddenly stopped and turned to look at her with suspicion.
Given their relationship, why would Song Yanxi invite her to dinner for no reason?
I'm afraid that since he couldn't convince her, he thought of using some shady means and took the opportunity to poison the food.
Before she could ask, Song Yanxi explained thoughtfully, "The Dark Commander hunted them specially before I came here. They are very fresh and are probably roasted by now.
I heard that the people of Liang are the best at training eagles. I imagine that eating a trained eagle would be unique in flavor."
Hearing the key words, Zhuang Shihan's expression suddenly changed, and she blurted out, "The eagle of Liang State? Are you crazy?"
Song Yanxi asked coldly, "So what about the eagle from Liang State?
The people of Liang have always been ambitious. Even after being defeated by General Lin in the previous battle, they still refused to give up. It has only been less than three months since you returned to the capital, and you can't help but send troops to harass my people on the border of Da'an.
Only thirty miles north of the border town, there is a Liang army of 100,000 stationed, eyeing the border town covetously.
Let alone this one eagle, if any of the Liang army's eagles dare to fly over the border town again, we will kill them one by one, and consider it as improving the food for the soldiers patrolling the city."
Zhuang Shihan's face turned pale when she heard this. She gritted her teeth and asked, "Do you really want a war between the two countries?"
"Doesn't Liang Guo want to?"
Song Yanxi stared at Zhuang Shihan with serious eyes, not wanting to miss any subtle changes on her face.
"They..." Zhuang Shihan was about to speak when she caught a glimpse of a smoke signal in the sky. She felt her feet go weak and she almost fell to the ground.
Song Yanxi quickly pulled her aside and heard her mutter, "How could a war start?"
Following Zhuang Shihan's gaze, her heart sank instantly.
The wolf smoke signaled that war was about to begin between the two countries.
Worried that the warning smoke signals would cause chaos outside, Song Yanxi let go of Zhuang Shihan's arm and was about to leave, but she grabbed her wrist with her backhand.
"let go!"
Song Yanxi warned coldly: "Don't make me say it a second time."
Zhuang Shihan finally found her voice and quickly said, "Don't panic. There's no chance of a fight."
"How can you be sure?"
"You don't have to worry about this. We just need to take care of the people in the city and control the spread of the epidemic.
As for other things, you don't need to worry about them, they won't cause any trouble."
Hearing this firm tone, Song Yanxi broke free from her hand and asked coldly, "If the two armies go to war, how about using your head as a sacrifice?"
Zhuang Shihan's expression suddenly turned even uglier, with sweat oozing from her forehead. She mumbled, "You're going too far."
Song Yanxi didn't even bother to give her a glance, and only said: "If you don't dare to gamble, then get out of the way and don't stand here and get in the way."
Before she left, she looked back at the frightened Zhuang Shihan, her cold eyes filled with murderous intent, "I don't care what you two did before, from now on, stay in the city honestly.
If you dare to attempt to endanger Da'an again, or even incite the people, I won't mind sending you both off early!"
"You dare!" Zhuang Shihan was so angry that her whole body was shaking.
She stared at Song Yanxi's back and said unwillingly, "I am the princess appointed by His Majesty himself. Who dares to touch me?"
Song Yanxi said without even turning her head: "You can give it a try."
Staring blankly at her figure disappearing around the corner, Zhuang Shihan murmured, "This is impossible. He clearly agreed..."
The next moment, the confusion in her eyes disappeared.
Judging from what Song Yanxi said just now, she must have noticed something and may have even told His Royal Highness Prince Jin.
She had to leave here quickly and go to Brother Feng to discuss countermeasures.
We have to go now, without a moment's delay!
As for the sick people inside...
She can't even take care of herself now, how can she care about others? Let them fend for themselves.
Zhuang Shihan quickened her pace, but still felt it was not fast enough, so she simply lifted her skirt and planned to jog out.
As I turned the corner of the corridor, I was startled by a figure leaning against a pillar.
"Who!" She took two steps back and asked cautiously.
The corridor was dark and there were no lights on, so Zhuang Shihan could only judge that the other person was a man based on his figure.
Xi Lin chuckled and asked, "Princess Shihan is so anxious, is she trying to escape?"
Zhuang Shihan recognized his voice and casually said, "There's a woman in the next street who can't come over. I promised her husband that I'd go over and check on her after I'm done with the clinic."
"It's just right. I have nothing to do right now, so I can just go with the princess."
"You want to come with me?" Zhuang Shihan stopped suddenly.
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