"Because the two places are far apart, it would probably take them a year to get back on foot."
So they wanted to buy some horses.
"I don't want you to send it to me, is it okay if I buy it for you?" Qiu Yan felt incredibly anxious.
She really took a liking to Huyan Chanyu's warhorse.
No money? Can I buy on credit? She shook her head to herself.
Qin Susu could no longer understand what Qiu Yan was saying.
Where did she get so many friends from the Central Plains who wanted to return home?
Clearly, Huyan Chanyu was not happy about it.
“My horse is a warhorse, how can it be reduced to a commoner’s mount? That would be too disgraceful for my horse.”
Qiu Yan: "You still won't agree to buy it?"
Huyan Chanyu: "Absolutely impossible!"
"Huyan Chanyu," Qiu Yan thought, trying to come up with an answer.
"Although you are in your prime, you often feel weak and listless, am I right?"
Qin Susu... Could it be that Xiaoyan can tell fortunes?
She glanced at Mayi, but she was curled up on the couch, lost in her own sorrow, completely oblivious to Qiu Yan's words.
"Nonsense!" Huyan Chanyu frowned, his face showing embarrassment.
Qiu Yan: "Don't let your imposing stature fool you, your body... is a bit weak."
"You!" Huyan Chanyu was startled, and his dark face turned a deep red.
"What do you mean by that?" His lips trembled slightly, and he suddenly felt utterly humiliated.
Qiu Yan: "Of course, my body has been hollowed out. Huyan Chanyu, do you really want me to lay this out in front of these two ladies?"
Huyan Chanyu didn't feel embarrassed, but Qiu Yan did.
Qin Susu understood these words even less.
She lay down on the couch with Mayi and fell fast asleep.
"How did you figure that out?" Huyan Chanyu took a step back, his face starting to burn.
He half-squatted down and sat on the steps by the door.
"I am a female healer." Qiu Yan's simple four words made Huyan Chanyu suddenly stand up.
"Medical woman?"
He had killed countless doctors because of his unspeakable illness, but none of them could cure him.
But Qiu Yan saw it at a glance.
He... has lost all face.
Actually, he was just weak and listless, and afterwards he would be drenched in sweat.
"Can you cure this disease?"
Qiu Yan: "Yes and no."
"It's just a few hundred warhorses. If you can heal me, I'll give you all of them. Otherwise..."
"Otherwise, I'll give you back your warhorse!"
"No, I'll pay with my life!"
...
Qiu Yan finally managed to calm Huyan Chanyu down, and breathed a long sigh of relief.
...Tonight, the soldiers worked until 9 PM before they finished loading all the gunpowder.
Ling Ba had already purchased four carriages. Under the moonlight, he and Captain Yuan sent men to load all the gunpowder onto the carriages.
Each soldier had food and water bags hanging on their horse.
There are four horses in total, including the ones we already have.
The next day at dawn, the moon was bright and the stars were few.
Ling Ba, accompanied by Xue Ning and over a hundred other soldiers, personally escorted them.
At that moment, the soldiers' eyes were moist, and they were all reluctant to part.
They were terrified that this departure would be their last.
Before leaving, Lieutenant Yuan put his arm around Ling Ba's shoulder and said, "Deputy General, I'm entrusting these hundred-odd men to you."
Their numbers are dwindling.
Being in a foreign land, he was deeply saddened whenever his soldiers died.
They were all born of parents, and he himself had a son, so he could understand the longing of parents for their children.
"Yes, don't worry." Ling Ba nodded solemnly, glancing back at the hundred or so soldiers behind him.
With tears in their eyes, they bid a final farewell to Captain Yuan and the others.
Captain Yuan mounted his horse and said one last thing: "Eighth Deputy General, you must bring them back to Dongjin safe and sound."
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