Once the boat was a little further away, we looked over here. The girl was struggling in the water, but some guards had already gone down to rescue her, and she should be back on the boat soon.
Not long after, the girl was rescued and taken away by her maid.
"My lady, let's go back too!" The girl left, and there were far fewer lanterns on the lake, and not many people around; it was rather deserted.
An Shuyi nodded, "Let's go back!"
Xiao Yubai then instructed the innkeeper to row the boat to the shore, help her down, and head towards the inn. "Waiter, bring water to the room."
"Yes, sir."
Once we got upstairs, he waited outside, poured the water in, and then came out to wait again.
After An Shuyi finished showering and changed into her pajamas, she let him in. Once her hair was dry, she sat in front of the dressing table to wipe her face and comb her hair before going back to bed.
The next morning, the two had breakfast and then returned to the camp. "Madam, I will deal with Prince Qi in the next few days, so I won't be able to stay with you. But it's only a few days, it won't be too long."
"Do you need me to come with you? I'm a general, after all, and I'm perfectly capable of leading troops into battle."
"No need, Madam, you've worked too hard and your face is all tanned. I can go by myself, you can stay in the tent."
"Alright, then be careful." Since he was so ungrateful, she decided not to press the matter further.
And what he said wasn't wrong. She's gotten a lot tanned in the past few years. Her body is still fair, but her face is a bit dark. She can take a few days to recover and hopefully she'll get her skin back to normal.
She applied sunscreen every day, but she still got tanned, which shows how hot the weather must have been.
Back at the camp, Xiao Yubai went about his business, while An Shuyi stayed in the tent. Apart from reading storybooks, he couldn't find anything to do, but with storybooks around, he could stay put.
A few days later, drums sounded in the camp, and the soldiers outside began to cheer. She knew that this was the sound of drums announcing the death of King Qi and their victory.
Not long after, the wounded soldiers in the distance were carried back. It was normal to be injured on the battlefield, and she was already used to it. Then, the Qi King's soldiers were brought back.
Xiao Yubai did not return; he was probably dealing with some matters. He did not return to his tent until dark.
An Shuyi was still reading a storybook in the tent. She didn't care at all when he returned, since he came back at this time every day. But she soon noticed something was wrong. "Are you injured?"
Generals wear armor when they go to war, but they also need an undergarment underneath. However, his armor is neither armor nor an undergarment; it looks like someone else's, and it's very small.
"Madam is amazing. You even found out. I was afraid you would worry, so I had the army doctor take care of it and then took the strategist's robe to wear. I didn't expect you to find out."
"Is it serious? I have some excellent wound medicine here; it will heal in a few days."
"We were ambushed by the enemy and shot with an arrow, but it wasn't too serious."
"To be honest, I won't be angry." She's not blind, nor is she stupid.
"Madam, you're so clever, how am I supposed to live?" Xiao Yubai said helplessly, and had no choice but to say again, "The arrow was originally aimed at Deputy Officer Yang, but I blocked it. If I hadn't, he would be dead."
Yang, the adjutant, had been through thick and thin with him for many years. He also had elderly parents and young children at home. If he were to die like this, how could he explain it to his family? He could block the arrow but would not die; he would only be injured.
He was taller than Deputy Yang, so the arrow wouldn't hit his heart; it would only go downwards. Just as he guessed, the arrow hit a little below his chest. Although the position was a bit off, the wound was still quite serious.
I didn't want my wife to know, so as not to worry her, but such a clever woman couldn't be kept in the dark.
An Shuyi glared at her, knowing full well that this was the case. He was very skilled and had internal energy, so it was impossible for him to be ambushed and unable to dodge. He must have been saving someone to do so.
His claim that his injury wasn't serious was obviously a lie; his face was as white as a sheet of paper, and he still didn't dare to walk, which showed that the injury was quite severe.
He went over and helped him onto the bed. "Let me take another look and apply some medicine for you. This wound medicine was prepared by Dr. Liu and it's very effective. You should recover in a week, or seven days at most."
"Thank you, Madam." Xiao Yubai did not refuse. The military doctor in the camp was a barefoot doctor who could only prepare some simple medicine and bandage the wound, but he couldn't do anything else.
There was no better way to deal with the soldiers who were too badly wounded than to let them bear the consequences themselves.
"Madam, do you have many of these kinds of medicines?"
"You've got some nerve to ask. I have another box here, you can have it all." With that, he waved his hand, and a small box appeared on the ground, filled with bottles of medicine.
"These were prepared by Dr. Liu some time ago. It cost me a lot of medicinal herbs. I'll give you all of these, and keep only one bottle for you to use."
"Alright, thank you, Madam. Please have the soldiers outside summon the strategist; I have some matters to arrange."
"Okay, but let me treat your wound first." He took out a medicine bottle from the warehouse, took out a pill from it, and put it in his mouth.
They took off his shoes, then his robes—leaving nothing behind. Looking at the bleeding bandages, they took a box from the storeroom and used scissors to cut the bandages off the arrows. "A reverse arrow?"
"Madam is right, that's why it took a while to treat the wound."
"The doctors here are no good. If they really can't do it, we should find another one." A wound bigger than a quail egg wasn't even stitched up; they just put some medicine on it and that was it. It's utter garbage.
I took out another pill and put it in his mouth. Then I took out a needle and thread from the box, disinfected them with alcohol, and started sewing.
Xiao Yubai sat on the bed, watching her movements and doing whatever she asked, being very obedient. "Madam, I'm not a robe, why are you doing this?"
While stitching, An Shuyi explained, "This is stitching. Your wound was too big. If it had been left to heal slowly, it would have taken several months to heal properly. With this stitching, it will only be a scar in a month at most."
"But put it down, I have some medicine here to remove scars, it won't leave a scar." He finished the last stitch and cut it off with scissors.
"Madam, what medicine did you give me just now? Why can't I feel any pain?" I could still feel a little pain after taking the first pill, but after taking the second Phoenix pill, I felt no pain at all.
"The painkiller was also developed by Dr. Liu. Of course, I gave him the prescription. If I had known that the doctors here were not good enough, I would have sent a junior doctor over to you. Although he is junior, he is better than the doctors here."
From the moment they started fighting, there were no good doctors in the camp, so they brought Doctor Liu to Wucheng, along with his apprentice. After that, unless someone died on the battlefield, as long as they were brought back to the camp, even if they were only breathing, Doctor Liu could save them.
With the prescriptions she provided, Dr. Liu became exceptionally energetic, spending his days either treating patients or researching medicines.
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