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Chapter 140 Pill
The next morning, Zhu Yu was woken up by Lu Qing before daybreak. The other personal soldiers were still fast asleep. Zhu Yu got up and put on his soft armor and outer robe. He also tied up his hair bun which had become loose after sleeping for half a night to ensure that there was no flaw.

Not long after, the others also got up one after another. By the time the drums and trumpets sounded in the camp, they were already dressed and began to go to various places in an orderly manner to supervise and inspect the morning exercises of the soldiers.

This made Zhu Yu secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

She was originally worried that Situ Jing's personal guards would have to train early in the morning like other soldiers in the imperial guards, wielding swords and guns. She knew nothing about those things. She was not afraid if they were just tired out, but she was afraid that they would blend in with the team and accidentally reveal their flaws, which would cause trouble.

Early in the morning, she followed Lu Qing and patrolled around with other personal soldiers in the same group, and also paid attention to whether there was anyone who looked strange.

Fortunately, everything was normal and there was no obvious sign of poisoning like Miao Dashuan, which made her feel a little relieved.

But this sigh of relief only lasted after breakfast.

After breakfast, everyone in the camp needed to start training, and Situ Jing's personal soldiers were no exception.

Zhu Yu thought he was in pretty good physical condition, but after tossing and turning for a whole morning, he still felt like his bones were about to fall apart, and every muscle was extremely sore.

What people knew was that she had been training with the imperial guards for a long time, stumbling and struggling. Those who didn't know would have thought that she had been beaten up.

Lu Qing could also see that by noon, Zhu Yu was so tired that even his appetite had decreased. Although he tried hard to pretend that nothing had happened, his gait and every movement revealed his exhaustion.

He originally wanted Zhu Yu to stay with Situ Jing during the day so that he could avoid this high-intensity training, but Zhu Yu refused.

"I'm not that bad, don't worry." She rejected Lu Qing's plan, "By eating and training with others, if there is anything wrong, I can find out early.

Besides, I was hoping for a chance to chat with someone."

Seeing that she was so persistent, Lu Qing didn't say anything else, but secretly stuffed a pill into her hand.

Zhu Yu guessed that this thing should have been given to Lu Qing by Yan Daoxin. After all, before meeting Yan Daoxin, Lu Qing did not have the habit of carrying elixirs with him.

She swallowed the pill, and by the afternoon, although her fatigue wasn't completely gone, she did feel much better.

However, her plan to train with others and take the opportunity to chat with them later did not go smoothly.

The ordinary imperial guards in the Lizhou Imperial Guards camp were not very wary of her, especially when they saw her wearing the clothes of Situ Jing's personal guards. At most, they could feel a little flattery in their hearts, fearing that they would say something wrong and offend the commander-in-chief's confidants.

On the contrary, the other personal soldiers around Situ Jing were indeed well-trained.

Although they all knew that these two unfamiliar men were personally planted by their general and were not suspicious, their attitude towards Lu Qing and Zhu Yu was polite yet distant. On the surface, in front of others, these personal guards did not let anyone know that Lu Qing and the others were strangers who were later planted, as if they had always been part of the personal guard team.

But when there is no one else around and they are alone, that feeling of wariness becomes very obvious.

Zhu Yu tried several times to start a conversation with other guards, but their attitudes were very cold, and it was clear that they didn't want to chat with her, no matter whether it was about business or personal matters.

In this case, Zhu Yu had no choice but to give up. While sighing that Situ Jing was indeed very good at employing people, he shifted more attention to the imperial guards.

In the next few days, Lu Qing gave Zhu Yu a pill prescribed by Yan Daoxin every day to help her eliminate fatigue and restore her spirit.

I don’t know if it’s because the pill is so effective, or because her physical condition has improved after a few days of exercise, but in the following days, Zhu Yu was not as tired as on the first day.

This went on for five days, during which several people showed signs of poisoning, all of whom were noticed in time by Lu Qing and Zhu Yu. Situ Jing then asked his personal soldiers to take the poisoned people away from the camp, on the pretext of taking them out to find a doctor for treatment, and sent them directly to the post station and handed them over to Yan Daoxin.

In the past few days, they could see Zhou Kuang every day in the camp. He would patrol the camp every day, and then find an opportunity to ask Situ Jing how the people who were "possessed" before were doing now, whether the miracle doctor that Situ Jing had found had any progress, and whether the "strange disease" that was spreading in the camp could be curbed as soon as possible.

Every time Zhou Kuang asked Situ Jing about these things, there happened to be many soldiers training around them. And every time he mentioned these things, his tone was neither high nor low, just enough for the people around him to hear clearly.

As he asked questions every day, someone would fall ill with the poison every day. After a few days, the originally peaceful Imperial Guards camp began to show signs of panic.

Situ Jing neither rejected Zhou Kuang's proposal outright nor accepted it. He was vague every time, which made people around him feel confused.

After all, this commander-in-chief has only been in office for two months. Although he comes from an extraordinary family and gives people the impression of being clear about rewards and punishments and decisive and swift when he first arrives, he now seems indecisive and at a loss about this matter, which makes people wonder whether he is only capable of superficial work and is actually weak and useless.

Fu Wen came back on the fourth night, looking very tired, and also brought back the same unmarked badge that Situ Jing wanted.

"Sir, General." He placed the item on the low table in Situ Jing's tent. "To avoid arousing suspicion and alerting the enemy, I rode to a nearby state and found a blacksmith's shop on a farm. I asked him to carefully forge it for us."

Situ Jing picked it up and looked at it carefully, and found that Fu Wen was very meticulous. Not only did these fake badges not have the raised dots as markings like the problematic badges, but even the colors and patterns were extremely similar.

"You did a great job!" Situ Jing was overjoyed and stuffed a small silver ingot into Fu Wen's hand. "You've had a hard time on this trip! When everything is over, take this and warm up a pot of wine and treat yourself!"

Fu Wen, however, simply placed the silver ingots on the low table, next to the waist badges. "General, you don't have to be so polite. I just did what my master ordered. It's nothing to worry about."

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