Priceless: A widow with a baby asks the prince to marry again

The cold wind swept in, and the sandstorm was whistling.

If you could open your eyes, you would see that the field of vision is not entirely a desert. There are many withered and yellow grasses swaying in the flying sand, and there are also uneven branches of trees in the distance.

But the most eye-catching thing is the reddish frozen lake!

When Liu Rusi saw the lake, her first reaction was to look at Chu Shiyu questioningly...

Although she didn't say anything, Chu Shiyu knew what she meant. She was asking if he did it...

"Normal, the body won't be left in the water..."

Chu Shiyu didn’t know the details, so he turned and glanced at the deputy general, asking him to explain.

"The lake here is originally red. We buried it a little further forward, so the blood couldn't seep in here."

After hearing the deputy general's explanation, Liu Rusi felt a little ashamed. It seemed that she had suddenly thought that Chu Shiyu was too cruel?

Soon, they arrived at their real destination.

A human settlement called Wulan City, but it is difficult to call it a city. It is surrounded by earth and stones but has no continuous city walls. There are many yurts and earthen houses inside and outside.

These messy residences obviously belonged to the locals, and many people with different clothes and appearances were walking around, mostly women and children.

About a hundred feet away from the gathering place, across a flat expanse of yellow sand, there were neatly arranged wooden barriers, watchtowers, marching tents, etc.

The more than 30,000 people brought by Chu Shiyu immediately joined up with the people in that military camp. It was obvious that these were all Daxia’s troops.

"Were those prisoners of war captured here?" Liu Rusi couldn't help but lower her voice.

"There are some here, but this is just a gathering place for several small tribes of Wala. They only gather here in autumn and winter to trade and rest."

Chu Shiyu was very familiar with the strategic aspects: "It is also because in autumn and winter, the tribes tend to gather their fighting power, so the attacks on Daxia are often launched in autumn. After the spring, they start to migrate and chase pastures, and the morale of the army is usually weakened."

"Hehe, the general is really awesome! The place where these barbarians gather every year is not certain. They often come and go without a trace. We just have to guard the city and wait for them to come to us!"

The deputy general couldn't help but laugh when he heard this and said, "This time the general went straight to Huanglong! He raided their lair! He scared the Wala so much that they didn't even bother to attack our border and hurried back!"

"But the general is a prophet! He is always one step ahead of them. When their army comes back, we have already reached the next city!"

In fact, it was not so much a matter of foresight. It was just that Chu Shiyu's escort agency had trade dealings with Wala, so he knew all the gathering places near Daxia very well. He just kept quiet because there was no big fight.

However, at this time, Chu Shiyu chose to keep this mystery, and only felt secretly happy about the admiring look from Liu Rusi!

After praising them, Liu Rusi asked in confusion: "Why don't the Wala army come back now that we are guarding here?"

"Otherwise, how can you say that the general is merciful? In the first two cities, we asked them to hand over all their horses and weapons, and left them a lot of cattle, sheep and food for them to survive the winter. We were also expressly forbidden to bully their women and children."

"Some confused Wala people in the third city thought we were pushovers and chased us to fight! But we beat them to a pulp!" The deputy general was passionate and excited when recalling the battle that took place not long ago.

"The troublemakers were defeated, and most of the main forces of the Oirat heard that the Tatars were wreaking havoc in the northeast, and they thought that it would not matter if these cities were taken, so they simply left their wives and children here."

Liu Rusi suddenly realized that Chu Shiyu was indeed very smart!

Between two evils, choose the lesser one. The Wala cannot bring their families with them when they go on a march to war, but if they have to move their wives and children to another place, they will be missing the most important horses. They can't just separate the horses used for combat, right?

Since my wife and children will not be harmed and even have food and drink, why not stay here and deal with the Northeastern Tatars first?

And now, the Daxia army is stationed nearby, which can be said to be taking the wives and children of the Oirat Mongols as hostages, or it can be said to be a disguised way of protecting the Oirat Mongols' rear without worries - so they can fight the Tatars without any worries.

However, when the burial ground near the city came into view.

Liu Rusi's praise just now turned into a little bit of reluctance.

Perhaps because the body was buried too shallowly, the surface corpse was dug out by wild beasts and gnawed into pieces... Looking around, there was a miserable scene everywhere...

She doesn't agree that the deceased is innocent.

She just learned that the dead here were mostly secondary combat forces left behind in the tribal gathering place, most of them were old, weak and sick.

The young warriors in these tribes were recruited by the Khan of Oirat, who was ready to invade Daxia from Liangzhou. If Chu Shiyu had not attacked these cities and killed these people, the Oirat army would not have turned around, and many Daxia soldiers and even civilians would have died under the butcher knives of their descendants and brothers...

They themselves might have plundered Daxia, and if their descendants and brothers had plundered the spoils, they would have provided them to those who stayed behind. In this case, how could their deaths be considered innocent?

But sometimes people are like this, emotion and rationality are not consistent.

Liu Rusi knew that they were hateful, but she couldn't help but feel pity when she saw the horrific corpses.

Suddenly a big hand grabbed her arm, and she trembled with fear!

"Rusi, let the soldiers find what you want, and don't go over there!"

Chu Shiyu had a concerned and weird look on her face. She had an expression of pity that couldn't bear to look at the corpses, but she walked straight towards the corpses!

After coming to his senses, Liu Rusi did not try to be brave and whispered, "Try to find a complete one first..."

……

"vomit…"

The little girl Dongxue was retching on the sand outside the tent. The bloody scene had a great impact on her!

Liu Rusi, who was still busy in the account, heard the voice, and with a look of distress and worry on her face, she turned around and said, "Why don't you guys just go out?"

In addition to the three doctors who were willing to participate and their medicine boys, there were a lot of people in this three-sided transparent dissection tent! There was Chu Shiyu who followed him no matter what, and the soldiers who were ready to be dispatched at any time!

There are actually a few maids brought from the capital! The reason is that Chu Shiyu said that you'd better learn a little so that you can help the lady in the future...

"I want to learn!" Xia Lian said, looking pale. She had already vomited...

Learning is good, especially for women like them, it may become a skill for them to live a peaceful life. Liu Rusi also hesitated to agree for this reason - she suspected that this statement was taught by Chu Shiyu...

Seeing their reactions, Liu Rusi felt a little reluctant. They were only twelve or thirteen years old, still minors!

Due to the dry climate in the northwest and the cold winter, the bodies were not corrupted as she expected. Moreover, they had helped in Hemiao Town before and had seen the death of plague patients.

But compared to the bloody dissection, it was obviously nothing! Just the smell of blood and the visual impact alone made her worried whether these girls could bear it?

"Don't worry, Madam... I'll get used to it soon..."

Dongxue returned to the tent with a pale face...

In fact, it wasn't just the girls, a medicine boy had also vomited... Even the doctor didn't look very happy, but he probably didn't want to show his weakness, so he maintained at least some composure...

Perhaps apart from herself, the most accepting people here were Chu Shiyu and the soldiers. After all, they had seen cruelty on the battlefield... Although the soldiers were grimacing, they were still able to chat easily. Some even came to join in the fun, hanging on others' shoulders to look inside!

Seeing that the girls insisted on not leaving, Liu Rusi stopped persuading them. Putting aside her worries, she secretly hoped that these girls could become the first batch of surgeons in the future...

A 'unique' anatomy class has ended.

Assign each student the homework of drawing a sketch of the human body structure.

"Put it here and let the soldiers throw it back."

She had been busy for almost two hours, and Chu Shiyu was worried that she might be too tired.

Liu Rusi shook her head, picked up the needle and thread prepared beside her, and began to sew up the opened body. As the needle and thread passed through, she asked softly, "Can we get him a coffin and a separate grave?"

"Why?" The famous doctor who was watching the suturing asked, "Don't you care about the dead body?"

"It's not that I don't care...but I feel that the living are more important than the dead..."

Liu Rusi sighed and said, "Just think of it as a reward for destroying his body."