After being reborn as a man, the woman improved her family's fortunes through education.

Jiang Xiaoqi knew in her heart that the thanks were a pretense, and the real purpose was to find out more.

Of the three of them, Li Mo, who looked the most like an adult, was only thirteen, while Wenbin and he still looked like children.

He single-handedly killed more than a dozen bandits, which was witnessed by the girl herself. In General Li's eyes, he might be described as some kind of divine intervention...

Whether General Li believed it or not, he would send someone to investigate.

This so-called general is incredibly cold-blooded and ruthless, willing to use his own family as bait!

But Jiang Xiaoqi couldn't coldly watch his men die on this official ship.

In that situation, he could no longer hide in the shadows and watch his people be killed.

Alas, never mind!

They can't just conscript me into the army to go south and suppress bandits because I killed bandits, can they?

I am, after all, a scholar, the top scholar in the academy; I can't be so unreasonable.

Just as Jiang Xiaoqi was thinking, Wenbin finally woke up.

"Young Master..."

"Wenbin, how are you? Are you dizzy? Do you feel nauseous or want to vomit?"

"Yes, I feel a little dizzy, but not nauseous or want to vomit, it's just... it's just..."

"What is it? Tell me!"

"I'm just a little hungry..."

Wenbin: Innocent face

Seeing that Wenbin was awake and even hungry, Li Mo immediately brought over the medicine bowl. Wenbin had just woken up, and the medicine was at the perfect temperature.

"Take your medicine. Aren't you hungry? Drink some medicine to fill your stomach!"

Wenbin: ...Taking medicine to fill your stomach? This is the first time I've ever heard of that!

"It's not good to take medicine on an empty stomach, so eat a snack first."

Jiang Xiaoqi turned to reach for the leftover mung bean cakes from earlier that day, but found nothing.

Well, the plate for the mung bean cakes fell to the ground and shattered into seven or eight pieces. The mung bean cakes themselves became 'mung bean pancakes,' and after they broke apart, someone stepped on them. They're now stuck to the ground and have to be pried off...

"Hehe, I forgot I lost everything, but it's okay, I still have some in my bag."

He could only use the bundle as cover to take out the snacks he had bought on the shore from his spatial storage.

"Young Master is so thoughtful!"

Wenbin ate a few pieces of pastry and felt a bit choked. Li Mo handed him a bowl of medicine, but Wenbin was so choked that he didn't even look at it and just poured the bowl of dark medicine down his throat as if it were water.

"It's so bitter! Even more bitter than fish soup!"

I thought today's fish soup was the worst I could ever taste, but a simple bowl of herbal soup surpassed it!

Jiang Xiaoqi suppressed a laugh. Seeing that Wenbin was alright, she felt relieved. It was good that he didn't have a fever; if he did, she wouldn't be able to get any effective medicine right away.

We can only try to cool down the fever with physical methods first, and then take some medicine to clear heat and detoxify. Only after we get off the ship can we find a pharmacy to buy the necessary medicinal materials.

Regardless of whether you have a fever or not, you should replenish some medicinal herbs in your spatial storage after getting off the ship.

Currently, besides wound medicine and liniment, there are also antidiarrheal and analgesic products, which are not comprehensive enough in terms of efficacy.

After taking the medicine, Wenbin felt drowsy and sleepy. Jiang Xiaoqi knew that this was due to excessive blood loss and depletion of vital energy.

They didn't allow Li Mo to move the person back to the next room, but instead asked Li Mo to move the two beds from the next room over so that the three of them could live in one storage room and look after each other.

Although Li Mo felt this was against the rules, he still did it, after all, extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.

Li Mo was very strong and didn't need Jiang Xiaoqi's help. He carried both beds from next door over in two separate trips.

Jiang Xiaoqi's storage room suddenly became crowded, leaving only a narrow passage less than a meter wide, with the rest occupied by beds.

Wenbin lay on Jiang Xiaoqi's original bed, and Li Mo placed his own bed closest to the door, and put Wenbin's old bed in the middle.

Jiang Xiaoqi naturally slept in the middle, since she was next to Wenbin and could observe his condition at any time. If he didn't develop a fever that night, he would be considered to have truly passed the danger period.

More than half of the ship's lanterns had been deliberately extinguished, and now the ship's brightness has finally returned to that of a normal official ship.

They disappeared during the great battle, but after the battle, a large number of armored soldiers returned and cleaned up the corpses all over the ship.

They gathered their own men together, covered them with white cloths, and threw the thieves' corpses haphazardly together, making sure to stab each of them in the left or right chest before throwing them away.

Yes, very meticulous; they even considered the possibility that someone might be a mirror image of another person...

Jiang Xiaoqi, with three beds in three rooms, finally succumbed to exhaustion and drowsiness, and drifted off to sleep no matter how noisy it was outside.

The moment Jiang Xiaoqi closed her eyes, she naturally entered the study space again. Rest? Not a chance!

As long as you don't die from studying, study like there's no tomorrow!

Moreover, he was not entirely satisfied with the river view painting he had done during the day and needed to continue studying the brushwork of his predecessors.

Furthermore, since it was his first time killing someone and he lacked experience, he needed to keep a diary to record it, so as to avoid developing psychological problems later.

Although he is still convinced that he is normal, it's better to be safe than sorry!

Mental health is also a form of health. He's still a child, so we can't ignore his mental health!

He feared that if he got into a habit of killing, he would become indifferent to life...

On the other side, the general's main tent was still brightly lit.

After patiently comforting his friend's niece, General Li finally rubbed his temples and breathed a sigh of relief.

When the young general entered the tent, he saw that his general was exhausted.

General Li had a somber face, his pen never stopping, as if he were writing a memorial to the throne.

"Reporting to the general, I have just returned from the middle-class cabin. It is indeed the handsome and clean-looking young master that Miss Ruyue described."

He doesn't look like a trained martial artist; he looks more like a kindergarten student just starting school. But he speaks like a little adult—it's quite interesting!

"Oh? Did you notice anything strange?" General Li put down his pen.

“Strange? Oh, right, the three of them, master and servant, are all crammed into one storeroom. It seems they are taking care of the injured attendant together.”

"Hmm, he is a loyal and righteous person. The reason he risked his life to help today may not have been to save Xiaoyue at all."

General Li made his decision without being swayed by the flowery descriptions from his friend's niece.

"No way, Miss Xiaoyue said it herself, it was like a hero saving a damsel in distress, like a gift from heaven..."

"Alright, just listen to what a child says. If I'm not mistaken, that child must have made his move after his follower was injured and slashed."

"Huh? Risking his life for a servant, fighting ten against one? What, what's he after?" The young general looked incredulous.

"Perhaps he doesn't want anything in return..."

General Li chuckled self-deprecatingly. Although the court needed capable people during this southward campaign, he couldn't possibly prey on a child who was only a few years old.

Moreover, this child's identity is not ordinary; he was registered when he boarded the ship, which is not a ship that ordinary people can board.

How many people in history have achieved the highest honors at the age of seven? Is he destined to be a literary star, or should I try to turn him into a martial star?

"Oh, right, General, I almost forgot, that little boy said... he asked us to pay for his page's medical expenses!"

"A pageboy? Medical expenses?"

For the first time, General Li felt he couldn't understand today's children; perhaps he was truly getting old.

"How much silver do you want?"

"Huh? I didn't ask~ I'll go ask right now!"

"Come back! What time is it? They still have wounded soldiers, they must have rested long ago. We can go tomorrow!"

"Oh, yes, General! I'll ask again tomorrow."

After the young general stepped down, General Li shook his head, now showing greater interest in the minor triple crown.