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

After two years of hard work in the North, Li Haisheng's skin had turned two shades lighter, and Jiang Xiaoqi had grown a head taller.

In the past two years, I have been fighting on the battlefield during the day, and when I lie down at night, I continue to improve my medical skills, martial arts, painting skills, music theory, and calligraphy in my study space. Even my least favorite skill, chess, has gradually improved.

His martial arts skills are beyond question; at least in actual combat, he fears no one.

He learned eighteen kinds of martial arts from the generals in the army, including horsemanship, archery, spear, double swords, and whip, and went from being mediocre in all of them to being proficient in all of them.

Ouyang Zheng was also amazed by his speed of growth.

However, they still couldn't find the legendary martial arts manual.

Perhaps he was destined not to have that opportunity; his secret to success was to work hard and diligently.

Having accumulated tens of thousands of points, I haven't spent any of them except for occasionally buying medicine for the soldiers.

The system repeatedly tried to upgrade and expand its storage space, but Jiang Xiaoqi rejected each of these offers.

He needs to keep his points to accrue interest! He can't just touch them!

After spending his third year in the North, Ouyang Zheng bid farewell to Coach Mu and his fellow student.

Although Peng Qing desperately wanted to keep his senior brother here, he also knew that he had forced his senior brother to come when he arrived. Now that the matter was resolved and the war had ended, he could no longer force his senior brother to stay.

My senior brother longs for a life of leisure and freedom; he has already demanded it of me once, so we can't go too far.

As for high-ranking positions and generous salaries, my senior brother has received them all before, and he probably no longer cares about them. He cannot judge others by his own standards and assume that everyone wants to be promoted.

After packing her meager belongings, Jiang Xiaoqi called Wenbin and the others over.

Now he and Wenbin are not much different in height, which makes Wenbin feel a little frustrated. After all, he is three years older than the young master. He is about to be overtaken by the newcomer. How can he not be anxious?

Besides Wenbin, Li Mo and A Niu have also secretly gone to the battlefield in the past two years. They are extremely brave and their contributions are partly responsible for the victory in the Northern Frontier War.

"Young Master, when do we set off? It's been more than two years since we've been back. I wonder how dilapidated our home has become."

"We paid five more years' rent before we left, and the village chief said he would take care of us, so things shouldn't be too bad."

"Oh, I miss the bamboo shoots from Yunqing Mountain. There's not even any bamboo in this northern region, let alone bamboo shoots!"

The group planned what to eat first and what to eat later when they got back, showing no sign of lingering attachment to the military camp.

This surprised Jiang Xiaoqi. He could understand Wenbin, since martial arts were not his forte. In the past two years, Wenbin's medical skills had improved much more than his martial arts training.

He was already the most skilled doctor among the three, and also the one who could best help him with pharmaceuticals.

Li Mo and A Niu's martial arts skills have indeed improved significantly, especially since A Niu started learning martial arts halfway through his career with almost no prior experience.

Both of them were quite talented, and after two years of training, they possessed an aura of ruthlessness that made them a force to be reckoned with.

Now they're just going to follow me back to the mountain without a shred of regret? Isn't that a waste of talent?

That was also his thought, which is why he called the three of them to his side before leaving. If they wanted to stay, he would not stop them.

Jiang Xiaoqi looked at them and asked earnestly, "Are you willing to stay in the army? With your abilities, you will surely achieve great things in the future."

Wenbin spoke first: "Young Master, I still want to go back to Yunqing Mountain with you. My skills are nothing special; at best, I can only be a barefoot doctor!"

Li Mo and A Niu also expressed their willingness to return to Yunqing Mountain, saying they would go wherever their young master was.

Jiang Xiaoqi was moved, but also felt sorry for them. He had heard military generals praise the two of them more than once.

"Alright, in that case, let's go back to Yunqing Mountain together. However, if you change your mind in the future, I won't stop you."

Everyone responded in unison.

During his two years in the North, Jiang Xiaoqi had been puzzled by one thing.

When Doctor Wang and his apprentice arrived in the Northern Territory long ago, why couldn't he find any trace of them even after searching through all the military medical stations?

After becoming familiar with the officer in charge of the military medical department, I subtly inquired about him, only to find that he had no recollection of such an old doctor.

Could it be that something went wrong on the way to the North?

On this trip back to Yunqing Mountain, we will pass through Xinghe Prefecture. There's no need to rush on the return journey, so we can take a trip home.

We also took the opportunity to investigate the whereabouts of Doctor Wang and his apprentice along the way.

Having not returned home for nearly three years, and not daring to let his family know that he was on the northern battlefield, he wrote only three letters home in the past two years.

Apart from the first letter, I haven't received a reply to the rest, and I don't know if my eldest sister has already gotten married.

After all, the eldest sister is almost eighteen years old, which would be considered over the marriageable age in ancient times.

Not to mention my eldest sister, my second sister is almost sixteen. Could it be that I'll be able to get two brothers-in-law when I go back this time?

If that's the case, he'll have to investigate the two of them carefully. If they're not someone worth entrusting his life to, he'll beat them up and then make his sister divorce him.

But then I thought, with my grandfather watching over things, my father probably wouldn't make the same mistake as before and casually marry off his daughter to someone else, right?

He's a scholar now, so his perspective should be different. Marriage should be about matching social status; we can't let my sisters marry into ordinary farming families.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xiaoqi couldn't help but laugh out loud. He was really becoming more and more like an ancient person, and class consciousness had unknowingly seeped into his mind.

The traces of modernity gradually faded from him; perhaps, he was always Jiang Xiaoqi, Jiang Jiamingfei.

Did I just happen to acquire a memory from another world? And then I was forced to bind myself to a system that motivates people to improve themselves.

Shaking off my chaotic thoughts, I realized that life is about looking forward. Who I was in the past is not important; what matters is who I will become in the future.

These young people are in their prime, why do they not smile?

Jiang Xiaoqi packed her bags and set off on the road back to Yunqing Mountain with her master and senior brothers.

This time, he rode alone, leaving his master and senior brothers far behind, leaving them eating dust in the dust.

"Cough, cough, cough, cough, this child!"

Ouyang Zheng was choked by the dust and covered in dirt, but he didn't say a harsh word.

He could tell from his young apprentice's face that the boy seemed to have let go of something that had been weighing on his mind for a long time.

Let the kids have some fun. He's always acting like an adult; it's exhausting to watch.

"Master, I've noticed it, you're spoiling Junior Brother more and more!"

Li Haisheng is already sixteen years old, with stubble of light green hair just beginning to sprout, and his voice has also undergone some noticeable changes.

He wasn't jealous of his junior brother, of course; he was just habitually teasing his master.

"Haha, he's just a kid, it's fine to spoil him!"

"Drive! Drive! Drive!"

Dust and smoke billowed from the pipes, and the three of them, master and apprentice, started racing horses.

Volume One (End)