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

A man and a horse braved the wind and snow and stopped outside the city.

The person's lips were cracked, oozing traces of blood, which dried on their lips in the wind, turning reddish-brown.

He touched the layers of stuff wrapped around his arms, took a deep breath, and rode into the city.

The city gate guards conducted a routine check as usual, and the man took out a black iron token and passed through smoothly.

Oh, it turns out it was Nifeng Express that arrived.

The poison of the poisoned crane is extremely rare, because the poison master who could make this colorless and odorless poison was killed more than a decade ago.

Ironically, the Poison Master spent his entire life working with poisons, only to die by what he considered the least sophisticated weapon: a cold weapon.

Ironically, the murderer was his last "client".

Poison Master: I was careless! That filthy scoundrel has no sense of martial ethics!

The remaining poison of the poisoned crane had to be used sparingly, and the Earl of Chengen only sent over enough to kill one person.

Therefore, the person who poisoned the food only had one chance.

After entering the city, the rider arrived at the gate of an inconspicuous mansion, dismounted, and knocked lightly on the door a few times.

The door opened from the inside, and a hand as withered as old tree bark reached out, took the bundle handed over by the person, and quickly closed the door again.

"Master, the goods have been delivered."

Upon hearing this, the person inside came out, limping on one leg.

Carefully unpacking the bundle to inspect it, I dared not touch the porcelain bottle wrapped in layers of cloth with my bare hands.

After confirming that everything was correct, a barely perceptible glint of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes...

The Jiang family finally decorated the house inside and out before the Lunar New Year. Although there were no fancy decorations, the house was all red, which made it very festive.

Jiang Xiaoqi suddenly realized that something seemed to be missing in the more than half a month since she came back. What was missing?

Before he could think too much about it, Wenbin brought back some news.

"Doctor Wang and his apprentice? Where are they going?"

Jiang Xiaoqi was surprised by this news.

During the Lunar New Year, Dr. Wang, the head doctor of the county clinic, was going to the border with his apprentice.

"Things aren't peaceful up north; it looks like a war is about to break out!"

"Is Dr. Wang going north to become a military doctor at this time?" This was the first reason that came to Jiang Xiaoqi's mind.

"I heard from the staff at the county clinic that Dr. Wang has learned a method for treating external injuries, and this trip is also to try out this method."

When will they set off?

"We'll be setting off in two days!"

"Alright, Wenbin, take Li Mo with you, the two of you will go in my place."

Jiang Xiaoqi took out one hundred taels of silver, divided it into several pouches, and handed them to Wenbin.

"Master, this is..."

"Make a trip to the county clinic and deliver these to Doctor Wang and his apprentice. Just say that we are fellow villagers and that the Jiang family admires Doctor Wang's noble character and is giving him this gift as a token of appreciation."

Wenbin accepted the purse, took his orders, and left.

Jiang Xiaoqi: I once borrowed Dr. Wang's name, and now I'm finally paying back a bit.

Wenbin and Li Mo rushed to the county clinic and forcefully handed the silver to Doctor Wang.

He stuffed a few purses into his pocket, then mounted his horse and disappeared.

Before Doctor Wang and his apprentice could react to what was happening, they felt a heavy weight in their arms.

Fortunately, the purse was embroidered with the character "Jiang," and in Changshou County, the Jiang family was the only one that could afford to ride a horse.

Since they wouldn't give him a chance to refuse, he had no choice but to wait until the war was over before personally visiting the Chiang family to express his gratitude.

Two days later, Doctor Wang and his apprentice embarked on their journey to the border.

The further north you go, the more desolate it becomes, and there are no refugees there in the extremely cold weather.

They were buried under the snow, and the following spring, they became nutrients that nourished the grassland.

No one knew who they were, and no one remembered that they had ever been there.

As the carriage moved forward, the master and apprentice felt a pang of sorrow in their hearts, for the devastation brought by war was far more than just this.

Jiang Xiaoqi tried again to ask the system for the latest imperial gazette. This time, the system, that cunning merchant, finally gave in and stopped saying it didn't have any.

"The latest official gazette? Yes, yes, what kind of news do you want, host?"

500 points for information involving court secrets, 1000 points for information involving military operations, and 10 points for information involving palace intrigues!

7: This broken system must have been done on purpose!

Who wants to know about palace secrets?!

No wonder the score for this option is set so low!

The system figured out that it wasn't interested in this.

And the military deployment that I'm most interested in right now actually costs 1000 points!

Why don't you go and grab it!

Jiang Xiaoqi gritted her teeth, just one bite...

Forget it, I still owe 8500 points!

I don't know, it won't kill you!

"Shady businessman! Shady businessman! Shady businessman!" Jiang Xiaoqi muttered to himself.

Forget it, I'll wait until I finish the county exam and return to Xinghe Prefecture before I go and ask my great-uncle for information.

After all, he was the deputy prefect of a prefecture, so he should have already gotten wind of it.

Alas, it's not that I'm meddling, but people who have lived in peacetime for so long are quite unfamiliar with war.

The unfamiliar is accompanied by fear. At this time, will the soldiers serve the people like the People's Liberation Army?

Will a country protect all its citizens?

Throughout history, we've heard more about wars involving the conscription of able-bodied men from ordinary households for forced labor and military service.

My family were still commoners; neither my grandfather nor my father had the title of scholar.

Um... he seems to have remembered something he forgot...

He also remembered that something was missing from the house... He hadn't seen his adoptive father since he came back.

Cough cough, um, this person really doesn't have much of a presence...

In particular, neither my mother nor my sisters mentioned it, and even my grandparents didn't mention it.

If he hadn't thought about the corvée labor today, he probably wouldn't have remembered it at all.

And that Lu Zihan, I wonder if he's gone back to the county school. I still remember how I tricked him back then.

This person will probably never want to see "Jiang Changqing," the person who wanted to report to the authorities, again in his lifetime.

Who would have thought that Raymond Lam's master is so multi-talented? His ventriloquism is so lifelike, it's indistinguishable from the real thing!

On the roof, a long string of cat paw prints were left, the cat thinking no one knew it had been there.

He seemed very confident in his ability to scale rocks and walls, arrogantly ignoring the traces he left behind.

Wandering around someone else's yard, satisfied with having achieved their goal, they leave.

The person inside must have been thirsty during the night, because they got up and drank a cup of warm tea...