After being wrongly married, I stabbed my husband to death and became famous throughout the world.

Ma Chengting agreed almost without hesitation.

Seeing how spineless he was, so quickly giving up and no longer provoking General Rong, everyone except for his father, Captain Ma, couldn't help but mock him.

Captain Ma was in a particularly low mood.

This young General Rong and the people around him are no ordinary people!

General Rong may look young, but he has been in the army for many years. He was personally trained and taught by General Xiang. Moreover, his grandfather was also a general in this region who died in battle. His father is a nobleman in the capital and a high-ranking official in the court!

You can only try to please this kind of person, you can't afford to offend them!

Moreover... this General Rong is indeed capable! Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to fight his way in and out alongside the Po Shan Army!

Therefore, the son's words were indeed utterly ridiculous.

But this impulsive act also offered a glimmer of hope, so his father couldn't very well stop him.

……

Provocations are common in the military as well.

For most people, this was just routine training.

But when the news reached General Rong, it piqued his interest.

He wouldn't have cared much about anyone else, but recently he'd kept hearing Cheng Mian talking about that mountain spirit girl and Ma Chengting, so he was quite curious about Ma Chengting.

“Let’s give him a few days to go…” General Rong raised an eyebrow and smiled, looking at Cheng Mian with a mischievous glint in his eyes. “In a while, the medicinal herbs from various places should be delivered. There were problems with the grain supplies before the New Year, which caused delays. Now, I’m not comfortable with these medicinal herbs either. I’ll send a team to accompany you to receive them first. Before they enter the military camp, you must check them thoroughly. By the way… let’s make a bet.”

"What do you want to do now?" Cheng Mian asked, speechless.

"Can't you even find a bit of fun in this hardship?" General Rong raised an eyebrow and continued, "I've told you before, that mountain spirit girl is definitely a cunning person. She certainly doesn't have good intentions towards the Ma family father and son. But you never believe me, and I don't want you to be deceived. So... when the time comes, have that girl come along as the medicine delivery person. Then we'll see what her attitude is, how about that?"

“How can you be so ridiculous?” Cheng Mian immediately retorted.

“I’m not being silly. You were so busy with those major battles before the New Year that you didn’t even have a chance to catch your breath. It’s rare that you have friends here who are interested. Once you know enough about them and can put my mind at ease, then it wouldn’t hurt to keep in touch more often,” Rong Zhengyu said generously.

His brother is a very kind person.

If he were a doctor in the capital, few of the patients he treated would die.

But after arriving here, I often found my clothes stained with blood, and sometimes I would look at a pile of corpses, feeling lost and numb.

He shouldn't be here. He wouldn't have gone through all this if he hadn't been worried about his friend.

"I can go out and meet him; I won't bring him to the camp," Cheng Mian shook his head.

“If there are no problems with this batch of medicinal herbs, then we’ll need quite a few people to sort them. There’s already a shortage of doctors in the army. Since you want to help her, then give her a few taels of silver and ask her to work for a few days…” General Rong said, then thought for a moment and added, “There are many military households in the border towns, and they have suffered heavy losses over the years, with constant funerals in every family. I’m not unaware of this, but many old customs are hard to change. I’ve petitioned many times, but no one has taken this matter seriously…”

"This year, the imperial court's pensions are even less than before. Didn't you say that the mountain spirit is now living in a military household area? When you go to see her, take a look at the situation. I'll include it in my future petitions; it might be of some use..."

“The army doesn’t have that much money to pay everyone, so it’s impossible to satisfy everyone. But if you encounter a few pitiful families, it wouldn’t hurt to lend a hand and appease them,” General Rong added.

Upon hearing this, Cheng Mian no longer refused.

After he called Chen Yousong to his side, he would occasionally ask him questions.

Therefore, I have some understanding of the situation of the military households in this area and feel great sympathy for them.

However, since there are often deaths and injuries in the army, it is not appropriate for him to show his compassion. But if he does what Rong Zhengyu said, his conscience will be at peace.

"I'm just a doctor, I can't change the situation, so I can only bury my head in the sand like this," Cheng Mian said with a wry smile.

"Aren't you mocking me? Even as a general, I can't change it either?" Rong Zhengyu had experienced more, so his resilience was stronger.

After Rong Zhengyu finished explaining to his brothers, he generously announced that he would give Ma Chengting a month to train. After a month, Ma Chengting would spar with his deputy general Yang. If Ma Chengting won, he would be promoted; if he lost, he would get a beating and be sent back to the front camp as a common soldier.

Being a lowly soldier doesn't necessarily mean you'll die, but the environment in the camp and the dangers on the battlefield will certainly be greater.

……

Meanwhile, the Yao family's affairs were also being talked about in Ganhe Town.

Li Shu was also shocked when he learned of the situation!

She certainly did the bad thing, but she never expected that this guy surnamed Yao would be so useless!

He's a post station chief, after all. Doesn't he check documents before sending them?

Tsk, her death was so sudden, she wasn't prepared at all!

I heard that the person who punished Yao's father was a general in the army. In that case, the Ma family, who recommended Yao's father to be the postmaster, probably won't get away with it either.

Li Shu felt a strong urge to join the army, because she couldn't get into the military camp.

The fact that she couldn't see the final result of the good deed she had done made her very unhappy and frustrated, but Li Shu also knew that it was difficult to enter the military camp, so she could only slowly process her emotions.

The entire Wuzhuang was peaceful, and sometimes Li Shu would feel a sense of tranquility.

But this feeling can lull one into a false sense of security, so after practicing martial arts every day, she would go to the inn at the entrance of town to sit for a while.

It had been a long time since she had witnessed bandits looting with her own eyes.

She inquired and learned that bandits had come once in early winter, kidnapped a money merchant's child, and left after demanding three hundred taels of silver.

She recently bought property, weapons, and armor, which has significantly reduced her savings. It's not good to just sit around and do nothing. The existence of these bandits really reminded her... nothing you earn can compare to what you get by robbing.

Robbery... is not respectable.

“Cousin, the tea and snacks here are not good at all, not even as good as my mother’s… Why are we wasting money like this?” Chen Ying looked at the things on the table, feeling extremely distressed.

Li Shu looked at her and suddenly smiled: "Cousin, I have something to show you!"

"What?!" Chen Ying instinctively leaned closer.

Li Shu reached into her pocket and pulled out several silver ingots, about fifty or sixty taels. She spent a lot of money and had recently stuffed some things into her spatial storage, so this was all she had left.

"Silver?! You..." Chen Ying quickly lowered her voice, "What are you doing?! Don't flaunt your wealth!"

"What are you afraid of? I'll just go dig again if I lose it!" Li Shu said softly, his back to the shopkeeper, his voice barely concealing his excitement. "Guess how I have so much money? It's all from digging it up from that place! So please eat as much of this snack as you like. After you're done, we'll take some back so the others can have a taste!"

"..." Chen Ying looked bewildered. "You can still dig? Didn't you dig once before? You didn't have a chance to go again, did you?"