Rebirth: The Journey of an Heiress novel Chapter 1578

Chapter 1578: Chapter 1573: Gaining Military Merit Alone

The doctor’s words that Lu Yuanpeng couldn’t last a few more hours felt like a knife repeatedly stabbing into her heart, over and over, leaving her in unbearable pain.

There were only a few hours for someone to go and fetch Doctor Hong; it was definitely too late for a round trip. It was better to take Lu Yuanpeng with them.

Soon, the carriage was ready, but Bai Jinzhi was still uneasy, so she sent someone ahead to Shequ to invite Doctor Hong. She accompanied Lu Yuanpeng by carriage to Shequ, as this would save the most time.

The carriage couldn’t be too slow or too fast. Bai Jinzhi knelt beside Lu Yuanpeng, tightly gripping his hand, continuously talking to him, regardless of whether he could hear her or not.

"Sima Ping once said that after the world is united, the three of us would travel together to taste the best food in the world. He also promised each of us a set of warm jade chess pieces! If he doesn’t want to give them to us... he said it would be only when we can beat him at chess! Didn’t he say that for the two of us to beat him, our eldest young lady must teach us chess? If you get better... I will ask our eldest young lady! Ask her to teach us chess..."

With the jolting of the carriage, Bai Jinzhi’s voice trembled.

"Lu Yuanpeng, you must get better. Once we are back in Dadu City, we won’t tell Sima Ping about your injury this time. Otherwise... Sima Ping will definitely say we can’t survive on the battlefield without him—without him, we get injured..." Bai Jinzhi tightly gripped Lu Yuanpeng’s hand, "Did you hear me!"

Doctor Hong was busy treating the seriously injured soldiers who returned with the Bai family army and Anping army. He had just finished and was about to rest when Wei Zhong personally came to invite Doctor Hong.

"Lu Commandant’s legitimate grandson, Lu Yuanpeng, was seriously injured while protecting King Gaoyi. His condition is quite bad. The carriage is already on the way back, and His Majesty, hearing of the critical situation, had to trouble Doctor Hong, sending this old servant to personally escort him to welcome the return!" Wei Zhong’s expression was solemn.

Bai Qingyan originally thought when Bai Jinzhi said Lu Yuanpeng was hit with a few arrows, it was like her injury, a superficial one. After all, Lu Yuanpeng was wearing armor. She hadn’t expected Lu Yuanpeng to take an arrow for Bai Jinzhi in the back and endure without a word all the way back.

She had Wei Zhong fetch Doctor Hong and ordered someone to bring all the arrowheads retrieved from the wounded. She sat under the candlelight, carefully comparing them.

Bai Qingyan held up the arrowheads from the Xiping army and those from Zhou, carefully comparing them under the light.

Currently, all the arrows used by Zhou were coated with ink powder, making them exceptionally sharp!

Yan Kingdom’s arrows also had nearly half coated with ink powder. But where did the Xiping army get their ink powder from?

She raised her eyes. Tianfeng Kingdom...

Perhaps, while Murong Li allied with Dongyi Kingdom, the King of Yan secretly linked up with Tianfeng Kingdom!

This was likely Sal Khan’s twofold preparation.

Bai Qingyan had no doubt that Murong Li had made early contact with Tianfeng Kingdom. Although Murong Li wanted to create trouble for Zhou, he understood Tianfeng’s ambitious nature, hence he chose Tianfeng Kingdom.

To find out what was going on between Tianfeng Kingdom and the King of Yan, they needed to capture the Crown Prince of Xiping alive tomorrow and interrogate him. He won’t hide anything under torture.

She casually tossed the arrows back into the black lacquered tray before her; currently, Tianfeng Kingdom no longer appeared as a threat in Bai Qingyan’s eyes...

As the Monarch of Tianfeng Kingdom, Sal Khan suffered great losses at the hands of the Zhou and Yan allied forces on Xiliang’s turf. Instead of thinking of reorganizing, cultivating agriculture, or building another Elephant Army upon returning, he kept eyeing the jade cicada in her possession, pinning hopes on vague and unrealistic concepts such as time reversal.

Such a Monarch, although capable in battle and strategy, could never amount to much!

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