The Daily Life of a Down-on-Hard-Life Medicine Girl Supporting Her Family

Chapter 270

"Reporting to the General, the young lady said she had something important to discuss with you. She sat here waiting for you, but fell asleep while waiting. This servant dared not take the liberty of taking her away."

"Yes, General, you're busy, so..."

The lieutenant quickly offered an explanation.

"From now on, when the young lady comes, there's no need to stop her; just let her in."

"Yes, General."

The lieutenant gasped, meaning that the young lady had the right to roam freely in the study.

"Come on, let me hold her." Xia Guangcheng reached out to hold the child, but Panpan suddenly opened her eyes.

"Father."

The little girl jumped down and stood up straight to greet Xia Guangcheng: "Panpan greets Father."

“Our Panpan has learned manners very well.” Xia Guangcheng quickly picked her up. “However, you don’t need to be so polite when you see your father in the future. We are father and daughter, not outsiders. I will be more polite.”

"That won't do; propriety must not be disregarded."

Panpan's serious expression successfully made Xia Guangcheng laugh.

This child, despite his young age, speaks and acts with an unusually serious manner.

"Father, Panpan needs to see you."

Panpan got up and immediately said, "Father, Panpan wants to go into the study to tell you something."

"Alright, let's talk in the study."

Xia Guangcheng was shocked after hearing what Panpan said.

"Panpan..."

“Father, you believe in Panpan, she really will fight.”

"Okay, Father trusts Panpan, and Father will make thorough preparations."

The staff members, who were halfway there, were invited into the general's study.

Unlike before, a small figure sat next to the general: that was Miss Panpan.

The little one neither cried nor made a fuss, staring wide-eyed at the group of grown men discussing an important matter.

"General, what makes you say that?" A staff member was shocked: "For a long time, although the barbarians have been eyeing our borders covetously, they have never dared to provoke us."

Why would the general suddenly ask about the strategy in case of war?
Could it be that he received more intelligence, and that war is really going to break out?
"After you gentlemen left, I returned to my study and thought about it. I felt that everything was ready, and I forgot that the main duty of the border guards is to defend the border. Since it is to defend, we must be prepared to be attacked."

"Precisely because the barbarians have been eyeing our borders covetously for many years, we must be even more vigilant. What if they suddenly attack us while the tiger is dozing off?"
"

Everyone was taken aback; the general's words made sense.

So everyone began to gather around the sand table to study it, wondering which direction they would come from if they were barbarians, and at what time of day.
What if barbarians invade? How will we respond? And will we be able to supply enough food and provisions?
Once there is war, there will be casualties and countless wounded soldiers. How can medical doctors be supplied?

One incident after another, each side had its own version of the truth, and they argued until their faces were red with anger.

Panpan just tilted her head to look at this person and that person, without saying a word, listening to their argument.

Xia Guangcheng, like his good daughter, just watched without saying a word.

After arguing for about half an hour, General Xia spoke.

"Gentlemen, you've worked hard. Please go back and rest."

The staff... haven't reached a conclusion yet?

However, they also knew Xia Guangcheng's temperament; he was a man of his word, and since he let them go, it meant he already knew what he was doing.

The reason they can become generals is entirely because they are smarter than them.

After the staff members took their leave, Xia Guangcheng looked at Panpan, who was lying on the sand table looking at it.

"Panpan, if the barbarians invade, from where will they advance?"

After saying that, Xia Guangcheng couldn't help but laugh: Had he gone mad? How did he come up with the idea of asking a child who was only a few years old this question?

"With the shortage of fodder, the barbarian population is also decreasing. Raiding has become their only way to survive." Panpan pointed to a spot on the sand table: "Father, they will come from here."

Panpan was pointing in the direction of a small town on the border, more than 260 miles away from where he was stationed.

Normally, that place wouldn't be chosen.

However, Panpan was very certain that they had invaded from this small town. This greatly shocked Xia Guangcheng.

“They will have heavy snow, many people will freeze to death, and then they will move to the small town and then launch a surprise attack from there.”

Panpan gestured and said, "Father, you have to do it like this, like this..."

It sounds like a fantasy, but Panpan said it very seriously.

This made Xia Guangcheng careful, and he wrote everything down.

"Panpan, how did you know all this?"

Finally, I couldn't help but ask this question.

"It was a dream, Panpan had a dream, that's how we fight."

Xia Guangcheng patted her head: The Wu family is really stupid. Such a smart and lucky child, and they actually kicked her out of the house.

No, we should thank the Wu family. It was their ruthlessness that gave us the opportunity to bring Yu'er and her daughter into the Xia family.

"Our Panpan is such a lucky star."

“Father, you’re right, Panpan is a lucky star.”

Panpan was overjoyed. Finally, someone recognized her goodness. She was a little lucky star.

Xia Guangcheng, having resolved the border issue, happily took Panpan's hand and went to find Xiao Chunyu.

As a result, the old woman in the courtyard told him: the lady is in the big kitchen.

The father and daughter were shocked when they arrived at the entrance of the large kitchen and saw the bustling scene inside.

Are we hosting a banquet?

The stoves and pots were lined up in a row, steaming hot and fragrant.

I've attended countless banquets since I was a child, but none of them smelled as good as this.

"Greetings, General. Greetings, Miss."

When the servants saw Xia Guangcheng, they quickly bowed and were also shocked: the general had actually come to the kitchen; this was not a place for him.

"You all go about your business. Where is Madam?"

Oh yes, the lady is here.

The general was incredibly good to his wife.

"The lady is in the inner room."

Immediately, a servant went into the inner room to inform Xiao Chunyu.

Xiao Chunyu came out.

"My husband, Panpan."

She was holding two pieces of meat in her hands, and she stuffed one piece into her mouth.

In the past, she would never have done something so rude.

But now I feel more and more at ease, doing whatever I want.

"what is this?"

Faced with the sudden offer of food, Xia Guang did not rigidly reject it like an ordinary man, but accepted it and even licked Xiao Chunyu's finger.