Exile? A mad, wicked woman empties the national treasury to escape famine.

She worried that if things continued like this, the eldest prince would harm the people in the palace. She wanted to heal Xie Moyao's leg as soon as possible so that she could have more helpers by her side.

"Okay, if you say so, then it's fine. Just tell me how you want me to cooperate."

Seeing that he was a little nervous, Ji Yunshu smiled and said in a light tone, "You don't need to cooperate much. Your injury has been going on for a long time. When you were injured, you didn't receive proper treatment, which caused your bones to grow crooked. When I treat you, I will first break your original bones, then cut open your skin, and put the bones back in place. It should be healed in a few months."

Xie Moyao...

Did he hear that right? This woman said she wanted to break and reset his bones.

Wouldn't that mean going through that excruciating pain all over again?

He still feels lingering fear when he recalls the excruciating pain he experienced when he first broke his bone.

Even for a grown man, that kind of pain was truly unbearable.

But in order to be able to stand up again one day, he can endure that pain again, not just once, but ten times.

"It's okay, I can handle it. Just do it your way and don't worry about me."

He looked tense and spoke with some nervousness.

Ji Yunshu stopped teasing him and said with a smile,

"Don't worry, you won't feel anything while I'm treating you. You won't feel any pain from beginning to end. It might hurt for a while after the surgery, but it shouldn't be too difficult for you to bear."

Xie Moyao nodded. He knew that Ji Yunshu was trying to comfort him. He didn't understand what Ji Yunshu meant by surgery, but he knew that cutting open the skin and breaking bones was never painless.

Those quack doctors said his leg was beyond saving and he would never be able to stand up again. To alleviate his pain, they gave him some pain-relieving medication, but it was of no use.

Later, he became so upset that he refused to take any medicine and simply endured the pain.

During that period, he almost ground his teeth to powder.

The two fell silent for a moment, and Ji Yunshu didn't say anything more. She leaned against the side, closed her eyes to rest, and her consciousness entered her spatial dimension to roughly pack up the surgical instruments she would need for tomorrow.

Tomorrow's surgery will be another major undertaking for her.

This kind of bone-breaking surgery was neither too difficult nor too difficult for her; she had performed similar bone-setting surgeries on others in her previous life.

However, Xie Moyao's leg injury is many years old. It was not properly immobilized when he was injured, which resulted in the bones being dislocated and many of them being broken.

Tomorrow she will have to cut his leg open again, carefully find the bones on the leg bone, and sew them back into place. This is going to be quite difficult.

The main problem is that it's been so long that some bone fragments have grown together with the other flesh, so she has to separate those bone fragments from the other flesh and reassemble them.

She rehearsed the surgery procedure for tomorrow in her mind over and over again. Perhaps because she was too tired, she soon fell into a deep sleep.

Xie Moyao sat half-sitting on the other side of the carriage, his gaze fixed on Ji Yunshu's sleeping face. Recalling Ji Yunshu's words, he was too excited to sleep.

He knew that Ji Yunshu was hiding secrets from him, such as the surgery, the X-rays, the cast and anesthesia, and the hot pot they ate tonight.

Apart from the fish being freshly caught from the river, he had never seen any of the other ingredients before.

Born into the Prince of Zhenbei's mansion, he had eaten all sorts of strange and unusual things and tasted all sorts of precious ingredients. But the things that Ji Yunshu took out were definitely not things that she could pick up casually on the road.

Ji Yunshu might be able to fool others with these things, but she couldn't fool him.

Since Ji Yunshu was unwilling to reveal anything or tell him, he would pretend he knew nothing and cooperate with her. If she was unwilling to tell him for the rest of her life, he would play along for the rest of his life.

Heaven has truly opened its eyes! What great good deeds must he have done in his past life to be able to meet Ji Yunshu in this life?

Thinking about the surgery he was going to have the next day, he was so nervous that he couldn't sleep all night.

He stayed awake until midnight, listening to the babbling of the river outside and seeing Ji Yunshu's sweet sleeping face beside him, before his heart seemed to calm down.

With her there, everything should be fine.

He kept telling himself that.

Worried that he wouldn't get enough rest tonight and that Ji Yunshu would be angry if she saw it the next morning, Xie Moyao forced himself to close his eyes and fall asleep.

After a long while, I finally drifted off to sleep.

When Ji Yunshu opened her eyes, it was already the next morning. After traveling for several days, and with the pleasant temperature last night and a full stomach, she slept very comfortably.

Before anyone else had gotten up, she used her mind to enter the space, went to the kitchen of the small house, took a plate, filled it with water, picked up a dozen eggs and put them in a pot, turned on the induction cooker, and started boiling the eggs.

While boiling eggs, she took out some steamed buns and shumai from the freezer and steamed them in another pot. She set a timer for ten minutes and left the space without lingering inside.

The air was fresh in the morning, and many other people had already woken up and were washing up by the river. Ji Yunshu realized that she hadn't brushed her teeth in a long time. Since being exiled, she had completely forgotten about it, except for occasionally brushing them in her spatial dimension.

Thinking about it, she suddenly felt that she was filthy from head to toe. Not to mention brushing her teeth, she hadn't washed her face or taken a shower in a long time.

Sigh, the conditions are terrible. She and Xie Moyao sleep in the same carriage at night, and she doesn't even dare to go into the space to take a bath.

She pretended to rummage through the supplies in the wagon for a while, and soon came out with a cup and a toothbrush, and walked towards the river.

The fish in the river were still jumping backwards, just like yesterday. Ji Yunshu was a little surprised. Had it not stopped all night?

She looked at the river, which was even more turbulent and muddy than yesterday, and a hint of doubt flashed in her eyes. She felt as if she had seen this scene before, but she couldn't quite remember it when asked to recall it.

After thinking for a while without any clue, she simply filled a cup with some water, returned to the nearby bushes, put the toothbrush covered in toothpaste into her mouth, and started brushing her teeth vigorously.

Remembering that she hadn't brushed her teeth for several days, she brushed them a little too hard, leaving her mouth full of foam, and her movements were a bit too exaggerated.

It was early morning, and everything was very quiet. As soon as they heard her voice, everyone turned to look at her.

The officials and the prince's guards all craned their necks to look in their direction.

"What is the princess doing? Making those 'swish swish swish' sounds so early in the morning is really creepy."

"I don't know, but I think I saw her holding something that looked like a brush and poking it around in her mouth. She was probably brushing her mouth."

"No, is it that particular? Using a brush to clean your mouth?! Even the royal family doesn't do this. The eldest prince usually just rinses his mouth and has never used a brush to clean it. I wonder where the princess learned this from."