We agreed that I would be married off to a short-lived general, but why is my husband so powerful?

Wen Rushi, however, did not care about these things.

She calmly placed a piece of green vegetable on Yue Lingshan's plate, intending to shut her up, "Don't talk, just eat!"

Having traveled this far, enduring wind and rain, and having not had a proper meal for many days, Wen Rushi did not want to talk about those unpleasant topics.

Upon seeing the food in the bowl, Yue Lingshan's face immediately scrunched up in a grimace. "Sister-in-law, I want to eat meat..."

Wen Rushi picked up another piece of green vegetable and put it in her own bowl, saying, "If you want meat, help yourself."

Unlike the capital, life on the frontier is very different. Even as the master of the general's mansion, one only gets a very simple meal of three dishes and a soup.

Yue Lingshan looked at the only dish of roasted mutton, a hint of disgust flashing across her face. "This meat is too gamey, I don't want to eat it." She put down her chopsticks and looked at Wen Rushi curiously, "Sister-in-law, I haven't seen you eat any meat on the entire journey from the capital to the border. Don't you crave meat?"

They traveled together for several months, and Yue Lingshan had never seen Wen Rushi eat meat; she only ate grains.

Even Yue Lingshan felt a pang of envy for Wen Rushi after seeing this.

Under her intense gaze, Wen Rushi had no choice but to put down his chopsticks and said meaningfully, "Legend has it that there is a place where there is a man-eating beast. After eating a person, the beast will become a person. Similarly, if people frequently eat those beasts, their humanity will gradually be tainted by bestiality, and they will become a beast in human skin."

After telling the story, Yue Lingshan's face turned pale. "Then if I eat pork all the time, and pigs are lazy, greedy, and stupid, wouldn't I become just like a pig, lazy, stupid, and greedy...?"

Wen Rushi suppressed a smile and nodded, "Although you won't turn into a pig overnight, eating too much will definitely affect your habits to some extent."

"This is too terrible! I'll never eat meat again." Yue Lingshan felt a pang of fear at the thought of turning into a pig.

"Just don't be greedy."

"So, that's why my sister-in-law doesn't eat meat?"

"More or less!"

Actually, there is another reason: eating meat easily accumulates impure energy in the body and can also lead to karmic consequences of killing, all of which hinder her spiritual practice.

However, there's no need to tell her these things.

Yue Lingshan looked at the mutton on the plate, thought for a moment, and asked, "Um...sheep eat grass, and I heard they're quite docile. They shouldn't be lazy, greedy, and stupid like pigs. It should be okay to eat a little, right?"

Wen Rushi offered no explanation, only saying, "Since it's a beast, it naturally has its animalistic nature. Just because you don't know it doesn't mean it doesn't exist."

Upon hearing this, Yue Lingshan immediately stopped eating. "What is the animalistic nature of a sheep?"

"Greed and plunder," Wen Rushi said calmly.

Sheep may seem docile, but they are actually cowardly on the outside and fierce on the inside, truly wolves in sheep's clothing. They are insatiably greedy, eating without restraint. When they find grass, they eat it like crazy. If no one intervenes, nothing will grow in their wake. They are extremely greedy.

"Ah!" Yue Lingshan never expected that the seemingly docile sheep would have such an unknown side.

Greed and plunder are not good things.

The classics teach morality, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, trustworthiness, humility, and deference. Anything not taught is certainly not something a human being should possess.

"Then I won't eat it."

Although Yue Lingshan didn't know how long she could keep it up, she could manage for now. As for whether she would crave it later, she would wait and see!

After finishing their business, the two women, sister-in-law and aunt, each returned to their respective courtyards to rest.

That evening, Wen Rushi couldn't wait to begin her cultivation.

With twice the amount of spiritual energy around her, Wen Rushi could clearly feel a barrier preventing the spiritual energy from entering her meridians.

Wen Rushi tried for a long time but still couldn't break through the obstacle, so she had to stop.

If one cannot cultivate hearing, one can only lie down and sleep.

After months of traveling, she fell asleep the moment her head hit the pillow.

In the stillness of the night, as the moon rose high in the sky, bugle calls rang out from a military camp thirty miles outside the city.

Soon after, on a battlefield at the border between the barbarians and the Great Jin, the two sides were caught in a chaotic battle, which lasted until dawn.

Wen Rushi only learned the next morning that the Tatars had launched a night attack the previous night, and that the soldiers of both sides had fought fiercely for half the night, with countless dead and wounded, until dawn.

Wen Ru sighed inwardly.

Upon learning the news from the servants, Yue Lingshan suggested, "Sister-in-law, the Tatars launched a night attack last night. I wonder how my brother and the others are doing. Let's go to the military camp to visit them!"

Wen Rushi was also somewhat worried, but...

"A battle has just ended at the front, and the military camp is now under tight security. Can we go in?"

Yue Lingshan: "What's the big deal? We're family members of the General's Mansion, so we have these privileges. Besides, I'm not here to play around; I'm here to join the army."

"Have you thought it through?"

Yue Lingshan was only thirteen years old, and Wen Rushi actually did not approve of her joining the army.

"Yes, my childhood dream has been to go to the battlefield and kill the enemy. Sister-in-law, you don't know, I heard yesterday that General Xiang Ying is a woman who can go to the battlefield and kill the enemy. She's so popular here. I've been practicing martial arts with my brothers since I was little, so naturally I'm no worse than her! Sister-in-law, you'll support me, right?"

What Yue Lingshan didn't say was that she didn't just find out about Xiang Ying yesterday; she had always known about Xiang Ying and knew that she was very popular here at the border.

However, she doesn't want her sister-in-law to know that she used to admire Xiang Ying and even supported her and her brother being a couple.

The two stayed together on the road for three months, but the journey was not smooth, and they encountered bandits several times.

Later, she caught a cold, and since she was far from any village or shop, just when she felt she could only wait to die, her sister-in-law cured her with a pill.

The two women, sister-in-law and aunt, truly went through thick and thin together.

Yue Lingshan also completely sided with Wen Rushi.

After all, this was a life-saving favor.

What else could Wen Rushi say? "What's the use of my support or not? Do you think your father and older brother would agree?"

Yue Lingshan's smile vanished instantly. "Why would they disagree? If General Xiang Ying can fight on the battlefield as a woman, so can I."

That being said, I didn't really have much confidence.

Wen Rushi did not offer her any advice.

After all, by bringing the person out, she had already become involved in other people's affairs, and she didn't want to get involved in anything else.

The two women, an aunt and a sister-in-law, prepared some food and medicine and arrived at the military camp by carriage.

As soon as Wen Rushi and his companion stepped off the carriage, the guards' sharp gazes immediately swept over them.

"Who goes there?"

"Our General's family members, General Yue is my father, and this is my sister-in-law, your young general's wife," Yue Lingshan stepped forward and announced.

Upon hearing her words, a hint of surprise flashed in the eyes of several soldiers. They looked at Wen Rushi and couldn't help but whisper among themselves.

"So this is the wife the young general was forced to marry in the capital? What brings her to the military camp?"