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

As autumn approached, the harvest began outside Yancheng, and the barbarians who did not grow grain but relied on burning, killing, and looting harassed the border more and more frequently.

Yue Lingyuan led his men to ambush the barbarians several times, and although he won many times, the casualties were much higher than usual.

As a result, the military camp recruited many more military doctors and apprentices.

Wen Rushi was also busier than usual.

Yue Lingshan came to talk to her several times, but Wen Rushi was always busy.

That day, Wen Rushi had just finished refining the medicine and was making pills with Liuli in the tent when Yue Lingshan excitedly ran in.

"Sister-in-law, my older brother says I'm ready to go to the battlefield!"

After several months of training, Yue Lingshan has long since shed her former delicate image as the eldest daughter of the Yue family and transformed into a dashing and capable mature woman.

Wen Rushi secretly admired him.

She hadn't expected that Yue Lingshan, this somewhat pampered young lady, would actually persevere through such grueling training.

Wen Rushi stepped forward and pulled her to sit down on a chair nearby.

"That's great. You've been training hard these past few months, let me take your pulse!" Wen Rushi held her hand tightly.

It was said that he was taking her pulse, but in reality, he was using his spiritual sense to explore her meridians.

"How are you? Is there anything wrong with my body?" Yue Lingshan couldn't help but ask when her sister-in-law remained silent.

Wen Rushi quickly detected the fire spirit root within Yue Lingshan's dantian.

Wen Rushi was by no means an ordinary cultivator.

Even though her cultivation level is only at the Foundation Establishment stage, she doesn't need a spirit testing stone to find out if someone has spiritual roots.

Wen Rushi withdrew her hand. "You're in good health, there's no injury." She paused, then added.

"Come back later. I have an ancestral cultivation method that's suitable for your physique. I'll find it and you can come and get it."

Yue Lingshan possesses a rare fire-attribute celestial spiritual root, making her one in ten thousand in this small world.

It would be a real pity not to cultivate.

Upon hearing about the cultivation technique, Yue Lingshan was overjoyed. However, she hesitated for a moment, "Sister-in-law, I appreciate your kindness, but isn't it a bit inappropriate for you to give me your ancestral cultivation technique?"

"There's nothing wrong with it. If you practice this technique, you'll have more ways to protect yourself on the battlefield in the future."

Although Yue Lingshan's cultivation speed will be slow due to the influence of the Heavenly Dao and spiritual energy, as long as she can draw Qi into her body, her physique and physical strength after cultivation will be incomparable to ordinary people.

"Okay, I'll come back this afternoon!"

After Yue Lingshan left, Wen Rushi went into the inner room and quickly wrote down a cultivation technique suitable for fire spirit roots.

In the afternoon, Yue Lingshan came to pick up the cultivation manual and was overjoyed after seeing its contents.

only.........

The Yue family believed in living and sleeping with the soldiers and not giving them special treatment. Therefore, Yue Lingshan had been living in a dormitory-style room in the military camp for the past few months.

This makes it somewhat inconvenient for her to cultivate.

"Go find your elder brother and ask him to arrange a separate tent for you. Tell him about the cultivation technique, and he will agree to let you stay in a separate tent," Wen Rushi suggested to her.

Yue Lingshan immediately understood that her elder brother probably also had the cultivation technique given to him by her sister-in-law.

However, she didn't ask any questions, and thanked Wen Rushi profusely before leaving.

Yue Lingshan possessed an exceptionally rare spiritual root. After just one night, Yue Lingshan came to tell her that she had sensed spiritual energy, and then hurriedly went to train.

Wen Rushi originally thought that Yue Lingshan would come back to see her in the next few days, but she didn't expect that she would not show up for half a month.

Before Wen Rushi could even inquire about Yue Lingshan, another batch of wounded soldiers arrived at the medical tent.

Upon hearing this, he immediately lost the desire to inquire further.

She tirelessly treated wounded soldiers during the day and cultivated herself at night.

Time flies.

Based on her previous cultivation speed, she should be able to break through to the Golden Core stage soon.

However, after she reached the Foundation Establishment stage, cultivation became increasingly difficult.

The crack in that barrier was too small; there wasn't enough spiritual energy for her to cultivate.

Wen Rushi appropriately slowed down the frequency of her cultivation and focused her energy on saving people.

That day, Wen Rushi came out of the medical tent after finishing her work and ran into Yue Lingyuan and Yue Lingshan, a brother and sister.

Yue Lingyuan had a sullen face, while Yue Lingshan looked listless. The two of them looked as if they had come to see her.

Wen Rushi was somewhat surprised.

Even though she and Yue Lingyuan were in the same military camp, she didn't see Yue Lingyuan very often.

This young general seems even busier than General Yue.

Wen Rushi's gaze fell on Yue Lingshan. Although Yue Lingshan looked exhausted, Wen Rushi could tell that she was not injured.

Yue Lingyuan did have some minor injuries.

"Are you injured?" Wen Rushi asked with concern.

"I'm not injured. It's my brother who has a minor injury. He came to get some medicine," Yue Lingshan explained, trying to sound cheerful.

Wen Rushi was somewhat surprised. "How did you get injured? What level of that technique have you reached?"

Seeing the surprise in Wen Rushi's eyes, Yue Lingyuan felt a little embarrassed. "Two floors."

Wen Rushi nodded. "Not bad, but with your current skills, you shouldn't have gotten injured."

"It was my carelessness."

Wen Rushi didn't ask any more questions and tossed him a bottle of medicine.

Yue Lingyuan took it, but his gaze remained fixed on Wen Rushi's face.

Wen Rushi pretended not to see his gaze and looked at Yue Lingshan, "You just got back, why don't you go and rest for a bit?"

Yue Lingshan said somewhat sullenly, "I came to talk to you."

Wenru was puzzled. This little girl was in high spirits when she went out with her older brother. Why did she look like this when she came back?

Could something have happened?

Wen Ru said to Yue Lingyuan, "I'll take Ling Shan to my tent to rest. Young General, you should also go back and rest!"

After saying this, she pulled the absent-minded Yue Lingshan back to her tent.

"What's wrong? You seem distracted. What happened?"

Hearing this, I felt concerned.

She wasn't one to meddle, but Yue Lingshan only got the chance to come to the military camp because of her.

Yue Lingshan looked at her toes and said in a muffled voice, "I just think I'm being too simplistic in my thinking."

"You're not even fourteen years old yet, there's no need to be so hard on yourself."

Wen Rushi believed that she had suffered a blow at the hands of the barbarians.

But what she said next shocked Wen Rushi.

"This time, General Xiang Ying took me, my elder brother, and some of his trusted men out. I thought they were going to kill those barbarians, but I never expected..."

Upon hearing the beginning, Wen Rushi immediately extended his divine sense to prevent anyone outside from eavesdropping.

Seeing that no one was outside, Wen Rushi did not interrupt Yue Lingshan.

"They disguised themselves as bandits and intercepted caravans trading with barbarians at the border..."

Those caravans are despicable! They actually sold salt and iron to those Tatars!

At this point, Yue Lingshan's originally low voice unconsciously became a little louder.

The barbarians gained strength from eating the salt of the Great Jin. With strength, they would come to the Great Jin to burn and plunder. The iron they sold would then become knives to cut down the people of the Great Jin.

Yue Lingshan grew angrier the more she thought about it.

"After General Xiang Ying investigated and found out which merchants in Yuncheng were doing business with the barbarians, he was furious. He led his men, disguised as bandits, to kill all the merchants and plunder a lot of gold, silver, jewelry, grain, and ironware..."

At this point, she sighed, "At first I thought we were going to kill the Tatars, but I didn't expect it to be killing our own people."

"Do you think they did something wrong?" Wen Rushi asked, though she already had a vague idea in her mind.

Yue Lingshan shook her head. "I didn't think that way. My brother said that the imperial court can't pay the soldiers, and so many people in the military camp need to eat. They need to intercept those merchant caravans outside the pass to provide military supplies."

General Xiang Ying said that without the protection of officials, those merchants would not dare to sell iron and salt to the Tatars.

She also cursed the officials of the imperial court, saying they were all heartless, selling iron and salt to barbarians for money, eating the salt of the Great Jin, wielding the weapons of the Great Jin, and yet attacking the people of the Great Jin.

Yue Lingshan looked at Wen Rushi and said, "Sister-in-law, I just can't understand why those officials would do such a thing. They receive salaries from the imperial court and are supported by the people. How could they do such a thing?"