"Take off your clothes and look at the wound!" Mrs. Zhang said.
Ren Ning nodded and quickly took off his clothes, revealing his scarred body.
Yun Chui has always been particular about whether men and women should be intimate with each other.
Mrs. Zhang did not give in.
She looked at the young man in front of her quietly, with sadness in her eyes.
Her husband, who was about the same age as Ren Ning, became one of Yunchui's scouts.
Because her husband was a member of the military and there were no other relatives in her hometown to join her, Mrs. Zhang simply moved to Yankuo Fortress with her husband.
However, in principle, civilians were not allowed to live in the fortress. Common people like Mrs. Zhang who followed their husbands or sons to join the army lived in nearby villages.
The area near the fortress is hot and dry, often filled with wind and sand, and there are also cross-border intrusions from Xiliang people from time to time. It is not suitable for ordinary people to live.
However, Mrs. Zhang was very happy.
She also plans to work hard to give birth to a son and a half for her husband.
The son will continue to join the army and make achievements in the future; when the daughter grows up, he will take her back to his hometown to find a good marriage...
But one day ten years ago, before she was pregnant with a child, she received bad news.
While her husband was spying on the situation on the Xiliang prairie, he encountered a Xiliang man unexpectedly and returned home seriously injured.
When she rushed to the fortress, she saw the tattered bodies of more than a dozen scouts, including her husband. In the end, due to lack of medical treatment and excessive blood loss, none of those young men survived.
After burying her good husband, Mrs. Zhang has become much older.
She no longer took care of the crops in the fields, but rushed to the Rock Frontier Fortress to ask to be a military doctor.
She wanted to use her own hands to save other mothers, wives or daughters from their sons, husbands or fathers and leave them with something to look forward to.
It's just that in this era of humble women, her behavior was extremely outrageous, so she was naturally rejected. Madam Zhang couldn't even enter the fortress gate.
However she didn't give up.
Mrs. Zhang knelt outside the fortress for half a month, and finally even the generals guarding the fortress were alarmed.
So she was allowed to enter the fortress as an assistant to other military doctors. Today, ten years later, she became an official military doctor with a military certificate.
After carefully examining Ren Ning's body, Mrs. Zhang changed his dressing.
"There are many wounds, and the hidden injuries are serious; you cannot move much for three months and have a good rest."
"Thank you!" Ren Ning nodded to express his understanding.
After all, she is a woman who grew up under feudal ethics. Although Mrs. Zhang now dares to look directly at a man's body, she can still speak simply to avoid suspicion.
Even though she is almost old enough to be a Ninth number.
Ren Ning knew this well and was not surprised.
Looking at the medicine Mrs. Zhang took from her apprentice, he frowned.
Green value 60!
My predecessor had always felt that the medicinal materials stored in the fortress had gathered the essence of all the Yunchui doctors and were definitely good medicine for healing injuries.
Now Ren Ning saw that it was nothing more than that, not as good as the life-seeking grass that Zhui Feng found.
"Ms. Zhang, have you ever seen a kind of herb? It usually grows so tall, with four-cornered rhombus-shaped leaves, dark green and gray in color; there is a trace of light green on the main stem..."
Ren Ning described the appearance of the life-seeking grass in detail. It took him a long time to finish talking about it one by one.
"The effect of this herbal medicine on treating injuries and stopping bleeding is amazing. You saw the new injury on the waist, the bone was clearly visible at the time. However, as soon as the herbal medicine was applied, the bleeding almost stopped. It almost healed in two or three days.
"
Mrs. Zhang was surprised and quickly asked some more detailed questions about the life-seeking grass.
"I've never seen it." She shook her head regretfully and asked urgently: "Did you bring it back? I'll show it to others to identify."
Ren Ning spread his hands and said, "I've used them all."
Mrs. Zhang was stunned.
When her eyes fell on Ren Ning's mummy-like body, she suddenly understood.
If you really find such a sharp herb, instead of hiding it, you might as well take it out and donate it to the fortress. I don't know how many comrades you can save in the days to come. It will be a great achievement.
The fortress has always had clear rewards and punishments, and finding such a herb would be enough to mark Ren Ning's merits.
It's a pity that he didn't come up with the real thing...
Mrs. Zhang said a few more words and advised him to eat and have a good rest. Then she got up and left in a hurry with her young apprentice.
Not long after, someone knocked on Ren Ning's door again.
It turned out that a family member had sent some things to his predecessor, who had just arrived at Yanchi Fortress these days.
Ren Ning took it and opened it and saw that it was a letter from the Feng family.
His predecessor was not an orphan. On the contrary, Ren Ning also had a huge family background.
The Ren family in the imperial capital was a clan of great masters, with great power.
It's just that he was an illegitimate son and was brought back to the family by his father shortly after he was born.
However, the feudal hierarchy was strict, and as an illegitimate son, he was not valued by others. Not to mention the legitimate son in the family, even the bastard son was inferior to him.
Of course, an illegitimate son can be considered a descendant of the Ren family, but so far he cannot be included in the family tree.
The reason is that his aunt said that his origin is unclear. If the Ren family bloodline is confused, the ancestors of Jiuquan will be blamed, and no one can afford it.
In this way, the predecessor lived without a name or status.
After finally surviving to the age of fourteen, he signed the military certificate without hesitation with other tribesmen behind his back. From then on, he crossed thousands of rivers and mountains to Yanhui County and became a young scout of Yanchuo Fortress.
Being a soldier is very dangerous. You have to tie your head to your belt at all times. The numerous scars on your body are proof of this, but I have no regrets at all.
If he stays in the family and grows up and tries to please him when he becomes an adult, he will most likely be sent to a remote Zhuangzi to guard the family property.
There is no talk of being rich and famous, but at least you will have enough food and clothing to grow old safely. However, whether you can be buried in the ancestral grave in the end is still a question.
If you have a stubborn temper and don't know how to look at other people, you will most likely be kicked out of the family by your aunt and uncle when you reach adulthood, and you will have to live on the streets of the imperial capital and struggle to survive.
His predecessor was the latter. Not only did he not look at his direct brothers, he would even fight against them when his temper got angry. Naturally, his aunt couldn't tolerate him. If it weren't for the clan's wife watching over him, he probably wouldn't have lived to be fourteen years old.
.
He can see clearly.
As an illegitimate son with an unknown identity, he has no chance to inherit the family unless the entire family dies. Even if the family is divided in the future, there will be no trace of him.
Without family support and no land of his own, he would have to start a small business in the city and work a small job, and then try to marry someone from a small family or even a maid, and live a mediocre life from then on.
Either don't make steamed buns to gain reputation, and join the army to get ahead.
Six hundred years ago, the Yunchui Empire was founded by force. The titles of Duke Bai Zinan were only awarded to soldiers with outstanding military exploits.
As long as he becomes an ordinary general, even a small viscount, he can start a court and create a clan. From then on, he can raise his head in front of those brothers who look down on him, and even make them bow down and give way.
Putting back his confused thoughts, Ren Ning's eyes fell on the family letter in front of him.
He hasn't read the content yet, but his brows are already frowning so much that he could kill a mosquito.
This letter home was sent by his half-sister Ren Xi.
The handwriting on it is sloppy and extremely ugly, and the calligraphy is almost at the level of someone who just learned to write. Even the writer couldn't write many of the words, so he drew various symbols instead.
If Ren Ning hadn't been idle and trying to figure out the content, he really wouldn't have known what was written in the letter.
It doesn't make sense.
Ren Ning raised his head blankly.
The Ren family is not an ordinary family. Even in the imperial capital where there are many powerful people, they can still be ranked at the front.
Even though the sixth sister, Ren Xi, was a concubine who was not taken seriously, and was not as eloquent or as proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting as the legitimate daughters, she was still a lady, and at least she had worked hard at literacy and calligraphy.
How can I write a letter without words or words like now?
Could it be that the clan wife is seriously ill and can no longer take care of the humble sons and daughters of the clan, so that they cannot even receive the most basic education?