After checking the last account, Li Jingwan closed the account book and handed it to Xiang Mingfang, giving him some instructions.

"Uncle Xiang, next time you buy herbs, follow the instructions in the account book and double the quantity, especially the herbs that can stop bleeding and promote tissue regeneration. Buy as many as you can get."

"Also, buy more herbs to prevent the plague and give them to Lord Gao. The Pacification Office will be responsible for boiling the medicine. There are many people fleeing to Tacheng now. The weather is getting hot and it is easy to get sick. Everyone entering the city must drink a bowl of medicine."

Xiang Mingfang nodded, "Don't worry, Miss. Although the medicinal materials are in short supply, a lot of them have been transferred from the south and are on the way."

"With you watching over me, I'm not worried." Li Jingwan smiled, stretched without hesitation, rubbed her shoulders and stood up.

"Bai Yiyi is here and is talking to Ding Zheng. I'll go over and take a look."

"When I came here just now, the young master asked me what you were busy with." Xiang Mingfang said with a smile, "Miss, go quickly."

Li Jingwan took the towel and wiped the ink off her hands, then strolled towards Li Dingzheng's courtyard.

It was already mid-April, and the weather in the northwest had finally turned warmer. The flowers, plants, and trees in the city were all covered in green, and there was finally a breath of spring.

Two maids who were passing by and were talking and laughing in low voices saw Li Jingwan, bowed and left. Li Jingwan could still hear their laughter from a distance.

They are carefree, as if they are living in a peaceful and prosperous age. They just need to live a good life and don't have to worry about anything else.

Although the war has not stopped yet, the attitudes of these two maids represent the thoughts of most people in the northwest.

The Western Rong army suffered successive defeats and had been silent for more than half a month since its last defeat.

The most difficult winter days of fighting in the northwest have passed, and it seems that the Xirong army has no chance of winning.

They all believed that it would not be long before early summer before the Xirong army would admit defeat and surrender.

Amidst everyone's optimism and confidence, Li Jingwan always felt a little uneasy.

Although the traitor Wen Da in the army was caught, Chu Tingyu was not missing, and everything was moving in the right direction.

But she always thought things were going too smoothly.

If it was really Wen Da who caused Chu Tingyu's disappearance in the previous life, why couldn't he be found?

Before her death, Chu Tingyu had been missing for ten years and his life or death was still unknown. Where did he go?

While she was daydreaming, Li Jingwan came to Li Dingzheng's courtyard and saw him and Bai Yiyi sitting at a stone table playing chess.

Bai Yiyi had a worried look on her face. It was obvious that she was stumped, and she was mumbling to herself.

Li Dingzheng was calm and composed.

After recuperating for a period of time, Li Dingzheng finally gained some weight and looked 70% similar to the way he was before the accident.

Although he still couldn't remember what happened in the past, his overall temperament slowly recovered and he was the smiling and proud brother in her memory.

Li Jingwan stopped, looked at the door with a smile on her face.

Bai Yiyi finally dropped a piece and quickly picked it up, "No, no, I made a wrong move."

She chuckled, not feeling embarrassed, "Ah Han, let me have another chance."

Li Dingzheng nodded and added a condition, "You are not allowed to speak within ten minutes."

"Ah, ten?" Bai Yiyi frowned. "Just now, seven of them were not allowed to speak. Why is it increased again?"

It's torture not letting her speak.

"Then put it back." Li Dingzheng said in a calm tone, without giving in.

"Okay, okay, ten is ten." Bai Yiyi said bitterly, "I think you think I talk too much."

Li Jingwan smiled gently.

Before she went to the capital of Xirong last time, she asked Bai Yiyi to come to the house when she was free to talk to Li Dingzheng and help him adapt and recover.

Bai Yiyi executed the plan very well. She came almost every other day and talked with Li Dingzheng from morning to night.

The day before yesterday, Li Dingzheng quietly complained to her, saying that Bai Yiyi talked too much and was a bit noisy.

She laughed and said that he used to talk more than Bai Yiyi, but now he finally understood her feelings.

As a result, the boy came up with this idea, which was to make Bai Yiyi speak less by playing chess.

Li Jingwan walked over quietly and stood behind Bai Yiyi. Li Dingzheng's eyes lit up when he saw her, but he didn't say anything.

Bai Yiyi pondered for a while, and was about to place a move when Li Jingwan called her back, "You're wrong. If you place it, it will be a dead end."

Li Dingzheng was not satisfied, "Elder sister, just watch the chess game without saying a word."

When Bai Yiyi heard her voice, she threw the chess pieces into the chess basket, turned around immediately and invited her happily.

"Sister Xiaowan, come and help me, Ah Han is too powerful, I am no match for him."

"No, we're almost done." Li Dingzheng disagreed.

If Li Jingwan came to play chess, Bai Yiyi would talk nonstop beside her.

"We didn't agree that we can't change people." Bai Yiyi stood up and asked Li Jingwan to sit down. "Sister Xiaowan, please help me. Ah Han won't let me speak, and I'm almost suffocating."

Li Dingzheng quickly reminded, "There are still eight pieces left. You can only speak after you finish playing them."

"Sister Xiaowan will play chess on my behalf. The agreement is over." Bai Yiyi was playing dirty.

As they were talking and laughing, Zhu Gaozhi hurried in.

He is a person who cannot hide his emotions, and everything he is thinking is written on his face.

When Li Jingwan saw his solemn expression, her heart skipped a beat, wondering if something had happened to Chu Tingyu.

"Coach Zhu, is this about the prince?"

"No." Zhu Gaozhi shook his head.

Li Jingwan finally breathed a sigh of relief, and before he spoke, she said, "Dingzheng, Yiyi, you guys continue playing chess. Coach Zhu and I have something to discuss."

She didn't want Li Dingzheng to know anything bad, she just hoped that he could recuperate in peace.

When the two of them arrived outside the courtyard, Zhu Gaozhi hurriedly said, "Miss, there is a woman at the city gate. Before she fainted, she claimed to be Qin Lingyun."

"What?" Qin Lingyun, who had been missing for more than half a year, suddenly appeared in Tacheng. Li Jingwan widened her eyes in disbelief.

"Is it her?"

"I'm not sure." Zhu Gaozhi shook his head. "I've never seen Qin Lingyun, so I don't know what she looks like."

After the Northwest War broke out, Zhu Gaozhi stayed in Tacheng. When he was free, he arranged for bodyguards to help the Pacification Office maintain public order in the city.

He happened to go to the city gate guard to help today and met a woman with tattered clothes and a bad complexion. When he asked her to show her identity documents to enter the city, she fell to the ground due to her weak legs.

Before she fell into a coma, she said she was Qin Lingyun, the niece of Princess Le Yi, and that she had fled here and asked to see the princess.

Zhu Gaozhi knew that Qin Lingyun was a fugitive, so he did not dare to delay and immediately came to find Li Jingwan.

"Where is she?" Li Jingwan asked.

"After he fainted, he was sent to the nearest clinic."

Li Jingwan frowned slightly.

Qin Lingyun had been hiding for so long, but now she suddenly shows up. According to Zhu Gaozhi's description, she must have had a miserable time recently, so he would rather expose his identity to find her.

She thought for a while, and finally said, "Let's go and take a look."

"Miss, will she do anything bad to you?" Zhu Gaozhi was a little worried.

He was still haunted by Li Jingwan’s disappearance last time and attached great importance to her safety.

"What can she do to me when she comes to Tacheng?" Li Jingwan smiled. "Let's go, Coach Zhu. We can come back later to have dinner with Ding Zheng."

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When Li Jingwan arrived at the clinic, the doctor just came out of the room and greeted her quickly when he saw her.

Li Jingwan often gave out porridge and medicine to help people in Tacheng, and many people recognized her.

Li Jingwan signaled the doctor not to speak, called him aside and asked, "How is she?"

The doctor said, "My lady, this girl is very weak and seems to have been hungry for some time. But she cannot eat now, otherwise it will hurt her spleen and stomach. She needs to wait for another hour or two."

"And..." the doctor said hesitantly.

"What else happened to her?" Li Jingwan asked.

"She also has skin injuries. There are whip marks on the exposed skin. There should be quite a few on her body. I guess she was beaten."

Li Jingwan was stunned for a moment before asking, "Is it serious? Have you applied the medicine?"

"It's basically all scabbed over. I really don't know the specific situation." The doctor answered truthfully.

After all, there are differences between men and women, and he cannot check the areas covered by women's clothes.

The doctor suggested, "Princess, I will arrange a little maid to wipe her body and apply medicine later."

"Yeah." Li Jingwan nodded.

At this time, a medicine boy came running to report that when he delivered the medicine just now, he found that Qin Lingyun had woken up.

Li Jingwan walked towards the room. Zhu Gaozhi stood at the door himself, paying attention to the situation inside at all times.

As soon as she entered, Qin Lingyun, who was taking medicine, saw her. Her hands trembled, and the medicine choked her throat, causing her to cough violently.

Just as Zhu Gaozhi said, Qin Lingyun was indeed dressed in rags, had a pale face, and was so thin that she looked unrecognizable.

She does not have the temperament of the eldest daughter of the Wu'an Marquis Mansion in the past. It is not an exaggeration to say that she is a refugee.

Although she looked miserable, Li Jingwan had no sympathy at all.

She deserves this.

Qin Lingyun put down the medicine bowl and coughed violently for a while before stopping. She didn't know whether the tears in her eyes were caused by the cough or because she was too excited to see Li Jingwan.

"Aunt, aunt..." There was a crying tone in her voice, and it sounded very aggrieved.

"I'm not your aunt." Li Jingwan looked at her coldly, "I have divorced Qin Changzhou and have nothing to do with the Qin family anymore. You and I have nothing to do with each other either."

"Aunt, I'm sorry." Qin Lingyun bit her lower lip. "Aunt, it's my uncle who is wrong. It's the Qin family that has let you down and made you suffer so much."

"You're wrong again." Li Jingwan was not shaken by her tears at all.

"First, don't call me 'aunt' anymore. I am now Princess Leyi. Second, Qin Changzhou is not your uncle, but your biological father."

Qin Lingyun's face froze, and the grievance in her eyes faded.

"Besides, you've let me down too." Li Jingwan sneered, her cold gaze swept across her panicked face, and she curled her lips sarcastically.

"You and Tang Qiaoyin have lived in this city for several years. You already knew your true identity, but you also lied to me and hid the truth from me in Beijing."

"Qin Lingyun, I actually want to ask you, what do you think when you call your father "uncle" every day in the mansion? What do you think when you deliberately get close to me to ask for benefits?"

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