"What's going on?"
Old Man Tang had never seen this side of Tang Youyou before. He felt even more worried.
"Girl, if there's anything you can't handle, just tell Grandpa. Grandpa will definitely do his best to help you."
Tang Youyou watched the panic on Old Man Tang's face. Her heart was filled with mixed feelings. She of course knew that Old Man Tang cared about her, but there were some things she must never let him know.
"I'm fine. Grandpa, don't worry."
Hearing Tang Youyou's reply, Old Man Tang became even more panicked.
Just as he was hesitating and didn't know how to speak, in the distance, through the sandy wind, several figures gradually emerged.
These people grabbed the two of them without asking any questions. Tang Youyou remained calm and let herself be pulled along by these people, walking slowly.
Then, the two were put on a cart. There was an iron cage on the cart, which was empty before. Tang Youyou and Old Man Tang were then locked inside.
Seeing these people walking in front, Old Man Tang whispered, "Girl, why didn't you run just now?"
Tang Youyou seemed very relaxed and said with a smile, "Why should we run? Anyway, in this desert, we have no idea how to get out. Now that there are people leading the way, we don't need to walk or worry. Why not?"
Hearing her words, Old Man Tang instantly understood what Tang Youyou meant. It turned out that she had been deliberately waiting for these people to come.
After a while, Tang Youyou fell into a deep sleep.
Old Man Tang watched his carefree granddaughter beside him. He didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He really didn't know if it was good or bad for this girl to have changed like this.
When Tang Youyou woke up again, she was already in a military camp. Around her were deserters who had been captured on the battlefield and some who had survived the war.
However, people like them were basically suspected by their superiors of having second thoughts and not fighting with all their might on the battlefield.
"Hey, little brother, why were you captured?"
A little boy in tattered clothes nudged Tang Youyou and tried to start a conversation.
Tang Youyou replied, "I don't know."
After she said that, she looked around at everyone but still didn't find Old Man Tang's figure.
The boy could tell that she was looking for someone, so he spoke first.
"Little brother, are you looking for that old man who came with you?"
Hearing this, Tang Youyou nodded. "Yes."
The boy said, "That old man was released because of his advanced age. Maybe he's already back on Chang'an Street. You're still young, so they kept you here."
Tang Youyou felt like crying but had no tears. She looked helplessly at the passing soldiers. Each of them carried a long bow and arrow on their backs and a long sword on their waists. They all looked imposing and inviolable.
The boy was like a chatterbox and kept talking.
"Every soldier here is a subordinate of the emperor. This time, the emperor personally led the troops to fight against the Western Regions, which is why I'm here."
Hearing what he said, Tang Youyou was sure that she had returned to the Ming Dynasty, but she was now on the border of the Ming Dynasty.
But hearing that the emperor would personally lead the troops to fight was really interesting.
Rong Xun personally led the troops to fight. She was just on the border. Maybe she could even see him.
But then she thought of her experience in the Western Regions. The image of Rong Xun ignoring her appeared in her mind. At that time, he had shown complete indifference to her.
Thinking of this, Tang Youyou lost all expectations for Rong Xun.
She still said coldly, "Hmm."
Seeing Tang Youyou's reply, the boy became even more interested and kept babbling on. He said that he had pretended to be a soldier coming back from the battlefield in order to go out and lead the troops to fight for the second time.
He talked for at least half an hour until the soldiers walked over and he finally stopped.
The soldiers scanned the crowd and finally fixed their eyes on Tang Youyou. The leading soldier pointed at Tang Youyou.
"Take this one away."
After saying that, he thought it was a bit inappropriate and then pointed at the boy on the other side. "Take this one too."
Tang Youyou looked at the people around her. It was that talkative boy again. For a moment, speechless filled her mind. She felt as if there were some bugs flying around in her ears, buzzing non - stop, driving her crazy.
Finally, they arrived at the training camp. Tang Youyou was pulled in by several people. Watching everyone inside sweating and training non - stop, Tang Youyou immediately realized that these people wanted her to receive training and then go to war.
She must have had extremely bad luck to have experienced so many things. After feeling helpless, she walked up to a wooden stake.
But at that moment, she felt a sudden pain in her abdomen. The baby in her belly was kicking her lower abdomen non - stop. But looking at the training men beside her, she couldn't show it too obviously.
She endured the pain from her lower abdomen and started training like the people beside her.
The passing general was still constantly supervising the trainees to see if they were being lazy.
When the general came to Tang Youyou, he stopped.
"Who found this person?"
The soldier beside the general replied, "Chui Zi found them. He said that among those people, only these two were useful. The others were simply useless."
After a while, Tang Youyou said, "General, I'm just a lost scholar. Could you please let me go? If not, I can go to the kitchen to help with cooking. Or, I'm skilled in medicine. I can also go to the battlefield to save people."
Tang Youyou deliberately spoke in a gentle tone.
Hearing Tang Youyou's words, the general became interested. "Oh? You can practice medicine?"
Tang Youyou nodded.
"Indeed."
At the same time, a man was carried over. He was covered in blood and had been beaten like this by the Xunu on the battlefield not long ago.
Tang Youyou just took one look and knew that this man was on the verge of death.
She said, "If this man isn't saved soon, he'll die."
Her words gave the general hope.
"Can you really save him?"
Tang Youyou nodded. Then she picked up the silver needles in her hand and inserted several into the man's body. After a while, the man's bleeding stopped.