Warm medicine emits fragrance

The two glared at each other, then shut up in perfect unison.

Fan Liuer pinched the bridge of her nose and asked Qi Weiming, "Will you be in danger if you stay by his side?"

She couldn't accept trading her safety for Qi Weiming's.

"Don't worry, even if he wants to do something to me, he can't do anything to me right now. I have my official position."

Fan Liuer was relieved, then turned to Li Chenbi and asked, "So what should we do now?"

Li Chenbi stared at Fan Liuer, and silently snorted to himself.

See? When Fan Liuer encounters trouble, she only goes to him, not to that idiot Qi Weiming.

He slowly stood up. "I haven't even settled the score with him for what happened last time. Since he's so impatient, let's settle both the old and new scores together."

After saying that, he walked up to Fan Liuer, pulled her into his arms, and gestured with his chin towards Qi Weiming, "We're going to sleep now, you can leave."

Qi Weiming: "..."

Fan Liuer pushed Li Chenbi's hand away, "Don't hold a grudge against Qi Weiming anymore. He has never done anything to wrong you from beginning to end."

Li Chenbi, who had been smug, became displeased upon hearing this. He turned Fan Liuer around, looked at her, and said, "He stole my wife. Isn't that a betrayal of me?"

Fan Liuer thought about it and felt that what he said seemed to make sense.

But then again, from Qi Weiming's perspective, didn't Li Chenbi also steal his wife?

Sigh, this problem is too complicated; it's really not suitable for her to think about.

Forget it, let them be, she's not going to care anymore.

"What are you planning to do?" she changed the subject.

"To control someone, you must first take what they cherish. Yanling cares most about sitting in that position, so let's make sure he can never sit in that position again in his life, and he has to watch Yanqiu sit in it." Li Chenbi's tone was indifferent, but Fan Liuer could hear the ruthlessness in his words.

Fan Liuer thought that with Li Chenbi so confident, taking Yanling's life should not be difficult.

But he didn't intend to kill Yanling; instead, he wanted him to watch helplessly as he failed.

She couldn't help but feel a little fortunate that Li Chenbi liked her; otherwise, given his methods, she would probably have died eight hundred times over.

"Do you already have a solution?" she asked again.

Li Chenbi looked at her and smiled, "Just wait and see, you'll find out in a couple of days."

Li Chenbi's prediction of "two days" really came true.

Since the army set up camp, Li Chenbi has been very busy every day, spending most of his time in Yan Qi's tent during the day.

With war imminent, the atmosphere in the military camp was tense. Fan Liuer, who was already afraid to go out, now hid in her tent all day long, and would not leave the camp unless absolutely necessary.

That day, Chuixue went to do laundry, while she brewed medicine for Li Chenbi in the tent.

Just as I finished brewing the medicine, a commotion arose outside.

The military camp was strictly disciplined. Except for the day of setting up camp, when it was a bit noisy, it was usually quiet and orderly.

Such noise seemed particularly abnormal.

Fan Liuer put down the medicine and walked to the tent entrance. She lifted the door slightly and peeked outside.

The noise continued, but she couldn't see what was happening.

Li Qiuping, who was guarding the door, noticed the movement of the curtain, looked over, and whispered, "It's commotion from General Yan's side."

Fan Liuer asked curiously, "What happened?"

"Something must have happened in Yanling," Li Qiuping said. He hadn't been to the scene and didn't know the specifics of what had happened.

Fan Liuer didn't ask any further questions; this wasn't the place to discuss such matters.

Back inside the tent, the noise outside continued for quite a while before stopping. After washing her clothes, Chuixue returned.

As soon as she entered the room, she rushed to Fan Liuer's side and said, "Madam, something has happened to Young Master Yan."

"What happened?" Fan Liuer had been curious for a long time.

"I heard it from other soldiers, I don't know if the information is accurate." Fubuki quickly told what she had heard.

It turns out that last night, one of Yan Qi's subordinates got drunk and boasted to others about how he used to have a very good relationship with Yan Qi.

No one present believed it. This man had indeed been by Yan Qi's side for a long time, but he had not obtained a high official position. He was still just a small squad leader, while those who had been with him since the beginning were basically generals. Even Qi Weiming, who followed Yan Qi later, had risen to the position of adjutant general.

Seeing that no one believed him, the man's competitive spirit flared up, and fueled by alcohol, he revealed a shocking secret he had been keeping hidden in his heart.

He slept with the same woman as Yan Qi when Yan Qi was getting married.

When these words got out, everyone was stunned.

Everyone knows that Yan Qi is a man of integrity and has never been with any other woman besides his first wife who died young and his two concubines.

If Yan Qi had just gotten married, then Yan Qiu's mother could be ruled out, as Yan Qi didn't know her at that time.

The remaining ones were Yan Qi's first wife and Yan Ling's mother.

Yan Qi's first wife had someone else in her heart, someone even Yan Qi didn't think much of, so how could she possibly be interested in someone close to Yan Qi? They can be ruled out.

The one who remained was Yanling's mother, who was just a maidservant at the time.

The next morning, the man was taken away, and the entire army was ordered to strictly prohibit anyone from discussing the matter, under penalty of death.

Fan Liuer's heart skipped a beat when she heard this, but then she remembered that Chuixue had also heard it from someone else, so it seemed that everyone was talking about it in private, and she felt a little relieved.

"And then what? Is it true or false?"

Chuixue shook her head. "Nobody knows if it's true or not, but that person was taken away early this morning and hasn't appeared since. Then, around lunchtime, Young Master Yan was also taken to General Yan's tent. The commotion just now, I heard, was because Young Master Yan was punished by General Yan and sent back to his hometown. Young Master Yan was unwilling and made a scene."

At this point, Chuixue lowered her voice and said, "I heard that General Yan now suspects that the eldest son of Yan is not his biological son."

Upon hearing this, Fan Liuer immediately realized that all of this must have been Li Chenbi's plan.

Whether this matter is true or false, it will leave a thorn in General Yan's heart if it reaches his ears.

Adding to the timeframe mentioned by that person, Yanling conceived around that time as well.

Yan Ling's appearance is more like his mother's and not very similar to General Yan, which inevitably raises suspicions.

They doubted who Yanling's son really was.

Upon hearing this, Fan Liuer felt that things were not so simple. Although there was currently no way to verify Yan Ling's background to prove his innocence, there was also no way to prove that he was not Yan Qi's offspring.

Moreover, Yanqiu and Yanqi do not look alike; Yanqi's two sons both resemble their mother.

This doubt was not resolved until Li Chenbi returned.

All of this was indeed secretly planned by Li Chenbi, but he did not wrong Yanling's mother.

His mother and that man did indeed have a relationship, not long before she got together with Yan Qi.