Don't disturb me, I won't be a concubine

Under the beautiful night sky, there was constant laughter and joy in the camp.

Cui Qiyan held a pot of wine in his right hand and a wine glass in his left hand. He stood up and said loudly: "Everyone, please listen to me first."

Everyone stopped talking immediately and looked at him.

"With this first glass of wine, we should first toast to our fellow villagers who died of the plague." Cui Qi Yan poured all the wine in the glass onto the ground.

The others followed suit.

Then Cui Qiyan filled his glass with wine again.

"This second cup of wine is to thank His Majesty for giving us the wine and food tonight."

Everyone stood up, saluted in the direction of the capital, and then drank the wine.

"This third cup of wine is for the imperial physicians and doctors. Without them, we wouldn't be where we are today. It was they who controlled the plague and saved everyone's lives."

Hundreds of eyes turned to this side, and Envoy Chen said: "We should also respect you all. Without your cooperation, we would not have fought this battle so beautifully."

"Then let's drink this cup together and toast to ourselves!" Cui Qiyan raised his head and drank it all in one gulp.

"Respect yourself——"

Everyone spoke in unison, their voices vigorous, powerful and full of momentum.

After three glasses of wine, Cui Qiyan said, "Everyone, have a great time tonight. Don't go home until you are drunk!"

"Don't go home until you're drunk—"

Then everyone ate meat and drank wine, talked and laughed with the people around them, and it was as lively as the New Year.

Xiuniang came over and said to Dong Jiafu, "Ms. Dong, thank you for what you said to me before. Without you, I would have been discouraged and followed my child. I don't know how to drink, so I will offer you water instead of wine. I will go back to my hometown tomorrow, but I will never forget you in my life. I will pray for you and wish you a long life and everything goes well."

"Thank you, Xiuniang. I hope you can be reunited with your family soon. No matter what difficulties you encounter in the future, think about how hard it was for you to survive. Don't give up on yourself easily."

Dong Jiafu doesn’t know what she will experience when she returns to her hometown, and she just hopes she can live a good life.

Xiuniang nodded, "Miss Dong, I know what you mean, don't worry, I have seen so many lives and deaths, I will not commit suicide."

Dong Jiafu felt relieved and drank a little wine.

As soon as Xiuniang left, Lu Siheng came over with a plate of meat.

"You'll get drunk if you drink like this. Try the lamb I roasted myself." Lu Siheng put the plate in front of her and sat down next to her.

Dong Jiafu picked up the chopsticks and took a bite. "It smells delicious. Thank you."

"We are all friends, no need to be so polite. Although we are in the same place and can see each other every day, you are busy from morning to night and we haven't had a chance to talk to each other."

"Yes, the plague is terrible."

Lu Siheng turned his head to look at her fair face and chuckled, "I didn't expect you to persist in learning medical skills for so long and come here. Even Chen Yuanshi praised you highly. After this, you are a real female doctor, but you don't really plan to keep doing this, right?"

"Why not?" Dong Jiafu looked at him.

"It's too tiring and risky. Besides, you will get married and have children in the future." When Lu Siheng said this, he glanced at Cui Qiyan who was drinking with Lieutenant General Xu and others.

"I haven't thought that far ahead. Right now I just want to live in the present. People are too small and too fragile in the face of disasters. No one knows what will happen tomorrow. As long as I do what I like now, it's enough." Dong Jiafu ate another piece of mutton.

Lu Siheng laughed out loud, "This is the young lady I knew at the beginning."

"Eat your meat." Dong Jiafu handed him a pair of chopsticks.

Lu Siheng took it happily and stuffed his mouth with the mutton.

"You've been out for so long, and you left Qingyan alone in the Marquis' Mansion?"

You know what, the roasted lamb he cooked was quite delicious, Dong Jiafu asked while eating.

"With Lin Zhong here, and Qingyan is smart, she won't suffer at the hands of the Zhou family."

"Qingyan is such a good girl. She entered the Marquis' Mansion for you. Have you ever considered giving her a status and keeping her by your side?"

Lu Siheng swallowed the meat in his mouth in one gulp. "What are you thinking? We are close friends. She is helping me now, and I will arrange a good place for her in the future so that she will have no worries about food and clothing in her life."

He is also a confidant. Does he really not understand, or is he pretending to be ignorant even though he knows the truth?

"You think so, but Miss Qingyan may not. A woman did so many things for you, is it just because you two are close friends?"

Dong Jiafu recalled the look in Qingyan's eyes when she looked at Lu Siheng. Even if she was just acting in front of outsiders, didn't Qingyan have any admiration for Lu Siheng at all?

While others thought that Lu Siheng was a playboy, Qingyan knew what he was really like. The two had been in close contact for many years, so it should be easy for him to be attracted to her.

Lu Siheng's eyes flickered, and he quickly waved his hand and said, "You don't understand. Qingyan is helping me to repay me for saving her back then. It's not what you think."

Some things should be said at the right time, Dong Jiafu just felt sorry for Qingyan.

"Come, have a drink." Lu Siheng picked up his glass and clinked it with hers.

Dong Jiafu was not used to drinking it, so she took a small sip.

Cui Qiyan noticed them when Lu Siheng just went to find Dong Jiafu. Seeing the two of them drinking and eating meat and talking and laughing, he no longer had the heart to deal with the people who came to toast him. He said something to the others, took a roasted chicken from the campfire, and walked straight towards the two of them.

"What are you talking about? Let me add some dishes."

Under the gaze of the two, Cui Qi Yan sat calmly on the other side of Dong Jiafu.

Lu Siheng smiled knowingly, "Jia Fu and I are talking about the time when we first met. Are you sure you want to listen, Prince Cui?"

"Try this." Cui Qiyan tore off a chicken leg and gave it to Dong Jiafu. "If I remember correctly, I was there when you first met her. There's nothing wrong with not listening to it."

The chicken leg was roasted till crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, leaving a lingering fragrance when bitten. Dong Jiafu was sandwiched in the middle, silently gnawing on the palm-sized chicken leg, listening to the two of them exchanging sharp words.

"Now that Prince Cui mentioned that, I remember that when the Western Regions people whipped Jiafu, you were watching coldly from the side."

"Why don't you tell me who kidnapped her first and hid behind her like a coward." Cui Qiyan looked at Lu Siheng from behind Dong Jiafu and said coldly, "And I blocked the whip of the Western Regions man and didn't let her get hurt."

Lu Siheng was not to be outdone, "Tsk tsk tsk, you talk like you're so great. Even if you didn't take action, I wouldn't let the people from the Western Regions hurt Jiafu."

Hearing him calling her "Jiafu" over and over again, Cui Qiyan couldn't help but grit his teeth and said, "Yes, the people from the Western Regions couldn't hurt her. You were the only one who hurt her that night."

Lu Siheng could not refute this point. It was indeed he who knocked Dong Jiafu down on purpose. But even if he could do it again, he would still go to meet her.