Guihua watched Yingzi, who was crying and collapsed on the bed, and stood nearby wiping her tears.

Although Doctor Gu’s words were a bit harsh, every sentence was filled with golden wisdom, merely hoping that this girl would abandon those foolish thoughts and quickly come to her senses.

Lao Jiu stood at the door, deeply bowing his head.

He heard all of Yun Jiao’s words.

He only hated himself for being incapable and unable to provide Yingzi with a better life.

At this moment, Ah Shong also came running up, and Lao Jiu’s gaze fell on him, resigning himself to his own fate, but Ah Shong was still young and had chances ahead.

Tomorrow, he would inquire about private schools to send Ah Shong to study! If that didn’t work out, he would send him to join the military early, to carve out a future.

The son of Lord Chief Minister and Doctor Gu was sent to the military camp before he turned five, why should his son be more delicate than the Lord Chief Minister’s son? 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

Yun Jiao went back to her own room for a midday nap.

Getting up to continue the medical appointments, until Jiang Youzhi left the palace, and they would walk home hand in hand.

On the morning of the third day, before dawn, Yun Jiao awoke.

She didn’t let the maid comb her hair into those complicated styles, simply tying it up and inserting a jade hairpin, changing into neat clothes, then set off in the carriage towards the city gate.

As day just barely broke, by the time she reached the city gate, it was still unopened.

After waiting for a while, the gate opened, and the driver steered the carriage toward the military camp twenty miles outside the city.

Yun Jiao had intentionally risen so early, wanting to see how the children were being trained in the military camp.

Before long, they reached the outside of the camp.

Yun Jiao took out her waist card, Yang Ying got off the carriage, cursing as she spoke with the soldier on duty for a while, who then hurried inside to report.

Soon after, Lin Shuo came rushing over, jumped onto the carriage yoke, and directed the driver to drive inside.

After traveling a while, Lin Shuo turned back to the carriage curtain and said, "The kids are all in the small training ground. The Duke has invited Lady Wu’s senior brother to teach them martial arts."

"It’s just up ahead; I’ll take you there."

In no time, the carriage stopped.

Yun Jiao and Yang Ying got down from the carriage, with Lin Shuo striding ahead, quickly leading Yun Jiao to the small training ground.

Yuan Yuan, Yun Jiao then heard Ruru’s loud shouts from inside the small training ground, she didn’t step forward, but instead, she hid around the corner, craning her neck to look ahead.

She saw Ruru was sparring with Qi Er, the two of them, small arms and legs flailing back and forth, making quite a lively scene.

You Er stood motionless beside them on a plum blossom post.

A middle-aged man stood not far away, watching Ruru and Qi Er spar with his hands behind his back, occasionally glancing at You Er as well.

Yun Jiao’s eyes grew a little moist.

Lin Shuo glanced sideways at her, "Not going over?"

Yun Jiao shook her head, "I’ll just watch from here so as not to disturb their training."

While keeping her eyes on the children’s figures, she softly asked Lin Shuo, "Have they cried or said they miss home since they’ve been here these days?"

Lin Shuo smiled, "Once, when the Duke took the soldiers out for training, they slept at my place at night, and I heard them crying secretly at night, saying they missed their mothers."

"But during the day, they acted as if nothing was wrong."

Yun Jiao wiped her tears, "That’s good."

She hesitated for a moment, "Actually, they can be trained at home too, why must the Duke insist on bringing them to the camp?"

Lin Shuo replied, "The Duke mentioned, once Ruru is a bit older, he will let her return home, after all, it isn’t good for a girl to always hang around here."

"Qi Er and You Er are boys, they should be in a camp to understand what true masculinity is."