The day after Ye Rui left, Cui Yanshu set out with Liuli and the Zhou siblings, taking 200,000 troops to Liangzhou.
The reason for taking 200,000 troops wasn't to fight, but to force Liu Lanxi to surrender directly.
Afterwards, Ling Hua handled affairs nonstop for several days, only to finally lie back in bed to rest under Yan Qing's dissatisfied gaze, rubbing her sore shoulders and neck.
Yan Qing looked at her pained face and chided, "Does the Court feed all those people for nothing? Letting you do all the work, how silly?"