Aunt Wu was relieved when she heard this, and nodded. "Rest assured, Doctor Shao, I will give the Empress her medicine every day."
The Empress, however, asked about the war in the Northwest. "Has the Northwest been held? No more cities lost?"
Doctor Shao nodded and smiled. "In answer to Your Ladyship, our Great Chu has produced a gifted general, who took the head of the Rong bandits' great commander and held Xing'an Prefecture. Now our army is confronting the Rong bandits' Heavenly Khan in Long'an Prefecture. Not only has the Heavenly Khan failed to gain any advantage, he has been beaten quite badly by us."
These words, too, were spoken at Emperor Jingyuan's behest… Doctor Shao thought the Emperor surely wished more than anyone to share the joy of victory with the Empress.
