From outside, servants and soldiers were heard saluting Bai Qingyan, prompting the secret guard team leader to rise, but the military doctor applying medicine stopped him: "Don't move!"
The leader of the secret guard team sat back down and spoke kindly to the military doctor: "The Emperor is here! Certainly to ask about Xiliang's army. I'm not fit to be bare-chested here..."
"Almost done!" The military doctor slowly spread the ointment on a fine cotton cloth and then pressed it onto the shoulder of the Bai family's secret guard team leader, making him gasp with pain.
