Madam General, please run slower.

"Your Majesty, would you like some snacks?" Yu Xiaochen felt pain when he saw Qu Shi's hands full of needle holes, and pushed the pastries on the table towards Qu Shi.

Qu Shi looked at the child in front of him with some curiosity, and looked at Li with a puzzled look, "Imperial sister, when did you and the general have a child?"

"Puff~" Yu Xun couldn't help but spurt out the tea in his mouth, choking and coughing, "Ahem, Your Majesty, this is my nephew Yu Xiaochen."

"Is that so? I misunderstood." Qu Shi nodded in understanding. If it wasn't Li's child, then it had nothing to do with him and he didn't need to give a gift.

"Your Majesty, please eat it. Your hands will not hurt if you eat something sweet." Yu Xiaochen insisted on letting him try it. If he didn't feel it was a bit offensive, he would have wanted to take a piece and feed it directly to his mouth, for fear that he would not be able to take it because of the pain in his hands.

Qu Shi looked at the cakes on the table and hesitated. He wanted to eat but didn't dare to. His mother had always limited the amount of cakes he could eat every month. Qu Shi hadn't eaten sweets for a long time. However, there had been three poisoning incidents around him this month, so he didn't dare to eat outside.

Just when Qu Shi was about to take a gamble for Li's sake, a pair of white and slender hands suddenly appeared in front of him.

Li reached out and picked up a piece of cake and broke it into two halves, put one half into his mouth and handed the other half to Qu Shi's mouth.

Qu Shi opened his mouth and ate it without hesitation. Sweetness spread on the tip of his tongue. This was a taste he had not tasted for a long time.

It was the first time that Yu Xiaochen knew that someone liked to share food with others. With an attitude of not understanding but respecting others, he started feeding each person half of the food.

Seeing this scene, Yu Xun felt a kind of indescribable envy, he had never eaten a cake with Li. But it was a bit embarrassing to be jealous of a child, so Yu Xun could only take out a handkerchief and walk over to carefully wipe Li's hands.

Li accepted his service calmly, and after wiping one, he took the initiative to hand over the other one.

"Tell me, what exactly does your mother want to do today?"

Qu Shi swallowed the cake in his mouth with a bit of reluctance. "My mother said on the surface that she wanted to cooperate with the auction house, but I guess she was attracted by the benefits and wanted to make some money for the Duke's Mansion."

"What do you mean?"

Her auction house has been open for some time, but she just started selling talismans today. The Queen Mother didn't come earlier or later, but only came in the afternoon after she met the two black-robed men. It was hard not to make her suspicious.

Qu Shi felt a little embarrassed when talking about this. "I didn't know this was my sister's property before. I was planning to see if I could bypass my mother and reach a cooperation with the auction house on my own. Even if I can't reach an agreement, I have to ruin my mother's plan." The national treasury was really short of money. He was afraid that he was the poorest and most cowardly emperor in the history of Qianwu.

"So what are your plans now?" Li looked at Yu Xun and pointed at the unopened tea box on the table. The latter immediately understood and started to wash the cups and brew tea.

While accepting the food from Yu Xiaochen, Qu Shi answered Li's words, "Don't worry, sister. I won't touch your property at all. As for the queen mother, I'll have to trouble you to pretend with me."

"How about this, I'll get you a few talismans, and it's up to you how you want to perform." Li channeled his spiritual power into the wind chimes hanging by the window. The wind chimes swayed gently, making a subtle tinkling sound, which was very pleasant to hear.

After receiving the message from the bell, Wei Xianchen was prepared for the room to be flooded with blood, but the scene in the room was beyond his expectations.

The uncle and nephew were busy serving the brother and sister next to them. The scene was quite harmonious.

"Boss, this is the talisman you wanted." Wei Xianchen handed the tray in his hand to Li. On the tray were several blank yellow talismans, a brush and a small plate of cinnabar.

"You want me to draw now?" Li looked at the tools on the table, her mouth twitching slightly. She just asked him to bring a few talismans over, and didn't say that she wanted to draw it herself.

"Ah?" Wei Xianchen was a little confused. "Boss, what else can I do if you don't paint it now? You can't use the defective ones I painted for the talismans for the royal family."

"You can do it. You really can." Li, who had no intention of revealing that the talismans in the auction house were made by her, smiled speechlessly, picked up the pen and started to draw.

Looking at Li's creepy smile, Wei Xianchen shuddered and had a bad feeling.

Yu Xiaochen, who was gloating over the misfortune, leaned close to Qu Shi's ear and whispered, "Uncle Xianchen is going to be in big trouble."

"Why?" Qu Shi also lowered his voice and tilted his head in confusion.

"Your Majesty will know in a moment." Yu Xiaochen gave him a look, indicating him to go look at Li.

Li finished drawing the talismans in just a few strokes. On two of the talismans, the cinnabar patterns on them glowed faintly the moment he put pen to paper. Even the laymen present could see how powerful they were.

Li pushed the two unique runes towards Wei Xianchen and said, "Since you know that what you drew are defective, then practice more. For the next three months, you should practice these two runes, fifty of each type per day. By the end of the month, hand me three thousand runes. The success rate must reach at least 80%."

"Three...three thousand?!" Wei Xianchen already felt his hands sore before he even started painting.

"What? You think it's not enough?" Li blew on the teacup in her hand and looked up at him.

Wei Xianchen was startled. If there weren't children here, he would have suspected that Li really wanted to attack him. "Too much, this is too much. I'll go and draw it now."

"Don't worry, I haven't finished talking yet."

"Does the boss have anything else to tell you?"

Li pointed to the pen she had just used on the table and said, "You can only write with this pen."

Wei Xianchen looked at the ordinary pen on the table, feeling something was wrong, and tried to reach out to pick it up. The next second, Wei Xianchen felt embarrassed, it was just a brush, but he couldn't even pick it up.

Wei Xianchen tried again in disbelief, but the pen still didn't move at all.

"Boss Li..." Wei Xianchen was really about to cry.

"Let me try, let me try." Yu Xiaochen became interested and reached out to try to pick up the pen. "It's so heavy, I really can't lift it. I thought Uncle Xianchen was pretending."

Wei Xianchen: Can he beat the child?

Qu Shi was also a little curious, but due to his status he could only sit upright in his seat and keep watching Yu Xiaochen's movements.

"Your Majesty, come and try it too." Feeling Qu Shi's curious gaze, Yu Xiaochen greeted him enthusiastically.

"Royal sister..." Qu Shi, who was used to asking people for their opinions before doing things, looked at Li cautiously.

"If you want to play, play first. Why are you being so reserved in front of me?" Li waved his hand indifferently.

After hearing Li's words, Qu Shi couldn't bear it anymore and stood up to get a pen.

Qu Shi was shocked by the weight of his hand. The pen seemed to be glued to the table. "Sister, how can I lift this?"

Li did not answer him, but nudged Yu Xun with his elbow, "General, have you figured out anything?"

“We’ll have to try it with our spiritual power to find out.” Yu Xun glanced at the farce over there, then looked away and continued to pour tea for Li.

After hearing Yu Xun's words, Qu Shi couldn't wait to mobilize his spiritual power. He hadn't been able to use it since his spiritual power was restored.

The first time Qu Shi tried to use his spiritual power to pick it up, he failed, but at least the pen on the table moved, proving that this method was indeed effective.

"Concentrate your energy on your dantian and focus on your hands, not the pen." Li reminded.

Qu Shi took a deep breath and tried again. This time he successfully picked it up, but he had to use both hands to hold the pen steady.

Yu Xiaochen, who was in charge of the atmosphere, clapped his hands vigorously, "Wow, you can actually use spiritual power, so amazing, you are worthy of being His Majesty."

Qu Shi felt a little embarrassed by the praise. He put the pen back on the table and sat back in his seat awkwardly.

Looking at the tampered pen, Wei Xianchen could no longer laugh. The boss was really nice. He could have chopped off his hand, but he specially drew two runes for him to practice e (┬┬﹏┬┬)3