Madam General, please run slower.

The cold goes away overnight, and spring comes at the fifth watch.

Yu Xun did not show up in the following days. Li would pretend to ask the guards about Yu Xun's whereabouts every once in a while, but the answer he always got was "the general is busy."

It didn't matter to her. If the conditions here weren't bad enough and there were no fasting pills, she would have stayed in seclusion for decades without moving. Unfortunately, Yu Xun's actions made Wei Shiliu very worried.

Wei Wu was transferred out on a mission not long after he came here, leaving him alone with the little princess, and was also "watched". Wei Shiliu felt very uncomfortable when he thought that his master did not trust him.

After sensing Wei Shiliu's dejection, Li, who felt bored, began to pull him to do the same thing. As long as people are tired enough, they will not be in the mood to think too much. Wei Shiliu seemed to have returned to the time when he was first assigned to the little princess by his master, and he was also oppressed and beaten every day.

Wei Shiliu: Why is it always me o(╥﹏╥)o

That day, just after Li had beaten Wei Shiliu, he heard Tanghulu's weak voice calling from his sea of ​​consciousness.

"Owner……"

Li waved his hand and let Wei Shiliu go to rest. The latter seemed to have been pardoned, and went to apply medicine on himself with a grin.

"Tanghulu, wake up, why did you sleep so long this time?" Li wiped the sweat off her face casually and lay down on the recliner again. Every day, she would lie down instead of sitting, and sit instead of standing, except for when she was beating Wei Shiliu.

"Haha... maybe it's because the master used magic to control the refugees, causing the little princess' body to become weak. I have been feeling very sleepy and only now have I woken up completely." Tanghulu explained.

Li: "So you have been sleeping all these months?"

Tanghulu: “Yes.”

Li: "Tanghulu is not a good boy. He has learned to lie when he grows up."

Listening to Li's annoying tone, Tanghulu felt scared and swallowed unconsciously, "Master, what are you talking about? Tanghulu is not lying."

Li: "Why don't you look in the mirror before you talk? Oh, there's no mirror for you to look in. Wait, I'll make one for you."

In the sea of ​​consciousness, as Li waved his hand, a huge and clear spiritual mirror appeared in front of Tanghulu. Tanghulu didn't dare to speak after seeing his current appearance.

The golden ball of light in the mirror had disappeared, replaced by a gray black ball, even its eyes were black, the kind you couldn't find if you threw it into a pile of coal. The black ball also had thin arms and legs, just like a coal ball that had become a spirit.

"Is it because the sun in my sea of ​​consciousness is too bright? You've gotten tanned after sleeping on it for several months. How about I replace it with the moon for you?" Li teased seriously.

The little black ball hid in the corner trembling with fear and dared not speak.

"Will you tell me or not?" Li's tone suddenly became serious, and Tanghulu shivered with fear.

"Owner……"

Tanghulu hadn't figured out what to say when he heard Li change the subject, "Is it true that you said that if I died you would die too?"

“Yes… yes…” Tanghulu suddenly had a bad feeling.

"I don't believe it." Li smiled contemptuously and said the cruelest words in the most relaxed tone, "How about we give it a try? Maybe you'll be lucky enough to survive."

Tanghulu: Is it possible to try to die?!

Tanghulu remained silent. It didn't believe that someone would really seek death, but it obviously underestimated the degree of madness of its master.

Seeing the turbulence in the sea of ​​consciousness, Tanghulu was thrown everywhere. Seeing that Li Po was about to self-destruct, Tanghulu hurriedly said: "I'll tell you! I accepted the memory inheritance!"

When the vibrations around him subsided, Tanghulu rolled to the ground in fear. He was crazy, crazy. Li was definitely the first person since the beginning of the world to threaten a beast with his own life.

"Oh." Li gently rubbed his temple. It was indeed a bit painful because he used too much force. "So what memories did you receive?"

"I...I haven't received all the memories yet." Tanghulu was afraid that Li would go crazy again, so he hurriedly explained: "But I guarantee with my life that I will never hurt the master!"

Li: "Your life is not my life, your promise is meaningless."

That makes so much sense that the little black ball couldn't refute it.

Tanghulu: "Then if I hurt my master, I will never find a wife and will live alone forever."

Li's first reaction was that this oath was indeed cruel, and then he asked back, "Are you a boy?"

So the adorable crying baby with a baby voice in her first impression was a boy?! She had always thought it was a girl.

"Yes." Tanghulu didn't know why his owner had such a big reaction.

Li: "Okay, let's get back to the point. Tell me what you remembered."

"A companion spirit beast is conceived and nurtured by the power of heaven and earth. When young, it depends on its master for survival. When it becomes an adult, it forms a contract with its master and can survive independently of its master. I am still in its infancy, so if my master dies, I will disappear as well."

Li: "The power of heaven and earth, so you are still a kind of divine beast."

"Yes, master, Tanghulu is very powerful!" Tanghulu puffed out his chest proudly, and the whole little ball of fur swelled up a lot.

"Oh, what's so great about it?" Li took a sip of tea and stared at the sycamore tree in the yard in a daze. The people hiding behind the tree and watching were frightened by her stare.

It’s hard to say what’s so great about the candied haws, but isn’t the power of blood a big deal?

Li kindly answered for it, "It can decipher all the ancient formations, very powerful."

"Yes, yes, very powerful. I know most of the ancient formations." Tanghulu didn't know that Li had dug a pit for it in his words. It jumped in without even looking, and consciously filled the soil to bury itself.

Li: "So you accepted the memory inheritance as early as when I broke into the forbidden area of ​​the cold palace, right?"

At that time, she was trapped in the maze and was planning to try to find the center of the array by herself. However, Tanghulu quickly told her the steps to understand the array, and facts proved that it did understand the ancient array.

Tanghulu kept his mouth tightly shut, neither admitting nor denying.

Li then speculated, "No, maybe even earlier. You were in a coma for three days when I was fed blood. I guess you must have remembered something at that time, right?"

"Since you chose to conceal it at that time, does it prove that you have a purpose towards me? So what do you want me to do?"

"Do you want me to practice faster so that you can leave my body when you grow up?" Li thought divergently, guessing all the possibilities.

"So, when you said I only have three years to live, were you just fooling me? You wanted me to have a sense of crisis and look for a chance to live."

Li was a little confused when she felt her pulse at that time. Qu Tangli's pulse was indeed declining, and this was confirmed by so many imperial doctors, so there would be no mistake. So she believed Tanghulu's words that she only had three years to live, so she went to read miscellaneous books and accidentally discovered the matter of Yuantanhua.

But now Li has to reconsider this "accident".

"Master, how did you guess that?" It was indeed a fabrication that he had only three years to live, but Tanghulu thought he was a good actor, and even he himself believed that his master only had three years to live. During that time, whenever he thought that he only had a few years left to live, he wanted to cry.

Li: "I am still alive with a 'dead pulse'. How do you think I guessed that?"

Candied Haws: ...