Therefore, the Hall of Supreme Harmony was extremely lively during this period, with people coming and going and a lot of noise. Even in this side hall separated from me by several side halls, I could vaguely hear voices.

The Hall of Supreme Harmony sounds like a palace, but it is much larger than the Gongsun Mansion.

The main hall is where the emperor lives, eats and works. I have never been there. According to Yi Ping, who likes to go shopping, the main hall door alone is taller than three Du Changfengs. There are at least dozens of side halls connected to each other. Except for our room, no one lives in so many rooms. I don't know what they are used for. Later, I asked Wei Yi, who said it was a Feng Shui issue. There must be so many small halls to protect the main hall, so that the emperor's luck will be good.

Right behind the main hall is a huge garden with small bridges, running water, rockeries, and pavilions. Yiping came back and told me that he went in for a walk and almost couldn't find his way back.

I said with some amusement: "That's the Imperial Garden, how can it be big?"

Yi Ping liked to wander around, but only in the Hall of Supreme Harmony. To leave the Hall of Supreme Harmony, he had to have a pass issued by the emperor. Without the pass, he would probably be stabbed to pieces by the Imperial Guards as soon as he went out.

So Yiping often lay in front of the window, staring at the sky in a daze for half a day.

The little girl became more and more silent. I felt uncomfortable watching her, but there was nothing I could do.

When I was finally able to get up, I pleaded with Zheng Xian to allow us to pay respect to my grandmother in the palace.

Although we did not return to Nanning to pay tribute to my grandmother on the seventh day after her death, a simple tribute in the palace could be considered as fulfilling a wish.

Wei Chang's injury healed faster than mine. While I was still lying in bed groaning, he was already practicing boxing in the yard every day.

Finally, I asked Zheng Xian to give Wei Chang an identity that allowed him to live a legitimate life. When I asked Zheng Xian for this, he stared at me for 20 seconds before saying, "I promised to reward you handsomely, but you never asked me for the reward. So I will assume that you asked for it this time."

I knew that Zheng Xian was testing me and warning me at the same time that there was no need to plead for an abandoned pawn.

But I had promised Wei Chang that I would find him a legitimate identity to live with, so I naturally couldn't go back on my word.

In the end, Zheng Xian agreed to my request and incorporated Wei Chang into the Imperial Guard. Wei Chang finally had a legal identity and no longer had to live a shameful life in hiding.

Since Wei Chang learned that he had a legal identity, he not only did not give me the credit, but also believed that it was the emperor who gave him a chance to live a new life, and he wanted to repay the emperor well.

The only task the emperor gave him was to protect me. He felt that a person would not live long if he only relied on the protection of others, and that he had to be strong on his own. So, when I was not fully recovered yet, he pulled me out of bed before dawn every day and trained me.

The types of training every day are varied, such as horse stance, running, and basic boxing. There is also a big sandbag hung in the yard, and you must beat for half an hour in the morning and evening, otherwise you are not allowed to stop.

Although I lost a little weight, my fat couldn't withstand such torture. After just a few days, I was so tired that I fell down and couldn't get up.

Wei Chang felt that I was too weak, and instead of feeling sorry for me, he increased the intensity of my training and vowed not to stop until I lost all the fat on my body.

He dragged me to training every day, and I lost a lot of weight in just a few days!

Seeing me unable to eat and undergoing devilish training every day, Yiping felt so distressed that he wanted to complain to Zheng Xian several times, but I stopped him. How can one become a superior person without enduring hardships? I still understand this truth.

One day, I was lying on the bed half dead, Yiping was massaging my legs, and Gongsun Wen walked in under the guidance of Yingchun.

I don't have any rules here. I can bring people in without notifying Yingchun.

But I was only wearing my underwear, lying on the bed with my arms and legs spread out. Gongsun Wen walked in unawares. When our eyes met, Gongsun Wen's old face actually turned red for a rare time, and he quickly turned his face away.

Yingchun also realized that she had made trouble. She was so scared that she knelt on the ground with a "bang", kowtowed and shouted: "This servant deserves death, this servant deserves death."

I saw Yingchun's head was all red from knocking, so I had to sit up and said, "It's okay, you can go down."

When Yingchun saw that I had no intention of punishing her, she was stunned for a moment, and finally walked out with red eyes.

Yiping quickly took out an outer robe and put it on me, not forgetting to tie the belt to prevent my private parts from being exposed.

Gongsun Wen coughed lightly and said, "I'll wait outside the door. Call me in when it's convenient for you."

Gongsun Wen wanted to leave after he finished speaking, and I quickly said, "You've seen me at my ugliest, why do you still care about these details?"

When Gongsun Wen heard this, he actually sat down at the table, poured himself a cup of tea, took a sip, and said, "This is the truth."

I haven't seen Gongsun Wen for a few days, and I actually miss him a little. After all, we lived in the same room for so long, and he provided us with free food and drink, so I still have some gratitude.

I dragged my sore and painful legs to the table, sat down, poured myself a cup of tea, and asked, "Why are you here?"

Gongsun Wen took out a letter from his sleeve, put it on the table and pushed it to me, saying, "Your elder brother wrote you a letter, but he didn't know you had entered the palace, so he sent the letter to my house. I went to the palace to teach the prince today, and I brought the letter to you on the way."

When Yiping heard that his elder brother had sent a letter, he hurried over.

I looked at the tadpole-like words written on the envelope and was sure that this was the letter written by Zhao Jinping.

I quickly took out the letter and opened it. Apart from the first few words "Dearly from my second and third sisters", which I could barely recognize, I couldn't make out what was written below.

I handed the letter to Gongsun Wen with a frown on my face, and said, "Can you help me take a look at what it says?"

Gongsun Wen took the letter and teased, "Don't you know how to read?"

But when he took the letter and looked at it, his expression changed immediately. After looking at it for a long time, he threw the letter on the table and said, "It seems that I didn't send enough calligraphy books. Starting tomorrow, you need to study ten calligraphy books every day before you can eat and rest!"

I pursed my lips and wanted to laugh but didn't dare to, and said, "Aren't you the one who graded my brother's homework? How could such handwriting pass? I don't think you are a very good teacher."

"You!" Gongsun Wen stood up in anger, but then he smiled and said to me, "I once said that if you can write an article comparable to the prince's within three days, I will accept your elder brother as my disciple. Now three days have passed, but I still haven't received your article, so your elder brother has never been accepted as my disciple, so how can he be called my teacher?"

"You're cheating!" I pointed at him angrily.

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