So what if I traveled through time? I'll continue to roll in another place

The three-day deadline given by Madam Protector of the Nation and Assisting the Fortune was approaching day by day. Xiao Yueshan, Jiang Saiyu and Yi Chutao were all doing their best to prepare for the exam.

Jiang Saiyu thought of the time-travel novels and TV dramas she had read, in which the heroines often attracted attention by making fresh food such as cream cakes. In the past few days, she has been studying the method of making cream cakes.

But without the right tools, every step of cake making becomes extremely difficult. Without an egg beater, it is time-consuming and laborious to beat egg whites and egg yolks by hand. What's even more annoying is the big stove! Without several years of craftsmanship, it is impossible to control the temperature of the stove by feel. When making cakes at home, you just set the time and temperature and put it in the oven. Here, you have to keep an eye on the fire, and if you are not careful, you have to start all over again. The high-intensity production process made her so tired that even Yi Chutao and Xiao Yueshan came to help her beat the egg whites and add firewood when they were free.

After working day and night to adjust the temperature of the stove, there was a problem with the decoration process. Making butter requires a lot of milk, but milk was a rare commodity in ancient times, and generally only the masters had a share. Although the status of the Lady of the Protector of the Country and the Assistance of the Fortune was high, her daily income was also fixed. In addition, the Lady also had to drink, cook, and even use it for maintenance, so Jiang Saiyu had very limited control over it.

It took her three days to make one. When she wanted to decorate the cake, she found that the decorating bags that were readily available at home were extremely difficult to use in ancient times. It was Yi Chutao who came up with a solution for her. She was very skillful. She rolled the clean cowhide into a tube and sewed it, turning it into a cone that could be squeezed. She cut a small hole with patterns on the bottom of the cone, which could barely squeeze out the lace, and then decorated it with seasonal fresh fruits. It was not easy to make a finished product under such difficult circumstances. Jiang Saiyu thought, I can finally pass it this time.

Yi Chutao herself improved the soap-making method and specially tried different floral and fruity scents. Due to time limitation, she finally used the easiest pressing method to extract the essential oils from citrus peels, and then combined them with her previously improved soap formula. She also used the remaining essential oils to make scented candles.

She is very clever and ingenious. She made molds in the shapes of flowers, ingots, butterflies, etc. with clay, giving soaps and candles different shapes, and embellished them with dried flowers to enhance the shapes. Although this set of fragrance products is not difficult to make, it is beautiful and exquisite. I wonder if it will suit my wife's taste.

Xiao Yueshan was clumsy and had no ability to complete any manual work. She thought about it and decided to compile her experiences on the way to Beijing with Wang Huai'en and her understanding of this imaginary dynasty into a policy paper and sell her ideas to Madam Huguo Fuyun.

Xiao Yueshan put on a big show and boasted in the article that he followed the structure of "The Book of Advantages and Disadvantages of Counties and States in the World", first giving a general account of the geography and mountains of this fictional era, then describing the six central ministries, and finally discussing the various prefectures and states. He wrote in detail about the taxes, military reclamation, water conservancy, and grain transport that he had learned about after traveling to Yangzhou Prefecture, as well as the customs and practices of the prefectures he passed through on his way to the capital.

When you need to learn something, you will regret not having enough knowledge. The situation in Yangzhou Prefecture was what she saw in Zhou Yao's study when she was learning calligraphy at Zhou's house. Now she can't care about so many things. Xiao Yueshan can only put her life on it. Even if she adds some fabricated (crossed out) and reasonable interpretation, the world is so big that she bets that this lady who protects the country and assists the fortune will not know everything.

She grasped Shen's contradictory psychology from Jiang Saiyu's story. Shen chose to take the same path of interfering in politics as Keshi, but was afraid of ending up like Keshi. She must be anxious and uneasy. She was willing to be a political animal. As long as Shen had the power to desire, she had hope of survival. A person who tried to play politics but was not very confident would not be willing to give up any source of information, especially if he could not falsify the source.

At the end of the article, Xiao Yueshan made three political recommendations to Shen from three aspects: the confrontation between the central government and local governments, the balance between rights and responsibilities, and the balance between monopoly and the market. She racked her brains to integrate all the formal documents and anecdotes she had learned while preparing for the exam and read throughout her life, piling up all kinds of terminology and nouns, and wrote a long article, which was invincible and grand in the eyes of Jiang Saiyu and Yi Chutao.

Xiao Yueshan thought that even if she wanted to finish reading this carefully sewn piece of garbage, it would take Fei Shenshi several hours, so she would live a few more minutes. Her personality was always free and optimistic, and this open-mindedness made the other three secretly envious.

Compared to them, Lu Jiayan seemed very negative. She was not prepared at all and did not plan to prepare. During this period, Xiao Yueshan had approached her and asked if she wanted to think of a solution together. She said that she had already chosen the skills to be demonstrated and would show them on that day. Xiao Yueshan could not ask too much and could only focus on her own matters.

The night before replying to Madam Protector of the Nation, the three of them were extremely nervous and chattered away until the late night before falling into a drowsy sleep.

After a short while, Jiang Saiyu's scream woke up Xiao Yueshan and Yi Chutao from their sleep. Lu Jiayan actually hanged himself in the corner!

Fortunately, the girl was discovered by Jiang Saiyu when she got up at night not long after she was hung up. Jiang Saiyu quickly put her down, and the other two sisters nervously surrounded her.

"Jia Yan, you scared me to death! I was getting ready to go to the bathroom, and when I got out of bed, I saw a man hanging in the room. I was almost scared to death! We have been sisters for a few days, you can't scare me like this! I've been scared once, and I lost my soul last time. If you die in front of me again this time, I will go crazy sooner or later!" Jiang Saiyu was yelling as usual, expressing her fear like a machine gun.

Yi Chutao also patted his chest and chanted Amitabha repeatedly: "You girl, you are usually quiet and gentle, but I didn't expect you to be a ruthless person. You can be so cruel to yourself."

Xiao Yueshan remained silent. She never liked to get involved in other people's karma, not to mention that she was in a difficult situation. If it was true as Jiang Saiyu said before, people without value would be given to eunuchs or sold to brothels, then it would not be bad to end her life early. But now that Lu Jiayan was trying to commit suicide and was saved by Jiang Saiyu by chance, she didn't know what to say.

Lu Jiayan didn't open her eyes, she just cried silently. She wanted to blame her roommates for saving her, but she knew she shouldn't blame them, these poor women were also kind-hearted. If there was any other way, she really didn't want to die in the bedroom they shared, but she couldn't leave the yard, and there was no other way to think about it, she could only be an eyesore until she died.

Seeing that Lu Jiayan didn't respond, Jiang Saiyu and Yi Chutao also quieted down. Thinking that their own fate was equally uncertain, they couldn't say anything to comfort him. Everyone in the room was silent. The night was as cold as water, and it was heartbreaking.

After thinking for a while, Xiao Yueshan gently held Lu Jiayan's hand and said, "Jiayan, I know you have the ability to make a living, it just depends on whether you are willing to live. Although personal destiny is determined by one's own, things are unpredictable, and people are like floating duckweed. It is not easy to survive in this feudal dynasty. I don't want to deceive myself and comfort you that your future is bright. I just want to say that your heart is with me, just like the rudder of a boat. If you steer it well, the waves will not overturn it. If you are willing to live, we can try it together."

When Lu Jiayan heard this, tears streamed down her cheeks. Jiang Saiyu and Yi Chutao also burst into tears.

“Nay, good my fellows, do not please sharp fate to grace it with your sorrows. Bid that wele which es to punish us, and we punish it seeming to bear it lightly.” Lu Jiayan murmured. (No, my good friends, do not use your sorrow to make the cruel fate laugh in the dark; we should use a calm attitude to avenge the humiliation imposed on us by fate.)

Although Xiao Yueshan didn't quite understand what she heard, she was certain that Lu Jiayan would not seek death again. She would definitely survive, and she would definitely survive.