Get the resurrection scroll, and eat melons and meat after entering the book

He knew what Luo Yu's crying meant, it was because the general was gone.

Helian Hao didn't dare to sleep. He was afraid that once he fell asleep, the things that happened in his half-dream and half-wakefulness would come true and it would be dawn the next day.

Zhou Meng advised the emperor: "My lord, if the people don't rest, the horses must rest too. Let's just rest for an hour and let the horses slow down."

No matter how many excuses Zhou Meng found, Helian Hao refused to listen.

Zhou You rode his horse beside Helian Hao's horse and said, "Master, these imperial horses were all selected by General Wang..." He didn't finish the rest of his words.

Helian Hao ordered, "Rest here for two hours."

The secret guard quickly cleared a place on the ground for Helian Hao to rest. He lay down with his eyes open and not a bit sleepy.

I don't know when I fell into confusion, nor can I explain how I heard Luo Yu say, "The general has a message for your majesty: conquering the country is not easy, I implore your majesty to protect it."

In a trance, he felt that because of this sentence, he had to guard the empire built for him by Gu Shixin alone, and he couldn't even die.

Because he was afraid that he would not be able to face Gu Shixin in the underworld, and he was afraid that Gu Shixin would still be angry with him in the next life.

So during these two hours, Helian Hao felt more tired than if he hadn't slept at all, but as soon as he closed his eyes, he woke up covered in cold sweats.

He stood up and continued to pursue Gu Shixin with the secret guards.

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In the palace.

Everyone's life was not difficult, except for two people - one was Su He who had a cough, and the other was Yu Feng who could not let others know that the emperor was not in the palace.

Wu Qing made it through the night and felt better the next day, but she continued to endure the pain and take medicine. There was nothing she could do about it.

The imperial physician said that if you take the medicine on time, the pain will get less severe day by day, and you will basically feel nothing in three days. Then you just need to rest and wait for the bones to heal slowly.

Sure enough, after dinner on the third day, Wu Qing felt that the pain in her arm had eased a lot and was almost imperceptible.

But life in the palace was too boring. There were no mobile phones, no computers, and not even a TV. Wu Qing felt like she was about to grow mushrooms while recuperating from her injuries.

She originally wanted to hear some gossip just for entertainment.

But Eunuch Yu issued a gag order: no one leaving Desheng Hall was allowed to chat casually with other palace people. If anyone revealed something they shouldn't, their entire family would be buried with them!

As a result, people who leave Desheng Hall now walk as fast as they can, for fear of being asked where they have been, and they have no intention of chatting with others.

Wu Qing, who thought he was at the forefront of eating melons, actually had no melons to eat.

Ever since she discovered that this room was where the emperor lived, she became interested and wanted to see if there was anything special in it, but she couldn't find anything special from what she could see on the surface.

If she were asked to rummage through drawers and cabinets to find something, she really couldn't do it.

Curiosity is curiosity, but there is still a moral bottom line that you cannot just rummage through the owner's things.

She could only look at the items on display again; they were truly exquisite. She had previously thought gold items were vulgar, but these were meticulously crafted, their exquisite beauty beyond words.

Wu Qing then realized that it wasn't that the gold pieces were vulgar, but that she had never seen good things.

At this moment, someone suddenly came to visit...

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Empress Dowager Fu in the harem heard that a palace maid had moved into her son's Desheng Palace, and thought that this person should come to see her. A whole day passed without any movement, and when she inquired further, she found out that her arm was broken.

She was suspicious about what was going on, but it was impossible for an empress dowager to take the initiative to meet the palace maid who was once favored by the emperor. Since the emperor did not give her a position, the empress dowager thought: forget it, I'll just pretend I don't know.

But she still cared a little, after all, there was not even a queen in the harem, and it was the first time she heard that a woman could live in Desheng Palace.

The strange thing is that when I tried to ask other questions, I couldn't find out anything.

Everyone seemed to be silenced.

I was just thinking about whether I should send someone directly to ask for clarification, but something happened in Desheng Hall.

Suddenly, a maid came running in to report, "Empress Dowager, the Seventh Princess has returned to the palace!"

Helian Suxue and Emperor Helian Hao are siblings from the same father and mother.

But Helian Hao's sister doesn't like red dresses but prefers weapons. Since she was a child, she has always been clamoring to become the number one female general of Dayu.

When their father was still alive, she asked him to learn martial arts instead of needlework.

After learning to read and write together with the others, other imperial princesses (before they were given titles, they were called imperial princesses, and only after they were given titles did they become princesses, princesses, etc.) learned "The Analects of Women" and "The Book of Filial Piety for Women", while Suxue had to learn military books and strategies.

Other princesses learn: music, chess, calligraphy, painting, flowers, wine and tea. Su Xue learns: swords, spears, halberds, axes, halberds, hooks and forks.

The other princesses picked up embroidery needles and learned to embroider, preparing to make their own wedding dresses; Suxue picked up leather ropes and threaded armor plates, learning to make her own armor...

This was the Emperor's favored Seventh Sister. She had the same natural Helian-style high eyebrows, deep eyes, and straight nose. Years of exposure to the sun had darkened her complexion. Now, aside from being slightly smaller, it was almost impossible to tell whether she was male or female.

Helian Suxue only gave the Queen Mother a martial salute before shouting, "Mother, Queen Mother, I'm starving! Send me some food quickly."

The Queen Mother looked at her daughter, smiling dotingly, her wrinkles almost smoothed out as she instructed, "Bring up the snacks first, and then pass on the instructions that since autumn has arrived, add two more meat dishes to the dinner."

Chunying, the first-class maidservant beside the empress dowager, responded "yes" and turned to go to the imperial kitchen to give instructions. She thought to herself: Can the Seventh Princess eat with only two meat dishes?

Chunying thought about it and decided that she had to announce that the Seventh Princess had returned, otherwise the dinner sent by the imperial kitchen for the empress dowager alone would not be enough.

Besides, the Seventh Princess can stay for several days after returning, so we can’t treat her badly in terms of food.

Normally, the princess wasn't entitled to the empress dowager's share, but since the empress dowager had given the order, no one could say anything. The imperial kitchen would report this to the chief steward.

The Queen Mother watched as her daughter ate one snack at a time without tasting it at all, and simply threw the whole thing into her mouth. A plate of four small snacks was devoured by her in a short while.

He picked up the tea beside him, drank it in one gulp, and then smiled at the queen, "Mother, don't blame me, I'm too hungry."

"I don't blame you, but you have been an adult for three years, and it's time to discuss marriage. If you just don't want to marry a boy from a noble family, is there anyone in the army who you like? As long as you are willing, I will ask the emperor to grant you a house and get married." Empress Dowager Fu looked at her daughter and smiled especially kindly.

When Su Xue heard this, she frowned, swallowed a mouthful of snack, and then smiled again, saying in a long and coquettish tone: "Mother——"

How could the Queen Mother not know what her daughter was about to say? She immediately interrupted her whimpering and said earnestly, "You said you wanted to be a female general. Neither your father nor I have ever stopped you. Command the troops, then. But even that Fu Hao* didn't delay her from getting married, right?"

The Queen Mother knew that her daughter admired Fu Hao, so she specifically brought up Fu Hao.

Su Xue blinked her eyes. "Fu Hao married the ruler of a country. I can't marry the ruler! Could it be that the Queen Mother wants me to marry a foreign prince?"

"She deserves a beating, but she keeps talking nonsense!" The Queen Mother had no idea what to do with her daughter.

"Mother, it's not that I don't want to get married, it's that I haven't found someone I'm willing to marry.

Let's talk about it later! I'm so dirty, I'm going to take a bath in the back." After saying this, without waiting for the Queen Mother to say anything, he stood up and walked to the back in a hurry.

The Queen Mother smiled and sighed, "You, if you don't get married, you might as well become a saint." This daughter was so careless, which made her feel helpless.

At some point in Dayu's history, a Yaochi cult arose. Its followers believed in a saint, and women who were chosen as the saint would remain unmarried for the rest of their lives.

"Saint? That's a good idea." Helian Suxue stopped and said, her eyes rolling around, as if she was really considering it.

Chunying, who was serving, lowered her eyelids to hide all the emotions in her eyes.

"Don't talk nonsense, go take a bath and come back for dinner." The Queen Mother waved at Helian Suxue and sent her away quickly.

Chunying stepped forward and bowed to the Queen Mother, saying, "The Imperial Household Department is already embroidering the Seventh Princess's wedding dress according to the regulations."

Empress Dowager Fu reached out and helped Chunying stand up. "You're so considerate. You know I'm worried about this." She pointed in the direction Helian Suxue ran. "But look at this. Does it look like you can embroider a phoenix head?"

The wedding dress of the princess of the harem of the Dayu Kingdom was not entirely embroidered by the princess herself, but she had to embroider the phoenix head herself, which could be considered as embroidering the wedding dress herself.

Chunying curled her lips slightly, "The most important thing for Caifeng is her eyes. When the wedding dress is brought back for embroidery, I will embroider the head first. Your Highness only needs to embroider the eyes."

Hearing this, the Queen Mother smiled kindly, "The more you are like this, the more I cannot leave you. When you really reach that age, how can I bear to let you leave the palace?"

"I will not leave the palace and will serve the Empress Dowager here." Chunying said without any hesitation.

The Queen Mother patted Chunying's hand and said, "Don't stay in this palace with an old woman. The Ninth Master doesn't have many people to set up his own house. You go and help him!" She smiled even more happily.

"It's all at the Queen Mother's command." Chunying's voice was soft, with the corners of her lips curved upwards.

The Queen Mother patted Chunying's hand.

The dinner delivered by the imperial kitchen was not a portion for one person, nor for two people, because the Seventh Princess could eat the amount of food for three Queen Mothers.

Although Helian Suxue had a big appetite, she still followed the etiquette of dining in the palace. She gobbled up everything when she just came back because she was really hungry.

The roasted lamb leg that was served looked like a whole lamb leg. Su Xue smiled and praised it for being delicious, and almost ate the whole portion.

She knew that her mother would only eat one bite of meat and would never eat a second bite.

She didn't hesitate and watched the senior palace maid Chunying serve the dishes to her mother, and then she finished all the remaining dishes.

But her behavior, on the whole, seemed impeccable; she was elegant and composed.

There was nothing nice about the details. Not to mention that there was a rule in the palace that one could not eat more than three times a day. Even in a wealthy family, one had to eat less but better. How could one person eat a whole leg of lamb?

It seems that she is indeed not suitable to be the wife of any clan, but she is my daughter, so let her do whatever she wants!

Her third brother, the Emperor, and her mother, the Empress Dowager, are enough to support her willfulness.

"Looking at the way Xue'er eats, I have to eat more." The Queen Mother looked at Helian Suxue and thought she was good in every way. No wonder no one could catch her eye. Indeed, no one was worthy of this daughter.

This daughter is the modern-day Fu Hao!

Thinking of the Emperor again, the Queen Mother asked, "Have you seen the Emperor since you came back?"

"Not yet. I'm too hungry. I'll come back and satisfy my stomach first before going out, so that I don't have to go out and be accused by my royal brother of having bad table manners." Helian Suxue was full and put down her chopsticks.

Chunying, who was serving on the side, signaled the palace maid waiting downstairs to bring the fragrant tea that had been prepared long ago. The Queen Mother and Helian Suxue took it and rinsed their mouths.

The Queen Mother put down her cup and urged, "It's already dinner, why don't you go quickly?"

"Okay, I'll go right away." Helian Suxue responded, stood up and left in a hurry.

Outside Desheng Hall, the young eunuch reported: The Seventh Princess wants to see the Emperor!

Yu Feng could stop others from seeing the emperor, but this person was the emperor's biological sister, which gave him a headache. But when he thought that she would become the eldest princess sooner or later, he gave up, gritted his teeth and knelt on the ground.

Helian Suxue realized something was wrong, so she leaned over and asked in a voice no one else could hear, "But it's something that can't be known to outsiders?"

"Yes!" Yu Feng felt grateful. It was great to meet such a master!

"Then let's go to the East Warm Pavilion first." Helian Suxue said this with three parts of speculation and seven parts of testing.

If the emperor's brother is in the palace, she cannot go to the East Warm Pavilion casually. She should say: Go and inform the emperor that Suxue requests to see him.

"Yes." Yu Feng was also an understanding man and immediately stood up. "East Warm Pavilion, please."

This is already telling the Seventh Princess that the Emperor is unable to govern the country.

As for the reason why he couldn't govern the country, Helian Suxue didn't bother to guess. She would find out once she entered.

She passed through the front hall of Desheng Palace and turned to the East Warm Pavilion. Although the room was spotlessly clean regardless of whether her brother was there or not, she could feel that her brother had not been here for at least a day.

As soon as she entered the east warm room, Helian Suxue sat down on the Arhat couch and said, "Go ahead and talk!" This was where Helian Hao often sat.

Yu Feng stood aside with his head bowed, and told everything he knew, including that the young lady who had climbed onto the dragon bed at some unknown time was living in Xifeng Pavilion.

"Really? I'd like to go and see what a beauty she is!" She was certain that the fact that her brother was not in the palace had been temporarily suppressed by Eunuch Yu. She also vaguely felt that the little palace maid knew something.

Helian Suxue became interested and stood up and left.

She has always regarded herself as a military commander, without the airs of a princess, and she did not order anyone to come and see her.

From the East Warm Pavilion, you can pass through the main hall of Desheng Hall to reach the West Wind Pavilion.

Wu Qing was still looking at the furniture in Xifeng Pavilion and laughing foolishly, when suddenly the door was pushed open and a palace servant came in.

Next came a slightly smaller general in military uniform. Wu Qing thought it was someone's child playing in the barracks, but then she heard Eunuch Yu say, "Why don't you kneel when you see the Seventh Princess?"

Wu Qing couldn't tell which of these people looked like a princess. Um...who was she kneeling to?

Yu Feng noticed Wu Qing's confusion and secretly gave her a wink.

Helian Suxue looked Wu Qing up and down. She was indeed a beautiful woman, but not stunningly beautiful. What could Third Brother see in her?

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Fu Hao: A prominent female figure in the Shang Dynasty, wife of King Wu Ding, she was also a distinguished military commander and stateswoman. She held many roles: queen, military commander, priestess, and vassal.