There are only three boxes of Wanted left, and with only three refreshing opportunities per day at the Primary Food Mall, the chances of getting another Wanted are infinitely close to zero.
The conditions for opening the second level are 150 whitewash points and the completion of the "open the two chakras" of the fat boy quest.
Xue Yao had thought of many ways to earn whitewashing points, and one of the easiest ways to score a lot of money was to convince the emperor to give up Offer Shu Road and build a palace.
This episode he remembers well.
Since ancient times there has been the saying that the road to Shu is difficult, and the original story also has such a problem, but the Emperor of Daqi has long heard of the pleasant scenery of Ba Shu, and has always intended to tour the land of Shu and build a palace.
Of course, this is not the same as the modern sense of wanting to travel to Sichuan and buy a house, the emperor also has a deeper layer of mind.
It is mentioned in the Book of Han that areas such as Bashu and Guanghan had the advantages of "fertile land, fertile rivers, and abundant fruits", and the topography of the dangerous basin also gave this area the natural advantage of being easy to defend and difficult to attack.
The emperor of Daqi's mind is naturally not as simple as wanting to travel, but one of his brothers, King Pingyi, a prince whose fiefdom is Shu.
Rumors are spreading in the court, saying that this fiefdom is very rich, but the tax in Shu is not as good as in Jiangnan, and the private property of Pingyi King is going to catch up with the national treasury.
This is naturally the last thing the emperor wants to see, the emperor of Daqi impulsive, in the name of the tour, repair Shu, build the palace, intended to tell his brother "be careful, I can sweep you with a wave of a big hand".
The problem is that the road to Shu is really difficult to offer the material and financial resources needed to build a palace in Shu, the rich Qi can afford, manpower is more difficult, the difficulty of transporting building materials is too grim, resulting in a large number of conscripted to offer the road to the men lost their lives.
In the original, there were hints of an uprising among the people who were overwhelmed by their service.
It was only when the eldest prince pleaded in blood to his father to stop work for a while and recuperate that the emperor temporarily withdrew his hand.
Of course, the emperor's order has no reason to withdraw, Offer Shu Road to build the palace project is only suspended, may be one day to restart, so that the people are terrified, public grievances.
So who ended up taking the blame for this?
The emperor certainly does not carry, most cases, let the red face to carry, so the pot fell on the head of the seventh prince's mother.
The reason for Consort Shio's backstabbing was simple: the original reason for the Emperor's palace cultivation was to take Consort Shio to his own God's country, for a trip of sorts.
Travel to Jiangnan can no longer meet the royal family's compulsion, where it is difficult to walk where, so that foreign tribute to the beauty to see the scenery of Ba Shu, very dignified.
Consort Shio, who had fallen on eight lifetimes of bad luck, became a target because of this incident, which was also one of the causes of the seventh prince's miserable life after the age of six.
The emperor took the blame for the beauty, the ministers understood in their hearts what was going on, but did not dare to scold the emperor.
The common people don't understand what's going on, but prefer the gossip that emperors misuse their country because of their beauty.
So everyone scolded Consort Shio, and naturally Consort Shio's pups were no better.
In the original, all the blame and bullying that this incident led to was the main reason that forced the male lead to black out.
Xue Yao want to think about it are almost collapsed, three-year-old small Lu Qian, in fact, is a very sunny fat cub, love to eat, love to sleep, love toys, when happy, but also take the initiative to pinch the face of the buns, completely without the original in the latter part of the kind of evil and severe perverse temperament.
When I read the book, the main character, as an adult, smiles, pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger Oscar-winning actor, high IQ to hit the face and so on, Xue Yao thought it was handsome.
But now in the middle of it, Xue Yao thought of this little fat cub to be forced step by step into the late kind of vicious and terrible people, the heart only intolerance.
What's more, this little fat cub was born with abnormal thinking and was already prone to numbness and coldness, so catalyzed, Xue Yao was not going to be able to treat the correction.
So the best case scenario would be to nip this thing in the bud.
The building of the Shu Road was eventually settled, but resulted in tens of thousands of casualties from the people's labors.
If Xue Yao had been able to dissuade the Emperor from the start, not only would it have smoothed out the path of the Seventh Prince's growth a lot, but it would have also indirectly averted the catastrophe of tens of thousands of people.
That way, there might be tens of thousands of whitewash points coming in.
Tens of thousands of whitewash points!
With this amount of whitewash points, it's enough to open all the primary malls!
The tesseract of mental space offers more than just a food mall.
There are nine squares on the bottom of the Rubik's Cube, corresponding to resources such as ingredients, fabrics, herbs, crop seeds, wood, steel, and books.
Each of the nine resources has a two-layer cube and a three-layer cube.
Like the food mall, the second level can change the number of refreshes, and the ultimate can search for resources at will.
With such a reserve, even if Xue Yao didn't hang out in the palace, the precious herbs and fabrics he redeemed could be sold to private merchants.
This way, even if he can't get along in the palace, he can go to Jiangnan to buy a mansion and do some small business, avoiding the future doom of being poked in the butt by the little fat cub cutting his ears.
It's simply beautiful to think about!
However, the reality was cruel, he only had 36 points left in his whitewash point balance, and he usually couldn't even redeem a piece of cake even if he was craving mad.
Poverty makes Xue Yao ambitious.
Would love to take advantage of this opportunity, but it's too hard to implement.
The emperor did not see the coffin without tears, even if Offer Shudao mid-term has caused public anger, but also wait until his eldest son on the book of blood, only to let go, Xue Yao and what can be done to advise it?
An eight-year-old cannon fodder with no protagonist's aura can't make a mess of things.
Xue Yao planned to start with Consort Shi, so that Consort Shi could dissuade the Emperor from his foolish thoughts.
It's just that the emperor's mind is still mainly on intimidating his brothers, and the idea of offering a road to Shu may not be erased.
At the very least, Princess Shih should have explicitly rejected the "travel plan" from the very beginning, so as to make the pot clear and give the Seventh Prince a peaceful childhood.
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Upon returning to the mansion that day, Aunt Zhou came to Xue Yao's bedroom with a food box in her arms and opened the lid with great joy, bringing out a plate of fresh shrimp dumplings for Xue Yao to eat while it was still hot.
"Where did this come from?" Xue Yao was quite surprised.
His own mother is more timid, usually do not dare to eat on the table, food is basically leftovers, life may not be better than the Xue House of the subordinates, where to go today to get such a good thing?
"The old lady rewarded you." Aunt Zhou looked at Xue Yao with a wide-eyed smile, "I've been standing at the entrance of the hall today, and I really waited until the Old Madame rewarded me with something down! Madam's maid was still waiting in the guest hall, she didn't have time to go and inform Madam, and the item was intercepted by me!"
Like a little girl who had picked up a great bargain, Aunt Zhou couldn't wait to pick up her chopsticks, clip a piece of fresh shrimp dumpling and hand it to Xue Yao's mouth.
Xue Yao's heart fluttered gently as she gazed blankly at Aunt Zhou's delighted and pleased face.
In this hot weather, Aunt Zhou stood outside the hall and waited for half a day in order to "steal a bite of meat" from Chen's tiger's mouth for her son.
Aren't all mothers naive?
The opposite Aunt Zhou did not have the demeanor of a loving mother at the moment, instead she was like a little child waiting for her elders to praise her, holding the shrimp dumplings and waiting for Xue Yao to open her mouth.
Perhaps knowing that she, as a mother, had made her son suffer, Aunt Zhou usually didn't dare to harass Xue Yao.
She knew that she couldn't take anything good to subsidize her son, and excessive closeness would also make Chen even more disgusted with this commoner's son, so she was full of motherly love and buried it deep in her heart.
Her son was the only family left in her heart, but she could not show the intimacy of an ordinary mother and son because she was only a concubine.
For the first time, Xue Yao was confronted with Aunt Zhou's unseemly motherly love, and her heart was filled with mixed feelings.
His life before the plane crash in his last life had nothing to do with the word mother's love.
Xue Yao's last life was a dog's blood, his own mother had a child out of wedlock, and then split up with his father, neither of whom wanted him as a drag.
Xue Yao was pushed away from each other by her grandfather and grandfather's family, and barely raised, and then was very competitive, getting a full prize offer to study in the United States, but suffered a plane crash on the way back to her home country during the holidays.
He hadn't felt much affection in his life, so much so that he hadn't been depressed by hanging on to his loved ones after crossing over.
But that doesn't mean he doesn't understand affection.
On the contrary, people who live in darkness for a long time are always more sensitive to light.
Xue Yao loved to eat a hundred meals since elementary school, and often went to her classmates' homes to dine on them.
Watch your classmates' moms and dads push their kids to do their homework, cut apples and peel oranges, and force them to eat more than one bite of vegetables.
These images made the young Xue Yao giggle from time to time.
Unloved children are best able to quench their thirst.
And at this moment, the tangible motherly love in Aunt Zhou's eyes was all wrapped up in him.
Happiness came more suddenly than 10,000 whitewash points, Xue Yao was surprisingly a bit overwhelmed, lowered her head and took a bite of the fresh shrimp dumplings handed to her by Aunt Zhou, and in her haste, she bit the head of the chopsticks.
"Ugh!" Xue Yao covered his incisors!
Aunt Zhou was amused by the child's naive demeanor and giggled, and worried enough to ask Xue Yao to open her mouth and let her see her teeth.
Good thing it's okay, she said to eat slowly and continued to feed him with fresh shrimp dumplings.
"You eat too." Xue Yao pushed her chopsticks towards Aunt Zhou's mouth.
"We people in Jiangnan don't like eating pasta." Aunt Zhou made excuses to shrug it off, such a good thing, there were only eight of them in total, where would she be willing to eat them.
It was an excuse that Xue Yao wanted to laugh at.
It is a coincidence that in his last life, he was also a native of Jiangsu, in Nanjing, not far from Aunt Zhou in Suzhou, the difference in eating habits is not too big, just Nanjing is more salty, Suzhou is more sweet, but dumplings and other things are very common, and there is no lack of love.
"Since you've come to the capital you have to follow the customs of the country, you have to eat even if you don't like it." Xue Yao stiffly pushed the chopsticks to her mouth.
Aunt Zhou avoided her head and feigned displeasure, "I can't eat what I'm used to, I can't even smell this flavor!"
"Alright, then don't even eat it." Xue Yao deliberately had a cold face, snatched the chopsticks, threw the fresh shrimp dumplings back onto the plate, picked up the dish and got up to walk out, "I'll give it to my wife and big brother to eat, they love this in the north."
"Yao Ge'er!" Aunt Zhou was alarmed.
Xue Yao turned his head and raised his chin to playfully say, "What? Mother is willing to eat?"
Aunt Zhou shuddered, Xue Yao's flash of "Mother" almost pierced her eardrums, and her mind buzzed.
Concubines don't have children, and the child she gives birth to should call Mrs. Chen her mother.
"What are you shouting nonsense!" Aunt Xue's eyes reddened.
Terrified, emboldened, and ecstatic, her lips trembled as she lectured Xue Yao, "Is mother something that can be shouted at indiscriminately? If you tell Mrs. to hear it ......"
"I only call you in private." Xue Yao put the dumplings back on the table and raised her eyebrows at Aunt Zhou, "I won't call you wrong in front of outsiders, okay, Mother?"