Time flies, and it's already late October. The weather in this era is just like the weather in the south today. In mid-October, it's still so hot that you can hardly breathe, but it's already cool in the mornings and evenings, and the midday heat makes you drowsy.

Guan Zhiyue lay on the rattan chair, yawning wearily, looking sleepy, but still didn't want to go inside to sleep.

It wasn't for any other reason than that the room was too hot, and it was much more comfortable to be outside in the breeze. She had been in the Cold Palace for almost a month, and since the Empress Dowager had come to see her, no one else had come to see her.

However, she was also happy to be free and unrestrained, which was simply the greatest blessing. She could live a carefree life, without having to manage all the affairs of the harem or have to act according to anyone's wishes.

She spends her days clearing land in the Cold Palace, losing weight, and upgrading her space. Naturally, she doesn't want to get involved in anything outside. She just wants to be a happy, lazy bum who eats and loses weight.

"Your Highness, would you like to go to your room to rest?" Bilian asked, looking at Guan Zhiyue's head, which was trembling up and down.

Guan Zhiyue suddenly woke up, her eyes wide open, and yawned deeply, saying, "No need, I'll sleep here. It's too hot in the room, I can't stand it."

Seeing this, Bilian stopped talking and followed Guan Zhiyue's instructions to sleep in the corridor. At this time, most of the palace servants in the Cold Palace were taking a midday nap, which was arranged by Guan Zhiyue.

After lunch, they can rest for two hours. Then, around 3 p.m., they will start clearing the land properly. However, even with many people, their efforts are limited because the wasteland is too vast. So far, they have only cleared a small plot of land.

This cannot be blamed on the palace servants. After all, others would use oxen to plow the land when clearing it, but Guan Zhiyue had neither oxen nor plows, so she could only rely on manual labor to hoe the land, which naturally made the work slower.

Especially since the wasteland is full of rocks, all the large rocks need to be broken before it can be moved. Or, as Guan Zhiyue suggested, the large rocks need to be broken into smaller pieces, and the land needs to be divided into smaller pieces, with the broken rocks used to form the edges.

This is another big deal, so it will be difficult for Guan Zhiyue to drive out before the snow.

However, it seems that Guan Zhiyue has recently discovered this problem. She can tolerate not using that piece of wasteland outside before this winter, but she cannot tolerate it until next year.

Her plan was to cultivate all the wasteland before winter this year, and then use the heavy snowfall to eliminate the pests. If she didn't do this and waited until the snow melted next year to start, her land would be wasted a whole year.

"Bilian, try to contact my second brother and see if they've left yet."

"Your Majesty, is it because you need to see the young general again?"

Guan Zhiyue raised her eyelids and looked at Bilian, asking, "What's wrong?"

"This servant feels that since we moved into the Cold Palace, the young general has been handling many things for us..."

Guan Zhiyue listened to Bi Lian's words and thought about it, and it seemed to make sense. However, she smiled and said, "It's okay. After all, he's my brother. If his beloved sister is in trouble, can't he help me?"

"Then what does Your Majesty want the young general for this time?"

Guan Zhiyue smiled and said, "Hehe, easy! Just have him get me some oxen and donkeys or something."

"Ah! Your Majesty, you want to raise cattle and donkeys in the Cold Palace?!"

Guan Zhiyue listened to Bilian's words and said indifferently, "Oxen are fine, but I don't think we need donkeys. I already have a stupid donkey in my cold palace."

Bilian didn't understand what Guan Zhiyue meant by the last sentence. She looked around in confusion and then curiously leaned close to Guan Zhiyue's ear and said, "Your Majesty, where in our Cold Palace are we keeping donkeys?"

Guan Zhiyue smiled and looked at Bilian, saying, "Aren't you one of them!"

"ah!"

"Your Majesty, you're so annoying, so annoying..."

Guan Zhiyue couldn't help but laugh. As she moved, the rocking chair swayed up and down, looking very comfortable and relaxed.

"Alright, you figure out how to deliver the message!"

“Tell my second brother to let the soldiers who come to patrol every day bring the ox and donkey over.”

Guan Zhiyue thought for a moment and then said, "Go and find Eunuch Liu again and tell him to build a shed at the back of the mountain. Tools, cattle, donkeys and such can be kept there."

"These are things we'll be using frequently in the future, so please make sure they're kept safe."

"Yes, I understand. I will do it right away."

After Bilian left, Guan Zhiyue stood up from the rocking chair, yawning as she walked towards the room. She wanted to see if she had lost weight recently, as she felt that she walked much more lightly.

"Oh my god! I've lost 10 pounds?"

"This...this..."

Guan Zhiyue stared at the numbers on the electronic scale in disbelief, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

"212"

"212!"

Is this true?

Is it true?

"Little Tuantuan, look, isn't this 212?"

Guan Zhiyue's eyes widened as she repeatedly tested the scale up and down countless times. When she saw the number 212 on the scale, she couldn't help but exclaim in surprise. That's a full 10 pounds of weight loss! What does that mean? It's like getting promoted twice!

"Little Tuantuan, Little Tuantuan, can I level up now? Can I level up now?"

Little Tuantuan, who was sleeping in the space, opened his sleepy eyes from the suspended mid-air. He looked around and saw that Guan Zhiyue was just talking to him outside. He yawned and said, "What's wrong, host?"

Guan Zhiyue excitedly pointed to the electronic scale and said, "I've lost ten pounds, I'm 212 pounds now."

Little Tuantuan smiled and said, "Congratulations, host, your space can be upgraded by two levels. Would you like to upgrade your space now?"

Guan Zhiyue said happily, "Yes, yes, yes."

"Alright, host! This two-level advancement will take two hours. Please wait patiently!"

Before Guan Zhiyue could say anything, the space could no longer contact the outside world.

"It's just four hours! No problem, I can wait."

Guan Zhiyue picked up the electronic scale and put it in the wardrobe. Since it couldn't be sent into the space now that the space was being upgraded, she would just leave it in the wardrobe for the time being.

Guan Zhiyue hummed a little tune as she walked towards the door, quite satisfied, because she was going outside to continue exercising and get rid of all her fat. She believed she could definitely lose weight and get back to the figure she had in her previous life, which was simply too awesome.

"Bilian, come quick! Do you know how much I weigh right now?"

Bilian looked her mistress up and down, scratched her head awkwardly, and dared not speak, because she saw that her mistress had not changed at all.

It was exactly the same as before, so she didn't dare to speak, for fear of upsetting her mother.

"Well? Did you figure it out?" Guan Zhiyue asked again.

Bilian chuckled twice: "Your Majesty, you seem to have lost weight."

Guan Zhiyue's eyes widened when she heard Bilian's words. Although she had already weighed herself, she still wanted to see if others thought she was really becoming thinner.

"Hehe, well... well... well, not at all."

Guan Zhiyue nodded, patted Bilian's shoulder with great satisfaction, and said, "Not bad, not bad, your empress has lost 15 pounds."

“But I didn’t notice you’ve lost fifteen pounds!” Bilian looked Guan Zhiyue up and down, muttering to herself.

Bilian's voice was very soft, and Guan Zhiyue couldn't hear what Bilian was saying. Her smile faded, and she said, "Bilian, what are you muttering about? Don't you believe me?"

Bilian jumped out of the area that Guan Zhiyue could restrain herself from, and hid behind a pillar at a distance, saying, "Your Majesty, this servant noticed that you haven't lost weight!"

Guan Zhiyue thought she was being told something!

"You mean this? You're with me every day, so you definitely wouldn't be able to tell. You should find someone who hasn't seen me in a long time and have them look at me again, then you'll know whether I've lost weight or not."

Bilian, seeing that her mother had said that, didn't say anything more. She scratched her head, not quite understanding, and watched Guan Zhiyue leave laughing. She quickly hugged the pillar under the corridor, truly afraid of her current empress.