Princess Yauguang is too tired to go to the palace, so she asks the steward to bring her some food. The steward tells her that the horse farm has bought a horse stud from a young general , and the blood from the stud has completely fended off the disease. He tells the steward that the young general gambled away the money offered for the stud, and now he is in a panic, and has lost all his money. He asks for more of the grass, which is healing all the patients. The king thanks the princess for her contribution to the fight against the disease, and grants her the county of yunzhong. She is happy to be home, and tells her son that he can sleep with them in their guest room tonight. She tells him not to go back to the south, where the barbarians have raised an army and attacked a small border city. She asks the king to return to the north to smooth over the potential conflict, but the king goes back to open two border towns