The next morning, Fu qushui wakes up and tells the pretty lady that he has brought her some food. He tells her that he is going to ask her to take the exam to enter the imperial court. He says that if he were an ordinary citizen, he could only save his friends and relatives, but if he was a minister, he would save thousands of people. The pretty lady says that she works for the prince regent, and that she is very energetic. She asks him to cough up some ginseng soup for her. He coughs up no offense, but he should say that she has been reading the news for how could she have let the emperor catch a cold. He asks her if she thinks the emperor will get what he wants.