Chapter 125 Is this scapegoat less reliable than Yun Chuhuan?
What a surprise!
I wonder if it would be a bigger surprise if she orders Yaohua Palace now?

He asked the eunuchs in the corner of the yard to move aside. From a distance, Yun Shu finally saw what the thing that was still spraying water was.

A piece of bamboo pole sticking out of the soil.

"This shouldn't be done by Xiao Yuanzi, right?"

Yun Shu pointed at the bamboo pole:
"You did it?"

"After Xiao Yuanzi brought the water up from the pond, he said that he could connect the bamboo tubes together and bring them all the way to Fengyang Palace.
In order to prevent the bamboo tube from being stepped on or kicked off along the way, it is best to bury it underground.

Then I thought…”

After secretly glancing at Yun Shu's expression, Yun Chuhuan began to shirk responsibility:
“I feel like I can just wait until the results come out and then give you a shock, Fifth Sister, so I haven’t told you about this before.

Today, your father called you to the Imperial Study Room. It just so happens that the ice in the pond at Yaohua Palace has melted.

I thought the timing was good, so I took my men to connect the last section of bamboo poles that were laid out to Fengyang Palace.

My original intention was just to let you, Fifth Sister, take a look at the scene of the water gushing out, and then stop it immediately.

But maybe because the two palaces are too far apart, Xiao Yuanzi doesn't know how long it will take for the water to be released.
Or maybe... Xiao Yuanzi thought there was also a pond in Fengyang Palace, so he didn't pay much attention to it?"

"..."

Putting aside the outrageous incident of Fengyang Palace being flooded,
He can even dig an underground water pipe. This little Yuanzi is definitely a talented person!

Yun Shu glanced at Yun Chuhuan:
"Where's Xiao Yuanzi?"

“We’ll be there in a moment!”

Thinking that he had successfully transferred Yun Shu's anger to Xiao Yuanzi, Yun Chuhuan's expression relaxed and his tone returned to his usual relaxed tone:

"I have asked Xiao Anzi to go back to Yaohua Palace to interrupt the water diversion, and I also specifically told him to bring Xiao Yuanzi with him when he comes back!"

"Ah."

Yun Shu turned around with no expression on his face and walked towards the small door in the backyard of Fengyang Palace:
"Have someone take Xiao Yuanzi to the side hall in a moment. Also, your remaining five thousand taels are gone."

"do not!"

Five thousand taels is a huge sum of money for him now!

It can’t be gone!
Yun Chuhuan screamed and quickly caught up with Yun Shu:
"Fifth sister, let's discuss this again. This matter is clearly Xiao Yuanzi's problem!
Fifth sister, how about I give Xiao Yuanzi to you as compensation? I really need that five thousand taels!! "

"..."

I didn't know that I had been sold before I even showed up.
When Xiao Yuanzi was brought into the side hall of Fengyang Palace, he felt expectant but also a little bit nervous.

The reason for the anticipation is that His Royal Highness the Sixth Prince had said before that Princess Saint Ann was very optimistic about him.

He had also heard a lot about Princess Saint Ann. He knew that this princess was powerful and favored, and most importantly, she was very lenient towards the palace servants.

But... he just flooded the courtyard of this prince today...

He lowered his head and entered the hall carefully. Xiao Yuanzi bowed nervously and said:

"Your servant Xiao Yuanzi pays homage to Princess Sheng'an and His Royal Highness the Sixth Prince!"

"Get up."

Yun Shu had been looking at Xiao Yuanzi carefully since the moment he entered the room. Although she had thought before that the eunuch who served Yun Chuhuan was named Xiao Yuanzi, he should not be too old.

But after they actually met, she realized that she had underestimated the other party.

The man who built the waterwheel and underground water pipes looked like a young boy of only fifteen or sixteen years old!
If this child is trained well, he will definitely have a bright future!

Isn’t this scapegoat more reliable than Yun Chuhuan?
A satisfied smile appeared in her eyes, and Yun Shu looked at her potential scapegoat No. 4 with some curiosity:
"I heard that everything that brought the water from the Yaohua Palace pond to this palace was done by you.

Who have you learned this from before?"

"Princess Saint Ann, my family used to run a carpentry shop..."

Princess Sheng An personally asked, and Xiao Yuanzi dared not hide anything, and immediately explained his entire family history in detail.

Including the tattered book he read when he was young——

“What I made this time was actually inspired by that book.

There was a similar picture drawn in the book, but it was not about diverting water, but about moving a very heavy object from a low place to a high place.

I made some minor changes to the picture, and that’s how the waterwheel came into being.”

"The book you mentioned sounds quite interesting. Would you mind lending it to me for a read?"

Mohist school!
The descendants of her time and space made the Mohist mechanical art seem miraculous.
Today I saw a netizen on the Internet saying that when he was a child, there was a disciple of the Mohist School in his village who made an exquisite object. It was like a perpetual motion machine. It did not need any external force and could move non-stop.

Unfortunately, it was later demolished and could never be restored;
Tomorrow I saw that a great figure of the Mohist school once made a small wooden bird out of a pile of wood. The bird could fly in the sky for three days and three nights without landing!

Even more outrageous, there are also reports that Juzi once invented a wooden cart that could run by itself, and his mother climbed in to sit on it out of curiosity. However, she didn't expect that the wooden horse would slap its butt and directly pull the cart and Juzi's mother away without a trace!
But when she checked again later, she found that the protagonists of these stories were actually Lu Ban...

In short, it is mysterious and unreliable.

Yun Shu had seen a lot of such unreliable fake news, and now he finally came across something real, so of course he wanted to see it with his own eyes.

Unfortunately, Xiao Yuanzi shook his head:
"Princess, please forgive me. It's not that I don't want to give it to you, but the book...is gone."

"Gone?"

"Yes."

Worried that Yunshu might not believe it, Xiao Yuanzi explained:
"When I was nine years old, my younger brother was only one year old and still ignorant.
He somehow got hold of the book, and probably thought it would be fun to tear it up, so he tore it into pieces."

"..."

There is really no other way.

Yun Shu sighed with some regret:
"Forget it if there is none."

"But I still remember some of it."

Seeing Yunshu's disappointment, Xiao Yuanzi said cautiously:
"If Your Highness wants to see it, I can try to make some."

"Okay!"

Yun Shu agreed reflexively at first, but then he seemed to have thought of something and suddenly changed the subject:
"But before that, there is someone else who may need you to meet more."

"Meet the slave?"

Xiao Yuanzi was startled:
"I wonder what the princess is talking about..."