Chapter 209 This is the first time she has seen someone dig her own grave!

"Father is wise!"

Yun Shu had already prepared himself to have several rounds of discussions with Emperor Xuanwu, or even a long debate.
Unexpectedly, the other party was surprisingly easy to talk to.

In her excitement, she almost forgot that Yun Chuhuan was looking at her eagerly.

Fortunately, just before she was about to leave, she caught a glimpse of the figure with a face full of resentment from the corner of her eye.

After a pause, Yun Shu coughed lightly, somewhat embarrassedly:
"Um... Father, actually, for today's event, I have promised someone to take credit for him."

"besides?"

This is Xiaowu.

If it were anyone else, after having just seen him angrily punishing the prince, it would have been difficult not to be so frightened that they dared not even talk about business and only wanted to leave as soon as possible.

How can anyone be like her, taking credit for others as if she were doing wholesale!

Emperor Xuanwu was somewhat helpless:
"Tell me, who else?"

"Sixth brother."

Yun Shu looked innocent:
"If it weren't for my Sixth Brother, I would never have thought that Tang Bingfu would have buried some evidence under the tree.

Father, please think...why don't you let Sixth Brother offset our merits and demerits, and don't let him deal with the concrete pile outside the door?

I saw it when I came here before. Judging from the attitude that Sixth Prince is taking, it will probably take at least a year or two to knock down the cement pile.

It doesn't matter if you punish him, but isn't it inconvenient for you to have that cement pile standing at the door of the imperial study?"

"Yeah yeah!"

Finally, his fifth sister spoke for him. Although it was very different from what he had imagined, with her praising him to the skies and his father also praising him in a flowery way,

But as long as it saves him the job of hammering concrete piles, none of this matters!
Yun Chuhuan nodded and agreed repeatedly:

"You'd better get someone to knock down that cement pile!
Otherwise, what would you do if you stumble again? "

Yun Shu: “……?”

Oh boy, is this how you play it?

She has seen many people cheating others, but this is the first time she has seen someone cheating himself to death!

I should have told you earlier that he was so capable of committing suicide.
There was no need for her to ask this!
Who can save him?
Yun Shu closed his mouth silently, and then heard Emperor Xuanwu sneer without any surprise:
"From what I hear, you're still thinking about me?

Should I praise you a little more?"

“…There’s no need to praise me.”

It was really because Emperor Xuanwu's sarcastic tone was too obvious. Chu Huan, who was as simple-minded as Yun, also heard something was wrong at this time, and quickly showed a flattering smile:

"Father, please do as Fifth Sister said and let your son's merits and demerits offset each other!"

"Then aren't you at a great disadvantage?"

Having just been beaten up by this rebellious son, Emperor Xuanwu certainly could not be appeased by his flattering smile.

He pulled the corner of his mouth with a fake smile:

"It's rare that the prince is so willing to think about me, so why not do this, Xiaowu!"

"My son is here!"

Is she going to be implicated by this idiot?
Yun Shu felt a chill in his heart. He was still thinking quickly in his mind how to get out of this situation if he was really implicated.
Then Emperor Xuanwu said in a chilly voice:

"You all know that the treasury is empty. Xiaowu, although your cement factory is for business, it may be difficult to get money from the stingy old man in the Ministry of Revenue.

You might as well stop arguing with the Ministry of Revenue and go directly to Lao Liu.

I believe that Lao Liu would be very happy to spend this money to relieve my worries!"

"……Yes."

Fortunately, fortunately, father is still very reasonable!
Yun Shu suppressed his laughter and responded with his head down.

Yun Chuhuan on the side was dumbfounded - a cement factory!
This is a sum of money that should have come from the national treasury!
This doesn't look like a small amount of money at all!!

"father……"

"go out."

Emperor Xuanwu rejected Yun Chuhuan's crying before he could even start:
"If you say one more word, you will be fined one hundred gold coins."

"."

He swallowed back all the words in his mind. Yun Chuhuan didn't even dare to say the four words "I'm leaving". He covered his mouth and left with Yun Shu.

He didn't stop until he had walked out of the imperial study and walked a long distance to make sure that his father couldn't hear him talking here.
He looked at Yun Shu with a tragic expression as if he was ready to die:

"Fifth sister, tell me, how much silver does the cement factory cost?"

“Not too much.”

Yun Shu comforted him:
"After all, it's just a temporary cement factory. In the early stages... it's probably like you spent two days flattening the cement pile at the entrance of the imperial study."

"…Only 20,000 taels? That's great!"

This is indeed a lot lower than what he said in his tone!

Yun Chuhuan just breathed a sigh of relief, but suddenly realized something was wrong:

"What do you mean you only need this much at the beginning? And you need to add more later? What's the total amount?"

He raised his head in horror:

"How much silver will it cost in total?"

"In total..."

Yun Shu looked at him lovingly:

"It's about the same as the four cement piles you need to dig at the entrance of the Imperial Study."

Four cement piles...

Yun Shu's words were a little too euphemistic, and Yun Chuhuan didn't react at first.
It took me a while to understand.

It took him two days to shovel a cement pile, and he was originally required to pay a fine of 20,000 taels of silver.

It took eight days to build those four cement piles, which means... 80,000 taels!!!

Plus the fact that my father had previously fined him 50,000 taels, the total was 130,000 taels...

This means that he won't get any pocket money for the next year and one month!

Yun Chuhuan felt suffocated just thinking about it.

He grabbed Yunshu's sleeve sadly and tried to bargain with her:
"Fifth sister, can't it be a little less?
What kind of mud would cost 80,000 taels to make? "

“It’s indispensable.”

Yun Shu was very considerate and gave him an example directly from reality:

"The last person who withheld the money for building the dike had his house confiscated by us today."

Yun Chuhuan: “…”

Yun Chuhuan, who had finally paid off his previous debt and had just felt relieved for a short while, became a huge debtor again and became autistic.

But Yun Shu had no time to comfort him——

Concubine Liu was very quick in giving Yun Chuhuan an advance of pocket money for the next year.

It's so much more pleasant to give money than to that stingy Minister Yan in the Ministry of Revenue.

After getting the money, the cement factory will start to be established.

As usual, Yun Shu placed a recruitment advertisement in the Capital Weekly. However, within just one day, everyone in the capital knew about it.
Princess St. Ann wanted to recruit a lot of people to make a kind of mud called cement to build the dam.

Although they don't quite understand why they need to hire people to do this mud,
But who wouldn’t be happy to get paid?