Chapter 60 Fifth Sister Didn’t Forget the Birthday? !
Emperor Xuanwu hesitated for a moment.
Logically speaking, he already knew that this was a surprise that Yun Shu wanted to prepare, so he shouldn't continue asking questions.

But the emperor was also curious.

If he had not come here in person to see the situation in Fengyang Palace, he might have been able to bear it.

But he happened to come today.

Emperor Xuanwu finally couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked:

"What kind of surprise requires so much fuss?"

“I’m not sure if it will work yet.”

Yun Shu shook his head and kept his mouth shut:
"Anyway, it will be done in ten days at most. If it's done, I'll have someone invite you to come and see it for yourself!
If it doesn’t work, I’ll save you from being disappointed.”

Just ten days?

It’s not that we can’t wait.

Emperor Xuanwu barely convinced himself and turned his attention back to the blueprint he had just looked at:

"You just said this is a mechanism?"

"This is the design I made for the courtyard behind the restaurant. I am not sure whether it can be completed yet."

Yun Shu also didn’t plan to say more about things that hadn’t been designed yet:

"You'll be able to see it after the restaurant opens."

Emperor Xuanwu: “…”

Fine.

All are surprises.

It was a waste of time and I didn't ask anything.

It was only after Emperor Xuanwu came out of Fengyang Palace that he suddenly remembered that he had come here not just for Yunshu's demolition of Fengyang Palace.
What's more important is to see if there's any chance to quietly lure her to the stable!
Surprises are important, but the most important thing is to get retired war horses back on the battlefield!

However, he had already walked quite a distance at this time, and turning back would seem a bit deliberate.

Fortunately, there is still Lao Liu who is easy to fool.

Without even having to think about it, Emperor Xuanwu arranged for someone to say a few words, and on that day he heard the news that Yun Chuhuan had rushed into Fengyang Palace to look for Yun Shu.

"Fifth sister! Fifth...what's going on? Fengyang Palace is going to be rebuilt?"

As soon as he entered the door, he almost fell into the pit. Yun Chuhuan looked at Yun Shu, who happened to be standing not far away and supervising the work, with a confused look on his face:
"Fifth sister, what are you doing?"

"Add some useful little things to Fengyang Palace."

Emperor Xuanwu came in person to ask about this before, but Yun Shu had not told him the news, so naturally he would not tell Yun Chuhuan in advance.

After saying this casually, Yun Shu turned his head and asked:
"Why did you suddenly come here at this time?"

"Oh, I heard that several young masters in the capital will hold a polo match in Nanyuan tomorrow!"

When Yun Chuhuan was asked why he had come so hastily, his attention was immediately diverted:
"Fifth sister, tomorrow is our day off, why don't we go out and have some fun together?"

"Don't go."

After ten days in the study, Yun Shu only had one day of rest. He just wanted to stay in Fengyang Palace and not go anywhere:

"I'm busy."

"Why are you busy? Didn't you say that the restaurant business has been handed over to your cousin?"

Yun Chuhuan refused to give up and held on to Yun Shu's sleeve:

"You've been saying you're busy these days, and you haven't taken me out to play for a long time!"

"Isn't it only ten days? How come it's been so long?"

Not wanting to learn from his nagging skills, Yun Shu directly brought up Emperor Xuanwu:
"Before you came today, my father also came. He already knew that I was preparing a surprise for him, and he told me to finish it as soon as possible.

So I’m really busy!”

"surprise?!!"

Yun Chuhuan, who was originally thinking about leaving the palace to watch polo, suddenly became alert:
"Is this the surprise you prepared for your father's birthday?!" "..."

Longevity Festival?
Yes! Isn’t my father’s birthday half a month before New Year’s Eve?

She has been so busy these days that she almost forgot about it.

Calculating the time, there is still more than half a month until the Wanshou Festival.

This thing that her palace is making now... isn't bad, but it's definitely not suitable as a birthday gift.

Yun Shu pondered for a moment, then suddenly raised his hand and patted Yun Chuhuan on the shoulder:
"Do you want to go out of the palace to play tomorrow?"

"……yes."

He hadn't recovered from the bad news that his fifth sister hadn't forgotten the birthday party and had already started preparing a surprise.

The topic suddenly jumped back to the matter of going out of the palace to play tomorrow.
Yun Chuhuan was stunned for two seconds before he nodded slowly:

"Fifth sister, have you changed your mind?"

"I am planning to leave the palace."

Yun Shu had now made no secret of her desire to take advantage of the carriage:

"So I can take you out of the palace tomorrow, but you have to take a detour and send me to the Ministry of Works first."

"But if I watch polo, everyone rides horses, so I will definitely go there on horseback."

Yun Chuhuan scratched the back of his head:
"Shall I lend you my carriage?"

"If you don't need it, forget it."

It's okay to just scratch such an expensive luxury carriage, but I would feel embarrassed to borrow it specially.

However, Yun Chuhuan did remind her that the small pony she had ridden during the autumn hunt had been given to her by Concubine Liu.

She could have ridden to the Ministry of Works on her own!

By the way, in which direction are the palace's stables?

……

Because Yun Shu was curious about the royal stables, the next morning, the two of them did not stand at the palace gate waiting for the palace servants to bring the horses over, but went directly to the stables.

At this time, the horses had already been fed by the groom.

In the huge and magnificent royal stable, there were only two young eunuchs sweeping the floor.

When Yun Shu and the others passed by, they could still hear the two young eunuchs talking -

"I heard that Beixiang will send 10,000 retired war horses to us this year. Do you think it's possible for us to get one or two?"

"Ten thousand horses?"

Another young eunuch exclaimed:

"Weren't there always 1,000 horses sent directly to the army every year? How come it has become 10,000 this year?"

"It seems that something went wrong in Beixiang, and they couldn't provide that many active war horses, so they wanted to use retired horses instead. As a result, His Majesty said that retired horses can be used, but the number must be multiplied tenfold, so it became 10,000 horses."

The young eunuch who spoke earlier had some yearning:

"I've heard that the war horses in Beixiang are much more powerful than ours. It would be great if I could see them with my own eyes!"

"But retired war horses should be old now, right?"

Another young eunuch couldn't help but ask:

"They are old enough to be retired. Maybe they are not as good as the ordinary horses we have here!"

"How can they be considered old enough to retire? I heard that many of the retired war horses were only five or six years old!"

The first eunuch shook his head:
"If converted to our age, they are just young people in their twenties."

(End of this chapter)