Chapter 310

【The story is quite well written.】

Chu Liuzheng looked at the two big dark circles under Yan's eyes.

[It was clearly a product of diligent research, day and night, following the family secret manual. I was hoping to sell it at the market for a bit, but if I sold it too high, no one would buy it, and if I sold it too low, I'd lose money. When I finally sold it, I was targeted and nearly arrested. It was unfortunate.]

Xiao Jingfan played with the mechanical beast presented by Xie Hui, thinking that those buyers had no taste.

"I remember there was a great clan in Dayong, renowned for their mechanical crafts, highly respected by princes and nobles. Their greatest skill was crafting mechanical beasts, capable of flying through the sky and diving into the sea. Unfortunately, the nine clans were exterminated and have since vanished."

He waved the mechanical beast in his hand towards Yan Shi: "I see that your mechanical beast is also quite exquisitely made, with some of the style of Yan Shi."

Hearing this, the back of Yan's neck tightened and a trace of panic flashed in her eyes.

"Your Majesty, I truly do not deserve your praise. My skills are crude and unworthy of a high-class master. How can I dare to be compared with the Yan family?"

"Oh?" Xiao Jingfan raised an eyebrow, "You also know Yan family?"

Yan said, "I have heard Doctor Tea talk about this before."

Xiao Jingfan seemed to be in the mood for conversation and asked, "What did Dr. Tea say?"

Yan was just making it up, but now that he was questioning her, she had to rack her brains to come up with something else.

Fortunately, she had read the books in her home and had some understanding of her ancestors' deeds, so she could make up stories that were true and false and sound pretty good.

Chu Liuzheng found it boring after listening for a while. She had looked it up in the system and knew more than Yan.

She glanced at the woman kneeling in front of the desk and continued to dig into the system gossip.

[It turns out that Lady Yan married Huang Enchang because Huang Enchang saved her by chance. This is actually a classic love story triggered by a hero saving a beauty.]

[Wow, it was actually Lady Yan who took the initiative to ask a matchmaker to go to the Huang family to propose marriage, which is how she and Huang Enchang got married.]

[Hey, there's a complicated story between the two of them. Let me take a look...]

Chu Liuzheng continued to dig down.

Huang Enchang is obsessed with marrying a beautiful wife... Uh, with his basic conditions, he has no face, no figure, no money, and no ability. He's just a braggart. Which beautiful girl would be interested in him?

[Frog fun! Even so, he still despises Lady Yan for looking like a widow, refuses to agree, and doesn't even take a piss to look at himself. Where does this confidence come from? Did he bring it with him from the womb?]

Xiao Jingfan was multitasking and couldn't help but frown when he heard this. Wasn't the woman's words a little too vulgar?

Chu Liuzheng didn't know that the emperor disliked him and continued to watch.

Oh my, Lady Yan is truly magnanimous. She didn't even slap Huang Enchang after all he scolded her. Instead, she spent half a month lurking around until Huang Enchang got drunk, knocked him unconscious, and dragged him to a mass grave. Then, while Huang Enchang was frightened to death by the mechanical beasts dressed as ghosts, she appeared like a god and easily captured Huang Enchang's heart, a lover of beauty.

[Tsk, Huang En has grown up thinking this is fate. How can fate be faster than calculation?]

Madam Yan was a bit soft-hearted. She only scared Huang En for a quarter of an hour before she showed up. If it were me, it would take at least an hour. Not seeing the King of Hell would be a joke.

Xiao Jingfan: "..."

Thanks to Lady Yan's efforts, the two were happily married and lived in harmony after marriage.

Chu Liuzheng read the end of the story, smacked his lips in thought, and felt that something was wrong.

[Wait! Where's the PUA? ]

[Given Lady Yan's ability to drag people to a mass grave and force a perfect match, even if she were to be a PUA, she would be the one to PUA Huang Enchang, right?]

The same story can be expressed differently from different people's perspectives. Chu Liuzheng was already familiar with this situation. He scrolled past the gossip in front of him and searched through the system.

【偃偃偃偃……Got it! 】

She read on quickly, and as she read, she couldn't help but feel sympathy for Huang Enchang.

[Oh my, poor old tool, he's almost lost his mind after drinking bowl after bowl of Niang Yan's magic potion. He really thinks he's a genius, and his already overflowing self-confidence is almost exploding.]

[No wonder her boasts are getting bigger and bigger. Lady Yan is using Huang Enchang as a target.]

Huang Enchang, crowned with glory, stood in front, exposed to the gazes and verbal attacks of the outside world. Lady Yan, on the other hand, quietly hid in the background, conducting research and using the results to supplement her family income. For example, she would occasionally send two mechanical beasts to the Ministry of Industry. These changes, however, maintained Huang Enchang's genius persona.

[Actually, the true genius is Lady Yan. The mechanical beasts she sent to the Ministry of Industry were just practice creations. The real masterpieces are still in stock, and they have far more functions than those in the Ministry of Industry.]

This way, Huang Enchang could satisfy his vanity, receive imperial rations to support his livelihood while serving as a shield, and at the same time, use the research funds from the Ministry of Industry to conduct his own research. It was simply killing two birds with one stone.

Xiao Jingfan suddenly felt as if the words "sucker" were engraved on his forehead.

Chu Liuzheng couldn't help but give Madam Yan a thumbs up.

According to Lady Yan's plan, this mutually beneficial situation would have continued for a long time, until she created a true Yan clan mechanical beast. Unfortunately, the tyrant's beheading order last night disrupted it.

Huang Enchang was a man of many boasts, but his courage was as small as his words. He panicked when he heard he was going to be beheaded. He couldn't help but use the agreed-upon code to ask Madam Yan for help. This aroused Lord Xie's suspicions, and he personally went to the Huang family's house to investigate.

"What a coincidence! Lady Yan was working on the parts for the mechanical beast's head, and Lord Xie caught her in the act. Even if she tried to deny it, she was taken away to confront Huang Enchang."

Chu Liuzheng looked through what happened last night.

[Tsk tsk, Madam Yan may be a tight-lipped woman, but Huang Enchang can't stand being scared. Lord Xie's words nearly frightened him to the point of him spilling everything, even the night of the mass grave. It's just that he didn't know Madam Yan's true origins, otherwise he would have spilled the beans long ago.]

Huang Enchang probably never imagined that the person beside him had such a glorious ancestor, let alone that even her surname was fake and that she had been deceiving him for most of the time they spent together.

[Tsk, Madam Yan married Huang Enchang, didn't she think he was easy to deceive?]

Chu Liuzheng no longer envies Huang Enchang for having a capable woman like Yan Niangzi behind him. The reason is that he is not smart enough.

She silently turned off the system and listened to Yan's nonsense.

[No wonder he's so skilled at deceiving people. He must have learned all that from Huang Enchang.]

Xiao Jingfan, who was fooled, said: "..."

"Okay." He interrupted Yan and asked directly, "Are you willing to join the Ministry of Works and serve the country?"

Thinking about what happened to her ancestors, Yan shook her head.

Xiao Jingfan: "Okay, from now on you will be a member of the Ministry of Industry."

Yan: ???

Wait, did she just shake her head?

"Your Majesty, I, a humble woman..."

Xiao Jingfan didn't waste any time talking to her: "Behead yourself or join the Ministry of Works, you choose one."

Yan: “…”

Xie Hui spoke at the right moment: "Deceiving the emperor is a capital crime. His Majesty values ​​talent and is willing to let you off the hook. Why don't you thank him quickly!"

Yan hasn't made a real mechanical beast yet and doesn't want to die at all.

She could only kowtow in thanks, and then hesitantly said, "I wonder if Your Majesty would be so kind as to forgive my husband?"

Xiao Jingfan was willing to give her this little sweet treat, so he ordered Xie Hui to give the man twenty lashes of the board as a minor punishment and then let him go.

At the same time as the Ministry of Works welcomed its first female craftsman, Lu Fei also figured out the things in the tunnel and went to the palace to meet the emperor without stopping.