Chapter 859: Brick and coal
Xiao Ye saw that her mistress was unstable and cried softly, " Your Highness, I know that you are furious but please hold your anger. Their lives are not as precious as yours, you need to understand that even though you have faced certain obstructions, you are still the imperial concubine. So how could you lower yourself on the same level as them?"
" Just bear with this for now, our lives are long. We can always deal with them, if you lose your mind here then you will be the one who will be troubled."
Su Yiqian also knew that she could not lose her mind at this moment but how could she calm down?
Su Bai and the rest were really vicious they ruined her brother's future!
With tears in her eyes, Su Yiqian could not help but break down, " They have gone too far. They actually caused my family to be in trouble, if they were any more ruthless, I would have been sent to the cold palace. They treated like me a slave when I was living in their house and no they dare to treat me like this just because I have no evidence to prove that they treated me badly."
Her brother's bright future was ruined by them, even after ruining her reputation they still caused her brothers and father to be troubled!
However, Xiao Ye was right. If she harmed those troublemakers now when everyone's attention was on her then she would surely be suspected.
Su Yiqian sniffed harshly and then said to Xiao Ye, " Tell my brother to leave for the Golden Gate Temple. Say to him that for now, he needs to lay low, let him pray and practice in the temple."
" There is no need for him to live like a monk just pretend for a year. Once this matter is settled he can come back, now that the Emperor is trying to teach our family a lesson and trying to tie a reign on us, it's better if the second brother stays out of his sight."
" In a year everyone will forget what happened and no one will bother him anymore."
Though some would still make fun of him, it would still be better than it was now. Many people were eyeing him for now and with the number of rivals that were waiting for her brother to fall, this might affect him adversely.
Su Bai and the rest also received information about Su Yiqian's family getting into trouble and were very satisfied.
Ever since they saw that Su Yiqian treated the Su family in the capital better than them they could not help but be annoyed. Now that the entire family was troubled let's see how they wipe their bottoms.
" Hmph serves them right," Su Yu Cheng felt weird when he thought about how Su Yiqian was willing to treat Su Jinxiao better than him.
Now that this precious second brother of hers can no longer participate in the high scholar exams, let's see how she will act arrogant in front of them.
Su Wan was right when she asked them to tackle the Su family behind Su Yiqian. As long as her family was in trouble that woman would not dare to act up in front of them.
That woman's idea was indeed good, as long as they could make use of their commoners' identity they should make good use of it to trouble Su Yiqian.
A week later when Lin Chen received the letter from the shadow guard when returning from work, he did not open it at once. Instead, he returned to the wasteland that Su Wan had brought, at first they thought that Su Wan was going to use the wasteland to grow crops but to their surprise, she actually opened a kiln to make bricks and coal.
" How is it going?" Lin Chen asked as he came to a stop beside his eldest brother who was watching the workers.
Lin Jing turned his head to look at his third brother and proudly raised his eyebrow, " What do you mean? It's a success of course, with Wan Wan coming up with the idea to make bricks how could it be a failure?
What was more she even came up with the idea of making cement. With these two things, the buildings that they could make would be much more sturdy and strong!
" I never thought that the things that Wan Wan taught Ah Rui could be used like this," muttered Lin Chen. Back then, Su Wan asked him to learn chemistry from her but he refused as he could not understand a word that was coming out of her mouth.
He was good when he was using his strength but other than that—— if he was asked to use his brain he felt like he was going to faint. But now that he was seeing for himself how good it was to learn, Lin Chen couldn't help but be awed slightly.
" You should learn a little as well," though Lin Jing also felt that they were too old to learn but after seeing how the things taught by Su Wan could help them make this city a better place, Lin Jing realized that education was indeed important.
Thus, he started to learn a few more words. It did not matter if his solutions were wrong as long as he could still learn.
Being educated comes with its benefits.
" The kiln is opened! The kiln is opened!"
When Lin Jing and Lin Chen heard the screams of the workers they hurried forward along with the rest of the workers who were making cement.
Lin Jing arrived at the front and looked at the red bricks that were neatly lined and were steaming. He waited for it to cool down and then turned to look at Wang Min, the assistant he had chosen to work with.
" Wang Min, throw the brick on the ground to check its sturdiness."
" Yes, master," Wang Min came out of the crows and then took out a red brick before throwing it on the ground.
The red brick did not break.
" Place a small piece of paper beneath it and pour water," said Lin Jing as he ticked the checklist handed to him by Su Wan.
Wang Min tried again and when he picked up the brick after pouring water, the paper was completely dry.
The brick also remained solid and did not weaken nor did it break after it was thrown on the ground.
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