Chapter 274 You just need to answer me yes or no!"Since Master Huyan is silent, I will take it as Master Huyan's acquiescence." Yun Shu was not a fool, so she could certainly see that Hu Yanmingchuan's expression froze for a moment. But so what? Something like he would offer Beixiang to him with both hands afterwards, who knows whether it is true or not? I stayed in the capital under her name, so what's wrong with paying a little "deposit" in advance? Besides...this person is quite magical. If you give him a math book, he will really learn it! If she could give him a few more math books... that would be another way to achieve the goal of preventing this guy from bothering her, right? Before the other party could speak, Yun Shu arranged everything for him: "The new books will be delivered tomorrow at the latest. With Master Huyan's intelligence and wisdom, I'm sure all those will be no problem for him. I'll have to trouble Master Huyan for the future math classes at Tiansheng Academy!" Huyan Mingchuan: "..." Damn it, he clearly wanted to refuse. But this damn math accurately grasped his desire to win, making him unable to say no! How could there be such abominable yet irresistible books in this world? Huyan Mingchuan gritted his teeth and watched Yun Shu's back as he left. He clenched his fists tightly, but in the end he did not chase after him to stop him.
…… The fact that the Ninth Prince of Beixiang stayed in the capital and that Cen Yiyi left the capital with Marquis Wu'an did not have any impact on the people of the capital. Everyone is living their life seriously. Even Yun Shu, who used to make some big news every now and then, has been quiet for a while. Every day, he would attend court in an orderly manner, review memorials with Emperor Xuanwu, and occasionally go to the Ministry of Works. It was so normal that many ministers in the court were not used to it. It wasn't until the weather gradually got hotter and summer was about to begin that Yun Shu, who had been quiet for more than three months, broke the tranquility inside and outside the court with an article she published in Tiansheng Weekly. "It's not that we are having problems with Her Royal Highness, it's Her Royal Highness who is making things difficult for us!" "Your Majesty, Her Royal Highness never said before that Tiansheng College would recruit half male and half female students! This... where are there so many families willing to send their daughters to study? Isn't this a waste of places!" "Yes, Your Majesty! Her Highness even went so far as to specify that she would not accept any children from families that had abandoned or killed healthy infants within the past 20 years! This kind of thing might be a little better in the capital, but it's not uncommon in other more remote places! Then when Tiansheng College officially starts recruiting students, the people will definitely expose each other and even frame others in order to compete for places. By then, government offices everywhere will probably be filled with these people, which will definitely seriously affect the normal operation of the government offices!" "His Majesty……" "His Majesty!" "Alright, I've just been listening to your complaints this morning!" It was like hundreds of ducks quacking together, so noisy that it gave people a headache. Emperor Xuanwu signaled to the ministers to shut up in an impatient tone. Then he turned his eyes and looked at Yun Shu: "What do you say, Lady?"
"Your Majesty, I am quite disappointed with the ministers who just complained to you." Three months later, Yun Shu fired again in the court, and bombarded most of the court with one shot—— "In the past few months, I have had people collect statistics from Keats Institutes across the Tiansheng Dynasty. It was discovered that among the abandoned babies, excluding those born with diseases, at least 90% of the remaining healthy children were girls. There are also healthy children who were drowned or suffocated at birth, and 99% of them are girls. I used to think that the ministers in the court were used to living in the capital and were born rich, so they had never seen those sufferings. But I never thought that everyone already knew about it, but they just... got used to it and thought it was not worth mentioning." "When did this old minister ever say that this matter was not worth mentioning?" People who claim to be of noble character naturally don't want to be splashed with such "dirty water". Someone immediately frowned and retorted: "Your Highness is clearly misinterpreting what I mean!" "You didn't say it, but you did it." It is said that the first bird to stick its head out gets shot. Now that this bird has come to the door, Yun Shu will certainly not let it go. She turned around suddenly, staring at the old minister with both eyes, her tone getting heavier and her speech speed getting faster: "If you still want to say no, then I ask you, if anyone present today killed or abandoned their newborn child, would you impeach him?" "This is not..." The minister wanted to explain himself, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he was interrupted by Yun Shu: "You just need to answer me, yes or no!" "……Yes." "Okay, then is your reason for impeaching him because this person is so vicious that he can even kill his own children?" "……Yes." "Do you think he violated human ethics and even violated the laws of Tiansheng?" "……Yes." "Should he pay for this?" "Yes!" Knowing that if he continued to ask like this, the situation would only become increasingly unfavorable to him, the old minister gritted his teeth and answered yes several times, and finally couldn't help but speed up his speech and interrupted Yun Shu's next question: “But this is different! There is no one present who cannot afford to raise a child. I can’t think of any other reason for someone to kill his own child under such circumstances except that he is vicious! But those ordinary people are different! Most of them are poor and have no choice but to..." "What a must!" Yun Shu smiled, but the smile did not reach his eyes at all: “Then tell me why it was only girls that they had to throw away or drown? How come only girls can't afford it, but boys can?" "It's just... it's just the lesser of two evils. Compared with a baby boy, a baby girl is..." The old minister's unfinished words faded away little by little under Yun Shu's cold gaze, until they could no longer be heard at all.
"Why are not you talking?" Yun Shu pulled the corner of his lip mockingly and tore off their fig leaf word by word: “Look, you all knew it, but from beginning to end, no one cared. I even feel troubled because someone now cares about me. You said that in the future, countless people from all over the country would compete for admission to Tiansheng College and report each other to the government, affecting what the government was supposed to do. But isn’t abandonment and killing of children something that the government should be responsible for? On the one hand, you regard the population growth in various places as your political achievement, while on the other hand, you ignore such horrific acts as killing children! Don’t you find this ridiculous?” There is another chapter in progress~~~
