Both of Yan Song's forehead were drenched in sweat, although the interior of the pavilion was burning red from the silver fire, Yan Song still felt that his legs were weak, his back felt cold, as though he was in an ice cellar.
Qin Wuya squinted her eyes, she did not care much about Yan Song's expression and only sipped on his tea, then casually flipped through a few books.
He then turned to Ye Erniang and said: "Bring your people to check how many boxes of white wax are left in the inner palace storage room. Also, check the amount of silver charcoal."
"Yes." Ye Erniang nodded her head. She tidied up the accounts that were spread out on the table, but did not withdraw immediately.
The Ye Erniang took a quick glance at Yan Song who was trembling to the side with the corner of his eyes. It was obvious that he was waiting for Qin Wuya's response.
Qin Wuya did not let the Ye Erniang wait long, she only said after a moment: "Bring the Chief Steward Yan along as well. Like this, if there was anything that could not be checked, the Chief Steward Yan could say personally. Account room will only be able to get three answers out of this question. "
After thinking for a bit, Qin Wuya called over the servant that was waiting outside the door, and instructed: "Go call Chief Steward Xu over, and also ask Chief Steward Xu to bring two of your personal guards over. Tens of thousands of boxes and cages in the treasury, it might not be easy to count them all. "
Ye Erniang knew that Qin Wuya still had more things she needed to say so she did not leave in a hurry with Yan Song. As for Yan Song, whose eyes were already red and ears were covered, he could not hear what Qin Wuya had to say anymore.
Xu San's residence was quite a distance away from the Pavilion of Warm Green Forest. Qin Wuya leisurely drank her tea, with one hand continuing to flip through the books on the table, while the other tapping his fingers on the counter rhythmically.
"Ta!" "Ta!" "Ta!"
The repeated but slow hitting sounds filled up Yan Song's ears, like one talisman after another.
As time passed, Yan Song felt like he was a felon waiting for the end of his life. He could already see the blade in the executioner's hand shining brightly, yet for some reason, he did not seem to be willing to swing his blade.
This kind of suffering grew and spread in the bottom of Yan Song's heart, multiplied and expanded rapidly.
In fact, there was even a moment where Yan Song almost wanted to open his mouth and beg Qin Wuya for a quick death, which was even better than when she died, even though he knew he was going to die.
It was not big, but it was enough to freeze the ground. The lips of the passersby on the mountain road were trembling, and they could only wish that they could wrap themselves in a few layers of bedding.
For the sake of convenience, Xu San didn't wear much this morning. Even though he was physically strong, his lips were still purple from the cold.
Xu San was led into the pavilion by his wife, and the warmth from the shop's front made him quiver. However, a moment later, Xu San's frozen shoulders and fingers warmed up a little, and his complexion gradually calmed down from the previous purple.
Xu San bit his teeth that had been frozen stiff. Just as he was about to greet Qin Wuya, he was surprised to find that the atmosphere inside the Warm Pavilion was a little strange.
The large pavilion was separated by a screen with three sides of brocade embroidered on it. Two young children were playing inside the screen, and the atmosphere was very lively. Outside the pavilion, Ye Erniang stood in a corner with a respectful and silent expression, as if she was waiting for something.
What made Xu San felt the most baffled was that the person in charge of the Inner Palace Recruitment Office, Yan Song, was actually standing next to the Ye Erniang. Xu San noticed the expression on Yan Song's face, and saw that his eyes were weak, his face was ashen and full of sweat, and he could not help but frown.
Xu San had been working by Qin Wuya's side for a while, so he naturally knew Qin Wuya's temper. At this point, Xu San did not bother to use empty words to test the waters and could only bluntly ask, "Did something happen in the storehouse?"
Qin Wuya sipped some tea and nodded her head, then handed two books on the table to Xu San. As for the problem, the place was marked out with a reed pen.
After Xu San looked at the account books, his face immediately darkened, and when he looked at Yan Song again, it was as if he was looking at a dead man.
"Madam, I will bring along Master Ye to calculate the contents of the storage room in the Inner Mansion." As for this Yan guy, let me handle him. " Xu San said directly.
Qin Wuya grinned, secretly sighing at Xu San's underworld background. He was already a group CEO, yet he still couldn't change his bandit style.
However, Yan Song was really bold, if he did not set an example this time, then in the future, this kind of troublesome matter would only become more and more.
Thinking about that, Qin Wuya secretly frowned, and in the end, nodded her head.
After the Ye Erniang and Xu San brought Yan Song out of the Warm Pavilion, Qin Wuya loosened his shoulders, took off his leather boots and curled his legs on the chair, then sat cross-legged and stared out the window at the pure white snow.
Xu San had a lot of tricks to deal with people, and even with his bloodless methods, it was enough to make Yan Song regret crawling out of his mother's womb.
"In the end, it's still different." After an unknown period of time, the corner of Qin Wuya's lips quirked upwards as she smiled mockingly, "I don't know when my heart has become harder and harder."
Another year passed, and without knowing when, the snow on Sunset Clouds Mountain had already melted. In the end, it melted into the mud and disappeared without a sound.
At the same time, the construction of the training grounds was nearing its end. After Qin Wuya had her men inspect it carefully, she got Xu San to assign one third of the people there to be allocated to the two empty areas at the end of the mountain road, which was the two sides of the entrance to Sunset Clouds Mountain.
In fact, Qin Wuya had already considered these two areas when she was planning out the map for the mountain peak. It was only because the other regions did not have enough staff and money on the books, that was why she was delayed.
Currently, it was already the third year. The Sunset Cloud Villa followed Qin Wuya's original plan and walked step by step toward the proper course of events. Even though it had not officially entered into operation, it had already begun to take shape.
At this time, Qin Wuya naturally had no reason to let this two areas of land remain empty. She had people measure the area of the land a few years ago, regulated the area of the land, and immediately had people clean the trees in the two areas after the new year.
The details of the map were not fixed until after the trees had been cleared out. The two areas were only separated by a single intersection, but the classification was completely different.
For example, the area on the left. The detailed map showed a series of four courtyards, and each courtyard had two three-storey, villas and inns. The area on the right was a temporary rest stop, a winery, a teahouse, a souvenir shop, and a large parking lot.
Of course, this parking lot was specially used to park foreign carriages without any license plates. As for the Sunset Cloud Villa's own transport fleet, they already had a standard parking and feeding area, so there was no need to fight with the tourists for it.
After the training grounds were completed, Zhang Shan began to bring most of the people in the hall to the Sunset Clouds Mountain, of course the Chao Chung Hall in the town had been kept, Fang Da was in charge of taking care of them with a thousand people.
However, ever since Fang Da had seen the living and training equipment on the mountain, he refused to go down the mountain. Hence, the only people who were left in the old hall to take care of the remaining people were the two experts that Fang Da had with him.
"Liu Zi, you said this … "What kind of vertical sandbag is this? Is it reliable or not?"
A big red-faced man with a face full of stubble touched a few upright sandbags inside the training room. He said with suspicion, "I want to see how it will sway. Could it be that one of its legs was broken by me?"
"Madam said that there were suction cups and springs under the upright sandbag, and they would only shake and not fall." Wang Liu explained with a straight face.
After preparing the basic martial arts equipment in the training grounds, Qin Wuya went to Wang Liu and the other Chao Chung Hall brothers who were familiar with him to give a lively introduction to the equipment.
Not only did they explain in detail the names of all the equipment in the training grounds and how to use them, they also let the students who had attended each of their classes remember them, hung up their red armbands, and acted as temporary guides for the various indoors. They captured the mm, and were responsible for introducing the use of the martial arts equipment to the thousands of Chao Chung Hall Brothers who had entered the training grounds. Of course, if necessary, he had to demonstrate the operation as well.
Wang Liu had a dull personality and was not good at speaking. However, what surprised Qin Wuya was that Wang Liu's memory was surprisingly good, almost to the point where he had never seen a person's memory before.
Of course, because Wang Liu was not very literate, rather than saying that he had photographic memory, it was more appropriate to say that he had it in his ears.
Seemingly, all of the content that Qin Wuya had taught him in class, Wang Liu, was memorized in her mind, no more, no less.
At this moment, over a hundred brothers had already entered the room that he was in charge of. No matter who asked, Wang Liu's opening statement was almost always, 'Madam said XXX'.
For example, someone asked, "Sixth Son, what are these big pile pieces of cloth for?"
Wang Liu replied, "Madam said that this bag is called the vertical sand bag. It's used to train one's punches and kicks."
After that, someone asked, "Sixth Brother, what do you mean by 'do not overdo things'?"
Wang Liu replied, "Madam, no matter how much you hit it, it won't shake."
Then someone asked, "Sixie, why isn't it shaking?"
Wang Liu continued to answer, "Madam said it was because the sandbag is mounted on a spring."
Worst of all, one of them asked Wang Liu, "Sachiko, what do you mean by spring?"
Wang Liu's answer was surprisingly, "Madam didn't say."
This kind of rigid question and answer mode, which was comparable to a robot's, was shown in Library 1 almost every day. If the question the other party asked was one that Qin Wuya had mentioned before, Wang Liu would reply with "Madam says so"; if Qin Wuya did not mention it in class, Wang Liu very straightforwardly answered "Madam did not say so".
After a long time, Qin Wuya unintentionally found out about this situation at Pavilion One, and secretly called Wang Liu over to conduct a small lesson. Wang Liu was told to remove the word 'Madam' every time he answered a question and replace it with the word 'Taobao'.