Chapter 7: Gathering Materials (1)

"What is it?" - Zhi Yin coldly asked as he answered the phone call.

"Son, This coming Monday, it is the Fourth Prince and Fifth Princess Thirty-Ninth Birthday, and they decided to have a ball this time since it's been five years since they celebrated their birthday in public. So I want to know if you want to come together with your father?" - The voice on the other side is deep but it can be heard that his voice is tinged with patience when talking to his son.

Wei Zhi Yin frowned as he forgot the Thirty-Ninth Birthday of his twin older siblings.

In this world, the maximum that humans can live is more than a thousand years-old, but those humans who can live this long are those humans who practice martial arts and has a strong inner force.

The stronger their inner force is, the longer their lifespan is. Now, this Wei Jing Guan is Eighty-Nine Years Old this year already but he still has an appearance in his late thirties. This indicates that he also possessed a strong inner force.

When Wei Jing Guan did not receive a reply, he sighs but did not get angry as he knows his son's personality. Although they are father and son, his son portrayed a calm and gentle look yet in truth he is detached and seems like there's nothing nor anyone can enter his eyes.

"That woman agreed that I can attend together with you?" When Wei Jing Guan heard that, he cannot help but took a deep sigh again as he knows who his son is talking about,

"No, but don't mind her. I already told her that I will attend together with you so she needs to go first. I already know how's my wife treatment to you but she still cannot do anything so she left angrily. So you don't have to worry. She doesn't have a chance to bully you this time."

Wei Zhi Yin narrowed his eyes and thought, can not do anything? My accident was designed by her, and now you did not even pursue this matter and instead you pretended that she is not the one who is behind my accident.

Wei Zhi Yin's eyes turn piercing cold but his voice is calm as he said, "Okay, let's go together."

On the other side of the phone, when Wei Jing Guan heard that his son agreed, he smiled and in his tone, it can be heard that he is happy.

"Good. I already transferred money to your account so you can go and buy the things you want. Just tell father if you will be short in money so I can give it to you immediately, okay?"

"I understand, Thank You, father."

"Hahaha, Okay your father still needs to do something so I need to hang up now. Do not forget to take good care of your body. And you can take your time recovering. Don't need to be rush."

"En." Zhi Yin answered as he ends the call and expressionlessly 

(A/N: En — Sounds of Agreement)

The woman he mentions earlier is the wife of Wei Jing Guan, Huang Hao Li. The only daughter of Duke Huang Hao, who is the half younger brother of imperial father.

Huang Hao is the son of the late emperor with one of his concubines and he is now the only remaining brother of the Emperor who is still alive as the other imperial sisters and imperial brothers of the Emperor are already dead when the fight of the throne happened fifty-five years ago, and the current emperor, His Imperial Father was only 24 years old that year.

Only the direct son of the Emperor and Empress has the right to sit on that throne and Imperial father is the only son who is conceived by the late Emperor and late Empress.

But Imperial Father's half brothers are greedy and cannot accept that, that's why they started a rebellion but in the end, they still did not succeed and they were killed as punishment.

While Huang Hao, who sided with Imperial Father and swore that he never had the intention on the throne, is the only one who is still alive as he said that he just wants to live peacefully and served their country faithfully.

But few of the imperial family know that Duke Huang Hao is already gathering support all these years and plotting to take the throne to Imperial father and the Wei guardian family had already became one of his people.

And Huang Hao Li, is his only daughter, a pampered and arrogant woman who cannot accept that his husband has slept many times with other women just to have a son.

She has only two children and both of them are daughters but she cannot get pregnant anymore as she was injured when she is practicing martial arts and that's the reason why she killed all the illegitimate child of his husband, and Wei Zhi Yin is the only one who survived as he is heavily protected by his shadow guards when he is a child and now that he is grown up, Huang Hao Li cannot do anything towards him anymore but to loath him.

Though, she will always wait and find a good opportunity to harm him just like what happened with his car accident two months ago.

"Are you sure you want to attend the party?" Huang Nian Zhen asked

"Yes. Besides my body doesn't have any injuries anymore since I use my inner force to treat them ever since I wake up. The only thing that left for me to do is to train on how to walk again." Wei Zhi Yin said calmly

"Okay. I will respect your decision." After that, the two of them fell into silence but it was not an awkward one but a comfortable one.

A few minutes pass by and Huang Nian Zhen stood up and pat Zhi Yin's head and said, "Then I will leave now. Your Imperial father still has a lot of works that awaits me in the palace."

Wei Zhi Yin took a deep breath as he calls out, "Dad, wait a minute."

"What's wrong?" Huang Nian Zhen asked as he faces his son who has a serious expression.

"I need to discuss something with you dad. Please have a sit first."

"Okay, What is it?" Huang Nian Zhen asked after sitting to where he sat earlier.

Zhi Yin took a deep breath as he grabs a piece of paper from the drawer and gave it to Huang Nian Zhen, which he immediately received as he scanned silently the words written in the piece of paper.

The piece of paper was full of different names of materials which makes Huang Nian Zhen frowned, as he cannot help but asked, "What's this?"

"Dad, From now on, please gather all of the materials that are written there and tonight, I will send you a sketch. Two weeks later, you must start building a cement wall that will surround the Imperial Capital.

It must be twenty meters tall and has at least ten meters underground foundation and the width of it must be three meters thick. Dad, the wall needs to be finished in 15months and the countdown starts from this month, and the people who need to supervise this project must be our own people.

The building of the wall is really important and it must be taken seriously. Although 15months is short but with the power that the imperial family possessed, this can surely be completed in one year."

Huang Nian Zhen cannot help but knitted his brows again and began to seriously look at his son. "What's going on? What's the reason behind this? I just can't start building the walls without any reason, is it?"

"Dad, I cannot tell you this right now but please trust me in this, okay?" - Wei Zhi Yin softly said

Huang Nian Zhen looks at his son's eyes and he saw clearly his reflection in those silver phoenix eyes.

"Okay. Your Father will trust you in this. I know that you will never do anything crazy."

"Thank You, dad. But there's more thing you need to do."

"Go on. Just tell me anything you want to tell." - Huang Nian Zhen said with a soft expression

"Then I will not hold back. Dad, you need to gather metal secretly. No matter what their shape is, it's fine. As long as it's a metal. As for the quantity, The twelve underground rooms in my courtyard in the Imperial Palace must be filled.

As for the three remaining underground rooms, they should be filled with war weapons. And of course, all of their quality must be top-notched."

"...."

Huang Nian Zhen cannot help but be stunned and curse in his mind. Fill up the twelve underground rooms in his courtyard? Damn! There are fifteen rooms in his underground and each room is one hundred forty four square meters and has a height of four meters.

So filling that rooms with top-notched quality hard metals, It will take hundreds of  millions of money to do that. Even though Huang Nian Zhen doesn't lack money, he still cannot help but be shocked because of this.

And the war weapons, It cost too much just to fill up the three remaining underground rooms!

Huang Nian Zhen took a deep breath to calm himself before asking, "Are you serious?"

To be continued...