Wu Qiujun's self-explanatory reaction perfectly confirmed Wandong's statement.
Xu Wenchuan looked back at Wu Qiujun and questioned him in an amazed tone.
"Wu Qiujun, as far as I'm aware, you have never been a spendthrift like this!"
Xu Wenchuan was right about it — a loss of thousands of raw stones all at once was nothing but a spendthrift.
He felt rather bewildered about it. His junior martial brother, Wu Qiujun, was a fairly resourceful and competent man. Otherwise, he wouldn't have made the Tianbao Mansion's operation such a great success.
Capable as Wu Qijun was, he had been duped by Xu Wenchuan's grandson times without number.
Xu Wenchuan couldn't help but wonder — how come he had such a miraculous grandson?
"Xu Yaoting, do you really own…own the thousands of the raw…raw stones here?"
Pretty thrilled and confused, Tang Xinyi stumbled on his words, crimsoning terribly.
She went spaced-out, eyes running down the ocean of the raw stones.
Wandong smirked on seeing her reaction.
"That's no big deal. Wu Qiujun is a genuine money bag. You see, he even has the heart to lose the Tianbao Mansion as a whole! Am I right, old dog?"
Hardly had Wandong concluded his mocking words when Wu Qiujun burst out spitting blood with a puff, quivering nonstop.
"Martial master, please get seated and have a rest!"
Fearing her martial master would get irritated to death by Wandong, Duan Lengyan hastened to fetch him a chair and helped him sit.
"Mr. Wu, Miss Duan, bet you have more raw stones in stock here?"
Baffled for a moment, Qiu Yunchong finally managed to recollect himself and raised a query in a grim tone.
"Raw stones in stock?"
Duan Lengyan soon knitted her eyebrows.
On seeing that, Qiu Yunchong's heart sank immediately.
"If not, how else are you going to redeem my order of five thousand raw stones?"
"Well…Truth be told, apart from the raw stones of blood steel we have here, there isn't anymore in store. We can, by all means, get a further shipment from the Tiezhan Empire if General Qiu allows us another period of time."
"How long will it take?"
Qiu Yunchong hastened to add.
"One month at the soonest, three months the slowest."
"That's out of the question! I can't wait for longer than ten days! I have to rush back to the Fenghuo City within that time frame!"
Qiu Yunchong waved his hand, terribly vexed.
"But…"
Duan Lengyan felt at her wit's end.
"Wow, General Qiu, that's an extravagant order! It will cost you at least millions of kilos of gold! I'd venture to ask how are you gonna pay for that?"
Tang Xinyi struck in in a furious tone on hearing their conversation.
"The Qingyue exchequer of course!"
Qiu Yunchong's tongue ran before his wit, as he was preoccupied with his loss.
"The Exchequer? That's can't be real! Her royal highness consulted with the State Preceptor the other day, in hope that she could get granted fifty thousand kilos of gold to pay the Fengxiang Armed Escort. The State Preceptor turned her away and prevaricated on her by saying that the exchequer was out of money! Pretty weird! It has money again when it comes to you!"
Tang Xinyi was filled with indignation, looking increasingly serious.