My father, Li Shimin, requests Your Majesty to become the Retired Emperor.

"Are you speaking from the heart?" Su Wan asked.

"Sister-in-law, how could I dare to lie in front of you?" Li Tai said sincerely.

Su Wan looked at Su Gui, who nodded, meaning that Li Tai could be trusted.

Su Wan glanced at Li Tai and coughed lightly: "Qingque, there's something I'd like to discuss with you."

"What is it? Please speak, Your Majesty."

"Well, it's like this," Su Wan paused, "I'm a little short on cash lately, and I'm thinking of borrowing some money from you."

Li Tai gave a wry smile: "Are you kidding me? Haven't you been selling a lot of wine and making a lot of money lately?"

Su Wan waved her hand: "Actually, we didn't make much money at all. Once the wine expires, it easily turns sour."

Once it turns sour, it can no longer be sold.

With such high expenses these days, how can we possibly have enough money?

With so many employees at our Su Family Supermarket, the rent for the shops has skyrocketed without any apparent reason; it's quadrupled this year compared to last year.

You'd think they were robbing people.

You come from a wealthy family, have a generous personality, and are very lavish. You casually gave Yeon Gaesomun, Buyeo Ryong, and Inugami Oda-kubi a whopping 90 taels of silver!

"I'm asking you to lend me some money, is there anything you're reluctant to do?"

"Okay, okay, just tell me, how much do you want?"

"I won't ask you for more. I'm not that greedy."

50 taels of silver will suffice.

As Su Wan finished speaking, she held up all five fingers of her right hand.

Upon hearing this, Li Tai was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground. His 90 taels of silver had been pieced together from various scraps.

Its purpose was to win over Yeon Gaesomun, Buyeo Yung, and Inugami Oda-no-kyu.

He hoped they could help him ascend to the position of crown prince.

Unexpectedly, Su Wan was trying to extort him again, and she was asking for an exorbitant sum of 50 taels of silver.

"Sister-in-law, where would I get so much money?" Li Tai said with a bitter face, almost crying.

"No? That's fine then. I don't need it. Let me see how sharp this knife really is," Su Wan picked up the dagger again, then turned to Su Gui and said, "Hurry up and pull down his pants, stop dawdling."

Recently, Li Tai has been reading "Water Margin," which features a character named Sun Erniang, a notorious female tiger.

It seems that Su Wan is even more formidable than Sun Erniang.

Li Tai was so frightened that he kept shifting his body on the ground, backing away, covered in sweat, his eyes filled with terror, and pleaded, "Sister-in-law, this is absolutely not allowed!"

"Anyway, you're so fat, how do you sleep when you sleep with Yan Wan at night?"

"I figure keeping that thing around is pointless, so I might as well castrate you. Then you can become a eunuch in the palace, and you won't be unemployed."

"Oh, my ancestor, I beg you!" Li Tai's face turned ashen with fear, and he didn't know what to say.

Su Wan grabbed Li Tai's belt with her left hand: "I'm giving you one last chance. 50 taels of silver, do you have it or not?"

Yes, yes, yes.

"Should we give it to them, or not?"

"Give it to me," Li Tai thought to himself, "It's urgent, I have to deal with the immediate problem first. I've run into Su Wan, I guess I'm just unlucky. It seems like I'll have to bleed a little."

Hearing Li Tai say this, Su Wan put away the dagger: "It's not that I don't trust you, but you can't just say it like that. You have to write it down."