On the wooden round table in the open hall are seasonal cherry fruits, as well as two plates of translucent glutinous rice snacks and a pot of spring tea. After washing the cherries and putting them in a delicately woven bamboo basket, they were red and crystalline, but they were very beautiful, although Guo Shao didn't eat any of them. He was talking solemnly about some state affairs in the past two days with Fu Jinzhan.

Guo Shao spoke very carefully, and naturally he couldn't let go here. He turned his head slightly, and he could see a group of palace maids in the street under the corner of the red wall outside the Zide Temple, holding lanterns and lighting the lampstand on the side of the road. After the sun went down, the light gradually dimmed, and the lights in the palace were lit up one by one; It's a bit of a novelty, and the lights slowly appear in the area, and the lights seem to spread. People are doing their own thing, but Guo Shao knows that those people can see the people above, just as he can see them.

The Zide Hall is built on the pedestal, where you can see far away, the heavy eaves of the palace in the west have a sense of vastness, and there are many low houses under the imperial city wall in the distance; But the walls and towers of the imperial city are higher, and you can't see the outside scene...... It's almost a completely closed place, and it's hard for ordinary people to get out, and they can't even see the outside. I guess that on the relatively high rockery in the imperial garden after that, if you climb up, you can see the outside of the palace.

Guo Shao retracted his gaze and could find that there were still some eunuchs and palace maids in the dining room where he had just eaten. Although they are far away, they must be paying attention to themselves and Marigold, and the emperor and the queen mother themselves are people who attract people's attention. Therefore, Guo Shao and Fu Jinzhan both spoke in a regular manner, Fu Jinzhan's voice was soothing and tactful, and the soothing rhythm may be to be measured at any time, so as not to say the wrong thing in front of others.

As night fell, the light under the lantern gradually became hazy and a little ambiguous, and Guo Shao had been busy all day, so it was easy to relax in exhaustion at this time. He gradually became bold and said, "Actually, let's talk here, others can't hear it, right?" ”

"I can't hear you." Fu Jinzhan looked around with bright eyes, and said with a smile, "What does Your Majesty want to say?" ”

Guo Shao exhaled, owed, put his elbow on the table, and said, "What can we do to get along alone?" ”

Marigold smiled and said with a smile: "Aren't you alone now?" ”

Guo Shao was stunned for a moment and said, "You know what I said, it's not like that...... In full view. ”

Fu Jinzhan said softly: "That's hard. There are tens of thousands of people in this palace, and their greatest duty is to take care of the daily life of the royal family, and there are people to take care of His Majesty and us every hour of the twelve hours a day. If His Majesty had gone, they would not have known where he had gone, and they would have been alarmed; If you know where you've been, where do you want to go? ”

She paused and said softly, "At a time like this, you still don't have to rush to nonsense." ”

Guo Shao sighed when he heard this, and said: "It turns out that Jinzhan is in this forbidden city, and it is rare to see each other. Now that I'm living in, I thought it was close, but it was harder to get closer than before. ”

Fu Jinzhan looked at his face and asked quietly: "Aren't there thousands of beauties in the palace, are you still not satisfied?" ”

Guo Shao intuitively felt that this could not be answered randomly, if she thought that she meant to remind herself to abide by etiquette and ethics, it would be wrong; Thinking about the previous incident, once I brought Fu Ermei into the palace, but I snubbed her on the surface, because everyone has their own duties and identities, Fu Jinzhan is very unhappy...... But most of the time she behaves dignified and polite, and never takes the initiative to talk nonsense.

After a while, Guo Shao said: "Today, a minister has written to give you the title of honorific......

Fu Jinzhan didn't dwell on the question just now, and immediately asked with great interest: "Who went to the book first?" ”

Guo Shao said: "Privy envoy Wang Pu." ”

Fu Jinzhan nodded thoughtfully.

Guo Shao smiled: "They said that there are many benefits of marigold, birth, fame, virtuous and virtuous virtue, I can't remember a lot, anyway, they have said all the things that can be used to praise women." Such a good person, of course, must be honored. ”

After he said that, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, so that Fu Jinzhan should be satisfied, after all, no matter what status the woman is, she still wants others to compliment her and say that she is good.

At this time, Fu Jinzhan said softly: "What I want to hear most is not how good the ministers think I am, but what you think I am good." ”

Guo Shao was stunned, and then temporarily wondered where Fu Jinzhan was good, I have known her for a long time, so naturally I don't think about these things every day. As he pondered, Fu Jinzhan continued, "I want to know what you usually think." ”

Guo Shao pondered for a moment, and his mind came up with trivial thoughts in Jinxiang Hall at a certain time, and then smiled: "I don't really think about where the marigold is good, but there will be some ......" He thought thoughtfully, "...... One of your backs, dressed in very wide clothes, is talking with your back to me, and you can't see your face, and there is the sound of a wooden fish, but you have tightened your skirt when you kneel, and the contours of your buttocks are ......"

Fu Jinzhan's face was slightly red, and his voice became softer, "It should be in the Great Xiangguo Temple, where the sound of the wooden fish has seen you again, only there, how many years have passed." But I didn't expect that you would dare to think like that at that time, I am the queen, and you are just an inner hall and a straight waiter. ”

Guo Shao muttered again, "The sun shines in through the window, and when you look back, that look and lips are particularly smooth in the light...... I can't remember exactly when or where...... The ring, dangling to my eyes, saw your finger...... The handkerchief is rubbing my face, the silk is padded, I feel your nails, the smell of the handkerchief has a very faint fragrance, I can't tell what the fragrance is......"

Fu Jinzhan looked confused, and said softly: "You think of such things? ”

Guo Shao nodded.

Before you know it, night has fallen, and lanterns are lit everywhere. Guo Shao sat here looking at Marigold, she also looked at herself, he suddenly felt that this moment was very wonderful, he was very close but could only look at each other.

Guo Shao suddenly smiled, and Fu Jinzhan was also infected by him, and his crooked eyes showed a smile as soft as the moon. Guo Shao gestured the width of the round table with his hand and said with a smile: "The two of us used to be very far apart, but now there is only such a distance left, from this side of the table to your side." However, with such a small distance, it may be very difficult to complete, and a lot of things need to be completed. ”

Fu Jinzhan smiled: "Indeed, I thought you didn't expect those things. ”

"What's going on?" Guo Shao asked casually.

Fu Jinzhan smiled: "I won't tell you." ”

Guo Shao suddenly felt that he had heard this sentence before, but he didn't remember it for a while.

……

Guo Shao has been waiting for the enthronement ceremony for the past few days, and after he got off duty the next day, he no longer went to the Zide Hall to see the second sister Fu, but he heard that Li Yuaner also entered the palace. As soon as the hour's hour passed, he found a familiar pastime: striking iron.

Strictly speaking, it is not iron, because the material metals are gold and silver.

In the west of the Long Live Palace, there is a courtyard called "Accumulation Grace Palace", Guo Shao asked the eunuch Yang Shiliang to build a full set of facilities for the blacksmith shop here, and the things are very complete...... The better place in the imperial city than the Guo family's mansion is here, it is relatively large, and he can find a space to meet his various activities at will. This palace is really a courtyard, or a small courtyard, a door into a corridor, and then there are several sets of houses in a roundabout, a set of two or three like that, Guo Shao looked at a set of about 100 square meters...... Compared with the magnificent main hall, the courtyard here really has a bit of a homely atmosphere, but the greening is not as good as the Guo family's mansion, and there are a few lonely trees in the courtyard.

Guo Shaoxian drew an appearance on the picture, which was a villain wearing heavy armor and holding a sword, and a lock. He was going to make one out of gold and silver.

In fact, Guo Shao feels that it is not easy to be a good blacksmith. First of all, you have to have strength, right? Then from the shape of the object to the design step, there must be a certain idea, and it must be able to be realized from the process, not a fantasy...... Perhaps some people in high positions are not necessarily capable of being good blacksmiths, but they somehow feel that it is too simple and easy to do it, and they are unwilling to do it. The blacksmith can't do a good job, and he rules the country indiscriminately by patting his brain?..

Guo Shaoxian didn't ask someone to start the construction, he was thinking about how to make it beautiful and exquisite, after all, it was a toy, and it had no value if it was not ornamental.

He picked up a pen and wrote on paper the first step, casting. It is cast in a sand mold, and the gold and silver are melted and poured into it to cool, because things are small and not difficult...... But in the post-processing, it has to be ground by hand. There are tools such as chisters, grinding stones, saws, drills, etc., and the drills are still very advanced, but the hardness does not seem to be enough, because the drills are tools for processing wood. Made of hemp rope and wood: the twisting force is very cleverly used, and it only needs to be pulled up and down to translate into the circular motion of the drill. This is something made by the ancients themselves, anyway, Guo Shao feels that if he wants to create this thing, I'm afraid he can't do it.

But he still felt that there was one thing missing: a vise. How can I process parts efficiently if they are not firmly fastened? Guo Shao didn't know that the ancients did it, but it seems that they didn't process metal parts like this, and the finishing of gold and silverware depended on craftsmanship.

Guo Shaoke didn't have that kind of superb craftsmanship, so he planned to get a vice first. Most of this thing is not difficult to construct, and it can be polished after casting; The hardest thing is the thread, without which you can't adjust the width of the jaws.

Guo Shao thought for a long time and didn't know how to make threads on the iron, and the external threads might be made of wood as cores, sand molds, and then cast; How do you get an internal thread? He thought about it for a long time...... It is impossible to process threads in iron by hand, and it has to be cast.

So he split the model in two, preparing to cast two internal threads and then rivet the two parts together...... In this way, the tolerance must be small, otherwise the two halves of the thread will not be able to become a whole. Ordinary measuring tools are not enough, he plans to make vernier calipers and set the standard accuracy of the length himself...... What material is used for vernier calipers? Wood is too easy to wear out.

Guo Shao worked for a long time, but he felt that it was not easy.

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