Inside the secret door was a large secret room, surrounded by metal walls, without windows, and lit by several light bulbs.

In the center of the room was a huge clock, as tall as a grown man, with a gilded shell and stand, carved with intricate European Rococo patterns, and countless mirrors and glass hidden on the clock face, like a miniature version of the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles, reminding him of the night he assassinated the Big Three five years ago, and Ah Hai was one of the Assassins of that year.

The clock in front of me is divided into four attic floors - the top floor is a circular pavilion with two small Westerners dressed in 18th-century European costumes and wearing tricorne hats.

The second layer is the real clock, the Roman numeral face, beautiful, and the stopwatch is still walking accurately, at 10:05 in the middle of the night.

On the third floor, there was a Western band, each with a violin, viola, cello, harp, piccolo, flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, timpani, snare drum, drum, triangle, cymbal, gong...... It's just that these villains are fixed and don't move, each with a lively demeanor, I don't know what it will be like to move?

On the fourth floor, there is a blonde and blue-eyed Western girl, and a bearded man. The girl holds the four treasures of the Chinese study in her hand, standing in front of a desk, as if she is a little maid waiting for the literati and inkmen to write. The bearded man was dressed in a Western gentleman's costume, holding a brush in his hand, aiming at a miniature piece of rice paper, but he had not yet put on a single ink, leaving a blank space for you to fill in.

"It's ......"

Qin Beiyang covered his mouth, it was unbelievable that such a treasure was buried in the Forbidden City, but he heard a dry and hoarse voice from the corner of the secret room-

"Emperor Qianlong's favorite Swiss watch robot."

"Who?"

This voice startled people, and Ah Hai also subconsciously pulled out his dagger and guarded Qin Beiyang's body.

There was a light in the corner, and there was a small bed, and there was an unkempt old man with gray braids, who looked almost eighty years old. He was dressed in a dusty craftsman's uniform and had a gray beard, and was clearly not a castrated eunuch.

"I ...... I am a royal craftsman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs...... Zhong Quanshan ......"

The old man spoke with a dying breath, and although his eyes were open, they were cloudy. Qin Beiyang approached boldly, stretched out his hand and shook it in front of his eyes, but he didn't react - he was blind.

"Your eyes?"

"A month ago...... Blind. Zhong Dushan raised his arm, pointed precisely at the Swiss watch robot, and said, "I have been living in this secret room for ten years to repair it...... I've reached the last step...... God doesn't pity me, but he blinded my eyes, and it's a little bit short......"

Qin Beiyang had already understood that in order to restore this rare treasure, this royal craftsman had spent ten years in vain, staring at the small mechanisms and small parts in the clock day and night, even a sharpshooter with excellent natural eyesight had become blind.

"You're here to fix the clock, and this is the permission of the Minister in Charge of the Interior Ministry, right?"

According to the rules, in the harem, except for the emperor and the underage prince, no normal men are allowed to spend the night. Twenty years ago, he was also going to be beheaded, Rao is now the Qing Emperor has abdicated, and the small court is also making a show, and with Pu Yi's permission, he will be allowed to stay in the Yanxi Palace in the treasure treasury.

"It was granted by the emperor."

"Which emperor?"

"Presumptuous! Naturally, it is the current saint - my Qing Dynasty, the wise and martial lord of Zhongxing, Xuantong Emperor. ”

Qin Beiyang couldn't connect the emperor in the mouth of the old watchmaker with the eighteen-year-old last emperor Pu Yi no matter what, and he didn't want to argue with the old man, so he sat down next to Zhong Dushan who was about to die and said, "You have worked hard. ”

"Why are you old, just call me Lao Zhong." The blind old man opened the conversation, "Ten years ago, the emperor was only eight years old, and he was an old man, so he came to Yanxi Palace by himself and took a fancy to this Qianlong Ye's Swiss watch robot. It's a pity, this baby only performed for the emperor once, because it has not been used for more than a hundred years, and it can't be moved anymore, except for the watch hand on the top is still turning, and the other organs, such as the band and the writing villain, are all out of order. Although he only saw it once, the emperor was fascinated by this clock and sent me to repair it...... No, ten years have passed, and I'm old and useless, and I haven't been able to finish it yet, so I'm just a breath away! I'm blind again, hey, I'm sorry for the emperor. He is young, but he is smart! I can also write in foreign languages, and I can also speak Chinese, especially if I like clocks and watches. If he had been born ten or twenty years earlier, the Great Qing Kingdom would not have died. ”

Qin Beiyang was a little sad when he heard it, and he didn't know what to say? Unexpectedly, Ah Hai took a step forward and whispered next to the old craftsman's ear: "Old Zhong, the young man who spoke to you just now, he is also a royal craftsman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and he was sent by the Minister in Charge to take over your shift, and he will come to restore this treasure tonight." ”

"Ah...... Since the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the royal craftsmen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who died and fled, are there any left? ”

Don't care how Ah Hai brags, Qin Beiyang knelt in front of Lao Zhong and said the truth: "Old man, my father is also a royal craftsman of the Internal Affairs Bureau, his name is Qin Customs, can you know my father?" ”

"Old Qin? Hey! Are you Lao Qin's child? ”

The old man who was about to die coughed suddenly, his eyes couldn't light up anymore, but he raised his arm excitedly, like a return to the light before he died, and clutched Qin Beiyang's hands tightly. In fact, he was touching the cocoon in the palm of Qin Beiyang's hand, which was a unique mark of a craftsman.

"That's right, my father said that when he was on an errand in the Summer Palace, he once learned from a royal clockmaker to restore the Western clock of Emperor Qianlong, that's you, right?"

"Yes, yes, yes...... Summer palace...... Because Lafayette lives there all the year round, we craftsmen have all passed. Qin Customs is a few years younger than me, he has always called me brother, although he is for the royal mausoleum, but his hands are skillful, and his brain is better than mine. It stands to reason that I can't pass on my craft to outsiders, but I have no children, no daughters, not even a godson. Lao Qin was willing to worship me as a brother, so I accepted him as a younger brother and passed on this clock craft to him. ”

"Ten years ago, my father and I lived in Jingxi Camel Village, and my father passed on some horological skills, but I was born stupid and only learned some superficial skills."

"Good, good...... The tiger father has no dogs, and there are Lao Qin's children, so I can rest assured, tonight, even if I fight for my life, I have to repair this baby with you! Lao Zhong touched Qin Beiyang's face again, touching his beard and long hair, "I didn't expect that Lao Qin's son has also become a big man." When he was in the Summer Palace, he always said that his daughter-in-law was not angry, and he never had a son and a half daughter with him, and sighed for a long time that the craftsmanship of the Qin family's tomb craftsman clan was about to be broken, and now that there is a successor, how happy he should be! By the way, how is Lao Qin? Is your body better than mine? ”

"My father...... He passed away five years ago......"

The blind old clock couldn't shed tears, but his face was also full of sadness: "Oh, look, our generation of craftsmen, I'm afraid I'm the last one who won't die." ”

"Old Zhong, early tomorrow morning, it is the deadline set by the emperor for us, no matter what, he wants to come to Yanxi Palace in person to watch the performance of this Swiss watch robot, tonight, we must repair it." Ah Hai put his arm around Qin Beiyang's shoulders and said, "Beiyang, under the whole world, after the old bell, only you can do this job." ”