"Ah Hao, please sit down. I'll wait here," Qi Yuan said, not forgetting his duty.

He cannot be distracted.

His Majesty's safety is of utmost importance.

Ah Hao shook her head in agreement; whether she wanted to do it or not was secondary.

"I'll just wait here."

Murong Yue tilted her head and glanced at her, "Ah Hao, you do it too."

Ah Hao couldn't refuse His Majesty, so he obediently sat down beside him, grabbed a piece of clay, thought for a moment, and prepared to make a small teacup.

It's pretty standard.

"What should I make?" Murong Yue scratched her head.

After thinking for a while, I finally came up with an idea: I'll make a little rabbit.

The obedient little Grey Grey led her to her mother's portrait.

However, ideals are beautiful, but reality is a slap in the face.

She sculpts little rabbits without needing to use a potter's wheel; she can simply sculpt them by hand.

It has a round body, a round head, a round tail, and long ears.

So, under the watchful eyes of Qi Yuan and A Hao, balls of various sizes were kneaded out and then pressed together.

What is Your Majesty doing?

Sesame cakes?

sweet dumpling?

No, that's not right either. There are two long handles...it's a water ladle, isn't it...?

A solid water ladle.

Never mind, as long as His Majesty is happy.

After Murong Yue finished making it, she thought for a moment, then shaped a larger ball and poked it a few times with bamboo tongs.

We've got a little rabbit, so of course we need a little hedgehog too.

Ah-hao shook his head.

It seems His Majesty is probably hungry, after all, he actually made a big, round steamed bun.

The coloring step was also easy for Murong Yue; the rabbit was gray, and the hedgehog was brown.

Just apply it and you're done.

An hour later, Ah Hao paid the money, took a delivery slip, and Murong Yue left satisfied.

Murong Yue was hungry.

The shops along Chang Le Street were packed with people, so she had to return to the palace for a meal.

As soon as the group left, Boss Zeng looked worried.

For no other reason than that, apart from the water glass, the other two items are just too ugly.

Moreover, he couldn't tell what it was.

What should we do?

He kept scratching his head.

There was no other way; promoting Zeng's porcelain making was both to promote the porcelain craftsmanship and to make money.

If the items made by the customers are not fired well, it will inevitably damage the reputation of Zeng's porcelain.

But here's the problem: most customers don't have good technique, and nine out of ten pieces of porcelain they make will crack or break.

So, in his spare time, besides doing accounts, he would wait for the customers to leave and then copy their work to make up for their shortcomings.

He is responsible for repainting any areas with uneven coloring.

If he sees that the water-soil ratio is wrong and the piece will crack as soon as it goes into the kiln, he will reshape it according to the customer's work.

Most of the customers' creations are quite simple; he can hand-roll several in the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.

But this young master today... really surprised him.

It looked like it was about to crack. He wanted to make a new one for the customer, but he didn't know what it was.

He tried to recreate it one-to-one, but failed several times.

Either the spheres can't be kneaded together, or the proportions are wrong.

He spent the whole night kneading those two ugly things.

Waaaaah—

I want to cry.

So, the next day, since the market was over and the New Year was just around the corner, and the young ladies and gentlemen wouldn't bother to come and have fun, Boss Zeng simply closed the shop for a day off.

But he couldn't rest completely; he still had to burn these ugly things.

Squatting in the Zeng family's porcelain kiln, Mr. Zeng was extremely exhausted, both physically and mentally.

Qi Yuan, who rushed over during his lunch break, frowned. Why was the store closed?

He saw Ah Hao kneading a teacup yesterday.

I'm thinking of getting one made exactly like it at the shop today, so I can have a cup at home that looks exactly like Ah Hao's teacup. Just thinking about it makes me inexplicably happy.

But why is the door closed...?

Inside the Hall of Supreme Harmony, Murong continued to learn calligraphy from Li Xuanji.

After a brief period of happiness yesterday, she looked at the portrait and then at the large pearl in her hand, and almost couldn't sleep again.

Today, while practicing writing, I kept my lips tightly pursed and didn't say a word.

He just buried himself in writing.

Although the handwriting was crooked and he couldn't write complicated characters, Li Xuanji was very pleased.

His Majesty's expression is somewhat reminiscent of his former self.

At the same time, a sense of loss welled up in my heart.

If Your Majesty recovers, will you revert to your previous state, working tirelessly day and night, like a machine?

well...

It's clear that His Majesty has something on his mind.

He asked Ah-hao privately, and Ah-hao also said she didn't know.

Then we can only wait for His Majesty to come to a realization.

"Teacher, I'm tired."

Murong Yue raised her head; she hadn't eaten properly for two days, and her face had actually gotten a little thinner.

A hint of grievance flashed in her big eyes.

Li Xuanji felt a pang of heartache. "Then let's stop here for today, Your Majesty."

After everyone left, Murong Yue took out two envelopes from under her pillow.

One letter was from Yan Qinghe, and the other was taken out of the iron box.

She has learned quite a few characters these past few days, but it's still not enough for her to read the letter.

Frustrated, he stuffed the letter back under his pillow.

"His Majesty?"

"This servant has brought the little hedgehog and the little rabbit."

Ah-hao asked tentatively.

She also wanted to make His Majesty happy.

"Um."

The food in the palace is good, and the two little ones have clearly grown up.

They're all round and chubby, so adorable!

The little hedgehog was crawling around on the table when Murong Yue reached out and pushed it over.

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