Thinking of the things the Fourth Prince had been tinkering with, several people left in disappointment and went about their own business.
The Fourth Prince walked up to Yu Yiluo and reached out to pick her up.
"Luo'er finally came to see my brother. My brother missed her so much."
[Fourth Brother, are you serious? Didn't we just meet at my first birthday celebration?]
【If you don’t know, you might think it’s been hundreds of years. 】
The Fourth Prince carried Yu Yiluo into his room.
He also ordered someone to light the charcoal brazier and bring it in.
After sending the person away, the Fourth Prince said mysteriously, "Luo'er, I have something good to show you."
[What good stuff? It's so mysterious.]
The Fourth Prince walked to the cabinet with a smile, opened it, took out a bunch of messy things and placed them on the table. He picked up one of them and handed it to Yu Yiluo.
"Look, this is the result of my brother's work during this period. You can give it to your father when he is interrogating prisoners. If they refuse to confess, you can use this to make them laugh non-stop."
Yu Yiluo: “…”
I thought it was some fancy gadget, but it turns out it's just an itch-inducing gadget. It's better to use itching powder.
"Forget it. Fourth Prince has finally made progress. I can't look down on him and undermine his confidence. I need to give him some sense of accomplishment to motivate him."
Thinking of this, Yu Yiluo raised her little hand and clapped, then gave a thumbs up.
The Fourth Prince: “…”
Although he knew that Luo'er was just trying to please him, he still felt warm in his heart. After all, sometimes Luo'er was simply too lazy to be perfunctory.
"And this," the Fourth Prince put down the one in his hand and picked up a thing that looked like a firework tube, "Luo'er, look at this."
As he spoke, he pulled the string, and countless petals instantly scattered out, but the petals were scattered in front of him and covered his face.
"Pooh, pooh."
The Fourth Prince spat on the flower petals on his lips and looked at Yu Yiluo awkwardly.
"Mistake, mistake. It wasn't like this last time I tried it."
[Luckily, it was just a performance in front of me. If it was in front of Qin Qianqian, it would be romantic one moment and then a disaster the next.]
"In fact, my royal brother is now able to help grandfather," the fourth prince threw the things he had taken out back into the cabinet.
[Helping is like helping. Even just handing someone a hammer is helping. If that's the case, I can help too.]
The Fourth Prince: “…”
"I'll take you to see the big thing Grandpa's been working on lately."
Yu Yiluo became interested and followed the Fourth Prince out of the house, through the corridor and to the backyard.
There were mechanisms in the place where Master Mo studied things. When the Fourth Prince led Yu Yiluo in, Master Mo was standing in front of a large crossbow, busy and focused, and he didn't even notice the two of them coming in.
"Grandpa, how can I help you?"
Old Man Mo didn't reply, and said with disdain: "Forget it, you will only make things worse. This is a heavy crossbow developed for the army, so I won't let you mess with it."
The Fourth Prince touched his nose.
"Grandpa, why are you so discouraging? I'm just a late learner."
Old Mo snorted and turned to look at the Fourth Prince.
"Who can you blame for learning late? If it weren't for Mo Kang's help, I don't know when I would have been able to assemble this heavy crossbow."
After he finished speaking, Mr. Mo noticed Yu Yiluo beside the Fourth Prince.
"Why did you bring the little princess here?"
"Luo'er wanted to come and see the big guy you were researching."
"Nonsense," Old Mo scolded the Fourth Prince with a sullen face, "The little princess is so small, and there are sawdust everywhere. What if she inhales it?"
The Fourth Prince was stunned for a moment. He thought his grandfather scolded him because he didn't want him to bring Luo'er to this place. He didn't expect that he was afraid that Luo'er would inhale sawdust.
"There aren't any sawdust here," the Fourth Prince patted Yu Yiluo's head, "and our Luo'er is so smart that she won't inhale it."
Yu Yiluo slapped the Fourth Prince's hand away and shifted her gaze away from the heavy crossbow.
[It seems that Mr. Mo wants to optimize and modify the crossbow in front of him. The Fourth Prince really can't help with this thing. No wonder he has time to study his gadgets.]
The corners of the Fourth Prince's mouth twitched as he was hit again. He had been often hit by his grandfather recently, and now Luo'er also came to hit him.
"Grandfather, has this thing been successfully researched?"
The Fourth Prince led Yu Yiluo closer to the crossbow, "It looks no different from the previous one."
Mr. Mo turned on the switch, and the crossbow began to shoot arrows forward. After the arrows were all shot, he shook his head in disappointment.
"What's wrong? Isn't it fine?"
The Fourth Prince couldn't see the problem at all.
"I don't know what the problem is. I modified it to increase its range and the number of arrows it can fire, but I tried several times and failed."
Yu Yiluo broke free from the Fourth Prince's hand, took a few steps forward, pointed at the slot of the crossbow, and turned to look at Mr. Mo.
[The slot isn't well made, so the arrow won't stay in it properly. The range is naturally shorter, and sometimes it misses the target.]
Old Mo looked confused, thinking that Yu Yiluo was curious about the crossbow.
The Fourth Prince heard Yu Yiluo's thoughts and said, "Grandfather, could it be a problem with the card slot?"
"Nonsense, how could there be a problem with the slot? The arrow just happened to be stuck in it. It's not the first time your grandfather has done this, how could he make such a low-level mistake?"
Having said that, Mr. Mo still went forward to check the card slot and didn't see any problems.
"There's nothing wrong with the card slot. When Mo Kang comes back, let's work with him to figure out what went wrong."
The fourth prince didn't believe it, walked forward to take a look, and scratched his head.
"The card slot seems to be fine."
"Do you think I've reached the point where my eyesight is blurry?"
Mo Lao glanced at him and said, "Go and see if Mo Kang is here."
"No way, why do I see something wrong with the slot? It's obvious the arrow isn't completely stuck in there. Elder Mo is old, and Fourth Prince is still young, so why can't he see it?"
【Is it because I have better eyesight? 】
Yu Yiluo couldn't figure it out.
"Little princess, are you interested in this?"
Mr. Mo moved two chairs over, carried Yu Yiluo to sit on one, and then sat on the other chair himself.
Yu Yiluo stared at Mr. Mo with a vigilant look, fearing that he would also ask her to learn mechanical engineering, and quickly shook her head.
"Just now I saw the little princess staring at it, and I thought she liked it."
Mo Lao stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Indeed, this kind of rough work hurts the hands. The little princess is a girl, so it is indeed not suitable for her to learn it."
Yu Yiluo looked at her little hands. She was actually a bit rebellious. She had to be interested in what she wanted to learn. The more others wanted her to learn, the more resistant she would be.
However, if it could help the common people and Tianqi's soldiers, she seemed willing to learn it.
After all, with the help of these things, the number of casualties can be reduced when a war really breaks out, and my uncle can be less in danger.
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