Chapter 19 When Xuanye looked up, he asked curiously, "Isn't it that everything is...
Xuanye looked at Xiuyu's mysterious yet adorable appearance and wondered, "Isn't everything already prepared, except for you, Princess Yu'er, to show your talents? Is there anything else we need to do in advance?"
Xiu Yu smiled sweetly, stood up and said, "Your Majesty, could you lend me Yu'er's paper and pen?"
Xuanye also stood up, put his left hand behind his back, and said, "I want to see what you are up to." He walked to the desk and personally ground some paper for Xiuyu. "The paper and pen are ready. Please feel free to use them, Princess Yu."
Xiu Yu stood behind the desk. After all, the chair was the Dragon Throne, labeled "Exclusively for the Emperor." She hesitated for a moment before finally asking, "Then, Yu'er, will you sit down?"
"Just sit down and feel free." Xuanye dipped the wolf hair brush into ink and handed it to Xiuyu. "From now on, when it's just the two of us, there's really no need to be polite or too restrained. You can..." He remembered the first time he met Xiuyu, and his smile grew wider. "You can just treat me as your chess friend."
"Oh." Xiu Yu took the wolf hair brush and wrote and drew on the paper while deliberately teasing Xuan Ye: "So, the emperor only regards Yu Er as your chess friend."
Xuanye deliberately nodded and said, "At least until this moment, you are still 'just' my chess friend. If the sun sets and it's night..." He deliberately stopped and looked at Xiu Yu's expression.
Xiu Yu pursed her cherry lips, concentrating on writing and painting.
Xuanye felt bored, so he simply walked over to Xiu Yu to see what the "medicine" in her gourd was.
As Xiu Yu wrote, she explained to Xuanye, "Your Majesty, I'll need your help later. I'll disassemble the telescope's parts one by one according to the order written on this paper. Please put the corresponding parts and corresponding strips together. This will make assembly easier and avoid any mistakes."
What a brilliant idea! Xuanye thought to himself, but said, "You're dragging me along to 'work', but I'm afraid that if you tear it down and can't restore it, I'll be 'committed the same crime' as you."
Xiu Yu had already filled a sheet of paper, then she picked up a pair of scissors and separated the paper, laying it out one by one. Once everything was ready, she looked up at Xuanye and said, "If that's what you think, then I can't help you. Even if Yu'er really wants to drag you into this, are you going to do it or not?"
"Get down!" Xuanye was actually 'inspired' by this little princess in front of him again. He stretched out his arms to pull Xiuyu into his arms and walked with her to the side of the couch: "Don't even think about water. As long as I'm with you, I don't mind going through fire and water."
"Love talks and nonsense!" Xiu Yu thought so in her heart, but she didn't show it on the surface. This was really thanks to her good workplace cultivation three hundred years later.
She picked up the telescope in her left hand and a screwdriver in her right hand, raised her eyelids and looked at Xuanye, saying, "Then, I'm really going to tear it apart!"
"Tear it down!" Xuanye made the final decision. "If it really can't be restored, I'll go find Nan Huairen and ask him to give it to you."
Xiu Yu caught the key point in this sentence: "So the emperor wants to give this to me? So I opened it, and you don't mind?"
"You really are..." Xuanye had already picked up the small piece of paper numbered '1' and said, "Hurry up and open it. If you don't, it will be time for dinner."
Xiuyu was actually quite intelligent. While she was a bit clumsy, taking something apart and putting it back together wasn't a big deal for her. She'd written those notes primarily for Xuanye, to show the curious emperor that building a telescope wasn't as complicated as he'd imagined. If he were clever, perhaps he could have reassembled it after she'd taken it apart.
Xuanye's rise to the throne wasn't entirely due to his childhood bout with smallpox; his intelligence, dedication, and diligence were all essential elements in his rise to power. He certainly yearned for Xiu Yu's every smile, but at that moment, his mind was completely focused on the telescope, observing the movements of Xiu Yu's hands.
Xiu Yu took off one piece and handed it to Xuanye. Xuanye put the parts back one by one in the order of the notes, and of course he kept memorizing them.
"The foreigners deliberately made this thing so complicated, but it doesn't need to be so complicated." Xiu Yu complained as she took it apart. She was tired and couldn't help but shrugged her shoulders. The moment she raised her head, her head bumped with Xuanye's.
This is the first time we've been so close.
Xiu Yu was really embarrassed and blushed: "Your Majesty, it's almost done."
Xuanye was a seasoned professional, and his thick skin was certainly well-trained. Xiuyu blushed, so he leaned forward again, his soft lips gently touching her cheek before quickly sliding back, as if nothing had happened. Then, he said seriously, "Now that we've taken it apart, shall I try to put it back together?"
"Okay." Xiu Yu felt her cheeks burning. She wanted to remain calm, to keep her composure, but she was only eighteen years old, and this was the first time she had been teased like this in her past and present lives. Honestly, she was in a state of confusion. She haphazardly unpacked the last two items and handed them to Xuanye. She said, "Then, Your Majesty, please put them together yourself."
Xuanye was quick to grab Xiuyu's wrist and said with a smile, "As a 'master', you should be supervising the work, right? After all, this is my first time doing this."
Xuanye's hands were white and slender, very beautiful. Xiuyu originally wanted to continue sitting across from Xuanye, but this "old driver" had already patted the cushion next to him, indicating that Xiuyu should just sit next to him.
'He is the emperor, and we should make him happy no matter what!' Xiu Yu thought so in her heart, and sat down next to Xuanye.
Xuanye was even happier. He picked up the parts with his left hand, held the screwdriver with his right hand, and began to assemble the telescope carefully one by one.
Outside the warm room, Liang Jiugong and Xiao Tao couldn't help but peek inside through the window, but they were afraid of being discovered by their master, so they only looked for a while and then returned to their original positions.
Liang Jiugong was a little puzzled: "Such a thing, wouldn't it be better to just put it away? Put it together and then take it apart, take it apart and then put it together again, it's not a big deal."
"What do you know?" Xiao Tao glanced at Liang Jiugong. "If you don't dismantle it or put it back together, how can you know the secret inside? If you don't know the secret inside, are you going to let the foreigners send telescopes to our Qing Dynasty forever? If you are happy, will they always be happy?"
Liang Jiugong looked at Xiao Tao and said, "The Emperor once said that you, a little palace maid, are knowledgeable. He was absolutely right. Your idea is quite unique."
"I'm awesome, right?" Xiao Tao raised his eyebrows, showing off a bit, and then added, "My master is even more awesome!"
"I can see that." Liang Jiugong admired the little princess from the Guo Luoluo family from the bottom of his heart. "Your master is truly the first in the palace to be so fascinated by the emperor. But..." A hint of suspicion flashed in his eyes. "You and Princess Yu have only met a few times, right? You haven't even chatted a few times, and yet you think she's so powerful?"
"That's because I have a 'sharp' eye!" Xiao Tao still had some tricks up his sleeve to bluff Liang Jiugong, the foolish chief eunuch. "Even the emperor thinks I'm capable, so I must have the ability to judge people. Besides, how could I, a clever and intelligent person like Xiao Tao, choose to serve a stupid master?"
"What you said does make sense." Liang Jiugong was easily fooled by Xiao Tao: "But seriously, isn't it good to serve the emperor? Why do you have to serve such a princess? Princess Yu is certainly a good one, but..." He hesitated and didn't say the rest of the words.
After more than a decade, he thought he had some understanding of what kind of person his master was. Even Empress Hesheli, who had been married to the emperor as a young couple, had never enjoyed the feeling of having the emperor all to herself. The emperor had the whole world in his heart, so how big must that heart be, and how many women could that heart hold!
Xiao Tao certainly understood Liang Jiugong's intention. She smiled and said, "Don't worry. Since I've made my choice, I won't regret it, and I won't bother you, Eunuch Liang, in the future. Besides..." She glanced into the warm room and said, "My master is no ordinary master. This favor from the emperor is naturally not temporary."
"If it's not just for a moment, could it be for a lifetime?" Liang Jiugong would never believe that his master would devote all his heart to this Yu Gege for the rest of his life. "If you really think so, then you are wishful thinking!"
"Then we'll see." Xiao Tao snorted, "You, you neither understand my master nor yours. It's hard for you to follow the emperor for so many years, and you can't even see that he has been looking for you."
"What are you looking for?" Liang Jiugong was completely bewildered by Xiao Tao's words. "You've only been with the Emperor for a few days, and you dare to compete with me, the eunuch, to see who knows the Emperor better?"
Xiao Tao extended her right index finger and hooked it, then asked Liang Jiugong to move closer to her. She lowered her voice and said, "I don't know about other things, but I know better than you what kind of women the emperor likes and how long his love can last. Without this little calculation, how could I have just picked Princess Yu as my mistress? After all, we're all going to stay in the palace for the rest of our lives, right? If we choose the wrong mistress, wouldn't that ruin our lives?"
Liang Jiugong patted Xiao Tao's shoulder and said generously, "Don't worry, even if you accidentally choose the wrong master, Brother Liang will protect you."
"Tsk!" Xiao Tao rolled his eyes at him and patted the shoulder Liang Jiugong had touched. "Who will be protecting whom by then is still uncertain! My master is a treasure, and you know nothing!"
Inside the study, Xuanye put the parts back together one by one. Xiu Yu had been a bit reserved, trying to maintain some distance from Xuanye, but she was also curious, wondering if the current emperor was truly intelligent and could grasp things at first sight. Slowly, she leaned closer.
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