There was another person who felt even more frightened than Baili Feiyue at the moment. After the court official appeared, his entire face turned pale uncontrollably.
Because she quickly realized that her father had obviously known this for a long time!
Then she exposed the fake princess...
Princess Jingli felt very nervous and as if she was sitting on pins and needles.
The fingers were almost broken quietly.
After the court officials took their seats, the real Princess Fengluan also said in a princess-like manner, "My country Fengluan has always believed in courtesy and reciprocity. Since you have come to the king's Xiyue, it is natural that we should present gifts first."
Regardless of the reactions of the court officials, the princesses who had not yet fully recovered wanted to spit at her when they heard her!
Wow, you even know how to give gifts!
So you arranged this scene just to tease me, Xiyue, to watch the show?
Besides, when they took a closer look at the real Princess Fengluan who was recognized by their father, they found that she was so ordinary in appearance, even worse than the fake one played by the maid!
Many people have made up their minds that no matter what gift she gives them, they won’t even look at it!
Princess Fengluan clapped her hands lightly, and the Fengluan attendants who were waiting in a distant place quickly brought over a box.
"Your Majesty Xiyue, please take a look."
Princess Fengluan waved her hand and had the box opened. Inside the big box were several small boxes!
At this time, a maid came to the real princess, took out a small box and opened it.
I originally thought it was some rare treasure, after all, Fengluan is famous.
But it was just a square wooden house with a pointed top... a small house?
What is this?
The princesses who were watching did not recognize her, and soon those who had decided not to watch glanced past and still did not recognize her.
I saw a disc-like object on the front of the wooden house.
There are two things, one long, one medium and one short, with a circle engraved on it.
Indeed, no one present had ever seen anything like it!
Including the knowledgeable courtiers!
The maid took a look at the gift in her hand and bowed politely, "Your Majesty Xiyue, it is exactly eleven o'clock in the morning."
As soon as he finished speaking, the small window above the clock face suddenly opened, and a wooden bird popped out.
"Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo..."
He called out eleven times before returning to the wooden window.
Princess Xiyue and her friends didn't quite understand what the maid said, but they connected the number eleven she said with the eleven calls of the bird.
But so what?
Is it special?
Such mechanical gadgets are not uncommon.
Any ordinary mechanism maker can do it, right?
When they were young, they also had gadgets like mechanical birds, which were the same in that they could be controlled to fly for a short distance.
The maid introduced it casually, "This is called a cuckoo clock. It functions similarly to our hourglass water drop timer, both are used to record time and time, but this clock is more accurate."
Keeping time?
How to keep time with something like this?
The maid answered their question with the following words, "We usually use the hour, one hour is two hours, that is, two full hours. And every time this clock reaches an hour, this small window will automatically open, and a cuckoo will appear to tell the time. The number of times it calls represents the current time."
"Or you can ignore the time and look at the three pointers on the disk and the vertical scales of different lengths. When all three pointers point to the number at the same time, that's the exact time..."
She introduced every small scale, such as the calculation method of the hour, minute, and even second.
The twelve hours and the times corresponding to each hour are also introduced.
Finally, he concluded, "To put it simply, you don't need to observe the sky, just look at this thing and you can know what time it is... and the accuracy can be broken down to calculate how long it takes to blink or stand up."
However, even though she explained it in such detail and I could understand every word, understanding the meaning was another matter.
Those courtiers who understood the situation could hardly keep their composure.
Is there such a magical thing in the world?
The officials from the Imperial Observatory present were so excited that they felt as if they had seen their own mother whom they had never seen since childhood.
He was so shocked that he forgot to speak to Emperor Xiyue first. He just stepped over the table and came out to stand beside the cuckoo clock.
He studied the clock in amazement, not daring to reach out and touch it.
It's like I'm deaf and blind to everything around me.
All I could see was a cuckoo clock!
"It seems that there are still people in Xiyue who know the value of things." Princess Fengluan still spoke with such arrogance.
Some court officials found this statement offensive.
But those old guys in the Imperial Observatory turned a deaf ear to it and were mesmerized by the cuckoo clock as if their souls had been sucked away!
Many princesses simply couldn't stand it anymore.
Is this bird clock better than their sundial?
Our ancestors have been using it for so many years, when did we miss it?
It's the same thing, just a matter of time, just looks different!
At this moment, the maid took out a small box from the box next to her and opened it.
What was taken out? A dressing mirror... No, it was a transparent mirror that looked like a dressing mirror!
"Glass?"
As soon as people saw this transparent thing, they immediately started whispering to each other.
I had heard of Fengluan's glass a long time ago, and had seen the keepsake before. When I saw this thing, the first thing that came to my mind was naturally glass.
This is nothing new!
The maid introduced it generously, "What I have in my hand is called a magnifying glass. Through it, you can magnify anything and see it clearly, even..."
She reached out and pulled out the hair of a maid next to her, "A strand of hair!"
What’s so magical about seeing the strands of hair clearly?
As long as one has eyes, how can one be blind and not be able to see a single hair?
Just as he was thinking this, he saw the maid holding something and walking up to an old minister of Xiyue with white hair and beard.
"Sir, are you interested in seeing this gift from Fengluan?"
The courtier said sternly, "Of course!"
The maid placed the magnifying glass under his eyes, and the courtier trembled back as the grape on the table below instantly grew to the size of a washbasin.
He immediately steadied himself and maintained the demeanor and image of a court official.
And when he used the magnifying glass to look at the hair that the maid had pulled out, he almost cried out in surprise!
That's not even a hair!
It looks like a giant python covered with scales!
Not only did the maid show it to him, she also showed the magnifying glass to all the court officials in front of her to try out.
Many court officials commented on the matter and said, "It is indeed a wonderful thing!"
Some people even thought that if this thing was used on the battlefield to observe the enemy...
I shuddered at the thought.
Fengluan can give such things as gifts to others. It is not difficult to understand why Fengluan, a secretive country that has secluded itself from the world, has such a strong deterrent effect and yearning for other countries.
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