Chapter 17 You are really pretty
"There's an apprentice, Yasir, right here. Go find him."
Tu Xing: "I'd like to borrow the booklet to read for a while, and to take excerpts. I can also start looking for the materials inside. Of course, finding one is quite difficult. I will ask you to make it later."
"I will give the booklet to your disciple when I leave."
Talib frowned. "Just copy it here. I'll watch you."
Seeing that the other party agreed, the young man nodded without hesitation, "No problem."
Talib said, "Please remove the water. It's old to begin with. If you smudge it, you won't be able to leave this place without a few dozen gold coins. Ask your boss to redeem you."
Although he was in a bad mood, Tu Xing knew when to stop. He put the teacup half a meter to the left and put the book in front of him with both hands.
For about ten minutes, the young man first copied the material page word for word, focusing on the names of the characters and the outline of the story.
Finally, blow dry the writing, press a piece of paper in the middle, fold it into a square and put it into the package, stacking it with the paper collected earlier.
Tu Xing placed one hand on his other shoulder, bowed slightly, and said sincerely, "Thank you very much. I will go find your apprentice Yasir."
Talib looked at the woman guarding the door and said, "Yisla, take him there."
Yeshila nodded, "Please follow me."
The atmosphere was already somewhat subtle and depressing. The young man left the place swiftly and breathed a sigh of relief as he walked out the door.
The two walked down the corridor and turned left into a workshop that was obviously used to make clocks. The tables were filled with bases and glass shells, and four people were busy here.
Yesila looked at one of them and said, "Yaser—come here."
He was a young boy who looked only about ten years old. He came over when his name was called.
"Is there anything wrong?" His eyes were mainly on Tu Xing.
Yesila: "He wants to put two flowers in his pocket watch. Take him to choose some small accessories. The price is 8 copper coins. You can negotiate it yourself."
The woman left after saying this.
Tu Xing looked at the boy, took out a blue and gold round object and placed it on the table, "Please, little master."
Yasir glanced at the things and said, "Flowers? What kind of flowers do you want as a grown man? Are they for your girlfriend? Come this way, let's choose the colors."
Hearing this, the young man blinked and followed his steps. "That's not the case. I'm just following the boss's wishes."
"Oh - you have such a rare look." Yasir turned around and stared at her seriously.
"Look carefully, it's not your looks, it's your skin color. I've never seen anyone so white. If you cover your face while walking on the street, His Majesty will notice you."
Tu Xing raised his hand and touched his face: "What does it look like?"
Yasir: "Yes, you are really beautiful." He pointed to the drawer and said, "Choose, all the flowers are here."
The young man stepped forward to search, raised his hand and picked up two flowers, observing the patterns on the petals on the front, "These two."
The young man looked at the person clearly and stared at him for two seconds. "Someone from the palace?"
"I guess so." Tu Xing noticed that this person was quite talkative, unlike the average person, and couldn't help but ask, "Are you interested?"
Yasir: "I want to find more work. My apprenticeship is too long and the wages are too little. Are you also from Celilda?"
"That's not the case." Tu Xing hesitated for a moment, and inexplicably felt that he would have a lot of interactions with this person in the future.
He replied roughly: "I am a servant of His Majesty's concubines."
"Oh, okay." Yaser walked to the table with the flowers and sat down. He picked up the tools and started to dismantle the pocket watch that the young man had left.
He opened it in twos and threes and nodded at the top right and bottom left. "I guess you want to put it in these two places."
Tu Xing sat opposite him: "Yes, you know this too."
Yasir: "Of course I know. I saw it in Celilda. She wanted to learn how to use it."
As he listened, Tu Xing's mouth twitched, and he suddenly had a bad premonition, "What is your relationship with her..."
In fact, making this pocket watch was not just an excuse to come here. He also had the idea of making it look real so as to fool Celilda when necessary.
After all, they will be in the palace later, so the probability of meeting is still quite high.
But if Celilda comes here often, wouldn't she know after communicating with her?
Tu Xing's eyes flickered, and he thought to himself: That must be even faster.
Yasir: "It's nothing. When she got here, she called me over and asked me some questions. I wanted to work with her, but she looked down on me."
The young man smiled and said, "What else can you do besides this? If there is a suitable job, I can help you."
Yaser became excited when he heard this. He pointed at the opened pocket watch with his fingers, then picked up something that looked like glasses and placed it on the front stand.
"This is delicate work. Look, it's magnified ten times. You need a steady hand, and you can't make any mistakes. If you want to make precision work, you can definitely ask me for help."
Tu Xing murmured and repeated: "Precision..."
After a brief moment of thought, which was quite limited, he said, "Okay, I'll keep an eye on it. Has Celilda figured out anything? Did she just ask about the pocket watch?"
Yasir shrugged. "No, of course I only have pocket watches. This is the only business we specialize in. No one asks me about anything else."
Hearing this, Tu Xing was a little disappointed. After the boy finished it, he took it in his hand and looked at it.
The position of the flowers is exactly the same as the real ones, and at first glance they are so real that they can be mistaken for the real ones.
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