On the wooden round table in the open hall were seasonal cherry fruits, two dishes of translucent glutinous rice desserts, and a pot of spring tea. The cherries were washed and placed in the exquisitely woven bamboo basket, but they were very beautiful. Although Guo Shao didn't eat a single one, he was talking seriously about some state affairs in the past two days with Fu Jinzhan.

Guo Shao was very careful when he spoke, so he naturally couldn't let go here. He turned his head a little and could see the red wall outside the Zide Hall, teams of palace maids on the street holding lanterns and lighting the lampstands on the roadside. After the sun sets, the light gradually dimmed, and the lights in the palace were lit up one after another. This scene was a bit novel, and the lights slowly appeared in large areas, and the lights seemed to be spreading. People were doing their own things, but Guo Shao knew that those people could see the people above, just as they could see them.

The Zide Hall is built on the base, so you can see far here. The large temples on the west side have a vast feeling of vastness. There are many low houses under the imperial city wall in the distance; but the imperial city walls and towers are higher, so you can't see the outside... This is almost a completely closed place. Not to mention that it is difficult for ordinary people to go out, they can't even see outside. I guess on the higher rockery in the imperial garden, if you climb up, you can see outside the palace.

Guo Shao withdrew his gaze and found that there were some eunuchs and palace maids in the dining room where he had just eaten. Although they were far away, they must have paid attention to themselves and Jinzhan. The emperor and the queen mother themselves are people who are attracted by people. Therefore, Guo Shao and Fu Jinzhan both spoke in a regular manner. Fu Jinzhan's voice was soothing and gentle. The soothing rhythm might be to grasp the right position at any time to avoid saying the wrong words in front of others.

As night fell, the light under the lantern gradually became hazy and a little ambiguous. In addition, Guo Shao had been busy all day, so the scene was easy to relax in his fatigue. He gradually became bolder and said, "Actually, we are talking here, so others can't hear it?"

"I can't hear it." Fu Jinzhan observed the surroundings with bright eyes and said with a smile, "What does Your Majesty want to say?"

Guo Shao exhaled, bowed his body, put his elbow on the table, and said, "What are we going to do to get along alone?"

Jinzhang smiled and said with a smile: "Aren't you just alone now?"

Guo Shao was stunned and said, "You know what I said is not like... in full view of everyone."

Fu Jinzhan said softly: "That's very difficult. There are tens of thousands of people in this palace. Their greatest responsibility is to take care of the royal family's daily life. For twelve hours a day, people take care of Your Majesty and us every moment. If they don't know where Your Majesty has gone, they will definitely panic; if they know where you have gone, where do you want to go?"

She paused and said softly: "At this time, you should not rush to do whatever you want."

After hearing this, Guo Shao sighed and said, "It turns out that the Jinzhan is rarely seen in this forbidden city. Now I have moved in, thinking it is very close, but I didn't expect it to be closer than before."

Fu Jinzhan looked at his face and asked calmly: "Are you not satisfied with the palace?"

Guo Shao intuition could not answer this sentence indiscriminately. If she thought that her implication was to remind herself to abide by etiquette and morality, then she would be wrong. Thinking about the previous incident, once, she brought Fu Ermei to the palace, but she just ignored her on the surface because everyone had their own duties and identities, Fu Jinzhan was very unhappy... But she herself was dignified and polite most of the time and never took the initiative to speak.

A moment later, Guo Shao said: "Today, a minister wrote a letter to give you a title..."

Fu Jinzhan didn't bother with the question just now, and asked with interest: "Who wrote the letter first?"

Guo Shao said: "Prince's envoy Wang Pu."

Fu Jinzhan nodded thoughtfully.

Guo Shao smiled and said, "They talked about many benefits of Jinzhang, such as origin, status, virtuousness, and virtue. I can't remember a lot of things that can be used to praise women. Anyway, such a good person must be given the title."

After he said that, he felt a little relieved. Fu Jinzhan should be satisfied. After all, no matter what the woman is, she is still willing to compliment her and say that she is so good.

At this time Fu Jinzhan said softly: "What I want to hear most is not how good the ministers think I am, but where do you think I am."

Guo Shao was stunned, and then he temporarily thought about where Fu Jinzhan was good. He had known her for a long time, so he naturally would not think about these things every day. He was thinking, but Fu Jinzhan then said, "I want to know what you usually think of."

Guo Shao pondered for a moment, and his trivial thinking at some time appeared in his mind, and he smiled and said, "I didn't think about where the Jinzhang is good, but there will be some..." He thought, "...A picture of your back, wearing a very wide dress, talking to me, and I couldn't see your face, there was a sound of wooden fish, but when you knelt down, your skirt tightened, and the outline of your buttocks..."

Fu Jinzhan's face turned slightly red and his voice softened. "It should be that in Daxiangguo Temple, where there is a wooden fish sound, there is only there, it has been a long time since then. But I didn't expect that you would dare to think that way at that time. I am the queen, you are just a guard at the inner palace."

Guo Shao pondered again, "The sun shone in through the window. When you turned around, your eyes and lips were particularly smooth in the light... I can't remember when and where... The ring shook my eyes and saw your fingers... The handkerchief was wiping my face, placing silk material, and I felt your nails. The smell of the handkerchief had a very light fragrance, and I couldn't tell what it smelled..."

Fu Jinzhan's eyes were blurred and she said softly: "All you think of is this kind of thing?"

Guo Shao nodded.

Before he knew it, night had already fallen, and lanterns were lit everywhere. Guo Shao sat here and looked at the golden cups, and she also looked at himself. He suddenly felt that this moment was very strange, and he was very close but could only look at each other.

Guo Shao suddenly smiled, Fu Jinzhan was also infected by him, and a soft smile as soft as the moon appeared in his curved eyes. Guo Shao gestured with his hands at the width of the round table and smiled: "We were very far away before, but now we are only a distance left, from the table to your side. But it may be difficult to walk through such a little distance, and many things need to be completed."

Fu Jinzhan smiled and said, "Indeed, I thought you didn't expect those things."

"What's the matter?" Guo Shao asked casually.

Fu Jinzhan smiled and said, "I won't tell you."

Guo Shao suddenly felt that he had heard this sentence when he had heard it, but he didn't remember it for a moment.

...

Guo Shao has been waiting for the throne ceremony these days. After the next day, he no longer went to Zide Temple to see Fu Ermei, but he heard that Li Yuaner had also entered the palace. Every day after the hour of You, he found a familiar pastime: ironwork.

Strictly speaking, it is not iron thrust, because the material metal is gold and silver.

To the west of Wansui Hall, there is a yard called "Zhuen Hall". Guo Shao asked the eunuch Yang Shiliang to build a complete set of blacksmith shops here, and the things are very complete... The place in the imperial city is better than the Guo family's mansion. It is relatively large, and you can find a space to meet his various activities at will. This Zuen Hall is really a yard, a small yard, with a door in a corridor, and then there are several houses in a roundabout way, one in two or three rooms. Guo Shao looked at the one in just about one hundred square meters... Compared with the magnificent main hall, the yard here is really a bit homely atmosphere, but the greening is not as good as the Guo family's mansion, and there are only a few trees alone in the yard.

Guo Shaoxian drew a look on the picture, which was a villain wearing heavy armor and a sword, and a lock. He planned to make one piece of gold and silver.

In fact, Guo Shao thinks that being a good blacksmith is not easy. First of all, you have to have strength? Then from the shape of objects to the design steps, you must have certain ideas, and you must be able to be realistic in craftsmanship, and you cannot imagine... Maybe some nobles in aristocratic families do not necessarily have the ability to be a good blacksmith, but they inexplicably think it is too simple and easy and unwilling to do it. Even blacksmiths can't do it well, so they just slap their heads and govern the country randomly?

Guo Shaoxian didn't ask anyone to start the fire and was thinking about how to make it beautiful and exquisite. After all, it is a toy and it has no value without ornamentality.

He picked up the pen and wrote the first step on the paper, casting. Cast with sand, pour gold and silver into it and cool it, because the things are small, which is not difficult... But in the later processing, you have to grind it by hand. There are tools such as squids, grinding stones, saws, drills and other tools. The drills are very advanced, but the hardness seems to be insufficient, because this drill is a tool for processing wood. It is made of hemp rope and wood: it uses twisting very cleverly, and it only needs to be pulled up and down to transform it into the circular motion of the drill. This is something made by the ancients themselves. Anyway, Guo Shao felt that he would not be able to create this thing.

But he still felt that there was one thing missing: vise. How to process the parts effectively without fixing them firmly? Guo Shao didn't know that the ancients did it, but it seemed that they did not process metal parts like this, and the finishing of gold and silverware depends entirely on craftsmanship.

Guo Shao does not have that superb skill, so he plans to make a vise first. Most of this thing is not difficult to construct, just polish it after casting; the most difficult thing is the thread, and it is impossible to adjust the width of the jaw without threads.

Guo Shao thought for a long time and didn't know how to make threads on the iron. The external threads could be made of wood as cores, made sand molds, and then cast; how to make internal threads? He thought for a long time... It is impossible to manually process threads in the iron, and he still has to cast them.

So he divided the model into two, preparing to cast two internal threads first, and then connect the two parts with rivets... In this way, the tolerance must be small, otherwise the two halves of threads cannot become a whole. Ordinary measurement tools are not good, so he plans to make a vernier caliper and set the standard accuracy of the length by himself... What material is used for vernier caliper? The wood is too easy to wear.
Chapter completed!