Empress Changsun's hand caressed the music box on the table, and there was a kind of intoxication in her eyes.
It was a wide, round box, with a mahogany bottom and some strange ripples carved on it. The upper part was covered with glass, forming a semicircle. In the center was a tall castle, decorated with silver.
The main body looks majestic and mysterious. Queen Changsun has never seen such an interesting building. There is a small river on the right side of the castle with fast currents. There is a tall waterwheel beside the river, and the circular waterwheel hangs large and small boats.
The buckets and waterwheels rotate and pour water into the middle of the hammers. The amount and speed of the water flow determine the height of the hammer. The hammer keeps rising and falling, making different sounds when it hits the pick.
The crisp and fine sound flowed into the heart, bringing peace and quiet to people. A small boat sailed out from behind the castle. The boat was not so refined and elegant, but was simply divided into three layers. There were also mysterious inscriptions engraved on the side of the boat.
pattern. There is a doll standing at the bow of the ship. The carving is lifelike. The doll has golden hair and is wearing a pure white skirt. The skirt is very simple, with a round collar and puffs on the two shoulders, as if hanging two
The lantern is the same as above, with white tulle sleeves and a tight waist. The long skirt below covers the feet and is also puffed up into a tapered shape. Empress Changsun took a liking to this skirt at first glance. It is simple and noble. This is what she is wearing in
She has been looking for the style that best matches her temperament.
The boat followed the rapid current and circled the castle twice, quite like riding the wind and waves. From the third circle, the boat slowly began to break away from the current. Two triangular boards stretched out from both sides of the boat and began to glide in the air.
"Huh?" A deep male voice woke up Queen Changsun.
"Your Majesty..." Li Shimin put his hand around the waist of Empress Changsun, interrupting her intention to salute, and instead stared at the exquisite music box attentively.
When the boat slid past the top of the castle, the puppet waved its right hand, and glittering gold powder was sprinkled on the boat, falling on the silver castle. Then the music box dimmed, as if the world in the glass had reached night, and in the center of the top of the glass
Six small halos of light lit up the part of the castle, rotating and illuminating the castle. The gold powder on the castle shone like stars in the sky. Only then did Queen Changsun and His Majesty Li Er discover that there were still flowers in the fine sand around the castle.
The colored glass concealed glowed red and green under the halo, and the music became cheerful at this time, as if there was a banquet, and even the small water droplets thrown up by the river were so rhythmic.
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"He did this?! Very thoughtful." His Majesty Li Er said with a certain tone. No one else can make such a dazzling thing. He found two useful items in this music box. One is
The waterwheel and the other thing was the boat. He was very curious, is there really a boat that can fly?!
"Yes. Weird boy!" Queen Changsun looked at the slowly descending boat and the gradually lighting up music box. Is this the end? I really wish the music could last longer.
"This is the most unique gift I have ever received! Liang Jin also brought back some ordinary music boxes. I just took a look at them. Compared with this one, they are really different!" Empress Changsun pressed the base of the music box again.
Next to the button, the faint music sounded again.
"This kid, I can't hold him back!" Li Er said with a headache.
"I originally planned to hide him for a while, but now the ministers and nobles have begun to find out who the inventor of mirrors and furniture is. There really are no secrets in the palace! It has been publicized all over the city before it is sold. Sooner or later, this kid will also You have to get in front of people, and it won’t take long.”
"Give him an identity, otherwise he will have to be torn apart and eaten, and not even the bones will be left!" Empress Changsun said with a smile...
"Hmph..." Li Shimin snorted dissatisfiedly. He really didn't want to be promoted to Lin Yi so early.
Empress Changsun smiled, her husband was as awkward as a child sometimes!
"Gao Ming is about to become the crown prince, so the title of King of Zhongshan will be more advantageous for this boy, and he will enjoy the prince's salary! King Qin's old palace can let him live in it, but he will not be given an official position." His Majesty Li Er said with some reluctance, "By the way, let's Gao Ming found two people to learn from him how to make waterwheels and music boxes, and then asked if the boat could be made bigger?"
What a shrewd emperor! Empress Changsun looked at Li Er's back and smiled silently in approval. As for the child who had been mistreated, she wanted to keep him safe and prosperous for the rest of his life!
"Stop being upset, how can you come up with good ideas when you're not calm? Come on, let's make tea so that you can clear your mind and calm down!" Li Chengqian pulled the dejected Lin Yi away from the table. Wang Bao directed the two People followed behind with tea sets.
In the bamboo forest to the west of the East Palace, Lin Yi sat languidly on a futon, facing Li Chengqian, watching him slowly take out the tea cakes with bamboo tongs and put them on the fire to bake.
After baking, put it in a paper bag and wait for cooling. During this process, Li Chengqian kept persuading Lin Yi, but it looked like he was taking pleasure in others' misfortune.
Lin Yi grabbed the pastries on the table and prepared to comfort himself, but unexpectedly, Li Chengqian knocked them away.
"What are you doing?" Lin Yi glared.
"Why? You have the nerve to ask without looking at how fat you have become? You were thinner than me back then, but now you want to develop like my fourth brother?" Li Chengqian said angrily, although he I also think Lin Yi is chubby and cute. But the fatter Lin Yi is, the stronger he will be and the more painful it will be to hit him. The fatter he is, even if Lin Yi doesn't hit him with his hands and just presses on him, he won't be able to bear it! It's for his own good. , Lin Yi is determined not to lose weight anymore.
Lin Yi shuddered when he thought of Li Tai's appearance, which was not much shorter horizontally than vertically. Although he didn't care much about appearance, becoming like that was not in his life plan.
Li Chengqian continued to grind the cooled tea cakes into powder. He always felt that the process of making tea was particularly aristocratic, and it was his favorite activity.
Then use a sieve to sift the tea powder, and put the tea powder into a box for later use.
Wang Bao came up and arranged the wind stove and tea kettle, poured water into the tea kettle and waited for it to boil.
Lin Yi thinks that this method of making tea is quite new. In his previous life, he could only make tea, pour boiling water into a cup with tea leaves, and wait for a while. What would the tea taste like after such a complicated and elegant procedure? What? He was looking forward to it!
When a few small bubbles appeared on the water surface, Li Chengqian added salt to it. After a while, the bubbles gradually became larger. Li Chengqian scooped out some water, measured some tea powder, and added it. When the water boiled, it started to splash. At this time, he poured the scooped water back, and then added cinnamon, spices, etc.
The tea that was finally poured into Lin Yi's bowl was light yellow and had a piece of cinnamon, which was quite beautiful.
But is this drinkable? Lin was a little skeptical after seeing the whole process. It was hard for him to imagine what it would taste like to add so many ingredients to the tea.
Li Chengqian took a sip of wine with enjoyment, tasting it with his eyes closed, the expression on his face was very intoxicated.
It seems to taste pretty good! Lin Yi thought about it. In his previous life, drinking tea was like a cow chewing peonies. Lin Yi picked up the bowl and took a big sip.
"Pfft...cough...cough...what the hell does this smell like!" Lin Yi, who thought he was being pranked, became angry.
Li Chengqian's face, which was covered in tea, twitched. He meant well! He took him out to drink tea and meditate, but why was there no reward?!