Volume 1 Princess Taiping Grows Up Chapter 89 Glasses
The weather was getting hotter day by day, and Li Zhi and his wife began to miss the days they spent in Jiuzhou Pond last year.
It was almost the end of May, and since I had nothing to do that day, I decided to go for a swim.
When they passed by Anfu Temple on the way to Jiuzhou Pond, the two decided to go there first and call their daughter.
After all, Li Yuechen is very good at swimming. If she is watching by the side, the two of them can have fun more at ease.
After arriving at Anfu Hall, as soon as we entered the courtyard, we saw a large field of green rice ears.
When a breeze blows, you can even hear a rustling sound.
The rice ears are swaying in the wind, some of them have begun to change color, and by next month, almost all of them will turn golden yellow.
The grains of this rice ear are so full that they can be seen with the naked eye. Such a small piece of land looks so densely packed that you can hardly see the original color of the land.
The couple looked at each other and saw a hint of surprise in each other's eyes.
After taking two quick steps, the two men came to the edge of the field and squatted down. Li Zhi gently reached out, picked up a strand of rice ears, and observed them carefully.
Wu Zetian gently reached out and stroked the rice ears in his hand. Her movements were very gentle, as if she was afraid of damaging them.
The two of them just squatted on the ground and fell into silence.
Xiao He walked out of the hall and was shocked to see the emperor and the empress squatting by the field.
She immediately ran over to pay her respects, but Zhang Chengxin behind her waved her hand to stop her and asked her to wait where she was.
Xiao He didn't know what was going on and could only wait where she was.
Looking at the rice ears in his hand, Li Zhi suddenly grinned: "Although the results have not yet appeared, they are basically close."
"Yes." Wu Zetian beside her also nodded with emotion, "I didn't expect that this girl could really do it."
Li Zhi shook his head, put his hands on his knees and stood up. Zhang Chengxin quickly took a step forward to support him.
"Don't mention it. I now even suspect that Chen'er is the reincarnation of Shennong."
"Your Majesty, you are too kind." Wu Zetian stretched out her hand, and Zhang Chengxin quickly supported her arm and stood up.
At this time, Xiao He hurriedly bowed and said, "Greetings to the Saint and the Queen. I didn't dare to disturb you just now. Please forgive me, Saint and the Queen."
"No need to be polite." Li Zhi raised his hand. "Where is Chen'er?"
"Your Majesty, several princes are playing in the Jiuzhou Pond." Xiao He replied respectfully.
Li Zhi nodded and walked towards Jiuzhou Pond with Wu Meiniang.
"Farewell to the Saint, Your Majesty." Xiao He saluted.
After leaving Anfu Hall, the two walked on the road to Jiuzhou Pond. Judging from their expressions, they both seemed to be feeling a little emotional.
"Mei Niang, you know, ever since I got sick, I thought it was some kind of punishment from God." Li Zhi walked while looking at the sky, "But now, I do believe that God has never punished me, and has even compensated me in other ways."
"Is the one Zhinu talking about Chen'er?"
Li Zhi nodded: "Chen'er, this is a blessing from heaven to me and to the Tang Dynasty!"
After these words were spoken, Zhang Chengxin who was following behind could not help but open his mouth in surprise. To receive such an evaluation from the emperor, this princess would surely rise to a high position in the future!
Wu Zetian smiled and said, "When Chen'er was born, he didn't speak for three years. I was so worried! Now it seems that he is really the reincarnation of a god, and he knows everything at birth!"
"It doesn't matter." Li Zhi shook his head. "If Chen'er's food experiment is successful, it will be much easier to let her serve as an official in the court."
Hearing that Li Zhi had decided to reform, Wu Zetian nodded and said nothing more.
She has always been on his side, and now that he has made up his mind to change the law, she will of course stand firmly behind him.
The two strolled to Jiuzhou Pond and saw Yi Yang and Shangguan Wan'er playing in the pool below.
In the corridor above the Yaoguang Palace, Li Yuechen and Princess Xuancheng stood on the railing with their arms outstretched.
"These two damn girls!"
Wu Zetian cursed under her breath and was about to ask them to come down.
However, before he could finish his words, he saw two people leaping from a height of nearly ten meters above the water surface!
Under the surprised gazes of the two men, Princess Xuancheng stood upright, while Li Yuechen did two consecutive backflips and a 720-degree turn before diving headfirst into the water.
A few seconds later, the two men emerged from the water one after the other, and Wu Zetian breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Zhi was smiling at the side: "Don't worry, Mei Niang. The last time Chen Er jumped into the water to save someone, wasn't it the same thing?"
"This damn girl is so scary." Wu Zetian patted her chest and let out a long sigh.
Seeing the two people coming, the people in the pool quickly climbed up to salute. Li Yuechen trotted over and asked, "Are you here to swim, too?"
"Yes, the weather is hot, so I plan to come here to take a dip in some cold water." Li Zhi replied with a smile.
Li Yuechen nodded: "Then the two adults should change their clothes quickly!"
Then he turned around and waved to Shangguan Wan'er: "Wan'er, you go back first. I'll take you out to play next time."
Shangguan Wan'er also knew that since the emperor and empress were here, it would be better for her to leave as soon as possible. She bowed respectfully and left.
Seeing Shangguan Wan'er leave, Li Zhi smiled and said, "Chen'er, if you like that girl, you can let her stay and play with you."
"No." Li Yuechen shook his head and smiled. "My parents are so powerful without even getting angry. It's easy to scare her! If she chokes on the water, I'll have to work hard to save her."
Hearing his daughter's obvious flattery, Li Zhi did not point it out. He smiled and took Wu Zetian to Yaoguang Palace to change clothes.
After changing their clothes, Li Zhi and his wife both tied their hair into ponytails, which made them look much fresher.
If Li Zhi shaved his beard now, he would look like an artist.
The family began to swim in the pool. Li Yuechen tried not to stay too far away from the two of them to prevent them from suddenly getting cramps or something, so as to facilitate rescue.
At the same time, I was thinking that I could use bamboo to make a water volleyball to play with, which would add some entertainment.
…
Two days passed in a blink of an eye. Just after lunch, Li Yuechen was about to read a book and practice calligraphy when Fulai suddenly walked in.
"Your Highness, the craftsman supervisor said that the tire is ready to be installed. Please go and try it."
"Walk!"
When Li Yuechen heard this, he stood up and walked out. Fulai said hello to Xiaohe and followed behind him.
When we arrived at the workshop, we saw that the frame had been lifted up and the craftsmen were installing the wheels on it.
After the wheels were fixed, the car body was slowly lowered to the ground.
Li Yuechen squatted down and saw that all four wheels were only slightly deflated, and it was almost invisible without careful observation.
After nodding, he raised his legs and stood on the frame.
Since the body has not been installed yet, you step directly on the frame.
He pressed down hard with his legs, and the leaf spring and the wheel trembled slightly twice at the same time.
Li Yuechen waved his hand: "Come up a few more people!"
Fulai waved his hand, and he and the craftsmen raised their legs and stepped onto the frame.
Li Yuechen got downstairs and counted. There were already about ten people standing on the frame. The leaf springs had not been completely compressed, and the wheels were not too deflated.
After nodding slightly, Li Yuechen waved his hand and asked them to get off first: "Okay, find two horses to pull it over and try."
Fu Lai agreed to do it right away, and about twenty minutes later, he came over leading two horses.
After tying the reins and everything, Li Yuechen asked them to stand on the frame and let the person in front pull the two horses slowly forward.
The frame started to move slowly. Li Yuechen stood on the left side for a while, then ran to the right side, observing carefully back and forth.
Fortunately, the wheels did not have any obvious deformation, and the leaf springs vibrated slightly during driving, and the car was able to transition smoothly when passing through some small potholes and gaps.
When turning, the two front wheels move first, followed by the two rear wheels slowly turning.
The connection between the front and rear frames twists slightly, making cornering very easy and extremely smooth.
Seeing this scene, Li Yuechen couldn't help but nodded, and a smile finally appeared on his face.
"Good, very good!" Li Yuechen nodded, with dimples faintly visible on her face, "Let's try again after the car body is installed."
"Yes!" The craftsmen responded in unison.
For them, making this carriage is equivalent to learning a new technology, and this technology was taught by the princess herself, which will be an asset in the future.
Li Yuechen didn't care about their little plans, she just thought about what this carriage could do before Li Zhi's birthday.
There is definitely no problem in completing it, but if the decoration can be completed at the same time... it seems unrealistic.
Of course, she did not express her expectations, but praised them for doing a good job and encouraged them to keep up the good work.
After leaving the Craftsmen's Supervisory Office, Li Yuechen saw that it was still early, so he thought about it and decided to go to Jixianfang to take a look.
They arrived at Jixianfang in a carriage, Li Yuechen jumped off, and Wu Da came out with his son to greet him.
"Meet Her Royal Highness the Princess!"
"No need to be polite."
Li Yuechen was in a good mood today. She came to Wu Gouzi and smiled, "How are your studies going these days?"
"Your Highness, I can now recite the first fifty sentences of the Thousand Character Classic!" Wu Gouzi had a proud expression on his face, and then he took out a piece of paper and handed it over: "Please take a look, Your Highness."
Li Yuechen took it, looked at it, and nodded.
Although my handwriting is terrible, at least it is written correctly and there are no typos.
It is already very good to be able to learn to this level in these days.
"Not bad!" Li Yuechen nodded and returned the paper to him. "When you learn to read, I will teach you some math."
Wu Gouzi wanted to ask what mathematics was, but at this time Li Yuechen had already turned around and left.
Entering the workshop, Li Yuechen raised his hand to ask the people inside to not to be polite, and took two steps forward: "How many lenses have you made in the past few days?"
"Your Highness, the failure rate is quite high. Only twenty-three were made." The leading craftsman replied.
"Okay, bring them all here for me to see." Li Yuechen waved his hand casually.
Seeing that she was not angry, the craftsman agreed and immediately came out with a tray padded with silk, with more than twenty round lenses lying on it.
Li Yuechen picked up the lenses with bamboo tweezers and tried them one by one. Unfortunately, the diopter of these lenses varied greatly, and even those that were similar could not be found.
I am a bit helpless now, I can only make a monocle.
It is normal for a myopic person's left and right eyes to have a difference of 100 to 200 degrees, but a difference of 500 to 600 degrees should not occur.
Li Yuechen asked Fulai to take the lenses back, and then smiled at the craftsmen: " Don't worry, just continue making them."
"Yes, but Your Highness, the stones we used last time have almost been used up..."
"Well, I've already asked someone to collect it, and it will probably be delivered in a while. You guys should figure it out on your own during this period of time."
“Yes!”
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The next day, Li Yuechen asked Fulai to bring more than twenty lenses to Renshou Hall.
Li Zhi was a little surprised when he saw it: "Chen'er, what are you doing with so many pieces of glass?"
Li Yuechen handed him a pair of bamboo tweezers: "Please try them one by one in front of your eyes and pick out the one that feels the most comfortable."
Li Zhi didn't seem to understand what was said, but he nodded anyway and put the lenses in front of his eyes to try.
When the first one was placed in front of his eyes, his expression was obviously a little surprised: "Oh, I didn't expect that the view through this lens is much clearer!"
Wu Zetian also walked over curiously, picked up a lens with bamboo tweezers and took a look.
Unfortunately, he shook his head and put it down: "Looking through this thing makes me dizzy."
Li Yuechen complained in his heart, you are not nearsighted, of course you feel dizzy.
My mother is one of those people who was born with good eyesight.
Speaking of which, Li Yuechen had a college classmate who had been playing computer games every day since he was a child. When he went to college, it was common for him to read novels on his mobile phone until midnight after turning off the lights at night.
During the physical examination before graduating from college, my eyesight was still comparable to that of a pilot. I could see the bottom row of the vision test chart, which made all my roommates call me a monster.
After trying all the lenses, Li Zhi picked one: "This one feels the most comfortable."
"Then please wait for two days, I will process it and then send it to you."
"Okay!" Li Zhi nodded, "Let me see what Chen'er can come up with this time."
It is very simple to make a glasses frame in this era. Li Yuechen went to a gold and silver workshop and found a jeweler to make a glasses frame with silver.
The nose pads are made of polished round jade, and the bracket is not hinged. Anyway, he doesn't need to carry this thing with him, so the bracket on the ear side is fixed and formed in one piece.
Just two days later, a pair of monocles was ready.
Li Yuechen excitedly took the Renshou Hall , "Grandpa, take a look."
Looking at the glasses in his daughter's hand, Li Zhi was a little curious: "How do I use this?"
"Hehe..." Li Yuechen asked him to squat down and put it on his right eye. "In the future, when Grandpa reads books, he won't have to squint with this thing."
The painting of Li Zhi wearing these glasses looks a bit incongruous, perhaps because the hairstyle of ancient men doesn't match. Li Yuechen wants to laugh when he sees it.
"It really is……"
Li Zhi was also a little surprised, but then he asked: "Why only one eye?"
"Because this thing is only a temporary solution, I hope you won't use it on a daily basis." Li Yuechen explained, "It's better not to wear it unless you need to read. Otherwise, I'm afraid you will become dependent on it."
After hearing what his daughter said, Li Zhi thought about it and felt that it made sense, so he took it off and handed it to Zhang Chengxin.
Anyway, Wu Zetian is the one who handles the memorials now, and any problems can be told to her. There is no need to read them in person. This thing can only be used as an emergency measure.
