The villain prince is three and a half years old

Xia Jing recalled the game's portrait and compared the grown-up Ninth Prince with the one in his dream, and they were surprisingly 80% similar.

I didn’t expect you to be such a little palace maid!

I am your little master!

I'm only three years old!

Xia Jing felt complicated and browsed through the other two dreams.

Xiao Yue's dream was also of the palace. In the dream, she was wearing a red dress, sitting on a throne, watching two newlyweds getting married below.

The groom is the grown-up Xia Jing, and the bride is wearing a veil so her face cannot be seen.

Wow, all my dreams are about urging me to get married.

After the wedding dream, Xiao Yue had some fragmentary dreams, but none of them formed a complete scene.

Finally, it’s your own dream.

Xia Jing recalled last night, but his dream had long been melted by the sunlight and he could not remember anything.

Clicking on the beads, the scene presented is also the future, which turns out to be a nightmare.

In the dream, as an adult, he was addicted to his daughter's fragrance and neglected state affairs, which led to the enemy country invading the capital.

And it’s not an enemy country, but a coalition of six nations!

Xia Jing looked distressed. He actually became Guangxu?

Better than Guangxu, he did not escape, but watched the armies of the six countries carry the sedan chair into the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

The sedan chair opened, revealing the queens of the six kingdoms. They used a knife to cut him into six pieces and took them back to their own kingdoms.

Rumor has it that if you gather all six pieces of Xia Jing's body, you can summon a dragon.

What a nightmare!

Xia Jing rubbed his head and picked up the feather.

After hesitating for a moment, he touched the dream pearl of the little palace maid Ci Sui.

The dream became blurred. He swept it with the tip of the feather, and the picture disappeared. He swept it with the base of the feather, and new pictures were added in.

It can be controlled at will.

He thought about it and replaced the adult emperor on the bed with his younger self.

In the ear room, the young palace maid who had been guarding the night woke up suddenly and covered her red face.

How could she dream such a dream!

In the afternoon, Xia Jing deliberately appeared in front of Ci Sui, and she sure enough avoided his gaze and her cheeks turned red.

The effectiveness of the dream catcher has been proven. This modified dream is not as easily forgotten as ordinary dreams and can be put to great use.

All that remains is the recruitment order.

Xia Jing went to the craftsman's supervisor and found Xiao Chaizi.

In the house, Xiao Chaizi and a group of craftsmen were carefully polishing the wood chips.

Jigsaw puzzles aren't as fun as Lego, but the technology behind them is incredibly advanced, involving materials science and requiring precise assembly. Even smaller factories couldn't produce these blocks in the past, let alone in ancient times.

After turning around, Xia Jing blinked.

It seemed like there was another piece of clothing mixed in among the eunuchs' clothes.

Looking more closely, isn't this my fourth brother, the fourth prince of the royal family?

The Fourth Prince had a square face, and among the other princes, except for the Eighth Prince, he was the least impressive. Mixed in with the craftsmen, Xia Jing didn't recognize him at first glance.

The Fourth Prince didn't notice Xia Jing. He was holding a few pieces of the puzzle prototype and comparing them carefully. Sometimes he frowned, sometimes he looked happy. No one knew what he was thinking.

Xia Jing didn't go up to talk to him and pretended not to see it.

He asked the craftsman supervisor to make something, and he also planned to seduce the Fourth Prince.

Although the Fourth Prince is obsessed with carpentry, he also has good personal abilities. Anyone who is willing to use their brain can do anything well. In the game, when Emperor Kangning was seriously ill, he shared a lot of government affairs and handled them in an orderly manner. Although he did not achieve any success, he also did not make any mistakes.

Being able to be without mistakes is already extremely powerful!

More importantly, he was one of the few adult princes who would move out of the palace and become a prince once he got married.

There is a huge difference in status between a prince and a prince, and the resources they can mobilize are even more disparate.

Xia Jing intends to use him, but he cannot appear too eager.

I have to let the Fourth Prince come to me on his own initiative.

We need his help with the recruitment order!

Thinking of this, Xia Jing walked to Xiao Chaizi and patted his leg.

Xiao Chaizi put down his work and asked, "What are your instructions, Ninth Prince?"

"I see they are already proficient. You can help me with another thing." Xia Jing said.

"promise."

"Let me ask you, was Third Brother's chair made by your craftsman supervisor?"

"Replying to the Ninth Prince, yes."

"That's not good. Make another one."

Xiao Chaizi was embarrassed and didn't know how to respond. His reaction was like seeing a design rejected by the client.

He fetched the blueprints for the chair, and Xia Jing pointed them out: "The steering is bad, the balance is too bad, it's hard to push, and it can't drive itself... and it's too slow."

"Too slow?" Xiao Chaizi's brain froze.

"Look, how about replacing two wheels with four?"

"But, the four wheels will slide on their own, and if you put two wheels in a row, the length of the chair will also increase."

"That's the big wheel. Change it to one big and one small."

Xia Jing, following his memories from his past life, gave a flurry of instructions. In his past life, he had always been the second party, but this time, he finally got to experience the pleasure of being the first party.

After talking for a while, the Fourth Prince came over.

Halfway through the conversation, Xiao Chaizi felt dizzy and could no longer follow Xia Jing's train of thought.

The Fourth Prince took the blueprint and began to draw: "You mean like this?"

"That's right!" Xia Jing sighed. He still underestimated this fourth brother. He was even more professional than a craftsman.

"The chair back adjustment mechanism is quite interesting." The fourth prince pondered while designing.

Xia Jing couldn't tell the details directly, but he could confirm it when the Fourth Prince's design was close.

He stayed in the workshop for an entire afternoon and was about to leave, but the Fourth Prince wouldn't let him go.

"Let's go to my palace and talk in detail!" He picked up Xia Jing, asked the eunuch to pack up the drawings, and went to his palace.

Chapter 53: The Third Prince's Banquet (Two in One)

The fourth prince is named Ning Zhixing. He lives in Guanlanzhai, which, like Yanghexuan, is relatively remote.

When he arrived at the entrance of Guanlanzhai, Xia Jing saw an acquaintance.

That was the seventh prince Ning Gaoxiang. Ning Gaoxiang was sitting on the steps in front of Guanlanzhai. He saw a figure out of the corner of his eye and stood up in surprise.

"Fourth brother, my horse is doing..."

He stopped talking abruptly, raised his neck, and looked straight at Xia Jing in Ning Zhixing's hand.

"I'm busy today, let's talk about it another day." Ning Zhixing walked past him without stopping.

Xia Jing turned her head and saw Ning Gaoxiang's angry face.

Guanlanzhai is much smaller than Yanghexuan. The courtyard is crowded with many wooden products, and the palace maids and eunuchs are cleaning them up.

"The sun will be mild next evening, so let's move it out and let it dry in the sun," Ning Zhixing explained.

He carried Xia Jing into the main hall, placed her on the armchair, and sat opposite her. The palace maids served tea, and the eunuchs provided paper and pen.

"What kind of horse is Seventh Brother talking about?" Xia Jing asked curiously.

Although "Prince Training Plan" is large in scale, it is just a game after all and cannot cover everything. Xia Jing does not know the relationship between Ning Zhixing and Ning Gaoxiang.

"He asked me to make a wooden horse that could be carried by eunuchs." Ning Zhixing wrote and drew on the blueprint. "Rou Fei pays me generously, so I often help him do these things."

Xia Jing understood. This fourth brother, like himself, had found a financial sponsor.

His financial backer is Ning Xuenian, and Ning Zhixing’s financial backer is Concubine Rou.

"Don't worry about him." Ning Zhixing handed the drawings to Xia Jing.

This picture is not of a wheelchair, but of a puzzle.

"This is quite interesting. It looks a bit like a tangram, but it's too rigid and lacks variety. It also looks a bit like a Luban lock, but it's too simple and the connections are not strong enough. What do you think about changing it from wooden slices to wooden blocks?" Ning Zhixing asked.

This is the idea of ​​​​Lego bricks.

"It's difficult to connect them stably unless each piece is made very large," Xia Jing replied. Larger pieces of wood allow for more complex connection designs.

The two chatted for a while about the industry prospects and difficulties of building blocks, and then returned to their wheelchairs.

The eunuch brought dinner and the two men talked while eating.

Logically, being invited to dine together in the palace should mean they have a very close relationship. However, neither Xia Jing nor Ning Zhixing felt any sense of closeness.

Xia Jing was in a daze, feeling that he was having dinner with a client, and an extremely pragmatic client at that.

……

In Jingyixuan, Xiao Yue was waiting for Xia Jing to have dinner, but only Xiao Tianzi showed up.

"Tell me, is it Yanghexuan, Fuqing Palace, Yonghua Palace or the laundry bureau?" Xiao Yue was not surprised and asked where Xia Jing stayed.

"My lord, it's Guanlanzhai." Xiao Tianzi replied.

Xiao Yue was stunned and turned to look at Yi Qiu.

……

"Where is Guanlanzhai?" Ning Shouxu frowned and asked Nanny Yuan.

The Ninth Prince hadn't come to Yanghexuan all day, so he asked about Xia Jing's whereabouts.

"It's the Fourth Prince's residence," Nanny Yuan replied. "There are many strange and unusual woodworks in the Fourth Prince's palace. The Ninth Prince must have gone to see them."

"I have Coal General in Yanghexuan, isn't it more interesting than Guanlanzhai?" Ning Shouxu slapped the armrest, very dissatisfied.

"General Coal is naturally more interesting than those inanimate objects. The Ninth Prince is just going to take a look." Nanny Yuan knew that Ning Shouxu was jealous, so she smiled secretly in her heart and comforted him with her words.

……

The next day, Xia Jing returned to Yanghexuan as expected. He did not skip classes or be late, but he left early.

Retreat from Guanlanzhai.

Ning Xuenian followed him and strolled around the Guanlanzhai warehouse. She paid a 10% premium and bought the pony that Ning Gaoxiang had ordered.

She is leisurely, while Xia Jing is very busy.

After five days, we finally completed the discussion on the shape and mechanism of the wheelchair, completed the design and technical reserves, and entered the production stage.

Over at the Master of Crafts, the puzzle was also complete, totaling two thousand pieces. The Fourth Prince, Ning Zhixing, halted his own work and lent his manpower to Xia Jing.

One thousand tablets in each pack was given to Ning Shouxu as planned. Xia Jing collected the remaining five hundred tablets in two packs.

The craftsman supervisor specially made three flat boxes for Xia Jing to store the puzzles in. The puzzles in the boxes were all put together.

Xia Jing needs pen and ink to paint on the puzzle and save it.

Before Ning Shouxu's birthday, two more things happened in Jingyixuan.

First, the secret of the cold palace could no longer be concealed, and Rongpin's death shocked the harem. The Palace Administration and the Imperial Household Department said that Rongpin hanged herself out of guilt.

Many eyes turned to Jingyixuan. The matter of the dry well had not been made public, and those who did not know the truth believed that it was Jingyixuan's incident that forced Rongpin to commit suicide. Some people who were jealous of Jingyixuan took the opportunity to slander Xiao Yue privately.

Being in a high position will inevitably lead to jealousy. When Concubine Xian told Xiao Yue about this, Xiao Yue and Xia Jing were both very calm.

Another thing is that Concubine Rou invited Xiao Yue and Xia Jing to the Summer Palace for tea.