How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

Beijing.

Gu Gu didn't expect that he would receive a letter from the Second Prince.

Spreading out the letter, he stroked his beard and looked up. He was immediately frightened by the scary scribbles all over the paper and jumped back agilely!

what is this? !!

Could it be some kind of curse?

Gu Lao squinted his eyes carefully and looked at it carefully. Then he could see that there were words written on it, but they were written ugly.

Well, it's not ugly, it's too ugly.

After breathing a sigh of relief, Gu Lao picked up the letter and began to read it.

[Ancient… I am so miserable! I am so resentful! My heart is bleeding, my flesh is rotting, my soul is withering, and my faith is collapsing…]

"What the hell is this written on?"

The crazy handwriting and content made Gu Lao frown his gray brows and he moved closer to the letter to continue reading.

[Ah! When will the country be rich? Drinking wine and asking the sky! I wonder if God knows when that time will be! I want to make ice sculptures to get rich, but the skilled craftsmen belittle me. I cry like a rainstorm, and want to die in the world!

My heart is cold, tears are flowing, and I can't sleep at night. I shouldn't hate you, but the people are poor! The ice sculptures are delayed again and again, and the north is getting poorer and poorer. This is really difficult to complete. I hope the ancients will come and support me!

Also: I am craving for Qinghe snacks, please bring some for me, otherwise I will hang myself in front of the engineering department when I get back:)

Come quickly, come quickly! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ]

ancient:……

Nervous!

If you want him to go to Liaozhou to help, just tell him directly. Why write all this nonsense?

Gu Lao had already imagined the man in red lying on the ground, hugging his thighs with tears and snot, crying about the discrimination and grievances he had suffered in Liaozhou.

He quickly shook his head to get the horrifying scene out of his mind.

He doesn't look like a prince at all!

But what is this ice sculpture?

Objects carved out of ice?

He was curious about how this person could get rich, and also curious about what the second prince wanted to do. However, the letter did not explain it in detail. So Gu Lao thought about going to Liaozhou to take a look.

Nowadays, heated brick beds have become popular in the capital, so there is no need for him to take charge of the situation for the time being. However, he might as well go to Liaozhou to see what the ice sculpture is used for.

Gu Lao made the decision very quickly and immediately planned to pack his bag and head to Liaozhou. However, before leaving, he suddenly remembered that the Second Prince said he wanted to bring one more thing with him.

What did you bring?

Gu Lao recalled and thought, oh yes, it seems that he should take Su Qinghe with him.

……

The day Su Qinghe arrived at the Tianjiansi was an extremely ordinary day.

The officials of the Tianjian Division thought that he was just a new official and did not take it seriously. However, according to past experience, newcomers would inevitably have various questions that needed to be answered after taking office in the Tianjian Division, so they had to be prepared to answer the newcomers patiently.

Unexpectedly, after a few days, the newcomer still did not speak a word. Often he was nowhere to be seen, let alone asking questions.

It was not until the sixth day that this mysterious newcomer began to walk around the outer hall, looking for the books he needed. He then sat at the wooden table on that floor, reading and calculating with his head down.

She is quiet and focused, immersed in her own world, like an uncut piece of jade, which makes people want to look at her several times.

Finally, someone couldn't sit still anymore and pretended to take a sneak peek as he passed by. He saw that the paper where the young man in white was calculating was filled with densely packed characters, and it was impossible to understand what was written on it.

Did Ti Ling bring back a fool? Even if the Tianjian Division was short of people, they couldn't just bring back anyone, right?

I’m afraid the Sky Supervisor is in danger!

Soon, the news that Su Qinghe was a fool spread throughout the Tianjian Division. Some people couldn't help but go to Guo Tianheng to mention the matter, but Guo Tianheng waved his hand and just said, "Don't bother with him."

Seeing such blatant cover-up, everyone in the Heavenly Monitoring Office was filled with resentment.

Su Qinghe naturally felt the dissatisfaction of the people from the Heavenly Monitoring Department towards him. Their looks were just like those of the people in the Su Mansion, full of contempt, dissatisfaction, and displeasure. Fortunately, he had become accustomed to such looks and was no longer distracted by the outside world. He continued to immerse himself in arithmetic.

He couldn't bring shame to the Second Prince.

He had to gain the approval of Guo Tiling and Gu Lao, and when the Second Prince came to find him, he had to be able to help him.

He needs to try harder.

The officials of the Astronomical Monitoring Department were also gradually becoming dissatisfied with Su Qinghe. In the Astronomical Monitoring Department, Su Qinghe was too different and special. He did not socialize with others, did not participate in stargazing, was not seen during the day, and even when they were scheduled to clean the heavy snow in front of the tower, Su Qinghe was not on duty.

Just when the officials' emotions were about to explode, something suddenly changed Su Qinghe's position in the Tianjian Division.

An official has been trying to complete a drawing of a sophisticated water clock by a great man of the previous dynasty. All the parts have been made, but the assembly has failed dozens of times.

When Su Qinghe was looking for a book, he happened to see the official sitting in front of the table. He was so angry that he secretly raised his sleeve to wipe away tears. He stood silently behind, looking at the drawings and parts on the table, and had already constructed a spatial map in his mind.

He studied arithmetic hard at the Astronomical Bureau every day, but he never slacked off in his work at the Ministry of Works. After carrying water every day, he followed Gu Lao to observe and learn. Gu Lao was not stingy in teaching, so he also learned a lot about the assembly of parts.

He saw that the drawing was not perfect.

Su Qinghe recalled the teaching book that Xie Chengze gave to Guo Tiling before he left. It contained formulas and arithmetic problems about circles. He calculated the replacement parts and the parts that needed to be added on the same day.

He went to the Ministry of Works to find Gu Lao and chiseled out the parts, and finally found the official and assembled the water clock.

At this point, it became a huge success.

At that moment, all the officials finally realized that Guo Tiling was not blind, and a genius had arrived in the Heavenly Supervisory Office!

Gradually, people began to ask Su Qinghe about arithmetic problems. Su Qinghe would always say that he needed to think about it, and then he would think about it for two days. Then, when everyone had given up hope, he would slowly take the arithmetic paper and start to explain the problems to them with dark circles under his eyes.

The solution he described was very novel, like another method of arithmetic, which benefited the officials a lot. Their eyes gradually changed, and they looked at Su Qinghe with more appreciation and admiration.

Meanwhile, Su Qinghe was also recognized by the Ministry of Industry. His almost suffocating obsessive-compulsive disorder and unparalleled dexterity allowed him to achieve a level of rigor that even experienced hands could not match when manufacturing objects in the Ministry of Industry. Coupled with his arithmetic ability, the officials of the Ministry of Industry also praised him endlessly.

There is no longer contempt, disdain and disdain around him, but more and more appreciation, admiration and respect.

Everyone praised him as a genius.

In the past, only people like my eldest brother were called geniuses.

Can someone like me be called a genius?

But if he is a genius...

Why did the Second Prince never come to see him?

Is it because he is not working hard enough, not good enough, and has not met the expectations of the Second Prince?

Every time when it was late at night and everyone was asleep, Su Qinghe would lower his eyes in disappointment as he stroked the arithmetic manuscript sent by Xie Chengze with his fingertips, missing that person's bright eyes and expectant gaze.

The information in the Tianjian Division was blocked, and he hadn't heard from the Second Prince for a long time. He didn't dare to ask Gu Lao and Guo Tiling, for fear of hearing from them that the Second Prince was not satisfied with him.

Su Qinghe worked harder and harder, almost forgetting to eat and sleep to study those difficult books, from arithmetic books to astronomy, from Feng Shui to Yin and Yang, absorbing these contents day and night. The black and white under his eyes became more and more serious, and the whites of his eyes became more and more bloodshot, until that day...

Two streams of hot blood flowed from under his nose and he finally fainted.

When he woke up again, he was already on a carriage heading to Liaozhou.