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

On the Hunhe ice rink, the brothers from Qianjinzhai came with tools to clear the snow, piled the snow in a huge detachable wooden box, and pressed it into a huge dense snow cube to stack up the prototype of the snow sculpture. The craftsmen then carved the final snow sculpture according to the image on the drawing.

Another group of workers was composed of soldiers formed by mountain bandits and ordinary people. They cut the ice on the river surface exposed after clearing the snow into huge square ice blocks. Another group of craftsmen would use water to stick them together, and use small iron shovels and other tools to carve and grind them into smooth pieces to make ice sculptures.

These craftsmen are all good at wood carving. Although the feel of ice carving is slightly different from that of wood carving, after trying a few small ice sculptures, they have estimated the strength and started to make slightly larger ice sculptures.

The reason why they got the hang of it so quickly was thanks to the handy new tools.

In Xie Chengze's world, he could only go out and play during holidays without his parents' company. When an ice sculpture festival was popular in a certain place in the north, he flew there and witnessed a feast of ice and snow.

He was deeply attracted by this sturdy and generous city. He stayed there for the entire winter vacation to experience the local customs and thus learned a lot about northern culture. He witnessed the making of northern kangs, saw the mighty and arrogant Siberian tigers, and watched how an ice sculpture master carved a piece of ice into an exquisite rabbit for him...

Those memories were so shocking and vivid that he also clearly remembered what tools the craftsmen used when making the ice sculptures.

He drew them all and asked the blacksmith to make them overnight to help the craftsmen here adapt to the work of carving ice more quickly.

The effect is good.

Seeing the ice sculpture project going on track step by step, Xie Chengze felt an indescribable sense of accomplishment, except...

He looked at Hu Lai who was swaying in front of him and couldn't help but ask, "What are you doing here?"

Hu Lai paused, and said matter-of-factly, "Of course I am monitoring Your Highness! Your Highness, you took the money along with me, so you should cooperate with me."

Xie Chengze: ...

"Didn't they urge you to reply? Did you send it out?" Xie Chengze asked. He didn't pay attention to what Hu Lai wrote later. He wrote too much, and he was busy with important things, so he had no time to read them.

"No hurry, no hurry. The heavy snow blocked the roads. It's a good excuse to delay the manuscript, no, delay it." Hu Lai lowered his head and muttered twice, "It's just right that I can write for two more days. Well, I just had a brilliant idea to make the character of His Highness more vivid..."

Xie Chengze's ears twitched.

Delayed submission, brilliant ideas, character design...

"Hu Lai, you don't have any other identity, do you? For example, the author of a popular storybook..."

Xie Chengze narrowed his eyes. He couldn't help but think of how he bought all the popular story books in the capital when he first arrived. Among them, there was a story book master who was famous for writing unofficial history of the palace. All of his stories described the affairs of men and women in the palace. The writing style, the atmosphere, and some scenes, when he thought about it now, it was as if he had really seen them in the palace...

"How is that possible?!" Hu Lai was shocked and quickly waved his hands to deny it. "How could I, a humble servant, take advantage of my position to write about the palace's affairs in a storybook to make extra money?"

Xie Chengze: ...

But I didn’t just say that the author was writing about the affairs of the palace.

Perhaps realizing that he had exposed his own cover, Hu Lai lowered his head silently and changed the subject faster than his master, "Your Highness, come and see the new character I have written for you!"

Hu Lai took out his little notebook. Yes, it was the "Travels of the Second Prince" he was writing. It was so thick that it had become a book. He dipped the brush in his saliva, softened the brush hair, and wrote:

[The Second Prince has been acting suspiciously lately. I followed him secretly and discovered that he has a talent for making artifacts!

I took a closer look and was shocked to find that the Second Prince had created many strange weapons. One of them was a cold weapon with sharp teeth on the blade, just like the teeth of a tiger or wild beast, which could tear human flesh apart! 】

Xie Chengze rubbed his chin and said, "Oh, this should be a hand saw, a tool for sawing ice cubes."

[There is another evil weapon, which is curved like a blade and emits a cold light. When inserted into the human body and pulled out, it can tear the intestines into bloody strips. It is so terrifying! ]

Xie Chengze scratched his forehead, Oh, this should be the rounded knife for digging grooves for ice sculptures.

[There is also a ghost weapon, which is as thin as a hair and coiled on a piece of iron. It can torture people like slow slicing, and can also poke a hole in a person in an instant. The cruelty is so terrifying! ]

Xie Chengze slapped his hand and said, "Aha, this is a dense-toothed ice shovel!"

Lao Hu, how could such a cute ice carving knife sound so scary when you describe it!

And then Hu Lai continued to write: [The Second Prince was very satisfied. In the dark cave, one could only hear his hideous laughter echoing. Under the dim candlelight, the dark shadow on the wall was like a tiger pouncing on its prey, which was chilling and creepy!

I was afraid and wanted to leave, but then I heard him talking wildly, like a madman: I am the only one who is supreme in this great world!

I personally think that the Second Prince intends to rebel! 】

After finishing writing, Hu Lai licked the tip of his pen with satisfaction and asked for credit: "What a cruel and crazy ghost-faced king. Your Highness, is this person overbearing?"

Xie Chengze: ...

So domineering, so domineering.

As expected of a storyteller, it made people stunned after reading it. He could almost imagine the indescribable expression on the other person's face when this nonsense and ridiculous storyteller fell into his hands.

But speaking of that person...

Xie Chengze hesitated for a moment. He and Shen Yuan had privately discussed how to overthrow the other party's power, but the other party had been lurking in the court for eight years, and many things were handed down by his confidants to the people below, so it was not easy to find any handle on him.

What's more, the other party is also good at martial arts, even better than Shen Yuan. It is obviously impossible to use the same method to deal with Yang Qinghui to deal with him.

Fortunately, the other party has not yet taken control of the military power. If the rebellion does not have military power, it will only fail. Therefore, he and Shen Yuan still have enough time to think about how to make the other party reveal his flaws and minimize the losses when defeating the other party as much as possible so as not to hurt the aorta.

But he suddenly had an idea just now. Why not ask Hu Lai, the most brutal and sinister treacherous minister around the original villain in the book, if he has any solution?

To deal with villains, you should use some shameful villain methods... Yeah!

Xie Chengze rubbed his hands together and put his arm around Hu Lai's shoulders with ill intentions, "Old Hu, I have a problem here and I don't know how to solve it."

"Oh?" Hu Lai's eyes lit up, knowing that it was time for him to serve. "Your Highness, please speak!"