After a while, the alchemists couldn't wait any longer and said, "Alright, Young Master Ye, let's take this box to study first, it won't get in your way of celebrating with the Seventh Princess."
"What are you going to study with this box? Is it fun?" The little spendthrift didn't understand.
"Not at all, this is not for fun. We want to open this box and get Ban's notes," the alchemists said seriously.
"Notes? Do you mean this book?" Suddenly, the little spendthrift held up a book.
"Yes, it's the alchemy notes... Oh, no... you, you..." The alchemists pointed at the little spendthrift, their eyes widened, showing an expression of astonishment and disbelief.
"Ah..." At this moment, everyone's mouths fell open, looking at the little spendthrift in surprise, unable to make any sound.
"There are a few more, one, two, three, four... five books, there are five books in this box." The little spendthrift pulled out one book after another, while everyone present was still in a daze.
"Are you sure you were not lying to us just now, that this box was really so difficult to open?" The Emperor and others began to doubt the alchemists, suspecting that they had lied about the box being unopenable because they wanted to be the first to see the notes.
But everyone present also knew that this possibility was very slim.
The alchemists immediately and solemnly denied, "Absolutely not, we wouldn't lie to Your Majesty. This box indeed requires a lot of effort and many difficult challenges to open. It's just that..."
"Just that, why can a ten-year-old child like him open it so easily?" The Emperor looked at the little spendthrift, his eyes showing doubt and more than a bit of strangeness.
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Yes, the box that even many top alchemists couldn't open has been opened by our Young Master Thirteen very easily, without any hindrance, and no one even noticed when it happened.
This surprised and shocked everyone, making them doubt what they saw, doubting the unquestionable reality in front of them.
If it were any other child, they might say he is a genius, but Young Master Thirteen is not even as capable as an ordinary person, how could he be a genius.
"Perhaps he is an alchemy genius," suggested an alchemist, although it seemed unlikely.
"It's impossible. He has never learned alchemy. We wouldn't let him near something so dangerous," Lady Long Anqi directly denied the possibility, as a mother, she knew her son's affairs, at least this she was sure of.
"That's right, the young master doesn't know alchemy. He hasn't even read an alchemy book," the Tiger Girl nodded in agreement.
If Lady Long Anqi's words weren't enough to convince anyone, then with the Tiger Girl's words, it was enough to make people believe without a doubt. Everyone knew that the Tiger Girl had always been by Young Master Thirteen's side, and she knew everything he had done better than anyone.
"Since he doesn't know alchemy, how could he open it? Could it be another coincidence? This boy really is favored by the goddess of luck, this is too amazing," the emperor and others began to discuss, this was the only explanation they had, using the miraculous luck of Young Master Thirteen to explain it.
At this time, the Seventh Princess asked, "Yelei, how did you open this box?"
This question from the Seventh Princess suddenly made everyone think, why speculate on the sidelines when the person in question is right in front of them, why not just ask directly.
But everyone was worried about one thing, the person in question might not be able to explain this.
"How did I open it? I just opened it like this, what's so difficult about it," as expected, Young Master Thirteen's answer was completely inexplicable.
"It seems to be just luck, this is inexplicable," everyone thought with a wry smile, luck, when it appears, can overcome any difficulty.
But is it really just luck?
"I have definitely never seen these alchemy arrays, but why do they feel familiar?" The young spendthrift looked at the alchemy notes, muttered to himself, and then made a decision that stunned everyone.
"I want to learn alchemy, I want to read these books," he said, and then put the five alchemy notebooks into his spatial ring, the alchemists on the side wanted to stop him but couldn't.
"Um, Yelei, can you give us those five books you just took? We have many books here, we can make an exchange," the alchemists said as they took out many books, all of them being their cherished alchemy books. Normally, they wouldn't even be willing to bring them out, but now they were willing to do anything.
After receiving those books, Young Master Thirteen said something that made everyone despair.
"I'll take these books, but I won't make an exchange!"
"……"
The alchemists wanted to cry but had no tears, they looked to the emperor for help. They now only hoped that the emperor could come and intervene, and find a way to get those five alchemy notebooks back.
Even if they didn't ask for help, the emperor would have found a way, because he knew that if they were left in the hands of the young spendthrift, they would be of no use at all, and only by giving them to the imperial alchemists could they be of any help to the empire.
Finally, after discussion, Young Master Thirteen handed over the alchemy notebooks, but only lent them for three days, during which they could copy down all the contents of the alchemy notebooks.
Don't forget, the alchemy notebooks are just that, notebooks, and not some profound alchemy items. As long as the contents are copied down, it will be the same as having a functioning notebook.
And it was Young Master Thirteen who came up with this idea, these people thought too much and didn't think about this simple aspect, which made many people present feel ashamed.
Sometimes, the key to solving a problem is often very simple, but many people don't think about simplicity, they only think more and more complexly, which makes the problem more and more complicated in the end.
"Um, Yelei, can you give us those books first, we'll transcribe a copy for you..." the royal alchemists of the empire asked weakly, since they had the previous method, of course, they thought of this.
It was a bit of a waste for the young spendthrift to hold on to those precious books, if they could get them back, they wanted to. At this point, they didn't care about their own dignity, they were willing to put everything on the line for their precious books.
"Alright!" Young Master Thirteen readily agreed, but after that, he added another sentence, "You have to transcribe all of your books for me as well!"
"……"
Is this kid really as foolish as the legends say, is he pretending? At this moment, many people were questioning, but it was only temporary. They didn't believe a person could pretend to be like this, especially from a young age.
In fact, Young Master Thirteen was not pretending, it's just that he seemed to be missing something, making him weak in some things, but very strong in others, like the previous memory problem, and the alchemy he was going to study next.
Perhaps there was another point, his luck.