Mr. Qin met in the flower hall of the middle courtyard, and Qin Hanzhen and his grandmother Niu did not know the details in the upper courtyard. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info waited until it was almost dinner time before Mr. Qin returned to the main house.

Niu Shi was already impatient, and while asking Mama Hu to set the meal, he poured a cup of red date tea for her husband and asked him, "What is the monkey looking for you?"

Mr. Qin took a sip of hot tea, and couldn't laugh at his wife's words: "Why are you doing this? Although there were some quarrels in the past, it was nearly thirty years ago. I've forgotten it a long time ago, but you still remember it clearly. ”

Niu Shi sneered: "I naturally remember clearly! You have worked hard in his shop, I don't know how much silver you have earned for them, and how much you have suffered less, it is only eighty taels of silver a year, and that cunning can dare to deduct all of them, and you really don't treat people as human beings! He also took back the house that his Lao Tzu bought for you, and even sold the little servant Zhao Ge who was sent to serve you. How much effort did you spend on teaching that kid that day, teaching him to read and write, and also teaching him to settle accounts, but the children who had gone to school in ordinary small families outside may not be as capable as him, and he was thinking that he would serve by your side for a long time, but he was dragged away and sold by that cunning dog! If I hadn't heard about it in the county town by chance, I quickly asked Liu to buy the person, and I don't know where I would be going to go. Just for the black-hearted and immoral things that the fox has done, I can remember him for the rest of my life!"

Old Mr. Qin sighed, and in turn comforted his wife: "That was all in the past. Now Brother Zhao is doing well, marrying a wife and having children, and doing things in the Wang family is also smooth. Why don't you bother to talk about the past grievances? Think about it carefully, the house and Brother Zhao were arranged by the old shopkeeper, and they didn't say that they were given to me, if the shopkeeper Xiao Li didn't sell Brother Zhao, we wouldn't be able to bring people with us. It can be seen that Xiao Li's shopkeeper is not doing well, he just saved a few hundred taels of silver, but the family's business is getting worse day by day, and now it is no longer worthy of the name, just a little bit of survival. Our family is very rich, and there is really no need to meet him in the same way. ”

Niu pouted: "Our family's wealth is due to our own good management, and it is not his credit." Even if I don't have the same knowledge as him, I still have to scold when it's time to scold!"

Old Mr. Qin smiled and turned his head to tease Qin Hanzhen: "Sister Sang has finished her homework today?"

Qin Hanzhen nodded hurriedly: "It's all done, I'll show it to my grandfather." He turned around and went to the small table at the end of the kang to get a stack of paper full of large characters. Now that the weather is cold and it snows from time to time, she stays warm in the main house, and when she goes back to her own house, she is blown by the wind outside, and then enters the warm house, and it is easy to catch a cold when it is cold and hot, so she simply takes her homework to her grandmother's house to write. As long as Niu didn't discuss the trivial matters of the housekeeper with Mama Hu, it would not affect her.

Mr. Qin took his granddaughter's big characters to read, and Niu hurriedly stopped him: "Alas, don't stop talking halfway, what is the matter with the Qianmian surnamed Li looking for you?

Mr. Qin saw that his wife had to ask to the end, so he had to answer: "It's not a big deal, it's just that there is an ancient painting in his shop, which is hundreds of years old, and it is said to be made by a famous family in the previous dynasty, and it is worth a lot of silver." Xiao Li's shopkeeper received this painting by chance, and he was bent on selling it for a high price and turning it over. Who would have thought that the owner of the front of this painting was not kept, and it looked fine on the surface, but the painting was in the hands of Xiao Li's shopkeeper, but it was mildewy everywhere in ten days and a half months. Xiao Li's shopkeeper has already sold the painting, and he has also received a deposit from the buyer, and even spent it. If I can't deliver the painting to the buyer in good condition in a short time, I am afraid that I will not only lose a lot of money, but also offend such a person, and he will not even be able to save his life, so he came to beg me to help. ”

Niu Shi sneered: "It turns out that he still knows that he is going to come to beg you? It's really rare, didn't he look down on people back then?" and asked Mr. Qin again, "You didn't promise him, did you? Don't promise him! People like him deserve to die!"

Old Mr. Qin said helplessly: "Do you think I am for his sake? It's just that I don't want the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the old shopkeeper to suffer too." This time, the identity of the buyer he was looking for was not ordinary, he was an official, and his rank was not low. If it weren't for Xiao Li's shopkeeper who used the money and curried favor with the stewards of other people's families, he might not be able to make this deal. Now half of the money has been collected, but there is a problem with the sale, and he can't explain it. Even if the buyer is magnanimous, as long as he loses money, the steward who pulls the strings from it will not let his family go easily. He was so desperate that he came to me for help. If I refuse to lend a hand, how can I be worthy of the old shopkeeper's kindness?"

Niu disagreed: "You earned at least two or three thousand taels of silver for the old shopkeeper, and you have repaid any kindness." Besides, if I can hire you to do the offerings, it was originally because of the green smoke on the ancestral grave of their old Li family, and the descendants of his family are not good enough to cause trouble, can they still blame you?"

Mr. Qin smiled and said: "I have seen that painting, in fact, it was reframed by the previous owner before selling the painting, and the framer he was looking for did not work at home, and it was not done well, and Xiao Li's shopkeeper did not preserve it properly, so it became what it is now." As long as it is reframed, the painting may not be unsaved. It's just that the current season is not right, and it is not suitable to boil the paste on a cold day, let alone uncover the painting. If he had sent it two months in advance, things would have been much easier. Now I don't dare to guarantee that it will be done, so I just let him go back and think about it. I'm also an old man, I haven't done this for years, what if there is a delay, what can I do? Besides, it will take at least half a month of hard work to do it, but I am afraid that he may not be able to wait. If he could find a better framer, he wouldn't have to venture to me. ”

Niu was satisfied, she only regarded her husband's words as a prevarication: "That's right." If it weren't for his poor vision, his failure to discover the defects in the paintings when he bought them, and the improper preservation of them, how could he have provoked such a powerful character? He has no ability himself, and he has to drive away all the people who have the ability, just to save dozens of taels of silver a year.

Mr. Qin just smiled, let his wife scold, and he concentrated on checking the big characters written by his granddaughter.

Since the beginning of the lunar month, Qin Hanzhen has started his homework of 500 big characters a day, which is much harder than when he had 300 words a day before. But by this time, she had become accustomed to writing calligraphy, and she had become familiar with it, and it was easier to write than when she first learned to write. She is only a seven-year-old girl now, and Mr. Qin does not ask his granddaughter to write well, as long as the font is neat, the pages are neat, and the strokes are clear, it is fine.

Mr. Qin has seen his granddaughter's homework and is quite satisfied. Qin Hanzhen's words are not very good, but they are all neatly written, and the font structure is mastered, and the rest is just more practice and more posts. He picked out a few words and instructed his granddaughter: "The character 'Fan', the character 'nose', the character 'Xi' and the character 'Yu', although there are more strokes, you also write too big, more than twice as big as other characters." My grandfather knew that you wanted to write as clearly as possible, but you still had to practice more in the future, even if you had a lot of strokes, you had to write as much as any other word. ”

Qin Han smiled embarrassedly and agreed.

Mr. Qin put away his granddaughter's big words: "Okay, according to this progress, you can start posting after the New Year." When I do some sketching in the red notebook, you can follow your grandfather's handwriting and draw it for a year. ”

Qin Hanzhen agreed to take the stack of papers, and Niu said beside him: "In my opinion, Sister Sang'er is very well written." I've been learning from you for decades, and that's all I write. We don't have to go to study and take the imperial examination, we can read letters, we can settle accounts, and we can write posts and communicate with people without relying on others in our spare time. You have taught Sister Sang how to write, why don't you teach her arithmetic? I see that this child has a clear heart and a clear eye, and he must be a good hand at settling accounts. As for those poems, lyrics, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, etc., there is no need to learn them. We can't find a few sisters who can write poetry and calligraphy in Mizhi, and Sister Sang won't need them when she grows up. ”

Mr. Qin shook his head and said: "How old is she? Naturally, she should read more books, settling accounts is just a small way, the most important thing is to know how to learn and understand things." Poetry and songs, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, etc., if she likes it, she can also learn it. Learning these things is not to show off in front of others, or to use them when socializing with others, but because you like them, and you can entertain yourself and cultivate your interest in your spare time. ”

Qin Han really thought, what is there to learn about arithmetic? She has studied it for more than ten years, enough for her to calculate accounts in ancient times, does she still have to study calculus if she learns it again? However, it is very interesting to learn piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and songs, and she doesn't need to be proficient, but if she can learn a little fur, it will be enough for her to be happy. If it were in modern society, those who were proficient in these would be male gods and goddesses!

She hurriedly said to Mr. Qin: "Grandfather teach me, I want to learn what you said." And your art of framing calligraphy and painting, I also want to learn. If you're willing to teach me how to identify antiques, I'll definitely try my best!"

Niu Shi was a little surprised, and scolded with a smile: "What are you crazy about? What are you doing to learn those things? Listen to me tell me how powerful your grandfather was when he was young, and you want to learn it too? Even if you learn it, you can't do it in other people's shops." ”

Qin Hanzhen disagreed: "I'm not here to go to other people's shops to make offerings, I learned to be happy for myself." When my grandfather wants to frame someone's paintings, I can also do it? ”

Niu Shi was a little jealous when he heard this, and glanced at Mr. Qin: "Look, it's all what you're used to, this girl has such a sweet mouth, she will only please you, and my words are only on deaf ears." ”

Mr. Qin smiled happily: "She is also very filial to you on weekdays, she accompanies you at home all day long, and she rarely sees me, and she should occasionally please my grandfather." He touched Qin Hanzhen's little head lovingly, "Good boy, if you really want to learn, your grandfather will teach you, but you can't shout hard work, if you fish for three days and dry nets for two days, grandfather won't teach you, you know?"

Qin Hanzhen kept nodding, thinking that her grandfather knew in her heart that she would never let her be tired. Anyway, there is nothing to do, and if you don't take advantage of such a good opportunity to learn more from your versatile grandfather, will you waste this rare time of rebirth?