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It's just that Emperor Taizu of Daqi was originally a person in Beijing that year, and after pacifying the world, he missed his homeland, so he decided to be in Beijing that year, and the prosperity and prosperity of Luocheng gradually moved to the capital, and the capital of Yuzhou also lost the prosperity of the past, but as an ancient city, the heritage is still there.

Li took his daughter to walk around the most lively area of Yuzhou City for more than an hour, silk village, silver building, and shops one by one, what her daughter wanted, as long as she had the ability, Li wanted to buy it for her, but Bai Chenghuan didn't like anything all the way down.

After a hundred years of changes, Yuzhou City is far from the capital, it is not a first-class thing, so there is no need to let the Bai family, who is now embarrassed by money, spend this money.

Li felt very guilty for her daughter's thoughtfulness, and in the end she even took Bai Chenghuan to see the juggling in the wine shop, after all, her mother's family is also a military general's family, and these rules are not very strict, but looking at the sky, she can only dispel this idea, and take her daughter with her, and the family returned.

Bai Chenghuan sat in the carriage that began to sway again, holding a scroll of calligraphy and painting in his hand.

This is when they passed by an antique shop, Bai Chenghuan insisted on going in to have a look, and then bought it.

"Huan Niang, how do you know that this painting is fake?"

At that time, the Li family saw that her daughter liked it, so she asked for the price, and the guy asked for five hundred taels of silver when he opened his mouth, God, this is really a sky-high price! If she gritted her teeth, she could have bought it, but this year the family had to tighten their belts to live.

But then the daughter took a closer look at the painting, asked the shopkeeper to come out, and directly said that the painting was fake.

At first, the shopkeeper was red-faced and refused to admit it, but Huan Niang didn't know what to say to him, he looked at the other customers in the store, and sold them for ten taels of silver.

Bai Chenghuan slowly unfolded the painting in his hand, pointed to the majestic tiger in the painting and asked, "Mother, look at it, how is this painting?"

Li Shi took a look, and saw a tiger with a king in his forehead raising his claws and cutting his tail, jumping down from the mountain rock, and suddenly it seemed to be about to pounce, which made people's hearts tremble. Even if she doesn't know calligraphy and painting, she thinks this painting is really good: "This is a tiger down the mountain, it looks really!"

Bai Chenghuan nodded: "Yes, this is the Xiashan Tiger, the painter is skilled, and the style of copying is almost real, but the biggest flaw in this painting is also here......"

Speaking of this, Bai Cheng welcomed Li's puzzled gaze, and paused for a moment before smiling: " In fact, my daughter doesn't understand these painting skills and the like, and I can't see the difference, but the painting is the famous Huangshan Stone Master of the previous dynasty, and it just so happened that my daughter saw it from the book, Huangshan Stone Master's lifelong paintings are mainly mountain stones, and only three tiger pictures have been painted, and they are all mountain tigers, meaning step by step, peace and tranquility, and not so that most people will use the town house or feel the fierce down the mountain tiger picture, so the shop sells this painting at the price of the real Huangshan stone, which is obviously a deception, and the shopkeeper is also afraid that we will shout out and affect other guests, so we have to sell it to us for ten taels of silver, in fact, although this painting is fake, but it is not fake to sell well, fifty taels of silver is still available. ”

Bai Chenghuan still regretted it a little while speaking, knowing too much, would it cause suspicion? But she wanted to do things in the future without making people feel abrupt, and she always had to create some opportunities for herself.

Huangshan stone's paintings, although it is a fine product but not a masterpiece, he has a lot of paintings in the world, so the shopkeeper dares to sell fake, but his three pictures of the tiger on the mountain, one in the palace library, one in the hands of Prime Minister Song Wenru, and one in the hands of the prince of Ningguo, so any picture of the tiger of Huangshan stone on the market, even if it is a tiger on the mountain, it must be fake.

Li Shi was at a loss in his heart from the moment his daughter confidently pointed out the painting just now.

She knew that something was wrong, but, but, with such a Huan Niang, she really didn't want to ask anything.

She is not crazy or stupid, smart and clever, delicate and amiable, if her poor daughter is gone, then this Huan Niang, is it compensated to her by God?

Anyway, this face, this body, is her Huanniang, and she knows clearly what characteristics her daughter has, and it is impossible for her to be replaced.

Well, since it has been decided not to pursue these unwarranted things, why bother thinking about it?

Li Shi froze down, and a happy smile slowly appeared on his face: "Huan Niang is smart, this makes us pick up a big bargain! If Huan Niang likes these, I will buy you more money when I go back!"

Bai Chenghuan's tense back slowly relaxed: "Thank you, mother, but, this painting, just look at it, my daughter wants to learn to paint, can my mother help her daughter find a master when she turns around?"

Li Shi thought about it for a while, her daughter is so smart, she wants to learn painting, that is, she will definitely be able to learn well, but this is the constraint of the master......

She couldn't help but feel a little gloomy: "If your father's official position was bigger, my mother would have invited a serious master for you a long time ago......"

Bai Chenghuan couldn't help laughing: "Mother, don't be in a hurry, if there is a suitable one, please again, this matter of finding a master is not something that can be found in a day or two - but, mother, do you think that our family is cold because of my father's small official children and few talents?"

"It's not all, it's mainly that your father has a tendon in his head, and he doesn't dare to touch the oil and water in the army, and his mother can only go to him, fortunately, he won't have a conscience, and he is worthy of the money and subsidies he gets. It's just that the officials are older, so there must be more Yulu!"

"Mother, it's wrong for you to think like this, do you know, how much does the prime minister of our Great Qi Dynasty have a year?"

"How much?" said Lee, pricking up his ears.

"If it doesn't include the additional subsidies from the imperial court, there are only 900 stone of Lu rice and 300 taels of Lu silver. ”

As soon as Bai Chenghuan's words fell, Li Shi gasped: "This, isn't this not even enough to buy a few paintings?"

The price that the shopkeeper asked for just now was a huge amount in her eyes, she knew that her husband's salary was 100 stone of rice a year, 60 taels of silver, plus miscellaneous subsidies to be considered passable, who would have thought that the prime minister who was above 10,000 people under one person in her heart could be poor like this?

Bai Chenghuan nodded.

She never believed that the officials of Daqi relied on Yulu to support their families, and it was good not to starve to death according to that kind of money, how could there be surplus money for the whole family to put on a show, wear gold and silver, and be extravagant in groups of slaves and maids?

"So, mother, the reason why those high-ranking officials and nobles can eat and wear luxuriously and worry-free, except for those who are indiscriminate, corrupt and take bribes, the most important thing is that they make money in a good way. ”

Bai Chenghuan endured it for a long time, and it was really clear that if he wanted to go back to the capital, but he wished to go, with the status and financial resources of the Bai family, it was a fool's dream, since this is the case, then he might as well take this opportunity to change something.

Li thought about his days in his mother's house, and said: "Huan Niang, you also understand what your mother means, when my mother was still in Jiangzhou, there were also people in the clan who took advantage of the prestige of some officials to find officials' families to do business. ”

Bai Chenghuan nodded: "My mother is right, but this is only one of them. ”

She turned her head and looked at the slightly flickering curtain, her voice as crisp and beautiful as a jade bead hitting a plate.

"What our Bai family lacks is not only power, but also heritage. ”

"Don't talk about it from afar, let's just talk about the mother of Queen Xiaoyuan, the Xu family of Weibei, does my mother know what his ancestors are?"

Li shook his head: "I don't know." ”

It's too far away from the capital, where do those princes and marquis know who is who.

"The ancestor of the Xu family is a pig killer. Bai Chenghuan remembered that when she was a child, she heard her grandfather Lao Wei Beihou tell her about the Xu family's past, and she was surprised by this.

Li's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe that the high-ranking Hou Ye would have anything to do with this despicable business: "Killing pigs?"