Suddenly like the cherry blossoms that blew off the branches overnight, the day turned to the middle of May, the weather gradually became hotter, at noon, the sun hung in the air, under the clear sky, there was no cloud to hide the heat, even if you were walking outside in a thin shirt, you also felt as if the sun was on your back, and the hot people were anxious. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The low bushes under the pane were green, so that the sun roasted, as if it could drip green wax, and the crickets hidden in them called twice from time to time, but the people who knew it together with the tree were even more panicked.

Gu Yanling sat under the window in a plain silk gauze skirt as thin as a cicada's wings, and fanned the wind with her hand a little anxiously.

"Narrative of Differences" once recorded: The South China Sea produces shark silk yarn, and sharks weave. A dragon yarn, its price is more than 100 gold. I thought it was served, but it was not wet in the water.

This silk yarn should be like nothing on the body, and even in the summer, it can make the skin feel cool and refreshing.

But Rao is like this, Gu Yanling, who has always been afraid of heat, still feels unbearable heat, and there are ice basins in the four corners of the room, still bubbling with cold air, and the Liubi and Jiangzhu on the side are also fanning non-stop.

Luo Kui came in to watch this scene, and she caught a careful glimpse of Gu Yanling sitting there with her cheeks propped up, although she was pinching the chess game in her hand, she didn't have the slightest intention of looking at it, and there were fine beads of sweat on her sideburns.

The corners of Luo Kui's mouth curled, and she put down the bead curtain and walked in.

"Girl. ”

Gu Yanling glanced at it when he heard it, then lazily said "um", and then returned his gaze to the chess game.

Luo Kui carefully looked at Yu Bi and Jiang Zhu, and then said, "Girl, the second wife of Fang Cai sent something to the girl." ”

Hearing this, Gu Yanling couldn't help but raise her eyes, and motioned to Luo Kui to continue, the corners of Luo Kui's lower lips curled higher.

"The second wife's mother's uncle gave the second wife two pillows of ivory, and the second wife left a pillow, knowing that the girl has been afraid of heat since she was a child, so she asked people to give it to the girl, so that you can sleep peacefully at night. ”

Gu Yanling's eyes moved slightly, and he saw that Luo Kui had turned around with a smile, opened the curtain, stood behind the curtain and beckoned the little girl in the outhouse to bring in a Nanmu long box, and the two little girls held one on the other, and under Luo Kui's command, they gently rested on the case, and quietly retreated.

Luo Kui walked over with a smile, opened the box, and then gave a gesture to Libi's eyes, Libi looked at Gu Yanling silently, and saw that Gu Yanling nodded his jaw in acquiescence, so he walked over and carefully took out a roll of milky white ivory from the box with Luo Kui.

When the ivory was unfolded in front of him, Gu Yanling couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and then stood up with Jiang Zhu's hand and walked over slowly.

I saw that this ivory is about two meters long and more than one meter wide, and the edge is bordered with blue pigment satin, which is made of countless small and thin ivory flakes, and looks smooth and smooth from the bright window, and at a glance, it is like white jade.

Gu Yanling couldn't help but reach out and touch it lightly, under the touch, he only felt that the cool comfort made people feel refreshed, and with a slight flip of his thumb, the ivory curled freely.

At this moment, even Gu Yanling couldn't help but be shocked.

"Xijing Miscellaneous Records" said that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was very fond of Mrs. Li and once gave Mrs. Li ivory to show his favor.

Ivory is extremely hard, and to be made into such a curved and smooth jade, the process is extremely complex, and the requirements for manual work are also extremely high. The ivory must be split into thin slices of uniform thickness and width, and then the ivory pieces are ground to a white luster, then split into silk, and finally woven by hand.

The ivory originally had its own texture, and the texture was long along the curvature of the ivory, and only by following the direction of the ivory texture and splitting the ivory into a filament shape was it not easy to break. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to split the ivory into flakes and filaments according to the requirements of the texture.

Not only that, but these processes are extremely material-intensive, and the ivory has to be split into slivers and then into filaments, and it is not known how much ivory it takes to make it.

But because of this, the ivory is praised by the royal family and nobles as the most precious and most ostentatious thing to cool off, and it really deserves the name of "Xia Qinghou".

Yu's is really a big deal.

Gu Yanling lowered his eyes, and then said: "Libi, Jiang Zhu, put away the things, and take them out when they are hotter." ”

Libi and Jiang Zhu immediately responded, carefully rolled the ivory back into its original state and took it into the back room, Luo Kui helped Gu Yanling to go back to sitting, and added with a smile: "The slave maid heard that this ivory is a thousand gold and it is rare, it was accidentally obtained by the second wife's little uncle in the south, and the second wife gave it to the girl like this, and even the third girl didn't get it." ”

The corners of Gu Yanling's lips raised slightly: "Second aunt is like this, but I don't know how to reply." ”

As he spoke, Gu Yanling turned his eyes and looked at Luo Kui and said, "You go and take out the apricot blossom wine I personally brewed a few days ago, and then take a jar of sour sauce plums made by Jiang Zhu Qian'er with you, and personally send it to the second aunt, just say that the second aunt's gift is really valuable, and I have to take these things that please the second aunt as a gift." ”

Seeing Gu Yanling instructing herself like this, Luo Kui immediately smiled deeper and said, "Hey, the slave will go." ”

Gu Yanling nodded his jaw, and Luo Kui retreated.

The bead curtain rattled, looking at Luo Kui's disappearing back, Gu Yanling leaned back lazily, and couldn't help but lightly knock on the small low table in his hand.

If it weren't for the first life, Gu Yanling would be hard to be sure if she would suspect that her second aunt was far from being as gentle and kind as she seemed to be.

She really had to admit that the Yu family was really good at acting, and his meticulous temperament was that even ten Qin clans couldn't deal with it.

can act such a warm scene for decades, deceived everyone, and even Xie can avoid it, Gu Yanling is even doubting whether Yu has been acting for a long time, and he can't help but be in it, and he will make the play real, and treat her and Brother Yu as his own children for half a lifetime.

That's a real embarrassment for her.

"Girl, the slave maid just sneaked a little, the ivory is the same as jade, so comfortable, I'm afraid it's worth a lot of money. ”

Jiang Zhu came out of the inner room, and interrupted Gu Yanling's train of thought with interest, Gu Yanling's lips raised slightly, isn't it worth a lot?

Yu has an eldest brother and a younger brother, the eldest brother is in politics, but this younger brother is a and a dog, he doesn't like his career, and he runs to do business privately.

Yu's father, Ding Anbo, originally didn't expect the idle younger son to focus on the eldest son, so it was up to Yu's younger brother to toss.

Yu's younger brother originally had some business acumen, and he relied on Ding'an Bo Mansion to make a lot of money.

I am afraid that this rare ivory was received when he went south to do business.

Thinking of this, Gu Yanling couldn't help but smile, since the Yu family was willing to use such a good thing to make a play, why didn't she accept it with peace of mind.

Thinking of this, the corners of Gu Yanling's lips raised, looked at Jiang Zhu and said, "It seems that this summer will be better in the future." ”