Xu Wanzhen stood slightly, saw Yuegui coming out with Mrs. Zhao, and went down after seeing her give a salute. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Chunying came out of the pavilion and said with a smile: "Miss Xu, the princess announced that you should go in." ”

Xu Wanzhen quietly took a breath, and asked Mama Zheng and Sang Zi to wait outside, while she collected her mood and slowly entered the pavilion.

The furnishings in the pavilion are simple and elegant, in the middle is a rosewood arhat bed, a low table in front of the bed, and a white jade porcelain plate contains all kinds of fresh fruits. There is a bookcase set up near the lake, the pen, ink, paper and inkstone are complete, there are several pieces of rice paper, many of which are full of words, it seems that the princess often sticks by the lake. The beauty shrugged in the corner of the pavilion and inserted several bouquets of apricot blossoms in the bottle. On either side, there were two maids dressed in similar clothes as Yuegui, smiling and holding their hands.

A woman sits in the middle on the bed, her skin is like clotted fat, as bright as the autumn moon. She has a slightly square face and a straight waist. The eyebrows are as green as distant mountains, the forehead is wide, and there are deep dimples on the cheeks. It is not outstanding to see a single place, but when combined together, it becomes a unique and charming face, beautiful and heroic, such as a blooming peony flower, the national color is fragrant, making people unforgettable.

She is not dressed in a skirt like the current woman, but in a peony makeup carved silk riding and shooting Hu suit, short clothes with narrow sleeves, and a pair of moire sheepskin boots, which is more and more heroic. The eyes like stars and moon looked at Xu Wanzhen, and lightly opened her lips and asked, "You are Xu Wanzhen?" ”

Xu Wanzhen followed Mama Zheng's etiquette of visiting the princess, bent down to the ground, kowtowed with her hands on the ground and said, "People's daughter Xu Wanzhen, knock to see Her Royal Highness Princess Zhaoyang." ”

I only heard a crisp voice say, "No courtesy." ”

One of the maids stepped forward to help Xu Wanzhen, the light green embroidered blue lotus pattern dress made her as slim as an orchid, a gardenia decorated with rice beads pressed sideburns, and an elegant white silk flower with a pile of yarn was inserted in the sideburns, announcing her identity of filial piety, and wearing a white jade bracelet on her left wrist. Elegant and refined, and not rude in front of the princess, just right.

Princess Zhaoyang saw that she was dignified and generous, and remembered what Zhou Da's shopkeeper said in her letter, and a little curiosity rose in her heart, and asked: "Zhou Huaxi said, you are in Yangzhou, and you actually completed a big case?" What the specific situation is, you can tell us in detail. "Zhou Huaxi is the treasurer of Yangzhou City, and only Xu Wanzhen knows the ins and outs of that matter. After Princess Zhaoyang heard about it, she was always curious about the reason.

Xu Wanzhen smiled lightly and went through the things one by one. From the time she was stunned and taken away by Yunsheng, to the time she woke up in the cabin, she deduced the general reason in her heart, guessed Yin Chengye's identity, and thought of a way to deal with it. to preemptively, suppress the scene, deduce the identity of Lin Gongzi, and make him panic and take the initiative to confess. In the end, the officers and soldiers of Yangzhou were used to get out smoothly. just hid Han Runiang's identity and fell into the water.

Xu Wanzhen's voice was shallow, and she spoke eloquently, like a legendary story. Hearing this, Princess Zhaoyang was fascinated, and clapped her hands and praised: "Women should be like this!" "Xu Wanzhen's unchaotic personality is very suitable for her temperament. Princess Zhaoyang tried to put herself in that situation, and she couldn't have done better than her.

Princess Zhaoyang is hearty by nature, and she is the most impatient to socialize with those noble girls, thinking that they are too cowardly, weak and weak, and only know how to cry and cry when encountering problems. At the moment, this Xu Wanzhen is delicate but has a backbone inside, which makes her refreshed.

Xu Wanzhen gave a deep salute and said: "The folk girl doesn't dare to be a princess. Knowing that the princess had summoned her, the folk girl prepared some gifts, and Princess Wangbo smiled. "Present the gift list.

"Oh?" Seeing that she was cautious, Princess Zhaoyang took the gift list presented by the maid, looked at it with great interest, and said, "It's really interesting." That double-sided embroidered interstitial screen and quill look good. ”

"Princess, these two things are outside the pavilion, do you want to take a look?" Xu Wanzhen said.

Princess Zhaoyang nodded, and Chunying went out to bring in the brocade box in the hands of Mama Zheng and Sang Zi.

Xu Wanzhen picked up a royal blue satin brocade box, opened it and presented it respectfully.

On the dark purple orangutan felt, seven quills of different colors lay on it, and Princess Zhaoyang reached out and took out a crimson quill and asked, "Can goose feathers also write?" ”

"Back to the princess's words, yes. Goose feathers can absorb and store ink, writing about fifty words at a time, and then need to absorb ink again. Xu Wanzhen replied.

"Show me how."

Xu Wanzhen asked, "Can you borrow pen and ink?" Princess Zhaoyang bowed.

Xu Wanzhen Lian moved lightly and walked to the bookcase. I lightly held the ink strip with my bare hands, added water to the inkstone, grinded it for a while, and got the ink. Then he took out a snow-blue quill pen, dipped the pen in ink in his right hand, and wrote on a blank piece of rice paper.

In modern times, she had nothing to do and practiced hard calligraphy. After arriving in the Gaomang Dynasty, because he was never able to master the calligraphy of the brush, after making the goose quill, he picked up the hard pen calligraphy again, combined with some hairpin flowers. At this time, the last paragraph of the "Diamond Sutra" was written, which reads, "All things are like dreams and bubbles, like dew and electricity, and should be viewed as such." As a closing remark.

A maid presented the words she had written to Princess Zhaoyang, and when she tasted them carefully, she saw that the words were like her person, soft on the outside and rigid on the inside, gentle but powerful. On a piece of rice paper, the neat small block is displayed on it, although it lacks the agility of the brush, but the glyphs are smaller, arranged closely, there are about more than 100 characters, but it looks not difficult.

At a glance, Princess Zhaoyang saw the practicality of this quill. Paper was still a precious item in the Gaomang Dynasty, and ordinary people could not afford to use it at all, which also restricted the spread of book knowledge. Even if it is a well-to-do family, if it is on the same piece of paper, more words can be written. How much paper will be saved over time?

Princess Zhaoyang's eyes lit up and asked, "How long does it take to make this quill?" ”

"Back to the princess," Xu Wanzhen replied, "From the selection of materials to the completion of production, it took three days for the people's daughter. If Her Royal Highness the princess is interested, the folk girl can write down the recipe and present it to the princess. ”

Although it is easy to use, it takes a long time to challenge the writing habits that have been passed down for thousands of years, and it takes a long time to make a profit. The Xu family runs a silk business, and the profit of the quill pen is not in his eyes. Besides, there is no patent protection law here, the production of quills is not complicated, imitation is simple, if the market is opened, there must be people to imitate, mutual price reduction.

If you compete with the market merchants, it is better to give it to the princess, and you can leave a good impression. Perhaps this technique can also be popularized, and if this can increase the dissemination of books and make the road to the imperial examination easier for literati students, it will be beneficial for a long time.

Hearing that the making of quill pens was not complicated, Xu Wanzhen was willing to present the recipe again, and Princess Zhaoyang was happy.

This gift made her very happy. Looking at the next brocade box, I wondered what kind of surprise this double-sided embroidery would bring her?