Li Xiaonuan sent it to the gate of the courtyard, watched a group of lanterns go away, and then let out a long sigh of relief, and told the little girl to close the courtyard door and go into the main house.

At the end of winter, he stepped forward with a smile on his face and reported in a low voice:

"Girl, just now I took a hundred yuan to ask Mama Liu to add vegetables, Mama Liu said that she didn't want anything, not only did she refuse to ask for it, but she also forced the previous 100 yuan to me, saying that the young lady and the young master were just this dinner, and there was nothing more, it was not a violation, and the money was not easy to collect."

Late Winter paused, then continued:

"I took it upon myself to keep a hundred dollars, saying that it was a reward from the girl, and asked her to share it with a few grandmothers to buy wine and eat."

Li Xiaonuan smiled and nodded in praise:

"At the end of winter, my sister did a very good job, and it was hard for them."

Late Winter breathed a sigh of relief and laughed happily.

Gu Xiao's plum appreciation picture, painting and changing, changing and changing painting, painting for several days, finally painted the day before the Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Xiaonuan let the end of winter and Lan Chu hold the painting, and Gu Xiao stood in front of the painting, carefully admired for a while, Li Xiaonuan said with admiration:

"Gu Xiao, your painting is really smart! I want to send it out and have it framed! ”

Gu Xiao looked at Li Xiaonuan with bright eyes, and became a little excited,

"Nuan Nuan, is it really that good? Is it really good? ”

Li Xiaonuan tilted his head to look at him, nodded with a smile, signaled that the painting was collected at the end of winter, and instructed Lan Chu:

"You go and see where Mama Wei is, if you are not busy, ask her to come over, and say that I am in a bit of a hurry to find her."

Lan Chu agreed and went out.

After a while, Mama Wei followed Lan Chu back to Songfeng Courtyard, Li Xiaonuan pulled Mama Wei, pointed out to her to look at Gu Xiao's paintings, and said with a smile:

"Can Mama go out of the house and send this painting to the framing shop to be framed?"

"My girl, Ming'er is Chinese New Year's Eve, this framing shop has long been closed, and when the New Year is over, it will be the first month, and people will open the door!"

Li Xiaonuan was stunned, and was stunned for a while, but no, in this world, from this afternoon to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there is not even a green vegetable seller!

Li Xiaonuan hung her head in frustration, and there was nothing she could do for a while, Gu Xiao took her hand and said with a smile on her face:

"It's the New Year, it's the New Year, what's the hurry!"

Li Xiaonuan looked at him, opened his mouth, thought about it, swallowed back the words that came to his mouth, spread his hands and said helplessly:

"There's no way to do it!"

"If the girl is in a hurry, there is really a way!"

The end of the winter said with a smile, Li Xiaonuan raised his eyebrows, hurriedly shook the end of the winter's hand, and discussed softly:

"Sister Late Winter, say it quickly, what method? What is the way for my sister to hurry up and say it at the end of winter! ”

"The girl let me go first, frame the calligraphy and painting, and someone in our family will do it, but there is no need to send it outside."

Li Xiaonuan's eyes widened in surprise, and he said with a smile at the end of winter:

"Listen to my father, since there was a time when the master sent out to frame the words, after being dropped the bag, the master's words, paintings, or something, have never been sent out to frame, and now the four mothers-in-law on duty in the front yard study are all specially worshipped by famous teachers to learn framing, all of them are good at framing, and the general framing shops outside are not as good as their framing!"

Gu Xiao became proud and said with a smile:

"I also know about this, it was after my father learned about Yuan!"

Li Xiaonuan tilted his head and thought about it carefully, and instructed the end of the winter:

"Sister at the end of winter, please take this painting to the study in the front yard to see if they are willing to frame it, if not, there will be a rhetoric, don't say more, just come back, let's follow the rules."

The end of the winter smiled and nodded, carefully rolled up the painting, and took the painting to the study in the front yard.

The New Year of Gufu passed calmly and busily, and in a blink of an eye, it was the fourth day of the new year, Li Xiaonuan sat on the couch, looked at the plum picture hanging on the wall, and wrinkled his brows and calculated.

Gu Xiao is really very talented in this painting, but no matter how talented he is, he will definitely not be able to explore by himself and without the guidance of a famous teacher, listening to the meaning of Gu Yunshan's words on weekdays, Mrs. Zhou does not approve of Gu Xiao doing anything other than reading, but the old lady is willing to arrange for Gu Xiao to get familiar with the market or something, I heard that Gu Xiao's father is also very good at painting, and if she wants to find a way, there is a possibility of seven or eight points!

It's just that if that's the case, she instigated Gu Xiao to paint about it...... Will Mrs. Zhou think that she has taken Gu Xiao badly and divided Gu Xiao's mind to study?

In this mansion, offended Mrs. Zhou, it was definitely her Li Xiaonuan who was looking for her own death!

Li Xiaonuan sighed bitterly, leaned on the pillow, do you want to go to the old lady to think about it? Gu Xiao is really ...... when he reads. It's good to be able to lift it, but if you can draw a good painting, it's also a method...... Li Xiaonuan had an idea in his heart and slowly calculated.

The ancient family guarded the funeral, the New Year is also closed, and there are no relatives to come to the door, listen to the end of the winter, Gu Xiao's grandfather's generation, the in-law has only one younger brother, the younger brother in the early years of the town is remote, become a family attached to his wife, moved to Hangzhou to live, gave birth to two sons, because the older generation died early, to Gu Xiao's father's generation, the cousins are not close.

Gu Xiao's father was three or four years old, and his father was gone, and Mrs. Li lived with her only son, and now her son is also gone before her, leaving only Gu Xiao's only seedling.

According to the emotion of the end of winter: "The ancestor is a bitter one!" ”

The distant relatives in the Gu family clan, because Mrs. Li was known for her fierceness and shrewdness, almost no one in the clan dared to come to the door to disturb her.

Li Xiaonuan was full of emotion, Mrs. Li guarded her three- or four-year-old only son and a huge family business, and her mother's family had no brothers and sisters, she didn't know how many turmoil and hardships she had experienced back then, if she wasn't fierce or shrewd, she was a little bit worse, I was afraid that the ancient family would have broken off its roots a long time ago!

In a blink of an eye, it was the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, after lunch, Mrs. Zhou's face showed some tiredness, Mrs. Li hurriedly sent her back to rest, Gu Yunshan pulled Gu Yunhuan, quietly handed over a look, the two muttered a few words in a low voice, only said that they were going to the big kitchen to see the Lantern Festival stuffing, and then quit.

Li Xiaonuan bit her lip lightly, sat down at the foot of the couch, took the beauty hammer in the little girl's hand, and said with a smile while gently beating the legs of Mrs. Li:

"Ancestor, I received a painting, and I don't know if the painting is good or not, I asked my sister at the end of winter to bring it over, and Ancestor helped me pass it, okay?"

Old Madam Li straightened up slightly, and said with a smile:

"Okay, hurry up and bring it, I'll take a look!"

Li Xiaonuan got up and went to the door and ordered the end of winter, not long after, the end of winter took the painting, Li Xiaonuan turned his head to look at Gu Xiao, raised his hand and pressed his lips, signaled him not to speak, and unfolded the picture scroll with the end of winter.

Old Madam Li sat up straight, carefully examined the picture scroll, her eyes flashed with clarity, and she didn't wear it, but only commented seriously:

"If this painting is about the power of the brush, there are no rules, and it is too immature."

Gu Xiao's face suddenly fell, Li Xiaonuan looked at Mrs. Li with a smile, waiting for her to say, Mrs. Li looked back at Gu Xiao, turned her head to look at Li Xiaonuan, sighed secretly, and continued:

"But if you talk about spirituality, this painting is full of ten, this must be painted by a person who has not learned to paint, but has some talent, this snow, this plum blossom, this garden are extremely smart, and the color is also good!"

Li Xiaonuan burst into a smile on his face, Gu Xiao's eyes flashed, and his eyes were bent into crescents with a smile.

Mrs. Li looked up at Li Xiaonuan, Li Xiaonuan handed over the painting to the end of winter, stepped forward and sat down against Mrs. Li, leaned into her ear, and whispered:

"Ancestor, this painting was painted by Gu Xiao for fun, I looked at it well, so I asked the grandmother in the study in the front yard to help frame it and hang it in my room!"

Old Madam Li raised her eyebrows in surprise, turned to look at Gu Xiao and asked:

"You drew it?"

Gu Xiao raised his hand and scratched his head, nodded a little twistedly, Mrs. Li stroked Gu Xiao's head lovingly, Li Xiaonuan looked at Mrs. Li carefully, and said with a smile:

"Ancestor, otherwise, invite a clever teacher to come back and teach Gu Xiao to paint, Gu Xiao is so talented, if there is a famous teacher to guide him, maybe after ten or eight years, he will become the best calligraphy and painting master of our Yuan Zheng Dynasty!"

Mrs. Li turned her head and looked at Li Xiaonuan thoughtfully, Li Xiaonuan raised her head and looked at her with expectant eyes, Mrs. Li stared at Li Xiaonuan for a while, then turned her head and looked at Gu Xiao with nervous and eager eyes, stroked his cheek and said with a smile:

"This is a big deal, I'll discuss it with your mother later."

Li Xiaonuan was a little anxious, straightened up slightly, and said with a smile:

"It is said that a scholar must be proficient in six arts, even if he can't master the six arts, he must be good at it, I heard that there is a bachelor named Shen Taiqing, who is famous for being good at painting, and the emperor loves his paintings!"

Mrs. Li was stunned, and Li Xiaonuan continued with some eagerness:

"I read that those notes said that he was once drunk and collided with the emperor, and the emperor said that he 'paints freely, and people are also free', and he didn't blame him at all, and I don't know if ......it's true or fake."

Li Xiaonuan looked at Mrs. Li and stopped talking a little timidly.

Old Madam Li stared at Li Xiaonuan solemnly for a long time, looked back at Gu Xiao, who looked inexplicable and ignorant, sighed leisurely, stretched out her hand to stroke Li Xiaonuan's bun, and said with a forced smile:

"How nice it would be if you were a man!"

Li Xiaonuan blinked, looked at Mrs. Li in a bit of confusion, Mrs. Li took out a handkerchief and pressed the corner of her eyes, and said with a smile:

"Grandmother is happy, Xiao Er paints so aura, Xiao Nuan is so sensible, grandmother is happy. Okay, you go back first, grandmother is tired and has to rest. ”

Gu Xiao looked at Mrs. Li worriedly, Li Xiaonuan hurriedly stood up, gently pulled Gu Xiao, bent his knees and retreated, and retreated lightly.