In the evening, Li Xiaonuan came back from Ruixuan Hall, pulled Mama Wei to sit on the couch in the east wing, and asked in a low voice with a smile:

"Mama Ming'er is going to buy silk thread?"

Mama Wei looked at Li Xiaonuan suspiciously and said:

"If the girl has anything to say, Grandma Sun entrusted me with the work of buying silk thread embroidery, I have to go out twice in three days, and the silk thread in this house is used a lot! Look at the thread is almost used, you have to go out, if you come to the fresh embroidery, the shop also asks someone to come over, I also have to go over to see, there is no rule, tomorrow can go, don't go! ”

Li Xiaonuan grinned, squeezed to Mama Wei's side, and said in a low voice:

"Then Mama Ming'er will go for a trip, Mama has chosen the silk thread, go to the best South Paper Shop in town, and help me buy something back."

"If the girl wants something, Mama will buy it early in the morning!"

Mama Wei caressed Li Xiaonuan's hair lovingly and said, Li Xiaonuan asked the end of the winter to take the boxwood box with silver over, opened the box, took out the two whole silver cakes inside, handed them to Mama Wei, and said with a smile:

"Mama go to the South Paper Shop, buy a piece of pine smoke ink, not too good, medium on the line, buy a thin mat felt for painting, and then buy some stone green, stone blue, tube yellow, Zhu Biao, ochre These colors for painting, half a catty each, and then buy ten three-inch white porcelain plates, if there is still money left, buy half a knife and half a raw Xuan."

Mama Wei looked at Li Xiaonuan with wide eyes,

"Girl, are you going to learn to draw?"

"It's not me who learns, it's Gu Xiao."

Li Xiaonuan said with a smile, Mama Wei thought about it, pulled Li Xiaonuan, and said in a low voice:

"What did the girl buy these things for him? He is the only seedling in the family, and the family is looking forward to him being the leader of high school, glorifying his ancestors, and now you are conniving at him to learn these useless things, if he delays his studies, is it not something that a girl can afford? ! ”

"Mama don't worry, I have a sense of proportion, and I won't delay him."

Li Xiaonuan pulled Mama Wei and comforted her with a smile, Mama Wei looked at Li Xiaonuan uneasily, Li Xiaonuan looked at her with a smile in her eyes, nodded her head and said:

"Mama rest assured!"

Mama Wei sighed, shook her head with a smile, and took the silver cake,

"I'll go buy it for the girl tomorrow morning, the girl is cautious in everything, but she can't upset the ancestor and his wife!"

Li Xiaonuan nodded and agreed, chatted with Mama Wei for a while, and then pushed her back to rest.

The next day, Mama Wei came back from shopping, Li Xiaonuan took the late winter and the early Lan people to be busy all afternoon, and sorted out a few colors.

Li Xiaonuan lay on the table, watched him draw for a while, reached out and flipped through the already worn-out album, and said with a smile:

"There seems to be a study in the front yard, I don't know if there are many books in it, whether there are such picture albums."

Gu Xiao raised his head, thought about it, turned his head to look at Li Xiaonuan and discussed:

"Why don't we go there and have a look?"

Li Xiaonuan was stunned,

"Where are we going? Can we go there? ”

"Yes, when I was in the capital before, I went to the study in the front yard to read and write!"

Li Xiaonuan blinked his eyes twice, thought about it, looked at Gu Xiao, and asked hesitantly:

"Can I go too?"

"Hmm!"

Gu Xiao nodded affirmatively, put down the pen in his hand, and pulled Li Xiaonuan,

"Let's go check it out now!"

Li Xiaonuan hesitated, she couldn't stand the **** in the study, and ran out with Gu Xiao, and hurriedly sent Lan Chu and Xiaoyu to wait at the end of winter.

The two of them ran all the way along the verandah, to the front yard, bypassing the Cuiwei Hall, and turning another corner to the study, where the three main rooms were open and tall, and there were two wings on each side.

Seeing someone coming, two mothers-in-law came out of the west wing, greeted the two of them, bent their knees with a smile on their faces, Gu Xiao pulled Li Xiaonuan, and did not stop, while running towards the main house, he raised his voice and ordered:

"Open the door, we're going to go in and find the book!"

A mother-in-law hurriedly grabbed the front, took out the key from her clothes, opened the door of the study, Li Xiaonuan pulled Gu Xiao, paused, thanked the mother-in-law with a smile, and entered the study with Gu Xiao.

The three rooms of the study are all opened, there is a huge rosewood desk in the middle of the east side, a large and comfortable armchair is placed behind the desk, a half-person high shelf is placed next to it, and there are four or five flower stands scattered a little farther away, and two huge white porcelain dusters are placed against the wall, and the bottles are full of more than a dozen scrolls.

To the west are three rows of rosewood bookshelves that reach to the roof, and the shelves are full of books.

Li Xiaonuan ran to the middle of the bookshelf, tilted his head, and turned to look at the books around him in amazement, so many books! If she could come over often, she wouldn't have to read a few pages a day!

Gu Xiao turned his head to look for a moment, and began to look for the bookbook, Li Xiaonuan ran to the bookshelf with a smile on his face, while helping him find the book, while searching for the books he was most interested in.

The bookshelves are unusually clean, there is no dust at all, and the two mothers-in-law in the west chamber may not only be those two, they must be cleaned every day.

Li Xiaonuan sighed with satisfaction, and threw himself on the bookshelf, searching for them one by one.

After a while, Li Xiaonuan pulled out more than a dozen books, looked at the books that were almost piled up on the ground, sighed with satisfaction, and began to concentrate on helping Gu Xiao find the painting score.

Found the innermost shelf, in the bottom layer of the lattice, there was a pile of paper rolls that looked extremely tightly rolled, Li Xiaonuan's eyes lit up, hurriedly ran over, sat on the floor, pulled out a roll vigorously, and carefully untied the bronze ribbon that tied the paper rolls.

The paper roll was scattered, Li Xiaonuan took out the innermost one, the paper was a thick mulberry paper, the ink on it was still black and clear, and the paper was densely written with extremely neat fly-headed letters.

Li Xiaonuan carefully read the top few sentences: "Minister Wang Wenyuanyan: On the 8th of this month, I got to report to the Academy, and the Holy Communion recovered, and I saw the ministers in the Imperial Taiqing Hall the day before yesterday ......"

Li Xiaonuan was stunned, and hurriedly turned his head and called Gu Xiao,

"Gu Xiao, come over and take a look, what is this?"

Gu Xiao hurriedly ran over, took Li Xiaonuan's hand, glanced at it, breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile:

"Scared me, it turned out to be this thing, this is Di Copy."

As Gu Xiao spoke, he reached out and flipped over the mulberry paper, glanced at the back of the mulberry paper and said:

"This is more than ten years ago, you look here, it is written here, the twelfth year of Tianxi, this must be my father's old thing, Ruixuan Hall has a new copy of the house, this thing, the most boring and boring, my father used to like to see this thing, and now the ancestors in the house like to see it."

Li Xiaonuan looked at Gu Xiao with puzzled eyes, Gu Xiao simply sat on the floor side by side with Li Xiaonuan, and patiently explained through a stack of Di Copy:

"This serious name is called the Jinjuan Yuan, which is a copy of the Jinjuan Yuan, a copy every ten days, the emperor's edict, the minister's recital, and where there is a disaster, where there is any auspiciousness, who is transferred to what official, these are all these things, only those who have a seal have it."

Li Xiaonuan's eyes flashed brightly, she knew what this thing was! Li Xiaonuan was so excited that her face was slightly red, and she burst into a smile, she really found a treasure today!

Gu Xiao took the copy in Li Xiaonuan's hand and tied it clumsily,

"Put it back, this thing looks the most boring, and I can't understand it!"

Li Xiaonuan watched with a smile as he tied up the copy indiscriminately, stuffed it back again, and gently pushed him,

"Did you find the album?"

"I only found a book of landscapes, I want to find a book of flowers and birds."

"Then let's look for it again!"

Li Xiaonuan hurriedly continued, Gu Xiao bent his eyes and nodded with a smile, Li Xiaonuan pushed him with a smile,

"You still look for it over there, I'll look for it here! You help me call Lan Chu in, I have something to tell her. ”

Gu Xiao nodded in agreement, stood up and turned the bookshelf, called Lan Chu, who was standing at the door, to come in, and turned around to concentrate on finding the album.

Li Xiaonuan watched Gu Xiao turn the bookshelf, paused again, and then lay down and pulled out the pile of paper rolls one by one to check the years and months written on them.

Lan Chu walked to Li Xiaonuan's side, didn't speak, only bent down, and looked at Li Xiaonuan who was lying on the ground and looked at the paper roll by roll, Li Xiaonuan looked up at her, and commanded in a low voice:

"Gu Xiao and I want to take a few books back to read, you go and ask the two mothers-in-law, if you have any baggage, boxes or anything, borrow one first, and send it back when you go back."

Lan Chu bent his knees and agreed, and hurriedly went out, Li Xiaonuan lay on the ground and continued to look at the years and months on the paper scroll.

Not long after, Lan Chu came in with an indigo coarse cloth wrapper, shook it open and showed it to Li Xiaonuan, hesitated, looked at Li Xiaonuan, and said in a low voice:

"I told the two grandmothers about borrowing books, and the grandmothers said that the books in this room must be counted and understood, and they must be written down in the booklet before they can be taken out."

Li Xiaonuan was stunned, looked up at Lan Chu, Lan Chu looked at her, blinked, Li Xiaonuan chuckled, pointed to the floor, motioned for her to sit down, turned around, and continued to look at the pile of paper rolls.

After checking the years and months on a pile of paper rolls, Li Xiaonuan took out the bottom roll of paper, checked it, thought for a moment, pulled out another roll, turned around and handed it to Lan Chu, beckoned her to squat down, leaned over to her ear and whispered:

"Take the idea out, and I'll return it when I'm ready."

Lan Chu frowned and smiled playfully with a round nose, revealing two little tiger teeth and nodding his head, took the paper roll in Li Xiaonuan's hand, stood up, lifted his skirt, untied the silk ribbon on the paper roll neatly with his hands and feet, and tied the paper roll to his calf with the silk ribbon.

Li Xiaonuan raised her eyebrows, looked at Lan Chu in surprise and amusement, Lan Chu tied the paper roll, looked at Li Xiaonuan with a surprised face, stuck out his tongue, and said in a low voice:

"Lan Chu hasn't done anything bad before!"

Li Xiaonuan raised her eyebrows and laughed, bent over, covered her mouth and laughed for a while, before she stood up, called Xiaoyu in, and instructed her and Lan Chu to wrap the book she had just picked out into the baggage, then turned to the other side of the bookshelf, and continued to help Gu Xiao search for the album.