Chapter Fifty-Eight: It's Spring Again

Gu Yunshan was happy, sighed and leaned back,

"There's a little bit of truth to what you're saying, and it's really useless to think about it."

"Mama Wei always says that a simple person has a good fortune, this person is too smart, but he is not doing well"

Gu Yunshan raised her eyebrows, fell back with a smile, pointed at Li Xiaonuan and said with a smile:

"Yun Huan is a blessed person, what about you?"

Li Xiaonuan twisted her eyebrows and thought about it, and said seriously:

"I'm also a blessed one"

Gu Yunshan was stunned and laughed.

The autumn leaves are gone, and it's winter again.

Seeing that it was the Spring Festival, Gu Xiao and Li Xiaonuan discussed with each other, planning to paint another painting for Mrs. Li to celebrate the New Year.

“…… The ancestors must have liked it, your painting last year is still hanging in the east wing of Ruixuan Hall. ”

Li Xiaonuan said with a smile, Gu Xiao scratched his head, a little embarrassed,

"Now when I look at last year's painting, it's a shame to paint it like that."

"Shame on what? Looking at it now, I still think that there is aura in the painting, and the painting is frank and sincere, if it is not good, it is just a little rusty in the brushwork."

Li Xiaonuan said seriously, Gu Xiao's face was slightly red, scratching his head, and he laughed.

The two discussed carefully for a long time, and decided to draw a picture of chrysanthemums, and after discussing it, Gu Xiao took Li Xiaonuan and went to the outer study together, Gu Xiao wanted to try painting at this time.

Since the autumn, Mrs. Li has asked people to clean up the outer study room for Gu Xiao to use for reading and painting, Gu Xiao has more and more things to paint, and the small cases in Wutong Courtyard and Songfeng Courtyard have no way to spread out those things.

Li Xiaonuan accompanied Gu Xiao to paint for a long time, and it was not until Shen Zheng that he left the outer study, went back to change his clothes, and went to Ruixuan Hall to ask for peace.

Gu Xiao scribbled and altered, and it took half a month to paint a satisfactory painting, carefully rolled it up, held it in his hand, and went straight to Songfeng Courtyard to show Li Xiaonuan.

At the end of winter and Lan Chu, he carefully held the painting, Li Xiaonuan looked at it carefully for a long time, and praised with a smile on his face:

"Gu Xiao, you chrysanthemum, you are really good at painting, and you have drawn all the chrysanthemums with their high and arrogant energy."

Gu Xiao breathed a sigh of relief and laughed,

"I think this one is good, too"

The two looked at the painting carefully for a while, and Gu Xiao pointed to the blank space in the upper left corner of the painting and said:

"Nuan Nuan, you see, here is the inscription, your words, Mr. Chen said okay, I paint, you inscribe, even if this painting is given to the ancestors by the two of us, okay?"

Li Xiaonuan was stunned, half-lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, signaled the end of winter to collect the painting, turned his head, looked at Gu Xiao with a smile and said:

"Mr. Chen said that my handwriting is good, but he just said that at my age, I can write like that, which is already good, where is it really good? But your painting is really good, I think, you might as well ask Mr. Lin to see this painting, see what he thinks of this painting, and then ask him to inscribe this painting, it is a good story. ”

Gu Xiao thought about it and nodded with approval on his face,

"Nuan Nuan, you're right, Mr. Lin's calligraphy and painting are excellent, if he can inscribe on this painting, he can make this painting a lot of color."

Li Xiaonuan nodded with a smile, pushed Gu Xiao and said:

"Then you hurry up, Mr. Lin will go home tomorrow, and there are not many days left before the New Year."

Gu Xiao hurriedly nodded in agreement, took the painting handed over at the end of winter, and happily walked out of Songfeng Courtyard, out of the garden, and went to find Mr. Lin.

In the middle of the lunar month, Mr. Chen and Mr. Lin went back for the New Year, Gu Xiao took a holiday, excited and tired of being in Songfeng Courtyard almost every day, and after two days of free, Mrs. Li sent him to follow Tingbo to go to Gu's house in Shangli Town near a few Zhuangzi to bulk New Year's goods, until the twenty-seventh of the lunar month, he rushed back.

The next day, I asked for peace in the morning, had breakfast, Gu Xiao held the painting and presented it to Mrs. Li, Li Xiaonuan and Bilian pulled the painting, Mrs. Li looked at the painting carefully, nodded with a smile on her face, Gu Xiao pointed to the inscription on the side, and said with a smile:

"Ancestor, Mr. Lin also said that this painting is good, this word, I asked Mr. Lin to inscribe it, is it good for the ancestor?"

Old Madam Li looked at it carefully, nodded heavily, and praised:

"After learning for so long, you can draw so well, Mr. naturally wants to praise you for your good words, this painting is better"

Mrs. Li leaned back, turned her head to look at Mrs. Zhou, and greeted with a smile:

"You also come to take a look, Xiao Er's painting has grown a lot in a year, and the style of this chrysanthemum jumps on the paper, and the painting is really good."

Mrs. Zhou stood up, looked at it carefully, turned her head to look at Mrs. Li with a smile and said:

"Compared with last year's picture, it has grown a little better, Xiao Er will have to work this word in the future, and after a few years of exams, there will be a good word."

Gu Xiao hurriedly bent his knees and agreed, but Mrs. Li's eyes flashed with gloom, and she smiled and didn't speak again, only instructed Bilian to take down the painting that Gu Xiao painted last year hanging on the wall and replace it with a chrysanthemum picture.

Old Madam Li watched Bilian change her painting, and looked at it carefully for a while before she said with a smile:

"In the future, the paintings in my grandmother's house will be changed once a year, and the ancestors will look at our Xiao'er and become a generation of calligraphy and painting masters of our Yuan Dynasty."

Gu Xiao's face was flushed, he nodded heavily, nodded a few times, and was a little embarrassed, raising his hand and scratching his head,

"Rest assured, my ancestors, I will definitely learn from my husband, paint with my heart, and become a master of calligraphy and painting in the future."

Old Madam Li smiled and nodded, and Mrs. Zhou looked at Gu Xiao thoughtfully.

After the New Year, out of the fifteenth, Gu Yunshan and Gu Yunhuan finally became free, called Li Xiaonuan, and discussed the embroidery of the August Qiqiao Festival worriedly.

Gu Yunhuan was half lying on the couch, spread his hands and said:

"I have no way, I have been studying for more than a year, and it is too difficult to compete for the top spot from so many people, so I think I still forget it."

Gu Yunshan glanced at her, turned her head to look at Li Xiaonuan, Li Xiaonuan spread her hands, and said simply:

"Didn't Mama Wei say a long time ago, the three of us are doing the best needlework now, and the big sister must prepare carefully, or ......"

Li Xiaonuan coughed lightly and said in a low voice:

"Let Mama Wei help embroider one?"

Gu Yunhuan laughed, Gu Yunshan reached out and knocked on the top of Li Xiaonuan's head,

"Xiao Nuan is talking nonsense again, what is this? Can this be fake? ”

Li Xiaonuan smiled and hid back,

"I'm just saying it casually, big sister, stop, I have an idea."

Gu Yunshan knocked Li Xiaonuan again before stopping, Li Xiaonuan said with a smile:

"People like us, embroidery and needlework, naturally are mainly elegant, but the embroidery samples we use on weekdays are not good, cheesy and dull, it is better for us to let people draw embroidery samples, embroidery samples are good, and the embroidered things look natural and good."

Gu Yunhuan straightened up, his eyes shining brightly and he became excited, clapped his hands lightly and said:

"Xiao Nuan's idea is good, those embroidery looks are not good-looking, let's just use the ancient calligraphy and paintings as the foundation to embroider it, or, simply let Gu Xiao paint a painting, just paint it on the white silk, and then let's embroider it again, it must be good."

"That's right, the money line taught by Mama Wei is already particular about not showing stitches, not showing line marks, and embroidery and painting must be good."

Li Xiaonuan raised her eyebrows excitedly, her voice was raised, Gu Yunhuan smiled with a smile on her face, nodded approvingly and said:

"Xiao Nuan is right, such a needle and thread, embroidered calligraphy and painting, must be good embroidered with silk thread calligraphy and painting, how elegant we embroider calligraphy and painting I like ink and bamboo the most, I will embroider that"

Gu Yunshan thought about it carefully, nodded and laughed,

"This method is chic, even if you can't get the first prize, it can also show that our Gu family girl is not conventional, I will look for it when I go back, I want to find a meaningful meaning, and I want to embroider it better, go back and let Gu Xiao also paint a few, pick and choose together, and see which one is the best"

Gu Yunshan hesitated, and then said:

"This matter, I have to tell my ancestors first, ask the rules of this begging festival, we do needlework on weekdays, and we have always paid attention to embroidering things according to embroidery patterns, and I don't know if it will work like this."

"I have to inquire quietly, but I can't let people know"

Gu Yunhuan pulled Gu Yunshan and explained seriously, Gu Yunshan glanced at her,

"You still have to say this"

The next day, the three of them talked to Mrs. Li, and asked Grandma Sun to go out and inquire carefully, and then they put their minds at ease, each picked out their favorite calligraphy and painting, described it, and began to embroider the embroidery of the Qiqiao Festival.

In a blink of an eye, it was the Qingming Festival again, and Li Xiaonuan, like last year, wanted to take the painting boat of the ancient mansion, or accompanied by Steward Liu, and went back to Tianwo Village, Xiali Town, to worship his parents.

Before leaving, at the end of winter, I called Lan Chu, Chunqiao and a few other third-class girls to come over, and sent messengers one by one, Chunqiao hung her hands, and listened a little absentmindedly, and at the end of winter, after dispatching the messengers, she said with a smile:

"When you go out, you naturally have to work harder, and everyone has to be careful on the road and wait for them well."

A few girls bent their knees in agreement, and at the end of winter, they waved everyone away.

Chun Qiao went out of the door, and stood still slightly distracted, and Autumn Leaves pulled her,

"What's wrong with Sister Chunqiao? Hurry back and pack up, I'm going to leave early tomorrow morning, so I'm going to get up early."

Chun Qiao shook off the autumn leaves and said with a reluctant smile:

"You go back first, I still have something to talk to Sister Late Winter."

With that, Chunqiao turned around and re-entered the house again, Autumn Leaves was stunned, no longer paid attention to Chunqiao, and went back to the house to pack up her things.

Chunqiao lifted the curtain and entered the house, at the end of the winter was bending down to pack up her things, when she heard the movement, she hurriedly turned around, and when she saw that it was Chunqiao, she breathed a sigh of relief and said strangely:

"It's you, and you didn't say hello, but it scared me."

Chunqiao accompanied the smile on her face, coughed uneasily, bent her knees, and whispered:

"Sister at the end of winter, I want to take a vacation, can't I wait with me this time?"

The end of the winter was stunned, turned around, looked at Chunqiao, and asked with concern:

"Not feeling well? Or is there something going on at home? ”

Chunqiao hurriedly shook her head, and nodded hurriedly,

"No, yes, it's something at home, and my mother sent me a letter to go back."

The end of winter looked at Chunqiao thoughtfully, thought about it, and said with a smile:

"Then you go back, the girl's journey, it's not a big deal, it's enough to have me and Lan Chu and a few of them waiting, tomorrow morning, I told the housekeeper, you can go back and stay for two days."

Chunqiao breathed a sigh of relief, bent her knees in gratitude, and retreated.