Gu Xiao found two or three albums, Li Xiaonuan picked up a bunch of books, and the two of them returned to Songfeng Courtyard satisfied.

Lan Chu quietly slipped into the inner room, untied the two volumes of the mansion copy, and carefully hid them under the mattress.

Coming back from Ruixuan Hall in the evening, after Li Xiaonuan bathed and washed, changed into shorts and pants, he hurriedly sat on the couch, turned out the copy, started from the earliest one, slowly flipped through it, and at the end of winter, while twisting her hair, she poked her head to look at the copy in Li Xiaonuan's hand, and asked curiously:

"Where did the girl get the copy?"

"How do you recognize this?"

Li Xiaonuan was startled, and hurriedly raised his head and asked, Lan Chu, who was cutting the lantern flowers, was also startled, his hand froze on the lamp, turned his head, and stared nervously at the end of winter, and the end of winter laughed,

"The ancestors like to see this, and as soon as a new mansion is copied over, I took it and sent it in! I naturally recognize that the paper in the girl's hand is a little yellow, it must have been many years ago. ”

Li Xiaonuan breathed a sigh of relief and laughed, she was also too nervous, she was on an errand by the side of the ancestor at the end of winter, how could she not have seen this thing?! Lan Chu also exhaled secretly, raised his arm, and continued to slowly cut the lanterns.

Li Xiaonuan tilted his head to look at the end of winter, his eyes rolled slightly, and said with a smile:

"Then guess what, when is this copy?"

The end of the winter thought about it and said with a smile:

"If my guess is correct, this is at least fourteen or fifteen years ago."

Li Xiaonuan raised her brows in surprise, looked at the end of winter with surprise in her eyes, and urged repeatedly:

"Then tell me why!"

"Alas, girl, how clear is this, the lord is the champion of the Bingyin Branch in the twelfth year of Tianxi, after the lord won the champion, he sent someone back to pick up the ancestors into Beijing, in the middle, in addition to worshipping the ancestors or something, came back to live for a few days, and never came back to live for a long time! The copy of the mansion after the twelfth year of Tianxi, naturally, is all collected in the house in the capital, and I don't know if I brought it back this time, so I naturally want to guess that this is the mansion copy left at home before the lord entered Beijing, isn't that fourteen or five years ago? ”

Li Xiaonuan put down the copy in his hand, applauded gently, and praised repeatedly:

"Late winter smart! This is a thoughtful measure! Although this matter is clear, it may be like the end of winter, but there are few people! ”

At the end of the winter, his face flushed, and he was a little embarrassed, Lan Chu looked at Li Xiaonuan and the end of the winter with a smile, thoughtful.

Li Xiaonuan became more and more busy, she had to get up early in the morning to read a morning book, and in the morning she listened to the master's lesson to Gu Xiao.

After memorizing the three-character scripture, the master handed Li Xiaonuan a poem rhyme, but he didn't say how much he memorized in a day, and he no longer arranged a window class for Li Xiaonuan, Li Xiaonuan didn't ask, and he didn't say much, he just shadowed the words every day, listened to the master give Gu Xiao a book, and occasionally asked a few questions when the master was happy.

When the rugged and old-fashioned Wang Fuzi looked at Li Xiaonuan, his expression gradually eased, and he occasionally sighed, "It's a pity that it's a daughter's family!" ”

The busy days always pass very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, they have entered the wax moon.

When it was half a month old, it was still the case that Master Wang was going home to live for a month, Li Xiaonuan and Gu Xiao kowtowed to Master Wang, respectfully sent Master Wang away, and began a happy day of not having to get up early for a month.

The day after Master Wang left, Mrs. Li sent a message, asking Gu Xiao to go out with the steward every morning to study and buy, "You also have to know some things about the grain market, and you can't be a fool who doesn't divide the grain!" ”

Li Xiaonuan agreed with Mrs. Li's words very much, and Mrs. Zhou only smiled and listened to Mrs. Li's placement.

Gu Yun was overjoyed, and simply got tired of being in Songfeng Courtyard from morning to night, but Li Xiaonuan was extremely reluctant to be alone with her, and was extremely embarrassed, so he hurriedly came up with a way, and simply begged Mrs. Li and Mrs. Zhou at night to go to the kitchen to learn to wash their hands and make soup, Mrs. Li and Mrs. Zhou agreed with a surprised smile, and called the kitchen head Liu Mama to come in, and explained carefully.

Early the next morning, Li Xiaonuan couldn't wait to go to the kitchen to learn soup, Mama Liu looked at Li Xiaonuan, who was not as high as the stove, and really didn't dare to let her get close to the desk and the stove, so she simply asked her to take her to the warehouse to learn to recognize grains, vegetables, meat and other ingredients.

Li Xiaonuan is extremely satisfied with this arrangement, she didn't really want to use a knife to start a fire, she hates cooking and stir-frying, smoky fire! But she is full of interest in identifying such things as grains and vegetables, which is one of the best ways for her to understand this world!

The days became similar to when I went to school, I got up early in the morning, went to Ruixuan Hall to ask for peace, had breakfast, went to the kitchen warehouse to look through and study those ingredients, and went to Ruixuan Hall at noon to eat, Gu Xiao followed her back to Songfeng Courtyard, read half an hour book, write half an hour of words, and then Gu Xiao painted, Li Xiaonuan did needlework.

Although she was guarding the funeral, there were a lot more things at the end of the year, Gu Yunshan stared at Gu Yunhuan, and if she didn't let her go lazy again, Gu Yunhuan wouldn't be able to get tired of going to Songfeng Courtyard for a long time.

Li Xiaonuan was so happy that she only felt that the cold north wind was warm, she didn't have to get up earlier than the chicken in the morning, and she turned over the ingredients she had never seen every day, which made her feel that she finally had some real connection with this world, and she could ask the names, market prices, and eating methods of those ingredients presumptuously...... Someone answered her patiently and thoughtfully about anything, and no one thought there was anything strange about her questions!

Gu Yunhuan didn't have time to be in her Songfeng Courtyard, so that she could come back half an hour early in the morning, sit under the veranda and bask in the sun, and read a book for a while!

Her little days are really getting better and better!

When Gu Xiao came back at noon every day, he secretly brought back a lot of gadgets to Li Xiaonuan, such as mud Afu, porcelain rabbits, ponies, straw baskets, and silk yarn flowers......

Li Xiaonuan was extremely interested in everything, pestering Gu Xiao and asking, what is the name, how much money is used, and what else does the vendor who sells this sell......

Gradually, Li Xiaonuan asked more and more, and began to carefully interrogate the prices of Gu Xiao's various things, how much rice is a bucket, how much meat is a pound, is pork expensive, or mutton is expensive, and how much can a horse of woven cloth be sold for? How much does a medium fine silk horse sell for...... Etcetera.

Gu Xiao opened his mouth and couldn't answer, so he had to write it down, and the next day he followed the steward to ask carefully, and came back and told Li Xiaonuan with great interest, but he was asked by Li Xiaonuan again, and sighed helplessly:

"Nuan Nuan, you asked so much, I told you about 100 yuan of doumi, and you want to ask whether it is japonica rice or glutinous rice? Is it early rice or late rice, how many Krabi is it, where do I think of asking so much? ”

"This japonica rice and glutinous rice, early rice and late rice, first and eighth rice, but much worse! Where can you say it clearly? ”

Gu Xiao scratched his head in distress and was stunned for a long time before he said helplessly:

"Nuan Nuan, you're right, I didn't ask carefully, I'll ask again tomorrow."

Li Xiaonuan looked at him and laughed for a while, and said slowly:

"Isn't the old saying said, everywhere pay attention to learning, think about it, if you become an official in the future, you will be a magistrate, and if you are not allowed to run into a famine, and then you have to give relief, if the court gives silver, you have to buy food, where, you know that the rice is a hundred dollars, if this hundred dollars can be bought, in fact, it is a bucket and a glutinous late rice, you met a black-hearted rice line, deceive you do not know the difference between this, and sell the aged Bajia early rice to you according to a hundred dollars a bucket, how much money is the difference between you know?"

Gu Xiao was dumbfounded when he heard this, Li Xiaonuan shook his head proudly, and then said:

"I'll tell you, but there really is such a nerd, who doesn't know if he's been deceived, and he feels wronged when he loses his position!"

Gu Xiao blinked his eyes for a long time before he said in a daze:

"Nuan Nuan, you're right! You know so much about Nuan Nuan! ”

"Well, of course, Nuan Nuan is smart and studious, of course I know a lot!"

Li Xiaonuan nodded seriously and said.

At the end of winter, he was leaning sideways, sitting on the couch doing needlework, listening to Li Xiaonuan's honest and unceremonious boasting, he couldn't help but laugh out loud, the needle in his hand suddenly pierced his finger, and hurriedly put the finger oozing blood beads in his mouth.

Gu Xiao was a little embarrassed by the end of winter, scratched his head, and laughed with him.

Li Xiaonuan tilted his head to look at him, thought about it, and said with a smile:

"Is there a bookstore in town?"

"Yes!"

Gu Xiao hurriedly nodded and replied, Li Xiaonuan hesitated for a moment, then turned his head and commanded at the end of winter,

"Sister at the end of winter, you go and see how much silver we still have, I want Gu Xiao to help me bring some books back."

Gu Xiao hurriedly waved his hand and said:

"Nuan Nuan wants to buy any books, just say, don't take silver, the ancestor said, I will go out with the steward, and let the steward buy everything less than ten taels for me, no need to report it separately."

Li Xiaonuan's eyes lit up and he laughed,

"Then you go to the biggest bookstore in town, ask them what books they sell the most, and buy one of each of the three books they sell the most and bring them back to me."

Li Xiaonuan paused, and then explained:

"Except for the Yellow Calendar!"

Gu Xiao hurriedly nodded in agreement, bent his eyes and smiled,

"Nuan Nuan, there's only one bookstore in town!"

Li Xiaonuan was stunned, and didn't care whether it was one or several, beckoned, Gu Xiao hurriedly leaned over, Li Xiaonuan put it to his ear, and said in a low voice:

"Flip through the book first, if so...... It's not good, so don't buy it yet, and we'll think of other ways to go back. ”

Gu Xiao was stunned,

"What's not so good?"

Li Xiaonuan choked in his throat in one breath, stared at Gu Xiao for a long time, and was speechless for a while, how could he tell him that this was "not very good"? Li Xiaonuan blinked his eyes twice, and simply confessed:

"Then you let the little guy buy it, you don't want to go, anyway, you just buy the three books they sell best, and let the shopkeeper pack it and bring it back."

Gu Xiao looked at Li Xiaonuan with a puzzled face and nodded.