Ting Huan entered the backyard and was about to enter the main hall, when he suddenly found a dark figure flashing in the northeast corner of the courtyard. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The two looked at each other in a hurry.

Is it Nangong!?

His lips were slightly purple, his face was pale, and he had just buried a strand of his hair in a flower garden.

Looking at the stunned Ting Huan, he slowly shook his head, pointed outside, and motioned to her not to alarm Su Ji.

"Daughter, I'm going out to buy gouache and rouge after lunch today, what do I want to bring you?" Su Ji walked in, the bench greeted it, it liked Su Ji to pat its head, Ting Huan moved a few steps in front of Nangong.

"What kind of gouache, let me see ......"

Su Ji smiled: "I finally know how to be pretty!" Let Tinghuan take her upstairs, not paying attention to the Nangong in the courtyard at all.

In the afternoon, Chiharu brought in a well-behaved woman in a cross-collared dress embroidered with amber silver and blue bamboo leaves.

After saluting, she handed a plum-colored brocade handkerchief with a small square object in it.

"Hello Miss Nangong! Mrs. Anguo sent me this little box! ”

Ting Huan opened it and looked at it, and was attracted.

A small rouge box about three inches long, two inches wide, and three inches high rosewood gall wood, the pattern of the gall wood is smooth and rich, and the two small doors on the front are opened, and there are actually three layers of drawers inside! It's a masterpiece!

The pull tab on the drawer is an ordinary ring, and the lock on the small door is a begonia-shaped copper sheet, which is a bit stupid, no wonder she doesn't like it!

"Madame said, Miss Trouble has changed the lock and drawer handle on this little door!"

Ting Huan nodded and said, "Okay!" I don't know if there is a limit to the ...... days."

"Hmm"

The double happiness gilt hairpin on the woman's head was a small section, and the tassel shook slightly.

"Next month's birthday of the twentieth lady, I wonder if it can?"

"Yes!" Ting Huan agreed.

"Your lady has a good eye, I will definitely make a set of exquisite and small ones for her!"

The woman smiled, and then took out a piece of silver wrapped in red silk from her bosom and placed it gently on the stone table in the courtyard.

"Our lady said, how much the big lock gives, and how much she gives the small lock......"

She didn't put the silver in Tinghuan's hands, because she was a lady who was not out of the pavilion as a petite, and it was inconvenient to get over the copper smelly things. It is also the rule in the Anguo Mansion.

Ting Huan saw that she was not picky about her speech and demeanor, and she felt comfortable in her heart.

"Madame is generous, but the cost of the small lock is less than one-fifth of that of the big one! The deposit was too much......"

The woman smiled again: "Instead of refusing to leave, Miss should put more effort into doing a good ......"

"That's nature"

"Then I will take my leave, on the nineteenth of the next month, or at this hour, I will pick up ......"

After she left, Ting Huan called Ji Jin to come in and collect the cashier.

"Whose housekeeper is she? So magnanimous...... There are girls and maids to serve. ”

"It's from the Anguo Mansion"

"Well, no wonder! I understand what she means, since the largest lock value is so much, and the smallest one has to be worth so much, isn't it better to buy something than a Rui Baoxiang in the dignified Anguo Mansion? ”

Ting Huan nodded and said, "Ji Jin got to the point!" ”

Turn around and go back to drawing the lock.

Suddenly thinking of the swallow lock on the table, everyone tacitly didn't touch it, but it still lay quietly on the book "Spring and Autumn Dew".

Flipping through the stack of flower drafts drawn by Nangong to her, her eyes couldn't help but dim, Nangong had said to himself before, since he left the evil spirit, his energy has become worse and worse, and he has to meditate for a long time to recuperate, where does he want to recover his strength and revitalize the spirit clan, but he is short of breath and weak at the slightest action, and has to stay in the house.

But in front of Su Ji, I don't want her to worry, so I have to hold on to my spirits.

According to what I saw before noon today, the falling hair was a clear sign that the situation was worse.

Tinghuan was depressed.

Nangong hasn't been with him for a long time, and he is still so uncomfortable, so what should he do? Nangong is her God! Forget it, let's concentrate on drawing, this is the best repatriation.

Mrs. Anguo's little lock, what should she do?

The small wooden box was rotating in Ting Huan's hand, and the pattern was as fluent as a drop of thick ink that had just been spread out in the water, and the gall wood was like this, each piece was unique and amazing.

Suddenly remembered that he had lived in Jiang Qian's house, and there was a mahogany inkstone box on his desk, and there was an extremely beautiful bird on it. Jiang Qian's scholar told himself that it was called a ribbon bird, also known as Lian Magpie, with a feather crown on its head, a white belly, and two long ribbons that were gorgeous and agile, standing in a cluster of daffodils, called Xianshou.

Isn't Mrs. Anguo's birthday approaching? She looks like she's in her thirties, so she can't use a picture, right?

Ting Huan smiled slightly, and his mood was much better after getting his idea.

"Chiharu"

The maidservant came in with a smile and a small porcelain vase in pastel with a wooden cork wrapped in powder.

"The fine glutinous rice rouge ...... of Meihua Heavenly Palace," she gently placed on the table.

"Miss, do you smell it? What a good smell......"

"Where did this come from?"

"Madame bought it for you, you forgot, such a small bottle is more expensive than that big bucket of rice!"

Ting Huan pulled out the lid and made a soft "poof" sound, and an elegant aroma floated, and it was the red fine powder inside.

"How does this work? Straight out? ”

"Alas!" Behind him, there was a sigh from the crisp heme.

"And the girl doesn't know how to use rouge......"

"Use this!" Chiharu suddenly conjured up a small silver spoon, the handle was three inches long, and it was made into a cherry stalk shape, and the small spoon was not as big as the small fingernail, and it was made into a cherry shape, which was very ingenious.

"Take it out and rub it on your cheeks with your fingers......"

Su Ji smiled and left, Ting Huan tried to use a little, took a look in the mirror, and it was really gorgeous.

"What did the young lady tell me about?"

Only then did Ting Huan say: "I forgot all the differences, let me ask you, do you still remember the mahogany inkstone box on the main table of the second hall?" ”

"Remember, the box is so well carved!"

"I'm going to draw the smallest and most delicate ribbon bird, like the one on the box."

Chiharu tilted her head and thought for a moment,

"Well, that's not easy to cast out of bronze, right?"

"Yes, use the lost wax method!"

Chiharu nodded again and again, "Miss just draw a ribbon daffodil, Chiharu really wants to see what it looks like to make a lock!" ”

The lost wax method is specially used to cast precision bronze methods, Ruan Dabing left a few locks, there are a few good ones are cast by this method, because of its complex production method, the cost of burning is higher, and it is not commonly used when making locks.

To put it simply, it is a model of a casting made of beeswax, and then filled with a clay core and applied to the outside.

After heating and baking, all the wax molds are melted and lost, and the casting molds become empty shells and then poured with molten copper to cast utensils; The utensils cast in this way can achieve a delicate and clear effect.

In the next two days, Ting Huan painted the ribbon bird day and night, and the two long feathers were stiff after painting all kinds of forms.

On the evening of the third day, Nangong came to see her in person.

"Why do you have to suffer so much, I'll take a look at ......"