Early the next morning, Ah Yin asked Fan Haohe to go to Shangguan's house. In less than an hour, Yuan Hong sent a carriage to pick up Ah Yin. And in this hour, Ah Yin had already retired from the inn room, and asked Fan Haohe to find a house in Suizhou and prepare to buy a small courtyard.

Subsequently, Ah Yin and Jiang Xuan boarded the carriage sent by Yuan Hong.

Compared with the first time she came back to Suizhou, Jiang Xuan never even opened the curtain this time, she asked in a low voice: "Sister, was the fake Chen Dou really arrested?" ”

Ah Yin comforted her, patted her on the shoulder, and said softly, "Didn't you see it with your own eyes last night?" The officers and soldiers took away the fake Chen Dou. If nothing I expected, he would have been searched. Li Taishou will definitely be able to see the envelope on his body, and he will definitely open it to see. If it's just an ordinary theft, it's almost enough to eat a prison meal for half a year. But when it comes to the lives of court officials, Li Taishou will definitely treat it solemnly. ”

will definitely send someone to Yongping to inform Mu Yanghou.

It's about officialdom, Ah Yin doesn't know so much, he doesn't have the ability to stretch out such a long hand, and he doesn't want to stretch such a long hand, as long as Mu Yanghou knows, let people check, they will definitely know that his secret guard Chen Dou has already been replaced by a shell, and the real Chen Dou is probably more than lucky.

Jiang Xuan asked, "Fake Chen Dou won't come out again, right?" ”

Ah Yin shook his head.

Jiang Xuan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Great, I've been worried about it for the past few days, but now I can finally feel at ease." Thinking of the real Chen Dou, Jiang Xuan inevitably sighed in his heart, and said, "It's a pity that I can't thank the real Chen Jialangjun." ”

Ah Yin said: "When Muyang Hou finds out the news of Chen Jialangjun, if it is ......" After a slight pause, she sighed: "I can only burn paper money for Chen Jialangjun on the fifteenth day of the new year." Speaking of this, she sighed for a while in her heart, when she used to listen to her grandfather's speech, she always heard the sinister words of officialdom, but now she has completely experienced it, and she really took people's lives while talking and laughing.

After getting out of the carriage, a maid came and took Ah Yin to the courtyard where Yuan Gong lived.

The mansion of the Shangguan family in Suizhou is very large, along the way, pavilions and pavilions, verandahs through the mountains, lakes and bamboo forests, distributed layer by layer, arranged quite elegantly, and the decoration of nuclear carving can be seen everywhere, the green bamboo curtain on the promenade is half covered, the red silk thread hangs down, and it is embellished with all kinds of nuclear carvings.

The maid smiled and said: "These are the nuclear carvings of our Shangguan family, the nuclear carvings under the curtain are not particular, if the carving is good, it can be tied under the bamboo curtain." There are almost no people in Shangguan's family who don't know how to carve cores, and maids like us know a little bit about it. ”

Seeing that Ah Yin was interested, the maid said again: "The really good carvings are all in the nuclear science, and only the apprentices of the nuclear carvers of the Shangguan family can enter." ”

Ah Yin nodded slightly, and looked around again, faintly excited in his heart.

Suddenly, she stopped and asked, "What's beside the lake?" ”

The maid looked at Ah Yin's line of sight and said with a smile: "The girl's vision is really good, it is the proud work of our young owner and the crown year, carved for two whole years, using five hundred and eighty-three peach pits, carved into a giant Maitreya Buddha." ”

Maitreya Buddha has long eyebrows and compassionate eyes, standing by the lake, quite my heart is at peace.

Ah Yin said, "I'll go and take a look." ”

The maid saw that it was not far away, and it didn't take long to think that it would take her, so she took Ah Yin over. Unexpectedly, after Ah Yin stood still, he looked at the giant Maitreya Buddha stupidly, and said in amazement: "The craftsmanship of the young owner is really high!" How can I come up with such a method! ”

Each peach pit is carved with only a small part of Maitreya Buddha, and the ingenious thing is that when each peach pit is connected together, there is no gap in the slightest, as if these peach pits were born together.

She couldn't stop admiring the official letter in her heart.

Such a gentle and elegant Langjun, patient as Si, such a pair of hands actually carved such a masterpiece!

Ah Yin looked at it again and again, as if he couldn't get enough of it, and carefully put Maitreya Buddha from top to bottom, from left to right, carefully into his eyes. The maid didn't expect Ah Yin to look at it, her feet were as if they had been nailed, and she couldn't move.

The sun was so vicious, and there was a light sweat on her forehead, but she didn't seem to realize it, and her eyes seemed to be glued to the nuclear carving.

Finally, the maid couldn't help but urge: "Miss Yin, Yuan Gong is still in the courtyard." ”

Ah Yin woke up like a dream, coughed lightly, and reluctantly glanced at the giant Maitreya Buddha nuclear carving, Fang and the maid walked to the courtyard.

The courtyard was very quiet, and the maid took Ah Yin straight to the side pavilion.

Not long after, Ah Yin met Yuan Hong.

Yuan Hong didn't greet Ah Yin either, and said bluntly: "Presumably Shixin told you about Lu Lan, so I won't say more." In our Shangguan family, no matter how big the family background is, in the end, it is still to look at the real nuclear carving ability. Yongping's eunuch ......"

Yuanbei coughed lightly: "Father! ”

Yuan Hong glared at his son: "This is my courtyard, Deng Zhong can't hear it!" ”

Yuanbei said helplessly: "Gonggong Deng is still in Suizhou." ”

"He's beside me, and I scold him the same! Tube the east and west, and the hand is too long! Reach me again, and the old man will peel him with a file! As soon as Deng Zhong was mentioned, Yuan Hong became angry and slapped the table like thunder.

If Deng Zhong hadn't been nosy, he would have taken in the apprenticeship by now!

At this time, Ah Yin said softly: "Ah Yin is grateful for the favor of Yuan Gong, as Yuan Gong said, the Shangguan family only looks at the real nuclear carving ability. I believe in my own ability, whether it is Miss Lu or Miss Hai, Ah Yin is willing to accept the challenge. If his skills are not as good as others, Ah Yin has nothing to say. ”

Originally, Yuan Hong was still very depressed before, and when he heard Ah Yin say it empathetically, the anger in his heart was also dissipated, and after taking a sip of tea, his anger was completely gone, and he said with a smile: "You are right, the girl surnamed Lu has seen it, and she has some ability, but it may not be as good as you." I was about to tell you about this, but I didn't expect you to say it first. Five days later, there is indeed a challenge, you and Lu Lan fight the core, and the five nuclear carvers of the Shangguan family will be evaluated. ”

Yuanbei listened on the side, looking at Ah Yin with a little more surprise.

His father's temper is not so easy to suppress on weekdays. When he is a son, he often has to persuade him for a long time. And Fang Cai Yin only said a few words, and his father's temper was completely suppressed.

Yuanbei looked at Ah Yin quietly, and suddenly felt that her whole person was just like the tone of her voice, gentle as water, and she couldn't help but feel a little good in her heart.

After that, Yuan Hong said a few more words to Ah Yin, and then asked Yuan Bei to take her to rest.

Yuanbei took Ah Yin to a courtyard, the courtyard is not big, there are two wings in it, and an apricot tree is planted in the courtyard, which is in the hot summer at this time, and it is lush. Yuanbei didn't like Ah Yin very much before, and always thought that she had confused her father in Gongcheng, so she let her father go against Gonggong Deng. But after a short look today, I felt that my father's vision was excellent, regardless of the level of nuclear carving, he was just temperamental, gentle and gentle, and his way of speaking was very comfortable. If my father could have such an apprentice, his ears would be much quieter in the future.

Therefore, Yuanbei treats Ah Yin very warmly.

“…… This is your wing, and there is an ear room in it, where your sister can live. In the opposite wing lived Senior Sister Lin, the daughter of Lin Gong and Lin Gong's apprentice, and one of the candidates. But don't worry, girl, although she doesn't talk much, she is very easy to get along with. And she likes to study nuclear carving on weekdays, if it is not for nuclear science, she basically does not go out of the room. ”

Ah Yin listened and said "thank you".

Yuanbei touched his nose and said with a smile: "If you can be my father's apprentice, you can call me a senior brother in the future." ”

When Ah Yin heard this, he asked, "I don't know which nuclear carver's apprentice Lang Jun is?" ”

"My master is Ma Lao."

Ah Yin smiled: "Chenglang Jun Jiyan." ”.

After Yuanbei left, Ah Yin and Jiang Xuan went back to the wing.

The wings are well organized, and the furniture is brand new, and it can be seen that a lot of thought has been put into it. However, Jiang Xuan didn't have much heart to appreciate it, closed the door, looked left and right, and after confirming that there was no one, he leaned into Ah Yin's ear and said, "Sister, Miss Lu is really cunning!" pretended to lead my sister to meet Ma Lao before, knowing that Ma Lao had an apprentice, but he still let his sister go to see him, isn't this a deliberate intention to humiliate my sister? Fortunately, my sister was not fooled. Remembering that she thought she was good before, Jiang Xuan felt blind and said angrily: "I don't know my heart!" And pretend to be a good person! Bah! Sister must be careful of her in the future! How terrible is such a girl, like a smiling tiger, who stabs someone in the back without saying a word. It's even more terrifying than the original Luo San girl! ”

Thinking of Luo Jiao, Jiang Xuan felt that Lu Lan had a high number of sections.

At the beginning, Luo Jiao was just arrogant, and her thoughts were also written on her face, although it was harmful, it was obvious and easy to detect. But now this Lu Lan, who came from Yongping, has everything in his heart, obviously wanting to harm his sister and be humiliated, and pretending to be worshiping!

Ah Yin said: "It's okay, now that we have come, there is no way back." Only soldiers can come to block the water and cover the earth. ”

Compared with Jiang Xuan's worries, Ah Yin was thinking more about the core of the next few days and the nuclear carving of the Shangguan family. This is simply the place she dreamed of, and if her grandfather was in the spirit of heaven and knew that she had entered the Shangguan family, he would surely be happy for her.