The eighth day of the sixth month, an auspicious day, and a time of the hour. It's the day of the ink test.

Sibao Street is even more lively.

The Li family chartered a teahouse next door to Moxuan, the second floor is to entertain the guests who have posted the post, and the lobby on the first floor is full of people who come to post and ask for calligraphy and paintings, as for the fun, they can only watch from the three floors inside the door and the three floors outside.

At this time, there was a long table with jujube red paint in the middle of the lobby on the first floor. There is a large wooden box in the middle of the table, and after a while, the merchants who ask for calligraphy and painting will put the stickers into the box, and then invite an audience to draw on the spot, and whoever is selected, Mr. Dongtu will draw and write for whom, which is similar to the lottery in later generations.

It's all about luck, and that's why people are more excited.

The Li family's ink test will be presided over by Steward Shao, Zhen Niang only needs to sit in the inner room and watch, at this time she is gossiping with Sister-in-law Ma, but her mind is not on talking, Zhen Niang stares at the outside through the door curtain.

After all, this is her first ink trial since she joined the Li Ink Workshop, and although she has made all the preparations, it is impossible not to be nervous.

"Virgin girl, the auspicious time has come, let's start." At this time, Steward Shao said to Zhen Niang.

Zhenniang thought for a moment and said, "Wait." ”

Steward Shao didn't know that the virgin girl weishenme said wait, but the virgin girl said wait, just don't know who the virgin girl is waiting for, it seems that the people who posted the post are here.

And at this moment, a notice came from the door: "Yanmo has arrived." ”

Steward Shao was shocked, why did this person come, Steward Shao knew that the virgin girl had made a post to the adults of the Ink Affairs Bureau and the Ink Supervision Bureau, but it was just a practice to show respect. Or it's a routine that doesn't want to be caught in the future.,I don't expect the adults of the two rounds to be there.。

This. The adults of the Ink Affairs Bureau and the Ink Supervision Bureau all know in their hearts, and there are many of them. At most, he will only send his subordinates to go through the motions.

And today, Father-in-law Yan unexpectedly appeared.

The crowd at the scene was also in an uproar, and everyone was not surprised. After all, this is a precedent since the ink test meeting, but Zhen Niang understands in her heart that the arrival of Father-in-law Yan has no other meaning, just to return her favor.

At the beginning, she used medicine and ink to cure Miss Yan's back sore, originally this was nothing, Zhen Niang's action that day was not to let Father-in-law Yan remember the favor, just to know that Father-in-law Yan would not have an accident. It's just a matter of offending my father-in-law.

However, at that time, it was the time when Gonggong Yan was in danger, and his own action still made Gonggong Yan admit his feelings in his heart, so he disregarded the rules and reminded the Li family to participate in the Gongmo campaign, obviously preparing to return the favor during the Gongmo campaign.

never thought that the next thing was unpredictable, the layout of the Tian family coupled with the pine plague, the Li family actually withdrew from the Gongmo election.

In other words, this favor has always been owed.

Later, under the financial offensive of the Tian family, Father-in-law Yan looked forward to the affairs of the Li family's ink workshop. In such cases. This so-called favor has become a thorn in Grandpa Yan's heart, making him a little uncomfortable.

This is somewhat similar to Shengmien's fight against Mi Qiu.

Zhen Niang understands that this favor can't continue to be dragged on, that father-in-law is not the kind of frank gentleman, and if he drags it out, he will become an enemy. So. This time, the post to Father-in-law Yan was not in the name of Mofang, but in the name of her Li Zhenniang.

Zhen also understands in her heart that there is such a chance to return favors if you go too far. Why don't you do it?

As expected, her father-in-law appeared.

Zhen Niang and other ink shop stewards hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and a group of congratulatory guests also saluted. Father-in-law Yan drank a cup of tea and left. Both sides rejoiced.

But no matter what, the arrival of Grandpa Yan pushed the entire ink test meeting to a climax.

With a rush of firecrackers. The Li family's ink trial meeting officially began. First of all, I will show you a sample of Zai and Mo.

They are all people who walk in ink, and none of them have poor eyesight, and the quality of ink is distinguished by texture, color, and sound.

The texture of the Li family's batch of ink is like silk, the texture is delicate, the color is black with purple, it is glowing with a purple jade-like luster, and the sound of the slap is even clearer, and you can see that this ink is excellent with a little eyesight.

In the admiration of everyone, several men dressed in ink-colored black clothes accepted the samples of ink. Then it came to the actual ink testing stage, and everyone began to post.

One by one, those who had been preparing for the painting had thrown the stickers into the wooden boxes. Next, everyone chooses two more people to come out and draw the post.

One of the two drawers was an 80-year-old man and an 8-year-old child.

After a while, he pulled out two posters, which were the birthday pictures of Wang Xiucai in the south of the city to celebrate his father's birthday, and the other was a tung oil merchant surnamed Xi from other places, who came to join in the fun, but he didn't think about it but was selected, he didn't ask for it, as long as a painting was completed.

Wang Xiucai first appointed Mr. Dongtu to paint.

The merchant surnamed Tong Oil happened to have something to do and didn't want to wait, so he appointed Mr. Dongtu's apprentice Ding Nanyu to paint.

Then the two stickers were sent to Mr. Dongtu and Ding Nanyu.

The crowd continued to drink tea and taste ink.

After a while, the painting was finished, and each was spread out by two guys in Xuanyi for everyone to see. Mr. Dongtu and Ding Nanyu made another evaluation of Mo, and both expressed their satisfaction with the Li family's Zai Hemo.

Needless to say, Mr. Dongtu made a birthday picture for Wang Xiucai, and Wang Xiucai accepted it with satisfaction.

However, Ding Nanyu painted a picture of the Toad Palace for the surnamed Tong Oil Merchant, and some of the people present sighed that they were young and well-born, and they didn't know anything, and businessmen could not participate in the imperial examination.

Although the businessman could not participate in the imperial examination, which businessman did not want his descendants to leave the merchant gate and enter the Shimen, and this businessman surnamed Xi happened to have a son who was sent under a lifter of the same clan, and he was about to participate in the government examination this year.

Then a baby will put away the painting.

"Oh, not good." Just as he was about to collect the painting, he poured a cup of tea on the painting from somewhere, and the whole painting was stained with tea. The merchant surnamed Xi shouted in prief.

"It's okay, just wash it." At this time, Zhenniang stepped forward. He beckoned the guy on the side to fetch the water.

Listening to Zhen Niang's words, the people around shook their heads vigorously. What a clue, can this painting be washed? What does it look like when you wash it?

At this time, a man had already brought water.

Zhen Niang didn't care about the thoughts of others, so she asked a few people to spread the paper flat, put it flat in a copper basin, and then scoop water to clean the tea stains on it. After washing for a while, I asked the two guys to spread the painting flat on the table to dry.

Everyone found that the brush and ink on the painting did not leak in the slightest, and it was clear and beautiful.

"Good Ink !!" The people sitting here are all human spirits, who still don't understand what's going on? The painting has been washed with tea and water. The strokes are not damaged in the slightest, which shows that the ink has strong adhesion and is impervious to water. It is the performance of excellent ink.

At this time, some people who are Jingdao are also guessing in their hearts that this act of pouring tea is not good because Li Mo did it on purpose.

Immediately, there were some impatient businessmen who placed orders for the Li family, only the merchant surnamed Xi had to wait for the painting to dry before leaving, and Zhenniang asked someone to take a box of ink to him, which was all a gift.

So. Everyone was happy.

And since then, the son of this businessman surnamed Xi has been tested all the way to the government, township, and town. passed the level, and this pair of Toad Palace and Li Mo became a good story not to mention.

In short, the Li family's ink test will be very successful this time.

"Can it not be successful? This girl has used her potential to the extreme. At this time, Cheng Sanye sighed at his nephew.

This time since. The Li family was originally a topic of conversation, and Li Jiuye was mourned. The Seventh Lady is still paralyzed in bed and doesn't know what is going on, plus Li Zhenniang has become the owner of Li's Ink Workshop. How many people who want to see jokes are staring at it, so as soon as the trial ink will be launched, it will attract people of all kinds of thoughts.

Plus Mr. Dongtu and Father-in-law Yan. It's hard to think about whether this ink test will be successful or not.

Sometimes it's really not good to be dissatisfied, Cheng Sanye felt a little old for the first time.

And a few are happy and a few are sad.

Tianfu.

Tian Benchang was reading the account book in the study.

At this moment, Steward Fang and Master Jiang walked in with a gloomy face.

"Eldest prince, there's something wrong with Song Yanmo." Steward Fang said when he saw Tian Benchang.

When Tian Benchang heard this, he chuckled in his heart, and his face was not happy and he asked Manager Fang, "What's wrong?" ”

"Master Jiang, try to show your son." The steward said to Master Jiang on the side.

Master Jiang immediately took out an inkstone and a piece of ink, poured some water from the pen wash on the desk, and grinded it out, and then Master Jiang picked up the pen and dipped it in ink and wrote a few sentences on the paper.

"It's okay, the ink color is very good." Tian Benchang looked at the words on the paper with a sideways face, and said that it was good.

Master Jiang listened, didn't say a word, picked up the pen on the table again, and splashed the water on the paper, and immediately, the words on the paper were black.

Compared with the situation of the Li family's ink test before, this ink is not one or two points worse.

Tian Benchang's face suddenly became ugly, and he stood up rubbingly: "Weishenme will be like this, isn't the trial production before a good haode?" Explain it to me. ”

"There was no problem during the trial production, but when the mass production was made, because the hundred-year-old pine was still not enough, and now the pine plague cannot be purchased for a while, the master is in charge, and the pine cut from the Luojia pine field was mixed in...... "Master Jiang said, and stopped, needless to say, I understand.

Tian Benchang knew about this matter, and he didn't approve of it at the time, but his father was in charge, and he couldn't say anything: "Didn't I tell it?" Sick pine can not be used, only haode is used. ”

"We naturally pick out the sick pines that we can see and don't use, but some of the pines look like haode, but they are actually infected, but they haven't shown it yet, which is not visible." On the other hand, he said.

After listening to Steward Fang's words, Tian Benchang's face became even more ugly: "Then tell me, what is the remedy?" ”

"Only one batch can be remade." Master Jiang said.

"It's a trivial matter to remake a batch of money, but the question is where do you tell me to find a hundred years of pine now? Just for these hundred-year-old pines, I have offended the Li family to death. Tian Benchang gritted his teeth and said.

"There is another way, the Li family's reconciling ink has come out, which is quite good, we may probably ask the Li family to help us reconcile this batch of ink again." Steward Fang was a little worried.

"Do you want me to beg the Li family again?" Tian Benchang's face became even more ugly.

………………………… (To be continued......)

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