"Yu~~" The groom pulled the reins of the horse, and the four horses stopped almost at the same time.

The curtain of the car was opened, Chen Xu also sorted out his clothes and got down from it, looked at Princess Huayu who was waiting, and hurriedly bowed: "Chen Xu greets the fifth princess!" ”

Princess Huayu hurriedly turned sideways, and saluted with a blushing joy on her cheeks: "Shi Yan has seen Qinghe Hou!" ”

After the two saw the ceremony, Chen Xu glared at the housekeeper of the Hou Mansion and said, "The princess is coming to the mansion, why don't you welcome you into the living room to rest!" ”

"Don't blame Qinghehou for them, Shiyan came uninvited, but she didn't know that Qinghehou went to the factory, so he waited in the garden, otherwise it would be rude!"

"Hehe, the princess doesn't need to be so polite, you and I are not those old men above the court, come to the house and be free and casual, please go to the living room to rest and warm up, and arrange someone to accompany the princess to play mahjong after I finish washing!" Chen Xu said with a smile.

Princess Huayu blushed and whispered: "Qinghe Hou is not in a hurry, Shi Yan has eaten the delicious fragrant marinade made by Qinghe Hou, and has always been obsessed, although the imperial dining room in the palace also makes some marinated dishes on weekdays, but I always feel that the taste is much worse, and ...... And there are too many people in the palace, and Shi Yan gets very little, so I specially brought some ingredients over today, and I want the kitchen workers in the Qinghe Marquis Mansion to help make some for Shi Yan to satisfy her hunger! ”

Chen Xu couldn't help but look the little princess in front of him up and down.

At the age of fifteen, it is the time when he loves to eat and play, he looks so beautiful that he should be classified as a foodie, as for those who are not beautiful and love to eat, they are nicknamed dinosaurs.

For the request of the fifth princess, Chen Xu naturally would not refuse, and with a wave of his hand, a group of domestic servants surrounded him and moved several baskets of ingredients from the carriage to the kitchen.

Finally, Chen Xu looked at the carriage covered by the black cloth, and asked with a little curiosity: "Princess, what is on this carriage?" Why cover up! ”

"Here are the ...... of the palace that the two white heads offered, the Orion in the mountains a few months ago."

It is a human bear, in fact, it is a brown bear, because the size is larger than the black bear, and the coat color is mixed with yellow and white, so there is a single name Zhen, and it is widely distributed on the earth, the colder the place, the more, and all the animals of the bear family, can be classified into the range of fierce beasts, according to legend, among the army under the Yellow Emperor, there is a fierce beast army with the totem of Zong.

Therefore, when he heard that there were two bears inside, Chen Xu didn't care, and arranged for the servants to tear off the black cloth on it.

"Wow~"

As the covering black cloth was torn off, a wooden cage was revealed.

"Holy!"

Looking at the two slightly chubby animals in the cage, one large and one small, black and white, with two black circles on the top of the white head, Chen Xu couldn't help but let out an exclamation.

Nima, this is obviously two giant pandas!

Chen Xu opened his mouth and was stunned, and then turned his head and looked at Princess Huayu who was looking at him with concern with a strange face, "Princess, what did you just say?" ”

Princess Huayu dodged Chen Xu's eyes, blushed and whispered: "Shi Yan heard that Qinghehou has good food, so she specially brought it, maybe Qinghehou can make a delicious ......."

"No, no, giant pandas can't be eaten!" Before Princess Huayu's words were finished, Chen Xu shook his head like a rattle.

There are a lot of beasts in this era, and the giant panda as a beast should naturally have a lot of them, but Chen Xu didn't see it when he was in Nanyang, and he didn't expect to meet it in Xianyang, and it was two.

At this time, two giant pandas, one large and one small, were locked in a cage, slightly different from what they saw in the zoo in later generations, their hair was messy and covered with mud, although they looked the same cute and cute, but the moment the black cloth was uncovered, the two bears grinned at Chen Xu and showed their sharp teeth, making a humming and chirping sound, obviously with a trace of wildness, but this kind of wildness in Chen Xu's view, the ingredient of selling cuteness is greater than the threat, because the appearance is too cute and cute.

These are two purebred wild giant pandas.

However, the nature of the giant panda determines that this species will not be as irritable and ferocious as the tiger and lion, so it is relatively easy to capture, and the safety factor is easier than dealing with rhinoceros tigers, but these things live in high-altitude areas, and climbing mountains and trees are also very flexible and fast, and it is not easy to capture alive. Therefore, it is not easy to catch any very large beast.

Therefore, these two giant pandas are estimated to be presented as rare animals, and their personalities are relatively docile and raised for people to see.

However, in this era, some things like watching animals are not popular activities, because wild animals are all over the mountains, and tigers and leopards that are rare to see in later generations can be seen everywhere, not to mention small animals such as monkeys, foxes, rabbits, etc., as soon as they go out of the city, they follow up the safari park, and there are jumping figures everywhere, even wolves can be seen everywhere, riding horses and walking on the road, sitting in the middle of the road and howling at people.

Therefore, Chen Xu inquired about Princess Huayu, these two giant pandas were raised for a few months after being dedicated to the palace, and slowly no one was interested, so today Princess Huayu came to play in the Qinghe Marquis Mansion, and Qin Shihuang agreed.

"Qinghe Hou, why can't you eat this white squirt?" Sitting down in the living room, drinking hot tea, Princess Huayu looked at Chen Xu with a pair of smart big eyes.

"Such a docile and lovely animal, I can't bear to eat it!" Chen Xu twitched a few times and said.

"I didn't expect that Qinghe Hou still has such a benevolent heart, but Shi Yan is too abrupt, I will take these two white heads back and ask the palace people to feed them well!" Princess Huayu said with a little embarrassment.

"The princess doesn't have to take it back, I've been very fond of all kinds of animals since I was a child, and now there is a lot of open space in my house, so it's not troublesome to raise!" Chen Xu said with a smile.

"It's okay, in fact, Shi Yan also likes all kinds of small animals, there are squirrels and brocades in my Huayu Palace, Qinghe Hou can take you to my dormitory next time you enter the palace!" Princess Huayu secretly glanced at Chen Xu when she spoke.

Chen Xu's cheek twitched a few more times, liars, women are all liars, obviously you want to eat braised bear paws to bring it.

"The princess will sit down, I'll go to the kitchen to have a look, and by the way, arrange someone to prepare mahjong for a while and play a few rounds with the princess!"

After drinking a cup of tea, Chen Xu arranged for someone to bring some snacks and snacks to Princess Huayu, and then went to the kitchen to take a turn, and saw that the chicken feet, chicken wings and sheep's feet and pig's feet brought by the princess were all marinated, so he asked a steward to call Chen Ping, ready to play a few cards with Princess Huayu, but when he returned to the living room again, he saw Princess Huayu sitting on the edge of the kang and looking through a stack of sketches and manuscripts he placed on the desk.

"I'm sorry, Shi Yan was fascinated by what Hehou wrote and painted!" Seeing Chen Xu come in, Princess Huayu hurriedly put down the manuscript in her hand and said with a blushing cheek.

"Hehe, it's okay, this is all drawn out of my spare time, princess, please!" Chen Xu waved his hand and said with a smile.

"Qinghehou, what is painted on this drawing, why do these words look so weird, Shi Yan doesn't even know any of them." Princess Huayu flipped out a drawing of a telescope and asked curiously.

"Oh, these words are a new way of writing for me, called regular script, in fact, it is not weird, but just changed some of the small seals and the writing style of the officials, the small seal improved by Li Chengxiang is much simpler than the big seal, but it is still not clear enough, because too many curved strokes are used, so that it is too cumbersome to write or carve on the bamboo slips, so the following officials use more simple and fast scribe style when writing documents, this kind of scribe style is called Lishu, And Lishu because of the omission of a large number of curved strokes, the use of more points of the simple strokes, so that the speed of writing is much faster, and it looks more clear and clear, princess if you look carefully, are the words I wrote very similar to the words written by the scribe? ”

After listening to Chen Xu's explanation, Princess Huayu took a closer look at the words on the scratch paper, and then couldn't help nodding again and again: "What Qinghe Hou said, Shi Yan seems to be the case again, these words are not completely unknown, but the strokes are a little weird!" So this first word should be Wangzi, Qinghe Hou, Shi Yan didn't admit his mistake, right? ”

"Not bad!" Chen Xu flipped through it under the desk, took out a manual in italics written by himself, handed it over, and said, "The princess can read it against this index table I wrote, and she will soon be able to easily convert all the small seals into regular scripts!" ”

This book according to the radical of the preparation of the italic index, each side index corresponds to a small seal of the side, the point and horizontal skimming are written clearly, only need to convert the same side of the small seal into the side of italics, so Princess Huayu opened this index and looked at it for a while, you can clearly recognize the italic characters on the telescope drawings, and Chen Xu is still pointing around, and soon Princess Huayu completely figured out the writing and structural characteristics of the italic characters, and also picked up the brush on the desk, began to imitate the writing norms in italics, and wrote his name upright on a piece of hemp paper.

"Qinghe Hou, can you see what Shi Yan wrote?" Princess Huayu handed the three words she had written to Chen Xu.

"Yes, yes, the princess is very correct and beautiful! It's just that at the end of this stroke, it is necessary to form a sharp pen like the tip of a knife......"

Looking at the three italics on the top of the paper, which were square, horizontal and vertical, Chen Xu was extremely embarrassed, he had written for many years, and it was not as beautiful as what others had written for ten minutes.

Getting Chen Xu's praise, Princess Huayu became more interested, knelt on the kang, and wrote more attentively stroke by stroke against the index copybook, every time she wrote, she had to look up at Chen Xu to ask if she was right, and Chen Xu could only smile bitterly and keep praising him, and occasionally pointed out the lack of strokes.

Italic characters are the absolute domination of the printing industry in later generations, almost dominating the world, in addition to the title, whether it is a newspaper or a book, the content is basically italics, and the calligraphy industry also has a saying, do not practice the real book (regular script), you can not become a great calligrapher in the hall, it can be seen that the status of italic in the calligraphy world.

Although Chen Xu has seen millions of italic characters, he only found out after writing it with a brush that there is still a thing called brush calligraphy in this world that he has nothing to do with him, so this index book is added by him with a brush little by little, rather than written out one stroke at a time.

Outside the room, Chen Ping and a steward hid outside the door, looking at the Hou Ye and the princess sitting on the kang through the gap in the door, chatting and laughing harmoniously, looking at each other together and then tiptoeing away.