Chapter 5 'Ye Qiuti' calligraphy
"Wow, Childe, your food is so delicious, my tongue is almost gone......"
After the meal, Meng Niu was full of praise for Ye Qiu's craftsmanship, and several times he bit his tongue because of his words, and he didn't care at all, as if his tongue was bitten off and he would swallow it in one gulp. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Of course, Meng Niu didn't know that these dishes were from Ye Qiu's hands, because Qing'er had already gotten up, and when she saw Ye Qiu personally serving the dishes to the table, her first thought was that Ye Dashao actually ran to the restaurant outside with the silver to pack them back, did he think that the dishes he made were not delicious, or that he was tired of eating?
But when she tasted the first bite, she suddenly found that these dishes were not only exquisite, but also delicious, she had never eaten such delicious dishes before, and she ate with relish, but she was faintly worried, her cooking skills were not even one-tenth of the young master's, I was just a girl, how could I let the young master cook for me? No, you must learn to cook well, otherwise you will be looked down upon by the young master. Right! In the evening, I asked the young master to teach me how to cook, and I will definitely be able to make such delicious dishes.
Ye Qiu didn't know that the little girl was thinking so much, seeing that she was still taking small sips in the face of a table of delicious food, it is said that in her previous life, which girl of this age did not pretend to be a foodie, not only could she not walk when she saw the delicacy, but she couldn't even take care of her image, where would she be so reserved. She was also a little shy because Meng Niu, an outsider, came to her home.
"Childe, what are we going to do this afternoon? Do you still go to those big households, push, sell? ”
After eating, Meng Niu lay on the chair, holding up his round belly, and asked while picking at the meat crumbs stuffed in his teeth.
"No, let's go to the market and see if there is any store to change hands, and we will buy a store for glass sales." Ye Qiu also ate a little supportively, and after saying something in one breath, he burped, causing Qing'er, who was sitting on the side, to hide his small mouth, wanting to laugh but not daring to laugh, and his little face was red.
"Childe, we only have so much glass, if we open a shop, when these glasses are sold out, there will be nothing to sell." Meng Niu said puzzledly, he only thought that Ye Qiu was going to buy a store to sell these glasses, and he didn't know his plan.
"Don't worry about this, I promise that there will be new glaze for sale at that time," Ye Qiu said with a profound smile, and then said before Meng Niu was about to speak: "When you say this, I feel that time is a little tight, so let's go to the market in the afternoon to see whose store wants to transfer, and tell me when I come back in the evening, before we go to the Guogong Mansion tomorrow, you take me over to have a look, if it is appropriate, we will take the store down." ”
"But Childe, we don't have any money now, how can we buy a store?" Meng Niu scratched his head and asked honestly.
"Well, that's a problem, but you don't have to care, with this son, there will be silver, and the store will also have it!" Ye Qiu waved his hand, and asked Meng Niu to set off immediately, he also came to the room, put the pen, ink, paper and inkstone in place, and was about to study ink when Qing'er walked in.
"Young master, let me come."
Qing'er took the inkstone first, went outside to fill some water, put it on the table and picked up a piece of ink with her small hand to grind it carefully, she also stayed in the study when she was in the Ye family, although the technique of grinding ink is not very proficient, but Ye Qiu's requirements are not high, it is enough to grind the ink into ink, he is not one of those famous masters, and he is not so particular about it.
"Is the young master going to open a shop?"
Seeing Ye Qiu sitting at the table with a brush, staring at her little hands in a daze, Qing'er felt very unnatural, and it was not good to deliberately move the inkstone away, so she cleverly opened her mouth to divert his attention, but the young master seemed to be stupid, so she had to repeat it again in an accentuated tone.
"Yes, I'm going to open a glass shop in Hangzhou, you've seen that glass just now, that's it." Ye Qiu peeked, no, he was looking at the little girl jade hand grinding ink openly, and he was not embarrassed to be caught, so he replied naturally.
I also told Qing'er about selling glass at the dinner table this morning, but Qing'er still didn't believe it, how could such a small piece of seemingly useless thing be sold for such a sky-high price of one hundred taels of silver? Moreover, the little young master of the Guogong Mansion is willing to pay three hundred taels of silver to buy it, which is simply not too against the sky!
It's no wonder that Qing'er has no vision, it's completely feudalism that kills people, Qing'er has two dollars of silver a month, which has to be saved for nearly forty years, and there can't be any expenses completely saved to be able to afford a piece, it's unimaginable!
"But the price of this hundred taels is too expensive, who would want it?" Qing'er felt that the price set by Ye Qiu was too high, and shook her head worriedly and said.
"Hehe, you can rest assured, in our Hangzhou city, there are many famous families, so you don't have to worry about not being able to sell it," Ye Qiu said with a smile, if he still has a feather fan in his hand, he will claim that Kong Ming is alive, "Moreover, you must know that those rich people have a very heavy vanity, once they see that other people's families have something good, they will do everything possible to let themselves have it, and the more novel, the more trendy things, they like it more than anyone else, and they don't care about the price at all, as long as it can support his face, I don't care how much money I have, their purpose has always been, face first, silver second, everything that can be compared, only buy the expensive one, don't choose the right one! ”
"That's true, the old man used to be like this......" When it came to Ye Qiu's cheap father, Qing'er subconsciously glanced at Ye Qiu, and saw that he didn't mean to blame, so he continued, "Once when the head of the Chen family came to visit, he wore a coral pendant on his waist, and the master liked it very much, and then he went to buy one, and it cost more than three hundred taels of silver, and the one on the head of the Chen family was less than one hundred taels. ”
Hearing his father's story, although Ye Qiu couldn't talk about his feelings for this cheap father, he still had a faint touch in his heart, but he didn't show it, this kind of mood is good in his heart.
"So, rich people are like this, and there will definitely be sales for these glasses." Ye Qiu saw that the ink had been polished, picked up the pen and wrote a few words on the paper with the ink.
"But today's Meng ...... Brother Meng Niu also said that there are only so many glasses, and it won't take long to sell out, so isn't it a waste of silver to buy a store? Qing'er was the same as Meng Niu on the issue of buying a store, and she also thought so when Meng Niu brought it up, but at that time, in front of outsiders, she was a subordinate, especially a woman, and she couldn't speak on the spot, and now only the two of them were together, so she boldly said it.
"Don't worry about this, look at this, what is this?" Ye Qiu turned the paper on which he had written his words.
"The glass manufacturing process? Master, why do you write so well? "Qing'er was originally a woman from a small scholarly family, and her knowledge is not outstanding, but her literacy and sentence breaking are not a problem, if it weren't for Ye Qiu, who was the bastard before, she would not have fallen to the point of becoming a maidservant.
In this era of 'literati walking all over the place, and scholars are as many as dogs', her calligraphy will naturally not be bad, seeing a few seemingly random and written on the paper, but there is a windy handwriting, she has loved calligraphy since she was a child, and she is also as wise as a torch, and sees some of the doorways.
"This is nature, this is the 'Ye Qiu Body' that the young master created himself, and I am the only one in the world who can do it!" Ye Qiu secretly said 'sorry' to Emperor Huizong in his previous life, Ye Qiu had studied calligraphy for a while in his amateur life in his previous life, because the time was not enough to overflow, he chose several of the many famous families, among which he was better at this Song Huizong's 'thin gold body', but he didn't think that there was no Song Huizong in this time and space, and there was no calligrapher named Zhao Ji, and the 'thin gold body' naturally did not appear, so he unceremoniously took it as his own.
"Young master, how do you know calligraphy?"
In the past, when the old man was alive, he invited many well-known gentlemen in Hangzhou to teach Ye Qiu to read and write, but without exception, he was so angry that he had a heart attack, scolded him for 'rotten wood cannot be carved', and took the initiative to resign and leave, these deeds are known to everyone in the entire Ye family.
"This is, young master, when I dreamed at night some time ago, I dreamed that a calligraphy flew from the sky, and this calligraphy was written in this font, so every night when I went to bed, I would copy it several times in my dream, and over time, I would be able to come easily." Ye Qiu's face was not red when he lied, it was completely what he said.
"If you want to learn, I'll teach you." Ye Qiu saw little stars flickering in Qing'er's eyes, and said with a smile.
"Ah, that's something given to you by the gods, I'm a subordinate, how dare I learn it." When Qing'er heard this, she hurriedly waved her hand and refused, but the eager look on her face betrayed her true thoughts.
"What's there, since the fairy has given me this calligraphy, then, this is my thing, since it is my own thing, I can teach whoever I want, I can pass it on to whoever I want, and the gods can't control it." Ye Qiu saw Qing'er's heart-wrenching appearance, and secretly laughed, but it was not easy to expose her directly.
"How can that be, besides, the young master can't say this anymore, if you let the gods listen to it, maybe when you will take back your ability." Qing'er hurriedly said, although she also knew the saying that 'Zi Bu is strange and chaotic', but the ancients' natural fear of gods and ghosts still exists, and she is not willing to harm the young master who has finally changed his temperament because of herself, in case the gods no longer favor the young master, let him change back to his original appearance, it feels terrible to think about it.
"Okay, okay, I won't say it," Seeing Qing'er's frightened face, Ye Qiu hurriedly opened her mouth to comfort her, and then said: "Then you can learn this calligraphy with me when you have time in the future, well, that's it, you are the first student of my 'Ye Qiuti'!" ”
"Students? No, no, no. Qing'er muttered, but thought in her heart, if you have the status of master and apprentice, in the future, you will have to obey the etiquette of master and apprentice, I am his maidservant, how can I be a master and apprentice!
"Don't worry, you don't need to apprentice, we're just communicating, normal calligraphy exchange!" Seeing Qing'er's thoughts, Ye Qiu hurriedly changed his mouth and said, he didn't want to have any master-apprentice relationship with Qing'er.
Alas! Evil feudal society!