"That's right! How's it going about your friend asking you to make a crown last time? ”

I stuffed a small peach crisp in my mouth, swallowed the hot tea together, and sighed, "Don't mention it, the few tricks I drew were not all beaten back by you, but also, I was not very satisfied with my own son, but my father did not return to the palace for a long time." Otherwise, even if I risk being scolded, I still have to ask for advice. ”

"Does Zhen Zhen know about Jin's loss?"

"Jin loses? Know, he is the ancestor of carpenters. He once invented the ladder for picking clouds and the beast ruler saw, and legend has it that the wooden beast he made was vivid and could run when it landed. Once a wood beast ran into the herd of the same species, and was regarded as the same kind by the herd, and frolicked together in the mountains and forests for a few days without noticing the difference. During the Great War that year, the enemy army attacked the country with a million troops, and the Jin loser made thousands of wooden soldiers alone, and charged into battle with one enemy and ten to drive the enemy army out of the border. It's a pity that after the war, his body collapsed, and he died suddenly. He has no apprentices, no masters, and no one inherits his skills. It's a pity that such a good craftsmanship! ”

Ah Huan smiled lightly, "There are different opinions among the people, and it is said that the lost son of Jin is a heavenly craftsman, and after helping the country to consolidate its foundation, he will complete his mission and return to the heavenly palace." Some people also say that he was feared by other countries and poisoned to death. There were too many rumors at that time, and Jin Yizi was completely deified, so that no one checked his past. ”

I put down the fruit in my hand and asked, "What do you know when Ah Huan said that?" ”

He smiled and said, "It's just some rumors, I heard that the master of Jin Yizi is a master of Taoism, hiding in the mountains and forests, never asking about the world, Jin Yizi went up the mountain to chop firewood when he had the fate to meet him, and the two talked very happily." Jin Yizi had no intention of knowing that the master was proficient in carpentry and had the intention to apprentice. The master politely refused to lose the Jin, only as a friend, the Jin loser secretly stole the teacher to learn the arts, comprehended the essence of carpentry, and finally achieved a lifetime, benefiting the people of the world. ”

He turned his eyes to look at me and said with a smile, "Zhenzhen, there are some skills that you can only have if someone else passes them on to you." Sometimes, he is also waiting for you. ”

I nodded as if I didn't understand, Ah Huan turned his eyes to look out the window, and said with a smile, "It's not easy for you to come out today, and it's even more difficult to think about coming to see me in such a short time, I understand your intentions." It's getting late, it's not safe outside, I'll let Ah Feng escort you home, how about it? ”

The sun hung far away in the sky, the light was weaker and weaker every moment, I wore a cloak and followed Ah Feng out together, when I arrived at the door of Yefu, it was completely dark, and the little girl saw me coming back, and shouted happily, saying that Erniang had ordered that I would not come back a moment later, so I would go to Yufu to find me.

How many days have not been moved, today a little walk is tired of no, I and Cai Qing, green branches to the good talk, no matter who asks, a bite of the bite I found on the way to Yufu found the jade pendant, see the street lively, then play forgot the time, so will be so late to return to the house. After making a good confession, Cai Qing was responsible for going back to Erniang, and I was responsible for going back to the Qin Pavilion to rest.

Yu Yi's wedding banquet didn't happen in the end.

Less than two hours after I got home, I was itchy and had diarrhea. Erniang hurriedly looked for Lang Zhong to see, Lang Zhong shook his head and shook his head for a long time, and waved his hand and said that it was not a big deal, but it was allergies, and I happened to be cold, and the two evils collided, and it looked a little powerful.

Lang Zhong stroked his beard and said to Erniang, "If Miss is just a simple allergy, or a cold, you can also prescribe a prescription for treatment." But now that the two are mixed together, it is more tricky, and it is impossible to prescribe treatment with drugs. ”

Lang Zhong came up with a hot steaming method, asked the maids to prepare a few hot towels to put on me, and when the towels cooled down, they replaced them with new hot towels. All night, I was hot, itchy, and had diarrhea from time to time, and the pain was comparable to that of any criminal law in the world.

I finally stayed up until dawn, and my body was better, but I tossed all night, and I couldn't get any strength out of my body. I fell asleep in a daze, and when I woke up again, it was dusk, and I still didn't make it to Yu Yi's wedding banquet after all.

After lying in bed for several days, he was finally cured, and because of the lack of Yu Yi's wedding banquet, he always felt guilty in his heart, so he wanted to ask him out and drink a cup of tea together to apologize, and by the way, he took a look at the gentle and touching bride.

Who knew that Cai Qing, who went to deliver the post, took the post back as it was, saying that there were only a few rough girls and two or three elderly women left in the entire Yu Mansion now, and the house was empty and scary, and there was no one in charge to pick up the post.

She inquired with the neighbors and found out that the eldest young master of the Yu family went out of the city with the new young grandmother the day after the wedding, and she didn't explain where she went. I only heard that there were a lot of people in the house who went up and down on the day I went out of the city, and there were three carriages alone, and the posture of going out of the city had a feeling of moving out of Beijing and not coming back.

Let's go! How did you go in such a hurry, and you didn't even leave me a letter, a friend who has been blind for so many years, what a forgetful person!

I asked Lu Zhi if he knew the details, and Lu Zhi only shook his head and said, "The slave and maid don't know the details, so the situation is either a trip or a housewarming, if it is a housewarming, the slave and the maid have heard that Yu's father-in-law's hometown seems to be in Zhuanzhou, where there seems to be the ancestral property of the Yu family, Xu is the family went to Zhuanzhou to settle down?" ”

"Zhuanzhou? Where is it? ”

"The slave and maid don't know, I heard that it is in the far north, by the sea. People depend on the sea for their survival, and all of them are masters of fishing, and even a three-year-old doll will catch a fish from the sea. It's just that the conditions there are far less prosperous than in Beijing, and few people are willing to live there. ”

Lu Zhi turned to smile and said, "Miss don't worry, Young Master Yu probably wants to take the new young grandmother out to play, he has always been good friends with you, and in a few days, when he is done, he will definitely send you a letter to keep you safe." ”

It's all about this, I'm really a conscienceless, and I only think about taking my daughter-in-law out to play, leaving my brother for many years completely behind.

Brother is cold, I can't help but sigh that it is the children's love that wins the so-called brotherly love, and the green branch asked, "Now that Yu Gongzi is not in Beijing, miss, you are drunk and the room you have set up in the building.........."

"Retreat!"

"Yes......"

Midori asked again, "Then you bought so many rice dumplings, what should you do with them?" ”

I sighed again, and the heart in my chest fell a little heavier, "Take it!" ”

Lu Zhi picked up the basket of rice flower dumplings, and said with a smile, "Slaves don't like sweets, I heard that a group of refugees came to the south of the city, it is better to send it to them, it can be regarded as a merit, what does the young lady think?" ”

"Whatever you want!"

"Yes!"

Recently, Yefu is really a scene, Yu is gone, the fox doesn't know where to be a demon, Hua Niang wrote that she danced in the eldest princess's mansion, and she couldn't come to teach art for a few days, Meng Le directly evaporated from the world, and she couldn't be found anywhere.

Before I met them, I was also a person, and I always thought they were noisy, and I wanted to be cleaner. However, I was a little unaccustomed to them not coming...................

"Miss! Miss! ”

Cai Qing rushed in, happy and loud, since that time she was molested, the first time she saw her in such spirits. Cai Qing ran up to me and carefully handed me a wad of paper.

"Miss, what do you see here?"

I took it, opened it and looked at it, and my heart was suddenly shocked, the paper was painted with gold and silver accessories, each piece of jewelry was graceful and luxurious, and the bearing was extraordinary, and the jewelry depicted on the jewelry was shining and colorful, just from the painting, it was enough to imagine how imposing the real thing was.

"It's ....... This is? ”

Cai Qing said with a smile, "This is the sketch in the master's study, today it was Xiaoyu's turn to clean the study, and she temporarily asked the slave maid to clean it for her." There is a sketch as high as a hill in the master's study, and the slave maid opened it with curiosity for a while, who knew that she saw this, haven't you been talking about the hair crown recently! The slave didn't know why, but she felt that you should need this, so she secretly brought some to you. ”

No wonder Ah Huan said that the hair crown I designed was either too dull or too ordinary, and now I saw the sketch designed by my father and knew what it is.

I made up my mind, handed over the sketch to Cai Qing, and solemnly instructed her, "You put this back first, and it must not be discovered by others." When this is done, you can inquire about one more thing for me. ”

"What?"

"First, you go to your mother's room and ask when your father will come home. The second thing is to ask clearly, has Yuxiu Pavilion been busy recently, when is the time when Erniang is used to returning home, and what do you do after you come back? Remember, don't let anyone know that this is what I want you to inquire about. ”

"Yes."

Cai Qing came back after a moment's time, and said to me carefully, "Sister Cai Su said that Mrs. is about to give birth, and the master will come back in the next two days, but I don't know when it will be." Yuxiu Pavilion has recently received a lot of orders in the palace, the second lady does not dare to be negligent, and does everything herself, and can only come back when she arrives at about the hour, and when she comes back, she will go to the master's study to sort out the account books, and she will stop when she is ugly. ”

"Understood."

Cai Qing asked, "Miss, what's wrong?" Why should slaves and maids inquire about this? You never cared about that before. ”

"Now I care, there is a reason. Go and help me find an inconspicuous black garment, which I will wear at night. ”

"Yes."

I placed the chessboard in front of the window, black in one hand and white in the other, and put the chess pieces on the chessboard in a similar way, and finally waited from the scorching sun to the sunset. After having dinner with my mother, I made a detour on the way back to the Qin Pavilion, let Cai Qing and Green Zhi go back first, carefully avoided my mother-in-law and maid, and took advantage of the darkness to get into my father's study.

According to the news inquired by Cai Qing, Erniang will go back to the house around the time, and the first thing to do when he returns home is to go to the study to sort out the account books, if nothing else, I still have plenty of time to check my father's drawings before Erniang comes back.

There is no candle flame in the house, and nothing can be seen in the dark, but fortunately I prepared fluorite in advance to bring it with me, the light of fluorite is not as bright as the night pearl and the star picking stone, soft and weak like a firefly, in this black light blind house is enough, if it is too bright, it will attract the small people outside.

There are a lot of drawings in the study, but they are all business orders between the common people and the imperial merchants, I don't know why, the royal orders of Yuxiu Pavilion for so many years, big or small, will be stored in the secret pavilion, never placed in the study or warehouse.

When I was a child, I was very naughty, secretly ran into the study to play, saw that my father's bookcase on the white crane pen holder was very good-looking, so I reached out to take it, who knew that I unintentionally opened the door of the secret pavilion, there is an endless secret passage in the secret pavilion, the secret passage is extremely wide, very large.

There was a small room every few steps in the dark passage that day, and I vaguely remember that there was a room where a lot of strange seals were placed, and the seals were stamped with strange patterns, like the family crest of the family.

At that time, I wondered why my father wanted to create so many seals, but when I thought that it was a unique hobby of my father, I stopped paying attention to it.

In an adjacent room, there are a lot of drawings with hair crowns and hairpin rings, and each sketch is clearly remembered who is determined, whether it is given or worn by yourself, how much is the deposit, how much is the full amount, who is the identity of the customizer, and each stroke is remembered clearly, without the slightest sloppiness.

It is precisely because of these that I know that every order of the royal family has been collected by my father.

I hadn't been in the other rooms, so I didn't know what was inside.

I found the white crane pen holder by the light of fluorite, and with a slight turn of childhood memories, I only heard a burst of "click!" in the darkness. I searched for the sound, and saw that a wall in the inner room of the study was slowly turning, and a cold wind blew out of the hollow dark passage.

The chill in the dark passage was terrifying, I shivered, and I had the courage to get into it, and as soon as I walked in, I heard the "Click!" behind me. The secret passage was slowly closing, and I held the fluorite and groped for a long time on the wall before I touched the familiar opal, and my heart finally settled down.

When I was a child, I sneaked in, I don't know how to get out after playing, I don't know how long I cried in this dark passage, and then I stupidly felt that I was going to starve to death in this dark passage, so I wanted to buckle down the five-* eye stone inlaid on the wall as a burial, who knew that this opal was the mechanism to open the door, and the door was opened with a light press.

After this fright, for so many years, I have always walked around my father's study, how dare I come in.

I will grope out two wafers from my bosom, sandwich the fluorite in the wafer, and the light of the fluorite reflected through the wafer suddenly appears, and everything can be seen within three steps, which is brighter than the candlelight.

I thought it wouldn't take long to find the room where the drawings were stored, but after walking for a long time, the rooms that were opened along the way were either gold and silver, or the original stones, and the room full of drawings seemed to have disappeared as if they had disappeared.

I don't know how long I walked, there was a faint light in the dark passage, I walked a few steps and found a candle flame, the street behind was brightly lit, and there were many night pearls inlaid on the wall, which were as bright as walking in the daytime.

I put away the fluorite and took a few steps forward, only to smell a burst of cigarette smoke, my heart was very strange, followed the fragrance to find the past, who knew that it went all the way to the dead corner, and there was no secret door on the stone walls on all sides.

I knocked on the stone wall around me, only one sound was different, I took off the torch from the wall, and carefully shone on the stone wall, reflecting the fire light on the faint traces of being carved, I followed the traces to sweep away the dust, until the white ash on my sleeve was stained with a thick layer, and the carved things on the stone wall gradually appeared.