"You are my master, how can I take your money? As long as you give me more guidance on calligraphy, students will earn it. Xu Xi said with a smile.

"How's that going to work? It's not easy for you to make some money. Xiao Ruotong disagreed. She felt that this new painting method was priceless, and three thousand taels were cheaper.

"If I also accept the money from the two of you, won't others say that I don't understand the world, and even take the money of the masters?" Xu Xi waved his hand, "That's it." ”

Mama Yun tugged at her young lady's sleeve.

Xiao Ruotong has heard Mama Yun say "human feelings are sophisticated" during this time, her ears are about to become calloused, and she knows that she needs to talk about human feelings again at this time, so she wisely closed her mouth and stopped talking, so as not to say more and make more mistakes.

After dinner, Xu Xi insisted on drawing a picture in the silver building for a while, and Xiao Ruotong left first to return to the villa.

Sure enough, after getting into the carriage, Mama Yun taught her own lady: "Miss Xu doesn't accept your restraints, this is Miss Xu's heart, if you refuse, she should be embarrassed, others will also say that she is greedy for money, and Mr. 's restraints are all accepted, and they fall into the eyes of money." ”

But then she will have less than three thousand pieces of silver. Charge me 3,000 taels less, Mr. Kang 3,000 taels, wouldn't the two of them add up to 6,000 taels? Xiao Ruotong said, "We can't take advantage of her like this." She is a poor child, she is trying to make money at a young age, and her life in the house is definitely not satisfactory. ”

Although she doesn't care about housework, she usually buys things with Mama Yun and the maids to pay for the bargain, but she often buys jewelry and clothes, and the approximate price is still known.

Three thousand taels is not much for them, that is, the price of one or two pieces of jewelry. But for the average person, that's a lot of money. Not to mention six thousand taels.

Mama Yun had the same idea as Xiao Ruotong, she was very sympathetic to Xu Xi, and came up with an idea: "The batch of novel jewelry painted by Miss Xu was made by craftsmen, wouldn't it be good for you to give Miss Xu a few good pieces?" This not only fills the shackles she has let go, but also expresses their hearts to each other. ”

The nine jewelry drawings that Xiao Ruotong bought at the beginning, because they were extremely chic and novel, after discussing with Xiao Ruotong, the shopkeeper Wang used the best jade materials to carve. Such jewelry must be sold for one or two thousand taels of silver. Send Xu Xi two or three, and you can make up for her shortfall.

"Okay, then do it." Xiao Ruotong was finally happy.

Mama Yun looked at the girl's smile and sighed slightly in her heart.

After three years of marriage, the girl's smiling face became less and less. Now she has moved to live in another courtyard in Bac Ninh, goes to the academy every day to teach, and opens a silver building to worry about the girl, seeing the girl's smiling face day by day, she and the princess are very happy.

Of course, the worries in their hearts cannot be erased. The prince of England has not come to beg the girl to go back, and I am afraid that this matter will not be good. I don't know what kind of life the girl will live in the future.

Painting classes are held the day after the holidays. Because the women's academy is all women, male masters can't come to the academy to hang out if they have nothing to do, and they can only come when they have classes, so Mr. Kang only met Xu Xi after ten days.

Finally, after patiently finishing the class, Mr. Kang called Xu Xi out, his eyes shining with excitement: "Mrs. Xiao asked me to pass a message to me, saying that you are willing to teach everyone that painting method?" Only accept three thousand taels of silver, and don't want the title of master and apprentice? ”

Xu Xi: "......"

Three thousand taels of silver is still called "only collecting", is Mr. Kang so rich?

When I think that people are masters of painting, the value of a picture may be thousands of taels, but she only charges three thousand taels for this painting method, which is really too cheap.

She nodded, "Yes." ”

"Mrs. Xiao said, I can also learn from you?" Mr. Kang asked with a little glare in his eyes again.

Xu Xi laughed: "This is nature. But I can't take your money. If you really don't want to go, how about teaching me how to draw your hand? ”

Mr. Kang frowned: "That's not good. I am your master, and I should teach you how to draw, so how can I exchange it with you? He waved his hand and suddenly lowered his voice, "You can take the money, just don't make a noise, just say that it's okay to confiscate my money?" ”

Can there still be such an operation?

Xu Xi couldn't help laughing: "Sir, I said that I want to learn painting from you, not the kind of class every ten years, but only if you are free, give me lessons." It's like I taught people how to draw my way. ”

Mr. Kang touched his beard: "I'm fine." But are you free? During the day, I had to teach people to draw, and in the evening, I had to teach people to draw. I heard Mrs. Cui say that you are going to take the imperial examination; I heard Mrs. Xiao say again, you still painted jewelry drawings for her silver building? Where did you get the time to learn from me? ”

Xu Xi choked.

She scratched her head.

She actually regrets it now.

When I first entered the academy, I wanted to find a strong backing to compete with the Hou Mansion, and at the same time learn some skills to brush up on points.

But now the Hou Mansion is almost behind her. Although the academy can allow her to increase her ability and earn points, she is too tied to her body, and she basically spends most of her time here, so it is inconvenient for her to do anything.

She has been studying for more than ten years in modern times, and she is still studying in ancient times, which is really not her original intention.

What's more, there is a real problem that she has to consider. In modern times, no one cares if you study until you are in your thirties and go to a postdoctoral degree, but in ancient times, you had to marry at the age of fifteen or sixteen. Those who are engaged to relatives do not give them to those who run around casually, not only because the family does not agree, but also for the whole society.

She didn't want to fight against the whole society.

Therefore, she wants to lay a solid economic foundation and enhance her social influence, so that she can discuss whether to discuss relatives, what kind of family affairs, what kind of life she will live after marriage, and whether she can reconcile if she is not satisfied, at least she can make her own decisions, and she does not have to swallow her anger because of reality.

As a result, she only has a year or two to use.

"When are you free?" I don't have some classes in the afternoon. Can I use this time to learn how to draw with you? Xu Xi asked.

She didn't have anything else to do at first, so she wanted to catch everything. But now that I think about it, it's better to have a choice.

For example, female celebrities can be completely discarded. Modern girls are not popular, and they don't have no clothes to wear. I heard that the eldest lady's female popularity is good, but the clothes she wears are all made by embroidery girls in the house. It can be seen that the same is true of women in ancient times. As long as you have money, even if you can't buy ready-to-wear clothes that fit, you can buy or hire a professional embroiderer to help you make clothes.

Although she is interested in playing the piano, it is very good to play the piano and relax when she is idle. But this is not in a hurry, you can put it first, and it is not too late to study when she is free.

There are rules to learn in women's virtues, but there is only one class every ten days, which doesn't take much time. As for the afternoon time that Ding Ban used to practice calligraphy and memorize the Four Books and Five Classics, she didn't need to go to it at all.