Xie Baizi smiled, "You are very talented, and you work hard enough." I don't worry about your fall. It's just that your father said something back then, and I still remember it......"

He looked up at the distant horizon and said, "He said that in this world, practice makes perfect; Cooked, it can also kill skill. ”

"Who can kill a skill?" Li Jingshan's eyes widened. After thinking about it for a while, he understood, and suddenly said, "That's what you just said, if you are too mature and top skills, you will lose your vitality and ingenuity?" ”

"Yes, if you are so skilled in a skill that you can't find a new breakthrough point, you will also become inert, satisfied with the status quo, and not want to forge ahead. Over time, the original life of the skill will be lost. A work without ingenuity, already dead. ”

Xie Baizi said and smiled, "I didn't say that. Actually, when I was discussing it with your father, he brought it up. At the time, I couldn't figure it out, but the more I thought about it, the more I admired him for thinking far-reaching. You're his daughter, and you can figure it out so quickly. ”

Li Jingshan smiled embarrassedly, "The master has mentioned this, if you can't comprehend it, you can learn it in vain." ”

Xie Baizi nodded, and said: "When you go to Beijing to study this time, you will definitely see all kinds of skills, different schools, and each will definitely have its own merits and styles." You have to study it carefully, but once you have mastered it, you have to find a way to forget about it. ”

“…… Forget? Li Jingshan was surprised.

"Yes, forget!" Xie Baizi said solemnly, "Goodness is like water, and it benefits all things without fighting." Forget those skills and really use them, so that you can be as flexible as water. ”

He smiled in a rare way, "But this is the highest realm, maybe your father has already glimpsed the doorway." And I'm still wandering outside the door. You remember it first, and you will always understand it later. ”

"Thank you, Master, for your teachings! The apprentice wrote it down. Li Jingshan also responded solemnly.

She looked up at the depressed Zhuo Yingtang behind Xie Baizi, and hesitated to speak, "Now that Si Zhenfang has fallen to this point, I'm afraid that the master's life here will not be easy." You are not from the Li clan, why don't you quit your errand here, and you join the Jingbao Pavilion to do work, okay? Shao Dong is a person who knows talents and cherishes talents, and will not treat you badly. ”

Xie Baizi was stunned for a moment, then smiled slowly, and the wrinkles on his forehead were stretched, "Thank you for your kindness." It's just that when your father was there, I joined Si Zhen Fang, and I said that I would help him take care of the design workshop. ”

He looked at the distant sky again, and said lightly: "Since I should go down, I can't let him be gone, so I will break my promise." As long as Si Zhenfang is still there, I won't leave for a day. It was regarded as managing the property behind him for him, and fulfilling the promise of the day. When Si Zhenfang doesn't leave me one day, it's naturally time to leave. When the time comes......"

He sighed faintly, "When the time comes, with this crude skill, where can't I eat with my mouths?" ”

Li Jingshan was stunned. She only knew that Xie Baizi was not a local, and when she came to Minzhou more than ten years ago, she became good friends with her father. I often came to the house as a guest back then. That's why her father asked her to thank her master as a teacher.

However, when she was young, Li Jingshan was stunned by Xie Baizi's old-fashioned personality, strict work, and not easy to get close to, which was 108,000 miles away from her father's kindness and humor. Therefore, he is not close to Master Xie, and he can hide from his teachings.

On the contrary, after the family changed, Li Jingshan slowly felt the warmth of the ancient road under Xie Baizi's cold appearance, and there was no one to ask about the jewelry process, so she occasionally came to look for him. But he never expected that Master Xie attached so much importance to his promise to his father, and it was a trust of life and death that was more important than his life.

Xie Baizi looked at her stunned, and knew what she was thinking, coughed lightly, showing embarrassment, and explained a few sentences, "When your family was changed, I originally wanted to take care of one or two...... It's just that I don't have a marriage, and there are only orphans and widows left in your family. I'm not very convenient ......."

"Ah no, no, I don't mean to complain about the master." Li Jingshan hurriedly responded: "It's just that I sighed, the master values righteousness...... Li Shan thanked her father here. After that, he made a solemn bow.

Xie Baizi accepted her salute calmly, and said with his head bowed: "After you go to Beijing, I will take more care of your family, you can rest assured." ”

Li Jingshan saw that he said solemnly, and knew that he must have taken this as a promise to fulfill it seriously, and her heart was moved, but her heartfelt words were blocked in her heart and she couldn't say it. I had to bow and thank you again: "Thank you, Master!" ”

Xie Baizi laughed, "You are like your father, you are polite and verbose. He waved his hand nonchalantly, "Okay, nothing else, I'll go in first." ”

Li Jingshan walked back slowly, her heart seemed empty and stuffed.

Xie Baizi is one of the top jewelers in Si Zhen Fang, and her style is strong and sparse, which is very different from the gentleness of Jiangnan, which she did not like when she was a child.

However, I once heard my father say that Master Xie's works are stylish. At that time, she was young and couldn't understand what it was. Today's words, she really realized that the strong lines and sparse layout are actually the backbone of a person standing up to the sky!

For the first time, Lai Ching-shan understood how the character of a craftsman affects the style of jewelry. For the first time, I was eager to know what kind of "style" I could give to the jewelry I designed!

She thought about it as she walked, thought about it and then transferred to Zhenxue, and explained that Li Jingjue also took more care of Master Xie on weekdays. Seeing that my younger brother agreed with a hippie smile, he went home.

Not long after I arrived home, a guy from the store came to report that the gentlemen of the bookkeeper in Beijing had arrived, and the young owner invited her to come over to greet her.

Li Jingshan put on a little make-up and hurriedly returned to the Jingbao Pavilion to entertain guests, but was told that the gentlemen had already gone up to the VIP room on the second floor. She hurriedly glanced at the two carriages parked outside the door, and the men who were busy in front of the carriages, and hurried up to the second floor.

saw Ruan Mingyu and Shopkeeper Hong drinking tea with the two gentlemen. Seeing her coming, Ruan Mingyu beckoned, "Ah Shan, come and see the third shopkeeper of the general number, Chang Yong - Uncle Chang." ”

The middle-aged man at the bottom right of him smiled at her with a cup of tea.

Li Jingshan looked at the man carefully: I saw that he had a round face and a round figure, a round nose under his round eyes, and a pair of round glasses, which was festive at first glance. When he saw Li Jingshan, he smiled gently, as amiable as the Maitreya Buddha in the temple.

Li Jingshan hurriedly stepped forward and gave the junior salute. Before he bent down, he was held up by Chang Yongxu, and said with a smile: "Miss Li is young and has to be valued by the young owner who is above the top. And he was born with such a spirit. Sure enough, it's an outstanding person from Minzhou! ”

Li Jingshan has won the award. I had to be convinced in my heart, Chang Yong's sentence even praised the people and places. The people who come from the capital are exquisite.

She couldn't help but glance at Ruan Mingyu quietly. That man grew up in such a place, no wonder he was born with such a delicate heart.

Chang Yong pointed to the person under him and introduced: "This is Zhang Mingjun Zhang, who is my partner, known as the 'Iron Abacus'. ”

This "iron abacus" Mr. Zhang is a tall and thin man compared to Chang Yong, and his face is more narrow with two goatees. A pair of eyes are usually half-squinted, but when they look at people, they show a glimmer of light.

Li Jingshan also stepped forward to salute, but Zhang Mingjun was not as familiar as Chang Yong, and just nodded lightly to her, even if he had seen the ceremony.

Chang Yong smiled again: "The lord and the lady know that I am taking the line of Minzhou, so they have prepared two carts full of items and asked me to bring them to the young master." Originally, we were going to pass through Lingzhou, and it was with these things that we passed through Minzhou at the first stop. You're going to get someone to unload the goods, so we can travel lightly. There are still several points to be checked. ”

Ruan Mingyu said with a smile, "Uncle Chang also let my father and mother mess around." I'll go back after the beginning of autumn, and I'm still bothering you to send things from so far away. ”

Chang Yong is the third shopkeeper of the main store in the capital, and he can be regarded as a capable member of Master Ruan's subordinates, and he has watched Ruan Mingyu grow up since he was a child, so in addition to the distinction between master and servant, he has more care and casualness for his elders.

Therefore, he smiled, "Naturally, Uncle Chang also feels sorry for you." There are also ten jars of pear blossom spring in it, which are your aunt's private brew, and I specially brought it to you. ”

Ruan Mingyu really smiled, "You don't want anything else, I have to hide this pear blossom spring privately." Sure enough, Uncle Chang still loves me! ”

As soon as everyone laughed, Ruan Mingyu arranged for someone to book a restaurant to entertain guests. Chang Yong waved his hand and said: "What is this to catch the wind and wash the dust, it will be exempted first." This time we have to run a lot of places, and the time is tight, when the third young master returns to Beijing, let's have a good drink of two more cups. ”

"No matter how busy you are, you always have to eat." Ruan Mingyu said with a smile, still asking Li Jingshan to arrange the restaurant in person, while leading people downstairs. Knowing that they were going to visit the scale of the store first, he personally took the two gentlemen to tour the storefront workshop and so on, and then took them into the backyard account room.

"On weekdays, Shopkeeper Hong and I are here to check the accounts, the place is cramped, and the two of us have been wronged. If you need anything, just mention it to Shopkeeper Hong. ”

"Where, the third young master is polite." Chang Yong and Zhang Mingjun hurriedly thanked him.

Ruan Mingyu asked the shopkeeper Hong to take Zhang Mingjun into the account room first, and he said in the side hall that he wanted Li Jingshan to inspect with them, and then go to Beijing for training.

There are always precedents for such things, and Chang Yong naturally agrees with it. It's just that when he saw Ruan Mingyu's expression when he mentioned Li Jingshan, he secretly shuddered in his heart, but his face was silent.

At this time, Li Jingshan came in and informed that the banquet had been arranged, so please move into the table. Ruan Mingyu asked Li Jingshan to take people to the restaurant first, and then she went to change her clothes and came.

Li Jingshan led everyone out thoughtfully. Personally, he didn't feel anything wrong, only Chang Yong glanced at Li Jingshan more and secretly kept a heart for her.

Ruan Mingyu returned to his cubicle in the backyard and washed his face first. He stood in front of the basin of water, looking down at his own reflection in the water, but his mind was racing for thought. The amount of information he received was a bit large.

He didn't expect that his father would ask Chang Yong to come over to check the accounts of his store!