The phrase "wild road" aroused the stubbornness in Li Jingshan's character, she straightened her spine and raised her head and said: "Thank you for the master's teachings." It's just the way of art, it's not static. Sticking to the rules does not necessarily lead to high-quality products, and finding another way may also be able to protrude from different peaks. ”

"Hmph, hubris!" Xie Baizi said angrily: "I want to see what kind of different peak protrusion method you have." He flicked his sleeves and walked straight to the cafeteria, ignoring Li Jingshan.

Li Jingshan knew that Xie Baizi was a lonely person, but in fact, there was no malicious intent. I didn't care much about his attitude, and just walked back alone.

"Miss Li."

Li Jingshan turned around and saw Li Zhang walking briskly from the workshop, and asked happily, "Why are you here?" ”

The disciples of the Li clan also took turns to help in the workshop, either to carry materials or to pick jewelry materials. Li Jingshan looked at him in a short cloth shirt, he should be doing work in the workshop.

She smiled softly and said, "Come and ask about some jewelry craftsmanship." ”

"Do you understand?"

Li Jingshan shook her head.

Li Zhang knew that her second uncle rejected Li Jingshan's family, thinking that the people from Zhuoyingtang were deliberately making things difficult, so he hurriedly comforted her: "Don't be discouraged. If you want to inquire about anything, tell me and I'll ask for you. They don't guard against me, and maybe they can find the answer. ”

Li Jingshan's heart warmed, and she said with a smile: "No need. In fact, they don't know the answer either. ”

"Oh. That's it," Li Zhang suddenly thought of the problem that even the master of Si Zhenfang couldn't solve, how troublesome it should be, and hurriedly said: "Don't be discouraged, you can solve it by asking a few more companies." ”

"Hmmm! Thank you, Brother Li Zhang. ”

Li Zhang looked at Li Jingshan's bright smiling face, and his face turned red. He was just a few useless words of comfort, but he could exchange such a beautiful smile, and his heart was also sweet, he didn't know what else to say, but he was reluctant to say goodbye to her like this. In the end, he pulled the corners of his clothes crampedly, and said, "I, I'll send you." ”

Li Jingshan asked, "Don't you have to work in the workshop?" ”

"It's lunch break, and everyone is going to eat and rest."

Li Jingshan looked at his sparkling eyes and nodded with a smile.

The two of them walked on the afternoon street one after the other, and they didn't say much, but they both felt warm in their hearts. Li Jingshan is because someone is willing to comfort herself and accompany her when she is confused; And Li Zhang is satisfied because he can be by her side!

Back in the courtyard, it was already past noon, Li Jingshan took some food from the kitchen and gave it to Li Zhang, and saw that the sleeves and elbows of his clothes were worn out, and said to him, "You take off your clothes, I will ask my mother to make up for you, and you will be done after you finish eating." ”

Li Zhang was embarrassed at first, "No...... No need. ”

Li Jingshan put the steamed buns and side dishes on the stone table in the courtyard, and said with a smile: "What's so embarrassing, my mother's handiwork is good and fast, and it won't delay you." ”

Li Zhang blushed and silently took off his coat and handed it over.

Li Jingshan took her clothes to the house and showed them to her mother. Mrs. Li took the needle and thread and said, "There is a hole worn out here, even if it is mended, it is not good-looking." I might as well just mend it with threads of the same color, and embroider some more patterns to cover it, and it would be fine. ”

Li Jingshan had a flash of inspiration in her mind, but she didn't catch it, she hurriedly asked, "Cover it?" How to cover? ”

"It's to use embroidery thread of the same color, and make up another pattern on it, you ask Azhang, what pattern do you want? Or I'll embroider a double treasure according to the shape. ”

Li Jingshan stood stunned for a long time, suddenly burst into a bright smile, and hugged her mother hard: "Yes!" I get it! ”

"Crazy," said Mrs. Li with a smile, "if you understand, go and tell Ah Zhang." ”

Li Jingshan hid her excitement, and when she arrived at the courtyard, she told Li Zhang about her mother's repair method and asked him to wait.

Li Zhang was naturally happy to stay here for a while, and said busily: "It's okay, I'm not in a hurry." ”

As he was talking, he suddenly heard a voice that seemed to smile and said, "I said why didn't anyone serve in the house, it turned out that I had a private meeting here." ”

Li Jingshan was startled, and hurriedly turned around and saluted, "Young Master, you're back." ”

Ruan Mingyu glanced at the two of them, raised her eyebrows and said, "Sister-in-law Zhang is making lunch, and she will set up the plate and send it to my room in a quarter of an hour." ”

He grinned at the corners of his lips and put on a fake smile that couldn't be faked anymore, "Young master, I'm not an unreasonable person, after you send food, I will allow you to come back and continue the tryst, and you don't have to wait in the house." With that, he turned around and went back to the front yard.

Li Jingshan had to smile apologetically at Li Zhang, and hurried back to the kitchen to work.

Li Zhang looked in the direction of the kitchen in the courtyard, and was still smacking the words of Young Master Ruan just now, and had a private meeting...... Inamorato? A faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, although this young master was tricky, he didn't seem to be so annoying.

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That night, Li Jingshan took out the ornaments again, repainted them with gold clay, and carried out the second gilding process. It was her mother's unintentional words during the day that woke her up, and if the surface was not good-looking, it would be good to cover the past with the same color.

She turned the second-gilt ornaments out of the ashes, carefully wiped off the remaining gold clay, and scrubbed them with melon pulp. The resulting jewelry finally emitted a golden glow that was indistinguishable from gold, as if they were born with such a noble luster. Li Jingshan looked at the jewelry in her hand and finally showed a satisfied smile.

The magic that can be transformed, she finally has it in her hands!

A few days later, Li Jingshan came to the jewelry workshop again, took out a few pairs of golden jewelry, and discussed with Uncle He, "I will continue to put these pairs of golden jewelry here for consignment, but the price will be slightly adjusted and the original price will be doubled." ”

Uncle He took it over and looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but wonder: "Girl, are you pure gold jewelry, or is it golden?" If it's pure gold, your price is less than 20% of the cost. If it is said to be gilded...... Gold-pasted jewelry is easy to fade and is not easy to sell. ”

"It's not gilding, it's gilding. The color is stable and can remain unchanged for hundreds or even millennia. Li Jingshan hurriedly replied.

"Gilded? What is gilding? Haven't heard of it. ”

She does not want to go into detail about the process of gilding, but only briefly introduces two sentences, "It is the process of applying a gold solution to the surface of the silver and making the coating firmly adhere to it." This process is much more stable than gilding. And it is not easy to fade, but it is brighter and brighter. Rest assured! ”

Uncle He was skeptical and asked, "It's okay to put me here for consignment, but if something goes wrong with the jewelry, I am not responsible, where will those customers go to find you?" ”

Li Jingshan said with a smile, "Don't worry, if someone comes to the door, you can ask them to go to the Ruan's house in the west of the city to find me." She gave her name and address in detail, and said, "I'll be here in two days." ”

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In the Treasure Hunt Pavilion in the center of the city, Ruan Mingyu is also settling accounts with your shopkeeper Hong.

"The turnover of the past two days is not very good......" Ruan Mingyu tapped the account book on the desktop with the barrel of the pen.

Shopkeeper Hong was also helpless: "Although it has created a momentum in the first two days of opening, the locals still recognize the old store more. There are a lot of people who come to see the goods in the past two days, but there are not many who actually place orders. ”

"It seems that we still have to develop the market according to our original plan. The market for high-end jewelry is difficult to leverage in the short term, so it will develop to low-end customers. Ruan Mingyu said, scribbling the pen on the paper in his hand.

As he was talking, a guy came to report that the wife of the prefect of Fang had come to Jingbao Pavilion and was looking at jewelry in the lobby. Ruan Mingyu hurriedly came to the lobby with Shopkeeper Hong.

Mrs. Fang was accompanied by the steward to look at the jewelry, and when she saw Ruan Mingyu, she smiled and said, "Young Master Ruan, the concubine has come to listen to you teach you the matching skills of head and face jewelry." ”

"Mrs. Fang is lifted up." Ruan Mingyu hurriedly smiled: "If you talk about makeup matching, who doesn't know the fashion of Minzhou City, only the official eunuch is the head of the horse, and the leader of it is the prefect Fang family." You can be embarrassed to say that! ”

Mrs. Fang naturally knew that this was an exaggeration. In fact, in the city of Minzhou, the jewelry and makeup used by the ladies of the official eunuch house will naturally cause some people to follow suit, while the singers and dancers of the Qing Pavilion and the Oiran of the fireworks field will hold up the other half of the sky.

It's just that the other two kinds of people naturally don't enter Mrs. Fang's eyes, so they accepted Ruan Mingyu's compliments reservedly. She smiled and said, "Ruan Gongzi, don't be too modest. On the same day in Si Zhenfang, you promised to be a concubine and recommended me a few pieces of noodles, so that I could wear them at the Qixi begging party. ”

Ruan Mingyu led Mrs. Fang to the private room next to her and sat down, and ordered someone to pick out all kinds of heads and faces and put them in front of Mrs. Fang, and analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of each set of heads and noodles for him one by one. Until Mrs. Fang was satisfied with choosing a set of gold-inlaid treasure phoenix wearing flower head noodles, and a set of treasure bat Ruyi dotting cui head noodles.

When sending Mrs. Fang out, Ruan Mingyu mentioned it casually: "Our Mid-Autumn Festival style is also ready to come out, and with new goods, Xiaosheng will definitely send it to the upper mansion for Mrs. to choose." ”

Mrs. Fang said with a smile: "The jewelry for the Mid-Autumn Festival has been ordered in advance in Si Zhenfang in my house. But I wrote it down in the Treasure Pavilion, and if there is a good style, just let me know. ”

Ruan Mingyu said with a smile, respectfully sent Mrs. Fang into the carriage, and watched her go away, the corners of her raised mouth drooped, and there was a detached light in her eyes.

Shopkeeper Hong was behind him and asked cautiously, "Young Dong, what are we doing...... Did you take the line of home? ”

Ruan Mingyu sneered, "It's still far away!" It's just a crack in the door. Mrs. Fang came over today, just to lose her face that day, and I happened to be in her eyes again. So come to our Jingbao Pavilion for a walk, not only to give Si Zhenfang a dismount, but also to take a look at the excitement by the way. ”

He walked in by himself, "Don't you see that she didn't even give us the order for the Mid-Autumn Festival." ”

"Then the new jewelry, do you still want to send it to the Fang Mansion?" Shopkeeper Hong hurriedly followed behind and asked.

"Send, why not! Even if you pry open a crack in the door, it's a crack. There's always a time when it's useful. ”