In the next two days, the West Garden was rarely quiet, the old lady and the people in the second room did not come to look for trouble, and the side door was quickly completed.

Ji Yanning gets up early every day to practice arrows for an hour, and then refines medicine in the side room.

"Miss, Miss Fifth is here. Shiso reported at the door.

Ji Yanning put the ground powder into a small porcelain bottle, stuffed it with a red cork and put it in his sleeve, and responded: "Got it, let her in." ”

She skillfully packed her things, and then went out of the room, just in time to see Ji Xiaoyun who had entered the courtyard.

Ji Xiaoyun is from the third room, only nine years old, and is the youngest daughter of the Ji family.

"Big sister. Ji Xiaoyun saw Ji Yanning, trotted forward and said, "Sister, this courtyard is even more difficult to enter than grandmother's. ”

In the past, Ji Yanning's yard was nothing to watch, and anyone could enter and exit at will, but since the last time Wei came over, she arranged for two mothers-in-law to watch, and if she didn't have her permission, she couldn't let people in.

Ji Yanning looked at Ji Xiaoyun in front of him, dressed in a pink little ball, dressed very attractively, his face was white and round, but there was something hidden in his eyes.

She asked, "What's the matter with the fifth sister?"

Ji Xiaoyun was young and couldn't hide things in his heart, so he said: "Big sister, my mother said that she would ask her husband to teach me to read and write in a few days." ”

Ji Yanning nodded: "That's good, reading and literacy is a good thing." ”

She walked over to the stone bench in the pavilion and sat down, and Ziyu stepped forward with a teapot and poured two cups of hot tea on the table.

Ji Xiaoyun was as good as a stream, sat opposite Ji Yanning, and said to her: "I remember that my eldest sister has a Qingyun inkstone here, you can give it to me? ”

Ji Yanning turned her head and glanced at Ziyu, she was not the original owner, so she naturally didn't know what she had.

Ziyu said on the side: "This Qingyun inkstone was a gift to Miss brought back by the uncle three years ago when he went to other places to run business, and Miss liked it very much." ”

"In that case, I'll just give the other inkstones to the fifth sister. Ji Yanning's eyes didn't have too many waves.

But Ji Xiaoyun stopped doing it, and muttered: "But I just like that Qingyun inkstone, sister, you can give it to me!"

Ji Yanning's eyes sank slightly, looking at this posture, Ji Xiaoyun does not do such things on weekdays.

However, Ji Xiaoyun was only nine years old, how could he know what a good inkstone was? If there was no one else who instigated it, Ji Yanning naturally didn't believe it.

"Do you really like it?" asked Ji Yanning.

Ji Xiaoyun nodded, looking serious.

Ji Yanning turned his head to Ziyu and said, "That inkstone is on the table in the study, you can take the inkstone on the bookshelf that is not used by the two sides by the way." ”

Ziyu was slightly stunned, but in the serious eyes of Shang Ji Yanning, she never said what she wanted to ask, and turned around and went to the study.

Seeing that the eldest sister was relieved so easily, Ji Xiaoyun had a smile on her face, and her mother said that the eldest sister had become more and more domineering after waking up, and she thought it would take a lot of effort.

Ziyu took out the tripartite inkstone from the study, placed it neatly on the tray, and placed it on the stone table in the pavilion.

Ji Yanning glanced at the three-sided inkstone, frowned slightly, and said to Ji Xiaoyun: "This inkstone is actually almost the same, all put together, I can't recognize which one is the Qingyun inkstone, since the fifth sister likes it so much, she should recognize it, and it is yours to pick it out." ”

Ji Xiaoyun's smile froze suddenly, she naturally didn't recognize Qingyun Yan, if she picked the wrong one......

She turned her head to look at Ziyu: "Which one is Qingyun Yan?"

Ziyu blessed her body slightly, and was a little embarrassed: "The slave and maid also forgot." ”

"You!" When Ji Xiaoyun heard this, he said angrily, "You maid, how can you not know what you took out?"

Ji Yanning said with a smile on the side: "Fifth sister, you said that you like Qingyun inkstone, but now you can't recognize it, how can you talk about liking it? In my opinion, you have just started to learn calligraphy, it doesn't matter what inkstone you use, it's better to pick any one at random." If you're lucky, you might pick the Qingyun inkstone, and it doesn't matter if you don't pick it, anyway, in my sister's eyes, these inkstones are the same. ”

Ji Xiaoyun didn't follow: "I want Qingyun Yan!" or else...... I'll take all three back?"

Ji Yanning picked up the teacup and took a sip gently, his eyes slightly cold.

Looking at her appearance, Ji Xiaoyun had no confidence.

She looked at the three inkstones carefully, but no matter how she looked at them, she couldn't tell the big difference, and she was deflated for a while.

Ji Yanning said: "Anyway, inkstones are all used to grind ink, you can't recognize it, and others may not be able to recognize it, but the name is better, if you don't say it, who knows which one is Qingyun inkstone?"

Listening to Ji Yanning's words, Ji Xiaoyun's eyes lit up, as if he had thought of something, but he was still entangled.

She sighed, simply stood up, and picked the one that looked the most pleasing to the eye: "Just it." ”

As he spoke, he picked up the box together: "I look like Qingyun Yan." ”

Ziyu said on the side: "The slave maid feels quite similar, this is the best of the three, it must be, the fifth lady's vision should not be wrong." ”

Hearing Ziyu's praise, Ji Xiaoyun's doubts in his heart disappeared a lot, but he still snorted coldly at this Ziyu.

Ji Xiaoyun took the inkstone she chose back to the courtyard of the third room, but her expression was not very happy.

Ziyu looked at Ji Yanning, whose face did not change, and asked: "It must be the inkstone that the third lady asked the fifth lady to come over and ask for, if the third lady knows that it is not the real Qingyun inkstone, she will definitely be unhappy in her heart." ”

"Her high or unhappy has nothing to do with me. Ji Yanning said, "What's more, she may not really be able to recognize it." ”

In fact, none of the three square inkstones is a real Qingyun inkstone, no matter how Ji Xiaoyun picks it, it is an ordinary inkstone, after all, it is young and easy to fool.

Since it was the inkstone that the Li family asked her to ask for, then she probably didn't dare to tell the Li family that she didn't succeed, so she could only think that it was the real Qingyun inkstone, Ji Xiaoyun could get a lot of good things from the original owner before, and the Li family would never have thought that her daughter would lie to herself this time, and naturally she would not doubt the authenticity of the inkstone.

Unless Li really has research on inkstones, or can get the real Qingyun inkstone.

Zi Su said on the side: "The slave maid thinks that the young lady is doing well, in the past, the people in the second and third rooms always came to ask for this and that, and even sometimes they didn't ask for it, no matter how good the things were, they were emptied, and the second lady often came to borrow jewelry, saying that it was borrowed, but every time she didn't see her come back." ”

The business of the Ji family's big house is big, and the people in the second and third rooms look down on their identities, but they want to take advantage of them everywhere.

Ji Yanning said to Zisu: "Do you remember what the second sister has borrowed, make a list, if she comes to borrow something next time, let her return the previous one first." ”

Zi Su laughed and nodded: "The slave knows!"