Chapter 66: The Inkstone
Xi Feng didn't take the work, the second steward felt a pain, I heard that the Ruan family was also going to take the embroidery work, and the second steward was even more distressed, "Your aunt said that she didn't take the embroidery work?" ”
The second steward is the same age as the Ruan family, and the Ruan family began to do embroidery work in this embroidery workshop at the age of twelve or thirteen.
Today, Ruan's daughters are fifteen years old, and Ruan's has been doing embroidery work in the embroidery workshop for nearly 20 years.
Ruan's mother and daughter are going to stop doing it, and the second steward is a little anxious.
After sending Xi Feng away, the second steward hurriedly went to the chief steward to discuss.
The chief steward looked very open, and said, "The Ruan family is in their thirties, and they have been embroidering for 20 years, and if they continue to embroider, they won't want those eyes, and the Xi family is not short of this bit of silver, so why should you embarrass others." ”
The second steward was ashamed and indignant.
When Ruan's came to hand over the embroidery work and proposed not to accept the work, the second steward did not persuade him, and gave Ruan's a pound of dim sum he had just bought in Baiweiju for her to take back to Xi Feng to eat.
Nguyen thanked him gratefully.
Of course, this is a few days later, and at this moment, Vanilla and Xi Feng are at the door of Yao Ji, queuing up to buy fried melon seeds.
Vanilla is bored in line, her eyes are purring, and she looks around without stopping for a moment.
Finally let her see a stall not far from Yao Ji, surrounded by a lot of people, she said with great interest, "Miss, look, there are stalls over there, and I don't know what to sell, let's go over and have a look later." ”
"It's for selling antiques." Xi Feng only glanced at it, and he was not interested.
Vanilla rarely came to the street, and he didn't want to go back so early, so when he bought melon seeds, he pulled Xi Fengxing to see the stall.
The stall was set up by an old man in his fifties, with a lot of things in front of him, an antique vase more than a foot long, a small jade Ruyi half a foot long, some small toys, small ornaments, and a few black and dirty inkstones, and even a dozen strange-looking stones.
Xi Feng picked up the stone, looked at this, looked at that, looked at it for a long time, and didn't see any fame, it felt like an ordinary stone.
Vanilla also looked at a piece and said, "Isn't this just the stone in the loop, and someone buys this thing?" ”
"Someone sells, someone must buy." Xi Feng said, she picked up a black and dirty inkstone and looked at it carefully.
Vanilla looked at it and said disgustedly, "Miss, look at what it does, you don't have to get your hands dirty." ”
"This inkstone...... Well, look at it again. Xi Feng put down the inkstone, picked up another black and dirty ink block to look at, and took out a handkerchief, carefully wiped off a corner of the dirt on the ink block, revealing the true face of the ink block.
Xi Feng put the ink block aside, and carefully looked at the other four ink blocks, looking at them one by one, there were five ink blocks in total, Xi Feng had seen them all, wiped the corners one by one, and carefully compared them.
The old man was a little impatient when he saw that she only looked at it and didn't buy it, and he didn't ask the price, and said, "Little girl, you look so carefully, those pieces of ink are all collected together, they are all the same goods, and the inkstone is also collected from a family, if you are willing to buy it, the old man will give you a cheaper." ”