While listening to his wife's narration, Master Quan opened the oily paper and checked the quality of the paper. The first few are no problem, and they are indeed the best of the best! When he was excited, his eyes were slightly scattered, and a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Madam." ”

"What?"

"This batch of Xue Tao notes—" He held up a piece of paper and placed it under the window. "See for yourself."

Through the sunlight, the color of the paper printing and dyeing can be seen at a glance, and the mottled red, like the untouched rouge on the woman's cheeks, is obviously caused by uneven coloring!

Su's face changed greatly, and he hurriedly held up several other pieces of paper to examine them one by one, and sure enough, they all had their own problems.

Master Quan sighed, Mrs. was deceived this time!

Three hundred taels of silver! I'm afraid that now I have all the belongings in the family, and I am desperate, but I bought a defective Xue Taojian!

Master Quan couldn't help but think: Is it time for me to quit my job and change places?

Su's face was as stiff as a stone, and he tore the note in his hand and said angrily: "I'll go to him to settle accounts-"

"What's wrong?" Lian Baitang stepped into the shop and saw Su's swollen red face and wanted to fight desperately with others.

"Bai Tang, I-" Su Shi saw him, and tears fell like rain: "Mother is sorry for you!" ”

Lian Baitang frowned, his eyes fell on the red note on the case, and he raised his eyebrows and said, "Is it Xue Tao's note?" ”

He took one casually, looked at it twice, and said, "Defective product? ”

The whole master was amazed!

The eldest young master rarely went to the shop to take care of things in the past, and it was all Su's hard work. Things have gotten better lately, and from time to time he will sit in the shop for a while, and gossip with him. He didn't have much contact with the eldest young master in the past, but he only knew that he had a bad reputation, and it was rumored that he was ...... It's special. In the past, I only felt that he had a weak personality, and he was obviously the eldest young master of the Lian family, but he was always cowering, and he didn't have half of his momentum, which was far less intelligent than the second young master's practice of Bai Jin.

But after recent contact, he was shocked to find that the eldest young master has clear ideas, is gentle and polite, has a solid foundation in the paper industry, has profound knowledge, and has not been half of the unbearable behavior of the outside world!

"It's not good to be a mother." Su Shi was a little frightened in front of Bai Tang for some reason. "My mother didn't want to fall for other people's evil."

Lian Baitang's eyebrows moved slightly, fooled?

He flipped through the notepaper, except for the problem of dyeing, the paperwork itself was not bad, the paper was tough and clean, and it was quite skillful.

The whole steward was dejected. He went from a small guy to the current head of Songzhuzhai from a small boy, and he has a deep affection for Songzhuzhai. Now I see it decaying day by day after changing hands, and I can't sigh in my heart.

Unexpectedly, Bai Tang actually laughed: "It's nothing, it's nothing." These notes come at the right time! ”

Su Shi's eyes widened, and he sighed: "Bai Tang, you, what do you mean?" ”

"I'm worried that I don't have any ready-made paper." Lian Baitang smiled, "Mother, you did a good job." Great! ”

Su Shi was ashamed: "Bai Tang, don't comfort your mother, I spent three hundred taels of silver to buy these defective products!" ”

"Three hundred taels of silver, it's fine." Bai Tang patted her on the shoulder and said softly, "I'll help you earn it back!" ”

Su Shi and Master Quan were dumbfounded, both thinking: Isn't he crazy!

However, Lian Baitang really packed all the twenty-six pieces of notepaper in question and brought them home, and in the next few days, he locked himself in the house, not knowing what to do.

The problems of dyeing this batch of notepaper are different. Baitang Bogu will meet the present, and painting is his strength. He designed five different sets of patterns according to different dyeing situations.

The large color spots are painted as rose peonies, the small color spots are either green leaves or flower bones, and the dark spots are painted with lotus leaves, and frogs play among the lotus. Five sets of pictures, each group is suitable for aptitude, to the best of the ingenuity of the white begonia.

After the drawings were completed, he intercepted the catalpa wood, which was slightly larger than the notepaper, and polished it to a smooth and appropriate thickness. Sharpened the freshly beaten black iron carving knife and engraved it on the catalpa wood according to the picture.

The carving knife is kneaded with high-quality fine iron and dark iron, and it looks inconspicuous to look at the ashes, but in fact, it is not a problem to chisel gold and engraved jade.

The moment he went under the knife, it was as if he had returned to modern times, in his well-equipped studio where the temperature and humidity were adjusted to the best state, and he forgot to sleep and eat and buried his head in hard work.

It didn't take long for a layer of soft yellow wood chips to accumulate on his desk.

The five sets of engravings took three days.

In the last process, the engraving plate is smeared with a layer of paint of the same color as the flower paper, and the paper is fixed between the catalpa wood with one side embossed and the other flat plate, and pressed hard. After loosening, a piece of Xue Tao's note printed with relief patterns is completed!

This method was called "arch flower" in ancient times. It only became popular in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. Lian Baitang secretly rejoiced: fortunately, he wore it to the Yongle period, although the art of arching flowers was accidental, but the skill of relief carving has not yet appeared. He can be regarded as a golden finger!

Twenty-six pieces of paper, he can easily handle it alone.

Su Shi couldn't believe his eyes, he was so pounded by Bai Tang, the dyeing problem of the defective product was immediately hidden, not to mention, and a new variety of notepaper was made!

She asked in a trembling voice, "Bai Tang, is this the method you came up with?" ”

Bai Tang smiled: "Not really." It was only occasionally mentioned in the book, so I tried it with the mentality of giving it a try. I didn't expect it to be successful. ”

Su Shi touched the engraving and asked, "This is what you carved?" ”

Bai Tang nodded and said, "The carvings are all simple patterns, and it doesn't take much effort." ”

Su Shi is not blind: these carved knife workers are no worse or even better than those carving masters of the practitioners!

"You, how did you do that?" Lian Shaoda has never taught Bai Tang for a day, where did she get her craft?

Bai Tang shrugged: "I have seen too many masters do this since I was a child." I also play twice once in a while. It's not difficult. ”

Su Shi has a straightforward personality, so he didn't think too much about it. Overjoyed: "I know, my son is a genius!" ”

Bai Lan also smiled and clapped her hands: "My brother is a genius!" That's amazing! ”

The shopkeeper stared at these brand-new Xue Taojian and was dumbfounded: Is this the god helping the owner?

Xue Tao's note of the floating flower, he has dealt with the four treasures of the study all his life, how has he ever seen such a chic and novel thing?

"Master Quan." Bai Tang said with a smile, "If you let it go, just say that we have found a few tribute Xue Tao notes in the store!" Not sold. As for these relief poems, you know what to do, right? ”

The bridge has been built, and if you can't do anything again, it's time to say goodbye to your hometown!

Master Quan wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with a smile:

"That's the price, how do you set it?"

Bai Tang pondered for a moment: "Novelty always has to be expensive." It's not as good as a tribute, how do you think of fifteen taels and one? ”

The whole steward nodded again and again: "I want it, I want it!" Tsk, young owner, how did you do this? ”

Lian Baitang's phoenix eyes and treasure light flowed: "The heavenly machine must not be leaked." ”

He wanted to see how the new version of Gonghua's paper business was, so he stayed in the shop for a few days. Sure enough, not long after the news was released, a guest came to the door.

The people who came were two young students, both seventeen or eighteen years old, in their prime, handsome and refined.

One of them turned out to be Cheng Xuefeng, the senior brother of Lian Baitang. Bai Tang couldn't help but frown in self-disgust: Why is he? Looking at the friends beside him again, his eyes suddenly straightened, and his heart was like a heavy blow: "-Qin Ling? ”

The face of an old man in his previous life came to mind.

Song Ling has a pair of elegant long eyebrows, his eyes are like fine glass, the corners of his lips are slightly raised, and he has a smile that is as gentle as the winter sun all year round.

He is a descendant of a well-known scholarly family in the south of the Yangtze River. At a young age, he has inherited a huge family property, endless calligraphy and painting books, and antique masterpieces! It stands to reason that a noble son like him must have an unimaginable extravagance in life. But after getting to know him, Xu Danling felt that he was not as happy as himself.

Obviously he can indulge in enjoyment, but he is too restrained and restrained, and he can be wanton, but he stubbornly frames himself in the shelf and can't move.

In his spare time, he will also hug the beauty and go crazy, what about Qin Ling? The women he is dating are so old-fashioned and serious that he can't stand it! It's not fun at all!

But it is such a person, who is very different from his own personality, but he met him because of woodblock water paintings, and he became a gentleman's friend, yes, the kind that is as light as water! Xu Danling didn't forget that he worked hard to block wine and women for him, and he didn't even thank him for being nosy!

Unexpectedly, here, I saw a face similar to Qin Ling again!