Section 045 inkstone

Last night's spring rain has cleared today, and the smell of earth in the air is mixed with the fragrance of spring flowers in early spring, which is quiet and charming.

The path to the Shicuikan leads to a long sloping pond bank lined with weeping willows. In the charming spring, the dry weeping willow wakes up from a deep dream, stretches the delicate and light willow branches, sways the charming tender yellow branches and leaves, and the delicate shadow is like a beautiful woman.

Dongyu walked in the front to lead the way, and the fifth girl Xue Dongrong and the eleventh girl Xue Dongshu followed her step by step, each supporting the maid without speaking. The trail is only crisp in footsteps, fragrant in clothes, and does not hear people's words.

When they arrived at the Shicui Pavilion, the five girls paused slightly, looking at the tubes of green bamboos, and were in a trance for a moment.

Dong Yu looked at it and said with a smile: "Fifth sister hasn't come to my yard for several years. ”

Xue Dongrong came back to her senses and said with a smile: "The roads of Shicui Pavilion and Hening Pavilion are opposite to each other in the north and south, and the roads are different, and it is often not good to always disturb the ninth sister. ”

Dong Yu smiled: "I think that the sisters will come to sit, but I am afraid that it will delay your work, so it is not easy to invite." ”

All three sisters laughed.

And the eleventh girl, Xue Dongshu's gaze, couldn't help but follow the courtyard wall in the northwest corner of the Shicui Pavilion and look at the beautiful Taoyun Pavilion in the distance.

Her eyes couldn't help but glow with water, and her expression was gloomy.

When she came back to her senses, knowing that she was a little out of shape, she lowered her eyes to remove her tears, pretending that nothing happened, but her eyes couldn't help but redden.

Dongyu and Xue Dongrong both pretended not to see, and each helped the maids into the house.

Orange Hong is about to get married, and she is no longer waiting in Dongji, only in Dongjin's inner room, helping Dongyuan make a few small clothes, next to the time.

Rose instructed the maids to serve tea and snacks outside, opened the cage, took out the inkstone that the old marquis had rewarded, and put it on the kang table.

"Go, all of you, our sisters who speak considerately, and do not need to serve." Dong Ying smiled at Rose.

Rose led the maids out, and Xue Dongrong's maid Ginkgo biloba and Xue Dongshu's maid Madder also followed Rose out.

The east room suddenly quieted down, and only the fragrance of tea was smelled.

Dongyu opened Jinpa and took out the inkstone for Xue Dongrong and Xue Dongshu to see.

The two sisters played with it in their hands, and each watched it once and praised it.

"This is Duan Yan, a tribute from the former Nanzhi Kingdom, and it was Emperor Taizu who rewarded his great-grandfather." Seeing that Xue Dongrong liked it very much, Dongyu explained it to her.

"That's good." Xue Dongrong showed the inkstone to the eleventh girl, Xue Dongshu.

Xue Dongshu also said yes again and again. I watched it once, and handed it back to Dongyu.

The fifth girl, Xue Dongrong, smiled and said: "Speaking of inkstones, I think of a thing. At that time, he was still young, and the third brother had not yet gone to Shudi, studying in Guozijian, and loved strange things the most. I often wandered from this temple to that temple, bought it back, and secretly hid it in the study so that my mother would not know. The fourth sister and I found out by chance, so we sneaked to his study to search. It's weird and fun, and there's the rare inkstone. ”

The third brother is Xue Dongrong's brother Xue Huaxuan, and now he has released the fourth||The one from the prefect of Sichuan.

Dongyu and Xue Dongshu both listened with their ears.

Xue Dongrong rarely said such things with such enthusiasm, and he must have spoken out of his words.

“…… The fourth sister took a fancy to a piece of Duanshi inkstone made in the shape of a lotus platform, which was not as good as her grandfather's piece, and it was also superior; I looked around, but I looked at a gorgeous and dazzling crystal inkstone, and I was very happy, for fear that the fourth sister would snatch it, and hugged it tightly. The fourth sister smiled and said, silly girl, the crystal inkstone is the least useful. You look at the beauty of the crystal, but you don't take advantage of the world. It can't be made into an inkstone, it's a top look that can't be used. I don't believe it, take it back and grind, the ink beads are rolling around, and they can't be grinded......."

Dongyu and Xue Dongshu both laughed.

Xue Dongrong's words mean that everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, right?

The end stone cannot be the mainstay, but it is an excellent thing for grinding ink; Crystal is expensive and gorgeous, but it becomes a waste when it is made into an inkstone.

It's like Dong Yu and Dong Shu. Their respective marriages are their respective strengths. Dongyu is beautiful and incomprehensible, but if she enters the palace, she will be envied by everyone, and she may die before she is favored; Dongshu is fostered in the name of the original partner of Wufang, maybe she can completely abandon her identity and be prominent after entering the palace.

Did Xue Dongrong also hear those gossip at home?

Dongyu was very grateful for her kindness, glanced at the eleventh sister, and said with a smile: "Fifth sister, everything in the world has its own place, and the crystal really can't be made into an inkstone." ”

When the eleventh girl Xue Dongshu heard this, she breathed a sigh of relief slightly, and said with a smile: "The end stone can't be decorated, so I have to make an inkstone." ”

Xue Dongrong listened to the words of the two sisters, smiled slightly, and said no more.

After the three sisters talked, Xue Dongrong and Xue Dongshu were about to get up and go back.

Dongyu left them to eat lunch, but both of them refused, only saying that there was still something in each room, and they would come to disturb Dongyu another day, so they called the maid to come in and helped them back.

Dong Yu sent them to the door of the Shicui Pavilion.

Out of the Shicui Pavilion, the eleventh girl Xue Dongshu said to Xue Dongrong: "Fifth sister, thank you for your help, otherwise I really don't know how to talk to the ninth sister." ”

"The ninth sister has always been transparent and clever, and the eleventh sister thinks too much." Xue Dongrong smiled faintly, "As soon as I said it, she understood, which shows that she already has a fixed number in her heart, and the eleventh sister can rest assured." ”

This is a hint that Xue Dongshu spends the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, right?

Saying this, she didn't wronged her, Xue Dongshu listened humbly, and said again and again: "I'm at ease now." The ninth sister is not as stupid as me, but I am panicked, and I am still annoyed by the fifth sister. ”

Xue Dongrong smiled, with a rare warm expression: "We are sisters!" Being able to be sisters is fate, you and I are about to leave the cabinet, and if you want to bother your fifth sister in the future, you can't reach it......."

Xue Dongshu listened, and his heart was moved.

They're about to go their separate ways, and ........ really can't reach them in the future.

"Fifth sister, can I move to your yard under the pretext of living in your yard?" Xue Dongshu suddenly stopped hiding anything, and said with a smile, "Sister Wan'er is very good, but I don't fall in love with her." ”

At the mention of Xue Jiangwan, Xue Dongrong's cheeks were suddenly covered with a little frost, and she said, "She is a villain!" ”

The tone was harsh.

Xue Dongshu was slightly stunned, could it be that the fifth sister found something? Those rumors about her and the ninth sister in the mansion, were they spread by Xue Jiangwan?

She looked at Xue Dongrong uneasily.

Xue Dongrong took a deep breath, returned to his usual sparseness, and said, "You play well, I can play the guqin." You only tell your grandmother that we sisters want to teach each other everything we learn and love, and we want to live in one place and be affectionate, and my grandmother will naturally understand what you mean. ”

When Xue Dongshu heard this, he was overjoyed, and said with a smile: "I'll go to ask for peace in the evening, and I'll tell my grandmother." ”

Xue Dongshu has some strange feelings for this fifth sister who has never been in contact: she looks very indifferent, but she is cold on the outside and hot on the inside.

As for the ninth sister, she also distinguishes between right and wrong.

For the first time, Xue Dongshu felt that the sisters in the family were all his relatives, not just strangers living in Xue Mansion.