Chapter 132: Rare Gentleness
Duanmu Yi raised his eyebrows, "You blame this son for arranging such a chore for you?" ”
Lin Xiaomiao wanted to say yes, but in the end she was not so bold, and replied angrily, "Don't dare." ”
"Sharpen the ink over there, if you make this move more lightly, we will sit in this study until midnight tonight, and we won't be able to finish this paperwork." Duanmu Yi kindly reminded.
"What do you mean?" She looked at the inkstone and felt that she had sharpened the ink quite well.
Duanmu Yi put down the wolf pen in his hand and looked at the inkstone given by the emperor, "Don't you think the speed of this ink is too slow?" ”
Hearing Duanmu Yi say this, Lin Xiaomiao felt that it was really like that.
"Huh? I thought that this force would do the trick. Since you found a problem, why didn't you say it earlier, you have to wait until now. Lin Xiaomiao was annoyed, thinking that this was Duanmu Yi deliberately looking at her joke.
Duanmu Yi picked up the pen again, and looked at the document in front of him without squinting, "There are some things that you have to discover yourself to get better improvements." ”
Lin Xiaomiao didn't accept his explanation, "Then why are you telling me now?" ”
"It's just that this world didn't expect you to fail to find the problem for so long, so it can be seen that your mind is not on this ink grinding matter, and if you don't teach you a lesson, you won't realize your mistakes, and you will be wrong again and again in the future."
Duanmu Yi said it in a high-sounding manner, and it seemed to make sense.
Lin Xiaomiao was simply angry with his fallacy, she pursed her lips and said with a slight disgust: "The lesson of the prince is quite special, and it has been taught." ”
After she finished speaking, she increased the strength of her hand.
Who knew that Mu Yi said again: "If you use too much force and damage the inkstone given by the emperor, then you will go into the palace to apologize, and this son will not be able to protect you." ”
Duanmu Yi is not intimidating Lin Xiaomiao, since ancient times, the things given by the emperor are precious and abnormal, if you damage the things given by the emperor, it is a great disrespect to the emperor, and it is a big crime to kill the head.
Lin Xiaomiao paused, looked down at the top of Duanmu Yi's hair, and was so angry that her teeth itched, this person was definitely taking revenge, retaliating against her made him unhappy, although she didn't know what she had done to make Duanmu Yi unhappy, but she still felt that this Duanmu Yi was deliberately embarrassing herself.
She glared at the end of Mu Yi fiercely, and then lightened the strength of her hand, and finally did not have the courage to grind this inkstone too hard, although I don't know if this end of Mu Yi is bluffing herself.
But the force was a little heavier than it had been at the beginning.
This time, after Duanmuyi's guidance, Lin Xiaomiao finally mastered the trick of grinding ink, and the ink grinding was just right.
But such a numb grinding was a very boring thing, and she felt very impatient after grinding for another quarter of an hour.
She looked at Duanmuyi's study boredly, looked here, looked there, and found that the layout of this study was quite appealing to her heart.
This study is not full of books like the study of those officials seen on TV.
At least as far as she could see, she saw four pots of greenery, adding some color to the study, and not far away there was a faint and very good-smelling incense, which seemed to have the calming and refreshing effect.
She also saw a stone table, the kind of stone table that specializes in making tea, which looked low-key and extravagant.
On the other side, there are musical instruments, there are guqin, jade flute, and many other that she can't name, which are dazzling and have everything.
There was an antique screen on the other side of the desk, and she faintly saw through the screen that there was a comfortable soft collapse behind the screen.
Looking out of the open window, you can see the white moon season and the purple hibiscus, the two colors are also very pleasing to the eye, and even better, they also exude bursts of fragrance.
In this way, it seems that this Duan Mu Yi is still very good at enjoying it.
Lin Xiaomiao looked here and there, and forgot about the kung fu in her hand, and didn't react until Mu Yi called her twice.
"Yun Tao, what are you doing? I don't want to grind ink, so I lose my temper with this son, right? ”
Hearing the faint voice, Lin Xiaomiao turned her head and saw that the ink had splashed on the table, she was startled, and hurriedly reached out to wipe the ink spilled on the table.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, don't be angry, I'll wipe you clean now."
It's just that the ink was so black, Lin Xiaomiao reached out to wipe it, but the more she wiped it, the dirtier it became, and finally she got her hands all black.
Duanmu Yi was so angry by Lin Xiaomiao's brainless behavior that he was powerless, "You wipe it with your own hands, don't you get dirtier the more you wipe it?" ”
Lin Xiaomiao turned her hand and looked, no, the originally white little hand was already covered with ink at this time.
She was going to laugh angrily at her stupid behavior, "It's because I didn't think it through, can the prince allow me to wash my hands?" ”
Lin Xiaomiao looked at the black hand, thinking that she could take this opportunity to slip away, she didn't want to continue to polish ink here.
Which Duanmu Yi shouldn't, only raised his voice and said: "Aoki, let someone bring a basin of water to clean their hands." ”
Aoki outside answered in a loud voice, and then soon a maid came into the study with a basin of water in Lin Xiaomiao's stunned.
The maid brought the water in and then withdrew, without even raising her head, evidently humbling to the extreme.
Lin Xiaomiao looked at the dazzling water over there, her mouth moved and moved, and she could only walk to the basin and wash her hands carefully with the water boy.
After washing her hands, Lin Xiaomiao also dried her hands with the prepared towel.
She returned to Duanmu Yi with a stomach full of complaints and stood beside her, picked up the ink ingot with an unhappy face, and continued to sharpen the ink for Duanmu Yi.
Duanmu Yi saw the expression on Lin Xiaomiao's face in his eyes, and he was amused, but he was still silent, he wanted to see how long this girl could endure before she became angry.
Lin Xiaomiao's patience was about to run out, and she told herself again and again in her heart to endure it, and it was over soon.
After a while, Lin Xiaomiao finally couldn't help it, and didn't care whether the inkstone was a gift or not, and how precious the ink ingot was, she directly put the ink ingot in her hand down, and said dissatisfiedly: "This ink grinding thing is not done by me at all, you let your scholar come to grind ink for you, I won't do it, whatever you want, it's a big deal if you drive me out of the house, I can't wait for it." ”
Duanmu Yi automatically skipped Lin Xiaomiao's last little sentence that he didn't like, and he also put down the wolf pen in his hand and said, "There is no scholar in this world. ”
Lin Xiaomiao was stunned for a moment, and then said: "If you don't have a scholar, you can ask Aoki to come in and polish your ink, anyway, when I wasn't here before, someone always grinds ink for you, I don't want to do this thing anymore, whoever likes it will do it." ”
She said in a rare and tough way, as if she was not afraid of offending Duanmuyi at all, and she was not afraid of Duanmuyi's punishment at all.
Duanmu Yi naturally would not punish Lin Xiaomiao, if he was someone else and dared to talk to him like this, Duanmu Yi would have let people play the board a long time ago.
"If you feel tired, go over there and carry a chair to sit on, I have a lot of interesting books in my study, you can also take them, don't you like to read books? Those famous names of mine are no worse than your books that you let the maids collect from the people. Duanmuyi's tone was unusually gentle.
"It's just that if you read the book for a while and see that I'm out of ink, you still have to sharpen some ink for me."
Lin Xiaomiao was stunned by this nice voice, a little dizzy, she forgot to be angry when Duanmu Yi said this.
Her eyes lit up, so she ran to the bookshelf that Duanmu Yi pointed to just now to get the book, and she saw a book with a title she liked very much, so she took the book down.
When she was full of joy and wanted to open the book to take a look, it suddenly occurred to her that she seemed to have said that she had only recently said that she was born in a vulgar country, that her father and mother had died early, that her family was poor, and that she could not read a single word.
Isn't it revealing that she found a book to read so accurately?
What made her even more horrified was that this Duan Mu Yi actually knew that she asked the maid to find her those words to read.
She looked at Duanmu Yi, who was looking at her, "You...... When did you know that I asked the maid to find me a notebook to read? ”
What she meant by that was when did you know I could read and read?
Duanmu Yi still had that light appearance: "You knew it this morning when you didn't wake up." ”
Lin Xiaomiao didn't feel the chatter: "Didn't you say that you wouldn't tell the prince?" Why does that maid say one thing and do another? ”
Duanmu Yi heard Lin Xiaomiao's words clearly, and felt that he should say something for the innocent maid: "The maid really didn't deliberately come to tell me, but I just asked one more question today." ”
"Okay."
Seeing Lin Xiaomiao's appearance that seemed to be not very interested, Duanmu Yi was puzzled, "If you get what you like to see, sit here and watch." ”
His desk was so large that it didn't look cramped even if three people sat together.
Duanmu Yi was not used to others being so close to him in the past, even Aoki couldn't get too close to him, but this Lin Xiaomiao, he was willing to Lin Xiaomiao to stand or sit beside him.
He couldn't tell what it was like, but he felt that Lin Xiaomiao was a matter of course sitting next to him, and he thought that he should have been used to being close to him in order to act in front of those two children when he was in Qingping Township, so he would not reject Lin Xiaomiao being so close to him.
Lin Xiaomiao moved a chair and sat down beside Duanmu Heng as she said, looked sideways at Duanmu Yi's inappropriate appearance, and hesitated for a while.
Duanmu Yi noticed Lin Xiaomiao's gaze, "If you have anything to say, just say it." ”
Lin Xiaomiao's brain twitched, she took a breath, and then said, "Don't you doubt why I can read the book?" ”
Duanmu Yi turned his head sideways, looked at Shanglin Xiaomiao's puzzled eyes, and did not speak.