Chapter 264: Qinwen Pavilion
When she was looking for him in the study, he was sitting behind the desk reading the letters, and when he looked up, he pointed to the inkstone at the corner of the table and asked her to go over to study the ink, and he didn't show any signs of annoyance as Lu Jun said, not at all like he was reprimanded by the emperor in the early dynasty.
"I'll get a letter back."
"Okay."
Yi Yu'an stood quietly beside him, rolled up half of his sleeves and dripped some water in the inkstone, grinding the half-dried ink strips, watching the thick ink slip into the inkstone, picking a rabbit for him to dip the ink evenly, and handed it to him.
After about a cup of tea, Li Tai replied to the good letter, put down the pen, turned his head and found that she was looking at herself in a trance, remembering that when she came back, she heard someone talk about her entering the palace, so she leaned on the back of the chair, wrapped her arm around her waist, hooked the person to his lap and hugged her, habitually held her slightly cold palm, and asked:
"What did Concubine Wei call you for?"
"Well, after chatting for a while, she arranged for me to meet Shuqing, and nothing else was special." Yu Yu turned his back to him, lowered his head and grabbed his palm, and pressed it together through her, comparing it to each other, and his fingers grew out of her.
Li Tai did not suspect that she was hiding something, and he didn't like to think about women's affairs, and it was only about her, so he would ask a few more questions.
"How is your calligraphy and painting building going, but you need help?"
Now in the matter of the left jade, whether it is the Moying Literary Society or the Wuliu Medicine Store, Li Tai only sends people to keep an eye on the movement, but rarely intervenes, and completely adopts a hands-off attitude, she is also angry, all aspects are considered, and there are few times when he needs to worry about it.
Yi Yu played with Li Tai's fingers, shook his head and said:
"No, there are Shi Lian and Yating who are doing it, the place has been chosen, it is on an antique street in the south gate of the West City, the environment is quiet, and there are no people coming and going, just waiting to renovate it, add some furnishings, move the book in next month, hang the plaque and open the door to welcome guests."
"Your idea of painting is really good, if it is done well, it will be a matter of general benefit."
Li Tai had heard of Yu Yu's idea of the calligraphy and painting building, and spoke highly of it, after all, the literature museum has limited capacity, and it is impossible to help the poor, and once the calligraphy and painting building is built, over time, it will become a great way to help people who want to learn.
"Well, I'll do it."
Yi Yu answered confidently, there was a stack of brand-new manuscripts stacked on the table, Li Tai took a volume and spread it out, and said:
"This is a manuscript sent by the Literature Museum."
"Hmm."
Yi Yu replied absentmindedly, Li Tai stopped her with one hand and held the scroll with the other, just flipped through it with her, she waited for a long time and didn't see him mention that he was participated in by Chu Suiliang in the early dynasty, but he didn't want her to worry about it, and he felt more and more that he had caused him ** annoyance.
I knew that if I bought the "Recommended Season Straight Table" that day, I would be bored by someone to play the topic, even if I gave it for nothing, she would hold back and not want it, and she knew that the key was still in the emperor's place, being a king, being a father, and no one did not want the courtiers to be obedient, Li Shimin was uncharacteristically angry with Li Tai this morning, how could it have nothing to do with Li Tai's refusal to accept a concubine?
She has always advertised that she wants to be his virtuous helper, but looking back, she has never stepped out of Li Tai's protection, without Li Tai, she can't bring back the Lu family, without Li Tai, she can't find her second brother, without Li Tai, she may even be caught by the people of Hongzhuang early to make sacrifices.
All in all, without Li Tai, she may be nothing, but without Li Tai, it seems that she will live more easily.
β... I didn't eat well in the morning, and I was a little hungry, so I went to see if they were ready for lunch. Yi Yu pulled Li Tai's arm around his waist and motioned for him to let go.
Although Li Tai was more willing to hold her to read a book together, he remembered that there was still a letter from Fang Cai that had not been replied to, and when it was a matter of business, the red-sleeved fragrance might as well be left at night, so he lowered his head and kissed her fragrant goose neck, let go of his hand, and let her hold the foot of the table a little bit, and trotted out.
After half a year of integration, Yangzhou's private salt water channel has been quietly held in Li Tai's hands, and the instructions sent from the south in the past few days are particularly complicated, and his attention is mostly focused on this matter, so he can't divide too much attention to discover the abnormality of the jade today.
Only when she saw another daughter of the Lu family would she feel nostalgic and restless.
As for ignoring what happened earlier today, it was not that Li Tai was deliberately considerate, but that he had left it behind at all.
Being reprimanded by the monarch's father in public is indeed a big or small thing, such as Li Chen, the king of Shu, who was scolded by Li Shimin for being inferior to a beast when he bowed in the palace a year ago, and ended up being degraded and not allowed to enter Beijing, but he knew that the matter was not here.
Imperial power, the emphasis is on checks and balances, the spring hunting prince accompaniment let him guess that the emperor has the prestige of the East Palace, this morning will use the topic to play most of the time is to use him, the favored prince, to the East Palace to establish authority, so that people will not forget the position of the prince under Li Chengqian.
In addition, his personality is really boring, and he really doesn't have too strong feelings, so he can experience the embarrassment of being scolded by Li Shimin in front of people, so he didn't expect that this matter would make Yu Yu feel guilty, thus burying a hidden worry between their husband and wife, but whether it is a blessing or a curse, this fashion can't get it.
Regardless of how many families are happy and how many families are worried, in a blink of an eye, in May, in the summer, the weather is getting hotter, the grass and trees in the capital are luxuriant, and people's clothes are thin one by one.
There are fewer pedestrians on the street at noon, but the number of people who go out in the evening to enjoy the cool is the most in the four seasons of the year, and the night curfew between the markets has been postponed for half an hour.
At dusk and sunset, on an antique street in the West Market, compared with the people on the street, it seems to be quiet, there is no peddler pawn, there is a scholar's room in the middle of the street, there are two middle-aged people who are playing chess next to a table and chair in the store, one is the shopkeeper of this house, and the other is the one who sells pottery tin toys across the street.
The hairy guy in the shop took the opportunity to lean on the counter and steal, holding a duster in his hand, pretending to sweep the shelves, but his eyes were fixed on the newly renovated three-story white-walled building next door to the Tao Tin Pavilion across the street.
After the game was settled, the shopkeeper of Tao Xi Pavilion took down his chin and pointed at the lazy young man at the front desk, and whispered to his old friend:
"Huh? What is he looking for? β
"You closed early a few days ago, I didn't see it, the small building next door to your house was decorated, and a few days ago I came to the east to close the store, but it was a group of little women like flowers and jade, this stupid boy has never seen the world, and he was dazzled, and he has been looking at it for the past two days."
"Huh? Someone closed the store? Is it going to open in the next few days, I saw them send several truckloads of books last month, I thought they were doing a serious book business, but I didn't expect some women to do the east, it seems that a group of daughters are out to pass the time, tsk, such a building, how much rent does it cost a year. β
"This is not a big deal, haven't you heard, Princess Changle for the development of women's school, set up a women's school, it is rumored that the women's hall has built a treasure house, which is full of masterpieces of the past dynasties, if you take it out and sell, each piece can be worth a thousand gold. It is said that the women's hall was only opened by the emperor's instructions, on the first day of this month, the plaque was hung on the first day, and the people who came to the door were crowded with their heads, alas, I don't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing. β
The two talked softly with the help of counting chess, but the lazy young man suddenly turned his head and shouted excitedly:
"It's coming, it's the shopkeeper, there's someone in the opposite building again, and this time it's with a door plaque."
The two shopkeepers glanced at each other, each got up and walked to the door, and looked out, at the same time, on this street, there were far more people like them who were paying attention to the small white-walled building.
"Princess, please have tea."
"A few days ago, I sent someone to send a batch of books, calligraphy and paintings, have they all been put away?"
"It's all cleaned up, checked three times, sorted into categories, and there is no misplace."
"Well, let's go do something, let's sit down for a while and leave."
Yi Yu gently blew away a thin layer of hot air on the tea cup, this kind of weather, there are very few people like her who drink hot tea, it is rare that the shopkeeper here is arranged by her personally, only came twice, and I remember her preferences.
Shi Lian, who came together, greeted Tang Miao and her, and hurriedly went upstairs to see, Cheng Xiaofeng stayed downstairs with her, touching and flipping over there, her face was fresh and unconcealable.
In the small building with white walls, there is no hole in the sky, enter the door first is a bright lobby, the hall is neatly placed with a tea house, the four corners are placed with flower stands and vases, the walls on both sides are hung with landscape scenery, through the hall, after two rows of green curtains, it is the back hall seat, the southeast window is opened, the morning sun is ventilated.
Avoid the window lattice, against the wall and stand rows of autumn yellow birch bookshelves, the bottom layer of pen, ink and paper, you only need to take it yourself, but if you want to enter this door, the premise is that you register in the front hall in the book, take a single person's manual, otherwise, you have to drink two cups of tea outside, come early and return early.
The layout of the second and third floors is roughly the same as that of the downstairs, only in the decoration of the extra effort, calligraphy and painting decoration is more elegant.
"You say, if this calligraphy and painting building is built, it will really make money in the future?" Cheng Xiaofeng retracted his senses, turned around and whispered to Yu Yu with a look of disbelief, "I watched you throw so much money into it, don't go to the end and lose it again." β
A group of their friends go out, and it is customary for Yu Yu to pay for the east, as small as a bowl of wonton on the side of the street, as big as a table of wine and food in the Tianhao Pavilion, and she never blinks when she spends it.
Cheng Xiaofeng only said that there is always a lot of money to spend on the jade, but she doesn't know that she is the three proprietors of the new Wuliu Pharmacy with a good reputation in Beijing, when she is upside down the dowry and takes the treasury money of the palace to use, she does not know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, and now she is a wife, although she has been married for less than two months, Cheng Xiaofeng has already experienced.
Yi Yu smiled and shook his head, got up and walked to the plaque that was visiting against the wall, "How can it be a waste, you wait and see, at most a year, this 'Qinwen Pavilion' will become the faΓ§ade of the Moying Literary Society." β
She flicked her hand, took off the red silk on the plaque, revealing the inscription carved on it, neat, round, Tibetan show, not from the hands of several calligraphy masters in the world, but her diligent practice of Yingti.
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