Volume 1: The First Gathering of the Five Spirits II: The Secret of the Study
The father walked in front with his toes held high, and the son followed behind dejectedly, and the family members in the house had already seen it.
The father and son walked through the hall in the house, until they walked to the back garden, a few tables have been placed in the open space of the back garden, several family members are busy, the cut venison is placed in a large wooden barrel next to it and marinated with condiments to taste, the newly built stove next to it, a large pot is on the top, the firewood below is more fireless, the soup in the pot is boiling, and the meat is fragrant. When the servants saw the two masters walking by, they stopped to salute, and the two of them casually responded as they walked through the flowers and bamboo groves to a house in the corner.
"Here?" Qian Qianli asked.
"Exactly," he said, Qian Chao took out a key from his body and opened a large copper lock hanging on the door. Qian Qianli looked at the copper lock that was bigger than his son's two hands and felt a little funny, as the head of the family, he didn't know that there were so many small rooms in this corner of the garden, let alone what was in the house. He shook his head and walked inside.
Almost as soon as he entered the room, Qian Qianli froze, there was almost everything in this room, from the slingshot crossbow to the slingshot crossbow for fighting birds, to the swords and blades sharpened by bamboo and wood, from the toys that can be bought on the market to a bunch of various lions and tigers made with bamboo tubes and wooden sticks, and all kinds of kites are hung on the wall, either birds or eagles, and most of them are colored, and they look very exquisite, and there is a row of string figures below, with eyebrows, facial features, and limbs, lifelike.
"In the end, the heart of a child" while thinking about Qian Qianli entered a room inside.
He was taken aback when he went in again, the things here are definitely no longer children's things, there is a circle of tables against the wall inside, and the things on the table are all proportionally shrunk, Qian Qianli identified them one by one, and he broke out in a cold sweat while looking at them, what kind of marching cart made of wood, marching tents made of cloth, and there were also a few marching beds made of wood in it, tiger squat crossbows made of wood and bamboo, wind-chasing crossbows, trebuchets, lying bull crossbows, The ladder to the city and so on cover almost all the weapons involved in his ordnance prison. Although it is a miniature model the size of a palm, but the subtleties are no different from the real thing, these are all militaristic weapons, if this thing is really committed, it is a felony of leaking secrets, according to the law of the dynasty, if it is not for the surname Qian, the fate of his six-grade official is not much better than the roe deer that the family members are busy with outside, thinking of this, he couldn't help but glare at his son while breaking out in a cold sweat, and asked, "Is there anything else?" ”
"Yes." Qian Chao was extremely obedient at this time, and took his father into the last room.
This last room is much more elegant than the outside, after all, this room looks like a study, the snow-white wall is hung with calligraphy and painting banners, there are bookshelves and reading desks, the four treasures of the desk are arranged, all kinds of books are stacked or spread out, and there is a white porcelain painting jar full of calligraphy and painting scrolls next to the desk, all of which should look like a literati study, and the only thing that destroys this literati atmosphere is the lying bull crossbow placed next to the window.
Qian Qianli didn't pay attention to the lying bull crossbow at first, but on the bookshelf and desk. He casually took down a few books and flipped through them, and couldn't help but sigh again, the books were all rare books in his study that his son was not allowed to bring out. Qian Qianli's study has a few lonely out-of-print books that make him quite complacent, because they are all his own treasures, so he is usually stingy and even his son is not allowed to read more, I didn't expect this child to copy those books in their entirety, this thought is indeed commendable, especially this word, horizontal and vertical skimming, silver hook iron painting, already has a look quite like everyone's style, seeing here Qian Qianli appreciated in his heart, and nodded secretly.
However, the collection of books in the back made Qian Qianli dislike, what strange novels, miscellaneous scripts, yin and yang five elements, geographical atlases, etc., were full of several bookshelves and soft pages, obviously often flipped.
"Look at what kind of mess this is!"
Then he turned to a book that made his old face red.
Qian Qianli is a literati in his bones, and it is normal for literati to be obsessed with books, and in his early years, he was a treasure that he collected before marriage, a secret picture of the Spring Palace depicting goblin fights, but later he searched for his study and couldn't find it anymore, he thought that he had accidentally lost it when he came here to be an official and moved, or his wife found that it was secretly burned, and he was not embarrassed to ask his wife, and he could only regret the loss of this love book. Unexpectedly, he found it on his son's bookshelf, and this discovery immediately made him extremely angry, and he was ashamed and annoyed to pat his son's head with the book, and scolded in a low voice: "This ...... Is this what your little child can see? Monkey business! Then he hurriedly hid the book in his sleeve.
Although Qian Chao was beaten, first, he didn't hurt and second, he wasn't afraid, and he secretly stuck out his tongue.
In fact, what surprised Qian Qianli is still to come.
A landscape on the wall was a masterpiece he had bought with a lot of money, and his father, who was the prime minister, knew that the painting had hinted in his hands, and he was not willing to pay homage to it, but only hid it in the secret room to admire it in his spare time. Recently, he has been busy with official business, and he has long forgotten this painting, but he didn't expect it to hang in his son's secret study and fall into dust, for which Qian Chao was stunned.
The calligraphy and paintings in the painting jar are mostly Qian Chao's own graffiti, although there is a look but in Qian Qianli's opinion, it is a little immature, but one of the banners identified by Qian Qianli is his baby son from his own study I don't know when to steal it, it is a calligraphy masterpiece after drinking, it is said that this calligraphy everyone is drunk with wine and ink, the font is wild and vigorous with the fragrance of wine, the real handiwork! At the beginning, Qian Qianli tried his best to increase bleeding for these words, but he didn't want to prevent thieves, so Qian Chao was stunned. After admiring it carefully, Qian Qianli was about to put it away, but he was stunned to find that there was an extra son's small chapter next to his private chapter in the blank space, and immediately gave his son a shock without saying a word.
On the bookcase, the pen holder is hung with Qian Qianli can not be reluctant to use the boutique Zihao, which he took out from his father's study without telling him, for these pens The old man also scolded himself in the letter for being unfilial, and now it is a newspaper in the world, and his unfilial son is cheaper.
In the inkstone is Qian Qianli's father, Qian Chao's grandfather, the prime minister of the dynasty gave the best tribute ink, it is said that the royal family is only a few dollars a year, and now it has been ground by his son to a small half, a loser! Of course, this inkstone is also extraordinary, there is a name called "Yutian mud inkstone", the treasure of the inkstone, Qian Qianli is usually careful to play with it in his hand, imagine his own splash of ink abundance, never thought of really using it to study ink writing, now, alas! As for the paper, the best bamboo Xuan, usually touching and sniffing can make Qian Qianli have a great sense of satisfaction, and now it is used as a draft of graffiti by Qian Chao.
Qian Chao saw his father's muscles jumping violently, his fingers trembling at himself, he knew badly, he thought that this time he was going to be really beaten, so he was so frightened that he hurriedly squatted on the ground with his head in his arms, and waited for a long time but didn't wait for that good fight, when he looked up, he found that his father was staring at his luck, as if he was trying his best to suppress his anger, and finally heard Qian Qianli scold: "Hmph! Day and night to prevent home thieves! Get up! Don't look like a bear, your mother is not here, who are you doing it for! ”
After that, Qian Qianli made up his mind that when this matter was over, he must take a good look at his son's study to see how much this kid had stolen from him!
The only thing in this study that I haven't looked at carefully now is the lying bull crossbow, which is also the root of Qian Chao's bad luck today. Qian Qianli spread out the drawings obtained from his son on the desk, while looking at his son's drawings while looking at the small lying bull crossbow, comparing the real thing with the drawings one by one, the workmanship is very rough, and the selection of materials is also very random, all of them are made of bamboo and wood, about one-tenth of the size of a real lying cow crossbow, and it is densely packed with wooden machines.
"Have you test-shot?" After examining it for a long time, Qian Qianli asked his son.
"Tried" Qian Chao couldn't help but be relieved when he saw his father ask about the Lying Bull Crossbow, and hurriedly opened the window opposite the Lying Bull Crossbow, pointed to a few trees dozens of steps away from the window and said, "I used those trees as an arrow target." ”
Qian Qianli looked over, although the tree was not an old tree, but it was also the thickness of a sea bowl, and several arrows like short spears made by Qian Chao were nailed to the trunk, and several of them were not small, and they actually shot through the tree.
"Shoot once and I'll see." Qian Qianli saw that there was no one outside the window, and it was estimated that everyone in the house had been called by his wife to arrange today's dinner, so he ordered his son to demonstrate it to himself.
Qian Chao listened to it and turned a wooden winch on the lying bull crossbow with both hands, Qian Qianli found that with his son's movements, several beam-like bamboo and wood in the lying bull crossbow began to bend into the shape of an open bow, the bowstrings were staggered up and down with each other, and each bowstring was connected by a leather rope and a runner, and the leather rope finally gathered its strength on the bowstring of a big bow on the top of the lying bull crossbow, with a "click" sound, the winch bit a wooden clasp tooth, Qian Chao stopped, looked at his father and said: "Ten stone force, it can't be tighter, otherwise it will collapse." ”
It can have ten stone power! Qian Qianli saw that his son turned the winch lightly and skillfully, and this lying bull crossbow was made of ordinary bamboo and wood, which could have ten stone power, he doubted in his heart, leaned over to watch carefully, and saw his son take out an arrow from the pitcher on the side, he nodded, and saw that Qian Chao put the arrow in the shooting groove of the lying bull crossbow.
"Where to shoot?" Qian Chao asked his father.
Qian Qianli casually pointed to a tree about fifty paces away and said, "That one." ”
After Qian Chao took aim slightly, he pulled the teeth on the lying bull crossbow with both hands, and with a soft "buzz", the arrow shot out, and in Qian Qianli's eyes, it flashed and was nailed straight to the tree he was pointing at just now.
"I'll go get the arrows back." Without waiting for Qian Qianli to answer, Qian Chao deftly climbed out of the window, ran under the tree, broke off the arrow exposed outside the trunk, and ran back.
When Qian Chao came in from the window again and presented the broken arrow to himself, Qian Qianli grabbed the half-cut arrow and knocked lightly on Qian Chao's head and scolded: "If you don't leave the door, what kind of system will it become!" ”
There should be ten stone power, Qian Qianli pondered in his heart, looking at the half-truncated arrow in his hand, fifty steps away can still enter the wood so deep, ten stone power should be there. If you make the lying bull crossbow in front of you according to the regulations of the ordnance supervisor, the power must be extraordinary, and it is much stronger than the lying bull crossbow used in the army now. Thinking of this, he looked at the lying bull crossbow made by his son in front of him, he knew that this was actually his son's toy, but now it seems that the power is really not small, which also proves that his son's improvement of the lying bull crossbow should be effective. If the ordnance supervisor's lying bull crossbow is improved according to his son's design, it will be a great achievement, but he is a little reluctant to give up on this lying bull crossbow when he thinks of this.
But now that there are drawings, it's reassuring that this eye-catching thing is still ruined.
In the end, he said to his son: "Your mother is pregnant now, she can't be frightened, and you also know the severity of my court's law, this matter is no longer as simple as your child playing around, if it is known by outsiders, don't say me, even your grandfather will probably be implicated." Now you know what to do? ”
Qian Chao nodded, of course he knew, although he was reluctant, he was helpless.
"Very good, then let's do it, after the demolition, you will also dismantle the smaller ones made in your outhouse, as long as the things related to the ordnance supervisor are dismantled, and they will be burned in the fire outside, understand?"
"Hmm," Qian Chao nodded in response.
Qian Qianli pointed to the trees outside the window that were targeted by Qian Chao and said, "Clean up the place too." ”
After that, he turned around and left a sentence of "Do it yourself, don't let others help, understand?" ”
Although he said that his son would tear these down and burn them, Qian Qianli was really reluctant to pass by the outhouse, and finally he stuffed a small model of a tiger squat crossbow and a lying bull crossbow into his sleeves, and when he turned around to leave, he turned around and stuffed a few pieces into his sleeves, if it wasn't for the sleeves stuffed and he really wanted to take them away, anyway, this thing was not good at home, but if it was placed in the office of the government office, no one could find anything wrong.
Qian Chao finally knew why his house was like a festival tonight, and as soon as his lying bull crossbow was dismantled, he took it out and stuffed it directly into the stove of stewed meat.
Several family members saw that the little master was busy working and wanted to help, but they didn't want to be drunk by Qian Qianli.
"Leave him alone, let him do it himself!" Then Qian Qianli said loudly with half-truths and half-truths: "I am busy with official business, and I neglect to discipline you, if it weren't for your mother telling me, I wouldn't have known that you would make a lot of trouble in the house, after today, see how I clean you up!" ”
The family members are not surprised, some look at Qian Chao with an unlucky look and cry and laugh secretly, anyway, this little master in the house is a person who can't help but love tossing, and it is the age when cats and dogs don't love it, and everything can make the chickens and dogs jump in the house on weekdays, and the lady can't look past it, so she chases and beats with a feather duster, and now she must not know what basket he stabbed for the master to catch, and it is normal to be scolded and punished.