The gifts brought by Pharmacist Li included Duan Yan, and when Xu Deyan and Princess Lechang saw it, they couldn't bear to let go.

At that time, Duan inkstone had just begun to be produced and was not famous.

And the form is simple, unlike the many carvings in later generations.

However, it is precisely because of its natural nature and the shape of a partridge's eyes that the two elders who have been accustomed to seeing things since childhood are particularly cherished.

There is also a parrot cup, which has green markings on it, and the inside of the cup is as bright as mica.

This is a wine glass made of nautilus shell, which is a Lingnan rarity.

However, the Xu couple were born in the Southern Dynasty and are no strangers to this cup.

However, Pharmacist Li also brought a fine wine made from Lingnan "green powder".

"Green powder" is the green koji of Lingnan, the color of the wine is like jade, and it is contained in a parrot cup, which can be regarded as the elegance of the "Jade Tusu Parrot Cup" in Lu Zhaolin's poem "Chang'an Ancient Meaning" in the future.

Of course, this wine is not "Tu Su", it is a New Year's wine, and it is only drunk during the New Year's Festival.

The next day, the weather was slightly fine, Xu Deyan and Princess Lechang personally accompanied them and led them to enjoy the city gate and city wall.

Huiji City was originally built by Goujian, the king of Yue, and the scale was short.

It then gradually expanded, with a circumference of more than twenty miles.

Thirty years ago, when Yang Su was the Duke of Yueguo, he expanded the city wall of Yueguo again.

Now what Li Yaoshi and Chuchen see is the Sui Dynasty city wall with a circumference of nearly 30 miles, which is called "Yang Suluo City" in later generations.

They became acquainted with each other, all because of Yang Su, the Duke of Yueguo back then.

Now looking at the Yue Guo Luo City built by the old people, it is really extremely contemplative.

Whether in Xu's mansion or in front of the city wall, Xu Deyan found that Dejian was very interested in architectural form.

Not only did they look up and down, left and right, front and back, inside and outside, but the questions raised often made it difficult for relatives to answer.

So he said that there was a younger brother Xu Fayan who had a lot of insight into the study of construction.

At the beginning, Li Shimin built the Daxingtai of East Shaanxi Road, and Xu Fayan also participated in the fortification.

At this time, he was also in Huiji, so Xu Deyan suggested that he come over to guide Dejian.

Pharmacist Li was overjoyed: "I don't dare to ask for what I want." ”

From this opportunity, Dejian got the enlightenment and teachings of Lu Zesheng and Xu Fayan, and then became a young craftsman in the Zhenguan period.

Xu Deyan and Princess Lechang took them out of the city and came to an ancestral hall.

When I saw it, tears rained down when I came out, it turned out that this was the ancestral hall of her mother's family, Zhang! The great-grandmother of the dust is Princess Fuyang, the daughter of Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang Wu, her grandmother is Princess Haiyan, the daughter of Emperor Xiao Gang of Liang Jianwen, and her mother is Princess Shouchang, the daughter of Emperor Chen Xuan, that is, the sister of Princess Lechang.

Fathers and ancestors have been buried in the imperial tomb for several generations, and they are in the same vein as her Zhang family, but they seem to have a distant relationship.

This feeling is only best experienced by Xu Deyan and Princess Lechang.

Therefore, they returned to the south, and in addition to restoring their own Xu family's foundation, they also managed to contact their brother-in-law Zhang's relatives and repair the ancestral hall.

When he was three or four years old, he left Jiangnan and went to Chang'an, where he could only occasionally come into contact with relatives of the maternal Xun Chen royal family.

For the paternal Zhang family, the contact has long been lost.

At this time, when I saw the ancestral hall of the Zhang family, and some relatives came at the invitation of Xu Deyan and Princess Lechang, I was moved to tears.

She and Pharmacist Li led the virtue and the award to meet with their relatives, and worshiped the ancestors together, and then deeply thanked Xu Deyan and Princess Lechang.

For the worship of dust, virtue, and virtue, the Xu couple happily accepted it, but they refused to accept the worship of Pharmacist Li, the "benevolent father".

However, the title of "Engong", Pharmacist Li himself is absolutely unwilling to accept it.

After the banquet, Pharmacist Li and Chuchen returned to Guangling with virtue and award.

This baptism not only made them deeply immersed in family affection and the past, but also received valuable gifts.

They brought Duan Yan, and Xu Deyan and Princess Lechang gave back the lake pen.

Huzhou pen can be traced back to the Jin Dynasty, the Southern Dynasty has been famous, and later generations are called the four treasures of the study room with Hui ink, rice paper, and Duan inkstone.

Hui ink is made of pine smoke from Huangshan Mountain, Huizhou, which was called Shezhou at that time; Xuan paper is the paper of Xuancheng, and both have to wait until after the Tang Dynasty to become famous.

The tea ceremony is a fashion in the south, and when Pharmacist Li got acquainted with Chuxiu, he also used tea as a matchmaker.

On this trip, I saw the Yue kiln tea set in Xufu, and Pharmacist Li and Chuchen couldn't bear to let go.

So Xu Deyan and Princess Lechang gave each other a set of Yue kiln tea sets.

Yuezhou is the best tea production area, and the time sequence is the three spring sprout season, so in addition to the tea set, the gift also includes Yuezhou spring tea.

More than 100 years later, the tea saint Lu Yu's "Book of Tea. There are clouds in "Four Vessels": "Bowl, Yuezhou." ”

At that time, the most cherished porcelain was Xingyao white porcelain in the north and Yue kiln celadon in the south.

Lu Yu compared the two from the point of view of tea tasting, and thought: "Or Xingzhou is located in Yuezhou, which is not true."

If Xing porcelain is silver, then the more porcelain is jade, and Xing is not as good as Yueyi; If Xing porcelain is like snow, then the more porcelain is like ice, and Xing is not as good as Yue Er; Xing porcelain is white and brown, the more porcelain is green and the tea is green, Xing is not as good as Yue San. ”

The Yue kiln, which began in the Eastern Han Dynasty, had a history of more than 500 years.

After the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Yue kiln fired two kinds of porcelain.

One is more common, the fetus is coarse and loose, earthy yellow, and the green and yellow glaze or yellow glaze is applied.

The other is a fine product, with a dense fetus, charcoal gray, and a green glaze.

There are two kinds of the latter, one is a kiln change, with small and dense brown spots on the green glaze.

The blue-glazed brown spot tea bowl used by Pharmacist Li in the Xuanzhongzi Cave Mansion was like this.

The other glaze is pure green, and the best one is engraved with lotus petals.

The tea set given by Xu Deyan and Princess Lechang this time is like this.

As for the "secret color" Yue porcelain that is regarded as a masterpiece by later generations, it is not mentioned in the early Tang Dynasty, that is, Lu Yu's "Book of Tea", which was written in the Middle Tang Dynasty.

This trip not only visited the deceased, but also recalled the old things, Pharmacist Li didn't seem to have thought about the aunt Xiu, and knew that there must be other things, which made the husband suspenseful.

At this time, the husband and wife sat opposite each other, cooking the ice porcelain of the Yue kiln, cooking the new sprouts of Yuezhou, and sure enough, I heard Pharmacist Li say: "A few days ago, I learned that the warrior Tong has two sons and two daughters, not three sons and one daughter. ”

At that time, Wu Zetian's sister had not yet been born.

Chuchen recalled the scene when he left Chang'an a month ago and went with Yuan Tiangang to see the warrior Tong's family, and asked, "Could it be that the baby is not a man?" ”

Pharmacist Li nodded and said, "Not bad." ”

Chuchen immediately thought that Yuan Tiangang had said at the time: "If this son is a daughter, it is especially unfathomable, and he should be the master of the world in the future!" ”

I couldn't help but be stunned for a while.

Pharmacist Li sighed lightly: "But before a month, I was still thinking that it was better to return to Yangzhou as soon as possible."

But now, the heart seems to be hanging. ”

At this time, the warrior Tong was in Jingzhou, and the baby girl was less than a year old.

So he asked, "But is it because of Your Highness?" ”

Pharmacist Li sighed again: "For several months, the matter of Liu Shirang and Du Fuwei has always reminded me of Liu Wenjing back then. ”