Xie Wenzai, Cao Gengyun and Lu Bainian have developed great enthusiasm for the design of glass stationery.

All three of them were excellent literati, not only were they good at reading and learning, but each of them had some little talents that they were good at—even if they weren't good at it, they had been good at it in the past thirty years of exile. Compared to those skills that require a lot of tools, calligraphy and painting are more suitable for those who are in relatively poor resource areas, and they only need to have paper and pen to entertain themselves for a long time.

As a result, all three of them are very good at drawing, but their preferred directions are a little different. However, if you want to draw or engrave patterns on glassware, it is better to try to use simple lines of flowers and landscapes, as for the poems and famous sentences, you have to ask the great food craftsmen before you know if you can use it.

However, if you really want to design study utensils, the three elders feel that they have a lot of experience. They have all lived in prosperous cities such as Beijing or Jiangnan for many years, and have come into contact with all kinds of rich and idle literati and elegant guests, and they know what kind of stationery they like. Even if the three of them know the fashion of many years ago, the word "elegant" trumps everything. Readers with taste and cultivation do not need to pursue any popular patterns for daily necessities, as long as they are in line with their hearts, they are the best.

Cao Lu and the others turned out their pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and Xie Wenzai also went back to his room to get a full set of study and painting tools and paints, and the three of them began to draw their favorite style of study supplies around the kang table. Xie Wenzai is more aware of the firing technology of glass, and when designing the pattern, he can also accommodate the process, and will not design something particularly fancy and difficult to burn; Cao Lu and his wife had never entered a glass workshop, but they only knew that glass was fired from a kiln, and guessed that it was similar to porcelain, so they also designed the style of glassware according to the number of porcelain.

As for whether it can be used in practice after the design is made, that is a matter for later. At least, the three elders are having a good time drawing at the moment.

The little kid Begonia was quickly kicked out of the house. However, Lu Bainian was glad that she reminded them that glass could be burned into stationery, and before sending someone, she remembered to kindly ask her what she was doing here? Haitang told her about borrowing patterns, and Lu Bainian readily agreed, and then stuffed her with a booklet: "This is more suitable for making patterns than medicinal herbs." ”

Begonia flipped through the pamphlet in the yard and was somewhat surprised to find that it looked a bit like a textbook for teaching beginners to draw various floral patterns.

Each page is painted with one or two flowers, from the simple flower shape at the beginning to the gorgeous peony on the last page. Around the flower in the middle, a circle of small drawings is drawn on the blank paper in the order of the next pen, clearly showing how a flower is drawn from scratch. The front is a simple white drawing, and by the end of the second half, a simple coloring has been added, and even the coloring order is clearly marked.

There is such a booklet, even if you don't have a foundation in painting, and you don't have a teacher to teach you, as long as your hands are not too clumsy, you can learn the basic painting skills of various flower patterns, right?

Don't use this booklet as a painting textbook, you can use it as a trick. The flowers painted by Grandpa Lu are very smart, much stronger than the dull patterns that grandmother Ma Shi gave to Begonias to practice.

Begonia is not a real child, and he has learned painting seriously in his previous life, how can he not see how attentive Lu Bainian is in drawing this booklet? I haven't heard that my brother Haijiao has a plan to learn painting, so Lu Bainian's intentions are for her, an auditor?

Begonia took the booklet and went to her grandmother Ma to return to her life. Ma Shi flipped through the booklet and felt that Lu Bainian drew well: "I just mentioned it to him, saying that you are also old, you should learn some poetry, calligraphy and painting, and you look like a beautiful lady, even if you don't learn painting well, at least you will draw a trick." I didn't expect him to really get you a pattern book, so I'll take this to practice embroidery! I see he's pretty good at drawing. ”

Begonia laughed dryly, took the booklet and went back to the house. She still uses this booklet to "learn" the art of painting, embroidery or something, and I'll talk about it later.

Then she began to "learn" these basic white painting methods at the speed of one page in two days.

First of all, I used thin paper to cover the copy, and after drawing a whole piece of paper, I can replace it with ordinary paper and reproduce it compared to the original painting. When the reproduction is familiar, I will discard the original painting and redraw it from memory. If the painting goes well, you can also make slight changes according to your own ideas, such as adding or subtracting one or two petals, adding two stamens, or changing the shape of the flower slightly, etc.

Begonia has a good foundation in painting, but she is in the palace with the concubine to learn painting, one day without a day, all depends on the concubine's interest, so she can't figure out what kind of learning progress is normal, can only refer to the two white-eyed wolf students she taught in her previous life, I think that a flower picture in two days should not cause people to be suspicious. Anyway, Lu Bainian's booklet shows the graphics and drawing order of each flower very clearly, she can't draw the cat and the tiger, it's strange, right?

By the time she had "learned" most of the white flower painting books, kept the patterns that required coloring skills, and was ready to take them to Lu Bainian, the teacher, for advice, the first snow in Suzhou had already fallen.

The snow fell heavily, and as the night passed, a thick layer of snow accumulated in the yard. Hai Changan got up early in the morning, took the housekeeper and servants to shovel the snow from the roof and the ground, and ran to help the Wang family clear the snow.

A few days ago, Wang Chengfu was ordered to escort several big food craftsmen to Ganzhou, and by the way, he escorted a batch of maize harvested in Suzhou, so that the people of Dusi could also taste the taste of new grain. If Ganzhou intends to try planting, it can also directly use these new grains as seeds, so there is no need for Dusi to make any effort to collect grain seeds.

Before Wang Chengfu left, because he was not worried about his wife and young children at home, he specially asked the Hai family to help take care of them. It's just that he was so attentive, and when he set off, he still showed a palm-shaped red mark on his face, and there were scratches on his neck, although it was not deep, but everyone who saw it couldn't help but guess. He tried to make the illusion that nothing had happened, but he couldn't hide the growing flush on his face.

It was snowing, and the people of the Hai family who were going to Yamen had to continue to work, but the horseback riding practice had stopped. Ma strictly forbids the children of the family to ride out on horseback in such weather, for fear that they will fall. As for the tips for horseback riding on snowy days...... It's never too late to learn in a few years. If it weren't for the insistence of the reef and begonias, she wouldn't even want them to practice arrows and swords in winter.

Haitang huddled in her own room, enjoying the warmth of the little kang while embroidering the gifts she prepared for her family. In addition to "learning to paint", she did not forget her embroidery homework, experienced two thread removal and re-embroidery, she finally did a good job of her grandmother Ma's red plum forehead, in order to prove that her embroidery skills have made great progress, and the forehead is also done decently, but the stitches are not good-looking.

Then she made a felt hat for her grandfather Haixi Cliff, and specially made the stitches slightly rough and crooked, but the whole body was black, and it was impossible to see it if you didn't look closely.

When making felt hats for her second uncle Hai Chang'an, her craftsmanship has made obvious "progress", and the stitches are much more neat.

The felt hat made for my brother's reef is the best workmanship, and the stitches are neat and fine. When Reef got the hat, not to mention how happy it was.

It was my grandfather Hai Xiya who couldn't help but feel a little sour in his heart, and complained to his wife in private: "Why did Tang Tang make me the hat, but it was the worst?" ”

Ma Shi glanced at him: "Then why do you still wear that hat every day to go out?" The child is getting better and better, it's a big deal to ask her to make you another top! ”

Hai Xiya grinned: "That's it, what kind of needlework do you do on a cold day?" The hat my granddaughter made for the first time, I wore it very well. ”