When I went back, I asked my aunt for a bag of ordinary color, but when I held it in my hand and looked at it carefully, I felt that it was a brilliant pearl and sequin.

She walked into the inn, but saw no shadow of the jacaranda. Zhu Xingchun thought about it and went to her own room.

Sure enough, the little girl was lying on her couch with her head propped up, with her back to the door, not knowing what she was thinking.

Zhu Xingchun lowered his footsteps and leaned over gently.

The jacaranda looked sad, holding the filigree bracelet that she cherished this morning, and was doing some patchwork work. In addition, there are countless silver threads and beads not far away.

On closer inspection, the silver thread inlaid in the bracelet seemed to have worn out the corners, and a few beads that could be called the finishing touch had been removed. It's just that at the moment, it is being restored to its original shape little by little by its owner.

The jacaranda stumbles a little, and often tightens a bead and flicks its sore wrist outwards twice.

Zhu Xingchun stared for a while.

Although she knew that the jacaranda was interested in these ornaments, she really didn't expect that something would happen so coincidentally at the right time for her.

"It's already very similar." She said softly.

The jacaranda was startled, and hurriedly turned over a few times and got up from the couch, hiding the work in her hand behind her, and moving her feet, trying to hide the large mess.

She lowered her head and said, "Miss, I didn't mean to mess up your room, I just accidentally broke this when I was waiting for you to come back." ”

"It's hard enough for the young lady to go out to earn money, and Xiao Ying doesn't want to trouble the young lady to spend any more money to repair these small things in the shop, so she learned a little from the girls who work in the backyard, and it won't take long to think about doing it herself. I didn't think that the internal structure was so complicated, I strung it for a long time, and I always felt that it was not as beautiful as it was at the beginning......"

Zhu Xingchun shook his head: "I'm not lying. ”

She left in a hurry in the morning, and didn't pay attention to what the hand was originally like, but if the jacaranda didn't say, this was the finished product she had re-polished, and Zhu Xingchun would inevitably have a preconceived idea that this was what she had saved for pocket money and bought it back today.

"Xiaoying, you are a very talented child." Zhu Xingchun smiled faintly, and continued: "With such a talent, if you just follow me to do some rough work such as sorting silk threads and serving tea, it is really a waste......

Before she finished speaking, she was hurriedly interrupted by the jacaranda, and the tail note that fell in a hurry was still trembling: "I just like to do this, and I won't delay Miss's business, don't drive me away, I will never make Miss angry again in the future." ”

As she spoke, she threw the freshly skewered finished product on the couch with a twist in her heart.

Zhu Xingchun picked it up with some surprise, looked at it again, and felt at ease. Fortunately, the couch was soft and not broken, otherwise her fault would have been great.

"I'm not trying to drive you away, I'm glad you found something you love to do."

She untied the cloth bag given to her by the eldest lady and solemnly handed it to the jacaranda: "Speaking of which, I brought some things back, maybe you can use them." ”

The jacaranda poured out a little bit in the palm of her hand in confusion, and after seeing what it was, her eyes suddenly widened, and the reflected light was full of novelty.

Zhu Xingchun repeated it again - this time slowing down his speech: "I never thought of driving you away, I just found a very good and responsible master for Xiaoying, and she will patiently guide you on how to make the world's most beautiful beaded jewelry." ”

Jacaranda thought for a while and said, "Do I go to study and come back, can I rely on this craft to help Miss?" ”

Zhu Xingchun was slightly stunned, and nodded first. Then, the corners of her mouth pulled to the left and right, barely revealing a smile that would reassure her.

She sighed softly, "But I prefer that you are desperate to go for your own preferences." ”

Early the next morning.

The shopkeeper watched Zhu Xingchun go downstairs to eat by himself, and his face was full of surprise: "Yo, the sun came out in the west today, and I can actually see Miss Zhu go downstairs to get water first, and I didn't let Miss Jacaranda come to the door......"

Speaking of this, he paused first and glanced at the sky outside, "This time is not right, usually the jacaranda girl can be a little earlier." ”

Zhu Xingchun said: "Xiaoying is my sister, and she is not a bird around me. Only by sending her to a place where she can really make her happy, can I, the eldest sister, be competent. During this time, I also had to get used to living without her. ”

……

After Zhu Xingchun combed it, he took his embroidery to the woman's closed shop.

Although she and Xue Fei did not intend to use this place again, the woman occupied the courtyard deep in the alley on the grounds that she needed a quiet environment to teach jacaranda beading, and drove the two of them to the vicinity of the house.

The steps have been paved to this point, and it is too rusty to refuse. Thinking of this, Zhu Xingchun shook his head with a smile and knocked on the door.

The door opened, and Xue Fei looked around to make sure that there was no one behind her, so she was relieved to let her in. In this regard, Zhu Xingchun couldn't cry or laugh: "Do you think this is the yellow finch sung in the excerpt of the play?" ”

Xue Fei shook his head profoundly: "You don't understand, how many peers are on this street, staring at this place, it's like falling in love with a big piece of fat, if it weren't for my mother pinching the title deed tightly, and the Mu family can't look down on places outside the downtown area, it is estimated that even how to repair and decorate them, they have listed one, two, or three styles." ”

She took out the four treasures of the study room from her baggage, and asked suspiciously: "On painting, I haven't seen any peer in Yangzhou City who dares to question my skills, you don't let me bring the works that have been framed, but ask me to start on-site ink research, is it to prevent someone from cheating and reversing black and white?" ”

"It can only be one of the reasons." Zhu Xingchun thought for a while, and then said: "I've always been afraid of trouble, and I naturally want to do things that can be done once and for all." ”

"Back then, Miss Mu Er was able to paint the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River with one stroke, and the fishing boats sang at night; It can also be used as a lonely smoke in the desert, thousands of miles of yellow sand, from the pen and ink of famous families, there are always vassal and elegant people who buy it with a lot of money, but in fact, they don't understand half of it. ”

Zhu Xingchun said lightly.

"And today, in the eyes of the world, no matter what kind of ability we have, we are worthless."

Speaking of this, Xue Fei was suddenly a little indignant, and even his brows were twisted together.

Zhu Xingchun's finger was against the center of her eyebrows: "It's okay, there is a place that will definitely accept us." ”

"Where is it?" Xue Fei asked.

"The person who can really lead the direction of a city is not a family like Mu Dashao, nor a businessman like the Li family, but thousands of Confucian students."

"They were courteous, they read the books of the sages, and most importantly, they were very confident in themselves, and they would never allow little women to be above them."

Xue Fei understood: "So the place we are going is ......"

"Yihe Academy." Zhu Xingchun replied with a smile.