"Rare good material! The best Hainan rosewood, rot-resistant, heavy-weight, sinking into the water, is very expensive. Why did you get moldy spots everywhere, haven't you taken it out of the warehouse for more than ten years? It's a pity, it's a pity......"

Ye Fuliu was also distressed. "The ancestral house has been unattended for more than ten years, and it is all locked in the house. In spring and summer, the moisture returns, and the tenons are rotten. Do you see if there is any salvation? ”

The carpenter pondered for a while: "Fortunately, the wood has not been corrupted. The material of rosewood is oily, and it only needs to be polished and polished. It can be saved. ”

Encountering rare and precious materials, the carpenter did not dare to move the planer, so he took a file [1] and polished it inch by inch, and finely polished it inch by inch, and the mildew spots on the surface of the wood were finely polished. A tooth-aching sound of continuous grinding sounded from under the porch.

Ye Fuliu sat in the spacious courtyard, took out the drawing paper and sheep's hair, copied the size and thickness of the wood, and pondered to draw patterns on the paper.

The sun is out. Outside the closed door, the sound of children chirping could be heard.

"Sweet tofu brains freshly made in the morning~"

"Freshly baked sesame cake in the morning~"

"Sweet honey, no sweetness, no money!"

"Steamed dumplings fried in sesame oil, no money if they are not fragrant!"

Su Qiu came into the door with a plate of tofu brains, a bowl of honey water, sesame cakes, steamed dumplings, and wooden lacquer plates.

"Lady, it's time to eat."

"Hey, put it on the table." Ye Fuliu didn't raise his head, "You and Qin Long should eat first." I'll finish the drawing before eating. ”

"I'm not hungry, I'm waiting for the lady to eat together." Su Qiu put the purchased morning food on the stone table one by one, leaned over to see what Ye Fuliu was drawing, looked at it a few times, and wrinkled his brows in confusion.

"What kind of thing does this look like? Screen? ”

"The base is a bit like a screen seat, but the actual thing is not a screen, it's a light stand." Ye Fuliu raised his hand and pointed to the long and short rosewood under the corridor, "When the material is polished, reconnect the tenon, and I'll see if I can assemble it." ”

Su Qiu looked at the wood scattered all over the ground, and didn't know what to say for a while.

"It took a lot of work just to make a lampstand? Lady, wouldn't it be better for us to go out and buy a few. ”

Ye Fuliu blinked, and thin sweat rolled down from the ends of his long eyelashes, "It's different." ”

She resumed her pen and continued to draw the picture stroke by stroke, her dark eyes shining with a sparkle of anticipation.

"Not your average light stand. If you can really spell it well, that's a good thing. ”

When the two girls on the other side of the stone table were muttering, Qin Long sat on the other side of the stone table and ate violently, and got up after eating:

"Master, I still have to go to the county office. How can such a valuable thing as a cat basin flowing from the palace be placed in the county office? If you are guarded by others and steal from yourself, will you not have nowhere to cry out? I've got to get it back. ”

Makes sense. Ye Fuliu didn't stop him.

"There is an official guarding the door, you go. The cat pot is worth at least three or five hundred taels, you can get it back, and I will send you double the monthly money this month. ”

Qin Long snorted, and threw down a sentence with great conceit, "A gentleman keeps his promise for money." Qin signed a two-year contract with the main family, and how much should he take in these two years, and he won't take more than half a cent. He got up and bowed his hands and went out.

Ye Fuliu watched Qin Long go out, and was silent on the empty plates in front of him.

"The shouting was magnificent, and he left us something to eat. Su Qiu, all the snacks you bought just now were eaten by him. ”

Su Qiu: "...... I went out to see if the boys and girls who were selling food outside had dispersed. ”

The children have long since dispersed.

Wei's door couldn't take out anything, and a large number of boys and girls jumped over Wei's house angrily, carrying small bamboo baskets along the long street to sell them, and ran away early. Even the Ye family's side wanted to buy the second round of morning food, but they couldn't find anyone to buy it.

Ye Fuliu concentrated on finishing the painting, put down the rabbit hair, and covered his empty belly, "Is there any soup left over from last night's stewed chicken?" Chop up the fresh wild vegetables sent by the dock in the early morning, wrap them in minced meat, add chicken broth, and eat them in the morning. ”

It is a common food in the south of the Yangtze River, which is simple to make and delicious to eat. The thin dough is stuffed with vegetable and meat filling, pinched into a small sharp point, like the shape of a flower bone, thrown into boiling water and cooked.

A rich fragrance fills the courtyard.

Ye Fuliu has been tossing from the morning to now, and his stomach is so hungry that he panics. The chopsticks had just touched her lips, and before she had time to enjoy the delicious food, Su Qiu stood beside her and gently hit her elbow.

"Lady, next door."

Ye Fuliu raised his head with a pinch in his mouth.

The sun came out early today, and the morning sun reflected in the small wooden building before dawn, and Wei Langjun really sat on the high place of the wooden building on time.

"What's wrong?" She asked vaguely, puffing out her cheeks.

Su Qiu whispered, "Lady forgot? Yesterday, I went down next door in person and made a bowl of soup cakes every day and sent it over......"

Ye Fuliu hissed, "I was busy with wood in the morning, and I forgot to make soup cakes."

The chicken noodle soup is fragrant, the aroma of the meat is mixed with the fragrance of wild vegetables over the courtyard wall, Wei Langjun at the height of the wooden building did not smell it clearly, and Wei Da standing next to him must have smelled it.

While the two sides looked at each other, Wei Da coughed heavily, with a look of anticipation on his face.

Ye Fuliu immediately made a decision, and immediately came out of the pot full of bowls of salamander, and gestured to the opposite side of the wall, "Wei Langjun has been eating soup cakes for a few days in a row, how about changing the taste of the morning food?" Freshly made vegetables and meat in the morning, old hen soup base, send a bowl to Wei Langjun to taste? ”

Wei Da really didn't care, he immediately responded, and thanked him with a mouth, "Thank you Little Lady Ye!" Rushing down the wooden building, he came to the Ye family to take the morning food, and thanked him repeatedly. After a while, he pedaled straight up the wooden building with the warm soup and food, held his breath, and carefully placed the white porcelain bowl in front of Wei Langjun.

Across the two courtyard walls, Ye Fuliu sat at the stone table in his courtyard and ate chicken juice and vegetable meat, Wei Langjun sat on the high place of the wooden building on the other side of the wall, lifted the blue sarong, took a spoon and scooped it slowly, drank a little soup, and took a bite.

Ye Fuliu stared at it with interest for a moment, lowered his head and bit his ears with Su Qiu.

"Guess what, Wei Langjun will eat a few bites today."

The two girls seemed to sit down and bow their heads to eat the sling, and while eating, they swept their eyes lightly, and counted silently in their hearts.

Su Qiu whispered, "I've eaten two bites, three bites...... The fourth bite. Lady, Wei Langjun really loves our family's food. ”

Ye Fuliu: "Shhh, be soft." Wei Da next door said that his family had moved to the town for two months, and he hadn't seen Wei Langjun eat more than five bites in one meal. Count a few and see if you can break it today. ”

"The fourth bite is gone, and I'm scooping the fifth...... Ouch. "Su Qiu choked," Wei Langjun's spoon was put down. ”

The two of them muttered that they had run out of food, cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and made room for the carpenter to drag out the wood under the porch and continue to polish and remove mold.

Wei Langjun on the wooden floor used five mouthfuls of chicken juice and put down the spoon. Wei Da stood next to him and counted silently, his expression was complicated, and he didn't dare to say more in person.

Ye Fuliu retracted his gaze, spread out the pen and paper again, and continued to revise the pattern of the rosewood lampstand. I thought in my heart that Wei Langjun's illness next door was really rare, and he didn't eat according to the amount, but according to the number of entrances.

Even if you have eaten five mouthfuls of soup cakes, you can count as having eaten five rice cakes again?

It's hard to describe.

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Separated by a wall, Wei Langjun stared at the soup bowl.

The white porcelain ruffle bowl of Dingyao is the same one sent yesterday. Although it was sent in a hurry, I didn't forget to match it with a ruffled white porcelain spoon with the same set, and the dust-proof and insect-proof blue sarong tightly covered the edge of the bowl.

Wei Langjun lowered his eyes and looked at the clear and fragrant chicken juice soup in the bowl, and the snow-white porcelain bowl was paired with clear chicken soup. Perhaps because of the patient's avoidance, a layer of golden grease on the surface of the old hen soup was carefully skimmed off.

A bowl of simple morning food prepared in a hurry shows meticulous thought.

"Little lady Ye is not very old, she is really warm-hearted!" Wei Da beside him was grateful and full of praise, "It's a rare good neighbor."

Wei Langjun turned to the side of the wall.

His eyes were fixed on the carpenters squatting in the courtyard, grinding wood.

After looking at Xu for a moment, he looked away.

"Take people softly, eat people with short mouths." He continued to look at the morning glow in the distance, "So, Little Lady Ye is a clever person." ”

Wei Da suppressed his excitement and replied, "What Lang Jun said is true." "I said a long sentence early in the morning!" ”

Lang Jun was originally not a talkative temperament, but since he moved to Jiangnan, he has avoided the living, and he is extremely silent, and he doesn't say a word from morning to night.

Sometimes Wei Da pushed open the door of the study and saw the dark shadow sitting alone by the window, and he often had the illusion that the owner of this place was no longer there, and only a phantom remained in the room.

Wei Da's face flushed excitedly, and he deliberately pulled around, leading the master to bask in the sun on the wooden building for a while and say a few more words.

He raised his hand and pointed to the other side of the wall, "No wonder it was noisy early in the morning, it turned out that the old furniture left by the ancestors was started to be repaired next door." This is a thankless job, Ye Xiaoniang has filial piety. Hey, there are a lot of bricks piled up next to the wall, and the yard is full of potholes, are you planning to open a new road and pave the brick floor? ”

As he chattered, Wei Langjun's gaze also turned away from the morning glow on the horizon, and his gaze swept over the hundreds of bricks and tiles piled up on the side of the wall, filling the newly dug potholes in the courtyard, and finally fell on the little lady in charge of the Ye family.

The little lady of the Ye family was full of food and drink, drew the pattern of the lampstand, and was sitting under the porch with a familiar little nanmu box, bowing her head and concentrating on something.

The early summer sunlight fell into the courtyard next door, falling from the green leaves of the branches, and the small and bright light fell on the shoulders of the little lady Ye.

She is a typical Jiangnan American figure, born exquisitely and delicately, the slender silhouette silhouette is shrouded in a layer of pale golden light, the eyelashes are thick, the eyes are focused, and the onion white fingertips are playing with the Nanmu box over and over again, and she can't open it after tinkering for a long time.

Wei Langjun curled his lips rarely.

Wei Da roared in his heart, "There is a reaction to action!" Ye Xiaoniang is not wrong, Lang Jun should see more living people! ”

On the surface, he tried his best to pretend to be calm, and continued to chatter, "The Ye family has a big business, and it is a little lady in charge, recruiting thieves." How many Hu Mazi did the Ye family catch and send to the official? In my opinion, why send any county yamen. The ready-made pit on the ground, push it directly into the pit, and bury the thief. ”

Wei Langjun bent his lips again for the first time.

Before Wei Da could yell silently in his heart, Wei Langjun stared at the pit next door and slowly said the second sentence of this morning.

"Who said her house wasn't buried?"

Wei Da: ??

Chapter 7

Ye Fuliu likes the new small Nanmu box very much.

The carving is exquisite, the color is smooth, and the old wood with a long history is close to smell it, and it exudes a clear fragrance that is absent.

Such a delicate small wooden box is mostly an object in the daughter's boudoir, and the things in it will not be bad.

The only minor problem is that it uses a ciphered lock.

The secret word lock is not like the ordinary copper lock that uses a reed, but uses the wheel secret word, and the secret word can be opened only when the secret word is turned correctly.

Secret word locks are not common, and only large households with literacy and hyphenation are more common. The most common cipher lock has three runners, each with four words on it, commonly known as "three-ring lock" in the jargon.

The three-ring lock is not difficult to open, and it can only frighten the illiterate thief, but not the connoisseur. Just a few more attempts, the correct three ciphers are spelled into a line, the keyhole is aligned, and the lock is gently and skillfully pierced. The secret locks of the fourth and fifth rings are not so easy to guess.

Ye Fuliu's patience with rare things is good enough, and once he touched the five-ring lock, the secret word of the five wheels. She tried hundreds of times from morning to night, and tried out the secret characters.

However, the long process of trying the lock also greatly reduced her interest, and after trying out the secret letter, she only left the lock and threw away all the contents of the box.

This time, the small Nanmu box is different, with a full seven wheels, each wheel has four words, and the secret words are easy to try.

Ye Fuliu tried a few combinations at random, but he couldn't open them.

She's not in a hurry.

The beauty of exploration is in the process, not in the outcome. What kind of valuables are contained in the Nanmu box with the rare seven-ring locks, the hazy beauty of the guessing process is far better than the moment when the final water is revealed. She understood this from a very young age.