Do you know: I am Xu Jiazi

Chapter 672: The last name is Shu, not Hua [Thank you! Goodbye! I owe you 36k more]

In the study,
"Sir, I'm back."

Qi Heng, who was sitting at the desk writing, heard the noise, looked up at Bu Wei who was speaking, and said, "Did you buy the things?"

"My Lord, I bought it!" Buwei put the wooden box on the table and said with a smile, "I bought it at Sibaozhai."

Qi Heng lowered his head and continued writing and hummed.

Bu Wei continued, "The manager of the Sibaozhai knew me. He only took more than two hundred taels for the six pens. The gold ingots you gave me, sir, have not been used up."

Having said that, Buwei put the remaining gold on the table.

Qi Heng said without even looking up: "Put away the gold and show me the brush."

"Yes."

He then opened the wooden box and took one of the pens to Qi Heng.

Qi Heng took the brush, examined it carefully for a while, touched the tip of the brush with his finger, and said with a smile: "It is indeed exquisite."

Bu Wei said, "Sir, I opened this brush, would you like to use it?"

Qi Heng hesitated for a moment, then smiled and nodded, "Open."

"Hey!"

Buwei took the brush from Qi Heng's hand and called out, "Li Chong, bring a bowl of warm water."

Li Chong, the servant standing at the door of the study, quickly responded.

Bu Wei used two fingers to rub the tip of the pen with moderate force and said, "Sir, I met the girl from the Sheng family at the gate of Sibaozhai today."

"What?" Qi Heng raised his head suddenly.

Putting the brush on the inkstone, Qi Heng had a look of regret and annoyance in his eyes, and said, "Did you meet the daughter of the Sheng family? Is the sixth sister out?"

Bu Wei shook his head: "It's not the Sixth Miss Sheng, it's the Fourth Miss Sheng. It seems that she is shopping with the eldest daughter of the Sheng family."

Qi Heng was stunned, and his annoyed look immediately disappeared. He smiled and picked up the brush, saying, "Oh, I thought I missed it."

Buwei twisted the brush and shook it, looking at Qi Heng and whispered, "Sir, you are happy."

Before he finished speaking, Qi Heng glared at Bu Wei and said, "Shut up."

Don't hurry to purse your lips.

Simultaneously,

The servant Li Chong came in holding a porcelain bowl.

"Put it here." Buwei said with a smile.

After Li Chong put away the porcelain bowl and said goodbye and left the house, Buwei tested the water temperature and then dipped the pen tip into the water.

Buwei held the brush, not letting the tip of the brush touch the bottom of the bowl, and said, "Sir, on the way back home, I stopped by our brocade shop and heard from the manager that the Sheng family also went to the shop to buy materials."

"I heard that our house used blue-green brocade, so I bought a few pieces and brought them back."

Qi Heng put down his brush and looked at Buwei thoughtfully.

Not knowing what he was thinking of, Qi Heng said with a smile on his face, "Oh, by the way, I remember my mother asked someone to make me a few sets of clothes with this color of material, right?"

Buwei thought about it and nodded: "Yes, sir."

"Yes, I've prepared them! I'll wear those clothes when the school opens on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month next year."

"Yes."

As he spoke, Buwei rinsed the brush in the porcelain bowl, lifted it out of the water, and with moderate force squeezed the water out of the brush tip.

After dipping it in water again, Buwei dipped the brush in ink and handed it to Qi Heng.

In the last ten days of the twelfth lunar month,

The once quiet Yichun Lane has become as bustling as in previous years.

from morning to night,

There were servants, old women and mothers all dressed in fine clothes, queuing in the alleys, and the line stretched all the way to the street.

This morning,

Yichun Lane,

Xiang Jian, his mother and the little maid came out of the carriage parked on the side of the road.

When you look around,
I saw a woman wearing a veil and carrying a pipa in the alley, walking out with a girl carrying a drum.

He looked toward his mother at the two people approaching, then leaned back a little, thus avoiding the drum that the girl was carrying.

"Hey, hey! How are you walking? Don't you look at the road?" the little maid shouted with a frown.

Seeing that her disciple almost bumped into someone, the woman holding the pipa quickly stopped and bowed, saying, "I'm sorry, ladies."

The girl carrying the drum stopped and smiled apologetically at her mother and the other girl.

She smiled while holding the handkerchief to her mother, and said, "It's okay. Please be more careful next time."

"Oh! Oh! I'm so sorry." The veiled woman nodded.

"Yeah." He waved his handkerchief to his mother and continued to look around.

Seeing this, the two people carrying the musical instruments nodded again and left.

After the two men walked for a while,
An old woman, dressed as brightly as my mother's, came towards this side, holding a handkerchief and followed by servants.

Seeing Xiang Jian, the mother smiled and said, "Hey! Xiang mother, why are you here again?"

"Oh! It's Miss Lei! Well, Miss is not satisfied with the door god paintings and the donkey of the wealth gate we bought before, so we, as servants, can only come again. What are you here for?"

"Who said it wasn't!" The old woman called Lei Mama slapped her thigh and continued, "My master has a younger generation in the yard, and the mistress ordered me to buy a few more lanterns."

"Oh!" Xiang nodded with a smile on her face. "Then you go in first. I'll have to wait for a while."

"Okay." Mother Lei smiled and waved her hand, then walked into the alley.

After the person walked away, he asked the little maid beside his mother, "Mom, who was that person just now?"

He said to his mother, "The housekeeper of Viscount Li's family, south of Chunmingfang."

"Viscount Li's family? Is that the one that got married a few days ago?" the maid asked doubtfully.

"Yes! That was my brother's wedding day! This mother came here to marry with my brother's wife, Madam Zhou. Madam Zhou's family is the Jiangyin Marquis Zhou family."

He continued to tell his mother, "I have met this guy a few times in the brocade shop before, and we got to know each other after a few visits."

"Oh!" The little maid nodded.

He took out a bunch of copper coins from his mother and said, "Go to the street and buy some snacks for my sister."

"Yes." The little maid took the copper coin with a smile.

Looking at the little maid's back as she left, Xiang's mother looked around again.

suddenly,

He fixed his gaze on his mother and looked at a group of people riding horses approaching not far away.

Among the group, there were children sitting in front of the three knights, two boys and one girl.

After a while, looking at a group of people who had parked their carriages and were walking towards the alley, my mother smiled at the strongest young man among them.

Seeing Xiang's mother, the young man tilted his head and said, "Alan, Xunshu, take someone in to see what's going on."

As he spoke, he handed the child to Alan.

Alan glanced at his mother and nodded: "Okay, Brother Qingyun."

When the Xu family went in, they looked at the boy that Qingyun handed over and said to the mother, "Brother, that is the child of the Yin family, right?"

Qingyun shook his head: "No, that's my brother-in-law, his last name is Shu, not Yin."

".Uh." After thinking for a moment, thinking about the boy and girl with similar faces led by the two men behind Qingyun, he said to his mother: "So those two are the brother and sister of the Yin family! No wonder they don't look alike."

"Not like who?" Qingyun asked with a frown.

She smiled awkwardly at her mother and said, "Young man, why are you being so aggressive? I just want to take a look at you, my brother and sister."

Qingyun pursed his lips and nodded: "Yes. If you have nothing else to do with mom, I'll go over."

Having said that, Qingyun was about to leave.

He pulled Qingyun's sleeve towards his mother and said, "Little brother, wait a moment."

Qingyun stopped and looked at her mother waving and bowing her head to indicate her mother's gesture. After thinking for a moment, she bent down and moved closer.

After saying a few words to his mother, Qingyun narrowed his eyes.

Quyuan Street,
Yong Yi Hou Mansion,

There were several people standing by the racecourse.

Xu Zaijing, who was standing in the middle, looked up and stared at the Saker Falcon flying towards him in the sky, with a thick leather cover covering his palm on his raised arm.

"Puff puff——"

With the sound of rapidly flapping wings, the handsome Saker Falcon brought a gust of wind and landed on the leather cover on Xu Zaijing's forearm.

"Wow!" Qingcao and the other three maids on the side all applauded and jumped for joy.

"It's so beautiful." Xu Zaijing smiled.

It refers not only to the landing action of the Saker Falcon, but also to its expression.

As he spoke, Xu Zaijing threw out some fresh strips of meat as a reward for this landing.

After giving the reward, Xu Zaijing moved his forearm, and the falconer who was preparing nearby hurriedly raised his arm and moved over.

The Saker Falcon cleverly jumped from Xu Zaijing's arm and leaped onto the falconer's arm.

Looking at the handsome Saker Falcon, Xu Zaijing said, "After the New Year, let it go to the northern front. Maybe it can make contributions."

The falconer bowed and responded.

Xu Zaijing smiled and nodded, and was about to take off his long thick leather gloves. The three maids saw him and hurried over to help.

At this time,

A voice came.
However, Qingyun and others had already taken the items for the New Year and parked the carriage at the second gate.

When the servants of the Marquis' Mansion began to move things at the second gate, Qingyun also came to Xu Zaijing.

Seeing the look in Qingyun's eyes, Xu Zaijing said, "Qingcao, you three can play here for a while. Qingyun, come here. I have something to ask you."

"Yes, son."

Everyone bowed.

After walking a few dozen steps, Xu Zaijing turned his head to look at Qingyun and asked, "What's wrong?"

Qingyun pursed his lips and said, "Sir, when I went to Yichun Lane today, I ran into Madam Xiang who was beside Madam Qin. She..."

Looking at the hesitant Qingyun, Xu Zaijing rubbed his hands and asked in confusion: "Qingyun, why do you always meet her at this time?"

Qingyun shook his head: "It doesn't look like she met me. She must be waiting there! Maybe it's natural for her to go to Yichun Lane at this time, or maybe she wants to see Su Jie'er and the others."

Xu Zaijing nodded: "Yeah! What happened to her mother?"

"She said that after the new year, the three princes, Prince Yong, Prince Jing, and Prince Tan, will come to Beijing to attend the prince's wedding. We must be extra careful then." Qingyun said and glanced at Xu Zaijing.

Xu Zaijing hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Qingyun, do you know who put the note in my purse last time?"

Qingyun nodded: "Sir, I have thought about it, it might be this person."

Xu Zaijing said: "Yes. This person is warning our mother and the people behind us, and it is never without purpose."

"However, I was a little too ostentatious to my mother this time. I actually spoke to you in public."

Listening to his son's question, Qingyun scratched his head and looked at Xu Zaijing and said, "There is a reason to ask mother. Now Madam Qin is pregnant. She said that the gift she gave to me is also for you, and it can also bless you to give birth to a boy."

"Ah?" Xu Zaijing looked surprised and turned to look at his master's wooden house: "This..."

Qingyun nodded helplessly and took out a heavy purse from his sleeve.

Watching Qingyun open his purse, Xu Zaijing glanced inside and said, "Wow, this is a lot of gold! Keep it for yourself, and don't tell Master about it."

Qingyun took back his purse and nodded in agreement.

"Then, sir, what should we do when the three kings come to Beijing next year?" Qingyun asked.

Xu Zaijing took a deep breath and said with a smile, "It's OK. I won't offend others unless they offend me."

Qingyun nodded heavily, not knowing what he was thinking of, and said, "Sir, Feixing came to see Qingcao two days ago. When I was talking to him and listening to how he made jewelry, I got some inspiration."

"Hmm? Tell me."

"After this warning, I decided to make a folding shield, connected by a mechanism in the middle, with iron sheets on the outside, wooden boards in the middle, and compacted cotton nailed on the inside."

Seeing Xu Zaijing's puzzled look, Qingyun didn't ask, but said directly: "It is usually hanging under the mud, and you can't see it unless you look carefully."

After listening to this, Xu Zaijing looked at the saddle next to the stable and nodded, saying, "Let's see what happens. We can find grass for the money. It's always better for us to be more prepared."

"Yes, son."

in the afternoon,

Jiying Lane,
Sheng family,

From the chimney on the roof came out the smoke of burning coal.

Shouantang,
The house is warm.

The old lady sat on the chair holding a hand warmer, and together with Wang Ruofu beside her, she looked at Rulan who was talking.

"When I heard it was more than ninety taels! Isn't this a rip-off! Without saying a word, I took Sister Pinlan to the side and bought something else!"

After Rulan finished speaking, she looked at the surprised Minglan and continued, "Sixth sister, more than ninety taels, isn't that expensive?"

Minglan nodded repeatedly.

Wang Ruofu frowned and said, "What material is it made of? Did you ask and you said it's expensive?"

Rulan describes it in a few words.

Wang Ruofu nodded after hearing this and said, "You remember it clearly! Your uncle has several brushes made of this material. I heard from your aunt that he treasures them like a treasure. I guess they are not a rip-off."

"Oh," Rulan pursed her lips and nodded.

At this time,

Mother Cui lifted the cotton curtain and walked in.

He bowed to everyone in the room and said, "Madam, a letter was delivered through the front door."

Wang Ruofu saw this and stood up and said, "Mother, it's almost time. I will go back first."

The old lady smiled and nodded: "Ruan, go and see him off."

"Yes, old lady."

Mother Cui responded and handed the envelope to Mother Fang.

The old lady glanced at Minglan again, and Minglan smiled and said, "Grandma, I'll go embroider."

"Ah."

As she spoke, the old lady took the envelope and examined it.

Just by looking at the handwriting, a smile appeared on the old lady's face.

Looking up at Fang Mama, the old lady said, "Suqin, this is a letter from Xiao Kong."

Mother Fang smiled and said, "Old lady, that's what you should call Grandma Kong."

The old lady smiled as she opened the envelope and said proudly, "No matter how she changes, she is still that little sister in my heart."

"That's what you said!" said Fang's mother.

Unfolding the letter, the old lady took a deep breath and began to read it with her eyes narrowed.

After just a few glances, the old lady began to laugh in a reproachful manner, shaking her head as she laughed.

"This small hole is really..."

"Grandma, what's wrong?" asked Mrs. Fang.

The old lady smiled and said, "Xiao Kong said that her work in Xijing is about to end, and asked me to find a job for her in Beijing! Where should I find it for her? Does she need me to find it?"

Madam Fang smiled and said, "You don't need to look for her. Just spread the news that Madam Kong has returned to Beijing. Madam Kong will definitely be very busy."

The old lady smiled and nodded, pointing at the letter and continued, "And here, they are actually asking about Jing'er's child on behalf of the wealthy families in Xijing."

"Oh!" Mother Fang was a little surprised and said, "Has our Xu family's brother's reputation spread to Xijing?"

The old lady nodded with a little pride and said, "Looking at the families mentioned in the letter, their wealth and family background are quite impressive."

After saying that, the old lady shook her head again and said, "Forget it, I'd better not cause trouble to my niece-in-law."

Hearing this, Fang's mother also laughed.

(End of this chapter)