The splendid years of a talented lady

Chapter 133 Crazy Price (2)
In the end, before he could open his mouth to remind the people in the house not to go out, a female guest arrived, and a frightened young man rushed in screaming loudly...

"I really didn't do it..." The scholar lady outside the door looked innocent at the scholar who was holding four engravings.

"It's my fault!" Mr. Xiucai hurriedly apologized, then turned his head and shouted behind him: "Don't come out if you don't have clothes on!"

"Yes!" The voices came from several rooms at the same time, followed by a man's laughter...

Most of the people who work in the school are young juniors, and it is common to talk and joke with each other. It is not a good thing for a scholar to hear too much, but Su Xiazhi is a woman after all, so it is not good for her to hear it.

"Sit in the front." Mr. Xiucai stepped into the front room of the Dianzangshutang.

Su Xiazhi who listened with gusto had no choice but to follow back regretfully.

"Look!" The four engraving plates were lined up on the table, and the teapot placed on top was in the way, and Mr. Xiucai was holding it in his hand: "Come and see, my friend, such carving skills, such Board, it’s really rare to see!”

Su Xiazhi probed over and saw that four wooden boards of the same size were carved with different patterns and writings. The patterns and writings on the engraving blocks used for printing were all reversed, so it took her a lot of effort to identify the writings.

There are already colors in the patterns on the engraving block, and it is obvious that they have been printed with ink.

"How is it?" The scholar waited for her to express her praise for these boards as if she was offering a treasure.

"I don't understand." Su Xiazhi told the truth, in front of an expert like Mr. Xiucai, she couldn't talk nonsense, otherwise she would be cowardly if she couldn't boast, and it would only add to the laughing stock of others.

Mr. Xiucai raised his head and opened his mouth halfway, but he didn't know what to say for a moment: "You... you are really telling the truth!"

"Hey!" Su Xiazhi also raised her head and said to Mr. Xiucai, "I really don't understand this, I can't even imagine what the patterns printed on it look like."

"Hehe!" Miss An was sent away, and Hall Master Xiao Deng returned to the study hall only after the other party's carriage was gone. When he entered the door, he heard the conversation between his father and Mrs. Xiucai. He smiled and took the gift from Master Xiucai. The teapot said: "My brother and sister are straightforward, very interesting!"

"Yeah." Mr. Xiucai leaned on the desk to admire a few engravings, and said without raising his head: "Little friend is a temperamental person, much more lively than the An family girl. Min Lansheng has good eyesight!"

"Father, it's so good that Miss An is involved again." In all fairness, Hall Master Xiao Deng has to admit that Su Xiazhi is a talented woman, and her poems are much freer and freer than quiet poems, but the radishes and vegetables are different. There is love, just now when the two women were standing together, he secretly looked at them, in terms of beauty, Miss An is even better!
It is said that a man with a talent and a woman with a good looks are a match made in heaven, and it has always been that men need talents and women need looks.He still thinks that marrying a wife who can marry a young lady in Anfu is the best marriage.

"Is there a printed one?" Su Xiazhi didn't want to talk too much about being quiet, now that there were a lot of things going on at home and outside, she didn't have time to waste on these unnecessary things.

"Yes, I'll get it." Hallmaster Xiao Deng went to the back with the teapot, and came back with a few pieces of red paper after a while: "[-] copies have been printed, brothers and sisters have a look."

The bright red one-foot-square paper is printed with vermilion patterns that are almost black. The lifelike flowers of various colors are festive and peaceful on the paper. Coupled with the four auspicious words, the goods have already made people happy without seeing the goods!

"Beautiful!" Su Xiazhi slapped the table and praised sincerely: "This effect is much better than I thought. I really don't understand the carving skills. Just looking at the finished product, it can be regarded as the word 'ingenious workmanship'!"

"Ingenious workmanship..." Mr. Xiucai raised his head from the engraving and looked at her, carefully savoring the four words she said in his mind, and finally said after a long time: "A girl from the An family will never say such a thing, so I will give it to you." Even that Min Lansheng can't say such words!"

Ping County is not big, and there are not many women who can read and write. There are only a few young ladies like Jing Jing who come from everyone.Now that Su Xia Zhi came out of nowhere, it's no wonder that someone as free and easy as Xiucai would unconsciously compare the two of her.

"Okay, okay, okay!" He said three good words in a row, which shows how excited he was.

It is an excitement that comes only when one is deeply recognized, and it is naturally difficult for others to understand.

The idiom "ingenious workmanship" has never appeared in this time and space, so Mr. Xiucai was both novel and excited when he heard it, thinking that it was Su Xiazhi's high praise for the printed products made by his library, which made him feel like a bosom friend.

And Min Lansheng was from Daliang, so he really couldn't speak words that his dynasty didn't have.

"No wonder Lan Sheng wants to tell the outside world that little friend is a fool." Xiucai Gong suddenly realized: "He must be hiding his secrets, and he doesn't want outsiders to see you! You really are a black-hearted scholar!"

In the blink of an eye, Su Xiazhi's ancestral stupidity became a scholar's slander, she pursed her lips and smiled happily: "Black-hearted scholar? Yes!"

After leaving Dianzangshutang, Su Xiazhi carried a small but heavy burden.

There were [-] copies of each of the four engravings, a total of [-] finished copies. She couldn't handle it at all, so she had to pay the silver first and took a hundred copies.I'll pick up the rest later.

Thinking that there were not many ink sticks left for Xiucai's family, Su Xiazhi bought them along the way, and after leaving the shop selling the Four Treasures of the Study, he walked across the street from An Yi who had climbed up the stairs!
"Young master!" Shoucheng stopped An Yi with his head bowed silently, looking up at the talented lady standing on the steps, his heart tightened, and he quickly shook the master beside him a few times.

"Ah? Why didn't you leave?" An Yi said in a light voice, as if he had no confidence.

Then he raised his head with great effort, and saw Su Xiazhi standing at the door of the shop.

After staring at her face for a long time, he suddenly laughed. Every time he met this woman, he felt a little strange, like meeting him for the first time.Then there was a continuous cough, which made Su Xiazhi think that he could spit out his lungs with just opening his mouth!
The young servant held his arm with one hand, and put his other hand on his back, stroking him gently and persuading him: "My lord, let's go back after we buy something, the sun is too poisonous outside."

(End of this chapter)