Wuwang reminds book friends to rest their eyes
Afternoon silence, cicadas chirping
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The maids worked hard all morning, and Shu Huan sent them to take a lunch break. She didn't have the habit of taking a nap. She closed her eyes only when she was extremely tired. Otherwise, she always felt groggy when she woke up during the day uncomfortable.
Being idle alone, not knowing what to do, remembering Xu's words, she slipped into the study.
She originally thought that since she doesn't know how to embroider, then it should be okay to draw a picture and give it to Gu Xiran as a birthday gift. After all, although he is a bit narrow-minded, he often takes pleasure in making her angry, but after staying in Gu's house for the past few days, he has really taken care of him, otherwise she would never be able to live as carefree as she is now, and she doesn't know what will happen to her. How many sins!
However, when she really started to paint, she felt troubled again.
She has painted watercolors before, but it is different from painting classical ink paintings with a brush. Even if she can paint them, I am afraid she will not be able to see them. So let's outline the fine brushwork, it seems to take too much time, and it may not be possible to make it out in a hurry. Besides, the ancient pens, inks, papers and inkstones are very valuable. As a poor girl, she can recognize two characters and make up a lie to cover it up. If she can draw, it would be weird! Gu Xiran understands the original owner's affairs so clearly, and she is so perceptive, if she fails, her old background will be revealed!
Sighing, Shu Huan grabbed a pen from the sapphire openwork pen container, and while lying on the table thinking about something, he twirled the pen around.
Suddenly a slender hand came over from the side and put a bowl of tea in front of her.
Shu Huan raised his eyes and saw that it was Aunt Yun, he couldn't help but smiled slightly and said, "Did you not go to sleep?"
Aunt Yun shook her head and said: "The maids are all resting, there must be someone guarding them, in case Second Master gets up and asks for tea or water."
Really virtuous, the second master is always on my mind!
Ask yourself, Shu Huan can't do what she does, even if he pretends.
For Aunt Yun, she has always had a strange feeling, she can't say that she hates it, but she definitely can't get close to each other. The two often talk, and they both guard each other's identities. They are polite and alienated, unlike the maids who get along casually.
Therefore, she didn't have anything to say after asking, and felt that the two of them faced each other silently, which was really embarrassing.
Fortunately, Aunt Yun stood up for a while, then found a small piece of hard yellow and speckled thing from her purse, took a small knife with a silver handle, cut off a small piece, and threw it into the gilt lotus on the table. In the patterned silver smoker, burn
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After a while, there was a sweet and cool breath overflowing the room, which lasted for a long time.
The fragrance smelled very pleasant. After taking a few deep breaths, Shu Huan felt his mind cleared, and asked curiously, "What kind of fragrance is this?"
Aunt Yun smiled slightly, and handed over the things in her hand: "This is Huang Chen."
Shu Huan looked down at the thing, his tentacles were hard and slightly heavy, like a small piece of wood covered with spots, and he sniffed it close to his nose. Intense fragrance.
"Huang Chen..." She silently read it twice, then hesitated: "Is it Chen Xiang?"
Aunt Yun nodded, pointed at the spot on the yellow ash and said: "This is also called partridge spot, which is a kind of agarwood. I begged it from the old lady. I thought that when the second master felt unwell, I burned it." Take a piece, it can refresh your spirit. However, this Huang Chen is not top grade, the fragrance dissipates quickly and cannot last long."
She sighed slightly as she spoke, feeling in her heart that the high-grade agarwood was so expensive and hard to come by, even if the Gu family was in the fragrance business, they seldom used it, anyway, they couldn't come to this house.
Shu Huan didn't know anything about incense, so he was lucky enough to be right. It was just that the name of Chenxiang and sandalwood was too famous. When he heard the word Shen, he guessed it randomly. Hearing what she said, he became even more curious: "Chenxiang is also How many kinds?"
Aunt Yun took the piece of Huang Chen and put it in her purse, and said with a smile: "Yes, there are hundreds of categories. The ones that are firm, black and sinking in water are also called water sinking, and the ones that are flat on the water surface are chicken bone incense, and yellow ripe ones." Incense, incense, green cinnamon, horseshoe, chicken tongue... "
Shu Huan's head got dizzy, and he couldn't remember it at all.
Aunt Yun probably knew that she couldn't remember, so she turned around suddenly, rummaged through the bookshelves, found two books, and put them in front of her: "The Gu family has the most books on talking about incense, and the second master has a lot of books here, the second grandma If you want to know these things, you should read these two simple books first."
"Okay." It's boring to be idle, and it's not a bad thing to learn more. Shu Huan agreed casually, and felt a little bad after answering, but seeing that Aunt Yun didn't show any strangeness on her face, she probably knew it from the maid. She knew how to read, so she couldn't help laughing at herself, and asked again: "Is Yan Niang literate?"
Aunt Yun lowered her eyes and said: "I learned a little when I was young, it's just rough knowledge.
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This is self-effacing words, Shu Huan will not take it seriously, maybe she is still a talented woman like Xie Daoyun and Su Ruolan! But she couldn't understand more and more why a woman like Aunt Yun, who is both talented, beautiful and well-behaved, would be reduced to the point of being a concubine.
She wanted to ask, but after all, she didn't know Aunt Yun well enough to ask, and being a concubine was not a special honor, so if she asked if it touched someone's secret pain, she didn't say anything else.
After Aunt Yun withdrew, she casually flipped through the two books, only to find that they were all handwritten, with beautiful handwriting, which made her secretly guess that it was probably written by Aunt Yun.
After carefully flipping through a few pages, she saw that the identification and classification of agarwood were written very clearly, she suddenly thought, since she can't draw, how about using aloes to carve something small and give it to Gu Xiran
Of course, she is not proficient in engraving, but she was fascinated by engraving seals some time ago. She has studied those Qingtian stones, Shoushan stones and Changhua stones thoroughly, and carved a lot of seals, but only made of wood. Eagle, never tried it.
Thinking about it, she felt a little itchy. Firstly, she really couldn't think of what to give Gu Xiran, and secondly, she was bored, and she wanted to use it to relieve boredom. Anyway, no matter how good the carving was, it was always a thought. But, where to find this agarwood
The piece in Aunt Yun's hand was not top grade, and it was too small to fit. Ask the old lady to ask for it, it is simply looking for abuse. If she buys it outside, she has no money...
After thinking about it, it seems that there is only one person to solve this problem, and I don't know if he is willing to help.
Counting the days, the day after tomorrow is Gu Xiran's birthday, it seems that there is not much time to waste, no matter if it works or not, let's try it first.
Shu Huan closed the book, then tiptoed out and saw Aunt Yun sitting in the living room with her cheeks closed and eyes closed, she didn't disturb her, she went straight out of the living room door, went to the room where Liangchen and Meijing lived, and called out a whispered order Said: "Excuse me, go to Fourth Master's to have a look, if he has free time, please invite him over, but be more careful when inviting, it's best not to let the wife know."
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