It took Xu's mother and Mrs. Xu a whole night to digest their own. Jinyu/Dalang only used a bamboo basket in exchange for the silver ingots they had worked hard to save for three years.
For a moment, I felt proud and apathetic at the same time.
If Da Lang had grown up in the Hou Mansion from the beginning, why would he have had to worry about this piece of silver?
The next day, Xu Jinyu also got up early. After practicing calligraphy all morning, Xu Jinyu sat next to Xu's mother and asked for advice:
"Mom, can you also draw some patterns for me? That girl has an old man in her family celebrating her birthday. Which pattern do you think is suitable?"
"Celebrating your birthday, the pine and crane are everlasting, the peaches of happiness and longevity..."
Xu’s mother gave a long list, and Xu Jinyu selected a few. After asking her mother to draw them, she took bamboo silk and began to study how to make these auspicious patterns with bamboo silk.
Xu Jinyu is quite skilled at doing this. Although he has a photographic memory regardless of his past or present life, he is always indifferent to family ties.
In this world, his parents have been divorced since he was a child, and no one is willing to accept him as a hot potato. They can only share a meal with one relative today and sleep with another relative tomorrow.
This hand-knitting technique was also taught to Xu Jinyu by Xu Jinyu after she collected bottles for a month from an old lady who picked up rags.
Later, Xu Jinyu made up some flowers, birds and beasts to sell, and barely managed to pay for her tuition and living expenses.
From then on, I relied on scholarships and school subsidies to live on.
Xu Jinyu did not expect that this skill would solve his urgent need again.
This may be the benefit of photographic memory. It does not forget sufferings and skills.
After three days, Xu Jinyu had a new idea. Since he couldn't make it up directly, he would try to assemble it.
He asked Zhao Qingyang to split the bamboo silk into thinner pieces. The toughness of the bamboo silk and its bending would ensure that it would not break easily.
Several strands of thicker bamboo silk are combined into one to make the main trunk of the pine tree. The remaining slender bamboo silk is bent and hooked into the shape of pine needles, and then pressed with a heavy object to shape. Take a bamboo silk and combine the two into one. This pine tree The crane and the pine tree are now in place.
Xu Mu's flower shape is well painted, the pine trees are tall and unyielding, and Xu Jinyu's original model is restored, which is very interesting.
The pine tree is ready, and the white crane is naturally formed by stacking it according to the method of the pine tree. It not only has the shape and spirit, but also has a three-dimensional sense.
Xu Jinyu then carefully put the two together, connecting the upper and lower parts with cloud patterns. It was a serious picture of pine and crane longevity.
And this is just one side of what Xu Jinyu wanted to do. On the other side, Xu Jinyu made the Fushou Xiandao. The two sides were put together to form the shape of a sachet.
As soon as Xu Jinyu finished it, Zhao Qingyang's eyes widened:
"Brother Yu, my old man should also like this bamboo sachet. Look, I've been out here for so long. It seems unreasonable if I don't bring something back with me! In this way, I will give you a tattoo of a hundred taels of silver, and you can give it to me. Give it to me!”
Xu Jinyu shook her head and refused:
"Brother Qingyang, this is inappropriate! This is the birthday gift that the girl prepared for her father. If she hadn't presented the gift yet, the bamboo sachets would have been all over the streets. Where would they put that girl?
Moreover, when the girl came to my door, I didn’t increase the price, but Brother Qingyang wanted to double the purchase. Isn’t this a slap in the face? "
After hearing this, Zhao Qingyang felt that his words were indeed inappropriate:
"Then, Brother Yu, will you make another one for me later? However, it'd better be different from this one, otherwise my old man will have to fight with Duke Jing."
When Zhao Qingyang thought of that scene, he couldn't help but shudder.
"Of course, but it is to celebrate the Duke's birthday, and this pattern is a congratulation. If Brother Qingyang wants to give it to your grandfather, you can also think of a suitable pattern first."
Xu Jinyu said with a smile, and he looked a little relaxed after solving the matter in front of him. Counting this sachet, Shu Xiu had solved more than half of it.
After hearing this, Zhao Qingyang also fell into deep thought:
"Then I have to think about it."
While Xu Jinyu was doing this, Mrs. Xu and Mother Xu next door were also calculating the remaining silver in the family.
Mother Xu put the last copper plate in her purse into the clay pot and murmured:
"One hundred and seventeen, one hundred and eighteen... Counting the ten taels of silver we saved earlier, we now have ten taels and eighteen cents in our hands."
After Xu's mother finished speaking, she paused and took out another clay pot:
"Here are 10 taels of silver given by Dalang's friends for lodging, 5 taels for buying bamboo sachets, and 10 taels for selling bamboo baskets, a total of twenty-five taels. Mother, I mean, these are all for Dalang's safekeeping Bar."
"Of course, the children earn their own money. In the past two days, we have also stepped up to embroider the pattern of hundreds of butterflies wearing flowers that the embroidery workshop asked for. The embroidery workshop was in a hurry and the money given was generous.
It's also Yunyun that you painted vividly. When it is completed this time, you will have another twenty taels of silver. In this way, not only Jin Yu's cultivation is in place, but there is still some money left to buy some clothes for Jin Yu. "
Mrs. Xu only found out later that the training at Dongchen Academy was extremely valuable, requiring fifty taels of silver to be tattooed in the first year alone!
Not to mention that she was very anxious and angry these days, but she was the backbone of the family and she didn't dare to show any timidity.
After Xu Jinyu's bamboo basket and sachet were sold for money, Mrs. Xu breathed a sigh of relief.
"Ah, mother, I haven't thought of it yet. By the way, when Dalang enters school, it's time for him to have clothes to wear. Alas, it's useless for me. Dalang was born so well, but he hasn't worn a new one. clothes!"
When Mrs. Xu heard this, she was silent for a moment and said:
"Go to work. This time, make clothes for Jin Yu and everyone in our family."
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In addition to drying in the shade to remove the green color, the finished bamboo sachet also needs to be colored. Zhao Qingyang kindly sponsored an affordable paint shop, allowing Xu Jinyu to finally color the bamboo sachet before the ten-day deadline.
Because it was summer, Xu Jinyu set out in the morning when the sky was still foggy.
When he arrived at the gate of Duke Jingguo's mansion, he didn't encounter any difficult questioning. The girl should have explained it in advance.
And the concierge was not arrogant. When the sun came out, he asked Xu Jinyu to wait in the shade for a while.
Not long after, Banxia ran out from the small door and was a little dissatisfied when she saw Xu Jinyu:
"It's the tenth day, but it's really the tenth day! In two hours, it will be the time for us to visit that day. Why didn't you come earlier?"
Xu Jinyu hurriedly confessed and presented the bamboo sachet:
"This time there was a paint store that had no stock, so I had to wait for two more days, which made the girl anxious."
As soon as Banxia saw the bamboo sachet in Xu Jinyu's hand, her eyes lit up:
"What a pine crane longevity bamboo sachet! Oh, it's double-sided, so wonderful! The prince will definitely like it! That's all, seeing how exquisite your sachet is, I won't argue with you!
By the way, my wife said that it has been hot recently. Last time I noticed that you were not in good health. Please go in and have a bowl of summer-relieving soup before leaving. It just so happens that I'll show it to the lady first, maybe there will be a reward for it! "
After Banxia finished speaking, without waiting for Xu Jinyu's reaction, she called a boy to lead Xu Jinyu inside to drink the summer-relieving soup, and then walked briskly to show her girl first.
Xu Jinyu had no time to stop him, and happened to have a dry mouth, so he had to thank the young man with his hands and go in as he was told.
Upon entering the Duke's Mansion, in addition to the old solemnity inside, the red silk everywhere added a bit of joy.
It seems that Duke Jing's birthday is in these two days, so don't blame the little maid for being anxious.
At the same time, in the Marquis of Lin'an Mansion, Chu Lingjue asked someone to put on a new set of clothes. Her long hair was half tied behind her back with a hairband, and a folding fan was pinned between the jade belts.
Without him, Chu Ling definitely had no arty hands at this moment. He was concentrating on admiring the bamboo ornaments in his hands. The boy beside him flattered:
"This is the new work of Bu Qiurang, who has become famous recently. I heard that there was something wrong with the gift that Sanniang bought earlier. Tomorrow is the Duke's birthday. This thing of yours will definitely make Sanniang happy!"
Chu Lingjue glanced at the shadow of the reed bamboo in his hand and said softly:
"Using bamboo to make bamboo is indeed novel. However, it is novel but not profound. That is, Mr. Bixu has sealed the sword, so that these two can come out! Bixu, Buqiu... ha!" "
Chu Lingjue sneered, Mr. Bixu was already in front of him, no matter how many bamboo swordsmen there were, it would be in vain.
In particular, these two names with the same meaning reminded Chu Lingjue of some unhappy things.
If Duke Jingguo's love for bamboo hadn't spread throughout the world, he wouldn't have bought such a gift.
Afterwards, Chu Lingjue suppressed her thoughts before asking someone to prepare a car and go to Duke Jingguo's Mansion to deliver gifts.
On the carriage, Chu Lingjue tapped her hands on her knees a few times, her expression showing a rare hint of laziness.
Now, the people he sent have successfully returned and Xu Jinyu must be far away from the capital, and he can rest easy in the future.
"Your Majesty, Duke Jingguo's mansion has arrived."
Chu Lingjue slowly opened the car curtain, got out of the carriage, checked the gifts that had been prepared, and walked forward with her head held high.
At this moment, a young man was slowly walking out of the gate of Duke Jingguo's mansion.
The young man in gorgeous clothes and the young man in rough clothes met their eyes for a moment.
