The wheels of the carriage were moving forward on the slightly rugged road, while Yuzhu leaned on the carriage and closed her eyes to rest. This day in the General's Mansion, it was a feeling of enduring a year in the world.

Putting aside the sudden rise of the second young master of the Yao family, just what he heard from Mr. Tao is enough to stir up storm in her heart.

The bumps of the carriage were just like when she was a child when she went to Yushi Town with her adoptive father, she was shaking in the carriage. Many memories that she was eager to forget in childhood gradually came to her heart bit by bit...

She slowly stretched out the tart cloth bag she held in her hand, gently opened the first page, and saw a line of small words written on it: "The most important thing is to carve jade and carve stones, and only by heart can we become the soul of a craftsman."

She gently stroked the line of words written by her father with her hands, and felt a ball of dormant in her heart that had been dormant for a long time suddenly rushing to her chest. She forgot how to vent it, and could only feel the slight twitching of her chest...

It was almost afternoon at this time. Jue'er looked at the Sixth Girl leaning against the carriage with her head half-down. It seemed that she saw the corners of Miss Six's eyes flashing when the wind blew the curtain.

But was crying? But when I wanted to make sure, the sixth girl had turned her face and drooped slightly, as if she had fallen asleep exhausted again.

Is it too painful because of a wrist injury? Jue'er suspected that this was true, but she couldn't bear to disturb Miss Six's rest, so she could endure it secretly. However, she still scolded the young master Yao Er who summoned Miss Six into the mansion and injured her in her heart.

Fortunately, after turning back to the county town, there was no trouble. Yuzhu secretly breathed a sigh of relief and thought to herself. After all, the second young master Yao was different from those rural spoiled people. Although she was a lowly woman, she was not willing to be too disgraceful in her children's relationship. So it should be a matter of trouble?

Because of the wrist injury, it is not easy to pick up the carving knife to carve it. The jade bead has free time to enjoy my father's last works.

Mr. Tao once asserted that she was far from the efforts of her father Yuan Zhongyue. Although she was convinced, she always felt that as long as she had a holiday, she could finally achieve her father's skill.

But now after reading half of the broken manuscript of his father, Yuzhu could only smile bitterly as a frog in the well. If her father was alive, she would be afraid that there would be no more jade craftsman in the world who could match her father!

No matter how good a craftsman is, he gives the sculptures a little bit similar. However, her father is determined to give his sculptures a unique soul, and his unique method of handling jade carvings is often incredible, much different from the popular techniques in the world. No wonder he can leave behind many top jade carvings that are difficult for future generations to imitate.

If Dad is still there... can she learn these skills that are full of his hard work with Dad herself?

After closing the scroll for a while, Yuzhu smiled bitterly. Even if her wrist was not injured, she would not dare to raise her knife to carve it. According to her father's patriarchal law, she should start learning from the most basic stone-breaking material again!

If the method of opening the stone is wrong, you will often end up with regrets.

Take the big stone that was unexpectedly presented to the empress dowager this time. Although she was not at the site of the stone opening, she accidentally heard the words of her elder brother Xiao Shan later. It was also a mistake when the stone was opened. However, the amount of jade had been reported to the court. The meaning of the internal supervision in the capital was rare. The amount of jade should not be reduced too much. Therefore, the jade craftsman boldly left the flaws of the phoenix feet and came up with an inefficient method of covering up such as gold-inlaid jade...

On this day, Yuzhu leaned on the warm kang in her room and looked at the patterns on the broken scrolls, while Jue'er and his mother Zhao Ma were stewing chicken soup on the earthen stove in the courtyard.

Zhao's mother felt sorry for the injury of the Sixth Girl, so she specially grabbed a local short-legged fat chicken. After boiling water, she added red dates and large ginseng, and then put them in a casserole to simmer over the heat. At this time, the heat had arrived and the meat was cooked and the skin was rotten. She lifted the whole casserole on the pampas pot on the kang table, so that the sixth Girl could drink hot ginseng chicken soup without going to the ground.

Seeing Jue'er coming to feed her with the spoon again, the sixth girl smiled and said, "I'm just injured with one hand, and I can eat with my left hand. Are you treating me as a child?"

Jue'er carefully blew the chicken soup and said, "Yes, our sixth girl's left hand is the same as her right hand!"

Although he said this, he still had to stubbornly feed the sixth girl.

Just in this situation, there were sounds of carriages and horses outside the house, and only a clear voice of a woman was heard shouting: "It smells so good! What are you stewing?"

Yuzhu raised the window and looked out, and saw an old servant outside opening the door, and a woman looked inside.

If it weren't for the fifth girl Xiao Zhen'er, who would it be?

Yuzhu had thought that the Xiao family would come over, but she had never thought about hiding her name and avoiding the Xiao family, but she was not willing to return to the Xiao family compound.

She also thought that her grandmother would send someone to take a walk, but she never expected that she would let her fifth sister take the lead.

Xiao Zhen'er was really hungry all the way. When she saw Yuzhu showing her face by the window, she smiled and waved her hands hard. Without waiting for Zhao's mother to lead the way, she ran into the house in a few steps, took off her cloak and shoes, and went to the kang together, looking straight at the casserole and said, "Sister, what is stewed in this pot, why is it so fragrant?"

Jue'er, who was standing beside her, couldn't help rolling her eyes. Even if she couldn't say some heartwarming words, she wouldn't always circle around the pot as soon as she entered the door, right?

The sixth girl smiled and asked Jue'er to serve a bowl for the fifth girl. Xiao Zhen'er took a few big sips, but she felt a warmth in her stomach. Then she took her eyes away and saw the sixth girl holding a bamboo board wrist and whispered: "What's wrong? I've been separated for a few days, why are you injured?"

Yuzhu didn't think much, she just said that she was injured accidentally, so she had to ask, "Fifth Sister, how did you find this place?"

Xiao Zhen'er sighed and said, "You don't think you are so bold, but you just leave the mansion without saying a word. Anyway, the sky at home collapses and it's nothing to do with you!"

It turned out that Yuzhu left the mansion, and the eldest young master Xiao Shan was naturally furious. He directly believed that it was his ancestor and mother who said something behind him, and forced Yuzhu to leave the mansion. He immediately wanted to search.

But in the end, it was finally stopped by a big thing.

It turned out that although as General Wen said, the court exempted the Xiao family from the crime, the Prime Minister Fan Qingyun, who was in charge of the tribute in the palace, spoke out. Although he was exempted from the Xiao family's death penalty, the supply of the jade carvings had to be converted into the buyer and was no longer monopolized by the Xiao family.

This sentence cut off Xiao’s life. At that moment, Xiaoshan hurriedly prepared a generous gift and prepared to go to the capital to make some arrangements to see if there was still a chance to mediate for Lord Fan.

When Yuzhu heard this, she slowly raised her head and asked in a low voice: "Brother, is it Fan Qingyun, the jade carving genius of the world?"

Xiao Zhen'er curled her lips and said, "I am just a person who seeks fame and reputation. I have already gone to the official career early in the morning. How can I still be a jade craftsman?"

Yuzhu pursed her lips and asked again: "Fifth Sister, how did you find this place?"

Xiao Zhen'er was born without scheming, so she just said it directly. It turned out that the facts proved that the ancestors' words were still a bit far-sighted. General Wen, who was busy every day, not only came, but also came quickly. Regardless of the twenty days of separation in Banpingshan, the general's carriage and horses had already stopped at the gate of the Xiao family. Because it came suddenly, Xiaoshan was not in the mansion, and his wife Wang instructed the servants to be busy, hoping that General Wen could work on his behalf to help the Xiao family regain the livelihood of the royal royal tribute.

But the general came and went in a hurry. After asking about the sixth girl leaving the house and establishing her own door, she implicitly expressed her concerns about the woman leaving home and said goodbye.

The fifth girl was very displeased with this and kept asking Yuzhu why General Wen kept asking about her news?

Yuzhu smiled without answering, changed the topic lightly, and only asked Miss Five who meant this.

Xiao Zhen'er returned honestly. This time she came here, the ancestors spoke in person, only saying that she would see what the Sixth Girl was missing, but she didn't say anything else.

Yuzhu sighed slightly and asked again: "...Where is that second young master of the Yao family?"

Xiao Zhen'er didn't expect Yuzhu to suddenly ask him, and said indifferently: "If that living ancestor did not return to the capital, how could General Wen have a loophole to visit our Xiao Mansion? It is said that this distinguished guest was originally planning to spend a month or two in the northwest, but after somehow, he changed his mind. Maybe he felt that the northwest was wild and there was nothing to play with, so he went back to the mansion and returned to Beijing."

"Sister, in a few days, General Wen will also come to Beijing to report his duties and visit relatives and friends. However, if he goes there, noble girls from the capital gather. What should he do if he picks up the best among them and prepares to renew his marriage? In another month, it will be the birthday of General Wen's eldest sister Mrs. Ruiguo. When we were visiting Mrs. Ruiguo's mansion, General Wen sincerely invited me to come with you to Beijing with you. But the ancestor said, if you don't go, you won't let me go alone. Good sister, please help me once!"

Yuzhu blinked gently and said slowly: "Madam Ruiguo? Isn't it that Madam Ruiguo who married the Minister of Rites in Beijing? Isn't her mansion in the capital? Isn't it in the capital? You and I have to go to the capital? Isn't this too much?"

The fifth girl said disapprovingly: "Our Xiao family has many shops in the capital and also has a house. You and I are so old that we should go to see the world. My second sister is a concubine in the palace. Even if my parents are not around, there will be someone to take care of her. Besides, my grandmother asked her father and mother to take us with her. She said that even if I don't have the compassion of General Wen, there are more children in the capital than in this remote village. Why not take this opportunity to choose a good husband for you and me?"

Yuzhu smiled slightly, pondered for a while and said, "Fifth Sister, you are right. It's time to go to the capital to see the world."
Chapter completed!