6. Chapter 6
It was said that it was the second day to set off, but Miss Liu did not go to bed early, but quietly went to the jade workshop in the backyard of Xiao Mansion.
This workshop was left behind when he was the old master of the Xiao family. The old man of the Xiao family loved jade and was also a master of jade carving. Therefore, even when his family business was successful, he never let his skills be wasted. This small workshop was the place where he was in the business of the store to relieve his boredom.
Yuzhu just entered Xiao Mansion when she was young. Because she was too young, she always felt a little aware of her life when she entered Xiao Mansion. She liked to be close to Mr. Xiao if she had anything to do. Mr. Xiao was usually a serious and meticulous person. She could only treat Yuzhu like spring breeze, and only picked up her small body and placed it on a soft cushion next to the desk, so that she could see her carving jade.
But now, the old man has passed away for six years, and no one in the mansion loves carvings. This little jade workshop has been covered with dust for a long time. If the ancestors had not been to leave a memory, they would have been used here long ago.
At dinner today, Yuzhu's obedience made Mrs. Xiao smile again. With the approval of her ancestors, she was able to enter this workshop again after getting the key from the manager.
After coming in, Yuzhu personally lit the candlelight in front of the table and looked around. Because no one had come in for a long time, the desk was covered with dust.
Her slender fingers gently wiped a smear of dust, revealing the luster that ebony should have. She took a sip of the drowsy air dissipated in the house, and found that she was like she was six years old. Only in this room could she find that difficult freedom.
She did not let Jue'er enter the house, but gently rolled up her sleeves, cleanly cleaned up the desk, then opened the package she found in the wardrobe, and arranged it up one by one. Then she took off a piece of jade material that had been opened half a piece of open from the display cabinet next to her.
This piece of jade material was something she had tried many times but had not opened it...
I still remember when I was ten years old, Mr. Xiao finally let himself, who had been drawing patterns for two years, pick up the carving knife and learn to carve seals.
Seeing her having a good posture when she first started surgery, the cold and hard old man actually moistened his eyes, as if he was chasing her old friend on her body, but in addition to feeling, he also made an assertion: "Zhu'er, just use carving jade to enjoy it. Don't be too addicted to it. A woman has innate shortcomings and will never make a name for her carving..."
She didn't understand this at first, and felt that her grandfather could not help but underestimate the woman, but when she got into the house, she understood the reason.
Jade is a spiritual thing. Each piece of jade has its own shortcomings and flaws. A skilled jade craftsman should do it himself from the beginning of peeling off the jade material and be familiar with the texture of each vein of the coarse material. Only in this way can he have outlines in his mind and initially come up with the way to deal with the jade material, "digging out the dirty and removing the meridians", remove the flaws of the jade material, and leave the purity of the jade itself.
Those craftsmen who bought and carved jade materials and used others to draw paper and then carve them will only be craftsmen in their lives, and it is difficult to meet the essence of craftsmen.
The reason why the Xiao family can take the lead in Jade Town is not only because of carving, but also because of its unique method of handling jade materials.
However, the initial peeling of the jade material was a time-consuming and laborious rough work, and it needed to be slowly ground with a special bowstring and water. In this process, strength was the biggest test, which was also the reason why my grandfather said that a woman was born with innate shortcomings...
Thinking of her grandfather's words, Yuzhu moved her neck comfortably, turned her wrist a few times, and then took a special bowstring from the tool wooden stand next to the house. This bowstring was a labor-saving tool she had figured out when she was fourteen years old. She used a year-long monthly payment to beg the blacksmith in the town to extract the fine iron.
Unfortunately, she was forced to get married before she could use it. At that time, she was in a mess and begged her grandmother to change her mind. Before she could take away the jade carving tools left to her by her father and the utensils she had accumulated in the jade room, she was chaotic and hurriedly stuffed into the sedan chair.
And now, she finally had the opportunity to try out whether her tools were suitable.
When the bowstring is fixed, the water leak on the side begins to drip, and the slender arms of Yuzhu suddenly tense up, and they start grinding and cutting against the thin skin of the jade material...
The seemingly slender arms are full of strength, and they are not as soft as the young lady in the back home.
Of course, those who have a lot of experience with this force are not only the jade material that the six girls fiddled with on weekdays, it is the thigh that is almost penetrated by Wang Yunting, the prince of the Wang family.
This is the power of the continuous creation of hard work. With the handy tools, the stubborn stone skin was peeled off lightly like an orange peel, revealing the beautiful texture inside...
Yuzhu wiped the sweat from her forehead, let out a gentle breath, and then looked at the jade material and began to roughly carve outline the original texture.
Jue'er waited outside this room for a night. When she finally couldn't stand it and sat on the stool with her back against the door panel and slept soundly for a while, the door finally made a sound.
Jue'er rubbed her eyes and saw her lady tired, looking at her with a smile: "I'm sleeping so hard that my saliva flows out, I'm really like a child..."
Jue'er half asleep and half awake, looking at the face of the jade bead reflected in the morning light, and said blankly: "Miss Six, you... are so beautiful..."
Yuzhu got used to her maid's lustful look early in the morning, but her tiredness made her not bother to tease the girl for a few more words.
Although I didn't sleep all night, the trip to Banpingshan could not be delayed at a single point. So just as the sky was dawn, the old lady ordered people to prepare the carriage and horses that were prepared outside the mansion were ready.
The people who saw her off were also quite grand. In addition to the fifth sister and fourth brother, Mrs. Wang, who was ill due to a headache, came to see her off with an unknown sneer. The fifth girl was especially unwilling to give up and quietly pulling her mother's sleeves, hoping that her mother could temporarily change her attention and talk to her grandmother so that she could also get on the carriage that was about to set off.
In the end, Mrs. Wang stared at Xiao Zhen'er impatiently. If it weren't for the servant beside her, she would really want to pull her daughter's face and call her a fool who is short of her mind!
However, Yuzhu didn't care about all this. After getting on the carriage, she could no longer resist her fatigue. She leaned against the carriage and gently covered her face with a fragrant handkerchief. She fell asleep with the advice of her fellow mother Liu.
After a few words, Liu's mother said, but Yuzhu didn't answer. After a while, listening to her long pulse, she realized that Miss Six had already slept soundly.
Liu Ma couldn't help but shut up in surprise. For some reason, she always felt that the sixth girl who was retired this time had changed. The docile and smiling little girl in the past has become less understandable for some reason.
I slept all the way, but the slightly bumpy road became unaware of it. When it was almost night, the carriage had already arrived at Banping Mountain.
The ancestors' skill of grasping people's hearts and the connections they have accumulated are better than Xiaoshan. In just a few days, they used a lot of money and finally bought a close servant beside Wen Jicai. They intentionally or unintentionally revealed that the sixth girl of Xiao's house had divorced and followed the news that her brother had just arrived in Banpingshan.
General Wen has been with the second son of the Yao family these days, and the joy of spending life in the past has been restrained by most of his fear of letting go of this noble and unstable family, so he didn't even take a concubine.
When I heard of the sixth girl Xiao Yuzhu, my past admiration was like the tide of Zhejiang and the huge waves of Qiantang came. The little girl with a slightly immature memory was really a rare pretty beauty.
After finding a reason, he seemed to have passed by the station at Banping Mountain inadvertently, and happened to run into the sixth girl's carriage.
Besides, the six girls, they slept all the way and were naturally full. When Jue'er called softly, she slowly got up and took off the silk handkerchief covering her face. Just as the moment she opened the silk handkerchief, Liu Ma beside her couldn't help but take a breath and asked, "Miss Liu... Liu, what's wrong with your face?"
Yuzhu was a little confused when asked. After holding the little bronze mirror with her, she found that there was a red rash on half of her pretty face. She couldn't help but be stunned and said softly: "What disease do you have?"
Liu Ma became a little anxious now. This time, she was instructed by the old lady to use the Sixth Girl to open General Wen’s way. However, after just a while, the Sixth Girl’s face became like this. How could she do the old woman?
At this moment, a man outside heard a loud voice saying, "I heard from the post station's post official that the six girls from Xiao's house have arrived here. Wen is not talented, can you ask the old friend to get off the car and talk?"
Compared to Liu Ma's helplessness, Lizhu was more calm. While grabbing the hooded cloak beside her, she said softly: "Is General Wen the person talking outside the car?"
General Wen has his own way of appreciating beauty. In addition to being charming in flesh, it is rare to have a soft voice. If both are used, what kind of natural beauty would he be?
But the beauty in the carriage was obviously both. Just listening to the sound, General Wen's ears were half soft. When the curtain of the carriage was lifted, a little maid jumped down, and then an old woman took a lady in a dark black cloak and got off the carriage.
The beauty in her cloak was too big, covering half of the beautiful face. But the charm of the pipa half-covered face was already a little dazed by the master who was wandering among the flowers. The slightly green beauty in her memory is now quietly blooming, and the inadvertent eyes flowing between her eyebrows and eyes makes people feel a little numb. How comfortable is it to embrace this beauty in her arms? I wonder what she had done, so she asked the boy of the Wang family to write a divorce letter.
With such thoughts in his heart, Wen Ji only took a few steps forward, his tall figure stood in front of Yuzhu's eyes, and the evil spirit that shocked the northwest was completely restrained by a gentle and polite demeanor. He walked forward and said in a warm voice: "It's just that, I didn't expect that Miss Six still remembers it."
The sixth girl tightened her hood and lowered her head halfway, "I wonder if I would meet the general here by chance. Yuzhu's appearance was not good, and she even told the general to laugh."
Wen Ji was just about to say that the girl was polite, but suddenly he found a rash on one side of the hood. If it was on someone else's face, it would not make people dislike it and turn around and leave. However, being born on the face of this sixth girl immediately made people feel extremely distressed.
Perhaps seeing General Wen's surprised expression, the sixth girl took a step back and whispered: "I'm tired all the way, I feel uncomfortable, and half of my face is rash. If I can't do this, I'll hurry to meet with my brother and visit famous doctors, so I won't bother you, General."
It is definitely not a heroic demeanor to ask the beauty to suffer. Wen Ji hesitated for a moment and hurriedly said, "I happened to meet a famous doctor, but the ladies always have a little temper. He doesn't easily see a doctor with outsiders. Stay there and arrange it properly and discipline the six girls to cure the disease. Can you take good care of it?"
When Yuzhu heard this, she looked up shyly, glanced at General Wen, and whispered: "Brother Wen's beauty, Yuzhu dares not brush it. Even so, there will be a lot of work there."
General Wen was relieved after hearing the promise of the sixth girl. He heard her change of words and call herself "big brother", which made him feel even more numb.
The little girl looked not big, but she was cold when she was young. After meeting her a few times, she could not see her when she went to Xiao Mansion. Later, Xiao Shan accidentally mentioned that the sixth sister, Young Master Youxi, had a little natural disgust towards the warrior who fought on the battlefield. This was naturally what Wen Ji, who was still a captain at the time, didn't hear her, but she was a little angry.
But now he has a high position and controls the military power in the northwest. Facing the daughter of this merchant, he naturally has a more condescending calmness. Such a delicate and soft little girl, who is kept in the house, does not know how to appreciate the advantages and disadvantages of men? When she makes a secret appointment with him in the future, she will teach her how different the martial artists are from the sick husband in the bed.
Thinking of this section, General Wen's handsome smile even better. He turned around and ordered his personal soldiers to escort the Sixth Girl to the guest room in the inn to rest. However, he did not mention that her brother Xiao Shan was waiting to meet him in the guest room of Banpingshan Palace.
Under the moonlight, you only need a beautiful woman. As for the brother who is in trouble, you can naturally avoid it if you are exempted.
But General Wen then said goodbye to his family, and still feeling a little unfulfilled, but found a tall and cold man standing behind him with several servants, as if he could see clearly what had just happened.
Chapter completed!