Xuanxue boss, she became rich in ancient times by selling houses

Chapter 97 Fakes
Seeing her daughter bowing her head shyly, Mrs. Liu didn't understand, it was her fancy.

She winked at the matchmaker beside her, and the matchmaker hurriedly passed the calligraphy and painting in her hand to the Shi family.

The matchmaker smiled and said: "Miss Liu heard that Mr. Shi likes calligraphy and painting, so she specially found this "Mountain Dwelling Spring Intention", which was written by Master Zuo."

"Oh, Mr. Zuo Xiang's painting! It must have cost a lot of money, right?" Shi Mu grinned and said.

"It's not expensive, it's only seven hundred taels of silver." Mrs. Liu waved her hands, pretending to be kind, but her heart was in great pain.

Seven hundred taels of silver is not a small sum.

Rao added up all the shops of Liu's family, one month's harvest is enough, but it is not enough for this number of miles.

Taking this painting as a gift today, the Liu family has the intention of slapping a swollen face to pretend to be fat.

"Zuo Xiangai paints, his paintings come out, at least three or four hundred copies, how can they be worth the high price of seven hundred taels of silver?" Li Anyan pouted and said disdainfully.

"His paintings are given away for free, and I don't want them too often." She was telling the truth, and she didn't even bother to look at the left-handed Prime Minister chasing after her to give away the paintings earlier.

It can't be blamed on Li Anyan's high-mindedness and lack of face, she is really used to seeing masterpieces of calligraphy and painting, and it is difficult for her to catch ordinary calligraphy and painting.

Her voice was not too loud, but she was impartial, so that everyone in the main room could hear her clearly.

"Miss Li" Shi Wenxuan frowned, called Li Anyan to stop, but didn't know how to continue.

He knew that Fu Lou and Li Anyan were both from the capital, and they looked like wealthy families.

Shi Wenxuan knew that what Li An said was not offensive, it might just be what she thought, and she just said it truthfully.

But these words fell into the ears of Mrs. Liu and Liu Yueyan, but it was not the same thing.

The Liu family is just a nouveau riche who made a fortune more than ten years ago, and their food and clothing expenses should follow the example of those officials and eunuchs.

This has long been criticized by the people in Yanzhou City.

Li Anyan's words, in Liu Yueyan's eyes, were clearly accusing the Liu family of blindly following the trend in buying calligraphy and painting, but in fact they were completely tasteless.

"Oh? Since Ms. Li thinks that the calligraphy and paintings we bought for seven hundred taels of silver are not worth taking for free, then what kind of gift did the girl prepare?" Liu Yueyan pursed her thin lips lightly, sneering a bit coldly.

Everyone in Yanzhou City is a lady, and Liu Yueyan has some contacts.

She looked at Li Anyan's plain clothes and simple headdress, and guessed that the woman who uttered wild words must be some rough girl from the countryside.

Liu Yueyan concluded that Li Anyan couldn't come up with anything good.

Hearing this, Li Anyan was not timid at all, and generously placed the inkstone in his arms in front of everyone.

"The inkstones of the Tang Dynasty were made of Taohe stone," she said.

After the words fell, everyone crowded around nervously, wanting to see the true face.

Liu Yueyan was naturally among them.

After staring at Fang Yantai for a few moments, she suddenly laughed and trembled.

"You are an inkstone from the Tang Dynasty? I'm afraid it's fake." Liu Yueyan said bluntly.

"Why do you say it's fake?" Li Anyan was annoyed.

"This inkstone is in the shape of a skip that was common in the Tang Dynasty. The workmanship is meticulous and the details are in place. It's a pity that it has no foothold." Liu Yueyan said confidently, pointing to the flat bottom under the inkstone.

"Inkstones in the Tang Dynasty were mostly in the shape of a skip and a phoenix, and they could stand or have no feet."

"As the name suggests, the skip-shaped inkstone is an inkstone shaped like a dustpan. The two ends of the skip-shaped inkstone have different openings. Usually, there will be a foothold on the deeply concave part to allow the ink to collect."

After Liu Yueyan finished speaking, she looked at Li Anyan mockingly, "Miss Li, the person who sold your inkstone said it was from the Tang Dynasty? Then you must have been deceived."

Li Anyan stared at her eyes full of sarcasm, with the word disbelief written all over his face.

She turned to look at Shi Wenxuan and asked, "Is what she said true?"

Shi Wenxuan nodded in approval, "It's indeed a fake, but."

Before he finished speaking, Shi Mu stepped forward and knocked the inkstone in Li Anyan's hand to the ground.

"It's my Xuan'er's birthday, what do you mean by sending a fake?" Shi Mu said viciously.

Li Anyan was stunned, looking at the overturned inkstone, feeling wronged in every way, but he couldn't say anything.

There are many good things in her hands, such as suet jade inkstone, luminous pearl bracelets, masterpieces of calligraphy and painting by famous artists... even gold ten thousand taels.

But what she gave today was only her own choice.

Li Anyan fought back the tears not to fall from her eyes, she turned around and rushed out the door.

"Miss Li Anyan" Shi Wenxuan called her name from behind.

"Xuan'er, what do you call her for? This kind of girl who just ran to other people's houses without saying hello, now she just turned around and left after a disagreement, she really doesn't understand etiquette at all." Shi Mu proudly said Cursed behind his back.

She turned around, met the eyes of Shangliu's mother and daughter watching the excitement, immediately put on a fake and kind face, and said with a smile: "The meals are almost ready, let's move to the main hall to eat."

Saying that, Shi Mu led several people into the main room.

The mother and daughter of the Liu family, including the matchmaker, laughed and followed her and left.

Only Shi Wenxuan carefully picked up the inkstone on the ground after they turned around the screen.

He was interrupted by his mother before he finished speaking just now, obviously he wanted to say that this inkstone is made of high-quality Taohe stone.

Li Anyan ran out of the alley in one breath, stopped, and said angrily to himself:
"Xixi clearly said that my luck today is mediocre, but in the end I still have to try my best to pick out that inkstone. Ahhh, I must be the stupidest idiot in the world."

"There is also Shi Wenxuan, who is even more stupid than the stupidest idiot in the world! I can't take my eyes off seeing that Miss Liu! A womanizer! You bastard!"

In Jixiang Lane, the new house that Gu Xixi and the others just moved to is in full swing.

The autumn wind was refreshing, and several guys worked together to lift the wooden table to the center of the courtyard.

Gu Xixi and Xiao Xing helped Wang Shuanghua bring all the dishes prepared in the kitchen to the table.

"Wow, my mother's craftsmanship is really good, the taste is probably not worse than that made by the masters of Zuixianglou!" Gu Xixi couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"As long as Xiya likes it, mother will make it for you to eat every day!" Wang Shuanghua was overjoyed by her praise.

Thousands of gold minced fragrant cakes, braised lion head, steamed chicken with shiitake mushrooms, minced meat tofu soup, taro pork ribs stew, roasted bream in scallion oil, oxtail fresh mushroom soup, wine-smoked dried fish more than ten hard dishes, a large table.

Several people sat down around the table, having fun.

Halfway through the meal, I heard the sound of heavy stones falling from the corner.

"It's not yet midnight, do you know that this house welcomes a new owner, and those gentlemen on Liangshang are so eager to come?" Old clerk Luo Haha said happily, and everyone could hear that he was joking.

"Jixiang Lane is well-known in Yanzhou City, and it's often hard to find a house. It's our master's good fortune that we bought this three-entry and two-story house for three hundred taels of silver. It's definitely not a loss!" The old guy on the other side The horse also followed happily.

Gu Xixi had a strange feeling in her heart, even though the two said so, she was still a little worried.

"I'll go take a look."

(End of this chapter)