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Chapter 45
045 Inkstone

There was a spring rain last night, and today it has cleared up. The smell of soil in the air is mixed with the fragrance of winter jasmine in early spring, which is very quiet and charming.

On the path to Shicui Pavilion, you have to pass a slanted pool bank, with weeping willows planted on both sides.In the charming spring, the withered weeping willow wakes up from a deep dream, stretching its soft and light willow branches, swaying the charming tender yellow branches and leaves, and the graceful figure is like a beautiful woman with affection.

Dong Yuan walked in the front and led the way, the fifth girl Xue Dongrong and the eleventh girl Xue Dongshu followed her step by step, each supporting the servant girl, without speaking.There are only crisp footsteps on the trail, the fragrance of clothes is lingering, and no one's words are heard.

Arriving at the Shicui Pavilion, the fifth girl paused slightly, looking at the tubes of green bamboos, she was in a daze for a moment.

Dong Yuan looked at it, then smiled and said, "Fifth Sister hasn't come to my yard for several years."

Xue Dongrong came back to her senses, and said with a smile: "Shicui Hall and Hening Pavilion are opposite to each other in the north and south, and the roads are different, so it's not good to bother Jiumei all the time."

Dong Yuan smiled and said: "I want to invite the sisters to sit down, but I'm afraid it will delay your work, so it's not good to invite."

The three sisters who said it all laughed.

Eleventh girl Xue Dongshu's eyes can't help but follow the courtyard wall at the northwest corner of Shicui Pavilion, looking at the Taolan Pavilion with beautiful twigs in the distance.

Her pupils couldn't help being filled with moist light, and her expression was gloomy.

When she came back to her senses, knowing that she had lost her composure, she lowered her eyes to hold back her tears, pretending that nothing had happened, but her eyes couldn't help turning red.

Both Dong Yuan and Xue Dongrong pretended not to see, each helping the maids into the house.

Ju Hong is about to get married, she is no longer serving in Dongci's room, she is only in Dongyuan's inner room, helping Dongyuan make a few small clothes, waiting for time.

Qiangwei ordered the maids to serve tea and snacks outside, opened the cage again, took out the inkstone that the old Hou Ye rewarded, and put it on the kang table.

"You all go, we sisters speak our own words, we don't need to serve." Dong Yuan smiled at Qiangwei.

Qiangwei led the maids back out, Xue Dongrong's maid Ginkgo and Xue Dongshu's maid Qiancao also followed Qiangwei.

Dongcijian suddenly became quiet, only smelling the fragrance of tea.

Dong Yuan opened the brocade handkerchief, and took out the inkstone for Xue Dongrong and Xue Dongshu to see.

The two sisters played with it in their hands, watched it once, and praised it once.

"This is the Duan inkstone. It was a tribute from the Nanzhi Kingdom in the past. It was given to the great-grandfather by the Emperor Taizu." Seeing that Xue Dongrong liked it, Dong Yuan explained it to her.

"It's really good." Xue Dongrong showed the inkstone to Xue Dongshu, the eleventh girl.

Xue Dongshu also said yes again and again.After watching it for a while, I handed it over to Dong Yuan again.

The fifth girl, Xue Dongrong, smiled and said: "Speaking of inkstones, I think of something. I was still young at that time, and my third brother hadn't gone to Sichuan yet. He was studying in the Imperial College and loved strange things. I often wandered from this temple to that. Temple, bought it back, and secretly hid it in the study without my mother knowing. My fourth sister and I found out by chance, so we sneaked to his study to search. The things are very strange and very interesting, and there is a strange inkstone among them."

The third brother is Xue Dongrong's elder brother Xue Huaxuan, who is now released from the prefect of Si||Sichuan.

Both Dong Yuan and Xue Dongshu listened.

Xue Dongrong seldom said such words with such enthusiasm, there must be more than one word.

"...the fourth sister took a fancy to a Duanshi inkstone shaped like a lotus platform. It was not as good as my grandfather's, but it was of the highest quality. The fourth sister snatched it away and hugged her tightly. The fourth sister smiled and said, silly girl, the crystal inkstone is the most useless. You look at the beauty of the crystal, but it doesn’t take all the benefits of the world. It can’t be used as an inkstone. It’s useless. I don’t believe it, take it back and grind it, the ink beads are rolling around, no matter how you grind it, it can’t be ground..."

Both Dong Yuan and Xue Dongshu laughed.

Xue Dongrong's words mean that everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, right?

Duanshi cannot be the mainstay, but it is an excellent thing for grinding ink; crystal is expensive and gorgeous, but it is useless when it is used as an inkstone.

Just like Dong Yuan and Dong Shu.Their respective marriages are their respective strengths.Dong Yuan is very beautiful, but if she enters the palace, she will be envied by everyone, and she may die before being favored; Dong Shu is a concubine who was fostered under the name of Wufang's original spouse, maybe she will be able to thoroughly understand her life after entering the palace. Abandon her identity, prominent party.

Did Xue Dongrong also hear the gossip at home?
Dong Yuan was very grateful for her kindness, glanced at Eleventh Sister, and said with a smile: "Fifth Sister, everything in the world has its own place, and crystal really can't be used as an inkstone."

Xue Dongshu, the eleventh girl, was slightly relieved when she heard this, and said with a smile, "Duanshi can't be used as a decoration, so I had to make an inkstone."

Xue Dongrong smiled slightly after listening to what the two sisters said, and said no more.

The three sisters had a conversation, Xue Dongrong and Xue Dongshu got up and went back.

Dong Yuan asked them to have lunch, but both of them refused, they only said that they had something to do in each room and they would bother Dong Yuan another day, so they called the servant girl to come in and helped them back.

Dong Yuan sent them to the gate of Shicui Pavilion.

After leaving the Shicui Pavilion, Xue Dongshu, the eleventh girl, said to Xue Dongrong, "Fifth Sister, thank you for your help, otherwise I really don't know how to talk to Ninth Sister."

"Ninth younger sister is always transparent, eleventh younger sister thinks too much." Xue Dongrong smiled faintly, "She understood as soon as I said it, which shows that she has already made up her mind, and eleventh younger sister can rest assured."

Does this imply that Xue Dongshu treats the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain?
Said her like this, and didn't wrong her. Xue Dongshu listened humbly, and nodded again and again: "I am at ease now. Ninth Sister is not as stupid as me. I am afraid, and I am still troublesome Fifth Sister."

Xue Dongrong smiled, with a rare warm expression: "We are sisters! It is fate to be sisters. You and I are about to leave the cabinet. In the future, if you want to trouble your fifth sister, you will not be able to reach it..."

Xue Dongshu was moved when he listened.

They are about to go their separate ways, and in the future... it is really out of reach.

"Fifth sister, can I move to live in your yard with an excuse?" Xue Dongshu suddenly stopped hiding anything and said with a smile, "Sister Wan'er is very nice, but I don't hit it off with her."

Mentioning Xue Jiangwan, Xue Dongrong's cheeks were covered with a little frost, and said: "She is a villain!"

The tone was severe.

Xue Dongshu was slightly taken aback, did Fifth Sister discover something?Did Xue Jiangwan ask someone to spread the rumors about her and Ninth Sister in the mansion?
She looked at Xue Dongrong anxiously.

Xue Dongrong took a deep breath, and returned to her usual indifference, and said: "You are good at playing the zither, and I can play the guqin. You just tell grandma that we sisters want to teach each other everything we have learned. Live in a place where you can be intimate, and grandma will naturally understand what you mean."

Xue Dongshu was overjoyed when she heard this, and said with a smile, "I'll go to say hello tonight, and I'll tell my grandmother."

Xue Dongshu had some strange feelings for this fifth sister who had never been in touch with her: she looked very indifferent, but she was cold on the outside and hot on the inside.

As for Ninth Sister, she is also able to distinguish right from wrong.

For the first time, Xue Dongshu felt that the sisters in her family were all her relatives, not just strangers living in Xue's mansion.

(End of this chapter)