Descendants of Pangu in the Great Desolation

Chapter 20 Newlyweds

Seeing me leaving, Xu Lu hurriedly picked up the brocade box with the waistband and followed me out of the Duxiu Pavilion.After stepping out of the store, I saw me standing outside Duxiu Pavilion in a daze and asked, "Why didn't you leave, Master? Did you leave something in the store?" I shook my head and said, "It's nothing, I just wanted to Go and meet the shopkeeper of Bixuan Zhaiji." Xu Lu hurriedly said: "Master, you can go if you want, anyway, it's not far away. Before leaving the mansion, the madam ordered that as long as the master returns to the mansion before Youshi, that's fine. It's just past the end of the day." Xu Lu knew that I was short-tempered, if it wasn't for the exercise that restrained my short-tempered temper, I might already be standing outside the gate of Bixuan Zhai at this time. "Since we still have plenty of time, let's go for a walk." Hearing that Xu Lu said that my mother only needs me to return to the residence before you, I hurriedly dragged him to Bixuanzhai at the end of the street.

When I came to a small shop at the end of the street, Xu Lu said, "Master, this is Bixuan Zhai, but it seems that the door is not open." I looked at the closed door and told Xu Lu: "It's still early, It closed so soon? Go around and find out what's going on?" Xu Lu then walked to the teahouse opposite the shop, and returned to me after a while.Said to me: "Master, today is the [-]th day of the death of the old mother of Bixuan Zhai Ji's shopkeeper, and the whole family went to the southern suburbs to visit the grave early in the morning, so it is not open." I frowned and muttered: "It is not open, Come here for nothing" walked back with a look of disappointment.

Seeing my expression, Xu Lu quickly caught up with me and asked, "Master, do you want to go to Shopkeeper Ji's house and have a look?"

"Go to his house and have a look? That's more to my liking." I turned to Xu Lu behind me and asked, "Do you know where he lives?" Xu Lu nodded and said, "I just asked the waiter from the teahouse opposite. The shopkeeper's family lives in the back street of Bixuanzhai." As soon as I finished speaking, I hugged Xu Lu and said, "Xu Lu, you know me best, but it's best to bring some gifts when you come to the door for the first time. It's not good to come to the door empty-handed." Xu Lu broke free and said, "How about I go to Yixiangju to buy two catties of dim sum?" I smiled at him and said, "Okay, hurry up, I'll wait for you here return."

"Okay young master, I'll be right back." Xu Lu approached my shoulder and said, "Xiao You, take a good look at young master." Then he ran to Yixiangju on the street, but Xu Lu didn't see the white light on my shoulder What's Xiaoyou's expression.I looked at Xiaoyou's bulging cheeks, and hurriedly persuaded him: "Don't be angry, Xiaoyou, Xu Lu is kind enough not to be angry, at worst, I will ask him to bring a big bucket of well water to plead guilty to you after returning home. "Hearing that I asked Xu Lu to carry a bucket of well water that Xiao Youqing has a special liking for, the bulging cheeks slowly disappeared, but I still thought there was still a little bit of dissatisfaction, "Zhizhi..." shouted at me Twice, he climbed on my shoulder and looked around.Xiaoyou's cultivation base is still shallow and her skills are not strong enough, so far she has not been able to confide in human words, so she can only use her elven language to speak words that no one can understand.

After a while, Xu Lu took two boxes of snacks from Yixiangju, holding the brocade box, and led me to the shopkeeper Ji's house in the back street of Bixuanzhai.Not long after he left, Xu Lu pointed to a small courtyard and said, "Master, this is Ji's Mansion. I'll call the door." Xu Lu patted the closed door vigorously, and shouted, "Is anyone at home?"

With a "creak" the door opened from inside, and a girl with two buns on her head and wearing a white plush jacket came out. The girl asked in a grandma's voice, "Who are you looking for?" Xu Lu knelt down and asked. He said: "Excuse me, is this the house of the treasurer Bixuan Zhaiji?" The girl smiled sweetly and said, "You are looking for my father, right? I will take you to find my father." The girl let us into the mansion, and jumped up and down. He jumped and took me and Xu Lu to the middle hall of Jifu.

The girl jumped into the middle hall and shouted to a man in his forties, "Daddy, someone is looking for you." Ji Xuan went up to pick up his daughter and asked, "Qing'er, who is looking for Daddy?" Qing'er stretched out her little finger and pointed to us standing outside the hall and said to Ji Xuan, "It's them, Daddy." Seeing us standing outside the hall, Ji Xuan hurriedly put our daughter on the ground, and said: "Be good, Qing'er, let us go Mother makes a cup of tea and entertains the guests." Qing'er replied: "Good daddy" and then bounced out of the middle hall, and when she reached the door, she still didn't forget to greet the guests she had brought, "Big brother, come in." I looked at the girl in front of me, she was really cute, with big watery eyes; a straight little nose; pink and tender lips; The jacket looks like a cute little white rabbit when paired together.He said to Xu Lu who was on the side: "Xu Lu, give Qing'er the dim sum we bought and let her eat it." Qing'er took the snack box from Lu's hand and said happily, "Thank you, big brother." After that, he took the snack box and walked to the inner hall.

As soon as I entered the middle hall, I cupped my hands and asked the man in the hall: "Excuse me, are you the treasurer Ji of Bixuan Zhai?" Ji Xuan looked at him and said, "I am Ji Xuan, I don't know your surname? What is the purpose of the visit?"

"My surname is Situ Dan and my name is Hai. I'm taking the liberty to visit today. I need help from Shopkeeper Ji." I rushed to say my name before Xu Lu opened his mouth, lest he bring out the title of the second son of Prince Ping's mansion again, which would confuse people. People are in awe of three points.Ji Xuan said a few words politely. "So it's Mr. Situ, please sit down quickly. I don't know why Mr. Situ is looking for Ji?" I sat on the hollowed-out lacquer chair in the hall, took the brocade box Xu Lu gave me, and opened it Passed it to Ji Xuan and asked: "I bought a waist pendant in Duxiu Pavilion today. It is exquisite in workmanship and exquisite in craftsmanship, especially the hollow carved eagle in the middle. It is impossible to carve without 30 years of skill. I don’t know if this waist pendant was made by shopkeeper Ji?”

Ji Xuan took the brocade box and looked carefully at the waist pendant in the box for a long time and said: "This is indeed from Ji's hand. I planned to sell it for a good price, but my mother died of illness and couldn't make it, so I had to sell it in Duxiu Pavilion. My son Did you come to the mansion just to confirm that the waist pendant belongs to me?" He handed the brocade box back to me.I took the brocade box from Ji Xuan, handed it to Xu Lu and said: "Of course not, I want to do business with shopkeeper Ji. I wonder if the shopkeeper is interested?"

Just as I was talking, Qing'er came in with a tea bowl, with crumbs still sticking to the corner of her mouth, and said, "Daddy, I brought tea." I picked up the teacup from the tray in Qing'er's hand, lifted the lid, and took a closer smell The fragrance of tea in the cup said, "Good tea, it must be Tieguanyin from southern Fujian in early winter." Ji Xuan couldn't help being surprised when he heard me say this, and said, "That's right, this is what Ji just came back from southern Fujian to produce this winter. Tieguanyin, my son, please try it."

Ji Xuan thought to himself, "Just now he could see from the waistband that he had 30 years of carving skills, and now he can tell the origin and name of the tea just by smelling the fragrance of the tea. The person in front of him is definitely not something in the pool." '

I took a sip of the tea in my cup and asked again: "I wonder if shopkeeper Ji is interested in doing business with me?" Ji Xuan picked up his daughter and sat in his arms. Said: "I don't know what kind of business the young master wants to discuss with Ji?" I put down the teacup in my hand and said slowly: "It's like this, my cousin will get married soon, and I want to choose a piece of jewelry from shopkeeper Ji as a gift. , I wonder if there are suitable accessories here for shopkeeper Ji?"

Ji Xuan understood my reason for coming, and said to me with shame on his face: "To tell you the truth, because my mother died of illness, Ji has no mood to work for a while, so I don't have jewelry suitable for congratulatory gifts. I can't do it." Seeing that Ji Xuan said that he didn't have the jewelry I was looking forward to as a gift in his hand, and it was useless to sit down, he stood up and said: . "That can't be helped. It can only be said that my cousin is not lucky enough to wear Master Ji's craftsmanship at the wedding. Today is really disturbing, and I will leave now." Ji Xuan put his daughter on the ground and came to me , Said: "Today, the young master is disappointed and returned, let Ji send the young master out of the house." I politely said to him: "Then I have the shopkeeper of Lao Ji, Xu Lu, let's go." We followed Ji Xuan to the gate. go.

As soon as I stepped out of the middle hall, I saw some stones piled up in the corner outside the hall, so I asked, "Hey, what is this from shopkeeper Ji?" Ji Xuan glanced in the direction I pointed and said, "My lord, these are emeralds. Raw stones and jade wool are used to carve finished products after being cut." I squatted down and picked up a piece of wool and asked Ji Xuan beside me: "This piece of Hetian jade is so special, the white texture is surrounded by a faint circle Emerald green, it’s rare.”

Ji Xuan said with a little regret: "Young master has good eyesight, this piece of wool is really rare, but I still don't know what kind of accessories should I design it as?" I looked at the wool in my hand and said: "This I can help you." The reason why I want to help Ji Xuan design this piece of wool is because I think my gift will emerge from this piece of wool.

Ji Xuan saw that I couldn't refuse my help, so he nodded and said: "Then I will trouble you, sir, please go back to the middle hall first." I shook my head slightly and said: "No need for shopkeeper Ji, just sit here refreshingly in the courtyard "I picked up the wool and sat on the edge of the flower bed in the courtyard, lost in thought.

When Ji Xuan saw me sitting on the edge of the flower bed, he hurriedly dissuaded him: "How can this be done? Although it is early spring, it is still very cold in the courtyard. If you sit here, you will catch cold. You must not." Xu Lu waved his hand to signal Ji Xuan don't disturb my thoughts, and said softly: "Master Ji, my young master is not the kind of dude you have seen, he is as weak as a straw that will fall with the wind, and it is best not to disturb my young master when he is meditating, Otherwise, we are the ones who will suffer.” When I am in deep thought, I am prone to forgetting sex. If someone disturbs me at this time, I will get angry like a tiger. So as not to get hurt physically and mentally.

"I wonder if shopkeeper Ji has ever seen a green peony?" I stared at the budding peonies in the flower bed, and suddenly remembered that I had participated in an exhibition where hundreds of flowers bloomed in my previous life. The cluster of green peonies in the exhibition took away the audience People's eyeballs, and won the crown of the queen of flowers.I have never seen it in this world, and I don't know if there are such peonies here.

Ji Xuan was taken aback by my nonchalant words, and stammered: "Green peony? Ji has never heard of it, but I have seen a lot of red peony and white peony." I explained to Ji Xuan : "Green peony is a variety of peony, and it is a very rare species. If this piece of wool is cut into several pieces, the jewelry set made of green peony should be very eye-catching."

Ji Xuan thought for a moment and said, "Master, do you mean to use this wool to make a green peony-style jewelry set?" I nodded and said, "Yes, what do you think of the shopkeeper Ji?" I haven't seen it before, but I think the idea of ​​the young master is feasible, and it is because the world knows so little that it is different." I saw that Ji Xuan understood what I meant, and asked: "Yes , that’s what I want. I don’t know if the shopkeeper Ji can be kicked out in mid-April, so I can give it to my cousin as a congratulatory gift.” It’s the beginning of March now, and it’s only one and a half months away from Yu Xin’s wedding.

Ji Xuan was slightly worried: "If there is a design pattern, it should not be a problem, but Ji has never seen a green peony, and I am afraid that the improper design will damage the appearance of the jewelry." I handed the woolen material in my hand to Ji Xuan and said: "Don't worry about the design, as long as the shopkeeper Ji can get out before the big wedding, the design will be handed over to me." I am very good at design, and I helped my father a lot in Cuixuanhang before.

Just talking about being happy, Xu Lu on the side tugged at the corner of my clothes and reminded: "Master, I'm afraid it won't be possible today after you time." I looked up and saw that the sun was already westward, and said hurriedly: "It's so late, Shopkeeper Ji, I have to take my leave first, and I will bring the design drawings in two days, we will refer to them at that time." He told Ji Xuan the time of the next meeting, and ran to the palace with Xu Lu.

After Ji Xuan sent us out of the mansion, he took his daughter back to the inner hall, and then went to the courtyard to take the woolen material from before and muttered to himself: "This young man shows a trace of nobility in his gestures, and he must be among the best in the future." Dragon and Phoenix."

(End of this chapter)