019 Gardenia

Master Cao smiled strangely. The two sat face to face, and every change in each other's faces could be fully enjoyed by each other. Somehow, Yunqing suddenly remembered Mu Chuiliang, whom he had met several times by the river. At that time, the man stood opposite her. He clearly smiled calmly and lightly, but his posture was caged in the hazy night, adding a touch of softness. At this moment, Master Cao looked at her like this, which is a little similar to Mu Chui.

The colorful lanterns flowed, and Yunqing suddenly fell out of her memory and condensed a just right smile. Yunqing said, "Although Mrs. Su Er said that, with all due respect to Yunqing, I can't draw a single stroke." After saying that, he pulled the sleeves, slightly revealing the thick bandage.

Master Cao raised his eyebrows and looked at her for a long time. His eyes had always been frank and excessive. Yunqing did not avoid it. She looked back as he thought. Master Cao finally smiled secretly and took a sip of tea and said, "Su Ji really likes to joke. The painter can't draw. What else are you going to talk about with me, little girl?

Yunqing stopped his hand and asked with a smile, "Speaking of which, Yunqing has a question to ask Master Cao. There are more than 20 lantern workshops of all sizes in Wuhua City. The oldest, the most decorated and the most famous ones are not our Su Ji. Why did Master Cao single-handedly challenge us Su Ji?

Master Cao looked elsewhere leisurely while drinking tea and said carelessly, "Qixi lanterns, 'stepping on the snow to find plums', so I'm not for Su Ji's name. I'm coming for your name as a cloud painter. If you can't draw, this business will be done!"

That's right, Master Cao didn't get up and leave. Yun Qing smiled and said, "So Master Cao likes that 'stepping on the snow to find plums'? This is what Yunqing wants to say. Although I can't draw with my hands, I can't draw 'stepping on the snow and looking for plums', so in the final analysis, the painting is not the foundation. Those patterns floating on the surface are the dazzling foundation.

"What does the cloud painter mean, you dictate and others draw? Don't you want to be one-minded when painting? How can anyone draw the pattern in the heart of your cloud painter? This is also too..."

Master Cao's thick eyebrows and sword eyes, even if he is clearly ridiculed, he still looks open and aboveboard. The so-called most afraid of hypocrites and not afraid of real villains, Yunqing had a score in his heart, and his words were much more clear: "Yunqing is rude, and he has to say something."

Master Cao raised his eyebrows and looked surprised, as if he had endured a smile and made a "please" gesture.

Yun Qing's eyes turned around and asked, "Master Cao is not a person specializing in lanterns. To put it bluntly, I guess Master Cao doesn't understand lanterns at all."

"Cloud painter, why did you say this? I'm afraid Cao has seen more lanterns than you have painted!"

Yun Qing covered his mouth and smiled. This action was rude. After a moment of silence, Master Cao's eyes fell on her without slowness. Yunqing stood up and walked leisurely in the Baijie Hall and said, "Although reading thousands of books is not as good as walking thousands of miles, if you don't pay attention to it, you can't say 'understand' how many lanterns you have seen."

Before Master Cao opened his mouth, Yunqing looked up and pointed the colorful Baijie lantern to Master Cao: "This flower hall is called Baijie Hall, which is named after this Baijie lantern. Hundred knots of lanterns, a hundred years of good marriage, happy knots, clusters of flowers, climbing high and the meaning of the first place is a congratulatory gift given by the elders of Su Ji to a certain generation of owners.

"Oh?" Master Cao looked up, looked carefully and praised, "It's really exquisite and gorgeous."

Yun Qing looked at Master Cao with a smile: "Yes, it's exquisite and gorgeous. This hundred knot lantern carries not only the most sincere blessings of Su Ji masters, but also the most exquisite lantern craft of Su Ji and even the whole Fongkou Town. Baijie flower lamp is a glazed palace lamp. The whole lamp does not cost a nail, a piece of rivet, and does not touch a sticky glue. 108 wooden brackets are all built by combination. Since the lighting the lamp, it has not been scattered for 200 years. It is the best in the palace lamp.

Master Cao looked surprised, got up and looked at it more carefully, and couldn't help praising, "It's really exquisite!" A sentence blurted out, but I remembered that I just said that I knew the lamp, so I couldn't see that it was really a little unreasonable, so I recovered my look and said, "The Baijie lantern is indeed good, but the nine phoenix hanging in the Suji hall outside is still nested. It's brilliant and ingenious, and I think it's better."

The nine phoenix's nest is the lamp in the lamp. There is a fat and round horse lamp in a big palace lamp. Nine petals of lamp bones are separated between the large and small lamps, and the posture of a phoenix flying is for the nine phoenix. Each phoenix has another small lamp on its head as its eyes. The whole lantern is magnificent, exquisite, brilliant and ingenious.

It is said that laymen watch the bustle and insiders watch the doorway. Although Master Cao is a layman who travels with lanterns, he is an insider in the authentic business field. Those who open a shop and do business must put some sign items where guests can see, such as plaques of imperial and nobles, treasures praised by literati, and there is also an unwritten rule in the lantern workshop, that is, to hang the hall with the highest-sized lanterns that can be made by this lantern workshop. The so-called specification is based on craftsmanship, which is a direct reflection of the craft level of a lantern workshop.

Although Master Cao does not understand the appreciation of lanterns, he is obviously clear about the rules of the lantern industry. Speaking of this, he also got up and pushed open the door of the White Knot Hall, as if he was savoring the beauty of the nine phoenix returning to the nest. I don't want Yunqing to suddenly raise his eyebrows and smile: "That one is better?"

Yunqing Yingying smiled and said, "I said earlier that Master Cao didn't know the lamp, because Master Cao put such a wonderful Baijie lantern but only sat here drinking tea. Now I still want to say that Master Cao really doesn't know the lamp, because Master Cao said that the nine phoenix is better than the Baijie lantern."

Without waiting for Master Cao to answer Yunqing, he smiled and said, "It seems that Master Cao hasn't figured out what kind of lamp you want. It is exquisite and meaningful. It was painted by Yunqing himself by taking advantage of the reputation of 'stepping on the snow and looking for plums', or can it make Master Cao make a lot of money in this business. How about talking to Yunqing when Master Cao has figured it out?

Cao Zhiqi looked at Yunqing carefully again, then smiled, left his name and strode away.

After a while, Mrs. Su came to ask, "How's it going?"

"It's a little strange."

"Strange?" Mrs. Su was surprised, "What's strange?"

I don't know whether to say it or not when Yunqing is tasting tea. Cao Zhiqi's clothes are simple, but the accessories he wears are not vulgar. The other fans on the waist are golden nanmu fan bones, and the fan pendants are magnolia flowers carved from the old pit glass emerald, which are all old things. The sachet looks not flamboyant, but looks like a soft satin needle through flowers and Shu embroidery, embroidered with precious yellow wood hibiscus and three drunken hibiscus, and also dyed with the fragrance of three drunken hibiscus, which are rare things.

The question is, is it really necessary for such a person to talk about a single lantern sale in person?

"It's okay. It's just strange why there is gardenia for bottles in the window?"

A large-belly white porcelain bottle in the window for a large handful of well-bellied gardenia.

Su Ji is an old-fashioned lantern workshop. Over the years, he has saved a basket of rules. Baijie Hall invites distinguished guests, and Cao Zhiqi is not a regular guest. I don't know how he likes to put such fragrant flowers easily?

Mrs. Su Er glanced at the gardenia flowers, looked at Yunqing, and bowed her head and said, "Master Cao brought it to the painter of Su Ji. I thought about it when I saw the lamp of "Walking in the Snow for Plums" and fell in love with it.

admiration? Yun Qing paced over and looked at the gardenia and couldn't help laughing. It turned out that there was still such a meaning, and Mrs. Su Er must have been difficult to say, so she deliberately didn't mention it.

Yunqing had ordered Fu Qian to send Jiang Kuan's robe back, but Su Ji saw her waiting with a burden not far away. Bao looked at the burden and said, "Lu Fuyin sent someone to Lanyuan to ask Aunt Yun about last night, and I couldn't leave. Later, I walked away, but when I arrived at the Jiang family, I bumped into Miss Jiang's family. The man's eyes were very sharp. I didn't dare to knock on the door with just a glance, so..."

Jiang Wan? She remembered that when Mu Chuiliang hugged her and dragged her ashore and pulled off her robe and wrapped it around her, the Miss Jiang's face was really not good. However, it was dark and the people were messy yesterday. She still remembered the appearance of the house and the black house, which was also very powerful.

"Let's keep the robe first."

Yunqing took the Jiang Song branch of the Jiang family. Yunqing didn't have much hope of meeting Jiang Kuan, but only had the right to take a walk. Looking at the affron trees blooming on the roadside, Yunqing said to Fuqi with a smile, "Today, a guest came to Su Ji to talk about business and gave me a lot of flowers. It's very beautiful."

"Real?" Qiqi was also happy, "That's right. Who told our lady to draw the best lantern in Huacheng?"

Yunqing stopped in front of a small stall selling wooden hairpin and said carelessly, "Yes, it's good to have a large handful of snow-white gardenia and a bottle full of sweet fragrance. When we finish our work, you can go to Su Ji to get it and supply it to my room!"

Fuqi was also happy to pick up the wooden hairpin and look at it. Hearing her say this, he was stunned and then stammered: "Miss, hey, miss, do you offer it to your room? I mean...what kind of guests are here today?"

Yun Qing pulled the bris and rubbed it to a place selling jujube cakes and said, "I'm from Jiangnan. I'm in my thirties. I'm very powerful."

"Men and women?"

Yunqing stuffed a piece of jujube cake into his mouth and smiled, "Men, how can women say that parents are powerful?" After saying that, he had to go to the next stall. But he was pulled by a handful.

"Miss! How can you supply bottles of gardenia indiscriminately? He didn't tease, pulled Yun Qing's anxious face white, and he spoke much more neatly than usual, "Ge Huaman can drink alcohol, and gardenia is a good gift to others.' Even I know, and what did that sentence say?' Gardenia in front of the court, try to send Xie Niang with one heart... Do you still want to bring it back to Lanyuan to supply bottles? What does the guest who gave flowers have in mind?

Yunqing raised her eyebrows. Sure enough, she was not the only one who wanted to be biased, but anyone who wanted to be biased?