Chapter 539

The shape of the Western mirror is simple and generous, and the plain silver tray that is deliberately made old, as if it has been precipitated for countless years, the heart-shaped ruby on the back of the mirror that is the size of a baby egg is said to have been taken from the laurel crown of a small country in the West, and it is enough for the fourth master to spend a thousand taels of silver to buy it from the cunning businessman, and gave it to Erfu as a birthday gift, and Erfu has always been a family heirloom to keep it in good regard, and rarely really play with it in his hand.

When the fourth master saw this familiar handle mirror, he chuckled lightly and said lightly: "I've never seen you use it, and I thought you didn't like it!"

"Actually, I don't really pay much attention to these things for food and clothing.

This mirror is priceless, and if I bump into any of them, I won't be distressed to death. Erfu did not hide his liking for Western mirrors, nor did he shy away from showing his cheesiness, said with a smile, and after speaking, he aimed the crystal surface at the bun, and carefully looked at the five-tailed phoenix hairpin that the fourth master gave him was carved and polished from the best blood jade.

Blood jade, in fact, is the product of jade being soaked in cinnabar, but because it is rare, it is extremely precious first, not to mention such a rare treasure with such a blood-red body.

Although Erfu really likes this hairpin, he can't help but preach, "This thing is beautiful, but it's too valuable, I don't want to wear it on my head, if you have a lot of money, why don't you discount it when you want to give it to me in the future!"

After speaking, Erfu also winked at the fourth master and made a gesture to count the money.

"How short of money are you?" the fourth master smiled and knocked off Erfu's hand stretched out in front of his eyes, and said with a doting face.

Erff smiled and withdrew her hand, muttering quietly, "It's okay, it's okay." ”

As soon as he saw her exuding this virtue, he consciously changed the topic, shook his head and said: "The Wulanala clan has repeatedly offered you to help take care of the property in the house, but you always refuse, but now you know that you are worried about asking for money from the master, but the master is very poor!"

"Greedy for ink, that's against the rules of the family. Erff shook her head hurriedly, looking frightened, and craned her neck and muttered quietly.

As he spoke, the food on the table was already cold, and he saw that Erfu had almost eaten, so he asked Yaoqin to lead the people to withdraw from the table, and pulled Erfu to the east room to sit down and talk, "Okay, okay, I know that you are a lazy person."

Do you like this hairpin?

Before, the master co-founded a jade mine, which was one of the few rare jade materials sent over there. ”

"This is carved by the master himself. Su Peisheng, who was standing under the corridor chatting with Zhao Dezhu, hurriedly interjected.

The fourth master, who was broken, glanced at Su Peisheng who was probing out of the window with some unhappiness, and taught him coldly: "Mouthy, there are no rules." ”

After speaking, before he could turn his head and explain to Erfu, he saw Erfu's eyes shining and half-lying on the small tea table, and his tone was full of joy and asked, "Did you really carve it yourself?"

"It's nothing to do, it's just something to practice. The fourth master replied arrogantly.

"I really can't see it, you're really an all-rounder!" Erfu had already taken the blood hosta worth thousands of gold on his head in his hand when Su Peisheng spoke, looked at it carefully, and found that it was no worse than the carvers of those fine hairpins sent by the manufacturing office, and at this time he got a little arrogant answer from the fourth master, and couldn't help but laugh and ridicule, turned his head and turned out a piece of Tianhuang frozen stone from the cabinet, and stuffed it into the hands of the fourth master, and said very undisciplinedly, "It's better that the master is taking the time to carve a private seal for me."

The previous seal was accidentally hit to the ground by me a few days ago, and a corner was broken, and it is no longer usable. In the end, Erfu seemed to be afraid of the fourth master's refusal, and came up with a somewhat ridiculous excuse to cover up her little selfishness.

Erfu will never tell the fourth master, she just likes the gifts made by the fourth master, if the things that can be used every day are made by the fourth master, she can wake up with a smile when she falls asleep.

"Put it down!

However, the master does not guarantee that it will be done quickly, this material is rare, and the master has to design a style. Seeing Erfu almost shaking his head and tailing and transforming into Baifu, the fourth master was naturally reluctant to refuse.

Besides, in his spare time, he does like to carve some gadgets to organize his thoughts.

It's just that it's different from the gadgets that pass the time and organize his thoughts, if it's given to Erfu, he can't go down the knife easily, so he mentioned that it would take a long time, and seeing Erfu smiled and nodded, he took the piece of Tianhuang frozen stone into his hand, handed it to Su Peisheng through the window, and told Su Peisheng to collect it carefully.

"Speaking of which, you really have a lot of good things in your hands, such a good Tianhuang frozen stone, I'm afraid there are not even many private vaults of the old man!" After taking a sip of the hot tea sent by Erfu himself, the fourth master collapsed comfortably on the Luohan bed and said with a chuckle.

It was rare to be praised by the fourth master, Erfu raised his chin arrogantly, "That's because I opened a new shop selling the four treasures of the study room in the Liuli Factory, and I need all kinds of materials suitable for making seals, Mr. Yu Yao, the big shopkeeper, led people to personally go to the mining area to select a batch of Tianhuangshi, and from hundreds of materials, I picked out a few particularly good materials and sent them to me." ”

"Mr. Yu Yao, isn't it the one that the master knows?" The fourth master, who seemed to be a little unable to believe his ears, his eyes widened by two points, and he stared at Erfu without blinking.

Speaking of Yu Yao, Erfu's stomach full of bitter water, finally has a place to vent, ignoring the shock in the eyes of the fourth master, putting his hands on the shoulders of the fourth master, shaking the fourth master back and forth, seemingly complaining, but in fact, he pouted his small mouth obviously, and said as if he had been greatly wronged: "It is the great good man who has repeatedly failed to sell his property to help countless poor students." Mr. Yu Yao, speaking of this Mr. Yu Yao, it took me a lot of effort to dig it out of Rehe, just to persuade this great benevolent man to join, all the four treasures of the study in my new shop are two percent lower than the price of other shops!

Forget about these, just make small profits and quick turnover, but he actually asked me to turn the backyard into a library for borrowing books for poor students to read. ”

For Erfu's behavior of getting cheap and selling well, the fourth master hated it so much, and he really couldn't bear to let Yu Yao, such a good person, be buried in Erfu's small shop, and when he saw Erfu's complaint, he climbed down the pole and said: "If you don't want to, fold the shop into silver and give it to the master." ”

"Forget it, Fourth Master, the silver in your hand is limited, let's keep that silver to do useful things, let Mr. Yu Yao put my little money, and besides, this involves the benefits of those poor students, if this shop is in your hands, I'm afraid someone will say that you deliberately buy people's hearts." "Don't look at what Erfu said as if she disliked Mr. Yu Yao, in fact, she didn't know how secretly happy she was with her own decision, so when she saw that the fourth master was actually pretending to be stupid and climbing along the pole, she waved her hand busily, interrupting what the fourth master didn't finish, and said with a serious face, 'I'm for your fourth master's good'.

After speaking, he hurriedly opened the topic and mentioned Enko this time.

In order to elect talents useful to the country, several princes are also interested in selecting the team among this batch of Enke's candidates, so the big guys united to persuade the old man, and at the end of last year, let the old man make the will of Enke.

Different from the year of the big competition once every three years, although Enke is a welfare, but the time of the examination is the same, it is also chosen in August, when the township examination is over, the second year in February to start the examination, two months after the examination, is the last pass of the imperial examination - the palace election.

And now that the township test has not even started, Erfu has been concerned a little early.

"Someone from your family is going to participate in this year's township exam?" asked the fourth master with a frown.

Erfu didn't understand the worry in the fourth master's heart, nor did he hear the temptation in the fourth master's words, shook his head slightly, and replied softly with a puzzled face: "My family, from Ama to my brother, is a martial artist, a serious good son of the Eight Banners, where do you need to participate in any imperial examinations."

Even if someone wants to participate in the imperial examination, I don't know!"

"Then why do you care about Enke's affairs, did someone say something to you?" Seeing that Erfu was confused, the fourth master stopped going around the bend and said bluntly.

This time, Erfu understood the meaning of the fourth master's words, stared at him, and muttered unhappily: "What are you talking to me?"

Why do you think I care about Enco? It's not my shop, I have to prepare enough supplies first, you must know that this triennial Dabi and Enke are great news for a small shop like ours!"

After speaking, he bit his lip and sat on the empty seat next to him, ignoring the fourth master who actually suspected her of going through the back door.

It's no wonder that the fourth master will think about it more, a few days ago, the old man just came out of the wind of words, and suddenly heard Erfu mention it, naturally a little nervous: "Don't get me wrong, the master is worried that you are soft-hearted and will be used by those with bad intentions."

Before, the old man's words came out, and it seemed that he intended me to be the chief examiner and deputy chief examiner of this Enke together with the prince's people. ”

But fortunately, Erfu just asked casually, otherwise he really didn't know how to refuse this somewhat confused and naïve little Nizi.

The fourth master, who was full of joy, thought of this, and couldn't help suppressing the worry in his heart, and hurriedly advised: "This time, Enke, I think that the eighth brother's group will keep an eye on the master, after all, they never want the people of the lord and the prince to become the mentors of those people, so you must be cautious these days, so as not to be taken advantage of, not to mention that you are the person around you, you have to give a good advice." ”

Erfu also knows that in ancient times, the triennial Dabi and Enke were a big event, it was simply a ladder for poor students, if someone mastered the way to climb the ladder for personal gain, the consequences would be unimaginable, at least it was corruption and perversion of the law, and at worst it was to shake the country, so she didn't blame the fourth master for being so nervous and distrustful of her behavior, but she couldn't just let go of the fourth master who didn't trust her, just made me very angry, twisted his eyebrows, and said to the fourth master word by word:" Cut, of course I know, but you don't trust me!"

"It's not that you don't trust you, but I'm afraid that you will believe those ill-intentioned people and do something wrong, after all, the chief examiner candidate of Enke this time is Ye's disciple, and he doesn't dare to refuse your request, so Ye will be a little nervous.

But you also know that you are not a greedy person, just say it in advance. The fourth master couldn't see that Erfu was playing tricks, but in order not to make Xiao Nizi sad, he was still busy explaining, coaxing this little girl who was as naïve as his own Xiaoqi, and Su Peisheng, who was talking to Zhao Dezhu in the corridor, was sour, so he stopped talking and went to the main courtyard to see the Wulanala clan.

Erfu, who was coaxed by the fourth master to be quite happy, sent the fourth master out of the door with a smile, and watched the fourth master walk away, then returned to the hall with a straight face, and ordered Yaoqin to gather all the servants in the west courtyard from top to bottom, and began to lecture.

Many servants who don't know a single big word, listening to what Erfu said, were dumbfounded, or Yaoqin used easy-to-understand language, which made them understand what Erfu meant, and they said that they would never be corrupted by others, and they would not be greedy for money and forget their duty as slaves, which is also due to the fact that the people selected by the fourth master for her are all poor palace people who have been excluded to the edge of the Internal Affairs Office, and there is no protection from the Baoyi clan behind them, and they have not enjoyed the benefits brought to them by the family, so they don't need to do their best to plan for the future of the clan, otherwise it will take a lot of effort to persuade these people, or let these people give up their thoughts of seeking benefits for the clansmen！

In this regard, Erf couldn't help but rejoice again.

Although there is no family behind them, they are not as well-informed as those palace maids who come out of the Baoyi Wang clan to receive news, but they are so loyal, they will not give up the master they serve for the sake of the family, and they rarely have the mind of climbing the dragon and attaching the phoenix, which is why even if Erfu is extremely naïve, let alone have no means to control it, the palace maids in her courtyard did not take the initiative to offer courtesy to the fourth master.

"Okay, those details, Yaoqin, you tell them, the central idea is one point, the people in our yard, no matter who it is, if they dare to meddle in Enke's affairs, it will be a dead end. Seeing that the servants were silent, Erfu smiled and dropped a threatening word, turned around and went back to the upper room, and continued to embroider the cloak for the fourth master.

Yaoqin, who was left outside to continue to brainwash (spread ideas) to the servants, said a lot of things, talked a lot about all kinds of crooked methods, and asked them to supervise each other, lest someone make a mistake if they were not strong-willed, and their throats were smoking, so that they each returned to work, and she herself returned to Erfu to report the results.

Seeing that Yaoqin was struggling to speak, Erfu smiled a little embarrassedly, pointed to a lid jar on the side, and said softly: "Actually, it's not that serious, it's still about half a year, besides, I'm just a deep girl, you are all inconspicuous servants, even if someone wants to go the way, I'm afraid they won't work our side, you don't need to be so nervous, it's almost enough."

There's fat sea and mint in the jar over there, so take it down and soak some water to drink!"

(To be continued.) )