Chapter 99 Huizhou Tan? Picking Inkstone
The bad guy left, and Li Luotang had time to talk to Gu Tingqing, "Gu Tingqing, thank you. If it weren't for you, I would have been captured by them."
She can escape, but the two maids will definitely be caught.
"They, you have to be careful." Gu Tingshi wanted to ask who they were, but he changed his words.
"I can." Li Luotang looked around, "Where is your female companion?"
"She's back home." Gu Ting paused, "She is my cousin, she is spoiled by her cousin's aunt and is not very sensible."
"I just looked at the inkstone and didn't want to buy it." Li Luotang smiled, "Your cousin, she is quite cute."
cute?
Gu Tingqing didn't think so, but he didn't want to discuss with Li Luotang about his cousin who took advantage of the situation. "You buy inkstones and find an inkstone master to carve inkstones, which is more appropriate."
"But I don't know how to pick inkstones."
The inkstone has stone skin. Before peeling it, it is impossible to know whether the inkstone inside is good or bad. This is like gambling stones, but it is slightly better than gambling stones.
Sometimes there is no jade inside the gambling stone when it comes out, but there must be an inkstone inside.
"If you want, I can help you choose." Gu Tingxian said in a relaxed tone, but his hands were pinching the corner of his clothes.
Mingcui grinded her teeth on the side. Did Cuiliu go to drive a carriage or build a carriage? Why didn't she come yet? The lady is about to be kidnapped!
"Okay, please help me pick a few inkstones."
"No trouble." Gu Tingyi added silently, extremely happy.
Cuiliu showed up in the carriage, and Mingcui glared at her fiercely, making Cuiliu feel confused. When she knew that Gu Tingqing was going to accompany Li Luotang inkstone shop to pick up the inkstone stone, she knew why Mingcui glared at her?
But the person who just stayed with the lady was not her.
Gu Tingqi acted as the coachman, but he was wearing a moon-white dark patterned thin satin brocade robe. The handsome young man sat in the coachman's position, which looked very inconsistent.
The two maids and Li Luotang sat in the carriage, and the two maids were staring at each other.
Cuiliu thought Mingcui was so stupid.
It's hard to say that kid kidnaps the lady to go to other places.
Miss Guai went to the Inkstone Shop, it was obvious that she could stop her.
Do you need to go to the inkstone shop to buy inkstone?
No need.
The young master has an inkstone pit.
"What's wrong with you two? Are you feeling uncomfortable? Should you go to the clinic first and ask the eldest lady?" Li Luotang asked.
"I don't feel uncomfortable, don't look at the doctor." The two maids said in unison.
Soon, the carriage stopped outside the Yanshi Shop, and Gu Tingqiu jumped out of the carriage, "Li Luotang, we're here."
The car door opened, Li Luotang and Mingcui got out, Cuiliu stepped forward, and drove the carriage into the alley.
As soon as I entered the store, I saw a lot of stones of all sizes.
Li Luotang saw an inkstone, one person tall and half a width. "If such a large stone is made into an inkstone, how much ink should be filled with? There is so much ink, so many inks, I can't finish it for a few days."
Gu Tingxin chuckled and said, "The inkstone made from this inkstone is not used, but is for viewing."
"Putting such a large inkstone at home must be a cultural person." Li Luotang joked.
Cultural people?
The smile on Gu Ting's face became deeper.
Then the two went to the pile of small stones and selected inkstones.
"There is no fake inkstone in this store, so there is no need to worry about not being able to pick up the inkstone." Gu Tingxu said.
"What is a fake inkstone?" Li Luotang asked humbly.
"If you scrape the inkstone with a knife, you can only scrape a thin mark. The fake inkstone can easily scrape out a large piece of dust." Gu Tingqing picked up a inkstone.
The guy handed over a knife, Gu Ting slapped it on the inkstone, and gently scraped it out, scraping a thin mark.
"How do you think it is an old inkstone or a new inkstone?" Li Luotang continued to ask for advice.
The old inkstone is better than the new inkstone. She knows this, but how to distinguish it, but I don’t know.
"Although people all think that the old inkstone is better than the new inkstone, it is not the case." Gu Tingqing smiled slightly, "The quality of the inkstone is related to the inkstone pit, but has nothing to do with the old and new."
"What does that have to do with it?" Li Luotang asked.
"It is related to the material quality. The inkstone with too much sand and mud can be made into a clear water inkstone." Gu Ting smiled.
"Even coarse sand inkstone cannot make fine sand inkstones." Li Luotang continued with a smile.
"That's right." Gu Ting touched the inkstone on his hand, "This inkstone is evenly soft and hard, and has a moderate weight. Should I open it out and take a look?"
"Okay." Li Luotang agreed happily.
After agreeing to the price, I asked the shop's shop to peel off the stone. This is a piece of rib stone.
The texture of the stone is as beautiful as silk, giving people a crystal clear and simple beauty.
This is still a fine rib, which is very suitable for carving and is also extremely ink-producing.
"Gu Tingxian, you have a good vision." Li Luotang smiled so hard that he couldn't stop. He bought a good inkstone for thirty taels of silver and made a profit!
"Luck." Gu Tingxian said modestly.
"Let's pick a few more pieces." Li Luotang said with great enthusiasm.
As she wished, Gu Tingxiao picked three more for her. One of them was peeled off the stone and found that it was a Venus stone, a raindrop Venus.
An old saying goes: Venus is the most important thing in Sheyan stone.
Because this stone is not big, it only cost fifteen taels of silver.
If it is carved into an inkstone, it will cost at least one hundred taels of silver.
"Picking up a bargain, I picked up a big bargain." Li Luotang jumped happily.
Gu Tingqiu looked at her flowery smile and showed a bright and sunny smile. Seeing her so happy, he was also full of joy.
The guy said there is an inkstone maker in the store who can make inkstones.
"Let's talk about it when I think about it." Li Luotang had not decided on the pattern yet.
After coming out of the inkstone shop, Li Luotang smelled the aroma of food, "Gu Tingqing, let's go eat, I'll treat you."
Before Gu Ting opened his mouth and had time to speak, Li Luotang added, "Just like thank you for helping me choose the inkstone."
"good."
While the two of them went to find the shop, Li Luotang complained to Gu Tingxian, "Those people are so annoying. I just finished halfway through lunch, and they broke in. I wasn't full."
Suddenly thinking of something, Li Luotang turned his head and asked Cuiliu, "Did you check out?"
"It's over." Cui Liu replied.
"It's so annoying to disturb people's dining and to disturb people's dreams." Li Luotang said angrily.
"Yes." Gu Tingqiu agreed.
They found a small shop selling food, and Li Luotang said, "The good things come back to the bottom, and the delicious food is lingering. The truly delicious food is actually hidden in these street shops."
This store sells meat sauce, which uses water dough to squeeze pastry and pastry dough to make the skin, which is covered with soybean flour and diced pork.
"This meat is delicious. I want two, how many do you want?" Li Luotang looked at the roasted golden and shiny meat and swallowed his saliva.
"I want two, too."
The shop owner wrapped the meat with oil paper and handed it to the two of them, "A five cents."
Li Luotang paid the money, "Give them two more."
"Thank you, my son." said the two maids.
Li Luotang took the meat and bite it opens. It smells crispy and moisturized, and tastes delicious.
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Chapter completed!