All Hail Cousin Brother

Yu Youyao pursed her lips and glanced at the gift prepared by her cousin, reluctantly: "Forget it, since my cousin prepared a birthday present for me, I will forgive my cousin this time. No way."

After that, I couldn't wait to take the tattoo box in my cousin's hand.

Zhou Linghuai smiled, the little girl who was in love forgave him so quickly, because it was a birthday present prepared for him.

Yu Youyao stroked the pattern on the box, and then slowly opened it: "Cousin, you are coaxing me again!"

When her cousin gave her the Shoushantian Yellow Frozen Stone Pendant, she disliked her cousin's recklessness and didn't engrave her with a seal. What did her cousin say at that time?

"It is also the leftover scraps, and it is not easy to engrave a stamp and give it to my cousin." She remembered it clearly.

Who knows, she didn't understand the deeper meaning here.

It's not good to use the leftover scraps to engrave a stamp for her, but you can use the good materials on the side!

No, a piece of good peach blossom frozen stone stamp, didn't it come into her hands?

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, "precious stone and cheap jade", Shoushan Stone, also known as "Wan Shou Stone", is the most valuable engraving material, and the thumb-sized peach blossom frozen stone is rare in the world.

Among the four famous materials, Shoushan Stone, Qingtian Stone, Chicken Blood Stone and Balin Stone, Shoushan Stone ranks first, enjoying the reputation of "Stone Emperor" and "Stone Queen".

Cousin is so annoying!

Looking at the happy and annoyed expression on Yu Youyao's face, Zhou Linghuai couldn't help laughing: "It's not good to tell you in advance what birthday gift to give."

Yu Youyao was so excited that she carefully held the engraved seal with both hands in her hands, got close, looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but marvel: "It's really beautiful, shiny as fat, bright in color, with fine red dots, different shades, but sparse. It’s dense and dense.” She raised her hand again and raised her eyes to take a closer look: “It’s the gathering and dispersing of sentient beings, the shades are hidden, the dots are distinct, like the peach blossoms falling on the water in March, staring at it, as if Movement is not movement, like flowers floating in the water, delicate and beautiful, and like the peach blossom sky filled with rain, the color is brilliant, just like what is written in the book."

The cousin's carving skills are ingenious. The small pieces of peach blossom frozen stone are carved into a beautiful beauty, and a cluster of apricot flowers blooms on the branches.

She opened the bottom, and the apricot pattern was also engraved on it.

Yu Youyao felt that the apricot pattern was complex and beautiful, and when he looked carefully, he saw that it was famous: "Cousin, you actually engraved the apricot pattern into flower fonts."

Sisters in the upper class like to do this kind of tricks, tossing their names into beautiful flower bodies, and writing letters with other people's families, they write flower body names, which looks good-looking and elegant. I didn't expect my cousin to do such a trick. .

Yu Youyao hurriedly set her eyes to try to identify: "Yu, You, Yao," her eyes lit up, and she exclaimed again, "It's my name!"

Zhou Linghuai nodded: "Well, my daughter's family chose the word table to show the importance of the family, and it is often used frequently. Most of the correspondence with people is also under the taboo of my own name."

It is also a scholarly family that pays attention to it. Some noble families only take a symbolic word for women and 笄, and some do not even take a word for the table.

He engraved the little girl's name and the words on the table. The peach blossom frozen stone, which is a little bigger than the thumb, can't stand so many engravings, and it looks rigid and ugly.

It was engraved with floral fonts.

Yu Youyao was overjoyed. In the middle of the apricot flower pattern, there were two official script characters, which were exactly the two characters "Zhiyao", which were hers.

She suddenly thought that her cousin had asked her if she had taken the form, and at that time, she told her mother the form she had taken for her before she died.

Thinking like this, Yu Youyao also asked: "Cousin, has this engraved seal been prepared for a long time?"

Zhou Linghuai's expression paused, and he said, "I'm good at these things, and I didn't spend too much time."

Seal carving is much more difficult than carving. Therefore, there are many master carvers in the world, but there are few seal carvers, and even fewer are famous. This peach blossom frozen stone requires not only seal carving, but also carving, which is even more difficult. He spent a long time, from cutting, carving, engraving, to seal carving, almost every process is a delicate job, and the slightest difference is ruined.

He had been carving a bunch of apricot flowers for a month. During this period, the apricot flowers were in full bloom. He sat under the apricot tree, observing the shape of the apricot flowers, holding the Kunwu knife, and sculpting bit by bit...

"Cousin, you lied!" Yu Youyao murmured her lips, with an expression of "I've seen through you, you can't try to coax me again!".

Zhou Linghuai smiled and said nothing.

"I remember my cousin asked me about my name before." Having said that, the little girl looked at her cousin with an expression of "I remember it all, you don't want to deny it", and then said: "It was my cousin who was there before. In my study, I wrote that cursive script, and I thought I liked it, so I asked my cousin to ask for it, and said I would embroider the fan face and exchange it with my cousin.”

She looked at her cousin triumphantly, with a look of "Look, I really remember".

Seeing that Zhou Linghuai was amused, there was a smile on his pale lips.

Yu Youyao continued: "At that time, my cousin took the Shoushantian Huangjingshi private seal. As soon as I saw the private seal, I liked it. My cousin asked me if I liked it. I said I liked it, and my cousin asked me for the name."

She remembers everything big and small with her cousin.

Zhou Linghuai's breathing was slightly stagnant, but she didn't expect her to remember it so clearly.

Yu Youyao pursed her lips and said, "Cousin must have planned to engrave a seal for me since then. Although it has been a long time, you see, I remember it clearly. Cousin can't fool me."

This Peach Blossom Frozen Stone Seal was completed by my cousin, who spent a long time slowly carving and carving the seal.

Zhou Linghuai smiled: "I happen to have a rare peach blossom frozen stone in my hand, and I feel that you should prefer the beauty of the peach blossom frozen stone more than the yellow frozen stone."

The best peach blossom jelly is even more rare than the yellow jelly.

This piece collected by Mr. Xianyun is the best, with a texture like beeswax, with the six virtues of fineness, knot, moisturizing, greasy, warm and condensing, dazzling and charming.

It is unique in the world, and it is hard to find in the world.

Yu Youyao smiled sweetly and softly: "Cousin knows me best!"

Zhou Linghuai took a breath and said, "I also wish my cousin a plump and beautiful day and night, beautiful and glorious at night, and Chinese in her heart to be Mu Qingxi, cover Zhongling and be beautiful. Every year is this evening, and the days and the months are long, and the years are beautiful. Today, the stars are far away."

Yu Youyao looked at her cousin without blinking, listening to her cousin's birthday speech, and suddenly said, "I only hope that tomorrow, like today, people will always be there every year."

She hopes that on every birthday in the future, her cousin will always be by her side.