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The Min family started a new day of life.

Min Xiang stood there watching Xiao Ru'er wash himself, seeing that he was about to wet his sleeves in the basin, so he reminded him, "Sleeves."

Xiao Ru'er quickly rolled up her sleeves a little higher, her thin white arm looked like a piece of tender lotus root, her little hand was twisting the towel, but the water couldn't be wrung out, but Min Xiang didn't help, so he asked him to use it again Wash your face with a wet towel.

After experiencing family failure, Min Xiang understands that it is more important for Xiao Ru'er to learn to survive on her own, and there is no way to raise Xiao Ru'er the same way she used to raise him in the past as the nanny thought.

Xiao Ru'er washed himself, his white and tender face seemed to be shining in the twilight morning light, he closed his eyes and raised his head to let Min Xiang see if he was clean, and said , "Daddy, wash up."

Min Xiangdao, "Well, it's clean, go and touch the grease and lip gloss yourself, don't spill things, I'll check it later."

Xiao Ru'er happily threw the towel into the basin, and ran into the bedroom. Min Xiang also washed up, and followed Xiao Ru'er in to see him. Climbing on the chair and looking in the mirror, he felt that everything was all right. Min Xiang touched his face and said, "Today is so good, I took care of everything myself."

Xiao Ru'er smiled at him.

Min Xiang opened the box of hand cream again, and asked Xiao Ru'er to dig some out of it and put it on his hands. Min Xiang also wiped his face, and then took his son out.

The sun was about to climb up from the eastern sky, and the morning light pierced through the mist, lighting up everywhere. Min Xiang sat on a chair under the eaves, listening to Xiao Ru'er recite yesterday's homework, which was the sentences in the Analects of Confucius, and then listening to Xiao Ru'er. Ru'er explained it by herself, and now, Aunt Gu and A Shun came back after shopping, A Shun carried a lot of things in the back basket, and Aunt Gu still carried a basket in her hand.

Now Xiao Ru'er could no longer settle down in front of Min Xiang to endorse, her eyes followed Aunt Gu, and Min Xiang said, "Go."

He happily ran to Aunt Gu, "Grandma, what did you buy today?"

Ah Shun said with a smile, "Young master is really good today, even the endorsement sounds smooth to me."

Xiao Ru'er chuckled, her eyes were on the pannier on his back.

Aunt Gu said, "Is there anything delicious in this season? I bought some pickles, but the pickles here are not good enough, so I can only make them myself in the future. I also bought suet and boiled the oil, and I also bought flour. Cabbage is not good at this time." It’s gone, there are tofu and bean sprouts, nothing else.”

When Xiao Ru'er heard that it was all food she didn't like, her little face wrinkled into a ball, "Grandma, is there nothing else? What's in your basket?"

Aunt Gu opened the basket with a smile, and let Xiao Ru'er look at it by herself. Seeing the big snow-white meat buns inside, he cheered, "It's meat buns."

As she spoke, she reached out to grab it, and Mrs. Gu said, "Take one and eat, these will be steamed before serving."

Xiao Ru'er held a big meat bun and ate it, came to Min Xiang and said, "Daddy, do you want to eat?"

It seemed that he wanted to give him something to eat, Min Xiang said, "No."

Then he ran into the main room to eat for Min Changqing who was wiping the strings, "Second Uncle, do you want to eat?"

Min Changqing was also very happy to see that he broke off some white dough to feed himself. He opened his mouth to let him feed it to himself, and stroked his hair, "Xiao Ru'er learning to play the piano?"

Xiao Ru'er looked at the qin that Min Changqing brought from the capital, shook her head, and said, "If you don't learn, it hurts to play it."

Min Changqing asked, "Is it really that painful?"

Xiao Ru'er nodded solemnly.

The whole family had breakfast, Min Xiangmin, Changqing and Xiao Ru'er ate at the same table in the living room, while Mrs. Gu and the two servants ate in the kitchen. In fact, there was no such distinction before, but since there were two servants at home, Gu The aunt insisted on doing this.

Such a family hierarchy, Min Xiang thinks she will think of the glory of the Wu family back then. Seeing how she misses the past, he can't say anything about her, so he can only let it go.

After breakfast, Aunt Gu and Guizi were busy in the kitchen, Ah Shun was helping at home, Min Xiang and Min Changqing took Xiao Ru'er to Yunzhou City for shopping.

Xiao Ru'er first ran to say goodbye to Aunt Gu, and turned around every step, "Grandma, we're leaving, we won't be back until afternoon, you should fry some salted beans and sweet beans."

Aunt Gu said, "I know, dear grandson, follow your father well, don't lose it."

Xiao Ru'er nodded, ran over to hold Min Xiang's hand, and the three of them left the house together.

The hired carriage had already arrived at the gate. Min Xiang carried Xiao Ru'er into the carriage and got on himself. Min Changqing just went up. The coachman was also from the town. The town is not big and the population is small. Almost everyone knew each other, so he said, "Young master." Are you going to the city to buy something?"

Min Changqing replied, "Well, buy some things."

The carriage drove past the main street of the town, and Xiao Ru'er was lying on the window looking out. At this time, the sun had just come out, and the town was already lively. There were many carriages and pedestrians, and children were chasing and playing in the street. Xiao Ru'er Looking forward to watching them playing spinning top.

He pulled La Minxiang's sleeve and said, "Daddy, that."

Min Xiang had no choice but to ask him what happened. Xiao Ru'er pointed to the spinning top that the children were playing with. Min Xiang looked at it and said, "It will make the clothes dirty, no."

Xiao Ru'er pouted unhappily, and Min Changqing came over and pinched his cheek, and said, "You eat the candy. Don't pout, you want to hang a jug on it."

Xiao Ru'er heard that there was something to eat, so she was no longer interested in the spinning top, and said, "I want a dragon, and I want a phoenix."

Min Changqing said, "Xiao Ru'er is so smart, she knows how to do both."

Min Xiangdao, "He just thinks these two are bigger."

Min Changqing just laughed, Xiao Ru'er hummed and said that he was not as delicious as his father said.

There is a wide carriageway from Xinyan Town to Yunzhou City, but at the entrance of the town, he almost collided with another carriage. The carriage shook, and Min Xiang hurriedly protected his son.

The coachman gave the carriage to the side and let the other carriage go first. They looked out the window and saw that there were four carriages in this family, and there was a cart with luggage behind them. Min Xiang said, "This is for Moving."

The coachman said in the front, "It is said that the higher-ups are going to strictly investigate the illegal salt business below, and some of them moved out first, probably because they are afraid of accidents."

Min Xiang was taken aback for a moment. He only read the books of sages at home. He sometimes drew some pictures and didn’t go out much.

The coachman said, "However, illegal salt cannot be banned, otherwise how can we eat cheap salt? If illegal salt is banned, the price of salt will only be higher."

Min Xiangdao, "The imperial court has always set the price of this salt, but it is not high. It is the local government and salt merchants who have raised the price to make the official salt price high. They also sell private salt. From here, the imperial court has 200 million yuan a year. The loss of salt tax of more than two yuan. The Ming Dynasty government set the price of salt low, and the salt price was still high when the people bought it. It does not mean that the price of salt will rise after the ban on private salt. Only by raising the price can everyone buy salt at a lower price.”

The coachman didn't understand what Min Xiang said, and said, "The old man can't understand what the young master said. I just hope that the price of salt will stop rising."

From Xinyan Town to Yunzhou City, the carriage drove slowly all the way on the road, and it took more than an hour to arrive. When we went out, the sun was just born. At this time, the sun had already risen, and the fog on the road finally cleared, which made people feel warmth.

Along the way, there are tall elm trees and pagoda trees on both sides of the road. The elm trees are growing elms, and the pagoda trees are blooming, but they are not in full bloom yet. The elm trees are a piece of pink and tender emerald green. Decorate the tree white.

There are paddy fields on both sides of a large section of the road. You can see the scene of farmers plowing the fields. The mulberry trees in the field are also growing leaves. Press down to the surface.

Such a beautiful scenery, even Xiao Ru'er forgot to eat.

When the carriage approached Yunzhou City, there were already various shops on the side of the road, selling food, selling supplies, for passers-by to sharpen, wine shop, tofu shop, cloth shop, casino...

There are also small businesses, carrying burdens and selling along the way.

Seeing so many food sold outside, Xiao Ru'er couldn't sit still in the car. If it wasn't for his father's expressionless face, which seemed to be in a bad mood, he would have called to get out of the car to buy food.

The carriage drove in from the west gate of Yunzhou City, and the driver stopped at the carriage station. After the three of the Min family got out of the carriage, Min Changqing took the parcel and paid the bill with copper coins, said goodbye to the driver, and made an appointment to sit here with him in the afternoon. car.

Xiao Ru'er was held in Min Xiang's arms, maybe it was because he always had to take care of Xiao Ru'er, Min Xiang's strength was not as small as he seemed, first he went to buy sugar figurines for Xiao Ru'er to eat, To save him from struggling, he went to an antique shop again. When he arrived at the front of the hall, the clerk saw him and greeted him, "Master, you are here."

Leading the three of the Min family to the back hall, the shopkeeper came over to say hello to Min Xiang. Min Changqing handed the roll of unmounted paintings wrapped in cloth to the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper took it and spread it out on the large painting table. , one by one look.

Min Xiang didn't care about his appreciation, and he only disciplined his son, "Don't get sugar sprinkles on your clothes."

As he spoke, he took out a towel and wiped his mouth and palms for him.

As long as Xiao Ru'er has something to eat, she can talk about anything, so she obediently asks her father to clean it.

He is so gluttonous that he didn't grow into a little fat man, he was still a thin and small one, not too tall, but his cheeks were chubby.

After looking at the painting, the shopkeeper said, "I have seen the real painting of this painting more than 20 years ago, and I only glanced at it at that time. The current one is almost indistinguishable from the old one. If there is no real thing, I really want to think that you are copying and painting with the real thing."

There are fakes of this painting, there are copies, and there are also paintings based on speculation. Well, it is natural that the fake can be confused with the real one, and even the artistic value itself is very high.

Min Xiang's paintings include both copies and conjectures. He was born in a wealthy family and grew up in the court. He is also very keen on painting. He has seen and copied many famous works. Such a rare insight and Work hard to make his painting skills superb and proficient, with lofty intentions, and a strong ability to distinguish the authenticity of calligraphy and paintings. According to Ke shopkeeper, who has been in the antique business for decades and has sharp eyes and experience, a character like him, Min Xiang's painting skills, thoughts and ideas are not inferior to any well-known north and south famous artists in the world. Not only that, even many famous painters in the past can't hold a candle to them. Mind, it seems that as long as you have money, you can't see the character at all, but in the painting, it's either strong, or elegant and distant, fading out of the world.It's quite different from him.

After listening to the shopkeeper's praise, Min Xiang didn't have much emotion. He just said, "I saw a real product once before by chance, so I can just copy it. It's good that shopkeeper Ke likes it."

Shopkeeper Ke looked at all the paintings, and then accepted them all. He told Min Xiang in detail what he wanted next time, and made fine or coarse or fine fine paper for different purposes, and paint brushes. They were all handed over to Min Xiang to take them away, but Min Xiang said, "We still have to buy some things in the city, and we can come back to pick them up when we go back in the afternoon."

Shopkeeper Ke said, "Then let's stay for lunch."

Min Xiang refused, "Thank you for your kindness, shopkeeper, but we still have something to do."

Shopkeeper Ke gave Min Xiang the money as he said before, and the Min family left.

It was almost noon, and the family went to a restaurant for lunch.