Peerless luthier

The moon is bright and lonely tonight.

After taking a bath, Zhong Han sat by the window and practiced calligraphy.

As he wrote, his thoughts raced.

Back to today's dinner, what Han Yi said when he gave Xiaoyi a precious gift.

I remember that at that time, I was staring at Han Yi's face in a daze.

At that time, Zhong Han only felt that Han Yi's expression at the moment reminded him of that starry night many years ago.

Zhong Han involuntarily withdrew his gaze from afar, and looked down at his impetuous handwriting.

Zhong Yi sat in front of the desk, looking at the low-key, luxurious and connotative school supplies in the wooden box in a daze.

So exquisite, he thought in his heart: This set of pen, ink and inkstone is indeed top grade, the imprint was not seen clearly during the dinner, and only now did he find that there is a secret seal in the box—could it be a special offering specially presented to princes and dignitaries?

Recalling the smile on Prince Han's lips just now, Zhong Li couldn't help thinking: Prince Han is really generous.

Thinking of her father's reaction just now, Zhong Yi hesitated a little before this set of expensive gifts.

When going out, Prince Han turned his head and said to Zhong Yi: "In the future, you should practice calligraphy and read more books, copying the "Xihe Inscriptions" that I gave you before, you know?"

Zhong Yi's heart skipped a beat when she heard this: "Xihe Inscriptions", uh, I haven't practiced for a long time.

Zhong Yi could only nod obediently: "Understood, Xiao Yi will definitely practice calligraphy every day."

Lord Han nodded with satisfaction: "Next time I come, I will check and check, so don't be lazy."

Zhong Yi: "..."

It seems that it is going to be serious.

Thinking of this, Zhong Yi lit another lamp and started practicing tonight.

As for why Prince Han paid so much attention to the practice of calligraphy, we have to go through the dark history of Zhong Yi.

The cause was last winter, when Zhong Yi and Ah Li came back from the outside, they saw a string of plum blossom marks on the snow.

The owner of the footprints appeared smoothly in Zhong Yi's mind.

At this moment, I saw A Rong running wildly following the footprints of the small plum blossoms, holding a heavy skirt in one hand and a spatula in the other, with a fierce look on her face: "Greedy cat! You are stealing again! Go steal it! Go steal it again! You licked up all the master's fish soup!!"

Zhong Yi and Ah Li looked at each other: "..."

Judging from the number of repetitions by A Rong, it seems that something has happened to Huatian again.

Zhongyi usually doesn't intervene in disciplining Huatian, in Ah Li's words: because he is more likely to spoil it...

They then walked back to the room along the cobblestone path that had been mostly buried in the snow.Out of randomness, Zhong Yi stepped a few feet in the snow.

Seeing him, Ah Li walked a few steps, stopped, turned his head to Zhong Yi and said, "Go back to your room first, change your clothes later, go up to the second floor, and go to my bedroom."

Zhong Yi was curious: "What are you doing?"

Ah Li blinked and said with a smile: "Secret."

cut.

Zhong Yi snorted disdainfully, "If you don't make it clear, I won't do it."

Back in the courtyard, Zhong Yi put on a warm rabbit fur coat, turned out a large white fur collar, and read a book comfortably under the soft couch with hot tea. What a wonderful time.

At this time - "Xiaoyi!"

Tsk tsk, there was a pig crying, but he said he didn't hear it.

"Xiaoyi! Go upstairs!"

Zhong Yi turned a page of the book.

"Xiaoyi!"

Zhong Yi turned another page of the book.

……

Um?Why are you quiet?

Zhong Yi put down the book suspiciously, opened the window, and hissed—the cold wind came in, it was so cold, he closed the window immediately.

After thinking about it, he put on his boots and went upstairs.

Zhong Yi seldom went upstairs—usually Ah Li came down to find Zhong Yi, and then they went to Xiaozhulou.

The stairs are facing the center, and on the wall is a Jiangnan landscape map embroidered by my mother. It is very majestic and lively, and at the same time elegant and handsome, so Zhong Yi and Ah Li had a fierce competition at the beginning.

In the end, Dad announced that whoever performed best would be awarded based on their autumn test results.

Encouraged by the reward, Zhong Yi turned on the lamp to read every night, ahem, it’s not that exaggerated, but Zhong Yi did work hard at that time, and got into No.2 in the autumn exam, and No.1 was a teacher in their college His son, he himself forgot what his name was.

But Ah Li ranked first in Lancang Academy, and his total score was higher than that of Zhong Yi, so not a little bit.

Woohoo, Zhong Yi doesn't want to say anything more.

All in all, the embroidery of last night's reward has appeared here very unobtrusively.

On the left is the study room, and in the middle is a high-quality mahogany table. The Four Treasures of the Study and Daddy on the table were bought at Bai's house, and Zhong Yi also has a set.Behind the desk is a large wooden window, without carvings, but with plenty of light.

On the small platform under the wooden window is the sword that Ah Li usually used.

Against the left and right walls are two full cabinets of books connected to the ceiling at the top and the floor at the bottom.The books were neatly arranged. Zhong Yi tiptoed to touch the side of the upper book, and then bent down to touch the side of the lower book. There was no dust at all...

Looking at the drawers on the side of the bookcase, Ah Li usually puts some weird things in Zhong Yi's eyes.

Do you want to take a look?

Great opportunity, don't miss it!

Zhong Yi smiled slyly and opened the drawer—huh?empty?

He dug it and found a note.

Open it and look at Ah Li's words: "Those who turn over the drawer are Xiaoyi. Those who look through the drawer are lazy pigs."

"..."

Zhong Yi gritted her teeth and squeezed the note tightly.

Zhong Yi got up and walked angrily towards Ah Li's bedroom, pushed open the door, and a fresh and familiar smell rushed towards him.

Well, Zhong Yi sniffed, it was an indescribable smell from Ah Li, but it was indeed a pleasant smell.

Zhong Yi strode to the big window, condescendingly, and saw Ah Li standing in the snow.

Ah Li looked at Zhong Yi.

Zhong Yi stared and raised the note in his hand.

He squinted, grinned, and pointed to the snow beside him.

What do you mean?

It is rare for him to act so stupid, there must be a mystery.

Zhong Yi looked closely at the direction of his finger, and there seemed to be words written in the snow, which were made by stepping on it.

Well, it says: "Little...yi...little...pig..."

Zhong Yi: "..."

Ah Li waved at Zhong Yi and ran away.

Afterwards, Zhong Yi couldn't find him everywhere, so Zhong Yi angrily wrote "A Li's big villain", "A Li's big pig head"... etc. in the room to vent his anger, but... the king of Han walked unexpectedly There was no sound, so Prince Han successfully saw Zhong Xiaoyi's "dark side".

Han Yi raised his eyebrows, picked up the note written by Zhong Xiaoyi, and pointed at Zhong Yi's cursive with his slender and white fingers: "What word is this?"

Zhong Xiaoyi lowered her eyebrows and answered in a still soft voice: "Bad."

Han Yi nodded thoughtfully, and read while reading, "Ah...li...bad...bad...pig...head..."

He glanced at Zhong Xiaoyi, who had her head down, without showing any signs.

Then, he asked Zhong Xiaoyi: "What about this word?"

Zhong Xiaoyi looked at it, but hesitated to speak.

Prince Han pointed at the ghostly written character with his index finger wearing an emerald ring.

Zhong Xiaoyi blushed and said, "Fart."

Han Yi: "..."

In the end, my father found out about this matter, and classified it as a punishment for practicing calligraphy. After returning to the mansion, Prince Han actually asked his servant to send a copy of "Xihe Ruinhe".

"Xihe Stele Postings" was written by Zhang Xihe, a calligrapher of the previous generation, and it is a thick stack.The editors arrange in order according to the complexity of the strokes, the common use, and so on.Beginners only need to practice slowly according to the number of pages.

Zhong Yi has only practiced to page No.60, but the handwriting is indeed much better. Zhong Yi can't help but regret the past: If Zhong Yi's handwriting was better at the beginning, would she have scored higher in the autumn test?

It's a pity that Zhong Yi didn't persist for a long time. This year's autumn test is still not very perfect.

As Zhong Yi wrote, she looked up at the black wooden box quietly placed on the table.

Alas, it seems that calligraphy practice is indispensable recently.

Zhong Yi flipped through the inscriptions, and was particularly interested in the first few pages of golden paper.The same goes for Hanada, every time it comes back from the kitchen after running out of snacks, it usually takes a nap in the warm cat's nest under the sun, and finally saw the golden paper shining in the sun.

"Meow--"

Huatian stretched out his little white paw and touched it tentatively.

Zhong Yi understood: "Want?"

Hanada opened her big, round and bright eyes: "Meow——"

Zhong Yi fulfilled Huatian's wish and tore off a whole sheet for Huatian. He immediately happily ran back to the cat's nest with the gold paper in his mouth, lay down and hugged him well.

Later Ah Li came over: "Tsk tsk, it's too flashy."

After Zhong Yi heard this, he deliberately blinked at the sun even more frantically.

Ah Li frowned, covering his eyes with his hand: "Tsk, put it down."

Zhong Yi proudly said, "I won't."

After finally finding Ah Li's weakness, he swayed even harder.

Suddenly, Ah Li attacked Zhong Yi—tickling Zhong Yi.

……

Zhong Yi did not elaborate on the ensuing scuffle.

Anyway, Zhong Yi blasted him out in the end.

Now every time I open it, I can see that Ah Li has already written his signature in various fonts on Zhong Yi's shiny golden paper. Isn't it amazing that the handwriting is beautiful? !

Zhong Yi continued to flip angrily.

But on the last page of the shiny golden paper, he only wrote two italics characters: "Zhong Yi".

Zhong Yi: "..."

Zhong Yi flipped through the page in disbelief, carefully checked whether there were any small characters, searched over and over again, and indeed there were only these two carefully written italic characters.

In Zhong Yi's mind, Ah Li's appearance when he was smiling and his appearance when he was reading a book appeared in Zhong Yi's mind, and the thought that Ah Li was sometimes very gentle appeared in an instant.

It seems that I have to work hard!

School will start tomorrow. I heard that Yunying Academy is very strict. I don’t know if things like fighting crickets are allowed...

Zhong Yi thought about it and decided to forget it.

In a new environment, it is better to be obedient.

Zhong Yi turned off the light, lay on the bed, looked at Huatian's cat litter, there was already a slight purring sound coming from it, this lazy cat was able to sleep.

Zhong Yi bent the corner of his mouth.

There was no movement from upstairs. It seemed that Ah Li was either reading or sleeping, but at this point in time, he was more likely to be reading.

Zhong Yi calmed down and fell asleep.