In the evening, Xue Huan and Pei Ji returned with a full load.
In addition to antiques, Xue Huan also bought several pieces of cloth and some embroidery thread. The embroidery thread was given to her by her mother for embroidery.
The cloth was for Xue's mother to make new clothes for everyone in the family.
She had noticed before that Xue Yao's pants were exposed at his ankles. He was at the age of growing up. Since Xue Huan came, the quality of the family's food had improved several levels, and he ate more every day.
Coupled with the effect of the spiritual spring water, he grew up very fast. Compared with a few months ago, he was much taller.
In fact, it was not just Xue Yao. Xue Jun's health was also visibly better. His cheeks were no longer pale and bloodless, but became much healthier and rosier.
Most of the illness in her body had dissipated. If she walked out without saying anything, who would tell that she was actually sick?
Even Xue Huan herself had grown a few centimeters taller, and her original clothes were a little too small for her, especially the tight-fitting ones, which could no longer fit her.
In fact, there were a lot of cloths in her space, all stored in the Qian Mansion's warehouse, but those cloths were relatively expensive silks, not to mention the country families, even some wealthy families might not be able to afford them, so she couldn't take them out.
Xue Huan also arranged the several antiques that were bought one by one. She took the bronze horse back to Xue Yao's room and placed it as a decoration, which matched the puppet figure perfectly.
After washing and drying the ancient copper coins, he found a red string to string them together and tied it around Xue Jun's wrist. Xue Jun liked it very much.
Give Pei Ji the rattle to play with.
Pei Ji was not very happy. He was already four years old, why was he still playing with rattles? However, he still took the rattle into the room and stuffed it under his pillow.
As for the painting, Xue Huan gave it to her mother. "Mom, I always feel that there is something wrong with this painting. It has traces of aging. Please take a look."
Xue's mother spread the painting on the table and looked at it carefully, and Xue Jun followed suit.
Finally, Pei Ji discovered something was wrong. "This painting is pasted on. The real painting is underneath."
After he said this, Xue's mother found it was true. She took out needle and thread and peeled off the fake and crude drawing paper on top.
"Stone Bridge!" Xue's mother exclaimed when the true appearance of the painting underneath was revealed.
Xue Huan: "Stone Bridge?"
The others were also puzzled.
Xue's mother calmed down and explained to everyone the origin of the "Stone Bridge Picture".
Meng Jiao once wrote a poem called "The Stone Bridge on Lanke Mountain", which goes like this: "The woodcutter returns home, his axe and handle rotten in the wind, only the stone bridge remains, still towering in crimson."
The stone bridge in "Stone Bridge Picture" is the stone bridge on Lankao Mountain.
Many people know the legend that a woodcutter on Lankao Mountain watched an immortal play chess. After a game of chess, the axe he used to chop wood had rotted away. The stone bridge is located at the top of Lankao Mountain.
It is called a stone bridge, but it is actually a long naturally formed boulder that spans the mountain peaks and clouds. The scenery here is superb and is known as a fairyland. After visiting it, the Tang Dynasty painter Zhang Xuan returned and created the "Stone Bridge Picture" based on the fairyland of the stone bridge.
Zhang Xuan presented the painting to his lord, who in turn presented it to Emperor Xuanzong, who in turn gave it to his favorite minister, Gao Lishi. After that, the Tang Dynasty experienced more than forty years of turmoil, and Stone Bridge was lost in the mists of history.
Who could have expected that this famous painting in history would see the light of day again in this way after hundreds of years.
After listening to Xue's mother's story, Xue Huan felt quite sad, but she also noticed another point.
Xue's mother must not have come from an ordinary family, right? How could the daughter of an ordinary family know such historical secrets?
In the original owner's memory, he often heard Old Lady Xue scold Mother Xue as a vixen, shameless, and eloped with Father Xue without a matchmaker or engagement. Mother Xue would always feel sad for a while after hearing this, but she didn't say anything.
The story of a fox spirit is definitely nonsense. It is possible that Xue's mother had some irreconcilable conflict with her family, which led her to get together with Xue's father.
However, since Xue's mother never told her children about it, it meant that she had completely cut off ties with her past life, and there was no need for her to ask any further questions.
Anyway, it’s enough to live in the present.
Xue Yao looked at the painting on the table. He couldn't tell what was so good about it, but he thought it was beautiful. "Mom, this must be very valuable, right?"
An antique from hundreds of years ago.
Xue's mother gave him a sly look, "How can you value a painting like this, a masterpiece passed down from generation to generation, with money? It must be a priceless treasure."
It was a priceless treasure. Everyone was stunned.
Pei Ji, on the other hand, was very calm. After all, most of the rare treasures in the world were collected by the royal family. There were countless rare treasures in the royal treasury. A painting was nothing.
Xue's mother really didn't know what to do with such a precious painting. If she put it in a box, she was afraid it would be eaten by insects or destroyed by rats. If she didn't put it away, she was afraid it would be stolen.
Xue Huan: "Mom, let's just hang it up openly. No one would have guessed that the painting we'd be hanging up so openly would be the legendary 'Stone Bridge Picture'."
Xue's mother thought about it and realized that it was indeed true. Who would have thought that a farmhouse would have a masterpiece hanging in its house? Even if a thief came and saw it, he wouldn't touch it.
From then on, there was a painting of "Stone Bridge" in the main hall of the Xue family.
At first, Xue Huan and others treated the painting with caution, but after a while they got used to it and no longer paid much attention to it.
Of course, this is a later story.
That night, Xue Huan and Pei Ji took Da Hei to the vegetable garden a few miles away to keep watch as usual.
The peppers in the garden are growing well. Each plant is green and upright, and has already bloomed. I believe that they will produce peppers soon.
The harvest is just around the corner.
The thorn hedges around the garden had also grown into a mature structure. Each thorn was as thick as a little finger, tangled together, and covered with densely packed sharp thorns, which looked scary.
Xue Huan has tried it and found that the spiritual springs irrigated with diluted spiritual springs are incredibly strong. Even if they are cut with a knife or an axe, it will take a while to cut them.
And they can suck blood!
Once a living thing approaches, they will wrap themselves around the prey and suck its blood.
The more dangerous these thorns are, the safer the vegetable garden will be.
But fearing that these thorns would attack indiscriminately, Xue Huan did some experiments and found that as long as she wore a piece of thorn vine on her body, the thorns would not attack her.
From now on, anyone who dares to steal vegetables will find himself in a forest of blood-sucking thorns.
Xue Huan was looking forward to this.
After Pei Ji fell asleep, Xue Huan quietly came out of the straw hut and dived towards Shangyang Lake not far away.
When she heard the old man today say that the bronze horse was fished out of Shangyang Lake, she decided to go down to the bottom of the lake to take a look.
Her demand for spiritual springs is increasing day by day. Although she found several objects containing purple energy today, which temporarily satisfied the Five Elements Beads, it is still far from enough.
She needs to find more things containing purple energy and store more spiritual springs.
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