When Cao Yi opened the box, everyone found that there were three small boxes inside, one big, two small.

Mrs. Qin and Ya Niang couldn't help but smile. Cao Yi, a child, has a slight personality and is different from other teenagers. The same is true for giving a gift. The big box contains a small box...

Cao Yi took out the largest wooden box from it, handed it to Mr. Lu, and said with a smile: "Old Lu, do you like the Dragon Tail Inkstone given by Youwei very much?"

Old Lu raised his eyebrows: "What? Could it be that what you gave me is also an inkstone?"

"Hehe, it's almost the same!" Cao Yi handed the box with both hands and put it on Old Lu's hand: "You can tell if you look at it!"

After taking the box, Mr. Lu secretly weighed it with his hand, "It seems that it is not very heavy, it shouldn't be an inkstone?" Mr. Lu thought to himself.

Then, under the gaze of everyone, he opened the wooden box and placed two pieces of wood chips inside. The surface was carved with broken branches, flowers, birds, beasts, insects and fish, which looked very beautiful.

"This is..." Mr. Lu first looked carefully, then raised his head to look at Cao Yi, with an unconscious smile on his face and asked, "Is this a lacquer sand inkstone and inkstone box?"

"Well! It's made of high-quality nanmu, and it's carved by Yangzhou lacquerware..." Cao Yi nodded with a smile, then looked at Mr. Lu and said, "Mr. Lu, how about you, are you satisfied?"

Although Mr. Lu was very happy inside, he still restrained his joyful expression on the surface and nodded faintly: "It's okay, it's okay..."

After receiving Yu Youwei's Dragon Tail Inkstone, Cao Yi gave him a lacquered sand inkstone and an inkstone box. The combination of the two gifts is very suitable. It just so happened that the dragon Tail Inkstone given by Yu Youwei was able to pack the inkstone box.

"You two have already agreed to buy it after you buy it?" asked Mr. Lu. The main thing was that the two parties bought something, which happened to form a set, which was too complementary.

Yu Youwei shook her head and said with a smile: "No, adoptive father, we all bought our own good products. In Yangzhou, we are very busy, and we basically do our own things. When we buy things, we sell them by ourselves. My son and I didn't discuss and communicate. After we arrived in Jiangning, we asked each other if we had bought gifts for our mother and adoptive father..."

"In this way, you have a good understanding and can understand without placing it. It's very humorous!" Mr. Lu gently stroked his long beard and nodded.

Cao Yi raised his eyebrows indifferently, and there was no feeling. Yu Youwei lowered her head shyly because Old Lu said, and her cheeks were flushed. Ya Niang and Mrs. Qin also looked at Yu Youwei with a smile on her face.

"Boy Cao Yi, I am quite pleased that you have brought me a gift. I know how to be filial to the teacher. I just don't know what gift you brought to the two master's wife?" Old Lu looked at Cao Yi with a smug smile on his face.

As soon as Mr. Lu finished speaking, Mrs. Qin and Ya Niang spat. As expected, as Cao Yi said, such a teacher actually openly asked his disciples for gifts. After his gift was finished, he asked his two wives for gifts. It was really... Cao Yi said it was really right.

Mrs. Qin and Ya Niang were thinking about this in their hearts, but they also knew that their master was like this only in front of Cao Yi. Maybe when they were old and met their favorite juniors, they would really become old naughty boys.

Everyone clearly saw a large box with two small boxes

Since the big box was given to the master, the two young ones must have given to Mrs. Qin and Ya Niang. They have already already, but you still have to take the initiative to ask for it. Facing the behavior of your master, Mrs. Qin and Ya Niang don’t know what to say.

"Hehe, Mr. Lu, don't be anxious, I'll give it to you right away!" Cao Yi smiled, then took out two small boxes from the wooden box again, opened one of them and checked for confirmation, and handed them to Mrs. Qin and Yaniang respectively.

"Boy, I am very easy to buy Mr. Lu's gifts. As long as they are something that scholars like, Mr. Lu also likes them, but he really doesn't have any good ideas about the gifts of the two master's wives, so I just prepared two very small gifts. I hope that the two master's wives will not dislike them."

Mrs. Qin and Ya Niang smiled and said, "As long as it is given to you, we all like it!"

"You two open it and see, what kind of gift this brat said is, maybe it's just a perfunctory gift." Old Lu yelled from the side.

Mrs. Qin and Ya Niang looked at Mr. Lu helplessly, then opened the box, which was placed in the box with two combs... and a faint fragrance came out.

The purple-red material has strands of gold-shaped water patterns. With the fragrance, it is obviously a very precious small-leaf red sandalwood. This kind of wood is only available in the Zhuluo Kingdom. Moreover, sandalwood itself is a precious wood species, while red sandalwood is the crown of sandalwood, and small-leaf red sandalwood is even more rare and expensive.

Therefore, there are even less small-leaf wisteria trees circulating in the territory of Dayan, and this is why there is an inch of red sandalwood and an inch of gold.

"Although this...the material is good, the knife skills...thum!" Old Lu looked at the two combs, curled his lips and complained.

"These two combs were not made by apprentices, right? Cao Yi, didn't you give feedback to the store. Such good wood is so good that it doesn't have any skills at all. It's just a newly-entered apprentice who is ruined..." Old Lu leaned closer to watch, then spoke, pointing at the two wooden combs at the same time.

"Look, although the comb has been ground, there are still potholes in some places, not that round and smooth. Look at the carved decorations on it. This is a lotus? I almost didn't recognize it..." Mr. Lu then pointed to the box in Yaniang's hand and continued, "Is this a sweet osmanthus?"

"It's the osmanthus." Ya Niang couldn't help but laugh. She liked the osmanthus very much, so she recognized it. In addition, Cao Yishuo specially opened it before, and then distributed it to her elder sister and herself. Obviously, she found out that she liked the osmanthus and the elder sister liked the lotus, so she focused on picking it out.

But... this carving is indeed a bit... Ya Niang also finds it a bit funny.

"Boy Cao Yi, you are not going to buy these two combs. Is it enough money to buy wood? The rest of the production, polishing and carving are all found to be the cheapest or free apprentice to make it?" Lu Laomi looked at Cao Yi with a squint, his eyes full of uncontrollable jokes and smiles.

Cao Yi touched his nose awkwardly, and asked with a heartbreaking heart: "Is it really that bad?"

"Don't doubt it, it's just that bad!" Old Lu said with a smile. He was so happy to see Cao Yi make a fool of himself.

When Cao Yi turned to look at Yu Youwei, the latter nodded slightly. Obviously, she also felt that the craftsmanship and carving were indeed not matched with this expensive wood.

This time, Cao Yi finally realized the fact, that the appearance of these two combs is indeed quite ugly. He said to Mrs. Qin and Ya Niang a little embarrassedly: "Two master's wives, I'm not good at crafting this kid, I have tried my best to make it. You two make do with it. If you really can't use it, then put it aside and leave it as a souvenir..."

"What? You said you made these two combs by yourself?" Mr. Lu asked in surprise.

"Well! Because I don't know what gifts to buy for the two master's wives, I later saw the rosewood. Because it was not very big, I thought it was suitable to make two combs, so I bought them and did it myself." Cao Yi smiled a little embarrassedly at the two master's wives.

"But... Young Master, where did you get the time... You were so busy in Yangzhou before..." Yu Youwei was also extremely surprised, because Cao Yi was always very busy like them before, and she was responsible for coordinating and controlling the general direction internally, while on the outside, she was responsible for socializing and other things. She basically went out in the morning and returned to the prefectural palace in the evening. Could it be that the days after the restaurant opened?

But wasn’t the young master busy with social engagements during those days? But he often ate and drank with talented men and some celebrities and powerful men in Yangzhou until very late, and was drunk when he came back. Yu Youwei knew that Hongxiu would wait for the young master to come back and take a shower and change clothes before going to bed, so Hongxiu was very tired those days.

"Actually, this wood happened to be met half a month after I arrived in Yangzhou. Because it was transported from Zhu Luo, we can say that the amount of existence in Dayan is very small, so we bought it with the idea that we should not miss it. Later, I thought that we could make combs for the two master's wives..."

Facing Yu Youwei's doubts, Cao Yi explained: "At that time, I thought that the comb itself was not a valuable item. Since the gift itself was not valuable, I could only add something to him. So I thought that if I made it myself, it would be more sincere... So I made it slowly for more than an hour every night. It took me ten days to finally make it. However, I was not skilled, so I became what I am now!"

Cao Yi spread his hands and said awkwardly. In fact, he still thought it was pretty good when he looked at it. However, this may be the same as the dishes he cooked always tasted delicious. After all, it was made by Cao Yi himself for a long time, and he still had a very deep relationship. The lover's eyes showed Xi Shi, and the same lover's eyes showed good things.

Although Cao Yi said it lightly, Yu Youwei knew how much investment it would take to add an extra hour every night to make a comb. It was not only a time investment, but also a kind of energy dedication.

Not to mention the large appearance, the tiny comb teeth alone are a very large workload. In comparison, Yu Youwei's face is a bit hot. The gift she gave to her two mothers is completely worth mentioning compared to the two "ugly" gifts of the young master.

"Good boy! You're intent..." Mrs. Qin said with emotion. He was indeed a little dissatisfied with the numbers given by Cao Yi before, and even wanted to laugh, thinking that Cao Yi was really not cheated by the comb shop... Who knew that it was made by him himself.

So, it makes sense that this comb is so ugly, both in craftsmanship and on the surface carved patterns.

Mrs. Ya's face was also very moved, and her eyes looked at Cao Yi even softer. Obviously, she could feel Cao Yi's respect and love for them from the comb...
Chapter completed!