Ji Zhouzi returned home and went to find Azu after lunch.

"Azu, can you give me 10 yuan? I want to buy a brush, ink, copybook and rice paper to practice calligraphy."

Azu was surprised, "Why are you thinking about practicing calligraphy?"

Ji Zhouzi scratched his face, "Just want to practice your calligraphy better and cultivate your sentiment?"

I don't know if this statement can be done.

So Azu really loved her the most, so he asked this casually and didn't pursue it too much. Anyway, practicing calligraphy is not a bad thing. Her great-granddaughter likes it, so she bought it for her.

Azu suddenly remembered something, took out a handful of keys from the lining, turned around and opened the lock of the wardrobe, and bent down slightly to open a wooden box placed in the cabinet.

Ji Zhouzi looked at her curiously. She knew that the box that could be locked by Azu would not touch anything inside.

Because Azu turned his back to her, Ji Zhouzi couldn't see anything in the wooden box. After waiting for a while, he saw Azu locking the wooden box, locking the wardrobe, waved to her, and handing her a wooden box in his hand.

"Since you said you wanted to learn calligraphy from a brush, Azu happened to have an inkstone for you, so there was no need to buy ink. There were ink strips here."

Azu's face was full of love and urged Ji Zhouzi to open the wooden box quickly.

Ji Zhouzi opened it as he said, and saw an inkstone inside, with three-nine plum blossoms carved on it.

Ji Zhouzi thought to herself that it was different from the square inkstone she had seen, and the carvings were quite beautiful.

After she casually held the inkstone in her hand, turned over the back of the inkstone, and saw a line of small characters on the back, she was so scared that her legs were almost weak.

[Made in the 12th year of Guangxu, the 39th plum blossom Duan inkstone]

She felt like a fireball was holding in her hand, very hot. She didn't dare to have the indifferent attitude she had before, so she carefully put the inkstone back into the wooden box.

Her reaction made Azu confused and she couldn't help asking: "Don't you like this inkstone?"

When the inkstone was put down safely, Ji Zhouzi breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at the inkstone with lingering fear, and felt his scalp numb: Did Azu actually practice calligraphy for such things that can be used as a heirloom?

Duan inkstone! One of the four famous inkstones, especially Duan inkstones, is the most famous. Moreover, this Duan inkstone is not a Duan inkstone produced in modern times, but is a Duan inkstone made by the Twelve Guangxu. It has a history of hundreds of years. Even if it is not an antique, it is still an old thing. Who has this thing and cannot be put away as a heirloom and left for his descendants?

Could it be that Azu didn’t know the value of this inkstone?

Ji Zhouzi asked tentatively: "Azu, do you know the origin of this inkstone?"

Azu nodded naturally, "Of course I know that this is one of the dowry my grandfather gave me. In the 12th year of Guangxu, the Governor Zhang Zhidong opened the old cave of Shuiyan. He originally planned to pick out the stone and divide it into twelve strands. He obtained three strands for tribute. The remaining nine strands were bought by each company. My grandfather was quick to buy some, and one of the inkstones became my dowry."

It's actually used for tribute?

Ji Zhouzi almost knelt down, swallowed his throat, and stammered: "Azu, this inkstone is too expensive, you might as well take it back and put it in place."

Azu looked at the Duan inkstone with a complicated expression, and soon the complexity dissipated. "My grandfather gave me the inkstone to make me free to write and cultivate my mind and nature. Since I don't need it now, you want to learn calligraphy, so I'll give it to you."

Azu did not allow Ji Zhouzi to refuse and said without a doubt: "It is an ordinary inkstone. It is made for people to use, otherwise it will lose the meaning of creating it."

Azumo sighed again, "It's a pity that all the copybooks I have collected are gone, otherwise the hyphen will be given to you."
Chapter completed!