A Thousand Gold Order: Inheritance

Chapter 126 Honor (Part [-])
This is in the palace, no matter how unhappy Gao Yunmiao is in his heart, he will not make trouble on such an occasion.

Just

The more you look at it, the more you feel that the other party is not pleasing to the eye.

Qi Huan couldn't speak for himself, but he didn't know what Queen Gu meant by this.

Didn't he call her here specifically to ask something?Or knock a few words face to face?What's the matter with such a no-nonsense attitude now?

Being so preoccupied, she lost her appetite in the second half of the table.

Barely surviving until the end of the banquet, Empress Gu signaled the female officer beside her to bring all the ink treasures left by the previous girls.

Qi Huan originally thought that this was the main course, after all——

Since this is to choose a concubine for His Highness the Crown Prince, then naturally the talents shown by the girls before must be seen by the Lord, and those who are recognized are bonus points.

and--

There are many people who have the same cognition and thoughts as her.

include--

The second prince Yun Zheng and the fourth prince Yun Heng.

The eyes of those two people all went to sneak a glance at Ye Xunyi at the same time, thinking that they were afraid that their favorite girl would be cut off by the prince's successor.

Ye Xunyi was terribly bored with these two people, but they were like two pieces of dog skin plaster, and she couldn't get rid of them no matter what.

So looking at the whole audience——

The third girl from the Ye family was the only one at the female guest table, she was really calm, with an outsider posture sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai, with her eyes downcast, drinking tea by herself.

As for the reason...

Before she entered the palace, she guessed that the purpose of Empress Gu's sudden appointment of these ladies to enter the palace was to make it obvious that she wanted to show her son the candidates for the future crown princess and side concubine.

So she had the foresight, and when she was provoked face to face, she only competed in piano skills and chess, and didn't touch calligraphy and ink at all.

Most of the girls present have left calligraphy, and they are all nervous and eager to try.

Those of Gao Yunmiao didn't say they had no regrets, but they were not good at this in the first place. They didn't write or draw by mistake, and they couldn't say whether they should be annoyed or lucky. Written and painted are also used as a foil for others...

Since I don't have a chance, just watch the excitement and wait for the results of others.

A group of girls, each with brighter eyes, are all waiting eagerly.

result--

The empress did not ask to see their works, but the female officer directly returned their ink treasures, without even letting the crown prince see them.

These works are all signed, and some of them forgot to sign, or deliberately did not leave a name, and the female officer showed them in front of them and asked them to claim it on the spot.

And, she explained very considerately: "The calligraphy of the girls is private property. If it is leaked out of this palace and falls into the hands of unruly people, it may cause a loss of reputation, so please be careful and keep it It’s better to take what belongs to you with you back home.”

This operation is somewhat confusing.

But this was what the Empress Dowager meant, and no one dared to question it face to face.

Even Ye Xunyi, who has always had nothing to do with himself, frowned in confusion.

Qi Huan thought that today's matter had nothing to do with her, and she didn't care, but seeing the rolls of paper in the female officer's hand returned to the original owner, she didn't take the scrolls of hers when she was empty-handed. After getting the painting back, I started to worry.

Looking around, no other girl seems to have encountered the same problem as her.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, she didn't want to stand out.

Fortunately, after the calligraphy was returned, Queen Gu announced the end of the luncheon and asked someone to guide them to leave.

The seats for the girls are all closer to the inside.

According to the order, the male guests sitting outside go first.

Most of the male guests were new scholars of this year, and among them, the top three and Qi Wenyan, who was specially invited by the emperor, were arranged to sit inside the girls, sitting with the crown prince and other princes.

People outside go out one by one.

Qi Huan stood up early with everyone, but didn't move.

Gao Yunmiao took two steps and saw her standing there, so he had no choice but to back away and tugged on her sleeve: "Let's go."

Before Qi Huan could speak, Qi Wenyan and others from inside also came out one after another.

He passed in front of Qi Huan and the two of them, stopped in his tracks, and gave him a questioning look.

At the table at this moment, only the empress and empress were sitting on the main seat.

The two of them seem to have something to say, and they are still talking to each other at the moment.

Qi Huan tried his best to control the expression on his face, signaled Qi Wenyan and the others to wait for her for a while, then walked as lightly as possible to the female officer who was responsible for returning their things just now, and asked politely: "Girl, I also had a painting in the garden before. Whether there are any omissions in the doodles, they were not returned to me just now."

The female officer was only in her early twenties, with some girlish naughtiness.

Hearing this, he pursed his lips and smiled: "Our mother likes Miss Qi's scroll painting very much. I asked you face to face today and kept it for private collection. You mustn't be stingy."

The competent female officer next to Queen Gu spoke vigorously and acted vigorously, with a clear and clear voice.

What's more, this is not something shameful, she spoke in the usual tone, so naturally she would not deliberately cover it up.

As soon as this remark came out, some people with better hearing and those who walked last heard, they couldn't help being curious, and stopped to look back.

Qi Huan was dumbfounded.

The emperor, who was talking to the empress on the seat, was obviously also very surprised when he heard the words.

certainly--

His focus was not on Qi Huan, a little-known little girl, but he was just curious about what kind of calligraphy it was, which could attract the attention of a queen who was born in the general family and had little interest in dancing and writing, and even made an exception to keep it.

His husband and wife have a tacit understanding.

Here he gave the empress a puzzled look, and the empress smiled and raised the corners of her lips, beckoning.

Qi Huan's painting, before it could be put away and sent to a craftsman for mounting, was brought to this water pavilion together with others.

Nurse Jiao took two quick steps to the side, and fetched the painting scroll that was separately stored on a tray.

Empress Gu unfolded it for the emperor to see.

After the emperor saw it, he was obviously taken aback for a moment, but then he clapped his hands and laughed out of composure, and joked, "This girl..."

The prince is a young man at heart, when he saw this, he ran back immediately and leaned his head over to look.

After looking at it, he showed an embarrassing expression.

Yun Heng waited for the other princes to be led by him, and they all turned back generously.

The six heads of their family gathered together to study the painting, and the scene was not to mention how harmonious. Yun Heng and Yun Zheng also laughed loudly afterward, calling out——

"Don't tell me, this painting is quite vivid."

Qi Huan knew that this scene had nothing to do with his painting skills, but the content of the painting should be the key, so he became more and more curious about the girl's identity.

Gao Yunmiao was even more curious and almost scratched the wall——

When Qi Huan was painting, she stood by the whole time, and saw what she was painting, wasn't it just a little man shooting an arrow?Is there any myth and allusion to this?How could this royal family praise him so much?

At the entrance of the waterside pavilion, some people deliberately walked slowly, wondering what kind of wonder this place is.

Qi Huan didn't dare to stay any longer, and taking advantage of the laughter of the empress's family, he knelt down and had a blessing with the female official, and said in a low voice: "Thank you, empress, for your appreciation, and the minister will leave first. .”

She was ready to leave quickly, but she didn't want His Majesty to stare at him, and suddenly said: "Since you have kept someone else's girl's painting, why don't you make up for it and give me a gift in return?"

The words were naturally addressed to Queen Gu.

Qi Huan's scalp went numb...

She really doesn't want to be this early bird at all.

But before she could refuse, Empress Gu said cheerfully: "Next time, something happened suddenly today, and there is nothing I can do here temporarily."

As she said that, she looked at Qi Huan with a smile: "I owe you a gift in return, remember it today, and find a chance to repay it to you later."

The empress and the others obviously had a special affection for the person in her painting, Qi Huan knew that she could be self-effacing, but she didn't dare to belittle her painting, so she politely saluted again: " It is the greatest blessing for a courtier to be appreciated by the empress, and a courtier dare not ask for rewards."

Empress Gu also saw her nervousness and discomfort, she was in a good mood at the moment, and was willing to help her out: "Let's go first."

"Yes."

Qi Huan let out a sigh of relief, not daring to take too many steps, and returned to Qi Wenyan as quickly as possible.

Qi Wenyan was the kind of person who would stand still when the mountain collapsed in front of him. Seeing her return, he just resumed pacing and led her and Gao Yunmiao towards the water corridor at the exit.

Others have gone further away one after another.

Qi Wenyan was still cautious, and asked Qi Huan without looking sideways as he walked, "What did you draw on that painting?"

Gao Yunmiao also pricked up his ears to listen.

Qi Huan was very depressed: "Just the girl we met on the way here, I thought she had a different look at drawing a bow and shooting arrows, and she was very energetic. Later, when I came here, someone insisted on pulling me to paint together, so I just drew down."

After thinking about it, Qi Huan still didn't give up, and took another step forward: "Third Uncle, who is that girl?"

Qi Wenyan got the answer he wanted, so he stopped talking about martial arts and just ignored her.

Gao Yunmiao was also very curious here, and when he looked at Qi Huan, he started to think: "Third uncle, guess who made things difficult for my cousin today, and insisted on dragging her to a competition of pen and ink?"

Qi Wenyan naturally ignored her.

Gao Yunmiao was also used to his cold temper, so he didn't get hurt, and continued: "Yu Bingyi, a former Hanlin scholar, is Yu Feifei from an adult family."

Qi Huan originally had some bad thoughts, wanting to see his third uncle's reaction when he lost his composure.

but--

Qi Wenyan still didn't respond.

Not only did he not look back, he didn't even lose his footsteps at all, as if this matter had nothing to do with him.

It made Qi Huan suddenly start to doubt whether Gao Yunmiao's information was wrong?

The heart of gossip trumps everything else, she doubted in her heart, so she turned her head and scolded Gao Yunmiao up and down with distrustful eyes.

Gao Yunmiao was furious, and suddenly raised her eyebrows viciously, but she leaned over and bumped her shoulder: "Oh, it's not convenient for me to ask you at the banquet just now, you and that Gu Zhan from Pingguo's mansion, When did you see each other's eyes?"

Qi Huan was startled.

With the next step, he almost hit his forehead on Qi Wenyan's back who stopped suddenly.

Qi Wenyan turned around with a cold and dignified expression.

Qi Huan, like a high school student who was caught in a puppy love, quickly denied it: "Don't talk nonsense."

Gao Yunmiao finally saw that she was flustered, but instead had a sense of accomplishment, and asked without thinking too much about it: "Then he came to the Empress Empress to beg for good wine for you?"

Qi Huan: ...

This special meow can't argue with anyone!
Qi Wenyan stared at her sternly.

Qi Huan was so angry that he almost cried.

Qi Wenyan stared at her for a moment, but didn't pursue further, only said coldly: "Let's go."

Turning around again, leading the two nieces and daughters who caused the trouble, they continued to walk forward as if nothing happened.

On the other side of the bank, Yang Qingyun and Qin Ying who came out first stood on the bank waiting for them, but Qi Yuanming was nowhere to be seen.

Qi Huan was afraid that something might happen to him if he wandered around in the palace, so he asked, "Where's my second brother? Didn't he come with you?"

Yang Qingyun smiled and said: "He said he had an appointment with someone in the afternoon and was in a hurry, so he left first."

After the unsatisfactory results in the rankings, Qi Yuanming seemed to be a little depressed these two days, and he was unwilling to talk to Yang Qingyun, and it was almost written on his face.

Since he left the palace with the big flow first, Qi Huan didn't bother to care about him.

Qi Wenyan led the few of them, and was sent off by the eunuch arranged in advance by Fengming Palace, and the group also left the palace gate together.

Gao Yunmiao and Qin Ying walked all the way, their two residences were in the same direction, and when they went out in the morning, they also arranged powerful guards to escort them, and they got into the carriage and left.

Qi Wenyan took an extra look at Qi Huan, and told him, "Go straight back to the residence, don't wander around in the street."

After saying that, he walked towards his official sedan chair.

Qi Huan deliberated for a moment, then motioned Yang Qingyun to wait a moment, and chased after him with her skirt: "Third Uncle!"

Qi Wenyan stopped and turned around.

He didn't take the initiative to ask anything.

Qi Huan looked into his eyes seriously: "There is something between me and that Gu Shizi, but it's not what the cousin of the Gao family thinks. Anyway, I have a sense of proportion in this matter, and I will definitely handle it well. It hurt the family's reputation. So... can you not tell my father?"

Qi Wenyan never interfered with family matters, especially the marriages of the juniors, which had nothing to do with him.

Now that Qi Huan was talking about it face to face, he reluctantly said a few words: "The Gu family's Pingguo mansion has always been known for its strict family style. Although I haven't met his eldest son a few times, the little one You know how to make progress at a young age, and you are relatively stable. If you marry high... my sister-in-law must be very pleased."

Qi Huan, on the other hand, gave a wry smile disapprovingly: "The Gu family is a general, so my mother wouldn't want to."

Qi Wenyan was taken aback when he heard this.

After a while, he said lightly again: "This should not be something that you, a child, can decide on your own. I can ignore it, but go back and discuss it with your parents as soon as possible."

Today's little girl is so lawless that she dares to hide her life's important affairs from her family, and she decides to think about it by herself? !

By saying this, he promised not to go to Qi Wenjing to inform him.

Qi Huan felt relieved, and responded obediently: "I see."

Qi Wenyan then ignored her and got into the sedan chair and left.

Qi Huan returned to the carriage, and Yang Qingyun followed. It was just that he took a step ahead, curious about the painting behind Qi Huan in the waterside pavilion that caused a stir among the royal family.

Qi Huan explained to him concisely, and then asked him if he knew of a girl from a royal family who was a martial artist and had scars on her face.

Yang Qingyun was fully prepared to enter the officialdom, but he really didn't know anything about it.

The two cousins ​​returned to the Marquis of Changning. The Yang family had been busy all morning with their people, packing up Yang Qingyun's things and preparing to help him move.

He is now a serious person with fame, and it is not suitable for the Qi family to hold a banquet after the official letter comes down.

Moreover, he came to the Qi family before, only in the name of visiting relatives, and he didn't pay much attention to it.

Last night, I went to meet the old master Qi Zhengyu face to face, and thanked him, and explained to Qi Wenjing.

They were not at home during the day, so Yang's mother and daughter led people to help him move all his things to his own house in Yongjiafang.

So far, the Yang clan has officially begun to take root in the capital.

Going home at night, Qi Huan didn't say anything about Gu Zhan, but stayed in An Xuetang, and roughly explained to Yang what happened in the palace during the day after Gu Zhan's camera was cut.

When Yang heard that her daughter's paintings were appreciated by the empress, she was proud of herself: "You've hit the right track, it's a blessing in disguise."

The daughter showed her face in front of the empress, left her name, and made a good impression, which was more or less a guarantee.

She has been struggling in the capital for so many years, but she has never had such good fortune and honor.

Qi Huan asked her about the girl she met in the palace, but Yang also said that she didn't know there was such a person.

Qi Huan felt itchy in his heart when he came down again and again, but became more curious about it.

But after asking around, everyone didn't know, and she had nothing to do, so she could only divert her attention temporarily.

"Mother." She held a cup of hot tea in her hand, shaking the green tea soup to dissipate heat, "His Majesty has a famous Concubine Wen, have you seen it before?"

Mrs. Yang has already washed up and is sitting in front of the dressing table combing her hair.

Hearing this, she pinched her fingers suddenly, and actually pinched the teeth of the comb in her hand into her nails, and instantly spurted out a stream of blood.

(End of this chapter)