Houmen maidservant, she doesn't want to be in power

Chapter 150 Using Medicine as a Painting
The courtyard where the fourth lady lives is called Huizhiyuan, which means Zhilanhuixin.

It's now March, and the flowers in early spring bloom enchantingly, which is very pleasant.

The Fourth Miss, Qi Wanran, is laying plain white rice paper on the table in the corner of the room, painting four fresh flowers at the time, there are many scrolls scattered around the table under her feet, obviously feeling dissatisfied, copying and repeating over and over again.

Shi Jin quietly entered the room, and was just picking up a picture of peach blossoms in spring water on the ground.The peach petals in the picture are smudged by some kind of paint, revealing a faint pink feeling, which is full of spring.

She was watching intently, when Qi Wanran raised her head, and saw Shi Jin holding a picture scroll and couldn't put it down.

"That pair was made by me practicing pens. If you like it, you can take it." Qi Wanran wiped the ink marks on her hands, her voice was calm.

"Thank you, Miss Si, I will definitely keep this scroll well." Shi Jin smiled and said.

"I came here today because I felt that the poems you wrote before were not interesting. I have copied these spring scenes so many times, but they have long since lost their interest. Do you know which medicinal flowers bloom well in spring? "

Shi Jin frowned and thought for a while, "This is really a problem for the servants. Even peach blossoms can be used as medicine. Since the girl wants to use strange things in paintings, how about these medicines?"

After finishing speaking, she spread out the pharmacopoeia and flipped to one of the pages familiarly, "The name of this medicine is Polygala, and the flower has three petals, among which are torn like clusters. The color of the flower is pretty, purple and blue, and it is elegant. "

"Yuanzhi?" Qi Wanran chewed the name of the medicinal material carefully, and couldn't help but show some confusion on her face, "I didn't know that the names of various medicines are so interesting. These small flowers are named Yuanzhi, they are indeed noble elegant."

She immediately became interested, grabbed Shi Jin's hand, asked about the flower's description carefully, adjusted the color, and copied it into the painting bit by bit.

Miss Si has drawn since she was in elementary school, although she is not top-notch, she has captured a bit of charm. The flowers she painted are very lively, delicate and lovely.

Still feeling not satisfied, she dipped in black ink again, and wrote a small poem in a corner of Yu Yuanzhi's flower:
"There is ambition in the chest and belly,

Clean and dust-free.

Where purple and blue overlap,
The meaning is sparse from the rhyme. "

Although the two colors of blue and purple are sparse and light, they form a style of their own in the density, and Shi Jin couldn't help applauding.

The two of them drew several kinds of medicinal herbs, Miss Qi Si also became more casual in her words and deeds, as if she put down her usual upright airs.

"By the way, are you and my second uncle okay?" Fourth Miss Qi buried her head in the painting room, not forgetting to gossip about her second uncle.

Shi Jin was stunned for a moment, and the corners of his lips curled up helplessly, "Second Lord is very strict. My cousin, my servant, took part in the provincial examination, but he specially restrained my servant and refused to let her go out."

At this point, she frowned again, her brows were full of accusations against the second master.

Qi Wanran didn't know that her second uncle still had a jealous side, so she couldn't help covering her lips with a handkerchief, her eyes also overflowing with a smile, "Second uncle still behaves like this? That's really a lesson to the National People's Congress. Open your eyes!"

After saying that, she actually laughed out loud, out of control.

Ms. Jiao, who is used to pretending to be aloof and noble-faced, laughed until tears flowed down her face. She obviously found it extremely interesting.

After staying for a while, the laughter stopped for a while, and when she looked up, she saw Shi Jin looking at her with a resentful face.

Miss Qi Si also felt that she had lost her composure, she straightened her body immediately, and returned to her usual cold and aloof appearance, with a smile in her eyes, she hooked her fingers at Shi Jin and asked her to come closer.

After the two got closer, Miss Qi Si explained, "Since you want Second Uncle to allow you to go out, you might as well give in and coax my Second Uncle."

Shi Jin didn't believe it, "Second Master has always been upright, if other things are okay, just..."

She is very hesitant.

Although Fourth Miss Qi bears the title of Fourth Miss of the Hou Mansion, she was taught by Aunt Sun herself, and she is quite "visionary".Although she is usually cold and aloof, looking up to the third sister, but this does not prevent her from giving Shi Jin an opinion.

"My second uncle is always fond of painting and calligraphy. If you don't paint him a picture, he will be happy." Fourth Miss Qi said to Shi Jin.

"Second master is excellent in painting and calligraphy. Shi Jin has never painted before. If he really paints, maybe he will be laughed at by the second master?" Shi Jin seriously doubted the truth of Miss Qi Si's words.

She was full of enthusiasm, and she pulled Shi Jin and sat down in front of the corner table, "Even if you are not good at it, you have always painted flowers, right? Although you usually embroider, you are more than craftsman but not spiritual, but this painting is not good enough. It's almost the same, besides, there's still me here!"

After all, he adjusted some bright colors again, and looked at Shi Jin, "What do you want to paint?"

Shi Jin flipped through the Pharmacopoeia, pointed to the Pulsatilla clump, "Is this good?"

Qi Si turned his head to look, nodded, "This is very good."

Together, the two of them thought carefully about how to write, how to color, and how to write poetry.

Shi Jin didn't want to write poems at all, she didn't like the greasy and crooked characters, she just took a pen and sketched the outline of the pulsatilla little by little.

"The drawing is a bit stiff, why not redraw it?" Seeing that Shi Jin painted the pulsatilla meticulously, Fourth Miss Qi immediately disapproved.

But Shi Jin covered the painting and looked up at her, "I think it's very good. If the painting has both form and spirit, then it's not a painting of a slave."

She has also sketched the appearance of herbs before, but every stroke is realistic and rarely freehand.

Fourth Miss Qi saw that she couldn't be persuaded, so she didn't try to persuade her any more.

When Shi Jin finished his painting, he let it air out for a while, and the sky became late.

She urgently wanted to go back to Qingfengyuan, so she rolled up the painting and bid farewell to Miss Qi Si.

"Remember what I said!" Miss Qi Si said again.

Shi Jin slightly blessed his body and left in a hurry.
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On the other side, Qi Mojing just came back from Tiqisi.

Recently, according to the new news from the palace, those beautiful women have undergone preliminary screening and training, and now thirty beautiful women have been selected to be promoted to the imperial concubine position.

Except for the girl from the Xiang family who was secretly supported by the fifth prince, Jiang Jin's name was impressively listed.

He underestimated her!

"Miss Jiang, I heard that it was the Eldest Princess who decided to leave behind. Most of the other concubines are girls from honorable families. They really come from various states and counties, but there are only twelve. His Majesty also bestowed five beauties each. With the princes, even the fifth prince got five beauties, and one of them was a spy placed by the prince." Si Mo whispered to Qi Mojing.

"Where is the prince?" He closed his eyes, unable to see any emotion.

"On the side of the prince, there are naturally people from the fifth prince."

The corners of Qi Mojing's lips twitched lazily, "It seems that our highness, the prince, is afraid of the fifth prince after all. Since he can't stop his doubts, there is no need to back down any longer. It's time, let The Fifth Prince stood up."

His voice was low and playful, which made Shi Mo who stood beside him shiver uncontrollably.

(End of this chapter)