Empress Jinghua: The eunuch is nine thousand years old

Chapter 126
Although Xia Ziqi's words are a bit harsh, they are also true. Landscape painting is just a simple flow in ink painting. It can be done brilliantly, but it is difficult to achieve exquisiteness. Besides, there are not many people here who know how to paint. A few, everyone just praised a few words casually, and did not admire Xia Ziyan's paintings very much.

But at this time Xia Ziyan said in a sticky voice: "Master of Ceremonies, please prepare a wooden basin with a round bottom and a shallow mouth for the princess, and it must be filled with clean water."

The master of ceremonies was puzzled, but seeing Xia Ziyan's serious appearance, he nodded his head, and after a while, a servant came forward with a shallow wooden basin.

Xia Ziyan pointed to the table case, and signaled the servants to put a wooden basin filled with clear water on the table, and she took the painting from the master of ceremonies, gently blew off the wet ink on it, and suddenly soaked the whole painting paper. Into the clear water.

"What is Seventh Princess doing?"

"Paper will be wet and rotten in the water. Wouldn't a good painting be ruined for nothing?"

"It's ugly when all kinds of ink smudge in the water!"

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Everyone's doubts kept coming from the ears, Xia Ziyan held his breath not to let himself care about those words, and pressed his hands on the drawing paper so that it was really evenly immersed in the water.

Unexpectedly, Xia Ziyan's paintings did not turn into a mess when they entered the water, but instead became brighter. What is even more surprising is that the rice paper became more and more transparent in the water, and finally disappeared, while the patterns of the ink paintings were not at all. Being destroyed, with the disappearance of the rice paper, the original painting seems to be born out of the water, moving on the surface.

Everyone was amazed, and they all poked their heads out to look at it, and saw that the painting became clearer and clearer. Xia Ziyan held a pen and slapped it on the water surface a few times, and the sea of ​​flowers under the mountains seemed to come alive, as if blowing in the wind, making people One cannot take one's eyes away.

"It's amazing..."

The master of ceremonies opened his eyes in disbelief. He has seen thousands of paintings, but he has never seen such paintings that enter the water and come alive. Is it true that there are so many wonders in the world?

Everyone at the table praised him, and Rong Yu couldn't help but feel a little fond of Xia Ziyan's clever mind.

However, everyone thought that painting into the water to live was Xia Ziyan's final move, but they were stunned by the next picture.

I don’t know where a yellow-leaf butterfly came flying. The yellow-leaf butterfly flew around in the pavilion, approached the field, approached the painting, fluttered its wings and landed on the water surface, and it just happened to rest on its feet. In the sea of ​​flowers, it seems like the real thing, attracting butterflies to touch it.

And as the first yellow-leaf butterfly stopped, several more butterflies flew into the pavilion, the wide-winged spotted butterfly, and the small-feathered flowered butterfly, all of which were in the painting Stopping on it, it seems to be deeply attracted by something, and I can't let it go.

Everyone stared intently, and couldn't find any adjectives to describe the spectacle in front of them. A painting made of ink can attract butterflies to stop, it's amazing!Evil!
"A fake painting attracts butterflies... I only read about it in books. I never imagined that I would see the real one once in my lifetime!" Miss Bo was a little excited, holding her hands on her chest and watching the butterflies resting on the sea of ​​flowers in the painting. , I want to describe it with the most beautiful language in the world.

Even Xia Ziyan herself did not expect such a spectacular scene. According to Xia Zijin's idea, she dipped a brush into the mixed liquid of the two substances before painting, and then soaked it in clean water after the ink was dry. She was able to separate the painting from the rice paper to create a painting on water that might attract so many butterflies, which was beyond her expectation!

Xia Ziyan looked at Xia Zijin with excitement and doubt, and the latter blinked at her, which made Xia Ziyan grateful and funny.

"The painter of the Seventh Princess is so outstanding that he can attract living things to stop. I admire you!" Mr. Zheng, who is good at meticulous painting, said loudly, wishing to engrave such wonders into his heart.

"Bi Yi is a work that transcends the common world! It is wonderful!" Another young master who is good at painting praised.

Everyone admired Xia Ziyan's paintings from the bottom of their hearts, and their eagerness was many times higher than when Xia Ziqi performed on stage.

Xia Ziqi pinched the handkerchief in her hand, feeling uncomfortable everywhere in her heart. Today she is so well-dressed, and she has prepared the extremely difficult Western Region dance for days, how could she not be as attractive as Xia Ziyan's random paintings? eyeball!
A Xia Zijin wants to compete with her for the limelight, and now even an idiot like Xia Ziyan can overwhelm her, she really can't swallow it!

Seeing Xia Ziyan being touted by everyone, Xia Ziqi entered the table with an unconcealable smile on his face, and even Rong Yu took a few extra glances at Xia Ziyan.

A wave of dissatisfaction and resentment crept into her heart, Xia Ziqi bit her lower lip, most of the original joy had dissipated.

Then a few more people came forward to perform, but because of the excellence of Xia Ziyan and others, the later people also knew that they had no hope of winning, so they all let go of the performance, which caused a lot of laughter.

Xia Zijin took a sip of the tea in the cup, and was very satisfied with the situation so far. Probably no one would have thought that two seemingly inconspicuous substances could exert such a strange effect after being mixed together. The separation of paper is only one of the mysteries, and the second is that the mixture of liquid and water ginseng can produce a breath that ordinary people can't smell. Money can attract butterflies within dozens of steps to come here one after another. If it is processed in large quantities, it can even cause butterflies in an area to riot.

This method was also something she had accidentally read from the Book Collection Pavilion in Prince Lin's Mansion in her previous life, and it is very handy to use it now.

"Sister Zijin, thank you so much for today!"

Xia Zijin was distracted thinking, a faint sandalwood drifted by her side, Xia Ziyan whispered thanks next to her, his eyebrows and eyes were crooked, which was not the same as usual.

"It doesn't matter, I just made an opinion. Seventh sister has to be a superb painter to have such an effect. If my sister wants to thank me, I should also thank myself for my kindness to Prince Rong, so that I can carve Prince Rong's son exactly. The Yuheng Mountain is vividly written on the paper stroke by stroke, isn't it?" She teased, and with a smile in her eyes, she glanced at Rongyu's position opposite, making Xia Ziyan's cheeks blush.

"Zijin don't make fun of me, Zuo just has a better memory..."

Xia Ziyan muttered something, but couldn't help but smile, and his almond eyes rolled around slyly, with a shining water, which was an indescribable girlish feeling.

Rong Yu sat holding the cup, looked at the smiling face on that side, and couldn't help curling his lips. Although he couldn't hear what the two of them said, he always felt beautiful looking at Xia Zijin's frown and smile, probably He doesn't know when he hid her in his heart, he only knows that this woman is rare in the world, and it's something special that he hasn't found in more than ten years.

It was already the branches of the moon when we returned to Moshengyuan, Xia Zijin took off his coat, broke up his hair bun in front of the dressing table, and combed it carefully with osmanthus hair oil.

Xiaokui tied her smooth flowing hair behind her head with a ribbon, and chose a smoky blue thin gown to put it on for her.

"Princess, why don't you come to the stage to perform today?" Xiaokui asked, holding a small incense burner and putting it on the table, holding a piece of goose pear incense with silver tweezers, placing it in it, and slowly lighting it with a fire.

Xia Zijin gathered the clothes on her body, and said with a smile: "What is this princess doing to fight for that title with a married person? It's just that Xia Ziqi is bound to win this. This princess can't see her doing it so proudly." Helped Seventh Princess."

Light smoke slowly rises from the small carved stove, bringing a faint head fragrance to the nostrils, and quickly dissipates, fading into the second medium fragrance.

"However, I am very angry seeing the fourth princess today. To practice the dance, I heard that the fourth princess eats porridge every day, and she has lost a lot of weight. She looks good in that Hu suit. The fourth princess always thinks that this time The winning ticket is in my hands, I didn't expect the Seventh Princess to show up."

As she said that, Xiaokui also laughed, fiddled with the smoke in the stove, filling the room with fragrance.

"She's being too big, and she doesn't think about how many people she has offended by her words and deeds. After all, she is the one who ruined her reputation. The ladies in Beijing are all arrogant. Even if Xia Ziqi is a princess, It can't change the contempt of ladies towards her, on the contrary, Seventh Sister is honest and honest, so she should be more likable."

Saying that, Xia Zijin stretched her waist, and felt a little sleepy, probably because she was too tired in the past few days, so she should go to sleep earlier tonight.

"Xiaokui, turn down the lights."

Xia Zijin yawned, got up and stepped forward, opened the thin silk quilt and got in, she put her long hair to the right side, and then adjusted a comfortable posture, just about to fall asleep peacefully.

Suddenly, there seemed to be a commotion in the yard, and the sound of hurried footsteps came from the other side of the yard, rattled to the outside of the house, and then knocked on the door panel three times.

"Princess, princess!"

Not long after Xia Zijin lay down, she was about to have a good sleep, but was interrupted by a voice outside the door. She rubbed her eyes and sat up, waving to Xiaokui to lead the outsider in.

The door opened with a creak, and Xiao Huanzi was standing outside the door with his hands in his hands.

"come in."

Xiao Huanzi stepped forward quickly, at this time Xia Zijin had already put on his coat, he respectfully bowed to Xia Zijin and said: "Princess, the fourth princess and the seventh princess are fighting by the lotus pond..."

"What? A fight?"

Xiaokui and Xia Zijin exclaimed in unison, looking at each other in disbelief.

How could Xia Ziyan hit someone with his meek nature?
"Not necessarily... To be precise, it was the fourth princess who unilaterally attacked the seventh princess. The maids of the seventh princess wanted to go forward to help the master, but they were stopped by the maids of the fourth princess. The slave happened to come back from there and saw this scene, and hurried back to report to you, the princess, at this time, I am afraid that both sides have sent people to invite Concubine Yue and Concubine Lian separately!"

(End of this chapter)