Chapter 8: Royal Gossip

Shangguan Wan'er was ordered by the Empress Wu to come to "comfort" Zhang Yi, Zhang Yi presented "Touching the Dragon and Saying Empress Dowager Zhao", but did not get the reward he deserved, and the Empress Wu was afraid that Zhang Yi would be resentful, so she let Shangguan Wan'er go on such a trip and verbally praised Zhang Yi.

Regarding Shangguan Wan'er's intention, Zhang Yi was not surprised.

Although Jinghu Villa is isolated from the world, the Internet and TV are readily available, and through the news, Zhang Yi already knows how much of a role his article has played, but he didn't think about asking for any reward at all, so Shangguan Wan'er's carefully prepared comfort and encouragement were naturally taken as a deaf ear to him.

What really made Zhang Yi depressed was that Shangguan Wan'er came to Jinghu Villa as if she came to her own house, she came and left whenever she wanted, as if she was the master here.

Don't let people have a little privacy?

Later, Zhang Yi realized that he had made a mistake, because in a sense, Shangguan Wan'er was really the owner of Jinghu Villa, because of the story she and Li Xian had to tell.

The story is very clichΓ©, Li Xian got married at the age of eighteen, and his wife Wei was picked by Empress Wu for him, although Wei is a charming beauty, but Li Xian still has some regrets after marriage, after all, it is not free love to come together, and there is always such a layer between him and Wei.

followed Li Xian and met Shangguan Wan'er.

Shangguan Wan'er was eighteen years old that year, and had just finished taking the college entrance examination, and was the first female champion in the college entrance examination since the founding of the Tang Dynasty.

The college entrance examination of the Tang Dynasty is different from that on the earth, there is a paper in the country, and the two main subjects of Chinese studies and arithmetic plus piano, chess, calligraphy, and painting can be selected as a professional course to take the exam, so the gold content of this college entrance examination champion is the same as that of the champion in the imperial examination in ancient times.

With the progress of modern society and the improvement of women's status, it is actually normal to have a female champion, but the time when Shangguan Wan'er, the female champion, appeared very ingeniously, just after Li Xian and Li Dan both wrote to the Empress Wu and did not want to be the emperor.

If you want to solve this problem, you must first elevate the status of women's rights, and Shangguan Wan'er's champion happened to be used by the Empress Wu to make a fuss.

The female champions have come out, why can't the heroine be the country?

In order to build momentum for Shangguan Wan'er, Empress Wu set up a Hanlin banquet and invited all Hanlin bachelors (equivalent to academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences) to celebrate the first female champion of the Tang Dynasty, and the venue of the banquet was in Jinghu Villa.

As a prince, Li Xian naturally had to attend such a major banquet, but Wei had just given birth to a child and was recuperating during that time, so he didn't come with him.

At this banquet, Li Xian and Shangguan Wan'er fell in love at first sight.

At first, the two just had a sneaky relationship, and later Shangguan Wan'er graduated from university and was selected by Empress Wu as a close maid, and the relationship with Li Xian was exposed, which was a scandal for the royal family, but what people didn't expect was that Empress Wu actually acquiesced to the relationship between Shangguan Wan'er and Li Xian.

Empress Wu's mind is actually not difficult to guess, it is nothing more than wanting Shangguan Wan'er to become her pawn to spy on Li Xian, and in order to appease Wei, Shangguan Wan'er was also forced to promise lifelong infertility.

Even so, Webster still hates Shangguan Wan'er very much, and Jinghu Villa, as the place where Li Xian and Shangguan Wan'er are in love, Webster never sets foot in half a step.

Zhang Yi didn't know about this relationship, so he was very angry at Shangguan Wan'er's uninvited behavior, and what was even more angry was that Shangguan Wan'er actually forced him to write down the full text of "There is a precedence in hearing the Tao, and there is a specialization in the art industry", because Shangguan Wan'er had never heard this sentence before, and directly believed that this was Zhang Yi's new work.

Of course, Zhang Yi won't admit it, but he can't deny it, because "Shi Shuo" was written by Han Yu, and Han Yu was from the Tang Dynasty, and there was no such person in ancient times in this time and space.

No matter what, Zhang Yi still wrote out the full text of "Shi Shuo" silently, of course, the last paragraph of the original text "Li's Zipan, seventeen years old, good ancient texts, and the six arts are all learned, not limited to the time, and learned in the rest." Yu Jiaqi can walk the ancient way, and wrote "The Teacher Said" to Yizhi, "Zhang Yi didn't write, because he didn't know a person named Li Pan, and he would be a goof when he wrote it."

Even so, this article still made Shangguan Wan'er greatly appreciated, especially Zhang Yi's writing is more beautiful, plus this article, if Zhang Yi becomes famous in the future, this "Shi Shuo" will definitely sell for a sky-high price if it is put up for auction.

Of course, Guan Wan'er just thought about this idea, this article in her hand must be handed over to the Empress Wu, and with Empress Wu's appreciation of Zhang Yicaixue, she will definitely frame this article and hang it in the palace to enjoy it from time to time, and it is difficult for ordinary people to take a look, let alone appear in the auction house.

With this painting, Shangguan Wan'er left satisfied, she still had to go to Li Xian before returning to Chang'an to restore her life, Zhang Yi is Li Xian's son-in-law, and some things have to be explained to Li Xian, just with this painting, it will be more convincing.

Sent away Guan Wan'er, Zhang Yi was "depressed" all afternoon, and happened to pass by the study before dinner, and saw Xiao Gu and Fei'er painting in it, and became curious, so he walked in on tiptoe, wanting to see what the two of them were drawing.

"Sister Fei'er, this Zhao Yun you painted is so handsome, does your sweetheart look like this?"

"What are you talking nonsense, how can I have any sweetheart?"

"And say no, your face is red, and you go online every night before going to bed to chat about who that person is, don't say it's just your friend. ”

was told that she was in her heart, and Fei'er's pretty face couldn't help but blush a little, a little more pyrotechnic than her usual cold appearance.

At this moment, there was a sudden cough of "um" behind him.

Turning his head, Zhang Yizheng stood there with a calm face, without the slightest shame of eavesdropping on the two of them.

"Fei'er, can you show me your 'sweetheart'?"

Although Zhang Yi said that the painting was covered by Fei'er and Xiaogu's body, Fei'er's face immediately turned red, and she turned her head and glared at Xiaogu angrily, complaining that she shouldn't have talked too much just now, and let Zhang Yi hear everything she shouldn't have heard.

Xiao Gu stuck out her tongue playfully, how did she know that Zhang Yi would eavesdrop on the two of them in the back.

Of course, in the face of Zhang Yi, she was not so polite.

"Master Horse, why did you come in without even saying hello, it scared us!"

"I didn't hear anything, really. Zhang Yi quibbled, and without waiting for Xiao Gu to refute after speaking, he went directly to the desk, picked up Fei'er's painting and looked at it himself.

This is an ink painting of a general in ancient costume with a silver gun and silver armor, with a beautiful face but not losing his masculinity, standing with a gun, majestic.

"This is Zhao Yun?"

This was deliberately asked by Zhang Yi in order to change the topic, because Fei'er and Xiaogu were both glaring at him angrily at this moment.

Seeing that no one answered, Zhang Yi had to find a step for himself.

"Look at the skills of this painting, next year's college entrance examination Fei'er should be nine out of ten, okay, you continue to be busy with yours, I'll go first." ”

Seeing that Zhang Yi was about to slip away when he was smeared with oil on the soles of his feet, Xiao Gu would certainly not let him get his wish.

"Master Concubine, since you can see that Sister Fei'er painted Zhao Yun, then you might as well guess why she painted this painting. ”

Zhang Yi suddenly looked embarrassed.

"Where did I guess that?"

Xiao Gu put his hands behind his back and stopped in front of Zhang Yi with a look of unforgiveness.

"No, the horse master has to guess. ”

"Well, maybe it's because of Fei'er's sweetheart?"

Zhang Yi cautiously said his guess.

As soon as she heard this, Fei'er, who had already returned to her usual cold expression, suddenly blushed, and Xiao Gu was even more angry.

He also said that he didn't eavesdrop on them, which was too much!

Without waiting for the two girls to get really angry, Zhang Yi immediately took the initiative to apologize, admitting that he did hear the conversation between the two when he came in, but he didn't mean it, what he said just now was just a joke.

For the sake of Zhang Yi's sincere apology, Xiao Gu and Fei Er forgave him, and then Xiao Gu told Zhang Yi that Fei Er painted this Zhao Yun in order to help Zhang Yi improve the Three Kingdoms Kill card.

Zhang Yi is too simple to make that deck of cards, all the character cards are to draw a stickman, and then write the name on the head and it's done, it just so happens that Fei'er's elective subject for next year's college entrance examination is painting, and perfecting this group of Three Kingdoms character cards should be practiced in advance, so it will not delay her preparation for the college entrance examination.

As soon as he heard that there was such a good thing, of course Zhang Yi would not refuse.

The main reason is that Fei'er draws really well, and this kind of ink painting is a style that Zhang Yi likes very much.

As for commercial promotion, Zhang Yi hasn't thought that far ahead for the time being.

Seeing that Fei'er and Xiaogu are so concerned about this matter, Zhang Yi himself is not good to be lazy, in fact, the board game of Three Kingdoms Kill can be a great success, in addition to the interesting gameplay, the art elements, literary elements, and historical elements of the card itself also play a great role.

Now that there are art elements, the literary elements are naturally indispensable.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yi took a pen from the pen holder, dipped it in ink in the inkstone, and then took the pen and wrote four lines of poetry in the blank space of Fei'er's painting.

Blood-stained robes are red through armor,

Who dares to compete with Dangyang!

Ancient times rushed into battle to help the Lord,

Only Changshan Zhao Zilong.

Zhang Yi wrote on a whim, but forgot that there was no book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in this time and space, and Zhao Yun's seven entrances and seven exits in Changbanpo were made up by Luo Guanzhong, and there was no such thing recorded in the official history.