The next day, Shi Jiaheng sent one of his guards to the painting academy to ask for leave for her, and the guards changed a few titles according to his words and repeated to Academician Wang: This morning, the general met a Chu painter who also entered the palace on the way to the palace. The painter of the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info suddenly dizzy, and the painter's family took him back for treatment, and asked the general to take leave for him.

Academician Wang stroked her beard and asked her about her physical condition with concern, but the guard replied that he didn't know. The academician knew that it was useless to ask too many questions, so he let him go back and wait for him to thank General Shi.

At noon, Lu Yan took medicine from the General's Mansion, and Bi Yin, who went with her, also brought back a bunch of supplements from the mansion, and Qing Chun went to the market to buy an old hen and killed it for Chu Yunxi to stew soup to drink. After the three girls came back from outside, they kept busy for her, one stewed medicine, one boiled soup, one killed chicken, and couldn't take care of lunch.

Chu Yunxi, who woke up from a sleep, felt that he was in good shape and seemed to be well, so he took the initiative to ask to get out of bed to help, but was politely rejected by the three of them. I had no choice but to lie back on the bed, but I listened to the sound of pots and dishes colliding in the kitchen, and I was inexplicably anxious. She got up and straightened up, took out a copy of "Tao Yuanmingji" from the used bookstall from the simple bookshelf in the room and turned a few pages, but it was still difficult to calm down, so she simply turned the book over and buckled it in the corner of the table, and was stunned with both hands.

The three of them finished their work almost at the same time, and squeezed into the door with the things they had cooked. Chu Yunxi watched them put a bowl of bitter medicine, a bowl of white fungus bird's nest, and a bowl of ginseng chicken soup in front of her in a row, and couldn't help but secretly complain.

Facing their expectant eyes, she first drank the medicine in one go, ate half a bowl of bird's nest, then drank half a bowl of chicken soup, and then burped and sweated profusely.

The three of them put away the bowl, Qing Chun saw that she was sweating profusely, and proposed to prepare a medicinal bath for her at night, the two responded immediately, and went out to pick up the medicine in a hurry, or Chu Yunxi reminded them that it was serious to eat the meal first.

After the meal, Biyin was sleepy, her eyelids fought, and she knocked over the candy jar in a daze, and Lu Yan pushed her to take a nap and continued to pick up in the kitchen. Holding an umbrella to shield herself from the hot midday sun, she moved the flower pots in the yard one by one to the shade of the shade of the acacia trees and the foot of the wall. She moved another chair and sat under the tree to take care of the blue lotus she had planted not long ago. She loves flowers the most, especially lotus, she loves the noble temperament of lotus out of the mud and not stained, and she used her spare time to cultivate a large number of flowers in Shunan. The climate of Shu is warm, there are many kinds of flowers and plants, and it is relatively easy to cultivate, while the climate of Chang'an is cold, and the types of flowers are relatively reduced, and many rare flower species are difficult to buy by ordinary people. She didn't dare to tell anyone that most of the many exotic flowers and plants in this courtyard were actually given to her by Gu Chaomin.

The chaotic sound in the room faded with Biyin's nap dream, leaving only the regular chirping of cicadas in the courtyard, and the blazing sun cast a colorful halo of light, like transparent bubbles that shimmered with rainbow light under the sun. The rustling sound of the summer heat wave of green leaves is like the sound of water droplets gradually melting under the scorching desert.

With her hands on the back of her chair, her eyes slightly closed, and her fan in her hands, Lu Yan lazily sat on the steps of the eaves to enjoy the coolness.

On a summer afternoon, everything is sleeping, quiet and beautiful.

Chu Yunxi, who was not sleepy, spread out a half-spent piece of painting paper and flattened it with a paperweight, clearly outlining the outline of a cluster of delicate and rich camellias, and next to it was the favorite camellia poem of Shangguan Xueyu that she specially asked Qi Feng, a calligrapher from the calligraphy and painting academy, to mention and stamped with his private seal.

Shangguan Xueyu is an extremely elegant person and a very talented poet. Most of the young talents in Chang'an City have a good personal relationship with her, and they are supported by the prime minister. She has a Mu Ya Hall in the Prime Minister's Mansion, specially entertaining people from all walks of life, talking about poetry and painting, tasting tea and fighting chess, many famous calligraphers and painters in the Hanlin Academy are her guests, her fame can be said to be very famous in the scholar class in Chang'an City, is a symbol of talent and beauty. There are many noble noble descendants and talented children of the poor who have fallen under her pomegranate skirt, and this Qi Feng is naturally one of her admirers.

And the talented woman who is admired by the scholar doctor is in the eyes of the prime minister's wife Lu, who has always taken the three obedience and four virtues as the coordinates of her life. She was sent to her like a prostitute in a green house all day long, but all the reasons for the eldest lady's opposition were resolutely denied by the prime minister, because she was a woman with long hair and short knowledge, and it was difficult for her to understand the prime minister's political methods to win people's hearts.

Chu Yunxi is also one of the frequent visitors of Mu Yatang, in order to maintain this relationship and facilitate the secrets of the Prime Minister's Mansion, she almost responds to the requirements of this Prime Minister, such as the camellia in front of her, in order to make her smile satisfied at that moment, she revised it five times, and it was finalized only on the sixth time, as if it was created with a flattering mentality of a man in order to love a woman. Now there's only one last coloring left.

She lined up the little wolf hair, pen, coloring pen, etc. that she needed to use, and then began to color, and when she was about to adjust the red, she found that the rouge in the white dish had been used up.

She took the clothes and was about to go out to buy, but was stopped by Lu Yan: "On such a hot day, if you have a heat stroke, how can you make it, the master can use our rouge first, anyway, our girl's, no one will look at the grease and powder." She took out the rouge box from the wooden cabinet and handed it to Chu Yunxi, she smiled and promised to buy three boxes for each of them in the future.

These two days were supposed to be used for her to recuperate, but she also took the pen to wander in the colorful world of pictures, and she enjoyed the kind of creative realm that was detached from the world and even selfless. It was a strange feeling of divine communion with nature and self and soul that belonged to her alone.

It took her two days to complete a camellia picture that she felt quite satisfied with. After the ink paint on the painting dries, she frames it herself, and finally stores the finished product in a brocade box. She breathed a sigh of relief and looked up at the sunlight outside the window, which was already three quarters in the corner.

She changed into a set of washed maroon clean men's clothes, put on a hat, wrapped the brocade box with the painting on her back, explained her orientation to Lu Yan, and rushed to the prime minister's house. Her arrangement is like this, first give the painting to Shangguan Xueyu, then come back for lunch, sleep in the afternoon to rest, and report back to the painting academy early tomorrow morning.

But the plan couldn't keep up with the changes, and when Shangguan Xueyu praised her paintings, she had to ask her to go to the observation tower with her to listen to the music. It was a fixed program for her and the four most famous young men in Chang'an City to be on the fifteenth day of every month, and Chu Yunxi, who was a little confused, actually forgot that today happened to be the fifteenth day of July.

She thought of all kinds of reasons, such as status, and what reasons for not being able to understand the rhythm of music, all of which were easily broken by her, just as she was considering whether to take care of her relatives when they were sick and needed to be taken care of as the next reason. Shangguan Xueyu pleaded in a mournful tone: "I understand Mr. Chu's concerns, I don't have to endure it, it's just that if Gu Gongzi doesn't have something to do today, there will be one less person out of five." Gu Gongzi has always been the most taboo to frolic. He is not there, and Shen Gongzi is afraid that his speech will be even more upside down. You don't know them well, and if you're there, he'll be a little more restrained. She was also surprised by the helpless look of pity that was very different from the confident demeanor of the past.

But when she thought of Shen Jun's frivolous appearance, she could understand, and couldn't help but feel sympathy, and she also appreciated her decency a little more. Her heart softened, so she agreed, fortunately, Gu Chaomin, the enemy of the enemy, was not there, and Shi Jiaheng could also help from the side, and she would definitely be able to hide the two pairs of eyes of Li Can and Shen Jun.

Shangguan Xueyu was so excited and grateful that she insisted on going with him regardless of the gossip of the outside world about the defense of men and women.

The two got out of the car and went to the second house on the right hand on the third floor of the observation tower under the guidance of Xiao Er, Chu Yunxi was also familiar with this place, and the uneasiness in his heart eased a little.

The red pine door was hidden, Shangguan Xueyu stretched out her hand and pushed it, and a cheerful laugh immediately sounded inside: "You are here, I thought you would not come either." ”

Chu Yunxi glanced into the room, and unsurprisingly it was Shen Jun who was laughing, and when she turned her eyes to the person opposite him, her face suddenly turned cold. A feeling of being deceived and falling into a trap strangled her throat, and she felt that she could not breathe, and a cold sweat broke out.

Gu Chaomin slapped the teacup in his hand on the table, his eyes narrowed slightly, like a sword blade sweeping towards her.

Shangguan Xueyu walked in surprise, pursed her lips and smiled at him, "Why are you here?" Didn't I remember you weren't coming? ”

Shen Jun's pair of peach blossoms were light, full of temptation, and smiled at her: "You remember wrong, it's Brother Jiaheng who can't come because of something, not Brother Chaomin." ”

Shangguan Xueyu sat down between the two of them and chuckled, "Oh, yes, yes, I remembered wrong." As he spoke, he looked around again, "What about the little marquis, why didn't he come?" ”

"I'm afraid he won't be able to come." Shen Jun folded the fan in his hand, poured her a cup of flower tea, and said with a grin: "He has been angry enough by His Royal Highness's little cousin recently, he may not be in a hurry somewhere, how can he be in the mood to listen to music." ”

Gloating, he changed his tone of slightly regret and said: "I heard that the cousin of the Seventh Highness has a big temper, but unfortunately he didn't have the opportunity to meet, and it is said that he is also a pretty woman." ”

A few wisps of cold air fluttered out of the painted Fuzi porcelain jar in the corner of the room like a few blood white snakes, fluttering out with teeth and claws. Because there is no plum in summer, the most conspicuous one in the house furnishings is a huge black flower on a white background, and the black plum is inserted with a bougainvillea that is not inferior to roses, and the dew sprinkled in the early morning rolls off the fiery red petals, and the translucent dew is reflected in the petals red like blood.

I don't know if it's cold in my heart or cold on my body, Chu Yunxi subconsciously gathered his clothes that were already very tightly wrapped.

Gu Chaomin's face was as cold as the ice and snow as thick as wool on the northern grassland, his eyes sank slightly, and then he shot sharply at her, picked up the cup and squeezed out two words from between the blade-like teeth: "It's you?!" ”

Shangguan Xueyu only cared about chatting with Shen Jun well, and seemed to have forgotten her, shocked by his low roar, turned around, and invited her in the door apologetically, hid the door, and said with a smile: "This is the Chu painter of the painting academy, I guess General Gu has also seen it, since we are familiar with each other, it would be better." ”

Shen Jun also greeted her happily: "Master Chu came just in time, I want to ask you to help me paint a picture of a beauty." He stood up with a smile on his face, and took her by the arm and asked her to sit next to him.

Chu Yunxi returned the salute with his fists like a piece of wood, and then followed him like a marionette. In the past, she always regarded Shen Jun as a dangerous person, but now compared with Gu Chaomin, he is still three points cute.

The seats on the left side of Shen Jun and Gu Chaomin have been occupied by Shangguan Xueyu, and the seat on the inside of the right side is empty, so Shen Jun naturally asked her to take the empty seat, so that she happened to pass by Gu Chaomin's side.

He threw his sleeves aside in disgust, and raised his head arrogantly: "Dare to ask Your Excellency what position you are holding and how many grades of official residence you have." Whether the ancestor was born as a civil minister or a military general, whether he had made military exploits and what kind of political achievements he had? ”

Finally attacked, Chu Yunxi knew that it was difficult to escape, so he bravely faced the top of his head, and hugged his fists humbly and said humbly: "Don't dare, I am just a small edict in the painting academy, and there is no official and no quality." The ancestors of the contemptible people were all born in cloth, and none of the relatives had ever held an official position. ”

Gu Chaomin looked up to the sky and laughed as if he had heard a big joke, and said sarcastically: "The people of the mountains and wilderness dare to sit on an equal footing with us. ”

Shen Jun knew that he had always been arrogant, so he smiled with him, let go of her arms, sat back in her seat, crossed her legs, sipped tea, and looked leisurely waiting for the show to begin.

Shangguan Xueyu neither provoked nor persuaded peace, but silently wiped the tea between her lips with a handkerchief, and then thoughtfully gently stroked the back of her hand with her onion-like fingers, and secretly glanced at the two of them from the corner of her eyes from time to time.

Chu Yunxi went down the slope, gave a slight salute to the three of them, and said as calmly as possible: "What Lord Gu said is very true, the disparity between the identities of the contemptible people and the others, and they are really not worthy of the same table with you, so I am so offended, I will leave." ”

Shangguan Xueyu glanced at her with a pair of charming eyes full of apology and sympathy, and opened her mouth to Gu Chaomin, as if she was defending her, but he raised his hand to block it.

Chu Yunxi slowly retreated to the door, but he didn't want the door to open automatically from the outside. A woman's delicate voice sounded angrily: "If even the Chu painter is not worthy of sitting at the same table with you, then the little girl is from the dirty place of the Qinglou, and she will not dare to live in the same room with you." ”

She turned around and saw two women appear in the doorway. The first person was plump and slender, magnificent and elegant, with a soft black hair curled into a charming bun, a peach-colored gold brocade and moon pattern placket palace dress tied her slender waist, and a lilac-colored shawl from between her arms hung straight to the ground, moving with her feet, graceful and elegant. Behind her was a maid with a double bun and a phoenix-tailed jade pipa in her arms.

She had been staring at Chu Yunxi from the door she entered, as if a person who had lived in darkness for a long time suddenly grasped the light and was unwilling to move away. Her cheeks glowed with excitement and excitement, like a freshly ripe pink peach.

Chu Yunxi looked at her a little confusedly, and there seemed to be no memory related to her in his mind.

Shen Jun leaned up to cover Gu Chaomin's angry expression, stroked his palms and laughed: "Ju Jun is late again today, and he will be punished according to the rules." ”

She flew by her like a butterfly and bowed to the remaining three, "Please forgive me for being late." ”

She politely let Chu Yunxi change her face and said: "Gu Gongzi's words were heard just now, if this Chu painter from the Hanlin Academy still thinks that his status is low, the woman in the Qinglou should also be self-aware, she really shouldn't be ignorant of etiquette, arrogant climbing, and stepping on noble ground, so as not to insult your noble identity." Please also ask you to be generous to Wang Han, forgive the little girl, and the little girl will retire with Mr. Chu. ”

Even a mere Qinglou woman gave him a look, Gu Chaomin was ashamed and indignant as if he had suffered a great humiliation, and slapped the table angrily and said: "Stop, you dare to take a step and try!" ”

Shen Jun thought that he had listened to Gu Chaomin's sneering, and thought of himself, and some Gu Ying felt self-pitying, so he deliberately played tricks. He smiled evilly and said, "Brother Gu, this is wrong for you, how can you be so rude to a delicate woman?" The words not only blamed him for not knowing how to pity the jade, but also hinted that he paid attention to his manners.

Gu Chaomin slightly restrained his temper, and poured a new cup of tea from the table as if he was angry.

Shangguan Xueyu covered her mouth with a handkerchief and laughed coquettishly.

"Come on, come on" Shen Jun sat down and said with a smile: "Hurry up and play a good song, if it's really good, forget it, if you dare to be perfunctory." He placed the three celadon teacups one after the other, and said jokingly, "Three glasses of wine." ”

She didn't appreciate Shen Jun's obvious protection, she didn't smile and ask for mercy along the river, nor did she gg and beg for reward, but stopped Chu Yunxi, who was about to step out of the door, and said with a firm gaze: "It's difficult for Shu Yuluo to obey his fate." ”

As soon as these words came out, the four of them were shocked. Shen Jun glanced at Gu Chaomin's face, and still said in a mocking tone: "It seems that Xuan Jun has vowed to advance and retreat with Mr. Chu today." ”

He tilted his neck and said resolutely: "Not bad." ”

Shen Jun laughed, paced in front of the two of them with his hands behind his back, and pondered incomprehensibly while circling around Chu Yunxi: "I can't understand it now." We met you a long time ago. You were born thin and short, and your face was ruined by the fire. Needless to say, neither of them arrived today. ”

He stretched out his hand and pointed at Gu Chaomin again: "Just Brother Chaomin, his appearance is extraordinary, his appearance is dignified, and he is majestic, how can he have such a deep friendship with you, and even do not hesitate to contradict him." ”

Shangguan Xueyu also stared at the two curiously, with an ambiguous smile on her face.

Chu Yunxi was speechless when he asked, and she also wanted to find out what was going on.

He laughed to himself, jumped to Gu Chaomin's side like a monkey, knowing that the two of them had a grudge and deliberately made a mischief: "Brother Chaomin, we can't lose face in front of outsiders, especially women, I have a note." ”

He smiled evilly, and raised his eyebrows at Xuan Xuan frivolously: "As long as you are willing to stay, I will keep a matchmaker for Brother Chaomin, it just so happens that Brother Gu is not married yet, and you are also in your prime." Let you get rid of the official prostitute and enter the Gu family as a concubine, what do you think? ”

Gu Chaomin was stunned for a moment, turned his head and glared at him, and was about to open his mouth to scold. He hurriedly gave him a begging look and patted him on the shoulder as if soothingly. He looked back at Chu Yunxi, thought for a moment and then closed his mouth, snorted and turned his face away.

For the first time, Shangguan Xueyu raised her hands in favor of Shen Jun's idea, and praised her talent and appearance, saying how talented and beautiful the two of them were.

Chu Yunxi said in his heart that marrying into a wealthy family is the biggest dream of every talented girl in Qinglou, presumably this girl is no exception, if she agrees later, Gu Chaomin can also save some face, and I think I can make up for some of the dissimilarities between the two.

But what she never expected was that they all underestimated Xuanlu's determination to break with the past and the courage to sacrifice for love.