Nowadays, as the world has been peaceful for a long time, food, clothing, housing, and transportation are becoming more and more exquisite, and power and wealth are becoming more and more concentrated, and the entire bureaucratic and noble class is becoming more and more corrupt, as if they are not superior to others and cannot show their differences. It is because they need to pay attention to dignity and order everywhere, and therefore their own circle is becoming more and more refined, and it seems that without this, their power cannot be revealed.

But in fact, Ji Cheng knew very well in his heart that even if she didn't walk with Qi Hua, others would not look up to her, and she couldn't even compare to Qi Hua. Now that she can talk to Li Hui, it all depends on Shen Qian's face.

As soon as the guests were almost there, Shen Qian and Shen Wei began to invite the girls to play in the Willow Leaf Pavilion on the edge of East Lake.

This elegant collection of elegant collections, naturally has to have an elegant word, or chant poetry as a pair, or splash ink, and always have to leave something worthy of praise from each other, so as to live up to such a time of flowers.

At this time, the sun is already a little big, just around the willow leaf pavilion thick shade, willow green bamboo green, sifted sunlight and then sprinkled in, only the beauty of broken gold, and no scorching sun, very refreshing.

One side of the window sash facing the lake in the museum has been removed, and the other three sides also have a special meaning. Looking out from Ji Cheng's angle, the west side is a picture of ten thousand trees repairing the fence, the north side is a picture of the deep mountains and beautiful mountains, and the south side is the scenery of the purple and red.

No wonder Shen Qian chose the place where the banquet was gathered.

Ji Cheng has learned a lot from Shen Qian during this time, and only then does he know how much effort it takes to hold an elegant gathering, and how much ingenuity is required in it. A lot of thought is used in invisible places, and every place must be thoughtful and meticulous, otherwise it will fall into the mouth.

Ji Cheng saw it in his eyes and remembered it in his heart, and he could be regarded as stealing a teacher.

All the girls who enter the hall will pick a flower from the plate held by the little girl before entering the hall and put it on, which is called "hairpin feast".

In fact, the hairpin flower has another wonderful use, the choice of peony is to meet friends with the text, the choice of frangipani flower string is to meet friends with the qin, and the choice of camellia is because of the scenery into a painting.

As for how to know the meaning of these flowers, just look at the outfit of the bouquet of flowers, for example, the girl holding peony flowers is wearing a dress embroidered with poetry, and the girl holding the frangipani string is dressed as a piano boy with a piano bag behind her. In short, there are hints, and it depends on whether you can understand the meaning. If you don't understand what it means and make a joke, it's enough for these girls to laugh for half a year, and you'll be ashamed to death.

Ji Cheng has learned another trick, the so-called "elegant" word, that is, it can't be pronounced, everything must be subtle, you have to think about it a little bit, this is the so-called elegance.

Ji Cheng really misses the days in Jindi, which is adjacent to Beihu, the atmosphere is much more open, and the people are much more refreshing, and there are not so many things that are vain.

But since ancient times, it has been difficult to have both.

Ji Cheng thought about it for a while, and then picked a camellia hairpin with white and green on it, she rarely wore anything on her head, even today, she just inserted a jade comb. At this time, the hairpin on the camellia does not add a touch of charm. It seems that the sun suddenly disperses in the empty mountains, revealing a little bit of sunshine.

Su Yun inadvertently swept Ji Cheng, couldn't help but look at her twice, everyone praised her for her good color on weekdays, Su Yun took a self-portrait in the mirror, and felt that it was rare to be able to beat herself, even when she saw Ji Cheng for the first time that day, she only admitted that they were just equals.

Only today did Su Yun have to admit that Ji Cheng was clumsy on weekdays, if she was to dress up, she was afraid that the color of the country and the city sung in the play book would be like her.

It's a pity that the color is born no matter how good? For a woman, a good color is just the icing on the cake, but if you are just a coarse cloth, no matter how beautifully embroidered the flower is, it is just a beautiful coarse cloth.

Otherwise, look at Li Hui, to be honest, Li Hui was born very ordinary among the girls, with a generous face and thick lips, but by the time she was twelve or thirteen years old and began to say goodbye, the threshold of the Li family was almost not stepped on by the matchmaker. The fifteen-year-old who was selective and selective made a family affair, and the Marquis of Jingwu was reluctant to let her get married, saying that he would not let her marry until he was eighteen years old.

Ji Cheng and Su Yun have surprisingly the same opinion, but the advantages she can use are too few, and she can only comfort herself that it is better to have color than no color.

As for today's Yaji giving everyone the opportunity to show their talents, Ji Cheng actually hasn't figured out how to deal with it. She can also compose poetry, but she is not particularly good at it, not to mention that Shen Qian and Su Yun have high attainments here.

Ji Cheng could have chosen to be a green leaf to support the safflower, but at the end of the day, she suddenly changed her mind. Her heart had begun to be unsettled, and what she had seen today really touched her a lot, and she really did not have the qualifications to keep her head down.

Taoguang is obscure, first of all, you must also have light.

Ji Cheng was still too optimistic, after all, there is Ji Lan's legend in front of him, but unfortunately the world has changed over time, and many things are no longer what they used to be.

And Ji Cheng, who has only been in Beijing for a short time, is already very aware of the deep-rooted rejection of these noble ladies and ladies in Beijing to them, outsiders.

And Ji Lan didn't get a good start for Ji Cheng, nearly twenty years have passed, and Ji Lan herself is still stumbling and walking on thin ice.

It's just that the Ji family's consistent family style is to make a lot of money in a muffled voice, there are a lot of Jin merchants, and the Ji family is really not very famous in it, but Ji Cheng is the most clear and detailed, she estimates the Ji family's current financial resources, not to mention being dominant in Jinxi, but at least it can be included in the top three. If it weren't for the fact that her family had been hiding clumsy, I was afraid that she would have been treated as fat in her mouth a long time ago, and the matter of the Zhu family at the beginning could also be regarded as throwing stones to ask for directions. If it weren't for some of Ji Lan's practices in Beijing, the Ji family would have been more low-key.

Based on the family style of the Ji family and the habits that Ji Cheng has developed since childhood, she is really not used to it if she suddenly wants to win everyone's attention and stand at the top, because she understands too well the risks and criticisms of standing at the top.

However, Ji Cheng felt that his idea was a bit ridiculous, there were quite a few talented among the noble daughters of the Jingshi, even if she had the heart to compete for the lead, she might not be able to stand out in it, but she was in her own hands.

The willow leaf pavilion has long been separated by twelve four-season flower screens with red sandalwood hollow entwined vine seats, this screen is still Shen Qian specially raised the ancestors to open her private treasure house, and the flowers on it are the embroidery of the Xue family in Jiangnan, which is very precious.

This Hundred Flowers Banquet Shen Qian really took a lot of effort, and the Shen family's heritage is not comparable to the Wang family, who gave birth to the eldest prince's concubine Niangniang, who suddenly became noble.

On Ji Cheng's side, there is already a girl who has prepared pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and various pigments such as cinnabar, garcinia, cyan, silver vermilion, and stone green, which are really complete in color and color.

It's just that Ji Cheng didn't expect that Wang Siniang, who arrived at the end, actually chose painting. In fact, painting is the most difficult to shine one, poetry can be circulated, the piano art can also be played among the crowd, only painting takes the most time, in order to meet the occasion, a hasty layout, it is difficult to have a good work.

Because of this, the ratio of poetry and piano skills on both sides of the screen has been decided, but Ji Cheng and others are still struggling to write.

However, Wang Siniang was the first to put down the pen, and when Ji Cheng put down the pen when she was finally completed, she had already drunk a cup of tea and commented on the poems of Shen Qian and others.

For a while, all the girls came around to see the peony picture of these few people, although it was a hundred flowers banquet, but April was the peony king, and it was undoubtedly a peony for the occasion.

Ji Cheng's painting is eye-catching, and they all call it a painting of a peony, two Zhao powders, one far and one near, and the snow tower, which is the largest among them, is more and more like snow and ice.

Shen Qian nodded and said: "Not bad, the colors are bright and beautiful, and the brushwork is also neat and delicate, even the flying butterflies and grasshoppers among the flowers are also lifelike." Sister Cheng has been holding a paintbrush for some years, right? ”

"Yes, I studied with my husband for a few years when I was at home." Ji Cheng said, but to have such a benefit in front of him, in fact, it all depends on Mrs. Yu's guidance.

However, although Ji Cheng's paintings are eye-catching, Wang Siniang's peony picture makes people can't take their eyes off. She painted purple, red, and white peonies, either front or side, pitching and shadowing, and making their own appearances.

For a while, everyone was hovering in front of Ji Cheng and Wang Siniang's paintings, and it seemed that it was quite difficult to make a choice.

Wang Siniang pouted and laughed while listening to the comments of those who didn't know how to pretend to understand.

Ji Cheng followed Mrs. Yu to learn to paint these days, although the painting skills are still lacking some heat, but the vision is practiced, as soon as she saw Wang Siniang's peony flowers, she was already willing to bow down.

"My paintings are not as good as Miss Wang's." Ji Cheng said: "Miss Wang's painting is extremely fast, it can be seen that it is full of chest, although it is only three flowers, but it has already shown the national color of the peony, wealth, and purple from the east, and then look at the light and dark perspective of this painting, even the turning of the flowers and leaves to the back are outlined and depicted clearly, the brushwork is subtle and bright and concise, and the layout is full of wild interest, which is not comparable to me." ”

When Wang Siniang saw Ji Cheng at a glance, she pointed out the three-color flowers that she was very proud of, and praised the idea every word, and looked at her twice.

But that's not all.

Since Ji Cheng is willing to bow down, the leader of the painting club naturally belongs to Wang Siniang, but Ji Cheng can be regarded as victorious despite defeat.

On the side of the Poetry Society, Su Yun won the championship for the first time, Shen Qian was happy and honored, as for the Qin Club, although Shen Wei studied under Aunt Hanbi, she was also a person who fished for three days and dried nets for two days, so she only fell into the middle.

After the three societies made a knot, the girl came to invite everyone to move to the Hongliang Pavilion opposite the Willow Leaf Pavilion to enter the banquet, and there was no order to help the fun, Ji Chengcheng was still handy, whether it was simple or difficult, it was Wang Siniang who deliberately embarrassed her, and she easily coped with it, so everyone no longer dared to underestimate that she was the daughter of a Jin businessman.

But after lunch, they were a little sleepy, and some of the girls who couldn't stand it said goodbye and went home, and there were also good friends, Shen Qian and others asked the girl to take them down to take them down for a break and sober up, and there were also those who wanted to go to the garden to take a walk to eat.

As for the Wang Siniang sisters, who are still in strong spirits, seeing that the water surface of the chime garden is long and wide, they asked Shen Qian to ask her mother-in-law to pull out the painting boat, and everyone got on the boat to play.

Ji Cheng's spirit is not bad, but he drank some sweet wine at noon, shook it lightly on the boat, and almost fell asleep, so it was easy to cheer up, and then looked at the other girls, under the refreshing lake breeze, they were a little shaky, but they were also comfortable.

Ji Cheng just adjusted his posture and was about to take another nap elegantly, but he heard a loud "poof" sound from the opposite side, and a little girl on the bridge on the other side of the lake was so frightened that she shouted for help.

Ji Cheng saw the person fluttering in the heart of the lake, and immediately jumped into the water without thinking about anything, she knows how to swim in the water, when she was a child, she was a girl raised by a wild boy, and when she couldn't tell the difference between men and women, she often followed her second brother to play in the water in Dayan Taili.

When Ji Cheng swam closer, he found that the person who fell into the water was Qi Hua, but she struggled so badly that she choked on several mouthfuls of water, and she was getting farther and farther away from the side of the bridge. When the girls and mothers-in-law find them, they will naturally prepare a change of clothes for them.

Ji Cheng looked at the surrounding environment clearly in an instant, and reached out to drag Qi Hua, but Qi Hua opened her hand in a panic and took Ji Cheng to swim over, and she hugged Ji Cheng's neck and didn't let go, almost causing Ji Cheng to lose his breath.

It was easy to drag Qi Hua to the flower dock on the shore, Ji Cheng really had no strength, and he was even more tired by Qi Hua's weight and fell to the ground.

Ji Cheng heard the sound of inhaling on his head, and when he looked up, it was Shen Yu and her cousin Shen Jing, both of whom looked like they were about to leave.