The venue for the competition is located on the lakeside empty field of Jingyun Girls' School.

Jingyun Girls' School is built against the mountain, surrounded by a little valley in the Girls' School, the choice of the test site, one side faces the lake, one side is the mountain, the scenery is excellent, although the weather is a little cold now, but today's weather is very good, under the warm sun, the lake is slight, but also refreshing.

The Queen Mother and the judges, as well as the teachers of the women's school, were arranged in the octagonal three-story attic in the middle of the lake, which was a special viewing building, and the windows were pushed open to give an unobstructed view of all directions.

The Queen Mother Feng drove in the building, not too noisy, and could have an unobstructed view of the test venue thirty meters away in front of her, and the sound of the piano floated across the water, which would be interesting.

"The Queen Mother has arrived!"

Gu Qingwan followed behind Prince Li and walked slowly to the lake, and saw that the scene was really not small, the competition venue was already full of people near and far around the lake, there were seats specially prepared for female students, and seats were specially set up for parents who came to watch and help.

The eunuch's singing sounded, and everyone got up and knelt down to salute, which was very spectacular. The Queen Mother slowly walked to the high platform built by the lake, and only after standing still did she raise her hand with a smile and said: "Let's all be flat, today's mourning family is here to judge, and also to appreciate the female girls' learning, you don't have to be restrained." ”

With the gesture of the Queen Mother, the crowd stood up one after another. The Queen Mother's energy is limited, and it takes a lot of time to come from the palace, so she no longer wastes time when she sees the sun rising.

The prince in the Empress Dowager's palace smiled at Wei Dongshan, who was studying Jingyun Girl, and said, "Let's start right away." ”

The chief of Weidong nodded, and the two mountain chiefs of Shude Girls' School and Chenghua Women's School, as well as the adults and celebrities who invited them to judge, bowed together, and respectfully asked the Queen Mother to move upstairs.

Prince Li naturally wanted to go upstairs to watch, and moved with the Queen Mother, but before she took two steps, the Queen Mother paused and said, "Why is A-Ning standing here?" You're here to compete, so you should go to the audience. ”

Gu Qingwan couldn't help but look up when he heard this, and saw Lou Minning, who was standing on the side of the pavilion leading to the lake, wearing a pale cyan embroidered pine and bamboo pattern Confucian robe, he was long and jade, but standing there without saying a word, he had a kind of Zhilan Yushu's handsome atmosphere, and compared several adults and so-called celebrities over there.

This is the first time Gu Qingwan has seen Lou Minning since the fire in Gu's house, thinking about the last time he was burned by the fire, Gu Qingwan inevitably took a few more looks.

He seemed to be emaciated a little thinner, and the winter sun shone down on him, and there was a kind of moist softness on his side that was softer than the sharpness of the engraving, but there was a small mark of burn on the side of his ear near his neck.

Gu Qingwan was stunned for a moment, when she was in the Great Power Temple before, she obviously asked someone to send a burn medicine with jade lotus nectar to the Zhenguo Mansion, if Lou Minning used it, it would be impossible to get rid of the scars!

Did he receive it but it didn't work, or did he not receive the plaster she sent to him at all?

Gu Qingwan was thinking about it, Lou Minning over there probably noticed her gaze, and actually glanced at this side, but he quickly looked away, took a step forward, and said: "The Queen Mother is wrong, Weichen was invited by three female students to come to judge this competition, not to see who to compete." ”

The Yiru in the mouth of the Queen Mother was talking about the second girl Chen of the Chen Guogong Mansion, Chen Yiru.

She and Lou Minning were married by the Duchess of Zhenguo some time ago. Chen Yiru has also been suspended from school for two months after making a marriage, and this competition, like the lord of Yunyao, was invited by Chenghua Girls' School to win the championship.

The Queen Mother obviously thought that Lou Minning came to see Chen Yiru to compete, but she didn't expect it to be the case, but Lou Minning's talent is famous, especially the one-handed handwriting has the potential to be a school of its own, and it is not surprising that the three major female students invited him to judge.

The Queen Mother was slightly stunned and said, "But I mean to compete today, she is your future wife, don't you need to avoid suspicion?" ”

After she finished speaking, she looked at Wei Dongshan Chief and the others behind her with a smile, and said, "The mourning family doesn't want today's competition to be unfair. ”

Wei Dongshan said busily: "The Queen Mother laughed......"

"If the Queen Mother doubts the fairness of the competition, when Miss Chen Er participates in the competition, Weichen will temporarily withdraw from the evaluation." Before Wei Dongshan finished speaking, Lou Minning said so.

The Queen Mother was originally joking, but Lou Minning said this seriously, which made the Queen Mother a little unhappy, with a faint smile on her face, and said, "What about Mother?" ”

Lou Minning couldn't help but glance in Gu Qingwan's direction when he heard this, and then he replied: "Mother is on the side of the viewing seat, come over in a while." ”

The Queen Mother nodded, raised her hand at the princess, and said, "Let's move." ”

The Duchess of Zhenguo actually came today, and if she was in the audience, she was clearly here to cheer for her future daughter-in-law, Miss Chen Er.

Gu Qingwan was a little funny, sure enough, she was the daughter-in-law personally selected by the Duchess of Zhenguo, and her treatment was different.

The Queen Mother moved, and Princess Li was a step behind, Gu Qingwan was thinking about whether she should follow or not, so Princess Li turned around and raised her arm at her, and said, "I'm a little dizzy when I see the water, come and help me a little later." ”

The long corridor leading to the pavilion in the lake is very narrow, only enough for two people side by side, and the Queen Mother just said a few words to Lou Minning, obviously being diverted, as if she had forgotten the county lord of Yunyao.

Let the princess help her and leave, the county lord of Yunyao smiled and went to help the princess, her hand was already stretched out, who knew that the princess turned around and raised her hand at Gu Qingwan.

Seeing that Prince Li and Princess Li were being supported by Gu Qingwan, looking as close as a mother and daughter, Lord Yunyao withdrew his hand in embarrassment, gritted his silver teeth slightly, and stepped aside.

Gu Qingwan helped Prince Li and Princess Li to follow up the corridor, but the county lord of Yunyao could only follow behind the two.

Lou Minning lowered his eyes slightly, and saluted when Prince Li and Princess Li passed by, and Princess Li only nodded and said, "A-Ning hasn't been to the palace these days, so it's better to come more often in the future." ”

She also patted Gu Qingwan's hand as she spoke, Princess Li's words were very clear, she trusted Gu Qingwan very much, and she didn't feel guilty because Gu Qingwan had kissed Lou Minning, and took the initiative to invite Lou Minning to the palace.

Lou Minning couldn't hear what Prince Li meant, thinking of the Duchess Zhenguo's indifferent attitude towards Gu Qingwan, he became more and more bitter in his heart, and lowered his eyes and said: "Yes, it will be the prince's birthday in two days, and when the time comes, I will definitely go to ask for a bowl of the prince's longevity noodles to eat." ”

Prince and Princess Li smiled, nodded and walked forward, and Gu Qingwan hurriedly turned around to follow.

The two went up to the corridor, Lou Minning raised his eyes and glanced at Gu Qingwan, seeing that the princess was pointing to the lake with a sideways face and saying something to Gu Qingwan, Gu Qingwan listened with a smile, and got along very harmoniously, his eyes flashed slightly, and a smile that was both abrupt and relieved was touched on his lips.

He didn't know what Gu Qingwan was going to try today, he just thought that Prince Li and Princess Li were here to join in the fun, and Princess Li came out to relax and let Gu Qingwan accompany her, it seems that because of Gu Qingwan's life-saving grace, the princess is very different to her.

She is in the inner house of the palace, and the protection of the prince and princess is very good.

That's fine......

Just as he was thinking about it, he saw Qin Yu wearing a royal blue sword-sleeved robe, with a purple and gold crown on his head, striding over, a bewitching face was full of energy, the sun fell on his tall figure, and the whole person seemed to be bathing in light, full of spirit, and in an excellent mood.

Prince Li didn't want to sit with the queen mother and other women in the attic, so he took Qin Yu to the viewing seat, and some ministers of the court and the central government also came to cheer for their girls today, and it was more comfortable to sit there.

The audience couldn't see it clearly compared to the attic, Qin Yu said hello over there, and this inconvenience came over in a hurry.

He didn't know that Lou Minning was also there today, and when he saw Lou Minning's footsteps, he suddenly paused slightly, thinking that Gu Qing must have had a fight with this guy in the evening, and he was annoyed for a moment that he shouldn't run around with Prince Li, the old man was really in the way wherever he went.

Seeing Lou Minning's gaze coming, Qin Yucai restrained his expression, slightly raised the corner of his lips, and quickened his pace a little wickedly, "Why is Lou Shizi here?" ”

Lou Minning nodded and said, "Invited to be a judge, Ah Yu?" ”

Qin Yu raised his eyebrows when he heard this, then raised his lips and smiled, and said, "Today's master's woman wants to participate in the competition, and the master is naturally here to cheer." ”

After he finished speaking, he suddenly looked at Wei Dongshan Chang and the others who were standing on the side, his eyes were slightly bright, and his interest suddenly came, and he said: "Lou Shizi can come to judge, why hasn't this king been invited?" The three mountain chiefs look down on this king, ah? ”

Wei Dong Mountain Chief had just heard what Qin Yu said to cheer for his woman, but he didn't come back to his senses for a while, and at this moment, he was forced to ask by Qin Yu like this, so he couldn't come back to his senses.

Seeing that Qin Yu didn't seem to be joking, Senior Wei Dong was immediately overjoyed and said, "The county king is willing to come and judge?" That's great! ”

After saying that, he looked at the chief of Bai Song Mountain and the chief of Qinglian Mountain of Chenghua Female School next to him, and Bai Song Mountain Chief also smiled and said: "The king of the county has superb chess skills, and he can come to judge, we can't ask for it!" ”

Qin Yu is already noble, and now he has great achievements, he is willing to be judged, that is a matter of giving the face of the female senior, Chenghua's Qinglian Mountain Chief naturally agreed, and said: "It's just that what the county king said said that the women of the county king want to participate in the competition, but what does this mean?" ”

Qin Yu raised his eyebrows and said, "Don't you know yet? On the orders of the Queen Mother, the king's woman Gu is going to compete with three female students today to try piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, she has just gone to the attic with the king's mother, and the three mountain chiefs should have seen her. ”

Wei Dongshan looked at each other, and became more and more confused, but Lou Minning glanced at the attic in surprise.

Qin Yu didn't say much, only waved his hand and said: "Then it's decided, this king is the judge, everyone is seated, let's start quickly." ”

In the attic, the Queen Mother was invited to sit down behind the railing on the second floor, Prince Li sat next to her, Gu Qingwan stood behind Prince Li, and the Queen Mother looked at Gu Qingwan, who was dressed in a green shirt like a spring sprout, her eyes narrowed slightly, and she ordered: "Add a place here to the mourning family to the county lord of Yunyao." ”

Hearing this, the prince hurriedly ordered someone to move the chair, and the county lord of Yunyao thanked her with a smile, and waited for her to sit down in the place behind the queen mother, but the queen mother commanded again: "By the way, after a while, Miss Chen Er will also come with her mother, and add a chair to Miss Chen Er wherever you go." ”

The Queen Mother said, and nodded at the back of the vacant seat on the other side of her.

The position on the other side of the Queen Mother is specially prepared for the Duchess of Zhenguo.

Gu Qingwan naturally heard and saw the movement over there, she lowered her head and rolled her eyes, she didn't care, but the princess and princess Li were a little unhappy in her heart, and couldn't help but turn around and take Gu Qingwan's hand and patted it comfortingly.

Prince Li also wanted Gu Qingwan to have a seat to sit, but her identity, the Queen Mother did not speak, but it was difficult to arrange a seat.

And Princess Li knew that even if she opened her mouth for Gu Qing, the Queen Mother would not agree, because what the Queen Mother did was obviously aimed at Gu Qing's lateness.

Gu Qingwan shook the hand of the princess and princess, she really didn't care, didn't she just stand for a while, the scenery was better.

"Alas, the Duchess of the Kingdom can come here, the sun is big outside, your old man will not come again, the Queen Mother will go over to invite someone in person."

Wang Gonggong suddenly opened his mouth and raised his voice, and everyone looked over, and sure enough, it was the Duchess of Zhenguo, Xiao Shi, who slowly walked upstairs, and next to her, a girl wearing a purple embroidered peony half-arm, an apricot yellow skirt, and an extremely delicate and square appearance, was supporting her, it was Chen Yiru, the second girl of Chen.

The family and the country are different, and the Duchess of Zhenguo stepped forward to greet the Queen Mother, and then sat down with the support of Miss Chen's second girl, and said: "I talked to the Duchess of Chen Guo over there, but let the Queen Mother wait." ”

"What's the point of waiting for a mother to be a daughter?"

The Queen Mother said with a smile, the mother and daughter are six points similar in appearance, and they seem closer and closer, and the feeling of Lou Minning and the Queen Mother is obviously different.

Xu is when Lou Minning was born, the Queen Mother was already married, although the Queen Mother was Lou Minning's eldest sister, but the relationship between sister and brother was not very close.

The Duchess of Zhenguo has obviously seen the Princess Li and Gu Qingwan sitting on the side, Gu Qingwan is going to compete today, the Duchess of Zhenguo has heard what the Queen Mother said, so she is not surprised, she nodded at the Princess Li with a smile, and did not say much.

Below, the mountain chief Weidong had already begun to speak on behalf of the three female school chiefs, but the Qinglian mountain chief moved the lotus lightly and walked up the steps, blessed the queen mother, and said with a smile: "The queen mother, please Rong Chen will introduce you to the process of the competition." ”

Qinglian Mountain Chief is the only woman among the three mountain chiefs, although she is a woman, but she is a famous poet of Daqin, she has been married twice, the first time and divorced, the second time her husband died of illness, and then she has been widowed.

Qinglian Mountain Chief is now only half a hundred years old, and his temples are slightly white, but he is full of bookish breath, and there is an elegant charm that young women do not have.

Because she enjoys the respect of the literati, she has the title of female official, and she was specially hired as the mountain chief of Chenghua Women's School, so she called herself a courtier in front of the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother nodded with a smile, and the head of Qinglian Mountain said: "There are many female students in the three female schools, and they can't be displayed in front of the Queen Mother one by one, so earlier the female students have selected the best female students in the fields of qin, chess, calligraphy and painting. Chen and Wei Dong Mountain, Bai Songshan Chief, and the ten invited judges have discussed, in view of the chess and painting skills take the longest time, the two competitions will be held at the same time, start now, so as not to be exposed to the sun for a while, and the students who participated in the painting competition will not be able to stand it for a long time standing in the sun. After the painting competition, it was the thirty female students of calligraphy who competed, and finally the piano. At that time, the chess art side should almost be able to fight out the difference, and then by the victory, and a few female students who were also selected for the chess art, but failed to participate in the chess art because of the participation in the calligraphy, painting and piano competition, the Queen Mother thinks this arrangement is good? ”

The Queen Mother nodded again and again when she heard this, and said, "That's it." ”

The Qinglian Mountain Chief stood up, rushed down his head and made a gesture, and the Weidong Mountain Chief announced it.

Chen Yiru and the county lord of Yunyao obviously wanted to participate in the painting competition, seeing that the table had already been set up, and the female students who participated in the competition were also in Weidong Mountain, and began to enter silently, the two stood up one after another, and said goodbye to the Queen Mother.

The two went hand in hand, and the Queen Mother turned her head to look at her as if she had just remembered Gu Qingwan at this moment, and said, "By the way, Aunt Gu is also going to be compared today, look at the memory of the mourning family." ”

After she said that, she said to Qinglian Mountain: "Aunt Gu is not a student of the three major female schools, and she has not participated in the previous competition, but she has the confidence to compare, and she must not be weak in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, so let her add it directly, and compete with the thirty outstanding female students, and you can also have a comparison to see if the students of the female school are diligent and diligent in the female school." ”

The head of Qinglian Mountain had already heard Qin Yu mention this matter downstairs, although he didn't know what to do, but now that the Queen Mother had ordered this, she also responded with the same expression, and said to Gu Qing with a smile: "Aunt Gu, please come with me." ”

Gu Qingwan felt like a person who went through the back door, and under the deliberate arrangement of the Queen Mother, she followed the head of Qinglian Mountain down the pavilion.

The head of Qinglian Mountain knew Gu Qingwan and led her downstairs, but said: "At the birthday banquet of the old lady of the Xuguo Mansion four years ago, Miss Gu was deeply impressed by the picture of looking for plum in the snow, and I am looking forward to it today." ”

Seeing that she didn't ask anything, but only said so, and called her a girl, Gu Qingwan smiled and said, "Thank you, Mountain Chief Miaozan." ”

Qinglian Mountain Chief nodded, took Gu Qing to the lake, signaled Gu Qing to wait a while, and personally went over to whisper a few words to Wei Dong Mountain Chief, Wei Dong Mountain Chief glanced at Gu Qing Wan's side, and immediately frowned and showed displeasure, and then ordered someone to move a table to put it on.

Gu Qingwan didn't pay attention to them, only looked around the crowd, and saw that Wen Qing was already standing in the crowd with two little maids from the Snow Scene Courtyard carrying three big baskets, and was also looking over here, Gu Qingwan's heart was slightly settled.

The table for Gu Qingwan was placed at the end, in the corner near the audience, and this movement caused the girls who were already standing in front of their respective tables to look over, not knowing why. There was also a lot of discussion in the audience, but Gu Qingwan walked slowly over against everyone's eyes.

"What's going on?"

"Sister Yun Yao, Sister Yiru, you are just upstairs, do you know what's going on?"

"She's not...... Isn't it the eldest girl of Gu Mansion in the past, how could she ......?"

The sound of discussion around made the corners of Yunyao's lips slightly raised, and he said with a smile: "It's Aunt Gu of Prince Li's Mansion, she was ordered by the Queen Mother to participate in the competition with us, if you can win three games, the Queen Mother will agree to make Aunt Gu the side concubine of King Yanguang, everyone is calm and don't be impatient, it's okay." ”

The girls suddenly looked not very good-looking, they participated in the competition, showed their talents, and felt that it was an elegant thing, but now that they were stirred up by Gu Qingwan, they were full of utilitarian meaning, not to mention, they were dignified and noble, and they would all be serious women in the future, and what would they try to compete with an aunt!

But this is what the Queen Mother meant, and it is already like this, and they will not be stupid to make trouble in front of them.

It's just that I was thinking in my heart, it must be this Aunt Gu who wants to be a side concubine, and she thought of this method and asked for a reference, and the Queen Mother may not be able to shirk it, so she agreed.

Otherwise, how could the Queen Mother disregard the physique and let a woman of such status participate in their competition. They all frowned secretly, and made up their minds to give Gu Qing a good look.

Gu Qingwan didn't seem to feel the unkind gaze around, and slowly walked to the table, where Wen Qing and the three of them had already come over with a big box, and when they opened the box, they put many bottles and cans on the table.

Seeing this, the three Wei Dong Mountain Chiefs walked over together, their eyes swept over the bottles and cans placed on the top of the maid, and suddenly Wei Dong Mountain Chief, who was already unhappy, said in a deep voice: "This is a painting competition, not wild food, what do you want to put so many things to eat and drink!?" ”

Gu Qingwan was generously blessed, and said: "The mountain chief misunderstood, I want to paint, these are paints and other things, the mountain chief, please check." ”

After she said that, she signaled, Wen Qing and the three of them hurriedly opened the lids on those bottles and cans, and they were not filled with food, but some strange paints, sticky, all kinds of colors, but they were not the paints used in ordinary paintings, and they had never been seen.

At this time, a maid took out a set of tools from the last layer of the food box and put them on the table, although there was a brush, but the brush was extremely thin, not at all like a thing used for painting, and there were some more strange tools, I don't know what they were used for.

Wei Dongshan Chang frowned, and was getting more and more angry, but Qinglian Mountain Chief said: "These are novel tight, since she has already said, these are used for painting, let's wait and see, the left and right competition is not circled and must be painted ink painting, if she can't do it, it will be considered a loss in the competition." ”

Hearing this, the mountain chief Wei Dong and the white pine mountain chief groaned, and turned around and left without saying anything more.

At this time, the audience and the female students also learned the reason for Gu Qing's late reference, and they started to talk about it, and saw that she had made a bunch of strange things, and suddenly the topic revolved around her.

"What is she going to do here?"

"Who knows, most of the skills are not good, so they are weird, as the saying goes, ugly people are more weird, it is a truth."

……

There were no good words for the female students, and Gu Qingwan didn't take it to heart, she had already rolled up her sleeves slightly and moved.

What she wants to paint today is not an ordinary painting, but a resin painting.

She moved an open round sweet white porcelain pot that had been coagulated with glue to her side, picked up the special tools she had prepared, and began to concentrate on drawing the first layer of base painting on the glue.

These tools and various glues were not specially prepared by Gu Qingwan for the competition, but when he was preparing to open the restaurant earlier, Gu Qingwan wrote a request and asked Shen Ze to configure it.

According to Gu Qingwan's request, Shen Ze got the pigments and collected resin, and Gu Qingwan did it many times before he could adjust the barely usable glue.

It took a lot of effort to make a syringe that can absorb resin glue, and various other tools, Gu Qingwan has already drawn a corresponding resin painting for each private room in the restaurant according to the name of the private room.

At this moment, she started to move again, and she was already a little handy, not as busy as she was at the beginning.

Seeing her head down, using strange tools to tinker in a large round basin, a group of people began to joke and talk non-stop, and gradually became curious, but the second monk was puzzled.

However, the girl in front of Gu Qingwan was probably also very curious, and when she was halfway through the painting, she stretched her waist and glanced back at Gu Qingwan.

At this glance, she saw the things in the basin under Gu Qingwan's hand, and suddenly her face showed a look of surprise and fright, and she screamed out of frustration, and then regardless of her image, she suddenly took a step back, and the table that she hit suddenly moved, and her arm swept to the inkstone on the table, and as the inkstone fell to the ground, the girl also stumbled two steps and sat on the ground.

Wow -

After this scene, whether it was the audience or the female students, everyone stood up unconsciously.

------Off topic------

Guess what Qingqing drew in the basin, which frightened the girl, haha, guessed the reward of 30 coins