Chapter 138: Family Affairs
Soon two more rounds of drumming and passing flowers ended, Ye Tingyao winked at Jiang Qingya, stretched out his hand and made a gesture, and said in a low voice, "Believe me, it must be the last round." ”
Jiang Qingya glanced at the little guy who was playing the drum, "I can finally breathe a sigh of relief." ”
The silk flower reached Ye Tingyao's hand, and Ye Tingyao was about to quickly throw the silk flower out, but the drum stopped abruptly.
The silk flower shook at Ye Tingyao's fingertips and fell into her arms.
Ye Tingyao's heart jumped, and Jiang Qingya's jaw was about to fall.
Jiang Qingya looked at the petrified Ye Tingyao worriedly, "Yaoyao, you can play the piano or even anything, just play one or two casually." ”
Jiang Qingya remembered that Ye Tingyao had said that she was cooking and cooking when she was empty in the house.
But if you really don't have any talent...... Hey, Yaoyao is really too back......
Ye Tingyao smiled peacefully at Jiang Qingya, "It's okay, I'll go paint a picture." ”
Jiang Qingya was surprised that Ye Tingyao could draw and breathed a sigh of relief, anyway, no matter how good the painting is, he can cope with it, just don't make people laugh at it.
When Ye Tingyao stood up, in addition to attracting the attention of Prince Mu and the young ladies, the male guest also had several hot glances.
Lian Bohan, the second son of Lian Bohan, the servant of the Ministry of Works, is looking forward to Ye Tingyao's talent.
The relationship between his father and Ye Tingyao's uncle that he mentioned today is all true, and it is precisely because of this relationship that Ye Tingyao and he had a baby kiss when they were young.
Later, due to the disappearance of the Rong family, the Ye family did not do much, and they were far away in Lianzhou County, so as Lian Bohan grew older, Lian Bohan's mother wanted to abolish this family business more and more.
Unexpectedly, when the Lian family was about to repair a letter to talk to Ye Linde about this matter, the Ye family entered Beijing and was promoted to the rank of minister.
But the family is still dissatisfied. After Ye Linde entered Beijing, he didn't go to the mansion to see Lian Shilang once, and the banquet in Yefu the month before was not posted with Lian Shilang.
From this point of view, Ye Linde seems to be more connected than them, and he doesn't pay attention to this family business.
Even the waiter was displeased, he was originally determined to be close for the sake of Prince Rong. Now the Ye family is something. That being the case, don't do this family business.
Even the second son knew his parents' plans, and he didn't care at first. He has never seen Miss Ye on his side, who knows if it will be a crooked melon and a cracked date.
Today, he heard that Ye Tingyao would also participate in the banquet of the Guozi Priest's Mansion, so he planned to find a chance to meet him, if his appearance was acceptable. In his eyes, he would naturally go home and persuade his parents to continue this family business. After all, for the sake of face, it is reasonable for the woman to refuse to take the initiative, if her appearance is really ordinary, even ugly. It's better to do it early.
He met Ye Tingyao outside the apricot forest as he wished, and said a few words to Ye Tingyao, and he was very satisfied with Ye Tingyao's appearance. It can even be said that I was amazed.
So he didn't dare to be interested in the game performances of the ladies, but in order to see Ye Tingyao go to Qiongtai. I came here on purpose.
In addition to the eyes of the second son, there is also a bunch of Guang Shiyu's, Guang Shiyu feels that this woman's figure and temperament are very familiar, as if he has seen it somewhere, but he can't remember it for a while.
The more I can't remember, the more painful it is, Guang Shiyu intuition Brother Tianqi and Zhang Zongji have also seen it, but the two of them left in advance after using up the banquet, Guang Shiyu knocked on his head, and decided to carefully watch Ye Tingyao show his talent first, maybe he will be able to remember it in a while.
Ye Tingyao had already walked to Qiongtai, and like the previous miss, she first saluted in the direction of Prince Mu, and Princess Mu nodded at her from afar.
Mrs. Zhou smiled very reluctantly beside Princess Mu, Zhou Linlang's flute music skills were shocking, she was ready to let the two young ladies go up to be a foil, and then accept it when she saw it, I didn't want Princess Mu to suddenly mention it, saying that she wanted to see Miss Yefu's talent, and she had to follow the princess's will no matter how unwilling she was. Now I can only hope that Miss Ye is also an ordinary, just play a tune.
The maid on the Qiongtai saluted Ye Tingyao respectfully, "May I ask what kind of talent Miss Ye shows." ”
Ye Tingyao smiled calmly, "Please also prepare a pair of pen, ink, paper and inkstone for me, the pen needs sheep's hair, the paper needs to be shengxuan, and then the ordinary inkstone and pine smoke ink can be." ”
Miss Jingzhong is unfamiliar with Ye Tingyao, and many people vaguely heard that Ye Tingyao did not play the piano or pipa, but asked for pen and ink, and gathered in twos and threes to whisper.
Most of them asked Ye Tingyao where he came from, and the two young ladies of the Marquis of Wuning had already inquired about Ye Tingyao's identity, and sneered, seeing that Ye Tingyao is eyebrows are not eyebrows and eyes are not eyes.
"I didn't ask for paint, I thought it was writing, I was really from the countryside, she just showed that she read too much." The second lady of the Hou Mansion of Wuning sneered with a handkerchief.
Hearing that Miss Hou said that Ye Tingyao was from the countryside, the eyes of many people around her turned with contempt and disdain.
Most people in the Zhou Dynasty still believe that women are virtuous if they are not talented, that is, Zhou Linlang, who was praised as a talented woman by Jiang Qingya, if she did not play the piano and play music in front of outsiders, she only dared to paint, and wrote very little, let alone said that she had read many books.
Therefore, even if Ye Tingyao writes a page of powerful and powerful characters, he will only become a laughing stock in the eyes of others.
The maid quickly sent a pen, ink, paper and inkstone according to Ye Tingyao's request, and Miss Qiong's discussion and ridicule Ye Tingyao couldn't hear it clearly and didn't care, anyway, she didn't plan to be in the limelight at all, she knew very well in her heart that whether it was painting or writing, it was not a professional.
Ye Tingyao took the rice paper and spread it on the table, polished the ink and moistened the pen, and quickly danced on the shengxuan, the skill and speed of painting was the blessing of some tea, and the effort of a cup of tea was not enough, Ye Tingyao put down the pen, looked at it slightly, gently blew the ink that had not dried, and smiled at the maid, "I'm fine." ”
The two maids who were guarding the side were stunned, and then stepped forward to carefully pick up Ye Tingyao's paintings, walked to the side of the Qiongtai low corridor, first walked around Qiongtai, so that the surrounding ladies and guests could see it, and then walked down Qiongtai with the paintings, and invited Prince Mu to enjoy them.
"If you draw well, you will be rewarded." After carefully looking at Ye Tingyao's paintings, Princess Mu nodded again and again, and instructed Cai Yuan to take a peony and save pearls and red gold hairpins to reward Ye Tingyao.
Ye Tingyao painted a picture of a maid's banquet, the scenery is taken from the garden of the Guozi Priest's Liquor House, Ye Tingyao did not use much painting skills, but it is realistic, what really shines is the time she spent making this painting, ordinary painters do not have half an hour, it is impossible to complete, but Ye Tingyao practiced the art of tea, and some are fast and accurate, and they are clever.
After Princess Mu rewarded Ye Tingyao, she didn't forget to smile at Mrs. Zhou, "Today's drumming and passing flowers, I look at Linlang and Miss Ye's best, Linlang's reward, I will give her personally in a while." After that, Prince Mu glanced at Ye Tingyao from a distance and stood up, "Let's go first, let them play by themselves, ......" (to be continued)