Chapter 952: Judgment
Originally, Mrs. Xu wanted to take her eldest daughter-in-law to Ding's Mansion to intercede, but unfortunately she was old after all, and she had a long journey, and she had a high fever before dawn.
At the same time, it was rumored in Beijing that the crown princess offered a high price and asked Fan Anyang to paint for her and the prince, but she was politely refused! However, the crown princess did not give up, and went to the prime minister's mansion with Princess Tongcheng, and Fan Anyang reluctantly agreed.
After Mrs. Xu learned about it, she couldn't help but lose her temper at home, saying that if it weren't for Mrs. Xu and Mrs. Ding San, how could Fan Anyang be so valued by the crown princess, and the fourth lady deeply agreed, but she didn't dare to express it clearly, so she could only complain to her henchmen in private, saying that Fan Anyang could have today's scenery, all thanks to her and Mrs. Ding.
In the face of such self-righteous behavior as her mother-in-law and concubine, the eldest lady couldn't cry or laugh.
If Mrs. Xu only yelled so much at home, it would be okay, while going out to intercede for the fourth master, she didn't forget to talk about it, as if Fan Anyang himself actually had no talent at all, and it all depended on Mrs. Xu and Mrs. Ding to be in the limelight.
There are few people in Beijing who have seen Fan Anyang's paintings! Therefore, there are really many people who believe what Mrs. Xu said, thinking that Fan Anyang can be valued by the crown princess, all because of Mrs. Ding's aunt and sister-in-law.
No, two months later, she completed the portrait painting for Changping Bo and his wife, and after it was exhibited at Changping Bo's birthday banquet, it immediately caused a sensation in Beijing.
The painters of the Yan family calligraphy and painting shop also use the same technique to paint people, but this technique was pioneered by Fan Anyang. Although she is young, the delicate mind unique to women makes her paintings inexplicably moving the viewer.
The portrait of Changping Bo and his wife is called Plaice Love, which is a five-sided double-sided floor-to-ceiling screen, in the middle is an old couple walking hand in hand on a forest path, followed by a young and handsome groom riding a tall horse to marry a beautiful lady, and the other eight are husband and wife, who have been married for decades, and are worth remembering eight scenes, including the birth of Lin'er and a long-distance expedition. Seriously injured and missing, triumphantly returned, children and daughters became adults, and so on.
Look at this floor-to-ceiling screen. Just like following the people in the painting to experience the joys, sorrows and sorrows of life, Mrs. Changping Bo used this screen as a congratulatory gift for her husband's 80th birthday.
On the day of the birthday feast, the crown was gathered, and the children and grandchildren of Changping Bo sent countless congratulatory gifts. But it can't match the screen given by his wife.
After Mrs. Ding read it. I can't help but complain to my daughter! "Why did Ah Zhao only help her aunt and grandmother paint this screen! When I was on my birthday. Let her give me one, too. ”
Mrs. Fan smiled bitterly, "Ah Zhao is tired for these ten paintings!" As soon as he finished painting, he collapsed. Even the framing and folding into a screen are all done for the normalization and the path. ”
"Or do you want them to do it?" Mrs. Ding said angrily, holding her daughter and stepping forward to take a closer look, the people in the painting are lifelike, the scenery is beautiful and poetic, the more Mrs. Ding looks at it, the more shocked she becomes, she knows that Fan Anyang has done a good job, but she doesn't want her skills to surpass the level of Yan Da painter!
Mrs. Fan had been observing her mother's face, and when she saw that her complexion had changed slightly, she smiled bitterly and said, "You can see it too?" ”
"It's no wonder that Master Yan took the initiative to take her as an apprentice back then, her ability is indeed above them." Back then, she also complained that Master Yan was too strict with Ah Zhao, although they were also strictly required to return to normal and Xiaolu, but their strength was not as good as Fan Anyang, and she thought that it was because they were men after all, and they wanted to take the imperial examination, so they would treat them more leniently.
But I didn't expect that it was not like that at all.
Yan Chi was also a guest of honor today, and said triumphantly to several old friends of the great painters, "Where! Look, how about the paintings made by my only female disciple? ”
"Not really!" Several great painters soured him, "The pen is weak, the painting skills are messy, and the composition is also a mess, which is terrible!" ”
"Humph! I know you're jealous! Eat one's heart out! Yan Chi held the hand of the apprentices of the single family, arguing happily with his old friends, but the apprentices and grandchildren of the single family could not hide the horror in their hearts, knowing that the little aunt must have good qualifications, otherwise she would not be included in the door wall by the ancestor as one of the three disciples of the closed door.
But no one expected that her qualifications would be above those two uncles?!
Fan Anyang, who slept in bed at home, didn't expect that he would become famous overnight!
Many people want to come to the door with money and ask Fan Anyang to paint for them, but there are really few who dare to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion, but the life of relatives and friends is not comfortable! People who want to invite Fan Anyang to paint, it is not good to come to the door directly, especially if she is an inner housewoman, how can a foreign man come to the door to invite, do you want to be targeted by Xiangye? So people with fast brains found another way to find Fan Anyang's relatives and friends, and even Ding Xiaoan and the others were disturbed.
If it weren't for Mrs. Ding's sister-in-law and Mrs. Xu's old lady to make that play, even if Fan Anyang was famous for the paintings made by Changping Bo and his wife, it would not have been like this, so the harassed relatives recorded all the accounts on Mrs. Ding's head.
The sons and daughters-in-law of the third room also complained about her, originally she lived in the ancestral hall, and the son and daughter-in-law would let people bring things to her in three days, and now I still remember that it would be good to let people send things to her!
In addition, when Mrs. Xu returned to Beijing, the eldest son of the third room sent someone to inform her early, and explained that she was waiting in the ancestral hall for an important time, and there would be no more trouble! The third lady stopped making a fuss, and waited obediently in the ancestral hall, waiting for Beijing to send someone to take her back to Beijing, and she thought about how to sue her mother!
It's just that not only did her mother not send anyone to visit her, but the Ding family in Beijing did not send anyone to take her back to Beijing, and her son has not heard from her since that time, so the third lady is so uneasy that people can inquire, Mr. Tang is watching them closely, her people don't talk about the ancestral hall, and even the small kitchen has not brought her food for a long time.
The henchman was afraid that the cook would flee with the money, so she tried her best to get out, and when she went to the village, she realized that the food cooked by the cook could not be delivered, and she was worried that she would not be able to receive the salary, so she took her apprentice with her apprentice as early as ten days ago and took away all the food she had prepared.
After the third lady found out, she was so angry that she scolded, but the money was gone, the ingredients were gone, and the cook had run away, so she could only honestly eat the same food as the people in the ancestral hall, but Rao was so, she still couldn't lose weight.
At the same time, Master Xu Si was sentenced to exile in the northwest, and he was originally sentenced to be sentenced to death if he leaked the test questions, and Dayan's imperial examination did not allow fraud, but the people behind the scenes reacted too quickly, and all the clues were cut off. No one believed it, but the clues he confessed were all broken, and in the end he could only be used to make an example of him!
Although the fourth old man Xu did not die, he was sentenced to exile, and the sons of the fourth room were all turned white, and followed his father to exile to the northwest, and the female dependents were released to their hometowns.
In addition, the biggest headache for the fourth lady is to return the daughter-in-law's dowry.
When taking money from her daughter-in-law and spending it, she showed off her mother-in-law's majesty, never thought that one day, she would face a reversal of the situation, Mrs. Xu was dumbfounded, knowing that the fourth lady was greedy, if it weren't for her greed, she wouldn't have instigated the sister-in-law to design people, but she could use her daughter-in-law's dowry to spend it? It's not that she doesn't have a dowry, and the fourth brother doesn't have no family, and the Xu family's family background is quite solid, why is the fourth lady doing this?
After the fourth lady Xu sold the property of the princess, she bought a lot of jewelry for herself and her daughters, and there was also a pen account, which was specially set up for the fourth master, and the projects were varied, but the eldest lady knew at a glance that this eighty percent was used for the four masters to move around.
She took a pen and wrote something on the paper next to her while watching, until she saw the palm lamp, and then she finished reading the book, she picked up the messy paper and looked at it, and it took a long time before she saw her eyebrows.
I'm afraid that the fourth master himself doesn't know, who is behind the fraud in the imperial examination? The eldest lady made a mark with her fingernails on that name, how could it be him?
"Palm lamp." With a soft drink, a maid immediately entered the house and lit the lamp, and this night, the light in Mrs. Xu's room was never extinguished.
The next day, the Xu family sent a fast horse to the appointment of the eldest lord Xu, and the eldest lady Xu helped her mother-in-law prepare all the necessary things for the exile of the four-room male in the house, while waiting for her husband's reply, and waited until the fourth old man and his son went on the road, and the eldest lord's letter was delivered.
Let the fourth lady send the crying old lady to the car, the doctor pinched the letter just handed over by the steward, got into his own carriage, the carriage staggered back to the city, the eldest lady leaned on the window of the car to read her husband's letter at a glance, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, fortunately the husband is not nonsense, save this matter, in the future, see whether to denounce, or keep it as a handle, it is better than taking it to catch the fourth master.
"I didn't expect that the fourth brother had been foolish all his life, and he finally did a good thing for his brother!" She smiled lightly and flicked the window, she looked around, just in front of Fang Xiang's Mansion, Mrs. Xu said secretly, what a coincidence! After carefully looking at the family and the disciple in front of the Fang Mansion, Mrs. Xu lowered her eyes, the poor fourth brother was quite an outcast by Fang, and he didn't know who was behind the scenes!
The old man always hopes that his children and grandchildren will be on his knees, but when he encounters a situation like the fourth master Xu, Mrs. Xu has no other way but to cry sadly, her son and grandson are exiled, and after the eldest daughter-in-law shows her the tent stall in the public middle school, the old man is shocked to realize that the four sons and his wife are really losers! actually squandered nearly half of the property of the Xu family.
Immediately, regardless of the cry of the fourth lady, and regardless of whether the youngest daughter was still punished in the ancestral hall, she collected the burden and followed the eldest daughter-in-law back to the eldest son!
The people who returned to their hometown in the fourth room of the Xu family, in addition to the four ladies and daughters, there were only two granddaughters left, their two biological mothers died early, their stepmothers and fathers reconciled, and they left with their younger siblings.
Poor Mrs. Ding is still waiting in the ancestral hall, but I don't know that the Xu family has no one in Beijing! (To be continued.) )