In August, the osmanthus flowers bloom all over the garden, and the breeze blows the fragrance from the face.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the full moon is fuller, and the highlight is arranged in the evening, and Princess Ning invited people early to have fun with her daughter. The sunset reflected the red sky, and after Princess Ning beckoned everyone to do it, she let the girls and wives entertain themselves.

The girls who understand Princess Ning's intentions, if they want to curry favor, they will naturally propose Danqing.

It's just that I didn't expect that the first to speak this time was indeed the eldest girl: "Usually Danqing and calligraphy are separated, so it's better to put them together today, which not only considers the talent of the painter but also the literary style and pen power of the poet." ”

The eldest girl is good at calligraphy, and this move is obviously eager to be in the limelight.

"This kind of proposal is good, and at the same time, it can also study the painting level of the poet, everyone can put forward any fresh ideas, Si'er, what do you think?" Princess Ning asked softly in the back of her daughter, Yue Si'er, who was sitting next to her.

Yue Si'er is simple-minded, as long as she can learn the art of Danqing, she is very happy, and immediately smiled sweetly and nodded.

Ying Ying whispered, and the discussion of the three or five people was that no one came out to put forward other ideas, and finally Princess Ning made a final decision: "In this case, then follow the ideas of the eldest girl of the Jingqi Mansion." ”

This proposal was made by her, and those who are dissatisfied will naturally point the finger at the eldest girl, and Princess Ning deliberately proposed the origin of the eldest girl.

"Princess Ning is also a wonderful person." The second grandmother squeezed her eyebrows at Xianyun.

The pen, ink, paper, and inkstone were frequently spread out, and the pen, ink, and paper inkstone were also placed in front of Xianyun, and she suddenly sounded the situation of the last painting, which was without He Shuixin to help her, she turned her head and asked the second grandmother: "Is the second sister-in-law good at Danqing?" ”

The second grandmother frowned slightly, she had learned it when she was in the boudoir, but she had not written for a long time. She couldn't be sure what level it was now, and after a few struggles, she smiled apologetically at the Xian Yun: "I haven't stopped drawing, I haven't moved the pen for a long time, I'm afraid that the pen won't be stable." ”

Xianyun looked at each other and smiled: "I haven't learned." Last time. The second sister-in-law must have heard of it. ”

The second grandmother pushed the eye-catching paper: "In this case, let's not get involved." ”

Xianyun nodded. called the maid who sent the pen and ink, and after explaining it clearly, the maid just smiled and said, "The pen and ink will not be taken away." The princess said that the grandmothers are free to do so. ”

Is this for them to practice? Xianyun was stunned.

Write the words. If you don't see people, if you don't write, a white piece of paper is particularly conspicuous.

After retiring the maid, Xianyun whispered, "Let's put away this paper." Look at the piercing eyes. ”

The second grandmother snorted, tapped her forehead and said, "You have really been bitten by a snake for ten years and are afraid of the well rope." ”

Xianyun smiled and called for a clear painting. He neatly put away the paper and put it under the table, and the pen and ink were left to rest.

In fact, her handwriting is still good, but today she just needs to look at the excitement, and she doesn't want to be tired.

After a quarter of an hour, the second grandmother seemed to be a little unable to sit still, and muttered: "The eldest girl is good at calligraphy, I don't know who she wants to write poems to?" Who do you think she will inscribe poems to? ”

The eldest girl's heart naturally wanted to inscribe a poem for Princess Ning's daughter, and as soon as everyone was biased towards Princess Ning, who was originally biased towards the host, she was naturally partial, along with her daughter.

It's just that today Yue Si'er and Princess Duanming are getting closer and closer, and the eldest girl is afraid that the bamboo basket will be empty.

Xian Yun looked at the second grandmother with a worried and curious face, so she sold an official and said, "I'll know later, it's just that the eldest girl's calligraphy is very good and she is very famous in Beijing?" ”

She really doesn't know about the talents of these boudoir women, and in the eyes of the noblewomen in Beijing, she is only afraid that she is a layman girl who is stained with the spirit of a businessman.

The second grandmother immediately came to the spirit, and was bluffed by Xianyun again and again, this time it was rare that she didn't know, moistened her throat, and said softly: "The eldest girl's calligraphy was taught by the eldest lady herself, and the eldest lady was the first talented woman in Beijing when she was still a boudoir woman, especially her good handwriting." ”

After speaking, he looked at Xianyun in a daze, Xianyun showed a surprised look, and the second grandmother continued with satisfaction: "The eldest lady is very attentive to teach, in addition to the eldest girl's temperament is not like the eldest lady, the talent of talent has been inherited, but the eldest lady still seems to be dissatisfied, and the requirements for the eldest girl are becoming more and more strict, the eldest girl can't stand it and goes to ask the eldest lady for help, and finally the eldest lady has to compromise." ”

The eldest lady turned out to be such a person, usually she saw that the eldest lady was gentle and virtuous, and she always sighed that she did not teach the eldest girl well, and now it seems that the eldest girl's temper is estimated to be spoiled by the eldest lady.

"So, the eldest girl is not as good as the eldest lady?" Xianyun grasped the point and asked.

The second grandmother nodded approvingly: "But among the people of the same age, the eldest girl is also top-notch, and she can't be taken lightly." She followed over to see what kind of wonderful person the seventh grandmother could find out to overpower the eldest girl, and she had heard that it was He Shuixin, a girl from the He family, who heard that her calligraphy was superb, but she met in a hurry just now, and it didn't look like she was asking her for help, coupled with the new way of playing with the eldest girl, the curiosity in her heart increased a little.

Qinghua leaned over and said something in her ear, and Xianyun turned her head to the second grandmother and said, "I drank too much tea, I'll leave for a while." ”

The second grandmother understood that she was going to go to the toilet, waved her hand, and continued to look at the painting in front of her.

Xianyun was startled by He Shuixin, who was hiding behind the tree, and slapped He Shuixin dissatisfiedly, reproaching: "I'm scared to death." ”

After He Shuixin visited left and right, he pulled her to hide behind the tree again.

"How's it going?" Xianyun was anxious to know, and asked.

He Shuixin cast a disdainful little look, and pouted: "You can rest assured that I will do something, I have already inscribed a poem for Princess Ning's daughter, the eldest girl didn't catch up, her angry face was red and white, and the color was beautiful." He gloated and smiled.

Xianyun was also happy, and after thinking about it, he said: "The eldest girl will not stop there, she will definitely propose other competitions, it is better to ...... like this" The more Xianyun said, the lower his voice became, for fear of leaking the news.

He Shuixin nodded while listening, and laughed after listening: "It turns out that you are the worst one, fortunately I am not the one who is against you." ”

said that she looked very bad, and Xianyun protested dissatisfiedly: "I have always been very well-behaved and kind. ”

He Shuixin cast a look of disbelief at all: "It's just you......" couldn't help but laugh, unable to answer.

Xianyun knocked her forehead, and deliberately said with a straight face: "Be serious, I won't be able to spare you if things happen later." ”

He Shuixin held his head. also cooperated and begged for mercy: "Yun'er spare my life, cousin, I know it's wrong." ”

Xianyun was amused by her expression and couldn't help but laugh.

The two of them made a fuss and left, and Xianyun returned to his seat.

Princess Ning organized several people and was already commenting on the painting. For He Shuixin's calligraphy. Xianyun is confident, plus it is Yue Si'er's painting. This game is bound to be won.

Half an hour later, as expected, Yue Si'er and He Shuixin's paintings were the first. The eldest girl was fifth. Seeing the eldest girl's face was not good, she was obviously angry, and there was fire in her eyes when she looked at He Shuixin.

I'm afraid that I won't be able to play normally even with embroidery. Xianyun couldn't help but laugh happily.

"The seventh sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law, we will try embroidery later. I prepared a few tricks, but I couldn't make a choice, so I asked my two sisters-in-law to help me take a look. The Seventh Girl handed over a few tricks.

Xianyun took the pattern, beckoned the seven girls to sit down, according to the temperament of the eldest girl, she must propose a way of competition that is beneficial to her, although the focus of embroidery is stitching, sometimes the pattern can also be ingenious, adding a few points.

The second grandmother also looked at them one by one seriously, and from time to time she said a few words to the seventh girl, but Xianyun was absent-minded, listening intently to the movement ahead.

"Since someone has proposed it, you might as well choose your favorite pattern to embroider from the selected excellent paintings, and you can also test your understanding of the paintings." The eldest grandmother glanced at Xianyun defiantly, and respectfully suggested to Princess Ning.

As expected!

When they were painting, they must have thought of this trick, and when Xian Yun saw the anxious Seven Girls, she comforted: "No matter whose painting it is, you just treat it as a trick, don't mess up." ”

Xianyun's words seemed to be reassuring, and the seventh girl nodded heavily.

Ariga Shuixin and Xianyun operated in secret, and the seven girls naturally chose Yue Si'er's paintings. No matter whether the seventh girl succeeds or fails, she can't let the eldest girl embroider Yue Si'er's paintings.

But Xianyun was still a little worried about the seventh girl, and asked tentatively: "Which of these ten paintings are you more sure of?" ”

The seventh girl understood that Xianyun was asking her implicitly, Yue Si'er's paintings are delicate and need to be exquisitely embroidered, but it is easy to produce results, and after staring at the painting for a long time, the seven girls seemed to make up their minds and said: "Delicate paintings need delicate embroidery, but they are easy to produce results......

He Shuixin frequently cast her eyes, and Xian Yun interrupted the words of the seventh girl, and asked directly: "If you are asked to embroider that pair, how sure are you?" It was Yue Si'er's pair.

The seventh girl has joys and sorrows, and the joy is that if the embroidery is good, she will be able to get the favor of Princess Ning, but if it is smashed, it will affect the two sisters-in-law, just when she hesitated, Xianyun repeated the words just now, with eagerness in her words, she took a deep breath, looked at Xianyun seriously and said: "Eight layers." She is completely sure, mainly because the time is too short, if she is given an extra hour, she will definitely be able to have ten layers of certainty.

Xian Yun smiled and gestured to He Shuixin, and then lowered his head to the seventh girl and said, "It's already very good, when the time comes, you concentrate on embroidery, and you don't care about other things." ”

After the seventh girl explained the reason for the lack of time, Xianyun smiled lightly: "You don't have enough time for others, let alone enough, you can rest assured to go boldly." "The deceased mother Zhao's female worker is also very good, but compared with the seventh girl, the speed is obviously not able to keep up, the biggest advantage of the seventh girl is that she likes embroidery, and she is useless.

As the sky gradually darkened, the seventh girl gradually closed up and breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled at Xianyun: "Seventh sister-in-law, I have embroidered it, take a look, is there anything wrong?" ”

The second grandmother also came over and said in surprise: "The seventh girl is really ingenious, the characters in the painting are similar to the real ones, you see, isn't this exactly the maid in the garden, is it exactly the same?" ”

Xianyun was also secretly surprised, the craftsmanship of the seventh girl was beyond her expectations, and the second lady must have cherished her talent and taught her everything.

"It's the first time I've seen such expressive embroidery." Xianyun nodded with a smile, staring intently at the embroidery held in the palm of her hand, and her fingers gently slid over the girls chasing butterflies in the embroidered silk. This scene reminded her of the scene when she was a child chasing butterflies with He Shuixin and Xianyu. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )