Chapter 216: Ice

Merton turned his head to look back, only to see a slightly familiar palace girl in palace clothes pulling a dejected Li Zhi over, and gave Merton a slight blessing.

"Don't dare?" Merton hurriedly dodged, and was able to call Li Zhi his younger brother, which was naturally a princess.

"Are you Li Qian?"

The more Mo Dun looked at the palace girl in front of him, the more familiar he felt, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration, and suddenly realized, isn't this the Princess Changle who was brought to Mofu by Li Chengqian that day?

"Changle used a pseudonym that day! I hope that Lord Mo will forgive me! Princess Changle blushed and said, after all, the princess who had received strict etiquette was exposed to being a man and a woman, and her face was a little unhappy.

The two had a tacit understanding that there was no mention of Merton's rescue of Changle's marriage contract, although it was already a semi-public secret, but after all, it was related to the face of the royal family, and it was better to treat it as if it had never happened.

Merton took the drawings returned by Princess Changle and arched his hand: "Thank you princess for returning the drawings, Weichen is not very grateful." ”

"It's never too late to thank Lord Mo after reading the drawings?" Princess Changle's face turned pale, and she seemed a little embarrassed.

Merton was surprised, stretched out his hand to open the pool renderings, and couldn't help but be slightly stunned: "This is not a draft drawn by Wei Chen. ”

On the manuscript paper, all the scenes are almost identical, but it is obvious that there are some traces of juanxiu, which are not Merton's original manuscripts.

"Merton, your sketch has already been changed by the imperial sister!" Li Zhi glanced at Morton with disdain, as if he did not have the consciousness of being a thief and repented, and looked at him with contempt.

Princess Changle grinned and said: "The new painting skills of Marquis Mo are famous in Chang'an, the little woman can't help but want to collect one, Marquis Mo should not be stingy with a painting!" ”

Morton looked at the copy painting in his hand, and couldn't help but marvel at Princess Changle's painting skills, almost restored his renderings intact, and said with emotion at the moment: "The princess's painting skills are superb, and it is an honor for Weichen to be able to look at Weichen's paintings." ”

"Then can the Marquis of Mo be a good person to the end, and then sign this painting!" Princess Changle smiled slyly, and took out the original draft of the pool renderings from behind a palace maid behind her, as well as a quill pen.

Only then did Morton know that he had fallen into the routine, and smiled bitterly, Princess Changle had already prepared, and even such details as Merton's quill pen for writing could be thoughtful.

I had to resign myself to picking up the quill and bowing my head to sign my name on the quill pen.

Princess Changle picked up the sketch as if she had won a treasure, and couldn't help but smile when she looked at the lifelike pool picture.

"What makes our Princess Changle so happy?" Li Chengqian led the little Lori Princess Jinyang and came aloud.

"Sister Huang!"

Princess Jinyang suddenly ran to Princess Changle's side, looking intimate.

"Brother Prince, Sister Huang, she bullied me!" Li Zhi also found a savior, grabbed Li Chengqian's clothes, poured beans into a bamboo tube, and poured out the actions of Princess Changle 1510.

"Brother Nine and Morton are so stupid?" Princess Jinyang smiled coquettishly, sneering at Li Zhi and Merton with a smug face.

Li Chengqian was also overjoyed and said: "Brother Mo, forgive me, my sister is naughty." ”

"The prince is polite, it's just a painting, it's worthless." Merton said with a wave of his hand.

"Lord Mo is too modest! If this painting is revealed, even if it is a daughter, someone will buy it? In front of her brother and sister, Princess Changle restored her girlish nature and said jumpingly.

Morton is the pioneer of the new style of painting techniques, in the Chang'an City painting world that is famous, in addition to the twenty-four Lingyan Pavilion heroes, in the circulation of the portrait that is only a pair of Gongsun girl, especially Morton only by eyewitness dictation, the appearance of the murderer painted, the new style of painting has long been regarded as a divine skill, and Merton's painting is worth a thousand gold is not false at all.

Li Zhi's face suddenly drooped, this was originally stolen by him, but it was taken away by Changle.

"Oh! I didn't expect my paintings to be so valuable, if I painted seven or eight pictures a day, wouldn't it be a daily income, where do I need to worry about Mojia Village. Merton teased self-deprecatingly.

Princess Changle was stunned.

"Brother Mo's amazing painting skills are just one of them, the greater value of this painting is in the pool in the painting, this is the first pool painting in the world, it is naturally worth a lot, you want to put it away, royal sister?" Li Chengqian said with a smile.

"Brother Prince, don't worry!" Princess Changle said with a smile.

"This pool, I listened to Qin Huaiyu and the three show off, it was the ultimate enjoyment." Li Chengqian looked at the busy scene in front of him, and then looked at the renderings of Merton's pool and sighed.

Since ancient times, the way of the ancients to escape the summer was monotonous, the emperor could go to the summer resort if he had the conditions, the dignitaries and nobles got a water house pavilion, and ordinary people went down to the river to bathe. But here in Merton, there is a trick.

The pool, compassion, and ice-making are all unheard of and unthinkable.

"The weather is hot, all the masters have worked hard, come and give you ice!" Only then did Li Chengqian remember the purpose of this, and immediately several eunuchs carried a bucket of crushed ice and distributed it to the craftsmen who would be the prisoners.

With the method of saltpeter ice, the ice in the palace has become rich, if in previous years, the royal family is not enough, where to worry about ordinary craftsmen.

"Thank you, Your Highness the Prince!" The craftsmen were overjoyed.

Saltpeter ice has not yet spread, ice is still a rare thing in this era, and it is usually courtiers who enjoy the treatment of giving ice, where ordinary craftsmen have tasted ice in summer.

The cold ice cubes melted in the mouth, and the cool liquid slid from the throat into the stomach, and suddenly one by one the spirits were excited, the heat was completely gone, and the craftsmen suddenly enjoyed their expressions.

"Brother Mo, please!" Li Chengqian stretched out his hand to invite.

Merton's treatment was certainly better than that of ordinary craftsmen, and the ice cubes he was given were served on a plate, and there were more than a dozen pieces.

"How do you eat this?"

Merton looked at the bare and transparent ice cubes on the plate in amazement, at least one of the wood chips needed to make a popsicle or something!

"It's delicious." Li Zhi was greedy, reached out and took an ice cube and sucked it and ate it, looking like he was enjoying it

"That's what you eat?" Merton looked at Li Zhi, who was eating happily, and couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

"Or else?" Li Chengqian was surprised, even Princess Changle was puzzled, isn't it like eating ice?

Then the two of them suddenly realized that Merton in front of them was the one who created such a peerless delicacy as stir-fried vegetables and cakes, and they couldn't help but wonder, could there be other ways to eat ice that they didn't know.

Thinking of this, I looked around, and then at the ice cube in front of me, and suddenly felt as lonely as the craftsman who tasted ice for the first time in his life.