Chapter 188: Mother-in-law Looks at Son-in-law
Qiu Ju's eyes were puzzled, and she said in her heart, Could it be that Chen Siye really didn't come to find the Xuanyang County Lord?
"It's... Not well, I don't know the county lord very well. Chen Siye pretended to hesitate.
Jin Hongtai also said very cooperatively: "Brother Chen will promise me, I really want to see Brother Chen's painting skills, and the portrait that Brother Chen painted for His Majesty still amazes me." ”
"Since Brother Jin has said so, then... All right. Chen Siye took the opportunity to glance at Qiu Ju, and said in his heart This is not what I said, you should not blame me anymore, Qiu Ju really had no expression, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Go and invite the young lady over, and say that Chen Gongzi wants to paint her portrait." Jin Hongtai commanded to a maid.
The maid answered and went to invite Jin Hongyi, and Chen Siye chatted with Jin Hongtai again, and politely asked the princess and princess.
However, the maid hadn't been there for long, and Jin Hongyi arrived, which immediately attracted the attention of several people.
Today, Jin Hongyi is dressed in red, her blonde hair is dazzling, her face and jade neck are even fairer, she is extremely beautiful, and her body is bumpy and convex, which is very eye-catching.
However, there is also a gorgeously dressed beautiful woman beside her, who looks very similar to her, although the robe is loose, but the figure under the robe can be vaguely seen, more popular than Jin Hongyi, it looks a little older than the Jin brothers and sisters, with some mature charm, and the hair color is not the same as their brothers and sisters, it is chestnut hair.
Chen Siye couldn't help but look at it twice, and said in his heart, Could it be that the Jin brothers and sisters still have a sister? I haven't heard of it.
The two of them walked towards the pavilion, followed by several maids, one of whom also brought a tea cup.
Chen Siye inadvertently glanced at Jin Hongtai, but saw that his face seemed a little embarrassed, and he didn't know what was going on.
But soon Chen Siye understood, only to see Jin Hongtai look at Chen Siye embarrassedly, got up and greeted him, and said, "Queen Mother, why are you here?" ”
The woman smiled and said, "Why, can't I come?" ”
Hearing this, Chen Siye's inner drama is like this: What? Is this the princess? Your mother, didn't you say your mother went out? Why did it come all of a sudden?
He wanted to vomit three liters of blood, as long as what the princess said did not match what Jin Hongtai said just now, then this lie would be completely exposed, this is too coincidental, right?
In fact, Qiu Ju didn't think much about it, but she was amazed in her heart that the princess had a good look, after all, although the princess went out, it was nothing to come back earlier.
Although Chen Siye's heart was surging, the etiquette still had to be in place, and he stepped forward and saluted: "Chen Siye pays a visit to the princess." Qiu Ju also stepped forward to salute together.
Jin Hongyi, who was beside the princess, saw Qiu Ju and smiled at Qiu Ju and nodded, and Qiu Ju also smiled back.
"No courtesy." The princess didn't notice Qiu Ju, smiled and stared at Chen Siye up and down before nodding and saying, "Sure enough, he is a talent, very handsome." ”
Being looked at by the princess for a while, Chen Siye always felt a little awkward, feeling like a mother-in-law looking at her son-in-law.
But the number of rites still has to arrive, so he said modestly: "The princess has won the award." Then he complimented the princess and said: "Just now Niangniang and the county lord came together, I thought it was two sisters, I couldn't help but look at it twice, it's really rude, and I ask Niangniang to forgive me." ”
These words made the princess smile when she heard this, and her impression of him was better, but when she heard that his words were a little restrained, she said: "Chen Gongzi doesn't have to be restrained, I don't know what the style of Chen Liubu, who is famous in Beijing in the past two days, is very curious, so I came over with Yi'er to see him."
At first sight of Chen Gongzi. ”
The princess didn't speak at all, and she didn't call herself the palace, and Chen Siye's heart relaxed a little when she heard the warm words.
Saying that, the princess turned her head to look at Jin Hongyi and whispered, "Yi'er, why are you in a daze, why don't you serve your pear tea to Chen Gongzi?" ”
Jin Hongyi didn't know what she was thinking, but when she heard the words, she suddenly woke up, took the pear tea from the maid behind her with a slightly red face, handed it to Chen Siye and said, "Chen Gongzi, I heard that your throat is uncomfortable, Hongyi specially brewed Sydney tea for you, Chen Gongzi quickly moistened his throat." ”
The princess added with a smile between her eyebrows: "This is the pear paste made by Hong Yi last year, it works very well, Chen Gongzi try it quickly." ”
Chen Siye was a little embarrassed in his heart, his throat was not uncomfortable at all, it was just a misunderstanding, and there was Qiu Ju watching from the side, and it was not possible to pick it up at this time, nor if it was not.
After hesitating for a moment in his heart, Chen Siye still took the Sydney tea, after all, this is in someone's house, and people are also good for him, what if he doesn't even give this face, as for Qiu Ju, he will explain it to her later.
"Thank you to the county lord, thank you to the princess, Chen Siye is so lucky, I am really grateful." He took a sip as he spoke.
I wanted to take a sip and put it down, but seeing Jin Hongyi's expectant eyes, Chen Siye's heart softened, and he drank this cup of pear tea in one gulp, and then said: "This pear tea is really useful, and my throat is much more comfortable." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, Jin Hongyi seemed to be happy, but Chen Siye also felt that Qiu Ju on the side had some unhappy eyes, which made him regret a little, just drink it, why do you say so much?
The princess smiled and said: "It's good to be effective, after Yi'er learned about it, she didn't care about talking to me, and hurriedly brewed Sydney tea to bring it to Chen Gongzi." ”
On the side, Jin Hongyi said shyly: "Queen Mother! Don't say anything! ”
Chen Siye smiled embarrassedly, if there was no Qiu Ju to follow, he would definitely be overjoyed when he heard that the princess seemed to have the intention of matching the two of them, but this would be in front of Qiu Ju, which really made him uncomfortable.
Jin Hongtai seemed to see Chen Siye's situation, and hurriedly changed the topic and said, "Queen Mother, didn't you say that you were going to the Wei State Mansion to meet your old friend, why didn't you go?" ”
It turned out that the princess was really going to go out, Chen Siye couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, if Qiu Ju found out that he and Jin Hongtai teamed up to cheat her, I was afraid that it would be even worse afterwards.
Princess Pingxi said: "My old friend suddenly had something, so he sent someone to pass the word, see you another day." ”
Jin Hongtai sighed, "Brother Chen, his painting skills are superb, and I also said that I wanted Brother Chen to paint a portrait of you, but I thought that you went to the Wei State Mansion, so I invited Hongyi again." ”
Chen Siye applauded in his heart, and wanted to applaud Jin Hongtai, but he didn't expect to let him come back, and now this lie is perfect.
In fact, it was Jin Hongyi's idea to invite Chen Siye to come, but after listening to her brother's words, she thought that Jin Hongtai was happy to coax her mother, so she didn't think much about it.
Princess Pingxi was a little relieved when she heard this, and said with a smile: "Tai'er has a heart, what is there to paint for the mother's puliu posture, let's let Chen Gongzi paint a portrait of Yi'er." ”
The princess is obviously modest, and I don't know how she maintains it, she can be equal to Jin Hongyi, or even better, but Jin Hongyi does not have that mature charm.
Chen Siye was depressed in his heart, and he didn't know how he would be jointly criticized by Qiu Ju and Mingyuesu when he went back after he painted Jin Hongyi's portrait, but after listening to the princess's words, Chen Siye's eyes suddenly lit up, and there was still a way to live!
So he immediately continued: "Please forgive me for being disrespectful, in my opinion, Niangniang is fragrant and beautiful, rare in the world, if it can be kept on paper, it can also let future generations look up to Niangniang's fairy posture, so please let me paint a portrait of Niangniang!" ”
After Chen Siye finished speaking, he couldn't help but be secretly proud, painted a portrait of the princess, painted it for an afternoon, and then didn't have time to paint Jin Hongyi again, so Qiu Ju couldn't say anything about him anymore, right?
Listening to his words, Jin Hongyi and Jin Hongtai didn't think much about it, Chen Siye should say this, and the princess was also very happy, Chen Siye's words were extremely pleasant.
"Since that's the case, then it's bothering Gongzi Chen." The princess was not polite, in fact, she had also seen the portrait of Emperor Ji, and she was also amazed at the time, and which woman didn't want her face to last forever, even if it was only on paper, so she also wanted Chen Siye to paint her a picture in her heart.
Seeing that things were going well, Chen Siye was also secretly happy in his heart.
After the princess asked Chen Siye what posture she should pose, she was about to sit down, and then she noticed Qiu Ju behind Chen Siye, she always thought it was a maid in the house, and she didn't pay too much attention to it, but after seeing it carefully, she found that she didn't recognize it, so she said, "Huh? Who is this girl? But came with Chen Gongzi? ”
Hearing this, Qiu Ju saluted again: "Qiu Ju came to see the princess Niangniang, uninvited, and I hope that Niangniang will not be blamed." ”
On the side, Jin Hongyi explained: "Queen Mother, this is the Qiu Ju girl in Sister Xuan's house, and she is a good friend of Sister Xuan, and her martial arts are very strong. ”
The princess smiled and nodded, and didn't say anything more, she just asked.
Subsequently, a handmaid brought up a few cases, and also prepared pen, ink, paper and inkstone, but Chen Siye didn't need it, only left the paper, and let the maids withdraw other things.
Except for Qiu Ju, everyone couldn't understand his operation, and it wasn't until he took out a special ink pen that he didn't know what was going on.
Jin Hongtai was still very curious, so he borrowed the ink pen and studied it carefully for a while.
The previous ink pen was almost used when painting Emperor Ji, and this one was later customized by Le Xuan, and this time it was also the first time to use it.
The preparations were complete, Chen Siye was ready to start painting, Jin Hongtai, Jin Hongyi and Qiu Ju were all standing behind him and watching.
Since he was going to paint for an afternoon, Chen Siye was ready to drag it hard, the pen was extremely slow, and every bit was extremely detailed, at the beginning, the three of them were still staring at him to write, but after a while, they lost their interest, and they didn't draw an outline for a long time.
So Jin Hongyi pulled Qiu Ju to the side to talk, although Qiu Ju was a little unwilling to see Jin Hongyi, but her face was still extremely polite, and she knew everything.
And Jin Hongtai could only stand behind Chen Siye very hard and look here and there, his mother was here, and he naturally couldn't leave.
Jin Hongyi was still very interested in coming over to take a look at it every once in a while, but then she lost interest, knowing that according to this progress, it would not be her turn to paint her today, so she couldn't help but be slightly disappointed.
And the princess has always been very patient, and even her posture has hardly changed, which makes Chen Siye can't help but be very surprised in her heart, ordinary people can't sit in one position for an afternoon, and it is no wonder that people look so young when they can be so self-disciplined.
He painted until the sun set and it was getting late, and Chen Siye finally finished the finish, put down his pen and said: "Okay, Niangniang is hard, you don't have to sit like this anymore." ”