Listening to this song, the princess was shocked, and when everyone praised Qilang's talent, she quietly got up, walked gently behind the bead curtain, slightly curtained, and looked at the handsome scholar who was indifferently drinking.

When I re-seated, she called me in and whispered to me about Shichiro's identity, and I told her what I knew, the few words Shichiro himself had spoken. After hearing this, the princess shook her head and said, "The so-called humble background is just this person's humble words. can write 'dancing low willow building heart moon, singing peach blossom fan bottom wind', there is no doubt that the princess's family will be born. ”

I read this sentence carefully, and I agree with the princess's point of view. Watch the music and dance in the water pavilion on the platform, all night long, until the moon sinks and the stars are hidden, during which the singer leads the fan to sing lightly, draws out a gentle breeze, and the long night is long, and finally the beauty sings weakly, the breath is slight, and even the peach blossom fan that is as thin as the wings of the cicada can't dance...... This is the rich atmosphere that Yan Shu refers to. If Shichiro is really a poor man, how can he have this experience?

"Moreover, he is thoughtful and sensitive, and he is a real talent." The princess sighed, "Among the children of the princess, there are quite a lot of wine bags and rice bags that watch beautiful women sing and dance all day and night, but they can't write such good sentences. ”

After that, we continued to order to drink and talk to Apple's pipa, but before we knew it, it was the middle of the night, Ouyang Xiu heard more leaks outside, and suddenly stood up in shock, and said goodbye to everyone, saying that the morning was still going to the morning court, and now we must go home.

Li Wei immediately got up to stay, and the rest of the male guests also stepped forward to pull him down, saying that it was rare to get together, and it was better to have fun today. Ouyang Xiu hesitated, and finally the princess asked Jiaqingzi to pass the word: "There are still a few clean rooms in the garden, Neihan, but please drink a few more cups, and go to the guest room to rest when it is late. ”

Li Wei immediately summoned the two little yellow men and asked them to go to Ouyang Xiu's house to get the official service Chao Wat. Xiao Huangmen agreed smartly and quickly went out. Seeing this, Ouyang Xiu no longer insisted, stayed and sat down, and raised his glass to everyone again.

I remembered that Shichiro also had an official rank, so I walked up to him and asked if I needed to send someone to his house to get the things needed by the court, and he smiled and said, "No need. I am of a low rank, and I am not qualified to go to the palace like Nehan. ”

Before the banquet was over, Ouyang Xiu suggested: "The Jade Candle Record is a deacon for us, and he has worked hard all night and he has no joy in giving orders, so in the end, he will be invited to draw this lot." ”

Everyone praised it as good, so I took a lot of it from the jade candlestick, and the note on it said: "Communicate with friends and have letters, and ask people to accompany you for ten points." ”

I looked around at the male guests, and finally raised a lamp to Li Wei: "This wine, Huaiji is brave, please drink it with the captain." ”

Li Wei and I looked at each other and tacitly understood each other. He also drank the wine silently and drank it all against me.

After the wine and food were removed, the princess saw that everyone still had fun, so she suggested that the guests write poems and lyrics for fun, Ouyang Xiu and Qilang agreed, Cui Bai said: "Poetry is not my strength, let alone dare to make a big axe in front of Neihan, this section, please let me watch." ”

The princess responded, "Mr. Cui is too modest. Listening to your "Laughing" collection of sentences today, I know that you are very talented. But if Mr. is not willing to make the game text, I am not able to make it difficult for me. Mr. Su Wen does not use decaying charcoal, and the pen is ready to think, it is better to improvise a painting of flowers and bamboos today, and it does not need to be completed, just let me wait to see the power of Mr. Pen. ”

Cui Bai humbly resigned, but finally agreed to paint after repeated invitations from the princess. So the princess had her pen and ink prepared for them to display their talents.

Ouyang Xiu asked the princess before mentioning the pen if she wanted to limit the rhyme of the genre topic, and the princess said: "Fu poem or fill in the words, you might as well decide for yourself, and there is no need to limit the rhyme, I only say one theme, you can do it according to your own mind." ”

Ouyang Xiu and Qilang agreed, and asked the princess the theme. The princess thought for a moment and said, "Just describe the hatred." "Immediately turned to Cui Bai," Mr. Cui's painting is also related to this topic. ”

All the people received the order, and each of them pondered and conceived. Later, Ouyang Xiu saw that Apple was still standing behind Qilang with a shy face, and whispered to him from time to time. What is the matter of leaving a child to go far away? There is no sound consumption, and the river head is green and sungrass. In the past, the flowers were slender, and the jade face smiled and the flowers were old. Today's picking flowers adds annoyance, sadness, and the jade is not as good as the flower branches. ”

After writing it, he sends the note to Apple and asks her to sing it. Apple blushes when she sees it, but Shichiro calmly says to her, "Since Neyhan invites you, you can sing it." ”

Apple agrees, hugs the lute, plucks the strings, and begins to sing. In her singing, Shichiro also slightly explained the relationship between the two: "She used to be a singer in my friend Chen Jun's pet family. When I was young, I often feasted with your pet, and I saw her many times. Later, she went out to work as a foreign official for a few years, and when she came back, she heard that she had been sold to someone else...... I didn't expect to meet again in the horse garden today. ”

Speaking of this, he sighed and wrote a book, but it was a "Linjiang Immortal": "After the dream, the building is locked, and the curtain hangs low when you wake up." Last year, when the spring hatred came. The falling flowers are independent, and the light rain geese fly together. I remember the first time Apple saw her, and she was very angry. The lutea strings say acacia. At that time, the bright moon was there, and it was back from the clouds. ”

After writing and putting down his pen, he slowly took a sip of the tea served by the maid, and then looked at Apple, who was still singing Ouyang Xiu's words, his eyes melancholy.

After a cup of tea, Cui Bai said that the sketch was completed and invited everyone to watch. Except for the princess, the guests and hosts gathered around to admire his paintings.

It is a picture of a bamboo gull sketched with an ink pen, painting a white gull running in the cold wind by the waterside of the barren slope, there are three black bamboos on the right, the bamboo leaves are the same as the autumn grass on the waterfront, they are blown to one side by the wind, you can see the strength of the wind, and the white gull has round eyes, long beak open, there is a state of shock and fear.

"The artistic conception of this painting is depressed and indifferent, and the wilderness is cold, which shows that the heart of Zixi is far away in the field of leisure and loneliness." Ouyang Xiu sighed after contemplating, and said, "However, the theme set by the princess is hatred, and just looking at this painting doesn't seem to be relevant enough......

Jia Qingzi was also tiptoeing behind the guest and host at the moment to look at Cui Bai's painting, and after listening to Ouyang Xiu's comments, he couldn't help but blurt out: "How can you say that it is not relevant enough?" Do you have to draw two birds and fly separately to call it 'away from hatred'? ”

When everyone heard this, they all laughed and looked at her, Jia Qingzi was shocked to realize that she was rude, and she was busy blushing and pleading to Ouyang Xiu, but Ouyang Xiu said to her kindly: "The girl is high, but it doesn't hurt to say it." ”

With his encouragement, Jiaqingzi hesitated and said his opinion one after another: "The wind is blowing so fiercely, but this white gull still has to run back against the wind, it must have its partner over there." Or, the storm is sinister, and the mandarin ducks are beaten, and they are originally blown away by the wind. It's hard to go against the wind, but it still remembers its partner and tries to run back to it. ”

Hearing this, my heart was moved, and the princess immediately asked people to pass the painting to her, and after seeing it, she sighed faintly, and praised Cui Bai a lot. The rest of the people also praised Cui Bai, Cui Bai waved his hand, turned to Jiaqingzi and said: "I was originally a letter and a graffiti, and it was all a girl's wonderful theory, which added a lot of color to my clumsy work." ”

Jiaqingzi lowered his head and said softly, "Where." Mr. masterpiece, I have seen some of them around the princess before, and I admire Mr. very much, and I hate myself for being clumsy, I can't describe what if. ”

Cui Bai smiled and said: "The princess has read the calligraphy and paintings of the Secret Pavilion since she was a child, and the girl has seen many treasures. Cui doesn't learn and has no skills, and his painting is also unorganized, and even the painting academy swept me out of the house. ”

Jia Qingzi shook his head and said, "You don't have to conform to the rules of the academy to be a good painting." Although the flowers and birds in the courtyard are brightly colored and rich, they look very dull, and the flowers and birds seem to be obediently staying somewhere and posing for the painters to depict. This is not the case with Mr.'s paintings, such as this picture of bamboo gulls, whether it is birds, flowers and bamboos, they all have great momentum, and they are about to come out, just like a finger of a fairy's hand, so that the flowing scene is frozen. Moreover, looking at this picture, it can also remind people of what happened before and after. There is a story in the painting of the gentleman. ”

Cui Bai was a little stunned by these words, and stared at Jiaqingzi for a long time in surprise, seeing that she was uneasy, and said to him very worriedly: "I haven't studied painting, it's all nonsense." If there is anything wrong, I hope Mr. Haihan ......"

Cui Bai then turned his eyes and smiled at me. Seeing Jiaqingzi nervously observing our expressions, I comforted her with a smile: "You said it well, it is indeed like this." ”