The Yuanxiang Hall of the Zhengguo Mansion is a four-sided hall, built against the mountain, with three rooms wide, with an exquisite structure, surrounded by bamboo curtains, and when the curtains are rolled up, you can see the surrounding scenery from the inside.

The furnishings in the hall are elegant, there is a plaque in the middle, on which the words "Yuanxiangtang" are written, and the pillars on both sides are engraved with bronzing couplets.

A group of young ladies sat on the benches on both sides, talking and laughing. The two sisters came from the hallway, and the laughter suddenly stopped, and everyone looked at them, some curious, some disdainful, and of course some happy—like Geng Kan.

"Four girls, Niannian, sit here." He got up and gave way.

Zhuo Xiao gave way to the side, the two sat down next to him, and the young man who was coaxing before said, "Whose turn is it?" ”

A girl got up with an arrow in her hand, and Zhuo Ruoning saw a double-patterned pitcher standing next to the round table in the hall.

The other girl held her down, her eyes swept over Zhuo Ruoning's face, and said with a smile: "What's so fun about throwing pots, Zhuo Mansion and Shuangshu are here today, so naturally they want to make poems and compare words." ”

She meant something, everyone laughed, Zhuo Ruoning's face turned red, and she shrank behind her brother.

Zhuo Xiao turned his head and saw Zhuo Ruozhen nodding imperceptibly at him, and gave him a "reassuring" look. The two tacitly watched for the changes.

The coaxing young man said: "Since it's a competition, you always have to have some color heads, I heard that there is a new way to play in Fuller Theater, whoever has a color head, who can come up with a question." ”

Yu Chengjiao looked at him meaningfully: "Every time there is something new to play in the Fuller Academy, you are the first to know. ”

Everyone laughed, and the young man was not annoyed, and he laughed and laughed with them.

Geng Kan said: "Brother Yu is well-informed, we are not as good as you." ”

Zhuo Ruoning stabbed him with her elbow: "Who is this person?" ”

Geng Kan leaned into her ear and whispered: "His name is Yu Liangchou, the grandson of the Duke of Min, the cousin of the Duchess of Zheng Guo, who recruits cats and teases dogs, and is the best at fun." ”

"Where's the girl next to him?" is the one who proposed to compose a poem, and he had humiliated Zhuo Ruoning in Dabao'en Temple before.

Her maiden name is Yu Fanrou, the granddaughter of the Duke of Shu and the cousin of Yu Liangchou. Sitting next to her was the granddaughter of Liang Guogong, whose name was Jing Hong. ”

Geng Kan briefly introduced everyone present, and the more Zhuo Ruoning listened, the more frightened she became, they were all young masters and young ladies from some princes' families, no wonder those little ladies were nostrils when they looked at her.

When the two of them were talking, the fourth prince of the Founding Mansion took out a jade plaque, "Today is my grandmother's birthday, so I will celebrate my birthday as the theme, and each person will write a lyric, and you need to sing it after you finish it."

Zhuo Ruoning was dumbfounded, she just memorized the poem for her birthday, but she didn't expect them to change the lyrics instead of arranging the cards.

The girl took the tray and took the jade card with a very eye-catching look, and the fourth prince said, "Yu Shizi also added something?" ”

Yu Chengjiao took off the jade pendant he was carrying, put it on the tray, and said with a smile: "Since Brother Xi said that he wants to sing it, how can he do it without music, my topic is music, and I don't know what musical instrument is." ”

Music is also Zhuo Ruoning's weakness, she knows dozens of Western musical instruments such as piano, violin, saxophone, etc., traditional musical instruments can only chimes and chimes, here they should not have prepared chimes, even if there is, Huangzhong Dale is a national sacrificial repertoire, Taichang Temple is qualified to play, she doesn't dare to take it out and show off.

Seeing this, a prince of the Xinguo Mansion also took out a jade wrench and put it on it: "There are words and music, handsome men and beautiful women gather together today, how can there be no painting, I am a beautiful picture." ”

Everyone laughed and laughed at him.

Zhuo Ruoning sighed in her heart, she didn't know the shows they played, the poems were learned here, although she memorized a lot of poems during this time, figured out the rules of poetry, and could make up a few sentences, but literary cultivation needs to be cultivated for a long time, and she will not be able to learn it for a while.

Not to mention the music, there is no instrument she knows.

As for painting, she can only sketch, sketch, survey, architectural sketch and other practical drawings, which is not the same way as classical figure landscape painting.

Xueba Zhuo Ruoning felt the humiliation of being trampled under her feet for the first time in her life, although she gritted her teeth every day and wanted to be angry, but there were too many things to learn, and eight heads were not enough. Literature is not like engineering and science, it is not possible to find rules and understand principles to solve problems.

Thinking and others are not on the same path at all.

"I'll also add a color head," someone outside the hall said in a loud voice, everyone looked for a sound, and a person came over from the corridor, "I heard that Miss Zhuo Wu can count, can you learn "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic"?" ”

"He is the third son of the Chengguo Mansion, Liu Yong, who likes arithmetic, and is a very strange person." Geng Kan whispered popular science.

Zhuo Ruoning was overjoyed, she finally came to something she was good at.

"I haven't learned the arithmetic in the nine chapters, but you can do whatever you want." She dares to boast about this Haikou, if she can't solve the arithmetic problems of this era, she won't have the face to mix it up anymore.

"Heh, you're quite bold."

Yu Liangchou asked, "Brother Liu, where is your color head?" ”

Liu Yong said: "Today to celebrate the birthday, I didn't bring the right color head, you all know the treasures in my collection, whoever wins, just pick the same." ”

Yu Chengjiao said with a smile: "You named Miss Zhuo Wu to compete, how can she know what to choose." ”

Liu Yong said: "Miss Zhuo doesn't know, Zhuo Xiao always knows." ”

Zhuo Xiao tilted his head and said to Zhuo Ruoning: "Liu Yong's uncle is Xu Deyong, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and he collects all good things. ”

Yu Cheng taught: "Those things are what you can see, Miss Zhuo is a delicate little lady, I'm afraid I'm not interested." I heard that he got a thunderbolt the size of a sea bowl somewhere, and he hid it in the grange for fear of being discovered by Mrs. Liu, and as a result, the grange was blown up. ”

Everyone had heard about it, and there was another burst of laughter.

Liu Yong disagreed: "I didn't expect the power of thunderbolt to be so great, and I was called by the emperor to be trained for this matter, and I thought about it for a long time behind closed doors at home." ”

Zhuo Ruoning: "Is it all blown up?" ”

"It's not all gone."

"I mean Thunderbolt."

Liu Yong didn't expect her to be interested in the thunderbolt stone, and said, "The big one is gone, but I still have a smaller one, if you want to, solve my problem and send it to you." ”

Zhuo Ruoning was immediately full of fighting spirit and said to Zhuo Xiao: "Second brother, I want to compare with him." ”

Yu Liangchou: "Then let me talk about the rules, the competition must be in the order of the questions, and the first question can be completed before the next question can be connected, but the music can be carried out at the same time as poetry and painting." ”

Zhuo Ruoning was determined to get that thunderbolt, and he was eager to try. The fear of words, paintings, and musical instruments has long been thrown out of the sky.

Before the competition began, the subordinates brought the painting case and musical instruments, Jing Hong sat down to play the piano, the others gathered around the painting case and the round table to write words and paintings, and Liu Yong wrote arithmetic problems on a piece of paper.

Zhuo Ruozhen whispered beside him: "The words for birthday celebrations ......"

"Miss Zhuo Wu is going to make a song to celebrate her birthday?" Yu Fanrou and the other two little ladies squeezed to her side and teased.

Zhuo Ruoning was too lazy to worry about her, she grew wise, and after the first two calculations, she had figured out the rules of dealing with these people. These wealthy ladies don't want to show favor, they will treat you well.

And because she was careless, even the sisters of Zhuo Mansion couldn't raise their heads, and today happened to have a chance, and she had to save her reputation.

Everyone else is writing words, but she buried her head in rolling a piece of paper tightly into a long strip of finger thickness, and asked the girl for a rope to tie it tightly, everyone didn't know what she was going to do, and they all looked at her curiously.

I saw Zhuo Ruoning holding a paper roll in his left hand and a brush in his right hand, and looked around, the paper roll was stained with some ink, and the paper roll and the brush fell on the paper at the same time.

Yu Fanrou pinched the pen and laughed out loud, and said to the girl next to her: "Does she want to perform juggling, I have seen someone painting with both hands at the temple fair." ”

Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at it, and Yu Chengjiao sighed: "It's not easy to practice painting with both hands at the same time." ”

As soon as the words fell, there was a surprised gasp at the scene.

Zhuo Ruoning did not paint with both hands at the same time, but painted on the left, and the inscription on the right:

Wishing longevity and blessings,

Seventy-nine years of good fortune.

Now and forever,

Heaven and earth rejoice.

true meaning

true meaning

Compare the Queen Mother Fairy.

The handwriting is neat and standardized, it is a standard pavilion style, although the words are not brilliant, but there are no slots.

After a poem "Dream Order, Birthday Celebration" was written, the painting on the left also began to take shape, she painted the scene of everyone playing the piano and painting in Yuanxiangtang, with a few brushes, the form of the people has been drawn, although the facial features of the characters can not be seen clearly, but who is who, can be distinguished at a glance, and the illustrations in the printmaking novel are somewhat similar.

"Brother Zhuo, this girl of yours actually has this ability?" Yu Liangchou shouted.

Zhuo Xiao also put down the pen and looked at her painting seriously, and said in surprise: "I don't know, the style and handwriting of this painting are different from before." ”

Zhuo Ruoning is not only single-minded, she can also take the time to give her brother a big smile, and replied: "The characters are taught by the Second Emperor Sun, and the paintings are self-created." ”

She drew quickly and didn't polish, just to complete the task, and after finishing the drawing, she went straight to Liu Yong's arithmetic problem.

Yu Cheng taught: "You have to complete the music problem first. ”

Zhuo Ruoning patted her head and thought for a while: "You don't have the instrument I want to play, you don't have it, it's better to simplify it." ”

She took the tray from the girl's hand, emptied the teacups inside, and asked her to pour some cold water, and poured different amounts of water into the cups, and then lined them up according to the amount of water.

There is no chime, so she replaces it with a water cup, the performance effect is different, and it can be made into a tune, anyway, her goal is Thunderbolt.

Zhuo Ruoning used two chopsticks and sixteen teacups to knock out a song "Flowing Water".

She showed these two hands, which was really novel, and everyone didn't have the heart to compete, so they came around to watch her perform. More than a dozen people in the Yuanxiang Hall stood quietly around her, and no one made a sound, only the teacups made a tinkling sound.

After finishing the song, Zhuo Ruoning happily threw down her chopsticks, and when she saw Liu Yong's question, she had a black line on her head, and the corners of her mouth twitched: "That's it?" ”