Xuan Ling nodded at Yue'er, and Yue'er smiled.

"Your Majesty promised to compare with you, but he didn't promise to compare with you personally, this little painter Meng Xi is the person in the door of the Imperial Painting Academy, he is seventeen this year, five years younger than you, if you win him, the emperor Chrysostom said, the previous promise will be fulfilled."

"Thank you for the emperor's gift, the grass people will not be martial."

"Okay, I hope you can win."

Meng Xi stepped forward and waved at Yu Xi, and said arrogantly: "These three questions belong to Mr., if you lose one game, you will lose it!" ”

As soon as these words came out, almost all the people present were stunned, Yu Xi was crazy enough, but this Meng Xi was even more crazy.

Xuan Ling frowned.

"Meng Xi, are you so sure?"

"Your Majesty, although this Mr. Yu's "Snow Map" has a good artistic conception, the minister is confident that he will not lose."

The crowd applauded.

At this time, someone brought two tables and placed them opposite each other, and the tables were already prepared with pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and paint.

Xuan Ling nodded and said, "Okay, let's start then!" ”

Meng Xi said to Yu Xi: "Mr. Yu, please ask the question." ”

Yu Xi moved his hands and feet, his eyes showed a wild color, and said: "Okay, little painter, I will teach you to lose a convincing mouth in this first question!" ”

Someone muttered in his heart, these two people are going to compare paintings, and they are obviously crazy here.

"Don't talk nonsense, you just do it."

"Okay, listen, take a stick of incense as an example, we each draw a character, you paint me, I paint you, whoever paints like, who wins!"

Yu Xi is very sure of his own question, he is in the market every day, and the most work he receives is to paint portraits of people, and even portraits of dead people, he does not believe that Meng Xi will be better than himself in this question.

Meng Xi stood behind the table, his eyes glared at Yu Xi, who was a little hairy, and the young man's eyes were too poisonous, as if he wanted to pierce him through the heart.

"Okay, let's get started."

Xuan Ling waved his hand, and a maid stepped forward to light incense.

Yu Xi watched Meng Xi start to write, and he put down the pen quickly.

Xuan Ling walked to the side of Yuxi.

Yu Xi took a wolf hair, dipped it directly in thick ink, first drew from a pair of eyes, then eyebrows, nose and mouth, and finally hair and contours, he used a line drawing, almost no correction, the young man on the painting was eyebrows, but also heroic, and the appearance was really a little similar to Meng Xi, but he always felt uncomfortable.

Xuan Ling leaned into Yue'er's ear and said, "This person is a genius, if he had laid the foundation in the Imperial Painting Academy since he was a child, he might not be much worse than Meng Xi." ”

Hearing this, Yue'er was a little curious, this Yuxi painted people so similarly, but Xuan Ling still admired Meng Xi, she glanced at Meng Xi's side, and found that Meng Xi had torn off two pieces of painting paper and threw them on the ground, and was taking the third paper, so she couldn't help but be stunned.

Meng Xi had already put down the pen on the third piece of paper, he didn't raise his head, he put down the pen with a bang, he used a dry pen and light ink, Yue'er saw that he was writing very fast, but the paper was still blurry.

Xuan Ling glanced at Meng Xi's painting, didn't walk over, and pulled Yue'er to the side of the chair to sit down.

"I don't need to watch this one, I already know who wins."

"Oh, who's going to win?"

"I don't say it, guess what?"

Xuan Ling is playing tricks.

"That must be Meng Xi."

"Why?"

"Because Meng Xi is comparing with Yu Xi on behalf of His Majesty, he can't lose!"

Xuan Ling was happy again.

As soon as the incense was exhausted, someone hung up the painting of Yuxi first.

This is a bust of a handsome young man, the appearance is seven or eight points similar, everyone keeps nodding, this painting is indeed very similar, although the expression is a little dull, but the overall is still good.

Yue'er nodded and praised: "Amazing." ”

Then Meng Xi's painting was also hung up, and as soon as his painting was hung up, there was a whisper in the hall.

This is a full-length portrait from the side.

The painting shows an obscene man kneeling on the ground, he grasps the sleeve of his shirt with one hand, points to the front with the other, and says something in his mouth, which is exactly the scene of Yuxi's quibble just now.

Yu Xi was stunned, in his impression, it was difficult to paint people, he thought that he was unmatched in the Windy City, but he didn't expect Meng Xi's ability to grasp the form was so strong, not only painted his face, but also painted his obscene expression vividly.

Xuan Ling smiled.

"Yu Xi, who do you think should win this painting?"

"Well, the little painter is really good, but the topic of the grass man is a portrait, and the villain is more specific."

Xuan Ling looked at the crowd and said, "Taiwei Gao, you haven't seen these two paintings clearly, you are the oldest here today, so I will leave this first question to you to judge." ”

"Okay, then the old minister will come and take a look."

Taiwei Gao slowly walked out of the crowd on crutches, he came to the painting, and after taking a closer look, he said: "These two paintings are very similar, the first one is similar, but the second one is godlike, whether it is artistic conception or skills, it is the second one that wins." ”

Xuan Ling looked at Yu Xi and said with a smile: "Are you not admitting defeat?" ”

Yu Xi nodded and said, "The little painter is really powerful, but the grass people think that they are on par with him." ”

Xuan Ling pouted.

"The portrait you painted, how many trivial lines are used, and then look at the little painter's painting, he painted your head is on the side, the body outline is a few strokes, between the dense, giving people endless reverie, the most important thing is that his painting captures the characteristics of your appearance, highlights your eyes, very charming, and you paint for the sake of painting, there is no virtual reality, this is the gap between the reckless and the school."

Yue'er nodded again and again, she knew that Meng Xi was painting well, but she couldn't say why, and when Xuan Ling said this, she immediately understood.

At this time, Yu Xi also had to admit that Meng Xi's portrait was better than him, but he still had to defend himself.

"Your Majesty, the grass people didn't expect to paint portraits to express artistic conception, this is not in the next realization, the next question, I will definitely win back!"

"Okay, I'd like to see how high your self-proclaimed top recklessness is."

Yu Xi thought about it, he saw that the portrait of Meng Xi was made of a large block of ink, and he thought that he should be good at opening and closing, and he frowned at the moment, and then he had an idea.

"Okay, the second question of the grass people is line drawing, line drawing lotus, whoever uses the short time will win."

Meng Xi shook his head.

"You can't use the short time you said as a criterion, if you draw a circle and then draw a vertical, say it's a lotus, how can others compare?"

Yu Xi said: "That's the time for a quarter of the incense, how?" ”

"Okay—"

Meng Xi nodded.

A maid folded an incense stick into four pieces and lit a section, and Yu Xi and Meng Xi began to write.

This time, Yue'er walked behind Meng Xi, and she wanted to see how Meng Xi wrote.

I saw Meng Xi take a wolf hair, lying on the table and sketching carefully, he first drew a dragonfly on the right side of the white paper, followed by the heart of the flower, the flower leaves, and then a long black line dragged to the upper left of the picture, this is the flower stem, the flower stem on the stamen is about to bud, and the two large lotus leaves are fixed behind the flower stem, his picture is fine, but the action is in one go.

Yue'er secretly praised, this Meng Xi is really powerful, he painted the lotus flower at the bottom of the picture, such a composition is completely unexpected, but the performance is the strongest, and he only uses thin lines to draw the sparse, the lotus and the dragonfly contrast with each other, self-contained, the lotus leaves on it are smart, and the flowers seem to be rippling when looking at the flowers.

At this time, the incense had burned to the end, and Meng Xi changed a small block to write the three characters Ren Tianzhen on the upper left side of the picture, and the painting was completed.

At this time, Yu Xi also put down his pen.

Yue'er noticed that the seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl had stood at the front of the crowd at this time, staring at her with burning eyes, Yue'er was a little strange, and Xuan Ling also noticed the girl and glanced at her.

A maid stepped forward to hang up the painting of the two, only to see that Yu Xi painted a picture of ink lotus, he painted three lotus flowers, the largest one is on the left side of the picture, the flower stem falls and is hidden in a piece of ink, although Yu Xi said that it is a line drawing, but he uses two pieces of ink to paint lotus leaves, although it is a side lining, but it plays a great role in foreshadowing, at first glance, it is very eye-catching.

Note: "Ren Tianzhen" comes from Tang Li Shangyin's "Gift of Lotus" - the flowers and leaves in the world are incompatible, and the flowers are dusty in the golden pot. Only the green lotus and red lotus are innocent. This flower and this leaf often reflect each other, and the emerald reduces the red decay and kills.