Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Man in the Painting
In the response of so many people, the noble concubine looked at Liu Qingyan provocatively, even if Liu Qingyan was once the queen, she had never been so respected by others, only herself, in this regard, was far superior to her. is only herself, and she will not always be this concubine, and soon, she will talk about Liu Qingyan's former honorific position and replace her.
It's a pity that Liu Qingyan has been lowering her eyebrows, and she doesn't seem to have the intention of putting the noble concubine in her eyes at all. In the face of such an opponent, Concubine Gao seemed a little self-inflicted. How could Concubine Gao allow this to happen, but she could still bear it, and when Liu Qingyan lost this competition, it would not be too late for her to laugh at her!
Spread out the tough and moist, light but not slippery, white and dense rice paper, press the white and delicate, finely carved white jade paperweight, Liu Qingyan lifted the brush, dipped in ink, and wanted to paint on this paper. And what is the subject of her paintings and calligraphy?
There is no need to look up, just looking at the rice paper on the table, Liu Qingyan can feel the affectionate eyes of that person all the time, it is better to be him.
Liu Qingyan made up his mind in his heart, and with a seemingly random pen in his hand, a semi-elliptical arc appeared on the pure white rice paper. But it is oval, but it also highlights its edges.
Xuanyuan Yichen, who was closest to Liu Qingyan and paid the most attention to her, just saw her first stroke, and his heart moved, as if he had guessed what Liu Qingyan was about to draw. And if it was really as he thought, and just thought so, Xuanyuan Yichen couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth. And the corners of her mouth are getting higher and higher with the strokes of Liu Qingyansu's hand. He had never been so happy, only Liu Qingyan had given him so many surprises again and again.
is just a few strokes with little ink, and the image of a son of a jade tree in the wind jumps on the paper. The long black hair flowing without wind, the smooth forehead, the thick sword eyebrows, the deep eyes, the straight nose bridge, and the sexy lips combine into a handsome facial features, plus an angular face, and a slender posture, all of which highlight the innate nobility and elegance of the people in the painting. However, it reveals the cold and arrogant momentum of the people in the painting.
Such a son, if he is just the person in Liu Qingyan's painting, is enough to make all the ladies and daughters present fall in love. However, he is not only a person who exists in the painting, he is also a real son.
Liu Qingyan finished painting, picked up the poem, and stopped. She turned sideways slightly, avoiding the eyes of Xuanyuan Yichen, who was looking forward to meeting her eyes, and instead looked at Xuanyuan Yixing, who was high above her, and the noble concubine who was standing beside him.
In order to respond to the provocation of the noble concubine before the game, Liu Qingyan looked at her with the same provocative eyes, and said in a cold voice: "Your Majesty, the concubine, the concubine is finished!" β
There is no doubt that Liu Qingyan was the first person to complete the competition, and several other women who participated in the competition, those who were impetuous, directly threw the paintbrush in their hands, gave up halfway, and withdrew from the competition. There are also unwilling people who speed up the speed of the pen, thinking that they have not won the other party in speed, so they must also win the other party in quality. There are also people who are normal, give up winning or losing, as long as they can complete the competition, so that everyone can also see their own ability.
Concubine Gao has been paying close attention to Liu Qingyan, and as soon as Liu Qingyan stopped writing, she was worried that Liu Qingyan had really finished it. I was already a little panicked in my heart, anyone can win in this competition, but Liu Qingyan is absolutely not good. It's just that she decided that Liu Qingyan would definitely lose from the beginning, so she didn't think about what she would do if she won. And at this time, thinking about it again, it was obviously too late, Liu Qingyan had already announced it in public.
Concubine Gao had already gritted her teeth, but in front of so many people, she had to maintain her image as a noble and elegant concubine, so she could only reluctantly smile and say: "Since Sister Qingyan has finished it, you might as well present it for everyone to appreciate and taste." β
She remembered very well that when she had not entered the palace before, she had also been a classmate of this cousin, who had played piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. On playing the piano, Liu Qing was so angry that he left the piano master specially invited by Prime Minister Liu, forcing Prime Minister Liu Cheng to end the game in person, and he was even more angry that Prime Minister Liu once broke a piano in front of them or two little girls. When it comes to playing chess, Prime Minister Liu Cheng was so angry that he threw black and white chess pieces everywhere, and forced Liu Qingyan to get all the chess pieces back. Although in the end, Liu Qingyan didn't even do this purely hands-on thing without using his brain at all. In terms of calligraphy and painting, Liu Qingyan can write his name well, which is already thankful. She knows the words, but if others want to recognize what she writes, they can only half-guess. There is also painting, Prime Minister Liu Cheng is also prepared with good rice paper, and Liu Qingyan can not only smear a whole piece of rice paper, but also make all the places on the table, on her own body, and so on all the places she can reach black, even the noble concubine is not spared. Later, Prime Minister Liu Cheng deeply felt that letting Liu Qingyan learn to paint again was a great insult to the best pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
These are all former noble concubines, who have personally experienced with Liu Qingyan, there is no problem with her memory, and there is no problem with her intelligence, she can't believe it, she hasn't seen her for just two months, how earth-shaking changes will happen to Liu Qingyan. In the first two items, she thought that Liu Qingyan was a shit luck, and in the future, she would never have such good luck again.
However, when the palace maid was ordered to go down and pick up the painting on Liu Qingyan's table, and then came to the top of the steps, faced everyone, and held up the painting for everyone to see, everyone almost opened their eyes wide and let out bursts of exclamation. Even the young ladies who were trying to complete their tasks couldn't help but stop their pens for a while and take a look at this painting first.
A moment ago, everyone was looking at the person in the painting. The next moment, everyone's eyes were looking at Xuanyuan Yichen, the idle king, as if he had walked down from the painting.
This painting was painted by Liu Qingyan based on Xuanyuan Yichen. The people in the painting are lifelike, and Xuanyuan Yichen is right in front of him. Just like the poem mentioned by Liu Qingyan next to the person in the painting: There are bandit gentlemen, such as cutting and learning, such as pondering and grinding. Indeed, only a person like Xuanyuan Yichen can be worthy of such beautiful verses. If you put aside Xuanyuan Yichen's equally stinking reputation for the time being.
is the only one who is so bold, when other ladies paint landscapes or animals, such as birds and cats, she is the only one who dares to directly make her husband into a painting.
This painting, plus this person, is enough for Liu Qingyan to win this competition. Regardless of the fact that Liu Qingyan's paintings are originally excellent works, not to mention the protagonist in the painting. If others say that this painting is not good, it means that Xuanyuan Yichen is not good, and no one has dared to break ground on the head of this Tai Sui. Even the noble concubine, no matter how much she hated Liu Qingyan, but since she saw Xuanyuan Yichen's true face, she didn't want to say a bad word about Xuanyuan Yichen, and naturally she didn't allow others to say bad things about him.
However, Concubine Gao still has a way to find Liu Qingyan, she stared at this painting, looked at it and looked at it, and she had already paid attention to this painting in her heart, and wanted to keep it for herself, but she still had to say: "Cousin Qingyan, what everyone paints, or landscapes, or animals, may be things that everyone is familiar with on weekdays, but they are all based on their own imagination and memories." But it's only you, cousin Qingyan, and the person painted on the painting is right in front of your eyes, so isn't it a little unfair to everyone? β
Although many ministers really think that this painting is good, they are still more willing to stand on their daughter's side, and they all follow suit, thinking that Liu Qingyan is opportunistic and unfair to their daughter.
Liu Qingyan couldn't say that he had always lowered his head when he painted this painting, and he definitely didn't look at Xuanyuan Yichen, and he relied on his own memory. She had already drawn all the paintings, but after she finished painting, she felt so ashamed that she didn't dare to meet Xuanyuan Yichen's eyes until now.
If Liu Qingyan really said this, he would let himself fall into the inferiority, and he would have another laughing stock that was ridiculed by others. However, she still had something else to say: "Guifei, and everyone, before the competition began, Guifei did not limit the content of the painting, let alone said that it was not allowed to draw people or objects present." I followed the rules completely and there was no disagreement at all. β
As soon as these words came out, everyone thought about her words, and they would feel that Liu Qingyan was smart and knew how to paint according to the people present. On the contrary, other people are too stupid to think about other things when they have ready-made ones. Moreover, Liu Qingyan obeyed the rules, but if Concubine Gao accused her, it was actually Concubine Gao herself who overdistanced. If you want to blame, you can only blame the noble concubine herself for not stipulating a few more conditions at the beginning.
Concubine Gao also had to raise her own objections: "It's not wrong for Cousin Qingyan to say so, but it's ......"
βAmazingοΌβ A strange voice suddenly sounded, and everyone immediately looked in the direction where the voice came from, but after seeing who it was, everyone could understand why this person dared to interrupt the words of the noble concubine and say such words that no one could understand. It was none other than those two Mongolian envoys.
Liu Qingyan recalled that the two envoys, one named Chaganbala and the other Harbara, were talking to Chaganbala, and if Liu Qingyan didn't hear it correctly, what he said seemed to be modern English.