As soon as the words fell, she bowed again and walked towards the place where the inkstone was placed in the middle of the banquet platform.

Huangfu Hongxuan listened to these secretly provocative words, and gritted his teeth angrily, but he always knew that he took care of the overall situation, so he hid it.

The smile was still the same, he glanced at Huangfu Xiu lightly, and then turned around and sat back.

Huangfu Xiu has been paying attention to the woman beside him since he stood on the stage just now, although he was a little aware of it before, but he was not sure in his heart, but the words of Shu Qingci who he heard just now replied to Huangfu Hongxuan, and the guess in his heart was instantly confirmed.

Glancing sideways at the woman in white standing in front of the stage, he smiled without a trace, and then sat back in his original position.

Since Huangfu Hongxuan intended to make Shu Qingci make a fool of himself in front of everyone, so as to belittle Huangfu Xiu's face, he would not let her paint alone in public, and some people would naturally be able to compare the disadvantages of their paintings.

Therefore, not long after he sat down, he got up again and mentioned to the Queen Mother that it would be more fun to try to paint, and the Queen Mother also wanted to see what talent this Miss Shu had in her heart, so she also responded to the matter.

Ye Hanyue had light eyes, looking at the ten court painters who came up on the stage one after another, Rao was calm and had to secretly praise Huangfu Hongxuan in her heart.

It's really despicable enough to be called the first villain in her pen.

After being prepared, the rules of painting are set by the Queen Mother herself, saying that it is limited to the time of three incense sticks, and the scene of the birthday banquet and the light of autumn are all expressed in a painting.

"The competition begins."

With a shout, all the painters picked up their pens and galloped, but Ye Hanyue was slender, and she didn't hurry to study the ink.

Naturally, there are many people in the audience who are good at painting and understand painting, they listen to the painting topics proposed by the Queen Mother, and then listen to the time limit set by the Queen Mother, so they sit in the audience. I also had to sweat a lot for these painters on the stage.

If you want to draw all the feelings of autumn on paper, it will take a little more effort and effort, and you will also add the scene of the birthday banquet full of guests, which is ......

If he was an unreasonable, reckless and impulsive person, he would have knelt down in front of the stage a step ago and told the Queen Mother that he was making things difficult.

Other painters also felt that there was not enough time, so under the shouting of Father-in-law Zhang, they picked up their pens and galloped like this, but in the eyes of everyone, only this Miss Shu family was calm, not arrogant or impatient, and everyone knew that she could enter the palace to paint for the royal family, and her painting skills were incomparable to ordinary people.

Therefore, in their opinion, this Miss Shu must be ashamed of herself, deliberately making such a broken jar, so they no longer expect Shu Qingci to make a good painting to feast their eyes, and directly focus on staring at those court painters.

Ye Hanyue lowered her eyes, her long sleeves were slightly pulled, and she only showed a thin wrist with a red rope, which she had on her body since the day she wore it, she thought that maybe it was the beloved thing of this Xiaoyue girl, so she always carried it, so under the bright red background, her originally white wrist is now more like a plain white lotus root.

She looked focused, and occasionally a gust of autumn wind blew by, bypassing the green silk scattered in front of her, her eyebrows and eyes were picturesque, and this scene was more like a painting.

Ye Hanyue only knew that when she put down the brush in her hand, the other painters were still in a hurry, and looked up at Huangfu Xiu, and then lowered her head and gently rubbed her somewhat sore wrist.

"The hour said, put down the pen."

The incense ash fell only a curl of green smoke, and in a blink of an eye, the hour of the three pillars of incense passed, and Zhang Gonggong personally took people down to collect the paintings made by the painters, and then took them together, and presented them to the queen mother and the emperor who was slightly asleep.

The Queen Mother glanced sideways at the emperor, her white eyebrows frowned slightly, so she had to take all the paintings in front of her and look through them one by one.

After a while, the Queen Mother took a painting and handed it to Father-in-law Zhang.

Zhang Gonggong thought about it, put it in front of the painters in the audience, and asked, "The Queen Mother asked, who made this painting?"

Everyone looked at each other, and all the painters also looked over, their eyes showed a look of approval and amazement, and the rest whispered a few words of praise.

Ye Hanyue heard the sighing voice of the painter behind her, and felt that this level had passed, so she raised her feet and stepped forward, leaned over and saluted, and said, "If you go back to the Queen Mother, this painting is made by the people's daughter."

In order to show fairness, none of the painters have signed their own paintings, so the Queen Mother has this question.

Ye Hanyue said this, and everyone was in an uproar again, and the voice of discussion completely overshadowed the voice of the Queen Mother's questioning for a while.

The Queen Mother glanced at the guests, knowing that the painting she chose was indeed a good product, she was happy in her heart, raised her eyes and looked at the daughter of the audience, and said with a smile: "The mourning family has heard a few words about you before, and they only say that you are young and have a novel painting style, but I didn't expect the mourning family to see it today, but I felt that you were a little anxious to come."

"In this way, since your painting is the best, then this reward will be sent to the Shu family with the mourning family."

When Ye Hanyue heard this, she hurriedly knelt down and thanked her and said, "Empress Dowager Xie."

Huangfu Hongxuan originally thought that Shu Qing's reputation for painting was only in name, and she had only sent someone to investigate this Miss Shu family a moment ago, although she had some painting skills, but where could her paintings compare to these painters on weekdays.

I never thought that the painting she made really had two clicks.

"Humph!"

With a cold snort, his eyes were cold, and he raised his hand and drank a glass of wine angrily.

No one in the audience noticed him, so everyone was talking about the painting made by Miss Shu.

Huangfu Xiu was also among these people, and he looked sideways at the painting that was held up by Gonggong Zhang himself for everyone to see, and his eyes showed surprise and surprise.

How did she come up with it, if ordinary people had heard what the Queen Mother said, they would have hurried to draw all the guests sitting on the throne first, and then add the common autumn scenes to its background.

But Ye Hanyue's painting is the opposite, she did not write too much to the guests and the birthday banquet, only painted a small half of the birthday banquet scene in the bottom corner of the whole drawing paper, this small half alone will sit in the first place The queen mother and the emperor are portrayed vividly, and the rest of the whole painting paper, she painted the autumn vista with a heavy brush, the brushstrokes are slightly heavier than the birthday banquet scene, the two sides set off, but complement each other, and respond to the proposition.

Huangfu Xiu is completely sure at this moment, and the Shu Qingci kneeling on the stage is definitely not Miss Shu, but the person he met.

He left the house early in the morning, originally wanted to go to the Shu family to pick up people in person, so as not to let Ye Hanyue, the maid, not be able to accompany Shu Qingci into the palace together, but not long after he went out, his carriage was stopped by a group of beggars, this delay, and when he rushed to Shu's house, the Shu family told Shu Qingci that he had already entered the palace, and he was only a moment late.

He didn't see Shu Qingci following Ye Hanyue behind him, in the past, she was inseparable from her young lady, but today she didn't see anyone, so he couldn't help but feel strange, so he paid more attention.

It wasn't until she replied to Huangfu Hongxuan that he was a little sure that the Shu Qingci in front of him was pretended by the girl, especially after looking at this painting made by her own hands, he was even more sure of her identity.

In the entire capital, I am afraid that only she can make such a layout and unique painting.

Can......

There is one thing he doesn't understand, why didn't Shu Qingci come by himself, but he wanted to risk the crime of bullying the king and destroying the door, and let this girl enter the palace instead of her, why is this?

He was puzzled, so he had to turn his gaze to the woman kneeling on the ground.

"You get up and talk first." The Queen Mother gave Ye Hanyue a word, and then looked at Huangfu Xiu, who only knew how to stare at Ye Hanyue, and said with a smile: "Look, you are here to celebrate your great-grandmother's birthday, and your eyes are only staring at other girls, so since you think this Miss Shu is good, then the Mourning family will give her to you, and it is good to return to the rare treasures promised by the Mourning family, how about it?"

The queen mother inquired about the Huangfu Xiu's personal recommendation, saying that she wanted to let this Shu family lady enter the palace to congratulate her on her birthday, and she felt something in her heart.

Her great-grandson, Su Rili, is the most popular with her, and she naturally knows him very well, so with his lonely and cold temperament, he took the initiative to speak for a woman, which is not as simple as it seems.

Coupled with the observation just now, she saw that this girl from the Shu family was also a girl who knew books and etiquette, and this painting was also good, and this girl seemed to have some meaning to her great-grandson.

Since this man is affectionate and the concubine is interested, she also took the initiative to fulfill this matter.

After hearing this, Huangfu Xiu and Ye Hanyue were shocked.

Marriage!

As far as Huangfu Xiu is concerned, if this girl is against her own identity, he can't ask for this matter, but in front of him, he has to marry Miss Shu's family.

As far as Ye Hanyue is concerned, this marriage can be regarded as cutting off her way home, where can Shu Qingci marry Huangfu Xiu, she can only marry Hou Haoyan in this life, no, this thing is absolutely not good.

Immediately, Huangfu Xiu got up and knelt in front of the stage, and Ye Hanyue also knelt down immediately, they scrambled to open their mouths to refuse to marry, but the paintings of the two of them only said one word, and they were blocked back by a voice on the stage.

"Imperial grandmother, I'm afraid there is one more thing to verify about this marriage."

Huangfu Hongxuan naturally noticed that Huangfu Xiu was different from this Shu family lady, he was extremely unaccustomed to Huangfu Xiu's strength in everything, and now that he knew that Huangfu Xiu might have taken a fancy to this Shu family lady, how could he let him be happy.

Before, he felt that this Miss Shu's behavior was a little inconsistent, and he was surprised in his heart, but he didn't think that just now, a plain-faced maid suddenly found him, saying that the woman on the stage was fake, and she was not Miss Shu.

When he saw that the maid was a little familiar, it seemed that she was the one who had been following Miss Shu, and his heart was immediately overjoyed, and he hurriedly stepped forward to say this.