Chapter 142: Four Arts Competition
No matter how the princesses complained, Mr. Chu's rules were set, and no one could change them.
After school, the eighth princess Xiao Yuanshu and Xiao Yuan joined hands and ran back to Wanfu Palace.
Empress Dowager Xu sat under the porch and played with her hooves, and when she saw the two little granddaughters running back after me, she smiled and beckoned them to come closer, and pulled them in her arms one by one: "What's the matter, happy to be like this?" ”
Xiao Yuanshu learned to the Empress Dowager Xu: "Xiao Shi doesn't know what the hell is doing, let Mr. Chu follow her to play monkey play." Sister Ah Chan took it seriously, and asked Mr. Chu to punish Xiao Shi, but Mr. Chu said that she was so angry that she cried her nose. ”
Xiao Yuan covered his mouth and smiled: "Eighth sister, I said that it is not a monkey play, it is longevity boxing, I taught my grandmother to play this boxing last night." ”
Empress Dowager Xu shook her head and smiled: "You two, why can't you get along with Ah Chan." ”
"It's Sister Chan who is not good, she always bullies Xiao Shi."
Xiao Yuanshu puffed out her face, thought about it, and said: "Sister Achan lies and treats people insincerely, I don't like her." ”
Empress Dowager Xu didn't ask Xiao Yuanchan what she was lying about, Xiao Yuan thought about it, probably Xiao Yuanshu was talking about the incident where Xiao Yuanchan instigated a few little princesses to beat her a few years ago.
The two of them had a snack at the Empress Dowager Xu's place, rested for a while, and returned to Xiaoyingzhou in the afternoon to continue to take Mr. Guan and Mr. Nan's classes.
The classes of the princesses and the sons are not very different, and what is taught in Xiaoyingzhou is not the six arts of gentlemen, but the four arts of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.
It was Mr. Guan who taught piano painting, and Mr. Nan who taught chess. On the first and fifteenth days of the new year, Mr. Guan and Mr. Nan will squeeze out a period of time for Mama Jiang to teach the little princesses the rules.
No matter what class they take, Xiao Yuanhao and the seventh princess Xiao Yuanru are the two most serious people.
Xiao Yuan took advantage of the convenience of crossing, relying on the fact that he had learned Go in the past, and every time he killed Xiao Yuan, he lost his armor, and Mr. Nan praised it endlessly, and once thought that Xiao Yuan was a chess genius.
But in Dayan, the more popular is Bo Opera, commonly known as Liubo Chess.
Xiao Yuan hadn't learned this, she studied it and found that this Liubo chess game is actually a kind of chess game with a class of troops, and the gameplay is not difficult, as long as you kill the opponent's sword, you can win.
At first, Xiao Yuanhao was not familiar with the rules, and when he played against Xiao Yuanru, he was often defeated by Xiao Yuanru. Gradually, she turned from a small defeat to a big victory, and later, even Mr. Nan had a stalemate with Xiao Yuan.
Xiao Yuan felt that this game was not interesting, and her painting skills did not need to continue to learn the basics, so she spent more time learning the piano from Mr. Guan.
In terms of music, Xiao Yuan can't take advantage of it at all.
Fortunately, she was still young, and Mr. Guan was not strict, so he only let her practice fingering every day.
Rao is like this, Xiao Yuanru also wants to be compared with Xiao Yuan.
She is the only one who can overpower Xiao Yuan, so she naturally wants to go further, Huaqing Palace has the sound of the piano every day, which makes Yu Congyun, the lady of Allure, unable to sleep.
This day happens to be the monthly summary, and the two gentlemen are going to test the princesses to see if the princesses have made progress this month.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Qian actually came.
Everyone hurriedly saluted, Xiao Qian waved his hand and smiled: "Lone is just come and take a look, two gentlemen, you continue." ”
He sat on one side, looking relaxed, as if he was passing by to take a look.
Despite this, the princesses were nervous.
The first test is drawing skills.
Mr. Guan asked the child to bring a pot of herbs, limited to one stick of incense, and asked the princesses to paint their own paintings.
If you want to paint a picture well, the time for a stick of incense is too short.
But for Xiao Yuanhao, who is a veteran painter, this is actually quite simple.
She held her breath and concentrated, lifted the brush and dipped it in ink, and the paper was vertically and horizontally smeared, almost in one go, and a budding ink lotus flower was hidden between the lotus leaves, trembling and jumping on the paper.
Mr. Guan praised a few times, and gave Xiao Qian's hands the ink paper that had not dried.
Xiao Qian only glanced at it, and then frowned: "Although the painting is good, why is this character still so ugly?" ”
He looked at the paintings of several other little princesses and picked out one, which was Xiao Yuanru's: "Aru's one depicts the shape of Hanlian, but does not draw the god of Hanlian." ”
Xiao Yuanru pursed his mouth and lowered his head, his petite earlobes were red.
Xiao Qian said again: "However, because Ah Hao's handwriting is too ugly, Ah Ru's painting should be rated as the first place." ”
"It's not fair!"
Xiao Yuanshu shouted: "Father, we are testing painting skills, not calligraphy. Mr. Guan said that Xiao Shi's paintings were the best, how could his father say that Xiao Shi's paintings were not as good as Seventh Sister's because of a few words? ”
Xiao Qian smiled warmly: "Calligraphy and painting are not separated, this game, Ah Hao lost." ”
As he spoke, he wrapped Xiao Yuan's painting in his sleeve.
Xiao Yuanru glanced over Xiao Gan's sleeve and bit his lip, after all, his father still felt that Ah Hao's painting was the best, and those words were just to comfort her.
Last night, Xiao Qian was resting in Huaqing Palace.
When Xiao Yuanru got up early in Xiaoyingzhou, he heard the palace people say privately that Mrs. Allure complained to the king that the seventh princess worked hard every day, and her body and bones were almost unbearable.
Come to think of it, my father is afraid that she will be sad if her skills are not as good as others.
Thinking about it this way, Xiao Yuanru felt a little better.
It's just that Xiao Yuan was wronged, I don't know if she will cry.
Xiao Yuanru secretly glanced at Xiao Yuan, but saw that Xiao Yuanhao pulled Xiao Yuanshu and squeezed his eyebrows, he didn't know what he was joking, and he didn't seem to take this competition to heart at all.
Next is to test your chess skills.
This rule is relatively simple, the princesses work in pairs to determine the winner, and the winner and the loser play again, and then divide the winner and loser, and so on, until the final ranking is decided.
After a round of fighting, the fifth princess Xiao Yuanwan defeated the county lord Xiao Yuanchan, the seventh princess Xiao Yuanru defeated the eighth princess Xiao Yuanshu, and Xiao Yuan won the ninth princess Xiao Yuanwen.
Immediately afterwards, Xiao Yuanwan on the winner's side played against Xiao Yuanru first, and Xiao Yuanshu and Xiao Yuanchan on the loser's side fought first.
What people didn't expect was that Xiao Yuanwan, the fifth princess who was quiet on weekdays, had a strong chess style and defeated Xiao Yuanru.
Xiao Yuanru didn't have a look of displeasure on her face, she got up and gave up her seat to Xiao Yuanhao, and stood aside to watch the chess.
On the loser's side, Xiao Yuanchan won Xiao Yuanshu and Xiao Yuanwen one after another without much effort, and according to the rules, she fought against Xiao Yuanru again.
Xiao Yuan didn't take Xiao Yuanwan in his eyes.
To be honest, at Xiao Yuanwan's age, chess skills are already rare.
But Xiao Yuan had participated in a national Go competition and won awards before crossing, and he played against an eleven-year-old girl, and it was a bit difficult to win.
She forced the sunspot to be embarrassed, and as soon as the white child in her hand fell, she raised her head and said with a smile: "Fifth sister, you lost." ”
Xiao Yuanwan was convinced: "My chess skills are not as good as Ah Hao." Then he got up.
"Wait."
Xiao Qian suddenly spoke, he came over to occupy Xiao Yuanwan's seat, pinched a sunspot and fell, and said with a smile: "Okay, go here alone, defeated?" ”