An hour later, the musician tapped the urn, and Ruyi stepped forward and said, "All embroiderers, please stop!" ”

Nine people stopped one after another, got up and stood next to the weaving frame and waited for the old embroidery girls in the palace to accept the finished products, after reading them one by one, some nodded in affirmation, some shook their heads in denial, one of the old embroidery girls stepped forward and leaned over and said a few words in Ruyi's ear.

Ruyi nodded and walked to Wei Yuan's side to inform him of the result, but did not announce it quickly, Ruyi said: "Please Qin Xiuniang stepped forward to answer!" ”

Qin Linshuang walked in front of Wei Yuan with small steps and half-squatted: "Knock on the prince!" ”

In the process of speaking, his eyes revealed admiration, Su Xiaoman didn't have to think about it, he just looked at it in order to see the beautiful prince in front of him, and studied embroidery hard.

"Hmmm! This king asks you, you have woven a peony picture with silk thread, what does this have to do with the word embroidery? ”

"Back to the prince, the peony is the national flower, but the splendid is the quintessence of the country, and the women combine the two with each other to express the quintessence of the country when the peony of the country is dedicated to the prince of the country!"

Wei Yuan nodded, waved his hand Ruyi is Qin Linshuang, and then shouted: "Please embroider Du Chunyue step forward to answer!" ”

Du Chunyue is a peasant woman, embroidery is a family technique, but because of the poor family has been helping the official family to do some casual work, I heard that the splendid competition has a silver prize before she came to participate in the election, she slowly stepped forward and squatted down and said: "The folk girl knocks on the prince!" ”

"Although the calligraphy of your previous answer is not good, but the answer is quite good, I see that the brocade you weave is a landscape map, what does this have to do with embroidery?" Wei Yuan glanced at her, a shoddy dress, could weave such an atmospheric landscape map, and he was also very curious about her.

"Back to the words of the prince, the folk girl is a peasant woman, dealing with the Songshan Mountains and mountains every day, and the flowers and flowers have never seen the folk girl, so this is how to weave a landscape map to show what the folk girl sees!"

Everyone couldn't help but smile and said in a low voice: "A peasant woman is a peasant woman, heh, even if you don't have knowledge, you are still so ignorant when you speak!" ”

"Who speaks!"

Wei Yuan scolded solemnly, and the frightened low-linguist instantly lost his voice.

"The prince asked, who spoke quickly and stepped forward!"

Ruyi inspected the front of him, and saw Wu Yue, the embroiderer of the Zhou Mansion, moving her body triumphantly and stepped forward and said, "Wu Yue, the maiden, knocks on the prince!"

The official slave sent Wu Yue's brocade to Wei Yuan, only to see him frown and glance lightly, "What are you embroidering here?" The chicken is not like a chicken and the phoenix is not like a phoenix, and he is embarrassed to mock others, how can it be unreasonable, come on, drag this woman out and punish her with twenty rods! ”

With an order, the frightened Wu Yue immediately knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "Lord Wang, the people's daughter knows that it's wrong, and the people's girl knows it's wrong!" ”

The two official slaves immediately took Wu Yue out, and set up sticks at the door of the banquet hall, and beat Wu Yue with twenty sticks in front of the crowd, and fainted on the spot.

Everyone didn't dare to say a word more, but it didn't affect Wei Yuan's mood at all and said to Du Chunyue: "Your brocade is very good, this king likes it very much, you go down first!" ”

Du Chunyue half-squatted, got up and returned to her position.

Ruyi stepped forward and shouted: "Please Huangfu embroidery girl Su Xiaoman stepped forward to answer!" ”

Without waiting for Su Xiaoman to step forward, Wei Yuan was interested, wondering how such a strange woman came up with such a Silk Road, Su Xiaoman stepped forward and squatted: "The folk girl knocks on the prince, the prince is blessed, and the princess is Jin'an!" ”

Suhannaran smiled, thinking that this woman knew quite well about etiquette, and her appearance was really well-behaved.

Wei Yuan straightened up slightly, looked at Su Xiaoman in front of him, dressed in a gorgeous dress but not Jiangnan style, and asked curiously: "Your clothes are quite chic, this king asks you, why is the Silk Road you answered different from others?" ”

Su Xiaoman replied with a smile: "Back to the prince, in the impression of many people, the Silk Road is a main road for merchants to come and go, and its caravans are endless and very busy, but this is not the case, the Silk Road is not a road to the end that everyone imagines, and the goods that really have a huge impact on other countries are not all silk, but the materials that ordinary people need more." ”

"Oh? For example? Hearing her say this, Wei Yuan became even more interested, and the dignified female streamer actually understood the Silk Road so thoroughly and expressed it so clearly, even the high-ranking officials of the dynasty may not have this opinion.

Su Xiaoman said again: "For example, rice paper, this cross-era invention directly changed the way of inheritance of civilization, the Silk Road is not an eternal road, in the process of continuous trade, because of changes in the environment and government and other factors, the road will actually have subtle adjustments, these are basically the merchants slowly groped out." ”

"Wonderful, wonderful!" After hearing what Su Xiaoman said, Wei Yuan immediately clapped his hands and applauded! Then he said, "Bring her brocade!" ”

The official slave took Su Xiaoman's brocade, and at first glance, he sighed again: "Hey, what do you mean by the two words you weave?" ”

Su Xiaoman replied: "Back to the prince, these two words are used in the official book, the word weaving is the people, the world is based on the people, even if it is splendid, it needs to be artificial, so the people are the foundation of the country, and the people of the people are also the people who weave the two words also indicate the prosperity of the country, and the people should be based on the people." ”

Wei Yuan looked at Su Xiaoman carefully, and immediately smiled: "Hahaha, okay, every woman knows that the people are the foundation of the country, not bad!" ”

In an instant, Su Xiaoman's figure was engraved in Wei Yuan's mind, such a talented woman is not used by the government, it is a pity, but women are not allowed to enter the court as officials, Wei Yuan shook his head slightly.

"Thank you for the prince's praise, the little woman is not enough to worry about!"

After saying that, he half-squatted and returned to his position.

"You ......"

"Ahem...... if you ask again, I'm afraid the next game will be delayed! The hour counts! ”

Wei Yuangang wanted to ask, but the princess coughed lightly to stop him!

"What the princess said is very true, that's good! Ruyi, announce the results! ”

Saying that, he waved his hand to signal Ruyi to announce, Ruyi stood in front of the hall, opened the document and shouted: "Huangfu embroidery girl Su Xiaoman, Qinfu embroidery girl Qin Linshuang, embroidery workshop embroidery girl He Zi, Du Chunyue, male embroidery Zhang Hua, the above five finalists, the others can receive silver and leave." ”

"Wait!"

Wei Yuan raised his hand and immediately shouted, and then asked, "Didn't you say that there was a male embroiderer?" Why didn't you see anyone! ”

After speaking, I saw a graceful woman twisting her body, squatting forward, and said, "Knock on the prince!" ”

Wei Yuan frowned: "You are Zhang Hua?" ”

"Yes!"

"Then how are you dressed as a woman, and what kind of body are you!" Wei Yuan's face was obviously a little annoyed.

Zhang Hua immediately knelt down in front of him and said: "Back to the prince's words, Xiaomin likes women's dresses since he was a child, but my mother made me look like a man, but Xiaomin really doesn't like to wear men's clothes, so I hope the prince will not be surprised!" ”

After speaking, Wei Yuan immediately smiled: "Hahaha, I've never seen a man travel in women's clothes, you are quite unique!" I see that your answer sheet and brocade are very good, and I must be very fond of embroidery, so I came to participate in the competition, get up! ”

"Thank you, Lord Wang!"

Zhang Hua's smile is very much like a woman, even his appearance is feminine and beautiful, and even his voice is biased towards the gentleness of a woman's voice, if he doesn't come out to answer, I'm afraid no one will recognize him as a man.

Su Xiaoman is a sharp-eyed person, different from others, he already recognized Zhang Huanai as a man disguised as a woman at the first glance when he entered the banquet living room, so he took a second look at him.

After Ruyi announced the results, it was already three o'clock in the unitary hour, and the third session was arranged after dinner, and the officials and slaves ordered five people to eat in the side hall as usual, and everyone sat around one table at this time, unlike two tables at lunch.

Looking at Wei Yuan's appearance from a closer look is even worse than just now, from a distance, he looks like a person in the painting, and when he enters the update, he is a fairy-like beautiful man who comes out of the painting, which makes people fascinated, and even the beautiful princess is three points worse than him.

Wei Yuan picked up the wine glass, his eyes glanced at Su Xiaoman, who was eating carefully, but he had other thoughts about her in his heart, whether to introduce her to the court as an official, or to take her for his own use, this is not a concubine, but a confidant, such a woman cannot be offended in Wei Yuan's heart, and he respects her.

Suhanalan saw through Wei Yuan's thoughts, raised his glass and said, "The five of you are left, you have to play well tonight, don't let the prince down!" ”

As he spoke, he glanced at Su Xiaoman with another eye.

Everyone raised their wine glasses and got up and said, "Thank you, princess!" ”

After dinner, I still came to the banquet hall like noon, and saw that five embroidery frames had been set up in the hall, hundreds of brocades for five people to choose, and hundreds of embroidery threads of different shapes and colors were neatly placed on the side.

Everyone sat in their seats, and Ruyi stepped forward to open the document as usual and said: "The third final round of the Splendid Contest has officially begun, with the title of Hundred Birds and Phoenix!" ”

Su Xiaoman thought about it, this time for the palace is a hundred birds and a phoenix, if Wei Yuan doesn't try the question first, how can he know what the real skills of these embroidery girls are, embroidering landscapes may not be able to embroider birds, embroidering flowers may not be able to embroider birds, embroidering a thousand characters may not be able to embroider birds, so Wei Yuan's question is just a foundation laid for finding people.

This time Su Xiaoman has a very good way in his heart, if he wants to win the game, he must be unprepared to attack it, if he uses ordinary people's embroidery or drawing, then there will definitely be a better winner than her, since he has participated in the election, he wants to win a beautiful one, she got up and looked for the embroidery thread she wanted to use on the side, and immediately drew an embroidery map.

And Wei Yuan became more and more interested in Su Xiaoman, watching her do the same with his own eyes, and his eyes never left once, for fear of missing something, thinking that there would be such a strange woman in Huangfu, why didn't he Wei Yuan know!