"Our family," Wei Qingqing looked at Wei Xiangxiang with a smile, and only when she walked up to her did she introduce unhurriedly: "This is Wei Xiangxiang, the seventh girl of the Wei family, and this is Princess Huaisi of the Jin'an Eldest Princess's Mansion." ”

"Your Royal Highness is well, Xiangxiang is so polite," Wei Xiangxiang first saluted Princess Huaisi with some restraint, and then said to Wei Qingqing with a smile: "Sister Qingqing, do you play with pitchers?" A few of our little sisters took some bracelets and hairpins out to make color heads, and you and Your Highness should also come over and have fun together! ”

Wei Xiangxiang's tone when she spoke to Wei Qingqing was much lighter than her previous restraint, which suddenly made Princess Huaisi feel that she was cute, "Seventh girl, I'm not the big worm that can eat people, you don't need to be nervous." ”

Wei Xiangxiang's face was slightly red, and she blinked nervously.

Princess Huaisi stepped forward to hold her hand when she saw it, and said with a smile: "You look younger than me, just call me 'Sister Huaisi', you don't have to take a 'Your Highness'." ”

"Isn't that right?" Wei Xiangxiang pursed her lips a little uneasily, and looked at Wei Qingqing with a look of help, as if Wei Qingqing didn't dare to speak without nodding.

Wei Qingqing smiled: "It's just a title, Her Royal Highness the princess can call you whatever you want." ”

Wei Xiangxiang was relieved, smiled shyly at Princess Huaisi, and mustered up the courage to invite again, "That'...... Sister Huaisi and Sister Qingqing came over to have fun together, right? Does Sister Wynth like to throw pots? I like to throw pots the most, but I can't hit them back, and I am always teased by them......"

Wei Xiangxiang naturally grabbed Princess Huaisi's arm while talking, and took her to the octagonal pavilion, Wei Qingqing looked at Wei Xiangxiang's back thoughtfully, and slowly paced to follow.

Wei Qingqing had just entered the pavilion, and he heard someone say: "Her Royal Highness the princess came down at the right time, we were planning to have a competition, and now that there are two of you, I'm afraid it will be more lively!" ”

"Competition? Than what? Princess Wise asked with interest.

"Compare poetry and painting," Meng Jiang, the fourth lady of the Meng family, is the initiator of this competition, she pointed to the patchwork beauty in the garden to explain the rules of the competition, "Take the scenery you see as a painting, and then mention the first poem that fits the scene after painting, whose poetry and painting come out on top, and the color will belong to her." ”

The whole plum garden is built beautifully, the scenery is pleasant, the octagonal pavilion alone is surrounded by three steps and a scene, five steps and a painting, everyone can paint at will to take a scene, and is not afraid of the same scene as the painting.

Before Wei Qingqing could agree to the competition, a maid presented the pen, ink, paper and inkstone to her, and Princess Huaisi beside her took the pen, ink, paper and inkstone one step ahead of her, and eagerly tried to frame the painting.

Wei Qingqing's eyes swept over the pen, ink, paper and inkstone in front of her, and casually picked up a good wolf pen and played with it at her fingertips, and did not say whether she participated in the competition, but asked unhurriedly, "Then after the completion of this poem and painting, who will evaluate the level?" ”

"Naturally, the big guys are assessed together, so it's fair, isn't it?" Meng Jiang answered with a smile, and was empathetic to Wei Qingqing's heart, "Don't be afraid, Miss Wei, it's just a fun game between a few of our sisters, even if you lose, it doesn't matter, after all, there is only one first place, and most of us here are afraid that most of us will lose!" ”

Wei Qingqing has always been suspicious of the Wei family because of the previous poisoning of Tzu Chi Concept.

Therefore, even if Wei Xiangxiang has behaved kindly and friendly since the first day she entered the mansion, and has always treated her politely and respectfully, she still can't completely treat Wei Xiangxiang as a credible person.

She seems to have a habit of thinking of the bad first, lest the greater the expectation and the greater the disappointment......

She thought that if Wei Xiangxiang was really bad, she would organize such a bureau and invite her to participate this time, just to see her make a fool...... After all, she grew up in the countryside, and her piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are naturally not as good as these serious ladies.

Wei Qingqing is not stupid, naturally she will not give the other party a chance to make her ugly, but only slowly find fault with the other party, "Miss Meng Si's words are bad, if you judge according to what you say, it will be unfair!" ”

"Oh? Would you like to hear more? Meng Jiang has always been a good-tempered person, not only was he not angry when he heard the words, but he also humbly asked Wei Qingqing for advice.

"Most of the girls in this pavilion are good friends on weekdays, and some are even close handkerchiefs, so how can they not be familiar with each other's painting style and handwriting? If you are familiar with it, it is difficult to ensure that there will be no bias in the assessment, so how can it be fair? ”

At this time, Wei Xiangxiang timidly interjected, "Sister Meng Jiang, I also think what Sister Qingqing said is reasonable, it is indeed unfair for this poem and painting to be evaluated by a few of us." ”

Meng Jiangsu has always been dignified and generous, fair and just, so after thinking about it for a while, she humbly nodded and was taught, "The two sisters are reasonable!" Dare to ask the two younger sisters, who should evaluate the completion of this poem and painting to be fair? ”

"Why don't we finish the poems and paintings, and order someone to cover the payment place and send it to the brothers who wrote poems on the other side of the garden to evaluate?" Wei Xiangxiang whispered, but before she finished speaking, she waved her hand to deny without waiting for others to speak, "No, no, my brothers are foreign men after all, I'm afraid there will be something ......wrong."

"What's wrong?" Miss Cao Yujiao snorted coldly, "The name is blinded, and I won't tell them who painted it, but it's just for them to rate it, why can't it?" ”

"If these men are allowed to spread their paintings and poems all day long, in the name of winning talents, we are not allowed to show their paintings and poems without revealing their names?"

Cao Yujiao said unceremoniously glanced at Meng Jiang, who was in a dilemma, and made a decisive decision with some arrogance and domineering, "Okay!" That's it! Don't be pretentious about your pretense, if anyone dares to talk nonsense, I will teach them a lesson! ”

This Cao Yujiao is the daughter of General Cao after giving birth to eleven children, and she is afraid of falling off in the palm of her hand and holding it in her mouth for fear of melting, and she has raised her baby with a pride that is not afraid of the sky and the earth.

Cao Yujiao hated the phrase "women are not as good as men" the most since she was a child, so the twelve masters of the Cao family also hated it, and when they saw people, they said "men and women are the same, and women are not worse than men at all" - who made their Jiaojiao say that everything is right?

Wei Xiangxiang's previous words touched Cao Yujiao's reverse scales, so that she didn't listen to any persuasion from others, and was only willing to use the method proposed by Wei Xiangxiang to comment on the level of poetry and painting.

Meng Jiang saw that Cao Yujiao insisted on going her own way, and the others were not very rejecting this method, so they could only agree helplessly in the end.

After she recustomized the rules, she called Wei Qingqing, "Miss Wei, now a fairer rule has been reset, the competition has begun, with a stick of incense as the deadline, you can start framing and painting...... Miss Wei? ”

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