"Sister Peony, you said that Sister Zhang is weird, but since she entered the palace, she has always been helping people and saving people, and she has never hurt anyone. How can this be said to be a monster? Seeing that the situation was critical, the pothos simply put aside her fears, and argued with Peony head-on.

"In order to seek more, pretending to be upright to buy people's hearts, are there still few such people? You excuse her like this, aren't you afraid that you will be severely punished by the palace rules for your private sacrifice? Peony didn't let it go.

"The slave and maid just remembered and prayed to the portrait, and did not use incense, candles, paper money, and money to pay tribute!" Pothos distinguish.

"That's enough, shut up!" The Queen Mother said angrily, and the two palace maids were prostrate on the ground, not daring to make a sound again.

The Queen Mother pondered for a moment and asked Chen Youcong: "Prince, what do you think should be done?" ”

"Why don't you send Daoist Zhang to come and see her?" The prince suggested.

The Queen Mother nodded.

Zhang Weizhao rushed from the backyard to the main hall in the rain, and when he entered the hall, he immediately felt that the atmosphere was strange. She originally wanted to salute the Queen Mother and the Crown Prince according to the etiquette of the Daomen as usual, but the narcissus who brought her in said:

"Miss Zhang, please kneel down and reply."

Zhang Weizhao looked at the Queen Mother and the Crown Prince, both of them looked solemn and did not say a word. Zhang Weizhao knelt down as he said.

The Queen Mother nodded, Xiangyu took a portrait to Zhang Weizhao, and asked, "Miss Zhang, is this what you painted?" ”

"I painted it." Zhang Weizhao replied calmly.

The queen asked her expressionlessly, "Do you know who the person in the painting is?" ”

"It's Aunt Begonia." Zhang Weizhao is still calm.

"It's been over a year since she's gone, how do you know what she looks like?" The Queen Mother's voice was cold and emotionless.

"The Queen Mother specially summoned me to ask this, did anyone say that I can summon ghosts, so I can see the appearance of Begonia?" Zhang Weizhao deliberately looked at the peony when he said this.

Peony was stared at by her eyes, only to feel shocked, gritted her teeth and said, "If you didn't see it with your own eyes, how could you paint it so realistically?" ”

Zhang Weizhao didn't answer her words, and arched his hand upwards and said: "Queen Mother, the reason why Xiaodao can paint Aunt Begonia so much is very simple, it is because of the specialization in the art industry. Xiaodao has its own way of doing this. ”

said, regardless of everyone's reaction, he went straight to the end: "First, the perspective method." Xiaodao learned Western painting from a young age, Western painting is different from my dynasty's fine brushwork and freehand, focusing on light and proportion, and the more realistic things depicted, the better. Second, ethnography. The world may seem like a thousand faces, but in fact, people of the same region or caste have similar basic features in their appearance. Luluo told me that she and Aunt Begonia are both from Baoding, and said that Aunt Zhen, who came to deliver clothes from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, is also from Baoding, and she is somewhat similar to Aunt Begonia. Third, screening method. It's actually a stupid kung fu. I drew more than a dozen pairs of eyes and a dozen noses on a blank piece of paper, and asked the pothos to pick and revise repeatedly before I drew the final look. It took ten days to work on this painting. So, what's impossible to draw like a little bit? ”

At this time, the green pothos kneeling on the side walked forward: "Queen Mother, what Sister Zhang said is true." It's all slaves and maids who are not good, slaves and maids have no mother since they were children, and they regard Aunt Begonia as a mother, and they are afraid that they will forget Aunt Begonia's appearance in the future, so they are bent on painting. You really can't blame Sister Zhang for this! "Pothos is also a smart girl. She knew that the masters in the palace paid attention to filial piety, so she said that her thoughts about Begonia were like a child missing her mother, and she wanted to impress the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother's expression really relaxed. The greatest glory in the queen mother's life comes from the fact that she successfully became a mother, so after listening to the green pothos's admiration for the begonia, she felt a little pity for her.

Seeing that Zhang Weizhao and Luluo had turned the situation around, Peony was anxious in her heart, and said to Zhang Weizhao: "What Western painting, what perspective method." You are young and have never been to the Atlantic State, even if a Western monk teaches you for a few days, will you be proficient in painting, medicine, astronomy, and geography? He said to the Queen Mother: "The Queen Mother, if something is abnormal, it is a demon." With such a strange-minded person by your side and the prince, the slave is really worried day and night! ”

Zhang Weizhao couldn't help but sneer. Heretic, she was once again considered a heretic.

In her previous life, when she was helping refugee women and children, she was considered a heretic by terrorists for teaching them to live like normal people and not slaves.

In this life, she just painted a few pictures, told a few stories, and was regarded as a heretic.

There are always some people who regard their own laws as heavenly rules, and anyone who is different from them is regarded as a devil and must be cut off at all costs. And unconsciously it, they are full of hatred for all living beings with vitality and dreams, and they harvest the living as leeks.

"I can see what you can't." Zhang Weizhao straightened his back and said proudly to Peony.

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the room was shocked and looked at Zhang Weizhao together.

"I can do what you can't. It's not because I'm not an ordinary person, but because the so-called ordinary people are originally made up of all kinds of people. Now I've just painted a more similar picture, and you say I'm abnormal. So, there are many scholars in this world, and they may not be able to show off their talents, and some people are less than twenty, but they can even be the champions of the three yuan, are these young talents also demonic? ”

"You're just quibbling and confusing the subject!" Peony knew that she couldn't back down, because things had come to this point, and if she stepped back, there might be nothing.

"You're just jealous and want to purge dissidents. The ghost is not anywhere else, it is in your heart! Zhang Weizhao hit the nail on the head.

"The Queen Mother!" Peony turned to the Queen Mother: "Today she uses demon methods to please you, greedy for fame and wealth, if someone uses heavy gold and fame to envelop her in the future, it is difficult to guarantee that she will not have a different heart, turn her head and use demon magic to harm you!" The slave maid is indeed jealous of her and has your trust, but the slave and maid are single-minded to the Queen Mother, and there is no second heart. Please the Queen Mother! ”

The Queen Mother was silent.

Chen Youcong frowned, turned his head, and arched his hand to the Queen Mother: "Grandmother ...... Huang"

was stopped by the Queen Mother raising her hand.

So the Queen Mother said slowly: "Luluo, privately hiding the portrait of the dead, disturbing people's hearts, but if you are a filial person, the mourning family will spare you this time, and if you commit it again next time, you will be punished strictly." Thirty rods, a fine of half a month's silver. ”

The pothos immediately fell to the ground and thanked her, she knew that her life was saved, and withdrew from the temple to receive the punishment.

When Peony heard that the Queen Mother raised her hand and let go of the pothos, she had a premonition that something was wrong, and she fell to the ground, trembling all over, but she didn't dare to say anything.

"Peony stirs up right and wrong and disturbs the court with things like gods and ghosts." The Queen Mother turned her head and said to Narcissus: "Go to the outer courtyard and call Zhao Qin over, beat eighty canes, and send him to the West Garden to clean the courtyard." ”

Xiyuan is outside the Forbidden City, and going to Xiyuan means driving out of the Forbidden City. It is very deserted on weekdays, and it will only be lively when you meet the nobles in the palace who are interested in going boating and visiting the garden. When the palace maid got there, it was like the palace concubine was relegated to the cold palace, and there was no future at all.

Peony cried and begged for mercy, but the Queen Mother no longer looked at her at all.

Soon Zhao Qin came in from outside the hall. Zhao Qin is the head of Changle Palace, and he is very trusted by the Queen Mother.

Zhao Qin did things neatly, came in and ordered the little eunuch to plug Peony's mouth, and pulled it out silently.

The Queen Mother waved away all the palace maids in the palace, and only the Queen Mother, the Prince and Zhang Weizhao were left in the huge inner hall. The Queen Mother sat silent. The prince stood beside the Queen Mother and did not speak.

The hall was so quiet that only the sound of rain coming from the window.

After a while, the Queen Mother looked at Zhang Weizhao on the ground: "How did you draw the begonias?" ”

Zhang Weizhao arched his hand upward: "What Xiaodao just said is not half a lie!" ”

The Queen Mother sighed: "The mourning family usually treats you well, right?" ”

Zhang Weizhao replied: "When I first came to the palace, I only said that the Queen Mother was the most noble woman in the world, and she must be very majestic. But in fact, the Queen Mother is a person with a pure heart, trusting and tolerant of Xiaodao. ”

"It turns out that you also know that I am tolerant of you."

"Yes. In the past, Master and I were used to being free on the rivers and lakes, and we didn't feel anything like it at first. Later, when I learned what was going on in the court, I realized that the Queen Mother had always been very kind to me. Zhang Weizhao told the truth, otherwise with her style of dressing, speaking, and acting, without the support of the Queen Mother, she would have been rectified many times by people who were not used to it. Although she felt that she had not done anything excessive, in her previous life, it was everyone's basic right to choose the style in which she spoke, dressed, and worked. But this is not the twenty-first world, this is the Great Yan who believes in respect and order.

"But why don't you tell me the truth? How exactly did you draw the begonias? How do you know so much about the Atlantic State? If you tell the truth, I won't blame you! The Queen Mother stared at Zhang Weizhao, and her eyes even contained a hint of eagerness.

Zhang Weizhao's back shook a few times imperceptibly, but in the end he still said firmly: "What I just said is true. As he spoke, he touched his forehead to the back of his hand that was propped up on the ground. This was the first time she had made a prostration.

"Good, good! You really think I don't dare to punish you! The Queen Mother seemed to be very annoyed and disappointed.

Chen Youcong came over to comfort her grandmother: "Grandmother, don't be angry. Even if you have been cultivating for many years, you may not have much magic power. Not to mention a little Taoist doctor. I think she's just a miscellaneous student, and she has a little talent for painting. ”

The Queen Mother looked at Chen Youcong, with a look of amazement and nostalgia on her face, "I'm just ......" At this moment, a lightning bolt fell, and the faces of several people in the hall were instantly illuminated, and they suddenly sank into the darkness. Immediately after that, a series of explosions rang out repeatedly.