The third princess Zhou Li said this, but it angered all the young ladies, everyone felt that Fang Dongqiao was despising their talents, and disdained to compete with them, like this, Fang Dongqiao had a headache and mixed his forehead.

"In this way, the third princess must want the folk girl to show her hand?"

"Princess Ben naturally wants to open her eyes."

"So it's better to be happy alone than to be happy, the third princess accompanies the folk girl to show her hand, okay? In this way, if the little woman is ugly, it will not be too ugly to have such an outstanding third princess to accompany her. ”

Being forced like this, even if Fang Dongqiao didn't want to cause trouble, she didn't want them to tarnish her eldest brother's reputation.

The third princess Zhou Lihe had long decided in her heart that Fang Dongqiao had no ability, so she naturally didn't worry about what tricks she could do, so she answered her right away and let her recognize it thoroughly, even if she lifted her shoes, she was not worthy.

The third princess, Zhou Lihe, in order to make Fang Dongqiao more ugly against her background, she nodded without hesitation and agreed to Fang Dongqiao's proposal.

Fang Dongqiao thought that since the third princess Zhou Lihe accepted her proposal, then she should use some means anyway, who told her to be forced, when she thought about it, Fang Dongqiao already had an idea in her heart.

Fang Dongqiao said that one of the pianos has been played by He Caiwei, the daughter of the official book, the calligraphy has Ji Yanran, the granddaughter of the prince and the prince, and the dance has the daughter of the prime minister's mansion, Cao Yuxiang, the dance, and the rest can be chosen is the chess, the painting and the poetry.

The three princesses Zhou Lihe obviously didn't want to challenge the talents that the young ladies had already challenged, after all, in that kind of comparison, it was really uncertain who would lose and who would win, so her thoughts were extremely consistent with Fang Dongqiao at this time, and she would never choose the talents that the previous three women had performed, she chose naturally what she was good at, and that was one of the ways of painting.

Fang Dongqiao heard that the third princess Zhou Lihe chose one of the paintings, which was in line with her heart.

This is compared to chess and poetry, even if she has some chances of winning in painting, but it is not easy to win against the third princess Zhou Lihe.

Her skills in painting, especially for all kinds of flowers, Fang Dongqiao has seen the peony picture painted by the third princess Zhou Li and in the women's school, the painting and techniques are already quite outstanding, if the two sides really rely on their strength to paint, it is difficult to know whether to win or lose.

You must know that the painting is a way, and the ink painting of Zhou Lihe with her fine brushwork is different, and it will naturally be different in everyone's eyes when the time comes.

What's more, the winning and losing of this painting is originally a matter of who likes whose painting method more, and it is inevitable that there will be deviations in winning and losing.

To put it mildly, if everyone looks at the identity and status of the third princess Zhou Lihe, it is reasonable to judge her to lose at that time, so if Fang Dongqiao wants to win Zhou Lihe this time, it is not enough to be on par with her paintings, she must judge at a glance that her paintings are higher than Zhou Lihe's in the eyes of everyone, so that no matter how biased they are, they can't have the face to announce that Zhou Lihe won her, at most they can only say that she is inseparable from her paintings.

And what Fang Dongqiao wants is such a sentence, she doesn't need to get the news from others that she won, as long as she doesn't lose to Zhou Lihe, that's fine.

Thinking of this, when Fang Dongqiao put down the pen on the white spread out rice paper, her eyes suddenly flashed, she first asked the maid Mu Hibiscus next to her to call the previous steward who led the way over, and told the steward to go down and prepare a few things for her, and the steward listened to Fang Dongqiao's instructions, so he naturally quickly prepared for Fang Dongqiao and brought it to Fang Dongqiao.

"Miss Fang, what you want, the slave asked the people below to prepare it for Miss, Miss Fang can take a look, what are the shortcomings? If something is missing, Miss Fang just said that the slave will immediately let someone go to handle it for Miss. ”

The steward listened to the few things that Fang Dongqiao asked him to prepare, and he had some doubts in his heart, he didn't understand why Fang Dongqiao asked him to prepare a few charcoal strips, a few feathers, various pigments and a bottle of phosphorescent powder.

Among these objects, only paints can also be used, and there are a few other things, and the steward really can't understand why Fang Dongqiao wants to prepare such a few items, but since it was proposed by Fang Dongqiao, even if the steward is confused, he has to do it for Fang Dongqiao.

Once Fang Dongqiao was ready, the housekeeper also specially asked Fang Dongqiao what other needs he had, so as not to wait for the meeting to be completed, and if the prince knew about it afterwards, then he would not be able to eat and leave.

This Fang Dongqiao saw that the steward had prepared a few things for her, so he nodded and said with a smile: "No, that's all, I'm tired of taking care of things, I don't have anything else to order here at this time, and the steward can be busy with other things." ”

The person in charge heard Fang Dongqiao say this, and hurriedly nodded and retreated.

The third princess Zhou Li and the steward of Prince Zhong's Mansion on the next table actually listened to Fang Dongqiao's orders like this, and there was anger in her eyes inexplicably, this annoying little girl dared to put on a posture of a future hostess before she entered Prince Zhong's Mansion, she was really angry.

When the third princess Zhou Lihe thought about it like this, she didn't care about being admonished by the eldest princess in private just now, asking her to be forgiving and forgiving, not to be too serious, the meaning of those words, Zhou Lihe understood very well, the eldest sister just asked her not to embarrass Fang Dongqiao on this occasion, and embarrass her.

She originally listened to the meaning of the eldest sister, and wanted to wait for Fang Dongqiao to let go, so that she would not lose too ugly, and just deal with the past casually, but at this time she was annoyed, this annoyance, she worked hard, gave full play to all the strength she should have, and concentrated on the match with Fang Dongqiao.

That Fang Dongqiao didn't know that the third princess and the eldest princess still had such words in private, she originally calculated the win or loss of this game with the full strength of the third princess Zhou Lihe.

Therefore, what she has to do now is to draw the painting in her hand well, and then use some tricks to make the game a draw as the final result.

Fang Dongqiao, who had thought of such a plan, was not in a hurry at all at this time, she was lazy, casually holding charcoal strips, tried it first, sketched a pastoral autumn scene with a few strokes, and in the details, with feathers dipped in ink, she carefully painted a few places, and painted the farmhouse courtyard clearly.

Then the chrysanthemums blooming in front of the courtyard were painted, and then replaced with charcoal strips, sparse and faint a few strokes, and a few strokes were added appropriately in the light and shade, outlining a few children playing in the farmhouse, lively and pretty, there was a young woman washing vegetables parked in front of the door, and a man who came home was walking on the path in the distance, holding a lively fish in his hand.

In the end, she looked at the pastoral autumn scene in the pen, as if something was missing, took the feather, stained it with ink, and wrote on the side, "Picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, leisurely see Nanshan." ”

Such a poem.

After writing it, Fang Dongqiao felt that the poem with such a painting was a little inconsistent, as if she had added to the snake.

In this way, Fang Dongqiao looked at it, smiled bitterly, quickly folded the scroll, put it aside, and began to rearrange the painting.

At this time, the third princess Zhou Lihe's peony wealth map was about to be completed, and Fang Dongqiao's side actually abandoned the original painting and started a new painting, which made the third princess Zhou Lihe feel that she had won, and everyone present also thought the same, thinking that Fang Dongqiao would lose this time.

You know, the incense in the incense burner is not half burned, and if her new painting is not finished in the remaining time, then no matter how good the painting is, it will be useless.

At this time, everyone present unanimously agreed that Fang Dongqiao could not complete the second painting, and Fang Dongqiao ignored the many sweeping glances, she buried her head in her paintings, and sketched them as much as she could, as if she had painted countless times, and her brushstrokes were skillful and neat.

Time passed gradually, and the incense stuck in the incense burner burned little by little.

The painting of the third princess Zhou Lihe has already been completed, everyone here is watching Fang Dongqiao's movements with their eyes, but Fang Dongqiao is still the same as before, the clouds are light and light, there is no nervousness at all, or such casual movements, moving the pen and flowing like that, continue to draw, and at the last moment when the incense burns to the end, Fang Dongqiao seems to have calculated the time, and her pen hand stopped continuing to paint.

I saw that she put down the paintbrush, covered the painting, and put it on the tray on the side, waiting for Prince Zhong to send someone to take the painting for her.

Seeing that Fang Dongqiao's painting was obviously not enough, Princess Nazhong didn't want her to make a fool of herself, so she ordered someone to open the peony wealth picture of the third princess Zhou Lihe first.

As soon as this painting opened, the peony was lifelike, the petals were clearly visible, it was really a gorgeous work, and those who saw it praised the third princess Zhou Lihe, and the princess Zhong was no exception, and nodded with a smile and satisfaction.

"The peony picture of the third princess is getting better and better, but it seems that the real peony is in the painting. Such a painting is a rare work, and you don't need to look at Miss Fang's painting, according to Princess Ben, the painting of the third princess can come out on top. ”

Prince Zhong said this obviously for Fang Dongqiao's consideration, everyone here is a clear-eyed person, where can you not see the Tao here, they echo the meaning of Prince Zhong and Princess Zhong, and they all agree with it.

It's just that the third princess Zhou Lihe was bent on making Fang Dongqiao ugly, where would she let go of such a good opportunity at this time, not to mention, even if she didn't say it, someone would naturally speak for her.