"Your Highness......"

Xiahou Qian was slightly surprised, because Hua Luo had never told him this before, and it was estimated that Zhaoyue and Zhanxing didn't know either.

"It's okay, I don't care." Hua Luo said in a very flat tone.

Xiahou Qian walked up to Hua Luo: "It's okay, Your Highness, just care, everything will be fine." ”

"The matter has been understood, please cancel the agreement with the minister, Your Majesty, she is your mother after all, if there is a conflict with her, it will only be Your Highness who will suffer."

"If Your Highness is really unhappy, choose a time when the wind is beautiful, and then the minister will accompany His Highness on an outing."

Hua Luo gradually calmed down, yes, she has a conflict with the empress now, and she can't get any bargains.

The next day, the court painter came.

"Your Majesty has an order to start choosing a husband for His Royal Highness the Prince, and we are here to draw a portrait of His Royal Highness the Prince, so that His Majesty can choose a husband."

Hearing Zhaoyue's reply, Hua Luo decisively refused: "I'm not interested." ”

"Your Highness, you can't be uninterested." Zhao Yue hurriedly persuaded, "You and Your Majesty have already had a big quarrel yesterday, in case you let Your Majesty know that you have a closed door for the painter you sent her, and you will quarrel again......

Hua Luo changed her words: "You let them in." ”

But that tone was very unhappy.

The two painters obviously knew about the quarrel between the empress and the prince yesterday, and walked in tremblingly, opened the easel and prepared to paint a portrait of Hua Luo sitting on the couch, when they suddenly found a problem.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, please remove his mask."

"Nope." Hua Luo turned the pen in her hand, didn't even look at them, and decisively refused.

"But......" The two painters looked at each other, a little embarrassed.

Hua Luo covered her face, how did they draw it? Originally, the portrait was just to let others see the appearance of Hua Luo, and the portrait wearing a mask would probably not be satisfied with the empress.

Zhan Xing knew the reason why Hua Luo wore a mask, and he also knew that Hua Luo couldn't take off the mask, so he made an excuse: "Your Highness has a sudden pox, and it is inconvenient to remove the mask, if you really want to find me and Zhaoyue, it would be good if you really wanted to find me and Zhaoyue, Zhaoyue and I get along with His Highness day and night, and we are naturally familiar with His Highness's appearance." ”

"Let's describe, you follow the picture."

The two painters thought that there was only one way to do it, and they agreed.

"Then there are two girls, please describe the appearance of His Highness."

Zhaoyue thought for a while: "Our Royal Highness the Crown Prince is a sweet beauty, with a small face, and big apricot eyes, but when she squints slightly, it is a little similar to peach blossom eyes, as for the eye shape, it should be a mixture of apricot eyes and peach blossom eyes......"

After the laborious and positive descriptions of Zhaoyue and Zhanxing, the portraits of the two painters were finally completed.

The two painters presented the portrait to Zhan Xing and Zhao Yue, and Zhan Xing and Zhao Yue had an indescribable feeling when they saw it.

Or Zhan Xing spoke first: "Well, it's not that it's not like it, it's like it's seven or eight points like it, it's just ...... Zhaoyue, I always feel weird. ”

"yes, I think it's weird too, but what's weird...... I can't tell. ”

Zhao Yue took the portrait and looked at it carefully.

The two painters knew that if they didn't finish their errand, His Majesty would definitely not be satisfied when they went back, so they hurriedly said, "Please take a good look at the two girls." ”

The two took a closer look, and Zhaoyue finally noticed that something was wrong: "Sister! I noticed that something was wrong. ”

"What's wrong?"

"You see, these two paintings are all smiling, and they are smiling with eight teeth."

"That's right!" Zhan Xing patted his head and said to the two painters, "Luo Dian usually doesn't smile, but seeing how you painted her, her smile is too bright, no wonder she looks weird." ”

"And even if Luo Dian really laughs, it's not like this, her teeth are not so straight, according to my observation, Luo Dian's tiger teeth are more prominent, and her smile will be very cute, not so rigid."

The two painters said they understood, and then went down to revise it.

Zhao Yue suddenly remembered a question: "Sister, you and I have been in the East Palace for so long, have you ever seen Luo Dianxiao smile." ”

Zhan Xing shook his head: "I haven't seen it, yes, she never laughs, no wonder people outside say that she is cold." ”

"How can ordinary people not laugh all the time, ask her another day."

Zhaoyue also had a few curiosities.

Next, the artist showed the revised painting to Zhan Xing Zhaoyue.

Zhan Xing took a closer look, and still felt weird: "It looks like a god, and it doesn't draw the charm of Luodian." ”

Just as the two painters were about to continue, Xiao Qiao, the maid of the East Palace, walked in, holding a rolled-up portrait in her hand, and handed it to Zhan Xing.

"Zhanxing girl, this portrait was sent by Lord Xiahou, who painted a picture for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and mentioned a poem to praise His Royal Highness the Prince's beauty."

"Yes."

Zhaoyue took the portrait.

Zhan Xing praised: "It's not easy for Lord Xiahou, I know that Luo Dian is unhappy, and he is painting and poetry, and he is a sycophant." ”

"I'll take a look, yo, the bones are more than the fragrance of the sinking water, and the color is the moon of the Yao Forest......"

Zhan Xing shook his head and read it, looking like an old pedant.

Zhaoyue thought for a while, and said to the two painters: "The two painters don't have to worry, I think this painting painted by Lord Xiahou is very good, or I will go and talk to Luo Dian, and let you copy this painting directly, which will save trouble." ”

The two painters naturally agreed, and then Zhaoyue went to ask Hua Luo's meaning, Hua Luo said casually, and Zhao Yue handed over the painting to the two painters to copy.

The empress looked at the scroll presented by the painter: "This is copied according to the portrait drawn by Xiahou Qian to the prince?" ”

The two painters confessed, not understanding why the empress would focus on asking this question.

The painting painted by Lord Xiahou is very expressive, and it should be no problem for them to copy it.

The painters were nervous for a while, and finally the empress waved her hand to signal that they were all gone, and let them go down first.

The two painters breathed a sigh of relief and retreated.

The empress looked at the portrait, and Lady Guo walked up: "Your Majesty, Xiahou Qian's personal situation is all here. ”

The empress looked at the paper full of words: "You come and read it to me." ”

"Yes." Female official Guo agreed to come down and briefly introduce Xia Houqian's situation.

"Xiahou Qian is the only son of Xiahou Yunjing, who was degraded, and his mother Shen was exiled to Yanzhou with Shen when she was ten years old, and she is twenty-one years old this year."

"It turned out to be Xiahou Yunjing's son, who is already twenty-one years old, five years older than the crown prince." The empress interrupted Lady Guo's words, "The prince's husband should be within three years of difference. ”

"Your Majesty, in fact, the slave maid thinks that age is not a big problem, and besides, boys mature later than girls, and they will be more stable when they are older."

The empress nodded slightly: "You have a point, continue to speak." ”

"Xiahou Qian is as his name suggests, and his temperament is notoriously humble and docile......"

Female official Guo continued to read Xiahou Qian's other situations, but the empress didn't say anything, just looked at female official Guo: "Female official Guo, do you think he and the prince are compatible?" ”

Lady Guo admitted: "Naturally, it is a good match, and Your Majesty's vision is excellent." ”

"Besides, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also likes Xiahou Qian, and even insists on being with him during the Hundred Flowers Festival, presumably she knows that she has no objection and only agrees, Your Majesty, think about it, Xiahou Qian's conditions are a little insufficient, but the prince was in Yanzhou for a few years, if it wasn't for Xiahou's family to take care of him, His Royal Highness doesn't know what will happen now."

Female official Guo tried her best to match the empress to let Hua Luo and Xiahou Qian be together, so as to avoid the empress finding a husband she didn't like for Hua Luo, and the two would quarrel.

"Pass the order, I will summon Xiahou Qian alone."

"Yes." Female Officer Guo received the order and immediately went down to do it.

Xiahou Qian was summoned by the empress alone, it was very different, why did the empress summon him alone, could it be related to Hua Luo?

The empress summoned and had to go, it seems that he has to be cautious, Xiahou Qian thought secretly.

He followed the people in the palace to see the empress.

The empress looked at Xiahou Qian, who saluted her, and saw that Xiahou Qian was confused, and took the lead in asking: "I don't know why Your Majesty brought the ministers?" ”

"Nothing important, you don't have to be nervous, get up."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Xiahou Qian stood up, still not daring to face the empress.

The empress said: "The main reason I came to you this time is to find out about the prince's affairs in Yanzhou. ”

What does the empress know about the crown prince at this time? Xiahou Qian was even more puzzled in his heart, but he still replied respectfully: "I don't know what Your Majesty wants to know?" The minister must know everything. ”

"I heard that the prince's divine power can pick up a hundred catties of things without much effort, and the eating habits are different from ordinary people, usually three meals a day, she is three meals a day, I remember that the prince was not like this in the palace in the past, what is going on?"

"This matter starts from the second year of the drought in Yanzhou, when it rained in Yanzhou for three consecutive months, causing floods and landslides, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince encouraged the people of Yanzhou to build embankments, and every household had to contribute labor, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also participated."

"This cultivation is two years, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is also weak and delicate, and it may be that he has developed extraordinary strength after this."

"She's a girl, and she actually repairs the dam by herself?"

The Empress was surprised, for she had never heard of it before, and she only knew that it was Hua Luo's idea to build the embankment.

"Yes, there was an extreme shortage of manpower at that time, and it was all extremely heavy physical work, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince even saved time to carry boulders for dinner, she said, time is life."

"The prince's leading behavior has encouraged many people, so much so that even if the embankment has been repaired, she is used to having a meal every three days, and she can no longer change it......"

Xiahou Qian seemed to remember those days, his eyes dimmed, and what he didn't dare to mention in front of the empress was that his family should have built the embankment at that time.

After all, he was the only male in the family, and he naturally became a laborer, but he was too weak to do manual work, and after only one day of going to the dam, he fell ill from exhaustion and even vomited blood.

Later, Hua Luo went to build the embankment in his place.

And he remembered that Hua Luo's favorite pastime in her spare time was to wrestle with boys of the same age in the village, and no one could break her.