"What's its name?"

"Mary."

"It's a good name, Miss Chrissy chose it."

"Indeed, I am very happy to have your approval."

"The reins don't have to be pulled too tightly, if they are pulled too tightly, they could hurt Mary."

"Oh, okay."

"With the side of the inside foot, gently touch Mary's belly."

"Okay."

Xu Siling is a person who doesn't like trouble very much, but trouble can no longer be avoided, so try to do it well.

Under his careful instruction, Chrissy carefully rode on Mary's docile horse.

Mary moved slowly, and Xu Siling and Chrissy held the reins at the same time.

Chrissy's expression was pleasantly surprised, a little excited, and it was clear that it was indeed her first time riding a horse.

Teaching Chrissy to ride a horse would be anything a groom or a normal man.

But why look for him.

Xu Siling probably sensed what the situation was, but he thought that he had told Chrissy that he was married and had a wife, and it stands to reason that he shouldn't be.

Looking at Chrissy's happy smile like a child, Xu Siling was a little distracted.

It's not that I'm blinded by Chrissy's beauty.

It was simply the thought of Phil, Ella, and Farina.

This kind of smile, he has rarely seen on the faces of the three people.

Changing positions, will the three of them be led by themselves to ride a horse and laugh like they are now?

Fei'er is an independent and self-reliant girl, although she is young, she will restrain herself from showing such a cute childlike smile.

Because the smile of a child, although cute, is also equal to immaturity and incompetence in appearance.

Phil didn't want people to feel that way about her.

So Xu Siling couldn't imagine what kind of scene it would be like for Chrissy to be replaced by Fei'er at this time.

If it's Farina

Falina probably wouldn't be happy to ride alone, she preferred to invite Xu Siling to come up and ride in pairs.

The relationship between the two has already made substantial progress, and it will not be as ambiguous as Phil and Ella.

But Farina's simple smile is more healing than Chrissy's.

As for Ella

That feels even more unlikely.

With Ella's temperament, she is withdrawn and indifferent, and her riding skills are first-class but she doesn't like to show, for the simple reason that she doesn't like to stand out.

Whether it is managing housework or emotionally, she doesn't like to get ahead.

She would rather be criticized and become a simple person in the eyes of others, and she would also push Falina in front of the family stage and become her microphone.

Ella's loneliness is not the same as Blanche's loneliness.

The former is a free choice, and the latter is no choice.

Ella enjoys a life of solitude, which the latter does not necessarily enjoy.

The contact with Blanche was not long, but Xu Siling could feel that Blanche had a share, as long as she had a choice, she would have more courage than anyone else.

"Soul Knight, what are you thinking?"

Just when Xu Siling lost his mind, he was woken up by Chrissy.

"It's okay, I feel that Miss Chrissy is a quick learner."

"That's because you teach well, and I wouldn't have been able to learn without a teacher like you."

Under Xu Siling's careful guidance, Chrissy naturally learned easily and easily.

Ann Li is unique in the world, not everyone has the opportunity to become Ann Li.

At least on the surface, Chrissy is more of a normal person than Ann Li.

In the process of teaching, Xu Siling peeked at Blanche.

Blanche was sitting calmly in a courtyard chair, smiling, looking at him and Chrissy.

saw that Xu Siling was peeking at her, and showed an unbelievable smile.

The time to teach horseback riding passed quickly, and it was not too difficult to get started, and if you wanted to become proficient, you had to try more on your own.

Mary's horse, specially bred for the nobles to play with, could not be more docile.

Chrissy also doesn't have a lot of nerves to abuse horses, so Mary's chance of hurting Chrissy is almost zero.

As long as she is studying, arrange for a groom to pay attention to her.

At this pace, Chrissy will be able to ride alone in three days.

"Miss Chrissy, there's only so much I can teach you, and the rest depends on you learning to ride slowly."

Chrissy enjoyed this time of being led by Xu Siling to ride.

Especially when she approached Xu Siling with her hand intentionally or unintentionally from time to time, Xu Siling was very clever to avoid it.

His polite knightly behavior of refusing did not make Chrissy flinch, but became more proactive.

The only pity is that this courtyard has an extra person who shouldn't exist - Blanche.

Although Xu Siling was able to come to the house to teach her how to ride a horse, most of it was due to Blanche.

But during the teaching, Blanche was watching from the sidelines, which made Chrissy a little uncomfortable.

If Blanche wasn't around, she still thought she could go one step closer with Xu Siling.

Now when she heard that Xu Siling was about to retire and leave, she was suddenly nervous and dismounted in a panic.

"Knight Spirit, are you leaving?"

Chrissy hurriedly invited, and even reached out again and pinched Xu Siling's sleeve.

"Do you want to stay and have tea and snacks together?"

Xu Siling looked embarrassed and was ready to refuse directly.

Unexpectedly, Blanche looked like he was eating melons and said with a smile.

"Why don't you stay and have tea together, Knight Spirit."

As an outsider, she had already seen that Chrissy was interested in Xu Siling, but she was not jealous at all, and she didn't even care much.

Because she knew very well that Xu Siling was not interested in Chrissy.

If Xu Siling leaves, she herself has no reason to stay here.

"Princess Blanche"

Xu Siling looked at Blanche's gloomy brown eyes helplessly, according to his identity, he could refuse Chrissy.

Chrissy's identity is simply the daughter of a marquis.

But Blanche is a royal princess, and the status of the two is very different.

Blanche asked Chrissy to stay, but he couldn't refuse.

If it was just him and Blanche, he would have refused.

It's a pity that I can't live like this in the eyes of outsiders.

How much to give Blanche this identity face.

"The two most beautiful women in the kingdom ask for this, how can I not know what to do"

Chrissy was pleasantly surprised, and happily wanted to pull Xu Siling to the tea table, looking back at Blanche looking at it, she blushed and let go of her hand.

Xu Siling pulled the chair away and sat down alone.

If he had a choice, he would rather stay in Cassel's shop and fight more than a dozen children who didn't have any hair on his own.

I don't want to face the double attack of Blanche and Chrissy here.

Xu Siling felt that the three of them were like a sandwich now.

He's the one in the middle

The three of them had a great chat.

At least it seems.

As long as the topic doesn't involve herself, Xu Siling has always had that faint and smiling expression.

On the contrary, Blanche and Chrissy chatted more like a polite, maybe Chrissy didn't see it, at least he felt that Blanche was not interested in Chrissy's topic.

The topics of aristocratic ladies like Chrissy are nothing more than hobbies, dressing, gemstone necklaces, and gossip news.

Blanche is not interested in any of these topics.

Until Chrissy talked about the Marquis of Boggs, her father, who had included an art painting in the book house.

It is a picture of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus.

This aroused Blanche's interest, and her beautiful gloomy face was full of curiosity.

It can be seen that Blanche is very interested in things like art.

"Knight Spirit, do you know anything about art?" Chrissy asked Xu Siling.

"I'm just a vulgar knight who doesn't know anything about this."

"I think Knight Si Ling, you can learn more about this aspect, and maybe you can use it when you get along with other noblewomen in the future."

"Two of the most beautiful ladies in the kingdom are right in front of me, and I don't think I need to think about getting along with other nobles."

Chrissy covered her mouth and smiled, she didn't think she could look better than Blanche, but she was of course happy to be praised by Xu Siling like this.

Blanche interjected, "Miss Chrissy, is that painting easy to display?" ”

"Princess Blanche wants to see it? Absolutely. But it's in my father's library, and we'll have to move there. ”

"I'm fine, I'm just worried that the book house is the private place of the Marquis of Boggs, and I'm so disturbed"

"Don't worry! Just look at a painting, my father won't be angry, I've been in his library many times, and it's not important. Not to mention that he's not at home now, let's go, Princess Blanche, I'll take you. ”

Seeing this opportunity, Xu Siling coughed lightly and got up: "Then I'll go first."

Blanche said subtly: "Come with the Soul Knight, I'm looking forward to your views and understanding of art." ”

Chrissy Chick nodded, "yes." ”

Xu Siling sighed softly in her heart, in the matter of spanking Charlie's ass and Blanche's ass.

The latter has taken precedence over the former.

I had no choice but to follow Blanche and Chrissy's mansion.

Soon came to the study house of the mansion.

Once inside, one can see the high ceilings with chandeliers hanging from them, and the light is soft and warm.

The walls of the study room are painted in elegant tones to set off the scent of books.

Family portraits and maps also hang on the walls.

On the left-hand side of the bookstore, there are several bookshelves that occupy the view.

These tall shelves are filled with everything from ancient parchment manuscripts to hardcover leather-covered books.

Between the bookshelves, a soft carpet is laid, on which you can barely hear the sound when you walk on it.

And the painting Chrissy was talking about was on the wall at the bottom of the shelf.

The three approached.

What catches your eye is the beautiful paintings hanging on the wall.

The Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus are surrounded by angels dressed in blue robes, which in medieval times were a symbol of justice.

The frame is made of Baltic oak.

Xu Siling had seen this painting before and remembered that it was preserved in the National Gallery in London in fairly good condition.

Both of the portraits are Jewish.

I didn't expect this painting, at this time, to be in Paris, France.

If this painting is genuine, then Xu Siling really doesn't know how this painting ended up in England.

"Princess Blanche, how do you feel?"

Under Blanche's golden hair at this time, her beautiful gloomy face exuded a hint of starlight in her pupils.

For this painting, she loved it.

"It's lifelike, and from this painting, I feel the artist's delicacy and nuance."

"If you like it, I don't know much about art, but the first time I saw this painting, I was fascinated."

The painting is a good painting, but Xu Siling, who has felt many painting styles, is only slightly emotionally moved under the precipitation of history, and does not feel how beautiful the painting is.

Even looking at the picture of the baby Jesus

He thought of a joke.

Chriss's attention has been on Xu Siling, and when she saw the corners of his mouth rising slightly, she couldn't help asking.

"Do you have any insights from the Spirit Knight, let's hear it."

"No, Miss Chrissy, I just have an analogy in mind."

"What analogy?"

"That's it. What is the difference between Jesus in the picture and Jesus on the cross? ”

This question piqued the curiosity of Blanche and Chrissy.

But Xu Siling just shook his head and didn't continue.

If you really want to tell the answer, it's a hellish joke, and it will inevitably make two women's pupils earthquake.

He's not so stupid.

Seeing that Xu Siling didn't continue, Blanche paid attention to the painting, and the more she looked at it, the more she liked it, and she was obsessed.

"It's such a beautiful picture, it's so well preserved on the painting. That's art. Blanche subconsciously asked, with a positive hope in her tone: "Xu, will art be like this in your eyes?" ”

A question mark popped up in Chrissy's head.

How did Blanche call Xu Siling just now? How is it so intimate! I'm deaf or not.

Blanche fell into the world of portrait art and didn't even react.

Looking at Blanche's infatuated and eager to be affirmed, Xu Siling's eyes narrowed, she had to give this girl a face, and she had been treated so many times to collect some interest.

Xu Siling coughed lightly and stood beside Blanche, her voice was soft, but she made sure they could all hear it.

"Princess Blanche, why do you think art is beautiful?"

Blanche said without hesitation.

"Art is beautiful because it touches deep emotions and empathizes with thoughts. It's like this painting, with its beautiful composition and use of color, that makes me feel the meaning behind the painting."

"I don't see you the same."

Blanche was stunned, she was very interested in all kinds of art, and she was a little concerned about Xu Siling's opinion.

She turned her head to look at Xu Siling: "Then why do you think art is beautiful?" ”

"Why is art beautiful? Because art is useless. ”

These words made Blanche's face suddenly pale.

It's just that her complexion is almost pale, so it wasn't fully reflected, so Xu Siling didn't notice it.

"Like, why is life ugly? Because life is full of purpose. ”

"In life, we usually see art as a form of entertainment, or as a tool for display, rather than as a necessity of life."

"It is largely useless because it does not directly provide material assistance to the lives of the multitude or to meet the practical needs of the multitude."

"This uselessness just gives art its unique value."

"Art can help people transcend the trivialities and worries of daily life and provide a kind of spiritual satisfaction and pleasure. It can stimulate people's imagination, expand people's thinking, and make people feel the beauty and meaning of life. ”

"It is precisely because of this uselessness of art that it has a unique value and charm."

Blanche's face was getting worse and worse.

Or rather, her heart trembled

Blanche, who is deeply withdrawn, likes art and painting, and hopes that she can show her due thinking and resonance like painting.

But Xu Siling's words say that art is useless?

His words, as if to say that she Blanche, were useless.

She is a useless royal princess, so naturally she has to like this useless art.

The word useless pierced Blanche's heart deeply.

Chrissy didn't notice Blanche's face, she only felt that something was not quite right with what Xu Siling said, but she couldn't say anything wrong.

She didn't even know how to refute what Xu Siling said.

Just when Xu Siling noticed the change in Blanche's face, the door of the study room was suddenly opened, and two male voices came.

Hearing the voice, Chrissy was like a mouse hitting a cat, and hurriedly pushed Xu Siling and Blanche into the bottom of the bookshelf in fright.

This time

The three of them became a sandwich completely.

In the bookshelf, Xu Siling was squeezed between Chris and Blanche and couldn't move.

Or rather, don't dare to move at all. (End of chapter)