The slave family is not a disaster

Chapter 398 Clear Water Lotus
"Ms. Zhaoyi is too underestimating people. It's because I proposed to compete with her that I couldn't give the questions. If I set the questions myself, wouldn't it be suspected of cheating?" Su Luer smiled provocatively.

"It's okay, I don't care, no matter whether you cheat or not, you won't win against me, so you really don't have to worry about it." Ye Anran smiled slightly, that smile was incomparably charming, as if just looking at it could melt the cold heart.

"That won't work. Lady Zhaoyi doesn't care. Women of the people still care. They care about this reputation. How about this? For the sake of fairness, let the empress ask the question, okay?" Su Luer had an idea and thought of the queen.

"Okay, up to you." Ye Anran looked like I didn't care.

The queen smiled brightly: "Why, the two younger sisters competed, and this palace was also involved. It's really fresh."

Su Lu'er leaned over and said politely: "Empress, for the sake of fairness, I would trouble you to give us a question."

"Alright, since you all trust me, I will take care of this matter." The queen seemed to have a spectatorial attitude towards this matter, and thought it was quite amusing.

Because no matter who wins or loses between the two of them, it's not good for her...

"Then please ask the Empress... to come up with a question." Ye Anran smiled charmingly.

The eunuch laid out the table, rice paper, and various paints. Su Luer and Ye Anran both sat down. After the queen came up with a question, they began to paint.

The emperor looked at Ye Anran, wondering what kind of surprise Anran would bring everyone this time?

The queen said slowly, "In the time it takes for a stick of incense to burn, the two younger sisters will take flowers as the theme today. Whoever draws the most dazzling and brilliant flowers, which draws the most applause from the crowd, will win. How about it?"

"No problem, let's start." Ye Anran said with a smile.

"Okay, let's start." Su Luer also took such a gamble with the heart of winning.

Then a little eunuch lit a stick of incense, and the competition officially kicked off...

Everyone held their breath and observed Su Luer and Ye Anran one after another. They were surprised to find that they were in two states.

Su Luer picked up the paintbrush and hurriedly began to paint, adding some dyes from time to time.

And Ye Anran didn't seem to move a pen, just sat there, as if basking in the sun leisurely.

"Xiaoguang, pour me a cup of tea." Ye Anran said suddenly.

"Yes, empress." Xiaoguang then picked up the teapot and walked over, and poured a cup of tea for Ye Anran under the eyes of everyone.

Suddenly there was an uproar...

They couldn't imagine that in this competition about Ye Anran's reputation, she would be so leisurely, completely ignoring Su Luer.

Seeing that the time for a stick of incense is almost over, Su Luer's painting of hundreds of flowers has taken shape and is coming to the end, but Ye Anran is still drinking tea leisurely, even moving the brush.

The emperor couldn't help but frowned, wondering what tricks Ye Anran was playing.

Nishinomiya Jin said suspiciously: "What's wrong with my sister-in-law, what is she up to? Xiaorong, do you know?"

Xiao Rong also shook her head: "My lord, I don't know what's going on, I don't know what the second lady is thinking, but I can be sure of one thing."

"What?" Nishinomiya Jin was suspicious.

"That means the second lady has already secured the victory, and she will definitely reverse the situation at the critical moment." Xiaorong smiled.

"Well, I hope so." Nishinomiya Jin felt that what Xiao Rong said made sense, so he nodded.

In fact, Xiao Rong has no idea, but based on Xiao Rong's understanding of Ye Anran, she can show such a leisurely expression, which means that the second lady already has a chance of winning in her heart, and she is just waiting for a miracle to appear.

Seeing that the stick of incense was about to burn out, Ye Anran slowly put down the teacup...

Picking up the paintbrush and starting to draw... Everyone couldn't help sweating for this charming woman.

"Hmph, you're not ashamed, and you said you want to win me, but you don't have any skills." Su Luer glanced at Ye Anran, and said to herself.

Ye Anran remained calm, ignored everyone's gaze, and just drew stroke by stroke.

Until the last touch of incense ash was burned, the queen got up and announced: "Okay, the game is over."

Both Su Luer and Ye Anran stopped their brushes immediately, Su Luer seemed confident and smiled triumphantly.

Ye Anran calmly picked up her teacup and continued to drink tea...

"Okay, Miss Su, you can pick up your painting and show it to everyone," the queen ordered.

"Okay." Su Luer proudly picked up her painting, and everyone couldn't help but marvel at it, because she only used one stick of incense to paint a scene of hundreds of flowers competing in beauty, including peonies, rhododendrons, narcissus, and lilies. , Peonies, etc., hundreds of different flowers and the pictures are more colorful after being painted with various paints.Light traveler.

"This painting is called "Hundred Flowers Picture" by folk girls, and it can also be called Hundred Flowers Blooming." Su Luer introduced triumphantly.

"Okay, okay, haha." Prime Minister Guo Yucheng laughed heartily, boasting that his wife's niece is not an easy one.

The Empress Dowager's expression also eased a lot, and she also had a little liking for Su Luer in her heart, at least she was not a worthless person.

The emperor was not very surprised by her painting, as if he had expected it long ago...

Even if the emperor was asked to paint, he could still paint like Su Luer, so he felt that there was nothing to be surprised about.

The crowd applauded continuously, and then they turned their attention to Ye Anran.

The queen smiled and said, "But sister, is your painting ready? Let everyone have a look."

"Okay." After Ye Anran stood up and picked up his painting, everyone was extremely disappointed.

A pale pink lotus flower stands alone in the center of the white decree. Compared with Su Luer's, it lacks a lot of color, and it looks even more mediocre in painting, which is obviously much inferior.

"This...is this your painting?" The queen was also confused, and logically said, it shouldn't be. When Ye Anran drew a picture of a beauty last time, everyone was present, and her artist was amazingly talented. How could it take a stick of incense to draw this little lotus?

"That...well, haha, really good, not bad, wonderful." Nishinomiya Nishiki applauded first, maybe he was trying to save Ye Anran some face.

But he smiled very reluctantly, and his smile was a bit awkward. Afterwards, there was sparse applause, and everyone seemed to be extremely disappointed with the lotus flower Ye Anran painted.

"An Ran, is this your work?" The emperor also asked with some doubts.

Ye Anran nodded: "Well, this painting is called Water Dyeing Lotus."

"But I don't seem to see any water, only this lonely lotus is there." The emperor said truthfully.

Ye Anran smiled mysteriously: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, just wait and see."

Then Ye Anran picked up the teacup, took another sip of tea, and then sprayed a sip of tea on the painting unexpectedly.

Everyone was surprised again...

Su Luer laughed: "Miss Zhaoyi, even if you lose, you won't use it to destroy this painting."

"You're wrong, Miss Su, take a closer look before you talk." Ye Anran raised the corners of her mouth and smiled contemptuously.

After the sip of tea was sprayed, everyone looked at the painting again and couldn't help but scream...

"Ah, look, that lotus flower is like the real one, floating on the water, and the petals seem to be slowly unfolding. It's really amazing, just like a real lotus flower." Know who yelled.

Then the audience booed... because they were all shocked.

The emperor was also startled, looking at the picture of lotus in surprise, and then asked: "An Ran, you... how did you do it?"

"The concubine just used a little trick, and I will tell the emperor later." Ye Anran said slowly.

At this time, someone shouted again: "Look, the butterfly is flying over."

As we all know, butterflies like flowers and like to land on flowers, so the two butterflies flew over and headed towards Su Luer's Hundred Flowers Picture. Su Luer was very happy at first.

She thought it was because she was a good painter and attracted the butterflies to watch it, but when she looked carefully, she found that she was wrong, and the mistake was outrageous.

It turned out that the butterfly stayed in front of her picture scroll for a while, then flew away, flew to Ye Anran's lotus painting and began to circle around the lotus vividly.

Ye Anran looked at Xinxi and stretched out her hand, but unexpectedly, a miracle happened, a butterfly landed on her finger.

Suddenly, thunderous applause sounded...

Zhao Lengyun's wife, that is, Zheng Yanru got up and said: "Okay, Lady Zhaoyi's clear water lotus is so vivid that it even attracts butterflies to come and dance. It really opened my eyes."

"Yeah, it's really a spectacle. The court lady is so big, and she has never seen such a state of painting. It is simply the unity of heaven and man." Xi Gongmo's princess Shu Bixuan also sighed.

Compared with Ye Anran's lotus, Su Luer's Hundred Flowers has obviously been forgotten...

The queen twitched the corner of her mouth, and said slowly: "This palace announces, but Zhaoyi wins."

Although she doesn't like Ye Anran, she has to admit this fact. They say that the masses have sharp eyes. Today, Ye Anran is already so popular that it is impossible to turn things around. If she wants to blame, she can only blame Mrs. Su Luer. I don't know what is good or bad.

"Hmph, didn't you just make a painting, why are you praising her so much?" This was said by the noble man behind the queen.

After hearing this, the queen immediately turned her head and gave Yugui a hard look and said, "Shut up for me, and don't cause trouble for me here."

"Yes, empress, I know my mistake." Yugui immediately shut up, not daring to say more.

The queen is a cautious person, so she naturally doesn't want to be implicated by a pig-headed person like Yugui...

"An Ran, you won, how do you want me to reward you?" The emperor asked in surprise and joy.

At this time, everyone looked at Ye Anran again...

Xi Gongjue is even more infatuated with Ye Anran, in fact, even if Anran loses, she is still the most beautiful and the best girl in his heart.

"Your Majesty, there is only one request for my concubine." Ye Anran said slowly.

"Let's hear it." The emperor asked with more interest.

Everyone also pricked up their ears and listened carefully, guessing in their hearts that Empress Zhaoyi wanted some kind of rare treasure or fame, after all, after the death of Wang Guifei, there was a vacancy for the position of second concubine.

Just when everyone was thinking this way, Ye Anran said quietly: "I would like to ask the emperor to accompany me to the Bihe Lake outside the city to enjoy the lotus, okay?"

"Anran, is it really just such a small request?" Hearing Ye Anran's wish, the emperor couldn't believe it, but you must know that even if she proposed that she wanted to be a noble concubine, the emperor would agree, but unfortunately, she didn't say so. .

(End of this chapter)