Red makeup against the world

Chapter 187

The "Qingxuan Pavilion" also finished their lunch here, and all the men picked up the poems and paintings that had been blurred out, and began to evaluate them one by one.

There are not many excellent peony paintings, and after only a short effort, they ranked among the top few.

A scholar sighed: "This painting was originally good. The peonies are vivid and lively, and the ink used is thick and light. Unfortunately, there is a flaw on the petals." He was talking about Tu Manfen's painting of peonies.

The rest of the scholars also nodded, so Cao Qinghui's peony painting was voted first, Princess Zhaoyang's was second, and Tu Manfen's was No.3.

In terms of peony poems, there are frequent excellent works and constant disputes.Everyone was blushing.

Some admire the phrase "Only the peony is truly beautiful", while others believe that "It is suspected that it is the work of a goddess of Luochuan, and the beauty of the peony is broken by the morning glow", and some think that "the flower heart is sad, How can you know the heart in the spring scenery" is a good sentence, and no one can convince anyone.

So they put gold leaf peonies on the poems to calculate the ranking.Although Fan Bin didn't understand poetry, he naturally voted for Xu Wanzhen. Of course, King Qi would not ignore his kindness on such a small matter, and be kind.

In the final count, Xu Wanzhen received the most votes, followed by Cao Qinghui, No.3 was Princess Zhaoyang, and Tu Manfen unfortunately became No.4.

Shi Jingze had been bored for a long time, cast a vote at random, and accused the prince of a crime, then walked away and walked out of the "Qingxuan Pavilion" alone.

The crown prince is not with him, he has achieved his goal, he needs to plot slowly, urgent marking is not the best strategy.

Holding the jug in his hand, Shi Jingze walked casually in the garden, and impatiently said to Hu San, who was following behind him: "What are you doing with me? It's such a big garden, and I won't get lost."

Hu San said with a bitter face: "When I went out, the old lady told me to follow my son every step of the way."

Shi Jingze snorted coldly, and said: "You have to listen to the old lady's orders, but you just ignore the master's orders?"

Hu San complained in his heart, how dare he provoke this master?But if something happens to Shizi, how can he take care of it.Even though he knew that Shi Jingze was unhappy, he could only stay far behind him.

But seeing an exquisite rockery in front of him, Shi Jingze went around, but there was no one.Hu Sanyi was in a hurry, and searched everywhere to no avail, so he had to go back to the "Qingxuan Pavilion" resentfully, thinking, the son will always come back when he is gone, just wait.

Just as Hu San left, Shi Jingze flashed out from behind the rockery, with a smile on his lips, he said to himself, "It's finally clean now."

Looking at the blooming scene in front of him, he walked aimlessly along the path under his feet, and unknowingly left the peony garden and walked into a remote apricot forest.Summer is approaching, and most of the apricot blossoms have withered.The breeze blew, and the remaining petals fell from the trees. The colorful fallen flowers were really beautiful, which made him feel relaxed and happy.

During this journey, he has already drank most of the wine in the jug.At this time, tiredness surged, Shi Jingze looked around, this is a good and clean place.Lifting his breath, he jumped onto a leafy apricot tree, causing most of the petals to fall down again.

On the branches of the apricot blossom tree, he found a comfortable position, smelling the fragrance of the apricot blossoms, Shi Jingze took advantage of the alcohol and fell asleep beautifully.

Wu Zhengxiang left the "Qingxuan Pavilion", and he felt at ease after listening to the report from the shadow guards of the wind group that Tong Huachi had never been out of the tea shop.I think there will be no more accidents in this "Peony Flower Fair", but there will definitely be accidents in the next emperor's birthday.

He thought to himself, it seems that the deployment will be stepped up in the next two days to complete the layout, and Tong Huachi must be captured in one fell swoop.But right now, he is stealing half a day's leisure.Instructing the shadow guard to continue to be more vigilant, he turned around the room and said to Wu Sheng: "Brother, I will introduce someone to you."

Although Xu Wanzhen is his weakness, he doesn't intend to hide it from his elder brother.Firstly, if he wants to marry her, he must obtain Wu Sheng's support; secondly, Wu Sheng has an upright character and acts confidentially, and will never reveal anything.

The two were in the same room, and Wu Zhengxiang didn't hide it. Wu Sheng saw his expression clearly, and said with a teasing smile: "But that Miss Xu family?"

Thinking of Xu Wanzhen, Wu Zhengxiang's handsome face flushed slightly. It was the first time in 18 years that he was attracted to a woman, Wu Sheng couldn't help laughing, and the two went out together.

Wu Zhengxiang was already at the shadow guard just now, and when he learned of Xu Wanzhen's location, he took the lead and walked forward.

Mrs. Anping Hou was watching a play in the back garden, and her eldest daughter-in-law, Mrs. Gao, waited on her.The second son-in-law Liu Shi, the eldest daughter Cheng Huixin, Tu Manfen, and Tu Manzhen walked in front, Xu Wanzhen and Wang Miaoyan followed, and the group came to the gazebo in the northwest of the Peony Garden.

The maid from the princess mansion stepped forward and put velvet on the pavilion, everyone sat down and served tea.The way of hospitality in this princess mansion is really incomparably meticulous, making people feel like a spring breeze.

Just as he sat down, Cheng Jingtong, the young master of Anping Hou Mansion, and Cheng Jinghao, the second roommate, came over.Although the two of them are outsiders, it is not considered rude to have elders here.

Cheng Jingtong came forward with a smile, saluted Mrs. Liu, and said, "Hello, Second Aunt."

Cheng Jinghao followed behind, saluting, "I've seen my mother." But his eyes couldn't stop looking at Tu Manfen.

When they came over, Tu Manfen knew that today was a special opportunity for them to meet.Sitting shyly with drooping eyes, seeing him keep looking over from the corner of his eyes, he became even more ashamed and turned his body slightly.

Then Cheng Jinghao saw his fiancée nearby and was very satisfied.The last time I saw her was more than a year ago, when we met each other.Compared with before, Tu Manfen has a little more graceful demeanor, and his shy and timid demeanor makes him unable to take his eyes off her.

Although her family background is not high, she is extremely noble, talented and beautiful.Judging by her demeanor at this time, she should be a gentle and virtuous person, and it seems that this marriage is decided by her grandmother.

He turned his eyes and looked at two other strange women he didn't know.

Cheng Huixin stepped forward and introduced, "This is the second miss of the Tu family. The eldest brother and the third younger brother must have seen it before?"

Cheng Jingtong and Cheng Jinghao nodded. Although they were not familiar with each other, they were already in-laws, and they walked around each other during the New Year's Eve, and they more or less saw each other a few times.

"This is Miss Xu's family, and this is Miss Wang's family." Cheng Huixin immediately introduced, but it was inconvenient to reveal her boudoir's name.

As in-laws, the two had heard about the Xu family who had just arrived in the capital a few days ago.The two sides greeted each other, Cheng Jinghao looked at Xu Wanzhen, and sighed in his heart, what a refined and refined woman, he couldn't help but take a second look.

Seeing this, Tu Manzhen became increasingly dissatisfied with Xu Wanzhen.Just now she was showing off, but now she is seducing her brother-in-law again, and glared at Xu Wanzhen bitterly.

Seeing her look in his eyes, Wang Miaoyan had a plan in his heart.Whispered softly to Xu Wanzhen: "It's inconvenient for us to be here. Why don't we go out for a walk, the Princess Mansion is so big, it's good to open your eyes."

Before Xu Wanzhen agreed, she whispered to Tu Manzhen again: "Miss Tu Er, the three of us sisters are redundant here, how about going out for a walk?"

(End of this chapter)