The female supporting role turns over: the prince regent's favorite

Chapter 44
Xu secretly held Lin Qingwu's wrist, and gave her a wink.

Lin Qingwu understood, and echoed with a smile: "Back to the emperor, the third younger sister is often unhappy because her grandmother favors elder brother Chang Geng."

Both of them rushed to speak in front of Gu Changgeng, which made people feel suspicious.

The emperor narrowed his eyes, his eyes were sharp, and asked in a deep voice: "Chang Geng, is it really as the two ladies of the Prime Minister's Mansion said?"

Lin Qingqian thought of Gu Changgeng's situation in the prime minister's mansion, where the servants could bully him at will, and became ruthless, not caring whether he would commit the crime of disrespect, with an adoring expression on her small face, and said in a soft voice: "Really, and Chang Geng Brother is good at reading, he can recite books such as "The Book of Songs" and "Thousand Characters" back and forth, if the emperor doesn't believe it, he can test Brother Chang Geng on the spot."

She was betting that Gu Changgeng, the hero of this article, would not be a playboy like Lin Qingyuan.

The emperor remained silent, fixed his gaze on Gu Changgeng, and seemed to be silently asking him, is that really the case?
Although Gu Changgeng was puzzled by Lin Qingqian's upside-down words, he hesitated for a moment, but continued following her words.

"Returning to the emperor, it is indeed as the two ladies of the prime minister's mansion said, Prime Minister Lin treats the grassroots like his own son, and the old lady and others treat the grassroots very well."

The seriousness on the emperor's face gradually faded, he smiled heartily, and said: "I saw the right person back then. I knew that Prime Minister Lin would definitely treat General Gu's orphan well. Lin Aiqing really lived up to my high expectations."

Lin Langtian heaved a sigh of relief in his heart, walked out, bowed and saluted, "Return to Your Majesty, General Gu is my life-and-death friend, and I love to take care of his orphan. Even if there is no order from Your Majesty, it is my duty to do it." .”

Lin Qingqian thought to herself: What a shameless hypocrite.

"Okay, Aiqing is a man of love and righteousness, come here, the whole of the prime minister's house will support Gu Changgeng, the son of General Gu, to do his best, and reward him with a thousand taels of gold and five hundred pieces of cloth!"

The Xu family and others followed Lin Langtian and knelt down together: "Thank you, Lord Long En!"

The emperor looked at Gu Changgeng kindly and kindly, and said: "Today is the Empress Dowager's birthday, I will hear for myself in another day, how Chang Geng can memorize many books by heart, but your child is different from your father, he would rather practice swords than practice swords. People who don't want to sit down and read for a while..."

Realizing that his thoughts were drifting away, the emperor coughed lightly and said, "So, I will reward you with a set of the Four Treasures of the Study, and I hope you will study hard in the future."

"The grass people thank the emperor for the reward."

"As for the third lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion..."

As the emperor's words paused, Lin Qingqian's heart skipped a beat.

Fortunately, the emperor said to the empress dowager with an ugly face: "Queen mother, today is your birthday, and Miss San made an unintentional mistake. It's better to just let it go."

Concubine Shu also said: "Empress Dowager, you think it's because of Miss San's youth, why don't you just forget about it? I think, Miss San already knows it's wrong."

The queen remained silent. After the eldest prince was abolished as the crown prince, the third prince became the most popular candidate for the crown prince. She and Concubine Shu had a bitter hatred. Concubine Shu helped the prime minister's mansion just to win over Prime Minister Lin. Naturally, she would not help.

Even the emperor spoke up, no matter how dissatisfied the empress dowager was, she had to give the emperor face.

"Since the emperor has spoken, the Ai family will not care about it."

Lin Qingqian quickly knelt down and kowtowed, "Thank you, Empress Dowager."

I thought this matter would be over, but Lin Qingqian raised her head and said in a firm voice: "Please give me a chance to make up for my mistakes, the Queen Mother, and prepare paint for my painting, and I can remove the wine stains on the painting." cover up."

As soon as the words fell, a young man in a black satin robe said with a sneer: "Could it be that you want to paint on the wine stains to cover up the traces? Haha... ignorant, if you write, won't you make Master Feng Qingyun whole?" A ten mile peach grove was destroyed."

The one who spoke was the eldest son of Marquis Pingyang, Shen Fei, who also admired and liked Feng Qingyun's paintings extremely.

The irony in Shen Fei's words was obvious, Lin Qingqian glanced at him, and cursed inwardly, no one thought he was dead without making a sound.

With a serious expression on his face, he said again: "Please Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager will give the minister a chance to make up for her mistakes. The minister is naturally inferior to Master Feng Qingyun, but I can assure you that I will never destroy this painting. If you can't do it , the courtier is willing to accept the punishment!"

The little girl was dressed in a light blue dress, her eyes were clear, and there was a trace of gentle and restrained elegance all over her body.

Everyone in the hall sweated for Lin Qingqian, and sighed inwardly, it is true that a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers.

Gu Changgeng frowned picturesquely, his eyes full of worry.

Lin Langtian was about to reprimand, but the emperor smiled amusedly, and said, "Okay, I will give Miss San this chance to make up for her mistakes, and have someone prepare brushes and paints for Miss San."

As he said that, the emperor added in a half-truthful tone, "If you can't do it, the third lady is willing to accept the punishment."

"Yes, my lady, thank you, Your Majesty."

After a while, the eunuch presented paints and brushes for painting, and part of the five-foot-long ten-mile peach grove was also put away and placed on a desk.

Lin Qingqian carefully looked at the paints used for painting, including cinnabar, red lead, carbon black, etc. Although they are not comparable to modern ones, they should be usable.

Lin Qingqian picked up the paintbrush, dipped it in the paint, took a deep breath, stared at the wine stains on the rice paper for a moment, and started to draw.

Lin Qingqian concentrated on painting, and the hall was so quiet that everyone's eyes fell on her.

After about half the time of touching the incense stick, Lin Qingqian put down the pen and said, "Report to the emperor, the servant girl has finished painting."

The chief eunuch next to the emperor made a look, and the two young eunuchs standing beside Lin Qingqian stepped forward, picked up the scroll, and unfolded it.

The courtiers, concubines and others stretched their necks curiously to look around, and when they saw the butterflies painted on the rice paper clearly, they all looked surprised.

The place where the rice paper was originally splashed with wine was covered by the painted butterfly. The butterfly painting was so lifelike that the rice paper shook slightly, as if the butterfly in the painting was about to spread its wings and fly out.

If I hadn't seen Lin Qingqian's painting with my own eyes, I would have thought it was a real butterfly landed on the painting.

Rao even the emperor was startled, and praised wildly: "The third lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion has great painting skills, this butterfly is lifelike, just like a real butterfly landing on this ten-mile peach grove!"

The queen mother looked at it, and said in surprise: "The Ai family has never seen anyone who can draw a butterfly so vividly. Looking at it this way, this butterfly is the icing on the cake."

"Hahaha, what the queen mother said is right. In this way, the third lady has paid off her merits, and the punishment will be exempted. In addition, the third lady is ice and snow smart, and she rewarded a box of gold and silver jewelry."

Lin Qingqian's hanging heart finally fell to the ground, and she knelt down and kowtowed to thank her, "I thank the emperor for the reward."

The emperor was in a good mood, and said to Lin Langtian: "Ai Qing taught you well, and all the ladies in the prime minister's residence are talented and talented."

"I don't dare to be a minister. The daughters are all a little clever. Your Majesty will laugh at you."

Lin Qingqian thought to herself: Thanks to her learning 3D painting in modern times.

The emperor praised a few more words, waved his hand to let the birthday banquet continue, music was played again in the hall, and the dancers continued to dance.

(End of this chapter)