While I was hesitating, the ministers below expressed their opinions one after another and began to flatter me.

"It takes more than a year or two for a humble minister to admire the emperor."

"No wonder the Sixth Prince asked the Emperor for his calligraphy. The Emperor's calligraphy is gentle, elegant, and elegant. Even Master Zhang and the Grand Tutor were full of praise for it. I have also admired the Emperor's calligraphy for a long time!"

"When the emperor was a child, he had the demeanor of a master. When he was playing in the little girl's boudoir that day, he left a calligraphy treasure. Although there were only a few figures, I couldn't put it down. My daughter even personally transferred the emperor's calligraphy treasure.

Send it to the calligraphy and painting shop, frame it with the best cloth, and hang it in the study room to worship every day!" As the man with the goatee said, he narrowed his triangular eyes at me with a smile, and the expression on his face - that ambiguity!

I feel so ashamed... Lin Jingyu, this damn boy! He has been hanging out with girls since he was a child? Didn't he promise to marry the little girl and even swore an oath with his little hand?

I glanced at him quietly - he was frowning and looking at me with some distress.

I know what he is worried about. But——

Who am I? My three months in the palace were not in vain.

I winked at him, making him stunned for a moment. Before he grinned at me, he quickly looked away, cleared his throat, looked at the expectant Sixth Prince, nodded at him slightly, and said with a smile:

"Since all of you have admired my calligraphy for a long time, why not—I will write an inscription for the Sixth Prince's calligraphy and painting!"

I can understand the feeling of relying on collecting the emperor's authentic works to maintain and increase value. Isn't it the same as picking up potential stocks when buying stocks! Not to mention him, but if it were me, I would do the same now that I have met Wang Xizhi.

She eagerly pestered him to leave Mo Bao behind!

The two palace attendants carefully held a black rectangular box with dark red lines and opened it. The sixth prince, Lin Wenyu, personally picked up the scroll and presented it to me.

"Your Majesty, please."

Before he finished speaking, the Second Prince, who was standing aside watching the excitement, quickly stepped forward and helped open the scroll.

The picture unfolds slowly, and it is a horizontal ink landscape painting. What is first revealed is a small pavilion. There seem to be two small figures painted in the pavilion, which looks like a distant view. Below the pavilion are ripples.

The lines are of different thicknesses and depths, and then there are groups of dark gray oval things slowly spreading out on the paper. They look like they were drawn randomly, with no rules at all. Moving on.

With the pink embellishment, I somewhat understood that this painting was a lotus pond, because there was an unoccupied boat hidden in the lotus leaves. When the whole picture was finally opened, everyone couldn't help but gasp.

Even I was shocked by the gorgeous pink flower that finally jumped on the paper.

Is it a lotus with multiple petals in full bloom? Or is it a lotus? I have never been able to tell the difference between these two similar plants. However, this artist painted it too vividly!

The outline of the petals is not delicately drawn with fine brushwork, but is rendered with deep and shallow shades of red and pink, with a little lavender mixed in; the stamens are outlined with dots of goose yellow, light yellow, and off-white, with a hint of green.

Light green, it seems that the lotus seeds hidden in the lotus pods are about to burst out...

The most touching scene is that under the lotus leaves, in the rippling lake water, several koi carps swim leisurely and contentedly, two of them are spitting water with their mouths open, as if they are mocking the ordinary mind of the viewer.

My eyes continued to linger on the scroll, and I scanned other parts of the scroll again. I accidentally discovered that in the center of the painting that I had not noticed just now, there are two water birds hiding under the lotus leaves, like mandarin ducks crossing their necks. Their bodies are lifelike, but they are

It is also hazy and only outlines lines, making it difficult to see clearly.

I took a deep breath and exhaled it slowly. I couldn't find the words to comment on such a masterpiece. Although I am not good at Chinese painting, there are several famous paintings hanging on the wall in Lin Jingyu's imperial study room.

I knew they were painted by masters with extraordinary magnanimity. He also explained to me the origins of these paintings. Authentic works by those painters are indeed hard to find. Every painting is almost priceless. Some ministers reluctantly let their daughters bring them into the palace.

Gifts were given to him. And the benefits they got were: their daughters received better care in the palace than those who did not give gifts. At least Lin Jingyu favored them more often, and the level of his concubines rose faster. For example

That Zhou Guifei, who was favored as soon as she entered the palace, just winked at me to seduce me...

I sniffled.

Lin Jingyu, this brat, actually makes money from women! He is truly a pretty boy!

As his mind fluctuated, the ministers recognized whose calligraphy master it was, and couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice:

"This is Yan Qing's authentic work!"

After hearing what he said, everyone came closer and carefully identified the seal, and finally agreed that it was Yan Qing's authentic work!

I stared at the painting and couldn't bear to blink.

Oh my god! Is that Yan Qing, the famous contemporary ink painter and calligrapher whose words are hard to find? Hanging on the west wall of the desk in the royal study is a picture of a shepherd boy grazing. It is the only authentic work by Yan Qing that Lin Jingyu owns.

!It is said that Concubine Yu stole it from her father's study with great difficulty! Fortunately, her father was a rude military commander and didn't care much about calligraphy, painting and calligraphy. Otherwise, he would have killed this unfilial daughter.

!

I touched the scroll and my hands were shaking.

"Your Majesty, what do you think? On such a painting, can I kindly ask you to keep the Emperor's calligraphy?"

Lin Wenyu's soft and waxy voice seemed a bit ethereal amidst the sighs and sighs of the crowd, but it reached the ears of everyone present clearly.

"I sincerely ask the emperor to keep the calligraphy treasure!"

"Please give me the words from the emperor!"

The words spoken by everyone made me feel elated.

I rolled up my sleeves, waved my hand, and shouted boldly:

"Bring a pen! Grind the ink!"

****

Lin Jingyu was almost frightened by the shout and fell off his chair. He calmed down and looked at Qin Murong as if asking for help. The latter just looked at him funny, his eyes met for a moment, and he became very interested again.

He turned to the arrogant fake emperor with a faint smile on his face.

It's over, the fox's interest has also been hooked! Lin Jingyu groaned secretly in his heart.

That idiot! Can't you find excuses to refuse? Her handwriting is of its own. She practiced it countless times since she was a child and abandoned many traditional calligraphy methods before she figured it out. It was not the result of just two months of copying and tracing.

You can practice it!

It’s really... so annoying!

What does it mean that the emperor is not anxious but the eunuch is anxious? Now he understood it deeply! Although the fool was not the real emperor and he was not an eunuch, but this feeling——

It’s really XX terrible!

He gritted his teeth, picked up a wine glass, and was about to stand up from his seat, but unexpectedly, Concubine Liu Guifei, who had been sitting quietly beside him, suddenly grabbed his sleeve and asked in a trembling voice:

"Why...why don't you expose me?!"

Lin Jingyu was pulled away by her, so he had to stop and sit down again, looking at her strangely.

What are you trying to expose? Could it be that - she has done something outrageous? Look at her body shaking so much...

His heart tightened, and just when he was about to ask questions, Concubine Liu Guifei suddenly raised her head, glared at him fiercely, and said angrily: "I won't go back! Don't even think about coming back! Seeing your ordinary face, I feel like

Disgusting! Even if you tell the emperor, I am not afraid anymore! Even if you remember everything, I will insist that it was you who cast the poison, and you did such an unnatural thing in order to get close to the emperor!

you--

"If the emperor knows your true face, your life will not be easy! You, a vicious-hearted woman, will definitely be abandoned by him! By then, no one can save you! Not even your father - no, can't

Let him know! He must not know about this...I will not let you have the opportunity to meet...No..."

Concubine Liu was tense all over. She was confused for a while and repeated those few words vaguely. Lin Jingyu didn't understand what she said at all, but he vaguely felt that she must be hiding something important!

Just as he was about to ask in detail, another burst of applause suddenly broke out in the hall, interrupting his thoughts.

****

"good!"

"Good words! Good paintings! Good calligraphy!"

The crowd gathered around me and were full of praise. Some good people on the side couldn't wait to stretch out the lotus picture, which was more than ten feet long and more than two feet high, and spread it out in front of everyone. Someone immediately read the words on it and said:

"Flowers of land and water are very lovely. Tao Yuanming of Jin Dynasty only loved chrysanthemums. Since Li and Tang Dynasties, the world has loved peonies. I only love lotus. It emerges from the mud but is not stained, washes the clear ripples without being evil,...it can be seen from a distance.

But don't play with it

.I say chrysanthemum, the flower that symbolizes seclusion; peony, the flower that symbolizes wealth and honor; lotus, the gentleman of flower. Alas! The love of chrysanthemum is rarely heard of after Tao; the love of lotus, who can share it with me; the love of peony.

Love is for everyone."

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone praised him again.

"What a man who emerges from the mud without staining, and washes through the clear ripples without being evil!" Someone shouted loudly, and amid the chaotic buzz, all the ministers bowed to me and poured wine and toasts to me.

, kept saying "The Emperor is a wise man", "The Emperor is quick in thinking and versatile in folk arts", "Wen is like a splendid mountain and river, and martial arts is like a pound."

"Boundless Country"...and so on. When I heard the flattering words, I felt so carried away that I didn't know where my heart was going. I directly ignored the untrue part of the flattery. I am not "as powerful as a boundless country".

The general is not a talented person who is "extremely talented in folk arts". I am only an emperor! He is still a fake!

Uh--what a delicious wine.

I couldn't help but burp my wine, and I caught a glimpse of Lin Wenyu from the corner of my eye. The man had a smile on his lips and was carefully examining my handwriting. Seeing that handsome brow frowning slightly, I stepped forward dissatisfied and

He pulled the scroll, smiled broadly at him amidst the exclamations of the crowd, and said in a very rogue manner:

"This painting belongs to me."

Everyone gasped, Lin Wenyu looked a little ugly, and the smile froze on his face.

"But, Your Majesty——"

"Why, I will give you a poem, and you will give me a painting, shouldn't you?" I deliberately made a serious face and looked at him a little unhappy. Who wouldn't be drunk and crazy?

"My brother, I don't dare." Lin Wenyu lowered his eyes knowingly, bowed to me, and said in a neither arrogant nor humble tone, "It's just that this word is on this painting, what should I do to teach my brother?" The implication was
To be continued...