Lord Prime Minister

Early the next morning, Mu Zihuai slept until the boy knocked on the door before waking up.It's been a long time since I lived in such a warm room, I haven't slept in such a comfortable bed for a long time, I accidentally overslept.

After a simple wash, Mu Zihuai stepped out in a good mood.

The guests who stayed yesterday were all housed in the Xingyi Courtyard in the east of the palace, and the five people's rooms were next to each other.In front of the room is a small yard with a few peach blossoms. It is early spring and the branches have not yet sprouted. snowflake.

There is a small pavilion in the middle of the small courtyard, with light snow piled up on the cornices at the four corners, and a small stone table and two stone benches are placed in the painted red wooden pavilion.Mu Zihuai squinted his eyes and saw a person in the pavilion, but the distance was not close, and his eyesight was not good, but Mu Zihuai recognized his identity by the man's rougher outline than usual.

"Brother Ren." Mu Zihuai was in a good mood and greeted him before approaching.

Ren Danfeng raised his head from the table and smiled when he saw that it was Mu Zihuai. "Brother Mu."

Walking into the pavilion in three steps and two steps, Ren Danfeng was standing by the stone table. On the table was a pen, ink, paper and inkstone. A few strokes had already been drawn on the rice paper, outlining a corner of the house.

Mu Zihuai was very surprised. He didn't expect Ren Danfeng to be able to draw. Yesterday, when he was performing special skills, there were also people painting. But at that time, he was anxious about his own special skills, so he didn't pay attention to it. Now when he saw someone painting, he immediately came over. interest.

"Brother Ren is very interested, can I let the younger brother observe and study?"

Ren Danfeng smiled generously, "Brother Mu is modest, I also think that this small courtyard is quiet and peaceful, and I just draw a few strokes when I have nothing to do. The achievement of this calligraphy and painting is undoubtedly the highest of Mr. Li Xi. I am just a small It's just a small fuss."

"Compared to my younger brother, Brother Ren is already very powerful. My younger brother just watched from the sidelines, and Brother Ren sprinkled his ink to his heart's content." The Li Xi that Ren Danfeng was talking about was the sage who performed calligraphy and painting yesterday, and was kept together.

"Then I'll draw a random picture, Brother Mu, don't laugh at me." Ren Danfeng raised his pen and said to Mu Zihuai worriedly.

Mu Zihuai thought to himself, at his own level, it would be really embarrassing to draw, even if he drew a random person, he could draw better than him, but he still waved his hand on the surface, saying: "Brother Ren is being modest. "

Standing at the side with his hands behind his back, Ren Danfeng splashed ink with his brush, and after a while, a picture of the implementation of the fine snow garden in early spring appeared vividly on the paper.

Unexpectedly, Ren Danfeng looks carefree and rough, but he is very proficient in both poetry and painting, and he can do it at will.

Ren Danfeng picked up the pen and collected the ink, looked satisfied, turned back to Mu Zihuai and said with a smile: "Brother Mu, Danfeng made a clumsy painting, and the inscription is missing right now, I wonder if Brother Mu would appreciate it?"

Damn it!Mu Zihuai cursed secretly, watching the excitement one day the excitement would turn to his own head, if he had known it would be so, he would not have watched it.

"Ah, brother Ren's paintings are exquisite and lifelike. My younger brother has little talent and learning, so how dare he mess up brother Ren's spring snow peach forest." While prevaricating modestly, he racked his brains, trying to find a poem about spring snow and peach blossom trees in his mind. .Hurry up!Three hundred Tang Poems and Song Ci, the test points for poetry in the senior high school entrance examination and college entrance examination, come out soon, it's time for you to use it.

"Brother Mu, you are...Brother Mu is too modest."

"No, brother, it's just..."

Before he could finish his evasive words, he was interrupted by a cold voice. "What are you guys doing?"

Mu Zihuai turned his head and immediately grabbed this life-saving straw. The person who came was Li Xi who showed calligraphy in the front hall yesterday, so he came just in time.

"Brother Li Xi, brother Ren just made a painting, and he was worried that he didn't have a proper inscription. Now you are here just in time. Come, come and have a look."

Li Xi raised his head slightly, and glanced at the paintings on the table. A white double-breasted gown blended with the soft snow, with his slender neck raised high, he walked slowly into the red pavilion.

Mu Zihuai was a little hesitant, seeing Li Xi's appearance was a bit difficult to get along with, so it seemed that his attitude just now was too enthusiastic.Watching him keep glancing over his head, Mu Zihuai lowered his head and touched his nose, not knowing what to say to redeem him.

Li Xi stepped up the last step, stopped in front of the painting, took a look at the painting, picked up the writing brush on the table, put one hand on his sleeve, tapped a little ink on the tip of the pen, and the pen wandered around. fill up.

After finishing the last painting, Li Xi gracefully closed the brush, read the words he had mentioned, the expression on his face finally eased a little, and put down the brush.Mu Zihuai raised his head slightly, looking at the pile of wild grass.

Hmm... don't understand.He can still understand if he is unable to support the forehead in block letters, but this kind of...calligraphy is really powerless.In order not to reveal his flaws, Mu Zihuai nodded pretendingly.

Although he couldn't understand it, Ren Danfeng had already started to recite the words that had just been mentioned. "The trees are full of tenderness and redness, and the ten thousand branches of dandelion are shining in the spring. How to make a thousand-year-old fruit will show the world's creation and chemistry."

"Okay!" Mu Zihuai couldn't help shouting "Hello" after knowing the poems written by Li Xi. "Brother Li Xi really knows people. This poem is perfect for this painting."

Li Xi didn't speak, but raised his eyes even higher.Mu Zihuai was embarrassed again, his hot face pressed against his cold butt.

Just when he didn't know what to say, Ren Danfeng spoke first, breaking the deadlock.

"The time is approaching, let's go to the front hall quickly, but we dare not keep the prince waiting for a long time."

Only then did Mu Zihuai remember what the butler sent someone to bring before going to bed last night, saying that it was the third round of competition in the front hall at Sishi today, and he almost forgot just now, so he clapped his hands together suddenly. "That's right, I almost forgot, Brother Ren, let's go together."

Ren Danfeng nodded, and the three of them left the Xiaohong Pavilion together. After walking a few steps, Mu Zihuai looked back at Li Xi who was following up, and asked, "Brother Ren, why don't you see Brother Liu Zhiyuan and Brother Kong Qing?" People? You need to call people to remind them before it's too late."

"The two of them have already gone to the front hall, and we are still late."

Having said that, the three of them walked quickly to the front hall.

Entering the front hall, he saw Liu Zhiyuan and Kong Qing standing in the hall.The situation in the front hall was similar to yesterday, the five tables were replaced with fresh delicacies, and the screens of the upper seats were moved back, revealing the empty upper seats.

The prince has not arrived yet.

After exchanging pleasantries with each other, no one sat down again, but stood in the hall without speaking.

After a while, Prince Minqing came late, and today he changed into a dark blue elegant outer shirt, with black thread on the front, and two jade pendants on his waist, a green and water-like circular double-ring hollow. Jade pendants, a string of extremely complicated nested jade pendants, one long and one short, one large and one small, one simple and one complicated, they collide with each other and make crisp jade sounds when they move around.

With his hands behind his back and a smile on the corner of his mouth, a little frivolous, he walked in a little fast.Behind him was the old butler who had seen him many times. Although he was old, he could keep up with the prince's pace, keeping a tight distance.

Prince Minqing took a few steps forward, but did not take a seat, turned around and scanned the five people, and raised his hand in response to their greetings.With an obvious smile on his face, he ordered: "Housekeeper, let them bring the things up."

The butler got the order and shouted out of the hall: "Come here, bring it up."

A young servant girl with a round face in green clothes came in, holding a round tray in her hand, covered with a red brocade handkerchief, and presented it to the prince.

Mu Zihuai and the other five looked at each other in a daze, and saw that the prince lifted the brocade handkerchief on the tray with one hand, and there were five purses of the same shape, size, and style on the round tray, and the purses were bulging. , I don't know what's inside.

"When the snowflakes hadn't stopped this morning, the king ordered people to hide five things he loved in the city. Each of these five purses contained clues to one of the treasures. These are the things that the king loves so much that he would be afraid to hold them in the palm of his hand. No one else can move the broken thing. The five of you find it before it gets dark and bring it back to the mansion."