love is like summer

For the next ten days, Ziqi had a very difficult time.

The women's history of the Shangfu Bureau came to Chuxiu Palace, but there was very little to teach.One is because most of the ancient women were good at female craftsman, and they made basic clothing by themselves, so they didn’t need to learn much; the other is that women historians don’t know how to teach the difficult acupuncture method, because the beautiful women who can be selected will definitely be flying in the future. You don't need to do it yourself to turn a branch into a phoenix. The beautiful girls who can't be selected will go out of the palace in the future, and they can't be allowed to learn the unique acupuncture techniques in the palace.

So, in this way, for Ziqi who can only sew sandbags and cross-stitch, she is really forced to go to Liangshan.

Ruoli knew Ziqi's skills, so he entrusted Wang Gonggong to give Ziqi some acupuncture secrets, but Ziqi couldn't understand it at all, so he had to give it to Fusheng.Can make Fusheng very happy.

"Ning Xi, have you thought about what to do yet?" Fu Sheng was at the table holding the pastry in one hand and flipping through the cheat book with the other, "The finished product will be delivered in seven days, and you haven't started anything yet."

"Yeah, it's really annoying!" Calligraphy competition and homework will be handed in after seven days.Seeing that Fu Sheng's gauze skirt has roughly taken shape, but I haven't figured out what to do, it's really distressing.

Seeing Ziqi's troubled look, Fusheng was also powerless. After eating the last piece of pastry, he turned and burrowed into the bed, "Today's charcoal is used up, don't kick the quilt at night, be careful of catching cold." While talking, Fusheng rubbed the frozen Cold little hands.

Just this one action instantly lit up Ziqi's lamp of hope, "I thought of it!" Didn't I learn how to weave scarves with my roommates in college?At that time, the little girls they were dating were all popular in knitting scarves and gloves for boys, and Ziqi also followed suit for a few days, knitting scarves and so on, it was easy.

However, how do I remember that this wool was introduced to China in the late Ming Dynasty?It seems that this raw material still needs to find a way.

At dawn the next day, Ziqi found a way to find Wang Gonggong, and told Wang Gonggong the method of spinning wool and the diagrams of the tools needed, although Wang Gonggong was also confused and didn't know. The girl had something in her mind, but she still took the blueprints, went back to find someone to study overnight, and finally made a few big balls of thread.

Looking at these rough balls of thread, Ziqi frowned very much. Fortunately, Wang Gonggong used good wool and cotton. They looked ordinary, but they still felt very good, and they could be regarded as a ball of wool.

Finally, the seventh day Ziqi did a satisfactory homework.

On this day, the women's history of the Shangfu Bureau came to the Chuxiu Palace to inspect the finished products, and the show girls had to put on their own costumes and show them to the ladies.

The five female historians were sitting in the side hall, and the eunuch at the side flipped through the roster and called out their names one by one.The show girls put on their finished products to show to the ladies one by one, and the female historians gave points on the spot, and the bottom three ranked ones were directly eliminated, and those who passed could participate in tomorrow's calligraphy competition.

Ziqi stood at the back of the line, wearing a scarf and gloves she wove, in stark contrast to the gorgeous girls in front, no one wanted to talk to her except Fusheng.

"Xie Wanting...Qian Su...Wan Hongran..." the little eunuchs chanted one after another, and Ziqi was so happy when the beautiful girls were shivering in the wind wearing gauze skirts they made themselves.

"Zhang Ningxi." Ziqi was the last one to go in. She had already seen the woman who was scolded by the female history and ran out crying. Ziqi hoped that she would not be scolded too harshly.

"What is this!" Just as Ziqi stepped into the hall, the female historians were stunned, and the female historian on the far left who had just brought a teacup to her mouth almost spat out in fright.

"Back to Nvshi, this is a scarf." Ziqi was afraid that several people would not see clearly, so she stepped forward and took off the scarf and handed it over, "This is made of wool and cotton. I wove the thread into such a long scarf." , and gloves."

Seeing the surprised expressions of the crowd, Ziqi went forward and put a scarf around the neck of one of the older women, then took off her gloves, and put one on for each of the women next to her.

The female historians who were disgusted at first put on the scarves and gloves, and immediately felt the warmth of it, and felt novelty, "This...you came up with this?"

"Probably." Ziqi scratched her head shyly, she was really embarrassed to say, "Time is tight, so this time the wool is not spun very densely, I think if you give me more time, it will be better spun .”

While listening to Ziqi's explanation, the female historians carefully observed the thread in their hands. It is indeed not as fine as ordinary embroidery, and strictly speaking it is relatively rough, but this method of weaving woolen thread and weaving scarves makes people feel more comfortable. The female history is deeply novel. This thing is not delicate, but it is definitely more suitable for this severe winter than all the previous clothes.

Ziqi watched anxiously as the female historians started arguing quietly in front of her. Some liked Ziqi's new weaving method, some felt that the scarf could not be elegant, and some felt that this thing could continue to develop. There are also those who take it directly and put it on their body, and they are very happy to compete.

Ziqi waited anxiously for 10 minutes, and the final result was that she could pass the test, but she had to hand over the weaving method.

Hehe, it’s easy to say anything for me!

That night's bedtime story, Ziqi put in extra effort, because she didn't expect that such a poor female celebrity would not be eliminated, and she even introduced wool to China in advance, which is really a great achievement for her.

But in the blink of an eye, thinking about tomorrow's calligraphy competition, it's really another troublesome thing.

"Don't worry, Ningxi, you'll be fine if you're so talented." Fusheng blinked his eyelids that were about to close, and tried his best to comfort Ziqi, "Look, don't you turn danger into good luck every time?"

"I hope tomorrow will be the same!" Yes, although we are in a more dangerous position every time, relying on the brains of Ziqi, a modern person, we can pass the test smoothly. We don't want to be outstanding, just pass.

But I heard that for tomorrow's calligraphy competition, this year's chief examiner, Empress, and Uncle Wan Guo will be proctoring the exam, so the pressure will be great.

As Ziqi expected, the sky cleared up on the second day, and the calligraphy competition was arranged outside the main hall of Chuxiu Palace. More than 200 book cases were neatly placed in the open space outside the hall, and two tall ones were placed in the main room in front of the hall. The chair makes people feel like Confucius preaching,

The beautiful ladies sat at the table one by one, waiting for the Empress and Uncle Wan.

"The empress is here!"

After sitting quietly for half an hour, the Empress finally arrived, followed by Uncle Wan Guo.

Ziqi knelt among the crowd, secretly raised her eyes to glance at the graceful queen.Slightly raised chin, long and flowing eyeliner, vermilion lips with snowy muscles, plus a slightly raised little finger twirled his eyebrows, ignoring Uncle Wan Guo behind him, the rolled eyes are so beautiful.

The queen reached the top, straightened the corners of her skirt casually, and then said, "Uncle Guo, sit up too." The tone was sour. It seems that after so many years of anger from the Wan family, finally when Concubine Wan Gui passed away, It was only once that I raised my eyebrows and exhaled. This score is well laid out, just right but it can make Uncle Wan Guo's teeth itch with anger.

"Thank you, empress." Uncle Guo sat down with the chair supported, with serious internal injuries.

"Flat!"

After everyone had finished their bodies, they realized that there were not only the Queen and the Uncle Guo, but also five Imperial Academy attendants and bachelors as judges on the invigilator table for this calligraphy competition.

After everyone was ready, the servant and eunuch held the document and began to announce the rules of today's competition.

"Today's Calligraphy Competition focuses on the two characters of 'book' and 'art'. Both writing and writing skills are tested. There is no limit to the style of writing, and the time limit is a stick of incense. After passing the experience of a bachelor's student in the Imperial Academy, a limit of 200 people can pass. .”

Listening to the eunuch's slender voice echoing in her ears, Ziqi felt that she heard a little sobbing, and it seemed that she was not the only one who was nervous.After all, it is a competition system where 250 people enter the [-], it is too cruel!

The author has something to say: these two chapters will be a little shorter.

☆, overcoming obstacles

Thorny

"Today's Calligraphy Competition focuses on the two characters of 'book' and 'art'. Both writing and writing skills are tested. There is no limit to the style of writing, and a stick of incense is the time limit. After passing the experience of a bachelor in the Imperial Academy, the number of passers is limited to 200 people. .”

Listening to the eunuch's slender voice echoing in her ears, Ziqi felt that she heard a little sobbing, and it seemed that she was not the only one who was nervous.After all, it is a competition system where 250 people enter the [-], it is too cruel!

Just when Ziqi was about to pick up the pen, the queen mother said, "I want to change the rules today," the queen said while touching the nail of her little finger without looking at the uncle next to her, "I just visited last night. Passing the emperor, although the emperor's health has improved, he still hasn't healed. I don't want the emperor to wait so long. Since the emperor asked me to preside over the draft, then I should have the right to formulate the rules. Uncle Guo said it was right. "

Uncle Wan Guo was a little unhappy when he heard this, but no matter how unhappy he was at this time, he could no longer be the same as before, he could no longer fight against the queen, lost his backer, and the title of uncle of the country was also in jeopardy, so At this time, the uncle of the country can only bow down and agree, "I will listen to the queen's orders."

"Okay!" Seeing Uncle Wan Guo lose power, the queen couldn't restrain the joy in her heart, and the corners of her mouth raised, "In order to fulfill the emperor's wish as soon as possible and find a spouse for the prince as soon as possible, I decided to speed up the process of the competition. Combine this 'Book' test with the next 'Painting' test!"

Hearing the empress made such a decision, all the show girls in the arena were in an uproar, and Ziqi was really caught off guard!

"I heard that this year's show girls are very talented." The empress paused, and took a drink from the teacup in her hand. "Didn't there be a novel chess technique in the chess competition a few days ago? It has spread throughout the harem. With such talents, why are you afraid of combining the two exams? I also heard that this year's show girls are mostly from scholarly families, and there are even children of officials. Isn't the uncle's nephew among them? ..."

"Hong Ran sees the empress!" As soon as the empress finished speaking, her uncle's nephew immediately got up and reported himself.The queen looked up, didn't speak, just raised her hand and waved at her to signal her to sit down.Ke Ziqi clearly saw disdain in her eyes.

This Wan Hongran is indeed an unworldly and arrogant girl. With the current position of the Wan family and the queen, the queen's words clearly mean something, but she can't wait to report her family name, isn't she uncomfortable?Even Uncle Wan Guo secretly stared at her, causing her to shrink back immediately in fright.

"There are so many talented girls, I feel that this competition is underestimating you. Let's do it this time, raise the threshold a bit more this time, and only keep 100 people, how about it?"

"I would like to obey the Queen's order!" My mother, you are not asking for opinions, this is really killing Ziqi!

At the queen's order, the audience immediately began to change into painting equipment.Watching the little eunuch keep adding rice paper, brushes, and gouache to the table.Ziqi's mind is full of mud.

What about the four exams for piano, chess, calligraphy, and painting?What about the agreed ten days to prepare for each exam?Where is the trust between people?It's like the Chinese teacher married the math teacher, and then issued a classical Chinese version of the high math test paper, how do you let me live!

The beautiful girls around me started to draw with their brushes, looked up at Fusheng not far away, and even the little girl Fusheng started to write quickly, Ziqi scratched her head anxiously, am I the only one who thinks is it hard?

There are two incense sticks for this exam, about an hour.The Queen and the Uncle Guo couldn't wait for this hour, so the Uncle Guo recruited the Bachelor Attendant from the Imperial Academy to accompany him to play Jiugong chess, which was popular in the harem a few days ago.The empress ordered people to carry the soft couch to the main hall of Chuxiu Palace, cover the front with a screen, and take a nap for a while.

Seeing behind the Shu embroidery screen, the figure of the queen lying on her side could be seen faintly, and the more Ziqi looked at it, the more she felt familiar.By the way, how does this posture look so much like the scene where Jack paints the nude portrait of Rousi!Ziqi immediately came to inspiration.

Ziqi's ink painting may not be as good as these famous ladies even if she learns it for two or three years, but sketching is different, which is Ziqi's specialty.

Taking a peek at today's examiners, none of them looked at them directly.So Ziqi recruited the eunuchs in private and asked them to bring some pieces of charcoal and a knife.Although the little eunuch didn't know what she wanted these things for, he also felt that they were not important, so he casually took a few pieces from the nearby stove without reporting them.

Ziqi took the charcoal and looked at it.Ancient charcoal was genuine, unlike modern coke.It has a pine wood and can be easily machined into a fine-tipped pen.Ziqi took it and tried it on the rice paper several times, but it didn't work. Later, she simply removed the rice paper and drew directly on the table.

She began to paint freely, and added a song "Mulan Song" by Nalan Xingde, even Ziqi herself looked talented!

The time for the two incense sticks passed quickly, and the empress and the uncle had already sat in front of them. Although they seemed to be in perfect harmony, they were not at all majestic.

The bachelors checked the calligraphy and paintings of the beautiful girls one by one, and the poor ones were directly eliminated without any sympathy, while the good ones were presented in front of the queen and the uncle, who both nodded to pass.

Although Ziqi couldn't see the paintings of other show girls, she was somewhat nervous seeing that the number of [-] promotion places was getting smaller and smaller.Ziqi began to regret taking the back seat every time. If she hadn't come to her place, the [-] seats would have been full, and Ziqi would vomit blood with anger.

But fortunately, the high-sighted scholars didn't make Ziqi vomit blood so early, and it took another stick of incense to finally walk in front of Ziqi.

The bachelors walked up to Ziqi with one hand behind their backs stroking their beards, but when they stood still, the bachelors were immediately dumbfounded, "You... Where's your painting?"

"My lords, the painting is here." Ziqi pointed to her desk case and replied confidently.

"You, you, you," the elderly bachelor, who couldn't accept Ziqi's new trend, was so angry that he couldn't speak clearly, "but you are making fun of me!"

"Lord Zhao, don't be angry, but my ministers think this painting is interesting." At first glance, he is a young man with good taste!

"Although this word is poorly written, this Ci... oops! This Ci is unusually written!" That's right, this is Ziqi's favorite Qing Dynasty Ci!

Just like that, Ziqi didn't get in the middle of a sentence, and these bachelors started arguing with each other.

"Zhao Zhiyi," the controversy among the bachelors caught the attention of the queen and the uncle.Uncle Wan Guo summoned Eunuch Zhao, "Go up and see what they are arguing about, and check it out quickly."

Eunuch Zhao looked up at the queen who was sipping tea, and the queen nodded slightly before Eunuch Zhao turned and walked towards Ziqi.After understanding the situation in a few sentences, Eunuch Zhao walked back to the empress and the empress and said, "Speak to the empress and the uncle. The five scholars have disputes over a beautiful girl's calligraphy and painting. I hope that the empress and the uncle will also judge."

"Sure." The empress looked at Ziqi from a distance, and nodded slightly.

"But..." Eunuch Zhao hesitated.

"Zhao Zhiyi, what else is there to hesitate." Uncle Wan Guo, who had been working for a long time, was obviously a little impatient.

"Back to the mother, uncle. That beautiful girl put the painting on the table..."

"On the table?" The queen glanced at the inconspicuous girl in the green dress in the distance again, and raised the corners of her mouth playfully.What a little girl, she actually used this method to attract Ben Gong's attention.

"What! On the table!" Uncle Wan Guo became angry when he heard it. He obviously felt that Ziqi did it on purpose, "Go and tell her that only a painting on rice paper is a valid work, otherwise Treat her as a foul!"

Eunuch Zhao turned his head and saw that the queen nodded in acquiescence with a playful smile, so he turned around and walked back.Bengong wants to see how this little girl will make trouble again.

Eunuch Zhao conveyed Uncle Guo’s words to Ziqi. At first, Ziqi was a little embarrassed, but looking at the charcoal dust in her hand, Ziqi immediately picked up the rice paper and folded it on the table, repeatedly pressing it several times. As soon as the rice paper was uncovered, the whole picture of the painting was clearly printed on the soft rice paper, and the unique smudge of rice paper made the color of the painting even more hazy.Ziqi took up the brush again and added "The Song of Mulan" to the painting, which really wowed the scholars around her.

In less than half a moment, the queen saw that Eunuch Zhao presented it with rice paper in his hands. The queen was a little confused at first, but after seeing the painting, she was amazed.On the rice paper, a woman in light gauze is dimly drawn, holding an umbrella and standing on the bridge enjoying the rain, while the person standing under the bridge is also looking up at the woman.Coupled with the charcoal sawdust being blown up gently by the cold wind, the queen seemed to be able to see the raindrops in the painting hitting her face, the feeling of being there is self-evident.

"If life is only as it was first seen, why is the autumn wind sadly drawing a fan. Waiting for leisure to change but old people's hearts, but old people's hearts are changeable. The Lishan language is half clear, and the tears and rain and the bells will never complain. How can you be so lucky as a man in Jinyi, who is so close to each other Wish on that day."

The queen read the speech softly, and the first sentence alone had already conquered her.What a talent to write such a poignant poem.It has been a long time since a poem can touch the heartstrings like this, and it has been a long time since such a painting can capture the original intention of Ben Gong.The Queen just wanted to raise her hand to call, but was stopped by Uncle Wan Guo who was beside her.

"What are these! It's fine if you can't draw clearly, and the calligraphy is so ugly, we should be eliminated!" Uncle Wan Guo didn't have the leisure to taste any poems and paintings, he only looked at the names.When he saw the three words 'Zhang Ningxi' for the first time, he immediately knew that this would be Hongran's formidable enemy and he couldn't keep it.

"Uncle Guo, you think this painting is not good, but this palace likes it very much." The queen didn't know why Uncle Wan Guo hated this painting alone, but it was his reaction that made the queen feel even more that this man named Zhang The condensed show girl should stay.

"Oh! Empress Dowager likes it?" Uncle Wan Guo gritted his teeth and took back the hand that was about to grab the painting, "Then Empress Empress likes it, so just keep it. Even if you don't choose it in the future, I will be your empress. The little maid is also good."

"Uncle Guo doesn't like her so much?" The more she had such an attitude, the more the queen felt that this picture was unusual, "That's it, advance. But uncle Guo doesn't like it, so how about putting her in the last place?"

"It's all up to the empress to decide!" Uncle Wan Guo raised his hands in a bow, but his heart was unwilling.So what about the last place, in short, it is promotion, and this competition does not depend on the ranking.

"Zhang Ningxi~advancement!" Hearing the long voice of Eunuch Zhao not far away, the word "advancement" seemed to be very pleasant to say, and Ziqi couldn't help but want to jump up!

Top [-], here I come!

The author has something to say: I really like this poem!

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