Chapter 50: Backbone
Shen Yihan came to the West Wing Pavilion with a soothing soup that he had brewed himself. He saw Yun Wan busy at the table happily. When he walked in, he saw Yun Wan drawing a horse with great concentration.
"Sister Han, here we come." Yun Wan put down her pen and ink and quickly called to the eldest princess. She had just been painting a sacrificial ceremony. She was the first to participate in such a grand royal ceremony and experienced a life-and-death moment. She wanted to record it through calligraphy and painting.
"My sister's face is still a little pale. She must have been frightened yesterday. This is the soothing soup I made myself. Drink it while it's hot to replenish your qi and blood." Shen Yihan stirred the soup with a spoon and handed it to Yun Wan.
"Sister, you are so thoughtful. Did you scare your sister yesterday?" Yun Wan took the soup bowl and took a sip.
"Isn't it? I didn't even react. I thought Yuchen was performing a special show. It wasn't until my sister chased her out that I realized something was wrong. It's a pity that I can't ride a horse, otherwise I could have helped everyone save you and Yuchen.
." Shen Yihan was a little disappointed. Seeing Yun Wan and Dugu Xiaomeng riding horses skillfully, Shen Yihan felt a little envious. Since she was a child, her mother-in-law has not allowed her to touch the six arts, and said that women have no talent.
It is virtue, so Shen Yihan is willing to get together with the emperor's younger brothers, and occasionally secretly touch the bow and arrow. Although she is too weak to pull it, she is still full of joy.
"What is sister Yun Wan drawing?" Shen Yihan asked curiously.
"Sister wants to record yesterday's festival..." Yun Wan responded shyly. When she was in Wuchuan, she was accustomed to everything and had no inspiration for painting. But after coming to the imperial capital, everything was new, which made Yun Wan want to paint.
Come down and savor it.
"The sacrificial scenes painted by my sister are very grand." Shen Yihan carefully admired Yun Wan's works.
"Do you like it, sister? How about I give it to you after I finish the painting?" Yun Wan asked in return.
"My sister likes to paint scenery so much? I haven't seen the portraits my sister painted before?" Shen Yihan found that Yun Wan's works have a strong sense of imagery.
"I have painted before, but I'm not very good at it." Yun Wan said modestly.
"Sister Yun Wan, can you draw a bust for me?" Shen Yihan suddenly thought that he had not left a bust of himself as a souvenir for his birthday this year.
"If sister likes it, sister can give it a try." It was rare for Shen Yihan to take the initiative to make a request, so how could Yun Wan refuse.
"Are you going to paint soon?" Shen Yihan said happily. Since Yun Wan agreed, she would have a reason to ask the painter to paint a portrait of the two of them.
"Okay, sister, just wait for me to adjust the color." Yun Wan agreed not to be careless when painting the portrait of the eldest princess, and to use gold foil to show a sense of splendor. She ordered Xue Qing to take out the pen and ink gifted by the emperor.
"Thank you for your hard work, sister. I'll make an appointment with the painter in the palace to paint a portrait for both of us. They've been a little busy recently." Shen Yihan had made an appointment with the painter before his birthday, but he wasn't scheduled.
"Really?" Yun Wan didn't know why Shen Yihan was able to make an appointment with a painter, but she still had to paint her portrait.
"My father sent painters to paint portraits of young ladies from famous families who were about to be married, right? It must be for the purpose of choosing a concubine for the prince, right?" Shen Yihan said leisurely while looking at Yun Wan.
"Really?" Yun Wan doesn't think it's strange. The prince has indeed reached the age of marrying a wife. It has been an ancient rule for men to get married first and then start a career. This cannot be exceeded.
"Sister Yun Wan, what do you think of the prince?" Shen Yihan found that Yun Wan was not surprised at all by the prince's choice of concubine.
"The prince is very good." Yun Wan couldn't comment on the prince. Praising him or belittling him were neither things she could talk about.
"I heard from Jingyu that the prince gave gifts to sister Yun Wan before." Shen Yihan just wanted to test Yun Wan's feelings.
"The prince is interested, the jade tea pendant is so lifelike." Yun Wan just thought that the prince was a gift for Princess Hanyi and prepared an extra copy.
"This prince is unreliable. He knew that I liked jade tea, but the pendant he gave me was a jasmine flower. What a fool." Shen Yihan muttered. When it comes to the prince, three sentences cannot be separated from unreliability.
"Then give my jade tea pendant to Sister Han." Yun Wan thought that Shen Yiyu would prepare the same gift for both of them, so she took a look at the jade tea flower carved from bloodstone and locked it in the cabinet.
"Sister Yun Wan, don't you like jade tea flowers?" Shen Yihan felt that Yun Wan was the same as himself. Because she liked jade tea flowers, she could draw them so vividly and realistically.
"I like it." Yun Wan said as she drew Shen Yihan's back bun. She also specially drew a golden jade tea flower as an embellishment between her hair.
"Sister Yun Wan, don't you like Shen Yiyu?" Shen Yihan couldn't stand the subtle temptation and asked directly.
"Hmm. Well..." Yun Wan really couldn't answer, so she could only nodded and agreed vaguely. Even if she didn't like the prince, she didn't hate him.
"Oh." Although Shen Yihan heard Yun Wan admit that she didn't like the prince, she still felt a little happy when she saw such a hesitant expression. She thought maybe Yun Wan didn't know what she meant, right? It was just like when she heard her father's expression.
The emperor's marriage grant was just as ignorant.
Chapter completed!