The Queen Mother looked at her and smiled slightly, with sarcasm on her lips. Anyone could see her dissatisfaction with Lan Tianyin. She only heard her say: "Although you have to listen to King Lan, you must have your own opinions. In the future, you will marry
For the prince, we are not from a small family. How can we take care of the household affairs of the prince's house if we don't have the ability?"
A small family? The wealthy ladies from various families looked at Lan Tianyin with scrutiny and provocation. Some even showed obvious disdain.
Long Xilan reached out and gently held Lan Tianyin's hand, and said gently: "Don't worry, queen, my housekeeper will take care of the matters in Prince Lan's palace. The woman I love just needs to enjoy my favor."
The Queen Mother's face became even more gloomy. Long Xilan had been against her in every possible way today. Could it be that he had already found out what happened last night?
Undecided, he heard King Lan continue to say: "As for what the queen said about the concubine, I don't need it anymore. In this life, I have Xue'er, which is enough."
Forehead!
Everyone stared, and the Queen was a little worried about her face. Apart from being worried, she also gave the emperor a faint look. The man she married would never say this from the beginning to the end.
It's so sad for a woman, but she still has to compete with a group of women in the palace. At this moment, she was a little envious of Lan Tianyin's fate.
Prince Lan always keeps his word and usually never regrets what he says. Only in this way do people believe in him and admire him even more!
The emperor looked stunned for a while and then looked at the Queen Mother. Sure enough, he saw that the Queen Mother's face became even more gloomy.
well!
It would be great if the queen mother did not interfere with the emperor's brother's affairs, but every time she does, she will not get good results.
The Queen Mother stared at Long Xilan: "That's not what you told the Ai family this morning!"
"Mother, didn't you agree to let me marry Xue'er? I haven't agreed to anything else!"
"You——" The Queen Mother was so angry that her eyebrows jumped. She gritted her teeth and looked at Lan Tianyin: "Okay, Aijia is not an unreasonable person. Since you want her to be alone, then let Aijia see it."
Let’s take a look at her abilities. If she is better than all the ladies present, then the Ai family will agree that you will only marry her!"
Long Xilan's face was cold, and Lan Tianyin gently pulled his hand with a sweet smile on his face: "Your Majesty, since the Queen Mother has given you a chance, let's give it a try!"
"Xue'er, I don't care about those things——"
"But this is the hope of the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother hopes that Your Majesty, you will marry a master. Your Majesty, please don't live up to this maternal love. I will work hard and hope that I can satisfy the Queen Mother!"
Long Xilan seemed helpless and looked at her dotingly: "Okay, then I'll let you try."
The anger in the Queen Mother's heart cannot be vented. What does it mean that she wants to marry Long Xilan to a master? What does this mean? Only the queen married by the emperor is qualified to be called a master. What qualifications does she have to say this!
Long Xinan looked at the situation, which seemed to be getting harder and harder to control, and secretly sighed in his heart: I hope his mother wouldn't lose too much face. He didn't think that Lan Xue was a simple character, no matter who he was.
Just look at how talented and sinister his royal brother is. How could an already powerful character choose an incompetent person?
There must be something unique about her that attracts your attention!
Long Xilan took Lan Tianyin and sat down at the lower seat. There were only the two of them at the table, and there was no one else. Long Xilan's eyes had been falling on Lan Tianyin from the beginning to now. Others
He didn't look at any of the women.
The Queen Mother held back her anger and waved her hand, "We all agreed, let's start! All the wealthy ladies sitting here are qualified to challenge this blue girl. Who is the most talented? She is the candidate tonight!"
Long Xilan curled her lips secretly, and the sarcasm disappeared in a flash. He didn't agree to anything. He just said that he would let Lan Tianyin try it. It didn't mean that he would accept any result. The Queen Mother really doesn't have a long memory!
Lan Tianyin had just sat down, and before she had time to take a sip of water, she heard a female voice coming from diagonally opposite: "Miss Lan, my name is Meng Qianqian, and I want to compete with you in calligraphy!"
Lan Tianyin was melancholy. Her calligraphy was just average. Although she had taken this course, she might not be very good. After thinking about it, she said: "The competition must be fair. If we really compete,
After you challenge me, I can also challenge you.
Any one of you can challenge me for two rounds, and I challenge you for one round. If you win my challenge and I lose one of your challenges, then what if I lose?"
The empress glanced at the emperor and said, "Miss Lan means that if I want to win you, I must win the challenge you pose?"
"That's right!"
"Then how do you count you as losing?"
"If I don't win either of the two challenges they put forward, then I will be considered a loser. Queen, I have two chances to embarrass them, but I can only embarrass them once. For me,
For me, this is already a loss.”
The emperor seemed a little impatient and waved his hand: "Okay, that's it!"
So, in the first round, the calligraphy competition started.
After the palace servants set up tables and chairs and prepared pens, inks, paper and inkstones, Lan Tianyin and Miss Na Meng both came forward to sit down and each wrote a word.
On a one-meter-long piece of rice paper, Lan Tianyin wrote a few bold characters: The world allows me to be free!
The brushwork is vigorous and powerful. At first glance, it is difficult to imagine that it is the handwriting of a woman. When paired with the sentence, there is really a carefree charm.
The calligraphy written by Miss Meng was in beautiful regular script. Lan Tianyin thought it was quite good, but she was also a little disappointed. The calligraphy was not enough for her to appreciate.
Everyone looked at the two calligraphy and were stunned. Obviously, in terms of everyone's style, Lan Tianyin's calligraphy was much more arrogant. Although Miss Meng's calligraphy was beautiful, it was not heroic enough to show everyone's style.
Long Xilan looked at that word and smiled slightly, but she said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, a discerning person can tell at a glance that Xue'er's is better. What do you think, Your Majesty?"
Long Xinan was very sad. He glanced at the unhappy Queen Mother and sighed: "Miss Lan's skills are indeed admirable, comparable to those of men."
The Queen Mother glared at Lan Tianyin unwillingly, "It is virtue for a woman to have no talent. What's so good about writing this word like a man's!"
"Mother, this is not a good statement. Calligraphy naturally needs to be more generous."
"Okay, let's just consider her winning this round." Anyway, there are many people behind us!
Long Xilan's gaze became deeper when she looked at Lan Tianyin. She was really an incomprehensible mystery, and she actually had such great qualities!
He is also looking forward to what surprises will come to him next!
Miss Meng's face was a little pale, but she was still calm, "Miss Lan, I lost this round. Next, please ask Miss Lan to give the question!"
Lan Tianyin looked at her and sighed: "I rarely compete with others like this, and it's not easy to think about the questions. I wonder what Miss Meng is good at?"
Ugh! Everyone was speechless. This woman challenged others, so why did she ask what they were good at?
Is this asking people to tell the truth or lies?
Miss Meng was also a little angry: "What I'm good at is embroidery. Is it possible that Miss Lan wants to compete with me in embroidery?"
Lan Tianyin rolled his eyes and chuckled: "Of course it's impossible, I'm not a fool! Since calligraphy and painting have been compared, let's try our painting skills next! Let's see who can draw in the time it takes to burn an incense stick.
Make a painting ten meters long and two meters wide!"
Well, everyone was speechless. How could it be possible to paint such a big painting in the time it takes to burn incense?
Miss Meng looked at Lan Tianyin with a faint look. She must have deliberately wanted to insult people! She didn't believe that she could paint such a big painting in such a short time!
No matter what, the challenge has come out and she can only accept it.
While she was drawing quickly, Lan Tianyin was still slowly polishing the ink, brewing emotions. He carefully described a cow, well, it was indeed a big buffalo, and then added some grass next to it.
Seeing that the time for half a stick of incense has passed, she has just finished painting the cow at the bottom of the painting, which occupies less than one meter of the painting!
Isn't this speed even slower than Miss Meng who has already painted two or three meters?
While Lan Tianyin was leisurely drawing a little boy on the body of the big buffalo, Miss Meng had already worked hard to draw four meters of mountains, rocks, flowers and plants. Seeing that the stick of incense was about to be finished, Lan Tianyin suddenly
He took a large pen, dipped it in ink, and flew over with the large pen. A uniform line went straight through the upper end of the painting and stopped when it was only more than one meter. Then Lan Tianyin drew a dragonfly model on the line.
kite...
Long Xilan was shocked at first, and then smiled. This woman had actually taken advantage of her!
No matter how long the string is for flying a kite!
The people present looked at the lifelike picture of a little boy riding a big buffalo and flying a kite, and were speechless. Everything he painted was so lifelike. Can you say that his painting skills are not good? No!
Then, is a painting full of ten meters in length? Yes, it is completely filled!
Looking at Miss Meng's flowers, the rockery flowers and grass are also very beautiful, but half of the scroll is not full. In comparison, of course I can only say that Lan Tianyin's paintings are better!
The emperor looked at this scene and shrugged: Just say it, this woman cannot be someone who can be bullied casually!
Seeing that Lan Tianyin won this round, the Queen Mother felt dissatisfied, "Miss Lan is really smart. She can be so clever. It's really impressive!"
"Thank you, Queen Mother, for the compliment. Lan Xue doesn't dare to take credit. I learned this bad habit of taking advantage of the opportunity and being idle from the prince. The prince often said: Life is short and if you don't enjoy yourself in time, wouldn't it be a wasted trip!
As the saying goes: If you are happy in life, you must have all the fun, and don’t let the golden bottle stand empty against the moon."
The Queen Mother's face froze, and she returned to normal after a while, "Look, the woman King Lan is looking for is really sharp-tongued!"
Long Xilan smiled slightly and said gently to the Queen Mother: "Queen Mother, I like her to be so frank and without any scheming."
Huh, what's the point of not having any scheming? Just talking nonsense!
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