Fourteen, Ancient Temples in the Deep Mountains

When he returned to his residence by Mochou Lake, Prince Li Jian had been waiting for a long time and was playing with Lin Hanyun. A big double land plate. The two of them sat opposite each other while drinking tea while playing with double land, which made Zhou Xuan very jealous.

Lin Hanyun shouted as soon as he saw Zhou Xuan: "Brother Zhou Xuan, come and help me. Your Highness the Crown Prince has knocked down several of my horses!"

Zhou Xuan walked over and saw that the double-land plate was several times larger than the Go plate, and there were dozens of small hammers with thick and thin bottoms on it. This was the "horse". Lin Hanyun's side was a white horse made of boxwood, Li Jian was a dark horse made of betel wood, and there were a few dice thrown around.

Zhou Xuan looked at him in a dark way. He had never played this before and said, "I can't play this, so I'll see you play two games first."

Zhou Xuan was very talented in playing. When he was a child, he watched people play chess. He went on the court and fought with people all morning. He also won the first game. Later, because he learned Go, his interest in target chess decreased.

Lin Hanyun said in surprise: "There are games that Brother Zhou Xuan doesn't know how to play, it's rare!"

When Li Jian saw Zhou Xuan coming back, he was anxious to ask him what he had to go to see Mr. Chen.

Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "Continue to fight, I'll see how to fight, learn and learn."

Seeing Zhou Xuan's calm and ill-fated look, Li Jian felt a little ashamed: "Brother Xuan is not as good as me. Although I am the prince, I am worried about gains and losses and are restless and impatient. How can Brother Xuan be as calm as Brother Xuan!"

Li Jian tried hard to get himself into the double land plate, but if he had something in his heart, he would inevitably be distracted. He was originally a leading situation, but in the end, Lin Hanyun had all his white horses. His own dark horse had not yet returned to Liang and lost.

Lin Hanyun was overjoyed, and the princess smiled and said, "Brother Zhou Xuan is amazing. Even if he doesn't know how to play Double Land, he can help me win by standing by my side. This luck is so good that I can't say."

Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "You are the one who plays well in the future. This kind of betting mainly depends on yourself. Okay, I have something important to talk to His Royal Highness. You should go back to Sister Daoyun's place first, and I'll paint you later."

After Lin Hanyun left, Zhou Xuan talked about the visit to Chen Kai, the Minister of War. Li Jian was happy and worried, and said, "I really care about the inside and the outside world. Maybe I am not Brother Xuan. I am in danger. If I cannot resist the outside world, what's the use of the throne? Just like Meng Chang, Shu Kingdom, after the country was destroyed, even his wife could not be protected, which is worse than that of ordinary people."

Zhou Xuan comforted, "Don't worry too much, Brother Jian, Haotian will continue to bless the Tang Kingdom. What is more urgent is that Zhao Song and nephew should not reconcile. Zhao Dezhao must be helped. Within ten days, envoys must be sent to Chengdu."

Li Jian frowned and said, "This matter was discussed in Jixian Hall five days ago. The three parties were quarreled, and the father did not make a sage."

Zhou Xuan said: "Let's do this, I will record five lyrics tomorrow. You will submit them to the Emperor on my behalf. I will only fill in half of one of them. Your Majesty will definitely ask and will summon me in advance, saying that I have not broken bones, but only a slight cleft bone. After being treated by famous doctors, my leg injury has been healed a lot. It is feasible to hold a stick. Bamboo sticks and straw shoes are lighter than horses, right?"

Li Jianxi said: "Okay, Brother Xuan really has a solution. By the way, Brother Xuan, yesterday I told my mother that you arrived in Jinling. My mother asked you what paintings you have recently? I saw the two paintings you gave to Feng Ajian. My mother was very interested. She also asked the tailor in the palace to make two sets of them, so that Huzhu would wear them. It was indeed fresh and beautiful."

Zhou Xuan came to Jinling and wanted to see the famous beautiful queen in the history of the Five Dynasties in person. But after hearing what Li Jian said, the little Zhou Queen seemed to have no intention of summoning him, and she felt quite disappointed. However, thinking about the time, I would see it sooner or later, and I thought: "Li Yu is 60 years old, and Jian is 22 years old this year. Xiao Zhou Queen is Jian's biological mother. She is always in her forties. She is an old beauty." Asked: "Brother Jian, you haven't told Your Majesty and the Queen about your rebellion? Yes, there is no need to say that you and my brother are intimate. It's not good for you to say that it is not good for you, anyway, your brother is strongly supporting you."

Li Jian held Zhou Xuan's hand and shook it hard with emotion, unable to speak for a while.

Zhou Xuan said: "My brother, wait for me to get the drawing."

Zhou Xuan returned to the room and took four drafts. Two of the four drafts were dresses, with skirts below the knees and high-tube horse boots. He dared not submit them to Xiao Zhouhou now. Maybe he would be punished for the crime of blasphemy. That would be a disaster that came from heaven!

The other two are shirts and jeans. The woman painted the painting uses Qin Que and sewing needle as the prototype, a white shirt and mid-waist jeans, which look both charming and heroic, and these should not be taboos.

Zhou Xuan felt that these four paintings were not effective enough, so he went to Fairy Jingyi and said, "Sister Daoyun, the Empress, you must see the portraits you painted for your sister last time."

Fairy Jingyi took out the scroll and handed it to Zhou Xuan and asked, "Brother Xuan, can this painting be retrieved?" She was very reluctant.

Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "Don't worry, sister, even if you can't get it back, I'll draw one for my sister, and it's okay to draw ten. I love to paint my sister the most. It would be better if my sister didn't wear a veil."

Fairy Jingyi must have blushed.

Lin Hanyun on the side said, "I also advised the girl not to cover her veil anymore, but my sister doesn't listen to me."

Zhou Xuan said: "After seeing off His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, I will come and persuade Sister Yun."

Zhou Xuan handed over the five paintings to Li Jian, who said, "I'll send someone to pick up the lyrics of Brother Xuan in the afternoon." He took his entourage back to the forbidden city.

Zhou Xuan came to the small building where the Lin sisters lived again. Lin Hanyun had already ordered people to prepare the brushes, paints and papers, and waited for Zhou Xuan to paint her portrait.

Zhou Xuan looked at Fairy Jingyi, who was still covering her veil, and was about to speak, Fairy Jingyi said first: "Doesn't need to say more about Brother Xuan, the female saying will not take off the veil."

Zhou Xuan said that when he immediately changed his mouth, he immediately changed his mouth and said, "Sister Daoyun guessed wrongly. I am not trying to persuade her not to wear a veil."

Fairy Jingyi was stunned and said, "Didn't you say you want to convince the girl?"

Zhou Xuan said: "I am not trying to convince my sister not to wear a veil, I think it is so beautiful for my sister to wear a veil."

Even Lin Hanyun was stunned at this moment, wondering what Zhou Xuan was going to say next?

Fairy Jingyi said without anger or joy: "The female Taoist Xuanmen wears a veil just to isolate the world. How can you talk about beauty or not?"

Zhou Xuan said: "I have another story to tell. I wonder if Sister Lin, should Sister Lin listen?"

Lin Hanyun said happily: "Listen, Brother Zhou Xuan has so many things in his heart!"

Fairy Jingyi smiled and said, "The female Taoist is going to gain more knowledge again."

Zhou Xuan said: "After selecting paintings in a certain country, three painters entered the final selection. The last level was to write a painting with the title of "Tianshan Tibetan Ancient Temple". Who has the highest level of painting? Painter A painter uses panoramic painting method and paints the whole picture of the ancient temple in the deep mountains; Painter B paints ancient trees in the deep mountains, with the treetops exposed to a corner of the eaves of the temple, and contains a hidden word; Painter C paints an old monk drawing water in the mountain stream and holding up his ears to listen. It seems that a bell sound faintly comes from the cold forest - Sister Daoyun, which of these three painters is the most brilliant?"

Fairy Jingyi is a delicate and clear person. She immediately understood what Zhou Xuan meant, and said softly, "The female Taoist thinks that the painter of A is the most wise, with real talent and knowledge, and does not hide his shortcomings."

Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "If it is really clumsy, it's better to hide it. The problem is that it is born with beauty, it's not that it's just about hiding it. It's about wanting to cover it but still revealing it. I thought of two lines of poetry, "Only famous flowers are bitter and lonely, and I smile brightly among the bamboo fences, and I'll give it to Sister Daoyun."

Fairy Jingyi's pink neck is blushing, and you can imagine how powerful the "Red Luan Sha" on her face is. This brother Xuan is a bit distorted, and his words are getting more and more...

Fairy Jingyi didn’t want to use the word “slight and thin” to describe Zhou Xuan. She thought it should not be frivolous, but what was it?

Lin Hanyun is also a ghost elves and asked on purpose: "Brother Zhou Xuan, what is the connection between your story and my sister wearing a veil?"

Zhou Xuan said: "I won't say it, you can understand it yourself, or ask Sister Yun."

Lin Hanyun went to Fairy Jingyi to act coquettishly: "Sister, sister, tell me quickly."

Fairy Jingyi said: "I don't know, I know that painter A is good at painting."

Zhou Xuan said: "I understand what Sister Daoyun means, so please take off the veil and I will draw a good image for my sister."

Fairy Jingyi ate and said, "The girl said—what, when did you say you want to take off your veil and paint the portrait?"

Zhou Xuan said: "Didn't my sister say that painter A is good at painting? Naturally, she doesn't like to cover up and asks me to describe my sister's face truthfully."

Lin Hanyun said in a very cooperative manner: "Okay, let my sister draw first, I'll draw another day."

Fairy Jingyi said: "The girl said she won't draw tonight."

Zhou Xuan immediately said: "Then I will draw it for my sister tomorrow night. My sister is not allowed to break her trust and agreed to take off her veil."

Lin Hanyun said: "How could my sister break her trust? She is a Taoist practitioner and does not lie."

Zhou Xuan had only heard monks, and nuns often said, "Mencius does not lie." Female Taoist priests also have this statement?

Fairy Jingyi remained silent and let the two of them sing and reconcile, but since they were sitting here and not leaving, they were obviously not angry.

Zhou Xuan spent two hours to draw a portrait of Lin Hanyun wearing seven-quarter jeans, with a thin waist, one leg straight and one leg bent, and the slender and graceful ankles were particularly portrayed in detail. Even though Lin Hanyun was ignorant, he was a little shy at this time and asked, "When have you seen my feet?" He did not forget to add, "You have only seen my sister's feet, but last time I took my sister's hand on the boat."

Fairy Jingyi is like sitting on pins and needles.

Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "That time in Shimenjian, didn't I catch a cold and had a high fever? You also took off your shoes and socks and washed your feet."

"Ah!" Lin Hanyun said shyly: "You peek."
Chapter completed!