Thirty-two, charming and graceful

It was already past the third day when Zhou Xuan returned to Meixiang Xiaoyuan. He yawned and was very thirsty. He washed up casually and went to bed. However, he saw Xiaoqian still sleeping on his big bed to warm his quilt. His little body curled up under the quilt and raised a small ball, just like the Siamese cat that Zhou Xuan bought for his mother-in-law.

Zhou Xuan had a fight with his eyelids and was so sleepy that he didn't want to sleep in Xiaoqian's cold little bed. He didn't ask the little girl to get up, but he just had to sleep with the little girl. Before his legs were stretched out, he snored.

I slept until dawn, but was woken up by Xiaoxiang.

"Son-in-law--" the voice was very light.

Zhou Xuan opened his eyes and saw that the little girl's face was flushed and her body moved. It turned out that Zhou Xuan had pressed her legs, and it was numb and could not even be pulled out.

Zhou Xuan smiled "hehe" and moved his legs apart, and the little girl arched her body and rubbed her legs in the quilt.

Zhou Xuan suddenly thought: "This little housewife is better than Qin Que. The sewing needles and the others are even more focused on me. My grandfather Zhou Qicha is being controlled by a little girl. When it is heard, it makes people laugh. I have to treat this girl well." He immediately reached out and held the little girl in his arms, put one leg on her, and smiled ambiguously.

Xiao Qiu shrank up in shock and tied his tongue: "Aunt——Master, what are you doing?"

Zhou Xuan asked: "Xiaoqian, did Miss Que'er tell you to sleep with me when she left Jiangzhou?"

Xiaoqian quickly shook his head: "No, no."

Zhou Xuan said: "Then why do you keep climbing onto my bed?"

"Me, I--" Xiaoqian stuttered: "Qunnel is to warm the bed for my son-in-law."

Zhou Xuan asked: "Since it's a warm bed, why do you sleep with me all night?"

Xiaoqian said: "Xiaoqian waited for the son-in-law to come back, but she fell asleep after waiting. Xiaoqian didn't know when the son-in-law came back."

Zhou Xuan said: "Only couples sleep together all night, well, concubines are OK. How old are you Xiaoxiang? Do you want to carry Miss Que'er and ask my son-in-law to marry you as a concubine? Wow, you are stealing yourself!"

The cumin's face was flushed and he kept saying, "I don't have it, I don't have it, the cumin has no."

Zhou Xuan said: "I'll write a letter to ask Que'er later, and ask her if she agreed to you?"

Xiaoqian said anxiously: "Son-in-law, don't write, don't ask, Xiaoqian will no longer sleep in the son-in-law's bed!"

Zhou Xuan let her go and said, "Xiaoqian, you should move your small bed back to your own room, otherwise what if you climb onto my bed one night? After sleeping a few more times, your belly will get bigger. Did you see Miss Zi'er's belly?"

"Ah!" Xiao Xuxiang lifted the quilt and sat up, looked down at her belly, and looked sadly. She had not grown up yet, and the girl's waist and hip curves had not come out, but she was still a virgin's small round belly.

Zhou Xuan comforted: "Don't worry about having a big belly after sleeping. Be careful in the future. Stay away from me. Alright, get up quickly and ask someone to move the small bed away."

The little girl hurriedly got out of bed and went out.

Zhou Xuan put his head in the quilt and laughed so hard that his stomach hurt.

In the morning, Zhou Xuan rushed to the south study room of the "Hua E Xianghui Tower" of Daxing Palace. Before the Empress came, Gu Hongzhong had already arrived first. He was looking at Zhou Xuan's unfinished portrait of Zhou Xuan. He frowned slightly and said, "Your Master Zhou, your painting method is to look at the big ones from the smallest view. Although the sun and the perspective are all visible, it is not the right way. Zong Bing of the Six Dynasties said in his "Preface to Painting Landscapes": 'Whether the body is lingering, the eyes are prepared, the shape is written with the shape, and the appearance is color'

, and said: 'Playing the piano and playing, trying to make all the mountains sound.' That is to say, the painter's eyes should not be cramped at one point, but should look at it with a panoramic view, paying attention to the 'three distances'. The young master looked at famous masters since the Tang Dynasty. Whether Wang Mojie, Wu Daozi, and Yan Liben, they all looked at the big view of the small, with hills and valleys in my heart. In my eyes, the mountains and valleys are like rockery in my eyes, and in my pen, I painted one by one. This is the so-called mind. If you only look at one side, how can you see the distant view of the mountain back, and how can you make a painting?"

Zhou Xuan smiled slightly. He knew that this Western painting method of light and darkness was considered a low-quality painting in the eyes of ancient Chinese painters. He was a painter. During the reign of Kangxi and Qianlong, the Italian man Lang Shining came to China. As a court painter of the Qing royal family, he brought Western painting techniques, which were despised by Zou Yigui at that time. Zou Yigui said: "Western people are good at Pythagorean methods, so their paintings are not different from millet. The characters and trees they paint have sun shadows. The colors and brushes they use are completely different from China. The shadows of cloth are wide and narrow, and are measured by triangles. Painting palaces on the walls makes people almost want to enter. Scholars can use one or two methods, and they are also awake. However, there is no brushwork, and even if they are craftsmen, they are not included in the paintings."

Zou Yigui of the Qing Dynasty also believed that the painting method of light and dark perspective was not as good as Gu Hongzhong of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the Five Dynasties. The dispute between Chinese and Western paintings was not clear at the moment. Zhou Xuan said: "Teacher, students thought that the painting method of single portraits was good, realistic and vivid, like mirror images. If it was a large-scale landscape scroll, and a large scene like the teacher's "Han Xizai Night Banquet Picture", it was naturally necessary to use the big viewing method to summarize the main points and make the difference - the students should learn from the teacher this method of mind."

Seeing that Zhou Xuan was humble in his words, Gu Hongzhong still did not recognize Zhou Xuan's method of painting characters, but he was not good at saying anything. He nodded and said, "Young Master Zhou came to the painting academy when he has time. I dare not hide my weakness."

Xiao Zhou Hou was surrounded by the eunuch and palace maids, wearing a snow-white shirt and dark jeans. Her two slender legs moved in a staggered manner and walked lightly. Her jeans were actually not considered jeans, because they were not denim fabric, and they could only be considered tight trousers, but they were well-made and wrapped around her hips, hips, legs and shins.

Zhou Xuan and Gu Hongzhong quickly saluted.

Xiao Zhou Hou sat on the embroidery pier and said, "Is this like I can draw it well today?"

Zhou Xuan said: "There are two more hours to draw well."

Gu Hongzhong reported: "The old minister is not so fast, it will take at least three days. However, the old minister can go back to the painting academy to draw slowly, so there is no need to worry about the empress sitting for a long time."

Gu Hongzhong is a master who can tell the truth. When he painted "Han Xizai Night Banquet" on Li Yu's order, he went to Han's mansion to observe for two nights. After returning, he painted it based on his memory.

Xiao Zhouhou said: "Then let's look at the paintings of Nephew Xuan first. Your Majesty will come here to watch the paintings in the afternoon."

The southern study room was silent, and the warm sunshine in early spring shone in. The Queen of Tang in this modern outfit was extremely beautiful. The left half of the light-catching face was as flawless as jade. The three-dimensional face looked elegant and profound in the light and shadow. The clothing was modern, but the temperament was so classic.

Zhou Xuan keenly captured the moment when the spring was first shining, and his brush was quick and slow, leaving the moving image of Xiao Zhouhou on the drawing paper.

After Zhou Xuan came to the Tang Dynasty, he painted almost every day and his painting skills improved a lot. The portrait he painted for Xiao Zhouhou is his current pinnacle work. The light and dark perspectives are used just right, and the color is also exquisite. It expresses Xiao Zhouhou's unique image that combines modern beauty and classical beauty and a body. The faint smile between the eyebrows, eyes, cheeks and lips are portrayed in detail.

Zhou Xuan thought to himself: "This painting is called an eternal smile."

After lunch in the palace, Zhou Xuan continued to paint. At this time, the finishing touch was already in the end, and Xiao Zhouhou no longer needed to sit there, so Xiao Zhouhou did not come to Nanshu.

Half an hour later, Zhou Xuan was done, got up and washed his hands, and came back and said to Gu Hongzhong: "Teacher, the student has finished drawing first."

Gu Hongzhong drew the upper body of Xiao Zhouhou and was painting the background again. After hearing Zhou Xuan say this, he got up to see it and said a little surprised: "Young Master Zhou, why don't you even paint an embroidery slogan? Are you letting the Empress sit in the void like this?"

Zhou Xuan said: "This is called having a seat better than not a seat. When the brushwork is in place, anyone can see that the empress is sitting posture, and not painting an embroidered stud is the wonder."

Gu Hongzhong shook his head, expressed his incomprehension, and then carefully looked at Zhou Xuan's paintings and whispered: "Young Master Zhou, isn't your painting a bit slandering? Look at it, and it seems that it is too charming to paint here-"

Gu Hongzhong refers to the breasts and buttocks of the little Zhouhou, which cannot be expressed in both ancient ladies' pictures. In addition to the erotic paintings, the little Zhouhou painted by Zhou Xuan not only has obvious breasts, but also has tight and round thighs of the buttocks, which is simply disrespectful.

Zhou Xuan was amused and cried. The old man was too pedantic and had no choice. Looking at his "Night Banquet Picture" you will know that the dancers and songs in it are as thick as the top and bottom, without any curvilinear beauty. He said: "Teacher, the historical facts of the Taishi record emphasize writing with straight lines, without concealing or exaggerating it, and truly reflecting the history of the country. The same is true for this painting, and also emphasizes straight writing, especially for figure painting. The Queen is indeed in this body shape. This is not charming, but graceful beauty."

A "sneer" chuckled from behind the two, and a soft voice said, "It's not charming, it's graceful, it's really nice."

Zhou Xuan and Gu Hongzhong turned around together, and Gu Hongzhong was shocked, his hands and feet trembled, and he looked overly frightened.

It is not because the speaker is as ugly as a yaksha. On the contrary, the speaker is as beautiful as a fairy, tall and graceful as a slight similar to the little Zhou Hou painted by Zhou Xuan, which is exactly Li Huzhu, the Princess Qingle.

Gu Hong lamented in the center: "I must have heard the princess's charming words against the Queen. It's bad now. Zhou Xuan is fine, but I'm going to be a crime of disrespect!" He quickly knelt down and said repeatedly: "I don't know that the princess has arrived. The old minister has made a mistake, and the old minister has made a mistake."

Of course, Zhou Xuan didn't have to kneel down to greet him. He was the princess' cousin and said, "It turns out that he is His Highness. Teacher Gu just paints and talks about paintings, so it's not a mistake."

But Princess Qingle had a pretty face and sneered: "Did you make a mistake? You will know when your father comes later."

Gu Hongzhong was so scared that he knew that Princess Qingle was moody and loved to tease people the most. It was really bad that she was caught by Princess Qingle. He was 83 years old. If he was not safe in his later years and was punished by the emperor, it would be too unlucky. He said that His Majesty has always been kind and rarely used heavy punishments, but even the 20-stalker on his back would have lost all his old face and begged the princess to forgive him.

Zhou Xuan frowned and thought to himself: "Why is this Princess Qingle like this? It's like seeing her changing her personalities the first two times, with a dual personality?" He immediately helped Gu Hongzhong up and said: "It's okay, Your Majesty is here, I will break it down for myself."

Princess Qingle frowned slightly and sneered: "Zhou Xuan, you really treat yourself as a royal relative. My cousin, King Jing, said you are just a son-in-law of a minor official in the Jiangzhou Medical Office. Unexpectedly, you rely on a few poems and a chess to fight, and even go to Jinling to trick my mother into thinking you as her nephew, and ask this princess to call you as her cousin. It's such a big joke!"

Princess Qingle was very angry when she saw her mother last time she asked her to call Zhou Xuan a cousin. At that time, because her mother and brother were present, she said it mercilessly.

Zhou Xuan was very surprised, then furious, standing straight, and his voice was cold and disdainful: "You are right. I do only know those skills, but what are your abilities? Can you cook or cook? Why do you enjoy the honor of a princess?"

Princess Qingle didn't expect that Zhou Xuan would dare to confront her in person, and her words were so rude. She pointed at Zhou Xuan and said, "You are so ruthless. This princess is the birth of her father and mother, and she is born with dignity."

Zhou Xuan sneered: "That is to say, you have no ability, you are just lucky and have a good birth."

Li Yu believed in Buddhism, and Princess Qingle naturally knew the saying of reincarnation and reincarnation. She was so angry that her body trembled. My cousin was right. Zhou Xuan was indeed the most hateful person in the world!

Zhou Xuan murmured, "Are you all the princesses who are this kind of virtue? Can't you find someone with a better temper?"

Gu Hongzhong was shocked and at a loss when he saw Zhou Xuan quarrel with the princess.

I heard the eunuch outside the study whisper: "The emperor is here, the queen is here."

The romantic emperor Li Yu, who was light and slow-wearing, walked hand in hand into the southern study. The couple looked deep in love, but Li Yu's hair was gray, while Xiao Zhou Hou was like a 20-year-old girl, with a bit of a pear blossom over the crabapple.

Zhou Xuan and Gu Hongzhong quickly knelt down and saluted. After receiving Li Yu's words, the two stood up and bowed their heads and stood respectfully.

When Xiao Zhou Hou saw Princess Qingle staring at Zhou Xuan and was about to get angry, she asked: "Huozhu, why are you staring at your cousin Xuan like this?"

Princess Qingle was even more angry and said with a crisp voice: "Father, Queen Mother, Zhou Xuan's words are extremely rude, and the sons swear to never recognize him as their cousin."

Li Yu glanced at Zhou Xuan and asked with a smile: "How rude are you?"

Princess Qingle said everything he had just heard and said, "Father, are Zhou Xuan's words so ruthless?"

Zhou Xuan said with a blushing face and said, "Your Majesty, Auntie, and my nephew just said that the princess's life is good and there is no other intention."

Li Yu sighed: "Zhou Xuan is right. The encounters of cause and condition, the six realms of reincarnation, and the consequences of good and evil are nothing more than being driven by karma. Therefore, I pay attention to a 'purity and inaction' in governing the country, and comprehensively integrate the principles of Buddhism and Taoism, and still enjoy peace."

The Tang Dynasty inherited the Tang Dynasty's style of advocating Taoism, and Li Yu also liked the Buddha's method, so his thoughts were both Buddha and old, which was very complicated. He also used this to govern the country. After being the Emperor of Taiping for 30 years, he could only say that he had a good life, otherwise he would have been poisoned to death by Zhao Guangyi.

Xiao Zhouhou smiled and said, "Nephew Xuan, Huozhu is young, you can't talk to her like this as a cousin."

Zhou Xuan said: "Yes, my nephew knew he was wrong - Your Highness, Zhou Xuan apologizes to you."

Li Yu was immersed in the nothingness of the Buddha just now, and then asked with great interest: "Where is Zhou Xuan's painting, I'm presenting it. I want to see how the queen is so charming? Sex is a good word, so I like to be charming."

Princess Qingle saw that her father had no intention of suing her, so she had no choice but to stare at Zhou Xuan angrily.

The eunuch presented Zhou Xuan's painting, Li Yu stroked his beard and looked at it, nodding and said, "Yes, Zhou Xuan's painting skills are indeed unique, which is very different from the painting method of my Tang Dynasty. The light is bright and dark, and the carvings are very delicate. This sitting posture is also very ingenious, just like a Buddhist celestial woman, charming and graceful, interesting and interesting!" He turned his head to the little Zhou queen and said, "Where is the queen's opinion?"

The Queen of Zhou was full of joy and said, "Very good, Nephew Xuan's painting skills are indeed extraordinary. I will ask your cousin Xuan to paint a picture for you another day and leave it in Nanxun Palace. When you marry from the Southern Han Dynasty, your father and mother miss you, you can also look at the portrait and comfort your longing when you miss you."

When Princess Qingle heard this, her face darkened and she sat aside and stopped talking.

Zhou Xuan breathed a sigh of relief. Li Yu and Xiao Zhou Hou were both advanced in aesthetic abilities and knew how to appreciate the beauty of curves. He immediately said: "Thank you for your uncle and your aunt's praise. My nephew should learn more about the Tang Chinese painting skills from Gu Taizhao."

The little Zhou Hou looked at Zhou Xuan with a smile, and was really satisfied with the nephew, saying, "Your Majesty, Zhou Xuan is my nephew, but he is still white. Is it a title given to him? This is also the decent decent that the royal relatives should have?"

Li Yu smiled and said, "Yesterday Jian'er also told me that he proposed to let Zhou Xuan be a Grand Secretary of the Hanlin Academy or a Grand Secretary of Jixian Hall. The Grand Secretary of the Hanlin Academy is usually a three-president and two prime minister. Although the Grand Secretary of the Jixian Hall has no real power, he is very noble and noble. He needs a good reputation in the court and the country to serve. Therefore, I have not agreed. I thought about summoning the Hanlin Academy and the Grand Secretary of Jixian Hall to test Zhou Xuan's talent together. As expected, he was talented and then issued an order to apply."

The little Zhou Hou smiled and said, "I have heard Your Majesty recite Zhou Xuan's lyrics these days. Is His Majesty not sure?"

Li Yu smiled and said, "You must always convince the ministers in the court. Let's do this. First, Zhou Xuan is appointed as the Marquis of Xinzhou and give him the first seat in the palace so that he will not stay in the Fenghua Army. How about it?"

The little Zhou Hou looked at Zhou Xuan with a smile: "I'm not grateful yet."
Chapter completed!