After the subjugation of the country, I became pregnant with the cub of Emperor Qiu

Chapter 22

"I, can I not go?" Yi Ci bit the bullet and said.

Gu Zheng didn't speak, turned his head and glanced at Yi Ci behind him, suspicion flashed in those dark eyes, but there was not much expression on his face, he asked calmly, "Why?"

Yi Ci showed a look of embarrassment, just about to lie and say that he was ill, when he caught a glimpse of the suspicion in Gu Zheng's eyes by chance, the words stuck in his throat.

Gu Zheng was very suspicious.

Right now, Gu Zheng was clearly suspicious. If he said he was sick, Gu Zheng might call the imperial physician to see him right away.At that time, it will be trivial to pretend to be ill and be exposed. If Gu Zheng becomes suspicious of him and sends someone to monitor him all the time, then the problem will be serious!

So Yi Ci smiled awkwardly, bit his lips and said, "It's just that I have never left the palace with His Majesty..."

Yi Ci is very euphemistic.

Gu Zheng suddenly understood the meaning of Yi Ci's words. He used to be the king of Zheng State, but now he is the concubine of Qin State who destroyed Zheng State. , is tantamount to a punishment.

Gu Zheng was silent.

Yi Ci knew that no one would be allowed to disobey Gu Zheng's order. He didn't expect that Gu Zheng would take back the order to let him go with him. What he said just now was just to dispel Gu Zheng's suspicion.

Fingers tapped on the table, making regular sounds.Gu Zheng was obviously thinking about something.

After a while.

Gu Zhengdao: "I can take you on tour in micro-clothes."

Yi Ci was stunned.

Gu Zheng did not take back the order just now, but took into account his feelings and chose a method that he could accept.

Gu Zheng would actually consider his own feelings?

Yi Ci was a little surprised for a moment.

This is unimaginable to outsiders. Gu Zheng, a cruel, tyrannical and arbitrary tyrant, would one day care about other people's feelings?

"Why, you're not happy?" Before Yi Ci could respond, Gu Zheng slightly raised his eyebrows, showing a bit of impatience.

Yi Ci came back to his senses, rejecting Gu Zheng at this time would be courting death, so Yi Ci shook his head: "No, I just didn't expect..."

Yi Ci lowered his eyelashes, black as a crow's feathers cast a layer of shadow on his fair cheeks, his delicate and cold eyebrows frowned, falsely contrary to his true intentions: "Thank you, Your Majesty..."

That night, Yi Ci found an opportunity to write a letter to Wei Yushu, telling him about Gu Zhengyao taking him to the Wendou Conference, and asking Wei Yushu what to do.

Yi Ci tossed and turned without waiting for Luo An to get a reply, and fell into a deep sleep in extreme anxiety.

He didn't sleep well, dreaming all night that he failed to participate in the Wendou Conference the next day and became the laughing stock of the world.

Yi Ci woke up in a panic and found that the sky was already dawn.

Because the painting time of landscape painting is very long, the Wendou Conference will start at Si time on the second day, almost an hour before lunch.

Yi Ci followed Gu Zheng out of the palace early.

Gu Zhenguo went on tour in modest clothes as he said, instead of riding in the emperor's chariot, he changed into black ordinary clothes and sat in a luxurious, elegant and beautifully carved wooden sedan chair.

Yi Ci also got into the sedan chair under the service of the palace servants.

But although he didn't show the specifications of an emperor traveling, Gu Zheng still brought many guards disguised as servants with him.Walking on the road, everyone gave way to look sideways.

The venue of the Wendou Conference is set at Qinzhou on the Qinyue River.

Although Qinzhou is called a continent, it is actually a complex of buildings connected by boats and boats.

The shape of the boat is similar to that of a real ship, and it has three parts: the bow, the middle cabin and the stern cabin.The bow is unobstructed for people to enjoy the scenery.The middle cabin is a place for people to rest, feast and listen to music.The stern compartment at the rear is generally divided into two floors, the bottom is solid and the top is empty, and the upper layer is like a pavilion.

Every night, the boats are lit up, reflecting the lights on the Qinyue River, and the lake surface reflects the stars of the boats, as if the stars fell into the lake, which is so beautiful that it makes people's heartbeat.

The wooden sedan chair stopped by the Qinyue River, Gu Zheng got off the sedan chair, and someone was already waiting beside a boat.This boat is more ornately decorated than other boats, and it is as high as three floors.

A group of attendants stood on the bow, all welcoming Gu Zheng's arrival.

These people don't know who they are welcoming, they only know that it is a great person.How big it is, these people don't know.

When Gu Zheng boarded the boat, there were attendants leading the way.

Yi Ci walked behind Gu Zheng's right, looking a little worried from the perspective that Gu Zheng couldn't see.

He never waited for Wei Yushu's reply, and Yi Ci was overwhelmed by anxiety.He was afraid that last night's dream would come true.

"That's it, my lord." The waiter took Gu Zheng to a place on the second floor of the boat, where the windows on both sides were wide open and the view was excellent.The entire second floor was taken over by Gu Zheng, so there was no need to worry about being disturbed by others.

Looking out from the left side of the boat, the opposite is the bow of the two boats. The three boats are connected in a back shape, and there is a water plank road in the middle to facilitate pedestrians.

The upcoming Wendou will be carried out on the two opposite boats.Wanbeixianren and Yu Xiangjie will each stand at the bow of the boat to paint, and there will be a screen between them, so neither can see the other's actions.

The people who came to watch the two people's paintings either stayed in the two boats, or could only squeeze in the corridors of the three boats.

Only the boat where Gu Zheng was on was not allowed to enter.

Sitting on the desk next to Gu Zheng, Yi Ci looked at the two prows of the opposite boat and the crowd, his palms were sweating unconsciously.

How to do?

Is he doomed to break the trust of everyone today?

Yi Ci couldn't imagine how the people who had been deceived would react when they found out that Wanbeixianren would not show up at all.

I'm afraid Yi Ci will be scolded so much that he can't hold his head up all his life.

When the waiter brought tea and snacks, Yi Ci lacked interest and never even glanced at the refreshments on the table.

The waiter suddenly said: "My lord, please have some tea."

Yi Ci nodded absent-mindedly, and was about to pick up the teacup when he caught a glimpse of a corner of light yellow letter paper under the teacup.

Taking advantage of Gu Zheng's inattention, Yi Ci took out the letter paper and held it tightly in his hands, raised his head and said to Gu Zheng, "Your Majesty, I want to go out."

Gu Zheng looked up at Yi Ci: "What are you doing out there?"

Yi Ci's heart beat nervously, he pretended to be ashamed to speak, got up and whispered in Gu Zheng's ear: "Chu Gong."

Yi Ci's warm breath sprayed Gu Zheng's ears, Gu Zheng frowned, and half of his face was almost numb.

"Go quickly." Gu Zheng frowned and said seriously.

"Yes." Yi Ci turned around and exhaled nervously.

This boat is very big, there are many rooms on the second floor alone, Yi Ci walked to the corridor and was about to open the letter paper, when suddenly a person stood in front of him, it was the waiter who brought the tea just now.

Yi Ci suddenly clenched the letter paper in his hand, and a look of vigilance appeared in his cold phoenix eyes.

The waiter looked at Yi Ci very calmly, and said in a calm voice: "Follow me."

This voice...is Wei Yushu's voice?

Yi Ci opened his eyes slightly, followed Wei Yushu without hesitation, and finally came to a hidden house.

"It's me." Wei Yushu said.

Wei Yushu didn't have time to stop and wait for Yi Ci to catch up on the old days, and a pair of extremely calm eyes met Yi Ci's ignorant eyes: "Listen to me, you take this medicine, have a cup of tea, and wait until your body gets hot. Tell Gu Zheng that you need to rest, understand?"

Yi Ci nodded, took a small red pill from Wei Yushu's hand and swallowed it.

Yi Ci was still puzzled: "And then?"

Wei Yushu's eyes, which were as cold as a pool of ice, were slightly turbulent, and his slightly cool palm lightly landed on the back of Yi Ci's head, stroking Yi Ci's hair and said, "I will be the one to do the next thing, don't worry, okay? Yici?"

Yi Ci said: "Okay."

Yi Ci returned to the room and sat down, suddenly there was a commotion on the opposite side, Yi Ci looked down from upstairs, frowning slightly.

Yu Xiangjie has arrived.

In the following time, Yi Ci was restless, almost pinching the time in his heart, planning to ask Gu Zheng to go back to the room to rest as soon as the time came.

During this period, the discussions of the people on the boat continued to reach Yi Ci's ears.

"Why is Wan Bei idler so late?"

"It's almost the appointed time, won't this Wanbei idler not come?"

"It's unlikely. If you agree and don't come, Wan Bei's reputation will be ruined."

……

Yi Ci heard cold sweat on his forehead, a thin blush on his cheeks, and even his neck.

Gu Zheng noticed Yi Ci's situation and frowned, "What's wrong?"

The time has finally come.

Yi Ci breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, frowned slightly and said to Gu Zheng, "I'm not feeling well, I want to rest."

Gu Zheng saw that Yi Ci's state at this time was not like a disguise, so he agreed to Yi Ci's request: "Go."

"Yeah." Yi Ci turned and walked out of the room.

But suddenly Gu Zheng tapped his fingers on the desk, lowered his eyebrows, and said in a calm voice: "Wait a minute, since you are sick, let the doctor on the boat take a look."

Yi Ci's heart tightened.

He could hear the suspicion in Gu Zheng's calm tone, and he couldn't resist at all at the moment, so he could only bite the bullet and stay.

The doctor on the boat soon came with a medical kit. After taking the pulse carefully, the doctor told Gu Zheng truthfully: "This lord has a fever and a cold inside. He must have contracted a cold."

"Fengchi..." Gu Zheng pondered, and finally his suspicions faded away, and he left with Yi Ci.

As soon as Yi Ci went out, Wei Yushu's disguised waiter appeared in front of Yi Ci.Yi Ci lowered his head and followed Wei Yushu, turning around and avoiding the people downstairs, and came to the dark room on the first floor.

Thinking that Yu Xiangjie had arrived and everyone was discussing why he didn't show up, Yi Ci panicked and said, "Hurry up! How can I get there? Do I have to wear a leather mask too?"

Wei Yushu shook his head: "No need."

Yi Ci was a little anxious: "I have to go quickly, the competition is about to start!"

Wei Yushu suddenly held Yi Ci's shoulder with one hand, and looked at Yi Ci steadfastly. Those calm and rational eyes like ice pools seemed to have a kind of power at this moment, making Yi Ci unable to look away.

Wei Yushu said: "Don't worry, just look outside."

Wei Yushu pushed open the dusty wooden window in the dark room with his hands, allowing Yi Ci to see the outside scene.

I saw that the water plank road between the boats was crowded with people, and it was almost impossible to get through. The second floors of the two boats opposite were already crowded with people watching the competition.

Yu Xiangjie was standing at the bow of the boat, holding a brush in his hand, unable to see the expression on his face clearly.

Just as everyone was discussing whether Wanbei Xianren would come, and the discussion was in full swing, a small boat slowly appeared in everyone's sight.Someone on the boat shouted: "Wan Bei idler is here!"

In an instant, everyone's voices fell silent, and everyone's eyes were focused on the flat boat.Under the gaze of everyone, the flat boat rowed to the back of a boat and disappeared.

"Here we come! Wanbei idler is here!"

"Finally I can see the true face of Wan Beixian, I don't know what Wan Beixian looks like!"

"I think it should be a hermit who is over fifty years old."

Yu Xiangjie also noticed the small boat that Wan Bei idler was on, his face sank instantly, and then he showed a smile as if he had already won.To him, it doesn't matter whether Wanbei idler comes or not, anyway, there is only one result.

In landscape painting, it is impossible for him to lose to anyone!

Here, Yici has already changed into the clothes Wei Yushuti gave him.A white dress embroidered with curly cloud patterns and a white fur coat.Yi Ci put on a mask to cover his face, and pressed the hat on his head with some hesitation: "Should I dress more like an old man? This is too..."

Yi Ci's figure is very thin. Wearing this white shirt with snow-white fur on the outside, he feels more desolate and desolate, like a fairy in white.It is far from the appearance of Wanbei idler that everyone imagined.

Wei Yushu shook his head: "It doesn't matter. Before long, I will let the world know that you are the idler of Wanbei."

Yi Ci's heart moved.

Is there really such a day, a day when he dignifiedly reveals his identity in front of everyone?

He boarded the wooden boat from the back of the boat, and quietly approached another boat from a hidden place on the riverside plank road that no one could notice.After getting off the boat, Yi Ci followed Wei Yushu around and approached the bow from the secret passage.

"Go quickly." Wei Yushu said.

Yi Ci took a deep breath, and walked onto the empty bow with such an image.

When Yi Ci appeared, everyone exploded.

"What! Is this Wan Bei idler?"

"Impossible, Wan Beixian is clearly an old man, how could he be such a young junior?"

……

There was a lot of discussion.

At this moment, a small boat arrived in the middle of the three boats. Old Man Songyun stood at the bow of the boat with his hands behind his back, and said loudly to the crowd: "Everyone be quiet! This is indeed a sad idler!"

The old man Songyun said: "It is absolutely impossible to misidentify this identity. Whether the painter is himself or not can be seen from his paintings, and there is a seal to prove it!"

What old man Songyun said was the truth.

No matter how well others imitate the brushwork habit formed by a calligrapher and painter over the years, they cannot be completely imitated, and the differences can always be seen in the subtleties.Second, the authenticity can also be distinguished from the handwriting and imprinted traces of the seal.

With the words of the old man Songyun, even if everyone still couldn't believe the fact that Yi Ci was a sad man, they stopped arguing.

The old man Songyun then announced the rules of Wendou: "The time for Wendou is set within one day. When both parties finish painting, they will be judged by Yang Shengming, Cui Daowen, Su Changfeng, Su Tianqian, Li Heqing and the old man, and then handed over to everyone in the painting academy. In the end, the painting with the most support will win!"

Yang Shengming is known as the "general of the painting world" by the world. He is famous for his landscape paintings. He is also good at painting monkeys, horses, cows and other beasts. He is a well-known master in the world of painting;

Cui Daowen is famous for his figure paintings. The figures he painted are exquisite and meticulous, with both form and spirit. When he was young, he was a court painter like Shi Zhong, and there are many masterpieces handed down from generation to generation;

Su Changfeng and Su Tianqian are called "Big and Little Sus" by the world, and they are praised as "two sages in one school".

Mrs. Li Heqing is a rare female master in the painting world, known as the "immortal in painting" by the world, good at painting flowers and birds, especially good at painting pictures of ladies;

Elder Songshi's attainment in painting has also reached everyone's level. He is not only good at landscape painting, but also works with figures and animals.

With these six top masters in the painting world as witnesses and judges, coupled with the review of the painting academy, no one has any doubts about the rules of Wendou.

After the old man Songyun said the rules, he entered the cabin. There were six painters sitting in this small boat. His own vision is also excellent, just enough to see the performance of the two people on the bow.

Yi Ci and Yu Xiangjie stood on the bow of the boat, and there were many painting utensils on the bow, including pens, inks, papers and inkstones.There is a long table with half the height of a person and a pier, which is convenient for the painter to rest when he is tired.

Painters can use the utensils on the boat or the props prepared by themselves, there is no requirement for this.

There is a screen on the bow of the two boats, which isolates Yi Ci and Yu Xiangjie from seeing each other.

Yu Xiangjie couldn't see the situation on Yici's side, he could only hear the discussion of the crowd, and he had a rough idea of ​​the situation just now.He originally thought that Wan Beixian was an old man with profound painting skills, but only now did he know that Wan Beixian was a Wen Sheng who was as young as him.

Yu Xiangjie looked a little dignified when he heard the news.

Now that young people have such attainments in painting, it just shows that this son's talent is amazing, he may not be inferior to him, if he is allowed to grow, he may become his formidable enemy.

But soon, Yu Xiangjie laughed.

It can only be said that Wan Bei Xianren shouldn't accept his challenge. After all, he is young and energetic and doesn't know how to endure.Although Shinobu will be ridiculed by the world for a while, the result of the challenge can only be regrettable.

Who made him meet himself?

Who made the subject of this competition happen to be his best landscape painting?

Although he had the confidence to win, Yu Xiangjie still did not underestimate the enemy, instead he devoted all his energy to take it seriously.This time he used the pens and coloring materials he was most familiar with, and he also brought the high-quality cooked silk that he often used.

Yu Xiangjie paced at the bow of the boat, closing his eyes and recalling the steep mountains and forests he saw when he was following his master in the north, and the desolate and ancient hopeless land, he gradually became mentally conscious.

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