Pearl in the Palm - Chapter 24

After the Chen Palace, the sky was already dark.

Ye Lizhu entered through the small door. After getting on the soft sedan, Ye Lizhu quietly opened a corner of the curtain and looked out.

The layout of Prince Chen’s Mansion is different from that of Ye Mansion. Ye Fuan is elegant and interesting. The mansion is full of exotic flowers and plants, quiet and quiet, and Chen’s Mansion is more open and bright.

The people in the house come and go, all dressed neatly, and they look pleasing to the eye.

Half a quarter of an hour later, Ye Lizhu arrived at the residence of Miss Chen Wangfu.

After getting off the sedan chair, Hai Tan supported Ye Lizhu’s arm, Yusha followed behind, and the people at the door went in to report. In a moment, Ye Lizhu heard a hearty laugh: “It’s the Ye family sister here.”

Ye Lizhu saw a young girl in a pomegranate red dress. The girl was about seventeen or eighteen years old. She was tall and smiling, and she looked shrewd and neat.

A maid said: “This is our princess.”

That is, Tao Meiwen, the second young lady in the Mansion of Chen Wang.

Princess Sirou was also there, Tao Meiwen was born tall and dazzling. Although Princess Sirou was in the middle, Tao Meiwen was still robbed of her brilliance.

Ye Lizhu smiled and said, “I have seen the three princesses and the princess.”

Princess Sirou smiled faintly, Tao Meiwen said: “I didn’t go to the palace for something the day before yesterday. I heard that Sister Ye you are a beauty. Seeing you today, you really live up to your reputation.”

Ye Lizhu said: “The princess praised it.”

Tao Meiwen has a hearty nature, and she said: “I will often play together in the future, just call me Mei’er directly.”

Ye Lizhu nodded and followed Tao Meiwen to the yard.

This yard is very big, with two big peach trees. The peach trees do not bear fruit. The branches and leaves are spreading everywhere. People have long hung all kinds of lanterns on the trees.

The precious ones are glazed lamps and crystal lamps, as well as those that are usually easy to see. The lanterns are made of paper. Some are written with riddles for people to guess, and some are blank, waiting for people to write poems on them.

There were five or six girls playing in the yard. They guessed the riddles and wrote a poem on the lamp from time to time. When strangers came suddenly, one of the girls said, “The princess, this is…”

Tao Meiwen said, “This is the young lady of the Ye family, Wu Ying, haven’t you seen it before?”

Wu Ying’s father is Wu’s elder brother, and Wu Ying is Wu’s niece. After the Wu family was rehabilitated, her elder brother also got a lot of light, and was promoted to an official position in the capital. Although he was a sixth-rank, he still had face.

Wu Ying could not have been able to play with Tao Meiwen. Last year, the Wu family came to the Chen Palace and brought Wu Ying. Wu Ying is a smart driller. Give her a chance. She quickly climbed to Dun Guo Gong’s mansion. Since then, the eldest lady from Dunguo has been in and out of the Chen Palace.

Tao Meiwen’s eyes are higher than the top, and she usually doesn’t like Wu Ying’s status. But the circle is so big, if she deliberately targeted someone, it would be bad for her reputation to spread it out.

Wu Ying had never seen Ye Lizhu. She shook her head and said, “I haven’t been to Ye Mansion to see Sister Ye before. How has Sister Ye been recently?”

Ye Lizhu nodded: “Everything is fine.”

Wu Ying said: “The sky is going to darken, and these lights look brighter. Princess, I heard that you recently choreographed a new dance. Why didn’t you show it?”

Tao Meiwen likes to show up in the crowd the most. She smiled and said, “Okay, all the instruments happen to be there. You guys play music.”

Wu Ying has no talent. She doesn’t know how to write poetry, nor is she good at playing piano or chess. She can play a flute, and many ladies make fun of her behind her back.

Wu Ying thought that Ye Lizhu grew up in a temple since she was a child, and there was no teacher there to teach her to read or write, let alone musical instruments.

If you let others know that Ye Lizhu knows nothing, then others will definitely make fun of Ye Lizhu instead of making fun of her.

Thinking like this, the maid had already fetched your musical instruments. Wu Ying said: “What musical instrument does Sister Ye know?”

Yusha hurriedly said: “Our young lady is in poor health. Today, I can’t play the flute or the piano.”

“That’s it.” Wu Ying pursed her lips and chuckles, “Since she is not healthy, then sister Ye will be a spectator.”

Tao Meiwen also thought that Ye Lizhu grew up in a temple, and maybe she didn’t even know a word, so it was embarrassing for her to let her play a musical instrument.

She relieved Ye Lizhu and said, “How can singing and dancing be lacking in appreciation? Sister Ye is just having her eyes full.”

Ye Lizhu said: “All sisters have musical instruments. Next time I come here, I will bring a piano to play with. I know a little about Danqing, so let me prepare a pen and ink. My sisters have fun, I will paint on the side.”

Tao Meiwen hesitated, she glanced at Princess Silou.

Princess Sirou has always been cowardly and unintentional, she said nothing.

These ladies, which one is not good at Danqing? The family is carefully cultivated, and some of them have a certain appreciation ability even if they can’t paint.

Ye Lizhu grew up in a temple. What famous paintings are there for her to admire? Tao Meiwen was worried that Ye Lizhu had little insight and arrogance, and the things he drew later made people picky, but lost face.

Wu Ying didn’t believe that Ye Lizhu could paint. She said, “That’s right, the princess, you complained last time that we didn’t have enough staff to paint our happy scenes.”

Tao Meiwen had to ask her servant to prepare her pen and ink, thinking that she would compliment first after a while. She opened the praise head, and other people could not belittle her face.

The pen and ink are ready, the sound of orchestral music is magnificent, Tao Meiwen is all gorgeous, dancing lightly under the lamp. She was born tall and slender, and her dancing posture was smart and graceful.

Ye Lizhu was on the opposite side, because the wind started in the evening and the temperature dropped a lot. Ye Lizhu wore a pearl white dress and a light cyan cloak. The ink hair was softly scattered on her shoulders. Although the clothes were very elegant, her The face is very confusing.

At this moment, Ye Lizhu rolled up his sleeves earnestly, moved his wrist lightly, and the nib was dipped in paint, leaving a thick stroke on the paper.

A quarter of an hour later, Tao Meiwen finished his dance, and everyone else handed over the instruments in their hands to the maids of the Chen Palace, and came to see Ye Lizhu’s paintings.

Ye Lizhu’s painting speed is very fast, because the time is short, and there is no detailed description, only a few strokes outline the outline and add a little color.

Although I didn’t describe each person’s facial features in detail, I only outlined the body posture and the color of the clothes, but I can see that each person is different.

She drew the charm of everyone.

Tao Meiwen was obsessed: “Lizhu, who taught you your painting skills?”

With a few strokes, Ye Lizhu mentioned an ancient verse in the blank space: “Golden flower folding hood, the white horse returns late. Dancing with wide sleeves, like a sea of ​​birds coming from the east.”

She stopped writing and said: “When I was bored in the temple, I often painted Buddha statues by myself, and then I painted others, and no one taught me.”

Tao Meiwen smiled and said: “You are really amazing, like us, some people can’t know how to ask the best gentleman to teach.”

It was Wu Ying that she secretly satirized. Just now, Wu Ying preempted Tao Meiwen to speak, and Tao Meiwen was disgusted.

Wu Ying’s complexion was not very good, she took a closer look and said, “Sister Ye is smart, but if she can describe it carefully, it will be fine.”

“Where is there so much time?” Tao Meiwen said, “It’s only a quarter of an hour, so simple painting is good enough.”

Wu Ying didn’t dare to speak any more.

Wu Ying and the girl from the Dunguo family are good, and they usually cheat others. The daughter of the Dunguo family is called Tian Qiao. Seeing Tao Meiwen’s surprise for the new Ye Lizhu, Wuying feels a little bit dissatisfied.

Tian Qiao said: “It’s just that it’s unorthodox. Such paintings won’t make it to the Taiga Hall.”

Hai Tan naturally wouldn’t let others run Ye Lizhu. She said, “It takes Zhou Fang and Zhang Xuan to paint in a quarter of an hour, and they can’t draw so many fine strokes of characters. The girl thinks that our lady is not good at drawing, here’s it for you. In a quarter of an hour, can you draw an elegant painting?”

Tian Qiao really couldn’t. The reason why she stayed with Wu Ying was to find someone to make the bottom, showing that she was not the worst of the ladies.

When a maid talked back, Tian Qiao’s face instantly turned red, her Xing eyes stared at Hai Tan: “You—”

Ye Lizhu smiled and said, “This girl-she doesn’t speak through her head, she offends someone inexplicably. Girl, I will punish her when I go back, and will not let her eat tomorrow morning.”

Ye Lizhu didn’t beat Haitan in front of Tian Qiao, and said lightly that he is not allowed to eat breakfast, which is already an upright protection of shortcomings. This is tantamount to telling everyone that she is not a soft persimmon that anyone can handle.

There will always be a small friction between the girls, and the talk and laughter will pass temporarily.

There are not only lanterns in Tao Meiwen’s yard, but also in the garden outside. There is a large plum grove in the Prince Chen’s Mansion. Plum blossoms are not blooming this season, and the plum trees are full of lights.

Haitan asked Yusha to wait for Ye Lizhu in the yard. She accompanied Ye Lizhu to walk around. As she walked, Haitan said that she had lost her purse and wanted to go back to pick it up. He asked Ye Lizhu to wait for her in the front pavilion.

Ye Lizhu remembered the way back, not worried, she walked to the pavilion, the closer she walked, the brisk footsteps.

She thought to herself, would she meet that man again?

Ti Xiao was indeed in front. He drank a lot of wine with Wang Chen and the others in the afternoon, and waited here for a while, taking a nap with his eyes closed.

Ye Lizhu really thought Tixiao was asleep.

She smelled the smell of alcohol on Ti Xiao, thinking that this person should have come to socialize, and felt that the two of them were a coincidence, and they could all meet each other.

In the cool breeze in the evening, Ti Xiao was wearing a thin black robe, and his figure wrapped in the clothes was very good. He put his hand on the railing at random, revealing a wrist.

Here in the wind, Ye Lizhu worried that Tixiao would be drunk and be blown by the wind, and would get sick later when he woke up. She knows it feels uncomfortable to be sick, and doesn’t want to make you sick.

Ye Lizhu saw that there was no one around, untied his cloak and put it on Tixiao’s body.

Suddenly, Ti Xiao smelled a light peony fragrance.

Ye Lizhu wanted to sit quietly next to the man for a quarter of an hour, then quietly took his cloak and left. Unexpectedly, after she just put on the cloak, the man opened his eyes.

She was taken aback, and her lips parted slightly.

Ye Lizhu’s lips were indeed too gorgeous tonight, and she seemed fuller and more attractive. Ti Xiao pressed Ye Lizhu’s wrist, her voice was cold and deep, “I met you again.”