The next day in the painting class, the Master commented on the paintings of several people.

Su Lingyin's paintings ranked first, and she painted them vividly. A group of fish seemed to be alive in her pen, and received praise from the Master. Then the second one. The Master picked up another painting, paused for a long time, and said with emotion: "Miss Nine's painter has improved a lot."

Su Lingrong was stunned and immediately gave Su Xi an incredible look.

Yes, in the past, Su Lingyin was the first in painting classes, and she was firmly ranked second. Now Su Xi’s paintings are second, so it’s no wonder Su Lingrong can’t calm down!

Then, the Master announced the remaining few, Su Lingrong was third, Su Lingran was fourth, and Su Lingyun was last.

Su Lingrong raised her hand and said, "Teacher, can we take a look at Sister Ninth's painting?"

The master taught the painting to post the paintings of the five people one by one. Su Lingrong and Su Lingyun came to Su Xi’s desk to watch Su Xi’s paintings.

I have to say that the paintings made by Su Xi are indeed a bit interesting. She knows her shortcomings very well, so she does not draw large-scale fish pictures like her fourth cousin Su Lingyin. She only picked two distinctive carp, one red and one gold, two carp chased each other, and opened their round fish mouths to compete for food. The picture was vivid and lively, making people want to sprinkle fish food into the fish mouth so that they would not compete for it.

Su Lingrong suddenly disappeared. She thought that the Master had taken a look away, but when she saw it, she felt that Su Xi was doing well. But she was still a little dissatisfied. After the painting class was gone, she tore her paintings into pieces and threw them into a pool in front of Jiusi Bookstore.

Su Lingyun comforted: "Fifth sister, don't be angry. Sister Xi is just taking advantage of the tricks. If you draw well this time, you may not beat you next time. Besides, what's the use of just drawing? In piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, this painting can be ranked last."

Usually, Su Lingyun ranked fourth and Su Xi ranked last. Now Su Xi has jumped to second place, and Su Lingyun has become the last place, so she naturally feels unhappy.

Little did she know that this sentence had a slight point in Su Lingrong. Su Lingrong was not Fu Yi, but Fu Yi was good at chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, songs, and essays. The only thing Su Lingrong could do was to paint and memorize. And she could recite the memorization after reading it privately at night. Now that she heard Su Lingyun's words, Su Lingrong glared at her fiercely and said, "Shut up." She left with great strides.

Su Lingyun offended her somewhere, so she chased her and said, "Fifth Sister, wait for me."

*

Here, Su Lingyin, Su Lingran and Su Xi walked out of the study together. Su Lingyin said: "Youyou painted so well this time. Even I can't draw such charm. I didn't expect you to make such great progress."

Su Xi knew that Su Lingyin was modest, her paintings were always exquisite, and her own paintings were nothing in front of her.

Su Lingran was not interested in painting and piano, and didn't want to talk about this, so she suggested: "Fifth brother gave me a cat with blue eyes and white hair yesterday. It's so beautiful. Do you want to see it? I'll take it out and let's play."

Su Xi has loved cats and dogs since she was a child. When she heard this, her eyes lit up and she nodded.

Su Lingran asked them to wait in the backyard pavilion. She went back to the house and hugged the cat. Su Xi was not in a hurry to go back to the house, so she went to the backyard of the Governor's Mansion with Su Lingrong. After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, Su Lingran hurriedly came with the cat in her arms.

The cat was indeed beautiful, with no hair on her body, as if she had just rolled through the snow. Su Xi fell in love with it as soon as she saw it, took a piece of milk cake from the maid and broke it, and fed it to the kitten. Soon the cat became familiar with Su Xi, and circled around her feet from time to time, and stuck out her tongue to gently lick Su Xi's palm.

Su Lingran smiled and said, "This cat and Sister Xi are really in love."

Su Xi asked, “Does it have a name?”

Su Lingran shook her head and said, "I only got it yesterday, and I haven't had time to name it."

Su Xi thought about it, her almond eyes were curved like two crescent moons, "Sister Ba, what do you think you call Tang Xueqiu?"

Su Lingran tasted it twice and praised: "This name is good, just call it this name. Sister Xi, you are so good at naming." Are snow and Tang both white? In addition, this cat is round and the name "Sugar Snowball" is very suitable for it.

The three little girls sat in the pavilion for a while, and Tang Xueqiu ran out unhonestly. Su Xi stood up to chase him, but he didn't expect that the cat looked round and ran slowly. Su Xi chased after him for a while, but still couldn't catch up. But in the blink of an eye, the cat disappeared without a shadow.

Su Xi walked on a small path and searched around: "Sugar Snowball?"

A thin and low "Miwu" came from above her head. Su Xi looked up and saw Tang Xueqiu lying on the branch of the plum tree, staring at her with her azure blue eyes. Although the plum tree was not high, Su Xi was lying on Tang Xueqiu lying. Su Xi raised her hands and called out: "Tang Xueqiu, come down quickly."

Tang Xueqiu was unmoved and called out to her twice. Su Xi then realized that its posture was strange. After looking carefully, it turned out that the cat was too fat and its body was stuck between the two branches. It was not that it didn't want to get down, but that it couldn't get down!

Su Xi turned around and wanted to ask the maid to help, but she threw Tingyan Tinghe away when she chased Tang Xueqiu. The two of them had not yet found it. There was no way, Su Xi had to tiptoe enough. Her hand was only half a palm away from the cat's body. It was this half palm that made Su Xi not enough for a long time.

Tang Xueqiu's voice became weaker and weaker. Su Xi felt anxious and jumped up. Her hands finally held Tang Xueqiu's body and successfully rescued it.

Tang Xueqian meowed and rushed towards Su Xi's neck. Su Xi was hit by it and took several steps back, her lips bent slightly, and she smiled and said, "Look at whether you dare to go to such a high place next time..." It was just that one sentence had not been said in full, Su Xi glanced at the person standing diagonally opposite, and was stunned. The second half of the sentence was swallowed back into her stomach by her.

The soft and smiling voice suddenly stopped and the atmosphere suddenly became silent.

*

Wei Qi stood under a pear tree, wearing a moon-white embroidered gold treasure chest pattern, perhaps because it was quite hidden, Su Xi never noticed him, and didn't know when he would stand there. At this moment, Su Xi was holding a cat in her arms, and the smile on her lips did not have time to put away, and stood there. For a moment, she didn't know whether to go forward to say hello or pretend not to see it.

How could Wei Lu be in his second grandfather’s mansion?

Su Xi bit her lip, and after hesitation, she missed the best time to turn around and leave.

Wei Xu's face was calm, his eyes drooped slightly, and fell on Su Xi's wrist.

Just now, in order to reach the cat, her sleeves slid to half, revealing half of her arm. The skin was so white that it was shaking the eyes, like tender bamboo shoots, which made the turquoise jade bracelet on her wrist look a lot brighter and brighter. In just a moment, Wei Yu remembered the closed window between Riyu and Lou, the hand that closed the window was wearing the same jade bracelet.

Su Xi followed his gaze and looked down, her face changed slightly, and she quickly pulled her sleeves to cover her arm. Now she pretended that she didn't see it anymore. Su Xi nodded slightly to him, saying hello, and then she was about to leave.

Anyway, she didn't know Wei Hu's identity at this time, so naturally she didn't need to be polite.

Unexpectedly, the cousin Su Xu came out of nowhere and came up and said, "Tingzhou, I have been looking for you for a long time, why have you come here?"

The Weiting Zhou is the word "wei".

Wei Shi withdrew his gaze and said in a low voice: "Seeing that the pear blossoms are blooming well here, come and have a walk."

Su Xu smiled softly, "I don't know you still like pear blossoms. If the servant hadn't seen you standing here for a long time, I'm afraid I wouldn't have found this place."

Su Xu is the eldest son of the Governor's Office. This year, the eighteenth year, as big as Su Xi's second brother Su Zhi. After Su Xu approached, he saw Su Xi standing a few steps away and was slightly surprised, "Sister Xi is here too?"

Su Xi was afraid that Su Xu would misunderstand, so she raised the fat cat in her arms and explained: "I'm here to find Sister Eight's cat, cousin."

Speaking of this, she remembered what Su Xu said just now. If Wei Lu had really stood here for a long time, he would have seen her hard work and she had to watch her. He actually watched her jump up and down, and stood by and watched?

If this is true, Su Xi thought silently that this person is still as inhumane as when he was a child.

Su Xu knew it and then smiled and said, "Since that's the case, you must have met Tingzhou." He said, "Tingzhou is the prince of the Prince Qi's Mansion, and his biological mother, Princess Qi, and my mother are sisters. You should call Tingzhou a cousin."

Wei Qing's biological mother, Princess Xue, died seven years ago. Now Princess Yuan of Qi is supported by her side concubine. Therefore, this cousin is really a perfect match. She thought so in her heart, but Su Xi said obediently, "Cousin Tingzhou."

Su Xi has learned this very well from Yin since childhood. No matter what occasion she faces, no matter how unwelcome people she doesn't like, she can show off her excellent demeanor and pretend to be well-behaved and sensible in front of others.

Of course, it would be even better if it weren't for the incident of the turquoise bean cake when I was a child.

Wei Qing looked at her and replied slowly, "Cousin Xi."

Su Xi must not know that although her expression was sincere and her smile was just right, her round almond eyes could not deceive people. A hint of reluctance flashed through her eyes, and it was very fast. Then the black and bright almond eyes bent, and the thick eyelashes blinked like butterflies, and the reluctance disappeared. It was probably because it was just enough to reach the cat. The little girl's face was flushed, her facial features were already delicate, and her every frown and smile could be drawn into the painting. When she looked at people with her big eyes, she was even more cute than the cat in her arms.

Su Xu seemed to suddenly remember something and said, "When I came out with Tingzhou, I met Master Qiu who taught painting. Master Qiu praised your painting skills for being very beneficial. Master Qiu has always been strict, but I haven't seen him praise people like this for a long time. It makes me more and more curious about what Sister Ninth has painted."

Su Xi didn't expect that the painter would praise Su Xu, and Wei Shi heard it. Su Xi knew what his painting was, and it was a little appreciated between them and sisters. If it was placed in front of the talented Wei Shi, it would be purely a show of its own skills.

Su Xi said: "It's just a picture of Pisces playing in the water. Master Qiu praised it. The paintings drawn by the fourth sister are very good."

Su Xu agreed with this. Yin Jie'er's paintings have always been the most vivid, but he didn't look down on Su Xi. "If Tingzhou was not good at painting landscapes, it was not suitable for your girl's home, otherwise you could ask Tingzhou for advice."

Su Xi has seen "The Picture of the High Mountains and Flowing Water" painted by Wei Qing. It has been spread from Qizhou to Shangjing, which shows how many people are following it. It is indeed a good painting, with a magnificent meaning between the flowing clouds and the flowing water. A painting reveals a leisurely and comfortable attitude towards life on paper.

Su Xi subconsciously looked at Wei Xun beside him. Seeing Wei Xun's face light, she neither said she agreed nor disagree. However, people like Wei Xun who are cold and inaccessible should not like others to cause trouble for him, right? Su Xi said tactfully: "No need, thank you cousin and cousin Tingzhou for their kindness. Mr. Qiu's painting skills are also very good. I can learn a lot by following him."

Just then Tingyan and Tinghe came here. Su Xi said goodbye to the two of them and left with Tang Xueqiu in her arms.

*

Tingyan and Tinghe saw the two young men standing far away and couldn't help but worry, "Girl, who are you with..."

Su Xi said frankly: "I just found Tang Xueqiu and said a few words to my cousin. Why are you here?"

With a relaxed sentence, he didn't even mention the Wei Shi, so he threw the question to Tingyan and the others.

Tingyan, Tinghe really admitted his mistake: "It's all bad for me. I've taken the wrong path for a while. Isn't it okay for a girl?"

Su Xi said it was okay and walked towards the pavilion.

As I walked, I somehow thought of Weishi again.

Su Xi not only knew why the emperor suddenly summoned the King of Qi back to Beijing, but also knew that the world would change its ownership in a few years. Now the emperor's descendants were thin and there was only one prince Wei Hong under his knees. Unfortunately, Wei Hong was deaf and dumb, and it was difficult to ascend to the throne. The throne could not be passed on to a person who could not speak or listen to him. So the censors began to think of ways to either the emperor quickly gave birth to a prince, or choose a talented crown prince from the descendants of the princes. Regarding the former, the emperor is in his forty years and nearly fifty people, and it is really difficult to have another one. Moreover, the emperor's health is becoming increasingly deficient and the conditions are not allowed. In this way, the only one who can consider is the latter.

Emperor Zhaoyuan now has only two brothers living, one is Wei Liankun, the other is Wei Wang of Yu Wang, and the other is Wei Yuanzhang.

The King of Qi had three legitimate sons and the King of Yu had two. The position of crown prince would be chosen among these five people in the future.

Emperor Zhaoyuan did not want too many people to know about this, and planned to secretly observe these five people for a while before making a decision. Therefore, not many people knew the inside story, and perhaps even King Qi and King Yu themselves were not aware of it.

This time when the vassal king returned to the capital, most people only paid attention to King Qi and ignored King Yu because Prince Wei's light was too strong.

The final result of the establishment of the crown prince was both reasonable and unexpected by many people.
Chapter completed!