The Princess's Deadly Daily Life

"How long will it take?" Li Xiying wanted to see what a painting that cost ten taels of gold would look like, but he began to doubt her purpose in painting the portrait. He had no evidence to prove that she had any bad intentions, so he could only wait and see for a while.

"Don't worry, it will be quick!" The painter spread the paper on the easel, fiddled with it for a while, and started painting.

Watching her gesturing with one hand and freely painting on the drawing paper, looking at Li Xiying's cheek from time to time, she was full of inspiration and carefully depicted on the paper, as if she was carefully carving a complicated handicraft.

Not sure if it was because of his real skills or if he was just trying to be mysterious, but Li Xiying always had a bad feeling.

After an unbearable half hour, Li Xixiao frowned slightly and asked, "Is the painting finished?"

Many vendors saw that it was almost the hour of You, so they started to pack up their stalls and go home.

The painter painted for another quarter of an hour before he replied with a murmur: "Hmm."

It was a brief, cold and distant sound, completely different from the pleading tone before.

Li Xiying was not angry. After all, the other party had spent money, so she accepted it.

After finishing the painting, the painter looked at his work with satisfaction, glanced at Li Xiying, fiddled with the drawing board for a while, then took out the gold jewelry and handed it to her, which weighed about ten taels, and she was ready to close the stall.

Li Xiwei weighed the gold ornaments in her hand and became curious. This was a painting that she had persisted in for more than half an hour without moving. She had to see if her painting skills had reached the level of perfection, so she pointed to the drawing board in her hand and said, "Can you show it to me?"

The painter's face changed, and she became very frugal with her words, not saying a single word. Li Xiying thought she was just tired and annoyed with painting, and understood why she didn't want to talk.

Although the painter was quite impatient, he still took it off the drawing board and handed it to Li Xiying.

She stretched out her arm to take the drawing paper, her expression gradually changing from curiosity to astonishment, this astonishment almost occupied the first place of her unprecedented second place. She closed her eyes, held her breath for a while, adjusted herself for a while, and then opened them again with trembling eyelashes.

Is this really a painting that she spent almost half an hour on?

Deep, big eyes, with distinct eyelid wrinkles, eyebrows and forehead hair connected to form a dark area, a heart-shaped nose, a large and thin mouth that takes up half of the face, and sharp and uneven teeth...

The entire outline is rough and I really can't see any necessary connection between the portrait and "people"?

It can be said that they are clearly two categories!

Is this a painting of a monkey based on her, or is this a painting of her based on the monkey?

This skill is not as good as the casual graffiti of her maid Amber.

"Are you really a professional painter?" Li Xiying put the painting in her hand back on the stall. It was obvious that the painter was not prepared to listen to her evaluation.

"Ah."

The indifferent attitude made Li Xixiao no longer have the leisure to comment, and he just felt it was ridiculous.

No one would have thought that the great Princess Tang Xing would fall to the point of earning a mere ten gold coins and sitting in front of a third-rate painter to practice portrait painting!

The painter squinted her eyes as she watched Li Xiying leave her sight. She pushed the mechanism on the drawing board downwards, and a painting with wet ink appeared before her eyes. She raised her eyebrows and looked at the work on the drawing board carefully, immersed in the painting.

Every detail of the outline is light and lifelike, and her eyes linger on the eyebrows and eyes of the woman in the painting.

With a delicate forehead and beautiful eyebrows, and a charming smile, he unconsciously touched the cheek of the person in the painting, and gradually lost himself in thought.

Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of Li Xiying's portrait on the stall. The eyes were looking towards the corner not far away, signaling the people there to come over.

This painting was of a monkey that was drawn by a maid based on her imagination. It was originally based on an allusion from the Qin Dynasty about a "monkey in a crown". The monkey was grinning with its teeth bared, which was very funny. The painter threw it on the ground with a look of contempt on her face.

The maid with her face covered by silk cloth who was hiding not far away trotted over.

She picked up the painting from the ground, but heard a cold voice above her head, "I told you to draw a portrait for me. Who told you to draw a monkey? Are you mocking me?"

"I... I dare not." The maid lowered her head and shed silent tears because she was wronged. Seeing that her wife ignored her, she carefully folded the painting and put it into her sleeve.

Then he looked at the portrait on the drawing board, froze in his hands, and belatedly wiped the tears from the silk cloth, "Miss, your painting is so lifelike! The captivating eyebrows, the red lips, the swan-like neck, the graceful figure, are exactly like her, just like the Bodhisattva in heaven... This, I mean, Miss's painting skills are superb!"

"Really?" The painter smiled, with a glimmer of hope in his eyes. He put away the portrait, left the rest of the stall to the maid to clean up, and left leisurely.

The sky gradually darkened. Li Xichen didn't know that this restaurant closed so early! Don't you guys have dinner?

But his restaurant doesn't serve dinner, so he has to go somewhere else to do it.

After wandering around for a long time, I finally arrived at a carriage and horse shop. Fortunately, there was a tavern opposite it.

She looked into the shop with some curiosity and could vaguely see the stable and carriage in the backyard.

After eating, wouldn’t it be nice to hire a car and go back to Luoyang?

Li Xiying resisted the urge to go hungry and walked into the shop. The shopkeeper came over and asked her, "Where do you want to go, sir?"

"Luoyang." Li Xi said.

"Luoyang, OK! Where is your residence? When will you set off? We can arrange for a coachman to drive to your residence to pick up your luggage." The store treats everyone equally, regardless of their wealth. The prices are transparent. As long as you can afford the hire, you are a distinguished guest.

"We'll set off here in half an hour, without any luggage." It was a good opportunity for the innkeeper to feed the horses and for her to have a good meal.

"Okay, sir. Please register and pay the money. We will prepare a strong horse and you can set off in half an hour." The shop owner was very enthusiastic and the service was good.

After paying the money, Li Xixuan went straight to the small tavern opposite. Seeing that the menu was ordinary and there were not many good dishes, he decided not to be picky. As long as he could eat his fill, it would be fine.

When she stepped onto the steps at the door, she was bumped by a child about ten years old.

It was so painful and numb. Before I could recover from the shock, I heard the person chasing me shouting, "Catch the pickpocket! He stole my purse! Catch the pickpocket!"

Pickpocket? She felt in the pockets on both sleeves and found the money was still there.

The one who was chasing and shouting was a woman, running out of breath. The one wearing shoes couldn't catch up with the one without shoes, and the one wearing shoes even fell down in front of Li Xiying: "Ouch, ouch, my money, my money!..."

Looking at the child running away, he was dressed in rags and tattered clothes.

"How much money did he take from you?" Li Xiying asked as he stepped forward to help the woman who had fallen to the ground.

"There were three hundred coins in my purse, and he took them all. How can I explain it when I go back..." The woman sobbed loudly.

I watched the child finally disappear around the corner, took a quick glance and ran away.

At the same time, at the same corner, a familiar figure suddenly came into sight.

Four……

Li Xixiao hurriedly took out the change from the fare from his sleeve and gave it to her: "Don't chase her anymore, just think of it as the child returning it to you. After something like this, you should be careful to keep your money safe next time you go out. I think the child must be starving, so just think of it as a good deed."

She couldn't wait for the woman to thank her, so she hurriedly ran to a corner in the opposite direction, hid by the wall, and slowly poked her head out to look.

It really is Fourth Uncle!