The son-in-law is too shy

Li Qiushuang led Xu Huai'an back to the Fengyi Palace from the side of the imperial garden, it was still early, the queen would not have gone to the banquet so early.

Sure enough, as soon as he stepped into Fengyi Palace, he saw the palace people in Fengyi Palace busy.

"Your Highness, son-in-law." When he saw Li Qiushuang and the two of them, he walked forward and saluted with a smile: "Your Majesty is waiting inside."

"Thank you, auntie." Li Qiushuang thanked her with a nod, and the two entered the apse.

Zhang Qingnian had already packed everything up properly, and when she saw the two of them coming, she pulled Li Qiushuang to chat and laugh.

"Look, Shuang'er, this is an agate sent from the Western Regions, do you like it?" Zhang Qingnian smiled while pulling Li Qiushuang to point to a box of colorful beads.

Li Qiushuang never liked these beautiful things, she shook her head and said with a smile: "This is a birthday present for your mother, how can my daughter take it?"

Zhang Qingnian glanced lightly and said, "You, everything is fine, but you are too plain."

After finishing speaking, he glanced at Xu Huai'an and said, "Hui'an, come here."

"Mother's Queen." Seeing Zhang Qingnian calling her, Xu Huai'an walked in front of her.

Zhang Qingnian took out a finger wrench made of suet white jade from the side and handed it to Xu Huai'an with a smile: "These are all women's things, but I want to leave this finger wrench to you. You married Shuang'er only as the emperor's." Reward, I haven't prepared a gift for you yet, but this time, I will make it up for you with flowers and Buddha offerings, I only wish you and Shuang'er happiness and happiness."

Xu Huai'an didn't refuse when he heard the words, he just smiled and said: "I have thanked my mother."

"You don't need to be formal." Zhang Qingnian smiled, which made Xu Huai'an a little bit unbearable.

If Zhang Qingnian knew that she and Li Qiushuang were just acting and not really affectionate, I'm afraid she would be very sad.

Li Qiushuang seemed to be aware of it, so she reminded, "Queen Mother, the time is coming soon."

Zhang Qingnian glanced at the hourglass not far away, and said, "Look, I'm busy talking to you, come here."

"Your Majesty." Ning Zhu walked in and said, "The chariot is ready, Your Royal Highness can accompany you."

"En." Zhang Qingnian nodded in satisfaction and said, "Let's go."

When the queen's phoenix chariot arrived, all the people in the imperial garden had already arrived, and with a singing salute, all the people in the imperial garden bowed their luggage.

"Empress Empress Jin An."

Zhang Qingnian sat in the first seat. Li Qiushuang was her eldest daughter and was loved by her and Emperor Wen. This person was at the bottom right of Zhang Qingnian, and the one sitting at the bottom left of Zhang Qingnian was the imperial concubine Xue Ling.

"Get up, you don't have to be restrained today." Zhang Qingnian waved her hand and smiled.

"Yes." Then everyone stood up and took their seats.

Xu Huai'an clearly sensed the scrutiny from the noble concubine, she raised her head, met Xue Ling's probing gaze, finally pursed her lips, and did not speak.

For the queen's birthday banquet, Emperor Wen personally ordered the troupe of Liyuan to perform, and the performers were all famous actors in Beijing.

A stage not far away was singing, babbling, babbling, Xu Huaian seldom listened to opera, this time he found it interesting.He couldn't help asking Li Qiushuang in a low voice what drama the people on the stage sang.

"The name of the play sung on the stage is called "The Peony Pavilion", and it's just about the love between two people." Li Qiushuang was not interested in this, but the queen is her mother, and she understood a little bit through her ears and eyes when she was young, so look at it Answer at a glance.

Xu Huai'an nodded, but his mind was not on the opera.

Today, more than half of the women's family members of the official's family came, Xu Huai'an glanced and saw Mrs. Xu's family sitting not far away, but she happened to meet his eyes.

After an opera was sung, along with the applause, the charming voice could be heard.

"Sister Qianqiu today, sister, I specially prepared a gift for my sister, I hope my sister likes it." Xue Ling got up, patted the hand dyed with bright red Koudan, and then a maid came with something, covered with red silk, I don't know What a treasure.

Zhang Qingnian smiled: "My sister has a heart, I don't know what kind of treasure it is."

Xue Ling stood up leisurely and walked to the side of the maid, said with a smile: "I'll ask my sister to have a look."

After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand and tore off the red silk, revealing the things underneath, which made everyone present gasp in amazement.

It is a coral composed of several pearls, its appearance is luxurious and lovable.

"This is the South Sea Pearl Coral. The concubine specially ordered someone to make it and dedicated it to my sister. I hope my sister likes it." Xue Ling laughed.

Zhang Qingnian smiled and said: "I am very happy with this thing, my sister has a heart."

Xue Ling said with a smile: "Sister likes it."

After saying that, he bowed and returned to his seat.Led by Xue Ling, concubines from all palaces came forward to give gifts one after another, and the female relatives of each family were no exception.

When it was almost delivered, I heard Xue Ling speak.

"A few days ago, I saw His Highness the Third Highness and the Third Consort entering the Palace talking about giving sister a birthday gift. I think it was carefully prepared. I don't know what kind of gift it is."

Li Qiushuang's expression froze. There were too many things during this time. She had forgotten that she met Xue Ling that day. Now that Xue Ling mentioned it, she was unprepared. embarrassing situation.

Li Qiushuang was thinking about how to solve it, but she heard Xu Huai'an whispering in his ears.

"Can Your Highness order the palace servants to prepare painting tools?"

There was some surprise in Li Qiushuang's eyes, she turned her head to look at Xu Huai'an and whispered: "Are you painting now? Can you make it in time?"

Xu Huai'an looked at her, smiled warmly, her eyes were full of confidence, she pursed her lips and said, "Your Highness believes me."

Li Qiushuang was stunned for a moment, seeing her rare confidence, finally nodded, waved her hand to call Ning Zhu, and whispered something in her ear.

Seeing this, Xu Huai'an bent her lips, stood up and cupped her hands at Xue Ling and said with a smile: "Unexpectedly, the words I said at the beginning can be remembered by the empress until now, and I am very flattered."

Xue Ling covered her lips and said with a smile: "The third son-in-law is someone His Royal Highness puts on top of his heart, so I naturally have to write down what I said."

Xu Huai'an bent his lips and smiled, at this moment, many palace people came in with tables, chairs, paper and pens, and put them in the center.

Under the curiosity of everyone, Xu Huai'an came out, stood in front of Zhang Qingnian and cupped his hands and said: "Mother, the minister and His Highness had discussed drawing a painting for the mother, and His Royal Highness felt that it would be too much to give only the painting. It's simple, the ministers discussed with His Royal Highness that we might as well paint on the spot, so that there will be a little more surprise in it, so the palace servants sent these."

Hearing this, Zhang Qingnian's puzzled face turned into a smile, she nodded and said with a smile, "My son-in-law has a heart."

Hearing this, Xu Huai'an saluted with a smile: "Maybe please wait for a moment."

Li Qiushuang was a little surprised, what could Xu Huaian draw with a stick of incense?How can an ordinary painter take half an hour, how can it be possible to paint a picture with a stick of incense?

Xu Huai'an didn't say much anymore, he walked directly to the table placed by the palace servants, spread out the rice paper, picked up a brush and ink, and began to draw.

Everyone looked at Xu Huai'an curiously, wondering what Xu Huai'an could draw in this short time.

Li Qiushuang was no exception, her eyes fell on Xu Huai'an's cheeks, seeing his focused expression, she couldn't help being a little dazed.

She suddenly felt that she knew very little about Xu Huai'an, what kind of person Xu Huai'an was, what secrets she had, whether she was really weak and incompetent or whether she was hiding her edge, she didn't know all of this.

She began to be a little curious about Xu Huai'an, she wondered how many unexpected things Xu Huai'an could bring her.

The time for a stick of incense is not long or short, and when the last bit of incense burns out, Xu Huai'an also stops writing, she glances at the painting, bends her lips, puts the pen aside and looks up at Zhang Qingnian, saying: "After returning to mother, Chen Huai'an It's over."

"Oh?" Zhang Qingnian obviously didn't expect Xu Huaian to finish the painting. She had already thought about how she would speak up to help him out, but she never thought that Xu Huaian would do what she said, so she couldn't help saying: "Let me see." Look."

Ning Zhu responded, walked to the table with a little maid, nodded at Xu Huai'an and glanced at the painting on the table, but couldn't help but gasped.

She and the little maid looked at each other, not daring to be negligent, and quickly took the painting and showed it to Zhang Qingnian.

Zhang Qingnian looked at the painting, and was shocked at the same place with just one glance. Li Qiushuang and Xue Ling were so close, so they naturally saw what was presented in the painting. Looking at it like a treasure, she never imagined that Xu Huai'an's painting skills are so high.

The person in that painting is Zhang Qingnian, but with a few strokes, it is already lifelike. The person in the painting looks graceful, luxurious, generous and decent, and his eyes are full of majesty, very vivid.

Zhang Qingnian nodded in satisfaction, and said repeatedly: "Okay, okay, okay!"

The queen said hello three times, which made the other concubines and women who hadn't seen the painting even more curious, wanting to see how this incense stick painting made the queen like it so much.

Zhang Qingnian waved his hand, motioning Ningzhu to show it to everyone, Ningzhu understood and the little palace maid turned around to show the painting to everyone, and then they heard gasps of amazement.

Everyone looked at Xu Huai'an's expression changed, except for Zhao Ying who whispered "Stunning", there was no voice of doubt.

Zhang Qingnian nodded and said with a smile: "My son-in-law's painting skills are vivid, I am very happy, Ningzhu, I will frame this painting after I go back, I will watch it every day."

"Yes." Ning Zhu replied with a smile.

"The queen mother likes it, and the minister is very happy. May the queen mother be happy and worry-free from now on, and be safe every year." Xu Huai'an said again.

"Well, good." Zhang Qingnian nodded with a smile.

Xu Huaian bowed and stepped back, returned to his seat, and met Li Qiushuang's probing eyes.

"I have never known that the consort's painting skills are so amazing." Li Qiushuang had a faint smile on his face.

Xu Huai'an was different just now when he was in high spirits, but now he was a bit shy and restrained, she smiled embarrassedly and said: "I used to paint a lot when I had nothing to do at home, but after a long time, my skills are not very good, and this painting can still make a fool of myself."

Li Qiushuang smiled and said: "Thanks to the son-in-law today, otherwise I don't know how that Concubine Xue made things difficult, I thank you in advance."

Xu Huai'an hurriedly said: "Your Highness, don't do this, if it wasn't what I said at the beginning, I'm afraid it wouldn't have happened, Your Highness doesn't need to thank you."

Li Qiushuang smiled, but she didn't argue with Xu Huai'an any more, she just said: "Okay, let's not talk about this, the lunch will be delivered later, although you are late for breakfast, you still use some."

"Yes." Xu Huaian replied.

The voices of the two of them are very low, so no one knows what they are talking about. Just looking at the expressions of the two of them, they can only feel that they are loving and enviable.