255. Chapter 255 Entering the palace to paint
Chen Hao has been very leisurely these days. In addition to accompanying several beauties in shopping in a silly manner, he also played with a few people in the mansion, and lived an extremely comfortable life.
During this period, several friends came to visit. Yu Gui, Bai Shiyan and others had a happy chat, and were also pleased that Chen Hao could marry three beauties. Because among the six, although Chen Hao was respected as his brother, Chen Hao was the only one who had not started a family. Now that this brother is about to get married, how can he not make everyone happy?
However, two of these people were very unhappy, one of which was Wang Luozhong. When he was in Jiangling, Wang Luozhong asked Chen Hao to be his brother-in-law. Now, seeing that Chen Hao was about to marry his sister, Wang Luozhong was inevitably a little disappointed.
The second one is Li Yan, the King of Yong who often comes to Chen Hao's mansion. He has no inappropriate thoughts about Li Yan, the three peerless beauties around Chen Hao, but he is thinking about how to tell Li Long. Since the Flower Meeting in Luoyang, Li Yin has seen many clues from Li Long. The two grew up together, how could they not know the emperor's thoughts? It is precisely because of this that Li Yan has a lot of anxiety. Now Chen Hao is about to get married but the bride is not Li Long.
As a prince, Li Yan naturally knew the rules of marriage for royal children. If Chen Hao really married three wives and four concubines, he would lose the qualification to marry a princess. Unless he was in a careless person, he would have no other way. In Li Yan's heart, he hoped that Chen Hao could become his brother-in-law, so that the relationship between the two would be stronger.
Just as Chen Hao and everyone were preparing for lunch, a young father-in-law in the palace disturbed the warm moment. He said that he came to invite Chen Hao into the palace to paint according to the order. Chen Hao thought to himself that Li Chen was really unstoppable. There was a painter in the palace who asked me to do something, but the sage order was difficult to violate, so he had to hurriedly follow his father-in-law to the palace.
When I came to the palace to meet Li Chen and Chen Hao, I realized that this proposal was proposed by Princess Li Long. Chen Hao had no choice but to paint and paint for Li Chen, Concubine Chao and Li Long as Li Chen ordered.
First, he painted for Li Chen. Seeing that Li Chen was sitting upright on the dragon chaise was very tense, Chen Hao couldn't help but be happy and persuaded Li Chen not to do so. However, Li Chen smiled awkwardly. This was the first time he asked the painter to paint, so naturally he didn't want the painting to have flaws because of his mistakes.
Chen Hao was serious about Li Chen's paintings and did not dare to be negligent. If he did not draw well, he would be criticized by people who were wrong. This is why Chen Hao was very helpless about entering the palace this time. Chen Hao's painting speed has long been known to the world, so in less than half a stick of incense, Chen Hao painted Li Chen's portrait well. Li Chen was very satisfied with the paintings painted by Chen Hao and asked Chen Hao to write inscriptions in paintings.
Although Li Chen's proposal came out casually, Chen Hao did not dare to act rashly. Although after entering the palace, Li Chen repeatedly emphasized that regardless of the etiquette of the king and the ministers today, Chen Hao did not dare to be negligent. As the saying goes, accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, and the saint's intention is hard to predict, it is better to be careful.
You should know that although it is a great honor to write inscriptions on the emperor's portrait, Chen Hao felt very frightened. He didn't know whether Li Chen's move was on a whim or a temptation. No matter how he knew, this inscription could never be written.
"The calligraphy of my beloved is nothing except Liu Gong. Why not write inscriptions on my portrait? I don't need to refuse!" Li Chen smiled at Chen Hao with his beard.
"Master, please forgive me for not daring me. How dare I add more illusions to the current image of me?" Chen Hao was forced to kneel on one knee at this moment, begging Li Chen not to make things difficult for him.
Li Chen nodded in agreement when he heard this, but then he changed his mind: "Your dear said so much. Since that's the case, I will give you a magic pen!"
What? Magic Pen? Chen Hao was so glad that he had given Li Chen's understanding, but he was a little confused at this moment. He thought to himself that this emperor was really good at joking, where did the magic pen come from in this world?
Just as Chen Hao was stunned, Li Chen took a golden brush from the eunuch. Then Li Chen handed the golden brush to Chen Hao and said, "This brush is a carefully made brush that I personally promoted to the skilled craftsman in the palace. Today I will send it to my beloved..."
"This..." Chen Hao didn't know what Li Chen's move meant, so he gave him a golden pen for no reason, which was really puzzled.
Seeing Chen Hao's face showing confusion, Li Chen smiled and said, "You may not know that since I was by the pool that day, I praised Youyou's paintings as a stroke of the gods, now all over the country have passed on the strokes of Youyou's paintings. I am very pleased with this. Since this name is born from me, I will naturally give it to perfection. Giving you the golden pen today is worthy of it!"
Chen Hao has heard a little about the rumors about Chang'an recently, but Chen Hao did not take it to heart. However, he did not expect that Li Chen would care so much. Chen Hao didn't know whether he should be happy or worried.
Since Li Chen was so sincere, Chen Hao seemed too pretentious if he refused many times. So he took the golden pen given by Li Chen. After Chen Hao took the golden pen, he carefully observed that the golden pen was not as heavy as Chen Hao thought. The pen tip was purple and thin as a silk thread, and he knew it was the best one at first sight.
With the "magic pen" given by Li Chen, Chen Hao had no more words to shirk, so he could only solemnly engrave the inscription on the portrait. Chen Hao thought about it all over and over, so he left eight words in the middle of the left side of the painting: the beginning of the world and the saint of revival.
Although Li Chen and Chen Hao, the king and minister in the imperial study, were intended to paint, today's dialogue, many years later, when folk storytellers talked about this, they couldn't help but sigh that everything in the world had been determined. Because the name of the temple used after Li Chen died was Xuanzong, but this had an indelible connection with the "Star of Xuantian and the Saint of Revival of Zhongzhong".
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When Chen Hao left the imperial study room, Li Chen smiled on his face as he looked at the painting on the imperial desk, and then naturally said to himself: "This boy is really extremely intelligent!"
The inner guard commander Hei Feng looked suspicious: "The Lord..."
Li Chen pointed to the portrait and said, "It's all in these eight characters!"
Hei Feng looked carefully and thought about it, but he didn't know anything. He thought to himself that this is just praise for being a wise king of Zhongxing? Seeing that Hei Feng was still not clear about his meaning, Li Chen explained: "There is no mystery in this horoscope, and the mystery is in the position of this word!"
Li Chen reminded Hei Feng that something was wrong. Ordinary people generally have two types of characters left inscriptions, but they have never seen them in the middle.
It is understandable if the inscription is then in the middle because of the length of the painting. However, Chen Hao's painting has many blank spaces on the left, but Chen Hao deliberately left no words on the top and bottom, but left this word in the middle, which makes people feel puzzled.
Heifeng's eyebrows were full of thoughts and could not understand what Chen Hao wanted to express, so he said ashamed: "The emperor forgives his sins, his humble position is stupid and he does not understand his intention!"
Chapter completed!