After rolling the paintings haphazardly, Su Peisheng said with an uneasy look on his face: "What's wrong with Tang Yin's paintings? If you just go around an antique shop, there will be ten or eight fake paintings."
"Fake painting?" Sixi looked at him suspiciously. Just as he was about to say more, the young eunuch had already made tea and came over. Su Peisheng said hurriedly: "Why don't you bring the tea to the emperor quickly?"
After Su Peisheng continued to push and talk, Sixi had no choice but to suppress the doubts in her heart and bring the tea in first. When Su Peisheng came out again, Su Peisheng had disappeared. The more Sixi thought about it, the more something was wrong, so she took advantage of her free time to go to Su Peisheng.
Walk to the house where you live.
Su Peisheng's window was open, and Si Xi could see that he was in the room, looking carefully at the unfolded painting with a mesmerized expression.
Si Xi didn't knock on the door, just pushed the door open and went in. Su Peisheng inside was startled, and he quickly put the painting away. When he saw clearly that it was Si Xi, he frowned and said, "What are you doing here? The emperor doesn't need it."
Waiting?"
"Don't worry about this. Let me ask you, is this painting an authentic work by Tang Yin?" Sixi's words made Su Peisheng's eyes flash. He put the painting behind his back and said, "I already told you it was a fake. Why are you still asking so many questions?"
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Sixi stared at him and said, "If it's a fake, why do you have to look at it so seriously and be so nervous? Tell me, where did this authentic painting come from?"
Su Peisheng became angry when he asked him, and raised his voice: "Zhang Sixi, what do you mean, interrogating the prisoner? Not to mention that I am only one level lower than you, but you and I are under the same master, and I am better than you
You should not have spoken to me in this tone after following me for half a year."
Si Xi also felt that she had been a little too aggressive just now, so she softened her tone and said, "I just want to know where did you get this authentic painting?"
"It has nothing to do with you." Su Peisheng's words were acknowledging that this painting was Tang Yin's original work, not a fake as he had always emphasized before.
"Pei Sheng, it is precisely because you and I are under the same master that I should call you senior brother, so I have to ask you where the painting comes from. No one would throw away such a painting casually even in the palace, let alone
I won't just let you pick it up. Tell me the truth, who gave it to me."
Su Peisheng was a little annoyed by his question and said, "As long as I didn't steal it, why are you asking so many questions?"
Si Xi thought about it carefully and said, "Did some noble lady give it to you?" Seeing that Su Peisheng didn't say anything, she knew that she had guessed right, and said angrily: "You have forgotten what the master said before, let's
They are people who are close to the emperor and cannot get too close to the masters and ladies in the harem, especially they cannot take their things."
Su Peisheng curled his lips and said disapprovingly: "Don't tell the truth. Neither the master nor you have received the money rewarded by the masters in the harem."
Si Xi pulled him over and said, "Yes, I took their silver, but it was all broken silver. Can it be the same as your painting? All the silver together is not half of your painting."
Peisheng, tell me honestly, who gave it to you and why?"
Under his repeated questioning, Su Peisheng said impatiently: "I'll keep it if someone gives it to me. In short, I didn't steal or rob, it's just and aboveboard."
Si Xi said angrily: "If you were really upright, you wouldn't be so afraid that I would see it and pretend to be a fake. You are just afraid that I would tell the emperor about it. The emperor never likes us to be too close to the concubine. Once he knows
, I will never spare you."
"That's enough!" Su Peisheng's face sank and he said coldly: "Zhang Sixi, don't pretend to be arrogant to me. Aren't you getting close to the concubine?"
Si Xi's heart skipped a beat and she said, "Of course I don't."
Su Peisheng put the painting on the table and sneered: "You can deceive others but you can't deceive me. We have been trained by a master since we were twelve years old. It has been almost ten or twenty years now. That's right.
It sounds ugly, but I know exactly how many worms you have in your stomach."
"What on earth do you want to say?" Now it was Sixi's turn to feel uncomfortable and avoid Su Peisheng's gaze.
Seeing him like this, the sneer at the corner of Su Peisheng's mouth became more obvious, and he said word by word: "What is your relationship with Mo'er in Concubine Xi's palace?"
Si Xi tried hard to suppress her heart that was beating wildly because of his words: "Mo'er has already left the palace, what does it have to do with me?"
Yesterday, Concubine Xi sent someone to see him and told him why she had to arrange for Mo'er to leave the palace. She also asked him to properly arrange and take care of Mo'er so that she would not be wronged.
"Is there nothing to do after leaving the palace? Zhang Sixi, you can deceive others, but you can't deceive me. You and that Mo'er have been flirting with each other for a long time. Two days ago, you were flirting with her in front of the Yangxin Palace. You really didn't think I was watching.
Are you there? I’m just thinking about all of you, our fellow apprentices,
I just didn't expose you, but I never thought that you would come here to investigate if you caught me doing something wrong. Yes, this painting was rewarded by Hui Gui, so what, Hui Gui knew that I loved calligraphy and painting, so he sent this painting to me.
Is it wrong to give it to me?"
"Hui Gui, you...did you go to see her just now?" Sixi finally asked about the origin of the painting, but she didn't feel relaxed at all. Instead, her mood became more solemn, "There must be a reason why she rewarded you with such a precious painting.
Tell me, what did she ask you?"
"No comment." Su Peisheng replied coldly, "You should mind your own business. I know that Xiao Dengzi left the palace yesterday, and you sent him out. As for why, you must know better than me.
.In short, you don’t interfere with me, and I won’t interfere with you. Let’s each mind our own business.”
Xiao Dengzi is a little eunuch under Sixi. He is smart and obedient. Sixi entrusts him with many things. Yesterday, after knowing the true intention of Concubine Xi to send Mo'er out of the palace, she asked Xiao Dengzi to quietly leave the palace.
Mo'er was placed in the house and checked to see if there was anything missing. Unexpectedly, not only did Su Peisheng know about this, but he also guessed his intention.
"Pei Sheng, I'm doing this for your own good, so don't be so stubborn. If you take other people's things, you have to do things for them. But our rightful owner is the emperor. If you accept things from noble Hui like this, what if the emperor lets you down?"
If you know, you know what the consequences will be."
Su Peisheng said disapprovingly: "As long as you don't say it, no one will know."
"Pei Sheng, why can't you listen to my advice? I am also doing it for your own good..." Before he could finish his words, Su Peisheng interrupted him bitterly, "If you really do it for my own good, you shouldn't be here."
Chatter, you and I were taught by the same master, and I am still your senior brother, but as a result, you became the chief internal officer, someone who can go to court with the emperor. As for me, I am nothing. I can’t even go to court with the emperor.
All the qualifications for the dynasty
No! Although I don’t understand why this is the case, but since you are my junior brother, no matter how unhappy I am, I will not care about you. But the result is that I only took Hui Guiren’s painting, and you had so many words.
, after all, you just can’t see that I’m better than you.” Su Peisheng became angrier as he spoke, and couldn’t help but raise his voice later on. Fortunately, there was no one nearby, otherwise he had to be heard.