Bai Shan affirmed: "Something must have happened in Beijing, and it must be related to His Majesty and the Crown Prince, otherwise Mr. Wang would not have written us a letter."
"The fact that he didn't write means that if he writes to us at this time, whether it's greetings or business matters, it may not be good for us or the prince, so he doesn't say or write anything."
Zhou Man muttered, "But when we return to the capital and live under the same roof, can those people still stare at Mr. Zhuang and not talk to me?"
Bai Shan nodded her nose and said with a smile: "We still need to do some superficial work. Okay, let's rest quickly. We will be on the road in a few days, so we need to have a good rest these days."
Bai Shan reached out and touched her belly, "You have suffered this time."
Zhou Man said nonchalantly: "Although Jingzhong urged me to return to Beijing early, it didn't give me a time limit. I'll go back all the way in a carriage. I won't be too tired. Don't worry."
Bai Shan took the person into his arms and said, "When you get back to the capital, write me a letter to say you are safe."
Zhou Man agreed, looked up at him in his arms, smiled slightly and said: "I will write you a letter. When I return to Beijing, I will pick up my painting skills. After I learn it, I will draw you my self-portrait. If you miss me
Yes, just look at my paintings."
Bai Shan couldn't help but laugh, "How long will it take for you to learn how to draw well?"
"Why don't I paint it for you now," Bai Shan said softly, "It will save the servants who deliver the letter the hard work of having to go back and forth to deliver the painting to us."
Bai Shan did what he said, and the next day he took advantage of the good weather and came back from work for a long time to find Zhou Man and drag him to the garden to paint.
Zhou Man wore new clothes. Jiulan also specially gave Zhou Man a unique hairstyle and put on several pieces of jewelry that she would never touch normally.
Bai Shan squinted his eyes as he put on lipstick and walked out of the house facing the sunshine.
Seeing him looking at her blankly, Zhou Man reached out and waved in front of him, "Come back to your senses."
Bai Shan came back to his senses, his ears were slightly red, and he looked away involuntarily. After a while, he turned back to look at her, took her hand and said: "I have people prepare pens, inks, paper and inkstones in the open pavilion of the garden. Let's go."
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Zhou Man agreed, and they went to the garden hand in hand.
Just for a while, Bai Shan peeked at her seven or eight times. Zhou Man couldn't help but reached out and touched the jewelry on his temples, "Is it crooked?"
"No," Bai Shan shook his head and said, "It's very beautiful."
Zhou Man thought thoughtfully, "Is that because I rarely dress up, so I was stunned?"
Bai Shan pursed his lips and smiled, with a flash of light in his eyes, and nodded: "It's rare, except when we got married, and I only saw you dressed like this when I went to the palace to attend the palace banquet during the Chinese New Year, but it's still different."
"What's different?"
Bai Shan stopped and turned around to look at her seriously. He looked at her up and down several times, then stared at her face and said, "It's just different. You'll know when I draw it."
Zhou Man: "Tricking me?"
Bai Shan shook his head, "If you don't believe it, just ask me to tell you that she used to be as pretty as a hibiscus, but now she has a peach blossom face and shines like a spring flower."
As thick-skinned as Zhou Man, he couldn't help but blush at this moment, even his neck was red. He couldn't say a word and lowered his head slightly, but he couldn't help but turn up the corners of his mouth.
Bai Shan smiled when he saw it and took Zhou Man to open the pavilion to paint.
Bai Shan was very attentive to this painting. He started painting it when the sun was shining and slowly painted it into the evening. Bai Jingxing's children searched for them all over the house. When they finally found them, their father ignored her, so she could only rely on her mother.
I couldn't help but raise my little head to look at her.
Zhou Man picked her up, sat her on his knees, and asked with a smile, "What are you looking at?"
Bai Jingxing hugged her neck and looked at her seriously, "Mother, you are so beautiful."
Zhou Man's eyes sparkled and he whispered: "If it looks good, I will wear it for you often in the future."
The child Bai Jingxing nodded repeatedly.
Bai Shan, who was painting on the side, frowned and said to Zhou Man: "It takes a long time to change clothes and dress up. She is naughty and it is difficult to dress her up, so let's forget it."
Zhou Man pursed his lips and smiled, "Then when you return to Beijing, you can dress up with me."
Bai Shan smiled, nodded and said, "Yes, I won't be afraid of her being naughty when I take her with me."
Bai Jingxing looked at her father, then at her mother, and immediately complained: "I'm not naughty, I'm very good."
No one believed this, even Bai Shan, who loved his daughter, couldn't do it without conscience.
Bai Shan finished adding to the painting and looked at the bright-eyed man in the painting. He couldn't help but look up at Zhou Man and smiled, "Does it look like him to you?"
Zhou Man looked at himself in the painting with some disbelief, "Is this me?"
Bai Shan turned around and ordered: "Go and bring the bronze mirror so that you ladies can take a good look at yourselves."
In May, they didn't move at all, surrounding the painting and exclaiming: "It really seems like, madam, this is you."
This made Zhou Man go back and stare at himself in the bronze mirror again and again. The more he looked at it, the happier he became. He said smugly: "So I'm really so good-looking?"
Bai Shan, who had been washed and dressed in underwear, passed behind her. Hearing this, he stopped and turned around to straighten her head, "You've been looking at me for half an hour while I was undressing your hair."
"It looks good."
Bai Shan couldn't help but laugh out loud, "It's beautiful.
Seeing that she liked it so much, Bai Shan simply painted another painting in the next two days.
One of them is her current appearance. After painting it, he handed it to her, "Take it back to the capital and find someone to frame it. If you feel bad in the future, take a look at it."
Zhou Man took it confusedly, "Should I see my own painting?"
"Yes, you must feel better when you see yourself looking so good."
Zhou Man came in and thought what he said made sense, so he kept the painting carefully.
The other painting is of Zhou Man painted a few years ago by Bai Shan based on his memory.
It is a painting in winter. She is coming back from outside in the snow with a medicine box in hand. She is also wearing a red cloak. The girl in the painting slightly raised her eyes and looked forward as if she was surprised, with a smile on her lips.
Smile, eyes filled with stars...
It's not as stunning as yesterday's painting, but it still has a playful and quiet feeling lingering around it.
Zhou Man liked this painting very much and asked: "When was this me?"
Bai Shan smiled and said, "When you were sixteen years old, you went to Duke Zhao's house for a medical consultation. When you came back, Bai Er and I were building a snowman in the yard."
Zhou Man: "Why don't I remember?"
"How can you remember a very ordinary time?" Bai Shan said with a smile: "If you even have to remember these, how many things must be stored in your mind?"
Zhou Man: "Then how do you remember?"
Bai Shan stared at her and said, "Because you looked so good when you walked in, I remembered it immediately, and then I couldn't forget it."
Zhou Man lowered his head, his face turned slightly red, and then he raised his head unwilling to be outdone and reached out to touch his forehead, "What's wrong with you these days? Why do you always say such things?"
Bai Shan asked without changing his expression, "Don't you like it?"
Zhou Man couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth, and whispered: "I still like it very much, but don't always say it, I will be embarrassed."
Bai Shan: "This is very rare."
The good atmosphere almost dissipated in an instant. Zhou Man stepped on his foot and crushed it. Bai Shan immediately apologized, "Madam, I was wrong."
He was just used to it and didn't stop.
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