By this time, the palace maids had laid out two pieces of snow-white rice paper and prepared a pool of thick ink.
Xia Yuyan held the penholder and had already thought of four lines of poetry in her mind, but she still didn't put pen to paper and continued to refine the words.
Anyway, the Queen Mother said that there is no time limit, she can think about it carefully.
Shen Ning stood in front of the table. She picked up her pen and dipped it into the ink in the inkstone.
Only a burst of laughter could be heard all around, among which Liu Wanting's laughter was the loudest.
"Your Majesty, your pen is upside down. How do you use the pen to dip it in ink? Is it possible that Your Majesty has never learned to write?"
Shen Ning raised her eyes calmly and asked, "I like to write with the tip of my pen, isn't that okay?"
Liu Wanting paused for a moment, then covered her lips and smiled: "You can use whatever the princess likes."
"very good."
Shen Ning simply threw away the pen, dipped her index finger in ink, and started writing word by word on the paper. After a while, she had finished writing.
At this moment, Xia Yuyan also wrote four lines of poetry. Her handwriting was as beautiful as her own.
She took the lead and showed the poem she had written to Queen Mother Zhou.
"This is a mountaineering poem written by Yu Yan. Please give me some advice from the Queen Mother."
The Empress Dowager Zhou immediately liked the beautiful hairpin flowers in her hand. When she looked at the poems she wrote, they were well-coordinated. Although there were no particularly outstanding sentences, they were fresh and graceful. She nodded and praised: "Good poem, good poem, as expected." She is worthy of the name of the most talented woman. Emperor, what do you think of this poem? "
"The Queen Mother is so complimentary." Xia Yuyan blushed with embarrassment, but glanced at Mo Chuan from the corner of her eyes.
Mo Chuan just glanced at her poems and said a faint "Huh" without comment.
Xia Yuyan suddenly felt disappointed, bit her lower lip with her teeth, and glared at Shen Ning hatefully.
Empress Dowager Zhou smiled and handed the poem in her hand to Su Jin: "Miss Xia is talented and has written such a good poem. Please take it and pass it on to everyone to comment and comment together, lest someone later say that the Ai family is partial, Emperor, you Say so?"
Mo Chuan snorted angrily, but looked at Shen Ning with a pair of deep eyes.
Xia Yuyan's poems were passed around among the palace people and received unanimous praise.
Wu Yue'er and Liu Wanting also had to join in the crowd's praises, but they were quite unconvinced, especially when they saw Xia Yuyan's proud look on her face as a talented woman.
Not only can we write a poem, but we can also play the piano and draw, can you
The two women slandered, but did not dare to speak out. They only hoped that Princess Dingyuan could write a better poem to suppress Xia Yuyan's prestige.
"Empress Dowager, this is a poem written by Ning'er."
Shen Ning cleaned her hands calmly, then picked up the poem she had written and presented it to the Queen Mother Zhou for review.
Although she cannot write calligraphy with a brush, she has practiced modern hard-pen calligraphy. The characters she writes with her index finger dipped in ink are full and powerful.
If Empress Dowager Zhou and Mo Chuan hadn't seen her writing with their own eyes, they would have almost suspected that someone was ghostwriting it.
Especially Mo Chuan, he couldn't connect the words in front of him with the earthworm-like word Sichuan. It was not written by a person at all.
Queen Mother Zhou was first shocked by Shen Ning's words. She calmed down and then looked at the poem she had written. After reading each word, she was silent for a while, and finally nodded her head very slowly.
"In this competition, Princess Dingyuan won." She said word by word.