This lunch, which started at three quarters of an hour and ended at three quarters of an hour, was the meal that Cixi spent the most time in her life.

Tea after meals, it is a delicious Yunnan ripe pu, warm the stomach and eliminate stagnation, and it is suitable for drinking in winter.

After drinking tea, it's time to "take a walk". Today's "walk", with a lover on the side, it is really comfortable! Cixi was about to be instructed to "get off", and took a look left and right, huh? Li Lianying is not there. Cixi woke up at this time, Guan Zhuofan wanted to play the matter of "committing a big taboo", Li Lianying and Yu'er both withdrew, and the monarch and ministers finished talking about business, and only Yu'er came in to serve, and Li Lianying never came back.

Well? What's going on?

"Where's the little plum?"

Before Yu'er could answer, footsteps sounded outside the door, and Li Lianying trotted in all the way, panting: "The slave is here!" ”

Cixi frowned slightly and said, "Where did you go to drill sand?" ”

Li Lianying smiled all over her face: "Where can it?" The slave is on an errand for the master! ”

After saying this, he turned to Guan Zhuofan: "Lord Belle, that painting has been sent over, and it has just been placed." ”

Cixi's curiosity rose: "What painting?" What the hell are you doing? ”

Guan Zhuofan smiled slightly and said, "Please ask the Queen Mother to move to the dormitory, you will understand at a glance." ”

"Pretending to be a ghost!" Cixi laughed, put her hand on Guan Zhuofan's outstretched arm, and stood up.

When I entered the inner bed, I looked up, Cixi couldn't help but let out a soft "huh", although her voice was low, it was full of inexplicable surprises.

On the wall of the bedroom. There is a very large painting hanging on it. Gao is close to Zhangxu. More than six feet wide. In the middle of the painting, a beautiful woman, dressed upright, with her head slightly high, standing with a sword, and thousands of dignified manners - but who is she if she is not herself?

The royal sister was stunned, her heartbeat was faster, and she was even slightly dizzy in her head.

Breathed a sigh of relief. After relieving yourself, take a closer look.

He wore a phoenix crown on his head, a dark green Xuanjun "military dress", black lacquered soft leather boots, a gold-embroidered bordered coat, and a slender saber inlaid with gold and jade.

The east pearl on the phoenix crown, the copper buttons on the chest, the wide-brimmed gold silk embroidery on the cuffs, the shiny leather boots, and the sterling silver gauntlets of the saber are all shining with a strange luster.

Cixi recognized where she was standing - the "front bridge" of the "Champion".

In the background, there is a black railing, a red chimney, an orange mast, and a white cloud sail. And, of course, the blue sky.

The subtlety is clear, and the weather is myriad.

Be able to see the reflection of your eyelashes and pupils. You can distinguish the intricate and delicate patterns on the spike belt.

I was originally of medium stature, and I was the one in the painting. Seem...... Growing taller?

Also, that saber looks quite familiar, but whether it is the Tianjin Navy, the Dagukou Wharf, or the "Champion", all of them are "naval daggers", not this slender saber. Well, I remembered that it was when I was taking pictures on the steps in front of the palace, "standing with my sword", and that "sword" was this saber.

Also, when I was on the "Champion", I wore a "wide-brimmed military hat", not a phoenix crown.

Growing taller, short swords become long knives, military hats become phoenix crowns, this is considered "more" and "less" - in fact, I have never been alone in the "front bridge"; But in the painting in front of him, he was alone, from beginning to end, the person who had been accompanying him on the "front bridge" was gone.

Cixi was slightly dizzy again, and a very unreal feeling was born.

The people in the portrait, except for the person who seems to have grown a little taller, the rest of the appearances and expressions are not at all happy with the portrait of the subject himself, and the realism is especially better than the photograph - after all, the photo is black and white, but this painting is color! Moreover, from the inside out, there is a spirit that is beyond words!

Cixi felt in a trance that standing in front of her seemed to be a beauty who looked exactly like herself, but she was even more energetic than herself, looking at the sea and the sky, with thousands of demeanors, looking at it, her heartbeat, which had calmed down a little, unconsciously became faster!

She knew that this kind of Western painting, called "oil painting", China's own painting, depicting the characters, would never be so forced. This kind of painting, Guan Zhuofan has entered for her; In addition, when the "Champion" arrived at the port, the ship came with a batch of gifts from Queen Victoria to the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces, including a portrait of the Queen herself, which is this kind of "oil painting". However, that painting was much smaller than the one in front of him.

After a long time, Cixi let out a long, low sigh, turned around, stretched out her right hand, and held Guan Zhuofan's left hand, with an extremely satisfied look on her face.

In front of the portrait, the two are holding hands side by side, and Yu'er and Li Lianying, who are a few steps away from the side and back, seem to have no zài.

Of course, Yu'er and Li Lianying's expressions were as usual, and the actions of the Queen Mother and Guan Beile should not have been seen.

However, the two masters don't really treat the two of them as transparent.

Guan Zhuofan turned his head and asked with a smile: "How is it, does this painting look like it?" ”

Li Lianying shook her body and said, "Like! It's like that! Like ...... Alas, the minion is stupid and doesn't know what to say! When I first saw this painting, the minion thought, huh? Isn't the master serving food in the 'Blue Room'? Why did you ...... all of a sudden?"

He slapped himself lightly on the cheek and said, "This mouth of the slave is really stupid!" The meaning is on the lips, I can't say it, I'm in a hurry! ”

Cixi "fluttered" and laughed.

Guan Zhuofan said with a smile: "Yu'er, what do you think? Is this painting good? ”

Yu'er, like Cixi, saw this painting for the first time, and she was already dumbfounded, and when she heard Guan Beile's question, she woke up and hurriedly said, "Okay! Great! Really, it's really ......" searched the intestines and scraped the stomach for a while, and finally held it out: "It's really the 'mother of the world'!" ”

Cixi "fluttered" again.

Raising his head slightly, he said to Yu'er and Li Lianying, "You guys go out first." ”

The two immediately bowed down and exited the bed.

Guan Zhuofan held Cixi's hand, pinched it gently, and said: "The Empress Dowager's daughter, Yao Shun, a heroine, the painter is doing her best, the Empress Dowager's demeanor is dignified, and she reproduces in the painting, but it is only one or two out of ten." ”

This sycophant, only then can it be called a good one.

Cixi smiled and said in a low voice: "The picture that the British minister came in - it is the one of their queen, I looked at it at the time, and I thought to myself: When can you draw me a picture too......

Guan Zhuofan was slightly stunned, and said with a smile: "If the Queen Mother has this intention, wouldn't it be good to tell her ministers?" ”

"You're so busy, it's not a military matter, it's not good to bother you......"

Cixi raised her head and looked at the portrait, her eyes were shining: "I didn't expect you to ...... quietly." Alas......"

A sigh, happy and satisfied, all in it.

After a pause, Cixi smiled softly again: "Fortunately, ......"

"Thankful for what?"

"Good thing you didn't look like the Queen of England......"

What does the Queen of England look like?

Guan Zhuofan thought hard about it, oh, I remembered-

"I saw it at the time, but I was shocked, and the one on the 'east side' was even more fussed—ouch, the king of a country, how could it be like this? The whole neck, most of the shoulders, and half of the chest are all exposed! Ouch, a large white flower, ashamed of the person! ……”

The Queen Mother blushed and smiled, smiling lightly, eight points shy, very moving.

Guan Zhuofan only felt a breath of heat, rising from his lower body, and he warned himself: calm, calm, just finished eating, can't engage in strenuous exercise.

Eat the baby, eat the baby.

"Back to the Queen Mother, Western women, are all like this, and the king of a country is no exception. And, the more solemn the occasion, the lower the neckline of their garments, well, opens......"

"It's truly unusual! Originally, I thought that at most I was wearing it for my husband......"

Guan Zhuofan remembered the green velvet nightgown that the royal sister wore when she woke up this morning.

"The minister begs the queen mother for something."

"What's the matter?"

"Tonight, uh, beg the Queen Mother to put on the nightgown that she got up from early...... Luckily? ”

"You! …… Well...... Well......"

*(To be continued......)