During the family meeting, Xie Beiming and Jiang Xiyan were not members of the Shen family, so they both waited outside on their own accord.
But at this time, why did Xie Beiming suddenly think of giving her a gift?
Shen Qiqi was curious about what gift Xie Beiming would give her, so she nodded and signaled the servant to present the gift.
The servant hurried into the hall carrying the gifts, then carefully brought the scrolls between his palms to Shen Qiqi.
Shen Qiqi casually picked up a scroll and opened it, thinking that Xie Beiming was going to give her a painting... Wait, a painting!
Thinking of something, Shen Qiqi suddenly became excited and quickly opened the scroll.
The result was no surprise. Just as Shen Qiqi guessed, the picture on the scroll was indeed a portrait of Shen Ning'er!
This was a frontal portrait, and the woman in the portrait was completely covered in a black smock, revealing only a pair of eyes. Although her face could not be seen, Shen Qiqi could tell at a glance from her posture and eyes that the person in the portrait was undoubtedly Shen Ning'er.
She quickly opened several other scrolls, all of which showed women in black robes, their bodies completely covered in black smocks. However, these were not frontal views, but back views, various side views, and even two portraits of women walking.
It is no exaggeration to say that the portraits sent by Xie Beiming almost cover all forms of Shen Ning'er. If you spread out all the portraits together and look at them one after another, it is like a living person standing in front of you.
Moreover, Xie Beiming's paintings seem to have a very strange peculiarity. As long as you take a look at them, you can remember the person in the portrait firmly, even if it is just a back view.
Shen Qiqi looked at the portraits one by one, and her eyes brightened the more she looked.
Just now she was still worried about how to draw a portrait of Shen Ning'er that would be more recognizable, but Xie Beiming immediately sent her a portrait of Shen Ning'er... This gift from Master Xie was like a timely rain!
Shen Qiqi hurriedly distributed the scrolls to the elders one by one.
"The person depicted here is the current Shen Ning'er. I would like the elders to find a few skilled painters to draw more paintings based on the portrait above, and strive to have these portraits of Shen Ning'er in various forms posted all over the streets and alleys."
With these vivid portraits, it would be useless even if Shen Ning'er covered her head and face tightly, because her appearance was her face.
Such a portrait without showing the face will not only not be worse than the one showing the face, but will be better.
Because a person's face can be changed and disguised, but a person's appearance is formed over many years and it is difficult to disguise.
As the only person who had seen Shen Ning'er, the Fifth Elder almost immediately recognized that the person drawn on the picture was Shen Ning'er the moment he got the back view.
He stared at the back view on the scroll in shock.
According to Shen Qiqi, neither she nor Xie Beiming had ever seen what Shen Ning'er looked like now. Just by listening to other people's oral descriptions, they were able to draw a portrait that was almost identical to the real person. This son raised by the Xie family was indeed an extraordinary role model for the children of the aristocratic family to learn from.
The other elders had similar ideas to the Fifth Elder. They secretly praised Xie Beiming in their hearts and deeply envied Xie Ruze for raising a good son.
Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, Sect Master Xie Ruze, after reading the message from his son, was so angry that he slammed the message jade slip on the table and said angrily, "He also knows that this is a serious matter! He knows that this is a serious matter, but he still wants to stay in Yuzhou. Is his last name Xie or Shen? I think he regards the Shen family as his home!"
Mrs. Xie thought that the Shen family was her son and daughter-in-law's home, and her daughter-in-law's home was her own home. It was normal for her to treat her own home as her own.
She held the jade slip in her hands as if it were a treasure and read it over and over again. She felt that the words on the slip were so pleasing that she wished she could rush to Yuzhou to give a little red flower to the person who sent the message.
Unfortunately, although her idea was beautiful, it was not suitable to put it into action immediately. So Madam Xie could only hold the jade slip and laugh in her heart, laughing so hard that she rolled on the ground with her nose crooked and her eyes squinting.
Oh, it’s not easy, her stupid son finally came to his senses!
The more Mrs. Xie thought about it, the happier she became. But when she saw Xie Ruze so angry that his face turned blue and red, and the veins on his forehead twitched as if he had an epileptic seizure, she silently covered her mouth again, thinking that she should not be too ostentatious, so as not to provoke hatred from her future daughter-in-law.
But her son has come to his senses, and he will soon be able to help her marry a good daughter-in-law. As a mother-in-law, she is really happy. What should she do?
Mrs. Xie rolled her eyes and decided not to hardship herself, so she cleverly buried her head in her sleeves.
Because today she was wearing the formal attire of a clan leader's wife, with three layers inside and three layers outside, very luxurious, with particularly wide sleeves. When she buried her head in them, she could cover her facial expression tightly, ensuring that not a single smile would escape from the sleeves.
Mrs. Xie hid in her big sleeves, her shoulders shaking, and she was almost laughing with tears in her eyes.
Xie Ruze turned around and saw her, thinking something was wrong with her. He foolishly ran over to support her and asked worriedly, "Madam, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"
Mrs. Xie's back stiffened, and then her shoulders shook even more violently.
Xie Ruze: “…”
Let’s talk about Yuzhou.
After several elders finished looking at the portrait, they immediately ordered someone to quickly invite a famous painter in the city. The eldest elder was a careful person. He turned his head and saw that Shen Qiqi looked tired. He said to her with concern: "Qiqi, are you tired? You should wash up quickly and then have a good rest."
The fourth elder also said, "Right, right, right. Qiqi, go and rest first. Don't tire yourself out. The Sect Master isn't awake yet, so don't let anything happen to you."
Having already taken a nap on the way back to Yuzhou, Shen Qiqi didn't feel very tired at the moment, but it was true that she had fought with the evil spirit at the city gate and had sweated a lot.
Her sweat-soaked undergarment clung tightly to her body, feeling sticky. She really needed to wash up, so she said, "I'll go wash up first. I'll trouble you elders with the clan affairs."
Several elders hurriedly told her to just go and wash up and not to worry about the affairs of the tribe. If there was any problem, they, the old people, would handle it first and call her when they couldn't handle it anymore.
As they were talking, the painter who was invited to paint Shen Ning'er's portrait arrived. Shen Qiqi stopped for a while and saw that although the portrait painted by the painter was not as vivid as Xie Beiming's, it still had about 70% of the charm. Then she left the meeting room with peace of mind and went straight to the room where Jiang Xiyan and Xie Beiming were resting temporarily.
The two young masters were sitting around drinking tea. Seeing Shen Qiqi coming over, Jiang Xiyan hurriedly put down his teacup and happily called out "Qiqi". Shen Qiqi smiled back at him before looking at Xie Beiming.
Xie Beiming was also looking at her, his phoenix eyes narrowed gently, the hook at the end of his eyes was charming and dangerous, as if it had its own suction force. Just by looking at him for a while, Shen Qiqi began to feel dizzy and her eyes were blurry.
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