Chapter 446 I figured out a solution
Yun Ran returned to her seat, and Yun Yue and Miao Yi both looked at her with admiration.
"Sister Ran, you are really amazing. You convinced the queen just by telling a story!" Miao Yi praised.
Yunyue immediately raised her head proudly: "Of course my sister is amazing!"
Yun Ran had no choice but to ask the two to sit down.
Soon, Aunt Sun brought her maid and brought five hand warmers and distributed them to the five people.
With the warm hand warmer, Yunhua quickly recovered her speed. Yun Ran breathed a sigh of relief as he saw her movements becoming smoother and her needlework becoming more handy.
Sure enough, not long after, Yunhua caught up with the fastest embroiderer, and then completed the embroidery before the time was up.
She inserted the last stitch, her fingers deftly wrapping the thread around the needle, handling all the details perfectly and cleanly.
Then she was the first to hand her embroidery to Aunt Sun who was waiting beside her.
After Yunhua handed in her work, the other four embroiderers handed in their embroidery works one after another.
As Aunt Sun said "It's time", Chu He, who was curled up in the chaise longue, yawned, and her voice was lazy with a hint of impatience and perfunctoriness.
"Now that it's all done, present it."
The embroidery works of the five people were placed on five wooden trays respectively, and were brought to the long table in front of Chu He by the maids who had just served the five contestants and arranged them in order.
In order to ensure fairness, Chu He invited two embroidery experts from the palace's Shangfu Bureau, as well as two Siyi, two Dianyi and two Zhangyi from the Siyi Bureau, a total of eight people to serve as judges.
Chu He first looked at the five embroidery pieces from left to right, and then called the eight judges who had been waiting on the side to come forward.
After handing in the embroidery, Yunhua returned to her seat calmly. On the contrary, Yun Ran and the other three were more nervous than she was.
Yun Yue pursed her lips and held Yun Ran's hand tightly. Miao Yi also widened her eyes and stared at the backs of the eight judges, who were of different heights, weights and bodies.
It was only the time of an incense stick, but Yun Ran felt like a whole year had passed.
Finally, the eight judges finished casting their lots, lined up neatly, and retreated to a corner.
Aunt Sun personally stepped forward and counted the number of sticks placed in the wooden tray of each embroidery piece.
However, after counting, her face looked a little ugly, because the number of lots cast in the wooden tray of Yunhua embroidery was the same as that of the embroiderer who had just embroidered the fastest, both of them had three lots.
Of the other three embroiderers, two each got a lot, and one did not.
"Empress, it's settled." Aunt Sun raised the six sticks and said to Chu He.
Chu He, who had been frowning, suddenly relaxed his expression.
It’s good that it’s a draw. If it’s a draw, she still has another chance to intervene.
"I was inconsiderate," she said with a mock tsk. "How about this, for the sake of fairness, I and the Yun family will not participate. Let's leave the decision-making power to the dozen or so sisters I invited today."
After she finished speaking, she deliberately glanced at Yun Ran and asked, "Yun Ran, what do you think? Is this decision fair?"
This is to retaliate for the story Yun Ran told just now.
Yun Ran didn't care at all and nodded: "Your Majesty is wise. I think it is feasible."
"Then I'll trouble you sisters to appreciate them." Chu He raised her eyelids and signaled Aunt Sun to hand the five embroidery pieces to the dozen or so concubines.
When Yun Yue heard that the dozen or so concubines were going to be asked to judge, her heart became anxious again.
Yun Ran comforted her, "Don't worry, Fourth Sister, the women in the harem are scheming against each other, so don't worry about them worrying about the Queen's face."
But after a moment, Aunt Sun counted out the number of lots.
But what happened was that there were fifteen concubines in total, and now fourteen of them had voted, and the number of people who chose Yunhua and the embroiderer was still half and half, with only one vote left.
Yun Ran, Yun Hua, Yun Yue and Miao Yi looked up almost in unison, and saw the woman who was holding the stick but didn't cast the vote. She had red lips, white teeth, willow-shaped eyebrows, and a smile on her face.
Yun Ran and the others felt their hearts sink. This woman turned out to be Concubine Xin!
Yun Ran still remembered that Concubine Xin had held a grudge against her at the emperor's birthday banquet.
I'm afraid we're going to lose this game.
But this is not fair to the third sister!
She bit her lower lip and secretly decided that if her third sister really lost, she must find a way to get the queen to agree to re-judge. She must not just accept it like that!
"My last vote is really crucial." Xin Wan'er smiled with her eyes curved.
She shook her hand holding the bamboo stick, and finally placed it on the wooden tray on Yunhua's side.
For a moment, not only Yun Ran and the others, but even Chu He was stunned, staring at her with gloomy eyes.
Xin Wan'er, however, acted as if nothing had happened. She took out a handkerchief, wiped her hands, and said, "The Queen just said that since it's a competition, it must be fair."
"I think Miss Yun's embroidery has better color matching and fine craftsmanship, and it fits the theme, so I chose it."
"Good! Good! Good!" Chu He was so angry that he said "good" three times in a row.
Finally, he said through gritted teeth, "Today's match was won by Miss Yun."
"However, completing this 'A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains of Dakang' is no easy task! This long scroll is the life's work of Madam Yu, the former owner of Fangxian Embroidery Tower. Even though Miss Yun is her direct disciple and has passed the competition, she cannot be careless when completing this long scroll in the future."
"Three days from now, Miss Yun can bring her attendants to my Fengkun Palace, cleanse her hands, calm her mind, and concentrate on completing this masterpiece!"
This request almost imprisoned Yun Huaguan in her palace, which was exactly the same as the way she treated Grandma Yu back then.
Yun Ran secretly clenched his fists and thanked Yun Hua together.
The game was over and the scene was over. The four little sisters left together from the back garden.
Only after they were a long distance away from Fengkun Palace and made sure that no one was following them did Yunyue become indignant.
"The Queen is going too far! We absolutely cannot let our third sister enter her palace! There's a lot of work left, and it will take at least ten days or half a month to complete. My third sister is all alone, and she's at her mercy! Who knows what will happen!"
Miao Yi also said: "Otherwise, find two people with strong kung fu skills to follow, it should be fine."
Yunhua sighed and shook her head slightly.
She knew it wouldn't be that easy.
Queen Chu was a narrow-minded and vindictive person. Even though her mother-in-law was no longer around, she didn't want her soul to return to her hometown.
Yun Ran didn't say anything. When the four of them arrived in front of a palace gate, Miao Yi said goodbye to them and went back first, asking the three of them to remember to tell her when they got the results.
She ran away secretly, and if she came back late, she would be scolded by her father again.
The three Yunhua sisters saw Miao Yi off, but they still looked worried.
After an unknown amount of time, Yun Ran said after careful consideration: "I've come up with a solution."
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