Chapter 454

At this time, the maids had already prepared two pieces of snow white paper and had prepared a pool of ink.

Xia Yu Yan held the pen and had already thought of four lines in her mind, but she did not write them down. Rather she continued to think about the words.

Since the Empress Dowager had said there was no time limit, she could carefully think about it.

Chen Ning stood in front of the table. She picked up the pen and dipped it into the ink.

She heard the sounds of laughter coming from all around her, with Liu Wan Ting's laughter being the loudest.

"Princess Consort, your pen is upside down. Why are you using the tip of the pen to dip in the ink? Could it be that the Princess Consort has never learned how to write before? "

Chen Ning calmly looked up and asked back, "This princess likes to use the tip of the pen to write, can't I?"

Liu Wan Ting was stunned, but then she covered her lips and said with a smile, "The Princess Consort can use whatever she likes."

"Very good."

Chen Ning threw the pen away and dipped her finger in the ink. She began to write word by word on the paper. After a while, she had finished writing.

At this time, Xia Yu Yan had also finished writing four lines. Her words were very beautiful, just like her.

She took the initiative to show the poem she had written to Empress Dowager Zhou.

"This is Yu Yan's mountain climbing poem. I ask the Empress Dowager for guidance."

Empress Dowager Zhou liked the beautiful flower hairpin small script when she saw it. Looking at the poem she had written, it was very neat. Although there weren't any outstanding lines, it was very fresh and graceful. She nodded and praised, "Good poem, good poem, truly worthy of being the number one talented woman. Emperor, what do you think of this poem?"

"The Empress Dowager is too kind." Xia Yu Yan's face turned red, but she secretly looked at Mo Chuan from the corner of her eyes.

Mo Chuan just looked over her poem and gave a soft "wu" sound, not saying anything.

Xia Yu Yan was instantly filled with disappointment. She bit her lower lip and glared at Chen Ning.

Empress Dowager Zhou gave the poem in her hand to Su Jin with a faint smile, "Miss Xia is very talented, being able to write such a good poem. Take this and give it to everyone to judge, otherwise someone will say that this widow is biased. Emperor, don't you think so?"

Mo Chuan gave an unhappy snort, but his deep eyes looked over at Chen Ning.

Xia Yu Yan's poem was passed around by the palace servants, receiving a wave of praise.

Wu Yue Er and Liu Wan Ting also gave a few words of praise, but they were not convinced in their hearts. Especially when they saw Xia Yu Yan's proud appearance, they were even more unconvinced.

Isn't it just a poem? We also know how to play the zither and paint, do you know how to write?

The two girls silently cursed, but they did not dare say it out loud. They could only hope that the Ding Yuan Princess could come up with a better poem to suppress Xia Yu Yan's prestige.

"Empress Dowager, this is Ning's poem."

Chen Ning calmly washed her hands before picking up the poem she had written, giving it to Empress Dowager Zhou to look over.

Although she didn't know how to write with a brush, she had practiced modern calligraphy with a hard brush. When she dipped her index finger in the ink, the strokes were full and powerful.

If Empress Dowager Zhou and Mo Chuan hadn't personally seen her write it, they would have suspected that someone had written it for them.

Especially Mo Chuan, he had no way of connecting the words in front of him to the earthworm like 'chuan' character. It was not written by the same person at all.

Empress Dowager Zhou was shocked by Chen Ning's words. She composed herself and looked at the poem she wrote. After reading it word by word, she was silent for a while before finally slowly nodding.