Chapter 218 Palace Competition
Li Xuanyue followed the direction Jiang Ting pointed her, and after walking for a while, she saw the room with all the participating noble girls.
There should be a maid who specializes in teleporting the guqin outside the house, but there was no one at this time. I guess Wen Yating's performance in the palace had ended, and the maid who was guarding was going to pick up the guqin.
Li Xuanyue couldn't help but feel happy, and thought to myself that God helped me, and then walked into the house with a snicker. There was a spacious round table in the house, and everyone's zither was clearly written next to the zither. Li Xuanyue looked around and finally found Liu Yin's hand among the guqins, and her eyes lit up.
Li Xuanyue walked forward quickly, took out the scissors that Jiang Ting had prepared for her from her sleeve, and gently cut it into one of the strings. The force was extremely strong. As long as you didn't touch it, it would never break, but Liu Yin would definitely break when she was playing on the stage.
Li Xuanyue sneered and took the scissors back into her sleeves, but suddenly heard a very light footstep sound outside the door. Her body suddenly froze. She turned around and stared at the door vigilantly, but she did not see anyone.
Li Xuanyue felt chilling, and while silently approaching the door, she slowly grabbed the scissors hidden inside through her sleeves. As soon as she walked to the door, she heard a sound of footsteps coming from the corner.
Li Xuanyue thought it was not good, so she hurried out of the house and hid in the corner of the wall. In less than a moment, she saw the maid who was going to pick up the piano and walked back quickly with Wen Yating's pipa.
Li Xuanyue had a cold sweat behind her back, and then she let out a long sigh of relief. The big stone hanging high in her heart finally fell down. It turned out that the footsteps just now were the guardian's maid...
A trace of sinister flashed through Li Xuanyue's slightly narrowed eyes.
Liu Yin, see how you will deal with it this time!
Li Xuanyue returned to the hall without anyone noticing. Seeing her calm look, Jiang Ting felt relieved. "Are you done it?" Jiang Ting leaned closer to Li Xuanyue and asked in a low voice.
Li Xuanyue nodded slightly, picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip, suppressed the nervous and crazy heartbeat, looked at the people around her still focused on looking at the stage, and asked worriedly: "Has anyone found out that I was not here just now?" Jiang Ting shook her head with a faint smile and replied: "No, Wen Yating played well just now, everyone's attention was on the stage, and no one paid attention to the audience."
Li Xuanyue finally felt relieved and looked at Liu Yin's direction with a sneer. She saw that her expression was not as indifferent as she usually was. She looked at the stage with a little joy and expectation. Li Xuanyue couldn't help but turn her head and look at the platform in confusion. It turned out that it was the order in which Princess Qingluo appeared on the stage.
Li Xuanyue raised her eyebrows slightly and sneered disdainfully.
Princess Qingluo, a rude and barbaric northwest woman, only knows how to ride a horse and shoot archery, and knows nothing about the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting that her daughter should learn. Li Xuanyue couldn't help but look at Princess Qingluo sitting quietly on the stage with some gloating pleasure. Princess Qingluo took a deep breath, placed her hand gently on the strings, closed her eyes slightly, and a song "Lonely Smoke of the Desert" slowly played out from her hands. Li Xuanyue and Liu Yin couldn't help but be stunned. They didn't expect that Princess Qingluo, who had almost no wisdom in the guqin, could make progress so fast!
The exciting and atmospheric "The Smoke of the Desert" fully demonstrates the majestic momentum of the entire song under Princess Qingluo's playing. From the beginning to the progression increasingly strongly in the middle, to the sudden ending, Princess Qingluo's performance was as smooth as the flowing water.
Princess Qingluo is a woman from the northwest, and she can play such a magnificent song "The Sweet of the Desert" and can combine human songs, which makes people sigh.
All the noble girls participating in the competition are ladies of the family. No one can perfectly perform the momentum of "The Smoke of the Desert", but Princess Qingluo is easy to do, as if this song was tailor-made for her.
The passionate tune came to an abrupt end, and Princess Qingluo's dancing hands also stopped. Everyone in the hall held their breath as a free and heroic song.
"Okay! I am worthy of being a Northwest woman! Princess Qingluo fully demonstrated the ups and downs of this song and the heart-wrenching spirit! It's such a blessing for me!" The emperor said loudly, breaking the tranquility in the hall and taking the lead in applause. And under the leadership of the emperor, everyone came to their senses, and thunderous applause suddenly sounded in the hall.
Liu Yin smiled happily and turned her head to look at Zhuo Qingyao. Both of them had a happy smile. Princess Qingluo practiced hard for this competition for a long time, and this performance was the most perfect time she had in half a month.
Princess Qingluo was also quite surprised by her performance. She was nervous and breathing rapidly before going on stage, but the moment she closed her eyes on stage, she suddenly calmed down.
Princess Qingluo finally smiled with satisfaction, bowed to the emperor and the eldest princess on the stage, and slowly walked down the platform.
"How?" Princess Qingluo sat back on her seat, raised her eyebrows and asked Liu Yin and Zhuo Qingyao with a smug look. Seeing her proud and proud expression, they couldn't help but smile helplessly and shook their heads, and said, "No." Zhuo Qingyao's eyes rolled, touched Liu Yin's shoulder badly, and said, "But it's much worse than Yun Ge!" Princess Qingluo glared at her, but couldn't help laughing.
Seeing that the two of them had their mouths again, Liu Yin couldn't help but chuckled and shook his head, and looked at the people on the stage and said, "It's time to start, let's concentrate on watching the game." The two stopped joking and looked at the stage. However, Princess Qingluo suddenly looked away, looked at Li Xuanyue on the side without any trace, and narrowed her eyes slightly. Li Xuanyue was surprised by Princess Qingluo's outstanding performance at this time, and couldn't help but feel a little angry, and did not notice such a strange look.
The noble girls who participated in the competition finished their own repertoire, some of which did not make much progress as before, and some of which were eye-catching.
Zhuo Qingyao was not good at piano skills, so she chose a simpler song "Yu Lan Tu". Coupled with her hard practice for half a month, she played perfectly, but among all the noble girls participating in the competition, she was still only average.
Jiang Ting took out her best song "Song of the Zebang", but during the performance, she made a small mistake and played a wrong tone, which made people feel regretful.
Jiang Ting walked down the platform with a heavy expression. When she returned to her seat, the ladies around her kindly comforted her, but she still had a gloomy expression, and everyone couldn't help but stop talking too much.
Chapter completed!