Part 1 - The Double / Marriage of the Di Daughter

☆ Chapter 071 Going on Stage

If Fairy Jinghong is a fairy descended from the sky, noble and inviolable, then Duke Suguo Ji Heng is like a charming and charming girl in brocade clothes walking in the dark night, seducing people in the blink of an eye.

The young man's red clothes instantly attracted everyone's attention in the inspection field. That beautiful, flawless face has a fascinating magic, and his half-smile eyes make the faint smile at the corner of his lips become a little evil. 

This is a charming young man, even the red mole at the corner of his eye is as charming as the black and gold swallowtail butterfly embroidered on his clothes, fluttering and making people dizzy.

He strolled leisurely in the inspection field, his posture was elegant and lazy, as if he was admiring the moon in the courtyard, but it made the crowd in the inspection field frivolous, and the noble and unparalleled fairy in front of him seemed to be pretending.

God gave her a good appearance, Jiang Li sighed in her heart, she had seen good-looking men, Shen Yurong, Xue Zhao, even Jiang Jingrui, Ye Shijie, but Ji Heng's beauty was more like a direct and rough distance from ordinary people. If you didn't see it with your own eyes, it would be hard to believe that there would be such a beautiful man, or such a beautiful person in the world.

Everyone around stared straight, even Meng Hongjin and Jiang Youyao stared at Ji Heng from a distance, reluctant to look away. Everyone seemed to have forgotten that Ji Heng was a moody bastard. Even if he was a beauty, a poisonous beauty with unpredictable mood, it would be better not to provoke him.

Ji Heng didn't care about other people's eyes at all, and followed the fairy Jinghong and sat down in the examiner's seat for the school examination. So far, including Xiao Deyin, there are five examiners sitting down.

Xiao Deyin is a teacher of Mingyi Hall, so she has been here all the time. Seeing Mianju also arrived, he is the current court musician of Beiyan, who plays music for the emperor and concubines. He is wearing a coarse linen shirt, which is very hermit-like and looks very happy. There is also a thin middle-aged man, this is Shi Yan, the highest-ranking music official in the world, in charge of rituals and music, and he is a little arrogant.

These people are either zither musicians or zither masters, and they are all good at ‘zither music’. Only Ji Heng is a bit out of place among them. His status is not comparable to others, but he is a real heavy purple prince. When it comes to zither music, she has only heard that he likes to listen to opera, but never heard of watching and listening to the zither, and listening to the zither is not the same as being able to use the zither. He could even be called an outsider, and it was a bit of a joke to ask an outsider to judge the results.

But no matter what others thought in their hearts, they would not show it. Not sure whether they were afraid of angering Ji Heng or they were already confused by Ji Heng’s appearance.

Jiang Li saw that everyone she knew and didn’t know gathered together today. She even saw Zhou Yanbang. Her eyes accidentally met Zhou Yanbang’s. Zhou Yanbang’s eyes suddenly lit up, causing Jiang Youyao to look at Jiang Li fiercely as if she wanted to dig out her flesh.

The school exam was about to begin.

The little boy with a red scarf tied on his arm began to report the number of people. Jiang Li only picked the people she knew to remember. Meng Hongjin was the eighth, Jiang Youyao was the twelfth, Jiang Li was the thirteenth, Liu Xu was the eighteenth, Jiang Yuyan was the twenty-fifth, and Jiang Yu’e was the twenty-fifth.

Because everyone had little time, there were almost no extra steps in the school exam, and they soon went on stage one by one.

Since the noble ladies of Mingyi Hall can enter Mingyi Hall, they are naturally outstanding. Even if they are ordinary, they can be praised by ordinary families.

Jiang Li listened to the sound of the piano, but her mind was not here. She just thought in her heart that Shen Yurong and Princess Yongning were probably more and more obsessed now. Princess Yongning and King Cheng were siblings, and Princess Yongning must introduce Shen Yurong to King Cheng. If Jiang Li guessed correctly, Shen Yurong would undoubtedly be King Cheng's person in the future.

King Cheng was powerful, and Shen Yurong was also smart, so he might not be treated differently by King Cheng. Now Shen Yurong is already a secretary of the Central Secretariat, and he is also valued by Emperor Hong Xiao. If he is pushed by King Cheng again, wouldn't his status be higher in the future? It would be difficult to deal with Shen Yurong again.

But it is not completely impossible. King Cheng is now applauding the right prime minister, and the right prime minister Li Zhongnan happens to be a mortal enemy of Jiang Yuanbai. In other words, the Jiang family and King Cheng are not the same kind of people. If the Jiang family is also involved, it will be a natural thing to deal with Shen Yurong of King Cheng's faction.

It is much easier to borrow the power of the Jiang family than for her alone.

However, she needs to think carefully about how to borrow the power.

Thinking about these things in her mind, she didn't feel that time passed slowly. In a blink of an eye, seven noble ladies had passed, and it was Meng Hongjin's turn.

Liu Xu asked Jiang Li to concentrate on watching, but she saw Meng Hongjin on the inspection table.

Today, Meng Hongjin is much calmer than before, or perhaps because zither music is not something she is good at. She sat down, took the Yaoqin, burned incense and bathed her hands, and played a song ‘Water Cloud’.

‘Water Cloud’ is a song that expresses the tourists' complex emotions of loving the mountains and rivers of the motherland, feeling lonely, and yearning for a secluded life when they see the rushing clouds and water on their way to the south. There are heavy scattered sounds and many dàng chants. Jiang Li listened and felt that Meng Hongjin's song ‘Water Cloud’ was soft and mellow. She didn't look like a tourist migrating south, but rather like a lady who came to appreciate the clouds.

Although the momentum didn't express the mood of the composer, Meng Hongjin's fingering was still very skilled. It's just that learning the piano is more about the heart than fingering. Meng Hongjin tried her best, but it can only be said that she is not talented in piano music.

Sure enough, Meng Hongjin played the whole song. Except for the young man who didn't know why, the five examiners in the audience didn't show much expression. Ji Heng was even more absent-mindedly playing with the golden folding fan in his hand, opening and closing it, with gorgeous eyebrows and eyes.

"Meng Hongjin played well," Liu Xu breathed a sigh of relief: "This will make you feel much more relaxed."

Jiang Li won the first place in the upper three subjects. As long as she didn't come in last in the lower three subjects, she would not be expelled from Mingyi Hall, and naturally she didn't have to kneel down and apologize to Meng Hongjin. But even so, if she did too badly in the lower three subjects, this victory might be overturned.

At least Meng Hongjin didn't ‘stun everyone’, so Jiang Li could rest assured.

"But your sister is not simple." Liu Xu said again: "I see that she looks confident, and this time she probably has something to rely on. You just happened to be behind her..."

It's really unfortunate.

Although it's unfortunate, what is coming will always come. After Meng Hongjin finished the school exam, she passed three more people, and soon, it was Jiang Youyao's turn to play.

Before she came forward, she walked in front of Jiang Li and said with a smile: "Second sister, it's my turn first." It sounded like a humble and polite younger sister came forward to talk to her elder sister, but Jiang Li did not ignore the provocation in her words.

She also smiled: "Good luck."

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