Chapter 987 294 Jin Xin (Two More)

The news of Changdi's defeat was quickly spread in the capital at the behest of the emperor, and it took almost half a day for everyone to know it. For a while, it was listed as the hottest topic in the capital together with the Jinxin meeting to be held the next day.

In the Xun Guishi family in the capital, the men were discussing the victory, who would be the first, and how the court situation would change. The women were nervously preparing their outfits for the girls who were going to participate in the preliminary round of the Jinxin Club.

The Jinxin Club was originally founded by a talented woman from the previous dynasty, and later became a triennial event in the capital. After the death of that talented girl, it was organized by the wife of the Imperial Academy, and the venue of the event was at the Imperial Academy. On weekdays, Guozijian is a place where idlers are not allowed to enter. On the days of Jinxinhui, you can enter the Guozijian to watch Jinxinhui by relying on the plain pattern Jinxin post issued by Mrs. Jijiu.

There are two kinds of Jinxin posts. One is the gold pattern, which invites those girls to participate in the competition. The second is plain pattern, you can come to watch the game with the post.

Not only is it rare to participate in the gold tattoo, this plain tattoo is also hard to find, and you can't get a post without a certain status.

Not to mention the review posts in the hands of Nangong Yue!

The judges who can become Jinxin Club must be impeccable in terms of origin, character and talent.

In the previous dynasty, the wife of a powerful minister used her husband's power to get a review post. Before the girls who participated in the competition had raised any objections, the students of the Guozijian had already rioted. They demonstrated at the gate of the Guozijian, and she just refused to let the lady enter. In the Guozijian, in the end, the lady had to go back in despair. After that, even the Guozijian Jijiu and Jijiu's wife were implicated and dismissed.

The brilliance of this Jinxin Club is evident!

On the day of the Jinxin Meeting, Nangongyue's Zhu Lunche set off from Zhennan Palace early in the morning. Because Xiao Yi had just taken an errand recently, she rarely went out alone and arrived at her destination in less than half an hour.

"Prince Concubine, the Imperial Supervisor has arrived." The coachman reminded outside.

This Guozijian was left over from the previous dynasty. After the new dynasty, under the will of the late emperor, after some renovations, it was nearly double the original size. At first glance, it is not only magnificent, but also quiet and distant, exuding a kind of The flavor of history.

When you look up, you can see the words "Guozijian" written on the plaque on the gate, with gold characters on a black background.

Before waiting for Nangong Yue to sigh with emotion, she saw a maid in a blue dress walking out of a row of maids in one-style dresses, and blessed Nangong Yue. These maids are obviously strictly trained, and each one is good-looking and well-mannered.

As soon as the maid saw Nangong Yue's Zhu Lunche, she knew that the other party must be of extraordinary status, but even so, she followed the rules and asked, "The slave servant Drunk Lotus has seen the lady, can I let the slave servant see Jin Xintie?"

Nangong Yue handed over the post in her hand to Lily, and then Lily passed it on to the drunken lotus.

When Zui Lian saw Nangong Yue's red post, she was in awe. Among the posts posted by Jin Xin Club, only the review post was in red.

Zui Lian carefully opened the post, glanced at it, and finally knew the identity of Nangong Yue.

"I've seen Concubine Shizi." Zui Lian saluted Nangong Yue again, then led her way and explained to her the process of today's competition.

Nangong Yue is a judge of Leyi, so she is not going to the ordinary stand, but the Qionghua Pavilion as the judge's stand.

Nangong Yue walked slowly along with the drunk lotus, and from time to time she saw many maids in blue dresses guarding the roadside and under the corridor, and after a while, she reached the second floor of Qionghua Pavilion.

In Qionghua Pavilion, someone was already there, chatting in twos and threes.

Nangong Yue glanced at it and saw that there were also several familiar faces, such as the Qin art teacher from the Imperial College, Mr. Wang from the Hanlin Academy, and the wine-making lady from the Imperial College...

Everyone came forward to greet her one by one, and soon, other judges arrived one after another, and Qionghua Pavilion became more and more lively.

Qionghua Pavilion was silent until "The Princess of Yuncheng is here".

Nangong Yue was stunned. She didn't expect that Princess Yuncheng was also a judge of the music competition. Yuan Yuyi must have known it for a long time, and she was deliberately hiding it from herself.

At this time, Princess Yuncheng, who was dressed in fancy clothes, had already entered the pavilion. After everyone bowed to her, they took their seats again.

"Yue'er!"

Princess Yuncheng smiled and beckoned to Nangong Yue to sit beside her, and said, "Bengong's piano skills were also good when he was young." She seemed to see the surprise in Nangong Yue's heart.

Nangong Yue is familiar with her, so she is not cautious: "Then Your Highness will give some pointers to Yue'er someday."

After the two chatted and laughed for a while, Mrs. Jijiu stepped forward and said to Yun Cheng, "Your Highness, it's almost time, is the competition starting?"

Yun Cheng nodded slightly, and with the sound of gongs and drums, a maid loudly announced the start of the music competition and let the contestants enter the stage.

Nangong Yue sat behind the window on the second floor, looking down at the playing field below.

It was only then that she noticed that Qionghua Pavilion was facing a small garden. It was late spring and early summer. There were hundreds of flowers in full bloom in the garden.

In the garden, a pavilion was facing these judges. The pavilion was surrounded by white tulle. When the wind blew, the tulle took off, and a piano case was placed in the pavilion.

Soon, a girl wearing a hat walked into the pavilion with her violin in her arms. After putting down the violin, she sat upright at the desk. With a swipe of her hand, smooth music flowed out from under her fingers, like a mountain stream. , a good song "Mountains and Flowing Water"...

The second contestant was the flute, and the song "Falling Wild Goose in the Flat Sand" also attracted a lot of applause.

In fact, all the girls who can come to participate in the Jinxin Club are extraordinary, but these masters are also divided, and the Jinxin Club is to pick out the most outstanding ones!

When it came to the fifth contestant, Nangong Yue and Yun Cheng couldn't help looking at each other, only to see Jiang Yixi walking into the pavilion holding a qin.

She sat up straight and put both hands on the piano. A cold and smooth sound of the piano immediately attracted everyone's attention. It was obviously late spring and early summer, but everyone felt as if they were in the middle of winter.

This song is... Nangong Yue raised her eyebrows slightly, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

Soon, the sound of the piano became fresh and smooth, and the rhythm was relaxed and lively.

I don't know who next to me sighed softly: "What a song "Snow in the Spring"!"

"Bright Spring and White Snow" is one of the top ten famous songs, and naturally it is extremely skillful.

And Jiang Yixi's skills are almost impeccable, the melody of the beginning is full of vitality, the melody of the middle part rises suddenly, the mood becomes warm, the music in the transition is sometimes light and smooth, sometimes sonorous and powerful, just like a big pearl falling on a jade plate... …

Not only skills, but also her emotions are well expressed, making the listeners resonate with the sound of the piano, and they are all immersed in the sound of her piano.

The smile on the corner of Nangong Yue's mouth was even more prosperous, as if she heard Jiang Yixi's mental journey during this period of time. She used to feel like a cold winter, with a thick frost, until the good news came suddenly, like a spring seedling without fear of frost and breaking through the ground. Out, the frost gradually melted under the warm sun, and winter came to spring.

The once frozen heart has come alive again in the gurgling spring water, and it is full of vitality!

Great!

Nangong Yue didn't go to see Jiang Yixi, just listening to her piano sound was enough...

The sound of the piano is the sound of the heart, and it is the sound of "love"!

Until the sound of the piano stopped, the surroundings were quiet, and everyone had not recovered for a long time.

In the end, Lord Wang from the Hanlin Academy was the first to applaud, followed by applause from the audience, followed by Nangong Yue.

This song is probably Sister Xi's mood at the moment, winter is coming to spring, the earth is recovering... everything is getting better!

The corners of Nangong Yue's mouth curled up.

She couldn't wait to hope that Young Master Han would return to the capital as soon as possible and beg for a wedding drink from Sister Xi.

Although most of the girls in the back did not perform, Nangong Yue was already certain that Jiang Yixi would pass today's preliminary round and participate in the final one month later.

The competition continued, and the girls in the back played "Song of Spring", "Introduction to a Good Night", "Three Lanes of Plum Blossoms", "House of Flying Daggers"...

About two hours later, Leyi's preliminary competition finally ended. After deliberation, the judges selected seven of the dozens of girls to advance to the finals. Not surprisingly, Jiang Yixi's name was also on the list, and it was at the top of the list. .

After a stick of incense, it is another preliminary competition of today's Jinxin Club - Poetry Competition.

Nangong Yue was only a judge of Leyi, so she was not in charge of this poetry competition, so she resigned to Yuncheng and went downstairs.

Jiang Yixi was waiting for her at the door of Qionghua Pavilion, "Sister Yue!"

"Sister Xi," Nangong Yue quickly stepped forward and praised without hesitation, "Your song 'White Snow in the Spring' just now can be described as a lingering sound, the human and the qin are one. ."

Jiang Yixi naturally understood that Nangong Yue must have sensed her intentions from the sound of the piano, a flash of shyness flashed in her eyes for a moment, a faint blush appeared on her pretty face, and those bright and clear eyes shone even more in the sunlight.

Nangong Yue was a little stunned, she had never seen Jiang Yixi so dazzling, so dazzling.

At this time, a thirteen- or four-year-old maid in pink trotted over to the two of them, and she was blessed: "I have seen the imperial concubine, Miss Jiang."

Both Nangong Yue and Jiang Yixi know her, and this is Yuan Yuyi's personal maid Hanmei.

Han Mei said respectfully: "Prince Prince, Miss Jiang, my county lord and Miss Fu Liu invite the two of you to go to Qiushui Pavilion together." Qiushui Pavilion is the stand for the spectators.

After a pause, Hanmei reminded in a low voice, "Princess Qi is also in Qiushui Pavilion."

Nangong Yue and Jiang Yixi glanced at each other, and Princess Qi was in Qiushui Pavilion as a matter of course, because Han Qixia would participate in the next poetry competition. As a concubine, how could Princess Qi not come to see her daughter to show her style.

Nangong Yue and Jiang Yixi didn't plan to avoid Princess Qi on purpose, and nodded to indicate that they would follow Hanmei to Qiushui Pavilion after they knew it. Yuan Yuyi and Fu Yunyan had reserved seats for them in the front row on the second floor.

As Princess Qi, she naturally sat in the front row.

Although there was some disagreement between them and Princess Qi, Princess Qi was after all a princess, and she was the one with the highest status in the Qiushui Pavilion. Therefore, after Nangongyue and Jiang Yixi entered the pavilion, they still walked to Princess Qi and saluted: "I have seen Princess Qi."

"No ceremony." Princess Qi said stiffly, her whole face almost darkened.

Seeing Jiang Yixi, Princess Qi couldn't help thinking of Han Huaijun, her hands clenched into fists in her sleeves unconsciously, and she thought: I didn't expect that bastard to come back alive! And he has also made great contributions... Yesterday, Wang Qi was ecstatic and praised him repeatedly for his "father's style", and he was more like himself than the prince, and Princess Qi almost didn't turn his face when he heard it.

Han Huaijun occupies the title of the eldest son, and King Qi always misses his mother who died early, and he treats him differently than other concubines. Now, he has made a great contribution, and when he returns to the capital, it is not just to be the heir. Indistinguishable? !

Could it be that her son's throne is really going to be given to this bastard.

There is also Jiang Yixi, a good lady, but she wants to marry a concubine, she is shameless!

The more Wang Fei thought about it, the more she hated her. If she hadn't cared about the other ladies and girls in the pavilion, she would have ridiculed Jiang Yixi recklessly. However, it is not bad today. When she gets married into the mansion, she will know that the daughter-in-law of the concubine is not so easy to be! snort!

Nangong Yue and Jiang Yixi could guess Princess Qi's thoughts from her blue and white complexion, they smiled at each other, didn't care, and went to Yuan Yuyi and Fu Yunyan hand in hand.

Seeing that Princess Qi was not stupid enough to embarrass Jiang Yixi here, Yuan Yuyi was secretly relieved. On the face, she praised Jiang Yixi's piano skills with a smile, making Jiang Yixi feel a little embarrassed... until the bottom Movement in the garden diverted their attention.

I saw blue-clothed maids moving tables and chairs into the garden, and after a while, twenty or thirty tables and chairs were placed there evenly spaced.

Yuan Yuyi glanced at the half-burned incense next to her and said, "The poetry competition is about to start, and I don't know how Cousin Xia is preparing..." Yuan Yuyi was a little nervous as she said that.

Speaking of which, the difficulty of the poetry competition is higher than that of Leyi, and it also tests the participants’ on-the-spot performance. Because Leyi’s repertoire can be prepared in advance, it is convenient for girls to make use of their strengths and avoid weaknesses, and choose the repertoire that is more suitable for them. In order to avoid cheating in the competition, it is not allowed to give questions in advance. In previous years, the Jinxin Club has drawn lots on the spot, and after a judge has been selected, the judge will temporarily set the question.

After the incense burnt, twenty or thirty girls came in one by one and sat at the desk.

Their maids were not allowed to enter the arena, so at each security table there was a maid in blue to serve, grinding ink and laying paper for the participating girls.

Soon, the sound of gongs and drums sounded again, and all eyes were focused on Qionghua Pavilion, only to see a long roll of white paper falling down like a waterfall with a "wow", and you could see that the white paper was written: "Huanxisha" and "late spring".

"Huanxisha" is the name of the word and brand, and "late spring" is the theme.

As soon as the title came out, it immediately caused a commotion from the surrounding audience. This year's title was a level higher than in previous years. In the past, poetry competitions generally only had one theme, and the contestants were required to complete it within a stick of incense, whether it was poetry or lyrics. It is at the discretion of the entrant.

However, it is difficult, only worth seeing!

Not only the participating girls, but even in the stands, there are judges looking down and thinking.

In the field, a girl in a white dress soon picked up a wolf's hair, smeared it with ink, and wrote it down in one go.

The girl has a beautiful appearance, especially her pair of beautiful eyes are very prominent. Under the sun, a layer of bright golden light shines in her jet-black pupils.

Yuan Yuyi and Jiang Yixi naturally recognized that she was Nangong Yue's worry-free cousin Bai Muxiao.

There was a smile on Nangong Yue's lips. As far as she knew, besides dancing, Bai Muxiao's best talent was probably writing poetry, maybe even better than her dancing skills. In her previous life, Bai Muxiao got a lot from it It is sought after by literati students, especially Han Lingfu's deep admiration.

Bai Muxiao sought the qualifications for the Jinxin Club in every possible way, thinking that she would be able to shine here.

Bai Muxiao's writing, especially her swaying expression as if she was about to finish writing in one go, could not help but put invisible pressure on the other girls around, some girls couldn't hide their anxiety in their eyes and behavior.

After a while, several girls also took up the wolf cents on the pen stand, but most of them were still hesitant to write.

When they were wandering, Bai Muxiao had already stopped writing, and a confident smile appeared on the corners of her mouth under the veil.

She has full confidence that this poem has already sent her to the final of Jinxin Club.