Chapter 71 Come on stage
If Fairy Jinghong is a fairy who came down from the nine heavens, whose purity is inviolable, then Duke Suguo Ji Heng is like a charming spirit in brocade clothes walking in the dark night among the bushes, captivating people in the blink of an eye.

The young man's red clothes instantly caught everyone's attention in the inspection field. His beautiful, flawless face had a fascinating charm, and his half-smile eyes made the faint smile at the corner of his lips look a little evil. He was a charming young man, and even the red mole at the corner of his eye was 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 with an elegant and lazy posture, as if he was admiring the moon in the garden. However, he made the entire crowd in the inspection field look frivolous, and made the noble and unparalleled fairy in front of him seem pretentious.

Jiang Li sighed in her heart that Ji Heng was a gift from God with good looks. She had seen handsome men, such as Shen Yurong, Xue Zhao, and even Jiang Jingrui and Ye Shijie, but Ji Heng's beauty was more like a direct and rough distance from ordinary people. If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, it would have been hard to believe that there would be such a handsome man in the world, or such a beautiful person.

Everyone around stared at her, even Meng Hongjin and Jiang Youyao stared at Ji Heng from afar, unwilling to look away. Everyone seemed to have forgotten that Ji Heng was an erratic bastard, even if he was a beauty, a toxic beauty with an unpredictable mood, it was better not to provoke him.

Ji Heng didn't care about other people's eyes at all, and followed Fairy Jinghong and sat down in the examiner's seat. At this point, including Xiao Deyin, there were a total of five examiners sitting down.

Xiao Deyin was a teacher of Mingyi Hall, so he had been here all along. Mianju had also arrived. He was the current court musician of Beiyan, playing music for the emperor and his concubines. He was wearing a coarse linen shirt, which made him look like a hermit and he looked very happy. There was also a thin middle-aged man, Shi Yan, who was the highest-ranking music official in the world, in charge of rituals and music, and he was a little arrogant.

These people, either zither players or zither masters, all have their own strengths in "zither music", but Ji Heng is the only one who seems out of place. His status is not comparable to the others, but he is a true prince of heavy purple. When it comes to zither music, I have only heard that he likes to listen to operas, but I have never heard of him watching and listening to zither, and listening to zither is not the same as being able to use zither. He can even be called an outsider, and it is a bit of a joke to ask an outsider to evaluate the results.

But no matter what others think, she will not show it. I don't know whether she is afraid of angering Ji Heng or she has been deceived by Ji Heng's appearance.

Jiang Li saw that all the people she knew and didn't know today gathered together. She even saw Zhou Yanbang. Her eyes accidentally met Zhou Yanbang's, and Zhou Yanbang's eyes suddenly lit up, causing Jiang Youyao to look at Jiang Li with a ferocious look as if he wanted to cut her flesh.

The school exam is about to begin.

The little boy with a red scarf tied around his arm began to call out the numbers of each person. Jiang Li only picked out the people she knew and remembered them: 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-first, and Jiang Yu'e was the twenty-fifth.

As everyone had very little time, the school exam had almost no unnecessary steps and everyone took the exam one by one very quickly.

Since the noble ladies of Mingyi Hall were able to enter Mingyi Hall, they were naturally outstanding. Even if they were ordinary, they would be praised in 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 getting more and more obsessed with each other. Princess Yongning and King Cheng were siblings, so Princess Yongning must have introduced Shen Yurong to King Cheng. If Jiang Li guessed correctly, there was no doubt that Shen Yurong would be King Cheng's person in the future.

King Cheng is powerful, and Shen Yurong is also smart, so it is possible that King Cheng will treat her differently. Now Shen Yurong is already a secretary of the Central Secretariat, and is valued by Emperor Hong Xiao. If she is pushed by King Cheng, won't her status be even higher in the future? It will be difficult to deal with Shen Yurong again.

But there is not no solution. King Cheng is now on good terms with the Right Prime Minister, and the Right Prime Minister Li Zhongnan happens to be a mortal enemy of Jiang Yuanbo. In other words, the Jiang family and King Cheng are not on the same side. If the Jiang family is also involved, it will be natural to deal with Shen Yurong of King Cheng's faction.

It would be much easier for her to borrow the power of the Jiang family than for her to do it alone. However, she had to think carefully about how to borrow the power.

As she was thinking about all these things, she didn't even notice how time was passing slowly. In the 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 saw Meng Hongjin on the inspection table.

Today, Meng Hongjin was much calmer than usual, perhaps because zither music was not something she was good at. She sat down, took out her zither, burned incense and bathed her hands, and played a piece of "Xiaoxiang Water Clouds".

"Xiaoxiang Water and Clouds" is a song that expresses the tourists' complex feelings 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. The scattered sounds are heavy and the chants are many. Jiang Li listened to it and felt that Meng Hongjin's song "Xiaoxiang Water and Clouds" was soft and soft. She didn't seem like a tourist migrating south, but rather like a lady who came to appreciate the clouds.

Although the momentum did not reflect the mood of the composer, Meng Hongjin's fingering was still very skilled. However, in addition to fingering, learning the piano also focuses on the heart of the piano. Meng Hongjin tried his best, but it can only be said that he is not talented in piano music.

As expected, Meng Hongjin played the whole piece, and except for the young man who didn't know why and praised it, the five examiners in the audience had no expression on their faces. Ji Heng was even more absent-minded, playing with the golden folding fan in her hand, opening and closing it, with a gorgeous look on her face.

"Meng Hongjin's playing is not bad," Liu Xu breathed a sigh of relief, "This will make it much easier for you."

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

At least Meng Hongjin didn't "stun everyone", so Jiang Li could feel a little more relieved.

"But your sister is no ordinary girl." Liu Xu continued, "I see she is very confident. She must have something to rely on. And you happen to be behind her..."

What a coincidence.

Although it was unfortunate, what was to come would eventually come. After Meng Hongjin finished the school exam, three more people passed, and soon, it was Jiang Youyao's turn to take the stage.

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

She also laughed: "Good luck."

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