Shen Yue's song ended and everyone listened as if they were intoxicated. A female with outstanding zither skills would be loved by everyone, especially when this female's looks were not bad. At least in the male side of the banquet, not to mention that the Grade One children were too young, there were quite a number of Grade Two and Grade Three youths that were looking over here. Even though in Guang Wen Tang, Qin Qing's appearance was a level higher, but Qin Qing's temperament was arrogant and how could it be compared to Shen Yue's gentleness.
"This Younger Sister of yours plays really well." Feng An Ning reluctantly said, "One do not know where did the zither master was invited from. Tomorrow I will ask Mother to help me find a famous zither master to teach."
It was the time when one was young and loved to be competitive. Just like when Shen Miao was just appointed as Empress, she was relaxed about everything but Fu Xiu Yi's heart was tightly controlled. As long as Fu Xiu Yi was slightly good to other females, she would be extremely worried. The Inner Palace was the most troublesome and would privately trip others up and stab others in the back. She had the temperament to immediately get back after suffering a loss and thus offended a lot of people. Now, this temperament did not change at all but there was no need to hurt herself.
"Speaking of which, Second Young Lady of the Shen family is a rare beauty and talent." Everyone loved beauty and Prince Zhou was also amazed by Shen Yue. He only said, "It is a pity."
Others might not understand what was a pity but it was impossible for the few Princes to not understand. Shen Yue was born with a delicate beauty and infinite talent. If there was such a beautiful and understanding person by one's side, perhaps it would be a great thing in the world. Unfortunately she did not crawl out from Shen Furen's stomach and was not the daughter of the First household of the Shen family but the Third household.
Unfortunately Shen Xin who held the military power in his hands gave birth to an idiot like Shen Miao. Even if she looked different today, how could one's impression be changed overnight. They believed that Shen Miao's propriety today was because there was someone guiding her from behind and her heart was still that idiot who did not know anything.
After Gao Yan stepped down from the stage, Pei Lang's mood gradually calmed down. It was the first time in his life that he encountered such a situation. Even though he was puzzled, he tried his best to reassure himself. At this moment when she heard Prince Zhou's words, she could not help but look at the purple clad young lady on the opposite side of the female side of the banquet.
She held the chess piece and tilted her head as she pondered. It was too far and one could not see her gaze clearly, but one could feel the scrutiny and deep meaning in that gaze, just like when Shen Miao looked at him. How could such a person be an idiot?
But people would not change overnight. Could it be that Shen Miao's previous stupidity was all an act? Why was that so?
As smart as he was, he couldn't figure out what was going on.
The female group's' selection 'ended with Shen Yue's' Singing to the Moon '. Shen Yue naturally took the first rank but the her today was not happy because of this but felt somewhat embarrassed.
She looked at Shen Miao but Shen Miao was engrossed in the chess game and did not look at her at all. Shen Yue knew that Shen Miao was not proficient in the zither, chess, calligraphy and painting, thus naturally she would not be able to understand that chess game. Now that she was looking at it seriously, it was only to deliberately give her face. Chen Rou Qiu noticed her expression and reminded her softly, "YueNiang, you have forgotten yourself."
Chen Rou Qiu requested her daughter to be calm and composed no matter what situation or what happened. No matter if one was really calm or pretending, one must let others see a calm side. Once a female was calm, their temperament would be superior and flustered would not be the bearing of an aristocratic family. In all fairness, Chen Rou Qiu's way of teaching her children was indeed not bad and she herself also did a good job. Unfortunately Shen Yue was after all young and had never experienced failure before, thus did not know how to endure.
Hearing Chen Rou Qiu's reminder, Shen Yue slightly put away the anger on her face. The maid by her side, Shu Xiang, handed her tea, "Young Lady should drink some tea to moisten your throat."
Shen Yue took the tea and looked at Shu Xiang. Shu Xiang smiled at her and Shen Yue understood in her heart and the smile on her face became more real. She said, "It is somewhat hot. I am very interested in the 'selection' later."
Because Shen Qing had just obtained the first place in the chess competition, her mood became a bit better. She said with a smile, "This year, there will be no division between the male and female groups, nor will there be any division between the second and third countries. The competition will definitely be more intense."
Originally, the 'selection' was the one that people looked forward to the most out of the three. Because the 'drawing' would not necessarily draw the best and the 'selection' was to choose the best performance, then the 'selection' would always happen between the two most outstanding people. The 'selection' in the female group was not very intense because the females would always be amiable on the surface and also show that they did not care about the results and had an indifferent attitude. But males were different. Youths liked to use the method of comparison to determine victory and defeat. At this age, the desire for victory and defeat was the strongest so the 'selection' every year would be the most intense.
This year's' selection 'did not differentiate between male and female, Second or Third Countries and all the students could compete together. As long as one wanted to challenge someone, naturally one would be able to compete with that person. But even though it was said like this, there would not be any challenges between males and females.
As expected, there was no one challenging the literary category this year and the highlight naturally fell on the martial category.
This almost cut off the possibility of females participating. Even though there was no lack of daughters from military families who knew martial arts, but females as compared to males, their strength was much worse and naturally it was impossible for them to succeed.
At the male's banquet, Cai Lin was the first to stand up and walk up to the stage.
The examiner asked him what was the challenge and he pointed to the bamboo stick for archery and said, "Archery."
Everyone understood. Cai Lin, this little tyrant, did not know anything about the literary category but he was considered outstanding in the martial category. Among which, archery was the most outstanding. Naturally, his archery was top notch and he had obtained the first rank in archery in last year's academy examinations.
Who was the one that he wanted to challenge today? Looking at the entire audience, there was no one that was more outstanding than him in archery.
Cai Lin raised his neck and suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed at the female side of the banquet.
When everyone saw that he was pointing at the female side of the banquet and not the male side of the banquet, they were surprised and when they saw who he was pointing at, they opened their mouths in astonishment and even stopped their discussions.
He deliberately said loudly, "I want to challenge her, Shen Miao!"
That purple clad young female who was immersed in the chess game raised her head and looked at the person on the stage with clear and sharp eyes. Her expression did not fluctuate and her actions did not make any mistakes, as if this earth-shattering sentence was just a casual greeting and she did not even bother to reply.
Chen Rou Qiu frowned. She wholeheartedly taught Shen Yue but Shen Miao seemed to have learnt to remain calm.
In a distant pavilion, the handsome youth who was leisurely drinking tea sprayed out a mouthful of tea and a trace of surprise appeared on his frivolous expression, "Is the Cai family's boy crazy?"
Shen Miao stood up. In the chess game on the table, there was a black chess piece that crossed the boundary and was heading towards her.
The first pawn was dispatched.
She picked up the white chess piece and swallowed the black chess piece before throwing it into the chess basket.
"Receive." She said.
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