Although Mrs. Zuo Xiang's words are good, a discerning person can see at a glance that although the method she uses is the same as that of Mrs. Dingxi Houtai, no girl from her own family came to participate in the election.

And these days, in order to avoid suspicion, Mrs. Dingxi Houtai has been closed doors, and Miss An, the only one who answered her question correctly, is even more inseparable from the eight poles of Dingxi Houfu, and has never had any contact, so it can be seen that the topic of this third level, Mrs. Dingxi Houtai has not revealed it to anyone.

But the person who wrote the question in these four levels, Mrs. Zuo Xiang, can she not reveal the question to her daughter?

Although everyone was extremely resentful, but with the Empress Dowager Sun's favoritism and fraud in front, at this time, Mrs. Zuo Xiang came to this hand again, these two women, one is the most noble queen mother in the empire, and she has the support of the emperor's son; The other is the wife of the left prime minister who leans towards the government and the opposition, and has the husband of the left prime minister as a backer. Even if everyone knows that it is unfair, what can they say, even the spring festival once every three years has a fraudulent behavior, which not only shows such an unfair world, but also has to endure this breath for the time being.

And this Mrs. Sun also played a little trick, not to say what the topic is first, and then ask the pianist to play the piano, but to wait for everyone to finish playing the tune, and then say with a smile what her topic is.

So, all the girls began to think back to the tune played by the pianist just now, and it was not difficult to hear what kind of tune she played, and several ladies heard it as soon as they heard the beginning.

Cai Wei naturally learned the lyre when she was a child, although she rarely played it again for three or four years, but she studied with her father for three years, whenever she endorsed the book, her father would stroke the piano beside her, so although she couldn't play many tunes, it was not difficult to say the name of the song.

As soon as she heard it, she knew that it was a piano song from the Northern and Southern Dynasties - "Crying in the Dark Night", but there were two versions of its inscription, one was that this song was written about Ciwu and the chicks feeding back in the middle of the night and fighting for the nest.

Another theory is that during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Liu Yiqing, a county king of the Song Dynasty, was extremely frightened because he was suspicious of the emperor and worried that there would be a catastrophe coming, and his concubine heard the crow crying at night, so she told him that he was about to be pardoned, and did not want it to come true in a few days, Liu Yiqing specially composed this song to celebrate his escape.

Therefore, another of its inscriptions is 'crying in the dark night, good things are near', Mrs. Zuo Xiang deliberately chose this song with two kinds of inscriptions, and the answer should be this latter kind of "good things are near" solution, if the ladies here are really selected to be the princess of the county, then it is not "good things are near"?

Although Cai Wei answered the first two questions of the fourth level, she could no longer answer the last question, just because the "Cry of the Dark Night" she heard was played by her father, and this qin song, because it is recorded with a subtractive word notation, each note should be pressed with the left hand on a few strings and a few slightly, and the right hand should be wiped to pick the first strings.

Therefore, for the same score, everyone plays a different piece of music. The pianist played very different from her father's play, because the difference was too great, and because the song "Crying in the Dark Night" played by her father was so wonderful, because the music played by this Shao qinist sounded to her, there were simply inappropriates everywhere, and it was not right here, and it was not good there, but she couldn't write a mistake.

Therefore, when Mrs. Zuo Xiang announced the answer and the five main candidates gave comments to the ladies, Cai Wei only got five mid-term comments because she answered one less question, and five of the remaining ladies got the mid-term comments and six got the lower comments, and Cui Qijun, the daughter of the left minister, naturally answered all three questions and took the upper comments.

To Zhou Caiwei's surprise, this time, Mrs. Zuo Xiang generously told Zhao Yifei all the answers to this question, so that she got five first-class reviews at once.

At this time, the first four levels have all been completed, and the rankings of the ladies have changed a little, originally Zhou Caiwei and Cao and Jin Ernu got nine reviews, tied for the top spot, and now the fourth level has been examined, Cui Qijun, the daughter of Zuo Xiang, took advantage of this level to get five reviews, plus the four reviews she got when she took the second pass of the female red test, and suddenly jumped to the first place.

Yifei relied on the five ratings she got in this level, plus the three ratings she got in the second level, and she also rushed to the second place, and the daughter of An Shilang, who got five reviews by luck in the third hurdle, ranked third. The rest of the ladies are either four or three reviews, and none of them are left behind.

The pair of Xue sisters from Empress Dowager Sun's relatives only got one rating, and they didn't even squeeze into the fifth place.

The two main old ladies saw that this ranking was completely a three-legged trend, Cao and Jin were the people of the Empress Dowager Sun, Cui Qijun was the daughter of Zuo Xiang, and Zhou Caiwei was the daughter-in-law selected by Concubine Yingchuan herself.

At present, in terms of numbers, two of the four people ranked first are the people of the Empress Dowager Sun, and it seems that they have an advantage, but in the end, whether these two girls from the Sun family can pass this last hurdle and have the last laugh depends on what topic Concubine Yingchuan will come up with tomorrow. If she also followed her personal feelings and missed a question for that Zhou Caiwei or something, then this went around the procedure of choosing a concubine, and in the end, this Princess Yingchuan was still the girl of the Zhou family.

The two old ladies now understood why Concubine Yingchuan insisted on refusing to be the second person to ask the question that day, saying that since it was a draft in her house, it was reasonable to let the distinguished guests make the question first. They didn't think much about it at the time, they would think about it, I'm afraid that this concubine has been here for a long time! It depends on the first four levels of the competition, what ranking everyone is, if Miss Zhou is ranked lower, she will just use this fifth level to make Miss Zhou get a few more comments, so as to stand out.

Everyone is guessing what question Concubine Yingchuan will come up with tomorrow as the exam question for this last level, but they don't want to Princess Yingchuan has already said the question she wants to come up with a smile.

"If you can be selected this time, then you will be my daughter-in-law in the future, we all know it as women, if you want to live comfortably after marriage, it is not okay if you don't like your husband, but your mother-in-law's favor must be pleased, so my question is to test whether my future daughter-in-law can please my mother-in-law?"

Concubine Yingchuan said with a smile on her face, but the ladies listened to it with a hairy heart, this person's heart is the most difficult thing to figure out, especially this is the future mother-in-law's mind, this doesn't even know what people think, how to please others?

Empress Dowager Sun listened to Concubine Yingchuan's tone as if she was going to cheat on that Zhou Caiwei or something, and was about to say a sentence or two, when she heard Concubine Yingchuan say again: "My topic is very simple, because I like to listen to stories the most, and as long as I am free at home on weekdays, I invite my daughter to come and tell me about the ancients." Because of the topic of tomorrow, all the ladies only need to tell a story with a cup of tea, but this story must be novel and interesting, a story that others have never heard before! ”

When everyone heard this, they were all surprised, and Empress Dowager Sun hurriedly asked, "Then how do you give a comment?" ”

Concubine Yingchuan smiled, "This is not simple, after listening to the stories told by the young ladies, if you think it is good, you will give a comment, and if you think it is generally a middle comment, then if it is not good, you will give a lower comment." The reason why the daughter-in-law told everyone about this topic early was to let the young ladies have more time to find the novel and interesting story, so that Ming'er would tell us about it! ”

Not to mention the Empress Dowager Sun, even the other three ladies didn't expect that the method given by Concubine Yingchuan was so simple, but with each main choice to comment according to their own mind, then Zhou Caiwei will tell a story more beautifully, and the other four main candidates can also give her a comment on the grounds of "I don't like it" and "I have heard this story before".

This kind of scoring method, although it will not make the shape of the square more disadvantageous, but there is no other advantage at all, not at all like the method of Empress Dowager Sun and Mrs. Zuo Xiang, who can get five more comments for their own girls at once.

What kind of medicine is sold in this Yingchuan Taifei gourd? The two old ladies suddenly felt that they couldn't understand this concubine again.