On this day, Li Chengyun rarely did not stay late in Guyunfang.

After betting this huge amount of money, he sat down for a while, then got up and asked Yang An for leave.

"Uncle, there is something to do at home, so I'll go back first."

Yang An has always been very talkative, and nodded when he heard this.

Li Chengyun said goodbye to the others present: "I will not accompany you first, and then I will come out to meet you in two days." ”

The big colt wouldn't let him go: "So early? What awaits you in the house? Sit down a little longer. ”

Li Chengyun smiled bitterly: "Another day, my mother accidentally suffered a little cold a few days ago, and she never got better, I need to go back early, and watch her take medicine to sleep peacefully." ”

Yang An heard him say that the eldest sister was sick, and he became concerned: "Does it matter?" Then I'll go to your house tomorrow to see her, and your daughter-in-law is waiting for her in front of her? ”

Li Chengyun nodded yes, and said that the imperial doctor had already seen it, saying that it was a minor problem, but his mother was old, although she had to be cautious.

Yang An was relieved at this time, because of Mrs. Li's illness, he remembered some recent rumors, and casually persuaded: "Carrier, you are not too old, it doesn't matter if a man is ridiculous, don't affect the peace of the house." ”

Li Chengyun knew that he was talking about Liji, so he responded with a smile and said, "Uncle don't worry, the carrier knows what to do." ”

Yang An clicked, and when he saw that he understood, he waved his hand and told him to go back quickly.

Everyone present heard that the eldest princess was sick, where did they dare to stop him.

Li Chengyun took Wen Sheng, Yun Lu and others out of the True Wind Pavilion, and the gate of Guyunfang was still crowded, and the guards of Cheng Guogong's Mansion stepped forward and drove out a road.

Wen Sheng followed behind Li Chengyun, thinking that the bet of 10,000 taels of silver had been placed. It is impossible to take it back, and Li Chengyun's move is also to announce to the world with great fanfare that he is covered by him, and it is difficult for him not to give him face. So it's pointless to say anything else, you can only do your best to get a good result.

She wanted to talk about what happened in the examination room today, the surname Feng had a close relationship with Xuanyin Pavilion, and the chief examiner personally dealt with her.

Today's game is thrilling. Can it be done later?

And so on. Don't say that the champion is pure wishful thinking, and it is not surprising that any one of them is eliminated.

It's just that as soon as she opened her mouth, she was interrupted by Li Chengyun.

He said: "My mother has not felt well for the past two days. I couldn't sleep at night, and I finally fell asleep and woke up at the slightest movement, so I had already gone to ask the emperor for instructions this afternoon, and I wanted to invite a few musicians in the Xuanyin Pavilion. Lived in my house, played the piano and played the flute. Use the musician's means to help her condition her body. ”

"Ahh Wen Sheng opened his mouth slightly, and secretly thought: "It's not what I thought, what happened in the examination room in the morning, he will know in the afternoon." I also went to the palace. ”

Sure enough, I heard Li Chengyun continue: "Even if the emperor is fooled, Xuanyin Pavilion still wants to perfunctory me, and wants to send Mi Jinghuan to bring a few young musicians over." I refused on the spot, and I asked them to send a few older experienced ones. It doesn't matter if you're presiding over an apprenticeship. My mother's body is more important, they can change the main exam. ”

After he finished speaking lightly, Wen Sheng already had a number in his heart.

Li Chengyun is going to leave the main exam who dealt with her today, and after living in the Guogong Mansion, Li Chengyun is surrounded by people from Li Chengyun, and it is not possible to knead it no matter how much he wants, if he wants to come out of the Guogong Mansion again, he needs to be satisfied with the Guogong Mansion.

I didn't see it before, Li Chengyun still had these two moments.

After Li Chengyun finished explaining, he got into the carriage and went back to the Gongfu.

Wen Sheng looked at the direction of the car's departure, and was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses and said to Yunlu: "Let's go back too." ”

Li Chengyun's repeated shots have had a very obvious effect.

On the seventh day of the lunar month, Wen Sheng participated in the second selection in the Xuanyin Pavilion, and there was no wind and no waves in the whole process, and the test was to listen to the sound to identify the five tones and twelve rhythms.

Then it was the eighth day of the lunar month, the third one, the exam questions were extremely rare, and it turned out to be the score of the ruler score.

Wen Sheng was shocked into a cold sweat, Wang Xi had never handed her how to score.

Fortunately, she had read a few ancient books from Changhui Li's family, which contained sporadic records, and she watched Li Jianzhang's many scores, so she barely managed to cope with it.

It was about that many people who took the exam together were worse than their performances, and coupled with Li Chengyun's face, this time the chief examiner did not deliberately embarrass her, and only lightly left a four-word comment on her appearance: unsatisfactory.

But I also gave her a pass.

After the three selections, the total number of eliminated people had already exceeded half of the initial registration, and by the evening of the eighth day of the new year, according to reliable sources, only 600 license plates were left outside that had not been recovered.

These 600 survivors suddenly doubled in value.

At this time, the gambling odds of Guyunfang have changed several times, and there are too many powerful people who participate, and there are voices in the court.

The first three auditions were all quietly conducted in the Xuanyin Pavilion, and the level of the people who came to participate in the elections was not clear to anyone except the chief examiner of the Xuanyin Pavilion. Since it is a once-in-a-century event, why not put it in public so that everyone can come and see it with their own eyes?

It turned out that there were too many people participating in the election, and it was not easy to arrange, but now there are no more than 600 people, divided into six games, and the scale is only about the same as the Xuanyin Pavilion once every three years.

The ministers of civil and military affairs, the relatives of the emperor and the relatives of the country have said that they want to be present to see the excitement, Tan Guoshi is not good at refuting the face of so many people, and several people in charge of this matter under him discussed it, and decided to take a day off for the examination on the ninth day of the junior high school, and specially arrange this matter, from the tenth to the fifteenth day of the first month, exactly six days, every hundred people will be one, divided into six for the final selection.

In the next sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth days, the selected people will decide the final ranking in the silk tong hall of the Xuanyin Pavilion, and Emperor Jianzhao will personally be present to hand-pick the top ten.

Although the examination was suspended on the ninth day of the first month, Wen Sheng and the others also needed to go to the Xuanyin Pavilion to watch the red list in front of the Sitong Hall to understand what the selection rules were for the next six days.

I don't know if I don't see it, I was shocked when I saw it, the red list posted a whole row, which was full of fly-headed small letters, and after reading the entire charter, everyone had only one feeling in their hearts: it was so complicated.

There are a total of 600 people, in the order of the number plate, one game per 100 people, this everyone has estimated, because there are too many people eliminated in front, Wen Sheng also knows that he is in the second game, and he participates in the selection on the 11th.

Take the 100 people who participated in the selection on this day as an example, when the Xuanyin Pavilion will send nine highly skilled musicians as the main examiner, every five people in a group at the beginning, and one of the best people will be selected directly into the "first class" after one of the five selections, the remaining 80 people will be shuffled in order, divided into 16 groups, and choose one of the five again, and the winner will be selected as the "second class".

These are all done, because how everyone is grouped is determined by lottery, the examiner is worried that there is a particularly unlucky, obviously their own conditions are not too bad, but every time the master is drawn, and it is stipulated that each examiner can choose one person from the unsuccessful candidates every day, and leave it behind, which is called "special selection".

At the end of the six-day selection, 120 "first-class" people, 96 "second-class" people, and 54 "specially-selected" people will be selected.

For the above three classes, this time Xuanyin Pavilion received a total of 270 apprentices, and the rest handed in the number plate and went home.

It is worth mentioning that only one hundred and twenty people of the "first class" are eligible to participate in the last three days of the Silk Tong Hall Competition.

Wen Sheng read it carefully, and knew that the lengthy secondary grouping and special selection in the back could be ignored, and in order to achieve the purpose of her reference this time, she must win the group battle as soon as she came up.

Only in this way could she meet Emperor Jianzhao in the last three days.

As for the champion or something, Wen Sheng didn't report any thoughts, this selection brought together the geniuses of the whole Liang music and rhythm, some people in Wen Sheng's eyes the skills have been very mature, but they are still here, Xuanyin Pavilion is the Great Liang Guoxue, in their opinion, can learn the eight methods of wonderful sound, it can be regarded as a success.

If Wen Sheng met them in the group battle, he didn't dare to say that he would definitely win.

Not to mention that in the eyes of the superiors, Wen Sheng also has a fatal weakness: she is a woman.

I heard that among the more than 2,000 people who originally participated in the election, there were not even half a hundred women, and now, only Wen Sheng is left.

After all, in this world, except for high-ranking girls, there are very few women who have the opportunity to come into contact with music, even if she learns, her family does not allow her to come out and show her face, and more, those famous people hold their own identities and are even more reluctant to issue a letter of recommendation to a woman.

In addition to the above two points, there is another reason, it is about Emperor Jianzhao, Wen Sheng felt that although Li Chengyun is the nephew of Emperor Jianzhao, the saint is quite long, but Feng Songchuan is not bad, I heard that he also saved Emperor Jianzhao's life, the palms and backs of his hands are full of meat, the two of them are secretly competing for themselves, Emperor Jianzhao has a lot of impartiality and pretending not to know, and it is impossible to point himself to the first name in the face of Feng Songchuan.

Therefore, Li Chengyun's large sum of money on himself can be seen to be wasted.

Wen Sheng then put the matter of the champion gambling behind him and concentrated on studying the next selection.

The six-day selection was not carried out in the hall as before, but was changed to a high platform on the west side of the Xuanyin Pavilion.

This high platform has a name, called Tongle Terrace, up to several zhang, wide field of vision, can accommodate thousands of people sitting and watching, plus Tongle Tai is higher than the wall of Xuanyin Pavilion, facing the street in the west, the common people stand on the market, although far away from the shadow on the stand is not clear, but if it catches the windy day, and the surroundings are quiet enough, you can faintly hear the sound of playing on the stage.

The Xuanyin Pavilion Contest held every three years is held here, hence the name Tongle.

Although Wen Sheng was a candidate to be selected, except for the day when she participated in the selection, she was not eligible to enter the Xuanyin Pavilion to watch the exam in the remaining five days.

Therefore, she greeted Du Yuanpu and others in advance, and asked her to help occupy a good position on the street, and tomorrow, she wanted to see from afar whether Zhong Tianzheng could be selected. (To be continued)