The first scene of the Silk Hall Competition.

All 120 first-class apprentices sat in the open air outside the gate of the Silk Hall, each with a table and a chair.

On the table are pens, ink, paper, and inkstones.

Behind each apprentice, there was a Yulin Army, a waiter of the Xuanyin Pavilion.

The waiter is responsible for collecting the answer sheet after the time, and the Yulin Army strictly prevents anyone from cheating.

If there is fraud on such occasions, it is like bullying the king, and you will not be able to listen to you cry out if you cut it directly.

Emperor Jianzhao sat in the middle of the hall, and an old musician stepped forward and handed over a rectangular tray to Tan Lao Guoshi, which was covered with red silk and a thick stack of paper on it, which was all the exam questions prepared by the musicians of Xuanyin Pavilion for this big competition.

Old Master Tan held the tray in his hand, sent it respectfully to Emperor Jianzhao, and said, "Your Majesty, please draw the exam questions for this big exam." ”

Emperor Jianzhao let out a "hmm", stretched out his hand and pulled one out of the stack of exam questions, and did not hand it to Tan Mengzhou, but squinted his eyes first.

"Haoyu, Haojian, both of you have studied music and rhythm with the national teacher, let's take a look at this exam question first."

The two princes stepped forward, and the eldest prince yawned again just now while people were not paying attention, and at this time there were tears in his eyes, afraid of being seen by Emperor Jianzhao, so he stared down at the exam question, and said: "Father, this is a music score, I don't know what the more than ten places that are circled on it mean by this?" ”

Yang Haojian guessed: "Erchen feels that since it is an exam question carefully prepared by the national teacher, it will not be too easy to think about it, and it must make these apprentices rack their brains and make mistakes and omissions in order to select truly talented people from among them." Are these enclosed places just traps set in the question? ”

Emperor Jianzhao looked at his two sons, the eldest son didn't look like he was awake, and he didn't know what he did last night, so he replied two sentences, one nonsense, and the other to throw the question to himself. The youngest son also said that he was ugly. But he blindly thinks about things on the dark side.

Usually the same is true of the two sons. The eldest son is mediocre, and the younger son is out of mind, thinking about who this country will be handed over to in the future. It's a real headache.

He shook his head secretly, and said to Old Master Tan with Yan Yuese: "It seems that Aiqing Bai has poured a lot of effort into them, and he hasn't even learned a little bit of skin, so Aiqing will talk about it." What's going on with this question? ”

Tan Mengzhou replied respectfully: "Your Majesty, in order to ensure that there are no mistakes in this exam." In the past two days, the minister and the musicians of the Xuanyin Pavilion have created 20 new pieces of music, and the melody of each piece has been repeatedly scrutinized by everyone, so as to make sure that the tune is beautiful and coherent. It sounded natural, and then I copied the same five sheets of each score, choosing different places to change it. Majesty, please see, for example, here. It should have been a sound of change, but after the change of the ministers, it was changed to a horn sound, and the one hundred and twenty people outside were all the best ones who had been selected through layers of selection, among which there was a sharp ear, and it should be able to hear that there was a slight discord here. ”

Yang Haojian originally relied on learning the piano with the Master for a few days since he was a child, and he had seen many rare music scores, and he was a little eager to try it, wanting to join in the fun.

Emperor Jianzhao nodded: "Twenty music scores, each recorded five sheets, which means that there are a total of one hundred completely different exam questions here." ”

Tan Mengzhou bent down: "It's all up to Your Majesty to decide." ”

Although Emperor Jianzhao spoke with his two sons with reproach, he himself had also learned the piano with several children of Tan Mengzhou back then, and finally married the daughter of the Tan family.

The music sheet in his hand was pulled out by him, and just looking at it like this, he couldn't imagine what the tune was, so he simply handed it to Tan Mengzhou: "Just it." ”

Tan Mengzhou took the score with both hands, took a few steps back, and gave the exam question to the old musician who had sent the tray before.

The old musician understood, held the exam questions high and came to the door of the main hall, and a waiter set up a table and chair for him, and put the guqin.

The old musician sat down, put the score in front of him, studied it carefully for a while, and said loudly: "According to the choice of the saint, this first test is the song I play below, when I play, everyone needs to memorize well, and you must not use the pen, I will only play it once, and you will write the score of this piece on your respective answer sheets." In addition, there are a few mistakes in this piece that should also be marked and corrected. ”

If it weren't for the fact that there was Yu Linjun standing behind the apprentices to invigilate the exam, this exam question would have caused a commotion in front of the Silk Tong Palace, and in this way, many people couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice when they heard such a difficult method.

The old musician didn't care about that, he played when he was ready.

This is a new song that has never been circulated in the world before, and it is the first time that all the apprentices have heard it.

The old musician's piano skills are exquisite, but who has time to appreciate it at this time, and they dare not come out one by one, for fear of hearing a certain tone or even a certain rhythm wrong.

But it still doesn't work, I really remember the back and forget the front, and gradually, someone has to give up.

After a while, the old musician finished playing the song, stood up, and his own waiter came and took away all the tables, chairs and guqin, and everyone heard him announce: "Okay, you can start writing." ”

Fortunately, the song was not very long, and as soon as his voice fell, most of the apprentices hurriedly studied the ink a few times, and then hurried to write on the scroll, for fear that they would write it late and forget the tune that they had managed to memorize.

But there are also a few people who are not in a hurry to put down the pen, and they suddenly stand out.

There are those who close their eyes and meditate, and there are those who murmur silently, and these people, without exception, are trying to familiarize themselves with the melody of the new song.

The reason why this first scene is difficult is that it covers all aspects such as listening to sound discrimination, memory, judgment, etc., and even involves the most difficult to describe and capture the feeling of rhythm.

Although the waiters and Yu Linjun in the field had their own invigilators, they couldn't help but quietly set their eyes on the most special person in the field.

Someone has written a dense half-page, and Wen Sheng is still slowly studying the ink.

The force is even, and the technique is quite good-looking.

But you're going to write.

Wen Sheng's appearance frightened others, in fact, she was thinking about it at this time, just like those who had not yet started writing, and she was carefully recalling this song, so that its melody gradually took shape in her mind and became complete.

Grinding ink was just an action she was doing unconsciously.

The waiter on the side finally couldn't stand it anymore, and pretended to cough uncontrollably.

Wen Sheng came back to his senses, laid out the scroll, and began to write.

Because the apprentices learned a variety of musical instruments, the answers to the exam questions were all in the world's common ruler notation. The waiter was okay, but he was born in Xuanyin Pavilion and was exposed to it all day long, and the Yulin Army behind Wen Sheng wanted to see what was going on, and he couldn't help but have some straight eyes.

The handwriting is so beautiful, I don't know a single one.

Yu Linjun is all the children of powerful people with good backgrounds, and the one behind Wen Sheng secretly wondered while looking at it: "This word is written, oops, it is also circled and marked, it looks like a painting, I don't know if the answer is right." ”

There is no time limit for this exam, for those who have not memorized all the scores, the exam is over, but for those apprentices with excellent memory and special sensitivity to melody, it is only a small half of the score that is memorized, and the correction of errors is the most important thing that is time-consuming and laborious.

The sun was rising and it was almost noon.

Yang Haojian in the Sitong Hall had been waiting impatiently for a long time, but Emperor Jianzhao did not move, and he did not dare to move, so he had to hope that the boss on the side would not be able to hold it first.

But at this moment, Yang Haoyu's sleepiness seemed to have passed, and he didn't yawn anymore, and sat there with his eyes straight, so that he seemed calmer than anyone else.

At this time, Emperor Jianzhao finally asked, and the leader of the Yulin Army went out to take a look, and when he came back, many people had handed in the papers.

Emperor Jianzhao asked Tan Lao Guoshi: "Aiqing, do you think you should read those volumes first?" ”

Tan Mengzhou knew that Emperor Jianzhao was bored, and he knew that the scrolls handed in at this time would not have any good results, but he still said "obey the order" and asked someone to send the collected scrolls into the hall first.

Emperor Jianzhao had a ready-made answer in his hand, and it was really easy to approve this volume, and the imperial pen approved two copies, which were tasteless, and handed it to his two sons: "Look at it." ”

Then he asked Tan Mengzhou: "What is scheduled for tomorrow?" ”

Tan Mengzhou hurriedly replied: "Back to Your Majesty, tomorrow they will use musical instruments to fight each other, and if necessary, the musicians of Xuanyin Pavilion will also interfere, and the person who can do it from beginning to end will win." ”

Emperor Jianzhao and the two princes were interested when they heard this, and they couldn't wait to skip today's boring exam and go directly to tomorrow.

Emperor Jianzhao fell into deep thought, knocked his fingers on the table on the side, and said: "The questions in this exam are a little difficult, I see that many people are not good, don't eliminate those who are poor, there is a good one, remember an excellent grade, I want to see how many people can achieve full excellence after three days of exams." ”

Tan Mengzhou bowed down to receive the order.

At this time, everyone outside the hall had already handed over the scrolls, and even Zhong Tianzheng and Xiang Jiarong handed over the scrolls to the waiters.

Wen Sheng finally put down his pen.

Looking at the paper that was about to be handed in, Wen Sheng felt quite satisfied, although the mistake may not be accurate, but there should be no mistakes in the score.

She took her thoughts away from the paper and burst into a thought: Today's test method, although the exam questions look a little difficult for everyone, but right is right, wrong is wrong, as soon as the paper is handed in, the results are doomed, whether Emperor Jianzhao is there in person, and what impact does it have on the result?

And in the first few days of selection, the second test was to listen to the sound to distinguish the five tones and twelve rhythms, she had the most smooth life, and there was no mistake at all, which was a very good result at that time.

Today, Old Master Tan designed such a scene again, isn't he deliberately taking care of himself? (To be continued)

PS: Thank you.

I have a headache for a day, and if I am still so uncomfortable tomorrow, I will take it a step forward. R580