Summary of the previous chapter: Ma Xiaoquan warned the horse soldiers, and the horse soldiers were also smart and skillfully admitted their mistakes. Ma Xiaoquan likes to deal with such smart people, and the two praise each other, which seems to be very harmonious

On the second day of +++++++++++++++++, the last two competitions of "The Most Beautiful Lady" officially began.

The fourth is to test the personal talents of these ladies, of course, the previous scene of playing the piano cannot be repeated.

To say that there are not too many women in the Eastern Han Dynasty who can be like Cai Yan, but in addition to playing the piano, there are still some people who play chess, write, and paint.

A few ladies asked for pen, ink, paper, and inkstones, and a few ladies simply found a child of the scholar clan to play on the spot.

Women's chess skills are relatively inferior to men's, but women have a natural advantage, and that is intuition.

You must know that sometimes playing chess does not rely on how high your chess skills are to win, but occasionally there will be an upset of "blind boxing to kill the master".

A child of the scholar clan is like this, he thought he was superb in chess, but he didn't expect to lose in the hands of a little lady.

Ma Xiaoquan didn't know much about Go either, but judging from the information fed back by the horse soldiers, the children of the Nashi clan did make a fatal and careless mistake, which led to the consequence of losing the whole game.

The scholars who lost the chess were laughed at by everyone, and they hid their faces in shame and fled, while the little lady who won the chess was praised to the sky by everyone.

On the other side, several ladies who wrote and painted were also secretly competing.

Compared with the quietness of playing chess, writing and painting are much more casual, but everyone still chooses to be silent very well, even if they want to speak, they are whispering with their ears and temples.

The morning passed quickly, and at noon a lady took the lead in stretching her waist and raising her hand to signal that her painting was finished.

Ma Bing invited several famous painters in the Xiangyang painting world to come forward to observe, and after a stick of incense, these painters gave a pertinent evaluation, but since the other ladies had not yet finished it, this evaluation was suppressed by Ma Bing first.

Then another lady raised her hand, and her work was not a painting, but a short cheat sheet. The content is the familiar "Left Turn", but due to time problems, this lady only copied a small part.

Calligraphy and painting have similarities, that is, they both emphasize an "artistic conception". Don't underestimate the word "artistic conception", some people study it all their lives for the sake of artistic conception, and they only achieve something in their later years, such examples abound from ancient times to the present.

The evaluation of characters is more difficult than that of paintings, but Ma Bing has been prepared, he not only invited several famous lettering masters in Xiangyang City, but also invited two famous calligraphy masters in Jingzhou. Of course, with the cleverness and cunning of the horse soldiers, he would not pay so lightly for the fee of inviting people, Ma Xiaoquan asked the horse soldiers how to calculate the cost of inviting people, and the horse soldiers quietly told Ma Xiaoquan that they all went from the courtesy fees of the scholars who came to participate in the banquet.

"You're really good~" Ma Xiaoquan secretly stretched out his thumb to the horse soldier.

Ma Bing smiled, pointed to a cheat sheet and said, "Lord Shangxian, what do you think of that cheat sheet?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan glanced at Ma Bing, and said in his heart: You grandma, Lao Tzu is the least interested in this kind of sour thing, and you still want to stimulate me?

Ma Xiaoquan said with a smile: "Brother Tongxin said that I didn't have any research on this thing, hehe, it's better for you to come, you to come"

The horse soldier did not shirk, nodded, stepped forward, looked at the cheat sheet carefully, and walked back and said: "This word is handwritten beautifully, at first glance, it is written by a woman with a grudge, as for"

Listening to Ma Bing's talk, Ma Xiaoquan couldn't help but be a little stunned, of course, what Ma Xiaoquan was thinking about at this time was the loyalty of the Chinese teacher who asked everyone to summarize a text when he was in middle school

After listening to Ma Bing's evaluation, Ma Xiaoquan nodded pretendically, and said: "Brother Tongxin is really powerful, I didn't expect to have such attainments in words!" ”

The horse soldier smiled, shook his head and said: "Lord Shangxian has won awards, and the skills under him are only small skills in carving insects in front of those masters." ”

After another round of politeness and praise, the evaluation was nearing its end, and at this time, several masters walked up to the horse soldiers at the same time and submitted their opinions and results for the evaluation.

The horse soldier politely took the result sheet, looked at it a few times, and smiled and introduced several masters to the upper seat, and then clapped his hands and shouted to everyone.

"Everyone, everyone" Ma Bing looked at everyone, then at Ma Xiaoquan, and said, "The results of the fourth game have come out, this one, it really opened our eyes Now I announce that the winner of this competition will enter the last game, so the winner is"

The horseman paused, and then uttered the names of several ladies word by word.

The wives who were named were naturally very happy, and even their husbands were very happy, while the wives who were not named were a little unconvinced, and even had a confrontation on the spot.

Ma Bing had already expected this, he took out the opinions of the masters, handed them to the unconvinced scholars, and then, immediately, in exchange for the quiet of obedience.

"The fifth competition" Ma Bing nodded at Ma Xiaoquan, "It will be supervised by Lord Shangxian, oh, that is, the Immortal Hou, Ma Xiaoquan Marquis himself, this competition, I think everyone will be looking forward to it, hehe, I will announce the content of the competition now"

The horse soldier smiled and announced the content of the competition.

This announcement surprised everyone present.

Kuai Yue frowned and asked, "Brother Tongxin, can this be considered a competition?" ”

Ma Bing nodded and said: "This is what I decided after discussing with Hou Ye, of course, if you are not satisfied, you can abstain, there is only one pill, you have also seen it, Lord Shangxian is very hard to refine the pill, and the price of the pill is also very expensive, but well, a pill in exchange for 10 years of longevity, this deal is cost-effective, right?" ”

Ma Bing is right, a pill can be exchanged for 10 years of life, and anyone is happy to buy and sell, not to mention that these nobles and nobles present are basically masters who are not bad for money.

Kuai Yue gave his brother Kuai Liang a look, and when he saw his brother nodding, he gritted his teeth and said, "Damn, it's compared!" ”

The Kuai family must have an idea, and the rest of the people responded one after another.

"It's like that, what's the big deal."

"It's just, nothing to be afraid of, compare"

Seeing that the feelings of everyone present were mobilized by the horse soldiers, the corners of Ma Xiaoquan's mouth raised slightly, and he said in his heart: Interesting, it seems that this kind of contestant voted to be eliminated, regardless of modern and ancient times, it is very disturbing.

The fifth competition, in fact, is not a competition, its content is very simple, that is, let all the ladies present vote for the wives who have won the right to the last competition, and the person who gets the most votes will be eliminated directly, however, since the vote was cast, it is natural to say why, if the reason is not sufficient or there is obvious bias in the reason, the vote is invalid

When the horsemen informed everyone of the requirements for the last game, the arena became quiet for a moment.

The women of the late Han Dynasty were not as virtuous as imagined in history, and the women's thoughts in the late Han Dynasty were also relatively active, so after the horse soldiers explained the rules again, the ladies were ready to go.

Some of the ladies were not very "educated", so their husbands wrote them, and during this time, these wives also communicated with their families from time to time to see who should be eliminated and who should stay; Other women with a higher "cultural level" are more assertive in their own thinking, and every time they think about it, they pick up a pen and write down the points of reasoning on the silk.

An hour passed quickly, looking at the busy crowd in the field, Ma Xiaoquan whispered to Ling'er: "Go and take Zi Yan out, she should be almost resting in the bedroom." ”

Ling'er nodded, bowed and retreated, and after a while, two brilliant and lovely people appeared in front of Ma Xiaoquan.

Ma Xiaoquan stepped forward and hugged one unceremoniously.

Ling'er was fine, but Murong Ziyan's pretty face was flushed with shame.

Ma Xiaoquan fell into Murong Ziyan's ear and said, "Ziyan, these ladies present, who do you want to win?" ”

Zi Yan was stunned for a moment, looked at Ma Xiaoquan, and didn't understand the meaning of his words.

Ma Xiaoquan quietly told Zi Yan that Cai Mao had promised to surrender to Cao, Zi Yan listened to it, and was very excited, it seems that her efforts have not been in vain, but her body has been touched by Cai Mao's brute

Ma Xiaoquan saw Zi Yan's thoughts, and whispered: "Don't worry, my Zi Yan sister, I don't mind if Cai Mao touches you, you are still in perfect shape, remember, your body has to be kept for me." ”

Murong Ziyan's eyes were red and she nodded vigorously

The voting was divided into three stages, the first stage was when the ladies who were eliminated in the first three rounds began to vote, and as a result, one of the ladies who entered the fifth round of the competition was eliminated. After listening to Ma Xiaoquan, Ma Bing and the others, they unanimously decided to eliminate the lady.

In the second stage, the votes were held by the wives who were eliminated in the fourth round, and in this round two people were selected, but only one lady was eliminated due to far-fetched reasons and insufficient reasons.

In the third stage, the fifth round of voting will begin by the ladies who are competing, and in this stage, the winner will be directly selected.

Because the atmosphere was too tense, Ma Xiaoquan asked everyone to pause for a while before voting.

After a few moments, voting resumed.

Murong Ziyan suddenly fell into Ma Xiaoquan's ear and said, "Little Brother Ma, I hope the winning lady is"

Murong Ziyan said his thoughts, this idea coincided with Ma Xiaoquan, of course, although the idea was very good, if the voting results did not cooperate, he had no choice, after all, this competition was held in line with the principle of "fairness, justice and openness".