Chapter 70: Amazing Four
As soon as Shui Ningyan's words fell, Huang Fuhao said, "I will judge." ”
Empress Yun Zixiao followed: "This palace also makes judgments. ”
Concubine Li followed closely and said, "There is also this palace." ”
"This king will also be judged."
"How can this kind of thing be so rare for Prince Ben?"
In the end, Huang Fuchen and Huang Fuyu also joined the ranks of judges.
Shui Ningyan arched his hand and said, "Then it will be judged by you." ”
Immediately, only to hear the palace people shouting "start", Jiang Xinlanyu lightly picked the silver strings in her hands, and her hands plucked on the guqin, and the music like water poured out at her fingertips, like the sound of heaven.
Jiang Xinlan had already played, but Shui Ningyan was still indifferent, and those who were originally optimistic about her immediately secretly sweated for her. You must know that the person who played the same song at the beginning of the two was most likely to be disturbed by the tune of the former, seeing that Jiang Xinlan played smoothly, but saw that Shui Ningyan did not have half a point of impatience and restlessness, and everyone couldn't figure out her mind for a while.
After a while, he tuned the strings and played. At the beginning, it was the same as Jiang Xinlan's, but later it turned higher and higher, and the qin rhyme was so dangerous that it was light, and it turned up effortlessly.
The slender and graceful fingers dance with the strings like flowing water, and the long eyelashes form an arc of temptation on the melon-shaped face, and the person moves with the sound, and the occasional raised head makes people breathe tightly, so a perfect face! It's just that there is something that flickers in those eyes, which makes people can't grasp it, but they want to peep, and before they know it, people have been attracted, and they are intoxicated with sound and people.
Jiang Xinlan originally focused on stroking the qin and immersed herself in the world she had created, but with the tactful sound of the water condensation smoke piano, Jiang Xinlan's mind was disturbed by it, Ruyu's fingers were no longer as flexible and skilled as before, she hurriedly stabilized her mind, and the music still poured out slowly, but it had lost its previous smoothness and brightness when she listened carefully.
She tilted her head slightly, her expression was quiet and serene, the corners of her mouth were curved into a smile, her jade hand was on the piano, the movements were natural and charming, so elegant and full of mystery, attracting anyone's attention.
The sound of the piano is clear, high and low, light and flickering, low to the extreme, after a few circles, and then low again, although extremely low and thin, each syllable is still clearly audible. Gradually, there are occasional pearls and jade jumps in the bass, crisp and short, one after another, the complex sound gradually increases, first such as the splash of the spring, and then such as the group of flowers competing for beauty, the flowers are clustered, and there are also the words of the birds, the song of me and, the tune or tenderness lingers like spring water, or the enthusiasm is unrestrained like a fire, charming and beautiful, and the breath is back to the intestines.
The people present listened to it with fascination and were fascinated. Jiang Xinlan was annoyed in her heart, and her subordinates were all messed up, and due to the excessive force in her hands, a string was suddenly torn off by her. Jiang Xinlan suddenly glared at Shui Ningyan fiercely, her brain was blank at the moment, she didn't expect that she would easily lose to Shui Ningyan in the first confrontation.
Until the end of the last piano note, everyone still felt that the piano sound lingered in their ears, and the aftertaste was endless, and they couldn't come back to their senses for a long time.
"This piano sound is so good, I have never heard such a moving piano sound when I grow so big!"
"Miss Shui simply brought "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" to life!"
"Such a lingering and sympathetic piano sound makes my heart pound, Miss Shui's piano skills are really unparalleled in the world."
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Listening to all kinds of beautiful words in the audience, Shui Ningyan's expression was still unfazed. This song "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" was taught to her by Situ Shaogong at the beginning. At that time, Situ Shaogong took the trouble to play this piece, so she played it just now.
Thinking of this, Shui Ningyan couldn't help but raise her eyes and glance at the place where Situ Shaogong was sitting, and saw a wicked smile on the corner of Situ Shaogong's lips. There was a smug look in those starry eyes, as if he was saying to her: Look, thanks to Prince Ben for teaching you at the beginning, otherwise how could you easily defeat Jiang Xinlan just now?
Seeing this, the gratitude in her heart suddenly disappeared, this arrogant man had disturbed her for so many days, and it was natural to teach her to play a tune. At that moment, he turned his face and no longer looked at Situ Shaogong.
"In the first game, I announced that Shui Ningyan had won!"
"This king chooses water and smoke to win!"
"This prince also chooses water and smoke!"
Queen Yun Zixiao and Concubine Li saw that the three of them had already chosen Shui Ningyan, so they had no choice but to choose Shui Ningyan to win, after all, they couldn't be too partial in front of the public, not to mention that Shui Ningyan's piano skills were indeed too much better than Jiang Xinlan's.
"Shui Ningyan, don't be too complacent, you have to try your painting skills and dancing skills next, Miss Ben doesn't believe that you won me!" Jiang Xinlan said provocatively with a black face.
Jiang Xinlan has never lost to anyone in talent, but today she actually lost to a rumored useless Shui Ningyan, which is definitely a great shame for her.
"Heh, Jiang Xinlan, let's save some saliva to meet the next competition. It's not up to you to decide who wins or loses! ”
Compared with Jiang Xinlan's thunderous jump, Shui Ningyan was very calm, and Jiang Xinlan suddenly felt that her punch was like hitting a stone, which made her even more annoyed.
The second round of the competition was to test painting skills, and immediately some palace people removed the guqin and prepared the four treasures of the study. Huangfu Hao on the dragon chair sighed for a moment and said: "Today is a hundred flowers banquet, it is better to take a hundred flowers as the theme, and the two of you will finish painting in the time of a stick of incense." ”
After the palace people announced the start, Jiang Xinlan had already picked up the pen and rustled to paint, and Shui Ningyan pondered for a moment before he unhurriedly moved the pen to paint. With the surprise brought by the first round of water condensation smoke in the piano art, no one dared to underestimate the water condensation smoke in the next competition. All eyes were locked on the stage, as if they were afraid of missing a wonderful scene.
Until the palace people announced that the time was up, the two put away their pens, and their respective works were presented to Huang Fuhao on the dragon chair. Jiang Xinlan's painting paper is painted with flowers of different sizes and shapes, with skillful and vivid brushwork, and no less than 100 flowers are painted, which really responds to the theme of "100 flowers".
"Okay, this picture of a hundred flowers painted by Miss Jiang is extraordinary and lifelike." Huang Fuhao praised without hesitation, and after speaking, he showed the decorating to everyone, and everyone cheered.
What's even more unimaginable is that there are four or five colorful butterflies flying over at this time, flying up and down around Jiang Xinlan's hundred flower diagrams. There was a sudden exclamation all around. Seeing this, Jiang Xinlan raised her delicate chin and did not hide the smug look on her face. She has had a talent for painting since she was a child, and she has received tips from dozens of painting masters, so she doesn't believe that she can't win this game.
Huang Fuchen and Huang Fu Yu in the audience couldn't help but feel a little more worried when they looked at Shui Ningyan. Shui Ningyan's face was still as calm as water, making it impossible to peek into her thoughts.
"Your Majesty, quickly let everyone enjoy the picture of flowers made by Miss Shui." Seeing Huang Fuhao holding the scroll of water condensation and frowning slightly, Empress Yun Zixiao said with a smile.
As a judge, he naturally has to uphold the principle of fairness and justice, and at the moment Huang Fuhao had no choice but to hand over the picture scroll of water condensation smoke to Ning Gonggong next to him, and Ning Gonggong presented it to everyone to see, only to see that only one peony was painted on the huge painting paper. The peony is still only in the shape of a flower bone. The petals are layered and lifelike, and although the painting can be seen, it seems to be far from the theme of "Hundred Flowers".
"Miss Shui, just now the emperor asked us to take 'Hundred Flowers' as the theme, and now Miss Shui only paints a flower bone, which doesn't seem to match the artistic conception." Jiang Xinlan glanced at the water condensation smoke and said proudly.
As soon as this remark came out, most people also echoed Jiang Xinlan, claiming that the picture scroll of water condensation smoke did not fit the theme. Shui Ningyan still looked calm, and said indifferently: "Miss Jiang will draw conclusions now, maybe she is too anxious." ”
When Jiang Xinlan heard this, she just wanted to refute, but at this moment, she didn't know who let out an exclamation, "Look at the painting, look at it!" ”
Everyone unanimously looked at the painting, and a miracle happened. I saw that the flower bones on the picture scroll were blooming at a visible speed, and the budding flower bones had already been sprouted in the wind. What was even more surprising was that after the peony flower lasted for a while, the petals quickly closed again, and when it bloomed again, the original pale pink color had changed to rose red, and finally to white, purple, and yellow...... It's really a flower that blooms into a hundred flowers.
"Hey, look at the butterflies, there are so many butterflies!"
As one person exclaimed, he saw countless colorful butterflies flying from the west side of the Imperial Garden, dancing around the peony flowers on the picture scroll. Such a spectacular spectacle is like admiring a feast of butterflies, which is dizzying.
After a while, the graceful and luxurious peony flower on the scroll reverted to its original flower bones, and if it weren't for the fact that there were so many colorful butterflies in front of me, I would really think that everything I saw just now was an illusion.
"This painting by Miss Shui is simply shocking, and today is really an eye-opener!"
"That's right, this kind of painting is so innovative, not only the painting is first-class, but also unconventional!"
"It's incredible that a peony flower can evolve into different colors and forms, it's like a trick!"
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Listening to the various praises of Shui Ningyan below, Jiang Xinlan was extremely jealous. She has already lost one game, and if she loses again in this game, she will win two out of three games, and she will have completely lost without trying her dancing skills again.
"Water condensation, let's test painting skills, is it unfair for you to play tricks like this?"
Without waiting for Shui Ningyan to speak, some of the daughters below who were not used to seeing Jiang Xinlan had already come out for Shui Ningyan.
"If you lose, you lose, and you don't have to be ashamed to make so many excuses for yourself."
"I think Jiang Xinlan's thick-skinned ability is far more admirable than her talent."
"If I had Jiang Xinlan, I would have come down a long time ago, so I wouldn't have to be embarrassed."
When did Jiang Xinlan, who has always been the proud daughter of the sky, be humiliated like this, and almost vomited blood at the moment. The thin nails left blood marks on her palms, but she didn't realize it.