Back in the west courtyard, the coachman sent the radish in and threw it in the kitchen, and when Xia Qian came back, he was long gone.

After tidying up the radish, Xia Qian cut two pieces of "stinky woman" and put them in front of the table of the eight immortals, sat down and read carefully.

This book is roughly divided into four parts, except for the emperor, almost all the talented people in the past twenty years have been mentioned, and even the red old fairy and Yuelang are also on the list.

The first part is about the heroes of the world, Huo Zun, Hao Ji, Ling Han, Situ Jun, etc. are all on the list.

Although Huo Zun was ranked first, except for the "Holy Knight General, invincible and invincible", there were almost no words of praise in the description of a few hundred words, he was notorious for many years, and Xia Qian was not curious.

There is very little evaluation of Hao Ji, only mentioning the words "the war in Chibei, strategizing".

A lot of space was used about Ling Han and Situ Jun, almost all of which were praise.

The second part is a romantic talent, Lu Jingheng, Que Ming, Li Mao and others are all on the list.

Lu Jingheng is the first talent in the Yi country, although Que Ming was born as a businessman, but his bones are full of detachment and freedom like idle clouds and wild cranes, and all of them are both civil and military, and there is no longer any talk about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

Xia Qian flipped through the book and pondered for a long time, feeling that if these two people were to compete together, they didn't know who would be able to come out.

The third part is the strange woman in the world, Xia Qian was surprised that she was ranked first.

Take a closer look, in addition to saying that she has a refined temperament, looks like a fairy, and is frightened, it also focuses on the fact that she donated 500,000 taels of silver to the victims and gave more than 100,000 taels of silver to Fahua Temple.

"I have always had a bad reputation, and the fact that I can be whitewashed here must be due to those hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. If the writer of the book had known my original purpose for donating this money, he would not have praised me like this, and if he had seen my face, he would have crashed to his death on the wall! ”

Xia Qian sighed and continued to flip back, and when she saw the records about Situ Jun, Lin Qianxue, and Xingping inside, she couldn't help but sigh again.

There is nothing to be curious about this Situ Junlin Qianxue, and Xingping is completely evaluated as a barbaric princess, but the author is still very sure of his attitude of not changing his infatuation and fighting the fire.

The fourth part is a talented person, all the miracle doctors, famous artists, monks, and even masters of the rivers and lakes are involved.

Xia Qian looked at it carefully for a day and found that the deeds recorded in this book were indeed not made up, but she herself was not worthy of those eight words at all!

Seven days later, Xia Qian burned her right hand while cooking.

Although she applied the medicine, more than a dozen blisters of various sizes appeared in the burned area, and the blisters burst when she collected her clothes, and the piercing pain made her suffer all night, and she fell asleep in a daze at dawn.

At noon, as soon as she got up from the bed, she saw Huo Zun take the two palace maids into the west courtyard, and the two of them pulled her out anxiously.

Seeing Huo Zun's brows tightly knit along the way, Xia Qian made the worst plan, thinking that she must have secretly let go of Prince Zilan and Lin Qianxue, and the emperor wanted to cut off her head.

Entering the palace, a gorgeous lady stared at them wistfully, and before she could salute, she pulled Xia Qian and Huo Zun into her Ruiyun Palace.

"Concubine Rong, this matter is really powerless!" Huo Zun shirked and made amends at the same time.

Concubine Rong didn't look at him, pulled Xia Qian and said eagerly: "The visit of the four countries, called to discuss and exchange, is really a hundred flowers and a hundred flowers, my Dayi has a long culture and a large population, but it has failed again and again in the piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and songs. It's not that there is no one in my country, but in the past two years, the talented and beautiful women have died and scattered, and now the eyebrows are burned, but no one is available. If you continue to lose like this, Dayi will lose face, and the emperor is already anxious about this matter. This palace hopes that you will show your glory and regain your style for Dayi! ”

"Mother, you want me to ...... Compete with others to test your talents? Xia Qian looked at her in disbelief.

"Yes, according to the most popular record of "Pincui", you are peerless, you are the only one on the list. This palace knows that you don't want to appear in public because of your current situation, but the matter is urgent, and there is no other way! ”

Concubine Rong said with a sincere face, which made Xia Qian feel uneasy in her heart.

She has no sense of hearing, no taste, no smell, and now she can't even hold chopsticks in her right hand, how can she participate in the competition?

"Niangniang, you still punish me! I'm really powerless! She looked at the other person earnestly and replied sincerely.

"Oh, it's all this time, even my sick man has the cheekiness to run out to compete with young people, you were named by the emperor three days ago. Huo Zun said that you are unwell, and this palace also knows that your sense of taste and smell is out of order, and your appearance is damaged, so he doesn't want to bother, but there is no other way now. ”

Xia Qian saw that she really couldn't shirk it, and was about to hand her her scarred right hand, when suddenly, a father-in-law walked in and said that the palace banquet had begun, and Concubine Rong was invited to take Xia Qian to Ziling Palace.

"It's too late, I'll go over first, you two will wait for her to bathe and change her clothes, and then bring someone over immediately!" Concubine Rong commanded the two palace maids beside her, and hurried out of Ruiyun Palace.

"I've pushed it four times, and I really can't push it off, you can do your best!" Huo Zun said a word, and looked at an acacia tree outside Ruiyun Palace.

Xia Qian was helplessly taken into the bathroom by the two palace maids, from bathing, changing, to dressing up completely by the two palace maids, she looked at herself in the mirror with a scarred face, and the picture of dressing up in the palace before marriage appeared in her eyes.

At that time, he was also helplessly manipulated by the palace maids, but he thought that he would marry a gentle and handsome son, and he was somewhat comforted.

Now, a similar scene has reappeared, but she only has helplessness and hesitation in her heart.

She sighed lightly, thinking that the emperor and Concubine Rong only knew that her face was ruined, and she had no sense of taste and smell, but they didn't know that she couldn't hold a pen in her hand, couldn't touch the piano, couldn't hear words or hear music in her ears.

It's like this, it's a small shame, and it's a big thing to lose your head!

"Okay, no, the emperor and Concubine Rong have urged twice!" The father-in-law shouted anxiously outside the door.

The two palace maids helped Xia Qian out in a hurry, and the father-in-law and Huo Zun looked back at Xia Qian in unison, and then locked their eyebrows in unison.

The clothes are not bad, plain and elegant, the delicate moire and light silk fabric set off her temperament very well, but the makeup is too heavy, not only did not cover the scars on the face, but looked pale, dry and dehydrated.

"Time is too tight, this makeup ......" The palace maid looked at her father-in-law with a look of embarrassment.

"Alas, it's better to wash it, it's better to be without makeup than this!" The father-in-law sighed and said.

After washing her face, everyone frowned, and Xia Qian looked at her father-in-law helplessly, saying that she couldn't do anything, and she really couldn't go.

"Oh, my little ancestor, when did you say such things! Let's go! ”

The father-in-law was ruthless, shook off the dust in his hand, and took her to the Purple Cloud Palace.