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Chapter 193
This girl has an oval face, thin and curved eyebrows, and a pair of watery eyes that are as bright and clear as soaking in spring water.
She is Prime Minister Li's only daughter, Mo Xueyuan, who has both talent and beauty, and is quite spiritual. What's more rare is that her father, Prime Minister Li, is the right-hand man of the Holy Majesty today. Even Mrs. Mo is also present at this banquet. Extremely ostentatious.

This Mo Xueyuan is proficient in all aspects of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and is best at piano and dance, coupled with a noble background, she is invincible in front of all young talents.

"Xueyuan, don't embarrass the Prime Minister's Mansion!" Mrs. Mo took Mo Xueyuan's hand and urged.

"Grandmother, don't worry, Xueyuan will definitely live up to your expectations!"

Mo Xueyuan smiled confidently, stepped onto the stage, stretched her slender hands over the strings, and played with them lightly, followed by the clear and melodious sound of the piano.

"Xueyuan's piano was transported back from the Western Regions specially by my grandmother. It is said that it is made of snow wood unique to the Western Regions. A must!" Mrs. Mo proudly said in the audience.

When the people around heard the words, they laughed and whispered to each other, and praised the piano very much.

Just as he was speaking, the sound of Mo Xueyuan's piano on the stage suddenly changed, the strings suddenly tightened, and there was a clear and pleasant clang, and the strings suddenly loosened, and a clear sound of the piano resounded through the audience.

Everyone in the audience was stunned for a moment. They didn't expect Mo Xueyuan's piano skills to be so good. Before they could marvel at them, the sound of the piano stopped abruptly. Mo Xueyuan's figure suddenly became shorter, and she made a beautiful rotation, and her body spun with the piano at high speed. , dancing gracefully, light and moving, as her dance steps gradually slowed down, at the same time, the sound of the piano in her hand flowed out like a waterfall, just like the sound of nature.

When everyone saw such a combination of piano and dance, they were all amazed and applauded.

"Ms. Mo's family is indeed a veritable daughter of heaven's pride!"

"It really lives up to its reputation!"

"It seems that Xueyuan from the Mo family is the leader in this noble lady competition!"

Everyone was discussing and guessing what kind of gift Mo Xueyuan would get.

At the end of the song, Mo Xueyuan stopped dancing after performing the last spinning movement, and saluted everyone in the audience.

With a smug and proud smile on her face, she glanced around and saw that everyone was full of praise, the sense of vanity in her heart inflated, and she waited quietly for the young masters of the family to vote for plums.

She has been very intelligent since she was a child, so she naturally knows how to please others. Before attending the banquet this time, she has already made a clear investigation. Among these noble children, the honest ones love the music of aura and the dandies love the glamorous dance. She naturally has to take care of both to be perfect.

Sure enough, following the exclamation from the audience, most of the men were overwhelmed by Mo Xueyuan's talent and appearance, and put the plum blossoms in her hands one after another into her vase, and many even put all three plum blossoms in their hands into the vase. In the plum vase, there are more than twenty flowers, which makes many young ladies envy and hate.

Mo Xueyuan looked at the bottle full of plum blossoms, knowing that she was in the limelight in the First World War today, a slight smile could not help but be drawn on the corner of her mouth.

However, she waited for a long while but did not get the three plum blossoms she was looking forward to. She frowned involuntarily and looked at a conspicuous position on the third table under the stage, only to find that the two people who were sitting there had disappeared.

Didn't he see the piano dance she had just carefully prepared? !Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel a little lost.

The rest of the noble girls took turns to play, and soon the competition came to an end, most of the noble girls' bottles were thrown into as many as six or seven flowers, the most were Mo Xueyuan, the first daughter of the Mo family, and Ning Miaoxuan, the daughter of the Ning family.

Ning Miaoxuan's Hu Xuanwu combined with her unique costumes showed her full intentions, but the combination of Mo Xueyuan's qin and dance was naturally inferior in comparison, and the order of her performances was behind Mo Xueyuan's. The two after Yuan got no more than ten plum blossoms.

Before Ye Zhaoyan and Cheng Yuyan, there were three noble girls who didn't have any flowers in their vases.

At the same time, the pearl plums in the hands of the princes of the aristocratic families in the field were almost exhausted.

Seeing the empty bottles, the last few noble ladies who performed shook their heads and sighed, as there were not many opportunities left for them.

Ye Zhaoyan saw it in her eyes, her face was calm, but she was very satisfied in her heart. This was the result she wanted.

She represented Ye Fu's face, so she had to perform with all her heart, but she didn't want to get too much favor and involvement, so she simply appeared at the end. In this way, those nobles from aristocratic families didn't spend even if they wanted to throw flowers.

While she was in deep thought, a smile could not help showing at the corner of her mouth, which happened to fall into a pair of clear eyes in the distance.

Looking at her smile, Zhuo Yibai couldn't help but be full of doubts, how could she be so happy even at the end of the line?
Ye Zhaoyan felt the other party's gaze, looked up, and met those star-like eyes, the other party showed a pure and harmless smile, which made her heart rippling.

Satisfied, Mo Xueyuan looked somewhere as usual, and was pleasantly surprised to find that handsome figure had returned to the seat, but the boy's eyes were looking at another person.

Following his gaze, he saw a handsome and heroic face.

Miss Ye family? !
Mo Xueyuan opened her eyes wide in disbelief, and countless speculations flooded into her heart instantly.

Soon it was Cheng Yuyan's turn in the competition. She coughed twice, walked onto the stage unhurriedly, and after the maid beside her arranged the pens, inks, papers and inkstones, she dipped the ink and wrote it, swaying it like flowing clouds and flowing water. , It turned out to be a blossoming pearl plum, lifelike.

After finishing the painting, she changed to a small brush, and the beautiful handwriting jumped out on the paper, and a few lines of poems came out vividly, making the whole picture scroll lively.

This painting actually imitated the former empress' calligraphy "Plum Fragrance" and added its own poetic novelty to express the artistic conception of Pearl Plum, making the painting that was originally enshrined in mourning and longing appear full of vitality.

When Mrs. Mo and several former elders saw Cheng Yuyan's painting, their expressions suddenly became shocked.

To use such a flattering way, people are caught off guard!

There was an exclamation from the audience.

"Good poetry, really good poetry!"

"Worthy of being the daughter of Duke Cheng, she is really full of poetic spirit!"

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Cheng Yuyan was a little surprised. She just drew a picture that her mother often asked her to practice on weekdays. How did she get such praise? !
After hearing these praises, Mo Xueyuan's face immediately became gloomy. She didn't expect that Cheng Yuyan would get such admiration just because of her casual writing. Didn't she overshadow her in terms of literary talent?
It seems that her qin dance is impetuous and empty, lacking the background of poetry and painting!
Mo Xueyuan had no choice but to suppress the anger in her heart because everyone was present and couldn't explode.

Soon there were seven or eight princes from aristocratic families throwing flowers in Cheng Yuyan's vase, and there were more than ten flowers in total.

(End of this chapter)