Chapter 37: Drawing of lots

Fu Xiuyi is a member of the royal family, for the royal tactics naturally can not be ignorant, the tea cups fall to the ground of the crisp sound, seemingly inadvertent, but has disrupted the rhythm of the musicians on the stage, so that those compelling tone can not continue. He naturally want to see who started it, Fu Xiuyi himself is a cautious and suspicious nature, he does not think the other side is unintentional.

The purple-clothed girl was resting her cheeks on her head and saying something to the person beside her, she looked cold and distant, but she had an indescribable aura that clearly separated her from the people around her.

“Who is Ninth Brother looking at?” King Zhou Fu Xiu’an followed Fu Xiuyi’s gaze and revealed a knowing smile, “Speaking of which, amongst our brothers, only ninth brother has never married. Father did not mention many times about the ninth brother’s choice of consort, why, that girl looks like a young lady from which family, she looks good. I don’t know which one of the relatives is here, does anyone know her?”

“It’s the Fifth Miss of the Mighty General’s residence, my student.” Pei Lang stood not far away and answered at his words.

“The fifth young miss of the Mighty General’s residence?” King Jing Fu Xiu Hyun had a good memory, perhaps Shen Miao’s name was too big, even the royal family was not unfamiliar with her name. He said, “Isn’t that General Shen Xin Shen’s first daughter? It seems to be called Shen Miao?”

“How could it be Shen Miao.” FuXiuAn did not care about a smile: “ShenMiao chasing our ninth brother’s thing all the capital know, the other day is not also in order to see the ninth brother fell into the water? If the ninth brother genuinely pleased Shen Miao, which still need to be so troublesome. Besides, Shen Miao is a straw bag, look at the girl across the street, the temperament is calm and noble, how can it be Shen Miao.”

“Fourth brother is prudent, Xiuyi has no such intention.” Fu Xiuyi shook his head, but his gaze fell far away from the purple-clothed girl on the women’s table.

His heart is not not shocked, Shen Miao is what people, in his eyes, and those who adore his girls are not different. Those who adore his maiden at least the surface will pretend to be reserved, also always know some etiquette in and out, and Shen Miao …… about in addition to looking at him silly, what also will not. He naturally will not look at a full set of the capital’s joke straw bag, if not to look at the face of Shen Xin, he will certainly clearly show his disgust.

And his memory of Shen Miao, always love to wear some big red and green clothes, love gold jewelry, vicious to the face of rouge powder, like the stage singing opera clowns, or the countryside stage. And now the opposite side of the purple girl, skin like cream, eyebrows elegant, the body of the noble atmosphere and her and the surrounding women clearly distinguish, how can it be Shen Miao?

He wasn’t the only one confused, there was also Pei Lang.

As a teacher who has taught Shen Miao for two years, Pei Lang undoubtedly understands Shen Miao more than Fu Xiuyi. If it is said that people’s dress can be changed, clothes can be adjusted, but the temperament of the whole body is different. Pei Lang is a scholar, a scholar values temperament more than others, Shen Miao has changed overnight like a person, where is such a thing?

He did not think of the matter of the square tealight, although he also perceived that the sound of the music was not right, but in his mind, how could a little girl hear the problems. What’s more, Shen Miao was never a master of the zither.

While the crowd had their own thoughts in their minds, the musicians on the stage had already ended. The calibration was about to begin.

This year’s school test is not the same as previous years, not divided into male and female, only divided into literature and martial arts. Although Guangwen Hall requires students to be both literate and martial arts, literacy and martial arts should be taught, but a hundred years of rules have always been so, very few women choose to martial arts, while the literacy of the curricula, the current distribution, and the basic for the men to include. Only because these three doors are in fact the way to select talents for the court, as one of the adults said: “the subject of the scholar, often all for the generals and ministers, all very obvious.”

In the martial arts category, you have to take tests on mounted archery, infantry archery, horse pistol, and weight bearing. But after all, it’s not really martial arts, and practicing drills as well as specific rings are not necessary.

Most of the women take the poetry, song and fugue test, which is the default tradition. Even if Mingqi is still quite open, it is always much harsher for women, and not only in Mingqi, but also in all countries. Women should stay at home to teach their children and sing about the moon.

Minqi’s calibrations have always been divided into three parts, sampling, selecting and picking.

Draw is each person to draw, by the calibration officer to disrupt the order, the situation of drawing lots to determine each person to draw the calibration of the item is what. In order to avoid drawing too difficult to increase the difficulty, the women are in the four items of the literary category to draw, while the men are in the martial arts category and the literary category of the Cai Shi Jing to draw.

Because this is one of the items that can not be avoided, every year Shen Miao will lose face on this item, just because of the four items of poetry, lyrics and songs, she does not know any of them.

And choose, is the second stage, you can choose a class you are good at yourself on the stage to show, such as Shen Yue often choose to play the qin, Shen Qing choose the book counting.

As for the last, it was a pick, and this pick was not a selection, but a challenge. Someone can go up to the stage and pick any student to come up as an opponent to compete in a certain item. This kind of scene often occurred in the case of an even match. For someone like Shen Miao, picking her would be an insult to her own strength. However, there are also want to see Shen Miao joke, in the past intentionally pick Shen Miao on stage, to compare a certain item. Naturally, there was no need to guess the ending, no matter which item, Shen Miao was defeated.

So for Shen Miao, the annual school inspection was a nightmare, and every year it was treated as a joke to be snickered at by the crowd. There were countless days like this.

And this year is no different.

The main inspector on the stage made a speech as in previous years, while the other two took out two small wooden barrels from the back, which contained the very same sign papers. These stickers had items written on them and were drawn by the students themselves.

Both men and women were to draw, and one walked over to the men’s table and handed them to the male students one by one. The other tall woman took the bucket of sticks and walked over to the women’s family table and let the female students draw in order.

Feng Anning blinked her eyes, “May God bless, I only hope to draw the qin and book classes, painting and chess can really not make sense.” She looked at Shen Miao: “You don’t look worried at all, is it possible that you have a plan? Or broken?” Not that she speaks meanly, but Shen Miao is really such a fool who can’t understand everything.

Shen Miao did not comment, what is the point of smoking? She is not able to do anything about the music, chess, calligraphy and painting.

When the barrel was passed to Shen Miao’s table, Feng Anning first draw, drew the signature paper and took it out and couldn’t wait to open it, and then breathed a sigh of relief: “It’s the qin! It’s the qin! This is good, these days of the piano finally did not practice in vain. Shen Miao what is yours?”

Shen Miao’s hand had just retracted from the bucket of signatures, and in her palm lay a white signature paper, folded into a long strip. She opened it to look at it, and inside was exactly one word.

Painting.