Princess Yue heard Xia Xue's arrogant words, saw her smiling confidently, and sneered disdainfully.Are you good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting?Who does she think she is?Her master, Xuan Xi, is also the number one talented person in the Yue Kingdom, but even he himself would not say such a thing so bluntly, what kind of Princess An Ning really dares to say this.

The Third Prince of Yue's gaze at Xia Xue also changed from admiration to disapproval at the beginning. The reason he admired her was because she had the courage to challenge Xuanxi. However, now it seems that she is simply overconfident.It is probably because others hindered her from being the princess, so she was given three points in every aspect of talent, so let her think that no one can match her.

When we first met, I thought this woman had a high integrity, but now it seems that she is a no-brainer?

Xuanxi obviously didn't expect Xia Xue to say such a sentence suddenly, there is no humility among literati, it really is not modest.Originally, he wanted to say something polite to her, after all, the other party was just a little girl who hadn't reached her age, and he didn't intend to make it too difficult, but now he didn't know how to answer her.

Could it be that he wants to say, "The princess is so talented?" But the problem is that he has never seen her talent.

The emperor on the throne was really annoyed when he lost so many times, but when Xia Xue said such a sentence suddenly, he felt dumbfounded. His emperor brother and princess are both gentle and humble. Yes, even though Xia Yelin is cold-tempered, he is not so arrogant. How could he be so humble after giving birth to a daughter?

As for the family members of the officials at the banquet, they kept whispering, but obviously they were not optimistic about Xia Xue.

Only Xia Yelin secretly gave Xia Xue a look of admiration and trust. If there were not so many people here, he would have wanted to applaud his sister. He knew exactly how powerful his sister was.

Seeing that everyone was shocked by what she said, Xia Xue chuckled lightly, drawing everyone's attention back.She glanced at everyone, and finally she looked at Xuanxi and said with a smile: "It seems a bit boring to compare like this, why don't you let me come up with the question?"

Xuanxi made a gesture of invitation, and at the same time said with a smile: "Of course, Princess, please come up with a question."

This time she focused on the emperor, stood up and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, can you allow An Ning to prepare something?"

The emperor waved his hand: "Yes."

Xia Xue casually recruited a few court ladies, and then whispered to them for a while.After hearing this, the palace lady glanced at each other in confusion, but still carried it out respectfully.

Everyone didn't know what kind of tricks Xia Xue was playing. After a while, the maids who were sent all found what Xia Xue asked for, and everyone was even more puzzled when they saw it.

Because what the maid found was a drum and an hourglass.

Seeing this, Xuanxi was also very puzzled, and couldn't help asking: "What do you mean by asking the princess?"

She was instructing the maid to put the drum in order, when she heard Xuanxi’s question, she turned her head and bowed to the emperor first, then she raised her voice so that everyone could hear: “We take turns playing this zither, when we play Send out one person to turn the hourglass over, and beat the drum once when the hourglass runs out of sand. Then turn the hourglass upside down again, and beat the drum once more, and so on for a total of ten times.”

"What both of us have to do is to prevent the drummer from beating ten times, and whoever has the least number of drumming wins."

Hyun Hee understood it as soon as he heard it, that is to say, he wanted to use the sound of the piano to confuse the drummer and make him forget to play the drum. Such a competition is really interesting.After understanding the rules, he was already a little eager to try.

But some details still need to be clarified. He first asked the court lady to turn the hourglass over, and let him see how long it would take for the sand in the hourglass to drain. Who plays the drums?"

Xia Xue calculated the time for the hourglass, and it was about 1 minute. Seeing Xuanxi's question, she casually pointed to a maid, who was the one who went to fetch the hourglass just now.

Princess Yue was not happy when she heard this, she sneered and said: "The princess is so calculating, isn't this one of your own? I'm afraid it's not fair to us?"

Xia Xue glanced at Princess Yue, and smiled: "When he plays, this court lady beats the drum, but when I play..."

Speaking of this, she paused for a moment, glanced back and forth between the two brothers and sisters in the Yue Kingdom, and then continued with a finger pointing: "Forget it, you are so worried, and you will play the drums when I play."

Princess Yue pointed at herself incredulously, and said uncertainly, "I play drums?"

Xia Xue nodded very positively.

The audience was in an uproar, everyone could see that the princess of Yue Kingdom was not at odds with her. Although it was fair for the other party to play the piano and find someone from their own side to play the drums, you must know that the knowledge of a palace lady and a princess is very different. How much knowledge do you have?Maybe she was fascinated by Hyun Hee's piano sound, but as a princess of a country, what good things has she not seen?The knowledge is different, and the things that can fascinate her are also different. How much does Princess Anning like to have trouble with herself?

Ignoring everyone with different expressions, Xia Xue raised her hand to greet Xuanxi: "Since the young master is a guest, let the young master invite you first."

Hyun Hee was not hypocritical, and bowed to salute: "Then I will be disrespectful."

After Hyun Hee sat down, he stroked the body of the piano with both hands, fiddled with it casually to familiarize himself with the tone.After a while, he raised his head and nodded to the maid who was beating the drum to show that he could start.

The palace lady was a little nervous because she was chosen as the drummer, but she soon calmed down after seeing Xia Xue's soothing eyes. She turned the hourglass upside down, and the sand began to slide down the tiny gap.

The sound of the piano began to sound at the moment when the hourglass was turned upside down. His sound was clear and sweet, but it made everyone present immersed in the beautiful sound in a moment.However……

With a sound of "boom", the sound of the drum overwhelmed the sound of the piano, which made everyone wake up from the melodious sound in an instant.Hyun Hee didn't stop playing the piano, but the mood of playing the piano just now was interrupted by the sound of the drum. The sound of the drum not only affected others, but also affected himself.

Because the palace lady knew that she had a heavy responsibility, all her attention was on the hourglass and drumming, and she didn't have the heart to appreciate the music played by Hyun Hee.

So until the hourglass turned ten times over and over again, she also beat the drum ten times without a break.

Hyun Hee stopped playing the piano after hearing the tenth beat of the drum, raised his head and closed his eyes, and let out a long breath.His heart was disturbed from the first time he played the drum. Although the music he played was still beautiful, he lost his soul. It was the first time he played a piece of music that made him shake his head.

Standing up from the seat, he left the piano seat and smiled at Xia Xue: "Princess, please!"

Xia Xue nodded slightly, and ordered the maid who played the drum to change the stool that Xuanxi had sat on, and waited for the maid to re-arrange the stool before she calmly plucked the strings, feeling the sound and feel of the piano.

Princess Yue took the drumstick with her mouth curled, thinking about how she would lose face when Xia Xue played.

The sound of the piano sounded. Unlike Xuanxi's quietness, Xia Xue's piano sound gave people a nervous but a little excited mood.

With a loud "dong", the Princess of Yue beat the drum vigorously, pulling people's emotions back at once.She thought that Xia Xue would be disturbed by the sound of drums like Xuanxi, but with that sound of her drumming.The sound of Xia Xue's piano suddenly became high and intense.

The sound of the drum not only did not wake up the crowd from the sound of the zither, but was brought into the battlefield by the intense sound of the zither. Their hearts beat with the sound of the zither, making their blood boil as if they were on the battlefield.

Princess Yue's hand holding the drumstick turned white, she pursed her lips, and was about to hit the drum for the second time after the sand in the hourglass was finished.

The sound of the zither turned into sadness and anger again, but with determination.It is like a general and a soldier watching his comrades fall, but still obeying orders and fighting the enemy bravely.

The third time the drum was played, Princess Yue's hands were already trembling, and the sound of the drum was not as strong as before.

The sound of the piano is low and mournful, like weeping and complaining, and with the spread of the drum, it is like a mother's endless longing for her child who joined the army

The princess gritted her teeth and hit the drum vigorously for the fourth time.

The sound of the piano was sonorous and enthusiastic, as if a general was triumphantly returning with victory and joy. Everyone puffed up their chests unconsciously, as if they were in the scene, with incomparable glory and enthusiasm.

The fifth drum beat, and the sound of the piano changed again, sometimes ecstatic, sometimes heartbreaking, as if parents after the war cry when they know their children are safe and happy, and some parents are heartbroken when they send a white-haired person to a black-headed person.

At this moment, some people who are too emotional have been crying, but the princess's sixth drum can't go on, because she has been attracted by the sound of the piano, and she has forgotten the time and the game.

As the sound of the piano continued, she seemed to see some soldiers who were seriously injured and fell to the root of their illness, some soldiers and their lovers complained to each other, but in the end, without exception, they all chose to raise their swords again to fight the enemy bravely.

As Xia Xue played the last syllable, everyone was still in the music for a long time without returning to their senses.The emperor gently closed his eyes, subdued the feeling of blood boiling just now, and took the lead in applauding.

The emperor's applause gradually brought everyone back to their senses, and then slowly joined the applause into one piece.

Xuanxi's heart was shaken, looking at Xia Xue's refined face, something seemed to break out of his heart, making his heart feel crisp and numb, but he didn't hate this feeling.

Trying to suppress the feeling in his heart, he looked directly into her eyes: "The princess's talent makes me bow down."

"My lord, the piano competition is over, now it's a game of chess? It's not rude to come and go, this time, let me ask you to come up with a question."

Hyun Hee did not refuse, he suggested that everyone should not look at the chessboard, and then find someone to hold the pieces for themselves.And what he was looking for was still the princess of Yue Kingdom.

This time Xia Xue couldn't find a little palace maid, she had to find someone who could play chess, so she quickly fixed her eyes on Xia Yelin: "Brother, please help me hold the son for me."

Xia Yelin was very happy, and when the two eunuchs brought the chess pieces, he sat down with Princess Yue.

Xia Xue and Xuanxi turned their backs to the chessboard, and waited for Xia Yelin and the others to finish guessing and determine who would hold the black or white pieces before starting.

Playing chess is different from playing the piano, everyone can't see it, they can only know the result, so after a while, they feel bored, and they start talking to each other, and the content of the conversation is just playing the piano. Xia Xue praised constantly.

When everyone was in high spirits, Princess Yue's mocking voice suddenly sounded: "Ha! You actually played in this place? This princess admits that you are good at playing the piano, but it's just this chess..."

She didn't go on, but everyone could hear her saying that Princess Anning's chess skills are not good, and everyone suddenly wanted to know what move the princess took, and she would be ridiculed like this.

Xia Xue ignored Princess Yue's ridicule and told her whereabouts.

The princess of Yue Kingdom was unhappy with Xia Xue's attitude of ignoring her, so she snorted a little harder, seeing how long you can pretend to be so calm, she doesn't believe that this person is really that powerful.

She thought so, but soon, Hyun Hee's voice of admitting defeat broke her complacent mood.She looked at Xuanxi with his back turned to her in disbelief. Seeing him clenching his fists, it was obvious that he was really cornered.He hurriedly lowered his head to look at the chessboard clearly, and found that the black pieces held by Xia Xue had driven the white pieces to a dead end at some point.

Xia Xue heard that Xuanxi had conceded, she smiled and said: "Now, princess and elder brother, please exchange the chess pieces. I will hold the white pieces and continue playing."

What... what?

Everyone looked at Xia Xue in shock. Is she going to overturn this chess game that has already come to fruition?The emperor's lazy mood after listening to the piano was suddenly aroused, and Xiao looked at Xia Xue with interest.

Seeing that Xuanxi agreed, Xia Xue asked Xia Yelin to hold a white piece and land it on a spot on the chessboard.

Xia Xue actually used the method of putting her to death to bring Bai Zi back to life, breaking through the encirclement all the way, and as time progressed, she actually turned defeat into victory.

"Xuanxi... admit defeat!" Xuanxi gritted his teeth and said.

Xia Xue heard the words, just smiled and said: "Brother, change the sunspot back and continue playing."

Hyun Hee suddenly turned to look at her, is there any possibility for her to resume the game?He pursed his lips tightly and clenched his fists, and then he suddenly chuckled, with an expression of refusal to admit defeat in his eyes, don't try to come back this time!

Hyun Hee pressed on step by step, determined not to let her have a chance to breathe.Time passed by every minute, and although Xia Xue had faint signs of recovery, he had already found a way to cut off her way of life.

When "eight out of ten" mentioned this position, he felt a little excited. Once this ball falls, Xia Xue's path will be completely cut off, and there is no possibility of a comeback.

However, when Princess Yue's trembling voice sounded, he felt like a bolt from the blue: "This position...has already placed sunspots..."

As soon as the princess of Yue Kingdom reminded him, he immediately remembered that this position was exactly the one the princess laughed at just now. He thought it was a useless position, but now it became the only possibility for him to kill him!He turned pale with fright, because he thought of a possibility, since Xia Xue left Hei Zi in that place, he has been led away. She was forced to sit in a position where she purposely relaxed.

Every step, every step, step by step, let him foolishly and happily step into the trap set by her, like a cat playing with a mouse, and give the final blow when he has played enough, let him lose all hope, and can no longer resist heart of.

What could be more shocking than when you thought victory was in sight, only to suddenly discover that it was the enemy's trap from the start?

Looking at his expression, Xia Xue knew that he had already surrendered, and asked aloud, "Is the young master better than calligraphy and painting?"

Xuanxi opened his mouth, and it took him a while to find his own voice. His voice was low and hoarse, as if trying to suppress certain emotions, he said: "No need, if we continue to compare, it's just self-inflicted humiliation. Thank you Princess for your enlightenment, Xuanxi... …FK U!"

"Promise." After Xia Xue finished speaking, she and Xia Yelin returned to their respective seats. She had just sat down when the princesses next to her who were close to her immediately held her down and chattered about what happened just now.

After this battle, she became famous.

Without Xuanxi's deliberately making things difficult, the atmosphere of the banquet was very good, especially because the emperor was very happy because Xia Xue won the beauty, and the officials below saw that the emperor was happy, and naturally they were very happy.

The banquet lasted until the evening, everyone ate about the same, and began to enjoy various dances, and play a drink order or something.But no one dared to compare with Xia Xue, but everyone hoped that she could draw a picture and mention a word or something. After all, the final calligraphy and painting did not compare, and they were a little disappointed because of this.

Those who were too enthusiastic, managed to push them away, and went to a relatively secluded place alone, only to meet the three masters and apprentices of the Yue Kingdom.

"Princess Anning."

"The third prince, the fourth princess, An Guoshi." She greeted the Yue royal family first, and then she turned her eyes to Xuanxi: "What's the matter with the Guoshi?"

"The princess is very talented, I hope I can discuss with her from time to time." Xuanxi showed a beautiful smile, with black hair and fair skin, he was as handsome as a god against the backdrop of the night.

"Not interested." It's a pity that Xia Xue didn't show any face at all, and refused directly.

Xuanxi didn't say anything yet, but the fourth princess next to him was angry, thinking that since she was a child, except for the national teacher beside her, who has ever made her angry?Even the emperor loves her very much, but since coming here, this princess, who is only the daughter of a prince, has given her bad looks everywhere, how can she bear it?

"We invite you with good words, but you refuse again and again. Are you contemptuous of us?" The fourth princess raised her head slightly and said. If she refuses again, then she is really contemptuous of this name, and she can definitely put eye drops on the emperor here.

The other two were also made angry by the arrogant Xia Xue, so they wanted to rub her spirit, so they didn't stop the fourth princess, but stood aside to see how she would deal with it.

However, Xia Xue's reaction was always beyond their expectations: "The premise of contempt is that I must put you in my eyes, let me tell you, this is not contempt, it is ignoring."

After saying this, they left without giving them any time to react.

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