With just a few words, I won over the choice to His Highness.
The key point is that he also convinced all the concubines and even the crown prince.
Your Highness should like to hear things like this.
As a result, when he mentioned the Crown Princess, His Highness's face turned as dark as the bottom of a pot.
He has been holding it back till today.
After listening to Xu An's explanation, Ji Yannuo finally understood the meaning of what Ye Fuxun said to him this morning.
No wonder Ah Xun said whether she can win first place depends entirely on him.
Thinking of this, the corners of her tightly pursed lips finally relaxed a little and turned up slightly.
The banquet begins.
All kinds of delicacies were served like water.
Ji Yannuo ate some food with an expressionless face. His dark eyes scanned the ring of seats and found that there was no way to determine Ye Fuxun's seat.
Just, I feel unhappy again.
When the meal was more than half eaten, the concubines' performance began.
The first concubine to perform was the water wave dance.
The melodious sound of the piano, the graceful figure, and the fluttering sleeves looked ethereal against the moonlight, and won a lot of applause.
However, Ji Yannuo's face turned dark.
"What's going on?"
Eunuch Xu responded cautiously: "When Concubine Ye proposed that you come for the selection, Concubine Zhang was worried that you would favor Concubine Ye, so Concubine Ye suggested performing with a veil to show fairness."
Ji Yannuo:......
There is an illusion that the wife dug a hole for herself to jump into.
After taking a few sips of tea, Ji Yannuo cheered up and watched the performance.
Even if he is veiled, can he still recognize his Ah Xun?
That woman, even if she was disguised and hiding in the crowd, he could still see her at a glance.
"Your Highness, do you think this concubine dancing in the water is Concubine Ye?"
Eunuch Xu was quite nervous.
Even though this concubine is dancing with a veil, judging from her stature and posture, she looks exactly like Concubine Ye.
It is good that His Highness successfully selected Concubine Ye tonight, but if he made the wrong choice...
The consequences would be unimaginable.
Furthermore, if all the concubines deliberately dress up to look like Concubine Ye, then wouldn’t His Highness...
Eunuch Xu suddenly shuddered at this thought.
After the water waves danced, Ji Yannuo never made a sound.
The concubines were thoughtful, His Highness dotes on Concubine Ye, if they dress somewhat similar to Concubine Ye, will His Highness look at them more?
The voice is difficult to change, but the body shape and movements can still be roughly imitated.
It actually made several concubines who planned to sing the song regret it.
Why didn't they think of this?
No matter how well the song is sung, as soon as His Highness opens his mouth, he will know that it is not Concubine Ye. How can they have a chance to win?
At this moment, can you change the singing to a mime?
Ji Yannuo was watching the performance over there. The more he watched, the darker his face became.
His body shape only resembles Ah Xun at least three-quarters of the way.
There are also people dancing wearing the same clothes as Ah Xun. What does it mean?
Are you mocking him for being blind?
Ji Yannuo watched the concubine spinning and jumping in the field with cold eyes, trying hard to suppress the urge to fly her away with a sword.
Eunuch Xu wiped his sweat frequently beside Ji Yannuo.
How can the concubines in this performance compete with each other to look like Concubine Ye?
Even if you imitate your body shape and clothes, you can also imitate your handwriting?
One of the concubines held a lantern and spread pen and ink under the moonlight. She wrote a poem about admiring the moon and had it presented to Ji Yannuo.
Ji Yannuo pinched the paper and smiled coldly.
The next moment, the snow-white paper covered the concubine's face like flying catkins.
The place fell silent for a moment.
The concubine whose face was covered with paper turned pale, and she heard Ji Yannuo's devilish voice: "Continue."
The concubine was glad to have saved her life and hurriedly stumbled back.
The next concubine came on stage and played the harp.
Ji Yannuo glanced casually and asked Xu An impatiently: "How many people are there?"
Eunuch Xu hurriedly responded: "There are still about ten people left."
Ji Yannuo's complexion became darker and darker.
Then there were several singing and flute playing programs.
"If nothing else, during today's banquet, I felt that there was really a hidden dragon and crouching tiger in our backyard."
Ye Fuxun and Zhu Meiren hid in a corner of the gauze, eating melon seeds and watching the performance.
The performance numbers they drew were the second to last and the first to last respectively. They were not nervous at all and felt very comfortable.
"The sisters have all practiced hard for the family dinner," Zhu Meiren agreed in a low voice, "but they all showed their best skills."
"Sister," she asked Ye Fuxun with some worry, "your performance will be..."
"Don't worry." Ye Fuxun picked up the fruit juice and took a sip, "I promise not to disappoint my sister!"
Recently, she and Ye Fuxun have been cooking together every day, and Zhu Meiren has hardly seen Ye Fuxun preparing for the family banquet.
It would be a lie to say you are not worried.
But Zhu Meiren had an indescribable sense of trust in Ye Fuxun.
After hearing Ye Fulun's words, she raised the corner of her mouth: "My sister said this, and my sister feels at ease."
As soon as he finished speaking, a scream was heard suddenly. The two looked at each other and hurriedly looked towards the center of the field.
I saw the concubine standing in the middle of the field throwing herself to the ground, sobbing.
"Drag it down."
Ji Yannuo's cold voice sounded, and instantly a servant came forward and took the concubine away.
"What happened?"
The sudden change happened so quickly that many of the concubines who were chatting in low voices did not understand the situation.
"I don't know. Just now, Zhong Liangyuan was halfway through the dance and suddenly fell down."
"She didn't fall down. My sister saw that His Highness threw a bamboo chopstick on her leg."
There were gasps all around: "Why is this?"
The sharp-eyed concubine whispered: "Is it because Zhong Liangyuan wore similar clothes to Concubine Ye before to dance?"
As soon as these words came out, the next concubine who was about to perform suddenly turned blue in the face.
She also planned to imitate Concubine Ye.
Will she end up with the same fate as the concubine just now?
Soon, she knew the answer.
When her knees hurt and she fell to the ground.
After three concubines who imitated Ye Fuxun were dragged away, the remaining concubines finally understood what Ji Yannuo meant.
If this continues, one will come and the other will roll.
Don't even think about being in the top three, I'm afraid you will be blacklisted by His Highness.
The concubines who were not performing were so shocked that they hurriedly changed their clothes, and some were even so horrified that they went to the Crown Princess to beg her to take down the performance.
The Crown Princess pondered for a moment and then someone handed her the message.
If there are concubines who are unwilling to perform, they can be canceled directly.
In this case, there is no possibility of sleeping with him.
"Your Majesty, it's your turn." Bicui stepped forward and whispered.
The Crown Princess stood up with a smile, covered her face with a veil, and walked out holding the piano in her arms.
She has learned piano since she was a child, and her good piano skills are rarely known by others.
I hope tonight's song "My Heart Is Like the Bright Moon" will help His Highness understand her thoughts.
After playing the song, the princess quietly raised her eyes and looked at the headmaster.
However, Ji Yannuo half-closed his eyes, as if he was savoring the unfinished music.