coobybook Chapter 356: Unparalleled Beauty vs. 721
Chapter 356: Unparalleled Beauty vs. 721
Qi Yao's appearance instantly pushed the entire competition to a climax.
Who doesn't know Qi Yao's face?
Yesterday, I was watching the grand scene of the generals returning to the capital and being welcomed on horseback on both sides of the street!
Now it seems that General Yan is still dressed the same as yesterday. It is obvious that he entered the palace for an audience with the emperor and was kept in the palace by the current emperor to discuss matters. He just left the palace.
Unexpectedly, as soon as General Yan heard the news of the competition after leaving the palace, he hurried over.
At this time, everyone's eyes kept wandering between General Yan and Miss Xianxian, with excitement that could not be concealed in their eyes.
God!
It seems that Miss Xianxian is madly in love with General Yan and has been waiting for him for so many years, and finally there is a perfect ending!
Xianxian, who was standing on the stage, was so moved that her eyes turned red. She looked at Qi Yao with infatuated eyes. She was so excited that she couldn't help but take a few steps forward, and her voice unconsciously became hoarse.
"General, you are finally back."
After saying that, she glanced at Qu Xinyue.
It was as if she was bullied by Qu Xinyue, and she complained to General He Yan with an uncertain look in her eyes.
Qi Yao was looking down with his brows furrowed, watching someone ordering flowers for his hairpins with a serious face. Suddenly he heard Xianxian's words and looked at her in confusion.
do not know.
Someone who doesn't matter.
If this man wasn't competing with Miss Qu on the same stage, he wouldn't even waste a glance at him.
At this time, the person counting the hairpin flowers had already counted out one hundred hairpin flowers.
Qi Yao nodded, picked up the basket full of hairpins, and walked to the large basket of hairpins that Xianxian and Qu Xinyue had counted.
The spectators in the teahouse not far away couldn't help but shake their heads when they saw this scene.
Qu Xinyue from Guiyin Pavilion must have lost.
And they lost in a crushing manner!
Originally, Miss Xianxian in Hua Manlou already had two hundred hairpin flowers, and now there was one hundred more from General Yan.
As for Qu Xinyue of Guiyin Pavilion, up to now, she has only had thirty flowers.
Miss Xianxian's hairpin has ten times more flowers than Miss Qu's. The gap is so huge that it is impossible to catch up.
Some of the onlookers, who were quick to speak, had already started congratulating Xianxian.
"Congratulations to Miss Xianxian for waiting for General Yan."
"I wish Miss Xianxian will find her true love."
……
There were also many women who looked at Miss Xianxian with eyes full of envy and jealousy.
From today onwards, Miss Xianxian will no longer be a girl wandering in the dust.
She will be favored by General Yan. Even though she will only be General Yan's concubine, at least she will never have to worry about food and clothing and will enjoy wealth and glory in the future!
Xianxian felt the envious gazes of the crowd and the constant words of congratulations. She could no longer maintain her reserved expression and revealed a smug smile.
When Qi Yao heard the discussions behind him, his brows furrowed even tighter.
What are these people looking at?
What does that Miss Xianxian have to do with Qi Yao?
Will lovers finally get married? He looked at Qu Xinyue with some worry, fearing that Qu Xinyue would take these nonsense words seriously.
After noticing Qu Xinyue's calm eyes looking at him, Qi Yao immediately showed his white teeth and gave a flattering smile.
He quickly poured all the one hundred hairpin flowers in the basket into the large scoring basket that belonged to Qu Xinyue.
Those who were chattering non-stop, discussing the topic of Miss Xianxian flying up to the tree, seemed like geese with their throats strangled.
Their eyes bulged out and their mouths opened wide, but no sound came out.
What is collective silence?
Everyone saw it today.
Whether it was the people watching below the stage or the spectators in the teahouse on the street not far away.
They all looked at Qi Yao in astonishment.
A head full of question marks???
what?
General Yan didn’t throw the ball into the wrong basket?
So... did General Yan and Miss Xianxian have a popular and touching love story?
What is going on now? Are we all blind? Or is General Yan not in his right mind?
Standing on the stage, Xianxian, whose face was almost sore from smiling, now had a completely frozen smile on her face.
She looked at Qi Yao in disbelief, and then her eyes suddenly turned red.
When someone saw Xianxian's sad look, they immediately felt pity for her and plucked up the courage to ask Qi Yao.
"General Yan, did you see the basket correctly? This basket does not belong to Miss Xianxian!"
As she spoke, big tears fell from her eyes, as if she had suffered a great injustice, which made many men feel distressed.
Qi Yao glanced at the person who gave the reminder in confusion, and his voice was cold but certain.
"This general's hairpin will only be given to Miss Qu. Also, everyone probably made a mistake. This general and Miss Xianxian are not familiar with each other!"
One word caused a stir!
what?
General Yan said that the hairpin flower would only be given to Miss Qu?
And you are not familiar with Miss Xianxian???
No one expected such a dramatic answer!
How can it be?
Are all the stories we have heard over the years false?
Everyone couldn't help but look at Xianxian.
Ever since Qi Yao said that he was not familiar with her, Xianxian's face turned pale and her body was shaky.
Over the years, she has been waiting for General Yan to come back, and he has become her emotional support.
But now General Yan denied their relationship with just one sentence, and Xianxian felt like the sky was falling.
She was unwilling to accept the reality and asked nervously.
"General Yan, I, I belong to you. I am Xiao Cui. You saved me ten years ago and kept me by your side to serve you. Have you forgotten?"
Qi Yao frowned in thought, as if he had such an impression.
He said, "So, I saved you, and you want to repay me with evil and pester me?"
The slender girl choked with sobs. How should she respond?
The people watching the show finally realized the truth from the conversation between the two.
There is nothing going on between General Yan and Miss Xianxian.
If there is, it is purely the fantasy of Miss Xianxian.
The person counting the votes saw that the atmosphere was bad and started counting the votes quickly.
"Miss Qu from Guiyin Pavilion, there are a total of 130 flowers in your hairpin!"
Qi Yao quickly said, "This general just came out of the palace. I don't have that much money on me. I have asked someone to get it."
If he hadn't been afraid that Miss Qu would be bullied, he wouldn't have hurriedly borrowed 10,000 taels of silver from his brother and rushed here in a hurry.
After hearing Qi Yao's words, everyone finally confirmed one thing: General Yan and Miss Qu... seemed to have a complicated relationship.
Judging from what General Yan meant, it can be summed up in one word - favor!
I don’t know what it is about this Miss Qu that attracts General Yan?
I heard that Miss Qu was disfigured and so ugly that she didn't dare to show her true face to others...
Just as everyone was curious, a sandalwood carriage stopped not far away and a man got off the carriage.
He was wearing a black robe, a golden crown on his head, a dragon-shaped warm jade on his waist, and he had an upright posture. The noble temperament revealed between his eyebrows seemed to be innate.
The people in the nearby teahouse had already recognized the newcomer and had looks of surprise on their faces.
"This is...Prince Cang Zhao!"
"Eh? What is Prince Cang Zhao doing here?"
"Hiss—Prince Cang Zhao is walking towards Yuhuatai!"
……
Compared with the spectators in the teahouse, the people watching below Yuhua Terrace did not know any Prince Cang Zhao.
But he is so noble and has his own aura when he walks, which makes him so different.
Therefore, no matter how crowded the onlookers were, they all consciously made way for Cang Zhao to pass through.
Cang Zhao and his followers came to the voting basket in Yuhuatai and stood still.
The sensible follower took a look at the score and immediately took out a silver note worth 10,000 taels from his pocket.
"Buy our grandfather a hundred hairpins and give them to Miss Qu."
Everyone was speechless again.
Another ten thousand taels?
Am I the only one in this world who finds it difficult to make money?
The world is so big, why can't there be another rich person like me?
Qi Yao pursed his lips slightly and looked at Cang Zhao beside him.
He knows.
But, Prince Cang Zhao and Miss Qu...
The two men looked at each other and nodded slightly. They were casual in public and there was no need to perform any formalities.
Besides, if it comes to power, Qi Yao's power is probably much greater than Cang Zhao, who only has a reputation but no real power.
But, Cang Zhao is favored by the Queen Mother.
This is a situation where the two are evenly matched and there is no distinction between big and small kings.
Qi Yao suspected the other party's feelings for Qu Xinyue and was quietly on guard.
Before, Cang Zhao was still feeling a little uncomfortable after being teased by Qu Xinyue. Now, seeing Qi Yao's eyes like a lion defending its territory, he felt inexplicably unhappy.
He looked up at Qu Xinyue and asked, "I am not late, am I?"
Qu Xinyue glanced at Xianxian, whose face was so pale that not a trace of blood was left, and then looked at the score.
Two hundred and thirty to two hundred.
She shook her head and said with a smile: "It's not too late, it's just right."
Hearing this, Xianxian suddenly came to her senses. No, she couldn't lose everything.
If I win the talent contest, I'll have a way out no matter how badly I perform in the future.
She glanced at the wealthy businessman in the crowd who had already greeted her, hoping that he would give her more flowers.
The wealthy businessman who received the signal was a little hesitant, but he saw that neither General Yan nor Prince Cang Zhao even glanced at Miss Xianxian.
Besides, the slender girl really suits his aesthetic taste.
The fat rich businessman gritted his teeth and took out another five thousand taels.
When the person counting the votes saw that some people still voted for Xianxian, he was stunned for a moment, but he reported his vote responsibly.
"Miss Xianxian from Huamanlou has received 250 hairpin flowers."
The loud voice of counting the votes awakened the dazed onlookers and they all became excited.
Wow, I came at the right time today!
This is really exciting. I didn’t expect the bidding between Huamanlou and Guiyin Pavilion to be so fierce!
Hua Man Lou also has 20 flowers from Gui Yin Ge! Who will win this competition? It's hard to say!
As everyone was whispering and speculating, a middle-aged man dressed as a manager came running over, panting.
When Cang Zhao was about to ask his followers to take out the banknotes, he slapped a handful of banknotes on the hand of the person who was counting the number of hairpins and panted heavily, "Vote for Miss Qu."
The man who was counting the number of hairpin flowers widened his eyes in surprise when he saw the thick stack of silver bills placed in his hand.
So many banknotes?
He swallowed nervously and counted carefully twice.
"Twenty thousand taels of silver notes?"
The steward nodded and said, "I came in a hurry. If it's not enough, I'll ask someone to get more. My master told me before he left Beijing to take good care of Miss Qu and not let her suffer any grievances."
The person in charge of counting: What a confident tone! I guess I would never be able to say such arrogant words in my life.
He asked cautiously: "Excuse me, your son is..."
The spectators are no longer interested in winning or losing.
Qu Xinyue's side has been scoring big points one after another. Who can beat her? Who can beat her? Who else dares to beat her?
The spectators are now only interested in the "my young master" mentioned by the steward.
Who on earth is this person? How can he be so arrogant?
Seeing everyone's curiosity, the steward didn't keep them in suspense and said proudly, "My young master is Young Master Nan Ze."
Master Nan Ze?
Whether they knew him or not, everyone had an expression of sudden enlightenment.
So it’s Master Nan Ze, then there’s no problem.
Who doesn’t know that the Nan family is rich!
Although the Nan family is the royal merchant supplying medicinal materials, everyone who knows them knows that in addition to medicinal materials, the Nan family’s other industries are also thriving.
Normally, those playboys are willing to follow Master Nan Ze and run errands for him.
That's because even a little bit of money that slips out from between Master Nan Ze's fingers is enough for those playboys to enjoy themselves for a while.
The spectators only sighed that even though Master Nan Ze had left the capital, he was still thinking about Miss Qu from Guiyin Pavilion, and he even ordered the steward to take care of Miss Qu and not let her suffer any grievances...
How much care does one have to put into this order to issue such an order without considering manpower and money?
The fat rich businessman originally wanted to take a chance and take Xianxian into his pocket.
But when he heard that the manager was Master Nan Ze's man, he immediately gave up the idea.
Can't do it, can't do it at all.
Moreover, some of his industries have cooperation with the Nan family.
If you offend Young Master Nan Ze, it will not be enough to just pay tens of thousands of taels of silver in the end.
When Xianxian looked over, the rich businessman lowered his head, avoiding Xianxian's sight, crouched down, hid in the crowd, slowly squeezed out, and disappeared in the crowd.
When Xianxian saw the rich businessman running away in cowardice, she knew that the game was over.
Thinking about the promise she made to Hua Manlou’s mother this time, she would definitely be able to crush Guiyin Pavilion on the stage and bring Hua Manlou’s fame to a higher level.
Seeing that she was so confident and had made many preparations, Hua Manlou's mother spent a lot of money to have people pretend to vote go on stage to vote.
Apart from the wealthy businessmen that Xianxian had invited, Hua Manlou's mother invested no less than 15,000 taels.
Xianxian knew that if she didn't win the competition today and couldn't enter the Yan Mansion, all the fifteen thousand taels of silver would be counted on her in the future.
Fifteen thousand taels is no small sum. With the reputation of being General Yan’s lover, many people wanted to come and see her.
I have spent a lot of money on her for this reason, but what about the future?
And if she can't afford the money, Hua Manlou's mother will just wait for a better price to sell her. The best result would be that she can be sold for a price higher than fifteen thousand at one time.
If the result is not good, I will have to put up a sign and solicit customers day and night until the fifteen thousand taels are paid back!
Thinking of this, Xianxian's legs suddenly went limp and she collapsed to the ground with lifeless eyes.
Finished!
It's all over!
Qu Xinyue didn't sympathize with Xianxian at all. If she hadn't provoked her, Miss Xianxian wouldn't be facing the current situation.
In the private room of the teahouse, Ruoxue was distracted.
Yunyun was originally shocked by the reversal of votes between Qu Xinyue and Xianxian, but when she suddenly saw her friend's expression, she couldn't help but worry.
"Ruoxue, what's wrong with you? Why are you like this when you came back from going to the toilet?
Ruoxue came back to her senses and recalled that when she came back just now, she passed by a private room with luxurious decoration, the words she heard, and the man she saw. Her heart couldn't help but beat fast.