Chapter 24 Competition
"What are you thinking about, Sister Yuheng?" Shen Wan's voice came from her ear, and Su Yuheng came back to her senses from her previous thoughts.
She looked at Shen Wan who was sitting opposite her and said, “Sister Shen, do you know the whereabouts of the second young master of the Shen family?”
Shen Wan sighed, "I've sent people to look for him for two years, but I still have no clue."
"However, the last place Tingzhou appeared was in Yuzhou."
"Yuzhou?" Su Yuheng frowned slightly.
Yuzhou is the closest place to Yanjing. If anyone in the royal family wants to take action against Shen Tingzhou, Yuzhou is the most suitable place.
It only takes about two hours to get to Yuzhou from here.
Moreover, the local officials of Yuzhou have more or less some connections with many powerful people in Yanjing.
Who would attack Shen Tingzhou, and what does Shen Tingzhou have that makes people afraid or covetous?
Could it be the rumored Shen family's military strategy?
“Sister Shen Wan, do you know who Mr. Shen Er has always been close to? Does he have any confidantes?”
Shen Wan thought for a moment and said, "I don't know about this, but I have continued to send people to look for Tingzhou's whereabouts during this period of time."
"Why did Sister Yuheng suddenly ask about Tingzhou?"
Su Yuheng immediately shook his head, "Nothing, Yuheng just felt that it was a pity that such a brave and fearless young general like Second Master Shen suddenly disappeared."
"Sister Chen Wan, please remember that this is a secret between you and me. You must never tell anyone else about my visit to your General's Mansion."
“Now that the poison in Sister Shen Wan’s body has been almost cleared, it’s time for me to return to the Su family.”
After Su Yuheng finished speaking, he stood up from his chair and looked at the sky outside again.
At this moment, it should be time for Liu Jinshu to go on stage to compete.
I don’t know what kind of face she will bring back to the Marquis’ Mansion this time.
Before leaving, Shen Wan took out a hairpin from her secret box and gave it to Su Yuheng.
In fact, she had paid Su Yuheng for his medical treatment and detoxification for her and Old Madam Shen over the past few days.
Although she didn't know why the girl from the Su family came to help her, she felt very close to Su Yuheng.
"Sister Yuheng, this is for you."
Su Yuheng looked at the hairpin in Shen Wan's hand, a light purple carved orchid jade hairpin with very delicate workmanship.
"Every time I see Sister Yuheng, I feel very close to her. I give this hairpin to you as a small token of my appreciation."
Su Yuheng took the hairpin, feeling mixed emotions.
"Thank you, Sister Chenwan."
After accepting the hairpin, she got on a carriage in front of the Shen Mansion and went straight to the Su family.
Looking at Su Yuheng's leaving back, Shen Wan sighed and said to Guard Zhou beside her: "Guard Zhou, tell me, why did she help me?"
"I always feel that she has a secret in her heart, but she is unwilling to tell it."
Guard Zhou said, "Miss, don't worry too much. If Miss Su wants to say something, she will tell you when the time is right."
Shen Wan slowly turned around and walked into the wing room.
"I always feel that she is very close to me. I can't describe this feeling."
Guard Zhou asked, "Young lady, do you think she looks like the late Madam?"
Shen Wan pursed her lips, feeling more and more strange in her heart. Su Yuheng didn't look like Lady Liu, the wife of Marquis Dingbei, at all. Instead, she looked about 70% like her biological mother, Zhao, when she was young.
When Zhao was young, she was the most beautiful woman in the whole of Yanjing and was an unparalleled beauty.
When she was still unmarried, many young men from prominent families came to her house to propose marriage, including Shen Li, who was a young general at the time.
At that time, Princess Yan Ning had always been fond of Chen Li and even went to the Imperial Court to ask His Majesty to grant them a marriage. However, Chen Li was young and hot-headed, and he refused the marriage in person and married Zhao.
From then on, Princess Yan Ning always hated Zhao.
This Su Yuheng is now considered one of the most beautiful women in Yanjing City. She looks 70% like Zhao, which naturally makes Shen Wan feel close to her.
At the same time, at the Princess's Mansion, the Spring Banquet competition finally reached the poetry segment.
Liu and Liu Jinshu sat in the women's seats, watching one competition after another in the stands, and were completely unaware of Su Yanqiu's injury and poisoning.
Liu Jinshu sat on the chair, slowly opened the note in his hand, glanced at the poem on the note, and memorized it over and over again.
In the past few days, she has memorized these poems by heart, and she now feels more confident.
However, the poems in her hands were very grand in scope, involving her family, country, and the people of the world, but she was completely unaware of it.
He had no idea that such poems could be written by a girl waiting to be married.
When she was in Yongzhou, she didn't pay attention to studying and learning to read. She fished for three days and rested the net for two days, and her etiquette learning was superficial. Now when she encountered such an occasion, she could only memorize it by rote.
Su Yuheng knew her background and deliberately let her join the game.
"Jinshu, what are you looking at?" Liu, who was beside her, saw her staring at a piece of paper and asked curiously.
Liu Jinshu quickly put the note into his sleeve, raised his eyes to look at Liu, his eyes deliberately avoiding her.
"Nothing... nothing."
"Mother...Aunt, after these ladies have finished their competition, is it my turn to go on stage?"
Liu nodded and said, "Well, try to be dignified when you go on stage later. Are you familiar with the etiquette and manners?"
Liu Jinshu pursed her lips tightly. She had been imitating Su Yuheng these days and had not put much effort into learning etiquette.
But out of respect, she still said, "Don't worry, aunt, I know the basic etiquette."
"That's good, but don't make a fool of yourself on stage."
After Liu finished speaking, the sound of drums came from the verification table again.
The deafening sound of drums filled everyone's ears, and soon the drums stopped.
A eunuch walked up to the examination table, picked up the booklet in his hand, glanced at it for a moment, and then announced the candidates for the competition.
Liu Jinshu was sitting in the audience. The moment he heard his name, he suddenly stood up, his eyes still vaguely fixed on the men's seats.
She searched the men's seats for a long time before she realized that the King of Qi had left long ago. She felt a little lost for a moment.
"Jinshu, why are you standing there? Hurry up and go up."
"This Spring Banquet is held once a year. I submitted your name this time because I wanted you to come to Yanjing to see the world and interact with the ladies of Yanjing. This way, you won't be so petty."
"Jinshu understands." Liu Jinshu stood up from her seat, tidied herself up, and then followed Su Yuheng's example by walking up to the inspection table with lotus steps.
As soon as she arrived at the inspection table, she heard a whisper from the audience.
"I thought it was the fourth young lady of the Su family, but it turned out not to be her."
"I heard that she seems to be Miss Su Si's cousin. Why is she dressed so similar to Miss Su Si?"
Liu Jinshu stood on the stage and listened to the conversation of several women below, with a smug smile on the corner of his lips.
She just wanted to imitate Su Yuheng, and now that these people said so, it proved that she had imitated the essence.
As she was thinking, the voices of the women came into her ears again.
"She's a perfect imitator. Her appearance is so different from Fourth Miss Su. Even her movements and gestures look so awkward."
For a moment, Liu Jinshu felt his ears turn red and a sense of shame surged in his heart.
She pretended to be calm and looked at the ladies from prominent families standing opposite her.
Although those ladies didn't show it too much, she could clearly sense a hint of disgust and ridicule in the way they looked at her.
Su Yuheng is one of the most beautiful women in Yanjing, and she shamelessly imitates her.
There was no topic for this competition. The examiners only asked them to write a few lines of seven-character regulated verse.
There were about five poems in the two pages that Liu Jinshu tore from Su Yuheng's poetry collection.
It includes five-character and seven-character poems, as well as ci.
She couldn't help but sigh that she was very lucky, as she had actually memorized all five songs. Little did she know that all these coincidences were carefully designed by others.
After a while, several maids in pink came over with writing brushes, ink, paper and inkstone and placed them on the table in front of them.
After they placed the writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone in front of the ladies competing, the ladies immediately picked up their pens.
Liu Jinshu looked at the white rice paper in front of him, then picked up a pen and wrote a seven-character quatrain on it.
"For ten years, my loyalty and passion have remained unwavering.
But I am concerned about the sufferings of the people due to wind and frost, and I wish I could turn into spring mud to protect the flag of the land.
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