Chapter 584 Are You Blind?
Su Ying asked everyone to stand up.
"I think everyone has rested enough these past few days. This second round of tests is actually not that difficult. It all depends on your eyesight."
Su Ying waved her hand, and the eunuch came up carrying a table. On the table were three identical cups, and next to the cups were three small balls of different colors: red, yellow, and blue.
The ladies all looked at the things on the table with curiosity, and some of them couldn't help showing a determined smile.
There is a folk magic trick in Beijing, which is to put the balls into cups and then swap the positions of the cups, and then guess what color ball is in which cup.
A few young ladies who liked to play looked at each other. They had known the routine of this magic trick for a long time, and they could answer no matter how Su Ying asked.
After the eunuch put down the table, Zhou Qing spoke up, "Ladies, you have seen these balls. The rule of today's game is to guess the balls. Ladies just need to see the balls clearly after the game starts, and then answer the questions of the queen. Those who answer correctly will enter the next round."
Sure enough, they guessed it right!
Su Ying supported her forehead with her fingertips and said lazily, "If you are ready, let's start."
"yes."
Zhou Qing stepped aside and let a little maid come forward. Before the start, the little maid placed the balls in front of everyone for them to confirm. "Ladies, have you seen these balls clearly? They are red, yellow and blue. There are three balls in total. Is that ok?"
The ladies all shook their heads, "No problem."
"Okay, then I will begin."
The palace maid put three balls of different colors into the cup, and then began to rotate the cup quickly. All the actions were completed under the eyes of everyone.
"When the ladies say stop, I will stop."
"stop!"
The palace maid quickly put the three cups in proper order and then withdrew her hands.
"Your Majesty, you may ask questions now." Zhou Qing walked to Su Ying and spoke softly.
"Well, my question is, how many balls are there in this cup, and what color are they?"
As soon as Su Ying finished speaking, there was an uproar in the inner hall.
Did the Queen deliberately let them win? Everyone saw the maid put three small balls into the cup, and there were three red, yellow and blue balls in it!
But the question Su Ying asked was too easy, so easy that they were not sure if this was the answer.
There must be something fishy going on here. Maybe one, two or even three balls were taken out when the palace maid turned the cup!
Yes, that must be the case!
"You have all thought it through." As soon as Su Ying finished speaking, the palace maid came up with pen, ink, paper and inkstone and asked them to come forward one by one and write down their answers.
"Don't whisper to each other. After all, the person you are communicating with is your competitor."
As soon as these words were spoken, the inner hall suddenly became so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, and everyone silently wrote down their answers.
Everyone thought it was a very simple test question, but Su Ying did not follow the rules at all. Everyone was on edge before the answer was revealed.
"Madam, all the ladies have written down their answers."
"Yeah." Su Ying responded lightly, stood up, and asked the palace maid to open the teacup to reveal the answer.
After receiving Su Ying's order, the palace maid put her hands back and opened the three teacups one by one.
When everyone saw the three balls lying quietly on the table, they were so shocked that they were speechless.
The Queen didn't let the palace maids do anything wrong, she really just let them off!
The young ladies were so upset that they wanted to pound the ground!
Su Ying asked the palace maid to read out everyone's answers in public. Almost no one wrote down the correct answer. In the end, only three people got it right.
Su Ying's eyes passed lightly across the faces of the annoyed ladies, "Do you remember what this question is about?"
The lady in the pink dress who won the competition stood up and said, "Your Highness, you said at the beginning that the test is about eyesight."
Su Ying nodded slightly, "Yes, it's eyesight. I don't know if the rest of you are blind. Didn't you see those three balls?"
Everyone: “…”
"Alright, everyone go back. The three of you just wait for me to send someone to pass on the message to you."
The three winners all showed joy on their faces, "Thank you, Your Majesty. I will take my leave now."
The noble ladies retreated unwillingly.
"I think the Queen is clearly playing tricks on us. She doesn't want us to enter the palace!"
"That's right. There was no such thing in the selection process before. The Queen had to decide all the rules. The Emperor had no chance to see us. How could we know that he would not want to keep us?"
"It's fine for us, but Yun'er can't do that. She is the eldest granddaughter of Duke Jingguo, the most talented woman in the capital, and her appearance is even more charming and unparalleled. It would be such a pity if she couldn't enter the palace."
Among the crowd of beautiful young ladies, one figure stood out from the crowd. She had her black hair tied up high, and only a pearl as an embellishment on her smooth and full forehead. But it was precisely this simple outfit that highlighted her extraordinary temperament.
On her round oval face are a pair of bright and lively phoenix eyes, and under her small and straight nose is a rosy cherry mouth. With this look, coupled with her elegant dress, at first glance she looks like a fairy descending from the earth, so beautiful that people dare not desecrate her.
But now, there is a trace of sadness between the brows of such a beautiful woman.
"The Emperor has arrived..."
The high-pitched singing voice made all the ladies excited.
Apart from the rare palace banquets, this was the first time they had such close contact with the emperor.
If I could gain the emperor's favor at this time...
Everyone retreated to both sides and bowed.
Chu Yun retreated to the palace wall and slowly bent down, but as she bent down, the snow under her feet was slippery and she stumbled and fell into the snow.
She was startled, but managed to calm herself down and got up.
In a moment, a piece of bright yellow clothing appeared before my eyes.
Chu Yun looked up helplessly, and met a pair of dark eyes like the abyss. Deep in those eyes, there seemed to be a pair of soul-stealing hands, pulling away all her consciousness.
Chu Yun only heard a deep voice in her ear, which startled her, "Get up."
Before Chu Yun could come to her senses, the figure had disappeared from her sight.
After an unknown amount of time, someone came forward and helped Chu Yun up. "Miss Chu, are you okay?"
Chu Yun came back to her senses and looked in the direction where the figure left. She wanted to chase after him eagerly, but the person had already disappeared from her sight.
"Miss Chu, how are you?"
The lady who usually played well with Chu Yun saw that Chu Yun didn't say anything, so she called out twice.
Chu Yun finally came back to her senses and realized her previous misconduct.
"It was a close call. I almost fell on the emperor just now."
(End of this chapter)
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