Chapter 100 Two Identical Poems

After Molan finished speaking, Minglan looked at her meaningfully, "Why are you looking at me like that?" Molan felt uncomfortable being looked at by her.

"I know why Miss Han is not kind to you! My fifth sister and I saw that Mr. Wen has been staring at you just now. Miss Han is probably jealous. So you have to be careful of her. She doesn't look easy to get along with!" Minglan explained the reason and reminded Molan.

The sisters were chatting when a suave young man came over. He bowed to several people one by one, "Fourth Miss, Fifth Miss, Sixth Miss."

Ruolan turned around and refused to give him a good look. Minglan also silently took a step back. This person was none other than Liang Han, the sixth son of Madam Liang. They knew each other in childhood. At the Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Festival, Madam Liang saved Molan. Molan followed Sheng Hong to the Liang family to express her gratitude. Liang Han saw Molan and was amazed at her beauty. He said he had seen the fairy Yaochi. Do you think that what followed was a childhood sweetheart story?

No! Because of the family saving the other, the two families started to visit each other. In addition, Madam Liang also admired Molan's tenacity. So when Molan lost her mother, Madam Liang came to visit her. Liang Han also wanted to go with her to see Molan. Madam Liang couldn't persuade him and took him to Sheng Mansion. Then... Liang Han saw Minglan. Although Minglan was not fully grown at that time, she was already a little beauty. Liang Han was amazed and said that he saw the incarnation of the Queen Mother of the Nine Heavens. That was all. Rulan's appearance was not obvious. He couldn't exaggerate that she was a fairy when he saw Rulan, so he hid away. Liang Han's action made Madam Liang furious. She felt very embarrassed. Who told her son to look at the appearance and call the beauty a fairy?

The three sisters naturally disliked Liang Han's behavior. He was a thick-skinned man who loved to find excuses to go to Sheng Mansion. However, the year when Molan lost her mother, it was thanks to him that he always brought some interesting things to make Molan happy. Later, the three sisters grew up and paid attention to the difference between men and women, so Liang Han came less often. But I don't know when Liang Han stopped revolving around Minglan. There was only Molan in his eyes. Maybe the sixth son of Liang was not only a person who loved beauty, but also a person who loved talent?

"Fourth Miss, I knew you would come. I came just to see you!"

As soon as Liang Han said this, Ruolan scolded him, "Shameless, shameless!" Minglan took another step back without leaving a trace.

Molan was also very embarrassed, but she really didn't know what to do with Liang Han. He just pestered her and said some things about what he thought about, but didn't do anything out of line. She couldn't find a reason to scold him, so she could only respond vaguely every time, "Sixth Young Master Liang is extremely talented. His poems and essays are full of pearls. He is a genius of the time. It is a blessing for the poetry gathering that you come to this poetry gathering. I still have to make some preparations for the next two rounds, so I won't disturb you."

Molan bowed and was about to escape, but was grabbed by Liang Han. He blurted out "Fourth sister", but when Molan glared at him, he immediately changed his words, "Fourth sister, don't be in a hurry to leave, I still have something to say to you."

Molan straightened her sleeves and suppressed her anger. She really didn't understand. Could it be that this man couldn't hear her sarcasm? He didn't really think she was praising him.

Molan didn't say anything, so Liang Han took it as her tacit consent, "The fourth lady is extremely talented. She is proficient in poetry and songs, and her writing is brilliant. She is a talented woman of the time. Liulang believes that the fourth lady will win the first prize, and congratulates the fourth lady again."

Molan didn't want him to stop her just to say this, but seeing his sincere words and the look of sincerely congratulating her, she couldn't say anything unkind, "Thank you, Mr. Liang Liu."

Seeing Molan coming back, Minglan teased, "That Liang Liulang is really obsessed with the fourth sister!"

Molan was annoyed that she was seeing her joke, and retorted, "Some people are not much better." As she spoke, she looked towards the men's area and saw Qi Heng looking at Minglan steadily.

With Molan's talent, she passed the first two rounds without any suspense. The poetry meeting went to the third round, which was more difficult than the first two rounds. The topic was "philosophy" and the time limit was two incense sticks. Molan was led by a maid to a separate compartment with several other girls to answer, while the others waited patiently.

In this third round, the poems written by several talented women were directly transcribed and hung high for everyone to appreciate. Then, the talented woman whose poem had the most supporters would be the champion of this poetry meeting.

"Hang it up, hang it up!"

"Hurry up and unfold it for us to see!"

"We can't wait to read it!"

"Today we will witness the champion of the Bailian Poetry Society again! What a privilege!"

As soon as the two incense sticks were up, the poems of several talented women were hung on the third floor of Moxiangju, waiting for the judge's order, and the scrolls would be unfolded. The people downstairs were already excited, waiting for this grand scene.

"Princess, President Yu, time is up!"

Someone came to remind them, Princess Pingning and Madam Yu looked at each other, walked forward, and shouted in unison, "Unfold!" As the applause fell, five scrolls with poems written by several people fell down at the same time.

There was an uproar downstairs, "What's going on? How come there are two poems that are exactly the same?"

"How strange! How strange! Could it be that the two talented ladies have telepathic connection?"

"No matter how much they are connected, they can only have the same meaning. It is impossible for every sentence to be the same, exactly the same!"

"Is someone cheating? I wonder which talented lady did such a shameful thing?"

...

Minglan looked at the five scrolls unfolded, and found that there were two poems that were the same! Minglan felt vaguely uneasy.

"Could it be that the transcription was wrong? How could there be two identical poems?" Ruolan said in a daze.

"No, the transcribers copied them separately in different compartments, and each person only copied one copy, and they copied them at the same time, so there is no possibility of copying them wrong!" Minglan denied Ruolan's guess and said solemnly.

"How could they have the same poem? It's impossible that they both thought of the same thing!"

"Someone tampered with it!" Minglan said firmly.

"Cheating?" Rulan covered her mouth, unable to believe it. "Cheating in a poetry meeting in front of a large crowd? Or copying the poems of other contestants? Wouldn't it be exposed immediately? Who would be so stupid? Even if it was cheating, they would have done a few more questions in advance!" Rulan couldn't understand it. Who would be so stupid?

"Yeah, no one would be that stupid..." Minglan murmured, but her heart beat faster. She had a bad feeling.

Madam Yu and Princess Pingning upstairs heard the noise downstairs and thought that there would be excellent poems in this poetry meeting. The two of them were very happy to call the maid to bring the poems of the five talented women to read. The maid brought the poems, but her face was not good. Princess Pingning saw it and scolded, "Why do you look so bitter and vengeful?" Madam Yu also looked over.

"The princess and Madam Yu will know after reading it."

The two did not understand why, so they took the poems of several people and read them one by one. Several other appraisers also came forward. Both sides saw an excellent work and wanted to circulate it happily, but found that they were exactly the same!