But then the young lady started dancing with the ten little wine traps on her fingers, and she danced all the way without any of them falling off. One can't help but wonder how the ten wine traps were stuck to her fingers.
But the young lady's actions later proved this assumption wrong. She tossed ten wine gu into the air, then used dazzling movements to catch them with the gaps between her fingers, without dropping a single one. Her movements were so fast that it was impossible to tell how she managed them. Everyone present couldn't help but exclaim in amazement, and even the old princess perked up and watched with fascination.
Finally, the young lady waved her sleeves, and the ten wine traps suddenly disappeared. Then, with a flick of her hands, a large bowl suddenly appeared, filled with tea about eight-tenths full. It was unknown how she had managed this; if she had hidden the bowl of tea in her wide sleeves, how could she have managed to keep it from spilling? Everyone present was once again amazed at her incredible skill.
The lady smiled sweetly, walked up to the stage with the bowl in both hands, and handed it to Ren Yaoqi: "Mr. Ren, please have some tea." Although she was smiling, there was a hint of provocation in her eyes, as if to say, do you dare to drink the bowl of tea in my hand?
Ren Yaoqi naturally didn't want to drink this bowl of tea whose origins she didn't know, but she didn't want to lose face, so she smiled and took the tea bowl from the lady. She bent down to smell it and found it was ordinary fragrant tea leaves, and the tea was still steaming. She was about to say a few words to send the lady who was still staring at her away, but Xiao Jinglin stood up and walked over. She pretended to be curious and took the tea bowl from her without saying anything. "It seems magical. Let me try it."
Ren Yaoqi thought she meant to drink it by trying it, and was about to stop her, but she saw Xiao Jinglin imitate the magic trick of the lady who just performed the trick. She waved her hands, and the tea bowl that had just been in her hand disappeared immediately. Everyone was stunned by this. Then they all cheered for Xiao Jinglin.
The lady who performed the magic trick looked a little unhappy: "Princess, that bowl is my family heirloom, please return it to me." There is no such thing as magic in this world. Her magic tricks look mysterious and dazzling, but they are just relying on those seemingly simple tools.
Xiao Jinglin raised her eyes and smiled quietly. Suddenly, she imitated the girl's previous move and flicked her sleeves. Although her sleeves were not as wide as the young lady's and did not look as beautiful when flicked, it still made everyone present gasp in amazement. Because Xiao Jinglin's hands suddenly appeared the ten wine gu that had suddenly disappeared from her hands before.
Xiao Jinglin gave her the ten wine gu with an expressionless face: "Okay. I'll give it back to you. I'll help you change back!"
The magician: "..."
"You didn't conjure this up, you stole it from me!" she said inwardly. Unfortunately, Xiao Jinglin had already returned to her seat and resumed her noble and cold-eyed princess demeanor, ignoring her completely.
In the end, when the lady walked off the stage, her eyes were red with anger.
No one noticed that Xiao Jinglin winked at Ren Yaoqi after she sat down. Only Ren Yaoqi could see the joy in her eyes after she played a trick on him.
Xiao Jinglin thought, I asked you to show off with a broken bowl, and you dare to force people to drink anything, you are asking for a beating!
These people probably thought Princess Xiao was too boring. The fourth and fifth ladies to appear performed archery and sword dancing. The archer somehow kept missing the target, while the sword dancer completed her performance smoothly and was quite pleasing to the eye. However, just as she was posing for a beautiful closing pose, asking "Mr. Ren" for guidance, her shoe flew off, causing her to blush.
Starting from the sixth lady, the literary battle finally returned.
The sixth person to appear was Miss Li, a painter. Perhaps influenced by the culture of Kyoto, these ladies, in their calligraphy and painting, were fond of creating eye-catching gimmicks. Naturally, Miss Li refused to paint properly. She placed two blank folding screens and worked simultaneously with both hands. Dancing and simultaneously painting, she completed a painting of flowers and birds and a snowy scene in a remarkably short time. Her skills were quite good. However, all art requires a pure state of mind. Too many distractions can easily lose its true essence. Painting with such a mindset inevitably becomes more mechanical and less spiritual.
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