Chapter 50: Haoran Qu 1

  "Get out of the way, I'm willing to bet and lose, this prize is mine!" Xiao Yao frowned.

  "What you just said doesn't count!" The First Scholar said coldly, while Han Qin nodded in agreement beside him.

  "Why can't I count?" asked Xiao Yao lightly.

  "This topic is too unbearable! Ask the people around here, who would agree with this topic?" The number one scholar looked around and said.

  He originally thought that no one would agree with such a topic, and even if they had no opinion, no one would say they agreed with such a topic in public, but he was wrong.

  "I agree!" The young lady immediately shouted, she wouldn't care about that much, she only knew that this time Xiao Yao won, in her heart it was equivalent to her winning.

  The Nangong sisters immediately kept their distance from the eldest sister, because they didn't want to be seen as being in the same league as her. The eldest sister didn't care, but they did!!!

  "...I think most people won't agree, except for some uncouth individuals!" The First Scholar changed his tone.

  "Believe it or not, I'll dismantle this thing!!" The big sister yelled from downstairs, and she was actually preparing to take action.

  "Wait, Second Miss, don't dismantle it, I'm still on it, Third Miss is also... " Xiao Yao said, knowing the temper of Second Miss, and feeling that his own weight was not enough, he pulled in Third Miss.

  "Watch your step, you little white face!!" The young lady suppressed her anger and coldly hummed at the number one prodigy, this was a blatant threat.

  “……”

  "Alright, let's get back to the topic! You say my riddle is unbearable, but I can only say that your minds are too unbearable! Where is my riddle unbearable!!" Xiao Yao didn't plan on playing anymore and was about to reveal the answer directly.

  Actually, my answer is very pure and absolutely has no impurity at all. It's just that you guys have too dirty imagination!!

  "What is your answer?"

  "You're really stupid! Black grapes are black eyes, and that small cherry..." Xiao Yao paused for a moment, seemingly intentionally keeping people in suspense.

  Everyone is waiting for an answer, looking at Xiao Yao, come on kid, speak up...

  "That's red eyes of course!! You guys, where did you think it went...... It's really, too unbearable......"

  "My god!!"

  "Shameless!"

  "Despicable!"

  "Despicable..."

  “……”

  Suddenly, a burst of curses, everyone was scolding Xiang Yu for being shameless, and now they are pointing at everyone else as if they were the ones who were not worthy.

  "Hmph..."

  The third young lady suddenly laughed and looked at Xiao Yao, she thought that this little rascal was very interesting, extremely interesting!!

  Han Qin and the number one talented scholar, their expressions were as colorful as they could be, because they had already felt that they were being played with like monkeys by Xiao Yao, and were being laughed at in public.

  If they were to say that the other party was a third-rate missy, they could still bear it a little better, although it's not like they could bear it much anyway. But now that they're being played by someone who is carefree and unscrupulous, it makes them feel like they've been humiliated to the extreme, completely losing face.

  They feel like they are being stripped naked and paraded through the streets, with people pointing at them and laughing!

  "Wow, it's actually Hao Ran Qu..."

  At this time, everyone still thought that Xiangyang liked books very much, but soon, everyone understood that it was not the case, and they even had an urge to beat him up.

  "This can be sold for 300 taels, a rare book!! I love it!!"

  “……”

  Now everyone understands why Xiao Yao likes rare and out-of-print books, because these are all valuable things!!

  And now, Xiaoyao feels that he should come and participate in this every year...

  "Give it to me!" Miss Three stretched out her hand.

  "This... I also have a share of it..." Xiangyao's good mood was gone, because he found out that this Hao Ran Qu didn't only belong to one person.

  "I'll give you 300 taels!" Third Miss said bluntly, "The Hao Ran melody cannot be taken away by you to sell!!"

  "Good!" Xiangyang agreed succinctly.

  "Third sister, don't give him the money! This was originally yours, giving this kid a few taels of silver would have been enough!!" Nangong Suzi's heart skipped a beat as she jumped onto the stage and snatched the rare book from Xiao Yao's hands.

  "Hey, Miss Nangong, you can't do this! I at least get half of it, 150 taels!" Xiao Yao didn't try to grab anything, but just said that he wasn't afraid of the Nangong family trying to cheat him, because if they did, he would cheat even more.

  "You only spoke up at the end, all the previous ones were settled by Sanmei. Calculating proportionally, you can't have more than fifty taels!!" Nangong Suxin said with a smile, wanting to tease and embarrass Xiao Yao.

  To her, fifty taels and one hundred and fifty taels are actually no big difference!!

  "Alright, I'll give you 50 taels! But there's a condition, let me take a look at the Hao Ran Qu!!" Xiao Yao didn't mind, to him, these 50 taels were all freebies, taking less than 100 taels was not a problem for him.

  As long as it's not something he has to take out himself, he doesn't care at all about getting anything for free!!

  "Huh?" Nangong Suzi was surprised at her sudden decisiveness, and even more surprised that she wanted to watch Haoran Qu.

  "You're just a little household servant, can you understand music? Can you comprehend this magnificent melody?"

  "It doesn't matter if I can or cannot! But this Hao Ran Qu, I must take a look. If something falls into my hands and I don't read it, that would be too much of a loss!!" Xiao Yao said very seriously.

  “……”

  This kid doesn't even take this little loss!!

  "I've never met anyone like you, here!!" Nangong Suxin said irritably, then handed the book to Xiao Yao, believing that Xiao Yao wouldn't play any tricks.

  Although she had played tricks on him more than once, she always felt that he was just being clever and would never go back on his word.

  After receiving the "Hao Ran Qu" from Xiao Yao, he looked at it while walking down the stairs.

  "......, where are you going?" asked Nangong Suzi, did this kid really take the thing and run away?

  "Of course it's going down. Now there's nothing left, standing on the stage for people to gawk at like a monkey?" Xiao Yao replied irritably.

  "Also okay!!" Nangong Suzhen nodded and then prepared to leave the stage with Third Miss.

  "Third Miss, since you've obtained the Hao Ran Qu, can't you perform a piece and let us appreciate your piano skills as well?!" Han Qin said through gritted teeth.

  "Third Miss shook her head, 'I won't sing...'"

  "It's very simple, just take a look and you'll understand, I believe in Third Miss's talent." Han Qin said with a smile.

  No way, then just wait for the embarrassment. Anyway, I've already lost face today, and it's good to drag you down with me. Who made you the legendary number one talent? It's said that you have a photographic memory, able to memorize any musical score after reading it once.

  "..." Miss Three frowned, the others were fine, but it was said that the Hao Ran Qu itself was not a piano score, and playing it on the piano was more difficult. But now the other side deliberately wanted her to play the piano, and had to play it immediately.

  This is being unreasonable!!

  "This is too easy, Third Miss will definitely be able to do it, but I believe that something this simple doesn't require Third Miss to take action, I can handle it myself!!" Xiao Yao returned once again.

  He wouldn't have interfered if others were being bullied, but since Third Miss had just stood up for him, he couldn't not return the favor, or else how could he live with himself in the future.

  Everyone looked at Xiao Yao, and they all fell silent...

  "Haha... " Han Qin started laughing, laughing extremely hard.

  After Han Qin laughed, others followed suit, as if they had heard the most hilarious joke.

  "What's wrong?" Xiao Yao asked somewhat puzzled, "What are you laughing at?"

  "You're just a lowly household servant, don't you know your own status? You actually dare to boast here that you can play the Hao Ran melody!!" Han Qin sneered disdainfully, she absolutely didn't believe Xiao Yao.

  "Could this have something to do with identity?" asked Xiao Yao.

  "Even if it's not a big deal, you've just seen the Hao Ran melody, can you master it immediately without a teacher?" Han Qin continued to show disdain. The Hao Ran melody was an extremely difficult piece of music, she had experienced it herself and spent several days studying it deeply before barely being able to play it all the way through, let alone truly mastering it.

  "It doesn't matter if you can or cannot, just watch and learn. Your stupidity does not represent others'! What you can't do doesn't mean I can't do it!!" Xīao said nonchalantly.

  "You... are fine, very good, then let you try to see, I want to see what kind of method you have!" Han Qin was already almost out of breath from anger.

  "Then hurry up and get me the instrument!" said Xīao with a wave of his hand.

  "What instrument? You can play anything I pick?" Han Qin couldn't help but sneer, if it were in the past, she would have thought that "Xiao Yao" was just a slip of the tongue, now she wished Xiao Yao would make even more mistakes.

  "Basically, everyone does it, those who don't are just pretending, and I'm sure you can't come up with anything either!" Xiao Yao said nonchalantly.

  “……”

  "What a big tone!!" Han Qin was even more disdainful.

  Now everyone is even more certain of one thing: that Xiao Yao was just bragging, he's only stirring up trouble and not letting Han Qin target Third Miss, and his goal has already been achieved.

  "Thanks, Xiao Jiading!" Nangong Suxin also thought that being carefree was causing trouble, but even so, it was helping her own third sister, and she still had to thank him.

  "It's nothing, I'm not helping you! I'm helping the young lady increase her favor..." Xiao Yao said casually.

  "You'd better let your little sister give up!" said Nan Gong Su Xin somewhat weakly.

  Xiao Yao smiled and said, "It's okay, let her be like this for now. As long as you don't treat her like that kind of person, she won't do anything to Third Miss either. At most, she'll just cause some trouble! With you keeping an eye on her, nothing will happen. This is good enough; otherwise, she might harm others!"

  "This is also... wait, what does that sentence behind you mean?" Nangong Suxin originally agreed with Xiao Yao's point of view, at least the previous ones were agreed upon, but the last sentence made her feel that there was a problem.

  "Hehe, nothing, nothing..." Xiangyang immediately shook his head, thinking to himself that he had misspoken.

  Third Miss was clever and astute, how could she not understand the meaning of Xiao Yao's words? She looked at him with a pair of resentful eyes and said weakly: "Did you sell me out to save others from being harmed by your Big Miss?"