Chapter 34: A Test Paper Causes a Quarrel!

  "This should be changed to 'Gong Xian Qi Hui'!"

  "Here is missing sound, can add a sound 'gu qin si hui'"

  "This place has multiple pronunciations, you can drop one of them!"

  Several musicians who saw the annotation were stunned, one of whom was a fat old man whose face changed color. "Hmph, how dare you comment on the song made by our respected teacher? The song made by our respected teacher with his own hands, can it be wrong?"

  "Huh!" Everyone was taken aback upon hearing this.

  "Yuanji Shixiong, don't be impatient, take a closer look." Ou Yuanying said.

  "What's so good about it? Little junior, you even dare to question the score of a master like Le Zong, who is this person, I must find out and severely punish him!" The fat old man said.

  "It seems that something is indeed wrong!" At this time, the tall old man holding the toilet paper carefully considered it and also looked puzzled.

  "Indeed, there is something wrong with this annotation, it seems to make some sense." Another old man said, frowning.

  Just now there was still a somewhat indignant fat old man, seeing more and more fellow disciples raise questions, had to take it seriously. He is the elder of the Precepts Courtyard, but did not attend the Elite Conference. This time reading the scrolls, he just followed the standard score to read, without carefully looking for any problems.

  Now, taking a closer look, the old man's eyebrows furrowed again. Those few fellow disciples were right, there were indeed flaws in those three marked places. Although the three annotations were only brief words, they hit the nail on the head and made the entire song even more perfect.

  "How is this possible?"

  The fat old man blinked, his face full of incredulity. As a music master, he could naturally see that the problem lay with the standard score. This score was written by Music Ancestor himself, and it was just an ordinary secular tune. How could Xie Tianxi, who had attained the realm of Music Ancestor, make such a low-level mistake?

  "Actually, when I played this piece in the morning, I already found the problem." At this time, Liu Yuanjian, who had not spoken all along, inserted a sentence. He was the first person to discover the problem, but he didn't think that the flaw in this piece would be picked out by the disciples participating in the assessment.

  "What should we do?" Ou Yuan Ying asked the crowd.

  Everyone looked at each other in dismay and quietly turned their heads to glance at Xie Tianxi, who was chatting and laughing with Mu Tian'en in the distance.

  "I'll go ask!" The tall old man holding the test paper hesitated for a moment, as if he had mustered up his courage, and turned to head towards Xie Tianxi.

  "Yuanfang Shixiong, have you gone mad?" The fat old man grabbed the tall old man and said in a low voice, "The Master is such an important figure, and you are exposing him like this. Telling him that one of his disciples found mistakes in his composition, isn't that losing face for the Master in public?"

  "What should we do then?" asked the tall old man.

  On the one hand, this disciple can find out the mistakes in the melody, and his talent for music is evident. He's definitely a promising student. On the other hand, if they take the melody to ask Xie Tianxi, it would undoubtedly be slapping Xie Tianxi in the face. Everyone fell silent, and this matter was indeed difficult to resolve.

  "In my opinion, it's better to destroy this scroll. Otherwise, if Master sees it, it will be embarrassing." an old man in a green robe suggested.

  "How can that be?"

  The old man in green's words had just come out, and he was immediately rebuked by many people. Liu Yuanchen thought for a moment and said, "As the Great Elder of the Jielü Courtyard, I cannot do such a thing. The purpose of our Elite Conference is to select the best talents, and this disciple's talent is not ordinary at all. He cannot be buried like this, and I believe that the Master has the heart to forgive us."

  "That's right, Master often says that gold has no cracks, people are not perfect, and even saints have times when they make mistakes. What about us ordinary people? If the score is wrong, then we shouldn't be afraid of being pointed out!" said the tall old man.

  Liu Yuanzhen nodded in agreement and said, "Master Yuanfang, give me the test paper. I'll go ask Master!"

  "...". Everyone was stunned.

  "What are you guys whispering about?" Just then, Xie Tianci, who was chatting with Mu Tianen on the side, finally discovered Liu Yuancheng's abnormal behavior.

  "Uh..."

  The heavenly question made all 15 musicians tremble with fear, their faces turning somewhat unnatural. If you didn't know better, you'd think they were just doing something shameful.

  "Master, I have a question and would like to ask for your enlightenment!" Liu Yuanchen plucked up the courage and bowed deeply to Xie Tiangui.

  "Speak!" Xie Tianci said.

  Liu Yuanzhen held the test paper that everyone was arguing about in both hands and walked to Xie Tiangui's front, "Please, Master, take a look."

  Xie Tianxi gave Liu Yuanquan a strange look, stretched out his hand to take the test paper, and spread it out in front of him to take a look.

  A flash of different colors in the eyes, Xie Tian's mouth corners curved up with a slight arc, and he directly handed the toilet paper to Mu Tian'en, "Senior brother, take a look."

  Liu Yuanchen bowed his head and didn't dare to make a sound, nor did he know if this move would provoke Xie Tiangui's anger. After all, this was already considered as directly offending Xie Tianxi in front of him.

  Mutiian En glanced at the test paper and shook her head slightly. "It seems that this is the first place in this year's language arts exam."

  Xie Tianxi smiled and asked, "Guess, brother, who wrote this?"

  Mu Tian'en tossed the toilet paper onto the tea table and shook his head, "There are over a thousand disciples taking the exam, how could I possibly guess?"

  Although he said he couldn't guess, Mù Tiān'ēn's heart already had a candidate in mind, because the handwriting was very familiar to him.

  Xie Tianxi smiled and turned to Liu Yuanquan and the others, "The reason why my Tianyin Sect has been declining day by day is that the disciples under the door are more than enough to guard their achievements, but not enough to make progress. Whatever the master teaches, the disciples will learn whatever they are taught. As a result, one generation is not as good as the next. These three mistakes were intentionally left by the master in order to increase the difficulty and see if he could select a few brave and meticulous disciples who dare to find errors."

  As soon as Xie Tianxi's words fell, Liu Yuanchen and others suddenly felt enlightened. It turned out that Xie Tianxi had such an intention in mind, no wonder a simple folk song would make such a low-level mistake.

  "The Master's teachings, the disciples will remember in their hearts." All the disciples bowed down, each with a hint of shame on their faces, but they had underestimated Xie Tianxi's magnanimity.

  Liu Yuanzhan hesitated for a moment and said, "Master, may I ask that we take a look at who this disciple is?"

  Xie Tianci nodded slightly and did not stop him. Liu Yuanchen quickly took over the test paper.

  There was a sheet of rough paper covering the place where the candidate's name was written on the right side of the white paper, which was only to prevent favoritism during the review. Liu Yuanzhan was eager to tear it open and take a look, but suddenly stopped and turned to the curious crowd, "Guess, everyone, who do you think this is?"

  Everyone cast a white eye at Liu Yuanqu, but the fat old man said, "In my opinion, it should be Yuanyu Shifu's high-ranking disciple, Wan'er."

  "No, no, I recognize Wan'er's handwriting, this is not Wan'er's handwriting!" The woman who looked to be around fifty shook her head, with a hint of disappointment on her face.

  "That must be Xue Feng. Among the younger generation of our clan, only he can stand shoulder to shoulder with Wan Er." Ou Ye said.

  "Well, it's said that one should congratulate Yuan Hua, indeed a great master produces excellent disciples!" The fat old man stroked his beard and smiled, bowing to the blue-robed elder beside him.

  The old man in green clothes shook his head, but there was a hint of a smile on his face.

  "Yuan Zhen, elder brother, stop teasing us and open it quickly!" everyone said.

  Liu Yuanchen saw that the crowd was angry and difficult to offend, so he slowly tore off the paper skin wrapped around the test paper.

  "Xiao Yun?"

  "Who is this? Never heard of him?"

  "Doesn't seem like the Elite Academy has a disciple like this?"

  "Is it him?"

  ……

  Under the paper wrapper, a strange name was revealed, and everyone was shocked and puzzled. The smile on the old man in green clothes' face froze directly. Among the crowd, only one person's eyes showed a hint of surprise, that person being Chou Yuan Ying.

  Xie Tianxi and Mu Tian'en exchanged a smile, and it seemed that they had already guessed, without much surprise.