Chapter 606: The Lantern Festival begins

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When Mu Qianmei and her entourage had slowly walked out of the gate of the Flower Temple and left the Flower Temple, Abbot Puhui and Tongxuan Daoist turned around, sat down slowly, and began to drink tea.

Daoist Tongxuan didn't seem to want to talk about the situation in Xiyu Country anymore, so after taking a shallow sip of tea, he couldn't help but praise:

"If you want to drink the best tea, only Zhitong will have it here!"

Abbot Puhui also took a sip lightly, then nodded and said:

"That's true, a long time ago, if you wanted to drink good tea, you could only go to the palace, but now it's different, probably the tea in the palace is also inferior by three points!"

The host of Zhitong immediately said modestly:

"The two seniors praised it falsely, with the identity and experience of the two seniors, what kind of good tea has not been drunk? If the two seniors like it, wait for the juniors to prepare some for you and bring them back to quench your thirst. ”

Abbot Puhui immediately smiled and said:

"Haha, this can be had, remember to decorate more, you are the richest person in the monk's family, don't be too stingy."

The chief of the Tongxuan Dao also said unceremoniously:

"Yes, after drinking this tea, if you go back and drink other tea, it will be tasteless, so you must send more."

The host of Zhitong immediately said with a bitter face:

"It's not that the poor monk is stingy, the poor monk wants to send more, if the spirit stone can be bought, no matter how many spirit stones the younger generation can afford, but the annual output of this tea is extremely low, and there is no more if you want to send it! This tea, usually when the younger generation is alone, are reluctant to drink, and it is also a festive day of the New Year's holiday, it will be taken out to brew a pot, today the two seniors came together, the younger generation was flattered, and they were more happy than the festival, so they specially brewed a pot to honor the two seniors. ”

"Otherwise, such tea juniors will give it to you, the amount is really not much, and the juniors will send some slightly worse ones, just pack more, what do the two seniors think?"

Abbot Puhui said with an open-minded smile:

"You can't send it all, since the host of Zhitong has a heart, he will divide this tea into three parts, and the three of us will divide it equally, and then make up the difference, anyway, if you have some worse here, it is much better than our own best."

The three of them immediately drank tea and chatted.

Regarding the registration of the Empty Valley Youlan Billboard, it ended in a blink of an eye in the midst of all the disturbances.

Three days later, that is, on the morning of the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, Mu Qianmei and her entourage came to Orchid Valley again, because after the registration is over, the preliminary examination of the Empty Valley Youlan Billboard will be held today.

There are more people in Orchid Valley today than when they signed up, because all the people who signed up and watched the excitement came, and the people who came and went in the entire Orchid Valley are estimated to be about 200,000.

Due to the special registration method this year, the number of people has increased instead of decreasing, and a total of more than 50,000 people have signed up.

After the evaluation and classification of the works, the Youlan Hall directly eliminated more than 20,000 people, because their works were all D-grade.

On a three-meter-high, six-hundred-meter-long bulletin board, the ten grades are clearly divided, and below each grade, there are densely packed with people's names, and the largest number is naturally the D grade, with 21,000 people, and the remaining 30,000 people are distributed among the remaining nine grades.

The smallest number of people is the first class, because there are only twenty-seven names on the list, and the first place is Mu Qianmei, which is the most eye-catching position.

These 27 people can directly enter the third round of the competition on the first day of the Lantern Festival.

Mu Qianmei suddenly became the focus of everyone's conversation, some admired and some questioned, because everyone didn't know what the work she signed up for was.

For other people's discussions, Mu Qianmei has long been accustomed to it, so she and Liu Tingfeng went to the Molan Inn to find a place to sit down and chat while drinking tea, as for Liu Tingfeng's ranking, it was for the other five people to look for it, and after waiting for two quarters of an hour, they hurriedly ran over, and Jade said excitedly:

"We have found the ranking of the childe, it is in the middle of the second class, and we will go to the fifty-sixth competition field of the Youlan Hall at noon for the first round of elimination competition."

Of the more than 20,000 people who were eliminated, some were sad and lost, and some didn't care, because they knew their own strength, and they just signed up to have a good time.

Those who are not eliminated will find their names and prepare to participate in the first round of elimination at noon.

This first round of elimination competition is actually very simple, that is, all the participants are divided into three categories: poetry, calligraphy and painting, and the on-site creation is carried out, and the topic of creation is drawn on the spot, not free play.

The reason why there is this round of elimination, in fact, is that if you want to see the real level, it is difficult for those who buy works or ask someone to write on their behalf.

This round of competition lasts for a total of two hours, and it is eliminated on the spot, and the work is handed over to the on-site teacher, and it can be decided on the spot whether to be eliminated.

At the end, more than 10,000 people were eliminated on the spot, which can be regarded as a big wave of sand.

As a result, there are only 20,000 people left.

Liu Tingfeng was very lucky, he wrote a word on the spot, he treated it with a normal heart and played well, so he successfully entered the next round.

On the morning of the 14th day of the first lunar month, the second round of elimination competition was held, this time, it was not limited to what to participate in, but to freely choose the competition items, divided into five categories of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting and poetry, and everyone could choose the category they were best at to participate.

Liu Tingfeng did not hesitate to choose chess, among the 20,000 people, only about 2,000 people chose chess, Go is divided into one to nine sections, there are two hundred six-stage chess players on the spot, the people who compete are randomly challenged, the winners pass the test, and the losers are directly eliminated.

Compared to the bottom of the two, there were only five hundred people left of the two thousand, and Liu Tingfeng passed smoothly.

At the end of the morning, 10,000 of the total number of 10,000 people were eliminated, and so far, only 10,000 people remained.

In the afternoon, the third round of elimination, this time, Mu Qianmei's batch of twenty-seven people also had to participate, this round is still to improve the difficulty of elimination, among the five types of choices, Mu Qianmei chooses poetry, Liu Tingfeng chooses Go.

Mu Qianmei took the exam with a song "Alpine Orchid"——

"Eternal seclusion is this flower, do not seek to smell only a haze. Picking wood or fear of the road, but also take a high mountain cover. ”

Successfully passed this round of competition.

Liu Tingfeng participated in Go, which improved his rank by one rank, challenged the seven-dan chess player, and successfully passed.

So far in the competition, 7,000 people have been eliminated in this round, and there are only 3,000 people left, of which only 120 are left in chess.

These 3,000 people are the ones who have entered the finals, and they can participate in the final competition of the Lantern Festival.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, the Orchid Valley is crowded with people, because this day is not only the competition of the Empty Valley Orchid Billboard, but also the day of the Lantern Festival temple fair.

In addition to the contestants, it can accommodate up to 80,000 people, and today's Orchid Valley has about 500,000 people, and the rest of the people are outside to participate in other activities of the Lantern Festival, such as dragon dance, lion dance, guessing lantern riddles, watching juggling and the like.

Of course, at the same time, there are also many people who go to the Flower Temple to burn incense, and the entire Orchid Valley is almost a crowded and lively scene.

Outside the Youlan Palace, because there are too many people, the number of people entering the hall is strictly controlled, except for the people who participate in the competition, the rest of the audience, that can get tickets to enter, in fact, most of them are those who accompany the participants from various sects.

Mu Qianmei and Liu Tingfeng participated in the competition before, but they were directly brought into different rooms, and they did not visit the entire Youlan Hall properly.

Today is the date of the finals, so instead of indoors, it will be held outdoors.

Originally, in the back mountain of the Youlan Palace, there is a long canyon, in the valley is a wide square, in the middle of the square is a large ring, surrounded by thirty-six small rings.

Along the left and right sides of the square, there are two rows of antique wooden corridors, along the corridor, you can see the works of poetry, calligraphy and painting accumulated over the years, of course, can be passed down from generation to generation, that is very good, is the kind that ranks in the top few every year.

Outside the corridor, there are two rows of flower beds, one grid at a time, each grid is planted with a variety of orchids, the two rows add up, there are probably tens of thousands of varieties, on the side of each grid, there will be a small stone tablet, which is engraved with dense words, which is to introduce that variety of orchids.

On the hillside on both sides of the flower garden, there is a viewing platform for ordinary spectators to watch the competition, and because there are many competition items, the entire square has become a competition venue.

And on this side of the Youlan Palace, there is also a two-story observation deck, which is built very gorgeously, especially the second floor, which is an excellent viewing point, this year's competition is more grand, because the young emperor will personally come to watch, which is also the first time in history.

The audience can move freely after entering, and the contestants will go to the designated place to familiarize themselves with the scene, and also familiarize themselves with the rules of the competition.

Mu Qianmei and her entourage also entered the arena early, she took the group to the corridor to take a turn around, and then took Liu Tingfeng into the gathering point of the players on the edge of the ring in the middle of the square, and the others watched from the observation deck.

When the hour was approaching, the people who should have come in the Youlan Hall had almost arrived, and the square of nearly 100,000 people seemed bustling and full of people.

Emperor Wu Changhao did not make a grand debut, he quietly came to the second-floor observation deck of the Youlan Hall under the protection of several important ministers and close guards, accompanied by the civil and military officials of the dynasty on the same floor, and on the observation deck on the lower floor, there were some leaders of the gangs and the deans of the academy and other figures.

When he first arrived, Zhou Yunxi, a gentle and elegant Xiao Xiang monk, slowly stepped onto the main ring, because it was the highest place in the middle of the square.

Seeing that the person who walked into the main ring was Zhou Yunxi, everyone was surprised at the same time, but they also immediately quieted down, because everyone knew that this meant that the annual competition of the Empty Valley Youlan Billboard was about to officially kick off.