Longevity begins with an old woman

Chapter 196 Shortlist

"Not bad!"

Seeing the students of Kagura Academy after the performance, Qing Yan, who was wearing a purple robe and was a senior musician in the Music Master's House, nodded in satisfaction.

This time, there are only ten candidates for the Musician's Mansion, which has already been determined by default, of which six are for Shenyueyuan, and four are for ordinary musicians. Now it's just a formality.

The Sea Clan Empire has existed for so many years. Except for the positions that must be held by the royal family, other rights have already been divided up. The network of interests inside is so intricate that no one who has no relationship can enter the circle at all.

Those commoner musicians who don't know why, still want to become court musicians and reach the sky in one step, it's just a dream.

In the eyes of Qing Yan and others, it is as funny as a clown.

The civilian musicians stepped forward one by one, performing their best tunes with all their strength. There were no amazing talents in it, but there were some brilliant characters that made people feel refreshed.

Qingyan wrote down the characteristics of the other party's name one by one, and prepared to take him under his door after the selection and compose music for himself.

There is also an internal assessment in the Musician's Mansion. A purple-robed musician like him has to release new pieces every once in a while, otherwise his salary will be deducted, or even a general rank.

The musicians in the Music Master's Mansion start from the lowest level of white robes, followed by blue robes, purple robes, silver robes, gold robes, and the highest black robes.

In the Sea Clan Empire, black is the most respected!
In addition to the reason why the skin of the royal family of the Sea Clan Empire is black, it is also because of the black price.

Although Zipao is only ranked in the third level, he still has an extraordinary status in the outside world, and the treatment he enjoys is higher than that of some Jindan guards.

It's not just him, the musicians who work in the musician's mansion, whose family doesn't have a few diners who compose.

These diners are usually unsatisfactory folk musicians with low cultivation and like to play with music. They really deserve to be squeezed.

This is not only Qingyan's idea, but also the idea of ​​all the musicians in the Yueshifu.

It seems that after they added the Music Master's Mansion, they became noble.

Just when several people in Qingyan felt that the selection was going smoothly, a young man from the Black Snake Clan came on stage.

Judging from his appearance, his age is not that old. The Sea Clan has its own method of analyzing age, which is not much different from humans.

Young sea people like this are often more enthusiastic about pursuing palace guards or internal servants who can be promoted faster, and not many come to join the Music Master's Mansion.

Of course, it doesn't mean that there are few young musicians, but that musicians of this age are usually not skilled enough to humiliate themselves.

The young snakeman took out his own musical instrument, not the most popular harp of the Sea Clan, but the nine-stringed qin that is widely spread in the Human Race area.

The strings exude a faint white glow, repelling the surrounding sea water, allowing the sound of the piano to be emitted smoothly.

The faint thoughts and sorrows turned into notes one by one, jumped out of the strings, and fell into the ears of everyone present.

There is not a word in the rhythm, but it outlines a beautiful, pure, sad and sad love story in everyone's heart, which makes people unconsciously immersed in it for a long time and unable to extricate themselves.

Just one song!

It took a while for someone to respond.

clap clap clap!
I don't know who it was, but they clapped their hands, and then passed it on to ten, ten to a hundred, except for the students of Shenyue Academy and the musicians of the Musician's House, everyone applauded.

Qingyan's face was ugly, not because he played too badly, but because he played too well.

He has never heard this song before, and it is completely different from the current popular style. It is obviously a new composition by the other party. It is too amazing to add two or two.

Unfortunately, the staff has already been appointed internally, and now that the other party has appeared, it will be very difficult for him as the person in charge.

"What are you doing! What are you doing!"

Qingyan sternly scolded everyone, telling them to calm down.

"The tune you play is too deviant, and the tune is messed up and flashy. When you go back, you should read more of the tunes published by the Musician's Mansion! Next!"

Qingyan waved his hand, telling the young snake man to retreat.

The young snake man's eyes flickered for a moment, and he retreated silently into the crowd, frowning slightly.

"Is there any mistake, Liang Zhu, the eternal famous song from the previous life, was judged to be worthless!"

Xu Mu was both surprised and speechless.

That's right, the snake man married later was transformed by Xu Mu.

In order to be sure that nothing would go wrong, he did not hide his clumsiness, and directly moved out the most famous ancient song in his previous life, and the result was as expected, it was amazing.

But the purple-robed musician from the Musician's Mansion didn't seem to like it.

"Looking at his expression just now, I can definitely hear the extraordinaryness of this song!"

Thoughts flickered in Xu Mu's mind, and he had a bad guess.

But whether it is exactly what he thought, we have to look at the final selection list to know.

After everyone finished performing, Qing Yan led four blue-robed musicians into the back room to discuss the final selection list, while Xu Mu and others stayed in the yard waiting for the result.

"I'm Han Rui! I really admire Brother Xu's song just now!"

Taking advantage of their free time, someone immediately stepped forward to greet Xu Mu.

We are all musicians, so we can still tell whether the music is good or not. Xu Mu is superior to everyone in both the music and the piano skills.

"Brother Han won the award, it's just an occasional bad work!" Xu Mu laughed.

"Brother Xu is too modest!"

Someone else came over.

"That's right! That's right! If this music score is included in the Yuefu Music Collection, I'm afraid it will be famous all over the world!"

Someone agreed.

"Everyone has won the award! We have won the award!"

Xu Mu could only respond modestly.

Seeing that he was so talkative, more and more people gathered around him, and they all praised him to the sky.

"With Daoist Xu's ability, joining the Music Master's Mansion is almost a certainty! In the future, we need to take care of us more!"

"Yes! Yes! Take care of me!"

While everyone was complimenting Xu Mu, the dozen or so students of the Kagura Academy began to taunt in a strange way.

"It's a dream to want to join the Musician's Mansion just because of that inexplicable piece of music!"

"Not bad! What's the matter! Didn't you hear the evaluation of Master Musician just now!"

It is said that literati are inferior to each other, and it seems that musicians are similar.

Faced with the taunts from the Kagura Academy students, the lively crowd suddenly fell silent.

No one spoke for Xu Mu.

The reason is also very simple, they are all realistic people, a few words of flattery are fine, but it is really not worth offending the students of Kagura Academy for him.

These students have a high probability of becoming court musicians. As long as they want to join the Music Master's House in the future, they will not dare to offend these people.

"Good is good, bad is bad, don't you have ears? Others say shit is delicious, so you should eat it too!"

Xu Mu retorted unceremoniously.

If this was the main body, he would choose to swallow his anger and protect himself wisely, but now he is the avatar, not to mention that he was already enough to show off just now, and he doesn't care about showing off with his mouth.

"What are you talking about!!"

Several leading Kagura Academy students were stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but fly into a rage.

"Who is the trash talking about?" Xu Mu asked.

"Trash is talking about you!"

The students of Kagura Academy were furious.

"Oh! So the trash is talking!"

Xu Mu pretended to be surprised.

"Haha! Mmmmm!"

The commoner musician who reacted couldn't help laughing out loud, and hurriedly covered his mouth.

"How dare you scold me, you bastard?" the student of Kagura Academy scolded angrily.

"Who does the bastard call?"

"The bastard scolded... Fuck! I'll kill you!"

This group of students who only know how to study are Xu Mu's opponents, and they are ready to fight in just a few words.

At this moment, five people from Qingyan came out of the house.

"What are you doing!"

Qingyan scolded coldly, and the students of the Kagura Academy restrained themselves immediately.

Qingyan swept a group of people and didn't say anything more.

"Now I announce the shortlist!"

"Blood branch, green vine, water Xuan..., that's it! Those who didn't think of it can go!"

After Qingyan announced the list, everyone unconsciously looked at Xu Mu, because he was not included.

Xu Mu frowned slightly, said nothing, turned around and walked outside, the others looked at me and I looked at you, and hurried outside.

Han Rui, who was the first to greet Xu Mu, caught up with Xu Mu, and quickly transmitted the voice with his spiritual thoughts.

"Fellow Daoist Xu, do you want to know why you were not chosen?"

(End of this chapter)