Chapter 54 (1/2)
Thin Du immediately calmed down and didn't dare to make a sound.
Even Young Master Mao seemed to feel the solemn atmosphere in the room. He cutely curled up on An Zeng's knee and looked at the third year of high school.
An Zaiyue's fingers gently slid down the back of the good lord, who squinted his eyes and looked especially happy.
The silence in the room was uncomfortable. Even the footsteps of the third year student could be heard clearly on the carpet.
The taller of the three walked in front of the first woman and stood there, taking a deep breath.
Then he flicked the metal cover with his finger. It echoed loudly and didn't seem to contain much.
The third year's eyebrows were slightly raised and the seriousness on his face lessened. It seemed that this first item was not difficult for him.
He didn't knock again to confirm anything. Instead, he walked directly in front of the second woman.
There were four in a row, and all of them seemed to be confident of being able to make it out in their third year of high school.
When he reached the fifth woman, he encountered a problem. He knocked three times in a row and then almost put his ear against the metal cover. He still looked hesitant.
He went to the last one, this time knocking twice.
On his way back, he stopped at the fifth one, drummed his fingers on the metal cover, and listened.
He shook his head back, as if he was still unsure of the fifth item.
When he returned to his seat, the third senior took the pen and paper from the maid and wrote his answer.
”From now on, you're not allowed to talk.”
Zhuang Feifei said with a smile, ”Even if it's just a small game, we still need to play it official. I can't practice favouritism, you can't help each other.”
The third senior glanced at An Zeng, seemingly worried about whether An Zhe would be able to make a judgment on this.
An Zeng smiled at him but didn't say anything.
Du's thin and nervous hands were full of sweat. His toes were propped up and he was trembling slightly.
The maid standing next to him smiled and leaned forward. She took out a handkerchief with a faint fragrance and gently wiped it on his forehead.
This gentle movement startled Skinny Du, and then he smiled apologetically at the maid. Recalling Zhuang Feifei's words, he did not dare to disturb the second person.
This female servant was almost 1.7 meters tall. She was not very thin, but she was well-proportioned. She was the type of woman who could feel things just by looking at her.
She put her hand on his thin shoulder and squeezed it gently.
This made the third year recall the sound of the toad female toad, which was called by Skinny Du. He then couldn't help but laugh out loud.
The second person to go up to examine the treasure was an old man. He looked to be seventy or eighty years old, and his hair and beard were all white.
Everyone seemed to have some respect for him, so they called him Elder Liu.
Elder Liu was supported by a female servant as he walked forward. After which, he began to hammer his judgement one by one.
He spent less time than his third year, but when he came back, his expression was uncertain.
Zhen Zhuang Bi was the second from the bottom and appeared confident. In Du Jiabao's words, he looked extremely arrogant.
However, this man was very skilled in treasure detection, and Andersen noticed that he had a very different method of striking the metal cover. He did not knock on the same position as the previous man, but rather knocked on each metal cover.
It was An Zaiyue's turn to go up on stage. As Zhen Zhuangbi sat down, she let out a cold snort: ”You little brat, you still haven't weaned off, why are you still pretending? Let's see how you're going to pa.s.s.”
When the answer comes in a moment, the bottom will be revealed. ”
He didn't even look at him.
Seeing that An Zaiyue was not angered by his words, Zhen Zhuang Bi rolled his eyes. ”A person who knows his place, a person who's not even in the Ascending Realm, is actually trying to force his way into the upper echelon. He's not afraid of being crushed to the point that he's bleeding from his head.”
”To be able to drill into the camp at such a young age, I'm afraid he is mentally ill.”
Skinny Du stood up. ”Can you shut up!”
Zhen Zhuang Bi curled her lips, ”I'm talking to me, what does this have to do with you? Mister only said that you're not allowed to talk, I didn't even talk to you, she didn't say that you're not allowed to talk to yourself.”
He was deliberately distracting his rival's hearing, speaking in a strange voice, his fingers drumming on the arm of his chair.
The third year coldly snorted, ”If a person looks down on himself, then there's no saving him.”
Zhen Zhuang Bi also seemed to feel that she had lost her sense of ident.i.ty. After staring at the third year for a while, she did not say anything else. However, her fingers continued to tap on the armrest of her chair.
With this, even those people who were closer to him felt that he was being too petty.
Perhaps she wanted to test Zhuang Feifei, but she didn't say anything to stop him. Her beautiful eyes had been fixated on him the entire time, and there was a look of antic.i.p.ation in her eyes.
The serving maid seemed very curious as well. She couldn't help but to lean forward, as if she wanted to get close to An Zaiyue to capture the change in his expression.
But in fact, there was no change in the expression of the struggle.
Others beat on the metal cover to judge the echoes, but Anjou was different.
His fingers gently slid across the metal cover. The sound was pleasant to the ears, though not melodious. It was like the sound of a musical instrument.
What was even more surprising was that as he traced the arc with his finger, the sound actually had a change in rhythm.
An Xin was quick to use, at least twice as fast as Zhen Zhuang Bi. After that, he walked back and sat down, looking calm and collected.
The maid who served him immediately squatted down in front of him, holding a pen and paper in her hands.
She had a tray in her hands, with paper and a pen on top of it.
Her large, beautiful eyes stared first at Anjou's face, then at Anjou's hands.
An Zaiyue wrote quickly, as if he didn't have any hesitation.
Skinny Du was unable to clearly see what An Zhe was writing. However, when he saw the maid's expression, he was slightly surprised before it turned into an incredulous expression.
”Alright.”
Zhuang Feifei walked to the front, ”Since everyone has completed their appraisal, I presume everyone has an answer in their minds.”
”Before we announce our answers, I will first talk about the prizes of the winners of this first round.”
She turned around and picked up an item from the tray held by the maid behind her.
”It's a small thing, not particularly valuable, but it's special about skin-repellents.”
An Xuan looked up. Zhuang Feifei was holding a lifelike rose shaped hairpin in her hand.
Especially that flower, no matter how you looked at it, it looked flawless.
The flower was only half the size of a real rose, and its workmans.h.i.+p was admirable.
Although they weren't close, they were all experts at discernment. Therefore, it could be seen that the flower patterns on the rose hairpin were all very fine.