“Do you want to come up and sit for a while?”
While Shen Jing was secretly complaining, Zhao Ying from the attic playfully extended an invitation.
“Young Master, don’t pay attention to him.”
Chi Chi gently tugged at Shen Jing’s sleeve, whispering for him not to go.
He knew without thinking that Zhao Ying wanted to humiliate and mock Shen Jing, making fun of him.
“How can I not go?”
Shen Jing instantly became energetic, as if he had been injected with a stimulant, “Go, must go!”
With that, Shen Jing pulled the somewhat bewildered Chi Chi and excitedly headed towards the Qin She (Music House).
What’s the difference between a transmigrator who doesn’t show off and a salted fish?
Wherever literati and refined scholars gather, it’s this Daoist Master’s home turf!
Although he was an uneducated person, he still remembered many classic poems!
It was enough to crush these weaklings!
From today onwards, the tables have turned!
Today, this Daoist Master must show off!
No one can stop him!
The more Shen Jing thought about it, the more excited he became, even wanting to spit some saliva to use as hair gel and play the God of Gamblers’ BGM for a cool entrance.
Soon, Shen Jing excitedly led the anxious Chi Chi into the Qin She (Music House).
The first floor of this Qin She (Music House) was filled with various musical instruments, mostly zithers.
Upon reaching the second floor, he found many people sitting under platforms enclosed by gauze curtains.
Shen Jing recognized many of them.
They were mostly literati and refined scholars.
Through the gauze curtains, he could vaguely see a woman sitting in the middle, with a zither in front of her.
Seeing Shen Jing and Chi Chi walk up, many people cast playful glances at him.
Several people next to Zhao Ying were about to open their mouths to mock Shen Jing, but Shen Jing quickly leaned forward, asking with an expectant face: “Should we follow the procedure first, or just start directly?”
“Ah?”
Shen Jing’s words confused everyone.
Follow the procedure?
What procedure?
Start?
Start what?
This was completely nonsensical!
“Don’t understand?”
Shen Jing grinned, “It means you all first madly mock and belittle me, calling me a good-for-nothing, a male concubine, and then I, unable to bear the humiliation, compose a few poems on the spot, astonishing everyone…”
Showing off and slapping faces!
He was good at it!
If they didn’t follow the procedure, he would just start composing poems directly.
Come on, great Li Bai, great Du Fu, possess my soul!
After showing off, to leave a lonely genius’s back amidst everyone’s astonished gazes, how dashing that would be!
Just thinking about that scene made Shen Jing a little excited.
Listening to Shen Jing’s words, everyone’s faces twitched.
Su Yourong, behind the gauze curtains, was also stunned, speechless for a long time.
Shen Jing’s mind really seemed different from normal people!
But then again, his life was indeed tough!
She had seen the scene on the street just now.
She even thought Shen Jing was going to die on the spot.
Who would have thought that in the blink of an eye, Shen Jing would appear lively in the Qin She (Music House), and immediately take the initiative.
Now, those who wanted to mock him probably didn’t know how to speak.
“Cough cough…”
After a long while, someone finally came to their senses.
“You, want to compose poems to astonish everyone?”
“Young Master Shen, did you fail to commit suicide by jumping into the river, and your brain got waterlogged?”
“Alas, he’s also a pitiful person. In just a few days, he’s become mad.”
“No wonder he wants to marry into the Wang family. His mad appearance really suits the Wang family’s young lady…”
As expected, what was coming still came.
After recovering, several talented scholars who were friends with Zhao Ying were the first to mock Shen Jing.
“Hmm, that’s more like it!”
Shen Jing clapped his hands and chuckled, then looked intently at Song Lianxin and Zhao Ying, “What about you? Do you want to pretend to be good people first, or are you ready to start with sarcasm and ridicule?”
“Shen Jing, why have you become like this now?”
Song Lianxin looked at Shen Jing with grievance and indignation, “We’ve known each other for many years. Even if you squandered your family fortune, I wouldn’t laugh at you!”
Laugh at Shen Jing?
Laugh at him in private would be enough!
The Song family was now a Tribute Merchant. As long as they could deliver the tribute cloth on time this year, next year the Song family would be an Imperial Merchant!
Once they became an Imperial Merchant, the Song family would truly rise to prominence!
In public, one still had to pay attention to one’s image.
“You are truly a good cup of tea!”
Shen Jing extended his hand to Song Lianxin, “Please return the hundreds of thousands of guan I spent on the Song family, and then continue your act!”
Wanting to be a harlot and erect a memorial arch!
Well, this could be considered a standard operation for a green tea bitch!
“Is there really something wrong with your head?”
Song Lianxin pointed at his head, asking blankly: “You clearly squandered your family fortune yourself, why blame it on me?”
“Alright! I knew you wouldn’t admit it!”
Shen Jing shrugged, “But it doesn’t matter, I will get back what I lost, principal and interest!”
The previous master was responsible for building up the Song family, and I am responsible for bringing down the Song family!
Ah, a perfect closed loop!
“Shen Jing, it seems there’s really something wrong with your head.”
Zhao Ying sighed pretentiously, “Forget it, you should go back and rest!”
He originally wanted to make fun of Shen Jing.
But Shen Jing immediately took the initiative, and now if he made fun of Shen Jing, he would be at a disadvantage.
“No, don’t!”
Shen Jing was unhappy, “I haven’t even composed a poem yet!”
The process of mocking him was over!
The next step of the process had to follow!
Was it easy for me to transmigrate once?
Today, whoever stops me from showing off, I will get angry with them!
“This is a Qin She (Music House), we are here to meet friends through music!”
Zhao Ying looked at Shen Jing playfully, “You don’t even understand the difference between a place for playing the zither and a place for composing poems, so what poems can you compose?”
With the little knowledge Shen Jing had, it was only enough to pass the xiucai examination!
And compose poems?
Still want to snatch his title of Huaizhou’s Foremost Titled Scholar?
Daydreaming!
“Exactly!”
“Zhao Jieyuan just presented a wonderful piece of music for Miss Song. If you want to surpass him, you could play a piece on the spot.”
“Speaking of Zhao Jieyuan’s piece just now, it truly had a lingering charm!”
“Unexpectedly, Zhao Jieyuan is not only talented but also so skilled in music. The title of Huaizhou’s Foremost Titled Scholar is truly well-deserved!”
“Yes, yes! It’s a pity it was interrupted by the commotion on the street just now, which is truly regrettable…”
Unbeknownst to them, several people gathered around Zhao Ying started to flatter him.
Zhao Ying’s father, Zhao Jianzhi, was the Huaizhou Prefect, an official of the fourth rank.
Zhao Ying’s maternal uncle was even the current Minister of Rites.
And Zhao Ying himself was very promising, having passed the imperial examination as a Titled Scholar in this year’s autumn examination, and was hailed as Huaizhou’s Foremost Titled Scholar.
With such talent and background, Zhao Ying’s future was absolutely limitless!
Of course they had to flatter Zhao Ying!
In fact, these words of flattery were originally meant to be said earlier.
But the commotion from the street just now attracted everyone, causing the flattery they had been brewing for a long time to not be delivered.
Now, it was a good opportunity to deliver it.
Listening to the endless flattery, Zhao Ying’s face remained impassive, but he was greatly pleased in his heart.
However, some people secretly shook their heads, showing disdain, clearly despising these flatterers.
“Since you all say so, I must perform a piece today!”
Shen Jing looked excitedly at these flatterers: “It doesn’t matter if it astounds everyone, the main thing is I want to hear people flatter me!”
Elegance, this Daoist Master doesn’t know!
But funerals, this Daoist Master knows very well!
This Daoist Master was once a handsome young man famous within a hundred-li radius.
Oh, no!
He was the Suona Prince!