The three people raised their hands together and said, "Please ask Mr. Marquis to come up with the question!"
Liu Haojia said: "You scholars always say that you are good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, so let's play piano as the first item!"
After hearing Liu Haojia's question, the scholars who were originally happy became a little silent! Qin is a good thing, but it won’t pass the exam! But it’s really hard to ask them to answer the question! Because as Liu Haojia said, don’t we scholars always say that piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are basic skills, but now we can’t change our minds!
The servant looked around at the two of them, and looked a little embarrassed when he saw the question, but he couldn't lose face in front of Liu Haojia, so he simply said: "Students who have some experience in the way of piano, then let's play the piano!"
Liu Haojia looked at the other two people and saw that they also nodded, so he immediately identified the person who brought the piano. So a maid immediately laid out two brocade carpets on the ground, placed two piano tables, and finally placed the guqin on them.
This is not because Liu Haojia is particular about it, but this is how he played the piano in ancient times. In ancient times, there were generally two postures for playing the piano. One was playing the piano on a formal piano table like this. After putting the qin away, people sat cross-legged beside the qin table and raised their hands to play. The pianos used in this way of playing are relatively long.
The other way is to sit cross-legged on the ground and put the piano on your legs to play directly. However, this kind of piano is relatively short and can be considered a travel suit!
Seeing that the piano was placed, Liu Haojia waved casually and said, "Which one of you three comes first?"
It seems that Jin Pu has a relatively high status among them. The other two people looked at him expectantly, so he gritted his teeth and said, "The students will take the lead!"
After getting Liu Haojia's signal, he walked to the brocade carpet, took off his shoes, crossed his legs and prepared it. After thinking for a while, he slowly played an ancient song "Phoenix Seeking the Phoenix".
Liu Hao's family listened to him playing, but they felt a little disapproving in their hearts! Because Jin Pu’s playing is indeed very average! However, he still listened patiently, and after listening, he and the scholars applauded him, which made Jin Pu's face look much better!
Then Liu Haojia motioned for him to sit down, and then said to the other two people: "Which one of you is going?"
Wu Jifeng stood up first and saluted, then went over to play the piano without saying a word. Listening to his playing, Liu Haojia was sure of one thing, that is, his playing was not as good as Jin Pu's!
After Jiang Lin came on the stage, Liu Haojia knew that this was also a very ordinary level, at most the level of an amateur. And coincidentally, all three of them played "Feng Qiu Huang"!
After the three of them finished playing, all the scholars looked at Liu Haojia eagerly, hoping that he would quickly admit that he couldn't! Maybe they thought how could such a warrior-born person be good at playing! But he didn't want to be dismissed by Liu Haojia first, and said: "Why do you just play "Feng Qiu Huang"? Do you have nothing to do all day long but think about women! Forget it, let's play the same song as you, otherwise it won't be easy to separate. High or low!"
Then Liu Haojia got up and walked onto the brocade carpet and sat down. After a while of thinking, he started playing! But as soon as Liu Haojia played "Feng Qiu Huang", the faces of the scholars sank! Because anyone with long ears can hear it, Liu Haojia's playing level is definitely higher than that of Jin Pu and the other three! Even people with no sense of music can tell that his playing is at least much smoother than that of Jin Pu and the other three!
In fact, it was simply too easy for Liu Haojia to defeat them! First of all, Guqin is a very expensive instrument, but it is the instrument that best represents Confucianism! But Guqin has one characteristic: it’s expensive!
An ordinary guqin costs tens or hundreds of taels of silver, and better ones costing hundreds of taels are common. If it's a few thousand taels of top quality, it's him, and if it's tens of thousands taels of silver, it's him too! So how can these ordinary scholars have the opportunity to come into contact with such high-level things!
After all, it is already very difficult for the family to provide for them to study. If they also learn the guqin, they will basically not be able to support them! Because in addition to its high value, the guqin is not much cheaper to maintain than a pen, ink, paper and inkstone!
But Liu Haojia is different! The Liu family had trained him to be a scholar in the early years, so they would naturally spend a lot of money! Although the Liu family said they were a little poorer at that time, that was still relatively speaking! After all, when Zhang Shunping rented the Hou Mansion, the Liu family had hundreds or thousands of rent a year. So let Liu Haojia learn how to play Guqin
Playing music is of course extremely simple!
And since he took Tan Cuiying, a famous luthier in the capital, as his concubine, he even learned to play with her for a while just for the pleasure of the boudoir! Under Tan Cuiying's guidance, it can be said that his piano skills have improved by leaps and bounds. How can it be compared with those who only touch the piano a few times a year!
And these people are probably not serious about learning the piano. They are just arty and just show that they can play the piano! Even the piano they used for practice was probably borrowed a few times from their classmates' homes, or they simply learned some while teasing the girls while getting drunk in a brothel. It's already good that they can play coherent music now!
When Liu Haojia returned to the table and sat down firmly, he picked up the tea cup and took a sip before saying: "How is it? How is your playing?"
The scholars present here, including Jin Pu and others, are basically people who don't know how to use twists and turns. They really can't bear to say that you can't play well, so Liu Haojia's answer was silence!
It wasn't until a moment later that Jin Pu raised his hands and said, "I didn't expect that Mr. Hou's piano skills are so superb, so I'm going to give in!"
But then he raised his head and said, "But I think there will be competitions later, and students may not always lose!"
Liu Haojia clapped his hands and said, "Okay, you have some backbone! Then let's move on to the next thing, which is shooting! Come on, bring the bows, arrows and muskets!"
As soon as the word "shoot" was mentioned, the expressions of all the scholars present changed! They are all scholars, how could they be able to shoot arrows? Isn’t that something only a martial artist can do? But they already understood that what Liu Haojia was competing with them was probably the Six Arts of the Gentleman, and they were not allowed to argue, so they all suppressed their blushes! ap.
Liu Haojia knew from the look on their faces that they were just a bunch of sticks when it came to the word "shoot"! So he laughed and stood up and said, "It seems that you have eaten everything the saint taught you!"
After speaking, Liu Haojia picked up his bow and arrow, pointed it at the target more than 20 steps away, and shot three arrows in a row! Although none of the arrows hit the red heart, they were still hanging around on the seventh and eighth rings. They were much better than these scholars who couldn't even draw their bows!
After shooting the bow and arrow, he grabbed the musket and took aim at the target and shot! It stands to reason that fire blunderbuss do not have such high accuracy at all, but today God showed mercy and the lead bullet hit the bullseye directly!
