The Fourth Lady novel Chapter 42

The talent conference finally arrives under the watchful eyes of thousands.

In a couple of days, Qingyan had already learned everything about the so called talent conference.

Donghe's Talent Conference was not in anyway inferior to Nanchen's Hundred Flower Feast. Ultimately it was just a form of entertainment for the royalty and aristocrats.

And the cost of this entertainment was just to see what kind of person one would marry.

If married well, it was a lifetime match. If not, then they could only swallow all the bitter tears in their stomach.

But what was more meaningful than finding a good husband?

However, the her now no longer cared about a so called good husband.

The so called good husband, to look up to throughout ones whole life.

Sitting before the dressing mirror, Qingyan stared at herself in the mirror. Baizhi stood behind her brushing her hair, her skills were truly considered first rate.

"Miss, today is the talent conference, I'll fix your hair into the goddess style*."

(*TN: It's a style of hair where the hair is put into a top bun with loops of hair coming out.)

Listening to Baizhi's voice, Qingyan, unwilling to turn away her good intentions, also agreed to her suggestion.

Seeing the young girl finish fixing her hair in the mirror, Qingyan smiled.

"Miss, I've also prepared your clothes for you." Zizhu said as she entered the room with the folded clothes.

Su Jiashi prepared for Qingyan was a pink dress with teal patterns, but Qingyan didn't like this color. So she could only bring out the Liuyun silk from before and have Li Clothing Store's Liuniang make a new green colored plum blossom dress for her.

"Miss, why do you tend to like green dresses, when your skin is so nice like that?" Huangcen said pouting, as Qingyan put on the dress. "Miss, isn't the point of today's talent conference to compete in talents and fight for the spotlight?"

Qingyan watched Baizhi help her tie on the belt, and then turned around to Huangcen, "Huangcen, although today is the talent conference, it's not like you don't know my abilities, if I embarrass myself during the conference, then that would just be inexcusable."

"Miss definitely won't lose face." Qingdai, seeing Qingyan dressing up, said grinning, "Our miss is very impressive, she definitely won't lose face."

"That's right. How could miss lose face when she's that impressive." Chishao replied, agreeing with Qingdai, "Plus, I think this green dress suits miss very much!"

"I'll have Qingdai and Chishao accompany me to today's talent conference." Qingyan look to them with a faint smile on her face.

"Understood."

Qingyan, who had just finished grooming, walked up next to her bed and extended her arm. The small fox Yaoyao took the opportunity to jump into her embrace, even rubbing itself on her arm.

"Miss, don't tell me you're planning on taking Yaoyao with you today?" Zizhu look to Qingyan and curiously asked, "But Bogu Hall doesn't allow animals to be brought in."

Qingyan turned to her and gently raised her eyebrows. The corner of her lips curled into a smile, "So what? As long as it's something I want to do, there's nothing stopping me."

Seeing Qingyan's confident look, Zizhu just turned to Qingdai and Chishao and instructed them in areas they needed to be careful with.

While Huangcen on the other hand, prepared some snacks for Qingyan. Just when they were about to leave the yard, granny Ruo once again appeared before them.