The genius queen, here we come!

Chapter 432 We All Lose

Tang Lin scanned the cabinet, and when her eyes fell on the Empress Dowager, she waved happily.

At this juncture, there was still the mood to say hello, the empress dowager was completely defeated by Tang Lin, and Tang Lin shook her head with a helpless smile in return. "This girl really doesn't know how the world is cold!"

Yu Shengjun stared at Tang Lin's hands that were fiddling with the abacus at random, and then looked at Li Taifu, his eyes suddenly lit up, and then he laughed and said: "This elf is so ghostly, he deceived everyone!"

"What's the matter, prince?" asked the empress dowager.

Yu Shengjun suppressed his excitement, and said to his queen mother, "Queen mother, it's nothing, let's continue watching." When she looked at Tang Lin on the stage again, Tang Lin still looked listless and powerless.

Everyone in the audience is nervously looking forward to the passing of a quarter of an hour.

In the cabinet, a number man has been appointed, the official in the palace who is responsible for counting the treasury.I saw that his gestures were much faster than the imperial concubine's, and he could accurately calculate the addition and subtraction problems given by Taifu Li.

Tang Lin glanced at the arithmetic officer, showing admiration.As expected of a master of counting, he was able to hear the astronomical figures that Taifu Li said clearly in such an environment, and he was able to calculate them accurately.He hummed softly in his heart, "Hmph! It's okay, as long as the imperial concubine is not as powerful as you!"

"It's so long!" Seeing that Mrs. Li didn't intend to stop, Concubine Li felt sleepy.

Han Lingying said to her: "Look at that stick of incense, it's almost half burnt, it should be over soon! I think the imperial concubine is so serious, I believe she should be able to persevere until the end!"

Li Fei said: "I think it's a bit hanging, look, her hands are not flexible."

At this moment, the concubine Huang Guifei, who was not good at using her left hand, suddenly twitched her hand, and when she moved the beads again, she became even more clumsy.Seeing her like this, Taifu Li slowed down his speech.

What puzzled everyone was that the imperial concubine suddenly withdrew her hand and stopped doing abacus calculations.She rubbed her sore wrist, looked at Tang Lin next to her, and saw Tang Lin dozing off, pressing her hands on the abacus casually, as if she was playing.

"Concubine Tang!" The imperial concubine called out.

Tang Lin immediately opened her eyes and looked at it, "What's wrong?"

The imperial concubine said: "We all lost!"

Tang Lin frowned, "Is it over?" She looked at her watch, exactly fourteen minutes.

But at this time, Taifu Li suddenly stopped reading, and opened his dry mouth after a few seconds: "Okay, that's it!"

An Lin shouted to the crowd: "The first half of the abacus competition is over! Next, please come to the stage and announce the results for this abacus competition!"

Everyone thinks, what else is there to announce? Didn't the two concubines lose?
After the arithmetic hand wrote down the calculated numbers on the paper, he took the paper to the stage and read out in public: "The final result of the addition and subtraction problem given by Taifu Li is...99!"

The imperial concubine lowered her head to look at her calculations, she was still far from the answer.She glanced at Tang Lin's abacus, and it was fine if she didn't glance at it, but she was taken aback when she glanced, only to see that "nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine" really appeared on Tang Lin's abacus.

"Concubine Tang won!" The imperial concubine suddenly said loudly, pointing to Tang Lin's abacus, "She... figured it out!" A person who just dozed off can actually win?It's so unreasonable!Everyone was shocked!
Won?Concubine Tang won?How is this possible? Concubine Tang was listless and dozing off all the way down the road. She wished she could end the game sooner. How could she have won?
Xiao Xiong immediately extinguished the half burnt incense.

When the arithmetic hand glanced at the abacus on the table in front of Tang Lin, all of them were as shocked as Tang Lin, their eyes widened and their mouths wide open, and their hearts were extremely shocked.It really is the "nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine" he calculated

The arithmetic hand raised his head and looked at Tang Lin in disbelief, "Really, did you figure it out?" He was in the audience just now, but his nerves were tightened to calculate, for fear of missing a number by mistake. Sleepy people actually figured it out.

Tang Lin once again created a miracle.

"This girl..." The Empress Dowager simply didn't know how to express Tang Lin's performance.

Yu Shengjun smiled and said: "Queen, I told you not to worry too much. Look, she won again? Don't look at her listless performance just now, in fact, she is just creating a false impression for everyone!"

The empress dowager was taken aback, "Illusion? Did the emperor see that she would win?"

"Yes, Queen Mother!" Yu Shengjun nodded and said, "I noticed her hands just now!"

On stage,
The imperial concubine was so excited that she grasped Tang Lin's shoulders and shook them, "My God, sister Tang Concubine, you, you are amazing. Just now I thought you were dozing off, but I didn't expect you..."

"Good sister, don't, don't..." She was about to be shaken faintly, Tang Lin hurriedly pushed away the imperial concubine's hand, resisted the urge to roll her eyes, and said to the imperial concubine: "It's just a blind cat bumping into a dead mouse, my sister is too flattering Already!"

The imperial concubine gave her a white look, "Then why didn't I bump into it?"

"Uh," Tang Lin was taken aback, and she knew that she would not use such a metaphor. "Anyway, my sister's hard work just now is obvious to all, but my performance...is not so outstanding!"

"Also," the imperial concubine glared at her, pointing to the abacus, "what is this? You calculated it accurately, and this is proof, sister, you are better than me!"

Tang Lin rubbed her hairy arm. For some reason, when she heard others say that she was strong, she wanted to get away. The more she was like this, the more she wanted to keep a low profile.Maybe... she is also afraid that the big tree will attract the wind, "Sister, I am too proud!"

At this time, An Lin excitedly said to everyone: "Someone has won, it is Concubine Tang! Concubine Tang won again, let us applaud Concubine Tang—"

Immediately, crackling applause resounded through the Yi Ge.

For Tang Lin, she has received countless applause, almost to the point of numbness.She waved at the crowd with a dry smile, and said very modestly: "Small tricks, you're making a fool of yourself, you're making a fool of yourself!"

Yu Shengjun caught a glimpse of Tang Lin licking her dry lips from a distance, and felt a sudden pain in her heart. She didn't drink a sip of water until now because of the competition.So, he poured a cup of tea into his teacup, and said to Zhang Xiangyang beside him, "Take it here, and moisten her throat!"

"Yes!" Zhang Xiangyang bowed his head in response, then took the teacup and walked to the stage.When he reached the edge of the stage, he raised his teacup high and called out to Tang Lin, who had her back turned to him, "Miss Tang!"

Tang Lin turned around when she heard the sound, and walked over, "Master Commander, what's the matter?"

Zhang Xiangyang looked at the teacup in his hand and said, "Master asked me to bring it to you. Take a sip to moisten your throat, and then you will be ready for the mental arithmetic competition."

"Okay!" Tang Lin gave a grateful glance to Yu Shengjun over there, and then took the teacup in Zhang Xiangyang's hand. Regardless of the taste of the tea, she was really thirsty, so she took a few sips, and then returned the teacup to Zhang Xiangyang , "It's time to work!"

"Miss Tang, you're welcome, I won't bother you, I'll step back first!" After speaking, Zhang Xiangyang turned and walked away.

When Tang Lin returned to the center of the stage, An Lin said to everyone in his loud voice: "At first, I thought that neither of the two empresses could win this abacus calculation, but a miracle happened, Concubine Tang...won Are you already looking forward to the next mental arithmetic competition?"

"Yes!" Immediately, many people booed.

On the stage, Lord Ning, who was thin and in his early forties, quietly looked towards the side where the concubines were sitting, and his eyes met with Concubine Ning's.

As soon as Concubine Ning received Lord Ning's sharp gaze, she immediately lowered her head in fear, and said with a trembling heart, "Master Father, even if my daughter puts her life to the test, she will win the competition!"

Feeling that Concubine Ning beside her was a little chilly, Concubine Li asked with concern: "What's the matter, Concubine Ning?"

Concubine Ning tried her best to calm down so that the other party could not see her uneasiness, "It's okay, maybe Concubine Tang won, I'm so excited!" If the concubines were not defeated, the family... would beat her to death.

On stage,
An Lin respectfully said to Taifu Li: "Master Taifu, thank you very much for your help!"

Taifu Li smiled and said: "Director An, you are being polite! If there is nothing wrong with me, then I will go down first?"

An Lin bowed immediately, "Please!"

Taifu Li turned around, glanced at Concubine Ling and Concubine Xuan who were seated by the concubines, sighed silently, and then walked off the stage.Originally, he deliberately wanted to deepen the abacus problem, but he didn't expect that he still couldn't beat Concubine Tang. Could it be that neither of his two daughters can take the second place?
After Mrs. Li went back and sat down, An Lin faced the crowd again, and said, "The next thing is a mental arithmetic competition. Master Ning is the one who set the question, as long as he can answer the correct number within the specified time, he will be considered a winner. If the imperial concubine answered a wrong question, she would not be able to enter the short list. If the Tang imperial concubine answered a wrong question, she would be tied with the imperial concubine! Next, I announce that the mental arithmetic competition will begin! Light up the incense!"

Xiao Xiong immediately lit the half of the incense that was destroyed.

Master Ning had an extra book in his hands. He stood between the imperial concubine and Tang Lin, opened the book, and immediately read out, "My lords, please listen carefully, three thousand three hundred and thirty three plus one thousand six hundred and fifty five, How much do you get?"

The imperial concubine began to mentally calculate nervously.

Tang Lin just lowered her eyes a little, and when she raised her eyes, her eyes lit up.

Immediately, An Lin was counting the time, "Five, four, three, two..."

"One" has not been uttered by Anlin, the imperial concubine and Tang Lin said in unison: "Four thousand nine eighty eight!"

Lord Ning went on to read: "Fifty one thousand eight hundred thirty-nine minus two thousand two hundred and forty-one?"

This time, before An Lin could count to three, Tang Lin and the imperial concubine immediately scrambled to read it out, and the number they read out was the same, "It's forty-nine thousand five hundred and ninety-eight!"

After reading, they looked at each other and smiled, feeling more motivated.

Next, no matter how Master Ning asked the question, the imperial concubine and Tang Lin could answer the correct answer in the first time. This storm of answering the question immediately blew away the boring atmosphere.

Many people on the field were doing mental calculations, but everyone only calculated a fraction in their hearts, and the imperial concubine and Tang Lin would tell it.They had to admire the two people on the stage, who had different mental arithmetic abilities than ordinary people.

While everyone admired the imperial concubine and Tang Lin, they also secretly regretted that they did not have such a skill.

Seeing the imperial concubine and Tang Lin answering so quickly, ruthlessly, and accurately, Master Ning will no longer believe in evil, so no one can give a wrong answer?He wasn't too tired, instead he sped up his speech, throwing one question after another to the imperial concubine and Tang Lin.

Yu Shengjun glanced at the incense on the censer at the corner of the stage, more than half of it had passed.He observed the expressions of Tang Lin and the imperial concubine again. One was calm and relaxed, while the other was sweating profusely. It was not difficult to see that the imperial concubine was about to be overwhelmed.This kind of addition and subtraction questions consumes so much brainpower, and there should be very few people in this world who can give the correct answer in a very short time, and Hou Lingyu is already pretty good.

The imperial concubine and Tang Lin's mental arithmetic ability, the concubines have already been shocked.At the same time, they were also calculating the questions posed by Lord Ning, but before they could figure out half of them, the imperial concubine and concubine Tang spoke up.

The more the imperial concubine watched this match, the more flustered she became.Soon it was her turn to challenge Concubine Tang. In terms of rhythm and dance, she was amazing in the imperial capital. Could it be that she was going to lose in the hands of a recovering from a serious illness?
(End of this chapter)