Chapter 512: One Hundred Thousand in Hand

Bai Yumiao recited the following verses with perfect imitation: "The crested weed in unequal lengths, is floating on the left and right. A fair and gentle lady, for her in dreams I seek in vain. I cannot get her for my own; all elegant and full of grace. Ah me! ah me! my restlessness, tossing and turning without peace. The crested weed in unequal lengths, to left and right I gather and pluck. A fair and gentle lady, with zither and psaltery her friends. The crested weed in unequal lengths, to left and right I sort them out. A fair and gentle lady, for whom bell and drum do play."

She recited all of it in one go, with such full emotion, it was as if she were reading from the text itself.

Shangguan Liuyun looked at her incredulously, then at Bai Yumiao, "How is this possible? She's so young, yet she knows the Book of Songs? Is this the only poem you can recite?"

"Pay up, no more nonsense, you have to accept the bet you've lost." Xiao Lijin was so proud.