I Inherited 5,000 Years of Family Property-Chapter 447 445: What’s Beethoven’s Piano Compared to This?

Lu Yiyao's live stream abruptly stopped, and after the program team's painstaking negotiations, the broadcast resumed several hours later, but it mainly focused on capturing Lu Yiyao's daily activities. As for the luxurious seven buildings owned by Zhang Menglong, they were intentionally downplayed by the production team.

As a result, when the live content was edited into the show, everything around Lu Yiyao, except for her, was almost entirely blurred. Perhaps this is the difficulty of life!

Of course, Zhang Menglong's seven buildings instantly became a trending topic, and the question of just how wealthy Zhang Menglong truly is once again became the focus of national attention.

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"Brother, can't we find any information at all about Zhang Menglong's background?" Hua Yuhan had never felt such humiliation. Ever since she joined this program, all her glory had been overshadowed by Lu Yiyao.

In terms of singing ability, Lu Yiyao was leagues ahead of her! As for dance, during the first episode of the program, Lu Yiyao could hardly dance and moved stiffly like a robot.

But after nearly two months of recording the program, she seemed like a completely different person, displaying amazing dance explosiveness in the next episode.

Of course, everyone guessed that Zhang Menglong must have invited some master to teach Lu Yiyao. Combined with her own hard work, her dance level naturally improved dramatically. Now, her dance skills were at least at the level of someone who had trained for two and a half years.

As for wealth, Hua Yuhan, who had never worried about money, experienced despair for the first time. It had always been her family throwing money at people! But this time, they were almost buried alive by a mountain of money, losing even the courage to keep fighting.

"Not a trace!" Over the past month, Hua Ye had exploited all his resources to investigate Zhang Menglong's background. He not only failed to find any information but even received a warning from the leader of Longxia!

The captain of Longxia never cared for such matters. It was said that after the Martial God had broken through to the Heavenly Human Realm recently, he was also crazily searching for ways to break through further, barely engaging in the affairs of Longxia. Why would he bother with these petty fights between kids?

His personal warning clearly meant something very different.

"Could it be that Zhang Menglong is from an Ancient Martial Arts Family?" Hua Ye was certain that Zhang Menglong had no connection with Longxia; otherwise, it would be impossible for him to find no information whatsoever.

Only someone from an Ancient Martial Arts Family could make the boss of Longxia cautious, as Longxia had no influence over the Ancient Martial Arts World. However, he had never heard of any major family with the surname Zhang in the Ancient Martial Arts World.

"Brother, it's the final debut performance. I don't want to be Lu Yiyao's background anymore!" Hua Yuhan's words were filled with grievance and resentment. Since the beginning of the competition, she believed she would be the most dazzling star, but in the past two months, she had been completely outshined by Lu Yiyao.

"Don't worry. In the final competition, no external help is allowed. It will be a solo stage for individuals. Besides instruments, nothing else can be used. Even if he is extremely wealthy, he can't surpass the limits of the instruments themselves, right?" Hua Ye said confidently.

For example, if you choose to sing and play the piano, even the most top-level piano is only worth a few million at most. Even if you are extremely wealthy, you need to be able to buy a more expensive piano!

Even if it were encrusted with diamonds, as long as Zhang Menglong could afford it, he, Hua Ye, could afford it too!

"Brother, what have you prepared?" Hua Yuhan asked curiously.

"Hehe, haven't you been learning the piano and violin since you were young?" Hua Ye said, "Then you'll perform a solo show. I've got you the most unique piano and a one-of-a-kind violin!"

"What?"

"I've already sent it to your personal practice room. You can go take a look!" Hua Ye said mysteriously.

Hua Yuhan immediately ran to the practice room with great excitement. A car was parked downstairs, and several staff members were working hard to carry down a piano.

"A Steinway grand piano?" Hua Yuhan asked. Unless it was a piano made of diamonds, this was the ceiling of what a piano could be. And even if a piano were really made out of diamonds, the resonance of the diamonds would not allow it to produce a pleasant sound.

"Hahaha, if it was just a mere Steinway grand piano, it wouldn't be worthy of your final stage," Hua Ye said. "Lift the cover and see for yourself."

Hua Yuhan curiously uncovered the cloth, revealing an old, and even slightly decayed piano. She was quite baffled—her brother actually prepared a broken piano for her?

Just as she was about to complain and lose her temper, her eyes suddenly caught a string of text on the piano's triangular support.

It was an engraved name.

"Beet... Beethoven? This is Beethoven's piano?!" Hua Yuhan exclaimed in surprise.

Known as a household name, the music master Beethoven had owned seven pianos in his lifetime, six of which had been collected by the national museums. One Graf, however, had gone missing in 1847.

If she remembered correctly, this was that very Graf piano! And it was actually in her brother's possession!

"How do you like it?" asked Hua Ye indulgently.

"I love it!" Hua Yuhan couldn't hide the joy in her eyes, "This thing must have cost a lot of money, right?"

This piano represented not only the top-level craftsmanship of that era but also symbolized art and history.

"I bought it from an auction last year for 27.5 million US dollars. It was originally intended as your birthday gift for this year, hoping it can help you achieve good results."

Hua Ye continued, "I had several craftsmen restore it, and its sound quality is absolutely top-level!"

"And this violin," Hua Ye continued, "the violin once used by Heifetz! I believe Zhang Menglong could buy more expensive violins, but definitely not one more valuable than this! This time, in terms of hardware, we will absolutely not lose to them!"

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"Oh, is that so?" Zhang Menglong listened to Hong Yi's report, "Beethoven's piano and Heifetz's violin—those Hua siblings really are sparing no expense!"

"Yes, both of these instruments are worth several tens of millions of US dollars. If they appear on stage, they will surely cause quite a stir. They've calculated this quite well."

"Is there a better violin?" Zhang Menglong asked, they absolutely couldn't lose in this aspect!

"The four pianos used by Chopin, Liszt's three pianos, the two violins used by Paganini, Mozart's piano... they are all here with you," Hong Yi reported a list that contained over a hundred instruments from the great music masters.

"But in terms of historical and artistic value, they're all about the same. This time the stage is a solo stage and we can't win with quantity, so there probably won't be much of a contrasting effect," Hong Yi said truthfully.

"So are we just going to be surpassed like that?" The order of the final competition placed Lu Yiyao following Hua Yuhan. Even if both of their equipment had such sensational effects, it would be greatly diminished after Hua Yuhan's first performance.

"Mr. Zhang, to win, we don't necessarily need Western instruments," Hong Yi said with a smile, "Our Huaxia's guqin is no less inferior to theirs!"

"A guqin? Isn't it unsuitable for playing and singing?"

"An ordinary guqin, of course, wouldn't suffice, but what about the Fuxi Qin?"

"What… what? The Fuxi Qin?" Zhang Menglong was momentarily dumbstruck. Wasn't that a divine artifact, on par with the Donghuang Clock and Xuanyuan Sword, from the legends? And it actually existed?

Why did it seem like the whole style had suddenly changed?

"You may not know, but while the Fuxi Qin is indeed a divine artifact, it is also a miraculous musical instrument. It can control people's emotions with its melodies. It's a creation of your ancestors," Hong Yi said with a smile, "Compared to the Fuxi Qin, Beethoven's piano is nothing!"