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Chapter 209: Hu Nu Landuo, Marquis of Zhongsu

Not only Emperor Shou, but everyone also has the same idea in their hearts. The beautiful woman knelt there, her hands still clasped tightly around her waist, apparently afraid that the contents of her arms would fall again. What is so important that she doesn't even care about her name and hides this thing?

Emperor Shou's gaze swept sternly over the dancing girls who were kneeling on the ground, and finally landed on the dancing girls, and the majestic voice sounded: "You, raise your head." ”

The woman raised her head slowly, and the face that obviously did not belong to the Central Plains was so beautiful that it made people gasp and make people feel frightened.

"What's your name?" asked Emperor Shou.

The dancing girl trembled, trembling like chaff, tilting her head and looking incomprehensible. The dancing girl next to her hurriedly whispered to remind her, but she still didn't answer, just looked around like a deer with a pair of eyes, not knowing what she was looking for.

Emperor Shou was helpless, so he had to ask Xie Anyang behind him.

Xie Anyang didn't know either, so he quickly went to pass a palace person over, who was the chief steward of Zhangle. The Commander-in-Chief only glanced at it, and quickly explained the woman's origins: "Back to Your Majesty, she is a recent Kabuki named Marandot. Marando came from outside the Seychelles, and because his voice was like a natural sound and dancing like water, he was selected by the Kyoto song and dance studio to send to the palace. ”

"Which song and dance studio?" asked Mei Xiangrong with a frown.

The consul general thought for a while and said affirmatively: "It's in the Swallow Building on Qingping Street." ”

Xie Anyang whispered a few words, and the general understood the idea, and immediately asked people to go out of the palace to find the old bustard in the swallow building.

Emperor Shou understood on the side, and heard that this woman was selected by the song and dance workshop outside the palace, and he was also a little surprised, this woman couldn't even understand the language of the Central Plains, how did she come to Dawei from outside the palace?

He was a little interested, and asked with a pleasant face, "What are you holding in your arms?"

The woman's face was inexplicable, obviously very confused by Emperor Shou's words, and she replied in a low voice, her voice was soft and crisp, but no one knew what she was talking about.

Mei Xiangrong turned to Mei Ruanyi beside him, and saw a smile on the corner of Mei Ruanyi's mouth, knowing that this son was away all the year round and had learned a lot, so he might be able to communicate with this woman, so he immediately asked, "Ruan Yi, do you understand what she says?"

"She's talking nonsense. Mei Ruanyi smiled: "My son can understand." ”

Mei Xiangrong got this sentence and immediately stood up: "Your Majesty, the minister's son has traveled around, and he may be able to understand this woman's words, so it is better to let Ruan Yi be a translator, and if Your Majesty has anything you want to ask, you can ask directly." ”

Emperor Shou was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked Mei Ruanyi to come out and answer questions on his behalf.

Mei Ruan Yi answered yes, turned her head, looked at the woman with a gentle smile, and asked Emperor Shou the question just now in the same nonsense as her, and asked her why she came to Dawei.

The woman replied in Hu: "My name is Marando, and I am from Udan." Marando's hometown is called Socrates, which means the lake of the gods. We Udan people have a tradition that every three years, the patriarch will hold a pearl meeting on the shore of Lake Sogra, select the holy women, and send them to Lake Sogra to worship the gods. The family of the chosen saint will receive preferential treatment and respect from the whole clan, which is the supreme honor. I grew up on the shores of Lake Socrates, with my father, mother, and third brother. My father was very strict, and we Socrates girls learned to dance from a very young age, and by the time they were fifteen years old, they were eligible for the selection of saints. I was fifteen years old last year, and my beauty is well-known in the clan, and everyone said that this time I was the only one to be selected as a saint. My father was very happy, but my mother cried quietly all day long, and she was reluctant to let me go, afraid that I would never return. I think the same way, I heard that none of the saints who were sacrificed to the gods came back alive, and I should not follow in their footsteps!"

Ma Landuo said as she spoke, Mei Ruanyi translated it as she spoke, and it was quiet in the Zhonghe Hall, only the voices of the two of them sounded.

These things were unbelievable, everyone listened to them with great interest, and Marando stopped halfway, and someone urged: "And then?"

Marando paused and continued: "My mother is very fond of me, and she knows that I am likely to be chosen as a saint, so she quietly plans how to help me get out of this fate. My mother knew a man from the Central Plains, and said that he was a very powerful man in the east, and as long as I could escape to Xingyang, the people of the clan would never look for me again. So, the day before the selection of saints began, I rolled up my baggage overnight and set off from Saiwai with the tokens my mother gave me and came to Dawei. ”

Marando grew up outside the Saiwai, and this journey can be described as very difficult.

The desert yellow sand, stretching for thousands of miles, when she left home, she only took a little possessions with her, and rode a camel all the way east. If you hadn't grown up outside the desert, I'm afraid you would have been lost in the desert and trapped in the endless desert. Along the way, she hid behind the sand dunes to sleep when she was sleepy, and ate dry food hard cakes and nibbled on a few bites of dried mutton when she was hungry. After walking most of the distance, she finally met a convoy that was willing to take her for a ride, and then she came to Dawei.

finally arrived at Dawei, and as soon as he entered the city gate, Ma Landuo was dumbfounded.

Da Wei is the same as his mother described, with high walls and glazed tiles, which is very beautiful. She was almost stunned, she never expected that Dawei was not only prosperous, but also different from the sinister outside the Saiwai.

Shortly after entering the city gate, Malando accidentally lost the only bit of silver on his body, and the only useful thing in his hand was a portrait given by his mother. Her mother told her that when she arrived in the capital, she would come to find someone with the portrait and tokens.

However, Xingyang was so big that she searched for more than a month, and even the last bit of silver was spent.

In desperation, she happened to hear a few coincidental villagers talk about it, saying that the swallow building on Qingping Street was recruiting dancing girls, not selling her body, but only performing arts, and the remuneration was very high for each show. She is an expert in singing and dancing, and she was very moved to hear it, and immediately decided to go to the Swallow Tower on Qingping Street to ask.

There was no suspense in everything, although she couldn't understand it, but the villagers around her understood that she and her fellow villagers stayed.

Because of her beautiful appearance and moving dancing, soon, her fame began in Xingyang, and even the princes came to see her performance.

Later, the music workshop in the palace entered the palace in a big way, and the old bustard wanted to follow the example of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and there was another Mrs. Li, so he sent her to the palace.

After entering the palace, she was panicked in the capital, and felt that this kind of life could not last long after all, and she became more and more eager to find the person her mother said, and she was even more nervous about the portrait of that person and her mother's token, and never left her body.

Mei Ruan Yi listened interestingly: "Speaking of which, you came to the capital to get rid of the fate of becoming a saint?"

"Yes!" said the woman without hesitation.

Mei Ruanyi frowned slightly, and suddenly stared at her eyes, Ma Landuo looked inexplicable, and stared at him in surprise.

Mei Ruanyi smiled: "Today's people in this palace are all big people, any one of them can help you find the person you are looking for." Why don't you show me the little statue, your mother said that the man is very powerful, maybe I know him. ”

Ma Landuo hesitated for a while, but Mei Ruanyi's smile was soft and elegant, which was really hard to refuse.

She hesitated for a while, and finally took out the letter in her arms, carefully pulled out one of the portraits inside, and handed it to Mei Ruanyi.

Mei Ruanyi only glanced at it, and the smile on her face became a little uncomfortable.

He looked up at the people in the field, his eyes fell on one of them, he didn't say anything, and handed the small statue to Xie Anyang, Xie Anyang held the small statue, walked up the steps quickly and handed it to Emperor Shou.

Emperor Shou opened it with a smile, first laughed, but laughed and smiled, and his smile sank suddenly.

It took a long time before he put down the small statue in his hand and turned to Fu Xingjian expressionlessly: "Fu Qing, why don't I know, you also have a relationship with the Saiwaihu people? Look at this painting." ”

Xie Anyang held the statue in front of Fu Xingjian and handed it to Fu Xingjian.

Fu Xingjian's face turned pale the moment Emperor Shou said those words, and he tried to suppress his nervousness before he picked up the thin booklet without fear. When I opened the first page of the booklet, I was amazed by my youthful face. The bearded girl in front of you is actually looking for herself?

He focused his gaze on Marando, and when he looked closely, cold sweat suddenly broke out on his back.

Why didn't you notice that this little girl looks so similar to that person?

He didn't dare to speak, and organized the language for a while before he said: "Your Majesty, have you forgotten that the minister also led troops to garrison the northwest back then. At that time, he often led the army to the Saiwai expedition, I am afraid that I have given some favors and promised something, and the ministers have forgotten it, and people will not forget it!"

There is some truth in this, Emperor Shou was noncommittal, but his eyes showed disbelief: "So, you don't recognize this Hu girl?"

"No...... I don't know. Fu Xingjian said stiffly.

Emperor Shou glanced at him and closed his eyes, and at this moment, the last trace of trust in Fu Xingjian was gone. It's not a day or two to know Fu Xingjian, what kind of temperament does this person have, Emperor Shou probably still knows it very well, the more he completely denies it, the more he has a ghost in his heart, with Fu Xingjian's temper, if he really doesn't know a person at all, he will only say half and leave half, so that people can't figure out the truth or falsehood.

"Since Fu Qing doesn't know him, this woman lost her honor in front of the palace, collided with me and the ladies of the palace, and pulled out the cane to kill!"

These words made Fu Xingjian's heart tremble, and he suddenly raised his head, and his eyes were a little red.

He opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything.

Ma Landuo looked at Emperor Shou, and then at Fu Xingjian, she didn't understand it in her heart, and she felt a little strange, she tilted her head, and tentatively asked in half-baked Central Plains official dialect: "You...... Are you the general on Sunset Mountain? Do you remember the princess Pingle who you swore to be willing to lose her head for her?"