Chapter Sixty-Eight: Another Palace Banquet
I came to the side of the proud sons of this time and space with Gonggong Li, there are many warblers and Yanyan around them like flowers, the two sisters Xuanyuan Fengran and Xuanyuan Yuran who have not seen each other for many years are also there, even the young Xuanyuan Jiaran is also like a villain, staring at me with a curious face, I looked up at Xuanyuan Yan, he was smiling and taking the wine handed by Gongsun Ruiyan next to him, the two looked at each other and smiled at each other to see my heart sour, a huge harem, leaving her alone, Maybe Xuanyuan Yan has her in her heart, I don't want to think about it anymore, but I still can't help but stop my eyes on the two of them again and again, Gongsun Ruiyan smiled at me, there was no longer the previous mockery and ridicule in his eyes, and the gentle and indisputable simple smile made me start to wonder, could it be that I was wrong before, wasn't the woman in the garden not long ago the one in front of me? Or is she suddenly losing her mind at the moment?
All kinds of eyes around me make me uncomfortable, I'm sure it's not my own suspicion, the two sisters laughed at me in a particularly obvious way, there are also many ministers secretly looking at me and whispering, at this time, my father and brothers' minds are on wine and singing, no one cares about my isolation and helplessness, maybe the men's minds will be like this, before I enter the palace in the afternoon, Ah Shuang also told me, no matter what troubles I encounter, I must not be greedy anymore, drinking too much wine is going to hurt my body, look, The only one who really understands me is our family's Ah Shuang, no matter how much my brother and father love me, they are still old and rough after all, how can they understand the delicate thoughts of our daughter's family.
I looked up at my father with a little dissatisfaction, but I was facing Xuanyuan Yan's smiling eyes, but the smile was not because of me, nor was it aimed at me, I hurriedly looked away, and I didn't dare to face the scene of him and Gongsun Ruiyan looking at each other and laughing, maybe I was really a failure, or wine is a good thing, I didn't care about Ah Shuang's repeated advice, raised the wine glass on the table and drank it all.
"My sister is so drunk, the song of my sister on my father's birthday two years ago was shocking, I wonder if we are still blessed to be able to smell my sister's singing this year?" Xuanyuan Fengran asked with a chuckle.
Yes, two years ago, at my father's birthday banquet, I sang a song of drunken concubines with the strength of wine, and what she said about the exclamation of the four seats must not be that everyone was impressed by my singing, but was shocked by my lyrics, what a naked lamenting love song, my behavior must have made these famous families despised, right?
Hearing her words, there were more eyes on me in all directions, and even Xuanyuan Yan, who hadn't looked at me for a long time, looked at me with an indifferent face, I don't know what his indifference represented, maybe it caused him a bad memory, after all, I was crazy after drinking that night and made him lose control of his emotions. My father and third brother looked at me with a look of hope, and they really expected me to bring them some natural sounds. The eldest brother smiled and looked like he was out of the way.
"What? My sister refuses? Xuanyuan Fengran looked at me who was looking around but ignored her, and asked unwillingly.
"Sister Fengran, why bother Sister Anping, if my sister doesn't dislike it, it's good for Ruiyan to sing a song for everyone?" Gongsun Ruiyan interceded for me with a kind-hearted appearance, and all the people who looked at her around were praise, and Xuanyuan Yan was no exception.
"If you want to sing, you can just sing it, why use me as an excuse." I know that saying this can only make everyone more disgusted with me, but doing human things with my tail between my legs, I can't do it in this situation, and I can't do it in front of Xuanyuan Yan.
Sure enough, after listening to my words, even my father cast a faint dissatisfaction in my father's gaze at me, look, annoyed, I was also forced to be helpless.
"Gonggong Li, please send someone to my house to help me get the dance costumes, I will dance a dance for everyone," I turned my head to the little Li Zi beside my father and ordered, "If you want to sing, just go, anyway, if you are idle at the moment, you are idle, and then don't call me a sister, I don't have a sister like you, I am An Ping Nianzhi, I have a name and a surname, why bother with me." I said to Gongsun Ruiyan with a kind face.
I saw that her face was pale for a while, probably because I was very angry, but she quickly looked at me with a look of grievance, and looked helplessly at Xuanyuan Yan beside her, so that anyone who saw it would be soft and distressed, let her continue to do the play, just now the sentence "I am Anping Nianzhi" made me suddenly get back to the feeling of childhood, I have said such things to many people, father, brother, uncle, father... At that time, I was confident and naïve, ignorant and fearless, at this time I seemed to have the momentum of the year, I am Anping Nianzhi, the unique Anping Nianzhi, I don't want to be afraid of myself, resentful Ai Ai, I don't want to.
"Why is Nian'er becoming more and more rude." Father said with a straight face, "But since it's okay, it's okay for you to go and sing a song." He turned to Gongsun Ruiyan and said kindly.
"Yes, Father." Gongsun Ruiyan agreed with a well-behaved face, turned around and walked to the center of the stage.
Her piano and singing voice are also moving, with a kind and weak appearance and a soft and touching singing voice, I can't stand the intoxication of everyone, so I got up and left the table and walked to the palace gate.
Gonggong Li sent someone to fetch my dance costume, it is a Latin dance costume in the depths of my memory, I came up with it specifically for the business of the brothel, I also carefully choreographed the solo Latin dance, but I haven't had time to teach it to the sisters in the brothel, but I have to use it here first, maybe they can't appreciate my dress like this, let alone accept my passionate and unrestrained dancing, but so what? It's what they want to see, I just just show what I'm good at and what I like, and I seem to be back to the peaceful thoughts of my youth.
I ordered someone to take away some of the palace lamps on the stage, I don't want them to see my naked body too clearly, it's not that I can't let go, but I'm afraid that before I start dancing, someone will rush up and scold me for being immoral, I changed my clothes and stood on the stage, in the hazy light, the jewels on the clothes sparkled with the dancing of my body, and the crisp copper bells also rang with the twisting of my waist, I sneered at the righteous gentlemen in the audience who were intoxicated, they didn't care about accusing me and laughing at me at this time, His eyes just followed me hard, wanting to look more closely in the dim light, for fear that the doppelganger would miss any of my movements in the blink of an eye. Latin is originally a dance that expresses the love between men and women, although I omitted the dance partner and adapted it into a simpler solo dance, but my eyes and my movements can still convey the original passion and lingering of Latin dance, I did not shy away from looking at Xuanyuanyan, I wanted to tell him my fiery, my uniqueness, I wanted him to know that I have a heart and love.
At this moment, his eyes stayed on me, although there was no joy or anger on his face, but his eyes were full of concentration, I thought, just for his concentration, no matter what others think of me, my dance is always worth it, I am dancing for him.
The dance gradually entered the climax, but the shadow figure suddenly appeared next to Xuanyuan Yan like a gust of wind, he whispered a few words beside Xuanyuan Yan, hurriedly glanced at me on the stage, and left in a hurry as when he came, I stared at his figure suspiciously until he disappeared completely, why did the shadow suddenly appear here? I was full of doubts, the dance after that was all instinctive reaction, my heart could no longer focus on the dance, the emotional dance was only for Xuanyuan Yan's mind was disturbed by the sudden appearance of the shadow.