This banquet is indeed fresh, the first time to adopt this kind of meal system, around the side of eating and chatting, the atmosphere is very warm, and it is also a large round table that can be turned, the dishes are rich and delicious, almost every dish is delicious, so not only Qin Shi Huang, several sons of the banquet at the same table are all eaten, one by one leaning on the back of the chair without an image of rubbing their belly, the princess and princess in the restaurant next to them are all full of food and drink, and the cheeks of wine are red.

"Your Majesty, you can go and play mahjong with a few imperial concubines, and go to the theater to arrange for a dance drama!" After accompanying Qin Shihuang to drink a cup of tea after dinner, Chen Xu stood up and said.

"Qinghe Hou, please!" Qin Shi Huang smiled and went to play mahjong with a teacup.

Chen Xu exited the room, took a few deep breaths, and was much clearer after being stimulated by the cold, and then strode out of the Purple Qi Donglai Pavilion to go to the Qinghe Theater.

"Qinghe Hou, wait for me!" A soft, clear voice came from behind him.

Chen Xu didn't need to look back to know that it was Princess Huayu, so he had to stand and turn around to salute: "Meet the fifth princess!" ”

Although it was a cold winter, Ying Shiyan was wearing a relatively thin and slim skirt, and a snow-white mink coat was covered outside, with red lips and white teeth and red cheeks, and a slightly shy look that looked Chu Chu and moving, seeing Chen Xu saluting her again, she hurriedly turned sideways and said, "Why has the Marquis of Qinghe always been so polite to Shiyan?" ”

"The princess said that she laughed, Xu is just a mountain village husband, the princess is a royal daughter, so the minister must naturally be polite!" Chen Xu said respectfully.

"You...... Can't you treat me like a normal friend? Shi Yan can rarely come out in the palace, and there is only one friend of you, Qinghehou, Shi Yan doesn't want you to be so polite to me! It's good to be normal, and even like a maid, Shiyan is very happy! Ying Shiyan looked at Chen Xu with a pair of big eyes and whispered.

"Does the princess really think so?"

"Naturally, Shi Yan admires the Marquis of Qinghe very much, and hopes that the Marquis of Qinghe and Shi Yan will not be so estranged!" Ying Shiyan nodded slightly.

"Alright then!" Chen Xu smiled and said, "Is there something wrong with the princess coming to me?" ”

"It's not something, Shi Yan just wants to meet with Qinghe Hou and talk alone!" Ying Shiyan didn't twist too much, and looked at Chen Xu while speaking, with some expectation in her eyes.

Chen Xu was slightly heartbroken by Ying Shiyan's words, and quickly avoided her eyes and said, "Then it just so happens that the minister is going to the theater to arrange a song and dance performance, and since the princess has nothing to do, can you go with me?" ”

"Thank you Qinghehou!" Ying Shiyan's expectant face instantly bloomed like a flower, her emotions relaxed, and she followed Chen Xu to the theater with a light gait.

"Qinghe Hou, I have practiced the italic characters last time, and I have changed many small seals to italic characters according to your index, and after showing them to a few imperial brothers, they all said that the font you improved is square and the strokes are clear, and the structure is simple, it is much easier to recognize than the seal book, and it is easy to write......"

"That's natural, italics are taken from the word model, there is a dignified meaning, horizontal and vertical, concise and clear, easier to write and identify than the seal book, if the princess has time to help me write a font comparison table of italics and small seals, after writing, I will ask Your Majesty to promote it throughout the country, if Your Majesty agrees, I will promote this book in the name of the princess, I don't know if the princess is willing!"

"Really, willingly, Shi Yan is naturally willing, I am bored in the palace every day, and I have nothing to do except play with my brothers and sisters, and when I go back today, I will have people collect all the seal characters and change them into italic comparison tables, but it will be difficult to print so many words at that time......"

"It doesn't matter, as long as Your Majesty agrees, this matter is easy, and when the time comes, I will invite the princess to be the supervisor, to ensure that the printing is exactly the same as what the princess wrote, once it is promoted, everyone will think of you as soon as they write, but I don't know if you will be renamed Princess Kaishu in the future......"

"Hee-hee, I wish it ......"

Ying Shiyan and Chen Xu were only half a foot apart, and their arms could occasionally touch each other, looking very intimate, and the maids and helpers who passed by along the way, as well as the vigilant Xuanwu guards, all looked sideways.

And Chen Xu could also smell a faint girl's body fragrance, and at the same time he was slightly drunk, and he was slightly restless in his heart, so he could only keep talking to divert his attention, and seven or eight minutes later, the two came to the theater.

This theater is five or six times larger than the theater in Wancheng, not only the venue is open, but the stage is also much larger than Wancheng.

There are hundreds of forbidden troops scattered around the theater, black-armored bows and crossbows are tightly guarded, dozens of helpers are setting and adjusting tables and chairs, arranging snacks and teacups, and some plum bamboo bonsai are placed between the stage and the front row, adding a new color to the cold winter.

The other buildings here have been renovated, but the stage is newly renovated.

The stage is not only a lot bigger, but also absorbs the advantages and disadvantages of the first generation of Wancheng Theater stage after carrying out an all-round transformation, the stage is about two meters high, all of them are made of wood and stone, the inside is empty, you can hide a lot of staff and even various pyrotechnic props, the surface of the stage also has a lot of organs that can be opened, so that many special effects are more convenient to operate during the performance, and the scenery of the stage can be moved, so that it will be more fascinating to watch.

The auditorium probably holds more than 400 people, and there is still a pergola, but the pergola has not been completely repaired, only a huge wooden frame has been built.

Chen Xu decided to wait for the pulley to be transformed into a movable roof device, and the walls on all sides would be slowly repaired.

Behind the audience seat facing the stage, there is a two-story wooden and stone structure building, because the building has a bluestone step more than one meter high, so sitting on the first floor and the second floor of several houses can clearly see the performance on the stage, this is the private room of the theater, the window is open very large, the soft seat and the stove are designed and made inside, and each room has a special helper maid to serve, you can drink tea and eat snacks while watching the play, of course, you can do something else while people are not paying attention.

The props room and dressing room behind the stage were overcrowded at this time, and dozens of actors and actresses were putting on makeup, because there was Hu Kuan, the big man who single-handedly ran the Wancheng Theater, and Shi Xuan and Bo Daocheng, two masters who were proficient in music and rhythm, and this time they also specially invited professional tailors and craftsmen to make various costumes and props, so the newly opened Qinghe Theater is fully prepared, whether it is a singer or a dancer or a musician, it is more than ten times stronger than Wancheng's.

At the beginning, all the actors in Wancheng were bought back from the slave market, and after a month of training, Chen Xu was still dissatisfied, and the most dissatisfied was the various costumes and props on the stage, which looked like a joke, simple and vulgar.

But this time, Chen Xu wants money and power, no matter what he needs, as long as he shows the waist card of the Qinghe Marquis Mansion, everything will be done properly.

Therefore, when Chen Xu came to the backstage with Ying Shiyan, although he seemed to be busy, everything was in order.

In order to make today's performance smooth sailing without the slightest fork, Chen Xu also brought Hu Kuan back from the factory to help.

Bo Daocheng is directing a team of musicians to rehearse behind the curtain, and there is a music stand in front of everyone, which looks similar to the music stand of later generations, a tripod has a wooden board on it, and there are clips on the wooden board, on which there are music scores, but these music scores are neither staves nor simple scores, but symbols that make Chen Xu completely confused, only Bo Daocheng and these musicians can understand it, fortunately, Chen Xu does not know staves, otherwise they will definitely change it.

Shi Xuan was wearing clothes that were neat and tidy, his hair was neatly combed, and he was holding a thick pan flute in his hand, and he was sitting in the corner and following the rehearsal.

"I've seen Master Hou!" Seeing Chen Xu and a beautiful little lady with luxurious appearance and good eyes walking in affectionately, everyone quickly stood up and saluted.

"Excuse me, let me introduce to you, this is Princess Huayu!" Chen Xu waved his finger and said to Ying Shiyan.

There was a burst of exclamations at the scene, and then except for Bo Daocheng and Shi Xuan, all the musicians knelt down and kowtowed.

"Look, princess, you're different from us!" Chen Xu said with a smile.

Ying Shiyan beckoned all the musicians to get up, and then whispered a little helplessly: "Shiyan doesn't want to have this identity, I don't know Qinghehou before, I only go out of the palace three or five times a year, the palace is deserted, there are no friends outside the palace, and every time I go out, a large group of guards follow, I don't know how ordinary people play, so I especially yearn to be friends with Qinghehou, so that when I am lonely and lonely, I can go out of the palace to talk to you, especially I can eat all kinds of delicious snacks and food!" ”

Chen Xu couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Ying Shiyan is a very peculiar girl he has ever seen.

Knowledgeable and straightforward, he never beats around the bush when he speaks, his mind is transparent, and there are almost no distractions, which is different from the women he saw in later generations.

In fact, not only her, but also the rude and eccentric Jiang Chuyue, the strong and cold Wang Qingsleeve, and his wife Shui Qingrou, all seem to have this kind of character, but the focus of the performance is different.

The women of the Qin Dynasty did not have too many constraints on the etiquette and law of later generations, nor did they have the norms of three obedience and four virtues, so their personalities were very straightforward, whether they were rude, cold, or gentle and gentle, they all had a natural and true atmosphere, and their words and deeds were very different from the women of later generations, including the servants in Chen Xu's mansion, they were all like this, there were high and low statuses, but there was not much difference in personality, wrong was wrong, right was right, and they couldn't do it in a pretentious state.

It's really a natural time.

Ying Shiyan showed her liking and affection for Chen Xu all the time, but Chen Xu could only vaguely pretend to be deaf and dumb and didn't know that the two-thousand-year-old civilization gap made Chen Xu instantly feel that he was a real hypocrite.

And Meng Yili Si and other hypocrites above the court are actually not hypocritical enough compared to him.

Chen Xu tried every means to kill Zhao Gao, and he didn't want to get contaminated with himself, so he found Meng Yi, and whether Meng Yi stepped on Ao Ping with one foot or took over and prepared to kill Zhao Gao, it would almost always be a very drastic method, it was for Yangmou, not like Chen Xu to design all kinds of traps.

Will Lao Tzu do this to bring Daqin's morality to ruin?