A quarter of an hour ago-

Ning Jiang and Gan Yushu sat on the veranda of a pavilion, drinking and chatting, and generally watched the opera on the high platform in the distance.

Below them, there are several rockeries, a small river, and two stone pavilions. In the past, it was the guests invited by the prince of Lu Zhong and the princess of the county tonight, and there were quite a few people. Purple belt, phoenix crown, gold and jade belt...... It can be said that it is not obvious or expensive.

Gan Yushu was not among the "guests" tonight, the princess of the county was originally his aunt, for the palace of Lu Zhongjun, he was considered his own family, so naturally he didn't need any invitations, so he directly brought Ning Jiang in.

Ning Jiang looked at the crowd in the distance, where Qimeng was, it had been blocked by the curtain, and she was naturally not visible here.

"If the young man doesn't work hard, the boss will be sad!" Gan Yushu held the wine glass and said, "Just because of your sentence Brother Ningjiang, I have not been preached by my father, and until now, this 'famous saying' of yours is still posted in my study." ”

Ning Jiang smiled: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" ”

Gan Yushu said: "I don't think you look like you're sorry!" ”

Ning Jiang drank the wine and said, "If the young man doesn't work hard, the boss will be sad...... That's the right nonsense! If preaching is useful, then there is no need to preach; If preaching is useless, then what is the use? ”

Then he smiled and said: "Actually, I have really admired Brother Gan for a long time, and I have the ability and courage to play Wenqi in the land of Fengyue, for hundreds of years, I am afraid that you are the only one, Brother Gan." ”

Gan Yushu snorted: "What is that? The pleasure of having a boudoir is even more than that. ”

Ning Jiang smiled and said, "What does Brother Gan think of Wenqi? ”

Gan Yushu looked up at the bright moon in the night sky: "That's right...... What exactly is Wenqi? Everyone says that it is the spirit of a saint and the righteousness of a man. However, since I was a child, I have seen many sanctimonious hypocrites, who keep saying that they are all righteous and saints, but what they do behind the scenes is worse than thieves and prostitutes. In other words, the thieves of chickens and dogs still know that 'thieves also have a way', and most of the Qinglou women who have a little red lips are also helpless in their lowly status. However, those who said that the great Confucians, celebrities, Qingliu, and Confucian generals who kept their mouths shut up and sages, for the sake of a word of power and a word for money, what they did secretly were not as good as these thieves and prostitutes. Thieves harm one person and one family at most a day, prostitutes practice themselves, make people laugh, how can they wave their hands to seize thousands of acres of fertile land, and kill tens of thousands of hungry people with a single order? ”

Ning Jiang looked up at him: "Brother Gan seems to be very touched?" ”

Gan Yushu sighed: "When I was a year old, I went to Longyan Lake with the army......

Ning Jiang began to understand why Gan Yushu was different from others.

Don't be an An An starvation, especially a praying mantis...... In the final analysis, last year's Longyan Lake Rebellion was all about those displaced people who were robbed of their land and couldn't survive. Either he starved to death, or he was crushed to pieces like a praying mantis in front of the wheel called the "Imperial Court", and then became the merit of many and the lord of many people.

The difference between Gan Yushu and others is that every civil official and Confucian general in the court knows that the sage book is just a stepping stone for them to step on "power" and "money", and Gan Yushu really takes the sage book to see those "struggling mantises" who can't survive, and then has questions, or ...... He is the real one who reads the books of the sages and is stupid.

While he was pondering, Gan Yushu laughed and said, "I shouldn't have told you this, come, let's drink!" ”

Ning Jiang said with a smile: "Actually, Brother Gan asked a good question, and his tone was ...... What is it? ”

Gan Yushu raised his head and looked at Ning Jiang: "Could it be that Brother Ning knows?" ”

Ning Jiang smiled, didn't speak, and looked at the stage in the distance. On the stage, the lanterns floated slowly, and the streamer spread out on the stage like silver moonlight. Seven sword-wielding women, like starlight emerging one by one in the night sky, drew their swords and danced.

The silver light gathered in the most perfect way of design, condensed on the body of a young girl, and seven women wielding swords, like seven stars with the moon, swirled around the beautiful woman. This short opening has already made all the audience under the audience hold their breath. The girl like the bright moon, dressed in neon clothes, like a jade tree Qionghua, was set off to the extreme beauty, suddenly pulled out the sword, galloping, shocking and glamorous, every movement is like a dream, like a painting.

That girl turned out to be the spring note Li who asked Ningjiang for poetry the day before yesterday, the sword light was by her side, reflecting the surrounding lights, blooming like a full moon, as if there was a moon in the sky and a moon on the ground, and she was the Chang'e in the moon. Although he knew that this was the effect caused by the refraction of the lanterns, even Ning Jiang had to marvel at such an ingenious design and the beautiful sword dance of Chun Jianli.

He said with a smile: "It seems that Meiyutai can be famous in Jinghua, and it is also ...... Brother Gan, what's wrong with you? ”

I saw Gan Yushu holding a wine glass, looking at Chun Jianli on the stage in the distance, and the seven dancers beside her, and was stunned for a while......

Yue Mingmei and other female disciples helped Duan Shisanniang back to the courtyard. Xiao Meng looked at it, and saw that everyone was comforting Duan Sanniang, but they were also at a loss, completely unsure of what to do, or in other words, completely unbelievable.

"Why is this happening?" "What the hell is going on?" "Could it be...... Is it ......"......

"Sister Mingmei, what happened?" Xiao Meng looked at Yue Mingmei puzzled.

"Seven Stars Neon Dress Sword Dance," Yue Mingmei's face turned pale, "Chun Jianli and Mei Yutai are performing on stage now...... It is the Seven Stars Neon Sword Dance of our Liuxia Sword Pavilion. ”

Xiaomeng was shocked: "You mean ......"

"But this is impossible," Yue Mingmei muttered, "The 'Seven Stars Neon Clothes Sword Dance' is very secret from the beginning of the design to the final formation, except for the master and the seven sisters who participated in the sword dance, as well as the Gan Yu Shu Gan Gongzi who helped the master design together, no one else knows, even we only saw the whole picture during the last rehearsal last night." ”

On the side of the eyebrows, if you can dance the Seven Stars Neon Sword Dance completely, it will never be leaked out last night, otherwise you won't even have time to practice. In other words, from the initial conception and design, to the continuous modification in the middle, there are always people who are revealing to Meiyutai.

Duan Sanniang, who was relieved, sat up in the support of everyone, looked at the female disciples around her blankly, and suddenly her pupils shrank: "What about Xuehuai?" Where is the snow locust? ”

Yue Mingmei and the others looked around in astonishment, only to find that the senior sister Zhao Xuehuai, who was still with them just now, had lost her trace at this moment, and the surprised women scattered to look for it, but they couldn't find it. Duan Shisanniang squirted another mouthful of blood, and was depressed for a while, it was possible to betray her and secretly reveal the "Seven Star Neon Dress Sword Dance" to Mei Yutai, it could only be one of the seven female disciples beside her, although she couldn't believe that among the seven people who had been with her for so long, someone would betray herself, but this was the case, she couldn't believe it or not.

Xiaomeng said in surprise: "Mei Yutai stole Thirteen Niang's sword dance? Well, if we do the same sword dance on our side...... What will happen? Even if she didn't have any experience, she knew it was bad.

Yue Mingmei said in a low voice: "Even if you don't consider other issues, the eyebrows are before us, everyone has seen them fresh and amazing, and when we perform again, we will become imitators." What's more, if they stole our ideas from the start, they could have made further changes on that basis, maybe even better than ours. ”

Xiao Meng hurriedly said: "Then tell everyone clearly, let everyone know that Mei Yutai stole Thirteen Niang's sword dance......"

The other women were also indignant, some said that they would go to the police, and some said that they would ask the people outside to uphold justice.

Duan Sanniang let out a long sigh: "It's useless...... Since Mei Feitai dares to do this, he must not be afraid of us suing the official. We have no evidence to see if they stole ours or if we stole them. Xue Huai has been hidden by them, and if she really wants to make trouble, maybe she will help Mei Yutai to slander us, saying that we have stolen Mei Yutai's sword dance. ”

While speaking, two people outside strode in, and Xiaomeng said, "Brother......"

The two people who walked in were Gan Yushu and Ning Jiang. Gan Yushu said: "Thirteen Niang, why is the 'Seven Star Neon Dress Sword Dance' used by Chun Jianli and Mei Yutai?" ”

Duan Sanniang lost her soul: "Xuehuai...... I'm afraid that Xue Huai was bought by Meiyutai! ”

The female disciples looked at each other, and Duan Sanniang herself was at a loss. Gan Yushu paced two steps, but he could only sigh, and he couldn't find an effective way for a while. The matter was big, and the Meiyutai side had already prepared, and Liuxia Sword Pavilion hurriedly responded. Swallow your anger, the next sword dance, will you act or not?

If you act, the eyebrows are in front and they are in the back, once they plagiarize the eyebrows, they will immediately be ruined. If they don't act, it will be tantamount to automatically admitting defeat, not only offending the old county king and the old county princess Lu Zhong who invited them, but also becoming a laughing stock in the capital, and the prestige of Duan Sanniang and Liuxia Sword Pavilion will plummet.

While waiting like ants on the hot pot, the sword dance outside had ended, and there was loud applause in the garden. Next, it was supposed to be the Liuxia Sword Pavilion on stage to arrange props, and everyone looked at Duan Sanniang, Duan Sanniang covered her chest with her hands, and she had angina pectoris, but she didn't know what to do at all.

The hard work and hard work made in these days, I am really unwilling to give up like this, especially when I think of the demonstration that Chun Jianli came over just now, I just intended to see their jokes, and I thought of the rampant behavior of Chun Jianli and Meiyutai next, how could I not accept such a result. But if they don't give up, what else can they do?

Those female disciples who were at a loss for what to do were secretly sobbing, and the atmosphere in the entire courtyard was depressed to the peak.

A housekeeper came to urge them to hurry up and get on stage.

Gan Yushu sighed: "There should be other theater troupes that are ready, but don't have the opportunity to go on stage, I'll go talk to my uncle and see if I can insert one temporarily." Turning around and stepping out, after a while, music sounded outside, and Gan Yushu hurriedly walked in: "It's done...... It's just that this can only drag on for a maximum of two quarters of an hour. ”

For a night banquet like this, it is natural to call one or two more pear orchards and opera troupes to prepare offstage, according to the normal progress, these pear orchards and opera troupes as spare ones originally had no chance to go on stage, but now Gan Yushu has to use his relationship in the county king's mansion to let one of them go to make up the number first.

Despite this, there was already a commotion outside, originally everyone was waiting to see the sword dance dispute between Duan Shisanniang and Chun Jianli, but between the two sword dances, another one was suddenly inserted, and some careful people naturally thought, could it be that something went wrong with the Liuxia Sword Pavilion?

Between the curtains in the distance of the high platform, the old princess Lu Zhong picked up the list in her hand suspiciously, looked left and right, and called a maid over and asked her to ask on the other side. In a few moments, the maid would come to her side and whisper in her ear. The old princess shook her head and said, "It's that kid from Yushu again, what kind of fame is he doing?" Since it was her nephew who arranged it behind her back, she didn't ask.

The eldest princess Luanmei sat next to the old princess and looked at the list in the old princess's hand curiously. The old princess smiled: "It's about a little basket in the layout of the stage, and my nephew has already dealt with it." ”

In the courtyard at the other end, with the help of the dancing girls around her, Chun Jianli took off her neon dress, put on her bright red clothes, picked up the sword and inserted it at her waist, and stepped out of the courtyard surrounded by all the dancing girls...... See what you can do now.

If Liuxia Sword Pavilion retreats in the face of difficulties, it will be suppressed by the eyebrows, and it will never be able to turn over. If they have to make a big deal out of it, it will be even more contrary to her wishes, and soon, the "human evidence" and "physical evidence" that Liuxia Sword Pavilion has embezzled and plagiarized the ideas of Meiyutai will be turned out one by one, and Duan Sanniang will be ruined.

No matter how the other side chooses, their side wins!!

At this time, the female disciples of the Liuxia Sword Pavilion were anxious and uneasy, and they were at a loss as time passed little by little.

Duan Sanniang knew that her youth had passed, and the sword dance was suppressed by Chun Jianli, which was a loser, making things bigger, and even more losing, and she was blocked in her heart in one breath, and she couldn't breathe.

Yue Mingmei and other female disciples hurriedly helped her stroke her back, comforting her while crying silently.

Xiaomeng looked sad, turned his head and said, "Brother, is there a way to help them?" "Little Dream, who worships his brother very much, already treats his brother as a fairy a little.