Chapter 171: Invisible Shackles
The dancer got up, looked at Zhu Qiming with an aggrieved expression, and then turned to look at He Ye, waiting for someone to come forward to make the decision for her.
Zhu Qiming didn't dare to reprimand Zhou Xiaodie, but now that the situation has changed, in order to give the dancer a head out, I am afraid that the second miss of the Zhou family will fall behind, after all, there is the queen mother standing behind Zhou Xiaodie, and in the long run, there is still her sister who will be the queen concubine in the future.
That's it, the pillow wind in the ears of the Son of Heaven is not something that anyone can afford!
All he could do was to comfort the dancer, "You just performed well, and this king has a reward." โ
Seeing that Zhu Qiming ignored Fang Cai's emergencies, the dancer guessed that Zhou Xiaodie was not small, so she glanced at Zhou Xiaodie very jealously, bowed her head and said, "Thank you, Your Royal Highness King Yue!" โ
"This young lady is a distinguished guest of His Highness?"
Zhu Qiming was about to get up and leave, He Ye suddenly approached him and bowed slightly, but his indifferent gaze fell on Zhou Xiaodie's face. He Ye came by order, obviously not wanting to insult his mission.
Zhou Xiaodie raised her neck arrogantly, and the dustless style on her face was unobstructed, "I will be ordered by the Queen Mother to make a ยทยทยทยทยทยท for King Yue Be a companion. โ
He Ye was stunned for a moment, and then put on an elegant posture, "In this way, like Miss Lu, you are a well-informed and reasonable daughter of an official eunuch?" โ
is a good He Ye, using "knowledgeable and reasonable" to satirize people's mistakes, and then moved out of Lu Xi's ballad to suppress people's heads, poking at people's sore spots!
Zhou Xiaodie knew that she was at a loss, but she was still unforgiving: "The Queen Mother has very high expectations for His Royal Highness the King of Yue, and she can't be left behind in reading and practicing martial arts. โ
"Miss, you have to take a closer look, this Sizan is a female official appointed by the emperor. These female musicians came to accompany His Royal Highness to have a good time with the emperor's holy decree, what is wrong? The young lady can be rude to the company, but she must not be disrespectful to the Son of Heaven. โ
Divine decree? I saw Lu Xiyu stunned there, speechless for a while.
"He Sizan will wait for a while, and this king will go and return."
Zhu Qiming didn't want to stay here longer, so he immediately hurried out of the main hall with Yin'er, beckoned to Mama Cui in the courtyard, and motioned for her to go back to the main hall to greet a large room of people.
Yin'er seemed to pretend to be a stomach full of grievances, raised her eyes to look around, and opened her mouth to pour bitter water: "Your Highness, the second miss of the Zhou family doesn't see much outside, after Her Royal Highness was drunk last night, the Queen Mother told her to look at Her Highness carefully, she wanted to go down to the courtyard with Her Royal Highness, and later heard that her eldest sister was going to enter the palace to meet the Queen Mother, so she returned to Xianxi Palace." Oh, she also scolded the slaves and the Quqing. โ
"Mouthy!" Mama Cui and Zhu Qiming passed by, and Chong Yin'er said.
Yin'er stuck out her tongue, and when she saw Qu Qing waving on the side hall, she smiled and said, "Your Highness, there are many noisy people in the main hall, but it is still quiet in the side hall." โ
Entering the side hall, Yin'er waited for Zhu Qiming to take a seat, and then lowered the curtain, and the light in the hall suddenly dimmed.
Zhu Qiming let his eyes adapt to the dim environment as soon as possible, and in a trance, he suddenly heard the light laughter of Qu Qing in front of him, and after a while, the thick curtain was quickly opened, and the bright candle flame suddenly leaked out.
Lu Xi ballad! As soon as Zhu Qiming's eyes lit up, he wanted to get up and run over, but the strange shape in front of him constituted a wonderful landscape, which made people can't bear to rush forward to destroy its wonderful artistic conception.
Lu Xiyu combed her hair and wore a light yellow skirt, sitting on a stool, with her back to the Jinhui screen, leaning towards the purple carved railing, and in front was a piano case. At this moment, she clasped the strings with her left hand, and rested her right hand flat on the surface of the piano, her mind seemed to be transcendent, and her eyes seemed to have exhausted the smoke waves on the pond of water on a rainy day.
If he learned to appreciate the charm of a woman from Ni Niang, then how simple is his appreciation of Lu Xiyu?
When you gaze at it, your heart is already pounding!
The sound of the piano is slow, and when you listen to it, it should be "Apricot Altar Yin". "Xingtan Yin" not only has a piano song, but also some people fill in the lyrics as a piano song. Could it be that Lu Xiyu wants to play the piano and sing?
Just when anticipation and doubts were intertwined, Lu Xiyu's tactful singing voice floated over.
"Summer goes from cold to spring and autumn, and the sunset goes down and the water flows eastward. Where are the general's war horses now, and the weeds and flowers are full of sorrow. โ
I just feel that the blend of piano and singing is just right, very pleasant to the ear.
However, Zhu Qiming's thoughts suddenly wandered out of the rhyme of the piano and flew to the north. On the east bank of the Longmen River, there was a fierce battle at the beginning of this year, and the sound of the battle still echoes very clearly in the ears, but the snow-white war horse is indeed as Lu Xi sang it, and in front of the tomb of more than 500 warriors, there must be weeds and flowers everywhere!
A bloody battle brought a short-lived peace, but many people did not think that peace was only short-lived, and everyone was happy to appreciate the appearance of the prosperous world, and he was self-anesthetized in the sound of the song, and he, the king of Yue, wanted to break free from such a situation, but unfortunately he couldn't help himself.
I don't know when the song ended, but when I looked up, I saw that Lu Xiyu's face was very soft, but the topic she mentioned obviously didn't match her face.
"I heard that you will frolic and have fun every day until you go to the domain?"
Zhu Qiming wanted to laugh and answer for a moment to avoid this topic, but the relaxed mood that had finally brewed was long gone, and the joke was difficult to say after all.
"How do you know this?"
"It has spread in both the DPRK and China, and my father has heard about it. You frolicked in the palace and made a lot of trouble, but the emperor was benevolent and did not blame you, and fulfilled your wish, and let you have fun every day. There is no shortage of people of insight in the court, and some people have come to my father to complain, saying that you ignore the internal and external troubles of the Ming Dynasty and only care about having fun. โ
Cut, rumors! Zhu Qiming doesn't want to deny or admit anything, "As the saying goes: Good wine is not afraid of deep alleys, no matter how knowledgeable the world is!" But I don't know that wine doesn't think so. โ
"What does wine think?"
"Good wine must be cellared!"
"You're a villain!" After a period of silence, Lu Xiyu covered his mouth and chuckled, his words seemed to be counting, but his eyes were full of relief, "Actually, you don't have to care about what others say, it's okay to be a prince who is content with leisure, prince, after all, you have to have some fun." The smile narrowed, and the corners of his mouth floated with disgust, "Playing and having fun with female musicians and dancers is just as you wish, and sooner or later you will have a group of beautiful women!" โ
"Hey, they're here on orders, but they're just doing what they're told! Haven't you been with me all these years, why are there so many beautiful women? โ
"Don't talk nonsense!" Lu Xiyu's reprimand seemed to be coquettish, and the smile floated out with the flow of his eyes.
At this time, Yin'er came over and touched Zhu Qiming's arm, Zhu Qiming followed Yin'er's gaze, and saw that Zhou Xiaodie had entered the hall at some point, standing at the door and staring straight at Lu Xiyu, her eyes were a little unkind.
Zhu Qiming hurriedly instructed Yin'er: "You go and call He Sizan and them, since it is dance music, it is better to put it here." โ
Zhu Qiming's voice fell, and he saw He Ye leading the group of female musicians and dancers to bow down and walk in, "Your Highness, the concubine and others have been listening outside the door for a long time. โ
He Ye walked up to Lu Xiyu's side, "I thought that Miss Lu was only outstanding in learning and good piano skills, but I didn't expect your singing voice to be so beautiful, it's really a feast for the ears!" โ
Lu Xiyu hurriedly got up and saluted, "He Si praises and praises." โ
The female musicians gathered around and began to talk about it.
"Miss Lu is really talented! With Miss Lu here, we categorically dare not show ugliness on the spot! โ
"Even if Miss Lu is not in the other courtyard, we are afraid that we will not dare to come to the other courtyard to show ugliness again. His Royal Highness King Yue can always hear Miss Lu's fairy music, how can he still listen to our vulgar tune? โ
"Please also ask Miss Lu's subordinates to be merciful and give us a bowl of rice to eat in the other courtyard!"
The dancer who danced "Lingbo Dance" secretly glared at Zhou Xiaodie, turned around and walked to Lu Xiyu with a smile and saluted, "I don't know if Miss Lu has ever practiced dancing, if she is good at dancing, then my bowl of rice is not delicious!" โ
In the midst of laughter, Yin'er and Qu Qing left Zhu Qiming and ran to Lu Xiyu's side, surrounding her left and right, looking honored.
Zhou Xiaodie obviously couldn't hold back any longer, her face sank, and she said coldly: "Whether you are talented or not, you don't count what you say, what the Queen Mother says!" โ
The hall fell silent. Lu Xiyu was obviously not used to this kind of scene full of gunpowder, and he was stunned and didn't know what to do.
Zhu Qiming gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Sister Xi Yu is the companion of this king, please be cautious." โ
Zhou Xiaodie pouted and struggled for a long time, after all, she didn't dare to contradict Zhu Qiming, turned her head to stare at Lu Xiyu, "I can't see that it is His Highness's accompaniment, it is clearly a musician!" โ
As everyone screamed in unison, Lu Xiyu's face was shocked, and tears suddenly glistened in his eyes.
It's too much! Zhu Qiming glanced at Zhou Xiaodie sharply, and his emotions instantly lost control, "This is the residence of this king, do you think it is the west wing of your house?" In addition to moving her hands and feet, she just kicks her nose and face, how can she still look like a boudoir woman? Why don't you go home and learn more rules! โ
Zhou Xiaodie's nose twitched a few times, tears fell down her eyes, she whimpered, covered her face and ran out of the door.
Zhu Qiming pointed to the female musician and dancer and said to He Ye: "Let them stay here and wait, He Sizan will go back and get busy, and this king will go to rest first." โ
Yan Bi walked a few steps, angrily lifted the curtain, stepped out of the door in one step, and caught a glimpse of Zhou Xiaodie running out of the courtyard door with tears in her eyes.
Zhu Qiming returned to the main hall, and before he could sit down, he saw Mama Cui follow in with a worried face.
"The second lady of the Zhou family dares to be here to be arrogant, most likely because the queen mother orders carefully, and she takes the queen mother's orders very seriously, so she is more serious everywhere. His Royal Highness is good, she turned her face with others without asking, in case she cried in front of the Queen Mother, Her Royal Highness would have to get into big trouble. โ
Can't you see that? The Zhou family is a chain that the queen mother intends to put on this king! Such words could never be said, so Zhu Qiming shook his head, "That's it, the matter has come to this point, it's useless to say more!" โ
looked out the window blankly, and at a glance I saw that the guards outside the courtyard gate had been replaced by brocade guards! His heart sank suddenly, and he immediately realized that staying in the courtyard and living in a simple house, playing and having fun, such a life was the only choice in front of him!
"Mama Cui, don't go to Qingning Palace again, let's live our own lives."