Chapter 34: Hundred Butterfly Dance
Three days after the good news reached Kyoto, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival.
In previous years, the Mid-Autumn Festival was a three-day holiday, and the night banquet held by the palace was also a family banquet, and officials did not participate.
But this year's Mid-Autumn Festival banquet is different from previous years, and it is destined to be extraordinary in terms of recent events, first the victory in the battle of Yinghe, and then the queen's pregnancy, which are all major events that are closely related to the lifeblood of the country.
Not only Chu Heng was happy, but the faces of the courtiers and the people were all a little happy.
No, the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chu Heng ordered a banquet in the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Guangping Palace, and all officials above the fifth grade brought their wives and children to the banquet.
This night, Ji Xuanyuan touched into Su Qingwan's room again, and in the name of teaching martial arts and guiding cultivation, he was close to the water.
The bedroom is too small to be suitable for such a big thing as martial arts, and after Ji Xuanyuan gave this reason, he took people out of the palace and into a chic courtyard.
Su Qingwan was a little worried about coming out like this, in case someone came to her in the middle of the night and found that she was not in the house, it would be bad.
"You can rest assured that I will never put you in danger." Seeing her frowning, Ji Xuanyuan said softly, and walked towards the backyard.
Su Qingwan nodded and followed him, this feeling of running out of the palace in the middle of the night to have a private meeting with him made her heart beat faster, especially when she saw A-Yuan's handsome face.
was so ignorant and dragged into the backyard by him.
Unlike what she had imagined, there were no rows of weapons and wooden stakes for her to practice, and the backyard was a large sea of fiery flowers.
Anchovy grass, the color is bright and in full swing, and the appearance is similar to the phoenix tail.
There are also more than a dozen red lanterns hanging around the courtyard, which makes this small courtyard as warm as the morning glow.
Su Qingwan stretched out her hand and gently brushed the anchovy grass in front of her, feeling the cool touch of her fingertips, she hadn't seen anchovy flowers for a long, long time.
She looked back and saw Ji Xuanyuan's eyes shining, and her eyes were full of her own appearance.
"Like it? In the future, I will practice martial arts here. The man's clear voice sounded.
Su Qingwan nodded with a smile, ran to him quickly, stood on tiptoe and pecked him lightly on the face.
Then he asked rhetorically: "Do you like it?" ”
"I like it more than I like it." Ji Xuanyuan was stunned for a moment, showed a happy smile, held it in his arms with both hands, lowered his head and slowly approached her lips.
Su Qingwan's eyes widened, her heart beat like a drum, and when his lips fell, she reached out to block her mouth, and felt the other party's wetness and body temperature on the back of her hand, as well as that touch of softness.
A tingling sensation came to my mind through the back of my hand.
She thought to herself what it would feel like if her lips met at this moment, and it looked like his lips should taste good.
Su Qingwan raised her eyes and stared at his lips.
When Ji Xuanyuan kissed the back of her hand, he subconsciously paused, and when he pulled away to see, it turned out that he was blocking it with his hand, he chuckled lightly, and bit the back of his white hand as if he was not satisfied.
felt her hand tremble, and reprimanded in a low voice:
"What a little villain."
That smell of pampering almost drowned Su Qingwan to death, how could he be so good at provoking people?
Seeing the beauty's cheeks flying, Ji Xuanyuan let go of her and coughed seriously: "I won't tease you, these days, your horse steps have been almost pierced, and today I will teach you light skills and life-saving moves." ”
After Su Qingwan twisted the soft flesh on his waist, she said, "Why is it a life-saving move, can't I learn some tricks to kill?" ”
"Only living people are qualified to kill, in other words, all the martial arts learned by everyone in this world are to save their lives, and only those with high martial arts can survive in the hands of strong enemies."
"I see."
Next, Ji Xuanyuan taught her a set of body techniques and practice skills, and showed the effect of using body techniques, so he pulled her to sit in the sea of flowers and chat.
"Spiritual power and internal force are not the same, but for us, spiritual power can be used as internal force, so we don't have to spend time learning internal strength."
Su Qingwan nodded: "Am I not practicing today?" ”
She is now accustomed to exercising all night, either practicing martial arts or meditating, practicing martial arts will make her body tired, and sleepless will make her mentally sleepy, but meditating and condensing the spiritual power of wood can just make her body return to its best state.
Ji Xuanyuan also knows this, and has never relaxed his requirements for her, sometimes as if he is treating enemies harshly.
Ji Xuanyuan said: "Rest today, don't you have a plan for tomorrow night's banquet?" Don't be too tired tonight. ”
Su Qingwan said: "If it's out of the way, it's ready." ”
"But there's one more thing I want you to help with here, and you need to keep your spirits up." Ji Xuanyuan looked at her and took out a drawing from his sleeve, "This is the dance steps of the Hundred Butterfly Dance that I asked people to find, can you dance for me tomorrow?" ”
Touching his serious and hopeful eyes, Su Qingwan couldn't bear to refuse, nodded and said, "I would like to, but Chu Heng may not let me dance at the dinner party." ”
"It doesn't matter if he wants it or not, you just have to do it."
Su Qingwan suddenly felt that something was wrong, "Why is it better for me to jump here for you at the banquet tomorrow night." ”
"Fool, the Hundred Butterfly Dance will attract soul double butterflies, dancing here, wouldn't people find out, and by doing so, Chu Heng will value you more and be useful to you in the future." Ji Xuanyuan explained.
When he said the word Chu Heng, he was not jealous, for a damn person, there was nothing to be jealous of.
Su Qingwan thought about it carefully and understood his intentions.
The Hundred Butterflies Dance is a lost dance step, and the person who created this dance step is even a beautiful woman with love, and there is a poignant love story that has been handed down with the Hundred Butterfly Dance.
Su Qingwan once heard this story in the teahouse, which was really singing and tear-jerking.
It is about the story of Wang Dieyi, who set a dance step, and Cui Jin, a scholar, the two were originally a pair of lovers, childhood sweethearts, and they were a good match.
But just when the two were about to get married, the Cui family was confiscated because they offended the powerful, Cui Jin's father was beheaded on the street, Cui Jin's reputation was cut, and he became a grass farmer and lived on the street.
The Wang family also didn't let him now, and broke off the marriage contract between the two, but Wang Dieyi never gave up on him, and would rather be kicked out by his parents than be with Cui Jin.
It's just that no matter how much she resists, it's useless, she is still detained by her family in the boudoir, unable to meet her sweetheart, and the family has found another husband for her, and she will soon be sent to a sedan chair.
The person who was going to marry her knew that Wang Dieyi was still thinking about Cui Jin in her heart, so she sent someone to secretly kill the scholar.
But this matter was seen by Wang Dieyi's maid who went to deliver a letter to Cui Jin, she returned to the mansion and told Wang Dieyi about Cui Jin's death, and Wang Dieyi immediately broke down and cried.
She was forced out of the palace with a dead appearance, dressed in plain clothes, and ran towards Cui Jin's burial place, that day there was no wind or rain, and on the way she bumped into an old Taoist chief and fell.
The Taoist chief helped her up and said, "There are few lovers in the world, if you can dance at the cost of your own life, maybe you can see each other again." ”
After saying that, the Taoist chief was gone.
Wang Dieyi was thinking about the words of the Taoist all the way, she was good at dancing, but she didn't know what it was to dance at the cost of her life, but when she saw Cui Jin, who was hastily buried, she understood.
In the bamboo forest, facing the wind, her posture is smart, fluttering, tears are like rain on her face, and her eyebrows are sometimes stretched and sometimes frowned.
When she danced, she attracted butterflies of two colors, red and blue, coiled around them, and slowly her and Cui Jin's bodies gradually became illusory, and they became two of the butterflies in that group.
Some bystanders recorded the dance steps, and some people in later generations danced this dance, attracting the soul of the double butterfly, but because of its difficulty and emotion, this dance slowly disappeared.