"Your Majesty, rest assured, if you go to the Great Song Dynasty, you will have a way to deal with it." Seeing that Li Yu was silent, the lady continued to speak.

Regarding the proposal of the kiln lady, Li Yu was noncommittal. Just thinking quietly. Early the next morning, Li Yu gave an order to the teaching workshop. Choose the best dancing girl to enter the palace. The lotus golden platform made for the lady is let them try it one by one, but if there is anything similar, you can also have the right to impersonate. After all, Zhao Kuangyin's national book mentions the high-stage dance with sleeves.

But the dancing girls came one after another, and no one could dance freely on the high platform, let alone go up and down freely. Li Yu frowned when he saw it, and Zhou Jiamin persuaded softly on the side: "Why do you have to pick a phoenix out of the flock?" It is not a dangerous thing to go to the Great Song Dynasty to dance. I've been there many people before, but haven't all of them come back without any problems? ”

Li Yu's expression was stiff with a hint of indifference to Zhou Jiamin for the first time: "It was you who told the lady that she took the initiative to ask Ying to go to the Great Song Dynasty, right?" "The jealousy and scheming between women is really regardless of age.

Zhou Jiamin's face flashed with a trace of embarrassment, and then pouted and said coquettishly: "The slave family is also to share your majesty's worries and solve problems." Your Majesty doesn't appreciate it, forget it, why bother thinking of others so badly. I can't dance, if I can dance I'll go. I won't bother the lady, and it makes Your Majesty feel distressed and suspicious, thinking that I want to put the lady in the tiger's mouth. Zhou Jiamin's voice was so tender that she could almost drip water, and before the words fell, the tears had fallen one by one, dyed on a dress with blue water, which was extremely intoxicating.

Li Yu's heart softened again, and he squeezed Zhou Jiamin's hand: "Guess again." How could I mean that? Well? As he spoke, he gently stroked Zhou Jiamin's face. She burst into tears and laughed.

After a few days of selection, I didn't choose a suitable candidate after all. Seeing that the day of the envoy to the Great Song Dynasty was approaching, Li Yu had no choice but to follow the proposal of the lady and let her go to replace Xiao Tao. Li Yu, the dancing skills of the lady of the kiln, is naturally not worried, but he is afraid that the imperial relatives and important ministers of the Great Song Dynasty will have evil thoughts. Li Yu specially sent two hundred of the most elite Qingyu guards to protect the lady. Once there is a difference. Bring the lady back at any cost. In addition, Li Yu also gave Xiao Tao, which is now Huai Sleeve, a new title, "Mrs. Wan", taken from the meaning of "Dancing like a frightening Hong, graceful like a dragon" in "Luo Shen Fu".

This title is a bit ambiguous, and generally married women are named wives. Giving Xiao Tao the title of Mrs. is nothing more than telling Da Song. There is a lord in the sleeves. It doesn't matter whose wife it is, the people of the Great Song Dynasty are disregarding human ethics and can't be justified if they think about it.

Li Yu sent someone to Nanchang Mansion to take Xiao Tao back to the Jinling Teaching Workshop, and when Xiao Niang went to the Great Song Dynasty, Xiao Tao couldn't show her face in the Southern Tang Dynasty. Otherwise, it will be all goofs when it reaches the Great Song Dynasty.

After settling all this, Li Yu sent Shen Tong as an envoy to take Miao Niang and others to the Great Song Dynasty. Shen Tong has a strategy, and it is easy to deal with it if there is any situation.

The envoys of the Southern Tang Dynasty went directly to the post house when they arrived in the Great Song Dynasty, except for Shen Tong who entered the palace and handed over the letter of national and Li Yu's handwritten birthday letter to the Great Song Dynasty, everyone else was in the post house without a step. Outside the inn is a three-layer tight protection. Zhao Guangyi's heart was a little beating, he really wanted to see what the legendary peach girl looked like, but he walked outside the post house and stopped for a long time, and then turned back.

He didn't know what he was afraid of, was he afraid that Tao Niang was not Xiao Tao and would be lost? Or are you afraid that Tao Niang is Xiao Tao who can't face it herself? The latter thought made him shake his head and smile dumbly, if Xiao Tao can come back to life, let himself die once, what else can't he face. But after all, he still didn't rush directly into the post house in Nantang.

A few days later, Zhao Kuangyin's birthday banquet was held in the palace Qionglin Garden, which is across the river from the palace. The atmosphere of the palace is too serious, but Qionglin Garden is different, all kinds of strange flowers and trees, pavilions and rockeries, very pleasant.

The birthday banquet was held in the evening, and Zhao Guangyi arrived early when he first entered the unitary. He noticed that in the lake to the south of the main hall of the feast, a high platform of wood carved lotus flowers was erected, with a total of five floors up and down, and each floor was a lotus platform, but the area of the platform was very small, and it was not easy for ordinary people to stand on it. Do you want to dance here?

Present at the birthday banquet were courtiers of the Great Song Dynasty, relatives of the emperor, and envoys of surrounding subject countries, such as Southern Tang Dynasty, Wu Yue, etc. Zhao Guangyi was dressed in a black red gold robe, and his hair was tied with a black jade crown. Sitting next to the desk on the lower left, frowning slightly, but his heart was beating fast.

After a while, the guests all sat down, and after the music and dance students performed the grand music, they began to sing and dance in various minor keys, and the atmosphere was soothed. Chatting and laughing from time to time. Zhao Guangyi didn't have the heart to chat with anyone, just ate the dishes slowly, but ate absent-mindedly.

Halfway through the feast, Shen Tong, the envoy of the Southern Tang Dynasty, bowed his hand and said: "In order to celebrate the birthday of His Majesty the Emperor, the lord of the country specially sent Weichen to bring the dancing girl Huaisleeve and others to cheer His Majesty's singing and dancing. In front of Zhao Kuangyin, Shen Tong only dared to call Li Yu the lord of the country.

Zhao Kuangyin laughed and said, "Hurry up and present it." The singing and dancing of Jiangnan is amazing in the world. As he spoke, he looked at the other ministers and said, "I don't know if you have heard of it, but the girl with sleeves who came this time is famous in Jiangnan." It's a feast for your eyes today. ”

Immediately, there were ministers who echoed the flattery of the prosperous dynasty and the like. Wu Yueguo's envoys looked at Shen Tong with disdain, these northerners are really rare and strange, they only know that the singing and dancing of the Southern Tang Dynasty is good, don't they know that the singing and dancing of the Yue Nu Ling is also a must. Only Zhao Guangyi's heart twitched tightly, and the fist in his right hand was clenched tightly.

The voice of Sizhu sounded, the discussion gradually stopped, under the shadow of the moonlight, on the top of the high platform in the water, a figure slowly swayed, dancing gracefully with the sound of Sizhu. Needless to say, the dancing posture is a combination of rigidity and softness, charming and moving. What is rare is that the foot strength is quite flexible, the platform is so small, the dancer is light and floating, and has been dancing, but it seems to have been dancing in the air, and the pair of crescent-like feet have never all stood on the stage, so that the dancer seems to be fluttering like a fairy.

The people watching were already dumbfounded, and their eyes all followed the dancing woman back and forth, left and right, until they were overwhelmed and dazzled. There was only a swirling peach-colored shadow left under the moon, and it was impossible to distinguish where it was a person, where it was a dress, and where was the sound of silk and silk and bamboo in the high part of the abrupt stop, and the women's dance steps on the stage immediately stopped, and before anyone could come back to their senses, they had already drifted along the lotus platform below and fell lightly to the bottom of the platform in the center of the lake, and bowed to everyone.

The applause around was like thunder, and the envoys of Wu Yueguo, who was disdainful just now, no longer pouted, but only stared at the woman in the middle of the lake and slapped vigorously. Zhao Kuangyin laughed loudly and said: "It is worthy of being the peach girl who moves the south of the Yangtze River, and her name is worthy of it, and her name is worthy of it." ”

Someone chimed in: "Jiangnan is so charming, the lord of the country is a master of poetry and poetry, up and down, and naturally singing and dancing are not bad." This is true, but it is always a little demeaningful, and Shen Tong has to bear the harshness when he listens to it.

Only Zhao Guangyi's face was pale in the moonlight, and his eyes were empty of despair. It's not her, it's really not Taoyi. He has seen Taoyi's dance, although it is not necessarily better than this woman's skills, but it is very heartfelt, every dance step is stepping on people's hearts, there are ups and downs, there are inheritances and combinations, it will not be like this woman who is dizzying, but it will make people's hearts tussle. What's more, the figure, the footsteps, are not. Zhao Guangyi drank the wine bottle in his hand violently.

At this time, the ferry boat in the lake had already crossed the woman from the platform in the middle of the lake to the shore, and Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help but say: "Come forward quickly, let everyone see what kind of alluring appearance it is, and can dance such an aura dance?" ”

The woman's steps paused, took a few steps forward, knelt down and bowed to Zhao Kuangyin, slowly got up and lowered her head. At this time, everyone saw that the woman's face was wrapped in a veil, and she couldn't see her face clearly. The ceremonial officer of the Great Song Dynasty frowned and said, "When you see Your Majesty, how can you still cover your face with veil?" Take it off. ”

Shen Tong hurriedly stepped forward and said: "The girl with sleeves has been bumpy all the way, some are not accustomed to the water and soil, and she has rashes on her face, for fear of frightening Your Majesty." "Ayutaba.

When Shen Tong said this, it aroused Zhao Kuangyin's interest even more: "What strange people and strange things in the world have I never seen, and I am still afraid of a small rash?" Lift the veil. ”

The woman stretched out her hand and pulled the veil off her face, and those who were close couldn't help but let out an "ah", what a pity, the person with such a graceful dance posture actually had a red spot, even under the shadow of the moonlight, he also had enough appetite. Zhao Kuangyin frowned, and his voice was a little embarrassed: "It's okay, when you get used to the water and soil, it's good to go down." ”

Adapted to the soil and water? Could it be that Zhao Kuangyin has the intention of staying? Shen Tong hurriedly answered: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness. When I return to Jiangnan, let the imperial doctor treat Mrs. Wan, oh, that is, the girl with sleeves. ”

"Mrs. Wan?" Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help asking, "Whose wife?" ”

Shen Tong didn't answer directly, but said: "It was given by the lord of the country himself." ”

At this time, the lady who had been standing lowered her head and responded: "The people in the workshop are all people from the official family and the lord of the country, so they are naturally the lord of the country. ”

These words are neither humble nor arrogant, and Zhao Kuangyin was stunned, but it was not easy to say anything. Looking at the dance just now, I had a little idea of leaving people in Da Song, but since I had already followed Li Yu, I forgot it. Zhao Kuangyin laughed dryly twice and said, "Heavy reward." ”

The attendants on the left and right brought a plate of pearls and jade and handed it to the lady, and the richness of the reward caused the surrounding smack, and Zhao Guangyi couldn't help but raise his eyes, but the lady's body was slightly sideways to the opposite side, and Zhao Guangyi couldn't see it.

After receiving the reward, the lady was about to retreat, and the moment she passed by Zhao Guangyi, Zhao Guangyi glanced at it, and couldn't help but be stunned, I didn't see anything else, but those deep eyes were so special, how could they be familiar? Where have you seen it? Zhao Guangyi closed his eyes and thought hard, oh, it turned out to be her!