March 211 BC

A sudden incident pushed Xiao Xu and I back to Afang three days later.

"Sick?" I put down the chopsticks in my hand, raised my eyebrows and asked Aunt Liangsheng: "I was fine a few days ago, why did I suddenly get sick?"

"I heard Xiaoxian say that she practiced dancing in the courtyard the day before yesterday and didn't go to bed until very late, and I am afraid that she was infected with the wind chill at that time. Aunt Liangsheng sighed and said helplessly: "After you and Xiao Xu left, the pear frost in this Xianle Fang was outstanding, and now she is infected with the wind and cold, I'm afraid she won't be able to catch the banquet in three days." ”

"Banquet?" Xiao Xu also stopped his chopsticks and asked curiously, "What banquet?"

"It is the family banquet of His Majesty the First Emperor. ”

"Family feast?" I wondered more and more, "Didn't that feast take place a few days ago?"

"Originally, it was indeed scheduled a few days ago, but who knew that on that day, His Majesty's migraine suddenly attacked, and this banquet had to be postponed to three days later. Aunt Liangsheng frowned, she tapped on the table with her slender fingers, and suddenly said, "Or, Xue'er, you replaced her first?"

I was stunned for a moment, and then smiled and said, "Auntie, have you forgotten that the big dancer has just passed away, and I can't touch the red clothes in the past six months." Could it be that on the day of the family feast, I can't dance in white alone?"

"Then you weren't directly Ling Chi?" Xiao Xu joked.

"Nonsense!" Aunt Liangsheng was unhappy, she pointed at Xiao Xu as if she was angry, and said, "It's decided, three days later, you will replace Lishuang to lead the dance at the family banquet." ”

"That's what I was going to do. Xiao Xu looked unexpected, and smiled mischievously: "Good aunt, did you disappoint?"

Seeing her smug look, Aunt Liangsheng had no choice but to shake her head, crying and laughing: "You girl, where did you learn such eccentricities?"

"Self-taught, self-taught. She picked up a small snack and stuffed it into her mouth, got up and said, "Since it's decided, I'll go and practice, otherwise I'll lose face and lose my head." ”

"Dare to talk nonsense!" Aunt Liangsheng picked up an apricot and smashed it on her head, and said angrily: "If you dare to say such unfortunate things again, you are welcome!"

Xiao Xu "giggled" and ran out.

Three days later, the main hall of Xianyang Palace.

The family banquet was set at the time of unitary, but the eunuchs and palace ladies were busy from the time of Yin. In addition to the melons, fruits, and drinks needed for the banquet, they also had to go to the garden to pick the most beautiful flowers to decorate this huge palace.

I didn't enter the main hall until Shen Shi, and although there was still an hour before the feast began, the hall was already brightly lit with bells and drums. I sat down quietly in the corner of the hall with the musicians of Xianle Fang in my arms, tried the string tone, and then waited for the arrival of the distinguished guests.

"Sister Cher. Xiaoxian leaned into my ear and whispered, "You say, will His Royal Highness Ziying come today?"

"Your Highness?" I thought about it, but I felt that although the name was quite familiar, I couldn't remember it.

"Which highness?" I whispered.

"You don't even know His Royal Highness Ziying!" Xiaoxian looked surprised, and she asked in disbelief, "Sister doesn't know about Fusu Gongzi?"

"I naturally know about Fusu Gongzi, but what does this have to do with His Royal Highness Ziying?"

"Fusu Gongzi is the father of His Royal Highness Ziying!" Xiaoxian was so excited that he accidentally dropped the Tao Xun in his hand. The texture of Tao Xun is already fragile, and it will naturally fall apart and fall into its original shape when it falls on the ground paved with stone slabs.

"It's broken, it's broken......" Xiaoxian's face turned pale, and he looked at the wreckage on the ground in a daze and muttered: "How can this be ......"

"Calm down. I comforted Xiaoxian: "There are three musicians who play Tao Xun, and it doesn't matter much if you don't have one, you can quickly pack up these things, and then go back to Xianle Fang." If it's early, find another person, and if it's too late, forget it. ”

Xiaoxian looked at me, and when she saw that my tone was sincere, she hurriedly packed up her things and left.

"It's always so reckless. Another older musician said helplessly: "It seems that she can only arrange for her to work in the kitchen, and the next time she falls while playing, it will not be as simple as leaving." ”

The man's tone was rather mean, and I was quite uncomfortable listening to it. However, at this time we were in the main hall, and I couldn't get into a quarrel with him, so I had to grin stiffly, with a noncommittal look.

People are different, and we should understand and respect each other. And I've always been tired of talking about people's strengths and weaknesses like this.

After about half an hour, when the palace eunuchs finally decorated the main hall, the first guest arrived.

It's Fusu Gongzi.

He is wearing a purple brocade robe today, and the jade crown of his hair is warm and moist, which makes his face like a crown of jade. He walked unhurriedly, his eyebrows and eyes were gentle and smiling, and he looked extremely elegant. I stole a glance at him across half of the hall, and my eyes unexpectedly fell on the red figure behind him.

The figure was a gorgeously dressed woman, who followed him with a gentle smile, her eyes soft, and her gestures with innate grace. I looked at her and thought to myself: If my mother were still alive, I am afraid that she would be as good as her.

It seemed that she felt that the hairpin on her head was a little loose, and the woman's forward steps stopped, and she reached out to help her, but the hairpin fell to the ground again.

The man who was walking in front stopped when he heard the sound, he turned back to the woman, bent down to pick up the hairpin that fell on the ground, and then stroked her face and carefully laid the hairpin for her.

The woman looked at him for a moment, then smiled affectionately, and said, "Thank you, husband." ”

I plucked my hand at the strings, and then, slowly, drooped down.

Oh, so she's his wife.

"Snow Maiden!" the musician just whispered to me, "Don't stop, His Majesty the Emperor will be here soon." ”

Only then did I come back to my senses and knew that this was not the place to fugue, so I quickly turned my eyes away from looking at the pair that seemed to be a perfect match, and played the pipa again. It's just that this time it was far less smooth and beautiful than at the beginning, and I just felt that there were thousands of silk threads on my ten fingers that were winding and pulling, and my fingers were about to move.

As the time approached, the other princes and princesses who participated in the family banquet finally arrived one after another, and they either whispered and laughed or greeted each other, and the originally empty hall soon became lively.

I knelt in a corner of the hall like a stake, my fingers numb on the strings, as if they were no longer mine.

"His Majesty the First Emperor has arrived!"

The little eunuch's shrill voice sounded in the hall, like a thunderclap, stopping all the chatter, laughter and music in the hall. All of them prostrated themselves in fear, singing the praises of the man who had entered the hall, as if he were facing a god.

The god-like man sat down on the desk in the center of the hall, waving his hand lightly, his voice not angry.

"Get up, it's a family feast, so you don't have to be so restrained. ”

"Thank you, Father!"

I sat back in my original seat with the pipa in my arms, and my eyes slightly raised to look at the First Emperor, who had just arrived and was sitting high on the main hall at the moment.