Volume 2 The Flames of Chang'an Chapter 90 Yunxiao Pavilion (5)
"Like Snow and Flowing Years" should be cheerful and auspicious when it sounds like a snowy year, but Ning Ruowei's dancing posture is full of injuries.
Every dancer will dance with her own state of mind, Ning Ruowei is also a woman in the Peacock Tower, and most of the women in the Peacock Tower have a miserable background, so she has an indifferent expression, a sad gaze, a resentful dance, and a melancholy voice......
"Drain ......"
Snowflakes suddenly floated over the banquet hall, and they fell from the sky, dyeing her green silk and white hair, and she waved her long sleeves, splashing a piece of fine snow, and she lifted the shawl, and picked up a burst of snow mist.
Under the lamplight, in the snow and mist, her body became hazy, gradually hidden and dark, leaving only the ground covered with snow and a hot tear.
People go, the snow comes, and the curtain ends.
The guests in the audience were silent for a long time, and they were all moved by her sultry dance.
"Pap, papa, papa......" applause rang out one after another, followed by thunder.
In the end, Ning Ruowei led all the singing and dancing girls and the musicians behind the scenes to the stage, and bowed to everyone in the audience: "Thank you for visiting Yunxiao Pavilion tonight, I and you sisters thank you here." β
"Good, good, good, beautiful singing, sultry dancing, play to your heart's content...... Such a technical work, deserve to be rewarded, deserved! Master Qin waved his hand, and the Confucian student waiting next to him brought a wooden plate covered with a red cloth, and the maidservant took the wooden plate and opened it, it was actually a shining silver ingot.
The maidservant counted the points, smiled and said loudly: "Master Qin, reward five hundred taels of silver!" β
Master Qin made a start, and the others also threw out the bounty silver:
"Lord Liu, reward three hundred taels of silver."
"Outside the yellow member, the reward is three hundred taels of silver."
"General Wang, reward two pearls from the West Sea."
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Almost every table was rewarded with silver and gold, the face value of which was at least two hundred taels.
When they arrived at the table of Yan Yunting and Lin Xiaofeng, the maidservant girl on the side subconsciously stood closer, and her meaning was self-evident.
"Little girl, do you have to give a reward here?" Yan Yunting asked with a wry smile.
The maidservant cast a disgusted look and said, "It's not that you have to be rewarded, it's just that in those flower streets and alleys, when you hear people tell you about books, you will throw a few copper plates as a reward." β
"Uh......" Yan Yunting touched his pocket, he came all the way from Qingzhou to Chang'an, and his money was used to buy wine and drink, where is there any extra money to reward? Besides, although he is thick-skinned, it is really difficult to take out a few taels of silver.
He turned his head to look at Lin Xiaofeng, "Mr. Lin, do you have any silver on you?" β
Lin Xiaofeng was helpless: "The only ten taels of silver were also given to Miss Zuo in the first half of the night, and now she is penniless." β
Yan Yunting said, "Then it's better to give them your sword." β
Lin Xiaofeng narrowed his eyes: "Why don't you give you a sword?" β
"Come on, that's just for everyone to see our jokes......" Yan Yunting lowered his head, scratched his ears and cheeks, his cheeks were slightly red, he was really shy, so what can he do?
The people who gave the reward money all focused their eyes on Yan Yunting and Lin Xiaofeng, and discussed: "These two are still sitting in the first row, but they can't even take out the reward money, they are really not in the stream......
Ning Ruowei and dozens of ladies on the stage stared coldly at the two of them, "Yunxiao Pavilion has been open for so many years, and it is the first time I have met a white prostitute......"
"That's it!" Lin Xiaofeng slapped the table, just when everyone thought he was going to take out some treasure, he said to the maidservant: "Please help me prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone, when I first came to Chang'an today, I really didn't bring two silver taels, so I painted a pair of poems for all of you in Yunxiao Pavilion, inscribed two poems, and talked about my heart." β
"Hahaha...... Laugh to death! If you can't get the money, you can't get the money, why bother pretending to be elegant and dancing and making ink? The official at the next table made such a mockery, which caused everyone to burst into laughter.
Ning Ruowei shook her head and said, "The two of you really don't have any money, and they don't force it. β
Lin Xiaofeng looked indifferent, "I only make one painting, it should be our intentions, as for whether you take this painting to burn or throw it away, it's all at will." β
"The paper you have painted, I'm afraid it will be dirty to wipe your butt, hahaha......"
"Hahaha......"
Ning Ruowei bit her lip and glanced at the maidservant.
The maid nodded and retreated, and soon walked back with rice paper and pen and ink.
Yan Yunting cleaned up the table, helped polish the ink and lay the paper, and said in a low voice: "Mr. Lin, I don't doubt your talent at all, but in such a short period of time, can you paint well?" β
Lin Xiaofeng said: "The paintings that come out are definitely not as meticulous as the carving, but as long as they come from my own hands, the value will not be too low." β
"How much can your paintings sell for?" Yan Yunting asked again in a low voice.
Lin Xiaofeng lightly spit out four words: "There is no market." β
Lin Xiaofeng can be called "the first son of the rivers and lakes", it is definitely not only his demeanor, but also his talent.
Seeing that he dipped his pen in ink, he looked up and observed the ladies on the stage for a while, and then waved his pen and danced on the rice paper!
The large pen opens the book, the middle pen touches, the small pen outlines, and the fine pen puts the finishing touch...... The strokes are orderly, the painter draws his eyebrows and flows, and with the momentum of his painting alone, everyone can't help but come forward to observe, and those officials also come to visit with their necks hooked.
"Harm! Don't say it, this scholar still has something, and he actually drew the group of beauties on the stage one by one. β
Someone has already begun to praise it.
When the ladies on the stage heard that they were painting themselves, they all stood up unconsciously, for fear that the painter would miss their beauty.
"Okay, okay, don't gossip around, all go away, and then the finished product will be drawn, and your eyes will be blinded!" Yan Yunting dismissed all the guests who came to watch, leaving Lin Xiaofeng alone to concentrate on painting.
A quarter of an hour later, Lin Xiaofeng put down the fine pen, the basic painting had been completed, he picked up the small pen again, and mentioned four sentences at the end of the scroll:
"The green silk hairpin is red and drunk, the butterfly loves the flowers and blooms in the peony pavilion, like the tears of the beautiful woman in the snow, and Ling Han's dream is broken in the Peacock Tower."
After the inscription was written, Lin Xiaofeng put down his pen and greeted: "Lin has not mentioned a pen for many years, and he is a little rusty, so he only dedicates this clumsy work to the beauties of Yunxiao Pavilion, and I hope I don't want to dislike it." β
"Present it and have a look." Ning Ruowei said softly.
The two maidservants carefully lifted the scroll and walked onto the stage to interview everyoneβ
In the scroll, the appearance, expression, and posture of each of the forty-two female dependents are all vividly outlined, just like a living person imprinted on the scroll, and even under the rendering of ink, it is three points more beautiful than a real person.
"It's not easy to remember everyone's expressions and gestures in such a short period of time, and to reproduce them on the picture scroll one by one, this kind of painting skills, unique in the world, is not a fallacy!"
"These four inscription poems are also wonderful, 'green silk hairpin head red face drunk, butterfly love flowers bloom peony pavilion', the former sentence praised the exquisite acting skills of the women, the latter sentence is to a 'open' word will not be matched with the original 'butterfly love flower' and 'peony pavilion connection', read these two sentences, I seem to see a beauty wearing a phoenix hairpin, dancing with butterflies in the peony pavilion, beautiful, really beautiful, wonderful, really wonderful!"
"Harm! Not to mention anything else, just these few lines, everyone here, which one can write so handsomely and elegantly? β