My name is Xiang Ye, I am a geisha in Qinglou, I live on the pipa and singing music every day, I am my mother's adopted daughter, I have followed my mother since I was four years old, I don't know my real name, I don't know where my hometown is. If it weren't for my mother, I'm afraid I would have died on the streets of Suzhou back then.

My mother named me Xiangye, which means that the grass is green and green, and I like this name very much. Every day, when there are no guests, I hold the pipa in the backyard and sing: "The branches are cold, the sun is warm, the grass is green, the grass is wild, and no one knows ......"

My sisters stand together and beat me to the beat. At the end, I laughed and applauded, and I thanked Shi Shiran.

When I was 14 years old and young, my mother combed my adult hair in a bun, and I looked at the bronze mirror for a long time......

For a long time, I couldn't sing new words, and the guests in the audience were already very dissatisfied, and when they saw me and Lu, they shouted that I would pick up the guests and change to a new geisha. I looked at the guests with tears in my eyes, but I couldn't do anything. Although my mother felt sorry for me, she couldn't do anything about it.

Suddenly, a boy dressed in a crescent-colored robe said loudly: "Who said that Miss Xiang can't sing new words." Then he came up to the stage and handed me a nicely folded piece of rice paper. Then he said to the guests in the audience: "Three days later, Miss Xiang will not let you down." ”

When all the guests were gone, my mother pulled me and him into the backyard, and then asked him, "Childe, what do you mean by saying such wild words in front of many guests?"

He smiled and saluted his mother and me: "Xiaosheng Xie Ximeng, I have come to listen to Miss Xiang's songs many times. Miss Xiang's song is beautiful, but if you sing it repeatedly, the guests will inevitably get bored. You see, the guest is really tired, in the next, recently specially wrote a few new words for Miss Xiang, these three days please mother let me teach Miss Xiang, I don't know if it is possible?"

Mom frowned, and I looked up at him secretly. Seeing that he was looking at me with a smile, I hurriedly lowered my eyebrows and blushed.

"Mom, Gongzi Xie doesn't look like a bad person, so you should answer him. "I hurriedly said good things for him, for fear that my mother would reject him.

In the end, my mother asked him for a silver ingot because he had delayed me for three days, and he was glad to give it and then took me away. He took me to the Weiyang River, which was not far away, and then unroped a boat and took me up. He said to me, "Miss Xiang, this is a boat I have rented, as long as you want to come in the future, come to this boat to practice the tune, and today I will teach you the first tune." Come. ”

He opened the rice paper in my hand, and I realized that there was a new poem in the book, and every word and every word was beautiful and my heart was moved. Next to the words is his line notation, and every tune and note is beautiful to my heart. He listened to me sing the tune he wrote with his eyes closed, then nodded his head in relief, and if he got it wrong, he would open his eyes and explain it to me, and then guide me to each tune until I got it right.

The three-day deadline has arrived, and when I finished my makeup, I took a closer look at the bronze mirror, and then a smile appeared on the corner of my mouth.

After I came to the stage, I saw that the audience was overcrowded, and I guessed that I was coming to see if the promise he made three days ago was true.

He sat in the front row, next to his mother. When I saw his face, my whole body trembled slightly, and then I saluted the audience, who applauded warmly, and I sat down and began to play and sing, one by one, in exchange for the warm applause of the guests.

That day, my mother made a lot of money because of a few of my songs, she thought that Xie Gongzi admired me, so she asked him to come to me at will, in fact, her original intention was just to let me learn a few more songs with him to earn more silver. I thought he liked me, too. Otherwise, how could he choose me to teach music alone among the so many beautiful girls in Pingxiang Tower? He even spent a lot of money to build a double-storey attic for me next to the Weiyang River, called Mandarin Duck Tower. He put his arm around me and looked at the Weiyang River on the Mandarin Duck Tower, and said to me: "In the future, this building is yours, do you like it?"

I leaned on his chest and nodded, listening to his heartbeat, which seemed to be the most beautiful beat of my life.

I liked him and even thought about going with him. But I know unless he marries me. Otherwise, a celebrity like him would definitely not let a dusty woman like me stay by his side. So all I can do is cherish every inch of my time with him and hope that he doesn't leave.

He also painted a good hand, he always put my portrait on the street to sell, but when others sold it for fifty taels, he said that he just wanted others to appreciate the person in the painting. I blushed with shame as I watched him hang my portrait in the Mandarin Duck Tower.

When Lu Jiuyuan, the prime minister of the imperial court, came to Weiyang River, Xie Gongzi and I were writing on the cruise ship. He taught me to write his name on rice paper, and when I looked at him sideways, his serious eyes made me distracted.

Prime Minister Lu coughed twice outside the boat, I was startled, and looked back at him, but he didn't even raise his head. I know Prime Minister Lu Cheng, such a powerful person, how could I not know.

Gongzi Xie didn't look at him, Prime Minister Lu Cheng's face was a little unbearable, and he said sarcastically: "I didn't expect you Xie Ximeng to be reduced to such a point now, and actually built this mandarin duck tower for a geisha, where do you save my face in the Southern Song Dynasty?"

Only then did he look up at him, let go of my hand, and said with a smile: "Since the end of the plane, the spirit of the heroic spirit is not favored by men in the world, but by women. ”

I smiled secretly, Lu Jiuyuan's face was already blue at this time, but Gongzi Xie didn't care.

Later, I learned that he was a physicist in the Southern Song Dynasty, and because he was angry at the court, he came to Suzhou to relax. But since Lu Jiuyuan left, he has treated me like a person who has nothing to do, as before. The days are dull but beautiful, and his songs surprise guests day after day.

One day, he suddenly handed me a stack of rice paper, each of which was written down in detail. I hugged the pile of rice paper and asked with a smile, "Why did Childe write so much this time?"

He smiled and said, "I've been in Suzhou for a long time, and I suddenly had the idea of returning home. I'm a person with a bit of a strange temperament, but whatever comes to mind, I'm sure to do it. Now, I'm going home, and I'm going to leave today. Miss Xiang take care. ”

I just reacted, he is all by his own thoughts, a thought from the capital to Suzhou, a thought of the difference to me, a thought of only for me to build a mandarin duck tower, and now a thought of a thought, home.

He never loved me, it was all just his impulse.

On that day, I didn't accompany him to the Mandarin Duck Tower. Because he was tired of it, I had no intention of going any further.

He is a free and easy person, resolute and decisive. has no children's selfish affairs.

I didn't want to send him off, but my mother told me many times that he was leaving. I couldn't hold back any longer and ran towards the Weiyang River. His boat was gone, and I fell to my knees by the river, weeping bitterly. Read it over and over again: "Childe, childe......"

As if sensing something, he turned to me, and said something to the boatman, and the ship turned back, and I was very happy to see him reappear before me, but he only took off his turban from his head, and wrote a poem on his head with the ink of one of the ship's wolves, and put it in my hand, just as I had seen it at first sight.

I took the last hijab he had given me. Watch him chuckle and get on the boat and leave, never looking back. I fell to my knees crying in agony, but he never looked back.

Since that day, I have never sung any other tune, and every day, I repeat a song "Fortune Operator".

But he sang and cried a lot of spectators, and sang and cried a lot of sad people. No guests asked me to sing new songs. My words are heartbroken, and my heart is broken. Every day is just a life of panic in misery.

It's a new day, and I sit on the stage with the pipa in my arms and sing:

The sculls are flat, and the green mountains are locked. You go home, I go home, talk about how to live. I don't think about it, you don't think about me. Give others what you used to do to me.