Chapter 179 Royal Annual Banquet (5)
However, this sentence caused discomfort among some people present. Concubine Chang was the first to speak coldly:
"It's worthy of being from the countryside. It's embarrassing to say such shameless words in public, and it's really embarrassing to be shameless."
"Shame?"
Listening to her questioning, Luo Lan's anger that had been depressed for a long time finally found a vent.
The moment she turned her head, she changed her gentle and jade-like eyes when she was facing Leng Yu, looked at Concubine Chang coldly, pretending to be polite and bowed:
"I don't know what shame means in the empress? Being a man and a woman is just about love and love. I just express it in words. How come I become a shameless person when I get to the empress? Could it be that the empress is a shameless person?
After marrying the emperor for decades, do you have no such feelings for the emperor? Or do you not understand the relationship between the man and the woman?"
Her words made Concubine Chang a little angry. Madam Yu, behind her, hurriedly pulled the corner of her clothes, for fear that she would continue to speak and arouse conflicts. She gritted her teeth and looked at Luo Lan, wanting to speak but stopping.
As the imperial concubine and the head of the harem, she dared not say much here, nor did she dare to have too many words to be entangled with Luo Lan. She did not want to anger the emperor on the New Year's day.
So she calmed down and laughed softly:
"The relationship between me and the emperor does not need to be expressed in words. You young people really love to express it. Since you think what you say is okay, then let's just pretend that I have to say too much."
Her words that seemed not to be skeptical with Luo Lan made Luo Lan feel very upset when she heard this. What happened to these people today? They all came to her?
It seems that you can't be too weak in life, otherwise you will be bullied to death.
So she raised her eyebrows again and said with a smile indifferently:
"Thank you for your compassion. Just as you said, Luo Lan was originally a girl from the countryside, so you don't like to hide something. Who thinks that Luo Lan, a country man, is too rough and cannot enter the elegant hall?
But let someone come out to compete with me, but in front of the emperor, let's talk ugly things ahead. Those who win me today can make any demands on me. If they lose to me, no matter what occasion they will be in the future.
Please don’t target me anymore, otherwise, I, Shui Luolan, are not a soft persimmon, and I can be kneaded by anyone.”
She gritted her teeth and after saying this, she looked directly at the emperor. Although the emperor felt that today's New Year banquet was a bit absurd, he was unable to stop it when he arrived here, especially in front of all the foreign kings.
He just hated this Princess Yu even more in his heart. She dared to boast about such a loud voice. She really didn't know how high the world was. If she lost a lot in the end, where would he put the emperor's face?
But judging from the unstoppable postures of these foreign kings, it would be unnecessary for him to stop him.
So he frowned and waved his hand with a pale face, "Today is the New Year, it's all right to be happy together. Princess Yu is confident to compete with you. Don't take the win or loss too seriously."
Wu Hong smiled contemptuously, "How can that be done? Princess Yu said just now that if she loses, she can do whatever she wants. This general won't make things too difficult for her. If she loses, she will lie down.
On the ground, just learn to bark three times in public, hahahaha..."
As soon as he said this, Leng Yu stood up from the seat irritably, but Luo Lan directly grabbed him, shook his head at him with a smile, then turned his head, met Wu Hong's gaze, and nodded with a chuckle.
"Okay, I'm Shui Luolan, but what if your person loses?"
Wu Hong raised his hand indifferently and confidently.
"You can say whatever you want."
Hearing this, Luo Lan's eyes suddenly covered with mist. She nodded gently and said lightly in a pretended timid manner:
"Okay, then please ask General Wu to take care of me, a girl from the countryside. Don't be too powerful for the people you invite."
Seeing that her words meant to give in, Wu Hong was naturally so happy that he couldn't stop talking. He raised his hand and looked generous and laughed:
"That's natural. Where are you here? Let's send Zhang Ning to come."
As soon as he finished speaking, a woman in a long red gauze dress appeared in front of everyone. After she came in, she knelt directly on the ground, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, All Masters Majesty."
Wu Hong looked proudly at the woman kneeling on the ground, raised her lips and said loudly:
"She is Zhang Ning, she is good at playing the piano. Today I will compete with Princess Yu. I wonder if Princess Yu agrees?"
"agree."
Luo Lan replied directly without saying a word.
She was a person who traveled through time in the 25th century, and she was not secretly praising herself. In her eyes, these little skills of ancient people were just tricks of being scattered.
At this time, the servant raised a guqin. The woman named Zhang Ning sat on the stool, lifted her fingers lightly, knocked the strings, and a melodious song slowly flowed out between her fingers, which immediately made the audience
People hold their breath and listen carefully.
At the end of the song, except for the emperor with a dark face, everyone applauded and praised the beautiful sound of the piano. Wu Hong looked at Luo Lan with a proud look on his face and raised his eyebrows and said:
"Please please, Princess Yu."
In his eyes, Princess Yu was probably not even touching this piano before, let alone playing it. He was waiting quietly to see her make a fool of herself.
Luo Lan calmly lifted her skirt and was about to leave her seat. Leng Yu held her hand again and comforted her softly:
"Lan'er, it doesn't matter if you win or lose. No one dares to do anything to you. My husband won't be bullied by you. Don't force yourself."
Luo Lan replied with a big smile, then nodded with his lips and lowered his voice and whispered in his ear:
"Don't worry, do you remember what I said? I came from another world and could do everything."
Leaving this sentence, she came to the guqin with a smile on the corner of her mouth, looked at the woman named Zhang Ning, nodded to her, and then bowed to the emperor, and sat directly beside the guqin.
Her ten fingers were placed on the strings of the piano, narrowing her eyes slightly, and starting with silent. Seeing her ten fingers moving lightly, the sound of the piano slowly flowed out like a small mosquito. Wu Hong's face became even more proud, and the emperor's face became even more ugly
Leng Yu kept looking at her worriedly.
After a light sound, her ten fingers began to pull out the strings of the piano as if they were given a soul. The beautiful piano sound was like the loud cries of birds in spring, waking up the sleeping people.
After a burst of overtones, a brisk-like piano sound came from her ten fingers...
After a while, the sound of the piano fell down, gradually coming to an end, and suddenly it ended slowly...
After the song ended, the scene was silent, and everyone was quiet and could not extricate themselves.
Luo Lan gently raised the corner of her mouth, withdrew her thunderous fibres and slowly spoke:
"Your Majesty, my song is called "Spring Xiao Yin". Although this song is short, it has a profound meaning."
"oh?"
Hearing her words, the emperor walked out of the artistic conception of her song, and asked with surprise:
Chapter completed!