Concubine, please respect yourself

Chapter 13
After the Waking of Insects, the sun is sunny and the sun is warm, and the east bank of Su Causeway Lake reflects the green mountains and green shadows in the distance, making it look very spring.


Today is the day when the ten-gallery boat race starts, and the blue waves are rippling on the East Lake of Su Causeway. Several flower boats come from afar. The boats are decorated with silk lanterns, the beams are painted with yellow lacquer, and some boat pillars are carved with dragons and painted phoenixes. It looks lifelike, some of the sterns are engraved with fairy clouds and beasts, festive and peaceful, and there seem to be a few wisps of piano sounds in the boats. The east bank of Suzhou's misty lake embankment is like a fairyland on this day, full of wit and wit.


But at sunrise, three of the ten corridors on the lake were already full of people, waiting for today's five-year grand event.


The flower boat of Fengxian Tower arrived at the side of the corridor early. There were a few ladies in the boat with excellent makeup skills. At this time, they were shaving Lu Ziyu's face carefully. Sweeping the crescent eyebrows, the narrow and long winking eyes, the corners of the eyes are blurred with rouge and slanted red makeup, which makes people look more coquettish, and the thin lips are pursed like crabapple flowers.The green silk is bundled up and the golden crown with tassels half covers the face of the hibiscus. The spring breeze on the lake floats, and the sound of the tassels touching is as crisp as a silver bell, which makes people feel happy.


After the painting was finished, Zhuang Niang took down the screen, and led Lu Ziyu to the front of all the flower ladies in Fengxian Building in Fangzhong. Seeing this, the beautiful girls looked at her with envy.


"Women are still satisfied? This lady Ying is the most beautiful girl I have ever seen in my life. This time we will definitely win the leader in the boat painting competition." This is telling the truth, not selling fakes.


"Your mouth seems to be covered with honey today, Wanniang is about to appreciate the make-up lady" Fengxian lady knows that Yingniang has an alluring appearance, but she didn't expect that today's full attire will look more graceful and charming.He was already happy in his heart, and when he heard that Zhuangniang had said auspicious words earlier in the morning, he asked Wanniang to reward him generously.


Several makeup ladies took the reward money, and they happily closed their mouths from ear to ear, and committed themselves to salute and left the cabin.


"Sisters, take a look at our lady Ying, who looks like a fairy who has descended into the mortal world. I wonder how long this fairy is going to stay in this mortal world?" He couldn't help but open his mouth to joke.


Lu Ziyu's cheeks turned a little bit ashamed, his eyes moved and he said, "Sisters, don't make fun of Yingniang."


All the ladies of Fengxian Tower gathered together today, chatting and laughing happily, at this moment, they only heard a delicate voice from outside the boat, "Yo, isn't this the Fengxian Tower where someone died in the boat painting competition last time? It's really unlucky for me to meet each other on a boat in Wanxiang Tower."


The place where the boat is parked by the corridor is a few feet wide, and there will be no such thing as a painting boat connected, but when I heard that the flower boat from the Wanxiang Tower was parked on the side of my own flower boat, I knew that the other party did it on purpose.


The ladies in Fengxianlou were happy at first, but when they heard the name of Wanxianglou, they couldn't help showing anger, thinking of Lan Niang's matter.Many ladies wanted to go out of the cabin to argue, but they were stopped by Lu Ziyu: "The competition is coming soon, if there is a quarrel at this time, people may say that Fengxian Tower has lost its demeanor."


As soon as these words came out, the ladies of Fengxian Tower suppressed their resentment and only cursed in the cabin.


A cold light flashed in Lu Ziyu's eyes: "Luo Ning, if you go back to Wanxiang Tower outside the cabin, just say that I, Fengxianlou, can be next to the sisters in Wanxianglou. some."


"Treat me well" Lu Ziyu said the four words very emphatically, Luo Ning knew that the Wanxiang Building might be in danger after the grand event, so she responded to her lady, and went out of the cabin to answer.


"The girls of the flower boats have drawn lots, and they have drawn lots." A young servant on the corridor shouted at the door of each boat cabin, holding a lot of porcelain in his arms.


Lu Ziyu put on a veiled hat, squeezed a ball of paper out of the porcelain and returned to the cabin. The ladies of Fengxianlou rushed up and asked, "What's the number? Open it and have a look."


The ball of paper was opened, spread out in Lu Ziyu's palm, and there was a "pick up" written on it, the last place.


"It's really God's favor for Yingniang. This time, I am determined to win the first prize in Fengxian Tower." Seeing that the number is the last, Fengxian lady was overjoyed, picked up the folding fan and fanned the fragrance leisurely.


In the city of Suzhou, the shopkeeper of the inn where Fuyun and Ninth Prince Yingsu lived came to tell them that there was no meal prepared in the inn today, and if the guest officials needed meals, they could go to the shop on the street.


Fu Yun asked about the reason, and the shopkeeper explained: "This is a flower boat event held every five years, and many people in Suzhou City go to watch this event. At this ten-gallery painting boat event, not only can you see the beauty of the flower boat ladies from various states , you can also see the faces of noble ladies in Suzhou City, and maybe meet many famous literati."


After hearing this, Fuyun was so moved that she thought that coming to Suzhou City could do nothing, and it was very boring. When she heard that there was such a grand event, she rushed over, so she hurried back to the room and took a piece of the shop's clothes. The words were spoken to his master.


Ying Su was painting with his head down. Ever since he had that dream a few days ago, he was always restless. He needed to paint in peace to feel at ease. Hearing Fuyun say that he was going to see some flower boat festival, he only uttered two words: "No go."


Fuyun was disappointed, but still tempted, and muttered softly: "I heard that Wang Zongshen, a master of ink painting, came to Suzhou City a few days ago just to watch the flower boat competition, and it will be held in Suzhou this year, maybe the governor of Suzhou will also Watching it in the early stage, the master may find out some useful news when he goes there."

Ying Su finally raised her head, her phoenix raised her eyebrows and her eyes seemed to fluctuate: "What did you say last time?"

Seeing that his master was interested, Fu Yun quickly thought about it and replied: "Suzhou Governor's Association"

Before he finished speaking, Ying Su interrupted him: "One more sentence!"

"Wang Zong, a master of calligraphy and ink,"

"No, one more sentence."

Fuyun scratched her head and thought for a while: "You mean, many literati and poets will go there?"

"No, one more sentence."

"Ah? Could it be that Miss Suzhou will also go?" Fuyun was stunned, and he also forgot how he passed the message to the master just now.

Hearing this, Ying Su felt as if she had returned to that eclectic night again, her naked body was pressed against her body, she squeezed the hand holding the Buddhist beads, and regained her senses.

Seeing that her master's expression was not right, Fuyun asked in a low voice, "Master, shall we still go?"

Ying Su felt that her face was burning badly, she turned her head away from Fu Yun, and asked in a cold voice, "Do you want to go?"

"Yeah." Fuyun nodded like a woodpecker, hoping that her master would agree soon.

"Okay, it's all up to you, clean up quickly." Fuyun was very happy when he heard the master's consent, and looked up at the master's face, still expressionless, it didn't look like it Going to participate in the grand event, I don't know when the master's icy demeanor will change.

If Fu Yun knew that her master was not actually going to this grand event for him, but was thinking about a certain fox in Lu's mansion, would she jump in anger?

Arriving at the east bank of Sudi Lake, the seats in the ten corridors are almost sold out, there are only a few scattered front seats, but they are ten gold seats.

Ying and Su bought two seats in the first row, and they sat right in front of the table, enjoying the view from a very good angle!
There are more than [-] seats for a thousand people in these ten corridors, and there are tens of thousands of people in Suzhou standing on the embankment. Yingsu and Fuyun are originally from the middle of Beijing, and they have never seen a grand gathering of thousands of people on boats. I saw them today. It is truly a spectacle.

The ten promenades meet at the center of the lake and surround the growth platform. The curtain of the platform takes the green hills in the distance as the scenery, which looks unique and elegant. There are ten gorgeous and beautiful flower boats parked on the side of the corridor. The flower boats come from various states and counties in the south. Hua Niangzijie sitting in the boat is a peerless beauty who is famous all over the world.

"dong dong dong"

Standing on the stage was a young servant, holding a gong and drum in his hand and beating three times to preach: "The ten-gallery painting boat, let's start the race. The banker has already opened, and the judges who press the painting boat please go to the stockade to place bets."

The watching people sitting in the corridor, and the people of Suzhou standing on the embankment were all very excited and clapped their hands happily, some hurriedly strode to the village boat to place good bets.

After a while, I heard the boy speak loudly: "Painted Boat No. [-], Miss Lian who watches the moon in Qianzhou"

I only saw a person coming up from the side of the stage, holding a pipa in his hand, came to the stage and sat down, raised his jade legs and put the pipa on it, tuned the string with plain hands, and played it slowly.

Although the appearance of this Lian lady is not perfect, she is also a gift of jasper, gentle and pleasant. In addition, she plays the pipa like weeping, and the first appearance also won the applause of the audience, but she deviated from this year The selected topic is estimated to have little weight in winning the championship.

After finishing playing the song, Lady Lian put away the pipa, got up and bowed to everyone, and returned to her flower boat.

"Boom"

"Painted Boat No. [-], Lady Dan, Quehualou, Qiongzhou" called her servant, beat the gong with her hand, and preached loudly.

Everyone looked over to the stage, and saw a peach pink lotus lantern being pushed up by a few strong men. Inside the lantern lay a charming woman, wearing a pleated skirt with emerald green water smoke, her slender waist was unbearable to grasp, and she shook it off with her hands. He folded his sleeves and danced lightly.

The piece played by the musicians is the famous piece "Three Advances to Xisai", which tells the story of the former general Xu Gang who volunteered to quell the rebellion in Xisai in order to protect the refugees in the frontier fortress of the Western Regions. Sleeve dance, but this Tanniang's dance skills are superb, today's sleeve dance is both rigid and soft, with hundreds of turns and turns, making the spectators enjoy themselves.

Danniang has a beautiful appearance and a variety of figures, and she dances on the lotus lantern with more novel designs, which makes people's eyes shine.

After dancing to the song, Danniang wiped away the Xiangjin with her bare hands, bowed gracefully to everyone in the audience, and moved lightly back to her cabin with lotus steps.

"Okay, okay, I think that the lady is delicate and weak, but I don't know that plain sleeves can turn into thunder." Sitting in the porch is a man wearing a silk scarf and a cloth robe.The man stretched out a piece of paper and ink on the table, holding a piece of purple in his hand, he did not look like an ordinary scholar.

"Hey, I said you don't know anything, old man. When the lady from Wanxianglou comes out, I'll show you what dancing skills are." Poor and sour, dare to comment on such occasions, disgusted and sarcastic.

Hearing this, the scholar was neither angry nor annoyed, he just put down his brush, waved his folding fan and shook it twice, looking quite like a fairy.

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