"Your Highness, see Your Highness."
"Come and sit down without courtesy, you all go down."
"Here."
"Your Highness, have you encountered trouble?"
"Well... Second sister has been unhappy ever since she came back from visiting Empress Zhaorong."
"His Royal Highness wants me to make an idea?"
"Bengong has used every method. Second sister is different from me. I like to keep everything in my heart since I was a child. If it goes on like this, I'm really afraid that she will get sick."
"Then what method did His Highness use to make the Second Highness happy in the past?"
"In the past, my second sister liked to go to the folk in disguise and join the students' poetry club, but now..."
Qi Yan's heart moved, and she said, "Why don't we take the Second Highness out of the palace for a walk?"
In this palace, Qi Yan can't do anything in the courtyard. Only when she returns to the princess' mansion can she find an excuse to go out and meet for a while with Nangong Wang's confidant: Xie An.
Nangong Jingnu shook her head: "It will be New Year's Day in ten days, and the emperor will not agree to bring it back to the palace at this juncture."
"Then... What do your Second Highness usually like?"
Nangong Jingnu glanced at Qi Yan: "I know what to ask!"
"Second sister is proficient in painting and chess."
"Painting is about the state of mind, and it would be difficult to achieve in the current state of the Second Highness. Playing the piano is a good way to express one's feelings."
"Bengong also knows, but the second sister rarely plays in front of people..."
"Can Your Highness play the piano?"
"Second sister taught me a little, but I can't play well."
"So, my servant has a solution."
"real?!"
"Well, but I have to ask Your Highness to give me an arrow, and Yunchen will leave the palace for half a day."
"it is good!"
Qi Yan took Nangong Jingnv's arrow out of the palace gate and hired a carriage to rush to Qi Mansion.
The family member was quite surprised, and knelt down to the ground: "Younger, see the concubine."
"Get up, this is not the Princess Mansion, you can just call me Master as before."
"Yes, sir. Why do you have time to come back today? I'm going to ask them to come and see my lord."
"Well, let's go."
Qi Yan returned to the bedroom, found the cage and took out the mask, and pinned it to her waist.
After a short while, more than a dozen servants, mother-in-law and maidservant, knelt outside the door, and everyone kowtowed to Qi Yan and said loudly, "See the concubine."
"You can still call me master in Qi Mansion, all get up."
"Thank you sir."
"Qian Bo, you come in with me. Everyone else is gone." Qian Yuan was the housekeeper that Xie An left to Qi Yan.
Qi Yan took the throne and asked, "How was the mansion when I was away?"
Qian Yuan considered for a moment, then replied: "Master, everything is normal in the mansion these days, and there is an endless stream of guests coming from all the mansions, the villain dare not accept it rashly, and tweeted: 'The owner of the house is not here, the villain dare not be the master. 'Please take them back with all the gifts. But the little one left all the greetings on his own initiative, so that the master can return to visit in the future."
Qi Yan nodded with satisfaction: "As expected from Xie's residence, Brother Yuanshan really gave me a big gift..."
"My lord, this is the duty of a villain."
Qi Yan let out a serious sigh: "I still remember that when I was going to test the title, Brother Yuanshan took pity on me from a poor family and sent me to this mansion. But I didn't expect His Majesty's blue eyes at Qionglin Banquet, and Brother Yuanshan's kindness to me. I'm afraid that someone Qi is not up yet. I haven't seen you for a few months in a hurry, and I miss my brother very much."
After he finished speaking, he took a sip of the tea cup.
Qian Yuan took a step forward and replied in a low voice, "Master, Master Xie sent someone here a few days ago."
"Oh? Brother Yuanshan, do you have anything to say?"
"Master Xie said: Master's style is unforgettable, I hope you will send someone to spread the word if you have time."
"Thanks to Brother Yuanshan for not giving up, but now that the New Year is approaching, I want to accompany His Highness Zhen Zhen to live in the palace, I guess I won't be free until after the Shangyuan Festival..."
"The little man will go to Xie's house in person later and bring the words of the master."
Qi Yan waved his hand: "It's not right, Brother Yuanshan is kind to me, and I mustn't be neglected because of my different status now, and go get a pen and paper."
"Yes."
Qi Yan's slender fingers flexed: Xie An is the confidant of the third prince, if he doesn't leave some "handles", how can Nangong Wang rest assured to close the net
After writing the letter, Qi Yan ordered Qian Yuan to bring over all the pilgrimages, which were quite thick. She read them one by one and handed the post back to Qianyuan: "Put it away."
"Yes."
Qi Yan got out of the Qi Mansion and boarded the carriage back to the palace, and Nangong Jingnu came out just before the main hall.
She pulled Qi Yan aside: "What did you go to get? Second sister secretly cried just now."
Qi Yan took out the jade flute: "That's it."
"Then let's start."
"Your Highness, don't be impatient, your second highness is not in the right mood at the moment, let's do it tomorrow."
…
At noon the next day, the sky was snowing. Nangong Jingnu was sympathetic to the palace servant's order: You don't need to wait outside, just go back to your house and wait for orders.
According to the plan, he ordered someone to put the guqin in the hall, and the maids in the hall were also ordered to retreat.
Nangong Shunv was watching when she heard the sound of the piano coming out of the inner hall.
Nangong Jingnv reluctantly played a song, but she made several mistakes due to her unfamiliar piano skills. Nangong Shunv sat aside and pulled Nangong Jingnv's right hand: "When plucking the strings, use the tip of your fingernail to pass the strings forward and downward. When touching the strings, your index fingers should be fully extended, and after passing the strings, your fingertips should touch the adjacent piano in front of you. On the strings. Like this…”
Nangong Shunv slowed down and played it again: "The skill of playing the piano is important, but it also requires a selfless state of mind. It's impossible to twist your body like you just now, and your shoulders are stiff."
After speaking, Nangong Shunv raised her slender hand and pressed Nangong Jingnv's back waist, and pushed forward: "The waist is firm and not stiff, and the shoulders are not stiff."
"Second sister~."
"Um?"
"Second sister, can you play a song? I'll study hard by the side."
Seeing that her always active sister wanted to learn, Nangong Shunv readily agreed: "Okay."
Nangong Shunv deliberately slowed down, and the sound of the piano was leisurely and gentle. Just halfway through the song, there was a long sound of Xiao suddenly floating from outside the hall, as if inviting.
Nangong Shunv was slightly startled: she opened her slender hand and pressed it on the strings, and the sound of the piano stopped abruptly.
Who is having fun in the forbidden palace? I was relieved to think that this was the Weiyang Palace.
Royal Father's license: exempted from many rules of Weiyang Palace. My little sister once set up a stage here, and invited her and the Fifth Prince to watch...
Although the sound of the qin stopped and the sound of the xiao did not stop, Nangong Shunu felt that the other party's fingering was superb, and the artistic conception of the song was still good, not like a show off and speculative generation.
Nangong Jingnu was a little nervous: Can Qi Yan's method work
The people outside the hall changed a tune, and the sound of the xiao was like weeping and complaining, which happened to reflect the mood of Nangong Shunv at the moment.
Nangong Shunv listened quietly for a moment, and at the end of a measure, she plucked the strings at the right time.
Nangong Shunv also did not retain her strength, and the delicate sound of the piano was like a mountain and flowing water, trickling out.
Sometimes gentle, sometimes sharp.
The amazing thing is: Qin Xiao's masters have never seen each other, but the two voices blend together wonderfully.
Nangong Jingnv held her breath and looked at Nangong Shunv's slender hands beating on the strings, and the beautiful voice kept hitting her heart.
Sudden! An abrupt syllable came from outside the hall, a little sharp.
Qi Yan was extremely shocked: Nangong Shunv's piano skills are amazing! I almost leaked my mind just now!
At the end of the song, Nangong Shu Nu's forehead was oozing with fine beads of sweat, and her chest was also heaving abnormally. She stared blankly at the calm strings, speechless.
It took her more than ten years to be obsessed with the piano, and she has always been lonely and self-pity but forgot that there are people outside people, and there are days outside the world.
Nangong Shun murmured absentmindedly: "I didn't know what the song meant when I first heard it, but suddenly I have become the person in the song..."
She lived carefully, only when she disguised herself out of the palace: she felt that she was also a living person who could have emotions and flesh.
An innocent and absurd finger marriage ended the short-lived beauty. Nangong Shu did not know how to convince herself to be a dignified and good wife, but her husband forced her to hand over white silk when she returned home three times!
The silk handkerchief was taken away by Zongzheng Temple, she became a stain on the royal family, and even her biological mother scolded her bitterly.
Nangong Jingnu listened to the truth, and she felt a sour feeling.
After a long time, Nangong Shu returned to her senses and asked eagerly, "Jing Nu, who is playing the flute?"
Nangong Jingnu opened her mouth, but abruptly swallowed the word "Qi Yan" back.
"I gonna go see."
"I will go with you!"
Pushing open the hall door, a gust of cold wind poured into the hall.
The courtyard has long been empty, leaving only a row of shallow footprints on the snow.
Nangong Shunv's gaze followed the footprints and stopped at the rockery: "Jingnv, do you have a man with a dongxiao in your palace?"
"I, ask Chuntao tomorrow."
"It's work."
"Second sister..."
"Um?"
"He... how is that person's Xiao Ji?"
Nangong Shunv thought for a moment, then replied seriously: "His rhythm attainments are higher than mine, so it's not easy to evaluate."
"Oh."
"but… "
"what?"
"If I'm not mistaken, the other party is at least thirty years old. You can use this clue to find it."
Nangong Shunv can feel: the sound of the xiao contains deep and restrained emotions, if it hadn't been through a lot of wind and frost, and seen the world's various states, it would not have been determined to interpret it.
This is also the reason why she didn't think about Qi Yan. From Nangong Shunv's point of view, Qi Yan was just a cautious but occasionally reckless, stiff and polite person. Although the young man suffered misfortune, it didn't seem to have much impact on him, such a deep Xiao sound was not something Qi Yan could control. Moreover, the person who plays the flute has superb fingering, and it must be Xiao who is always inseparable, and he has never seen Qi Yan lead Xiao.
Hearing what Nangong Shunv said, Nangong Jingnv's mood turned bright: "It turns out that in the second sister's heart, Qi Yan is an old man!"
Could it be... Didn't the second sister and Qi Yan heard him blow the flute when they were together? Curiosity was magnified infinitely, and she felt a little bit nervous, so she decided to find an opportunity to ask Qi Yan.
Qi Yan hurriedly returned to the side hall, the first thing was to find a wooden box to seal up her white jade flute.
At this time, she was still a little frightened: she almost revealed her suppressed thoughts for many years just now!
Fortunately, Nangong Shunv's piano skills have not yet reached the perfect stage, so she barely suppressed the sound of the piano and stopped talking.
The monstrous hatred is surging, Qi Yan can't wait to turn into a karmic fire and burn everything in this world!