169 Douqin
Now, Gu Yanfei was sure that he understood.
"I will help you!" Gu Yanfei said with a smile, with a confident curve curled up at the corner of his lips.
A few strands of messy hair were blown by the cold wind to caress her jade-like cheeks, making her look elegant and dignified.
Wei Jiaoniang and Lu Qin looked at each other again, and they burst out laughing almost at the same time, laughing like a bell.
Both of them snuggled up on Gu Yanfei's shoulders intimately, allowing Gu Yanfei to deeply feel what it means to embrace left and right.
Several gazes around him looked at the three of them.
While talking and laughing, the group came to the Imperial Garden.
The palace maid Liu Shuang in charge took the girls to a three-bedroom water pavilion by the lake.
The Tinglan Water Pavilion had been laid out in advance. The house was filled with incense, and the ground was covered with wool carpets, piano tables, desks and chairs, book cases, chess boards, etc. There were several silver frost and charcoal basins burned inside, and the temperature was suitable.
As soon as the girls who were almost frozen entered, they felt as if they had come back to life and took off their cloaks.
"Girl!"
Wei Jiaoniang, Gu Yanfei and the others walked to the gate of the water pavilion, and a girl in green waved to Wei Jiaoni happily.
Wei Jiaoniang took the tung oil umbrella and handed it to a palace maid next to her. She turned her head and whispered to Gu Yanfei: "The eldest prince will definitely come later."
She also made a calculation posture like Gu Yanfei, as if she was saying that this god's calculation just calculated.
Gu Yanfei and Lu Qin were amused by her, and their laughter was pleasant and joyful, and they crossed the threshold together.
In the water pavilion, most of the girls have already sat down, and there is still a clear distinction between nobles and noble families. The noble girls sit in the east and noble families sit in the west.
Behind a rosewood shell-inlaid piano case against the western wall, a woman from a noble family who described her dignified and beautiful sitting gracefully, putting her hands on the strings. She first tried the piano sound, then plucked the strings with her slender fingers and played a song "High Mountains and Flowing Water".
Meeting soulmates when the mountains and flowing waters are flowing.
I play "High Mountains and Flowing Water" naturally to wait for my soulmate.
Wei Jiaoniang signaled Gu Yanfei and Lu Qin to see the girl playing the piano with her eyes, and whispered: "They must have received the news, otherwise what kind of piano will be playing this winter."
While they were talking, they came to the girl in green. Wei Jiaoniang asked with a smile: "What are we playing?"
"Play hide and seek." The girl in Cuiyi suggested.
Lu Qin immediately rejected without thinking: "How to play in such a small place? It's snowing outside now."
As she said that, she pushed a window out and looked at the lake outside the water pavilion. The clear water sparkled in the wind and snow.
"Let's feed the fish." Lu Qin's eyes rolled and she suggested with a smile, "I heard that there are many gold and silver scales in this lake, and her body is covered with golden or silver scales, which looks so beautiful."
Lu Qin was excited to call the palace maids to get fish food.
Wei Jiaoniang pointed at Lu Qin's forehead and told Gu Yanfei with a smile: "Yan Fei, A Qin is just too lazy to move if the weather is cold."
Lu Qin stuck out his tongue playfully, frown at Gu Yanfei, smiling at him without any shame at all.
Two boxes of fish food were quickly presented, and the girls fed the fish, appreciated the fish, ate snacks, and talked and laughed.
At the door, a middle-aged eunuch with white face and no need to ask a few palace maids to pour tea and water, and occasionally add fruit and snacks to the plate, while he leaned out from time to time and looked out.
After a while, a little eunuch finally arrived late with a tray.
The middle-aged eunuch took the tray and personally brought the white porcelain wine pot and a few wine glasses on the tray.
Wei Jiaoniang's nose moved, she smelled the trace of wine in the air, and blurted out: "Qionghualu."
As he said that, Wei Jiaoni touched her chin, and a thoughtful look appeared on her face.
These foreign ministers and female relatives who came to the palace should not drink casually except for attending palace banquets. They were afraid of losing their manners in front of the emperor. This is the rule, so the palace people would not drink casually.
Wei Jiaoniang narrowed her eyes and looked up and down at the palace servant who was serving wine, thinking: Could this be a conspiracy?
In an instant, all the scripts about palace fighting that Wei Jiaoniang had seen appeared in her mind.
But the next moment, Gu Yanfei raised his eyebrows and said to the middle-aged eunuch: "It's you."
"It's a slave." The middle-aged eunuch was somewhat flattered and hurriedly said, "The slave's surname is He."
This Eunuch He was the one who took the sedan chair to Xihuamen to pick up Gu Yanfei.
Eunuch He said respectfully: "This Qionghualu was given to Miss Gu Er by His Highness the Great Prince."
He lowered his eyebrows and took the pot of wine to the table, and then poured a glass of wine for Gu Yanfei.
"It's really Qionghualu, Jiao Niang, your nose is still so flexible." Lu Qin praised in surprise, and exchanged a look with Wei Jiao Niang tacitly, meaning that the eldest prince is really a scheming person.
"That's it." Wei Jiaoniang touched her nose smugly, blinked her right eye, and said a pun.
Wei Jiaoniang's grandfather, Duke Wei Guo, enjoys wine. Although Wei Jiaoniang has average alcohol tolerance, she has a good nose. As long as it is the wine she had drunk before, she will know it as soon as she smells it.
The wine in the white porcelain cup is a light amber color, crystal clear and pleasant.
Gu Yanfei sniffed his eyes and tasted the clear fragrance of wine. He remembered that she had once told Chu Yi casually that she wanted to taste Qionghualu. She forgot about it, but she didn't expect that he still remembered it.
"Eunuch He, thank the eldest prince for me." Gu Yanfei curled his lips and smiled, and said generously to Eunuch He.
Eunuch He smiled and took the empty tray back, thinking to himself: Miss Gu Er seems to like eating candied fruit, especially the carved plum balls that ate several more than the ones next to her, so I have to ask someone to get some.
"Give me a glass?" Gu Yanfei smiled and poured a glass of wine for Wei Jiaoniang, Lu Qin and the other three girls at the same table.
As the wine poured down from the mouth of the pot, the aroma of wine overflowed, and the pleasant aroma of wine dissipated a little.
Wei Jiaoniang and Lu Qin took the lead in raising the glasses. The other two girls were also not particular about the details and held the wine glasses one after another. Only one girl in pink was a little hesitant, thinking that drinking in the palace was inappropriate after all.
Wei Jiaoniang took a sip of the wine and savored it carefully: "Gingerchid lucidum, honey, wolfberry, and..."
She tilted her little face and concentrated on savoring the smell in her mouth. She always felt that there was an indescribable smell in the wine.
"Shaoyao." A smiley voice sounded in Wei Jiaoniang's ears.
Wei Jiaoniang's eyes lit up and she nodded quickly: "It's Shaoyao."
"Yan Fei, your tongue is more powerful than mine!"
Lu Qin said, "With this peony, the Qionghua Dew will be fragrant but not bright, mellow and elegant, with a long and sweet taste."
"Good wine, it's really good wine!"
The girls praised.
The crisp and lively laughter floated clearly in the water pavilion, adding a little vitality to this cold winter.
"It's so noisy!"
On the west side of the water pavilion, a girl in yellow sitting next to the piano desk said coldly, without any concealing her displeasure.
"I can't even enjoy the piano well." Another girl in blue frowned and looked at Gu Yanfei. Wei Jiaoniang and the others, with red lips tightly snorted coldly, "What kind of morality is it to make noise in the palace!"
The melodious sound of the piano was continuous. The girl in purple who was playing the piano rang and stroked the piano with her fingers, looked at the strings with her eyes focused on her face, and her eyebrows were frowning.
The other girls from several aristocratic families nodded in the same feeling and said to themselves: These noble women are really vulgar in their behavior and are difficult to enter the elegant hall.
The noisy noise made their good mood of listening to the piano and enjoying the snow.
Only Yu Chaoyun's expression remained unchanged. With the gesture of stroking his sleeves, he stroked the incense ball inside his sleeves and reminded him lightly: "They may plan to do the same as they did when they were in Shanglinyuan last time..."
As soon as these words came out, the faces of the others here changed instantly. They couldn't help but remember that Wei Jiaoniang and the others deliberately used the sound of gongs and drums to disrupt the sound of the piano outside the hunting ground that day.
At that time, I accidentally broke the string while playing the piano. It was so hateful! Miss Zeng, dressed in yellow, stroked her fingers gently, and her fingertips recalled the pain of breaking the string that day.
Miss Zeng repeatedly stroked her slightly trembling fingertips, bit her lower lip with her jade teeth, and squeezed out four words from her teeth: "It's too much to deceive others."
After all, didn’t Wei Jiaoniang dare to be so arrogant just because she relied on the support of Duke Wei?
"Miss Yu said, they must have done it on purpose!" The girl in blue pressed her voice low and barely maintained the style of a noble family girl.
The girl in purple who was playing the piano naturally heard their conversation, and her fingers trembled and the sound of the piano was splattered.
She locked her eyebrows tightly and simply pressed the strings, and the sound of the piano stopped abruptly.
As the surroundings became quiet, the laughter from the right seemed to become more harsh.
"I see..." Yu Chaoyun said again, the two words attracted the attention of the girls of aristocratic families.
Yu Chaoyun continued slowly and said, "It's better to play the piano with them."
Piano fight?
All the girls from aristocratic families were stunned and looked at each other.
Piano fighting is a tradition in the Dajing Dynasty.
It is rumored that during the reign of Emperor Taizu, he often visited the people in private and understood the people's feelings.
One year when Emperor Taizu went to Yangzhou, he met a pleasure boat on a boat on the Qinhuai River. The two sides had a dispute over giving way, and two large ships were stuck in the river, making it difficult for other ships to travel.
Emperor Taizu saw a beautiful beauty on the boat, and heard that the beauty was Hua Qingyi, the number one talented woman in Yangzhou, with outstanding piano skills, so he suggested fighting with the other party. Whoever loses will give way.
Hua Qingyi accepted the challenge. After the song, Emperor Taizu sighed, "This song only comes from heaven, how many times can I hear it in the world?" He sighed that he was not as good as it was, and he even admitted that he lost it without playing it.
Emperor Taizu had a heart of pity for talent and beauty, but unfortunately King Xiang was willing and the goddess was unintentional. Hua Qingyi politely rejected Emperor Taizu's beauty and studied piano skills all his life. Later, he became a great master of his generation and became famous all over the world.
Since then, women in the Dajing Dynasty have developed the tradition of playing piano.
When fighting the piano, what is "fighting" is not "intense" but "talent".
Miss Zeng raised her eyebrows and glanced at Wei Jiaoniang and others, and said with a little sarcastic look: "How can they play the piano?"
"How can this firefly light compete with the sun and the moon?" The girl in purple said with a smile, and she plucked the strings of the piano casually. Her posture was elegant, and her slender fingers were like orchids and jade.
The same ridicule and disdain appeared on the faces of several girls from other aristocratic families.
It is said that all the noble ladies of these noble families can pull bows on horseback and carry swords off the horseback. With their thick hands and feet, even if they have learned the piano for a few days, they will be just half a bucket of water!
It’s almost the same for them to beat drums and drums!
Chapter completed!