When Ning Xihua heard Little White Flower running away, she just raised her eyebrows and waited until she played a short section before gently stroking the strings.
Then he raised his hands, and the sound of swords and spears rang out, completely tearing apart the prosperity of the elegant music.
The sound of war drums rang out, and the sounds of fighting filled the air. Silver spears and blue blood, iron horses and icy rivers, the roar and blood on the battlefield came to my face along with the sound of the piano.
Lin Mengli suddenly played a wrong note.
She quickly calmed herself down and tried hard to regain her previous mood in playing the piano.
But Ning Xihua's piano sound was too overbearing, so she could only bring the song back to its original tune. It no longer had the magnificent artistic conception it had before, and it was even so weak that she could only survive under the sound of Ning Xihua's swords.
"Zheng", accompanied by Ning Xihua's heavy sound again, the swords broke the formation, and Lin Mengli's strings suddenly broke.
She stopped and looked at the broken string in disbelief, not even hearing Hongniang's scream from behind that her hand was injured.
She bit her lips tightly, raised her head and looked at the girl opposite her with a pale face, who seemed to be glowing all over.
As Lin Mengli's string broke, Ning Xihua's piano music suddenly turned from intense to peaceful.
The autumn wind is howling, the weapons are no longer in use, the moon is high in the sky, and corpses are everywhere. One general's success is the result of the sacrifice of thousands of people, and the sadness is layered with the sound of the Xiaose, touching the heartstrings.
When the sorrow reaches its peak, the sound of the piano changes again, revealing a hint of warmth.
It is the riverside of my hometown, the flying catkins, the peaceful town, the bustling market, and the blushing girl left behind in the spring.
The sound of the piano slowly tells of the homesickness, no longer sad, no longer lonely, but also overflowing with a glimmer of hope. It is a beautiful blessing for the people you miss, and also a firm protection for your hometown behind you.
In the end, the complex piano sounds disappeared, leaving only a simple tune with an exotic flavor. It was a homesickness tune that was popular in the frontier, clear and moving, slowly lingering in everyone's heart.
When the song ended, the audience fell silent.
It took a long while before someone responded, followed by the crowd's ardent gazes and enthusiastic applause.
Everyone was amazed. They really couldn't believe that Princess Yuexi's piano skills were so superb. The complex emotions contained in this piano piece were not something that an ordinary lady could play out.
"The princess is worthy of being the daughter of a general! This song fully expresses the bravery of our frontier soldiers! In the future, we will live up to the aspirations of our ancestors and promote the prestige of Dali!" The ambitious young man had tears in his eyes, and after listening to this song, he wanted to serve the country wholeheartedly.
"I wonder if the surviving soldier finally returned to his hometown he missed? Did he see his beloved girl?" The sentimental girl covered her face and cried, worrying whether the lovers would finally get married.
Everyone feels different emotions from this magnificent, yet gentle and sad melody, either excitement or sadness, either desolate or full of hope.
Lin Mengli could not hide her embarrassment and disappointment. She looked at her hands in a daze, and the wounds on her fingers caused by the broken strings were still bleeding quietly.
Everything has changed...
It became Ning Xihua standing in the crowd accepting praises, while she could only stay in the corner with no one paying attention to her. Perhaps someone was secretly laughing at her, saying that she was not even as good as Ning Xihua.
All the noise and praise at the scene had nothing to do with her; she had nothing.
Looking at the blood in front of her, she felt like everything was a nightmare from which she would never wake up.
Why did it turn out like this?
The fourth princess here, however, gnashed her teeth, secretly hating Ning Xihua for letting the damn thing steal the spotlight again.
Lin Mengli usually looks like a talented lady, but she is so useless at the critical moment that she can't even suppress Ning Xihua.
She was a little unwilling and said in a gloomy tone, "I didn't expect the princess to be so secretive. I haven't even heard of this song before, and I don't know which master wrote it."
Ning Xihua didn't care much about people's praise, but when she saw the little white flower's sad expression and the fourth princess's frustrated look, her mood suddenly became cheerful.
She curled her lips and said modestly, "Most of the servants in my family are retired soldiers and their families. I was inspired to compose this song after hearing their stories at the frontier. As for my zither skills, as the princess said, I got them from my mother."
"Prince Ning's Mansion is worthy of being the backbone of our Dali! It treats the soldiers so well!" Everyone continued to flatter after hearing this.
Song Yi behind her almost laughed out loud. Her princess was really miserable.
The fourth princess hinted that her princess's only advantage was the novelty of the song, to which the princess directly retorted that she had written it herself, and in the process also gained some favor for Prince Ning's Mansion by taking in the old soldier.
He even said frankly that his hidden musical skills were taught by the long-deceased Princess Ning, which really gave him a slap in the face.
Ning Xihua also thought it was quite a coincidence that Lin Mengli and the Fourth Princess were trying to compete with her in other things, which she really couldn't do. But she had been playing the zither since she was a child.
The director of the welfare home used to be a guzheng teacher, so there is no common piano in the welfare home, only guzheng.
When they were young, many children pestered her to teach them piano in order to please the dean's mother. But in the end, only Ning Xihua insisted.
During her three years in Yizhou, she not only learned a lot of etiquette and common sense of this world from the maids just in case, but also invited a female teacher who was famous for her zither skills in Yizhou to teach her to play the zither, so that she could integrate ancient music with modern skills.
Therefore, Song Yi and the people in Prince Ning's Mansion had no doubts about their princess' sudden improvement in piano skills. They just felt proud that their princess was a natural genius.
"I think this song is nothing but a whining song and a show of sentimentality!"
Suddenly a voice of disdain was heard, interrupting everyone's flattery.
Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw a man in white clothes, wearing a golden crown, walking with his head held high from outside the garden, accompanied by a large group of servants.
After seeing who was coming, everyone turned to look at Princess Yue Xi, then turned to look at Lin Mengli, and then looked at each other. They all kept silent, but there was a hint of gossip in their eyes.
How can I not be excited! The protagonists of the rumored love triangle are all here!
Ning Xihua turned her head and saw the man with sharp eyebrows, sharp eyes, deep features and handsome appearance. Although he was wearing a white robe, his noble aura was as prominent as the golden crown on his head, which could not be concealed.
There was an undisguised look of contempt on his face, which did not destroy his handsomeness, but instead added a touch of arrogance and majesty of a superior.
Looking at this man's typical Mary Sue male protagonist appearance and then looking at everyone's reactions, Ning Xihua knew with her toes that this was the original book's male protagonist Su Xu who came to support the female protagonist.
In Ning Xihua's opinion, Su Xu himself is not much like the original body's memory. Maybe it's because the original body's love filter has been removed. Ning Xihua only thinks that this person is more like a proud peacock.
Just like his white clothes and golden crown, he seems to want to be noble, but at the same time afraid that others don’t know his nobility and uniqueness.
Compared with the stunning yet frightening man in white whom he met on the boat before, Su Xu was not defeated at all.