Murong Yong stopped halfway up the stairs, raised his eyebrows, and looked towards the stage again with a smile on his face.
The next moment, an actress in an emerald green dress, as beautiful as a peach or plum, appeared on the stage gracefully. Her hair was full of pearls and jade, and she was bright and lively. Her every move revealed a bright temperament.
This beautiful appearance and figure drew praises from the whole room.
The girl in blue is the singing girl in the play, who falls in love with the prince of the marquis's mansion at first sight because he saves her heroically.
The girl in blue dance danced gracefully with her sleeves on the stage, singing out the girl's deepest feelings in a moving voice full of charm.
"Hold this Qingyi." Chu Yi pointed at the Qingyi who had just appeared on the stage.
Gu Yanfei glanced at the Qingyi who was flying around on the stage like a butterfly, and asked curiously, "How do you praise her?"
She tilted her head slightly, supported her chin with her right hand, and her eyes gleamed with interest.
"..." Chu Yi was speechless for a rare moment, with a subtle expression. For a moment, one almost saw a curious cat's tail wagging behind her.
He sighed quietly in his heart, not knowing whether he should be grateful that Gu Yanfei was not distant with him, or if this girl was really heartless.
Chu Yi considered his words carefully and said, "Murong Yong loves to listen to operas and music. He is a frequent visitor to major theaters and entertainment venues in the capital. In addition to Murong Mansion, he also has a house in his own name and often stays there."
Taking into account that Gu Yanfei was an unmarried girl after all, Chu Yi did not mention things like "keeping an actress" or "keeping a mistress", but the implication was clear.
After finishing speaking, Chu Yi lowered his head to drink again, his long eyelashes trembling slightly.
The young man, who was usually calm and composed, showed a rare sense of uneasiness at this moment.
Gu Yanfei was drinking carelessly and didn't notice Chu Yi's strange behavior at all. The more he listened, the more he felt that Murong Yong was really unreliable.
In the previous life, Murong Yong did not cancel the engagement because of Gu Yunzhen's disfigurement. She thought that the Murong family should be an upright family and there was nothing wrong with Murong Yong's character.
Plus, Gu Yunzhen only reports good news and never bad news.
Thinking about it now, her understanding of Murong Yong in her previous life was still too superficial.
Now listening to Chu Yi talking about this, I can't help but feel a little upset.
Gu Yanfei once again thought of Gu Yunzhen's bleak fate. He also thought of how Gu Yunzhen looked a little haggard when she occasionally returned to her parents' home after getting married in her previous life. He couldn't recover for a long time.
At this moment, a thought clearly emerged: Maybe, in the previous life, Gu Yunzhen and Murong Yong's marriage was not as good as outsiders imagined...
I'm afraid I have some preconceived ideas.
"good!"
There was a sudden burst of excited cheers from below, followed by thunderous applause.
Gu Yanfei lowered his eyes and looked towards the stage downstairs.
The plot gradually reached its climax.
When the singing girl learned that the prince of the Marquisate had a fiancée, she took the lotus fan that the prince had left behind and ran to the palace to find the princess, saying that the prince did not like red tape, rules and etiquette, and that the engagement with the princess was just a responsibility; she said that the prince belonged to the underworld, and asked the princess to help her and her lover, and returned the lotus fan painted by the princess to its original owner...
The princess was so distraught that she fainted, causing the audience to sigh.
The scene is over.
The palace lanterns on the stage were extinguished, the curtain was lowered above, and the sound of stringed instruments came to an abrupt end.
The audience was still not satisfied and finally found their voices at this moment, discussing the scene that had just happened.
Sometimes he said that the Huadan was indeed worthy of its reputation, sometimes he said that the Huadan and Qingyi were beautiful and pretty, each with its own merits, and sometimes he commented on the singing and body movements of those actors...
Everyone was talking loudly and drinking to their heart's content.
The atmosphere is very lively.
A waiter happily beat the gong and drum below and shouted, "The guest with the number of Tianzi C will give Miss He Yanxia a reward of 100 taels of gold."
He Yanxia is the stage name of that Qingyi actress.
Then, Qingyi came out from the backstage, bowed to everyone and thanked them in public.
The crowd was shocked.
After all, one hundred taels of gold is equivalent to one thousand taels of silver! Thunderous applause rang out from below, one after another, and the atmosphere in the theater became more and more heated.
Looking at the people below marveling at him, Murong Yong curled the corners of his mouth, feeling quite proud.
He curled the corners of his lips and was about to call the waiter when his eyes swept across the gate and saw a tall, familiar figure walking into Tianyin Pavilion.
He was a sturdy man in his fifties, with silver strands in his temples and a rough beard on his dark face. He was wearing a brown brocade robe with the Eight Immortals pattern, which wrapped his belly. He walked with firm steps and seemed to have an aura of majesty without even getting angry.
He walked down the stairs quickly, walked towards the visitor with a smile on his face, and bowed, saying, "Master Wei..., what a coincidence."
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Murong Yong couldn't reveal the other party's true identity, so he called him Master Wei.
"You are Murong..." Master Wei also had some impression of Murong Yong. He remembered that his last name was Murong and that he had made a not-so-small military achievement not long ago, but that was all.
"Junior Murong Yong." Murong Yong immediately said, with a respectful yet warm smile on his face, and greeted the other party, "It turns out that Master Wei also likes to watch plays like this junior."
Gu Yanfei, who was sitting in the elegant seat on the second floor, was looking down at the two people who were chatting happily. She raised her eyebrows, pointed at the "Master Wei" and said casually, "Oh, this person is about to be in trouble."
The black energy on his forehead looks like ink has been poured on his head!
All beings are equal. Birth, aging, sickness and death are the normal state of life. No matter whether you are a high-ranking official or an ordinary citizen, you cannot escape these four words: after all, “you bring nothing with you when you are born and you take nothing with you when you die.”
"Besides," Gu Yanfei's eyes flickered between the eyebrows of "Master Wei", and he pinched his sleeve with his right hand, and added, "at most a cup of tea."
Chu Yi also saw the person coming from below, raised his beautiful sword-like eyebrows slightly, and whispered: "Duke Weiguo?"
So this is the Duke of Wei! Gu Yanfei took another look.
There are four dukes in the Da Jing Dynasty, whose titles are hereditary and whose positions in the court are still stable. However, Gu Yanfei doesn't know much about the other three dukes besides the Duke of Yingguo, and he has never seen them.
Gu Yanfei blinked, pointed at Duke Weiguo and asked, "Is this person important?" She was referring to Chu Yi.
She asked quite directly, so Chu Yi also answered directly: "Three generations of important officials, every move they make has its weight."
Seeing that Gu Yanfei was listening attentively, Chu Yi continued, "The grandfather of Duke Wei Shen of Weiguo was the first Duke Wei Ding of Weiguo."
"Wei Ding met Emperor Taizu when he was in decline. The two became sworn brothers. Wei Ding was the most trusted by Emperor Taizu and even married Emperor Taizu's sister, Princess Jiade."
"Wei Ding is an upright person with great ambitions. When the late emperor proposed to depose the crown prince, he scolded him so much that he didn't dare to get angry."
Gu Yanfei tilted her head. She was good at math, but she was too impatient to calculate the family generations. She went through a detour in her mind before she figured out the relationships between the characters.
In other words, Wei Ding is the uncle of the late emperor, and the current Duke of Wei, Wei Shen, is the cousin of the current emperor and the uncle of Chu Yi.
Chu Yi took a sip of wine and talked about the first Duke of Wei and the current Duke of Wei, Wei Shen: "Wei Ding's eldest and second sons died in battle at a young age. Wei Shen was raised by Wei Ding since he was a child and has inherited his grandfather's style."
"When Wei Shen was young, he went to the northwest to guard the border for more than ten years. He made great achievements in battle and made the Western Rong people surrender. They dared not to invade our Dajing again."
Wei Shen had tremendous military achievements and was one of the most powerful figures in the army. Therefore, even after Wei Ding's death, the late emperor had some grudges against the Weiguo Mansion, but he could do nothing about it.
Chu Yi knew that Gu Yanfei had just arrived in the capital and might not understand much about state affairs, so he explained it in a little more detail.
Gu Yanfei really didn't understand state affairs. When she was in the Yaoling Realm, she only focused on her cultivation. In her previous life, she was just a little girl trapped in a marquis' mansion, drifting with the flow.
However, Gu Yanfei is smart and clever. After her trip to the Yaoling Realm, she has seen a wider world and her horizons have broadened. She seems to have been reborn. Now, she not only understands things at a glance, but can also draw inferences from one example.
Gu Yanfei smiled and gently stroked the plum blossom jade hairpin. The touch under her fingers was warm and delicate, and a faint spiritual energy lingered around her fingertips.
"Can I help you?"
Since Wei Shen holds a very important position in the imperial court, he must also be very important to Chu Yi, who is as unlucky as himself.
Gu Yanfei's fingertips gently stroked the plum blossom on one end of the hairpin, as if he was carefully feeling the veins of each petal.
She was in a good mood, and that bright smile naturally appeared at the corners of her eyes and eyebrows, like pearls and jade, bright and beautiful.
Her smile is very contagious, flowing into people's hearts like a river of spring water or a gust of spring breeze.
Chu Yi stared at her blankly, absent-minded for a moment, ripples appeared in his heart, and the corners of his lips curled up slightly.
My mouth was one step faster than my brain: "Okay."
When Chu Yi regained his senses, he realized his gaffe. He tried to cover up by reaching for the wine glass. The wine seemed sweeter and mellower in his mouth, making him feel a little tipsy.
The sound of gongs and drums outside rang out again, indicating that the second act of the play had begun.
There was a new bed on the stage, and a female lead holding a folding fan was lying on the bed with her eyes closed. The thick black eyeliner made her skin look even paler, and she revealed a hint of charm that made people feel pity for her.
The theater was suddenly silent, and he was the undisputed protagonist here.
Gu Yanfei stared at the actress with great interest. His body was still surrounded by rich scarlet color, and the blood-like airflow made him look as charming as a flower and as enchanting as a fox.
“It’s really beautiful.”
Gu Yanfei murmured, the smile on her lips deepened, dimples appeared on her cheeks.
(End of this chapter)
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