Chapter 292: Kind-hearted People
As far as Liu Lan knew, Wang Zhaojun was the only woman who successfully escaped from the cold palace while still alive.
Wang Zhaojun was the woman that Xiao Zhaoshi admired the most in her life. The year when Zhaojun went to the frontier was also the year when Liu Man was born. Xiao Zhaoshi told her that Wang Zhaojun had held her, teased her, and liked her very much.
An old lady asked Liu Lan, "Isn't there an anecdote that says that when Wang Zhaojun was on her long journey to marry into the Xiongnu, she missed her hometown and played a farewell song on her guqin. The sound of the guqin was so sad that everyone who heard it could not help but cry. Even the wild geese flying in the sky were attracted by her sound of the guqin. After seeing her beauty, the wild geese forgot to flap their wings and finally fell to the ground. That's why the phrase 'falling wild geese' was used."
"I have always been curious, is Wang Zhaojun's music really so magical? Is she really that beautiful?" As she spoke, the old lady looked at Liu Lan for a few times and smiled, "You are already very beautiful, and I haven't seen any wild geese falling from the sky! Could it be that Wang Zhaojun is really a fairy?"
Liu Man was embarrassed.
The old lady is quite good at joking, and the fans in the live broadcast room also burst into laughter.
"That's because we're still missing the guqin, a prop. How about Princess take some time to take the guqin to a place like the Ancient Post Road, play a tune, and try it out?"
"It's so funny. I don't know if it will attract wild geese, but I just know that the anchor is probably going to be dried up by the Gobi sun."
"Can't we go at night?"
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"It's night time for the geese to sleep, okay?"
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Fans teased her in various ways, but Liu Man had mixed feelings. She told the old lady, "When Wang Zhaojun left the cold palace, she was skinny, haggard, and vicissitudes of life. She was not at all as beautiful as described in these later stories."
The old lady asked, "How do you know what Wang Zhaojun looked like at that time?"
Of course Liu Lan would not say that it was Xiao Zhao who told her. In fact, even without Xiao Zhao telling her, she could imagine what Wang Zhaojun looked like by looking at the other women in the cold palace around her.
"I'm guessing. Maybe Wang Zhaojun once had a stunning beauty, but any woman who stayed in the cold palace for three years would become the same."
"What does it look like?"
Liu Man said, "A resentful woman."
The old lady was startled.
Fans are also discussing:
"My lady princess, you are talking nonsense so seriously that I almost believed it!"
"I don't believe it. Wang Zhaojun is one of the four great beauties in my country! When she went to the frontier, the emperor personally escorted her ten miles out of Chang'an. He must have been reluctant to let her go because of her beauty. If she was really as ugly as the anchor described, the emperor would definitely not have mobilized so many troops to create such a big scene."
"The princess said she was just telling a story, why is the person upstairs taking it so seriously?"
When Liu Lan saw this message, she felt ironic. How many kings would really indulge in beauty? They were all for outsiders to see. There was no ugly woman in the cold palace!
She told her fans, "I think the emperor left Chang'an not to send Wang Zhaojun away, but to show the diplomatic etiquette of a monarch and send the Xiongnu leader home. In politics, women are just objects, but later generations over-beautified this story and described the emperor as if he had never seen a beautiful woman."
A "puff" of laughter came from beside Liu Lan.
Liu Lan looked in the direction of the voice and saw a middle-aged man wearing glasses, hanging out in the elderly’s house. She felt strange: wasn’t this a group of senior citizens? How come a middle-aged man had suddenly appeared?
Liu Lan didn't think much about it and continued telling stories to her fans and the elderly until it was half dark, when the elderly left the front hall reluctantly.
Liu Lan and Zhou Budai couldn't tell whether the tour guide really abandoned the guests or was just angry. They were worried about the elderly people's safety, so they followed them to the main entrance of the film and television base, where the tour buses were parked.
Everyone looked around but couldn't find the tour bus that brought them.
The tour guide really abandoned the tourists and left with the driver!
The old man was dumbfounded.
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