When I came to the concert hall, I looked around. It looked like a stage in later generations. There was a high wooden platform in front and several rows of chairs in the back.
When you were outside the hall, you could still hear the sound of silk and bamboo music inside, but when you came inside, the sound of silk and bamboo had stopped.
I saw an old man with a yellow face and a group of people walking over from the direction of the wooden platform.
The people on the chairs stood up one after another, looked around, and talked about it, looking like they were watching the excitement.
The old man came to the three of them, his cloudy old eyes turned around Wu Chengsi and Liu Lanshuang, and asked: "Which one of you is Liu Zixian?"
This old man must be the manager of the music hall. It seems that just as Liu Lanshuang said, this is her first time here, otherwise the old man would not fail to recognize her.
The strange thing is that even though it was her first time here, the shopkeeper and the waiter behind him both glared at her.
Some even rolled up their sleeves, as if they were going to fight if they disagreed.
Liu Lanshuang didn't care about the hostility of these people and said: "I am."
The old man snorted and said, "What are you doing here?"
Liu Lanshuang said calmly: "I'm here to see Mr. Wang Bo'an."
The old man's face turned red and he said angrily: "You are such a ignorant boy. You are so overestimating your own abilities that you dare to come to see Mr. Wang!"
Seeing that the other party was extremely angry, Wu Chengsi couldn't help but become more curious.
My wife is such a delicate and beautiful woman, even in cross-dress, she is still a handsome young man. Why do these people hate her so much?
A young waiter behind the shopkeeper suddenly said: "Liu Zixian, Mr. Wang is very old, just let him go!"
The shopkeeper was about to nod in agreement, but suddenly felt something was wrong, turned around and yelled: "You brat, what are you talking about?"
Suddenly someone in the crowd of onlookers laughed and said: "I think that boy is right. Although Master Wang is famous, he may not be Liu Zixian's opponent!"
Another person shouted: "Yes, Liu Zixian even defeated Zhang Mo and Xu Weiyi, Master Wang can't compare to these two masters, right?"
The shopkeeper said angrily: "Nonsense! Master Zhang Mo is famous for his piano skills, Master Xu Weiyi is the best at panpipes, but Master Wang is good at drums and harp! Even though those two lose, it doesn't necessarily mean that Master Wang will lose!"
A short and fat scholar shouted: "With so much talk about what to do, who is better, we will know by comparing!"
Wu Chengsi gradually understood that Liu Lanshuang must have often used his identity as Liu Zixian to challenge some music masters, and over time, he gained a great reputation.
She is like a player who specializes in playing music. Although she keeps winning, her reputation in the music industry is not very good.
It's no wonder that the clerk at Yuchun Music Hall reacted like that when he saw her.
Wu Chengsi was secretly amused. He never expected that what Liu Lanshuang said about playing musical instruments with others was actually such a method.
The people who come to the concert hall are all people who like music. Although they have different views on Liu Zixian, they are all happy to see Liu Zixian compete with Wang Bo'an.
The music hall manager gradually couldn't control the situation.
At this moment, an old voice came from behind the shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper Zhang, let me have a discussion with him."
Wu Chengsi followed the sound and saw an old man with white hair and beard walking over slowly holding a harp.
The old man's expression was not good-looking. He had heard Liu Zixian's name a long time ago and knew that this man was very arrogant and rude.
Generally, when a newcomer challenges a famous musician, according to the rules of the music industry, even if the newcomer wins, he has to settle for a tie.
After all, you have to share part of the reputation that others have accumulated over the years, so you have to save some face for them.
But Liu Zixian didn't follow any rules. Every time he won, he directly announced that he had won, which made many great musicians lose face.
It’s not like there have never been idiots like Liu Zixian in the musical instrument industry before. Such people often end up offending too many big players in the industry and cannot survive in the industry, so they are pushed out of the industry.
But Liu Zixian is an anomaly. His origins are a mystery. No one knows where he usually hides. It seems that he is not from the music circle.
However, when others are about to forget about him, he will suddenly appear again, defeat a big shot in the music industry, and then walk away.
As time went by, his reputation for being deliberately blackmailed continued to grow.
In the past, if he had appeared here, in addition to the manager of the music hall, the onlookers would have yelled at him, saying that he was overestimating his abilities.
Unlike today, many people around him have already taken his side, forcing Wang Boan to play.
Otherwise, Wang Bo'an would never want to come out to compete with Liu Zixian.
Wang Bo'an glanced at the harp held by Liu Zixian, and his heart sank. The other party used a fifty-string harp. Almost all the people who still use this kind of harp in this era are masters.
Liu Lanshuang showed no politeness and said straightforwardly: "Can we start?"
Wang Bo'an snorted angrily and said, "How do you want to compete?"
"You and I will each play a song, and everyone present will comment."
Wang Bo'an knew that at this point, there was no point in giving in, so he said proudly: "In that case, go ahead and let me see how much you are capable of."
Liu Lanshuang did not refuse, glanced at Wu Chengsi and said, "I'm going."
Wu Chengsi smiled and said: "Go ahead, I will cheer for you down below!"
Liu Lanshuang nodded, went up to the wooden platform, sat on the desk, and placed the harp.
Other musicians would often say some polite words to the audience before playing, but she said nothing and silently adjusted the string strings, then closed her eyes and breathed evenly.
When he opened his eyes again, all the fingers on his hand were placed on each string.
The four fingers of the left hand control the low-octave middle-voiced seventh string, and the four fingers of the right hand control the high-octave clear-voiced seventh string. The middle-octave seventh string is played with both hands, and the remaining strings are used to assist the twenty-one strings.
Her slender fingers could not help shaking, like ten little people dancing on the strings.
Either picking, hooking, wiping, or plucking, all kinds of fingering techniques blend with each other, and each gentle and elegant note reaches everyone's ears.
Different from the sound of the piano, the trembling sound of the harp can evoke the softest emotions in everyone's heart. The gentle notes gurgling out from the fingers, hitting everyone's heartstrings.
For a moment, the entire hall became silent, with no sound at all except the high and low circling music.
Wang Bo'an suddenly snorted and said calmly: "It turns out to be 'The Moon Reflects the Lake'. It's a very simple song, nothing special at all."
It's a pity that no one, including the shopkeeper, listened to what he said. They were all intoxicated by the beauty of the song.
When Liu Lanshuang was playing the harp, she would occasionally look at Wu Chengsi and see him with his eyes closed and a smile on his lips, intoxicated by his own music, and he felt very happy in his heart.
After the song was played, the hall was still silent, everyone was reminiscing about the wonderful sound just now.
Liu Lanshuang floated up to Wu Chengsi, staring at him with a pair of bright eyes, as if expecting him to praise her quickly.
Wu Chengsi still closed his eyes and shook his head, as if he was drunk.
At this moment, someone came to his senses and said loudly: "Well done! Mr. Wang, it's your turn!"
"Hey! Why is Mr. Wang missing?"
"You didn't run away, did you?"
"Everyone, Mr. Wang suddenly felt unwell and has gone back first." The manager of the music hall explained.
"Haha! Wang Bo'an really ran away!" Someone gloated.
"If you run away, just run away, Mr. Liu, please play another song for everyone!" Someone started to call Mr. Liu Lanshuang.
Liu Lanshuang said calmly: "Since Wang Bo'an escaped, I won this battle." After saying that, he pulled Wu Chengsi and left.
Wu Chengsi walked a few steps and suddenly found that Feng Wu was missing. Looking around, he found that she had fallen asleep leaning on a chair.
He hurriedly pulled her up and asked, "Why did you fall asleep?"
Feng Wu rubbed her eyes and said, "I don't know. When I heard the song just now, I just wanted to sleep."
Liu Lanshuang glanced at her, looking very unhappy.
After waking up Feng Wu, the three of them were about to leave when someone shouted: "Liu Zixian, don't leave. Let's play another song for everyone!"
Liu Lanshuang said coldly: "I'm not here to play for you." She looked cold and arrogant, with an expression like "You and other stupid people are not worthy of listening to me."
An old man in green robe hummed: "Young man, don't think that you can be arrogant if you play well! If you want to go far in the music circle, in addition to good skills, you also need to have good moral character."
Liu Lanshuang didn't even look at him, and pulled Wu Chengsi outside.
The old man in green robe was suddenly furious, his face turning green and white.
A man next to him shouted: "Liu Zixian, you are too rude. This is Professor Yue of the Hanlin Academy. If you want to judge a top musician in the future, Professor Yue will be the judge!"
The three people kept walking and their figures gradually disappeared.
The old man in green robes waved his sleeves and said: "Such an arrogant person has only musical skills, which is not worth mentioning!"
After the three people left the concert hall, Liu Lanshuang slowed down, and Wu Chengsi asked curiously: "Since you don't like playing for others, why do you come here?"
Liu Lanshuang said: "Didn't I tell you just now that I came to challenge Wang Bo'an."
"Then why did you challenge him?"
Liu Lanshuang was silent for a while, then said softly: "I usually play the piano and make the flute by myself. Although my father and sister agreed, they don't understand the music."
Wu Chengsi smiled and said: "So you want to prove your level in this way."
Liu Lanshuang nodded silently.
Wu Chengsi looked up at the sky and said, "It's still early, let's go to the lake!"
Liu Lanshuang said: "Didn't you just say you wanted to take me to the theater?"
"Do you like listening to plays?"
Liu Lanshuang nodded again.
Wu Chengsi smiled and said: "Okay, let's go to the theater."
The three of them went all the way to Guanglingyuan and found a private room on the second floor. What a coincidence, "Xue Rengui's Three Arrows Set the Sky Mountain" was singing again below!
The last time Wu Chengsi brought Li Zhiying to a play, he happened to hear the same song. Later, the finale of the play was called "Wu Chengsi's Ten Thousand Riders Destroy the Khitans", which surprised him.
Just as he was thinking of this, Liu Lanshuang on the side suddenly said: "It was around this time last year that I came here to listen to a play."
Wu Chengsi calculated the time and smiled: "That's a coincidence. I also came to listen to the show at that time."
Liu Lanshuang glanced at him sideways and said slowly: "I encountered something else when I was listening to the play that day."
"Oh? What's the matter?"
Liu Lanshuang said: "Princess Taiping was also listening to the play at that time, and she had a conflict with a Tubo prince. At that time, the Tubo people had just won a war and were very arrogant, forcing the princess to apologize to him."
Wu Chengsi was slightly surprised. It turned out that Liu Lanshuang was also present that day. Unfortunately, they didn't know each other at the time, and they probably wouldn't pay much attention if they saw him.
Liu Lanshuang added: "The Tubo prince was very annoying at the time. I was thinking that it was so disappointing that there were so many men around, but one Tubo man was allowed to run wild."
"At that moment, a tall, strong and mighty man descended like a god and beat the shit out of the Tibetan prince, right?" Wu Chengsi laughed.
Liu Lanshuang's cheeks turned red and she said: "It's true that I kicked you, but I can't say that I'm tall, strong and mighty."
"Who is that person?" Feng Wu suddenly interrupted.
Wu Chengsi puffed up his chest and said, "That's me!"
Feng Wu curled her lips and said: "Then Prince Tubo can't even beat you? That's really a waste!"
Liu Lanshuang covered her mouth and smiled: "You are right, that Prince of Tubo is indeed... a waste!"
Wu Chengsi said with a straight face: "Feng Wu, on the way back later, you have no snacks to eat!"
Feng Wu opened her eyes wide: "Why?"
"No matter why, if there is nothing, there is nothing!"
Feng Wu pouted, snorted, and said: "That's too much. The emperor doesn't even need hungry soldiers."
Wu Chengsi noticed that this girl was getting more and more naughty recently, and said with a dark face: "What did you say?"
Feng Wu turned her head to one side and lay on the chair pretending to sleep.
Liu Lanshuang secretly felt funny, and gradually relieved that Feng Wu had fallen asleep while listening to the music.
For someone like Wu Chengsi who has watched TV, ancient operas are really boring and not as good as his own wife.
Turning around, he saw Liu Lanshuang with her back straight, sitting upright, looking intently at the stage below.
Seeing how absorbed she was, he was too embarrassed to chat with her, so he leaned on the chair and listened casually. His eyes gradually became heavy and his thoughts became slower and slower.
I don't know how much time passed, but in a daze, Wu Chengsi heard someone calling him. He opened his eyes and saw Liu Lanshuang gently shaking him and saying, "Your Majesty, it's time to go."
Her face was very close and her breath was like blue. Wu Chengsi's heart felt warm and he couldn't help but hug her into his arms and bury his head in her chest.
Liu Lanshuang put her hands on his shoulders and said softly: "Your Majesty, don't stay here."
Wu Chengsi was just impulsive, and quickly controlled his emotions and let her go.
Looking down, Xue Rengui's scene has been finished, the tablecloth has been pulled up, and the next scene should be arranged inside.
He stood up and said, "Well, I have to attend the royal banquet tonight, so it's time to go back."
Liu Lanshuang looked aside, and Wu Chengsi took a quick look and found that Feng Wu had fallen asleep again.
Wu Chengsi shook her awake and said with a glare: "Feng Wu, you are our bodyguard. If you are so careless, what will happen if the assassin comes?"
Feng Wu blushed rarely and said, "You don't have to be afraid. As long as an assassin approaches, I will wake up naturally."
How could Wu Chengsi believe her? He said angrily: "Okay, get up quickly and go back."
After leaving Guangling Garden, the sun had already touched the horizon. The royal banquet started at Xu o'clock. It was still early, so the three of them slowly returned to the palace.
Wu Chengsi wanted to grab Liu Lanshuang's hand, but she dodged him.
"Your Majesty, I am now dressed as a man." She whispered.
Wu Chengsi smiled and said: "What are you afraid of? For such a handsome young master, even if others see me, they will understand me."
"What do you understand?" Liu Lanshuang asked curiously.
Wu Chengsi smiled and said: "You understand why I am so good at Long Yang!"
An angry look appeared on Liu Lanshuang's eyebrows and she said: "No matter how rude you are, I won't even pay attention to you on the way back!"
When Wu Chengsi saw that she was really angry, he didn't dare to tease her anymore.
Along the way, whenever Feng Wu passed by a food stall, she would stare at the food, her head like a compass.
However, she was stubborn and did not ask Wu Chengsi to buy it for her.
Wu Chengsi still relented, and when passing by a wonton stall, he couldn't help but buy her a bowl.
Wu Chengsi also asked for a bowl himself, and asked Liu Lanshuang: "Do you want to eat it?"
Liu Lanshuang glanced at the stall owner and saw that he was kneading the dough directly with the hand that collected the copper coins. She shook her head repeatedly: "I won't eat it."
Wu Chengsi did not force himself, and he and Feng Wu ate separately.
Feng Wu has no ladylike manner when it comes to eating. She likes to slurp and eat. She quickly finished a bowl of Chaos and drank the soup completely!
"I want another bowl!" she said looking at Wu Chengsi.
Wu Chengsi shouted: "Shopkeeper, have another bowl!"
"Come on!"
Seeing Feng Wu sucking and eating, Liu Lanshuang couldn't help but ask: "Is it really so delicious?"
Feng Wu ignored her. She was very focused on eating and never talked distractedly.
At this moment, two women suddenly came from a distance.
The two women were dressed in gorgeous clothes and had beautiful looks. What was even more special was their skin, which was whiter than any other woman Wu Chengsi had ever seen.
Both of them are obviously quite elegant, but they are like two bumpkins who came to the city for the first time, looking around non-stop, wishing they could have an extra pair of eyes.
The taller woman among them saw the wonton stall, especially when she saw Feng Wu eating wontons, and said to the woman next to her: "Sister, that food seems to be delicious, let's go and try it too!"
The short woman said: "That's fine."
The two of them came to the stall and sat down at a table next to Wu Chengsi and the others.
Suddenly, Feng Wu, who was immersed in eating, raised her head and looked at the two men following the two women.
Wu Chengsi asked: "What's wrong?"
"They both know martial arts." Feng Wu replied.
Wu Chengsi was slightly surprised. Feng Wu was not very young, but her vision was as high as her head.
Even Han Cheng and Lu Xiong only have good martial arts levels in her eyes.
"Kung Fu" refers to Zhugenan's level. If his martial arts is lower than Zhugenan's, in her eyes, it is the same as not knowing martial arts.
Two people with similar martial arts skills to Zhugenan actually followed the two women as followers. It seemed that they were definitely not from ordinary families.
The tall woman seemed to have seen wontons for the first time and thought that Feng Wu's way of eating them was the correct way to eat them, so she learned to eat them in a slurping way.
While eating, he said excitedly: "Sister, this thing is so delicious!"
The short woman smiled slightly, picked up one with a spoon, blew on it, and slowly took a small bite.
Wu Chengsi couldn't help but glance at Liu Lanshuang and thought: "If Lan Shuang eats wontons, he must eat them like this."
When the tall woman was eating, she didn't even look around with her eyes, as if she had just been released from prison, full of novelty about the outside world!
Suddenly, her eyes caught sight of the fifty-stringed harp in Liu Lanshuang's hand, and she was surprised and said: "Sister, look, she is playing the fifty-stringed harp, she must be very good at it!"
The short woman also looked over, looked at it for a while, nodded and said: "Well, that's the Phoenix Tail Se, which is very precious."
At this moment, something unbelievable happened to Wu Chengsi. The tall woman shouted to them: "Hey, you three, come here, I have something to ask you!"
Wu Chengsi was secretly angry. Whose eldest lady was this? She was so ignorant of etiquette.
I thought the gentle short woman would stop her, but she didn't say a word and didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with the tall woman's attitude.
None of the three of them paid any attention to them. At this time, Wu Chengsi had just finished his first bowl and Feng Wu's second bowl.
He put nine copper coins on the table and left with his two daughters.
The tall lady said angrily: "Hey, Ben...I'm talking to you, come here quickly!"
Yi's bossy attitude reminded Wu Chengsi of the Turkic concubine.
Wu Chengsi said lazily: "If a person doesn't even understand basic etiquette, it's better not to go out!"
The tall lady was even angrier: "Catch them over here!"
The two followers responded and rushed over. After hearing two "bang bangs", Feng Wu turned around instantly and kicked each of them.
Her speed was too fast, and she struck suddenly, kicking both of them in the chest and flying backwards, landing right at the feet of the two women.