Chapter 73: In the Eye of the Storm (2/2)
“Aye”
When the carriage turned around, Chen Rong pulled her curtain down as she sat inside, wringing her hands in contemplation
When the vehicle drove out of South Street, Chen Rong heard weeping coe next to hers: “Why? I’m already betrothed to Mister Liu Why must I attend the prince’s banquet”
An older woman whispered, “What else can we do? Your father even sent him Sima Qian’s handwritten records that he had treasured for years, but Advisor Xu said the prince does not like such co else your father can do”
“Even if we cannot go back to Jiankang for the ti, why must we be so hasty? Isn’t General Ran here to protect us? Why o curry favor with the old lecher?”
The older woman’s voice turned pained: “Miss, you must not have heard With the pretext that we need to bolster Nanyang’s security because the barbarians will soon move south, the prince intends to send so girl stopped crying to exclaim: “Station outside the city?”
“Aye, why else would your father go to this length? Not only your father, but all of the hters to hie his mind”
The conversation was left behind as the wheels rolled on
At this ti spoke to her: “Miss?” He sounded quite unnerved
Inside, Chen Rong kept wringing her hands “Stop, Old Shang Ask to see which estate General Ran is guesting at right now”
“Aye, miss”
Moe “Miss, he’s at the Huan estate”
“To the Huan estate, then”
“Aye”
The Huan estate was situated on South Street To avoid the prince’s fleet, Old Shang had circled the long way and spent nearly an hour to arrive at its side door
The carriage caatekeeper, Chen Rong lifted a corner of the curtain Although she was looking at them, her eyes see cae into the estate from the side door
A round of distant music streamed to them as soon as they entered
It was different fro of zither in thisto it, a sudden burst of applause sounded Pounding druan when the cheers quieted down
“Miss, the gatekeeper said General Ran is currently dru at the square He added that all the major clans who ca ladies, however, are always exceptions”
Chen Rong hue drove to the square
They hadn’t approached but the scents of cos’s nostrils “Why are there soquickly lifted her curtain
She was surprised to find a colorful array of outfits covering the square, all of the ladies’ There must have been at least fifty to sixty of the the square’s center
Chen Rong followed their gazes
After a brief glance, she quickly withdrew her gaze
Sure enough, it was Ran Min who stood at the center His ar black hair was tied back with a red ribbon, and his thin lips were tightly drawn into a line
It h years on the battleground His sun-kissed skin, broad shoulders, and long legs made him stand out and outshi+ne all other aristocrats Even Huan Jiulang’s remarkable aura paled in co the dru sat beside hihtly pressed on the strings as the right one did the plucking Do not steal this chapter from hamster428 because karma is a spiteful bitch
this zither is called the zheng which is different fro has picks and es whereas the qin has neither of those characteristics
The pair harmonized excellently Whenever the melodious zither drifted on, the drum was faint; whenever the sonorous zither swelled, the druh they’d returned to centuries past, to the ti had sat in the wide open and played the zither on a deserted fortress while below him stood Sima Yi’s massive army
The sounds of zither were melodious and ethereal They carried neither joy nor sorrow, like outsiders who stood on the clouds looking down at the ashes of tiuished drueneral who had gone through a hundred battles and who now stood before the corpses as he cried for the civilians
The aloof and the
This was ahad never heard before – sounds beyond her recognition
She was so i to her soul But all of a sudden she was overco realization! She now felt her co had been too trivial and shallow compared to thesewasn’t the only shallow one Along with his druht – hiswhen he had played “The Guangling Song” before his execution (1) Do not steal this chapter from hamster428 because kar here: enwikipediaorg/wiki/Ji_Kang
Hence each tiirls would squeal all at once as they watched hi eyes, however, Ran Min never once looked up
No one noticed Chen Rong’s arrival
She lifted her curtain to listen to the extraordinary ood fortune for this wonderful duet to take place For a very long tihtly clutched her hands
Uncertain for how long, the zither’s abrupt end was followed by Ran Min’s laughter as he threw his head back, flinging the dru: “Now, that was exhilarating!”
His soaring laughter hadn’t ceased by the tiation squealed and rushed toward hi
Before they kneas happening, the pair had been subed under the scents of perfu withdrew her gaze and quietly said, “Let’s go hoe around: It appears General Ran won’t have tinificant mistress