Chapter 216 Xiangxie Luoyuan

The banquet has reached such a point that it can no longer continue.

The Empress Dowager did not look at Yi Zhaorong, who had already died, but sighed and ordered someone to carry him down. Yi Zhaorong committed suicide and died, and his title was withdrawn before his death and demoted to the halberd. According to the rules of the palace, she was not allowed to enter the imperial mausoleum and had to be buried according to the treatment of the palace maidservant.

Although the Empress Dowager had pain in her heart, she was also angry. Yi Zhaorong's previous words obviously exposed a secret. Maybe others don't know what she is talking about, but some people obviously have an understanding.

She glanced at Mo Ziyao and her eyes suddenly became gloomy. However, at this moment, Mo Ziyao also lowered her head and did not see the Empress Dowager's eyes, but suddenly felt a tight heart, and a sense of crisis gradually emerged from the bottom of her heart.

Withdrawing her eyes, the Empress Dowager held her forehead with one hand and closed her eyes. She seemed to be very tired, and her whole body seemed to be much older all of a sudden.

The atmosphere suddenly became depressed, and Gu Yanmu slowly stared at the people in the hall with a blank face. The already boring banquet was no longer suitable for continuing to stay. He and the messengers beside him looked at each other and stood up to bow to the Empress Dowager.

And the concubines still knelt on the cold floor in fear, and didn't even dare to get out of the atmosphere. But there are still several timid concubines who trembled and sobbed because of tonight's incident.

The Empress Dowager looked coldly at the crying concubine, frowned, and her eyes were full of impatience. She waved her hand and said slowly, "It's dispersed. Let's all disperse!"

Everyone was relieved, even got up for blessings and left quickly, as if they didn't want to stay for a moment. Mo Ziyao looked into the hall and saw that the Empress Dowager and Liu Yanfei entered the inner hall one after another. His eyes fell on the 'xiangxieluozheng' in front of him, took a deep breath, bent down and stretched out his hand to gently hold the strings, and secretly thought: As soon as this kite came out, the Empress Dowager's face changed. Presumably this kite must have a great source. Now I have broken the kite string in my hand. It must be repaired. Otherwise, I'm afraid this kite will only become a sharp weapon for the Empress Dowager to deal with me in the future.

"However, this string doesn't look like an ordinary string. Even I can't see its material, and I don't know if the craftsmen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs can repair it."

"This string is a combination of the golden-winged cold silkworm from the distant western region and the Kunniao tendons of the Northern Plains. Make the sound of the kite sound more clear and brighter, and the aftertinuum is longer. Although these two things are not expensive, they are very rare, especially the golden-winged cold silk, which is said to have been extinct as early as a hundred years ago. There may be some horsehair and a small amount of Kun bird tendons in the palace, but I'm afraid this golden-winged cold silk is not available.

Mo Ziyao looked at Yunlan in surprise, "I didn't expect that Sister Lan knew a lot about the kite. I think she has seen these two things."

Yunlan looked as usual and whispered, "The father of the slave is a maker. When he was young, his father taught slaves some structural principles of piano and kite. Ruan Nanguo may not have Jinyi cold silk, but there must be one place.

"Where?"

Yunlan was silent for a moment and whispered in Mo Ziyao's ear: "The Heavenly Kingdom of the Northern Song Dynasty..."

Mo Ziyao's face changed slightly, looked around and said in a low voice, "Let's talk about this when we go back to the palace."

Yunlan met, hugged Xiangxie Luozheng' and went back to Yuyao Palace with Mo Ziyao.

The kite rested on the table in front of her. Mo Ziyao looked at it with a sad face and wanted to restore it as soon as possible. She couldn't even think about Yi Zhaorong's death.

"Song Huizong has a special preference for piano painting and ink, so that the people of the Song Dynasty follow the trend of piano painting and ink crazily, gradually forming a fashion, which naturally makes the instrument industry flourish. Song has golden wing cold silk, which is very likely, but how can I get this golden wing cold silk? She stroked her forehead and said to herself distressedly.

Yunlan's eyes flashed, and her eyes were complicated when she looked at the broken 'Songxie Luozheng'. After a long time, she said, "Mother, the problem of string is still secondary, mainly to repairing the kite."

"Can you repair the kite?" Mo Ziyao frowned, "Can't the craftsmen in the palace repair it after giving the materials?"

"This kite is not produced by Ruan Nanguo, but in China."

Mo Ziyao frowned and said bitterly, "Can only the Celestial Empire have someone repaired it?"

Yunlan nodded. Mo Ziyao didn't look at her, but just walked slowly in the room. She deliberately asked this question. In fact, she was already alert to Yunlan as soon as she saw Yunlan at a glance.

For Yunlan, Mo Ziyao's attitude is always between faith and non-trust. From the beginning, when she approached herself, she knew that she had a certain purpose. Although we have been at peace and have not seen anything strange in the past two years, it does not mean that Mo Ziyao has completely trusted her.

In the past two years, there have been so many things that she always felt that there were enemy chess pieces lurking around her, so that she unconsciously fell into the trap of others several times. Not to mention the noble Yunlan, isn't there a strong martial art hidden in late autumn?

These thoughts passed in an instant and were soon crushed by her heart. She quickly approached Yunlan and said with a smile, "It turns out that Sister Lan not only knows the piano kite, but also seems to know more about this 'xiangxie Luoyuanzheng'!"

Yunlan's face changed slightly. With her veteran and mind, she already understood that Mo Ziyao had doubted herself by this kite. She turned slightly and then lowered her head and smiled, "I'm very happy to be so alert, but I just want to rest assured that I have absolutely no intention of harming my mother."

Mo Ziyao snorted coldly and didn't say anything. Yunlan didn't care about Mo Ziyao's attitude and said, "Actually, at the banquet today, the emperor asked someone to take the 'xiangxieluoluozheng' to the Empress. This is not an accident, but inevitable."

Speaking of this, Yunlan stopped talking, but left Mo Ziyao to think wirelessly.

Mo Ziyao lowered her eyes, stared at the kite, thought about tonight from beginning to end, and found that everything was so normal but not normal. No matter what the problem is, no matter how you think about it, you can't understand it. Because everything seems so logical. But it vaguely reveals the crisis.

She already had this feeling in the hall, but where did the crisis come from?

I met Le'er while leaving the table. After returning to the table, she encountered provocation. The emperor asked someone to take out the "falling kite", and the Empress Dowager's face changed greatly. I didn't want to kill Yi Zhaorong, but she died. I didn't expect to really take action against Mrs. Ya at the table. Why does all this feel like someone is behind the scenes?

"You know, since I entered the palace, I have rarely played the piano. How did Yi Zhaorong know that I am proficient in piano? It seems that someone knew early that they would definitely go up and play. And it is not necessarily the piano, but the kite. Everything is in the calculation again! Who, with such great courage, has made such a big picture?

Thinking of this, the sense of crisis in my heart became stronger and stronger. Mo Ziyao seemed to feel that everything had just begun. Yi Zhaorong's death was just a small beginning. Who would it be next?

Yunlan saw that Mo Ziyao looked uncertain. She didn't know that Mo Ziyao had seen through tonight's dinner party. I thought that Mo Ziyao was still doubting herself because of the matter of falling together.

She smiled bitterly and said, "Maybe the Empress doesn't know that someone has a great understanding of Princess Xi and wants to use it to set up a situation for the Empress. In order to arouse the Empress Dowager's murderous feelings towards you. From breaking into the forbidden place a year ago to the current imperial concubine's relics, everything is in the man's calculation.

Mo Ziyao suddenly woke up and said, "What! This 'Xixie Luozheng' turned out to be the thing of Princess Xi?! Yes, yes, I should have thought of it a long time ago. What can make the Empress Dowager's face suddenly change? What can the Empress Dowager suddenly have a murderous intention for Yi Zhaorong?

It's Princess Xi!

This Empress Xi, who has already died and does not know the cause of death!

Mo Ziyao's face gradually turned pale and muttered to herself, "Is it possible that the Empress Dowager wants to attack me, so she laid out a mysterious killing? It's just that she is too careful to do this, right? Is such a game just to kill me? Or does she want to kill everyone who knows about Princess Xi? Or, I guessed wrong. In fact, the Empress Dowager is just a chess piece used by others?

The more she thought about it, the more horrible it became. Mo Ziyao wiped her forehead and found that her forehead was covered with cold sweat.

Yunlan walked to the window lattice, looked at the vast world covered by snow outside and sighed, and her eyes gently fell on the 'xiangxieluozheng'. "In fact, this kite is the only one in the world. And the golden wing cold silk mentioned by the maidservant is not sold in the world, only the materials used in the strings of the 'Songyi wing piano' comparable to this kite are the same.

She walked back to the table, reached out and gently stroked the falling kite and slowly closed her eyes.

"If you want to repair the 'xiangxie Luoyuanzheng', you need to replace it with the strings of the 'xiangxie wing piano'."

Mo Ziyao noticed Yunlan's abnormality and recalled that she had previously said that his father was a engineer. And she knows so much about the 'falling kite', as if this kite seems to have an unknown past. She did not take the initiative to ask, but wanted to wait for Yunlan to answer in person.

"The Empress may have guessed one or two. Yes, this 'xiangxie Luozheng' and 'xiangxieyiqin' are both from my father's hands. And the 'xiangxie winged piano' is now in the Celestial Empire.

Yunlan's face showed a look of remembrance. When my father was young, he was a court engineer and was very loved by the emperor. At that time, Empress Xi was the daughter of Li Xiangguo, named Li Yian. The two are related to each other because of the piano music, and they often play the piano together, which is very happy.

In order to impress her heart, my father resigned and left the Celestial Empire. It took eight years and thousands of miles to go to many places to collect the raw materials for the production of 'xiangxie Luozheng' and 'xiangxie Yuanyiqin'.

Eight years later, my father returned to the Celestial Empire with joy and prepared to propose to the Prime Minister's Mansion. Only then did he know that in the second year after he left, the Prime Minister was dissatisfied with his relationship with his daughter and asked her to marry the son of the Prime Minister. Li Yiruan was unwilling to sneak out of the house and prepared to find my father. He went all the way to the west. Unexpectedly, he met a robber on the way. Fortunately, the emperor passed through this place and saved her. The late emperor fell in love with her at first sight. After returning to Ruan Nanguo, he wanted to register her as the queen, which was opposed by the empress dowager and the ministers. In desperation, the emperor had to title her as the first lady.

Although the emperor also knew that her heart was not on her, and her willingness to stay by her side was just to repay his kindness, the more so, the more the emperor wanted her to fall in love with him. I even sent someone to find my father for this.

Speaking of this, Yunlan's face was slightly flushed and seemed to be very excited. She bit her lips and continued, "Not long after my father returned to the Celestial Empire, the emperor's people found him and gave him a letter. The letter contains such a poem: the lonely kites live in the distant shelter, the wings of the lake move, and on the clear strings, a song of sorrow awakening. The empty moon and night soul, this situation is difficult to pay in the end.

Yunlan's eyes have slowly overflowed with sadness. "My father couldn't bear such a blow. He vomited blood and fainted. A few days later, he woke up and let him engrave the words "falling kites" at the bottom of the kite and sent it to Ruan Nanguo and handed it to Li Yiran. At that time, she had been pregnant with imperial descendants for more than six months. Although my father's condition improved later, he was depressed and could no longer make any musical instruments.

After saying that, Yunlan's eyes were full of crystal tears. Mo Ziyao looked at her in surprise. It was the first time she saw Yunlan, who had always been silent, crying in front of her. The story between his father and Princess Xi is very sad and touching. At this moment, she couldn't say anything superfluous, but silently handed over the handkerchief.