Chapter 16 Sacrifice

Concubine Shu also said, "Since the prince is here, it's the second thing to start today." Xiao Yuanqi naturally knew what she said and did not answer, but turned his head to looked at the ladies on the seat.

Most of the ladies at the table put down their chopsticks and put on their most satisfied expressions, but their eyes were so drooping that they dared not look at him. Occasionally, he may take a bold sneak peek at him, and then blush and then lower down.

Only Shen Sirong is eating by himself. From beginning to end, she didn't even look at the prince.

Xiao Yuanqi pulled the corners of his mouth and looked at these pretentious ladies. He suddenly remembered the woman in Xiao Yuanfeng's portrait, Shen Sirong, Shen's daughter. He looked at Xiao Yuanfeng opposite. Xiao Yuanfeng was holding the wine glass, but his eyes fell straight somewhere. Xiao Yuanqi sneered in his heart and looked at the case of the Shen family with Xiao Yuanfeng's eyes.

There were several tables apart, and he didn't see it clearly. Xiao Yuanqi's eyes fell on Wang Shu's face. Wang Shu looked at him delicately and smiled slightly. Xiao Yuanqi nodded to her in order to complete the trick.

Wang Shu was still not down-to-earth. Now when she saw the prince's action, she was also relieved. She added a more touching attitude between her eyebrows. She lowered her head slightly and looked shy on the surface. In fact, she was just thinking about adding a little color to her weakness.

This interaction fell into the eyes of everyone. The happiest people are three people. The first is Wang Shu, the second is Shufei, and the third is Xiao Yuanfeng, the king of Glass. He saw that the prince was indeed interested in Wang Shu and felt much more at ease.

Concubine signaled Wang Shu's eyes. Wang Shu stood up and said to the emperor, "Today is the Empress's birthday. I would like to dance for the emperor and the Empress."

Wang Shu first proposed to present art, which is to some extent pre-catching, and the first one is often the most concerned...

Xiao Ze naturally agreed, which opened the prelude to the women's art.

After Wang Shu, the ladies successively showed their skills to win the throne. When it was Shen's turn, Shen Siyi naturally appeared.

Shen Siyi's piano skills are the best. After bowing to the emperor's concubine and the prince respectively, she walked to the center of the Feng stage. When Xiao Yuanqi saw Shen Siyi leaving the table, he bent forward to see Shen Sirong's true face. At the moment when he saw Shen Sirong, his pupils dilated and were full of surprise.

She?

The woman I met in the study last time, is she Shen Sirong?

It's no wonder...

No wonder I thought she was very familiar that day, but the painting of Liwang only painted her six points, which was quite different from me. Today, she dressed up more than when she first saw her.

Shen Sirong sat expressionlessly at this moment, with no expectation but calmness. Seeing Shen Siyi walking to the piano platform, she turned her head and looked...

When the wind rises, the lotus leaf collar of Shen Siyi's clothes swings with the wind, which is even more touching. Her piano skills are not bad, but because of her nervousness, she trembles too much.

She also heard the flaw herself, biting her lips tightly, and there seemed to be ants crawling in her bones, and bursts of numbness. Shen Siyi felt that her hands seemed to be more and more involuntary. Shen Siyi's heart was floating in her throat, as if she could not fall down in mid-air. Suddenly, her fingertips trembled and played two wrong tones. The sudden sharp sound made the original gentle tune appear discordant, and everyone present frowned...

Wang's hand trembled under the table. Shen Sirong put down the chopsticks in his hand and frowned slightly. It was fine if the performance was not good, but there was a growing panic from Shen Siyi's piano sound.

Shen Siyi had never performed on such an occasion before. At this time, the wrong sound made her panicked. She took time to look at Feng's stage and saw that the emperor and Shufei had a slight displeasure on their faces. A few drops of sweat appeared on her forehead and stood along her eyebrows on the tip of her nose.

Her fingertips also pushed back and forth faster and faster with the tension of her emotions. With a "bang", Shen Siyi's arm shook, and a tingling came from her fingertips.

Everyone calmed down and held their breath...

After such a moment of sluggishness, she realized what kind of mistake she had made. She looked left and right blankly, and the other ladies on the seat squeezed their lips and smiled. Their eyes were clearly gloating. Her mind was suddenly blank, and she felt dizzy like a black cloth covering her eyes...

When Wang saw that his daughter had made a mistake, he looked anxiously at the emperor. The lines on the emperor's face were tight and clearly looked angry, and Shufei raised her eyebrows and looked at it with unhappiness in her eyes.

Seeing that Shen Siyi was still stunned, she got up and knelt down in the middle, kowtowed constantly, and said, "The little girl swept away the honor of the emperor and the Empress. She really deserves to die. Please forgive me."

Shen Siyi woke up when she saw her mother kneeling down. She knelt down and pleaded guilty.

Xiao Ze didn't say anything, but there was a cold light in her eyes. Shufei was just about to say something but was snatched by Xiao Yuanqi.

"Father, in my opinion, it's better to let another lady in the Shen family continue to talk about this song for her." Xiao Yuanqi said while looking at the changes on Xiao Yuanfeng's face.

Xiao Yuanfeng didn't know how the prince had such a proposal. He was restless and panicked as Xiao Yuanqi wished. Everyone is waiting for a reply from the top. Xiao Yuanfeng looked at Concubine Shu and wanted her to dissuade the emperor. Concubine Shu shook her head at Xiao Yuanfeng invisibly, and Xiao Yuanqi just looked sideways.

And Xiao Ze saw their reactions and had a plan in his heart.

"It's accurate."

Shen Sirong was shocked when he heard the prince speak. Is the prince's words just to solve the siege of the Shen family or to whom? She looked at the prince while everyone was waiting for the emperor to speak. Xiao Yuanqi half carried her back. She could only faintly see his side face, his eyebrows were rendered like ink, the corners of his eyes were narrow, the bridge of his nose was straight, and the corners of his mouth were cold.

The emperor agreed to the prince's suggestion, and Wang Shi, who knelt on the ground, looked back at her. Her eyes were full of worry. She knew that Shen Sirong had not learned the piano skills well at all, but the king's order could not be violated.

I'm afraid that Shen Siyi will lose his mistake first. If Shen Sirong goes up and pours a sip of oil, won't the emperor's fire burn even more?

Shen Sirong crossed Wang's eyes, got up and worshipped, turned around and walked to the piano platform. Looking at her back, Xiao Yuanqi thought of the graceful posture left by Shen Sirong in Qingxinzhai that day. When he looked again, Shen Sirong had already sat down and gently stroked the piano body with his hand.

Everyone in Shenfu only knew that because of the discord with Wang, she only knew everything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting under no supervision. But she didn't know that her wet nurse was originally a big lady with both talent and beauty. After several changes, she fell to the street. Later, she was taken back to Shen's house by her biological mother. In private, the wet nurse taught her everything she learned, and Shen Sirong's talent was also green under her teaching.

It's just that she can't be in the limelight today. This "degree" should be well grasped, and she can't make mistakes or be outstanding.

Shen Sirong took a deep breath and let her heart deposit. It was not until there was only an empty space left in her chest that she gently raised her wrists and saw her green fingertips fall softly.

Shen Sirong narrowed her eyes, hooked her index finger, and the tone poured down from her fingers. She played the song "Xiao Ran Sigh" that Shen Siyi had just played. The same score has a different feeling. Shen Siyi's main tone is soft and gentle, like a whisper between lovers. The essence of this song is to tell each other, and she plays it to the fullest.

And Shen Sirong is the opposite. The artistic conception in her hook, close, dial and stroke is ethereal. This sigh was divided into three paragraphs by Shen Sirong. The first sigh was clear and fresh, gentle, and there was no trace of impurities. The second sigh is that the momentum is more broad. When it is urgent, it is like the joy of thousands of horses galloping, and when it falls, it is like seeing through the silence of the red dust. The third sigh is the most wonderful. All the dust is settled in peace, but this peace is very special.

This calmness seems to be able to integrate into the bone marrow. When the sound of the piano enters the ear, I only feel that my body and mind have been washed, revealing an unparalleled relaxation.

The disadvantage is that the transition point when Shen Sirong plays the song is too stiff, and even adjusts a few tones. Although it is not elegant, it also folds the beauty of the song in half.

Another conversion, Xiao Yuanqi frowned when he heard it. He just proposed that she replace Shen Siyi after playing this song, he really wanted to see her reaction. I just didn't expect that her not the best piano sound attracted him, or something else attracted him.

Xiao Ze stared straight at Shen Sirong on the piano platform with yellow eyes, and his eyes were shining. He looked at Xiao Yuanqi and then at Xiao Yuanfeng. Both of them were staring at the people on the piano platform. Xiao Ze suddenly became clear.

After playing a song, Shen Sirong got up and walked to the main stage. The moonlight fell, and her silk clothes turned into various colors, and the light flew for a moment. As she got closer and closer, everyone came back from the shock of the sound of the piano. See you again, Shen Sirong. She stepped on the velvet blanket in the center of the Feng stage, wearing all kinds of colorful silk, which was dazzling every step.

Wang and Shen Siyi have got up and returned to their seats. At this time, the eyes looking at her are too mixed. They have been worried for fear that Shen Sirong will provoke the holy anger, but now Shen Sirong has another doubt in their eyes.

Shen Sirong stopped and knelt down, waiting for the emperor to speak.

"Look up."

Xiao Ze's words shocked Shufei. Her whole body was shocked. Xiao Ze read countless people. Naturally, she could hear that Shen Sirong deliberately missed a few notes. The smoothness of the piano could be judged from the first sound. He sneered secretly, but he could not see anything on his face.

Shen Sirong looked up. She and Xiao Ze looked down and lowered their eyes. It was very disrespectful to look at the emperor, but Xiao Ze said that she should look at him, and Shen Sirong's hand hidden in his sleeve squeezed it hard.