Chapter 32 The Exotic Princess
In Kucha Royal Palace, Bai Xiaojie was also frustrated when listening to the reply letter sent by Feng Changqing.
Bai Xiaojie has been going well in his life and has never suffered any hardships. In other words, when he was in Chang'an City, he tasted the pain of missing love and parting!
"Why don't you worry about your father? A Qiao will meet that Shen Lang."
Bai Aqiao looked at her father who seemed to be sad between her eyebrows and said angrily that she heard people talking about Chen Lang and Chen Lang during this period, and her ears were calloused, but her father was still planning to listen to the words of Gao Dupu and send her to Chen Lang as a maid.
"Ah Qiao, that Chen Lang is also a first-class romantic figure in Chang'an City. He has to be valued by Gao Dalang, and he is also a good match for you."
Bai Xiaojie looked at his little daughter with pampering eyes. He had no children, but there were several daughters, but now the only one left is the youngest daughter who has not been married yet. He doesn't want this young daughter to marry someone she doesn't like, just like her sisters.
"The father said that if A Qiao marrys in the future, it is up to him to decide who she is going to marry!"
Bai Aqiao was a little angry. In her opinion, Chen Lang was the most hateful. If it weren't for him, how could the father suddenly think of having to arrange a marriage for her? She was only fifteen years old. She heard that the twelve wives of the Wang family were now twenty years old and had not married, nor did they see the general forcing her to marry.
"Okay, okay, it's up to you."
Bai Xiaojie smiled bitterly. The youngest daughter was fifteen years old this year, but her temperament was just like his uneasy brother Wang. She liked to dance with swords and guns, ride horses and shoot archers, pretended to be a man every day, and swagger on the streets.
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Walking on the street, without everyone watching, Chen Guang felt refreshed and not so bored. Now the musicians in Gao Mansion have gradually become better, and they have practiced all three songs. The rest is nothing more than carefully crafting the details, but the dance part makes him feel quite troubled.
Among the musicians in Gaofu, there are many dancers, and there are more than 40 people with Huma and the others. This dance must be in line with the theme of the three songs, and it must be neat and beautiful, and it must be different from the Western Region style of this era. It really makes him worry.
Before he knew it, the shouts of the fang soldiers suddenly rang in Chen Guang's ears, "Mr. Lang, we are here."
Looking at the Kucha Palace in front of him, Chen Guang looked a little dazed. In the end, he still had to come to this palace. The Dafa name used in "Sighting the King" is also known as Tongqin, which is one of the most representative melodic instruments among Tibetan Buddhist instruments. However, in this era, Buddhism was still competing with the Bon religion for believers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is still a question whether this Dafa name is there.
What Chen Guang could think of was looking for alternative instruments. To put it bluntly, this Dafa horn is a large copper tube. It was called a blowing gold or a bronze horn in the Tang Dynasty. However, this kind of instrument is extremely huge and heavy, and it is only available in the palace. If the song "The Legend of Xiang Wang Xing" does not have the opening play of the powerful Dafa horn, it will undoubtedly lack soul.
There are two types of gold blowing, one is imitating the horns of the cow and the body is bent; the other is straight tube, which is long cone-cylindrical. Among the ten tales of the Tang Dynasty, it was only used for Gaochang tales. However, since the sage changed the ten tales to the seated tales and the standing tales, gold blowing has been specially used for court ceremonies.
In the palace, Bai Xiaojie, who had just woken up from a nap in the afternoon, couldn't help but feel happy when he heard Chen Guang asking for a meeting outside the palace gate. The musician in the palace was not as good as him, and it was hard to find a confidant who could discuss music well.
He entered the palace unimpededly. Chen Guang thought about how to prevent the king from paying too much attention to him, but he did not know that there were eyes staring at him in the dark.
"Do you look that way..."
Bai Aqiao looked at the Tang Dynasty man with long sleeves and white clothes, and said insincerely, and then couldn't help but follow him.
In the wide inner hall, ambergris was lit. Bai Xiaojie asked the palace people to put out all the musical instruments they had treasured. He did not wear a crown or robe, but only had a plain round neck and long sleeves.
"Shen Guang pays homage to the king."
If you ask for help, you have to make a correct attitude. Moreover, Chen Guang doesn't want to be a confidant with this Kucha king. This kind of thing will be left to the boss Gao Xianzhi.
"Don't have to be too polite. There is no Kucha king here today, only the Tang Dynasty's Bai Xiaoyue Festival."
Bai Xiaojie originally wanted to help Chen Guang up, but he didn't expect that as soon as he stepped forward, Chen Lang stood up straight like a rabbit, which made him feel a little embarrassed.
But Bai Xiaojie has always been careless, so he asked Chen Guang to sit down and ask, "Why is Chen Lang here?"
"I'm not hiding it from the king, I want to borrow money from the king."
"Blow gold?"
Bai Xiaojie only thought for a moment and then laughed, "Lang Chen wanted to borrow money, but for the sake of the new song."
"The king said nothing wrong. Someone's new song needs to play gold as accompaniment. Please help me."
Facing Bai Xiaojie, the king of Kucha who claimed to be good at bragging, Chen Lang knew that he could not hide it, so he admitted it calmly.
"It's not difficult for Chen Lang to borrow money, but I just don't know if I'm lucky enough to listen first?"
"The Protector has instructed me that this new song cannot be spread for the time being. However, if the king is interested, there will be other new songs here, so I can play them in front of the king. Please give me some advice."
"Okay, Father, I'm tired of listening to the songs in the palace. I heard from the outside of the palace that Mr. Chen is not inferior to Mr. Li in Chang'an. Today, I'll let Mr. Chen play a few more songs."
A little soft and clear girl's voice sounded crisply. Chen Guang couldn't help but look back and saw a proud girl with red lips and white teeth, white cheeks and red cheeks, and a squid on her head, dressed in men's clothes.
Bai Xiaojie was overjoyed when he looked at his daughter who suddenly broke in. He was the lord of a country and could not let others play more songs with shamelessness, so he looked at his little daughter who was kind and generous after coming in.
"Good girl, Aye finally didn't love you in vain. Good job!"
Looking at the father's eyes and understanding the meaning of Bai Aqiao, who asked him a greeting, took the opportunity to wrap his arms around the father's arm and became arrogant, "Father, do you want Mr. Chen to play a few more songs!"
Bai Xiaojie looked at his understanding daughter drowsyly, then looked at Chen Guang helplessly and said, "Chen Lang, this little daughter has always been willful, if she doesn't rely on her..."
"Master, then I'll be ugly."
Chen Guang didn't want to say anything nonsense anymore. Do these two fathers and daughters think he was blind? Such obvious eye contact. If he believed the king's words, he would have seen a ghost.
But anyway, his concert hall has risen from the ground and it will not take long to open the door to operate. All the left and right have to produce some new songs for performance. At worst, just let the king listen first.
Bai Aqiao sat obediently beside her father, watching the Chen Lang choose a huqin. After trying the strings a few times, she started to pull it up leisurely. Suddenly, the vast and sad huqin sounded in the hall, and then the slightly sad tune was deeply imprinted into her mind.
It was obviously the age when a girl was in love with spring and didn't recognize the taste of sorrow, but Bai Aqiao wanted to cry inexplicably as she listened. She seemed to be caught by something in her heart, and she felt very uncomfortable.
Bai Xiaojie, who was standing beside him, was already full of tears at this time. If the song "Pointing to the Moon with Left Hand" that day was sad but not hurt, and sad but not worried, it only made him recall the woman he once loved deeply twenty years ago, then the erhu version of "Misses beyond Time and Space" by Shen Guangla, the longing that had been accumulated for many years suddenly collapsed his thoughts like a dam.
After the song was pulled, Chen Guang looked at the crying Kucha king and was in a bad mood. If this was spread, he would not know what it would be like.
"This song of Chen Lang reminded someone of an old friend in Chang'an City, and made Chen Lang laugh."
Bai Xiaojie only came to his senses, but at this time he no longer had the interest to continue listening to the music. Instead, he felt an impulse in his heart. He wanted to go to Chang'an to see the saint and then see if she was safe.
"A Qiao, you take Chen Lang to choose the gold medal. The father wants to be alone and quiet."
Bai Aqiao saw such a father for the first time, so she nodded quietly, and then pulled the Shen Guang out of the palace with a little astonishment.
It was not until outside the hall that Chen Guang realized that he was still holding the huqin. Just as he was about to speak, the man named Aqiao next to him said, "I'll give this huqin to Chen Lang. Please don't refuse."
"All right."
Chapter completed!