Chapter 197 Accompaniment
“Being a good public official is indeed a duty, but it doesn’t conflict with congratulating the Emperor on his birthday. Sister Su, it’s not like you don’t know how to do anything, right?” Yu Qingping made a curious face, “Actually it doesn’t matter if you don’t know, if you say it directly, it’s no big deal.”
Zhao Su was elevated to sit at the head of the table with the Empress Dowager and the Emperor, although it is a fact that she can’t do anything, but it is also limited to unspoken words, if she said that she can’t do anything, then where would Marquis Qingyun’s face go? At the same time, it will also make the Empress Dowager Lu and the Emperor lose face ah!
A serious first-born Houfu big miss, even play a song and dance will not, really is not acceptable ah! And this kind of thing, the more you shirk, the more you lose face.
Zhao Su this time, is really by Yu Qingping to the fire!
Empress Dowager Lu twisted her head over, “What do you know?”
“I just know how to cook!”
She couldn’t possibly set up a stove on the spot to perform a spoon bobbing, could she?
“Quality education has been promoted for so many years, and you haven’t learned anything?”
“…… Then I can jump rope and sprint hurdles!”
Empress Lu looked at her, and even forgot to gasp back.
Zhao Su can’t help it, the children of poor families are like this, can read well to get into college is good, but also expect where to go to talk about quality education? What’s more, these are all the top white rich beauty, casually a shot is a professional level, even if she has learned to sing and dance, that is also embarrassed to take out ah!
Empress Dowager Lu was very hateful: “Even if you didn’t learn when you were a child, you didn’t learn anything in your four years of college?”
Zhao Su can’t avoid: “When I was a child, there was a dance school next door to our house, and I learned to dance for a few years.”
Even if her family was ordinary, it was the standard in their time for girls to learn dance in elementary school, so she did know how to do a few strokes, including the fork that she almost split in front of the emperor last time, and she should not have forgotten it yet.
“Then why are you still dawdling? Hurry down!”
“But Empress Dowager, I learned ballet! And there’s no piano accompaniment!”
In this kind of occasion, she is now this kind of dress, to spread her legs to dance ballet, this is not to make a joke in vain? She was embarrassed to dance not because she was afraid to dance badly, really because this kind of occasion to dance this kind of dance, too strange ah!
Empress Dowager Lu also paused, and then she said: “Classical dance also has split movements, ballet how can not dance? As for the accompaniment,” Empress Dowager Lu scanned the circle, “I’ll find you a good musician, deal with it!”
Zhao Su looked at her like this, and knew that she was determined to work with Yu Qingping!
The musician would only play ancient tunes, and she didn’t know the rhythm of the musician’s tunes, what kind of car crash scene would occur then, she could already imagine it, it would be better to let her jump rope and hurdle!
“Sister Su, why don’t you reply?”
Yu Qingping looked at Zhao Su’s anxious face, her heart was pleased, her voice was also unconsciously raised a bit, attracting the attention of all the people under the field.
Mrs. Marquis Jingnan said: “Marquis, you see this–”
“It doesn’t matter, let’s see.”
The Marquis of Jingnan, who had previously kept a low profile, stopped his wife’s words and gazed fixedly at Zhao Su above him.
Zhao Su has been Yu Qingping blocked into a dead end, the heart of a cross, thought of her Yu Qingping is also the military origin, may not be better than their own, intends to counter an army.
She stood up and was about to speak, this time next to the emperor has not been silent suddenly opened his mouth: “What do you want to use the song? I will give you music.”
Zhao Su: “……”
The emperor glanced over with a faint glance: “Don’t you know how to dance? Say a tune you think is appropriate, I’ll accompany you.”
Zhao Su open mouth, already do not know how to respond! The emperor is proficient in music, she already knows, but she never thought that in her most embarrassing time the emperor will actually give her relief!
If the emperor came down to play music for her, who cares how well she dances or what she dances, just him being the guest of honor would already be able to subdue all the bulls and snakes!
“Did I hear you correctly, His Majesty is saying that he wants to accompany Sister Su?”
As expected, even Empress Dowager Lu was a bit incredulous.
“A single joy is not as good as many joys, is not said to have the atmosphere of birthday celebration? If I do not participate, where is the atmosphere?”
The emperor said and stood up, his eyes turned to Zhao Su: “Let’s go.”
Seeing the emperor walk smoothly towards the bottom, Zhao Su has only been unable to follow the part, murmured a “good” word, she followed him to the bottom!
When Yu Qingping provoked Zhao Su, the field has been quiet, Empress Dowager Lu and Zhao Su said what everyone could not hear, but the emperor this is clear to the ears!
–The emperor is not a rare thing, but he is not to entertain himself, but to Zhao Su as a musician ah, to be precise, he is in the identity of the king of a country to Zhao Su relief ah!
“Your Majesty!”
Yu Qingping was confused by this situation!
But the emperor did not pay attention to her, walked straight to the musician who played the zither, and when the musician bowed and retreated, he lifted his robe and sat down.
Ten long fingers in the piano surface a stroke, heard “clang” sound, in the drop a needle can be heard on the field, as if the mountain stream spring open, the stream straight down.
The crowd only then believe that the emperor is really to give Zhao Su music, dare to ask the world who has suffered this kind of favor? Who dares to sit back and listen to the emperor play the qin? At that moment, everyone stood up!
Marquis Qingyun was so excited that the knot in his throat jumped straight up, both for the Zhao family to have this honor and proud, but also for Zhao Su to be so anxious!
“What song do you want?”
The Emperor looked up at Zhao Su, his posture as self-possessed as that day on the boat in the canal.
Zhao Su snapped back to her senses in admiration, “Liang, Liang Zhu, I think!”
She vaguely remembered seeing this version of the ballet on the internet, and right now she could only deal with it by scratching a few times from her impression.
Just don’t know if the emperor will.
But the emperor did not express surprise after listening, played out a few notes, surprisingly very consistent!
Zhao Su listened to the head of the hairpin ring all removed neatly, and then the long hair pulled to the top of the head bundled a large pill head. And then the water sleeves rolled up to the arm and tied a knot, try to make themselves sharp, and so on the emperor up to start the tune, she gritted her teeth and a cross heart, lifting the hem of the skirt to a classic ballet entrance movement slipped off the stage!
–Of course, she had never experienced such embarrassment! She was so embarrassed that her face was almost buried in the ground!
While straddling the Emperor for the guards to see had been socially dead last time, it had been small and static, but right now this was a performance, an event, and she had to try to keep herself from making a bigger fool of herself ……
But the facts proved that she really guessed right, in addition to the few people she recognized and the people of the Marquis of Qingyun, no one at all cared about how well she danced, everyone’s focus was on the emperor!
The women had only seen the emperor’s majestic and serious appearance, how had they ever seen such a side of him? The emperor was sitting behind the zither platform as if no one else was there, and had already pulled all of their gazes away.
The civil and military officials, in addition to their appreciation, also had the innate fear of being a subject to the king, and had to listen carefully with respect!
No one made fun of Zhao Su, and Yu Qingping and a few other young ladies who were staring at her dance even had a light in their eyes that looked like an enemy! So much so that there were a few other gazes mixed in the middle of the crowd, which she could no longer be bothered to notice.