Farm Gate Business Tycoon

Chapter 280: A Blockbuster (5)
The concubine smiled and said: "This piano was used to play music when the founding emperor of the Suye Dynasty ascended the throne. Later the emperor gave it to me, and now I will give it to you. Girl, I heard that you love money, but don't worry." Don't exchange it for money, it's priceless."

The crowd laughed again.

Gu Qingmei also smiled and said: "Even if you sold me, you wouldn't dare to sell it. The concubine is so loving, the younger generation doesn't know what to thank her concubine for."

The concubine smiled narrowly and said: "After passing through the door, give birth to a big fat boy for Brother Yu early, and you will thank me!"

Gu Qingmei's face turned red immediately, and she said coyly, "Toffee..."

When everyone heard this, they laughed again.

The concubine said: "Okay, I won't tease you anymore, lest you call me disrespectful in your stomach, I love to listen to your song, so I will play it with this piano, and sing me another song. Don’t go to that stage, just sing here, I am old and my ears are not good, I can hear clearly when I sing here.”

Lu Qingmei gave her a blessing softly, with a troubled expression on her face, "Reporting to the concubine, the younger generation has limited skills and can't play celebratory tunes. Please don't take offense to the concubine."

The concubine said indifferently: "It doesn't matter, just play a new piece of whatever you know, I won't die just because I listened to one of your pieces."

"Toffee, spit quickly!" Gu Qingmei saw that she said something dead on her birthday, and immediately changed her face, urging her anxiously.

"Okay, okay, look at my mouth, it's becoming more and more uncontrollable, bah bah bah..." The concubine smiled and spat on the floor beside her, and then urged. "Okay, let's play!"

"Yes!" Gu Qingmei hurriedly agreed.

There are five or six round tables in the east chamber, surrounded by a group of beautifully dressed daughters, who are discussing a lot at this time, and they all expressed strong curiosity about the Princess of Zhenguo who was appointed by the emperor.

Among them, only Murong Wenxia curled her lips in disdain, "What's so great? Isn't it just that she can play the piano and sing? Those who don't know think she is a singer."

Sitting at the same table with her, Murong Wenying sneered and said, "Grandma celebrated her birthday last year, so I don't know who played the piano and sang in public."

"You..." Murong Wenxia blushed when she heard this, and stared at her viciously. "Murong Wenying, if you want to flatter someone's stinky feet, you do it in front of them, and behind your back for a long time, but they don't appreciate your favor, why bother?"

Murong Wenying raised the corners of her lips contemptuously, and glanced at her with contemptuous eyes, "I don't need her to accept my love, I just want to be disgusted with you!"

Murong Wenjing said timidly from the side: "Sister Xia, Sister Ying, you... stop arguing, don't let anyone see the joke."

Although the two didn't get along, they also knew that this place was not at their own home, and they still had to take care of face, so they just snorted coldly together, then turned their faces away, and did not quarrel again.

On the side of the middle room, someone cleared out a table, and then ordered the performance on the stage to stop.

Someone from the male guest side asked why the show was stopped. Later, when they heard that Gu Qingmei was going to sing again, they all fell silent immediately, neither eating nor drinking, and not talking. They just concentrated and held their breath, waiting to hear Gu Qingmei sing.

What's more, Meng Lang simply left the next door, ran to the side of the women's family, stood at the door, and secretly looked at the pretty girl inside.

The maids arranged the place and set up the piano, and invited Gu Qingmei to sit down.

Gu Qingmei raised her hand to fiddle with the strings of the qin, tried the sound of the qin, and found that the sound of this qin was loose, pure and perfect, and the sound quality was almost the same as the one used by her grandfather in her previous life. A song "Burning Flowers" has been poured out.

"Flowers wither and flowers fly all over the sky, who will be sympathetic when the redness fades away? The gossamer is soft and the spring pavilion is floating, and the catkins are lightly stained with the embroidered curtain. 360 days a year, the wind, the knife, the frost and the sword are fierce..."

(Note: Quoted from "A Dream of Red Mansions" by Cao Xueqin.)
The lingering melody, coupled with the soft and graceful voice, instantly intoxicated everyone in the theater.

After the song was over, for a long time, no one spoke in the theater building.

"It's a good sentence, 'Once the spring is gone, the beauty will grow old, and the flower will fall and the person will die'!" The concubine sighed quietly.

Only then did thunderous applause sound.

The concubine said: "Don't just listen to it, such a beautiful song, you rich people, you should also bring some good things to reward."

Mrs. Lu Guogong smiled and said: "The concubine is really getting more and more obsessed with money. This granddaughter-in-law has not yet passed the door, so she is looking for a big guy to add a suitcase."

"You little money fanatic, you are as virtuous as your mother-in-law, it hurts when you spend money, don't think I don't know what's in your stomach, get the reward quickly, if it doesn't get into me In the eyes of this old woman, I can't do what you want."

"Hey, I can't afford to mess with you old Bodhisattva." Mrs. Lu Guogong hurriedly took off a suet white jade bracelet from her wrist.

There was a little maid on the side who took the tray and picked it up for Gu Qingmei.

The other wives also took off their jewelry one after another, some took off their bracelets, some pulled out their hairpins, and the worst ones also took off their earrings, except for the second lady of Jiajun Wangfu who stood still, and there was no one who did not bleed.

The concubine smiled and said, "Children, thank you ladies for your rewards."

Gu Qingmei hurriedly saluted everyone obediently and thanked them.

Suddenly a servant came in with a large tray in his hand, "Taufei, this is a reward from the masters to Miss Gu."

The concubine glanced at it and saw that there were mostly jade pendants in the tray, so she said flatly, "Take it here!"

A little girl stepped forward to pick it up, put it on the empty table beside her, and put it together with the set of head and face jewelry that the concubine gave to Gu Qingmei, and a little girl was watching here.

After a while, someone also released the qin that the concubine gave to Gu Qingmei, and they only gave it to Gu Qingmei after the birthday banquet was over.

At noon, the maids came up and removed the fruits from the table, replaced them with exquisite meals, and everyone began to eat.

There was no longer singing on the stage, but the sound of silk and bamboo, and several dancers began to dance.

After lunch, the concubine turned her face to look at Gu Qingmei, "Girl, I'm tired, take me back to the room to rest."

"Yes!" Gu Qingmei hurriedly helped her up respectfully, and then helped her down the stairs.

There were not many people around the concubine, only Qiu's mother and the two big maids followed, and in the distance, a few second-class maids who were always ready to order stopped behind.

Coming to a gravel path lined with bamboo groves, the concubine suddenly said slowly, "Girl, do you know why I am called the concubine even though I am a princess?"

(End of this chapter)