Xiao Fang tried to design a play what was combining a few outstanding performances that she had seen and then, turned it into a simple play about a love story which quite popular for the ladies. Besides, the one who was celebrating the birthday here was the Empress Dowager which always loved gossiping -- this was a known fact in the n.o.ble circle.
When people were old, they tended to have no entertainment, so they usually gathered around with her friends and talked about interesting gossip in the capital. They had been bored with ordinary dancing and music performances, thus, they generally loved to call a storyteller once in a while --- but they only talked without doing any performances.
That was the reason why Xiao Fang tried to invent a new performance to attract the crowds" attention.
Not only that, but the Empress Dowager had a love story that people rarely knew back then --- only a few people knew and one of them was Han Xiang. The latter was the one who told Xiao Fang about it back then.
When Yao Ying was still performing up there by doing some acrobatics and dangerous moves, a woman suddenly came out from the back of the stage and laughed along with a few beautiful women --- all of them were wearing veils so no one could see their real faces clearly. It made the audience feel even more curious ah~!
This trope chose not to reveal any of the women"s face, unlike the other tropes who wanted to find a chance to climb the ladder. However, they seemed to have outstanding appearances judging from their elegant movement --- they didn"t look like commoners at all. People began to question their ident.i.ties but not in a negative way.
Yao Ling played a piece of upbeat music and adjusted it with Yao Ying"s joyful performance which representing Yao Ying"s youthfulness. Some of the audiences even moved along with the beat secretly. However, when that group of women appeared, the qujin"s sound turned into soft once again, highlighting those women"s appearance on the stage.
Yao Ying was surprised and stopped his movement when he felt there was a change in the atmosphere. He was still standing up in the middle of the thin rope, but his eyes kept darting around to find the lovely laughter voice of a few women that drifted into his ears.
Yao Ying didn"t move... no, not didn"t... but couldn"t, because he was entranced by someone and because of that, he couldn"t take off his eyes from one of the women that had just come --- the woman who was standing beautifully in the middle of the stage and surrounded with so many women at once.
The other women deliberately wore white-colored articles of clothing which emphasized the beautiful woman"s pink robe. It seemed like the woman in the pink robe was the daughter of one of the important officials --- judging from her graceful bearing and walking manner. Despite the cheery laughter of the others, she only smiled softly.
This performance made the audience feel mixed feelings. The performers seemed bold enough to choose a taboo love story for the theme when they saw the male lead and the female lead. They were afraid that this would affect their wives and daughters" mind, but at the same time, this performance was carefully packaged that it made them feel curious to watch everything until the end.
The story was that enchanting to them.
The officials looked at the Emperor and Empress Dowager, but both of them didn"t seem to have the intention to stop them from performing, thus, they could only sit back and back to enjoy the performance once again. There was still a lot of time to stop the performance later if the content wasn"t suitable.
They believed that the Emperor and Empress Dowager had their own calculation. Besides, they didn"t dare to make those two Ancestor feeling unhappy with their interference.
The woman in the pink robe was played by Xiao Fang. After laughing for a little while, Xiao Fang started to tease the other women and dance beautifully. She heard the beautiful melodies that were played by Yao Ling and it made her feel the sudden urge to dance.
The women"s maidservants were reluctant at first because they were afraid that they were being seen by others --- it was a taboo to let an unknown man see their young miss" dance. They looked at each other helplessly but once their young miss planned to do something, they couldn"t stop her because of her stubborn streak.
Xiao Fang was dancing belly dance moves which accentuated her body shape, after all, she was using Han clothing that showed off her abs. She didn"t only do it seductively, but also vivacious, thus, people didn"t think that she was trying to deliberately seduce any men. The dance made the others feel so cheerful, lifting up the atmosphere of the banquet --- even the Empress Dowager was looking at their performance with a smile.
The Empress Dowager was a conservative woman, however, she had been living in the palace for so long and this new type of performance really made her feel entranced and happy. She didn"t even care whether they broke the taboo or not. She watched intently while gasping in surprise here and there --- whether when she saw Yao Ying"s acrobatic jump or Xiao Fang"s flexibility.
The Empress Dowager wasn"t stupid enough not to see the high-cla.s.s techniques that both women did in this performance --- the Empress Dowager was referring to Yao Ling and Xiao Fang. One with her music and one with her dance.
The other dancers looked around and felt agitated, trying to see whether there was a weird unknown man around them or not when Xiao Fang was dancing her solo performance. When they found that there was no one, they sighed in relief. Those maidservants were taken in by the laughter of the young miss and decided to follow her along by dancing the same moves as their young miss.
They didn"t know that a young man was already looking at their young miss from up there... feeling entranced by Xiao Fang"s dance from the beginning. That man was Yao Ying. At first, Yao Ying didn"t dare to move from his spot --- he only dared to peek at the woman, but soon, he couldn"t help himself anymore.
Yao Ying wanted to introduce himself to the woman so that at least, the woman would look at her...
He jumped and landed in front of the women --- which earned gasps from those women because the women were feeling surprised by the man"s sudden intrusion ah~! The audience had thought that this would become a cheesy love story between the two of them --- dancing together and finally falling in love with each other just like usual.
However, contrary to their expectation, the story didn"t stop there.
When the audience started to feel that there would be no suspense anymore from the performance, a man suddenly appeared while using his qing gong from the backstage at a fast speed. The man"s qing gong skills made the audience feel surprised --- especially to those who knew martial arts skills.
They started to feel vigilance because at first, they were thinking that the newcomer might be aiming to kill the Han Emperor.
The atmosphere became so tense in a flas.h.!.+
Because of that, even the hidden guards who were surrounding the banquet area started to become vigilance as well. However, they didn"t dare to move without the big boss" permission. Thus, they could only wait alertly.
The Han Emperor"s eyes squinted, trying to see what Feng Yong Rui wanted to do --- maybe the other performers would join the newcomer and attacked him altogether!
The Han Emperor smirked and thought to himself, "It will be better if they really attack him!"