Between the vast sea of ​​clouds

Near the river bank, the shade of the trees cast a piece of coolness, Qingping wiped the sweat from her forehead, the wound on her lower back was soaked in sweat, the stinging pain was unbearable, she dared not tell anyone, she forced herself to bear it.Seeing her sweating profusely, Master Wang felt very strange, and asked, "Are these movements difficult?"

Qingping nodded, thinking that it is not only difficult, it is very difficult, it is not at all like the few simple movements of hands, feet and feet that she said before, and it must be matched with the libretto, so there must be no deviation.

The movements of the hands are okay, and some gestures are needed to express the emotions of the characters, but the movements of the feet are not good. Only those who have practiced extremely solid footwork can easily control the movements. The steps are intricate, according to Master Zhang. In addition, we have to follow the tune of the music step by step.Qingping was very cooperative at first, and Master Wang naturally showed 12 points of patience to teach her, but Qingping is not a professional after all, after learning for two days, he is still the same.

Master Wang became a little anxious, and kept staring at Qingping every day. Master Zhang persuaded her several times, but seeing that she was very stubborn, he couldn't listen to the persuasion, so he let her go.

So Qingping struggled hard with these forms of movements. After two days, she found that there were only a few people left in the big juggling troupe. Except for the usual masters Zhang and Wang, the others hid in the tent all day and didn't know what they were doing. Qingping I heard some sounds from the wood, and I saw a few people come out and go in with buckets, and their clothes were covered with paint.In this way, on the morning of the third day, a carriage came to the river, Master Wang and Master Zhang stood aside respectfully with Qingping, a well-dressed young woman alighted from the carriage, saw them and asked, "Have you found them?"

Master Wang stepped forward, bowed and said: "Yes, I have been teaching her for three days, but the kung fu on this body must be learned from an early age. Unfortunately, this child's muscles and bones are already strong, so it is not so easy to train|teach."

The young woman said: "That's okay, as long as other people can stand on top, have you done what I said?"

Master Zhang approached courteously and said, "Can the group leader go and have a look?"

"Don't call me the leader of the group, vulgar!" The woman took out a fan and slapped it a few times, and said in disgust: "You can just call me Miss, and the child who plays the dragon girl, pull it over and let me have a look."

Master Zhang pushed Qingping, motioned her to salute, and said with a smile on his face, "Tuan...ah no, miss, just take a look, this is it."

"Huh?" The woman looked at Qingping suspiciously, then suddenly turned around and approached Wang and Zhang, and said sharply, "This is the child you found? She was born so well, and her family would allow her to play the dragon girl? Could it be that you abducted her?" ?”

Master Wang hurriedly waved his hand, pushed Qingping, and said, "Tell Miss yourself whether you did it voluntarily!"

The woman's eyes turned back to Qingping, Qingping nodded and said: "Miss, I am voluntary."

Master Zhang echoed: "Miss, don't worry, this is an innocent and good family. Why do we want to pick someone to pretend to be a dragon girl? Naturally, we have to abide by the rules at the Wanghai Banquet, right? The child we pick must be innocent." , under fifteen, and they have to be voluntary! Right, if you really bought a child to save trouble, then work would have started a long time ago, why waste time waiting until now?" She took out a handkerchief from her sleeve and wiped it. With sweat on his head, he said: "We also know the pros and cons of this. If you don't behave properly and sit upright, and offend the gods, no matter how much money you have, it will be useless! Do you think this is the case!"

The woman calmed down when she heard the words, and said with satisfaction: "That is to say, there are many rules at the Wanghai Banquet, but there are only a few rules that are strictly guarded and cannot be violated at all. They will anger the gods and cause catastrophe. And family members, that’s not a joke.” Then he said to Qingping: “Little girl, do you know the rules of the sea-watching banquet?”

Master Wang's complexion turned ugly, she didn't tell Qingping about the rules of the sea-watching banquet, she looked at Qingping eagerly, with a pleading look in her eyes.The woman's sharp eyes glanced at Zhang and Wang with a hint of warning, Qingping said to her: "Master Wang has been busy teaching me these days, so I haven't had time to talk about it yet, but I know better."

The woman raised her eyebrows, put away her fan, and said, "You're an eloquent man, anyway, you don't look like you were kidnapped here. Since you're interceding for Master Wang, please let her go this time."

Master Wang nodded and saluted as if he was relieved, the woman snorted coldly and said: "I just want to compete with my fourth brother to see whose troupe can get a good place in this Wanghai Banquet, although Wan Ling It's already gone, but it doesn't mean that there is nothing we can do. Load everything into the car, and we will go to Zhaoye."

Qing Ping stood aside silently, but was very happy in his heart that he was about to go to Zhao Ye.I just don't know whether Chen Jun has arrived in Zhaoye, but as long as I can enter this city, I will find Chen Jun sooner or later.

She thought of Liu Zhen, and those assassins whose origins were unknown, and the joy in her heart was diluted a bit.The woman lifted the curtain and sat in. Master Wang directed the rest of the people to pack up their things and put them on the cart at the back. Master Zhang sighed and said: "Misses from rich families are so grand and heroic! But It scared me to death just now, hey, little girl, thank you very much."

Qing Ping waved his hand to express his thanks, and Master Zhang also looked bad when he saw her, as if she was frightened.Seeing that she acted decently and calmly just now, she immediately had a good impression of her, and comforted her: "Miss Shao is a good person, why don't you just do things well, she is generous, if you get a good ranking at the Wanghai Banquet this time , she will definitely not treat you badly."

Qingping thanked her dumbfounded, and Master Zhang took her to a carriage behind her.Master Wang packed her things in the back and got into the car. She also changed into some normal clothes, and whispered to Qingping while wiping off her sweat: "Just now... Thank you very much."

The three of them squeezed into a small compartment, all shoulders hunched.Qingping smiled at Master Wang, who just opened his mouth to say something.The carriage suddenly moved, Qingping whispered: "Are we going to Zhaoye?"

Master Wang's thoughts were interrupted by her, and he couldn't remember what he was going to say just now, she said: "It's going to Zhaoye."

Qingping asked: "Then when will it arrive?"

Master Wang thought about it: "If it's Miss Shao's carriage, it will arrive this evening."

The wheel ran over a rock and bumped, and the three people in the car suddenly staggered and collided with each other. Master Zhang tried his best to support the wooden crown on his head, and said, "I'm walking in such a hurry, I'm afraid I won't have to wait until evening to get there. "

Qingping watched the scenery along the way silently and wrote down the route in his heart.This road is completely different from the road she came to. Large wheat fields can be seen everywhere, undulating like waves.Farmers are busy harvesting. December is the month when Chenzhou ushers in the second batch of wheat harvest. Hezhou, Hengzhou, and Qiongzhou north of Fulongling are all covered by heavy snow at this time.

This world is truly amazing. Qingping looked at the people working in the fields seriously. The two Wang and Zhang beside her could not stop drooping, and they stopped and stopped like chickens pecking at rice. She moved her waist lightly to prevent bump into the wound.

When the sun moved to the west, they arrived at Zhaoye.

This state city of Chenzhou is a very famous city. The city wall is made of the unique green feather stone of Chenzhou. From a distance, it seems to be covered with green moss.Different from Le'an's thick and simple, Zhao Ye exudes a youthful atmosphere and is extremely active.There are sixteen mirror stands on the city wall, and a huge bronze mirror made of bronze is placed in the stand. Light a torch in front of the mirror to reflect the fire light to the ground.

Of course, this is not Zhao Ye's most amazing design.In the center of Zhaoye City, there is a pure white stone pagoda with a height of ten feet and five feet. There is also a mirror stand on the top of the tower. The mirror platform above also echoes it, and will refract the sixteen beams of light into a very special pattern. As long as the torch continues, this light can illuminate the White Tower in the middle of the night. A beam of bright light descended from the sky and shone in the center of the city like a miracle.This is the origin of "Zhao" in Zhaoye's name, which means a place of light; "Ye" is originally the name of the city, but it has no other special meaning.

In the evening, there was still a long queue outside the gate of Zhaoye City. Because the New Year Festival was approaching, many merchants came from other places, and the city also sent additional guards to conduct strict inspections on the merchants. If there is a shortage, if you carry a large amount of goods, you have to dismantle them outside the city gate and search them in stages.

The lady surnamed Shao took the documents, and the chief guard casually flipped through the things on the back panel of the cart. Seeing that there were a few pieces of wood and miscellaneous opera clothes, he lost interest and ordered his subordinates to let them go. When the carriage slowly entered the city, the two The master also woke up, stretched in the narrow compartment, and there was a collision, and he woke up instantly.

Master Zhang lifted the curtain of the car and murmured: "My God."

Qing Ping and Master Wang looked out the window, Zhaoye City was full of people, the buildings in the city had extremely high cornices and dense green tiles.The building is almost four stories high, and each floor is interconnected, extending along the long street to the end.At this time, the sky was already dark, and lamps were lit in the pavilions, hanging under the eaves. There were teahouses, restaurants and shops intersecting in the interconnecting promenade, and merchants selling things took advantage of the guests' meals to sell goods from the head of a certain floor to tail.There are also cloth vendors who simply threw the cloth down from the fourth floor. Under the light, the brocade shone like water, causing people on the upper floors on both sides to rush to see it.

The lights are bright, and sixteen beams of light pass over the building, illuminating the night sky.The hustle and bustle of people gathered into a huge wave, filling the city with indescribable charm.In the night market on the first floor, there were endless cries of hawking. Merchants from all states rushed to display their goods, ranging from jewelry, cloth, rare medicinal materials, to all kinds of interesting gadgets. The traders were skillfully selling their goods. The drunken people surrounded the scantily clad teenagers and sang heartily, their movements were so large that they almost knocked over the nearby food stall.

Qingping felt as if she had come to another world. She looked at everything around her strangely. The carriage turned a corner and drove away from the place just now. The bell jingled and came to a courtyard gate by a lake.

The yard had no walls, and there were many tents with different colors on the side. Miss Shao got out of the carriage and skillfully directed the servants to move things into the yard.Qingping and the others also got down from the carriage, Qingping couldn't help stretching his muscles, a girl in short clothes came out of the tent, saw them and asked suspiciously: "Master Wang, who is this?"

Master Wang glanced at Miss Shao and saw that she was busy with something, so he pulled the girl and pushed Qingping over at the same time, the two almost collided, Master Wang whispered: "This is... The one who came to play the dragon girl is called Qingping, you guys should get to know each other, you are familiar with it."

The lights in the tents were slowly turned on, one after another, slowly spreading along the lake shore, and a warm light enveloped the lake.It was only then that Qingping saw that there were tents of this size along the lake, and the light reflected through the tents was extraordinarily warm, reflected in the calm water of the lake, as if there was a sea of ​​stars in the lake.

Master Zhang supported the tent and said, "It's Pingshu? I haven't seen you in half a month. How is your recited lines?"

Ping Shu glanced at Qing Ping, with hostility in his eyes, and put some distance away from her, then said: "You know it, and you just found someone like this back? What can she do? Can she sing or dance?"

Master Wang and Master Zhang looked at each other, Master Zhang coughed lightly, and said, "Ping Shu, this Qingping has only been studying for three days, and he can only scratch the surface of everything, so do you..."

Ping Shu smiled coldly, looked at Qing Ping contemptuously, and said: "Yes, what can you learn in three days? You just found such a person to fool Miss Shao? But you can't fool me. Dragon girl, I really don't know how I will be laughed at."

Master Wang was a little unhappy when she heard the words. She frowned, and said, "Why are you still counting on that Wan Ling? He ran away and took your kindness as bullshit! If it weren't for Miss Shao's generosity, this I don't know how it will end. I know you want to stand out at this sea-watching banquet. Think about it carefully. Do you know how difficult it is to find someone that suits your requirements? You, Master Zhang, and I went to the countryside to go door-to-door Asking from door to door, I finally found one like this, what are you not satisfied with?" As she spoke, she also became angry, glared at Pingshu, and said angrily: "This is your partner, Qingping, look good Well, there are still four days until the Sea-Watching Banquet, if you are not sure enough, and your behavior is still so absurd, I think our group should just break up!"

Ping Shu froze, and Master Zhang came over to persuade him: "It's alright, alright, you can stop talking! Ping Shu and you too, we also want to stand out at this sea-watching banquet, otherwise why bother Look for someone, now that the person has arrived, Miss Shao also said that there are other ways to do it, so you should teach Qingping well first."

Qing Ping stood aside and listened to them quietly, when suddenly his name was called, he straightened up and stood upright.Ping Shu wanted to get angry at first, but saw that the girl standing beside her was fair and beautiful, with a pair of light-colored eyes flowing under the firelight, as clear as a stream.She stood quietly without saying a word, but Ping Shu inexplicably calmed down, and said awkwardly: "Then you come with me first, if you can learn something."

Master Zhang pressed Master Wang's shoulder, heaved a sigh of relief when he saw this, and interrupted with a smile: "Then Ping Shu, you have to teach me well, Master Wang has worked hard for so many days, I will take her down to rest first." After that, he dragged the reluctant Master Wang away.

Qingping followed Pingshu into a tent, an oil lamp was lit in the tent, a bed was placed, and it was tidy.

Pingshu looked back at Qingping again, and didn't know what to say to her. The words she said just now made her attitude towards Qingping very clear. He said kindly, "Come here, let me see you."

Qing Ping walked over, Ping Shu sighed while watching, and said: "You, can you bend down? Can you turn over? Yes..." Qing Ping always had a calm expression on his face, and she knew that she was asking in vain. up.

Pingshu frowned in pain, raised her head, jumped up from the bed suddenly, turned several somersaults on the ground, dexterously avoided the decorations in the tent, and finally when she landed on the ground steadily, Qingping almost Shout out.

"Go and wash up." Ping Shu sighed, as if her anger had subsided after somersaulting, she took a towel from the wooden frame and put it on her body, and gave another to Qing Ping, and pulled out two copper basins , exactly one for each person.

Qingping followed her with a towel and a copper basin, wanting to ask what she was doing.Pingshu led her to the corner of the lake with all turns and turns, put down her things and took off her clothes neatly, like a fish swimming, she nimbly slid into the water.

It turned out that this was washing. Qingping silently untied her clothes, stood on a rock under the water, and let the lake submerge herself. She hadn't bathed for many days, and she breathed a long sigh of relief in the cool water. .

In the night, she suddenly remembered the scene of taking a bath with Wu Ying in Le'an's bathhouse. She scooped up the lake water and splashed it on her face. Looking at the bustling market by the lake, she felt very lonely and melancholy.