Wen Yunzi (A Story Towards the Peak of Supreme Power)
040. quqin Jade Ice
A short while later, a female servant entered the Banquet Hall while carrying a quqin in her hand.
"Miss, this is the best quqin collection in the entire Empire. Please see, if it is in accordance with what Miss wants", said the female servant while handing her quqin held to Yun Zi.
Yun Zi took it and carefully stroked it,
Smiling satisfied, Yun Zi then said, "Indeed it is worthy of being the best collection in this entire Empire! this Ice Jade Quqin could be considered a rare treasure and Zi'er was honored to play it".
Wen Li Mei as well as the other young Miss could only bully her teeth in envy seeing Yun Zi holding the Ice Jade quqin.
Keep in mind, the Ice Jade quqin that Yun Zi was holding right now, was the best in the entire Tian Zing Empire that not even any Empire could match its value.
It is said that when Empress Ming Lian married the Emperor, this quqin came with her and Empress Ming Lian herself was the best quqin expert at that time.
But ever since Empress Ming Lian died after giving birth to the first Prince, this quqin has been kept in the Palace's storage shed and never seen again.
What made Wen Li Mei and these young Misses envious and resentful was not only Yun Zi holding the Ice Jade quqin, either, but rather envy and hate at the fact that this quqin is here right now just because Yun Zi is in need of quqin.
"Your Majesty the Empress is very biased", this is what the young Miss had in mind.
Tinkering with the quqin strings with her slender fingers, a clear and sweet voice was heard which made Yun Zi's smile even more flashing.
Yun Zi then sat down on the chair in the middle of the Hall, which was previously the chair and table that had been prepared for him.
Putting the quqin on the table, Yun Zi took two breaths first then placed her slender fingers on the quqin strings. Then, such a beautiful melody flow had taken over the entire Banquet Hall.
As Yun Zi plucked the quqin strings with her graceful slender fingers. The melody made everyone who heard it feel like they were in an illusion.
An illusion in which everyone seemed to have witnessed an extremely beautiful scene where the elegant and indifferent lilies slowly opened their beautiful petals and emitted such an elegant fragrance.
Not only witnessed the beautiful sight of lilies, everyone also witnessed other illusions that were also no less beautiful with the illusion of a lily scene.
Such a beautiful illusion kept everyone immersed in the illusion despite the fact that the melody had ended.
One song that Yun Zi played really stuck everyone in an illusion and was unable to return to reality for a long time.
"Guests, this song is one of the ten famous Qin songs that are derived from the most valuable records of the relics of Eternal antiquity titled 'Beauty of lilies'. The beautiful melody of this song, will achieve the effect of calmness if played with quqin weaponry but unfortunately, this quqin is just an ordinary Ice Jade quqin", yun Zi said in her light tone while lightly stroking the quqin.
Hearing Yun Zi's sweet voice, everyone woke up from their illusions. By the time everyone returned to reality, his gaze and shocked expression all of the people were instantly fixed on Yun Zi.
No one would have thought that Yun Zi who had just turned from trash to genius, could play quqin so amazingly and that one song she played, too, it can make anyone who hears it get caught up in an illusion.
"Oh Heaven, listen to this song. It was like I was in an illusion and I was watching a very beautiful lily",
"You're right, I've never heard Qin's song this good",
"Qin's song titled 'The beauty of lilies', is really very suitable if juxtaposed with Wen Yun Zi's beauty",
Despite the many words of praise that were thrown at him, Yun Zi did not once feel proud or excited. His current attitude of staying calm was able to make everyone praise him even more.
Some people who had previously insulted Yun Zi, had now turned around to praise her as if forgetting that they had previously insulted her.
But in contrast to Wen Li Mei whose face was currently turning red from anger at the words of praise that should be addressed to her.
Usually at every party or banquet, Wen Jia Li was always the center of attention. And after Wen Jia Li entered the Imperial Academy, the limelight had been taken over by Wen Li Mei completely so it was only natural that Wen Li Mei was currently furious.
"With her current skills, no one would believe that the rotten girl had actually learned quqin for a few days! What really happened to that rotten girl? ", Wen Li Mei grumbled furiously in her heart.
In fact, what made Wen Li Mei angry and jealous the most was the fact that her quqin art that she was most proud of all this time became unworthy of pride anymore now.
There was no point in Wen Li Mei getting angry because basically, Wen Li Mei's quqin art was much inferior to Yun Zi's quqin art.
Even the Emperor praised Yun Zi in his friendly tone, "Excellent! This was the first time Zhen had listened to Qin's song which was able to get Zhen caught up in an illusion".
Standing up from his seat, Yun Zi gestured a greeting then said, "Thank you for the praise of His Majesty the Emperor. It's just a small achievement",
"Zi'er, if you mention this amazing quqin art as a small achievement then there is no room for other art performances", this time it was the Empress Mother who spoke in a tone full of praise and slightly joked to Yun Zi.
Seeing his extremely elegant and calm demeanor, the Emperor suddenly felt extremely disappointed at having broken the engagement rope between his Son and Yun Zi. Although disappointed, the Emperor kept a friendly smile and ordered his personal eunuch to give a gift to Yun Zi.
But suddenly the Emperor was very confused at the thought of what gift would match Yun Zi's elegant personality.
While the current Emperor was in confusion, Yun Zi suddenly asked the Emperor, "His Imperial Majesty, can you give this Ice Jade quqin to Zi'er? ".
Although this Ice Jade quqin was just an ordinary quqin that was not worth comparing to his Lian Mo Qin, Yun Zi still liked it very much in terms of workmanship and refined tone, though, this quqin really fits his taste and moreover, it is made from Ice Jade that is thousands of years old.
What was more important was, if one day Yun Zi met a great weaponry Master. Yun Zi could ask the weaponry Master to turn this ordinary Ice Jade quqin into a weapon quqin. Despite having the extremely valuable Lian Mo Qin as his weapon, Yun Zi was still very eager to possess this Ice Jade quqin.
The emperor hesitated and could not answer Yun Zi's question.
Not knowing about the origin of this quqin, Yun Zi thought the reason the Emperor was hesitant was, because the Ice Jade quqin might be very valuable but heard the words of the Emperor addressed to the First Prince, Yun Zi was also silent.
"Ming Hao, this Ice Jade quqin belongs to your late mother. What do you think of Girl Zi's request? ", the Emperor said to the first Prince sitting next to the Crown Prince.
Why did the Emperor refer to Yun Zi as Girl Zi and not Girl Wen?.....
The answer was; tonight who was present at the banquet there were two young Misses from the residence of General Wen namely Yun Zi and Wen Li Mei. The Emperor referred to Yun Zi as the Zi Girl just to distinguish her which meant that, the Emperor would also refer to Wen Li Mei as the Mei Girl.
Yun Zi had never expected that this Ice Jade quqin she wanted turned out to belong to the late Empress Ming Lian, the biological mother of the first Prince Nangong Ming Hao.
He turned his eyes towards the first prince. Yun Zi's pair of beautiful eyes were fixed directly with the first Prince's pair of eyes that were slightly indifferent.
Not answering his Emperor Father's question, the first Prince instead looked at the girl as beautiful as the elf without speaking the slightest which made the atmosphere of the Banquet Hall fall into silence.
"I'm sorry Your Highness the first Prince, I didn't know that this Ice Jade quqin turned out to belong to the late Empress Ming Lian. If I knew who the owner of this quqin was, I would definitely not ask for it", Yun Zi suddenly said and apologized sincerely to the First Prince.
Yun Zi had already given up on this Ice Jade quqin because it turned out, this quqin was an object left behind by the late Empress Ming Lian. Yun Zi knew that this quqin must be very valuable to the first Prince, Yun Zi also knew that it was impolite to ask for other people's valuables.
And this was the reason why Yun Zi sincerely apologized to the first Prince.
"Ben Wang agreed to give this Ice Jade quqin to Miss on the condition that Miss promised to take good care of the Ice Jade quqin" no longer looking at her, no longer looking at her, The first prince said to Yun Zi remained in his tone of acuity.
Yun Zi was very surprised to hear the first Prince's words.
In the end, Yun Zi refused and said that it was inappropriate to accept other people's valuables.
The Emperor, Queen Mother and Empress were again amazed by the courtesy nature of Yun Zi.
The emperor then said, "Girl Zi, since Ming Hao agreed to give you this Ice Jade quqin then just accept it and consider it a gift anyway, before Empress Ming Lian dies. His last message was, giving this quqin to a proper person and other than Girl Zi, it seemed like no one deserved it".
The Queen Mother and Empress also agreed with the Emperor's words and asked Yun Zi to accept them.
Since the first Prince had already let it go, Yun Zi no longer refused and happily accepted it and promised that he would always take good care of it.
Although many people were jealous of Yun Zi's luck, they could only remain silent because they thought that Yun Zi indeed deserved to have the Ice Jade quqin.
In contrast to those who could only swallow jealousy in silence, Wen Li Mei actually bluffed her teeth with anger and hate to see all good things happen to her most hated cousin.
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