The Flower Of War

Chapter 30: Opportunity in Narrowness

It did not feel that the day changed so quickly and now came the day when the Celebration as well as the friendly competition between kingdoms in the north and west was held.

Yiu was already in the northern region precisely in the capital Fufeng the day before along with Emperor Wang and Empress FuYao did not forget the jade knight duo from QiuWang who else if not Prince Xiao Ce and Prince Huang.

Yiu walked pacing back and forth looking restless in the room provided by Xiang Feng Kingdom as the host.

Yiu's mind continued to be glued to the contest playing musical instruments that would be seen by many pairs of eyes from among the nobility, the noble, palace officials and wealthy merchants who clearly had a taste of music that was quite classy in his era.

Her light blue Hanfu waving slowly dragged in unison with her footsteps and with her hair partially in a simple bun complete with matching colored hair ornaments made Yiu look like an immortal beauty who was waiting for someone to come however, Yiu did not care much about his appearance right now.

"Princess ... The Crown Prince and Prince Huang are already waiting for you outside is the princess ready?" chichi's voice forcefully dragged Yiu's lost consciousness in the wishful space, Yiu quickly nodded in response and walked out of the room.

At the end of the corridor, Yiu saw that her two brothers were waiting for her while having a light conversation.

Yiu immediately joined between them, at the same time the Emperor and Empress had already walked out of his room.

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"Isn't that the untalented Princess Ying but acting so arrogant?" A person in a soft voice whispered with his accomplice.

One of them replied, "Indeed, while in Zhang Wu Kingdom I once humbled myself to sacrifice my free time to share with him, sitting down drinking tea together but without any manners he rejected me and made me lose my face, who is he? It was good that someone offered but he refused to accept that everyone was dust in his black spring."

The rest of the group of five people replied to each other, "Yes, he is so arrogant because he comes from a kingdom that is quite influential in the northern mainland but actually he can not do anything!"

The last person took the number, "Very different from the two Qiu Wang princes who were very famous and famous for their prestige and courage. They are like two heavenly angels!"

One said, "He was once just a useless piece of trash among a pile of sparkling gold! How pathetic!"

Just entering the banquet area Yiu was greeted with scorn and unfriendly eyes from the female nobility and Princesses from other kingdoms.

Yiu only glanced at them a glance from the corner of his eyes then re-enforced his head in an indifferent manner and walked away from the crowd of gossiping women.

"Don't listen to them, everything they say about you is just a joke," Yiu turned to Prince Huang who was right next to him.

Yiu paused and smiled sarcastically, "I didn't hear anyone talking about me, Prince, I just heard the moaning of some donkeys."

Prince Huang briefly rattled Yiu's head peak, "Good!"

Prince Huang displayed his evil smirk and looked back to the front observing each part of the banquet then stepped in with both hands at the back approaching towards the table that was reserved for the royal member Qiu Wang on the right side with Yiu behind her.

Not long after, the host Emperor, Emperor Feng Lan, entered the banquet with Empress Hua Ji next to him and made the entire room speechless, bowing respectfully towards the two.

After the Emperor sat down, follow all the guests in the room. Emperor Feng Lan also opened his vocal cords to welcome and open the race event as well as the annual celebration of the North and West in the Capital of Fufeng.

Emperor Feng Lan exclaimed as he raised the wine cup in his hand to be followed by the rest of the nobles before downing away the ripples of unceremonious water.

"Return for everything and let's enjoy the race!"

"Your Majesty is so generous!"

Not long ago entered a group of female dancers to enliven the event before starting the first race between nobles, namely playing musical instruments.

When the dancer started dancing, she, some of the Royal Princesses began to stand up and step behind the walls of the room to prepare and wait their turn with their personal servants in the back carrying the musical instruments they would use.

This event in addition to being an entertainment event is also an event to determine the position of the most influential women on the mainland and even to attract young emperor candidates to pay attention and give the title of empress to them for their abilities which they have.

"Princess Ying hurry to the back of the room, your servant has prepared your musical instrument there you can relax and wait your turn" said Emperor Wang, who was only two seats away from Yiu, making Yiu reflexively turn his head before feeling his heart start beating very hard.

"You can definitely this is your chance to prove to them that they have been wrong about you all along" Prince Huang said with his hands tightly clasped Yiu's hands, channeling his courage.

Yiu smiled then nodded and walked towards the back of the room where the other female nobles were also waiting for their turn.

The clapping rumbles continued to linger when a first-order noblewoman finished playing an instrument while singing in a distinctive soft voice that amazed the guest kingdom over their performance which Yiu admitted was indeed very admirable.

And now it was Yiu's turn to show his ability. Yiu immediately stepped into the center of the hall bowing respectfully to the Emperor and Empress, seated himself behind his guzheng instrument then with a single breath Yiu began to pluck his guzheng strings gently.

The crowd was originally silent, too silent even the sound of needles falling alone the entire corner would be able to hear it.

Until finally, Yiu's snow-white wiggly finger moved over his guzheng, a real shrill string of strings as soft as cotton but also as sharp as a knife as high as a cliff and as deep as a bottomless abyss of death.

There were even some women who shed tears at the corner of her eyes, wiping them off with a handkerchief roughly upon hearing the heart-wrenching music.

Unfeeling that Yiu's string passage had reached its final pitch, Yiu opened his brown bead slowly and breathed a sigh of relief after finishing the song.

Along with the opening of the Yiu bead, it was like a spoonful of clear water splashed into a container of boiling oil, boisterous applause resounded throughout the entire room even Emperor Feng Lan and Empress Hua Ji clapped their hands while standing up from her seat followed by all the pairs of eyes that were in the room with haru smiles attached to their faces not a few who display a wry smile, especially the Royal Princess who participated in the contest.

Someone exclaimed amidst boisterous applause, "That was the most touching game I've ever heard in a lifetime! Too Beautiful!"

"You're right! Although Princess Ying did not chant the slightest chant like the others did but the music she played was enough to make me shed tears."

"Very good! Too good! I can't help but think that the Great Princess of Qiu Wang Kingdom turned out to be extremely talented! Why does he only appear now if in the past he always followed the events of the Kingdom should his name be very famous throughout this land!"

Yiu looked at his surroundings and displayed a faint smile as he raised his chin confidently after which stood up to salute and headed back towards the empty spot next to Prince Huang.

Still with a graceful smile on his face, Yiu turned towards Prince Huang who was speaking with a gaze that was still fixed to the front without intending to turn his head in the slightest as if it was nothing surprising, "Princess Ying's amazing game, since when are you good at playing musical instruments? As far as I know, you've always locked yourself in your room and you've always been busy embroidering on your new handkerchief. Why don't you take the embroidery contest now?"

Right after Prince Huang finished his remark, he twisted his neck bone staring fixedly at Yiu's bead as if he was looking for something suspicious hidden within.

Yiu calmly and the sweet smile printed clearly replied, "Lately I'm tired of always embroidering in my spare time, instead lately I started to be interested in playing musical instruments so I started learning them a few months back."

"Hm .. makes sense, but wait why didn't you sing?" said Prince Huang while changing his sitting position slightly leaning towards Yiu and propping up his chin with his snow-white right hand.

"That's because my throat is in trouble, Prince," The answer Yiu gave was quite firm and reassuring.

Before Prince Huang wanted to say anything a eunuch first called on the entire Royal guest to move towards the archery and sword fighting ground for the male nobility.

All royal guests also moved to position themselves in the spectator tower that surrounds the empty courtyard in the middle of the tower that will be used as the location of the archery race.

Just as Emperor Wang was sitting in his chair suddenly Chichi came and immediately knelt a few steps beside Emperor Wang, "Please a thousand mercy, Your Majesty, please, I want to convey something important and urgent, Your Majesty."

Emperor Wang bent his brows deeply, "Say."

Emperor Wang looked at Chichi fully inquisitively, Chichi seemed to steal a glance towards Yiu who was also staring at him after he fell back down and began to speak, "Please report, General Rong is currently in an unhealthy state after accidentally eating a boiled egg in a noodle soup dish in the previous event, causing allergies that are severe enough that they cannot respond to the decree, Your Majesty."

"That's so messy! Then how is this Ayahanda? Isn't the written requirement that each Kingdom must represent its 3 best representatives to participate in the archery and sword race?"

Now it was Prince Xiao Ce's turn to speak with a high tone prefix and Emperor Wang was also thinking about something.

"You're right, Prince, while here only the two of us and our kingdom do not bring enough qualified representatives to compete with the best representatives of other kingdoms other than *Xiao Rong," sahut Prince Huang who began to cross hands with a thoughtful face.

*Xiao ( ⁇ ) means Small can be added to mention close friends who are slightly or younger than us with a note both should be familiar with each other.

"Please speak, Your Majesty."

Chichi's voice broke the momentary silence that occurred between them and after getting a nod from the Emperor he continued his sentence.

"The kingdom of Qiu Wang still has one more hope that has great abilities and I believe he is able to compete with other kingdoms, Your Majesty."

"Young man who do you mean waitress?" ask Emperor Wang.

Chichi paused for a moment before saying solemnly, "That person is Her Highness Princess Ying, Your Majesty."

"What!!"

The unanimous answer came from the lips of the Emperor and the Empress and her three children.

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