Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41: Chpater 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44: Chpater 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110
Chapter 111
Chapter 112
Chapter 113
Chapter 114
Chapter 115
Chapter 116
Chapter 117
Chapter 118
Chapter 119: 第119章
Chapter 120
Chapter 121
Chapter 122
Chapter 123
Chapter 124
Chapter 125
Chapter 126
Chapter 127
Chapter 128
Chapter 129
Chapter 130
Chapter 131
Chapter 132
Chapter 133
Chapter 134
Chapter 135
Chapter 136
Chapter 137
Chapter 138
Chapter 139
Chapter 140
Chapter 141
Chapter 142
Chapter 143
Chapter 144
Chapter 145
Chapter 146
Chapter 147
Chapter 148
Chapter 149
Chapter 150
Chapter 151
Chapter 152
Chapter 153
Chapter 154
Chapter 155
Chapter 156
Chapter 157
Chapter 158
Chapter 159
Chapter 160
Chapter 161
Chapter 162
Chapter 163
Chapter 164
Chapter 165
Chapter 166
Chapter 167
Chapter 168
Chapter 169
Chapter 170
Chapter 171
Chapter 172
Chapter 173
Chapter 174
Chapter 175
Chapter 176
Chapter 177
Chapter 178
Chapter 179
Chapter 180
Chapter 181
Chapter 182
Chapter 183
Chapter 184
Chapter 185
Chapter 186
Chapter 187
Chapter 188
Chapter 189
Chapter 190
Chapter 191
Chapter 192
Chapter 193
Chapter 194
Chapter 195
Chapter 196
Chapter 197
Chapter 198
Chapter 199
Chapter 200
Chapter 201
Chapter 202
Chapter 203
Chapter 204
Chapter 205
Chapter 206
Chapter 207
Chapter 208
Chapter 209
Chapter 210
Chapter 211
Chapter 212
Chapter 213
Chapter 214
Chapter 215
Chapter 216
Chapter 217
Chapter 218
Chapter 219
Chapter 220
Chapter 221
Chapter 222
Chapter 223
Chapter 224
Chapter 225
Chapter 226
Chapter 227
Chapter 228
Chapter 229
Chapter 230
Chapter 231
Chapter 232
Chapter 233
Chapter 234
Chapter 235
Chapter 236
Chapter 237
Chapter 238
Chapter 239
Chapter 240
Chapter 241
Chapter 242
Chapter 243
Chapter 244
Chapter 245
Chapter 246
Chapter 247
Chapter 248
Chapter 249
Chapter 250
Chapter 251
Chapter 252
Chapter 253
Chapter 254
Chapter 255
Chapter 256
Chapter 257
Chapter 258
Chapter 259
Chapter 260
Chapter 261
Chapter 262
Chapter 263
Chapter 264
Chapter 265
Chapter 266
Chapter 267
Chapter 268
Chapter 269
Chapter 270
Chapter 271
Chapter 272
Chapter 273
Chapter 274
Chapter 275
Chapter 276
Chapter 277
Chapter 278
Chapter 279
Chapter 280
Chapter 281
Chapter 282
Chapter 283
Chapter 284
Chapter 285
Chapter 286
Chapter 287
Chapter 288
Chapter 289
Chapter 290
Chapter 291
Chapter 292
Chapter 293
Chapter 294
Chapter 295
Chapter 296
Chapter 297
Chapter 298
Chapter 299
Chapter 300
Chapter 301
Chapter 302
Chapter 303
Chapter 304
Chapter 305
Chapter 306
Chapter 307 - 307 Chapter 307
Chapter 308 - 308 Chapter 308
Categories Genre: All, Drama, Historical, Josei, Ongoing, Romance Status: Ongoing Alternative names: 凰权, 天盛长歌, ______
Total Chapters in book: 308
Estimated words: 438270 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2191(@200wpm)___ 1753(@250wpm)___ 1461(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 438270 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2191(@200wpm)___ 1753(@250wpm)___ 1461(@300wpm)
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Chapter 16: Chapter 16
Translator:
Aristophaneso
The robed figure didn’t seem to be worried at all, and they casually waved their hand and let her go. Zhiwei hid the notebook in the fold of her clothes and turned to leave.
In that moment, she had felt that something was different, but after a moment of stillness, could find nothing wrong with her body, and so she chuckled to herself and pushed through the door.
Feng Zhiwei exclaimed in surprise and realized that she had lost track of time as she had read. The sun had already sank to the west, and it was dusk.
Feng Zhiwei ran down a short cut and rushed back. She was familiar with many of the alleys, and this road led to the Lan Xiang Yard back door.
The path was quiet and Feng Zhiwei could hear her footsteps against the bluestone road.
In that empty silence, she could hear the distant hum of conversation.
“Mom, give me a silver tael.”
Feng Zhiwei’s heart trembled – it was Feng Hao.
She moved to the corner of the wall
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and looked out onto the street, hiding and holding her breath. Feng Hao was walking with mother, and was begging Madam Feng. “One silver tael, so I can buy silk undergarments.”
“I can’t wear those coarse clothes to play Fly Ball. They stick to my body and smell funny.” Feng Hao said cheerfully. “They all said that if I can’t change into something more proper, they won’t let me play.”
Fly Ball was a game passed down from the Da Cheng Dynasty. It was supposedly invented by the Shen Ying Empress, and at the time had been a game that anyone could play. Now, it was a luxury reserved for the aristocracy, and one ball costed a hundred gold. With Feng Hao’s status, how could he be allow to play this game? And whom was he playing with?
Feng Zhiwei’s eyes fell on the her mother and brother’s clasped hands, and a sour feeling entered her heart. She stopped thinking about the game.
She leaned against the corner of the wall, alone, and bit her lips as she listened to her mother’s words. She was speaking in a quiet, concerned voice, “People like us shouldn’t mingle with those Gong Zi…” but Feng Hao laughed. “They promised me. They’re going to recommend me to Qing Ming Academy. Didn’t you tell me that Qing Ming Academy is the best academy in the world…”
The fading light drew long shadows on the ground, and her brother’s faded as one with her mother’s. As for hers, it dragged a long and thin line across the ground, like parallel lines, never touching.
Feng Zhiwei hugged her arms; the coldness that had hit her that night when she had been kicked out of Qiu Mansion attacked her again, and in the dusk of Early Spring, she shivered in a nameless alleyway.
She watched her mother rub Feng Hao’s head lovingly, and he won out in the end. Her mother moved carefully, taking out a tael of silver and handing it to Feng Hao. She watched as her brother sent her mother off and then looked around sneakily, smirking.
Mother only had a tael of silver each month, but if Feng Hao really used it to buy some clothes it would still be fine. Zhiwei was just afraid that this money would end up lining the sachets of some girl from Lan Xiang Yard.
The money her mother saved, scrimping on food and expenses for an entire month, given to some prostitutes for Sugar Melon seeds that they cared nothing for, eating half and throwing away the other half.
Her smile was ugly and bitter.
Feng Zhiwei turned away, trying to shake these thoughts from her mind, leaning against the corner of the wall and broke off part of a Sugar Lotus stuffed with Sticky Rice to eat. She didn’t want to watch her brother waltz into the yard.
After she had eaten half of the lotus root, her eyes noticed something almost unconsciously, and Feng Zhiwei paused, startled.
Why were there footprints on the back wall?
Feng Zhiwei looked up and examined the wall. A huge tree with dense branches and leaves leaned against the top of the well hidden section of wall, and from the footprints, it was clear that someone had climbed onto this tree and jumped into Lan Xiang Yard.
Hiring prostitutes secretly? Or a girl spending time with her poor lover?
Just as she was guessing at possibilities, the leaves above her rustled. Through the green leaves peeped out thin shoes and a butt in moon white trousers. The figure stopped and sat on a branch, in no hurry to get down as if relaxing and appreciating the view from the vantage point.
Feng Zhiwei leaned around the trunk of the tree with some curiousity, peering over to try and get an angle on the butt’s face.
The butt swayed against the tree, and the man spoke mournfully and with great feeling, “Ju Hua
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, our love is the timeless blue of heaven, and like two webs interspun, our hearts are woven together with a thousand knots….. you must take care of yourself, you must cherish yourself, you must…. not lose weight missing me too much….”
Feng Zhiwei held her stomach; she hadn’t eaten that much sticky rice, but why did she want so badly to vomit….
And it was seemingly not only Zhiwei who felt this way, and the branches and leaves rustled as if someone inside the walls had given him a push. The man exclaimed and his butt quivered without stop as he began reciting even more mournfully, “That year we strolled together down the city road, but now I see only the clouds and rain of my soul. In grief I wasted, dusk by numbered dusk… Ju Hua, your heart is vicious…..” (1)
The man was reciting an endless stream of love poems, both modern and ancient, and even interspersed some original works. He recited beautiful and beautiful lines rolled from his tongue. His mind was fast and clear, and his words the unfolding of a beautiful lotus flower. Feng Zhiwei sighed – his talent was rare, but he used it on a third-grade prostitute. He was really not afraid of retribution for this crime to his gift.
As he was reciting, a great uproar came from both the front and back doors of Lan Xiang Yard. Feng Zhiwei could hear in the distance the yells of men and the cries of women as they claymores loudly : “Grab that shameless man who should be killed with a thousand blades!”
“Ai yo!”
The man stopped his happy recitation and exclaimed loudly, jumping to his feet. In his hurry, he forgot that he was on his tree. He scrambled for balance as his body fell to the side, and in a great crash of ripping clothes and flesh against wood, Feng Zhiwei watched as that moon white butt grew larger as it fell towards her. In a loud “peng!” The man fell in the dust in front of her.
Feng Zhiwei looked down and examined the charming face of the middle aged man.
The man fell heavily, but he immediately scrambled up onto his hands and knees. He spun his head, looking around in a panic as the sound of people beating against the back door filled the air. From the distance, the pair could hear someone yell, “Somebody check back there!”
Feng Zhiwei knew that this wasn’t the best place to be, so she turned to run. People came to catch the adulterer; why should she stay with him?
But she couldn’t move, and when she looked down she saw a hand grabbing the her pants. The man in the dust lifted his pretty face and smiled ingratiatingly. “Brother, please help me!”
Feng Zhiwei smiled gently and leaned down, and the man’s face filled with hope. He reached for her hand, letting go of her pants in his excitement.
And then Feng Zhiwei turned around and ran.
The man’s half standing body fell into the dust again.
The man watched as Feng Zhiwei ran away mercilessly as the stamping feet coming from the back door echoed closer, and he shouted in a subdued voice; “You dare to leave!?”
Total Chapters in book: 308
Estimated words: 438270 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2191(@200wpm)___ 1753(@250wpm)___ 1461(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 438270 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2191(@200wpm)___ 1753(@250wpm)___ 1461(@300wpm)
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