CHAPTER 471: CHAPTER 160 BIRTHDAY BANQUET (2) DIRECT ACCUSATION_2

The audience below, all in anticipation.

Due to Xie Ruilin’s opening act, the expectations for Xie Ruotong were naturally even higher.

If her dance moves were mediocre, she would naturally be outshone by Xie Ruilin in front of everyone.

The music at the scene added the sound of the pipa.

The stage Xie Ruilin prepared naturally also had many musicians.

Without the accompaniment of Xie Ruotong and Xie Ruilin, there was of course the accompaniment of other musicians.

After leading Xie Ruotong to the center of the stage, Xie Ruilin started to dance gracefully once more.

If at this time Xie Ruotong stood alone on the stage without moving, it would seem extraordinarily abrupt.

Xie Ruotong really disliked such scenarios.

Having danced too many dances, played too many tunes, sung too many songs, drunk too much alcohol...

Xie Ruotong’s body began to move slightly.

Ultimately, she could only dance gracefully against her will.

For a moment, clad in her azure clothing, she was like an untainted white lotus, her graceful figure lifting her hair as she danced, elegant and enchanting, captivating in every move.

Before Xie Ruotong started dancing, Xie Ruilin was already the center of attention.

But once Xie Ruotong danced, she instantly outshined the nearby Xie Ruilin.

Xie Ruilin’s dance was beautiful indeed, but it seemed to lack a soul.

The essence of the music and dance seemed to be fused into Xie Ruotong’s body, with every enchanting movement she made acting like language hidden in the soul, combining into a poem composed through dance.

The entire place was stunned.

Such a dance, even the current Emperor would rarely see.

Qin Shuyang’s eyes were fixated.

Yes.

This was the feeling.

Xiang Qin was just like this, so charming, so full of grace.

She shouldn’t be like the young madam of the Song Family, well-read and reasonable, virtuous and well-mannered, doing everything by the book.

She should be on the stage, radiating her own brilliance.

One should know that back then at Yicui Pavilion, to catch a glimpse of her dance was extremely difficult and expensive.

Qin Shuyang was utterly enchanted.

And it wasn’t just him.

Many men were also captivated by Xie Ruotong’s dance, seemingly even forgetting to breathe.

Song Yanqing naturally was also dumbfounded.

At that moment, in his mind suddenly emerged the image of a little girl, a little girl in a red dress, dancing elegantly beside a pond, under the spring sunlight, amidst the caress of the spring breeze.

Even at a young age, she could perform a stunningly beautiful dance.

Viewed from afar, she seemed like a fairy.

Blooming ceaselessly in front of him.

It was because he watched so intently that, without care, he accidentally fell into the pond.

The pond water in spring was still bitterly cold.

When Song Yanqing fell in, the cold water was bone-chilling.

And at the time, he didn’t know how to swim.

Falling in, he naturally sank down.

At this moment.

There were no others around.

Back then, he had followed his parents to visit Duke Mansion.

Xie Kangheng and his father were good friends, which led to the marital engagement set since they were children.

He didn’t want to follow his parents around on that day’s event, so he sneaked alone into the back garden of Duke Mansion, where he witnessed the scene before he fell into the pond.

Of course, he had never imagined that he would fall into the water just like that.

And because most of Duke Mansion’s servants were called to prepare for the feast, the back garden was empty of people.

There was only that little girl in a red dress, and a little maid accompanying her.

The two of them saw him drowning.

The little maid hurriedly went to call for help.

The girl in red dress quickly grabbed a bamboo pole from a raft in the water, ran to where he had fallen in, extended the bamboo pole into the water, and shouted to him, "Brother, grab the bamboo pole, pull yourself up."

Song Yanqing, at that time in the water, was only panicking.

Such fear of water, and the sudden fear of not being able to breathe, made him at first madly struggle.

But at that moment, upon hearing the little girl’s voice, he suddenly calmed down.

He saw that bamboo pole.

He reached out and grabbed it.

Once he had a grip on it.

The little girl used all her strength to drag him and the bamboo pole ashore.

At the water’s edge.

The girl grabbed hold of him with her hands.

Because she didn’t have much strength, she couldn’t pull him straight onto the shore, so she just held on to his hands tightly.

So that he could float on the surface of the water and not drown again.

"Don’t be afraid, brother. Someone will come to rescue you soon," the little girl comforted him.

At that moment, that girl left a very deep and profound impression in Song Yanqing’s heart.