(This Chapter will have more, brothers, refresh the Chapter around 2 AM!)
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At the top of Sacrificial Moon Mountain.
Compared to the brightly lit and bustling eastern cliff, the area near the Heavenly Altar was slightly quiet.
Just after soone suddenly gave a friendly reminder, the air first fell silent, and then...
The baby-faced young Li girl facing away from Zhao Rong tensed up her little face again, very seriously supervising her surroundings with a glance left and right, her slender eyes occasionally narrowing as if on high alert, keenly observing the surroundings. Any slight movent would earn a berating glare from the young Li girl...
A model of an excellent young Li girl dutiful in her responsibilities.
Everything seed to return to normal, as if nothing had happened.
What? You say you just saw slacking off? Dead in the water?
Who is ’just’? Why tarnish soone’s reputation?
Sorry... don’t know you!
The baby-faced young Li girl turned her back to the young Confucian Scholar, standing very seriously and earnestly on guard, trying to muddle through.
However, the awkward and strange atmosphere remained on the scene.
Sitting on the steps, Zhao Rong felt a sense of embarrassnt for her.
"I think, you know, the moon is already very busy, let’s not trouble it with certain things. Man proposes, God disposes."
He chuckled.
Under the moonlight, the young Confucian Scholar smiled like a breeze, pointing with the hand resting on his knee at the bright moon above.
Unfortunately, the baby-faced young Li girl did not respond.
She still kept her back to him.
As if she didn’t hear, pretending to be focused on her guard duty.
She wouldn’t turn around even if Zhao Rong died.
Zhao Rong blinked, looking at the interesting silhouette of the young Li girl.
Although he couldn’t see her expression, her slender neck was flushed, the blush extending from her ears upwards...
He figured the little girl was definitely grinding her teeth internally, cursing him to death at this specific mont.
A bad Confucian Scholar eavesdropping on a girl’s whispers?
Zhao Rong smiled wryly, shook his head, and decided not to tease the thin-skinned young girl anymore.
However, after so ti passed.
When the atmosphere was no longer as awkward as before, Zhao Rong pondered for a mont, then turned to the nearest young Li girl and softly asked:
"By the way, can I ask a little question about your Music Workshop, hmm, just out of curiosity."
The air went quiet for a mont.
The baby-faced young Li girl didn’t move a muscle, but at so point under Zhao Rong’s focused gaze, her little head seed to nod slightly.
The little girl also seed to understand the importance of this young Confucian Scholar behind her, one of the most valued people in the current Great Li court, a guest at her Empress Dowager’s seat.
"Thank you, young lady." Zhao Rong didn’t think too much, nodded and said:
"During my days in Great Li, I often saw your string musicians performing a strange string ceremony, often reciting a phrase..."
He paused, softly reciting: "Half moon, away goes, returning... is that the phrase? May I ask if it has any significance?"
From behind, the baby-faced young Li girl seed to slightly tilt her head upon hearing.
After a mont, a small voice ca:
"I... I don’t quite understand either... The String Moon Ceremony seems to be a ritual popular among the very early ancestors of Li Territory, at first used to worship the bright moon. Only so high-status female priests could perform this sacred ritual, symbolizing a body and mind as pure as the moon’s glow, a pure maiden, devoted to serving the bright moon for life."
"But later this ritual slowly faded, and when Empress Dowager set up the Music Workshop, she re-promoted this ritual within the institution, establishing the rule that from the Chief Musician down, all our string musician Li girls must rember the String Moon Ceremony."
She paused, as if thinking, and added:
"Legend says that performing the String Moon Ceremony on earth can be sensed and observed by the Goddesses in the Nine Heavens Cold Palace, especially on clear moonlit nights... Those who can perform this rite are a symbol of nobility and purity among the Li Clan ancestors, and an ordinary Li girl performing it without permission would be considered defiling... it’s sothing exclusive to certain special Li girls among the ancestors."
Zhao Rong listened in contemplation.
At this mont, it seed the baby-faced young Li girl’s mood improved, her tone a bit cheerful:
"So our Music Workshop inherited this ancestral ceremony, continuing ancient traditions. Besides requiring the string musician Li girls to be pure and flawless, our Music Workshop is very strict in selecting string musician Li girls."
"Only the most outstanding and majestic handful of Li girls in Li Territory are qualified to join, with elaborate and complete rituals regarding attire and etiquette, noble and mysterious. Hmm, like... like ."
Saying this, the little girl couldn’t help but lean back a bit, almost crossing her small hands on her hips.
Her small chin also lifted a bit proudly, and now braving a bit of courage, she turned her head, quickly glancing at Zhao Rong.
However, at this point Zhao Rong wasn’t particularly observing her closely.
Zhao Rong lowered his head, thought for a bit, then suddenly looked up and said:
"Your Music Workshop string musician Li girls... are you continuing the traditions of the Li Ji from the ancient Li Clan? Are these rites including the String Moon Ceremony inherited from them?"
"Li Ji?"
The baby-faced young Li Ji was montarily stunned, turned her head curiously, and looked at Zhao Rong: "What is that? Young master, are you saying that the special Li girls among the ancestors I just ntioned are called Li Ji?"
Zhao Rong furrowed his brows in thought.
Gui had ntioned to him before, the Taikoo Li Clan’s Emperor Li, also the first female Sword Emperor, originally ca from the status of a Li Ji, without a na or surna, was sent with a group of Li Ji to the Nine Heavens Cold Palace to serve as handmaidens to the Goddesses...
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