Green Forest Mountain, Music Family Manor.
Wang Yang, Le Xiaopang, Yu Yuling, Sun Duo, Yin Xiao Wu, and the other young noblemen were feasting, drinking, and making merry.
Le Xiaopang's cousin Sun Duo fluttered a handkerchief, put on a coquettish expression, and softened his voice into a shamelessly simpering tone as he sang the Barbarian Woman's lines from Tears of the Barbarian Woman:
"I was the queen of flowers in my mountain dell; at the sight of you, I turned to softness round your finger.
Though your face be cold as snow upon an icy peak, my body burns with sweetness steeped in honey!"
Sun Duo flicked his handkerchief and cast Wang Yang a flirtatious glance!
Everyone doubled over laughing!
Even the ever-proper Yu Yuling could not keep a straight face. He choked on his wine and coughed repeatedly!
Le Xiaopang led the calls for Wang Yang to join in, while Sun Duo kept shooting him coy little looks!
Wang Yang sighed helplessly, extended two fingers, and continued the song with a solemn expression:
"Barbarian Woman, cease your nonsense!"
The whole gathering exploded!
Having Wang Yang himself sing the part of "Wang Yang" in Tears of the Barbarian Woman-now that was a spectacle found nowhere else in Jingzhou!
Le Xiaopang grabbed his chopsticks and clattered them against his bowl! Yin Xiao Wu banged his wine cup on the table like a copper cymbal! Yu Yuling collapsed laughing, then propped himself upright!
Sun Duo pursed his lips and sang back with a face full of grievance:
"Every word I speak is true; one glimpse of you, and my soul took flight.
You command mighty troops to quell Tigers and Leopards, but when have you pitied your tender little darling?"
Sun Duo splayed his fingers, twisted his waist, and gazed at him