Chapter 58: The Night Banquet (5)

A few generals thought that this laughter was full of sarcasm and provocation, and they looked at Helian Tuo angrily, and there was a tense tension in the banquet. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Helian Tuo took the initiative to put an end to the conflict, his laughter was reined in, and he said calmly: "A month ago, the Northern Underworld made an unprecedented magic to defeat my Xiqi elite knights, how dare this hall take a handful of ordinary waste wood to deceive you." ”

As he spoke, he glanced at Du Yuanpeng intentionally or unintentionally, and stopped speaking, but suddenly raised his sleeves and took the unsightly piano into his arms, and picked the strings. The two hands are familiar with the road on the piano surface. Suddenly, the sound of flowing clouds and heavenly sounds flowed out of the ugly sleeper and spread over the entire phonograph.

Helian Tuo's hand swirled back and forth, as if there was nothing between his fingers, only the thin air flow above the drum above the piano saw that the strings were indeed moving. The voice came from the sky, and it lingered around the banquet for a long time.

The crowd was shaken by the sound of the harp.

Du Yuanpeng's face was full of colors.

Helian Tuocai just stroked the piano twice and tried the sound of the piano to see that this piano is a masterpiece in the world, and the so-called "illiterate" just now is not a slap in the face.

Nan Aotian raised his head slightly, and praised lightly: "The prince is good at the piano." ”

Helian Tuo was a little modest: "The southern minister has won the award, and it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice." If it is an ordinary utensil, even if the main hall has great ability, it will not be able to play the sound of the heavens and the earth. ”

Nanyue had been watching coldly for a long time, and then she said a sentence from the phoenix couch clearly and sarcastically: "Helian Tuo, this palace asks you, are you here to present a gift or to perform an art." ”

During the banquet, many female relatives had never seen such a shocking questioning method as the queen's mother, some were stunned and couldn't understand, and some were eating and laughing when they heard the word "performing arts".

The ministers were calm. Du Yuanpeng, who had just been humiliated by Helian Tuo, actually looked up at Nanyue with great gratitude.

Zhong Luo took a sip of wine and waited with interest for Helian Tuo's answer.

Helian Tuo's face was slightly stiff and ugly, but he still raised his lips and said, "This hall is naturally here to offer gifts." ”

Nanyue smiled slightly, with playfulness and cunning in her voice: "You are both a gift and not a dedication, just introduce your qin." ”

Helian Tuo was secretly angry, this woman had already humiliated him five times and three times. But he still tried his best to say calmly: "The name of this piano is called the dumb qin, it is the treasure of Xiqi, and it is no different in the world." ”

The ministers who were seated next to each other muttered in a low voice: "Dumb piano, how do you play this? How can there be such a strange name in the world, what tricks is this Prince Xiqi playing." ”

Someone else answered: "I'm afraid this Helian Tuo is not good at coming this time." ”

Helian Tuo turned a deaf ear and continued: "This qin is not good-looking, but it is the treasure of my Xiqi Town. Although the main hall brought this qin from afar, it is unknown whether the North Ming really has the capital to receive this gift. There was pride and provocation in the voice.

"Helian Tuo, what do you mean, make it clear. A military general shouted.

"Young people should not be too blind. Jiuguzi smiled, opened his eyes and spoke slowly.

There was a slight confusion in the banquet.

Helian Tuo was very satisfied with this state, and said quietly: "In my ancient books of Xiqi, there is quite a record of the origin of this qin.

Far away, in a wild valley, a strange tree grows between the cracks of the rocks, this tree is born extremely ugly, and the whole body is full of tumors, no one dares to approach, no one wants to approach, and it has been lonely in the ancient time and space for thousands of years. Suddenly, one day, a white-feathered bird was injured and lost to a colony and fell to perch on a tree, not only was it not poisoned, but the wound was quickly healed. This ugly tree turned out to be a precious medicinal herb, not a demonic poison. Everyone is just confused by appearance, and mistakes precious materials for rotten wood.

Since then, the white feather bird has come to the tree to perch and sing every day, and the tree is very happy. But one day, while flying in the mountains, the white feather was pierced through the heart by an arrow, and the blood stained its feathers red. The tree just waited, and the branches and leaves grew in the direction that the bird flew in each time. Over time, it became an ugly giant tree with a crooked neck.

Later, a scholar passed by, picked up this big bird that died badly, and brought it home to bury it in the wasteland of the courtyard. Over time, the bird's body has decayed, and only its feathers are bright red, just as it was when the bird died.

The scholar was fascinated by the art of the piano, but because his family was poor and could not afford to buy a piano, he decided to go to the barren mountains to find wood. The scholar was kind-hearted and could not bear to touch the living tree, so he dug out the only place where a dead giant tree did not rot and made a pillow. The feathers were carefully twisted into strings, and a not-so-good-looking piano was achieved, but the sound of the piano was actually loud and mournful for a long time.

Later generations use this legend as poignant, feeling the friendship between the ugly wood and the bird, and call the tree that stands upright with a crooked neck posture from birth to death as Wangyamu, and this bird is called Chihiro Bird.

The one who looks at the wood, with the crown of the tree stretched out all his life, looks in the direction where his companion may fly, and becomes the posture of the bird, and the Chihiro bird, after folding its wings, carries a sharp sword and struggles to find the ugly tree that once gave it a resting place in the wind and rain, and will not die. ”

There was silence at the banquet, and it was human nature to indulge in good stories.

Maybe it's because the stories are close to childhood.

Helian Tuo did not break the silence immediately, and only spoke after a moment: "Noble things cannot be desecrated at will. What's more, this piano is the treasure of my Xiqi Town, and it must not be given so easily. Otherwise, it will not only appear that I Xiqi is insincere, but also desecrate the piano itself. Moreover, since Beiming is talented, he will not even have the ability to accept this piano. ”

Wan Yanmin on the dragon couch always narrowed his eyes, and the elastic band of the slingshot in his hand popped out circle after circle.

But no one paid attention to what the Idiot was doing.

Helian Tuo continued to elaborate on his conditions: "If Bei Ming wants the main hall to dedicate this piano completely, it must meet the two conditions of the main hall. The first condition is that everyone present can produce a whole sentence that cannot be repeated, and even 7749 sentences can be broken, and if it can be turned into a poem in the end, this first condition will be counted. What do you think? ”

"Boy, during the reign of the first emperor, the Northern Ming was widely educated, from the ministers of the Son of Heaven to the drooping children in the alleys, there is no one who can't write poetry. Your first condition is simply an insult to the level of our dynasty. Li Yannian, the secretary of the Criminal Department, said loudly.

"Helian Tuo, you say that even poetry is poetry. Just let the horses come, and it will start with you. "Su He is very peaceful and chic.

Helian Tuo smiled deeply and said: "Okay, there is no talent in this hall, the first sentence may as well rhyme evenly, so as not to suppress the follow-up wonderful." The first sentence of this hall is - the mediocre Gu is illiterate, and mistakenly turns the rare as a rotten firefly. ”

Du Yuanpeng hated Helian Tuo very much now.

This first line of poetry obviously still grasps the handle of what he just said.

But after all, Manchao's mind is on poetry at the moment, and he can only swallow it in his stomach if he has objections.