Chapter 18 The heart is low, and the heart is self-defeating
When Xuechen and Yunban came in, they were holding a piano, which was the treasure qin that the king of Beidi Kingdom rewarded the victor that day. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Xuechen handed the qin to Jiuli and said, "The cat spirit Xuannu is dead, and the monarch will award the winner to the god monarch, and the god monarch will now transfer the qin to you." ”
Jiu Li took the qin in a daze, and Ye Shu said: "When Princess Yinghua stroked the qin that day, although people with low spiritual power are the most easily bewitched by the sound of the qin, your reaction is too strong, if I don't happen to rush back, you are likely to be disturbed by the sound of the qin, and you will be indulged in the sound of the qin from now on." Besides, now the power of the demons will gradually penetrate into the mortal realm, and you will inevitably have a head-on conflict with the demons in the future if you follow me, and the only way to overcome your weaknesses is to turn your weaknesses into advantages. This instrument will be used as a weapon by you in the future. ”
Jiu Li remembered the black-robed man he had seen that day when he hallucinated in Yinghua's piano sound, and his old voice. If she didn't mention it at night, she would have almost forgotten about it, just because that experience was too vivid, and it had a big impact on her. Does that old voice really exist in his forgotten memories? Whether he is a fantasy, Jiuli never wants to get close to the instrument again in his life.
Jiuli said, "I don't know how to touch the qin." ”
Ye Shu looked at her obliquely and said, "I will teach you personally." ”
"I am stupid, I am afraid that I will humiliate your superb piano skills and ruin your reputation."
"I have the confidence to turn decay into magic."
Jiuli said: "I..."
Ye Shu took out a roast chicken from his back like a trick, "In the future, this kind of benefit will only be more, not less, or you choose to eat fish for three meals a day, steamed fish, braised fish... Anyway, I won't mind, Xuechen and Yunban won't be picky eaters as I want. ”
Jiuli looked at the roast chicken and gritted his teeth and said, "Deal!" ”
"In the future, I will use it to familiarize myself with this piano in my spare time, and I will always check your piano skills."
Jiu Li was shocked, he was not allowed to chase and fight on the roof, wasn't he talking about running on the roof with Brother Fox that day, could it be that the Night Shu Shenjun knew about it? But he doesn't look like it.
Jiuli wolfed down the roast chicken and said: "This is a magic piano, it will be demagogic when played, I am afraid that I will hurt others unintentionally." ”
"I'll set up an enchantment for you."
Jiu Li mentioned all the possible excuses, Ye Shu dismissed them one by one, and finally she finally accepted the fact that she would have no personal freedom from now on, and would stay in the enchantment every day to play the piano.
When the spring was about to die, the prince of Zhuyin, who temporarily lived in the palace of the prince of Murong in the Beidi Kingdom, was invited to the palace to learn from the prince Changqin. One is the most skilled protoss, and the other is the best violinist in the mortal world, and everyone who heard about this matter is waiting for this competition between masters, but the exchange is only carried out in secret in the palace.
Jiuli stayed in the enchantment to practice the piano throughout the late spring, and Ye Shu would teach her piano skills at a fixed time every day.
The singers of the Murong Prince's Mansion were envious of Jiu Li's good luck in being taught by Zhuyin Gongzi himself, and even Xuechen sighed every day, saying that she had begged the Divine Monarch for thousands of years, and he had never taught him the slightest bit of music, saying that the blue bird was only responsible for watching and listening to all directions and collecting all the useful information between heaven and earth, and such a flashy act as learning the qin was not suitable for him. I didn't expect Shenjun to teach Jiu Li personally, but the hateful thing is that Jiu Li didn't realize how lucky he was, but he was sad, and he threatened Shenjun with various snacks such as roast flower chicken when he was learning the piano every day, and what was even more hateful was that Shenjun actually met her requirements with a good temper.
However, under the guidance of Ye Shu, it is a fact that Jiuli's piano skills have improved by leaps and bounds. Baoqin does not require the skill of the violinist, the important thing is to master the essence of it, in order to achieve the realm of demagoguery with a stroke of the qin.
Jiu Li has mastered this essence to some extent, at least in the future, he will be able to control his mind well when facing Yinghua's piano sound, and he will not indulge in it easily.
On the day when the night was evacuated into the palace, Jiuli went together, and Xuechen and Yunban stayed in the mansion.
The next time I saw the crown prince Changqin was in the Ronghua Garden in the palace of the Beidi Kingdom. Summer has arrived, the garden is full of flowers, in that sunny afternoon, Jiuli followed after the night sparse around most of the palace to go to the Changle Hall specially prepared by the monarch for the prince Changqin, but in the Ronghua Garden and the prince Changqin unexpectedly encountered.
In the Ronghua Garden, the lake was rippling and rippling, and a woman in green stood respectfully on the shore, it was Ah Luan, the maid beside Changqin that day.
Laughter could be heard from time to time in a gazebo in the middle of the lake, and upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a woman playing against a man. The woman is dressed in luxury and looks extraordinary, and the man is gentle and elegant in brocade and jade robe, which is really a rare scene in the world. Those two are Princess Yinghua and Prince Changqin.
Ye Shu nodded to Ah Luan, and took Jiuli to the pavilion by boat.
"Brother Changqin, I don't want to take this step, can I regret it?" Yinghua's clear and delicate words came from afar.
Changqin looked at the woman helplessly and said softly: "Xiao Zhi is used to playing tricks. ”
Princess Yinghua jumped up anxiously to deny it, Changqin laughed, and the atmosphere in the pavilion was extremely harmonious.
Jiu Li was frightened, Princess Yinghua and Prince Changqin had no scruples when they got along, it was not what strangers should be, could it be that the two had known each other for a long time?
The boat approached the pavilion, and the two people in the pavilion realized it. Because Prince Zhuyin is not a subject of the Northern Di Kingdom, he does not need to give a gift to the princess. Princess Yinghua just reached Xuan, the girl's heart was undoubtedly revealed, Ye Shu and Jiuli both performed illusions, Yinghua did not see that the two were the people who had fought with the cat spirit Xuannu at the ceremony, only thought that they were the guests of Changqin, and immediately suggested that the four of them go out of the palace together to go boating and picking lotus.
Changqin looked at Yinghua dotingly: "You Nizi, your heart is playing again, how can you wear such a cumbersome skirt when you go out to play." ”
Yinghua looked at the layers of her long skirt dragging the floor, and when she wore it in the morning, she only thought that she was staying with Changqin, and she naturally wanted to dress up beautifully, and she didn't consider the inconvenience of her mobility, so she immediately ordered the hidden guard: "Send me back to change clothes." Then he turned to Changqin and said, "Brother Changqin is waiting for me." ”
After Yinghua left, the three of them flew to the shore and waited, and Changqin's smile faded indifferently: "I didn't expect that the famous Zhuyin Gongzi in the mortal world was actually dressed as a god of night sparseness." ”
Ye Shu's eyes were as deep as a pool: "Even so, it was easily recognized by the god of music." ”
Changqin smiled: "The former god of music has long since died, and now it's just the prince Changqin on the mountain." He looked behind Ye Shu again and asked gently, "Is the girl's body all right?" ”
Perhaps because Changqin saved himself, Jiuli has always had respect and gratitude for Changqin, and immediately replied: "Fortunately, with Gongzi's treatment, my injury has healed." ”
Changqin nodded and did not speak again.
After Princess Yinghua changed her clothes, the four of them went out of the palace together, Ye Shu and Jiuli walked behind, Jiuli suddenly heard the ventriloquist next to him: "I also rescued you from the stone, why didn't I see you thank me so much." ”
Jiu Li was stunned, and turned his head to find that Ye Shu looked calm, and with such a resentful tone, Jiu Li suspected that he had heard it wrong.
The four of them walked to a lotus pond outside the city, and only Princess Yinghua cheered all the way, lingering on the summer scenery and picking lotus pods with great interest.
She has stayed on Guishan since she was a child, and she is used to breathing the free air of the outside world, and since she was picked up by her father, she has been restricted everywhere in the harsh palace, and now she can go out of the palace to play, which is naturally very pleasant.
Ye Shu and Changqin sat in the cabin to play against each other, Yinghua shouted that she wanted to pull Changqin's brother out to pick lotus flowers, but Changqin seemed to have found a confidant she hadn't seen for many years, and she was reluctant to withdraw from the chess game. Changqin has been relegated to the mortal world for thousands of years, and it is rare to meet a chess player like Ye Shu who can match him, so he naturally doesn't want to miss this opportunity.
While he was perfunctory about Yinghua's coquettishness, he quickly thought about the direction of chess in his mind. Yinghua saw that her brother Changqin, who had been following her everywhere, ignored her request after encountering Ye Shu, and immediately glared at Ye Shu angrily, flicked his sleeves and ignored Changqin.
Jiuli was originally watching the battle boredly on the side, but when he saw that Yinghua had been sticking to the long qin, he sighed and stood up, and said, "I can accompany you to pick lotus flowers." ”
Yinghua stopped pulling the hand of the long qin and tilted her head to look at Jiu Li. She had no playmates on Guishan, and her brothers in the palace were much older than her, so they would not accompany her all the time, and others did not dare to get close to her.
At first, she thought that those noble ladies and even the maids in her palace did not dare to get close to her because of her noble status, and every time she got along with them, she could feel their restraint, and they often looked around absentmindedly.
Later, I realized that it was not because of her noble status, that they were not absent-minded when they looked around, but because of the fear of the strange phenomena that haunted them.
For example, it was a hot summer day, but it was always unusually cool around him, and there was once a noble lady who returned home after staying with him for an afternoon and had a high fever, and the imperial doctor was helpless, saying that it was not a physical problem. Later, I asked the mage to find out the real cause, which was actually caused by the erosion of yin qi for too long. The lady recalled the gusting wind of the afternoon when she had tea with the princess, and suddenly understood where the yin energy came from. This matter spread like this, and girls of the same age as Yinghua among the other nobles rarely entered the palace to have fun with the princess since then.
There are too many haunted things in the palace, and people can probably guess where the ghosts come from, and many ministers have insinuated that the monarch sent Yinghua back to Guishan, but the monarch always refused to approve it with a straight face.
And the maids around Yinghua have also secretly changed several batches, and the maids often see ghosts in the princess's palace, or in the pond outside, they see the water ghosts who died unjustly waving Bai Sensen's hand bones to pull the living down, alarmed several times, the monarch has suppressed these things, and the princess's bedroom has also been changed to a sunny place without a lake, but those maids who have shouted that they have seen ghosts have never appeared again.
Yinghua didn't know her physique, and when she grew up, she vaguely guessed the reason why her father sent her to Guishan. Everyone who knows respects her identity, and is afraid of the bad experience she brings, no one really wants to contact her, only Changqin, who met by accident, has never disliked her, and has the best relationship with her, the magic is that the ghosts around her never appear when she is with Changqin, so she prefers to stick to Changqin. This time, she deliberately asked her father to find Changqin, and she also wanted Changqin to hear the wind and come to see her, otherwise her father would not have been able to find Changqin so quickly.
Now suddenly there is a woman who wants to go with her to pick lotus flowers, Yinghua has never had this kind of treatment, and she is excited and happy at the moment, but she doesn't know how to express her feelings of emotion since she was a child, she is obviously very excited, but the words she said are like a glass of warm water that is not warm or cold: "Oh? Can you pick lotus flowers? You don't look like someone who has picked a lotus pod. ”
As soon as he said it, he regretted it, but fortunately, Jiuli didn't mind, and his eyes bent into crescents: "It's okay, it's not you, it's okay for me to assist you by the side." ”
Yinghua forcibly suppressed the ecstasy in her heart, and the next moment she grabbed Jiu Li's hand and ran out of the cabin quickly, as if she would regret it.
Changqin was obviously watching the chess game, but there was a soft and warm light in his eyes, as if he was waiting for a suitable moment, after the two girls went out, Changqin did not focus on the chess game anymore, but slowly dropped the chess pieces, and said: "You probably have guessed that Yinghua and I are not the first acquaintance." His voice was soft, more like talking to himself.
Ye Shu understood that Changqin was going to tell a story, and he nodded and said, "Although I have found something, I don't think it's strange. ”
Changqin did not continue to speak, but said: "Although I am close friends with your father, I have never met you, and I did not expect to meet you in this place. ”
"My father often mentioned you when he was alive, and although I have never met the god of music, I have often heard the name of the god of music since I was a child."
Changqin dropped a chess piece: "Your eyes are very similar to your father, so I recognized you from the first sight, and your chess skills are also on par with your father, and when I play against you, I will have the illusion of playing against your father." I wonder if your spiritual power has inherited from your father? He is a great god. ”
Ye Shu said: "My father often taught me spells, and also warned me to aim for the god of music in the future and become a great god of war who guards all things. ”
The corners of Changqin's mouth curled: "He really praised me like this?" Back then, we started fighting as soon as we met. His eyes narrowed slightly, as if he was trying to recall: "But he never allowed anyone other than him to violate me, not even my father, who is the king of today." ”
Changqin sighed: "I didn't even see him for the last time when he returned." ”
Ye Shu is also immersed in the atmosphere of Changqin's nostalgia for the past, and understands that this is the great friendship between his father and Changqin's generation, when they overcame obstacles together to create all things, and this friendship of living and dying together will never fade with time.