Chapter 64: Mountains and Rivers

When the three of them came to the company, they found that they were alone here, and Wang Chao asked strangely, "Old Shen, what about the antiquities you said?" What about the antiquities sellers? ”

"Mr. Wang, you came so fast, and Xinyu is also here, please take a seat. I made an appointment with each other to meet tomorrow at 11 a.m."

"Brother Shen, what is it, even you can't get it."

"Hehe, I guess you feel strange when you say it, it's Zhang Qin's score"

"Ah, sheet music? What kind of sheet music has aroused your interest?"

"I suspect it's the long-lost 'Mountains and Flowing Water'."

"Ah, mountains and rivers? Isn't there this song now, how can it still be said to be lost?"

"Hehe, you don't know much about Xinyu, the current mountains and flowing water are not real ancient songs, but reproduced and compiled by modern people, and the real songs played by Boya are said to have become a perfect sound after he fell the piano Xie Zhongzi."

This is indeed a record in history, legend has it that the famous luthier Yu Boya, who lived in the pre-Qin era, once played the piano in the barren mountains and wilderness, and a woodcutter Zhong Ziqi was able to comprehend the sound of the piano: "Towering ambition in the high mountains" and "Yangyang ambition in flowing water".

This is in the Boya exclaimed, "Good, the heart of the son is the same as mine. So one of them was a famous luthier and the other was an unknown woodcutter, who miraculously became friends, but they were not recognized by the mainstream society at that time.

At that time, it was a period of paying attention to status and status, and the nature of the work of these two people was a little worse, and many people did not understand, but the two of them were still the same, and they were not shaken by the world's vision.

If you take the current opinion of some Diao Si youths: This old two is suspected of engaging in the base, what? Don't you believe me? I don't believe it either, but there are such people now, who are idle all day long, talking nonsense, and everyone doesn't know whether what he says is true or false.

A few years later, Zhong Ziqi died of illness. Yu Bo lost his voice with a toothache, broke the piano, and did not for the rest of his life, and since then this song has become a unique sound.

Of course, it is not that the modern song is made up by today's people, which is also historically inherited, and it is said that the earliest text version of this song is found in the Ming Dynasty's "Magical Secret Score", which records the "High Mountain" and "Flowing Water" solution to the problem: ""High Mountain" and "Flowing Water" two songs, this is only one song. The original ambition is to care about the mountains, and the meaning of the benevolent people is happy with the mountains. Hou Zhi cares about flowing water, and the meaning of the wise man is happy with water. To Tang is divided into two songs. The number of segments is not segmented. In the end, it is divided into four sections of high mountains and eight sections of flowing water. ”

For more than 2,000 years, the two famous guqin songs of "High Mountain" and "Flowing Water" have been widely circulated among the people together with the story of Boya Guqin meeting a bosom friend.

With the development of the performance art of the qin since the Ming and Qing dynasties, "High Mountain" and "Flowing Water" have undergone great changes, and the "Flowing Water" adapted by the Sichuan pianist Zhang Kongshan is particularly distinctive, and the sixth section of the sound of flowing water with the technique of "rolling, whisking, squeezing, and noteing" has been added, also known as "seventy-two rolling flowing water", which is distinctive. The scenes blended and spread widely.

According to the research of pianists, before the advent of Zhang Kongshan's alpine flowing water score, all the qin scores did not have the sixth section played by Zhang Kongshan, and the whole piece was only eight sections. It is consistent with the solution of the "Magical Secret Score", but Zhang Kongshan's biography has been increased to nine sections, and later pianists mostly played according to this score.

The song is said to have been recorded on a gold-plated record carried by the American spacecraft Astronaut, which was launched into space on August 22, 1977. He went to preach the wisdom and civilization of the Chinese nation to the high-level beings of the universe and planet.

In short, the alpine flowing water played so far is not the original ancient alpine flowing water, but has been changed by later generations. But no matter how it is changed, it is either or not, so it is said that the ancient song has been resounding in the world for more than 2,000 years.

I didn't expect Shen Jingyi to say that someone had come up with the score of this ancient song, and it was very likely to be the lost original work, how could it not surprise Wang Chao and the others.

"Lao Shen, on what basis do you judge that the other party is an ancient music score?" Since this song has been lost, why do you think it is the original one?

"Hehe, Mr. Wang, I'm not talking nonsense, firstly, the other party solemnly said that it was handed down by his ancestors, and secondly, the other party also played one of the pieces for me, I have never heard such a beautiful and meaningful tune, so I have believed in it for six or seven points in my heart, and the other party's request is a little strange, not to sell it to us, but to hope that we can find someone to restore this tune, set up a company, all over the country, no, all over the world to play this tune, and the look when you speak can't help but you don't believe it"

The three of them continued to look at each other, thinking that there was such a strange idea, let's wait to see each other tomorrow.

The four of them sat down and continued to deliberate for a long time, still without any clue, it was worth making an appointment to meet tomorrow.

After Wang Chao and the three left, it was not too early to see the time, so he sent them home, returned to Duzhou by himself, and made an appointment to pick them up tomorrow morning to take them to the company.

After all, they are not married, and it is convenient for the two to live together, which is easy to cause criticism from others, and Zhang Xinyu is this kind of family in politics, so he must pay more attention to the influence, so although Wang Chao wanted to live very much, he still didn't dare to mention it after thinking about it.

After eating and going home in the evening, Wang Chao entered the Peeping Tower to practice as usual after washing, but he didn't expect to take the initiative to greet him this time.

"Master, your current visualization cultivation has reached a certain level, reaching the point of seventy or eighty percent, so the later visualization can not only be completed by time and effort, but also needs some external factors to speed it up, well, today I heard that you have found the lost mountains and flowing water, hehe, if it is true, then this song will help you speed up your cultivation to a great extent"

"Ah, is there such a thing?"

"Well, master, you don't know, in fact, that Zhong Ziqi is not a real woodcutter, but my former master, he is a scholar, but people are willing to be lonely, the country was stable at that time, and there was nothing he needed to do, so he could only hide in the mountains and forests and become a woodcutter who chopped wood."

Wang Chao thought about it, and felt anxious, "Yes, ancient people, there are very few written words, even if there are, they are engraved on the tortoise shell, the so-called Wei compilation of the three uniques of the Confucian sage, in fact, there are not many words in total, but those words have been 'sweat cow full', it can be imagined that the ancient people, how difficult it should be to spread some skills, basically rely on word of mouth." Imagine a woodcutter, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is illiterate, if he does not have real wisdom and understanding, it is strange to be able to understand the tune of the young man who has eaten enough to eat and has nothing to do."

"This master of the Zhongzi period helped Yu Boya revise the score again and again, and finally became the song that surpassed the mountains and rivers of ancient and modern times, and relied on this song to finally feather immortals, you can imagine that the charm of this song and the great help for the cultivation of visualization are great."

After listening to the words of peeping into the sky, Wang Chao became more and more looking forward to the person he was going to see tomorrow, and he was silent for a long time before entering the state of visualization.

Nine o'clock the next day. Wang Chao drove straight to the city, first picked up Xinyu and Xinyue, and then drove straight to Financial Street.

It was just half past ten when I arrived here, Shen Jingyi was already waiting, and Zhang Chunxue was assigned to Tianyi Ancient Building, temporarily in charge of the financial work there, so he was not there.

The four of them waited and waited anxiously, and at 11 o'clock, they suddenly remembered the phone on the table. When I picked it up, it turned out to be the front desk of the building, and I informed a person surnamed Zhong that he was visiting the company and said that he had made an appointment yesterday. When Lao Shen heard this, he hurriedly went down to greet him, and the atmosphere in the room suddenly became tense.

Not long, Lao Shen accompanied a 60-year-old. The old man with some gray hair walked in, and he saw this old man, full of energy. Qi Yu Xuanang, when he was young, he was a handsome young man, and now although he is older, he still has an irresistible lethality to some young women, and even Xinyu and Xinyue are eye-catching.

Seeing this, Wang Chao stood up and took the initiative to stretch out his hand, "Hello Mr. Zhong, I am the boss here, I heard Lao Shen say something about you, and I came here to wait for good news."

"Hehe, Mr. Wang, you are too polite, I am an old mountain village, what is there to wait for"

Saying that, a few people sat down one after another, and Wang Chao saw the old man sitting there, his waist was very straight, and he was not deliberately trained, but naturally sat like that, and his temperament suddenly came, and he didn't need to put the finishing touch.

After sitting down and watching the tea, Lao Shen spoke first,

"Mr. Zhong, now in front of our boss, you should always talk about your thoughts in detail"

"Okay. Mr. Wang, Mr. Shen, the old surname Zhong, the name can be expected, is Yan Zhao people, I have an ancestral ancient score at home, it is the real mountain flowing water played by Yu Boya that year, so that people have a feeling of lingering sound for three days after listening, this is also my ancestor, Zhong Zi period of the posthumous work, so I want to cooperate with your company to develop this song, I talked with Mr. Shen yesterday, today I will wait for Mr. Wang to make a decision, hehehe"

"Mr. Zhong, how can you believe that you are playing that ancient song? You must know that this piece has been lost for more than 2,000 years, although there are countless ancestors who have excavated, sorted out and perfected this ancient song, but there is no record of the aftermath, three days of endless experience, what do you use to convince me" Wang Chao paused, continued, "Legend has it that after the death of your ancestor Mr. Zhong Ziqi, Yu Boya threw the piano Xie Zhiyin, and no longer played the piano for life, and there was no equipment such as a tape recorder at that time, how can you be sure that it is the lost tune?"

"Mr. Wang, if I don't make it clear, don't say yourself, if it's me, I won't believe it casually" The old man was not in a hurry, took a sip of the water cup, put down the teacup and continued, "It is rumored that Yu Boya stroked the qin, and Zhong Ziqi passed by to listen to the qin, but what I didn't know was that my ancestor Zhong Ziqi did not go to chop wood and listen to the piano alone, but followed by his most beloved little grandson, otherwise the old man went to chop wood alone, how could the family put their minds at ease." This little grandson has a very amazing talent in music, plus he often listens to the piano, and he relied on his own talent to record the score of this piece, of course, what he recorded must be different from now, but it does not prevent him and my people after me from being able to see it, and this has become one of my family's biggest secrets, the family has guarded this secret for more than 2000 years, and it is time to restore this real song."

After the old man finished speaking, the room was silent, everyone did not expect that there would be such a small episode, and they believed most of the excuses, or rather the story, and waited to play this tune.

"Old man, can you play this song" Wang Chao thought for a long time and slowly asked this sentence

"I won't, but I've brought the best recording of this piece in the family, you can listen to it" After speaking, the old man stretched out his hand, took out a palm-sized repeater-like thing from his pocket, put it on the coffee table, and then stood up, bowed his hand to the tape recorder, and then pressed the play button.

I listened to a beautiful and melodious piano sound, which was different from any of the current musical instruments that Wang Chao had heard, with the cheerfulness of the piano, the melodiousness of the transverse flute, and the aftersound of the pipa, as if it was played by integrating the advantages of all the instruments in the world.

Closing his eyes, his mind condensed, and his divine consciousness came to the Sky Peeping Tower, and it turned out that Peeping Heaven called him in his mind, "Master, this is this song, I don't know how many times I have heard it, every time I hear it, there is always an ethereal feeling, you hurry up and visualize the cultivation and try, there will be unexpected gains."

Wang Chao nodded, contemplated, and quickly realized the five-clawed golden dragon in the sea, as if alive, the head swayed, the tail swung, the body instantly took off, between the clouds and mist, up and down, left and right, the huge dragon head, slender dragon whiskers appeared from time to time, Wang Chao was amazed, and its real body became clearer and clearer, as if it was the same as the photo taken, but it was the same as the freehand landscape painting, hazy with an indescribable meaning.

Feeling this magical change, Wang Chao also felt that his consciousness was ethereal, as if he was incarnated into an ancient man with big sleeves fluttering, with a crown and a broad belt, eyebrows like Dai, eyes like Yue, staring into the distance, a gust of wind blowing, dancing on his sleeves, the whole person seems to be going to feather immortals, and the music is not only into the ears, but also into the heart, into the spirit, driven by the music, the whole person, the whole heart has become very fast, and it seems to be very full, spirit.

"Wang Chao... Mr. Wang..."A few calls suddenly came from his ears, he quickly came out of the Peeping Sky Tower, his mind returned to the sea of knowledge, his spirit was lifted, and the whole person came to his senses, and he opened his eyes and looked at both sides, "What's wrong?" What do you want me to do? ”

"You've been sitting with your eyes closed for more than two hours, the music has long stopped, why haven't you woken up yet, is it really lingering, three days endless" Zhang Xinyu said to him softly

"Ah, two hours have passed? No, I think it's just a matter of time."

"Mr. Wang, it seems that you are also an elegant person who knows the rhythm of music, if the ancestor is alive, he will definitely be a fellow believer" The old man did not forget to take a shot of Wang Chao's horse next to him.

Wang Chao stood up, bowed down and piled up the old man to the ground, "Mr. Zhong, thank you for this song, it really deserves its name, I dare to be 100% sure that this is the ancient song that has been lost for more than 2,000 years." Mr. Zhong, let's talk about cooperation" (to be continued......