Listening to his brother tinkering with the huqin, Xiao Zhao was not too noisy, and after calculating the last question, he jumped over and asked his brother to check.

"Hey, all right! My little sister is amazing. Xu Qilin stretched out his hand to touch the little sister's head, but the little sister laughed and dodged it.

"Etiquette, music, archery, royalty, calligraphy, and mathematics are the six arts of a gentleman, and my brother wants to learn the piano!" Xiao Zhao stretched out his hand and touched the strange-looking musical instrument and said, "Why don't you use the guqin, the pipa is also good!" What is this thing that makes music? ”

Xu Qilin smiled and said, "Who is your brother, you still need to learn." ”

"Then you can play a song for me." Xiao Zhao moved the chair, sat next to him, and urged: "My sister is teaching me the guqin, see if it sounds good like you." ”

"This, I haven't pulled it for a long time." Xu Qilin took the huqin and the bow, pulled it casually twice, almost found some feeling, and played the music.

Once, but the memories that have been gone, flow out between the ponytail and the strings, at first a little rusty and difficult, but slowly become smooth and clear.

The sound of music is like a winding stream, like turning low, making people feel a faint sadness. Xu Qilin's eyes were slightly closed, and his thoughts flew away in the more and more familiar music.

Whether it is in the past life or now, the road of life is always full of ups and downs, he wanders, dazed, but does not give in to fate.

The mood of the piece changes from calm and deep to excited. It is a struggle against fate, and it is also a yearning and pursuit of a better life.

The music gets lower and lower, and it enters the end, but it gives the impression that there is still something unfinished, as if someone is still talking, talking, talking......

The room is silent, only the sound of music seems to be lingering, giving people the feeling of "sighing the misery of the world, alone and crying".

Xu Qilin sighed and put the huqin on the table, although due to the utensils, the pitch was wrong, but playing today's song, he really knew the author's state of mind at that time.

The Chinese music classic "Erquan Reflecting the Moon" has an incomparably deep artistic conception, why have I never played it so carefully, touching the scene and feelings, the situation is born from the heart, and the essence of music is reflected with heart rather than with hands, that's it!

Xiao Zhao blinked his eyes slowly, his emotions were also infected by the sound of the piano, and he pouted a little unhappily: "It sounds so sad, I don't know which little lady I learned from." ”

"Where did you come from, I haven't been to that place." Xu Qilin hurriedly clarified that this was going to reach the ears of the old lady, and it would be another lesson.

Xiao Zhao pursed his lips, obviously not convinced, and said, "Isn't that the backyard lived?" ”

"People helped us catch the thief's injury, can we still leave it alone?" Xu Qilin said: "The two women are desperate to survive outside, and they are also pitiful. ”

Xiao Zhao sighed and said, "It's quite pitiful, then let's live at home!" By the way, second brother, you are always busy with business, is making money more important than fame? ”

Xu Qilin scratched his head and said: "Fame, even if you are an official and a knight, I am also working hard!" As for making money, there's nothing wrong with that. Look, isn't our family better than before, and you have more pocket money, right? ”

"That's right." Xiao Zhao nodded his little head and said, "It's just that there is not too much money, do you want to keep running?" I can't hide this after a long time. ”

Xu Qilin stretched out his finger and scratched his little sister's face, and said with a smile: "If you can't hide it, it doesn't matter, anyway, it will all be handed over to you in the future, and you will be given a dowry, so that your husband's family will not dare to underestimate it." ”

Xiao Zhao blinked, blushed, and swung his little fist in shame and annoyance and slapped the unserious old brother a few times.

Xu Qilin didn't dodge, and said with a smile: "This is serious, I teach you arithmetic, which is to lay the foundation." In the future, I will also teach you the way of management, so that you can become a famous little rich woman in the Tang Dynasty, and the handsome men in Chang'an are vying to be hired by the media. ”

"And say, you bad brother-" Xiao Zhao's face turned redder and hit harder, but it caused his brother to laugh more heartily.

Outside the moon gate of the courtyard, there were two women standing, it was Zheng Tuantuan and A Ke.

Zheng Tuantuan is engaged in music, and he has a deeper understanding of the artistic conception expressed in the tune than Xiao Zhao, and he can hear the taste of it better.

"Sister, do you want to bring pen and paper?" Ah Ke could also listen attentively, the music had stopped, but Zheng Tuantuan beside him was silent for a long time, so he asked.

Zheng Tuantuan thought about it, shook his head slightly, and said: "Forget it, there are always fallacies from memory, and this beautiful song has not been ruined." ”

The reason why traditional Chinese music has been able to roll up its skin and survive to this day is mainly due to the fact that there was a method of notation very early in ancient times.

By the Tang Dynasty, it had developed from a text notation to a variety of pictographic strokes in the text, spelled into symbols, and used as a subtractive character notation for the phoneme and playfulness of the right hand. And Zheng Tuantuan can actually remember notation, which can be described as a genius.

"Sister, you can beg Xu Xiaolang and ask him to teach music." Ah Ke said: "It's good that Sister Ah was also injured because of him, and he is also a reasonable person, so he won't refuse coldly, right?" ”

"For a little thing, I want to ask for retribution, won't it annoy people." Zheng Tuantuan categorically refused: "Besides, Xu Xiaolang sent us to the doctor for medicine, and took us here to eat and live, it is not a disadvantage to us." If you want to learn a song, you can make it clear to him that you can't talk about the injury whether you teach it or not. ”

"Oh, I see." Ke nodded, not knowing whether to really understand or pretend to understand.

"This song is sad and complaining, and it makes people feel broken." After a long silence, Zheng Tuantuan sighed in a low voice: "Huqin is actually close to the human voice, I only know today." Alas, let's go, and come back tomorrow to thank you and take your leave. ”

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The next day, Zheng Tuantuan and Ah Ke came to resign. Xu Qilin saw that Zheng Tuantuan was very determined to leave and couldn't keep it, so he asked Wu Xiang to send them back to their residence, and then went to tell Boss Xu to keep them singing in the drunken night building and take care of them.

Before leaving, Xu Qilin took out 20 yuan to give Zheng Tuantuan, but Zheng Tuantuan politely refused, only begging him to play yesterday's tune again.

Xu Qilin couldn't refuse this request, so he played it twice and gave the renovated huqin away.

Zheng Tuantuan and Ah Ke were grateful, and left again and again.

After sending Zheng Tuantuan and A Ke away, Xu Qilin was immediately relieved, and it took a long time to talk and agree to countless conditions, so that the girl could be coaxed not to go to the village and help him play sloppy with the old sister.

Subsequently, Xu Qilin took his family, drove the vehicle, and took the application to Zhuangshang to live temporarily.

After a night's rest in the village, Xu Qilin sent a housekeeper to recruit craftsmen and began to build and renovate the garden.

In fact, the money in Xu Qilin's hand is not enough to build a large number of buildings, build a pavilion, and this renovation is mainly based on renovation. Like paving roads, painting courtyard walls, bending water, planting flowers and grass, and so on.