Out of the courtyard, all the way to the west, Chen Yun stumbled into an apricot forest by mistake. But I saw that the plum blossoms were scattered, the apricot stamens were blooming, and there were red clouds floating among the intricate treetops, and there were thousands of rouge.

Chen Yun was fascinated, and suddenly smelled a wisp of piano sound, so he followed the sound and went to the gate of the Green Bamboo Courtyard.

Staring at the dark yellow plaque for a moment, Chen Yun stepped lightly over the threshold. Entering the courtyard, the surroundings were very quiet, a few maids nested in the wing room and whispered, Chen Yun saw that they were innocent and delicate, and couldn't bear to alarm them, so she only tiptoed into the house.

In the room, Shen Xueru sat in front of the warping case, and a civil and military seven-stringed yaoqin was placed on the case. At this moment, she closed her eyes and concentrated, while slowly picking the strings, she chanted: "Red branches, green branches, sleep late in the rain!" Idle garden flower shadows, recall the date, count the return date, although the dream is rare, when do you know when you meet? ”

"Sister!" Chen Yun whispered.

Shen Xueru heard it in a trance, and immediately stopped the movements of her hand, and then opened her eyes slightly. When she recognized the person, she stood up from the embroidery stool and said with a smile: "My sister-in-law walked lightly, and my sister didn't hear it at all!" ”

"It's because you're obsessed with playing the piano!" Chen Yun smiled and slowly moved her body to the side of the warped case, "At first, I also heard that my sister can play the piano, but I haven't had the opportunity to listen, but I rarely bumped into it today, my sister can play a few songs, let me see for a long time!" ”

"Sister-in-law, please take a seat!" Shen Xueru's face was happy, "It just so happened that I just learned the tune of "Xiaoxiang Water Cloud", I don't know which part of it my sister-in-law wants to hear?" ”

Chen Yun said embarrassedly: "My sister is embarrassed for me, I haven't even touched the strings, how do I know how many paragraphs there are in "Xiaoxiang Water Cloud"? ”

Shen Xueru didn't realize it, and said: "It should be punished, I forgot that my sister-in-law can't understand musical instruments!" After blaming herself, she said in detail: "This "Xiaoxiang Water Cloud" is divided into ten paragraphs, the first paragraph is the smoke and rain in Dongting, setting the artistic conception of rippling blue waves and smoke; The second section is Jianghan Shuqing, and the third section is the sky and clouds, these two melodies are elegant, tactful and elegant. ”

"The fourth section is the water to the sky, the fifth section is the waves and clouds, the sixth section is the wind and clouds, these three sections of the technique change very quickly, the person who plays does not spend seven or eight years of effort, study and practice hard, and dare not shoot when he is idle!" Shen Xueru tirelessly recounted, "The seventh section of the water and sky is blue, the eighth section is cold and the river and the moon are cold, and the ninth section is thousands of miles of clear waves, these three sections are completed in one go, and they are the climaxes of the whole song. ”

Seeing that Shen Xueru didn't say anything, Chen Yun couldn't help but wonder: "Didn't you say that there are ten paragraphs?" So what is the last paragraph......? ”

Shen Xueru said calmly: "The last paragraph is a shadow! This section is rich in variations, the techniques are jumping, I am not good at learning, but I dare not show my ugliness casually! ”

"It's okay, I don't know how to play music, even if you don't learn the art well and play the wrong tune, I may not be able to hear it, so you can play it with confidence!" Chen Yun smiled faintly.

Shen Xueru smiled, finalized the second and third paragraphs of "Xiaoxiang Water Cloud", and tried the piano sound a few times before playing.

Chen Yun tasted tea comfortably, only to see Shen Xueru groaning, kneading, squirming, and annotating, constantly changing her fingering, and then a clear, slight, light, and distant piano sound came out proudly.

“......

The smoke and rain in the Dongting, the clouds are everywhere, thousands of miles away, and the clouds are immersed in the bottom of the Dragon Palace. Melodious and complacent, the boat looks at Fan Li, who is a couple. Jiangxiang fun, idle companion fisherman, there is a net He has moved, fake fame and reputation.

......

The cold river and the moon are cold, the Milky Way is Geng, the water clouds reflect the rhombic mirrors, increase Jiaxing, and Xiaoxiang wins. Gazing at the high eye, I saw the shadow of the fishing rod in the distance, the sheep fur under the narrow fence, and the high hat. The moon is used as a medium, and the sky is used as evidence, and it is not hired by ordinary weeks. The world is turbid and I am clear, the people are drunk and I wake up, the wind and the moon are in my arms, but I am led by poetry, and I obey the heavens and obey orders.

......”

The sound of the piano gradually stopped, Chen Yun stared at the Wenwu lyre reluctantly, and said regretfully: "My sister plays it very well, and the strange ancients said, 'The aftermath lingers, more than three days!'" It turns out that this sentence is not about others, it is your sister! ”

Shen Xueru smiled modestly: "Sister-in-law, don't flatter me!" How many pounds and taels I have, can I still not know the roots? As she was talking, Shen Xueru lowered her head and pulled out the pear blossom slip between her fingernails, then walked up to Chen Yun with a smile and said, "Yesterday, I flipped through a few ancient books and prepared a few spices casually, if my sister-in-law is fine, you might as well take a look!" ”

"It's really three days no see, when you look at it!" Chen Yun stood up with a smile, and while following Shen Xueru into the dark, she said: "In the past, I only thought that my sister was rude, but now that I am closer, I feel more and more that my sister is versatile, which is really enviable!" ”

Shen Xueru smiled silently, hurriedly entered the bedroom, took a few small boxes of spices from the dresser, and personally delivered them to Chen Yun.

Chen Yun casually opened a carved lacquer box, and when she saw that it was full of powder, she couldn't help but be curious: "What is this?" ”

"It's a worm scent! It's best to repel insects in the summer! Shen Xueru smiled proudly, "Take the thatch, fine spice, tonka incense, mountain. Nai, Sichuan pepper, Huoxiang, Qianjin grass, Curcuma are researched into powder, as for how much each catty is, all according to the ancient records! ”

Shen Xueru saw that Chen Yun's eyes were full of joy, and she casually opened a set of red boxes, and said with a smile: "This is lily incense, which is mixed with many incense products, including agarwood incense, clove incense, chicken bone incense, nail incense, incense incense, white sandalwood, cinnamon incense, tonka incense, white gradual incense, green wood incense, sweet pine incense, finch head incense, Suhe incense, benzoin, and the rest, I can't remember everything!" ”

"I've heard you say for a long time, in fact, it's not difficult, as long as you follow the ancient recipe!" Chen Yun showed a confident look.

Shen Xueru smiled faintly: "This is just the preliminary, the next step is to sprinkle the wine, so that the mixed powder of a variety of incense is soft, and then the hangover wine rests, and then use white honey and balls, put them in Weng Zhong wax paper and seal them, and finally, wait until the winter moon is halfway through, and then you can get up from the altar to take it!" ”

"I thought I only needed to concoct it according to the law, but now that I heard my sister say so much, I'd better dispel my thoughts as soon as possible!" Chen Yun smiled relaxedly, "Come on, I've rested my legs here for a long time, and at this time, it is estimated that your brother should go back!" ”

Shen Xueru heard that she was going back, and asked with a smile: "Brother went out today?" ”

"He, he's stuffy enough in the house, in order to go out to relax, he dragged me to deceive my wife under the guise of meeting my mentor!" Chen Yun smiled, "Mrs. also believed him, didn't say a word, and immediately ordered Pingshun to follow!" ”

"It's not the first day that my mother favors my brother!" Shen Xueru stood up with a smile, and while preparing to send Chen Yun out of the house, she flashed a spirit again, and said: "Look at my memory, I was just thinking about sending spices to my sister-in-law, and in a blink of an eye, I forgot about it outside the clouds!" ”

Chen Yun saw that she was serious, so she smiled and went into the dark with her. I saw her walking in a hurry, her body was curly, and she took the carved lacquer locket from the box and personally held it and sent it to Chen Yun. Chen Yun was rare in his heart, and hurriedly opened it to check.

There are more than a dozen bean-sized balls in the carved lacquer box. Chen Yun touched the peach-colored pill with her hands, and said with a smile: "Although this thing is a little small, it smells refreshing, and my sister must have spent a lot of effort on it!" ”

"This is called Princess Shouyang Plum Blossom Incense Pill!" Shen Xueru said with a smile, "Among them, there is a dipterocarp fragrance that is the most sobering!" Brother. Daily reading, it is inevitable that there will be times when you are sleepy, and when the time comes, your sister-in-law only needs to take out a pill and throw it in the incense burner! ”

Seeing that she was so hearted, Chen Yun looked at her plump cheeks and said gratefully: "So, thank you sister!" ”

When Shen Xueru saw Chen Yun talking outside, she asked her not to see her outside again and again, and then while laughing with her, she pushed her out.

Turning his head back to Luomei Courtyard, Ruiyun and Ruicai hurried to tell Shen Fu that he was painting, Chen Yun listened, smiled, and turned his head towards the study.

Entering the study, Chen Yun saw a lot of paper balls lying on the ground, so he glanced at his eyes and looked straight deeper into the room.

Behind the bean blue curtain, there is a carved flat-headed case. At this moment, Shen Fu's expression was condensed, his face was as usual, and he had a hand-held rabbit painting, but for some reason, he only drew a few strokes, and suddenly crumpled the rice paper in front of him into a ball and threw it to the ground.

Chen Yun approached quietly, squatted down, and picked up the ball of rice paper.

Spread out flat, Chen Yun saw that a few apricot blossoms were painted on the jade jade paper, but although the apricot blossoms had a form, they had no inner spirit.

Chen Yun knew it in her heart, silently picked up the paper balls around the flat-headed case, and then put them all in the corner of the case, and said: "You are painting blindly like this, it is nothing more than a waste of paper, according to me, if you want to be vivid, it is better to climb a few apricot blossoms yourself and observe them carefully!" ”

Shen Fu raised his head and sighed: "I got up early, and I met with a few friends to drink and compose poems in the Huibin Building. Just in time, the apricot blossoms in the guest building are also blooming. Brother Ma saw that the apricot blossoms were beautiful and beautiful, so he took the lead in proposing to take turns to compose poems, and forced us to set the rules, if anyone writes poems poorly, they will be punished with a picture of apricot blossoms! ”

"You didn't do well in poetry?" Chen Yun stared at Shen Fu intently.

Shen Fu said bitterly: "Yes, so since I came back, I have been lying in front of the desk to paint, which Cheng wanted to paint for a long time, and none of them satisfied me!" ”

"You're not good at Danqing, it's not possible to be confident, it's better for me to fold a few apricot blossoms for you, so that you can follow the description!"

Shen Fu thought for a moment, put down the rabbit hair happily, and said, "Anyway, I can't paint a good work, so it's better to go with you!" ”

Chen Yun smiled slightly, and arbitrarily went out to listen to Yuxuan, and Shen Fu hurriedly followed.

A few apricot blossoms were skimmed from the apricot forest, and the little couple bundled them up with great interest, and then put them in a set of red bottles and put them in front of the flat-headed table to watch.

Shen Fuyuan had nothing in his mind, and at this time, facing the carmine-like apricot blossoms, his mind suddenly surged, so he used his pen to become a wind, sketched the apricot blossom branches with dozens of brushstrokes, and then carefully depicted the flowers, and then evenly smeared them with red and white pigments, and finally dried them into shape.

Chen Yun carefully observed the finished product, and couldn't help but smack her lips and said: "This is both form and spirit!" ”

Shen Fu laughed, and was proud for a long time before he said: "You should also write a poem!" As he was talking, he suddenly picked up the pen and recited aloud: "Cut the ice silk, fold it lightly, and evenly inject it with rouge." New and beautiful makeup, glamorous and fragrant, shameful and shameful to kill the maid of the Ruizhu Palace. It is easy to wither, more less, and ruthless wind and rain. Distress. The idle courtyard is desolate, and there are several spring twilight. With the hatred of sending away, the person Shuangyan, how could he ever know people's words. The sky is far away, thousands of rivers and mountains, know where his Forbidden City is. How can you not think about it, except in dreams, sometimes you have gone? There is no evidence, and the dream is also new to do not do. ”

"You're getting more and more powerful, and you can still write poems!" Chen Yun looked at Shen Fu with a smile, but saw that Shen Fu was also smiling at her. She was shocked in her heart, and pondered for a while before asking, "Could it be that this poem is not your new work?" ”

"Of course not!" Shen Fu replied categorically, "This is written by Zhao Ji of Song Huizong!" ”

Chen Yun pulled her eyes and sighed: "I'm lonely again, I can read more books in a hurry, otherwise, sooner or later I will make jokes!" ”

Shen Fu smiled faintly, rolled up the rice paper casually, then took a splendid set from the painting jar and carefully stuffed the rice paper into it.

After doing a series of actions, Shen Fu raised his eyes to look at Chen Yun, who was annoyed by his lack of knowledge, and said with a smile: "Now that the spring flowers are blooming, I will go back to my house from outside, and I will see that the market is very lively, you haven't gone out for a stroll yet, how about it?" Want to get out and explore? ”

"I haven't been to the market yet, and I want to go out for a walk, but how do I mention it to my wife?" Chen Yun said embarrassedly, "Recently, the affairs of the house have been busy, and my mother sees that I am up to the task, so she is just about to let me take over the stewardship, and let me go to learn reconciliation with her tomorrow morning!" ”

"What's in the way? It's just a day's errand! Shen Fu's face was as usual, "Don't worry, I'll go over and make it clear in person, my mother should agree!" ”

Chen Yun nodded.

At this time, Ruiyun came in with a spring breeze on his face, and respectfully invited Shen Fu and Chen Yun to go to the hall to eat.

The little couple laughed and talked for a long time, and they were a little hungry, so they ordered Ruiyun to stay and clean up, and the two of them laughed and moved to the hall.