The idea of letting the red fish learn the piano is good, but Shu Hui and they don't have the piano at all.

Even if Zhuo Mengling agreed to Shu Hui's request, he couldn't still say: "We don't have a piano, let's borrow one from you first", right?

"That...... Do you have...... Good piano, give me one......" Shu Hui said boringly.

A line of blue text flashed in the interactive interface: "Warning: No, get out!" ”

Since the system has been banned for three years, Shu Hui has keenly noticed that it is very different from before.

For example, when Shu Hui asked the time when it was just unlocked, the system did not answer him directly, but showed a visual hallucination of a watch on his wrist, and there would be a tick-tock auditory halluciation in the dead of night.

If this situation is just the application of the sensory sharing and automatic programming functions of the system that Shu Hui discovered before, then after Shu Hui asked the red fish to call the system to help turn off the lights, the original intention was to let the system control the dark shelter to extinguish or use the air conditioner to extinguish the candle, but it was pure prank for the system to give his eyes a black screen.

The most excessive thing is that a few days later, Shu Hui found that the watch in the illusion was stagnant and no longer moving, and it took him a long time to understand that he was actually asking him to wind up the air! After winding up, the system also gave him a reference time in the interactive interface for him to calibrate by himself......

This made Shu Hui faintly have some kind of speculation, this system is probably perfect, and it seems to have a big opinion of himself!

So Shu Hui likes to tease it when she has something to do, and she just brushes her face. However, responding to himself like this is the first time in more than a month that Shu Hui can't help but be very excited.

So he hit the snake with the stick and kept harassing the system, but he didn't get any response - not even an error message.

Reluctantly giving up again, Shu Hui pondered again: "It's difficult to get the system to reward me with a certain item. There is a certain chance of getting a reward only if you make improvements to the corresponding aspect, and the scope of the reward is very large and not controlled at all......"

"Besides, I don't know anything about the guqin. Not to mention improving, it is estimated that it will take at least ten days and half a month to learn a general theory from the master, and I don't really want to become a pianist after spending so much time. ”

wisely chose to give up, Shu Hui decided to go to the ancient city to find a high-grade decoration façade.

called Hongyu Ao Guang, did not invite Yuan Tiangang and others, only called a guy from Shifanglou who was doing chores, and gave him a few money to help find a guide to lead the way.

There are far fewer idle people in this period than Shu Hui imagined. The good people perform their duties according to the classification of household registration, and only the slaves and maids who are driven by their masters do not have a relatively fixed job. If you want a guide, in addition to renting a guy from the store, you have to find a specialized dental shop.

But the reason why that guy could be seen by Shu Hui at a glance when he went out was because the young owner of Shifanglou heard that Shu Hui was coming, and specially arranged for this person to be used in front of Shu Hui to listen to orders. The guide leads the way and is in the area of his duties.

Paid to make extra money, which makes this guy happy. While Zhang Luo's colleagues went to prepare the carriage, he diligently introduced to Shu Hui and the three of them:

"If you want to say the most famous piano shop in the city, it has to be Lei's piano shop. It is said that the Lei family has been making pianos for generations, and the family is very famous in CD. The Lei family piano shop in Linqiong City was opened by the brother of the contemporary Lei family owner. ”

While talking, he arrived at the door of the restaurant. There were carriages ready to wait here, but they were four-wheeled carriages that drove around the city and were convenient for parking and carrying passengers.

Shu Hui looked at this sturdy and stable carriage, and couldn't help but think of the era he lived in before, and there was a magical creature called a traverser in some literary works. They always like to "invent" the four-wheeled carriage in ancient China, or the two-wheeled carriage in the European Middle Ages, saying that it was more advanced.

When he was a student, he was the technical editor of the school's popular science public account, and there was a more systematic analysis of this in an article that Shu Hui came into contact with, but Shu Hui only remembered the most impressive part of the argument -

That is, the bronze Ming ware of four-wheeled carriages was unearthed in the ancient tombs of the Jin Dynasty in China, and the paintings of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty all appeared on four-wheeled carriages, and the ancient Greek chariots were all used in two-wheeled carriages. Just adding or subtracting two wheels, I'm afraid this kind of thinking is only a monkey can think of genius.

With contempt for the intelligence of his peers, he listened to the man sitting with the coachman in the front room of the carriage explain the main functions and characteristic shops of each square along the way, and looked at the pedestrians outside the window with great interest.

But he soon learned the power of the four-wheeled carriage.

As the driver slows down the horse's bridle at one corner, it enters the torturous steering process. The wheels creaked on the ground, and the two horses pushed each other under the coachman's scolding and whipping, and it took a long time to pull the wheels out of direction.

Shu Hui, who was a little torn apart by the front and back of the carriage, didn't know that the guy who came to lead the way in order to steer more efficiently also made a temporary cameo appearance as a coachman. Even so, one horse led the wheels and the other slowly turned the corner with the weight of the body.

"This four-wheeled carriage is really bulky, it should be missing a differential." Shu Hui recalled the video of the differential principle she had watched, but she couldn't remember it for a while.

"I have time to draw on paper to be intuitive and easy to remember. Since I have mastered the principle of the differential, I have never forgotten the truth. ”

"I just don't know if we can make a qualified differential with today's technology and materials. In terms of comfort and load capacity, four wheels are always better than two. ”

Shu Hui, who didn't notice that he was embarking on the old path of "inventing the four-wheeled carriage", added the plan to design a differential and apply it to the four-wheeled vehicle to his memo: "The system, have you written it down?" ”

After a few more turns, when Shu Hui was already a little accustomed to this, he finally arrived at the ancient city gate.

Although it was damaged several times during the period from the Western Jin Dynasty to the Western Wei Dynasty, there are still some Qin bricks and Han gravel under the rebuilt five-zhang high wall. After a long period of war here, the city tower was built extraordinarily majestic, but it was a little more atmospheric than what Shu Hui saw in later generations.

The autumn days are short, and the sun has already set westward when Shen is over, and it is the time for the population and villagers of Xiaguo to go out of the city. Against the flow of people, the carriage slowly stopped in front of a shop on the main street not far into the city.

The shop is a two-story building, and a black plaque is hung on the lintel, with the words "Lei's Piano Store" written on it, which is the destination of this trip.

Shu Hui and the three got out of the car, because the road was wide enough, and the carriage stayed where it was and waited. When the apprentice of the piano shop saw Shu Hui and the others, he hurriedly put down the polished wooden tire in his hand and greeted him: "A few distinguished guests, please come inside." Another apprentice went to the back hall to inform the master that a distinguished guest had arrived.

Taking advantage of the apprentice's recommendation of the best-selling piano styles, Shu Hui glanced at the store and found that there were no other musical instruments here except for the guqin, so he couldn't help but nod.

There is a specialization in the art industry. If you are willing to invest time and specialize in one line, you can achieve something no matter what. Moreover, Lei's violin making has a skill, and now it has a hundred years of inheritance, and the accumulation of several generations is very deep.

In later generations, the Tang Dynasty Bashu Lei Gongqin can be described as a famous treasure in the piano. Although the most dazzling violin-makers of the Lei family have not yet been born at this time, the attainments of the Lei family in the field of violin making are few people in the world who can match.

"Redfish, which piano do you think is the best?" Shu Hui decided to listen to the opinions of insiders.

"Young master, the slave maid thinks it's all the same." Hongyu blinked, and its unreliability refreshed Shu Hui's cognition of her current piano skills - I'm afraid that it can't only be heard if it pops up, right? Shu Hui thought rather melancholy.

I happened to see the owner of this place, Boss Lei, coming out of the back hall with a young apprentice, and the apprentice whispered as he walked: "Daddy, the person headed by several distinguished guests is a boy, dressed in a scarlet robe, with an extraordinary background, and my cousin is greeting them." ”

"It's a family business!" Shu Hui looked speechlessly at Boss Lei's father and son saluting them, and asked casually: "Master Lei, which is the best piano in your piano shop, take it out and show it to us." ”

As for the title of "boss", I can only think about it in my heart. In Shu Hui's cognition, it may be a foreign word, or it may have evolved from some folk allusions in later generations. If it is a foreign word, then even its etymological language has not yet appeared.

Master Na Lei smiled reservedly, glanced at the guqins that were all over the building and hung on the wall, and said in a proud tone that only appears when talking to the neighbors about his promising son: "The pianos I have here are all fine, and each one can play its own unique rhythm. ”

However, he quickly reacted that he couldn't talk nonsense with the distinguished guests, so he continued: "But there are also a few of them that are made of rare and fine wood, and with the blessing of the ancestors, the quality of the synthesized piano is indeed better than that placed in this building." ”

Then he stretched out his hand to the back hall and said, "A few distinguished guests, please come with me, even the best pianos on the second floor that cannot be compared with them are usually not placed outside." Moreover, one of them was only a few days ago, and today is an auspicious day, and the contemptible people are preparing to wind it. ”

Shu Hui listened to Boss Lei's introduction, and followed him into the inner hall. Anyway, he is not short of money, in addition to real money and silver, there is also a kilogram of replicas in the backpack that he summoned a few days ago from the summoning altar to cut and polish the various gems he had collected in the past three years with the dark shelter.

And this is only less than one-tenth of the total amount of gems he summoned at one time using one-third of the system's energy.

And a piano without historical and cultural heritage, no matter how good it is, it is only a musical instrument and not an antique. According to Shu Hui's estimates, if you don't count the yaoqin inlaid with jade pieces or the luxury goods with gold jewelry as the qin emblem, and only measure the value of a qin by materials and craftsmanship, it will not exceed 5,000 yuan.

After all, this is equivalent to the entire output of nearly 100 acres of fertile land in a year.

There are many semi-finished products in the back hall, the most of which are the piano tires that are in the stage of harmonizing, the top and bottom plates are glued with lacquer, and the straw paper is tightly tied together with hemp rope.

After all, chopping the piano is elegant to say, but it is just carpenter's work. In other steps, although others do not know the principle, but looking at the finished product, they can also reverse the essence of eight or nine points.

Only this step of the qin, the lacquer glue used is not a secret. The carpenter next to him saw it, and even if the piano he drew from the gourd could be used, it would not be able to balance durability and durability.

Passing through the verandah where the piano tires are dried, and entering the back hall, a low wall that is only half the height of an adult, just to Shu Hui's nose, and a three-sided transparent and convenient lighting studio, you can see that there is a lacquered spiritual body that is on the table ready to be wound, and there is a finished piano next to it.

Boss Lei led the three of them directly around here and entered his living room in the back hall, and the best Zhang Chengqin was placed in his living room to take care of it day and night, for fear of being damp and mothed. In fact, how can a well-made piano be so fragile, which is similar to the nature of many people who like mobile phone films in later generations.

Boss Lei carefully took down a few piano cases from a shelf, and opened them to Shu Hui and the three of them one by one:

"This 'Jiao Lip' is an imitation of Cai Yong [yōng] 'Jiaowei Qin' of the Eastern Han Dynasty, in which the sycamore wood is burned in a blazing fire, and the sound of the sound determines the quality of the wood, which is the work of the contemptible youth. Since then, there has been no such extravagance. ”

Boss Lei rubbed a chaotic silk paulownia xylophone with some scorched black defects at the head of the piano with some nostalgia, and I don't know whether he remembered the birth of this piano or missed his youth.

The thumb plucked a loose note in Shaoshang, and in Shu Hui's perception, the whole piano buzzed and vibrated for more than ten seconds before the aftermath could not be heard at all. Boss Lei put the Jiaolip piano aside, and took out a straight piano from another piano case.

"This 'Huai Shu' is made according to the 'Luqi' Hanqin contained in the ancient books, but only the appearance is similar, and the height of the qin and the dragon pond and phoenix are all made in accordance with the Zhongni style."

With the same flick, a clear sound that was different from the previous burnt lips spread.

"After that, the contemptible people made a few more pianos according to this 'Huai Shu', but the sound quality was only mediocre. This is probably related to the fact that other parts of the old fir on the surface of this piano have been infested......"

Boss Lei counted the seven good pianos in his room one by one, most of these pianos were made of paulownia wood as the surface, Catalpa wood as the base, and the strings were made of silk, cow tendon and horsetail. According to Boss Lei, an expert, each piano has its own subtlety.

But in Shu Hui's view, these pianos have a common problem - that is, they are not gorgeous enough. After experiencing the influence of the information age, all kinds of ancient games and Chinese exquisite props in film and television works made Shu Hui a little disappointed with this clumsy but slightly monotonous wooden piano.

However, according to Boss Lei's explanation, the head and tail of the piano are only used for decoration and have no impact on the sound of the piano. The piano emblem is only used to identify the overtones, and most of the rich people will inlay shells and gold and silver on the piano when they buy it, so only white lacquer is used to point out the emblem when making the piano, or only inlay a porcelain buckle.

"Redfish, do you have a special favorite?" Buy, buy, buy, but Shu Hui still has to refer to Hongyu's opinion.

"Young master, the slave maid thinks it's very good." Hongyu blinked, and Shu Hui only felt that this scene was familiar.

Unreliable, unreliable, Shu Hui touched his chin and considered which good piano to buy would be more suitable for transforming into a hand-me-down treasure for the blind. At this time, Boss Lei invited on the side: "A few distinguished guests may wish to take a look at the newly made one." Today's good day is auspicious, and there are distinguished guests coming to the door, maybe it is fate. ”

In fact, he was afraid of delaying the auspicious time, but it was not good to leave Shu Hui and the three of them alone, so he came up with such a way to get the best of both worlds.

Shu Hui thinks about it, isn't the latest also an important reference criterion in the final choice of difficult choices?

When a few people came to the studio they had passed by, Boss Lei began to wind the piano tire while explaining the materials and exquisiteness of this spiritual piano to Shu Hui and others.

The Lingji style piano was created by Liang Luan in the Han Dynasty, and there is a mountain-shaped expansion on both sides of the forehead and the waist of the piano, which is simple and generous and exquisite, and is worthy of the name of the word Lingji.

Shu Hui looked at the piano that was undergoing the final process and witnessed the process of a good piano coming out, and asked casually, "What's going on with this piano next to you?" He saw that there was another piano next to it, and the production was also very fine, but Boss Lei did not introduce it.

Hearing that Shu Hui asked about this qin, Boss Lei sighed and said very regretfully: "This Fuxi-style paulownia wood qin and the Lingji style were originally taken from the same hollow old wood that grew on the side of the cold pool, and it was placed in the north for six years before it was transported to Linqiong. ”

"At first, I listened to it repeatedly, thinking that I had understood the woody nature of it, so I started to play the harp. Unexpectedly, the texture of this piece of wood was a little denser than I expected, so that Longchi and Fengnuma were both narrower by an inch and half a point shallower. ”

"After the qin is closed, if the two pieces of wood are forcibly separated, the quality of the qin has already fallen into the inferior quality. Therefore, this piano is no longer destined to become a treasure, and can only be regarded as an ordinary good piano. However, it also provided experience for this magic formula, and it will not make the same mistake again this time. ”

The dragon pond and the phoenix pond are grooves dug at the bottom of the lid in the wood to contain air for resonance and enhance the timbre of the piano. This Fuxi-style piano dragon pond and Fengnuma are dug small and shallow, but because the piano has been closed, the edges of the upper cover and the bottom plate have been glued together, and they can only be sawed with a saw, but it will damage the wood.

Moreover, the lacquer glue that has been soaked through the wood on both sides of the bond will also affect the stability of the re-closing of the piano, so Boss Lei gave up opening the piano and reprocessing it.

Boss Lei has already put the strings on the clever style, and is adjusting the tightness of each string through the shaft on the bottom of the piano. Shu Hui watched with interest, this tuning technique seemed to be quite popular in the era in which he used to live.

After the completion of this spiritual calibration, Boss Lei said that this piano was a few points better than his previous works. Probably because the materials are more sophisticated and the experience is more sophisticated.

Buy, buy, buy, anyway, Shu Hui doesn't understand if it's really better, but she just thinks that it sounds really unusual.

"Master Lei, how big should you dig the groove in this Fuxi style, I'll mark it later. When I buy it back, maybe one day I'll get tired of playing with it and change it myself. ”

"Also, how much do two pianos cost?"

Shu Hui also wanted to buy the half-scrapped Fuxi style, but Boss Lei didn't expect it. But his offer of forty taels of silver was also something Shu Hui didn't expect.

But who is Shu Hui? Not bad money. The silver is in the hands of Boss Lei, no matter whether this piano is worth so much money or not, he can't just buy chicken legs to eat one and throw one away, and eventually it will flow back to the market, and it doesn't matter if it's expensive.

However, Shu Hui's treasure obtained by copying will always be paid for him in the market, and it will not affect the relevant handicraft industry for the time being, but it is difficult to say in the future.

"Help me inlay a few piano emblems and engrave a few more words, don't add money?" Asking for additional services was the only bargaining skill Shu Hui would have in his previous life.

Boss Lei thought to himself, you won't bargain for forty taels of silver, I'm afraid it's not a mallet! I don't know which young master it is, I shouldn't come back to trouble him when the time comes......

"No money, no money, white paint after the engraving, it dries quickly, and it can be completed in half an hour."

So Shu Hui took out a deerskin bag out of thin air from behind his back, and selected a thumb-sized mutton fat jade from it to throw it to Boss Lei: "It's inconvenient to bring gold and silver, is it okay to pay with this?" ”

"Yes, you can." Although jade is not a currency, it is very sought-after in the market and is very easy to sell. Moreover, there was no counterfeiting technology for beautiful jade in this era. Boss Lei estimated that this piece would be worth more than forty taels of silver in a pawnshop, and it might cost sixty taels to find the right buyer.

Seeing that he agreed, Shu Hui smiled slightly, and selected two sets of neatly cut ruby sapphires and chrysoberyls from the bag, according to the largest chrysoberyl in the middle, and the twelve red sapphires on both sides were alternately arranged, and the particles were as small as they were farther away.

"Oh my God, wouldn't he want me to inlay these precious jades on those two pianos, especially that half-scrap ......" Boss Lei couldn't believe his most natural idea at this time.

"Yes, it's to help me inlay these 'fire jade' and 'jasper' on the sound emblem." Shu Hui looked at Boss Lei, who was stunned in place, and affirmed Boss Lei's guess at this time.

The strength of corundum gems is very high, Shu Hui's dark shelter has a maximum pressure of 100Mpa, in fact, it is impossible to cut them directly, but he uses the dark shelter to wrap other corundum gemstone chips as a file, and cut and polish the gems of various sizes and values little by little, and then copy and increase the amount. After a lot of hard work, of course, you can be proud.

Boss Lei looked away with difficulty and swallowed his saliva, Shu Hui's identity became more and more mysterious in his eyes.

"Why do I think he's richer than the emperor?" Boss Lei shook his head, shook off this crazy idea, and pretended to be calm and asked, "Little master, I don't know what words you want to engrave on the two pianos?" ”

Of course, it's the name of the carved piano, and this waste piano is a freshly baked piano, which is just right for Shu Hui to name. Recalling the two Tang Dynasty guqins with very cool names known in his previous life, Shu Hui, who was difficult to name, cunningly preemptively registered them:

"This Fuxi style is engraved with 'Nine Heavens Ring Pei', and the spiritual style 'Great Sage'." After a pause, Shu Hui asked a little uneasily: "How is your handwriting, don't lower the grade of the piano." "None of the three of him and Ao Guanghongyu are good at calligraphy.

"Don't worry, little master, I'll ask my disciples to invite all the masters who are good at calligraphy and carving to come over and let them do it." Boss Lei looked at Shu Hui's two identical columns of gems on the table, and knew that two famous pianos that were enough to be handed down in appearance alone were about to be born in his shop.