Jiankang City is huge and splendid, when the dynasty built the capital here for a hundred years, the population is full of one million, although there are wars everywhere, but the city is still prosperous, there is no desolation at all.

Xie Lingyun is a person who is not idle, seeing the singing and dancing everywhere, everyone laughs, and said strangely: "Don't these people know that there are anti-thieves in the south?" ”

Wang Liu smiled disdainfully: "Jiankang, as the royal capital, how can such a small person be able to make a mess, not to mention General Xie, General Liu Laozhi and General Liu went to quell the rebellion, and tens of thousands of family troops outside the city were enough to wipe them out." ”

Xie Lingyun shook his head, and said seriously: "Uncle Wang misunderstood, the little nephew has traveled all the way, countless fleeing people have stretched for hundreds of miles, bandits and bandits have emerged in an endless stream, and the court has rarely appeased. ”

Wang Liu was dumbfounded when he heard this: "Are you hearsay or have you seen it with your own eyes?" The land of Sanwu is rich, and I recently heard my father talk about it in the court, saying that there is peace and quiet, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, how can it be as miserable as you say. ”

Xie Lingyun said "ah", looked around and whispered: "It seems that the court is just hiding people's eyes and ears, when Sun En rebelled, there were more than 100,000 rebels in the three Wu and eight counties, and General Liu won several battles in a row before forcing this gang of thieves into the sea, and the rich families in the eight counties were killed countless times, and the city and county guards either fled or were killed, and when the thieves retreated, they drove hundreds of thousands of people to flee with countless gold and silver treasures. ”

Xie Yu looked around, and said as he walked: "Brother Ning An, you and I live in a mansion, and we don't know anything about the world every day, how can we know what the world is doing, what Lingyun said, it should not be bad, but the court is incompetent, and I am afraid of panic in the city, so I release the illusion of living and working in peace and contentment to deceive the people, and the people who fled outside the city must have been driven away to create a peaceful atmosphere." ”

Wang Liu frowned and said: "Hey, I thought the world was peaceful, I didn't want it to be so chaotic, so I asked my father to recommend him in a few days to share the worries of the court." ”

Xie Lingyun shook his head and said: "Brother Wang, you and I are both literati, and now that the world is in turmoil, even if you are a leader, you are a person who is light-hearted, and the saint ignores it, but I hate that Sima Yuanxian controls the court situation, and he also recruits tenants who have been exempted from the status of official slaves as soldiers, which makes the families of the eight counties panic, which leads to the rise of thieves." ”

Wang Liu thought for a while and said: "But there are a lot of officials in our Wang Xie family, even if Sima Yuanxian holds the power tightly, can he watch that thief make trouble?" ”

Xie Yu smiled with deep feelings: "You are the third son, I am the last son, there are many talented heirs in the family, and we are young, even if we have knowledge, who will listen, who will manage, it's just empty troubles, the family is huge, the discipline is strict, what can you do if you have no ambitions?" ”

He said this deliberately, Wang Liu is a scheming person, sometimes he can be honest with him, sometimes he is as deep as the sea, he can say what he just said, but he just doesn't understand the outside world, he goes with the flow, and falls into the water without showing a kind of wisdom to protect himself, but as a child of a big family, Wang Liu's fame is much heavier than him, and if he retreats a little, their friendship will last for a long time.

Wang Liu touched the nephrite jade on his waist, was silent, and just wanted to speak, he did hear someone next to him say: "Wang Gongzi, if you have free time today, do you want to come to Miaoyin Building to listen to music?" ”

Everyone looked up, their feelings had just been discussed, and they didn't know that they had walked downstairs, and a young man in green clothes next to them greeted them with a smile.

Wang Liu smiled, and his gentle and elegant demeanor instantly made him hug his fists with a spring breeze on his face and said, "Brother Shangguan, I haven't seen you for a long time." After speaking, he introduced Xie Lingyun and Xie Yu.

Shangguan Wen heard that the two were the children of Xie Fu, so he bowed down and said, "I've seen the two sons." ”

Xie Lingyun politely returned the salute.

Xie Yu did feel a little uneasy, not to the point that he had any opinion on Shangguan Wen, what made him panic was the white-faced old man standing behind the young man, martial arts, and the one who entered the Dacheng could restrain his breath, and he could clearly feel the pressure brought by the old man, to put it in layman's terms, this person was a master.

Although he froze in an instant, his expression remained unchanged and said, "Brother Shangguan is good!" ”

Wang Liu was obviously a little happier and said: "Brother Shangguan is an uncle's ** student, recommended as a showman, and his family is wealthy, and he is the owner of this Miaoyin Building." ”

Shangguan Wen shook his head politely and said: "It is really difficult to make a living by raising a family, I hope you don't want to laugh, hurry, please go upstairs and rest for a while, Miss Qianqian's opening song will start in a while." ”

A group of people talked and laughed and went up to enter the private room, the front suddenly opened up, this Miaoyin Lou is worthy of being one of the best places to find fun in Jiankang City, a few meters in front of you, is a circular wooden platform, covered with carpets, on which are placed a variety of musical instruments, the top beams and pillars wrapped in silk are hung with the repertoire to be played today, a few people sit down, all kinds of pastries, tea and wine are sent one by one.

Shangguan Wenxing was indeed stopped by the old man when he went to the inner room, and said in a low voice: "Young master, there are masters among these sons. ”

Shangguan Wen was stunned for a moment, and then said with relief: "Do you mean the few entourages they brought?" ”

The old man shook his head and said, "It's Xie Yu, the son of the Xie family." ”

"Uncle Zhen, you read it right, look at their weak appearance, how can it be"

The old man said: "And although this boy is young, he can indeed restrain his breath, and he also paid special attention to me just now, and he must also know that slaves can do martial arts." ”

Shangguan Wen's eyes flashed and said: "Don't take care of them, Wang Gongzi is our goal, in the early years, I went to the ** door, I really don't want to be an early death ghost, everything carefully arranged has come to naught, if Qianqian is allowed to take Wang Liu's line this time, all these years of hard work have not been in vain, Uncle Zhen, you are busy working below, I will go up to meet them and get closer." After speaking, he lifted a small jar with mud in his hand and walked up with a smile on his face.

Xie Lingyun just couldn't be idle, sitting on the desk and asking the two of them about the interesting things that happened in Jiankang City, and laughing and talking about some of the past things he fostered in the Taoist temple, sometimes saying a little joke, which also made people laugh, so that the relationship between the three of them was even more close, so that the private room was happy.

Shangguan Wen slammed the door and said happily: "A few sons haven't listened to the music yet, but they are happy first, so why don't you sit here, why don't you come to the altar to brew spring." ”

When Xie Lingyun heard this, a strange light flashed in his eyes and said, "But is it the Nine Brewing Spring that Cao Cao paid tribute to the Han Emperor?" ”

Shangguan Wen couldn't help but purse his lips and praised with a smile: "Gongzi is worthy of coming from a family, this wine has been hidden underground for a hundred years, and only ten altars were bought a few days ago. ”

When Wang Liu heard this, his face lit up and he said: "Brother Shangguan is really polite, he is really ashamed to take out such a good wine, and he is really ashamed, ashamed." ”

Shangguan Wen slapped off the wooden seal, and suddenly a fragrant smell of wine filled the private room, which only made people fascinated, and the swallowed "grunt" sound aroused the cravings in everyone's stomachs.

Xie Yu smiled and watched the other party pour the wine into the bowl, and muttered in his heart: "Nothing to do, this Shangguanwen is a businessman, and there are unfathomable masters around him, no wonder Wang Liu invited him to come last time, it seems that this bowl of wine is very deep, this kind of person still needs to pay more attention." ”

In fact, he doesn't like to drink this kind of light wine in ancient times, it is turbid inside, it smells very fragrant, and it does not taste good to drink. "Okay, it's really good, Brother Shangguan is so handy, a bowl of wine is worth a thousand gold, I don't know if it's really bold or if you have something else to ask for!" Xie Yu put down the delicate wine bowl and said.

Shangguan Wen's eyes couldn't help flashing a trace of fierceness, and he disappeared in an instant: "How can you hide good wine, Wen's teacher is Wang Gongzi's uncle, and he is a talented person, I am a small businessman, I can ask for it when I want, laugh." ”

Although the fierce color in his eyes flashed, he was still received by Xie Yu, who had a heart, and he was even more sure in his heart that this person must be either a traitor or a thief, and he wanted to climb Wang Xun through Wang Liu? Or do you want to do something else in the name of the Wang family? Looking at the situation in front of him, the relationship between the two has not yet developed to the level of intimacy, and I am afraid that I will secretly remind this prince who has looked down on him since he was a child to be careful.

There was a trace of unhappiness on Wang Liu's face, he was proud and conceited, others were obviously giving him face, so he opened this jar of good wine, Xie Yu really wanted to thin people's face, if he wasn't a playmate since childhood, he also saved his life, he really wanted to say something insulting, thinking about the relationship between them, he also endured this breath.

Several people were thinking about it, only to see a woman in emerald clothes on the wooden platform downstairs, with a golden glass peacock hairpin inserted in her hair bun raised high, the jade face that was about to be blown was inlaid with beautiful eyes and slight anger, pink and red tide, and a smile rippling with light, especially the hands as white as jade, which were really soft and weak, clear and beautiful, fragrant and jade body, jade bones, ice muscles, after sitting on the soft couch where the guqin was placed, she glanced at the private room of the three people upstairs as if unintentionally, and lightly opened her red lips and spit out words like beads: "Let you benefactors wait for a long time." ”

The drum noise downstairs sounded in an instant, and the scene was suddenly a little chaotic.

"It's beautiful!" This is the common voice of the people present upstairs, but let Xie Lingyun say it first, Wang Liu also watched it for a long time, quickly gathered his mind, and listened in his ears.

Xie Yu is not as expressive as they are, but Qianqian's appearance and posture are indeed peerless, graceful and moving, when the riot below subsides, the jade hand stroked, slightly moved his fingers and changed the tone, making people feel like stepping into the top of a high mountain in an instant, surrounded by clouds and mist, erratic.

This is the famous song "Mountains and Flowing Water", rumored to come from the "Liezi, Tang Wen" a volume, in ancient times, the pianist Boya is good at playing the piano, Chai Fu Zhongzi is good at listening, and can understand the artistic conception of the song "E'e Xi Ruo Taishan" and "Yang Xi Ruo River", then he was amazed, and then Zhong Zi died in the period, Boya broke the piano and broke the strings, and said sadly: "The bosom friend has passed away, who listens to the music." "I don't play the piano, this song is a metaphor for a bosom friend or confidant and a metaphor to show my own piano skills.