Chapter Twenty-Nine: Heaven, Earth and Man

There is a clear pond in the courtyard of the palace, and the grass and trees on the edge of the pond are green, and the scenery is pleasant against the green waves of the pond.

The morning sun was shining, and Guo Jia, dressed in a white brocade robe, sat in the pavilion, with a delicate and simple lyre on the table in front of him.

The ancients said: "First get rid of its violent and rough spirit, get its peaceful and quiet surname, gradually dissolve its evil ugliness, open its foolishness, and develop its wisdom, then you can understand its voice as joy, sorrow and indignation, and get its interesting ears." ”

It is the basic of the qin, so the qin family often has cleansing, burning incense, and wide clothes to make the mood clean and comfortable, and it is natural and easy.

In this era, if a woman wants to be famous, she can only be reduced to a vulgar plaything based on her beauty alone, for high-ranking officials and dignitaries, and the prince's disciples will judge their heads and compete for them, and those who can really become talented women, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, dare not say that they are proficient in everything, at least they must be good at one or two, a well-informed woman is impressive enough, and if she can also be outstanding in piano or amazing in chess, she can be famous.

The children of the powerful are not all straw bales, and scum can be found everywhere, but even if they can't be both civil and military, they basically have mediocre literary talents.

Guo Jia became famous at a young age, and he had a very good personal relationship with Xun Yu Xizhicai, but it was not just because his words were not shocking and endless, in the six arts of the gentleman, Guo Jia did not have a famous teacher to teach except for archery, and he did not have such a family background, in other aspects, when Guo Jia was very young, he was self-taught, and he was self-taught, after all, a mature person, when other children were greedy for fun, cherished every minute and second of self-study.

Confucius said: "Flourish in poetry, stand in ceremony, and become happy"

Guo Jia began to practice the piano after getting acquainted with Xun Yu, and in later generations, many men may disdain the guqin, and will think that it is a skill that only women can learn, but in ancient times, the qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, the qin is the first, if you don't understand the qin music at all, I am afraid that it will be a talent.

When he was young, his family was poor, Guo Jia was diligent, and he tried to be self-taught, but he always had to have a musical instrument to learn the piano, he became acquainted with Xun Yu as a confidant, Xun Yu was a frank gentleman, and made friends with Guo Jia, specially gifted the piano to Guo Jia, and gave Guo Jia the books of music theory one by one, so that Guo Jia could get what he wanted to learn the piano art.

Gently plucking the strings, Guo Jia seemed to see Xun Yu's figure in front of him.

"Wen Ruo, the last thing I want to see in this life is for you and me to meet on the battlefield."

Guo Jia did not have a single contact with Xun Yu after his rise, not even letters.

Everyone has their own ambitions, and they can't be forced.

Since they are confidants, they know each other.

Xun Yu wants to protect the Han Dynasty, he voted for Cao Ying because in addition to Cao Ying, at this time, the world may not be able to find a second hero who can support the Han Dynasty, but Xun Yu does not know that when Cao Ying sits on half of the country, Cao Ying's ambition will be revealed to the world.

These, not only Guo Jia, may be foreseen by many people, but Guo Jia has no evidence, so he persuaded Xun Yu just by guessing?

Even if there is no Cao Ying, Xun Yu will not come to help Guo Jia, because Xun Yu also knows Guo Jia.

He knew that Guo Jia was not a hero who would go to the trouble for the sake of the Han family.

Therefore, Guo Jia does not persuade Xun Yu, and Xun Yu does not lobby Guo Jia.

I haven't seen each other for a few years, but this tacit understanding seems to be tacit by them, deliberately avoiding the intersection that will occur with each other, but this kind of cover-up of self-deception, they all know that in the near future, it will be ruthlessly shattered by reality.

There was a monotonous sound of strings.

Guo Jia flicked his right hand and closed his eyes to listen to the timbre.

The five strings of the qin, the palace merchant horn Zhengyu, King Wen added a string, Shaogong, King Wu added a string, Shaoshang, the timbre expressiveness of the piano rose greatly, and it was handed down, and it became the Wenwu seven-stringed instrument.

Guo Jia's own mansion has a famous Jiaowei qin, which was passed down by Cai Yong to Cai Yan as a dowry, and Guo Jia has never touched Cai Yan's favorite lyre.

The production of guqin is very particular: "The selection of materials is good, the intention is deep, five hundred years, there is a positive sound." ”

Today, the lyre in front of him is exquisitely made, and it was carefully selected by the wealthy family of Yizhou and deliberately left in the palace, and was given to Guo Jia in disguise.

In the face of an unfamiliar piano, if you want to play it, you must first test the sound and feel it.

The right hand plucks the empty strings, listens to the timbre, and does not touch the strings with the left hand, so that the sound produced is thick, called scattered sound, also called earth sound, symbolizing the earth.

Guo Jia tried the sound first, then gently touched the strings with his left hand, plucked the strings again with his right hand, and a burst of ethereal and peaceful piano sounded out, which is an overtone, also known as Tianyin.

The movement of the right hand remains the same, still plucking the strings, and the left hand slides on the strings, and the sound of the piano changes myriadly, which can be described as arbitrary, which is the "heaven, earth and people" in the sound of the piano.

Taking a deep breath, Guo Jia's heart was at peace, his left hand gently touched the strings, and his right hand began to pluck the strings.

The beautiful and gentle sound of the piano converges into a melodious and beautiful natural sound.

The guqin emphasizes rhyme, not sound; Emphasis on meaning, not on form.

Guo Jia's attainments in piano skills are not as good as Cai Yan, nor as good as Cai Yong, when he and Xi Zhicai and Xun Yu are together to learn piano skills, they can't talk about everyone's famous players, they can't play the spring and snow, and they can't play high and low, but they can't stop them from meeting friends with the piano and enhancing their feelings.

The emperor descends to the heavens, and the people are happy.

Music is art, and art never has a fixed form.

Piano masters all over the world who can play the piano imitate the famous songs and scores, and they can't play the artistic conception of the confidant of the mountains and rivers in the Boyazi period.

Born from the heart, improvised as he likes, although Guo Jia does all the things that are contrary to radical revolution, but he is still a peaceful person in his bones, so he always plays the piano with the sound of the sky, and the opera Zhicai, who is also a confidant, likes to start with the sound of the earth, and most of the piano styles are also majestic and majestic.

Thinking back to when he was young, he talked and laughed with Xi Zhicai, Xun Yu talked about the world of laughter, talked about the past and the present, drank and wrote poems, comfortable and worry-free, Guo Jiaqin, who closed his eyes and stroked the piano, couldn't help but have a warm smile on the corner of his mouth, and the sound of the piano was soft and beautiful, full of infinite joy.

The past is vivid, with endless aftertaste and infinite reminiscence.

In the blink of an eye, from an ignorant child to a monarch who is now dominant, Guo Jia's mind flashed the most pictures, but it was Cai Yan, Zhen Jiang, Da Qiao, Xiao Qiao, etc., recalling the charming and moving Diao Chan last night, Guo Jia smiled even more.

The music has such a charm, and it can convey the mood through the music.

Whether it is Sima Xiangru's "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" or Confucius's "Yilanyi", it is like this, even if it is the empty city plan in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", if Zhuge Liang did not meet Sima Yi, who is also proficient in the rhythm of the qin, I am afraid that he will only enter the tiger's mouth if he strokes the qin at the head of the city to meet the enemy, because Zhuge Liang's piano sound is not chaotic, stable as Mount Tai, Sima Yi can not hear any flaws in the piano sound, plus Zhuge Liang's style is cautious, otherwise how could Sima Yi fall into the empty city plan? If you change to a reckless general who doesn't understand elegance, no matter what Zhuge Liang is playing, he will go directly to the city to find out.

Diao Chan, who has been accustomed to serving people, has a very regular schedule every day, and when the sky is bright, she will inevitably wake up and prepare for every day's work, and will never slack off, no matter whether it is windy or rainy, unless she is sick.

For the first time, he had not woken up when the sky was already bright, and the Diao Chan, who was covered with a light list, frowned at the willow eyebrows, and finally opened his bright eyes, and his eyes were as soft as water, and they bloomed with panic.

Standing up from the bed, the sheet slipped off her body, she suddenly realized that she couldn't figure an inch, pulled up the list with both hands and hid it in front of her, her cloak exuded a little lazy, and the sable cicada who exuded mature charm up and down looked left and right, there was no one in the room, and there was a set of clean clothes on the side of the bed.

The red-faced Diao Chan stared at the door as if she were a thief, and slowly stretched out one hand to her lower body, her brows tightened, and the slight pain and discomfort made her feel numb.

The White Tiger is fierce.

If it really brings bad luck to Guo Jia, what should she do?

If the two ladies knew this, would they expel her from the house?

Diao Chan is uneasy, but in the bottom of his heart, he has an inexplicable joy and the sweetness of getting what he wants.

Looking down at the marks on the bed, she stared at it for a long time, even though her face was flushed, not even noticing that she was smirking.

"Aren't you satisfied? This life is enough. But ......"

People are greedy, and beautiful women are no exception.

Diao Chan, who thinks about it day and night, feels that he is too greedy, and he has already obtained what he never dared to hope for before, but he still wants more.

His expression was mixed with joy and sorrow, changing back and forth, and the simple-minded Diao Chan fell into his own depression.

Guo Jia said that he didn't care that she was a white tiger.

But will it be at all?

Just when she was distressed and sad, faintly, she heard the sound of the piano.

It was already a sin not to wait for Guo Jia to get up, Diao Chan patted his head and muttered to himself with some self-reproach: "What are you thinking about?" ”

Don't care about anything else, serving Guo Jia well is her wish that will not change from beginning to end.

Getting up and dressing, enduring the soreness and fatigue of the body, Diao Chan hurriedly freshened up and dressed.

Not long after, the colorful Diao Chan came to the courtyard, and Guo Jia who was stroking the piano in the pavilion could be seen in the distance.

The melodious, lingering, and gripping music lingers in my ears.

The beautiful eyes are obsessed, and the sable cicada stays in place.

She is not a woman who is good for nothing but serving others, she is good at singing and dancing piano music, and she can hear the heart conveyed by Guo Jia's piano music.

After each loud piano note is combined into a heart-pounding and longing music, Diao Chan's eyes suddenly turned red, and his heart was full of mixed feelings, and he suffered from gains and losses.

The body is shaky.

She didn't know what Guo Jia was thinking in the pavilion at the moment.

In the past, she only danced for Guo Jia in the inner courtyard of Fuzhong, and Guo Jia was accompanied by Cai Yan, Zhen Jiang, Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao, she only occasionally participated in it, and retreated enviously to the side and waited for the dispatch.

Now, she is afraid that Guo Jia will not have her in her heart when she plays such affectionate music.

The sound of the sky starts, the sound of the sky ends, the aftersound is lingering, and the rhyme of the piano does not disperse.

Like the comfortable ending of the small bridge and flowing water, Guo Jia slowly opened his eyes, his ten fingers were hot, and he exhaled a long breath.

With a turn of her eyes, the Diao Chan not far away came into view, and Guo Jia beckoned to her gently.

(To be continued)