The fields are golden, and the autumn harvest season is approaching; The streets of the city are also falling more and more, and every morning, when people walk on the bluestone pavement, they can smell the smoke of burning leaves by the street cleaners. Xue Chongxun got up in the morning and added another piece of clothing, spring and autumn reincarnation, and in the second half of the year, the weather only got colder and colder, and occasionally a thin layer of hoarfrost could be seen on the weeds in the yard.

Autumn is coming, will winter be far away? He was worried about something, seeing that the sky was getting colder, the end of the year was approaching, and the New Year was the third year of Jingyun, and he remembered that there was no such age as the fourth year of Jingyun in history...... That means that the upheaval will occur in the third year of Jingyun, which month, first half or second half of the year? He really couldn't figure it out, but he only vaguely remembered that the famous Li Longji ascended the throne because of a celestial phenomenon, and Li Dan passed the throne to him.

Therefore, reforming Caoyun is not the most important thing in his heart at all, no matter how he does it, if he is killed, it will lose its meaning; The power struggle was what he was most concerned about, and convincing Li Shouli, the son of Prince Zhang Huai, to participate in the coup d'état was the main goal of his trip.

But now Xue Chongxun is still waiting in Luoyang, and he has not left for Youzhou, he is waiting for someone.

This person is a eunuch, named Yu Liben, who gives things in his position. He is a completely unknown person, and even the people who are on his side are unknown.

A month ago, Daming Palace sent an interview to make Yang Sidao come down and inspect the Caoyun line on behalf of the Son of Heaven. The eunuch who accompanied Yang Sidao to the place was Yu Liben, Yu Liben was an internal matter around the emperor, this person was usually very low-key, and everyone couldn't figure out what it was...... But the interview made a eunuch beside him, most likely the emperor's man; However, the camp of Yang Sidao, the official of the imperial court, is very clear, and the people on the prince's side, the officialdom, and the people in a circle all know it.

These two people went all the way to Luoyang, and the officials of Luoyang City naturally wanted to welcome the hospitality. When the banquet was set up to catch the wind and wash the dust for them, Xue Chongxun also went, although Yang Sidao and Xue Chongxun were not all the way, and they were still enemies in terms of deep relationship, but everyone was an official from Beijing, and they still had to be polite in their faces, and they were not ruffians, and they always needed etiquette.

A group of officials set up a banquet in the official brothel, the delicacies were displayed inexhaustibly, and there were also singing and dancing prostitutes to have fun, and the women who shuttled between the banquets and poured wine were all brightly dressed, their breasts were half exposed, and the atmosphere was very cheerful.

The officials were not restrained, laughing unscrupulously with the courtesans while praising each other, and the laughter was endless. Xue Chongxun has experienced a lot of this kind of scene, and he is also natural and generous, and he didn't put on any face just because Yang Sidao was from the prince's side.

Yang Sidao touted Xue Chongxun's "Three Rivers Method" and how well it was responded to in Beijing, but Xue Chongxun smiled and said: "We met very happily today, don't talk about business, otherwise wouldn't you live up to the beauties' hearts?" With that, he smiled and reached out to pinch the face of the beautiful woman who was pouring wine.

Xue Chongxun didn't take Yang Sidao seriously at all, but he was just a small role on the prince's side...... And the eunuch Yu Liben is the person he is waiting for.

Xue Chongxun was talking to Yang Sidao while paying attention to Yu Liben with his spare eyes, because Xue Chongxun had never seen this eunuch before, and later his mother introduced him, and he knew that there was such a person.

I saw that the eunuch had gray hair, a thin and feminine body, very white skin, a pair of peach blossom eyes and a fair and slender face, and he was eight points handsome. Unfortunately, the aesthetic tendency of the Tang Dynasty was not of this type, the Tang people advocated health and generosity, and did not have a good impression of morbid beauty, especially Yu Liben was a person who was neither male nor female, so it was impossible for such a feminine image to be praised by people.

His body was very clean, and there were folded straight indentations on his clothes. didn't talk much, just smiled and occasionally echoed a few sentences, and ignored the woman next to him, and those courtesans knew that his eunuchs also kept a certain distance, so Yu Liben looked a little lonely.

Yu Liben noticed that Xue Chongxun was looking at him, so he turned his head and nodded slightly. Xue Chongxun ignored him and continued to talk nonsense with Yang Sidao and those dusty women.

At this moment, the prostitute who was pinched by Xue Chongxun's face said: "Xue Lang is bent on saving the people from dire straits and has won a good reputation, when will you spend some time saving us poor women?" ”

So Xue Chongxun turned his head and smiled: "You are also in dire straits? No way? ”

The woman curled her red lips with thick rouge, and said coquettishly, "What does Lang Jun think? ”

Xue Chongxun said: "I thought that you were better off than us, you all ate imperial food, you only need to have fun with us, and you don't have to worry about anything." It's like us, after eating, I'm worried about being able to boil my hair white, don't you say Daddy Yu? ”

Yu Liben was a little surprised when he heard Xue Chongxun call his name in public, and then smiled and said, "The hair of the miscellaneous family is half white." ”

The woman was unconvinced and said: "You can't say that, we sisters, we are waiting for the gentlemen with a heart, you are gone, and you have to guard the empty room for a while; But you, hmph, turn your back and forget about us completely. ”

Xue Chongxun smiled: "Ruthless is not as affectionate as bitter, who called you so affectionate?" But he said in his heart: The bitch is ruthless, the drama is unrighteous, Lao Tzu will believe that you remember me, it is really alive and dead, how many courtesans like Meng Xiaoyu are?

Several people next to him laughed again when they heard Xue Chongxun say this. At this time, Yu Liben turned his head to the interviewer Yang Sidao and said, "Does Yang Yuanjun still remember the Shangqing Temple that the miscellaneous people went to before they entered Luoyang? ”

Yang Sidao put down his chopsticks, looked at Yu Liben and said, "Remember, isn't it just last night?" By the way, did you really hear that 'female ghost' singing last night? ”

Yu Liben said: "What the miscellaneous family wants to say is that singing. ”

On this occasion, it is inappropriate to say that official affairs are interesting, and it is interesting to talk about this kind of strange anecdotes, as soon as Yu Liben said it, men and women were interested, and someone looked at him and asked: "Did you meet a female ghost last night?" Is that female ghost pretty? ”

Yang Sidao smiled: "You just blow it, I lived next door to you last night, why didn't I hear it, most of it was because you heard the illusion." ”

Yu Liben said seriously: "Miscellaneous family is not joking, I asked you early this morning if you heard it, but you slept too hard, no wonder me." The tune was so good that I memorized it...... Come, bring the harp. ”

Anyway, it was fun, and when they saw that Yu Li was supposed to be more serious, everyone was happy to echo and said: "It turns out that Yu Gonggong is still fluent in the music law, we have to listen to it." ”

A maid brought Yu Liben a piano and placed it in front of him, and Yu Liben washed his hands in a copper basin and carefully dried them with a white towel. Xue Chongxun was a little expectant when he saw this, and he himself was also very fond of music and rhythm.

Yu Liben was fully equipped and said to the prostitute next to him: "I'll play, you and." ”

"Any words?"

Yu Liben said: "Use hum, don't use words, listen well." After saying that, he took a deep breath, the expression on his face changed, and a melodious sound of the piano slipped out from under his fingers.

Suddenly, the hall was quiet, and everyone's attention was attracted by the sound of the piano. Xue Chongxun is also an agitated spirit, and the impetuousness in his heart seems to have been cleaned up in an instant. The sound of the piano is clear and melodious, with a beautiful sadness, as if it is telling an unforgettable love.

Xue Chongxun couldn't help but glance at Yu Liben a few more times, but he didn't expect such a sound to come from a eunuch's fingering.

The courtesan on the side was a little embarrassed on her face, but when she saw Yu Liben's gaze, she had to make a few "ah......" sounds, but unfortunately the artistic conception of the piano was far from it, so she blushed and shut up.

At this moment, Yu Liben's fingering stopped abruptly, and everyone looked at each other and asked, "It's very good, why did it stop suddenly?" ”

Yu Liben closed his eyes, reminisced about the artistic conception in the sound of the piano, and muttered: "The back is getting lower and lower, and the miscellaneous family can't hear it clearly, so I can't play it." ”

Yang Sidao smiled: "Look at what you said, did you really hear it by chance?" ”

Yu Liben said: "The miscellaneous family didn't talk nonsense. ”

At this time, Xue Chongxun couldn't help but mutter: "Listening to this style, how is it a bit like Li Guinian's song?" ”

After Xue Chongxun's reminder, some officials who were familiar with the sound law suddenly said: "Xue Lang is right, there are really traces of Li Guinian." Father-in-law Yu just came from Chang'an, didn't he bring a new song from Li Guinian, nothing to fool us? ”

Li Guinian is a well-known musician who often performs in and out of the homes of the wealthy in Chang'an. Some of the officials present were released from Chang'an, so whether they had heard Li Guinian's performance or not, they all said that they were similar, indicating that they had heard it...... That was to show off that he had been a Beijing official in Chang'an and had seen a big scene.

Xue Chongxun pondered their thoughts for a while, and then changed his mouth with a somewhat mischievous mentality: "But if you think about it carefully, it's not like Li Guinian, he usually plays in wealthy families, and the tunes are relatively atmospheric, but the music played by Yu Gonggong just now has a bit of fat powder, and the composition seems to be from a woman's hand." ”

The bureaucrat who had previously agreed to Li Guinian's work was suddenly a little embarrassed, so he made a few words of plausible comments with haha...... Because of the mention of the Year of the Li Turtle, Xue Chongxun suddenly remembered a poem, Du Fu's "Jiangnan in the Year of the Li Turtle": It is common to see it in King Qi's house, and Cui Jiutang has heard it several times before. It is a good scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is a good time to fall in the flowers.

This poem is concise and profound. So Xue Chongxun remembered it clearly, but of course he couldn't recite it, because it was completely out of place at this time, and the guests present would feel very abrupt...... It is a poem written after the Anshi Rebellion that reflects realistic emotions, and now although the Tang Dynasty is in turmoil, the country is still strong, and it is not at all in decline, so there is no need to chant a poem with such a bleak artistic conception.

Yu Liben said: "The miscellaneous family has always been in the palace, if it is a song composed by Li Guinian, will the miscellaneous family not heard it?" If you have time and want to go to Shangqingguan for one night, and listen to it again, is it really a song of gods and ghosts? As he spoke, he glanced at Xue Chongxun.

Xue Chongxun noticed the look at Yu Liben, and immediately pondered his intentions in his heart.

The crowd on the side joked: "I heard that female ghosts are going to dig out their hearts and lungs, and Grandpa Yu has to deal with it carefully." ”G