On this day, the barefoot woman finished work and walked to the narrow house in the alley.

Bai Gongzi followed, and he was alone today.

When the barefoot woman came to the alley, she suddenly stopped, Bai Gongzi hesitated and walked up, and said with a slight smile: "Today's incident frightened me." ”

The woman turned around and smiled softly: "Thanks to the appearance of the son, I don't know what the son is called?"

Bai Gongzi was flattered, but he still behaved very calmly, and said calmly: "Bai Wang, and the Bai family in Zhongjing City belong to the same line. ”

After Bai Wang finished speaking, he carefully observed the changes in the woman's face, in his opinion, as long as the people of the Fengtian Dynasty, there should be no one who does not know the Bai family in the capital city, the ancestors of the Bai family once appeared in the second grade, although later for some reason declined, but there are still third-grade officials mixed into the officialdom, and the third-grade is the same existence in the eyes of the people.

But the woman's face was flat, she just nodded in surprise, and said, "It turned out to be Bai Gongzi, fortunately." ”

Although Bai Wang was a little disappointed, he looked at the small courtyard at the end of the alley, and suddenly his heart was hot, and he restrained many fierce thoughts, and said calmly: "The girl is brilliant, she must have received a good family education, and she must have been born in a large family.

The woman nodded and said, "I just understand a little." ”

Bai Wang suddenly stroked his palm and smiled, and said: "So good, Bai has a family that passes the guqin, presumably only a girl with such a wonderful hand can play a lot of tunes, I don't know if Bai has this kind of ear blessing." ”

The woman lifted the light veil on her face and said with a smile: "Today's mood is good, and I can't offer ugliness, I don't know ...... Bai Gongzi."

The most luxurious restaurant in the town, Bai Wang took the barefoot woman to the third floor.

This is also his family's property, so naturally he has the final say.

Soon, Bai Wang invited all the idle people to other floors, leaving only the woman and him on the third floor, and soon someone moved a guqin.

After a while, after the woman cleaned her hands, she first played a small song to familiarize herself with the guqin, and then completely let go of her hands and feet, her hands were like flowing water, and the whole three layers rippled in a wonderful sound of ups and downs, mountain springs, birdsong, flowers, flowers, snow, all in the sound of the piano.

The sound of the piano spread to the other floors, through the small windows to the side of the street, to the ears of passers-by, and at some point, the noisy second and first floors gradually quieted down, and the diners slowly pricked up their ears.

After a while, the most luxurious restaurant in the small city was surrounded by the crowd attracted by the sound of the qin, and they all looked up at the two exquisite windows, and began to guess that there must be some important people in this drunken fairy building today, otherwise there would not be such an elegant sound of the qin, could it be the Bai family from Zhongjingcheng?

While people were racking their brains and guessing, an old man dressed in an extremely ordinary dress also came downstairs, and the old man also pricked up his ears to listen to the sound of the piano, but he was different from the others, because he listened with one ear.

Everyone thought that the old man was behaving strangely, so they stared at him one after another, and the old man laughed and said, "This piano is only suitable for one ear." ”

Someone asked, "Why only one ear, and what is the reason?"

The old man smiled: "As the saying goes, one ear goes in, one ear comes out, if such a beautiful piano sound is not left in the brain, it will not be wasted." ”

People seemed to feel justified and followed suit and plugged their other ear.

The old man smiled, raised his feet and walked towards the restaurant.

The man glanced at the old man's outfit, and it was not the same at all

This kind of elegance is intolerable, so he kindly persuaded: "Old man, you may not know, this is the Bai family's industry, ordinary people can only be kicked out when they go in, if they don't go well, they may break their legs." ”

The old man wondered: "It's worth breaking your leg, as long as you can listen more realistically." ”

Someone else was curious and persuaded: "Old gentleman, you can hear it clearly when you stand here, why do you insist on going upstairs?

The old man shook his head and said, "I can hear clearly, but if I can't see the person who strokes the qin, wouldn't it be tantamount to eavesdropping, so it is a great disrespect to others." ”

The old man's words seemed to be very reasonable, but who dared to rush into the vermilion door, in order to listen to the piano, but to be carried and thrown out, it was really not worth it.

The old man stood in front of the vermilion door and tidied up his clothes, but in the eyes of many people, his action was a little redundant, the coarse gray robe, how to arrange it could not become embroidery, but the old man was very serious, after tidying up, he dipped his saliva and brushed his long beard, and then the spring breeze walked towards the high threshold.

"Where did this madman come from, he doesn't seem to be from our locals. ”

"There is no such thing as a mortal lord in the locals. ”

“......”

It seems that the old man did not enter smoothly, and was stopped as soon as he entered the door.

The two god-like thugs glared at the old man's impending leg, as if the old man's leg would be broken if he took another step forward.

In fact, one of them looked at the old man with his nostrils and sneered: "Old thing, is there any money?"

The old man shook his head and said, "Penniless." ”

The other person was holding an iron rod the thickness of an arm, and said with a smile: "Since you have no money, you must be a powerful person?"

The old man shook his head again and said, "There is no product and no money, and there is a second child." ”

Sure enough, the man lifted the iron rod in his hand and pressed it against the old man's leg that was about to be raised.

The old man seemed to be undaunted, smiled faintly at the two, and whispered a word, and immediately the two were slightly stunned, and then pondered the sentence for a while, and actually let the way out.

The old man walked directly to the second floor with a smile on his face, and when the old man was about to step on the stairs, the two waiters who were guarding the stairs immediately stopped the old man with angry eyebrows.

Somehow, the old man said something again, and the old man willingly let him go.

The old man went up to the second floor in one breath, and when he was about to climb the stairs on the third floor, a half-old who was fat and tired and wrapped in a single shirt looked at the old man condescendingly and said: "The third floor is quiet tonight, and idle people are not allowed to approach." ”

The old man smiled kindly: "The old man is not an idle person, he is here to listen to the piano." ”

The half-old stared at me and said, "This piano is specially played for my son-in-law, and no one else is allowed to listen to it." ”

The old man smiled and said, "But the old man has already heard it, so how can I say it, if you want to blame it, blame your son-in-law for choosing the wrong place to listen to the piano?"

The half-old scolded: ", what are you, dare to comment on my son-in-law so boldly, are you tired of it?"

The old man was still not in a hurry or angry, and said with a smile: "That is, your son-in-law is not listening to the piano at all, his purpose is not pure, or he doesn't know what the piano is." ”

The half-old suddenly raised the fleshy slap, and was about to slap it on the old man's face, which didn't have much meat, and the old man stared at the slap lightly, not dodging or dodging, but just said to the half-old: "Your slap is probably off."

Bai Weilai's official position. ”

Hearing Bai Weilai's words, the half-old immediately changed their faces, staring at the old man in surprise for a full five breaths, and then said angrily: "Who are you?"

The old man grinned and said, "I'm here to listen to the piano, and I'm the second one." ”

The half-old obviously didn't believe it, not for anything else, just for him to be able to spit out the three words Bai Weilai casually, and it also involved his official position, but I didn't know that just a few days ago, Bai Weilai personally wrote a book, and accompanied people to send it to this small city quickly, and the words were to tell the children of the Bai family that they must not cause trouble during this time, and the letter also focused on Bai Wang's rush to take the exam, so that he could give up if he could give up, and it would not be too late to go to the exam when the fortune of the year was smooth.

Although the letter is only a few words, only the Bai family can read the meaning, why at this time?

The Bai family naturally heard a different movement, and recently His Majesty is in the political court, and it is said that most of those who like to play with the pen have been demoted, and a group of young and promising generals have been reappointed.

In this way, it's not that the world is going to change, so what should we say?

Therefore, the half-old immediately became cautious, and at the same time polite, immediately changed her face to look at the old man, respectfully helped the old man up to the third floor, in Bai Wang's surprised eyes, the half-old helped the old man to sit in a spacious private room, and ordered someone to send a pot of wine, a few fresh fruits, and some valuable snacks.

The old man was not polite, he first drank a glass for himself, and then pinched his fingers in his sleeve and calculated, the ordinary peasant households who had only this table of vegetables were busy for several years, and they might not be able to dig these silver in the ground, so that the day would not change.

The half-old glanced at Bai Wang and left in small steps.

The old man didn't say much, he didn't look much, he just lowered his head and listened to the piano, every time the woman played a song, he took a sip, when he drank a pot of wine, the woman seemed to be tired, got up and relaxed her waist, and smiled at Bai Wang: "It's not early tonight, I should go back." ”

Bai Wang smiled reluctantly: "What the girl said is reasonable, Bai ordered someone to prepare a car to send the girl back." ”

The old man listened quietly to the conversation between the two, and he didn't mix, the wine was gone, so he took the side dishes on the plate, and chewed them with relish, but when the two of them walked downstairs one after the other, the old man suddenly said to the woman: "Girl, slow down, can you play a song for the old man?"

Bai Wang sneered and waved his hand at the old man, the meaning was self-evident.

The woman bowed lightly to the old man and said with a smile: "Old man, I'm sorry, I'm afraid it's going to be difficult today." ”

The old man put down the chopsticks and said with a smile: "Since the girl said so, the old man is not embarrassed, in fact, the old man wants to listen to the tune, the girl may not be able to play it." ”

Hearing this, the woman subconsciously stopped and asked in a low voice, "May I ask what song the old man is going to listen to?"

Before the old man spoke, he took out something from his pocket and put it on the corner of the table, and then said: "The old man is penniless, but this chess piece has followed the old man for a long time, and it has been in love for a long time, and in the old man's heart, it is completely better than real money." ”

The woman took a closer look at the chess piece by the candlelight, and the white hand on her sleeve shook involuntarily.

The old man smiled and said, "Three Zen Moon, can the girl do?"

The woman seemed to be in a trance and shook her head, and said in a low voice, "No." ”

The old man sighed and said, "I don't know, but I am willing to learn?"

The woman nodded lightly and whispered, "I hope the seniors will teach you." ”

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