"Mountains and Flowing Water" was originally a piano song.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Chu people were superb in the piano. Once, after the rain and the sky was clear, he was playing the piano by the Han River, thinking of the towering mountains in his heart, and after playing, he listened to a woodcutter who was watching quietly and said: "Towering like Mount Tai." Boya drummed again, and the woodcutter said, "It's like flowing water." ”

This woodcutter is called Zhong Ziqi, and he is regarded as his bosom friend by Boya. Later, when Boya heard that Zhong Ziqi had died, he lamented that there was no one in the world who knew his music, so why should he pluck the strings again, so he broke his own qin.

Yao Huan learned Zheng in his last life, and he heard the teacher say that the "Mountains and Flowing Water" of the qin song has been lost. There are several versions of Zhengqu's "High Mountains and Flowing Water", and the Zhejiang school notation is very different from the Lupai notation, and the musician next door today is playing a section of the "Flowing Water" of the Zhejiang school notation.

At this moment, hearing the sound of the zither next door gradually subsided, Yao Huan was about to ask Master Li what was the difference between the qin music she usually played and the version of the zither song, but saw Master Li's willow eyebrows frowning slightly, and his face was solemn.

"It's her, it's her, and when she used to play this part of the water, her left hand would be heavier every other time. I asked her why, she said that the sound of the zither strings, compared with the sound of the piano, is too soft, she likes to stroke the zither can be less feminine, open and close, in order to show the meaning of flowing water. ”

After muttering like this, Master Li got up, moved to the corner, and listened close to his ear.

No matter how high-end the restaurant is, the "wall" of the private room is also a thin wooden board, and the sound insulation effect is not good.

It's just that after the zither song stopped, Li and Yao only listened to the voices of all kinds of men one after another, but they couldn't hear the women's answers.

When Yao Huan was puzzled, the sound of the zither sounded again, and when he carefully distinguished, it was a song "Three Alleys of Plum Blossoms".

Yao Huan looked at Master Li and said, "This is the three alleys of plum blossoms?" It's also from guqin music? ”

Master Li nodded: "Before I worshiped Jiang Taigong in the Yunshan Courtyard to learn songs, I learned the piano from a musician who went out of the palace in the inner teaching workshop. His younger brother is good at stroking the kite, and the female apprentice he accepted is two years younger than me, but he entered the master first, and I call him the little sister. I think that the person who strokes the kite next door today must be the little sister. Although she was born in Zheng, she loves the piano more, so the zhengs she practices often come from the qin music. And, she played the plum blossom three lanes, and there was a strong splitting sound at the end, which was very weird, and the Zheng people next to her would not use this method. ”

Oh, it turns out that I met the same door.

But Yao Huan read Master Li's facial micro-expressions, and he really couldn't tell what surprise she meant.

Also, the deceased may not be a friend, and it may not be a pleasure to meet the deceased.

Although Master Li seems to be a very open-minded woman so far, she doesn't know what happened, so she still shouldn't come up and say something like "Do you want to wait for her to finish, please come over and catch up".

Sure enough, Master Li didn't say any more, and moved back to the dining table, I don't know what the past was, his eyebrows seemed to be tightened, and he took a sip of wine.

However, before she could stabilize her glass, she heard a commotion next door.

This time, I could hear the woman's voice.

Master Li's face changed, and he simply got up, opened the door of the cubicle, and looked at it.

Yao Huan also leaned over, stood behind Master Li, and pricked up his ears.

The door next door was also ajar, and the conversation there became clear in an instant.

I only heard the woman's voice say coldly: "Ladies and gentlemen, since the women played the tune you ordered, and they think that the sound is right, please ask the officials to give them a piano fee." ”

A man's thick voice sounded: "The sound is right? What a big breath! Ye sounds, why can't he compare to the fighting and fighting of the little guys in the Ye barracks? ”

Yao Huan has lived in Kaifeng for more than half a year, and he can already hear that this man is not a local.

Immediately afterwards, a man with a Kaifeng accent and a softer voice said: "You go, Uncle Liu doesn't think it's good, I can't reward you, Uncle Liu is ......"

But I heard the woman interrupt: "What about the heroes of the Western Army, if you win the Xia people, can you return to Kaifeng City and bully your own civilian women in broad daylight?" ”

As soon as she finished speaking, there was a "bang", as if something in the room had fallen, followed by the woman's angry "you, you" scolding.

Master Li didn't hesitate any longer, stepped out, and Yao Huan hurriedly followed.

But at the door next door, a young but plain-looking woman was holding on to the door frame, her body trembling, staring at her zither.

The kite had apparently been pushed off the rack. Fortunately, the zither frame in this world is not high, and only two or three goose pillars have fallen from the zither, and the body of the zither should not be damaged.

But, this is too much!

"Little Senior Sister!" Master Li stepped forward to help the woman.

The woman turned her head to meet Master Li's eyes, apparently recognizing her, and the angry and sad look on her face turned to shock, and then turned into a complex expression that was difficult to explain.

Yao Huan raised his eyes to look into the room, but saw a total of three men.

A black-faced and strong, hanging-eyed, less than thirty years old, looks like the kind of young man with poor IQ in martial arts movies.

The second one is about forty, with a round face and a short mustache, and although his skin looks like he has been exposed to the sun for a long time, he doesn't have a rough and stupid reckless temperament.

And the third one, who is only seventeen or eighteen years old, wears a collared hat and a bamboo robe, obviously dressed as a scribe, but in a pair of slender eyes, he shows a well-behaved look like a mouse, and a little greasy, which is very dislike at first glance.

Yao Huan recalled that in the dialogue between the two parties, the words "heroes of the Western Army" appeared. Liu Xi, who took Master Li to Xizhou, was the road marshal of Xihe and Jingyuan 2nd Road, and he was also from the Western Army. And the rough man in front of him is also from the Western Army? Also surnamed Liu?

She looked at Master Li. After Master Li stabilized the little senior sister, he also stared at the martial artist who looked the most fierce and closest to the Zheng without any fear, but it was obvious that her gaze showed that she didn't know this person.

Yao Huan hesitated for a moment, wanting to pick up a few goose pillars on the ground, but saw that in the private room at the end of the corridor, six or seven people wearing Confucian scarves and looking like students poured out.

When he got closer, Yao Huan was surprised to find that he was familiar with half of the people here.

Chen Hao, a student of Taixue, and Chen Dong, his younger brother.

And hidden behind another handsome fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy, with a slender body and a fair little goose egg face, is not Li Qingzhao, who is it.

Chen Hao's brothers and Li Qingzhao also recognized Yao Huan.

The two brothers immediately greeted Yao Huan, and Li Qingzhao, who was only eleven years old in a man's robe, obviously showed a somewhat panicked look on his face.

It's like a puppy girl who meets an acquaintance of her parents.

Yao Huan was still wondering how Li Qingzhao could be with Brother Chen Hao, the handsome young man had stepped forward, first clasped his fists at the three adult men in the house, and then said loudly: "Under Zhao Mingcheng, who has just entered Taixue, he held a poetry meeting here with his classmates today, dare to ask you, why do you bully this pianist?" ”