He Kui.

This name may not be well-known in Luoyang, but in the past, when he was in Chang'an, his reputation was almost universally known.

He is one of the six surnames in Chang'an, and his status is second only to the Feng family.

He Kui lost his mother at an early age, and when he was young, he was profligate - calligraphy, pun fu, tea tasting, prostitution...... None of them are bad, and their people are freshly dressed and angry, and they are famous gentlemen in Chang'an City.

But what really made him famous was his piano skills.

He Kui is a rare genius pianist in a hundred years, it is rumored that when he strokes the piano in the mountains, the white crane whirls, the tiger groans, and its voice is colorful, such as the song of the jade broken phoenix, which can be called the world's best sound.

At the age of seventeen, his father died of a serious illness in just a few days, but on the day of his father's funeral, he was delayed because he and a group of friends had a drunken drink in Hualou - from then on, he was removed from the clan by the He family.

However, he is the only son in the family, and his parents left behind hundreds of acres of fertile land and countless mansions and manors inside and outside the city.

At the age of nineteen, He Kui married a wife, and had his first son the following year, He Kui's wife is one of the few people who can understand He Kui's depression.

However, the two also have occasional quarrels - He's wife has a stupid brother, and the brother and sister have a good relationship, even if He's wife is married, she often goes home to visit, and every time she returns home, she has to stay for two or three days, He Kui doesn't know how many times he has complained about this.

When he reached middle age, He Kui thought that this life would probably pass so peacefully, who knew that God had made a big joke with him at this time.

In the Mid-Autumn Festival of the fourteenth year of Chengping, when He Kui and his wife went back to their parents' house to live together, the two quarreled over some trivial matters.

He Kui and his wife teased and sarcastically talked to each other, just like they had been bickering for many years in the past, and they were back and forth about the stupid brother that He Wife spent too much time taking care of in the past.

However, what neither of them expected was that every word they said was listened to by He's wife's sister-in-law, and the next morning, the quarrel between the two that night was written into a document and sent to the court anonymously.

- You must know that when the empress Sun Youwei was the favorite emperor of the first emperor, the reason why she was able to take the throne later was because her imperial brother was weak and sick after ascending the throne, so that many things were entrusted to Sun Youwei to deal with.

As a result, Sun Youwei not only dealt with the government affairs of her brother's previous dynasty, but also dealt with the harem - until her imperial brother died, none of the dozens of concubines in the harem successfully gave birth to a prince.

But He Kui was angry, and said casually, "You take care of your stupid brother so much, can he still leave you a throne when he dies?" ”

The people of the yamen received the report and did not dare to make a decision on their own, so they asked for instructions layer by layer.

If it is placed in normal times, Sun Youwei still has the stomach to tolerate these folk criticism.

She knew that such rumors were getting more and more intense, except for solving some extremely bad examples when necessary to set an example, she never pursued other after-dinner chats, and even if someone reported it, she just laughed it off.

But in the autumn of the fourteenth year of Chengping, when the cabinet chief assistant led the ministers on a hunger strike outside the Zichen Palace, Sun Youwei's anger that had been withheld for many days was suddenly detonated at that time, and an unprecedented heavy punishment was given - to exterminate the three tribes of He Kui.

He Kui has been removed from the He family tree, according to the law of the Great Zhou, he can't implicate the people of his family, but his wife's family is all connected, and the sister regretted not being at the beginning, and confessed that she was jealous of her sister's beauty after marriage.

He Kui and his wife were shocked and hated, and then they realized that the so-called "providence makes people" can go so far.

On the day of the execution, He Kui's uncle couldn't give up his nephew after all, and went to Taichu Palace to plead with Sun Youwei at the risk of death.

He Kui didn't want to live alone, but he couldn't stand the bitter pleading of his wife on the execution ground - the youngest child of the two was only four years old at that time, and there was no father to take care of him, how could he survive all the ups and downs of the Southwest Shu Road?

But God did not fulfill people's wishes, and it is said that Later, He Kui's three children died in the territory because of the epidemic.

The story of the pianist He Kui, Feng Yan didn't know how many times she heard it from the Li family when she was a child.

Every time, Li was admonishing her to be cautious in her words and deeds, and she must be cautious in her words and deeds - it was just an unintentional disgrace at the beginning, and in the end it would turn into such a tragic parting of life and death, which no one could have expected.

"It's him......" Feng Yan felt pity in her heart, "No wonder." ”

No wonder Yin Shiyun said that the score of "One Hundred and Six Yang Nine" may have been found.

Before He Kui left Chang'an, the He family knew that he loved the qin, so they secretly asked someone to send him a guqin in prison, hoping to relieve him of his loneliness on the way.

Before getting into the prisoner car, He Kui played a song "One Hundred Six Yang Nine" by Luoshui.

The sound of the piano mourns, and the disasters in the world are impermanent, and the desolation and desolation of the rest of life are exhausted one by one...... All those present wept and wept.

At the end of the song, He Kui threw the piano with great effort, the strings were broken, and he vowed not to touch the piano again for the rest of his life.

"Has Your Majesty pardoned him?" Feng Yan asked.

"Hmm." Wei Xingzhen nodded, "Last year, He Gong's uncle died, and before he died, he asked His Majesty to let He Kui return to Chang'an, and His Majesty approved it." It happened that Di Yang met this person when he traveled in Shu in the early years, so he simply wrote a letter proposing to take him to Luoyang - anyway, the mansion and fields of He Gong in Chang'an have long since ceased to exist. ”

Feng Yan couldn't help but sigh again, "I lost my father when I was young, I lost my wife in middle age, and I lost my son in my old age, if He Gong is ......."

She wanted to say that if He Kui played "One Hundred and Six Yang Nine" again, it would probably be the real swan song in the world, but she realized in an instant that such words would be too cold - after all, it was a life full of blood and tears for others, but the first thing she thought of was the music spectrum.

"What if?" Wei Xingzhen asked.

Feng Yan shook her head, "I remember, Gong He was born in the fourteenth year of Jingming, and he is still ...... Fifty-four, right? ”

Wei Xingzhen nodded again, "Does Ah Yan want to meet him?" ”

Feng Yan thought for a long time, "...... I want to, and I don't want to. ”

"Do you want to, or don't you want to?"

Feng Yanwan'er, "If Lord Wei has the opportunity to be introduced, let me take a look at this person from afar." I didn't know what to say to someone......"

"Okay," Wei Xingzhen said softly, "then wait for Di Yang to come back." ”

Feng Yan looked at Wei Xingzhen.

“…… Why does Ah Yan look at me like this? ”

"The lives of the eldest princess and Taiwei Xue are only in the middle of nowhere, and Lord Wei still has the heart to talk to me about this...... Come to think of it, you should be sure to solve the problem of 'unprovoked sleep'. ”

Wei Xingzhen just wanted to speak, but he faintly sensed that there seemed to be some allusions in Feng Yan's words, and he was silent for a while.

"Lord Wei...... It's all a secret. Feng Yan gently shook the water on the teaspoon, "I remember that you said before that you would go to find out what the origin of the tree demon that climbed around the Ming Hall...... I don't know how it's going. ”

Wei Xingzhen then remembered this, "Hmm...... There have been a lot of things going on in the past two days, so I don't care about it for the time being. ”

Feng Yan laughed again.

"When Lord Ji came during the day, he asked me, that dryad is obviously still shallow, why I haven't made a move until you come."

As she spoke, she turned off the stove and skimmed the remains of the tea leaves into a small bamboo basket beside her.

"Does Lord Wei know why?"

Seeing that Wei Xingzhen frowned and didn't answer, Feng Yan continued, "Because I have never met a monster who hates me so deeply." Sometimes they are afraid, sometimes excited, and sometimes they exude contempt and disgust for people...... But this is the first time I've experienced such a strong hatred in a dryad. ”

Feng Yan raised her head, "Do you know what she said to me before her demon yuan dissipated?" ”

Wei Xingzhen didn't speak, and sat on the side and listened quietly.

"She said, she will never let me hurt Lord Wei."

Wei Xingzhen was stunned for a moment.

Feng Yan stared into Wei Xingzhen's eyes.

"Let me ask again, do you really have nothing to do with that dryad?"