Qiao Ling saw Yan Shu, the richest man in the Chen Kingdom, sitting in a daze at the root of the wall, and there was a guard next to him who couldn't move like a stone sculpture, so he stepped forward curiously and asked, "I don't know why Brother Yan is sitting here and not coming in?" Isn't my cousin in the yard? ”

Shu'er came back to her senses, got up and saluted, "It turned out to be Brother Qiao." Then he suddenly said: "Could it be Brother Qiao's cousin who is playing the piano in the yard?" ”

Qiao Ling listened attentively and said with a smile: "It turns out that Brother Yan is here to listen to his cousin playing the piano. I walked in a hurry, not paying attention to the sound of the piano. ”

Shu'er said: "I also walked here, saw the palace wall falling flowers, stopped, only to vaguely hear the sound of the piano in the courtyard, so I sat here to rest for a while, I don't know that the people who live in this courtyard are actually two. ”

Qiao Ling invited: "If Brother Yan is free, you can come to our courtyard to sit and drink a cup of Song Kingdom's lotus heart tea, which we brought from the jade capital." My cousin likes to play the piano when he relaxes, and his piano skills are taught by the best violinist in the Song Kingdom, and now, I am afraid that the best violinist in the Song Kingdom is already my cousin himself. ”

Shu'er said: "The lotus heart tea of the Song Kingdom is a tea offered by the court, how can I not taste such a rare tea?" But he didn't care about it: "Lotus heart tea, I don't know how many times I drank it in my brother's palace back then, because it was bitter, I didn't like it, and I had to put a piece of rock candy every time before I was willing to drink it." I don't know, is there rock candy in the yard of the Qiao brothers? ”

Shu'er followed Qiao Ling into the small mansion that King Zhao had given to the two of them. There is no small bridge and flowing water in the yard, but there are a few hundred-year-old peach blossom trees, which are sprinkled with colorful flowers. The person stroking the qin sat under the porch, the lyre, the white clothes, and the jade hair crown. The sound of the piano is murmuring, like the sound of falling flowers, the white clothes are fluttering, and the posture is lonely and noble, as alienated and indifferent as his appearance.

Qiao Jing closed his eyes and immersed himself in the sound of the piano, not realizing the arrival of Qiao Ling, Shu'er and Yifeng.

Shu'er whispered to Qiao Ling: "Your cousin doesn't smile on weekdays, and puts all his joys, sorrows, and sorrows into the qin music, so the music he plays seems to be more emotionally inextricable than the music played by others. It is rare to have a lyre, and the one he plucked seems to have given birth to 7,000 kinds of love and hatred. ”

Qiao Jing heard the sound, turned his head to look this way, and the sound of the piano slowly stopped.

Shu'er bowed and said apologetically, "I'm sorry to disturb Brother Qiao's fuqin." ”

Qiao Ling added: "Brother Yan has been eavesdropping outside the door for a long time, if I hadn't come back and bumped into him and brought him in, it is estimated that he would have sat at the root of the wall and continued to listen." ”

Qiao Jing asked expressionlessly, "Brother Yan understands the rhythm of music?" ”

Shu'er nodded and said, "I can also play the song that Brother Qiao played just now, but I can't play the charm of Brother Qiao's fingertips." When I play the piano, there are only seven strings, and when Brother Qiao plays the piano, there are about 7,000 strings. ”

There was a rare hint of warmth in Qiao Jing's eyes, and he said: "Boss Yan is so humble, why don't you play a song too?" ”

Qiao Ling coaxed: "Brother Yan, since you can also, it is better to play a song in exchange for our lotus heart tea." ”

Shu'er smiled and pushed away: "My piano skills, I won't get an axe in front of you." ”

Qiao Jing didn't say more, just handed the piano to Shu'er.

Shu'er didn't want the piano to hang in the air awkwardly, so she had to take it and also played the song "Ballad of the Bright Moon" that Qiao Jing played just now. Although Shu'er's performance was not stumbling, after all, this was a well-known lyre piece in Chen Guo, but she could only barely play the softness of the moonlight, but she could not play the sadness of the piano player.

At the end of the song, the Qiao brothers applauded. Qiao Ling praised with a smile: "I didn't expect that the richest man in Chen Guo is not only young, but also has great martial arts, and he is not bad at playing the piano." ”

Qiao Jing nodded and said, "It's really rare." ”

Shu'er said with a smile: "Two Brother Qiao, since you insist that I, the person who eavesdrops on the wall, make a fool of myself today, then don't blame us for asking my cousin Su Ying to play a song after we are busy with the discussion in court, just so that he can ask the eldest brother of the Qiao family how to play a simple song in a complicated way." ”

Qiao Ling teased: "Cousin, when you listen to Boss Yan's tone, why don't you seem to be fighting the piano, but looking for a helper in the competition?" He can't beat you on his own, so he has to ask a master to help? ”

Qiao Jing smiled faintly: "Indeed." And he said that the tunes I play are simple. ”

Since acquaintance, Shu'er has never seen the smile of this big brother of the Qiao family. He has always kept a straight face, at first, Shu'er thought he was a cold and indifferent person, but in the past two days, sitting at the same table in the garden to eat, during the conversation, Shu'er gradually found that Qiao Jing's expressionless face was more like a kind of majesty than an arrogance. At this moment he smiled at her half-truths and half-truths, and although the corners of his mouth were curved very shallowly, his eyes showed a hint of closeness and friendliness.

Shu'er suddenly felt that the more people who don't smile on weekdays, the warmer they laughed.

In the peach blossom courtyard, three people sit around and drink tea.

The waiter of the Qiao family served steaming lotus heart tea, and the tea set did not look like something from the Zhao Palace, but was made by Qi Baiyu, probably brought by them from the Song Kingdom. The teapots and cups are all well-made, with delicate lines and good quality.

Among the tea sets, there is also a small lotus-shaped bowl carved by Qi Baiyu, with a few pieces of yellow rock sugar in the bowl, and a small silver spoon engraved on the side of the bowl.

Qiao Jing took out a piece of rock sugar with a small spoon and put it in his teacup. Qiao Ling does not put rock candy and only drinks tea. Because the lotus heart tea is expensive, the aroma is also elegant, if you put rock sugar, then some burn the qin to boil the crane, waste the taste and aroma of this tea, so ordinary rich and noble people drink lotus heart tea, never put sugar.

Shu'er was a little surprised and thought: "A master of the piano with a noble demeanor and good taste like Qiao Jing would actually do this kind of thing like when I was a child?" ”

While thinking, she habitually grabbed two pieces of rock candy and threw them into her teacup, and with a click, a few drops of golden tea soup splashed. She was also amazed at her move. After so many years, she still likes to eat with her bare hands, completely ignoring the delicate utensils on the side. In the past, her mother, the queen mother, and the queen mother reminded her many times that she had to be polite and courteous when eating and drinking tea, but she was half troublesome, half angry with the queen mother and the queen mother, and deliberately did everything against them, who let them keep grounding their mother?

Qiao Ling noticed Shu'er's action of grabbing the candy, and said with a smile: "It seems that my cousin is not the only person in this world who can spoil good tea so confidently. ”

Shu'er embarrassedly wiped a few drops of tea soup that had just splashed on the back of her hand, and smiled at Qiao Ling: "Didn't I learn it from your cousin!" ”

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