Shu'er sat in front of the desk and carefully flipped through the book written by Zhuge Congrong, and Zhuge calmly found two jade earrings in the drawer of the dressing table, matching the light green clothes that Shu'er had changed into today. There is also an emerald necklace pendant in the drawer, carved into an extremely delicate willow leaf.

Zhuge calmly took the earrings and necklace pendant to Shu'er, and said, "This is the jade produced in the Song Kingdom, does the lord still like it?" ”

Shu'er said with a smile: "I was seeing that in your "Kyushu Chronicles", it was written that a hundred miles away from Yide, the old capital of the Song Kingdom, there is a jade mountain, which is rich in jadeite. You also joked that the Jade Mountain was afraid that the jade mine was empty, and the Song State went to engulf the Qi State that was rich in white jade. She put on the two emerald green earrings, shook them and said, "Young Master Zhuge , do you think they look good?" ”

Zhuge nodded calmly and said: "Beauty is like jade, fresh and natural, I like it very much." However, does the lord plan to call me 'Young Master Zhuge all the time'? ”

Shu'er rolled her eyes and said, "Could it be that the younger sister of the Xue family of Yaowang Mountain can't call you 'Brother Zhuge 'Brother Zhuge '?" ”

Zhuge said calmly: "It's okay to call me 'Brother Rong'. ”

Shu'er smiled and asked, "How do you know that I must be younger than you?" ”

Zhuge said calmly: "I was born in the thirty-ninth year of King Chu You. ”

Shu'er pinched his fingers and calculated: "The thirty-ninth year of King Chuyou is the year when King Song ascended the throne...... We were born in the same year! ”

Zhuge said calmly: "I was born in the summer of the thirty-ninth year of King Chu You. ”

Shu'er said: "Coincidentally, I was also born in summer, which should be the season of sunset flowers." ”

Zhuge smiled calmly and bitterly: "It's a pity that my father-in-law didn't tell me exactly where I was born." Maybe he doesn't know either. ”

Shu'er said: "I do know which one you were born with, but since you don't know which one you were born with, we can't rank the seniority." Why don't you remove the word 'Zhuge 'and I'll call you 'Young Master', so can you still have points? ”

Zhuge calmly laughed and said: "I call you lord, you call me young master, it seems that you are much older than me!" ”

Shu'er shook her head and smiled: "It's not age, it's seniority!" ”

Zhuge calmly saw that Shu'er didn't go to take the jade necklace pendant, so he pointed to the willow leaf jade pendant and asked, "This, the lord doesn't like it?" ”

Shu'er said, "It's not that I don't like it, but it's ......" She took out a pearl pendant strung in a black cotton rope from her neckline, "This pearl pendant is the only thing I brought out from the Song Kingdom when I was a child." I want to wear it all the time and keep it in mind. ”

Zhuge calmly leaned over and took a closer look at the pearl pendant, and said strangely: "The thing that the lord brought out from the Song Kingdom is actually a pearl music score!" This is the notation method used by the musicians of the Zhou Dynasty, and I am afraid that few people in the world today know how to play such a score. He smiled and asked, "Do you know what kind of song is engraved on your pearl?" ”

Shu'er shook her head and said, "I have never asked, but since you said that this is the notation method of the musicians of the Zhou Dynasty, hundreds of years have passed, even if I ask, probably no one will know." ”

Zhuge calmly looked at the sea view outside the window and said, "There are a lot of pianos on the island, and when we pass, I will play them for you." ”

Shu'er was curious: "The young master will read such a score?" ”

Zhuge nodded calmly and said, "My father-in-law taught me." The father-in-law and Mr. Dongfang of the Shengwang Mansion are close friends. Mr. Dongfang would read this kind of music and teach it to my father-in-law, who in turn taught it to me. On your pearl, the engraved "Jade Break" written by King Zhou Le, not only has a music score, but also a singing lyrics, and the lyrics and songs are all composed by King Zhou Lewang. This "Broken Jade" is the last piece he wrote in his life, describing the smoke of gunpowder in the Great Zhou Dynasty and the disintegration of Kyushu. The melody alone is already heart-wrenching and heartbreaking. ”

Shu'er asked, "What kind of words are filled in such a song?" ”

Zhuge calmly took a copy of the "Biography of the Emperor" on the case to Shu'er, and said: "The last page of this book is the "Jade Fragment" made by King Zhou Le. ”

Shu'er turned to the last page, and there was a poem like this:

Through the ages, the jade was broken overnight. In the dance pavilion, the merchant girl was in tears, still singing the old piano music.

Chu Yue Bashu, Chen Song Zhao Wei. The founding of Qizhou, the white jade platform, the beacon fire is like a waterfall in the distance.

Luohua is worry-free and burned. The seven strings are broken, looking back, where is the remnant of the sword.

Put on my armor and sharpen my rusty sword. Riding alone at night, at the end of the landscape, the king of Zhou is gone without a trace.

Shu'er's hand gently stroked the pages of the book and murmured, "It turns out that the music score engraved on the pearl pendant I have been wearing is filled with such a tragic poem. I heard that Luohua, the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, was north of the jade capital in Qizhou that year. Kyushu was divided, each building its own country, and Luohua is now a dry land overgrown with weeds. Sanssouci Palace was also burned down, leaving only a pile of stones in the barren grass. I have heard many versions from storytellers everywhere, some say that King Zhou Le hanged himself in Sanssouci Palace, some say that he died on the way to escape, and some say that he died on the battlefield, but no one knows where the last king of the Zhou Dynasty is buried. ”

Zhuge said calmly: "You must not have heard of the real version. As the poem says, the mediocre emperor, who had never fought in his life, finally put on his armor at the last moment, but he did not die on the battlefield, but chose to flee after the defeat. He came to the end of the landscape, but it was not a cliff, but a vast sea. So he took a boat and wanted to go with the flow and die in the East China Sea, but he didn't expect it to ....... ”

Shu'er's eyes widened and he interjected, "Could it be ......?"

Zhuge nodded calmly and said: "The sea breeze is north, King Zhou Le is looking at the Big Dipper on the dark sea every day, every night, he feels that he will never see the sunrise tomorrow, and every night may be the last night of his life." But on the last night, under the Big Dipper, he saw an island in the distance. He exclaimed, climbed Xuanji and looked down, burying me on a desert island! Now it is ups and downs, and hatred fills the East China Sea invisibly! ”

Shu'er asked, "King Zhou Le didn't die in the land of Kyushu?" In the second half of his life, he actually lived alone on a desert island? ”

Zhuge calmly replied: "This island is the 'Xuanji Island'. Xuanji, Beidou also. I wonder if the lord would like to go to Xuanji Island with the young master? Visiting the tomb of King Zhou Le? Looking at the world in the past hundred years, few people have this opportunity. ”

Shu'er clapped her hands and said, "Of course I do!" This is a monument that no one knows about for hundreds of years! ”

Zhuge calmly pointed to the white sailboat on the beach outside the window and said, "Let's pack up for three or four days' food and water, and we can set off today." ”

Shu'er said: "But I should do something, there is less than a month left, I will go back to Yuling, and after that, I will go to Zichuan to send the sword to the king of Shu for three years." I can only spend three or five days on the island at most. ”

Zhuge smiled calmly: "This is very good. I'm also going to Zichuan, so we can walk together again when we get back from the island! "If you want to talk about "The Ups and Downs of the Nations" with more like-minded people, follow "Hot Network or rd444" on WeChat to chat about your favorite books with more book friends