Liu Jing's fingertips rubbed against the pearl engraved with a fine score.

He remembered that when he was ten years old, he borrowed Ling Fei's silver and bought one of these pearls for his sister Shu'er at the Nancheng Bazaar in the Jade Capital. On that day, my sister disappeared, and she was never heard from again, and there was no trace of her.

At the age of ten, he was so anxious that he hadn't eaten for two days, so he took Ling Fei and some Song Palace guards to look for him in the Jade Capital. He did not let go of every shop, inn, restaurant, and brothel in Yudu. Even in every ordinary people's house, he asked the officers and soldiers of the Yudu City Defense to knock on the door and ask from door to door. He also specially told not to say that the princess was missing, but only to ask if anyone had seen a seven-year-old girl wearing a red cotton rope around her neck, and a pearl engraved with a music score on the red cotton rope.

On the third day, he fell ill.

Liu Jing lay in the queen mother's Huiren Palace to recuperate, and the queen mother comforted him: "Jing'er, if your sister is blessed, two days have passed, I'm afraid it will be more than lucky, and if you toss your body badly, you may not be able to find her." If your sister has a big life, even if you can't find her for a while, she won't have any strengths and weaknesses. Recuperate, maybe she just sneaks out to play and comes back by herself in a few days? ”

Liu Jing has been in good health since he was a child, he has never had such a serious illness, he has a headache and heartache, his whole body hurts, and he is so uncomfortable that he shed the first string of tears in his memory: "Queen Mother, I should always hold her hand!" There are so many people in the Nancheng Market, why should I leave Shu'er and run away alone? It's all my fault! Why should I take her out of the palace? Why didn't you leave the palace and stay in the Ling Mansion well, so you had to take her to the Nancheng Bazaar to wander around? Why? Why! ”

Qiao Jing saw her son in pain and blamed herself, and she felt uncomfortable. She said with something in her words: "Jing'er, it's not your fault. Perhaps, someone was plotting to kill her? Even if you don't take her out of the palace, if someone deliberately murders her, inside and outside the palace, she won't be able to escape after all. Maybe outside the palace, the mountains and rivers are long, and she will have a glimmer of life. ”

The words of the queen mother are like a basin of cold water poured down. Liu Jing shivered and woke up a little from the confusion of high fever.

is as smart as him, in fact, he has always faintly felt that his sister's unpredictable life experience and sister's naughty personality may all bring disaster to her. In the Song Palace, there are many people in the old palace who know that her sister was born to the princess of the dead country of Qi. And many of those old palace people were the servants and maidservants of the harem of the Qi State back then. They are from the Qi Kingdom, how could they watch the bloodline of the Qi royal family being tainted by the Song people who destroyed the Qi Kingdom? Perhaps, some of them will want to get rid of their sister in order to save the last vestiges of face in the Qi Kingdom. Or perhaps, it was my sister's mischievous mischievous behavior that angered the queen mother and grandmother? Could it be that they sent someone to arrest their sister and wanted to warn her and teach her a lesson?

Liu Jing, who regretted it a lot, decided to no longer trust anyone in the Song Palace in the matter of finding Shu'er. He Xuan Ling Fei entered the hall, retreated from everyone, and muttered to Ling Fei: "There is another clue, we haven't looked for ......."

So since that year, the music scores and pearls of the five kingdoms of Kyushu have been collected by the King of Song into the White Jade Palace, and the ins and outs of each pearl have also been carefully investigated by the cronies of the King of Song. This kind of music score pearl made by folk musicians of the Zhou Dynasty was originally because few people could understand it, so the price was low but no one cared about, but now, a pearl is hard to find, the price has doubled and doubled, but the king of Song still secretly sent people to buy and investigate with a lot of money.

In the past thirteen years, the music score pearls all over Kyushu have gradually become rare on the rivers and lakes, and Liu Jing's piano skills have become very few people can reach with the passage of time. So far, the kings of the world, perhaps only King Zhou Le, who wrote the dance music of "Xuannu Steps" hundreds of years ago but defeated the entire Great Zhou Dynasty, is qualified to compare his piano skills with Liu Jing, the king of the Song Dynasty. It's just that the King of Song has a noble status and doesn't want to entertain people with the piano, and he never plays the piano in front of outsiders, so the people of Kyushu only know that he is a "kingship madman", but they don't know that his piano skills are superb.

When the first music pearl was collected, ten-year-old Liu Jing also stood alone under the lamp like tonight, rubbing the pearl with his fingertips over and over again. He was desperate to know what kind of music was engraved on it. Even he himself felt that his ideas were ridiculous and naïve, but he still thought that only by playing the above song himself, one of the gods in the sky would always be able to hear his sincerity and bring Shu'er back to him safely.

So in the middle of the night, ten-year-old Liu Jing announced that the oldest musician in the Song Palace came to the Yongtai Hall and showed him this pearl.

The musician of the Song Palace said: "Your Royal Highness, the old man thinks that the pearl engraved is a lyre score. Although the old man is proficient in the lyre, he has no choice but to understand the ancient scores circulated by the people of the Zhou Dynasty. ”

Liu Jing humbly asked: "Master, do you know where anyone can understand such an ancient genealogy?" ”

The old musician thought for a moment and said, "The old man thinks that it will be difficult to find it in our Song Kingdom. However, there may be people in the Chu State who can understand it. Chu Yue Zhuge clan, since the Zhou Dynasty is a scholarly family and a family. For hundreds of years, the Great Zhou Dynasty collapsed, Chu and Yue were unified, but the Zhuge clan endured, with a wide range of branches, and many branches in the clan changed their surnames and were scattered throughout Chu. The largest branch of the Zhuge clan, still living on the isolated island of Xuanji, doing business in Kyushu, business all over the borders of the five countries, until outside the Jinyang Pass. The Zhuge family of Chu is the only prominent family of the Zhou Dynasty that has survived to this day, and it is said that there are hundreds of bamboo and wood classics of the Zhou Dynasty hidden on the isolated island of Xuanji, and perhaps some of them can still understand such ancient genealogies. Perhaps, in the branch of the Zhuge family, someone can understand. ”

After listening to the advice of the old musician of the Song Palace, Liu Jingtuo Ling Fei's father Ling Mo sent someone to invite a pianist from the Yuling Tomb of Chu State, called "Fang Yu". He was the only person that Lord Ling Mo could find in a short period of time who could understand the folk genealogy of the Zhou Dynasty.

Liu Jing still remembers that he thought that the people of Chu should be the same age as the Song Palace musicians invited to Yongtai Palace, but he didn't expect that Master Fang looked no more than thirty years old, dressed in white, handsome and dignified. Liu Jing sighed secretly, if his father hadn't died on the battlefield and hadn't died young, he would have been as handsome and chic as Fang Yu now. It's a pity that his vague memory has long since lost his memory of what his father looked like when he left.

Fang Yu said: "Your Royal Highness, the contemptible family of Chu State Yu Mausoleum, the family affairs are busy, at most you can stay in the Song Palace for three months, teaching Your Highness how to understand the seven-stringed music circulated by the people of the Zhou Dynasty, as well as some piano skills. When the autumn wind of the Song Kingdom is sluggish, the contemptible people will set off for the south. "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