Chapter 6: My Master

Last night, he hadn't entered Chang'an yet, and was walking on the road alone. It was very dark all around, and he could only vaguely identify the road under his feet, half of which was smooth by the touch under his feet, so he kept moving forward with the piano on his back.

He really wanted to find a place to rest quickly, he had been walking all day, he knew that even if he walked to Chang'an City, he couldn't get in, he just wanted to find a family on the side of the road, let him sleep, the sky sounded bursts of thunder, the thunder from far and near, not much terrifying, but Chen Yan was very frightened in his heart.

He has never walked alone in such a deserted place on such a night, he is just an eleven or twelve-year-old boy, who should have enjoyed the love of his parents and elders at home, or in a private school with the Tao of Confucius and Mencius as a companion, maybe one day in the future he will be named Chang'an City, Dengke and Di.

But these are destined to have nothing to do with him, he was picked up by the master. His master was a legendary figure.

Master said that he had been a luthier from his ancestors and had been passed down from generation to generation. It's just that in Master's generation... The master has no heirs in his life, only Chen Yan is an apprentice.

When Chen Qi was about eight or nine years old, one night the master was a little drunk, and said something to Chen Qi vaguely, as if the master was young, he also had a good time, he had a very loving wife, but then her wife had a serious illness and died early, and the heartbroken master also followed a serious illness, although he barely survived, but his eyes were getting worse and worse, so he was accompanied by the sandalwood piano all day long, and occasionally went to the teahouse to play the piano for others, and the life was hard...

Later, in a foggy early morning, the master heard the cry of a baby in the forest behind the house and picked up Chen Yan, the master felt that the child had a big life, and he was not eaten by those wild cats and dogs at night, and he thought that he felt that his life was zero, and no one inherited the piano skills passed down from his ancestors.

In this way, the Master adopted him, and the Master said that he had always been alone, and now he has become two people, just like a word. In this way, he has a name, called Chen Qi.

Although his master couldn't see clearly, he still loved cleanliness and liked to wear white clothes and a white fan. Master said that he was very close to him, he liked to cry when he was young, and Master didn't know how to coax him, so he cried even more when he hugged him in his arms.

So the master had no choice but to play the piano, it was a song called "Wind and Rain", it was composed by the master on a rainy night after the master's lover left him, the master hoped that the sound of the piano could attract his attention, but he didn't expect that as soon as he heard the sound of the piano, he immediately stopped crying, and listened to the master play the piano quietly, his eyes were wide open, and he was very well-behaved.

In this way, every night, the master played the piano for Chen Qi until he closed his eyes and fell asleep.

The master is very good to himself, he said that he is like his own child, and also said that the two of them are destined, Chen Qi is a gift from God, although he can't see Chen Qi's appearance clearly, but he always has a feeling that Chen Qi will look very much like himself. And Chen Yan's comprehension of music is better than his own.

Although the master could not see him clearly, he could see the master, and the master's face was very handsome, angular, with a hint of majesty, and he didn't know if he would be like the master in the future.

Master's eyes are very deep, and although Master is blind, it makes his eyes more energetic, and there is a sense of melancholy at all times.

At the beginning of Chen Qi's memory, there were only two things in front of him, Master and Qin. Chen Qi is really smart, since he can play the piano, there are many tunes that the master can play only once.

Because the master's eyes couldn't see clearly, he didn't leave a score, and Chen Qi never knew what a sheet music was, he could remember every movement of the master and the fluctuation of every string.

When he sat in front of the qin, those movements seemed to be engraved in Chen Qi's heart, as long as Chen Qi closed his eyes, he was like his master, his hands were his eyes, and the qin was the world.

Maybe if life can always be like this, it is also happy, carefree, all you have to do every day is to play the guqin, sweep the courtyard, and make tea.

But God seems to want to make the rich and noble richer, and the hard-working people more miserable, when the master picked up Chen Qi, he was already more than forty, plus his health was not good, when Chen Qi was ten years old, the master's actions became more and more sluggish.

In the past, Master liked to play the piano from morning to night, whether it was fast or slow, happy or sad, or angry, and excited. Chen Qi closed his eyes and listened to the master's piano, he could see the birds and beasts, the Gobi Snow Mountain, and even the master pointing out the country and waving the sword on the battlefield.

Now, the number of times the master touches the piano is getting less and less. He likes to let Chen Qi play the piano for him more and more. I like to listen to Chen Yan's "Wind and Rain" the most......

At first, the master would pluck his fingers on the chair with the sound of Chen Yan's piano, but then the master lay on the bed, and his fingers rarely moved, but the corners of his mouth kept smiling.

Later, on another rainy night, the master was dressed very neatly, there was no wrinkle on his clothes, and his white clothes were fluttering, he sat cross-legged in front of the guqin and called Chen Yan.