When I first saw the Tianqin given by my neighbor Wei Xiaotang, my eyes lit up, I smiled brightly, opened my arms, and trotted all the way to take the piano into my arms. That happy and proud look is far more than 10 times more than my parents buying me a whole set of Ultraman toys at one time.

I carefully held the Lyra in my arms.

A few years later, I learned from the historical sources that the name of Lyra had evolved several times. The "Ningming Prefecture Chronicles" compiled in the ninth year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty contains "witches, commonly known as Lu Po...... In the name of the ghosts and gods, with the "Kuang" as the musical instrument, the shape is like the huqin, and its name is "Ding",...... Those who are sick will continue their practice, and those who play their so-called 'ding' will sing their slang words. The "ding" in the text is Tianqin.

At that time, my dream came true, and after I got this Lyra, I would look at it here and touch it there. Finally, I turned to the bottom of the barrel and read the line of text that no one could understand. I smiled and said, "Yes, this piano is what I saw in my dreams, and I remember that there was a line of words like this under the barrel." ”

My father asked me, what do these words mean? I shook my head.

My father saw that I liked this Lyra so much. In particular, I heard me say that I had seen this Tianqin in my dreams, and several Taoist masters also taught me. Seeing that my dream came true this time, he seemed to be happy for me.

However, when my father saw that I suddenly fell in love with a piano unearthed from an ancient tomb, he was more puzzled and uneasy. But he still hurriedly took the piano to the crayon Xiaoxin piano shop, asked the master to help tie the strings, and put snakeskin on the barrel. When I got home from all this, I just came back from kindergarten and I was happy to see that the piano was ready to play. Without saying anything, he took the piano, sat on a small stool, and played it in style.

My parents, who watched me play and sing, looked at each other in horror. They certainly have good reason to be horrified. Because I have only seen this piano in dreams, I have only learned it in dreams, but as soon as I touch it, I can actually play and sing. I can play famous Tianqin songs such as "Singing Heavenly Ballad" and "Singing Heavenly Song".

Could it be that there is such a thing as a dream in the world?

"Uncle Ji, isn't there another bell? Didn't you get it back? "I suddenly noticed that a bell was missing. asked Wei Xiaotang, who was standing on the side.

When Wei Xiaotang heard this, he quickly patted his head and said with a smile: "Oh, I forgot, there was a small bell, I took it back and put it under the bed, I went back to find it." ”

"My son still remembers that a bell is missing!" The father was even more horrified.

My father looked at me a little uneasily. But the mother said, "Don't say it." The son's dream is true, otherwise, how would he know that there is a bell missing? ”

"In this way, my son said that he met several Taoist priests in a dream to teach him to play the piano, and it is absolutely true." Father also said.

As I said earlier, my father studied political education at university. There is such a course as the original Marxist philosophy. As for Marx's materialist theory, he re-read it sentence by sentence and word by word. Of course, he didn't believe that there could be some mysterious force manipulating his son. But at the moment he really can't explain it.

"Perhaps, it's pure coincidence." I know he must have thought so.

"No, there are often people who dream of lottery special numbers in their dreams, wake up and immediately bet, and sure enough, they win the first prize. Well, maybe my son's dream is the same thing. Mother said to father.

Wei Xiaotang ran in with a gust of wind, accompanied by a jingling sound, he came to me, leaned down, spread his hands, and said, "Is it this little bell?" ”

"Yes, it's this little bell."

It was a bell the size of an orange, and after a long time of serious respect, my father said that it was made of bronze. Shake it in your ears and it will make a tinkling sound.

I told my father how I saw the Taoist priests using bells in my dream, and he took out a red cloth and tied the bell around the ankle of my right foot.

When everything was ready, I cocked my legs and shook my right foot while playing and singing, and the bell sounded crisp and melodious to the rhythm of the piano.

Since then, I have been fascinated by the lyre, and I have no interest in touching the ukulele, and every day when I come back from kindergarten, the first thing I do when I enter the door is to pick up the piano and jingle it. I often play for an hour or two, and I don't seem to feel tired at all. Seeing that I was so obsessed with this lyre, my parents didn't know whether to be happy or melancholy.

It wasn't until one day later that they saw the performance of Longzhou Tianqin from CCTV, as well as the Tianqin concert of the Ningming County Song and Dance Troupe, especially the wonderful Tianqin ensemble at the Nanning Folk Song Festival, and their hearts relaxed a little.

As time went on, about two months later, my interest in Lyra grew stronger, rather than diminishing in the slightest. Sometimes I'm alone playing and singing to myself, with occasional narration. My parents didn't know any kind of musical instrument, and they didn't know anything about Lyra, so they didn't ask me more how I wanted to play, what tunes I played, and how long I wanted to play.

For my parents, when I came home from school, not crying or fussing was the last word.

What kind of performance was it when I played the Lyre? Naturally, I don't know. It wasn't until later, when I went to Longzhou, Guangxi Province to attend a training class on the Tianqin, that I learned that there are several forms of playing the Tianqin. The performance form of singing with the accompaniment of the heavenly lyre, also known as "singing the sky". When accompaniment, there are few changes, and the index finger of the right hand is often used to pluck the double strings, and the left hand only presses the first string, thus creating a chorus effect. Singing by one person, accompaniment or one person playing and singing is called "Dutian", and more than two people playing the piano and singing are called "Pairing Heaven", in the accompanying song, the rhythm, beat, speed, etc. of the singing and piano are different, ever-changing, but harmoniously combined. A string of small copper bells is hung on the toes, and the beat of the music is vibrating, making the "singing sky" more rich in local characteristics. Huang Jingchun, a civil official of the Qing Dynasty in Longzhou, has a poem: "The mouth of the barbarian warbler sounds, and the foot rattles the bell and waves the string." "It realistically depicts the vivid performance posture of the performers who sing, string, and bell at the same time.

From this point of view, the self-playing and singing I used to play and sing at home every day was actually "Dutian" or "Singing Tian".

The way of playing the Tianqin, whether it is "singing the sky" or "Dutian" or "facing the sky", its core content is the word "Tian", so the Tianqin is indeed a special magic instrument for the player to communicate with the heavens.

Since it is a magic weapon, it must have a certain amount of mana.

"The Tianqin magic weapon in my hand, it has been sleeping and cultivating in the ancient tomb with its owner for thousands of years, and it is naturally stained with its master's aura, will it be boundless in mana?" Later, when I grew up and became proficient in playing the Lyra, I often thought about this question in private.

In fact, the Lyra in my hand has possessed mysterious magical powers since it reappeared. In addition to the fact that it suddenly made a mysterious noise when Wei Xiaotang and his wife were doing that in bed, there was another thing, apparently Tianqin showed a huge mana, and it helped me punish the bad guys. It's just that I was very young at the time, and my parents didn't care too much, or they thought it was a pure coincidence, and they didn't believe that it was Lyra that could manifest mysterious powers.

It was when I was five years old, and one night. My mother was busy cooking in the kitchen. My father was sitting on the couch watching TV, and I had been playing Lyra for two hours since I came home from school, and I was on the floor of the hall, playing with a dozen Ultraman toys with me.

Suddenly, his father's mobile phone rang, and when he looked at the caller ID, it turned out to be the director of the Municipal Local Chronicle Office, who was his immediate boss, and the director never called him, and he usually took the initiative to report to the director for instructions. Now that I'm off work, Director Chang suddenly called, and I don't know what is important.

My father turned on his mobile phone and asked Director Chang how he was doing when he spoke into the microphone. At this time, my mother was stir-frying in the kitchen, and the smell of oil smoke accompanied by a crackling sound permeated the air, and I chatted with a dozen Ultramans on the floor.

The father said to the mobile phone, while walking out of the door, straight out of the door, to the staircase corridor, the signal is still not very good, he simply walked into the elevator, there is a signal in the elevator, so he pressed the first floor, to the downstairs, the signal is much better, just talk through the microphone, while walking to the court in the middle of the community.

My father was so focused on answering his phone that he forgot to close the door when he went out.

When he came home after answering the phone, he had just stepped out of the elevator door and saw the door of his house open. I wondered in my heart: Was it because I was busy answering the phone just now, came out with the door open, and forgot to close the door? Or did the wife come out to take out the garbage or the son forgot to lock the door when he came back from playing? Just as he was thinking this, his front foot was already in the door.

When I saw my father returning, I ran over and shouted, "There are rats, there were rats just now!" ”

I heard that there were mice, my father thought it was impossible, he wanted to be the same, our family lives on the 20th floor, where did the rats come from? But when he saw that my son's tone was very firm, and it was not like a joke, he touched my little round head and said, "Where is the mouse?" ”

I pointed to the door and said, "There seems to be a big black mouse just now, and I didn't see it clearly, and it disappeared in a flash at the door." ”

"Maybe you're wrong, right? There can't be rats on our twentieth floor. ”

At that time, I heard my father say this, and I didn't say anything else, and continued to climb on the ground to play with my Ultraman.

After eating, the two parents sat on the sofa and watched TV. Mother continued to chase her nearly 100 episodes of the court romance TV series. When I came back from kindergarten, I had been playing Lyra for almost two hours, and I continued to crawl on the floor to play Ultraman.

It's almost nine o'clock. My mother suddenly remembered to call a colleague and got up and looked around for her phone. After looking for a long time, I didn't even see a shadow of my phone. My father took out his mobile phone and dialed my mother's mobile phone number, but it turned out to be turned off. My mother heard that her phone was turned off.

The mother was stunned for a long time, her eyes purred and rolled for a long time, and finally said, absolutely impossible! ...... By the way, when I picked up my son and came in the door, I just put my bag on the Lyra by the shoe cabinet in the garden.

She walked briskly towards the garden, but before she could get there, she suddenly screamed loudly, "Son, where is your Lyra?" ”

The Lyra that used to be placed against the shoe cabinet was long gone.

"I distinctly remember that when I came home from kindergarten and opened the door, I hung my bag on Tianqin, who was leaning against the shoe cabinet, but now Tianqin and the bag were gone. Apparently, there was a burglar in the house. ”

"My father went out to make a phone call just now and forgot to close the door." I said.

"What's in the bag? What else is there besides a cell phone? Father asked anxiously.

"Well, mobile phone, ID card, driver's license, and the unit's meal card, and more than 300 yuan in cash, by the way, there is also a CCB credit card."

"Hurry up and report the loss to the bank! Call the police! ”

The father immediately picked up his mobile phone and dialed 110 to call the police.

When I heard that my beloved Lyra had been stolen, I stood in the hall in a daze, and soon burst into tears. The cry was loud, far beyond the sound of a five-year-old child. When Wei Xiaotang and his wife heard this, they also hurriedly ran in and asked what was going on. I cried heartily when I almost rolled on the floor of the hall. I can't help but look at each other. They had never seen this little kid cry so sadly.

The two of them leaned down at the same time to pick me up, and hurriedly comforted: "Don't cry, don't cry, isn't it just a piano?" Uncle will go back to his hometown and buy a handful for you, buy a better and newer one. Now there are a lot of pianos sold on the street in my hometown, this one is too old, shall we buy another one? But as long as the two of them talked about it, I just cried loudly, crying and sobbing and saying, "I want this piano, I don't want anything else, I don't want anything else." ”

For a while, the four adults surrounded him, and everyone looked solemn.

"The thief of the dog day, we all live on the 20th floor, and he actually stole to our house, this thief has long hands and feet." The father scolded indignantly.

As soon as I finished speaking, I suddenly felt as if someone had lifted me up from the floor and took me by the hand and walked towards the shoe cabinet in the garden at home. I wiped my tears with the back of my hands as I ran briskly to the garden. I went out of my way to see who was leading me, but I didn't see anyone leading me. I was weird, too, but the pull was so powerful and resolute that I couldn't stop.

When the adults saw this, they couldn't react for a while, obviously not knowing what I was doing all of a sudden. In the midst of my doubts, I walked to the shoe cabinet in the garden and looked down to pick up the little bell tied with a red cloth from the place where the Lyra had been kept. I saw that the little bell was still there, and it was a little better.

After holding the little bell tightly in my right hand, I suddenly felt that my right hand was uncontrollable, swaying from side to side, and my right hand was shaking the little bell, but my little mouth was muttering a kind of incantation, as for what the mantra was about, I don't know after that, and I can't remember clearly.

My father looked at me in horror, staring at my fast-closing little mouth. He once carried me behind my back, and secretly told his mother with a sinister face, when my son rang the bell that day, his little mouth seemed to be muttering something, do you hear what clearly? …… I had the feeling that he was chanting a mantra. ”

I don't know if it's a spell or not, but there is a saying I remember, and that is "Whoever steals my Lyra will have his hands and feet broken!"

I was muttering to myself with a bell when there was a knock on the door, and it turned out that the police had arrived.

The police inspected the scene and asked carefully what was missing. ID cards, driver's licenses, mobile phones, bank cards, these are all easy to do, and the police will understand when they say it. But when it comes to losing a Lyra, the three policemen can't help but look at me and I look at you, and they don't know what to do.

My father hinted to everyone with his eyes, telling everyone not to say that this piano is thousands of years old, let alone taken out of the grave.

None of the three cops knew what Lyra looked like. In the end, I only remember that this Lyra is like a curved bow playing cotton. It is about 1.6 meters and weighs more than a dozen pounds. The police finally asked how much the piano was worth. Father and Wei Xiaotang glanced at each other, but the two did not answer.

"To say what it's worth? It's really hard to say, my son is used to this piano, although the piano is very old, but he likes it, you have also seen, because he lost this piano, he cried and made trouble on the floor, and cursed the thief to cut off his hands and feet, you see. When the father said this, he pointed his finger at his son, and the three policemen turned their heads to look over, only to see that there were still tear stains on my face, and the three policemen all comforted him and said, "Let's try our best to help you chase the piano back, okay?" I nodded, and my mother quickly carried me away.

Later, his father and Wei Xiaotang followed the police to the property management office to check the surveillance, but there was no trace of the thief. It turned out that there was monitoring in the elevator in their community, but there was no corridor on each floor. Officer Zhang, who was the leader, judged that the thief must have come up from the stairs, and it was estimated that he was dressed as a cleaner in the community, because ordinary people don't take the stairs, only the cleaners go. The thief stole a piano, and after he wrapped a part of the piano in a black plastic bag, he swaggered down the stairs, and the owner would not suspect it when he saw it, thinking that they were taking the wood thrown by the owner.

It was almost eleven o'clock that the various formalities were completed. After thanking the police, his father and Wei Xiaotang drove home together. When my father came home, he saw that I had fallen asleep in bed with my clothes.

The mother said that the son probably fainted from crying. He is asleep now, but tomorrow he will wake up and will not see the piano, and he does not know how he will cry!

The father let out a long sigh, "Hey, it's all my fault." Called the leader and forgot to close the door when he went out. The thief came in, and when he saw no one, he flashed out with something, and his son may only see the shadow of the thief, and thought it was a mouse, so everyone should pay attention when they go out in the future. Don't forget to close the door. ”

After my father finished washing, it was already twelve o'clock at night, and my mother and I were both asleep. Because my hair was not dry, I sat on the edge of the sofa, and went to bed when my hair was dry, when the mobile phone rang suddenly, and when I looked at the caller ID, it turned out to be Officer Zhang who had just come to solve the case.

Officer Zhang said on the phone, "All your stolen things have been found."

Hearing what Officer Zhang said, my father turned from sadness to joy. A huge stone that weighed on my heart finally fell.

"Thank you, you guys are really quick to solve the case, I want to give you a pennant." When Officer Zhang heard that his father was going to give him a pennant, he smiled and said, "Forget it, it's all what we should do, what's polite." At this point, the subject changed and said, "When will you come to us tomorrow morning to claim it?" ”

The father, thinking that tomorrow at dawn, his son would wake up and not see his piano, and he didn't know how to cry, so he lied and said, "I'll have a meeting tomorrow morning and afternoon, or I'll go and claim it now." When Officer Zhang heard him say this, he thought to himself, both horizontal and vertical are cadres in the district, so it's easy to say. So he smiled and said, I'm on duty, so come here.

Officer Zhang briefed his father on the case. It turned out that the three thieves were dog thieves, and they knew that there were several families in our building that had dogs, and those dogs often walked around the corridor without taking care of them. The three of them were in a group, all disguised as community cleaners, and drove a car to the garbage heap at the west gate of the community and stopped, one waited next to the car, and the other two entered from the small door, one looked at the wind at the entrance of the gate on the first floor, and the other person held a black plastic bag, and looked down the stairs layer by layer, if he encountered an unattended dog wandering in the corridor, he immediately got the dog into the black plastic bag. Dog thieves are so powerful that they can kill almost any live dog in seconds.

When the dog thief went up to the 20th floor, he saw that the door of my house was open, although he did not hear the sound of a dog barking, but when he saw that the door of my house was open, and there seemed to be no one inside, he tiptoed in, and when he entered the door, he saw a bag by the shoe cabinet, and the bag was hanging on a piano, and he only wanted the bag, but the strap of the bag seemed to be wrapped around the strings, and he was afraid of making a noise, so he simply stole the piano. He picked up the piano and bag gently and flashed out, I mistook it for a mouse, and shouted at that time: "Mouse! There are rats! But your wife probably didn't hear it. ”

The thief walked up the stairs, put the bag and the piano in the trash can, picked up the trash can, and swaggered downstairs. On the first floor, someone looked at the wind to answer, and after the two people answered, they carried the trash can to the west gate of the community, and the west gate originally had a security guard, but when they saw that it was a cleaning suit, they didn't ask a word, and they swiped the card to let them out.

"Then how did you solve the case?" The father asked the police officer in a hurry.

Your case was reported two hours after the incident, and it was a wandering crime, so I'm afraid it won't be solved so quickly under normal circumstances, what did I just say? It's your luck, or rather, those three thieves deserve to be unlucky.

Next, Officer Zhang opened the surveillance video of a traffic accident on the road.

It turned out that after the traffic police saw the car accident from the surveillance, they immediately notified Officer Zhang, Officer Zhang rushed to the scene, and saw that my Tianqin fell on the side of the road, and there was a women's satchel next to the qin.

That's Haisha Avenue. The three dog thieves' cars kept moving forward at a speed of 100 miles, and there were no other vehicles in sight. The road is 4 lanes in the same direction, and the car is driving in the middle lane, but suddenly the car is like a demon, and it flips three somersaults in a row, and finally, it falls in the middle of the road and falls apart on the spot. The three thieves were lying on the ground, covered in flesh and blood.

All three thieves have broken their hands and feet!