The smoke cage is cold, the moon is long, and the sand is long, and the night is close to the restaurant in Qinhuai.

The merchant girl doesn't know the hatred of the country, and she still sings ** flowers across the river.

This poem from Du Mu in the Tang Dynasty is engraved on a guqin, it is said that when Du Mu traveled to Qinhuai, he heard the singer singing "Yushu ** Flower" on the boat, which was beautiful and light, and men and women sang and sang harmony with each other, and the song was sad, which was the sound of the dead country.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Empress Chen was obsessed with this languishing life for a long time, regarded national politics as child's play, and finally lost the country. Although Chen Guo died, this sluggish music has been passed down and is still sung among the singers of Qinhuai.

The guqin is well preserved, the carvings on the body are lifelike, and the strings are strong and powerful. And the poem on the piano body has traces of gold paint, but after years of washing, the gold paint has already fallen off.

Although the guqin has gone through the years, it is not difficult to see the elegance of the previous owner's taste and the dignity of his identity from its body.

Xiao Yan is an archaeologist who recently excavated an ancient tomb from the Southern Tang Dynasty and found it in the coffin of the ancient tomb and brought it back to the research room.

Xiao Yan remembered that in addition to this guqin, all that was left in the coffin was a red wedding dress that had long been rotted and yellowed and a soldier's helmet. When he saw this guqin for the first time, he had a sense of déjà vu, so he brought it back to the research institute.

Xiao Yan looked at the poem on the qin carefully, he didn't understand why the owner of the guqin would engrave this poem on it.

"Perhaps the owner of the piano was a dignitary at the time, and he was angry when he saw his country indulge in a life of malaise." Xiao Yan conjectured in his heart, and at the same time stretched out his hand to stroke the strings, and couldn't help but pluck the strings lightly with his fingers. The sad sound of the piano echoed in the research institute, and Xiao Yan continued to play along with the sound of the piano.

Xiao Yan has never learned to play the piano, let alone know what sheet music is. But for some reason, his hands were skillfully plucked on the strings as if they were not his own.

The notes are orderly, and it doesn't look like it's played randomly. The sound of the piano was still the same sadness, Xiao Yan closed his eyes tightly and reveled in it, leaving a tear in the corner of his eye inexplicably.

"Boom ・・・・・・"

The strings suddenly broke, cutting Xiao Yan's fingers, and bright red blood dripped on the body.

"Damn・・・・・・" Xiao Yan blamed himself, while taking out a tissue from his pocket and holding his fingers. He was about to wipe the blood off Jean's body, but the phone suddenly remembered. He took out his phone and connected it, and a woman's stern reproach came from the other end of the line.

"Didn't you promise me to come back for dinner tonight? What time is it and you're not back? Is your dad still hungry waiting for you to come back? ”

"Mom, I'll be right back. If you're hungry, eat first. Xiao Yan replied as he put on his backpack and walked out of the office. He locked the door to his office and double-checked it several times before leaving with peace of mind.

"Oh no, ・・・・・・" Xiao Yan, who had just walked into the house, remembered the broken strings and the blood on the piano, but when he wanted to turn back, he was seen by his mother.

"Xiao Yan, are you back? Go wash your hands and eat. Mother took the satchel in his hand and said with a smile.

"Oh, got it." Xiao Yan also replied with a smile.

Xiao Yan loved archaeology so much that he rarely went home when he first started working, sometimes not for a month or even months. Later, he discussed with his mother to come home at least once a month, and every time he came home, she would always cook a table of dishes that he liked to eat and wait for him at home. No matter how late he came home, his father and mother would always be hungry until he came back to eat. He knew that if he went back now, his father and mother would wait until he came back to eat, so he decided to have dinner with the second elder before returning to the research institute.

"Dad, I'm back." Xiao Yan walked to the living room and said with a smile to his father.

"You rabbit cub is only coming back now, and you want to starve Lao Tzu to death?" Xiao Yan's father said angrily as he walked towards the dining table.

"I don't have it." Xiao Yan smiled, "What is delicious tonight." ”

"It's all your favorite food, so sit down and eat." Mother handed the chopsticks to Xiao Yan's hand and smiled happily.

The family of three chatted happily while eating dinner. So much so that a simple dinner was eaten for a long time. Xiao Yan touched his stomach with satisfaction and burped, he glanced at his watch, it was already past eleven o'clock, the door of the institute had been closed, and he could only wait until tomorrow to deal with anything.

Xiao Yan felt a little tired, and after saying "good night" to his parents, he went back to his room to rest. Probably because the excavation work was too hard these days, he fell asleep not long after lying in bed.

In the dream, a woman wearing a phoenix crown and a xia veil sat alone on the shore of Qinhuai Lake. With a sad expression, she played the piano alone and sang:

Liyu Fanglin to the high pavilion, the new outfit is glamorous;

Yinghu Ning Jiao didn't go in at first, and greeted him with a smile when he came out.

The face of the enchantress is like a flower with dew, and the jade tree is shining**;

The flowers do not bloom for long, and they fall red all over the ground and return to silence!

The song was poignant and pitiful, and her tears ran down her cheeks and dripped down the strings, mingling with the sound of the piano to make its own wail. After a while, the desolate song still echoed on Qinhuai Lake.

She got up and put the piano aside, lit two red candles in the middle of the table, and knelt in front of the red candles facing Qin Huaihe, placing a soldier's helmet beside her.

"The sky is above, the loess is below, I, Liu Yanyu, a courtesan of Qinhuaihe, am willing to marry Xiao Sheng, the general who protects the country (fictional), as his wife, until death, life and death go hand in hand, and the sun and the moon can be seen." With that, she knocked her head on the ground three times.

She poured the wine she had prepared into two glasses, one on the ground, and drank it herself.

She held the helmet in her arms, and uncontrollable tears dripped down the helmet. She looked at it with a look on her face and sighed sadly, "Xianggong, we have become husband and wife tonight, and I will come down to accompany you now." ”

Not long after she finished speaking, blood flowed from her mouth and she fell to the ground.

"She drank poisonous wine・・・・・・ Xiao Yan woke up from his dream.

The situation in the dream was so real that it was like experiencing it yourself. He gasped and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and sighed, "It turned out to be a dream." ”

Xiao Yan got up and opened the curtains, it was already three poles of the sun, and the dazzling sunlight shone on Xiao Yan's face, making it difficult for him to open his eyes. He carefully recalled the scene in his dream, and the names Liu Yanyu and Xiao Sheng appeared in his mind.

Xiao Yan has liked history since he was a child, and he has memorized the characters of every dynasty and generation in history, but he has never heard of a general named Xiao Sheng in history.

At first, he thought it was a dream, so the characters in it were all fictional. He had the mentality of giving it a try, but there was really someone in history.

Xiao Sheng (945~974) Southern Tang Dynasty general, in September of the seventh year of Kaibao in the Northern Song Dynasty (974 AD), Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, sent more than 100,000 troops to attack the Southern Tang Dynasty on the pretext of Li Yu's refusal to come to the court. Xiao Sheng was ordered to lead his troops to resist the enemy, and swore to resist to the death in the first battle of the Qinhuai River, and died on the battlefield.

Xiao Yan felt very excited, and when he entered the name Liu Yanyu with great interest, he couldn't find this person.