"Don't stand here stupidly, go inside." Li Damin asked me to follow him to the inner room.

The rooms here are not well lit, probably facing north, some backlighting, even during the day, the room is gloomy. Under the light, countless clouds of dust can be seen floating, and walking into this old room is like traveling through decades and entering an indescribable atmosphere.

The first to go was a small room, uninhabited and cold, with a door next to it that led straight inside. When I walked into the large room, it was a little open and the light was much brighter. The layout here is completely ordinary people's, a large bed with mosquito nets hanging from it; An old-fashioned table of eight immortals with several tea bowls. The rest were very old furniture, and in a trance I felt like I had walked into a yellowed old photograph.

At the table of the Eight Immortals, there was a child sitting who was Su Li. He wore thick brown glasses, took the kettle and poured out a cup of hot tea, the hot water flowed into the cup, and soon it was about to overflow, I was about to remind him, he suddenly put his hand back in place, put the kettle back in its place, and then picked up the cup of tea and slowly put it in front of me: "Luo Dao, you are here." I heard your voice far away. ”

I was stunned, and Li Damin asked me to sit down: "There are only two of us here, you don't have to be restrained, I'm afraid that for a long time in the future, you will have to face our two faces." ”

When he said this, I felt like I had stepped into the abyss, and I was very depressed.

I sat down, picked up the teacup, and took a sip of it, the aroma was fragrant, and it tasted good. Li Damin said: "Just now I was telling Luo Dao your story. ”

"I heard it all," Su Li said, "Master, you didn't say everything, you only said what it is, but not why." ”

Li Damin smiled, picked up the kettle and poured himself a drink.

Su Li turned his face sideways, as if looking at me in the eyes: "Luo Dao, do you know how the master recognized me as an apprentice?" ”

I said, "Master Li said that you have superpowers and can hear voices that ordinary people can't hear, so he took you as an apprentice." I don't know the specifics. ”

Li Damin put down the teaglass: "At the funeral at the funeral home that day, not many people went, except for the staff, the whole hall was empty. Don't look at the years I always wandered around where they lived, but that day was the first time I met Su Li's mother. I still don't know much about her life experience, her family background and specific experience, Su Li hasn't told me too much, I respect his ** rights. Su Li's mother is a very feminine woman, and I was attracted to her when I was a teenager, which has nothing to do with the femininity she exudes. Speaking far away, at the funeral that day, I was about to leave after paying homage to the remains, when Su Li said something that attracted my attention. ”

Li Damin poured another cup of tea and said in a daze: "At that time, he was talking to himself, saying that his mother was making a very strange noise. ”

I took a deep breath, and the light in the room suddenly dimmed, and the sun seemed to disappear, a little cold. Formation name clip brother.

"None of the others paid attention, only I heard him. I asked Su Li, what is your mother's voice? Su Li told me, he didn't know what the sound was, it sounded a little like the leaves gradually withering, some like the leaves of a thousand trees withering and falling with the wind, and some like a paper gently tearing and breaking. His mother's voice was more melodic and rhythmic than these natural sounds, and it sounded wonderful. ”

Li Damin said very emotionally, picked up the teacup and drank it all.

I felt a little cold on my body, coughed and asked, "His mother has ...... After passing away, how can there still be a voice? ”

"Luo Dao, do you remember why I hid in the cupboard that night?" Su Li suddenly asked.

I said, "You sue me, you're listening to the sound of the corpse decomposing." ”

Su Li smiled: "Yes, my mother was lying in the funeral home at the time, and the special sound she made was the sound of a corpse decomposing." It's beautiful. ”

After he said this, I suddenly felt a churn in my stomach, a wave of nausea, and I spit all the tea leaves in my mouth on the ground without caring about being rude.

Li Damin didn't care and continued to drink tea.

I wiped my mouth, my face was ugly. Su Li said: "I had cataracts, and I was very young when I couldn't see at all, about three or four years old, I can't remember exactly. For children, not being blind is not very significant, at that time I had no concept of the whole visual world, and my memory of 'seeing' was very vague, which was equivalent to nothing. Now I have fully embraced the world of 'listening'. ”

"If a person is born blind, it means nothing to him whether he can't see." Li Damin said.

Su Li said: "Suddenly, one day, I found that I could hear sounds that I couldn't normally hear. At first, I thought it was normal and everyone had it. Later, after following the Master, I came into contact with many people and did a lot of practical work, and I realized that being able to hear special voices was my own specialty. ”

I wiped my face, the chill on my body was even stronger, and I couldn't say anything at this point.

"In my memory, the first voice I can hear beyond the ordinary comes from my mother." Su Li said.

When he talked about his dead mother, he had a strange attitude, no sadness, and a calm face, as if talking about a very ordinary thing.

"I never knew who my dad was, it was my mom who raised me all the time. My family is very poor, so to speak, if my eyes had been treated earlier, there might have been hope for healing, but it was because I couldn't pay for the surgery that I became like this. But I don't hold a grudge against my mother, it was she who inadvertently opened a wonderful window into my life. In the only memory I can remove, my mother was beautiful, she was young and attractive...... Master can prove it. ”

Li Damin laughed: "Yes, your mother is a very moving woman." ”

"Mom actually has men, too, and she often invites different men to go home for the night. As soon as she came back, she asked me to hide in the cupboard, and she said that it would be uncomfortable for people to see that there were children in the house. ”

Su Li pointed to a corner of the room, and I saw that there was an old-fashioned horizontal wardrobe, how many years old, the paint on the surface was peeling, and the locks were almost glued together.

I was so heavy in my heart that I could vaguely guess what his mother was doing.

Su Li said: "The first time I heard those voices was when my mother was doing that kind of thing with men. I was a careless kid who didn't understand anything, and I hid in the cupboard, completely obsessed with that sound. ”

My heart was like a stone, and I drank a cup of tea and sarcastically said, "You mean the sound that men and women make when they are happy?" ”

"It's not." Su Li smiled: "That kind of voice can be heard by a person, and I am talking about a voice that others can't hear." I don't know who the man who spent the night that night was, but I knew that he was a master of doing that kind of thing, and my mother was also a woman, so they tossed for a long time, and I kept hiding in the cabinet and listening. At first, it was still ordinary, but then I suddenly heard a strange sound, how to describe it, it was a very special melody, no instrument in this world can interpret its taste, it is a collection of agility and the cry of the heart, the beauty of which is like the violin of a famous Italian artist, the famous hand and the famous instrument are closely intertwined, resonating. It was both pleasant and painful, and I even heard my mother's inner world...... Her heart was crying, and I couldn't describe what kind of emotion it was, mixed with pleasure, pain, screaming, gloomy, and even viciousness, and I later gave the voice with that emotion a name, 'woman'. ”

"You should be a philosopher." I said with a long sigh of relief.

Su Li smiled: "If you can feel what others can't, you will also become a philosopher." Do you know why I love that kind of sound that transcends the ordinary? ”

"Because it's beautiful? Because wonderful? I said.

"No, many of the strange sounds I can hear, none of them are beautiful, some can even be said to be horrible, oppressive, and dark. I love them because they have one of the biggest qualities, which is their purity. ”

"Pure?" I muttered.

"Yes." Su Li said: "When my mother did that kind of thing, she had reservations at the beginning and couldn't let go, and there were no strange voices at that time. When she really let go of herself, opened her body completely unguarded, and climbed to the top, the melody of that voice appeared, it did not carry any impurities, like a transparent crystal stone, which contained all my mother's emotions and **, no cover-up, no distractions, no mask. Later, I heard this voice on many corpses. I am afraid that the purest people in this world are dead people, and the decay of corpses is a natural phenomenon, even if a generation of emperors dies, they will become dry bones. Rot is nothing to be faked. ”

I was depressed and silent.

"Later, after following the master, I was better equipped to conduct research. I initially thought about the question, since men and women are wonderful and pure, and so are corpses, why can't we combine these two things. Luo Dao, did you know that there is a concept of ensemble in music? ”

"I've heard that it's just a couple of instruments played together. Like piano and violin or something. I said.

"Yes, it's that simple." Su Li said: "You imagine ** and rot as two beautiful musical instruments, if they can be played together, what will be the effect?!" ”