Chapter 43: Mr. and Student
Shen Ningyi and Xi Lan, who had already changed their clothes, returned to the living room again, and saw that the three of them looked a little strange, and when they asked, they knew that Xingwei wanted to ask Zheng Yan to teach her to play the pipa, so they all sat down and looked at Zheng Yan.
I have to say that Zheng Yan's heart is actually very embarrassed, can he be someone else's teacher with such a small half bucket of water? Looking at the expectant eyes of several beautiful women with national beauty and fragrance, Zheng Yan finally hypocritically once, why didn't he find that he was so thin-skinned before, so he nodded in response, and then asked curiously, "Ning Yi, won't you either?"
Shen Ningyi was a little embarrassed, and finally said a rough idea, it turned out that the Ruan family did not cultivate the two sisters as wealthy Shuyuan, Shen Ningzhao was better in terms of appearance, posture and voice, and her sister Shen Ningyi was outstanding in cultivation talent and some abilities, the Ruan family originally wanted to send her to Guanqiu Si or Pick Qiu Si, but these two places were not very willing to recruit people from the big families, so in order to Xu Xu Tuzhi advanced to Qin Tianjian, usually in addition to practicing, he didn't learn anything else.
It's no wonder that Shen Ningyi behaves like this, in Luoyang, it is indeed a shame for a woman from a big family to not be able to communicate with Lile.
Zheng Yan quickly recalled the situation when he was learning to play musical instruments in Zongxue, to be honest, he had some ritual instruments such as qin, flute, pipa, chime, xun, drum, sheng, etc., and even Zheng Yan, who was not very popular with the nobles, and he could basically play a few tunes completely, but compared with the people around him, it was really far worse, not to mention Ye Qingcheng, who was both talented and affectionate, even Qi Wending and Lu Cunyan were stronger than Zheng Yan, and few women in the house had anything to do with these things, so it was okay for them to dance with knives, guns, fights, and kill, speaking of which, it was the third aunt and grandmother's Tongyin rhythm, but she only played the piano, and she didn't touch other musical instruments, and Yingyue could only play the piano, and usually three days of fishing and two days of drying nets, Xinluo has never touched those things, so Zheng Yan has neither a teacher nor an environmental edification.
After thinking about it, let's start with fingering first, fortunately, the teacher who taught the pipa back then was taught with a ring ruler, otherwise Zheng Yan would have to show his stuffing just for this style and fingering, Shen Ningyi looked at it and praised it, saying that Zheng Yan has everyone's demeanor just by starting with this hand, so that the other women are also bright, Zheng Yan smiled humbly and covered up the embarrassment first.
Some people say that a real genius is a master of everything, for example, if he knows the pipa, it is easy to master the qin, he can play the flute, and he will not be bad in his studies and practice, he just needs to see how much energy he puts into those aspects, such as Song Wenren Gui Wenren Hu, who is the same year as Zheng Yan, such as Lu Cunzhao, Wu Simin, etc., and then Ye Qingcheng Yutai Xue Fei, Zheng Yan doesn't know whether he belongs to this column, sometimes he feels that he is a genius, and sometimes he finds that he is so stupid that it is simply incorrigible, coupled with the subtle influence of some rumors with ulterior motives, Zheng Yan is now sometimes confident and sometimes inferior, which extends to enterprising and retreatingA series of contradictory and opposing habits, such as taking responsibility and avoiding, are very subtle, and intuition is very bad, which may affect the direction of the future temperament and the shaping of the Dao heart.
For example, in the current situation, in the face of beautiful eyes, most people may be diligent, and even take the opportunity to deliberately manage the relationship between each other, to be a confidant and a Taoist friend, this should be human nature, but Zheng Yan has no such thoughts at this time, he is just thinking about how to teach the pipa well while maintaining a closed state, so as not to gradually deepen the relationship and bring some troubles to each other.
Maybe he only wanted to be close to Xi Lan regardless of it, and saw her sit for a while and get up and walk out, which made Zheng Yan inexplicably a little lost, and suddenly understood that it might be the dragon breath that was doing the trick, and secretly reminded himself that his mind must not be swayed by these external things, let alone be casual, only by realizing qualitative can he overcome those subtle feelings, so he concentrated on teaching.
Shen Ningyi sat for a while and got up and walked out, calculating the time, the people from the monitoring station should be almost there. After a while, Shuangyun, who had been looking at Zheng Yan softly with her cheeks, suddenly smiled, and said softly, "Reinforcements are coming, Xiao Yan, don't you have to follow and take a look?"
Zheng Yan was a little helpless, this woman really didn't recognize life, she had a very rue hui flirtatious posture, shook her head and said, "No, I'm afraid of causing trouble for them, my cultivation is low",
Shuangyun's eyes lit up and she said happily, "Sister is protecting you."
Xingwei, who was seriously recording on the side, glanced at her, "If you want to see the pretty man, go by yourself, no need to make excuses",
Shuangyun leaned towards Zheng Yan and said coquettishly, "Don't talk nonsense, I did want to see more monks in the past, but now I don't want to think about anything else when I see Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan, what's the meaning of being a prince, let's practice with my sister, wealth is like smoke and clouds, glory is like a bubble",
Zheng Yan thought for a while and said, "The Diamond Sutra says that everything has a promising law, such as a dream bubble, like dew and electricity, I thought it was just a Buddhist empty law saying, doesn't Mrs. Li belong to the Taoist Danding faction?"
Xingwei chuckled and said, "Don't care about her, a criminal who deceived her teacher and destroyed her ancestors, a few days ago he told Wang Yuan that he was from Tantric Buddhism."
Shuangyun didn't care about the demolition of her senior sister, and said with a smile, "Xiao Yan, don't pretend to be confused, don't even think about bringing out my master to prevaricate my sister, the Danding faction not only includes the alchemy of the inner and outer Dan factions, but also includes the double cultivation faction, the human yuan Dan method in the Sanyuan Dan method has yin and yang double cultivation, and the "Miao Lu Shen Tong Deed" has clouds' Yin and yang are in harmony, and each other must be inseparable', women have inner yang and outer yin, and men have inner yin and outer yang, so they need to complement each other, and then refine each other with essence and spirit, you are the body of pure yang, and the outer yang is pure and endless, I am the body of pure yin, and the inner yin is endless, and I don't know how much higher than those secular tonic techniques, what do you not cultivate if you don't practice double cultivation?
Xingwei looked at Zheng Yan with some surprise, sniffed lightly, and said in surprise: "Your Highness's physique, but you have only developed the fourth layer, you have such an aura, indeed... It's rude, Shuangyun, you're too unreserved", Xingwei also blushed a little at the end,
Zheng Yan was a little embarrassed, so naturally he couldn't agree to Shuangyun's proposal, so he had to say, " Although I am a pure yang body, but I also have the attributes of thunder and fire, with the development and cultivation of the physique in the future, these two attributes will definitely gradually dominate, and then it will not be a simple double cultivation problem, but also transformation and tempering, there is a lot more cumbersome in vain, and I have always felt that although the double cultivation method is easy to improve, but it has lost its courage, and it should not be used as the cultivation method of my generation, especially Shuangyun, you are a demon cultivator at your root, and you must compete with heaven and earth for that line of creation, how can you take the path of double cultivation! I heard that Mrs. Li has never set foot in this way." ,
Xingwei couldn't help nodding, looking at the senior sister's eyes with more persuasion, Shuangyun thought for a while and said, "I thought that the master didn't go to double cultivation just because he couldn't let go of the man named Zheng Mu."
Zheng Yan said for a long time that his mouth was a little dry, he was holding a teacup and drinking tea, he choked on the trachea when he heard a mouthful of tea, covered his mouth and coughed constantly, his back was covered with a hand, and a qi machine penetrated into his body, and he finally felt a lot more comfortable, turned his head to thank him, and saw that it was Jing Shu who had been sitting quietly in the back, Jing Shu nodded slightly and withdrew the jade hand attached to Zheng Yan's back.
Xingwei chuckled and said, "Your Highness knows Zheng Mu? Speaking of which, you are all surnamed Zheng, wouldn't that person also be a royal family?"
Zheng Yan smiled reluctantly and nodded, "My eldest grandfather, but it seems that the two of them are nothing, are you misunderstanding? Mrs. Li is a Great Heavenly Dao cultivator, how can she be tied up by the love of children!",
Jing Shu suddenly spoke up in the back, "Does Your Highness know Senior Brother Dingzhen?"
Zheng Yan turned around and nodded, "Chengding is really abbot gracious, I have lived in the Jingjie Temple for three days, Ning Yi said that Sister Jingshu has been instructed by Master Huiyuan",
Jing Shu nodded slightly, and said softly, "Your Highness has Senior Brother Dingzhen's "Four Noble Truths Mantra" on him,
Zheng Yan was a little surprised, he didn't realize it at all, it must have been the heavy golden shadow of the Buddha when he absorbed Mu Hanyang's divine thoughts in the side hall at that time, but he didn't expect it to be maintained until now.
Shuangyun wanted to say something, Shen Ningyi and Xi Lan walked in quickly, Shen Ningyi hugged Xingwei and sobbed, the remaining few people were stunned and then only anxious, and asked Wang Yuan if the three of them were killed by others? Shen Ningyi just buried her head and sobbed, and Xi Lan on the side said softly. Those people have run away, we found Wang Yuan and them in the dungeon, but they were only injured, and they have been taken back to the monitoring station in the south, and the people who came said that they wanted Ning Yi to stay and continue to monitor Daqinggou, and by the way, they assisted the Xuanwu Army in handling the aftermath, and said that they would send people over again to build another monitoring station here, and Ning Yi would be stationed here,
Shuangyun took Shen Ningyi out of Xingwei's arms and hugged her into her arms, and said with a smile, "It's okay now, we can be together again, are you crying with joy now?"
Shen Ningyi nodded and rubbed all her tears on the placket of Shuangyun's clothes, and the angry Shuangyun picked her up and went into the bedroom, indeed, Shen Ningyi has been imprisoned these days, and she should have been exhausted, but she didn't show her performance, Zheng Yan sighed a little, no wonder this girl can get along with them so well, she is sincerely thinking about others, and she doesn't want them to worry about getting them involved, and she has been worried that her colleagues will never show anything in front of her friends, and she has not completely relaxed until now.
Such a temperament is indeed not suitable for being a wealthy lady.
Xingwei looked at Zheng Yan and asked softly, "Who will the general monitoring station send to garrison? Only Ning Yi can't do it? We can also help, not to mention that the master and the imperial court have always been in contact?"
Zheng Yan thought for a while and said, "The monitoring station is all Guanqiu Division or the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and then the Sedum Supervisor sends people, usually two partners, and will definitely send another one over, as Ning Yi's leader, it will not be a man, this can rest assured, I believe you will get along well, and the court will definitely consider these."
In fact, Zheng Yan still has something to say, the people sent by the imperial court will not only handle the relationship with Yuezhao and them, but also give them some cultivation convenience, after all, whether it is the Pure Ring Temple or the Lady of Qiandang Mountain, the imperial court needs to establish a stable relationship with it, and the Xuanming Valley next door, I heard Ning Yi say that there are also three demon cultivators who have been transformed, and they usually have no quarrel with the world, so that aside from the relationships behind them, there are eight real earth-level monks in front of them.
At this time, it was already noon, Xingwei took Jingshu and said that he wanted to prepare a big meal, for a while only Zheng Yan and Xi Lan were left in the living room, the atmosphere seemed to be a little awkward, the key Xi Lan actually had no intention of leaving, Zheng Yan thought about it and asked with a smile, "I don't know what Yuezhao and their bodies are...",
"Xingwei's body is the Celestial Star Red Demon Tarantula, and it has been practicing for almost 2,000 years now, and Shuangyun is a Xuanshui Fire Anacond, three hundred years younger than Xingwei...",
Zheng Yan was full of surprise, first thought of Shuangyun's waist, it was indeed like a snake's waist, tight and plump, and after looking at it for a while, his eyes were full of extreme temptation and charm, and then he thought of Xingwei, "Wait, Xingwei is holding a pipa, and I thought she was a purple pipa scorpion essence, what about Jingshu?
Xi Lan thought for a while and said, "That pipa is Jing Shu's, Jing Shu is a purple pipa scorpion essence, she probably didn't dare to ask you for advice before letting Yue Zhao come forward, Jing Shu has been practicing for more than 800 years, and she has never left here, probably because Ning Yi said that she is not sociable", saying that the girl actually looked thoughtful, probably thinking about what is unsociable,
After a while, I remembered that I hadn't finished answering Zheng Yan's question, so I said, "Xiaoluo's body is a three-thousand-year-old silver vein, and she is timid and afraid of people on weekdays", and said and pulled a vine by the window in, and the next moment the vine shone with a silver light, turning into a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl, with red lips and white teeth, pure and lovely, just looking at Xi Lan, who was still pinching her neck and not letting go, Zheng Yan suddenly thought of Scarlet, the same cuteness, but Scarlet was more agile, and the beautiful face of the little girl in front of her was full of shyness.
The little girl glanced at Zheng Yan timidly, lowered her little head under the table, and said softly, "Big brother plays very well, Jingshu plays like sawn wood, Xiao Luo is scared when she listens",
Zheng Yan joked, "Is Jingshu pulled with a bow?"
The little girl actually nodded very seriously, stretched out her little hand and made a move, and a bow for erhu flew out of the inner room, Zheng Yan was dumbfounded, and Jing Shu, who happened to be carrying a basket of vegetables, walked in, and saw the little girl holding the bow in her hand and playing the piano for Zheng Yan, while also saying, "Jing Shu is how to pull it."
Jing Shu on the side was already blushing, silently walked to Xiao Luo's side and took the bow, and then walked straight out, Zheng Yan saw Jing Shu standing still in the courtyard through the window and blowing a breath of gray gas, and the next moment the bow was wiped out, it was natal poisonous gas!
The woman, who was still expressionless, walked back to the house softly, gave Zheng Yan a slightly lame blessing, looked at Zheng Yan seriously and said softly, "Please teach me, sir,
Zheng Yan hurriedly stood up and saluted back, saying that there was no problem, and said that he must be a church, and then regretted it a lot, he still had to hurry, but the words were all said, so he could only expect Jingshu to be the kind of woman who was extremely smart, and it was best to be blue.
At the dinner table, Xiao Luo happily announced that Zheng Yan would teach Jing Shu, and everyone else was very happy, Xingwei said if he could help her make a pipa, after all, the previous one was Jing Shu's natal magic weapon,
Zheng Yan complained bitterly in his heart, making a pipa is more time-consuming than teaching people to play the pipa, but when he saw Xingwei's eyes like water and mist, he was a little soft-hearted for a while, and he really couldn't refuse the request of such a moving woman, he secretly scolded himself for being unproductive, and said with a smile, "You do it with me, and it will be more profound to master the playing techniques and music tunes when the time comes."
For a while, a hundred flowers bloomed on the dinner table, and when I saw Xilan and Jingshu, well, at least they were blooming slowly.
After two days, several people searched all the paulownia trees around, and finally Zheng Yan chose a wood that was most suitable for making pipa, and wanted to pull out a long sword to cut the thickest branch, but Jing Shu next to him had kicked off the whole tree with one foot, and the pear blossoms crying Xiaoluo on the side brought rain, and I don't know why I was sad, and I was very aggrieved for a while, Xingwei had to comfort softly, fortunately, Shuangyun was sent out by Zheng Yan to buy some fine materials needed to make pipa, otherwise it would be even more troublesome.
Xingwei comforted Xiaoluo and said that if she didn't cry, let her carry the tree home, Xiaoluo thought about it and laughed, so she really carried the paulownia hugged by the three of them and ran back, Zheng Yan wanted to prune the branches and leaves, but Xingwei smiled and pulled him, saying that Xiaoluo was going to cry in distress when she saw it, Zheng Yan muttered that when she was eating, she didn't see the girl missing chopsticks, and she was thinking that she had been carried by Xingwei and flew in the direction of the cave.
Try not to think about the touch around him and the ups and downs in his heart, Zheng Yan was already red-faced, and there was a soft voice in his ears, "What Shuangyun said is right, the breath on His Highness's body really smells good, remember to be restrained at all times when you go out, otherwise some villains or flesh-and-blood spirits will definitely not let go of Your Highness, let alone a cultivator with a pure yin body like Shuangyun, it is even more of a great attraction."
Zheng Yan thanked him unnaturally, sister, you can lean your nose and mouth a little outside, and Jingshu is still following behind.
Finally started to make pipa, in fact, Zheng Yan didn't have much experience, there is a musical instrument shop on Silk Street, all of which are made by the owner, Zheng Yan and a group of playmates often go to see, mainly to watch carpentry work, but the old man likes to chatter, good teachers, often pull the children to teach, sometimes let the children take the knife, Zheng Yan knows that he has always wanted to accept an apprentice, but the children don't like to deal with musical instruments, thinking that it is a woman's work, men should study in the temple or practice martial arts to fight for their lives.
The old man can make a lot of musical instruments, and the third aunt's grandmother's piano is made or repaired by the old man, Zheng Yan has always been very envious of people with skills, maybe because he has heard too many people say that he has a lot of skills.
First split out the blank, and then carved the body, originally carving the body is a very delicate and subtle work, because it is related to the timbre after it is made, but because Xingwei and Jingshu are both masters of the realm of adultery for many years, it is much easier to do this kind of thing, just need Zheng Yan to remind him;
Then it is to make some accessories, such as the shoe, the mountain pass, the chord groove, the phase, etc., Xingwei heard that some special materials such as jade horn and red sandalwood can be used, not to mention that it disappeared for three days, and when I saw her again, there was an extra cloth bag in her hand, and the brocade dress she was wearing was also damaged, and it seemed that there were injuries on the body, Zheng Yan was a little worried in his eyes, Xingwei just smiled softly, with some subtle and charming charm.
Zheng Yan thought about it or didn't talk too much, opened the burden and gasped, although he usually didn't care much about those natural treasures, but he was born in the emperor's family and still had knowledge, Taiqing Caiguang silk, the spiritual jade of the empty mountain, the thousand-year-old lotus essence, the ice chalcedony, the bronze platinum that seemed to be some years old, and the two black horns with blood,
Seeing Zheng Yan's surprise, Xingwei lazily leaned over and said casually, "A bull monster who has practiced for more than 3,000 years was bullied by him in the early years, and just took his two horns to take revenge; What kind of wood is this? That loose cultivation seems to be hidden as a treasure, I look strange and take it back, you can see if you can use it",
Zheng Yan smiled helplessly and said, "Do you only concentrate on finding people for revenge every few hundred years? This piece of wood is wasted on the piano, Tianxing Yumu, you keep it for practice, it will be very beneficial to you, I will teach you how to use it in a while, this fire cloth is used to make clothes, Moyuan red gold, throw it away, although it is very valuable, it is not a good thing for you, and the Buddhist monks among the human monks do not dare to use it easily, this is Shisha, well, there are monks who practice the way of heaven will use it as a treasure, and this small bag can probably exchange them for some good heavenly treasures."
Xi Lan has been accompanying Shen Ningyi to deal with the affairs of the other courtyard, Shuangyun was restrained by Jing Shu to save Zheng Yan a lot of heart, Jing Shu really regarded Zheng Yan as a gentleman, so it took a total of ten days to finally make two pipas, and the two of them also basically mastered the pipa technique, and the music can be played intermittently, and the rest only need to practice.
Xingwei's Zheng Yan added some formations, and counting those materials is already a magic weapon, of course, it is still much worse than Jingshu's purple pipa, in fact, for Xingwei, this is a musical instrument or a toy,
On this day, the supervision officials sent by the imperial court will also come as Shen Ningyi's guide.