51. High Mountain and Flowing Water Song
In the morning, the air in Suzhou was still extremely fresh.
In the attic of a secret courtyard in the west of the city, Du Buwang and the owner of the courtyard were standing.
At this time, the owner of Fushen, who had just climbed up the building, said to Du Buwang and the others:
"Do you want to buy a piano?"
Du Buwang quickly stepped forward and replied:
"yes".
Then he picked up the guqin and Luqi and said to the owner:
"I don't know if my master's surname is, I'm interested in this piano."
The rich master replied:
"My husband's surname is Wang and his name is Ao. The young master really has a good opinion. He actually fell in love with my favorite piano."
At this time, Li Fuxing, on the side, quickly saluted and said to the master of Fushen:
"Can you be the former Minister of the Ministry of Revenue and the Grand Secretary Wang Ao?"
Wang Ao sighed and immediately waved his hand to Li Fuxing with a smile and said:
"If you don't mention the past, I'm just a businessman now."
At this time, Zhu Er, who was standing beside him, stepped forward and asked:
"Senior Wang, please forgive me for asking. It seems that you have loved these guqins very much before, so why did you sell them again?"
Wang Ao looked at Zhu Er and suddenly felt very familiar, just like a person I often saw in the palace lectures before, so he replied:
"Business is not easy recently, and the Ming Dynasty is in chaos. The Ministry of Revenue is short of money. My friend used to borrow money from me to turn over military expenses. I thought that I was old and it would be useless to ask for these things, so I planned to sell them all. Turning over military expenses to the court is the only little effort that I can contribute to the court for many years after retiring."
Then he changed the topic and pointed at Zhu Er and said:
"I remembered that this brother seems to be a little prince I often saw in the palace, but he was younger than you at that time."
When Zhu Er saw Wang Ao say this, he must have seen his father when he was a child, so he bowed to Wang Ao for a moment and replied respectfully:
"I'm not hiding it from you, Mr. Wang. Zhu Hougui, the son of Zhu Youzhi, the son of King Wang Naixing, sir, what you saw before must be my father when he was a child."
Wang Ao quickly supported Zhu Houcan, who was about to worship again, and said:
"The little prince is really a tragic man. I should be the one who saluted you. You are the royal noble prince, so this is not acceptable."
Zhu Er then started to greet Wang Ao.
After a while, Wang Ao reacted, and everyone around was waiting to buy a piano, so he asked Du Buwang:
"Does this little brother really like my piano?"
Zhu Er said for Du Buwang:
"Of course, he is my sworn brother."
Wang Ao then stroked his beard and said with a smile:
"So that's it. This piano is the most expensive one here. It's the little prince's brother, so I'll give it to him."
Zhu Er said quickly:
"Thank you very much Mr. Wang."
Du Buwang continued to say:
"Thank you Senior Wang, but how could I take your piano for nothing?"
After saying that, he took out two ingots of gold ingots from his bag and put them on the table.
Seeing this, Wang Ao naturally refused to accept it, so he made the shopkeeper still have Du Buying.
Du Buwang had to say:
"Senior Wang actually sold it to the court for military pay. Isn't it enough to just think that I have done my best for the court?"
Seeing that Du Buwang insisted on doing this, Wang Ao had no choice but to accept the gold ingots happily.
After a while, Du Buwang and a few others said goodbye to Wang Ao and rushed back to the inn to practice the piano.
When Du Buwang and his friends returned to the inn, Liu Shuzhen and Zhu Sanmei were not interested in Qin, so they went out shopping and bought things. Li Fuxing was gone, and only Zhu Er was left to teach Du Buwang to learn Qin.
Du Buwuwang learned the piano for the first time, but he couldn't learn it no matter how hard he taught. Zhu Er taught for a while, but he lost his patience and went out.
Du Buwang learned it himself and tried to play the mountains and flowing waters that Zhu Er taught before.
But I always felt that the tune was played, which was completely inconsistent with the artistic conception of mountains and flowing water. After a while, I was so anxious that I grind my fingers out of bubbles.
I had to stop and look for Zhu Er again.
Unexpectedly, when Zhu Er was in a hurry to go out, he also came. The two of them didn't pay attention and their foreheads hit each other. After a while, a big bag was raised on their foreheads.
Zhu Er said first:
"It's already noon now, it's time to go out for dinner. Just now, the waiter from the inn came up to ask the third sister and the others for a letter, saying that the three of them are waiting for us in the Yuelai Restaurant in the city."
Du Buwang heard from his second brother Zhu Er that it was already noon and it was time to have dinner. He realized that he was really hungry, so he had to go to Yuelai Restaurant with Zhu Er and the others to have dinner with him.
After a while, the two of them arrived at the restaurant and saw that the third sister, Liu Shuzhen and Li Fuxing were waiting on the seat, and the food was full, which was very rich.
After all, for a few days, no one had gathered together for a big meal, so everyone started to eat wine and meat.
Just as I was full, there were cheerful sounds of piano from the restaurant compartment. I saw that the sound of piano flowing like flowing water, sometimes echoing and sometimes tilting, very pleasant.
Zhu Er said to Du Buwuwang:
"Brother, isn't this the mountains and flowing water I taught you before?"
Du Buwang replied excitedly:
"Yes, why can't I play this kind of artistic conception?"
Zhu Er said again:
"This must be a master of piano skills."
After a while, the piano sound entered the first section, and kept pouring from the cliff like a waterfall. Everyone on the dining table was attracted by the piano sound for a while and stopped the meal.
After the waterfall was over and the piano sound stopped, several people came to their senses.
At this time, everyone was amazed, especially Li Fuxing said:
"The mountains and flowing waters have been played with such a natural sound. I must get to know this Mr. Qin."
After saying that, he got up and walked towards the compartment, and the few people followed him immediately.
When I arrived at the door, I found that there was no one inside.
Du Buwang called the waiter and asked:
"Do you know who was the master of the piano playing just now?"
The waiter replied:
"It's also a guest. The two of them came in just now, played the piano for a while, gave me some silver, and left. I don't know anything about it."
Then he touched his head and continued:
"He seemed to have said something when he gave me a piece of money, but I forgot it for a moment."
At this time, Li Fuxing raised the waiter through his sleeve anxiously and asked again:
"Watch it quickly, what did he say?"
Du Buwuwang and Zhu Er quickly persuaded Li Fuxing to put the waiter down.
The waiter was shocked by Li Fuxing. Instead, he remembered that the piano player had just left words, and he said to Li Fuxing with helpless eyes:
"It seems that if someone asks, he will say Liuzhuang, Taihu Lake, Wuli West of the city. Yes, it seems that this is the sentence."
When the few people heard this, Zhu Er said first:
"It seems that this master must have intended to invite us to Liuzhuang."
The few people went downstairs directly, borrowed a few horses from the city, and headed to Liuzhuang.
Liu Shuzhen could not ride a horse, so she was led by Zhu Sanmei. Du Buying passed by the ancient Xiangyang road last time and immediately became thrilling. Instead, riding skills improved a lot. The other two taught various things since childhood, so there was no need to say riding skills.
After a while, a few people came to Liuzhuang by Taihu Lake. They saw that the lake water here was clear and the willows were shaded by the lake.
A poetic and picturesque door plaque hanging in front of a courtyard by the lake, with two big words "Liuzhuang" written in thin gold.
Several people got off the horse and went up to knock on the door.
Chapter completed!