[Comprehensive] Cannon fodder, do you want to counterattack?

Lin Ruo once asked Lin Boyuan about Li Yuan's character, and Lin Boyuan's conclusion was: suave and open-minded, self-willed and straightforward, tolerant and tolerant of all, no matter the noble or the humble, he is happy.

Lin Ruo is very confident in Lin Boyuan's vision of seeing people, so he is happy to live a day that should be cautious.And Li Yuan's attitude towards him was also unexpectedly tolerant, it could even be called connivance.

"Let's talk!" Li Yuan looked at the appalling chess game, and pretended to be angry, "How much strength did you use in the previous few games?"

"Ah," Lin Ruo scratched her chin, thinking hard, "It's not easy to forget."

Li Yuan laughed and cursed: "Stinky brat!"

He said again: "That's all, it's up to you, if you don't go down, you don't go down, go back!"

He secretly sighed in his heart: he is proficient in all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, the little book boy's words are not bragging. After seeing other things about this young man, he yearns for his piano skills even more.But the more familiar you are, the more reluctant you are to force him...

Lin Ruo smiled and said, "Don't be discouraged, old man. I'm a talented Lin. I haven't fought against anyone with all my strength since I was 16 years old. It's not shameful to lose to me!"

Li Yuan asked curiously, "How long has it been since you turned sixteen?"

Lin Ruo stretched out two fingers.

"Two years?"

"Two months."

Li Yuan glared at him, then turned his head and ordered loudly: "Pack up your things and go back home!"

Lin Ruo laughed loudly, stood up and slapped the dust off her body: "Xiaoshu, I'm back! I'm back! If you don't go back, uncle should be worried."

Seeing that Lin Ruo got up and was about to pack things with Xiaoshu, Li Yuan raised his hand to stop him, and ordered his servant to come forward to help, and said, "Is there just such a servant by your side?"

Lin Ruodao: "One is enough, Xiaoshu is very capable."

Li Yuan snorted coldly and said: "It's capable, but it's far from the rules, and it's too disrespectful to take only one servant... Lin Boyuan is a fifth-rank official after all, and he doesn't even want to send you a few more servants." ?" When chatting just now, he had revealed Lin Ruo's identity, but he still didn't mention his own identity.

Lin Ruo said solemnly: "The old man misunderstood my uncle. My uncle treated me like my biological parents. Both my parents died when I was young. My uncle took me to Chang'an as a baby. In order to take care of me, my uncle had no choice but to treat me like this." I found some work of copying books to get by, and even developed the ability to do two things at once - push the cradle with my feet, and copy the books in my hands without messing up. Until I was two years old, I was able to leave my side. Uncle started looking for work outside when he had to get away."

He suddenly laughed again when he said this, and said: "I heard from my uncle that when I was young, I had a very good memory and was good at reciting books. In the beginning, my uncle worked as an accountant for others. One day the master came over and saw me alone. A man was sitting on a small stool reading a book, and on a whim, he asked me a question, but I answered very fluently. He knew that it was my uncle who taught me, so he asked my uncle not to be the accountant, but to be a teacher for his children. "

"The young master of that family was 11 years old at the time. He was very intelligent, but he was very naughty. He had already left more than a dozen gentlemen in anger. According to my uncle, at that time he asked me to sit side by side with the young master of that family and Teach. Ask the little boy to recite the book, but the little boy ignored him, so he asked me to recite it. When I recited it, he sighed, "Why is it not as good as a two-year-old child?" If I couldn't recite it, he sighed too. Why is it the same as a two-year-old child?" Finally, one time, my uncle asked me a question, but I couldn't answer it. The little boy said the answer triumphantly, and the uncle nodded, "It's better than a two-year-old child." The young master was furious, and from then on he worked hard to study, vowing to compare me."

Li Yuan laughed loudly and asked, "What happened next?"

Lin Ruodao: "That family is a businessman's family. We just want him to learn how to read and write, so that he can take over the business in the future. He started to study hard, but he learned almost in a year, and then he followed his father to learn how to do business. "

Li Yuan said: "Then did he compare to you in the end?"

Lin Ruo smiled and said, "How do I remember what happened at that time? But when he sees me now, he still calls me little brother!"

Li Yuan laughed loudly, and said again: "Your uncle is also considered a capable person, and you also learned these skills from your uncle?"

Lin Ruo shook his head and said, "Uncle doesn't know this. Uncle was poor when he was young, so it would be nice if his family could send him to recognize a few characters and read a few books, so he simply put all his heart into books. But he said let me take advantage of it. When I was young, I learned anything I wanted to learn except for my homework. When I grow up, I may not have the energy to learn. Then I told him that I want to learn the piano. But how can my uncle hire a gentleman to teach me to play the piano? So So he inquired everywhere. He found out that there was a gentleman in the family school of the Zhang family who specialized in teaching piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. It was very hard work, and the salary was less than half of what it was before, but when I learned the first piece of music and played it to him at home, my uncle laughed and said it was a good deal."

After a pause, he continued: "The ones I know, half of them were picked up from other gentlemen with my uncle, and half of them were later learned by my uncle when he became an official and sent me to the academy."

Li Yuan sighed softly and said, "Your uncle treats you really well."

With a look of nostalgia on his face, he said: "I also lost my father since I was young, but my mother and aunt also treated me very well."

Then he said: "Your uncle has worked so hard to learn the piano for you. Now that you don't play the piano anymore, isn't he sad?"

Lin Ruo sighed: "It's all because I was young and energetic, and I didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth, so I gambled with others. I have heard people say that no matter how bitter the wine I brew, I have to swallow it. It's my own fault."

Li Yuan snorted coldly: "It's all to blame that kid surnamed Yun, if it wasn't for him..."

Lin Ruo said with a smile: "If it wasn't for her, there would be no 'Jiangjinjiu' and 'Don't you see me' in this world, and that would be a real regret through the ages."

He also said: "My husband likes music, so you might as well come to Lin Mansion to find me next time you are free. I will take you to a good place and enjoy your ears." When he was an old man, he was willing to have sincere friendship.

Li Yuan said disdainfully: "The place where you listen to Qu'er in Chang'an City, the old man doesn't know better than you? It's almost the same if I take you there."

Lin Ruodao: "Old man, don't brag. The place I'm going to, ordinary people don't know. If I really have heard a better song than that, I'll just... that's all! I'd better not bet on it!"

Li Yuan laughed.

……

Because Li Yuanji claimed to live nearby, Lin Ruo separated from them after going down the mountain, and it was nearly dusk when they got home.

Lin Ruo didn't wash up first, and went to the kitchen to instruct the cook to cook the fish he brought back.

Because someone from Li Yuan was a free porter, Lin Ruo brought back quite a lot of fish. After making them, everyone in the house would have a share, and he also put a dozen or so bowls in small bowls and sent them to the fish. His classmates—the painting was snatched away by Li Yuanqiang, and he was too lazy to paint again. He couldn't use the beautiful scenery to entice them, so he could only use delicious food.

Lin Ruo didn't bother to worry about why he knew that he could make delicious food in this way, anyway, it was enough that the food was delicious and not poisonous.

In order to achieve the goal of being "greedy", Lin Ruo only packed two or three yuan in each serving full of malice, so they must not be able to eat to their heart's content!

The things scattered out made several members of the Li family feel uncomfortable.

Li Yuan is not in a good mood: Lao Tzu's people caught the fish for you, and Lao Tzu's people helped you carry it down the mountain, and in the end they made something, but I didn't have any part in it!

Li Jiancheng is not in a good mood: the Lin family is his subordinate, and the blind can see his attitude towards the Lin family. Even if something is insignificant, he should show his heart in front of him, right?

Li Shimin is not in the same mood: that person did it "by himself"...

Lin Ruo sent out the fish, except for one or two, they all wrote back, yelling that they will go up the mountain together tomorrow, and told him not to prepare anything, the food, wine, singer, and the others had all taken care of it, and they had to bring the cook with them.

In fact, although the fish was good, it was not enough to make people greedy. Whether it was Lin Ruo's fish or their reply, it was more of an attitude.

So the next day, people gathered dozens of young people, plus the servants they brought, a large group of people went up the mountain together, and it was a good day to play.

Lin Ruo, who returned to the Lin Mansion at night, suddenly discovered that after a month of messy things, he suddenly lived a carefree life.

The aftermath of the matter of playing the piano has been eliminated, and with Li Shimin's guarantee, no matter who wins or loses between the prince and the king of Qin in the future, his Lin family can rest easy.

Lin Ruo also thought about why King Qin gave such a condition?In addition to "repaying kindness", Yuemo has a deeper meaning: Lin Boyuan has always behaved well-behaved, and is not good at making suggestions. Even in the Prince's camp, he is just devoted to his duties and has no destructive power.Compared with Lin Boyuan, Lin Ruo's own ability is much more unpredictable. Li Shimin's assurance at least prevents Lin Ruo from taking the initiative to stand up against him for the sake of Lin Boyuan's future and life.

In this way, Li Shimin's act of "repaying his kindness" is more beneficial than harmful to himself.

Today's Lin Ruo has no worries about life, no worries about safety, and no worries about her future... probably.

So the laziness hidden in Lin Ruogen's mind began to break out, he stayed at home and refused to go out, read, write, draw and paint, and calculated some meaningless things—for example, whether the comprador could buy cheap vegetables today , it will be the first son of the old man outside the city who will send the dry materials tomorrow... As for whether it is accurate or not, only God and himself know.

After staying at home for two days, a message came to the door, but it was a distinguished guest who came by appointment.

Lin Ruo didn't invite anyone to enter the door, and went out directly to get into Li Yuan's carriage, and was satisfied to see that Li Yuanji was not in the carriage, and said with a smile: "It's a coincidence that the old man came, and it happens that I can go there in time, and it won't be too late! "

Outside, Xiaoshu sat on the shaft of the carriage and pointed the way. The coachman drove the carriage and stopped at the side gate of a garden after turning around in Chang'an City.

Li Yuan lifted the curtain, looked at the big lock on the door, and said in surprise: "It's not a coincidence that we came here?"

As soon as the words were finished, Xiaoshu came forward, took out the key, skillfully unlocked the big lock, and pushed the door open.

After being investigated by the servants, Li Yuan and others entered the door, and they were taken aback when they entered the door: "What kind of place is this?"

It turns out that there is such a dilapidated place in Chang'an City?It is said to be a garden, but weeds are overgrown and vines are rampant. The rockery nursery has long since lost its original appearance, and the pavilions and pavilions are also deserted.

"It's the mansion of an imperial physician from the previous dynasty," Lin Ruo said, "their family's ancestral medical skills, father and son all worked as imperial physicians in the palace. Once Emperor Yangdi had diarrhea, so he recruited the old imperial physician to diagnose the pulse and prescribe a prescription, but the medicine didn't improve , and cut down their father and son together. There was only one married daughter left in their family. She couldn't bear to sell the garden, let alone come in, so it was abandoned. After she passed away, her son I wanted to sell it, but the place was too far away and dilapidated, so I couldn’t sell it for a price, so I built a few walls, opened a few side doors, and rented out the yard inside.”

While talking, several people walked along a relatively clean path to a courtyard gate, Xiaoshu opened the courtyard gate, Lin Ruo smiled and said, "I rented this courtyard."

Li Yuan smiled and said: "Could it be that you have learned how to hide beauty in a golden house at a young age?" Suddenly remembered that Xiaoshu was opened outside, obviously there would be no one inside, and he knew it was wrong.

The yard was extremely small, but it was tidy. Lin Ruo directly led Li Yuan to sit in the yard, and ordered Xiaoshu to go in and make tea.Some of the people brought by Li Yuan went into the house to help, and some stayed inside and outside the courtyard.

When Li Yuan got all the hot tea, but the player who played the qin hadn't come yet, he couldn't help saying: "Didn't you tell me to bring me to listen to the qin? Why didn't you send someone to invite the qin player?"

Lin Ruo raised her finger and let out a "hush".

Li Yuan had no choice but to wait patiently. After a while, he heard the sound of "Xian Weng" coming from outside the courtyard. Only then did he realize that the boy brought him to listen to the piano because he was eavesdropping.

Those who let Lin Ruo rent a yard to eavesdrop are naturally not ordinary people, but this is not such an amazing piano sound. It seems ordinary, even a little flat when you first hear it, but when you listen to it again, it makes people wonder. Unknowingly addicted to it, it is a kind of relief after going through vicissitudes and returning to peace, as if the smile on the blue sky and blue sea after crossing the thorns covered with bruises, with a kind of flexibility, a kind of open-mindedness...

This is music that cannot be described with the word "beautiful".

After one song, Li Yuan was silent for a long time. This was the sound of the piano that he would never hear in the palace, in the Qinlou Chu Pavilion.

Lin Ruo said: "How is it? Is it a good song?"

Li Yuan nodded, Lin Ruo said: "Then let's go!"

"Let's go?" Li Yuan was taken aback: "Just one song?"

Lin Ruo hummed, and said: "It's luck to be able to hear one song. Do you think it's the music outside that you can listen to as much as you want with money? Sometimes I can't hear it even if I come here for half a day. One sound!"

Sighing: "I also want to listen to a few more songs, but that person's habit, it's good to have one song a day."

Li Yuan glanced at the wall with regret, and sighed: "Then let's go!"

Just about to get up, there was another sound of "Xian Weng" from outside the wall, the position seemed to be much closer than before, and then the sound of "ding ding dong dong" played again.

It is equally touching, but this time the emotions contained in the music seem to be much more complicated, like nostalgia, worry, and concern, and finally turned into relief.

After the song, Li Yuan was satisfied and felt that the trip was worthwhile. Then he looked at Lin Ruo, but saw that the usually calm young man seemed a little uneasy. He reached out and touched his body a few times, but couldn't find what he was looking for. Go, just took a step and seemed to think of something, stopped and said in a low voice: "Xiaoshu, look at what musical instrument I left in this yard?"

Li Yuan said: "I have a few musical instruments in my carriage."

Before his people came back, Xiaoshu came out of the house first, holding a black stone-like thing in his hand, and said: "My lord, that's all."

As soon as the words fell, a low sigh came from outside the wall, and this time the position was closer, followed by the sound of a piano, which seemed to be a little anxious.

Lin Ruo smiled wryly: "Then this is it!"

He took the Xun from Xiaoshu's hand, raised his hand to his lips, and the next moment, the ethereal and simple music sounded slowly.That ancient voice seemed to come through time and space, and it captured everyone's minds at once.

If the sound of the piano player in the palace is melodious, if the sound of the piano outside the wall is exciting, then the music played by Lin Ruo will make you have no time to marvel and praise, you can only immerse yourself in that world wholeheartedly In, unable to extricate themselves.

Li Yuan finally understood why the song "Jiangjinjiu" became a masterpiece. At that time, hundreds of people heard it, many of them were proficient in melody, but afterward, no one could sort out the score of "Jiangjinjiu"... When Lin After Ruo's piano sounded, he didn't even have time to think about what tune he was hearing.

Li Yuan didn't know when the sound of the xun stopped. After that song, he felt as if his whole body had been washed by a clear spring from the inside to the outside. What is the reason for the tears.

Feeling ashamed, Li Yuan wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and looked at the young man who had shocked him time and time again, only to see that he was rubbing his cheeks with a bitter face, and he kicked away the Xun which had just blew a heavenly sound.

Xiaoshu picked up the Xun on the ground and complained: "My lord, you are becoming more and more outrageous now. You play with one and throw one away every time. Although our family is not poor now, you can't do this!"

Lin Ruo said angrily: "I remember throwing this thing away long ago? I blew it once last time, and my cheeks hurt for three days! I can't speak well, where did you find it now?"

The little boy said without changing his expression: "You were thrown into the grass outside in the garden, but the little one picked it up secretly again! If the little one didn't pick it up, you would have nothing to use right now!"

Lin Ruo gritted her teeth and said, "Take it and sell it! Your son, I don't want to see it in my life!" Whoever made this thing, it's so painful to blow it up!

Xiaoshu muttered: "But it's not worth much, ceramics..."

Lin Ruo said angrily: "Then smash it!"

"...The small ones should be sold! No matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat!"

Li Yuan: "..."

This kid, when you treat him like a fairy, he will turn into a naughty boy every minute for you to see.

At this moment, a gentle and moving voice sounded from outside the wall: "But Mr. Lin?"

The people inside were silent for a moment, Lin Ruo was stunned, and then said: "Yes, how do you know it's me?" He passed by this place more than half a year ago, and when he heard the sound of the piano coming from inside, he was astonished, and he was approaching I rented out my yard, and I often come to listen to a piece of music, and sometimes play a piece.The two of them had a tacit understanding, neither inquired about the other, neither disturbed the other, nor met anyone, but just listened quietly when the piano sounded next door.

The woman with a gentle voice said: "A month ago, my concubine heard that Mr. Lin played a song 'Will Drink' outside the city, so I wondered if it could be you, Mr. You. I haven't seen Mr. Lin come over for a month. , Now I come here once, but I don’t play the piano anymore, so I dared to guess. However, I feel that the master’s accomplishments in xun seem to be higher than piano skills!"

Lin Ruo said: "There have been some changes in the past few days, my mood has improved a bit, and I have also made breakthroughs in rhythm, but Lin Ruo's favorite is still Yaoqin after all, it's a pity that the girl can't comment on it, it's really a pity .”

The woman smiled softly, and said: "My concubine and Mr. Lin met each other by the sound of the piano. I shouldn't take the liberty to disturb you, but I will leave Beijing soon. Before I leave, I can know the identity of the young master and know that the young master is safe. I have made a wish. I am leaving now as a concubine."

Lin Ruodao: "The girl left Beijing suddenly, but there is something unspeakable, or..."

The woman sighed softly, and said: "There are many nobles in Beijing, Mr. Lin is famous all over the world, and he almost... let alone Yunniang? You don't have to worry about Yunniang. From now on, it is a beautiful thing for Yunniang to be free and free. "

Lin Ruo smiled wryly, before she could speak, Li Yuan suddenly asked in surprise, "Yunniang?"

The woman seemed to be frightened, she paused and said: "Young master has guests, Yunniang will not bother you anymore, from now on the world will be separated forever, and you will cherish it forever."

The sound of small footsteps faded away.

Lin Ruo looked at Li Yuan and said in surprise, "I know Yunniang?"

Li Yuan sighed: "Yunniang was a very popular Qing courtier five years ago. At that time, her piano skills were not as impressive as they are now, but they were quite outstanding and were sought after by many people. It's just that she has a cold temper and would not take it easy. Seeing people. Later, because she refused to be combed and asked to redeem herself, the old bust naturally refused and offered a sky-high price. Yun Niang destroyed her appearance in a rage, and then she was able to escape, and there was no news from then on... Live here in seclusion." He also liked Yun Niang quite a lot at that time, and often concealed his identity to cheer.Later, after knowing that Yunniang was being persecuted, she still wanted to help her, but she never thought that she would be so decisive...

He sighed softly again, and said with pity: "She lives in this kind of place, and she thinks her life is very poor, but back then she was Jin Yiyu..."

Lin Ruo interrupted: "If she cares about these things, how can she destroy her appearance and leave Beijing at this moment?"

There was obvious impatience in Lin Ruo's tone, Li Yuan raised his brows, and was about to explode: He became Tang Guogong at the age of eight, and now he is the king of a country, ruling the world. he talk?

Looking up coldly, he saw Lin Ruozheng turning his head and looking out of the wall. From his perspective, the boy's side face was exquisite and picturesque, but the two-way clear eyes were a bit slack, the dense long eyelashes trembled slightly, and his lips He pressed it tightly, his shoulders were straightened, and his whole body revealed a kind of anger and exhaustion in his bones.

Yunniang's words rang in my ears again: "There are many nobles in Beijing, Mr. Lin is famous all over the world, and he almost... let alone Yunniang?"

Thinking that this young man with amazing talent, beauty and charm was once forced to leave the capital and was hunted down by Li Shimin for more than ten days, and now it is Yunniang's turn to do the same thing again, the anger in my heart somehow turned into a guilty conscience.

Li Yuan sighed softly, patted the young man on the shoulder, and said, "Don't worry about Yunniang's affairs, I will take care of it. How about I take you to Chunhua Pavilion for a drink? Although the girl Mochou there is not as good as Yunniang, her piano skills It's also top notch..."

Lin Ruo interrupted him again: "No."

Li Yuan's expression froze.

I only heard the boy continue: "I don't go to that kind of place."

Li Yuandao: "Ah, Ruo dislikes them..." I heard that many talented people have a cleanliness habit. Could it be that this young man is also like this?

"I'm not necessarily nobler than them. What right do I have to despise them?" Lin Ruo said, "I just don't want to embarrass them, and I don't want to embarrass myself."

He smiled lazily and said: "They smile at me not because they like me, but because they have to. When they talk to me, they don't say what they want to say, but what I want to hear... They are not drinking and chatting with me, they are dealing with me, for money, or for survival. But I don’t like being dealt with, so I feel very tired, they are tired, and I am tired, so I simply don’t go.”

Li Yuan sighed: "Ah Ruo, you look like this..."

Lin Ruo turned to look at him, smiled faintly, shrugged and said, "It will be tolerated by the world, right?"

Li Yuan was silent.

"I know, I know," Lin Ruo smiled and said, "How could I not know?"

He stretched himself, and wiped away the fragility on his body, and said: "I don't want to belittle myself, my piano skills are very high, at least, in this Chang'an city, no one can match me. No matter whores are famous Even the luthiers in the palace, they are all inferior to me. But Lun talent, they are like no one in ten thousand, and they are definitely not inferior to me; Lun skills, they make a living by this, practiced hard since childhood, and they are far better than me... ...Then why are they not as good as me? Why did Yunniang improve her piano skills even after she left the brothel and stopped making a living from it?"

He paused, smiled rather bored, and said: "Because Qin is the voice of the heart, what they say is what others want to hear, and what I say is what I want to say, so how can they compare to me? "

He stood up, and said with his hands behind his back: "I, Lin Ruo, have never existed to please others in this life, whether it is a person or a piano. If this world really can't tolerate me, then let the current Lin Ruo die. A smooth, accidental, and groveling walking corpse was reborn, but that Lin Ruo was no longer me. At that time, not only the piano, but all the music in the world, he would not defile it." He understands the world, he He will also play tricks, but there are some things that he will never do.

Li Yuan looked at the cold young man standing under the sun, and was speechless for a long time.