[Baiyutang] Wind-dried clothes

The wind poured into the house, making people shiver uncontrollably.

Yu Mo turned out from behind the screen and screened the door for everyone.Pang Yu said: "My father sent me and my wife here this time to congratulate Mr. Yan on his appointment to Fengtai, and to ask for an old debt from the Zhizhi County. But now that the official Hu is dead and his family members are missing, this debt cannot be settled. It's useless to discuss."

At the end, he glanced out of the window again, and said: "It's going to rain today, and it's inconvenient for me and my wife to stay for a long time, so I'll say goodbye to my lord, and go back to the post."

Yan Chasan said: "Mr. Pang, if there is anything inconvenient, feel free to speak to the lower officials."

Pang Yu's eyes swept over Bai Yutang and Lu Caichun, and said with a smile, "I do have an unfeeling request."

Yan Chasan said, "But it's okay to talk about it."

Pang Yu said: "My wife and I are often accompanied by the third younger brother when we go out. Firstly, it is because my legs and feet are inconvenient, and my wife can't take care of me. Second, the third younger brother knows some boxing skills. After all, it is more considerate to have him accompany. Now the third younger brother Not here, my wife and I are inconvenient to walk in the county, I hope your lord..."

Before Pang Yu finished speaking, Yan Chasan turned to look at Bai Yutang and asked, "Would Young Hero Bai accompany you?"

The wind poured into the house, making people shiver uncontrollably.

Yu Mo turned out from behind the screen and screened the door for everyone.Pang Yu said: "My father sent me and my wife here this time to congratulate Mr. Yan on his appointment to Fengtai, and to ask for an old debt from the Zhizhi County. But now that the official Hu is dead and his family members are missing, this debt cannot be settled. It's useless to discuss."

At the end, he glanced out of the window again, and said: "It's going to rain today, and it's inconvenient for me and my wife to stay for a long time, so I'll say goodbye to my lord, and go back to the post."

Yan Chasan said: "Mr. Pang, if there is anything inconvenient, feel free to speak to the lower officials."

Pang Yu's eyes swept over Bai Yutang and Lu Caichun, and said with a smile, "I do have an unfeeling request."

Yan Chasan said, "But it's okay to talk about it."

Pang Yu said: "My wife and I are often accompanied by the third younger brother when we go out. Firstly, it is because my legs and feet are inconvenient, and my wife can't take care of me. Second, the third younger brother knows some boxing skills. After all, it is more considerate to have him accompany. Now the third younger brother Not here, my wife and I are inconvenient to walk in the county, I hope your lord..."

Before Pang Yu finished speaking, Yan Chasan turned to look at Bai Yutang and asked, "Would Young Hero Bai accompany you?"

Mei He smiled and said, "I really hope that Miss Lu will come with me from the bottom of my heart."

Bai Yutang said: "No problem." Seeing this, Lu Caichun also nodded in agreement.

Before leaving, Yan Chasan also ordered Yu Mo to give some umbrellas to the four of them.After leaving the door, Mei He told the groom who had been in the car for a long time to drive back to the post station first, then turned around and said to Lu and Bai, "I wonder if you two would like to go somewhere with me?"

Bai Yutang crossed his arms, raised his jaw, and said, "Let's go."

The wind blows low and blows dust on the road.The rain had already dripped down, leaving wet marks on the stone slabs. Seeing the light of day, people on both sides of the road sought shelter from the nearby eaves.Lu Caichun opened an umbrella and handed it to Mei He.Mei He took it and threw most of it on Pang Yu's head, then turned his head slightly to thank Lu Caishu.

Suddenly, the number of pedestrians on the street decreased, and the four walked forward.Mei He first asked Lu Caichun about the scenery and customs of Fengtai County, and the conversation between the two gradually got better, before Lu Caichun turned to ask her some irrelevant things.Lu Caichun said: "I don't know how long the son and wife will stay in the county?"

Mei He said: "Seeing that there is nothing to do, I will go back in two or three days."

Lu Caichun said: "Officer Hu had an accident, and the two of you failed to recover the debt. Will the head of the country be to blame?"

Pang Yu smiled and said, "Thank you Miss Lu for your concern. This account is not serious money. My wife and I came to Guidi just to find such an excuse to go out to play in the mountains and rivers."

Lu and Bai didn't expect Pang Yu to be so blunt, even saying "it's not serious money", they looked at each other, wondering what kind of temperament the couple had.

Pang Yu said again: "I heard that there is a very famous luthier in Fengtai, and my wife wanted to ask him for a silk tree, so here I am."

Bai Yutang said: "Although Bai has never heard of any luthier in Fengtai, but if you want to find him, you must first ask him where he lives - the young master came here so recklessly, if you can't find him, wouldn't it be a disappointment? return?"

Pang Yu just smiled and didn't answer.

After walking for a while, I suddenly saw a plaque picked out from a shop not far away, engraved with three large characters of "Mingmu Ji", which was covered with dripping ink.Mei He raised his head and saw it, and said, "Ming Mu Ji—sounds like a piano shop. Why don't you go in and have a look?"

The four stepped up their pace, not only to shelter from the wind and rain, but also to go in to find out.When he got close, he put away his umbrella and went into the middle of the shop. As Mei He expected, it was indeed a piano shop, with occasional calligraphy and painting. The shopkeeper with a gray beard, Zhi Yi, was dozing off behind the stage.

Mei He and Pang Yu looked around at the qin instruments hanging on the wall, while Lu Caichun stepped forward and tapped on the counter lightly. The shopkeeper's head shook and he woke up suddenly.Suddenly seeing many people in the store, he hurriedly asked: "Are you here to buy calligraphy and painting, or to buy musical instruments?"

After Pang Yu glanced around, he thought that the qin instruments all over the wall were probably vulgar objects, so he asked the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, I would like to inquire about a master who makes qin." The surname and appearance were told to the shopkeeper in detail.

The shopkeeper murmured: "It's not that I don't know about the master Xianggong said, but he has disappeared into the forest and hasn't been out of the mountains for many years. Even the old man who took several pianos from him in the past has no news of him now. Xianggong If you want to ask him for a piano, I am afraid that this old man will not be able to help you."

Lu Caichun hurriedly asked: "Since the store has taken his piano, can you still keep one or two?"

The shopkeeper said: "Miss, there are quite a few people who come to Fengtai to ask for qin from him. How can I keep the qin made by him in this small shop?"

Pang Yu said: "If there is nothing in this shop, go to another shop."

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "It's easy for Mr. Xiang. Although our shop is small, there is no one, so how can there be another shop?"

Bai Yutang said: "Is there really no other way? If the shopkeeper tells the four of us, where exactly is the master who made the zither?"

The shopkeeper said: "Maybe it's in Bagong Mountain, maybe it's in Maoxian Cave, I don't dare to say for sure."

Pang Yu raised his head and asked Mei He: "Why don't you... trouble Bai Shaoxia and Miss Lu again, and when the weather is fine, let's go to the countryside to search together?"

Mei He glanced at Pang Yu's legs and feet resting on the pedals of the four-wheeled vehicle, pursed his lips and shook his head, and said, "Visiting Dai on a snowy night, we go when we are happy, and return when we are exhausted. Why should we see Dai? It's just a piano Why isn't the piano used for playing?" After speaking, he pointed to a musical instrument in the corner and said, "I think that one is pretty good."

Pang Yu took her hand lightly, and said with a smile, "Yes, why bother to be obsessed with one thing?" After saying that, he asked the shopkeeper, "Although the piano is good or bad, it depends on the eyes. This piano is the same as my husband and wife. The two are destined, so please trouble the store to take it down, and let me have a look."

The shopkeeper took down Tongqin and put it on the cabinet.Pang Yu lightly stroked the forehead of the piano, and said: "The forehead is so empty, why not carve a few words." After finishing speaking, he asked the shopkeeper, "Is there a seal carving knife in the store?"

The shopkeeper brought the carving knife, and Pang Yu held it in his hand, pinched it with two fingers, and turned it gently.He tilted his head slightly, and asked Bai Yutang, "What characters do you think would be engraved?"

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows and asked, "Mr. Pang is testing Bai's writing skills?"

"Don't dare." Pang Yu shook his head and said with a smile, "Since I came to Fengtai, it's really a predestined relationship to see you two again. I just want to ask Bai Shaoxia to come up with such an idea, and it can be regarded as a souvenir." The fingers lightly hook and pick the strings slowly, and the sound of the clang overflows without forming a melody, but it does not have the meaning of a sky high and a cloud wide.

Lu Caichun said: "The sound of the rain outside the window and the sound of the piano indoors are also a good scene for composing poetry—"

"The sound of the autumn wind, the sound of the smoke and the rain."

Before Lu Caichun finished speaking, Bai Yutang had already read out such a line of poetry.

After hearing this, Mei He smiled and praised: "Good weather!" She nodded and said to Pang Yu, "Erlang, just engrave this sentence."

Pang Yu walked over the forehead of the piano with a carving knife in his hand, and the sawdust was lifted up, and he brushed it aside with his little finger.Within half a stick of incense, Pang Yu put away the carving knife.Flick two lines of small characters with your fingertips, and a line of poems painted with silver hooks on iron will appear on the forehead of the piano.

When the shopkeeper saw it, he said: "The young man's poems and the young master's characters really complement each other, and they really add glory to the old man's Suqin."

Pang Yu held the wrapped Qin in his arms, and Mei He came out of the shop pushing a four-wheeled cart.Bai Yutang asked, "Where is the next trip?"

Pang Yu raised his eyes and saw that the sky was gloomy, covered with lead clouds, and mixed with wind and rain. Looking down, he saw that Mei He's skirt and embroidered shoes were stained with mud.He thought for a while and said: "Although there is no shadow of the sun, but it is estimated that it is almost noon, why not go to the restaurant and sit for a while, wait until the rain breaks, and then make plans."

Bai Yutang thought to himself, these two people really regarded coming to Fengtai County as a tour.

Following the two of them into the restaurant, Pang Yu was pushed by Mei He in a four-wheeled cart, looked around, and said, "When we came here, the road was sparsely populated, but Fengtai County still looks a bit like Fusheng in the past. Master Yan is indeed a good method."

Sitting in the private room, I ordered a few side dishes at random.When the dishes were not served, there were only a few cups of tea on the table.Pang Yu brushed away the teacup, peeled off the cloth wrapping the qin, and put the qin on the desk.Slender fingers caressed the strings of the qin, and Pang Yu asked Lu Bai and the two, "Can you two play the qin?"

Bai Yutang said: "People who practice martial arts can play guns and clubs, but they can't play qin."

Lu Caichun said: "I also learned rhythm when I was young, but I can't remember one or two now."

Pang Yu smiled and said, "It's okay." At the end, he turned his head and asked Mei He, "Ahe, do you still remember "Return to Come"?"

Mei He said: "You haven't played this song for a long time——I'm afraid you'll forget it."

Pang Yu smiled slightly, and said to Lu Bai and the two of them, "It's a shame."

Waving and playing the piano, thousands of valleys and pine wind.Mei He chanted Tao Qian's "Return to Come" softly, in harmony with the sound of the piano.

"Going back and coming, the fields will be overgrown, and the Hu will not return? Since I regard my heart as my form, I feel melancholy and sad alone. I understand the past without remonstrance, and know that the coming ones can be chased. It is true that the lost road is not far away, but now it is But yesterday was not. The boat is far away and sails lightly, the wind is blowing and the clothes are blowing. Ask Zhengfu the way before, hate the dawn of the morning..."

Outside the window, the autumn rain is drizzling, and people are shouting and shouting downstairs, and the sound of the zither opens up a clear sky from the mundane world, as if seeing blue clouds and yellow leaves, and geese flying from north to south.

It was the clerk who pushed the door and entered the shop who stopped the sound of the piano halfway.

He was holding a tray with two dishes on it, and shouted: "Guests, clean up the table!"

Mei He stopped talking, and Pang Yu also put his hand on the string.Both Lu Bai and Lu Bai had expressions of disappointment that could not be concealed.Lu Caichun had never hated the waiter who delivered the food so much before.

Bai Yutang said: "The music of the qin is wonderful, and Bai really admires it."

Pang Yu said: "It's just a small skill, it's not worth mentioning. I really envy Bai Shaoxia and Miss Lu, who can travel around like this and act righteously."

Lu Caichun looked at Mei He and said, "Can my sister know how to play the piano? I also want to ask my sister about the rhythm."

Mei He said: "I don't dare to ask for advice. But it's hard to get rid of it forever. After dinner, it's good to discuss piano skills and pass the time."

During the banquet, the four drank a lot of wine while chatting, and when the leftovers were taken away, the room was already full of drunkenness.

Mei He took Lu Caishu's hand and led her to sit beside her, Gong Shangjiao Zhengyu taught her the rhythm from scratch.Lu Caichun plucked the strings clumsily according to the fingerings taught by Mei He, and made a wrong fingering. While laughing, she murmured: "Look at my brain after eating wine, it's not clear."

After learning "Guqin Yin" for a while, Lu Caichun pushed away the qin on her lap, leaning her head against the wall, her face still flushed with drunkenness, and slowly closed her eyes, as if she was very sleepy.Bai Yutang had also seen Lu Caishu's drinking power before, seeing Pang Yu and Mei He's surprised faces, he said, "She's drunk, don't worry about her."

Pang Yu and Mei He looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.

The gurgling sound of rain outside the window is not bad.Mei He hugged the Qin in front of Lu Caishu, lowered his eyebrows and raised his eyebrows.The tune gradually became brighter, like a plum blossom in the snow, with a dark fragrance coming from itself.She also drank a lot of wine, and her fingering became more reckless.

Bai Yutang listened intently for a while, taking advantage of the drunkenness, he stood up abruptly, and said to Pang Mei and the others, "I'll also come to help." After saying that, he took off the wild goose feather with the saber at his waist, and instead of removing the scabbard, he only held the handle, Dancing in a not-so-spacious private room.

Seeing this, Mei He's qin sounds like gold and stone, like knives and guns clashing, and gongs and drums beeping together.Bai Yutang's saber technique during the banquet was not like the usual slashing and slashing between the enemy and the enemy, but like a swimming dragon, shaking like a thunder, even though he was holding a sheathed saber in his hand, it was fierce but not at all diminished.

He has ingenious movements, although he is trapped in a room, he stretches and retracts with ease, like a butterfly swimming through flowers.

Lu Caichun heard the sound of the zither and the whistling of the sword, half-opened his sleepy eyes, and vaguely saw the figure of Bai Yutang dancing the sword, staring at it for a moment, couldn't help showing a smile on his face, and felt that in the past few days, he had never felt like So peaceful and joyful now.

Lights were lit in the house, and the moon was seen through the window, the wind and rain had dissipated, and the sky was as clear as washing.

The four chatted happily for a long time, but they didn't realize that the night was coming together.Pang Yu said: "It's getting late, my wife and I want to go back to the inn, so I would like to ask you two to see us off."

On the way back to the post station, the bluestone board was still wet with traces of rain.Hundreds of lights, long streets streamer.

The four-wheeled vehicle rolled over the stone road, and the sound of the wheels was rolling.Pang Yu twisted his hand, and lightly held his wife's hand on the back of the chair. He sighed, "Ahe, if I can live like this in the future, I have nothing else to ask for."

Bai Yutang said: "It's not difficult to hide in the mountains and forests. Since you have the intention, do as you please."

Mei He heard that, under the cover of night, her face slowly revealed a look of sadness.Pang Yu was also silent for a while.

Send Pang Mei and his wife to the post station.Mei He picked up Pang Yu and saluted Lu Bai to thank them.Mei He held the qin for a while, she smiled at Lu Caichun, "I'm in a hurry at the banquet today, if my sister still wants to learn the qin, come and find me at the inn. Erlang and I will stay at the inn for a few more days."

Lu Caichun readily agreed, and said with a smile: "As long as my sister doesn't think I'm stupid, I won't be able to learn it for half a day."

The four said goodbye in front of the post station.Bai Yutang and Lu Caichun returned to Yan Chasan's residence, briefly reported what they had seen and heard today, and then went back to their rooms to rest.

Lu Caichun stood in front of the partition of the wing room, and vaguely heard Bitao's sleeping breathing from the room.She raised her eyebrows, hooked her fingers from the back of her waist, and held a small pot of wine in her hand.