Novoland: Eagle Flag Chapter 3: Change in the cloud
"It's been so long since I haven't heard your 'Liu Shangying' for a long time. I've fallen to the point of listening to the singers playing and singing in restaurants." By Feng Linwan's side.
Sitting in front of the guqin, Feng Linwan was expressionless: "Playing the piano in the family of a public official or in a restaurant or brothel, what is the difference between the two?"
"A generation of national players in the music of the empire, but compared himself to a drunken prostitute, is he pretending to be sad, or is he really sad?" Xiang Kongyue responded lightly.
There was silence, and there seemed to be another sigh, and then the sound of water dripping from the jade plate came from the opposite side of the veil, and it was Feng Linwan's five fingers sweeping the strings.
"I haven't seen you in the past few years, and your piano sound is not comparable to that day," Xiang Kongyue said.
"Is your appreciation just to deal with the relationship between us, or does it really mean something?"
"One of us plays the piano, the other tastes the piano, how can there be any affection?" Xiang Kongyue chuckled, "However, your piano sound was extremely smooth three years ago, but now there are many frustrations. From smooth to dry One step should be extremely difficult for a pianist, right? Legend has it that Le Yan, a national player who played the pianist for the late emperor, did not break through this barrier until he was fifty."
"Shi Leyan was a piano idiot all his life. He did not hesitate to stab his own eyes in order to become proficient in piano skills. He didn't realize the level of dullness until he was fifty years old. It is a disappointment to his reputation."
Xiang Kongyue shook his head: "Shi Leyan thinks that he can meditate on the piano because he can't see things. But he pierced his eyes, but he is too obsessed with piano skills and has a restless heart, so he still can't improve."
Contemplating for a long time, Feng Linwan sighed: "You are right. But the musician only has one piano in his life. If there is no obsession, then why is the musician born?"
"Does the musician only have one piano in his life?" Xiang Kongyue suddenly laughed, "Didn't Miss Feng ever have me as a friend?"
Laughter came out of the window in the quiet night, alarming the wild geese perched in the bushes. There was a flutter of hula-la wings accompanied by panicked geese, and the geese spread their wings, which were some dark shadows under the moon. The wild goose chirping was so clear and piercing at night, after it subsided, there was only silence in the piano room, neither of them spoke, only the thin sound of the wind blowing the veil.
"You ventured into Tianqi this time, is it because of the Dragon Banner Army's entry into Beijing?" After a long time, Feng Linwan spoke in a low voice.
"That's right, I think you already know that the emperor has issued an order that anyone who is willing to be loyal to the royal family, whether it is a rebel bandit or a hired samurai group, can enter the apocalypse to participate in this autumn's Taiqing Military Exercise Conference. Our Dragon Banner Army They are also like rebels and thieves, and they are occasionally hired to fight a few small battles, so there is no reason not to come to Tianqi. Maybe once they win the martial arts competition, they will have the status of a nobleman from now on." Xiang Kongyue laughed.
"Your Excellency Taiqing's Martial Arts Conference was originally only for famous generals recommended by the feudal princes of the Eastern Continent to participate. But..." Feng Linwan hesitated, "Now the emperor ordered that even rebels and thieves can participate, and I still can't guess the intention."
"You don't have to guess, if you can guess the people's hearts in this troubled world," Xiang Kongyue sighed softly, "You're not the end of the world."
"So if you want to ask about this, I'm afraid I can't help you."
"It's not this. I'm here to pave the way for the Dragon Banner Army to enter the capital, but the factions in the Tianqi Dynasty are mixed, and I don't fully understand it, so I can't start. Regarding the forces in the Tianqi Duke, can you explain to me? ?”
"I'm just a musician after all, so I've heard it all, don't you mind?"
"I would like to hear more about it."
Feng Linwan pondered slightly: "The power in the court has always been divided into three parties according to legend. One is the imperial party, that is, the party that supports the royal family and rejects the princes. Most of these people are the old and young of the royal family. Enjoy the royal salary and annuity; the second is the vassal party, which has also become a vassal party, and is a minister who has close ties with the vassals of various countries, and some are even the eyeliner of the vassal emperor Tianqi; the third is the Rose Party, which is said to have a limited number of people , but they are all descendants of the heroes of the previous dynasty, and many of them are young talents."
"I have heard of both the imperial party and the vassal party. It is nothing more than that one side wants to strengthen the royal family's prestige, and the other side wants to help the princes control the royal family. But I have not heard of the rose party you mentioned."
"The Qiangwei Party was accidentally revealed to me by Mr. Xi Mingxi when he was drunk. Later, I took the opportunity to play and questioned him a few times before I was able to get to know several other people who claimed to be closely related to the Qiangwei Party. The son of the family..."
"I've wronged you." Xiang Kongyue interrupted her suddenly.
For no reason, Feng Linwan sighed softly, and then continued: "The Qiangwei party is named after the Huo Qiangwei family emblem of the Bai family, and claims to revive the royal family's reputation. But in fact, the Qiangwei party only wants to cancel it. Weakened the princes' influence on the royal family, and did not seek to strengthen the emperor's power. They also focused on seeking important positions in the court and the army, especially in the Qianshan Dragon Banner Army belonging to the royal family. It is said that most of the young generals are Qiangwei Partisan."
"Strengthening the power of the central government without trying to support the emperor, most of them have the ambition to replace the emperor. Who is the leader among them?"
"I heard that there is Baili Moyan, the eldest son of the Baili clan."
"Baili Moyan? That Baili Moyan who is famous for his literary theory? Doesn't he have no official position?"
Feng Linwan behind the veil can only shake his head: "I don't know about this."
"Looks like I'm the only one who will personally visit the leader of the Apocalypse Family, can you introduce me?"
"I've never met Baili Moyan. Baili Moyan only circulates his articles, and he rarely leaves the house, let alone participate in the activities of the Gongqing family. But if you take my piano, he may meet you." As Feng Linwan said, he picked up the Liushangying guqin in front of him, and passed it through the veil.
"Oh?"
"It is said that Baili Moyan is not only proficient in literature, but also a peerless master of piano skills. He also loves Guqin very much. He once wrote a book and asked me to bring the piano to Baili Mansion to meet him, but I refused."
"Why did you refuse?" Xiang Kongyue took the piano.
"Baili Moyan is lonely by nature. He only sees one person every time he sees a guest, and he never wants to meet a guest in front of his entourage. I have never been alone with men, so although I also hope to learn piano skills with him, but this time I don't want to break the precepts of layers."
"I've seen you so many times," Xiang Kongyue said in a low voice, "but I never knew you had such a taboo."
After a long silence, there was a sigh behind the veil, which gradually faded away.
"I'll take your qin. If Baili Moyan covets Liu Shangying and refuses to return it, won't he be able to keep your beloved thing?"
"You also know that the dance of breaking the formation back then only needed to beat the pillar with a knife. It can be seen that the real music does not need the instrument of Guqin. I have loved this piano for many years, maybe it is already a kind of obsession , you might as well take it."
A stream of zither sounds rose up on the strings. Xiang Kongyue strummed the strings with his fingers and sighed: "I am obsessed with my obsession, but I boldly tell you not to be obsessed with qin skills. Only a woman like you in the world is not obsessed. Thinking of me as a liar, are you willing to be friends with me?"
The sound of the zither did not stop, Xiang Kongyue had already got up and walked towards the door: "...Winter is approaching, you seem to have lost a lot of air."
Feng Linwan's face suddenly turned slightly red until the white figure disappeared into the flowery path in the back garden. Except for the first time when she faced Xiang Kongyue at the mansion of Grand Tutor Xie Qiwei, she and Xiang Kongyue have always met through a veil since then, and when they met tonight, Xiang Kongyue could only see her behind the veil It is absolutely impossible to see an inch of her skin. At first she didn't understand how Xiang Kongyue knew she had lost weight again, until she saw her almost transparent fingers under the moonlight, she didn't know that Xiang Kongyue saw her hands when passing the piano.
"Sigh." Another sigh, Feng Linwan moved to the window to look at the moon.
The moonlight is cold, still like the snowy winter nine years ago, but today's Feng Linwan is already twenty-seven years old. As for the young man in white clothes singing and dancing in the Xunfeng Hall, is there some years of wind and frost on his brows?
Even if the obsession with the piano is solved, there are still some obsessions that cannot be solved. The peerless qin player looked at the moon with a faint smile, as if laughing at his ignorance.
The Baili family is one of the seven major clans of the Yin Empire, and it is based on the Baili Jinghong, the first-class public of the Tang Dynasty, and there are many other branches. The Baili clan who serves the royal family is also a first-class prince in the dynasty, and the current head of the Baili family is a talented man among the aristocrats of Tianqi Gongqing, Baili Moyan. Unlike the successive patriarchs of the Tianqi Baili family, Baili Moyan did not inherit the family's grand title of Taiwei, but has always lived in seclusion. But people in Tianqi who don't know Baili Moyan will undoubtedly be regarded as idiots, because Baili Moyan's reputation as "the first son" is unquestionable in Tianqi. When Xiang Kongyue traveled in Tianqi back then, many aristocrats were amazed at his demeanor and behavior, and he caught up with Baili Moyan. It's a pity that most of the people who said these words had never seen Baili Moyan's clothes.
Baili Moyan's reputation comes from the articles circulating in Baili Mansion. When Baili Moyan was fifteen years old, his teacher brought one of his studies to be displayed at the peony flower party of Gongqing's family. As a result, Xi Huannian, the head of the Tianqi Xi family, bought it for five hundred imperial gold baht. People actually left the garden full of peonies, rushing to watch the article. Later, this article was engraved on a flour wall of Xi's mansion by Cheng Li, a calligraphy teacher of the royal family, and attracted countless officials and nobles to watch. And the most legendary thing is that Emperor Xi, who is proficient in calligraphy and painting, came to Xi's house and praised Cheng Li's calligraphy and Baili Moyan's articles as two masterpieces, so he just pulled up the whole flour wall from the foundation of the wall and brought it back to the forbidden city in a carriage. The palace is erected in the back garden.
Since then, Baili Moyan's literary talents have dominated Donglu, and one after another manuscripts handed down from Baili's family have become the targets of acquisitions by rich and powerful. Moreover, the elegance and broad-mindedness revealed in Baili Moyan's articles amazed all the noble girls, and even his articles describing landscapes, flowers and plants also attracted the girls in the spring boudoir's imagination, and countless thoughts were tied to the dreamy young man body.
The children of the Tianqi family laughed and said that there are only two things in Tianqi that attract people's imagination the most. Apart from the **** paintings of the famous artist Su Mengtui, they are Baili Moyan's articles. It's just that one of them is regarded as a wall by the romantic boy, and the other makes the noble girl lose her soul.
But Baili Moyan was indifferent to the admiration of others, even a noble family head was entangled by his daughter, and Baili Moyan would not pay attention to those who suggested marriage to Baili's family. So Apocalypse also called him "Gaoqingyundan", admiring his broad-mindedness, but I don't know how many women's tears of lovesickness after his broad-mindedness.
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