I was in a daze when I suddenly heard Taoist Lin and Baturu talking. The sound came from the street outside the house.

Hearing the two voices, he hurriedly got out of bed, opened the door and walked to the street. He walked a few steps quickly to follow them, "Dao Zhang Lin, I heard that the third brother said that you are going out to do errands. Can I help you in any way?"

Taoist priest Lin smiled and said, "We appreciate your kindness. Let's go back and rest."

Seeing what he wanted to say, Batulu on the side said, "You know what we are going to do and you want to follow us. Go back quickly and don't cause trouble." ??

After hearing what Batulu said, he knew that he really couldn't help, so he could only stop and watch the two of them go north.

After the two of them walked away, they were about to turn around and go back when they suddenly saw a villager selling red fruits not far away, so they walked over and bought some and carried them back with their clothes.

Returning to the yard, he asked the shopkeeper for a few pottery bowls, washed the red fruits, filled some of them and knocked on the door of the second son, Li Zhongyong's room.

Li Zhongyong opened the door and let him in. He was fiddling with something at the table and talking to him.

There was a pile of strange things on the table in the middle of the room. They were made of different materials. Some were carved from wood, and some seemed to be made from metal. In addition, there were some bottles and jars. The room was filled with strong aroma.

Smell of saltpeter and sulfur.

"Second brother, what are you doing?" he asked curiously.

"I'm thinking about Mozi." Li Zhongyong replied casually.

Not quite understanding what Li Zhongyong meant, and seeing that he was busy and had no intention of talking to him, he wisely withdrew, returned to the room, took the pottery bowl filled with red fruits, and knocked on the door of the third child, Chen Liqiu.

Chen Liqiu opened the door with a writing brush in his hand.

It would be impolite to not let people in when someone came to deliver something, not to mention that Chen Liqiu liked it very much, so he warmly welcomed him in, took a red fruit and sat down at the table, chewing it and writing with a pen.

"Third brother, you are busy, I won't disturb you anymore." He wanted to leave.

"It's okay, just sit down for a while." Chen Liqiu persuaded him to stay.

After hearing what Chen Liqiu said, he didn't leave in a hurry. When he saw a bench next to the door, he bent down to take it and sat down next to the door.

"Why are you sitting so far away? Come and sit here like a little daughter-in-law who has been insulted." Chen Liqiu said.

"You are writing a letter." said.

"I wrote mine, and you..." Chen Liqiu reacted at this point, "Oh, you kid can't read, can you?"

"Yeah, I know a little bit." He nodded.

"It's rare, who taught you this?" Chen Liqiu asked casually.

"It turns out there is an old gentleman in Murakami, and I went to his house to learn calligraphy during the slack season." He replied.

Chen Liqiu smiled and said, "Then sit by the door. You can't read what I write."

"Third brother, do you have a sweetheart?" asked Chen Liqiu, the most popular among them.

Easy-going, he also likes Chen Liqiu very much.

"That's natural. I'm so handsome and suave, how could no one like me?" Chen Liqiu half-joked.

He smiled, stood up and said goodbye, "Third brother, you are busy, I will go and deliver some fruits to Fourth Sister."

Chen Liqiu chewed the red fruit and responded vaguely.

Then he knocked on the door of the fourth son Tian Mayumi's room. There were differences between men and women. He didn't want to enter the house, but Tian Mayumi just said that he had something to give him and insisted on letting him in.

Like Chen Liqiu, Tian Zhengong was originally writing something at the table, but she was not writing a letter, but recording something in a thick notebook. When Tian Zhengong unpacked the bag, she accidentally glanced at the

However, he found that the characters on the notebook were very different from common Chinese characters, and he did not recognize more than half of the characters.

After a while, Tian Mayumi turned around, holding a flute in his hand, "This is for you."

He glanced at Tian Zhenyong in confusion, and then looked down at the flute. The flute was completely green and had a restrained aura. It turned out to be a jade flute carved from a single piece of green jade.

Naturally, he couldn't ask for such a rare and valuable thing, so he waved his hands and firmly refused.

Tian Zhengong couldn't help but put the flute into his hand, "I'm not good at playing, so it's useless to keep it. If you take it, you can make the best use of it."

When they met, Lu was frightened and wanted to hand it back eagerly. Tian Zhengong hurriedly said, "This flute is not my old thing, but I got it halfway. Your flute was left in Lao Niu's grave, so I will give this to you."

, you will also need it when playing Taoist music in the future."

Without waiting to speak, Tian Mayumi changed the subject, "By the way, do you know the music score?"

Shake his head.

"Then can you memorize the five tones by heart?" Tian Zhenyong asked again.

nodded.

"Okay, let's practice it first. I will pluck the strings in front of you and you will imitate the playing." Tian Zhenyumi said.

After Tian Zhengong said this, without waiting to express his position, he walked to the bedside and took a musical instrument wrapped in black cloth from the bed.

After Tian Zhenyong pulled off the black cloth, he discovered that it was a five-string pipa.

Tian Zhenyong sat down at the table with his pipa in his arms. He reached out and flipped through the thick notebook. After a while, he found a piece of music score from it. He took a deep breath and started to play.

After playing for a while, Tian Mayumi stopped, tilted his head and looked away, waiting for him to play and imitate.

"You finish playing first, and then I'll play." He said.

"Have you played this piece before?" Tian Mayumi was quite surprised.

"I haven't blown it, nor have I heard it." He shook his head.

"You only listen once

, can you remember the whole song?" Tian Zhengong was half convinced.

"I don't know, let's give it a try." He sneered.

Hearing what he said, Tian Zhenyong immediately finished the song. She played the song "Spring River with Flowers and Moonlight Night", which was composed in the early Tang Dynasty. It is also the most famous representative work of the pipa instrument.

After the lingering sound of the pipa dissipated, he started to play the transverse flute. It was the first time for him to play the jade flute. Unexpectedly, the jade flute sounded much better than the bamboo flute. The attack note was too high, so he had no choice but to walk high and move like clouds and flowing water.

Done in one go.

After the playing was over, Tian Mayumi frowned slightly. She frowned not because she didn't play well, but because she played so well that she was comparable to a professional musician. She suspected that she had played this piece before.

"You're playing very well, let's play another song." Tian Zhenyong said.

nodded.

This time, Mayumi Tada did not look at the score again, but closed her eyes and meditated for a moment, and then started playing directly.

Although I don't understand the music, I can hear that the music played by Tian Mayumi is very sad, and the emotion of remembering and longing is very strong.

After Tian Zhen finished playing the bow, he began to imitate it again. Knowing the characteristics of the jade flute, he could play it very accurately. He had not yet gotten over the sadness of losing Lao Huang, so playing this piece of music made him quite uncomfortable.

Fortunately, in the middle of blowing, Chen Liqiu couldn't stand it anymore and shouted loudly from the next room, "Hey, hey, fourth brother, what are you doing? Can you do something festive?"

Hearing Chen Liqiu's call, he stopped, and Tian Zhenyong, who had been listening with his eyes closed, also opened his eyes.

"It's very good." Tian Mayumi sighed.

Worried that the other party would suspect him of cheating, he explained in a low voice, "I've really never heard of this piece of music."

"I know," Tian Mayumi nodded slowly, "This song "Sakura Blossoms in My Hometown" is a song from our place. You can't have heard it."

I didn't know how to answer the question, so I had to stay silent and stand aside.

Tian Zhenyong seemed to have thought of something, his eyes were blurred, and he didn't speak for a long time.

He wanted to leave, but he didn't know what to do with the flute in his hand. He had played this flute before, so it didn't seem good to return it, but it didn't seem right to just take away such a valuable thing.

Finally, Tian Zhenyong came to his senses and said with a smile, "I didn't expect you to have such a talent for music. If you perform rituals in the future, no one will play the flute."

I was a little embarrassed and smiled awkwardly.

Tian Zhengong said again, "You should go back and rest first. Take the flute and don't refuse anymore."

After hearing what Tian Mayumi said, I could only say thank you and accept it, say goodbye and leave.

He returned to his room and lay on the bed. This time he really couldn't hold on any longer. A series of changes made him physically and mentally exhausted. He quickly fell asleep after closing his eyes.

go.

When I woke up, it was the middle of the night. I was not awakened from sleep, but was awakened by a loud noise. The loud noise was like muffled thunder and seemed to have happened nearby. The furnishings in the room were shaken by it.

Just when he was eager to open the door and run out to see what was going on, he met Chen Liqiu who also opened the door and came out. Compared with his panic, Chen Liqiu seemed much calmer, shaking his head and sighing, with a look of helplessness on his face.

"Third brother, have you heard any strange noise?" he asked.

"I'm not deaf." Chen Liqiu said casually.

"What's going on?" he asked.

Before Chen Liqiu could answer, he noticed smoke coming out of the room where Li Zhongyong lived, "No, there's a fire in my second brother's room."

"Why are you so angry?" Chen Liqiu stretched out, "This is not the first time. Don't worry about him. Let's go and go out for a walk."

I didn't know why, so I went over to check what was going on, but seeing that Chen Liqiu was so calm, and that neither Li Zhongyong nor Tian Zhengong, who lived next door to Li Zhongyong, opened the door, I knew that similar things might have happened many times before, and they seemed to be used to it.

Following Chen Liqiu to the street, he turned around and happened to see Li Zhongyong who was opening the window for ventilation. Li Zhongyong had unkempt hair and many traces of burns on his eyebrows.

Realizing that he was looking at himself, Li Zhongyong felt a little embarrassed. He smiled awkwardly and turned back from the window.

Feeling confused, he walked a few steps quickly to catch up with Chen Liqiu who was walking in front, "Third brother, what is second brother doing?"
To be continued...