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Chapter 135: Meet Guqin Again

"Boss Li, I'm here," Wen Fangfei called out.

Hearing her voice, a middle-aged man in his fifties walked out of the inside. The others were a little shriveled and thin, but his eyes were shining with the light that only those who were happy had.

Liu Lan noticed that he had long hands, and I guess Boss Li must be good at musical instruments too.

"Long time no see you," Boss Li smiled and saw two girls beside Wen Fangfei, "Have you introduced me to a new customer?" In his tone, he was very familiar with Wen Fangfei.

"No, they are from the piano department, so they accompany me to repair the piano," Wen Fangfei put the guzheng on the ground and opened the protective cover outside.

"Oh, why did the string become like this!" Boss Li squatted down in pain. He picked up the broken string and saw that it was cut by a knife. "The person who did this is too immoral."

Boss Li took out a magnifying glass and began to check the piano body. He was very careful and rigorous. He touched his hands little by little, but he didn't let go of every inch of his eyes. "Fortunately, he just cut off the string."

Wen Fangfei completely relieved her heart, "Please help me change into a new string."

"It will take some time to change 21 strings at the same time," said Boss Li, "Are you going back first and waiting for me to repair and notify you, or are you waiting here?"

Wen Fangfei looked at Liu Lan and Li Xiaoru, and Li Xiaoru said, "Let's wait here, it's done, we'll go back to practice the piano."

Wen Fangfei nodded and said to Boss Li, "We are in a hurry to use the piano."

Boss Li understood, "I will fix it as soon as possible."

He put Wen Fangfei's guzheng on an empty piano table, took out a large tool box from the inner room, and spread it out, inside it contained a handful of guzheng strings of varying thickness, as well as various instruments special pliers and special drivers.

"You sit down first, it will probably take about two hours to wait," Boss Li took three stools in front of the girls, and then began to concentrate on practicing the piano.

Liu Lan did not sit down. She watched for a while how Boss Li practiced the piano and found that his technique was exactly the same as that taught her by Mrs. Xu. After all, ancient musical instruments are ancient musical instruments. Two thousand years have passed, everything is still the same, and no new tricks have been drawn.

Boss Li felt her serious exploratory gaze and was surprised that the students in the piano department also knew how to practice the guzheng?

Wen Fangfei was also paying attention to Liu Lan's actions.

After watching the piano repair, Liu Lan walked towards the guqin next to her.

The biggest difference between the guqin and the guzheng is the number of strings. The guqin has 7 strings. However, in the Han Dynasty where Liu Lan lived in his previous life, there were only 5 strings of the guzheng. The difference between the two was not as big as that of today. If she had studied and practiced carefully at that time, Liu Lan should have been able to learn the guzheng quickly.

However, after two thousand years of evolution, the number of strings of the Guzheng has increased, from 13 strings to 26 strings, while the Guqin has always only 7 strings.

Compared with Wen Fangfei's 21-string guzheng, the guqin looks much smaller, like a mini version of the guzheng.

This piano is very similar to Mrs. Xu's piano. The surface of the piano body is covered with ink-colored painted gray, and the belly of the piano also has flowing water and broken patterns. Liu Lan did not expect that she could see such a piano in the future, which made her think of Mrs. Xu in a trance.

Boss Li, who was practicing the guzheng, raised his head and saw Liu Lan dazed at the qin. He couldn't help but smile, "Classmate, do you like this guqin? You are very cognitive. This zither was copied one-to-one according to the famous qin "Luqi". Although it is a copycat product, it uses excellent materials and fine workmanship, and is worth collecting. After all, the authentic product has long been destroyed and there is not even a residue left."

Boss Li saw that Liu Lan was still in a daze and thought she didn't understand her words, "Oh, you are a student in the piano department, and you shouldn't understand 'Luqi'. I'll give you some knowledge..."

"'Luqi' is the piano of Sima Xiangru of the Western Han Dynasty. The piano is black all over, faintly green, like green vines lingering on ancient trees, so it was named "Luqi". Although your guqin is black, it is not green, and it is very fake."

Liu Lan's words made the three people in the store stunned.

Li Xiaoru was so impressed by Liu Lan that she had never even heard of the word "Luqi".

Wen Fangfei had a guess in her mind - could Liu Lan play the guqin?

When someone said that the piano was not good, Boss Li did not have an angry expression on his face, but instead asked Liu Lan excitedly, "It seems that you know 'Luqi' more than me. Then give me some science to me, what does 'Luqi' look like? You must know that it has long disappeared in the vast river of history. None of us has the luck to see it unless we travel two thousand years ago."

Boss Li didn't know that his luck was really good. He met Liu Lan, who had traveled from two thousand years ago. Liu Lan continued, "Your piano is really good and the best tangerine wood is used. But in fact, 'Luqi' is made by combining tangerine wood and zizu wood and taking its essence. There is an inscription at the bottom of the piano saying 'Tongzi Combination Essence'."

Boss Li laughed, "It seems like you have really seen it, and you even know what words you write under the piano."

Liu Lan also smiled and did not explain.

She did see "Luqi". Sima Xiangru and Mrs. Xu's grandfather were good friends. She once taught her the guqin when she was young.

The year when Mrs. Xu entered the palace, Sima Xiangru, who was old and critically ill, asked someone to send "Luqi" to Mrs. Xu as a gift for him to become a palace concubine. At this point, "Luqi" was kept by Mrs. Xu. Later, Mrs. Xu was inscribed into the cold palace, and "Luqi" was also taken into the cold palace.

Mrs. Xu used this "Luqi" to enlighten her and carefully taught her the guqin. It can be said that she grew up playing "Luqi". Later, Mrs. Xu passed away, and Liu Lan asked the palace servants to bury her and "Luqi" together.

The palace maid agreed on the surface, but she left with Qin and Mrs. Xu's body. She still cannot be sure whether these palace maids fulfilled their promises and whether Mrs. Xu really slept with "Luqi" forever, these may be eternal mysteries.

"Manman, what are you thinking? Why did you suddenly become a lot of sadness?" Li Xiaoru walked up to Liu Lan and interrupted her memories.

Liu Lan came back to her senses and smiled, "I just thought of some things from the past."

past?

Li Xiaoru was confused. She felt that in the past two years of college life, Liu Lan looked very happy. It was because she began to become less like her since she fainted last semester.

There was still some research on the guqin. Li Xiaoru thought about it, and then curiously tweaked the strings with her fingers, "Hey, the sound is completely different from the guqin."

The other three laughed. Li Xiaoru didn't know that she was the only outsider of the folk music school. Wen Fangfei explained, "The timbre of the guqin is low and thick, while the guqin is bright and gorgeous, just like the difference between cello and violin in your Western instruments."
Chapter completed!
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