Chapter 56 The Pianist of the Tang Dynasty

After being busy for several months, I finally had a few days of rest. Qin Mubai enjoyed it and cherished it. In the next few days, no one will bother you again. He spent time at home with his family. Discuss martial arts with my father, chat with my mother's little sister, and taste the snacks made by Shuang'er together.

I haven't seen you for a few months, and Shuang'er's cooking skills are very strong. She can even make osmanthus cake as fragrant as durian cake, which is enough to show that this cooking skill has been practiced to perfection.

After dinner, Qin Mubai went out for a walk in the West City and sat in the world's first wine. Every evening, Wu Mei Niang comes to the store to make accounts. Gossip and chat with her, and occasionally help her settle accounts. The two are finally a bit like a pair of lovers.

Wu Mei Niang said that now there are many stores in the West City that are open like her, and the competition is very strong. The first wine in the world must be new - so I asked Qin Mubai to help me write a few more pipa martial arts songs. Just those two songs "Ambush on Ten Sides" and "Overlord Unloaded Armor". No matter how good they are, they are tired of listening to them!

It's not difficult. Qin Mubai immediately wrote a few songs for demons and others to learn. But at this time, I thought that it is not a way to renovate the music like this. This kind of thing is always learned quickly. You have to find a way to make it unique so that others can't imitate it.

With a light in his heart, Qin Mubai had a way.

Entering the imperial city, he went straight to the general prison and found the Tu Order of the left school office. Tu ordered that Qin Mubai came to ask for weapons. He was very panicked for a while and said that weapons such as tiger heads and golden guns would be difficult to complete even if they had been working for ten days and a half months.

"No busy. Slow work makes careful work. It's not wartime now, and we are not in a hurry to use it. Qin Mubai said, "I came to find the order today. I have something else to ask for."

Tu Shiling breathed a sigh of relief and bowed his hand easily and happily, "What does the general need? Just open your mouth."

Qin Mubai took out a pile of pictures that he had spent a lot of energy on and said, "I want Tu Shiling to help me build this thing."

"What is this?" Tu order looked at the paper picture and asked blankly, "It's like a table, but it's taller than a table; like a Hu bed, but it has a strange shape, and so many strange steel bars are used... Huh, what's the use of this thing? Please ask the general to show me?"

Qin Mubai smiled and said, "This thing, called 'piano', is an extremely high-end and complex musical instrument. Presumably, no one can create it except a skilled craftsman like Tu Duling.

"Instrument?!" Tu Deling was dumbfounded, "I have served in the left school office for more than 20 years, and all the instruments the size of the palace come from here. Such a complex instrument is really unheard of!"

"You haven't seen it, that's right." Qin Mubai smiled and said, "How about it? Are you sure to create it? It's hard, it's hard! However, if you really make it, it will be a merit in the contemporary future. In the history of Chinese music, it will definitely leave your glorious name, which is of great epoch-making significance!"

"Good!" Tu order gritted his teeth and said, "I will do my best to create this piano!"

"Every part cannot be sloppy, otherwise the sound quality of the whole piano will be inferior." Qin Mubai said, "I have marked the size and specifications of the materials and parts that need to be used. If there is anything you don't understand, please feel free to ask me. In addition, even if it is caused, it needs to be debugged and modified many times.

"All OK. If there is anything you don't understand, come and consult the general. When it is made, ask the general to try it out in person until you are satisfied. Tu Ding was also a little excited. Because he has heard for a long time that Qin Mubai is the name of the great master of Pipa. Now we have to play this new musical instrument. If he becomes famous in the future and the piano is popular in the Tang Dynasty, then he, as a piano-making person, will also be famous for a while, even as he said - famous in history!

"This is the wages." Qin Mubai put down a gold ingot.

Tu ordered to pick up the gold and put it back into Qin Mubai's hand: "General, don't do this. Our left school office is a court government office, which is specially designed to serve the palace. But if there is a punishment to obey the order, there is no need to pay for the salary. If this is rumored out, it will be greedy and bribed.

"It's good. That's work." Qin Mubai put away the gold ingot with a smile and left the left school office. In fact, everyone knows this little 'unspoken rule'. Places like Jiangjian have always served only the royal family and the court, but there are often some court officials who ask the skilled craftsmen here to do something. Naturally, the emperor knows about this, but as long as he doesn't break the rules of law and etiquette, he won't mind anything. In particular, these people who will be the supervisor Zuo School Office are also courtiers. To put it a bad story, workers, craftsmen, servants and slaves. After the emperor's call, it's okay for the ministers to change a few times.

When I got home and was about to go back to my room to rest, I heard a piecemeal tinkling sound from the next room, as if someone was playing the pipa. Qin Mubai couldn't help laughing and walked up and knocked on the door: "Shuanger, what are you tossing?"

"Ah, third brother, did you hear that?" Shuang'er came forward to open the door and smiled with a little embarrassment, "I also want to learn the pipa!" But since I was a child, I have been broken by your three brothers. I can only play bow strings. When can I play the strings? Third brother, you promised to teach me, but you haven't honored it, huh!"

"Ha ha, don't be angry, little sister. Isn't the third brother busy all the time?" Qin Mubai patted her on the head and said, "Say, why do you suddenly want to learn the pipa?"

"Hey hey... He likes the rhythm!" Shuang'er stuck out her tongue and smiled secretly.

"It's for him again..." Qin Mubai shook his head and sighed, "That's all. I really can't do anything about you. I'll teach you!" However, I have learned too much pipa, and I don't like it. After a while, I'll teach you a fresh musical instrument. It's guaranteed that your third brother will be the only one in the world.

"Really? What kind of musical instrument is it?" Shuang'er was surprised.

"You will know in the future. Keep it secret for the time being." Qin Mubai laughed and left.

"Bad guy, I'm selling it to me, hum!"

The four-day holiday will be over soon. When he left home and was ready to return to the army, Qin Mubai almost forgot Pang Fei, who was the first drunkenness in the world. The boy was drunk all day long, as if he was really a little happy. When Qin Mubai took him out of the room, he was still drunk and shouting in his sleep.

A bucket of cold well water drenched from the top of Pang Fei's head, and he screamed and jumped up. Seeing Qin Mubai with an angry face at a glance, he woke up from his wine and hurriedly said, "Well, teacher! General, general!"

"It's not promising!" Qin Mubai snorted coldly and picked him up with his hair. "Do you really think you have never seen a woman in your life, or have you never drunk?"

"Yes, yes... I have never seen so many beautiful women and have never drunk such a good wine." Pang Fei has always been honest in front of Qin Mubai and replied with a bitter face.

"Have you seen enough and are you full now?" Qin Mubai sneered, "Okay, now look at your bill - in these four days and four nights, your consumption of the first wine in the world is as much as 1,500. Tell me, how are you going to pay back the money?

"Ah--" Pang Fei was dumbfounded and muttered with a white face, "Master, didn't you let me stay here... enjoy it?"

"I asked you to stay and enjoy it, but I didn't say I would help you pay the bill." Qin Mubai smiled and said, "The best wine in the world is the most high-end consumption place in Chang'an. The wine, women and music here are not affordable for ordinary people. Your small team has been here for four days and four nights. Tell me, should I sell you to pay the bill, or will I directly expel you from the military and kick you out of the school?

"Wow... I don't want a teacher! The apprentice knew it was wrong! If the disciple has no ambition to indulge in wine and sex, he should never do it!" Pang Fei knelt down and kowtowed and begged bitterly.

"You're smart and know how to admit your mistakes." Qin Mubai threw the bill on him and said, "If you make a mistake, you pay for it yourself. Don't think that someone will cover you. This bill is a profound lesson for you. Find a way to solve it by yourself!"

"Woo-hoo... The apprentice had to sell the land and the house in his hometown! Whoo-hoo, the disciple no longer dares to indulge in wine and sex!" Pang Fei wanted to cry without tears. He looked at the bill and his eyes were straight.

"You don't need to sell land and houses. That's your family's **!" Qin Mubai smiled and said, "The owner here is at least my daughter-in-law. I'll plead for you first. In the future, if I find that you are obsessed with alcohol and sex and don't want to make progress, I will make you go bankrupt and the whole family go to beg!"

"Yes!!! My apprentice, thank you for your kindness! The apprentice promised that he would never dare to slack off and play in the future, concentrate on serving the teacher, and learn from the teacher!" Pang Fei kowtowed, as if he were granted amnesty.

"It's almost the same." Qin Mubai clapped his hands and said, "Change your clothes and go back to the barracks with me."

The two returned to the barracks and resumed their normal work. Three shifts of duty every day, participating in various training in the barracks, nervous and a little busy.

Soon, a month passed. During this period, Tu Shiling of the Zuo School Office came to Qin Mubai many times to ask for advice on making pianos. In recent days, he has finally finished making the piano and asked Qin Mubai to accept it several times. After all, it was the first time to make such a precise and complex musical instrument. Although Tu Doring was a first-class skilled craftsman in the world, he could not satisfy Qin Mubai for a while. Therefore, the piano has been reworked and modified several times.

On this day, Qin Mubai happened to be free, so he went to the left school office by himself. I tried to play the newly modified piano, and I was finally satisfied!

"Very good, Tu's order really lives up to its reputation, a magic skill!" Qin Mubai praised him and said, "Now, you go to the world's first wine to find a woman named 'Demon' and let her put away the piano first. Just say, this is a new instrument I'm going to teach her, but let her keep quiet.

"Okay, the official will do it."

Qin Mubai smiled secretly: Very good. It won't be long before Datang will have a pianist. Demon, Shuang'er, you two will definitely create a miracle and become the Taishan Beidou in the history of Chinese music!