Chapter 357 Like a Memory of the Demon's Song

In the late spring, the clouds are steaming on the south mountain. The sound of Qin Mubai's pipa is like a fairy's voice, which evokes the sleeping clouds in the mountains to surge with the wind. The birds are fluttering, and there are still a few cranes circling.

In a trance, it makes people feel that this is a fairyland.

Princess Gaoyang stared at Qin Mubai's back and said softly, "Mom, I regret it so much."

"What do you regret?"

"I regret not telling Mu Bai what Li Chunfeng said, so that he could take precautions early. Now that the demon has gone, Mu Bai doesn't know how sad and guilty he is. Seeing him like this, I'm really more uncomfortable than dying.

"Stupid child." Yin Defei sighed and said, "Mingming has its own days. Who knows that it was the demon who blocked the disaster for him? In other words, you don't want to see Mu Bai being so sad and frustrated, but if it's you who died, what about him?

Princess Gao Yang was speechless, her eyes were red, and tears flowed silently.

The desolate tune of "Lanzhou Hong" lingers on the top of Zhongnan Mountain, flying with Mars and soaring into the sky.

"Mother, do you think... Will Mu Bai sink because of this, or his temperament will change greatly?" Princess Gaoyang said worriedly, "He hasn't talked to me in the past few days. He just played the lute over and over again and played this song "Lanzhou Hong". This song was originally sad and sad. When he popped it up, every note could plunge into my heart like a knife. I never knew that a man was so earth-shaking when he was sad. He is not as easy to shed tears as we are. He often cries and beats his chest and feet. But... the more he is so speechless, the more heartbroken I am. I'd rather he cry loudly. I'm so worried about him..."

"Don't worry about him. If he fell like this, he would not have been Qin Mubai, and he would not have come to this day. Men, how to really grow up without any setbacks; how to cherish without experiencing loss. Yin Defei whispered, "Love to the very depths, pain to the very depths, all speechless. Mu Bai is a person with a good personality. Let him use music to vent his inexplicable grief. After catharsis, he will gradually get better.

In another place, Li Xueyan was also quietly wiping her tears and whispered to his father Li Daozong, "Dad, I have never seen the dead demon girl, and it's the first time I've listened to this song. But why? I didn't feel anything just now. I couldn't hear it again, but it was full of sadness and sadness. I have heard that Your Majesty has personally praised Qin Mubai as the largest master of pipa today. Does the music he played really have the magic that penetrates people's hearts?

Li Daozong put his wrist on his back and sighed, "The ordinary people stroke the piano with their hands, but Qin Mubai uses his heart. Lanzhou Hong is originally a heart song. At this moment, although Qin Mubai is separated from the demon girl's yin and yang, his heart blends through music. We can't understand this state of the world."

"If a man can play such a song for me in my daughter's body, there will be no regrets..." Li Xueyan looked at Qin Mubai sitting in front of the fire and said to herself, "If I can, I would like to dance on the notes he played. In this life, I only listen to one person's music and dance for one person.

Qin's mother, the orphan girls adopted by Shuang'er and Yao'er have already cried so much that they can't do it. Everyone present sighed.

At this moment, a high voice suddenly appeared in Qin Mubai's music - "Bung!"

The string is broken!

Qin Mubai stopped abruptly, and the gauze tied at the joints of his fist overflowed with a layer of blood.

Looking at the broken strings, Qin Mubai whispered, "It's pitiful to see, you know my heart. Go to the bosom friend, who will listen to the string?

In full view of the public, Qin Mubai stood up and approached the fire.

Princess Gaoyang was shocked and was waiting to scream. She was stopped by Yin Defei.

With his hand raised, Qin Mubai threw the pipa into the fire, and the sparks splashed thick smoke everywhere.

"Demon, Qin Mubai will not play music except to pay tribute to you in this life."

Everyone was silent, leaving only the burning sound of firewood and the endless wind roar on Zhongnan Mountain.

In the evening, the demon's ashes lay quietly in a copper-cast urn. Qin Mubai took off his brocade cloak and wrapped it and picked it up.

People all over the mountain retreated to the bottom of the mountain one after another. The friends who came to attend the festival also left one after another. There are not many people left on the top of the mountain. At this moment, a man walked to the top of the mountain and came to Qin Mubai and bowed: "Brother Qin."

"Brother Zheng, I've been gone for a long time." Qin Mubai handed the urn to Shuang'er for the time being and returned the gift to him.

Zheng Anshun glanced at Qin Mubai's fists tied with gauze blood, nodded gently and smiled slightly: "Good fight."

Qin Mubai grinned at the corners of his mouth. In the past few days, he rarely showed a smile and said, "Brother Zheng made a special trip up the mountain just to say this?"

"Of course not." Zheng Anshun smiled apologetically and said, "Zheng has been busy in Dongdu for days. He has just returned to Chang'an. I'm really sorry to hear about this. When I just went up the mountain, I met some old acquaintances of Chang'an. They knew that I knew you well, but please ask me to do something.

"What's the matter?"

"Everyone has admired the demon girl for a long time, and now she suddenly goes to be a fairy, all of which is sad." Zheng Anshun said, "Since Brother Qin sent her to drive an immortal on the top of Zhongnan Mountain, they wanted to erect a jade and white statue of a demon girl here and set up a monument in the temple to commemorate the demon girl."

"The statue stands in a temple?" Qin Mubai shook his head and said, "The demon was the most quiet and not vain. She certainly didn't want to."

"Brother Qin misunderstood." Zheng Anshun said, "The demons are quiet, beautiful, pure and good. In this southern fairyland, there are often flowing clouds and cranes and beasts. Isn't it her perfect destination? Moreover, it is the highest point near Chang'an here. We are going to erect a ten-foot-high white jade statue for the demon and hold the pipa to look at Chang'an. If Brother Qin misses the demon girl, he can also see it when he raises his eyes from home and looks to the south. In such a fairyland, the demon girl enjoys the fairy style and jade dew and gets a hundred birds worship. Isn't it a beautiful thing to become a fairy?

"Well, the meaning of Brother Zheng's fist, someone took it." Qin Mubai knew that he couldn't get rid of it, so he answered. Thinking to himself, Zheng Anshun has always been a person who likes to talk nonsense and do nonsense. He must have other intentions here. So he said to him, "If Brother Zheng has spare time later, he might as well come to his humble house to discuss with someone about the statue of a temple."

"It's so good." Zheng Anshun arched his hand and still saluted the people behind Qin Mubai. Then he said, "Zheng won't bother you. I'll say goodbye first."

"Please."

After Zheng Anshun left, only the Qin family, Princess Gaoyang's mother and daughter and Li Daozong's father and daughter were left on the top of the mountain. Qin Mubai saw that he was not an outsider, so he said to Li Daozong and Yin Defei, "Your Majesty, my lord, it has been night since the mountain climbing at dawn, and both of them have not entered the water. I am very ashamed. Why don't you go to your humble house for dinner?

Before Yin Defei said anything, Princess Gaoyang hurriedly said, "Okay." Yin Defei smiled and naturally couldn't refuse again, so she nodded lightly.

"Since even the royal sister-in-law has given this face, I dare not come?" Li Daozong smiled and said, "Mubai, I haven't been with you for some days. Why not today? A man, no matter what happens, he should be regarded as a good experience. I am drunk with you today. When I woke up, I was carefree.

"Okay, please!"

A group of people walked down the top of the mountain, and there were guards and horses waiting halfway up the mountain. They got into the car and looked at Chang'an.

Li Daozong specially called Qin Mubai to the same car with him and said to him, "Today, Changsun Wuji and Chu Suiliang are mysterious enough."

Qin Mubai smiled and said, "What's your opinion?"

Li Daozong laughed and said, "It's not that I'm saying sarcastic things. Although the demon girl is not happy and respectable, she is also very tearful, but in the eyes of Changsun Wuji and Chu Suiliang, she is a singer. Even if she is accepted as a righteous daughter by the Duke of Yi, it is difficult to arouse their interest.

"It is true. Changsun Wuji and Chu Suiliang clearly came to me. They wanted to take this opportunity to get close to me, or for no other purpose. Qin Mubai said, "If it hadn't been for the presence of Yin Defei and the prince, the two of them would not have left in a hurry just now."

"Oh, that's right." Li Daozong said, "The situation above is more delicate today. Your Majesty is sick and can't be a director. The eldest grandson Wuji and Chu Suiliang will assist the young King of Jin to supervise the country. To be honest, even I didn't know anything about this situation at first, and I didn't expect it. Mu Bai, can you think of anything?

Qin Mubai shook his head gently and said only four words: "The emperor's heart is unpredictable."

Li Daozong didn't ask much. He nodded plausally and said, "In a moment, I will invite an uninvited guest for you. This person must have a high opinion.

"Who is it?"

"British, Li Xun!"

Qin Mubai was shocked: "Isn't he guarding the northern border far away in the clouds? When did you go back to Chang'an, and everyone didn't know it?"

"Oh, how can such military events be known to others?" Li Daozong smiled and said, "However, with your wisdom, you should be able to guess why he suddenly came back."

Qin Mubai thought for a moment. Previously, the East Palace wanted to plot a rebellion, and the emperor gave Li Daozong a sword to shock the overall situation. At that time, Li Daozong said that he wanted to beware of Changsun Huan, the nine guards of the southern government office in Chang'an. In this case, Li Xun must have been transferred back to respond to all changes. Fortunately, Changsun Xun did not have a fever and did stupid things at that time. Otherwise, the tens of thousands of field guards stationed outside Chang'an City could break through the gate of Chang'an, which he closed, and the jade and stone burned.

There is Li Jing, the sea god needle, in Chang'an City. In the imperial city, there are Li Daozong, who is suitable for him and Qin Mubai, who is in charge of the imperial army. Outside Chang'an City, there is Li Xun's field king. No matter how stormy the court of the Tang Dynasty is, it is just a false shock. Already.

On the surface, the situation is out of control. The Tang Dynasty is almost turned upside down, but everything is still under the control of Li Shimin, who is sick in bed.

Qin Mubai did not discuss this issue with Li Daozong, but changed the topic and said, "Your Majesty, what do you think will happen if Changsun Wuji and Chu Suiliang come to me?"

"They are looking for you, and there are more things to do." Li Daozong half-jokingly and half-truly said, "You punched Fang Xuanling's son into meat mud. Although he plotted the assassination first, there should always be an explanation from Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Justice, right?"

"Your Majesty, don't make fun of me." Qin Mubai looked at his fist, which was still overflowing with blood, smiled and said, "If I take Fang Yuai and let the executioner cut that knife, I can't confess to the demon even if it's not to take advantage of him. Or, I can't give it to myself. The prince, let's get serious!"

"Hmm." Li Daozong nodded and said, "I guess they are looking for you just talking about Lanzhou."

"What is the current situation in Lanzhou?" Qin Mubai asked.

"The latest news, Gao Chang is the opposite." Li Daozong said, "I'm afraid that your father, the governor of Lanzhou, can't help it. He urgently reported to the court for eight hundred miles. At this time, it is estimated that the soldiers and horses are already preparing to attack Gaochang in the west."

"Ready? What else to prepare?" Qin Mubai couldn't help wondering, "According to the earliest strategy, shouldn't Gao Chang move and Lanzhou move immediately?"

"It's like this." Li Daozong's expression was a little serious and he said, "Not long ago, Changsun Wuji and Chu Suiliang made a special trip to discuss Lanzhou with the court officials. Because Changsun Wuji strongly opposed the use of troops to the outside world again, the cabinet issued an order to Lanzhou at that time, ordering all military operations in Lanzhou to obey the dispatch of the court, not to use troops without permission, and not to fight recklessly.

"What?" Qin Mubai frowned, "Why did Changsun Wuji do this? This is a military and state event, and this is a national policy! His Majesty has formulated it for a long time. Why does he want to change it?

Li Daozong shook his head and said, "In the words of Changsun Wuji, at this time, at that time. Now that my Tang Dynasty is uneasy, how can there be external troubles if the internal worries are not eliminated? Therefore, he also came to me to discuss it, re-introdued the matter of marrying Tubo, and asked Yaner to marry Zanpu of Tubo, in order to achieve the purpose of calming the war.

"Did the prince agree?" Qin Mubai frowned and asked.

"I don't agree or not to say anything about this matter." Li Daozong said, "Because before, it was Yaner who took the initiative to go to Tubo to marry the plateau. Now, I have the reason to refuse?"

Qin Mubai pondered for a long time, took a soft breath and said, "I know why the prince invited Li Xun here."

"Ha ha! You must listen to his opinion on this kind of thing! Although he has always been calm and cautious, he will still say what he should say at this time. Li Daozong smiled and said, "Also, your master who doesn't ask anything behind closed doors, you can also visit him when you are free. He is a good person. He listens to his opinions, especially military-related matters. It's not bad for you."

"Well, the prince is very right. Then go back to the house first. When Li Xun comes, the three of us will discuss it in detail.

It was night when a group of carriages and horses returned to Chang'an. Yin Defei said that she wanted to visit the emperor's son-in-law's mansion, and Qin Mubai accompanied her with Princess Gaoyang and the father and daughter of Li Daozong. Qin's mother, Shuang'er and others went back to the old Qin's house first and went to demolish the demon's mourning hall and settle down the dinner party.

In the emperor's son-in-law's house, there are already some people living, that is, several close maids of Princess Gaoyang, and some maids and kitchen Mrs. Ma assigned to the court in the palace. Although Qin Mubai and Princess Gaoyang have not moved in for the time being, the house has also been cleaned up very well.

Qin Mubai and Princess Gaoyang led everyone to visit the house. At this time, Concubine Yinde also took off the shoulder-length palace gauze hat, and her peerless face was still dazzling in the night, which made Li Xueyan secretly sigh.

"Mom, you can also come to my place to live in the future!" Princess Gaoyang pointed to an attic in front of her and said, "I have specially prepared this good building for you, where you can also eat and recite the Buddha. I have arranged it for you!"

"Ha ha, that's not good?" Yin Defei smiled and said, "As a palace man, how can I leave the palace without permission? I can't be as free as you."

"What's wrong with it? It's normal for a mother to come to her daughter's house for a few days, isn't it? Princess Gaoyang said, "Besides, you are a German concubine, not an ordinary maid of honor. Who can restrict your freedom?"

"You can't say that." Yin Defei smiled and said, "No one cares about me and restrains me, but as an imperial concubine, I have to have my own skills and physique. How can I easily come out of the palace?"

Qin Mubai smiled slightly and arched his hand and said, "The Empress Defei is too worried. Since the Empress is one of the four concubines, she will be the mother of the world. All the people in this world are not only the people of Your Majesty, but also the people of the Empress. So, what's the taboo about going out of the palace gate? You just need to act safely. Your Majesty has always been broad-minded and will not be blamed, and there is no gossip to others.

After listening to this, Yin Defei only smiled and finally nodded, "Okay."

At this time, everyone walked to a yard. Qin Mubai stood at the door and couldn't help stopping.

Previously, this was the residence of the demons and those little orphan girls. When the son-in-law's house was redecorated, Qin Mubai also specially ordered this place not to move a plant or a tree, and keep it as it is and let the demons live. Because the demon's eyes are inconvenient, if there are some changes, she will take a lot of effort to explore and get familiar with it. It can't be said that she has to fall down and hit it several times.

At this time, the building was empty, leaving only some furniture and mattresses and a cold piano.

Everyone followed Qin Mubai in and fell into silence.

Qin Mubai stepped forward, uncovered the brocade cloth carefully covered on the demon's life, and stroked the keyboard, but did not ring a note. The fingers that played the pipa and scratched the skin gently stroked the cold piano body, and the expression on Qin Mubai's face was like enjoying the fragrance of the lover's honey.

"Go to the bosom friend, who will listen to the string... Mu Bai, you and the demon girl are a pair of most beloved and holy bosom friend." Li Daozong couldn't help sighing, "Let's keep it as it is forever!" If the fairy of the demon girl comes to visit her hometown again, she will remember the way home.

The corners of Qin Mubai's mouth rose gently, outlined a smile that no one could understand, and said, "It doesn't matter. I'll see her again. She said that if I meet a stupid girl who can only play the pipa and can't do anything in the afterlife, then it's her..."

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[Lanzhou Hong is the name of the song I made up. But there is a song that is closer to Lanzhou Hong in my heart. It is the music in the classic old game Traces of Heaven, called Ruyi Yuer Song, which is also played with pipa, pure music (later someone wrote lyrics and covers). I listened to this song when I coded these chapters, which made me feel good. I don't know if I listen to it when I read a book. Do you feel it? If you are interested, you might as well come and listen to it. Well, I'm not creative in thinking that "Lanzhou Hong" can also be called "Remembering the Demon Song". Therefore, it became the title of this chapter.]