It was bumpy all the way from Ezhou, and after passing Xinyang, the official road finally flattened, which also meant that it was getting closer and closer to the bustling Kyoto.
Although it was just passing by, everyone was cheered up at the thought of seeing the bustling and bustling capital city.
"After leaving the capital and crossing the Yellow River, the next road will become more and more difficult, and it will never be as comfortable as before." Qiu Yueming poured cold water on them.
Zhou Deyun's entire face suddenly collapsed, "Isn't it difficult to walk like this before? Will it be even more difficult in the future?"
All the way, the eldest young master also has a disheveled face, sore back, sore legs, and can no longer maintain the exquisite and pampered pomp. He heard that the next journey would be even more difficult, and he couldn't help but complain in his heart. But looking at the young gentleman on the horse's back, he looked calm. The frail "my lady" even rode all the way to explore the road, arranged room and board, and commanded well. He, the "seven-foot man" who was sitting in the carriage had to rub his bumpy buttocks and swallowed the bitter water in his stomach.
"Ah Xiang, when I went to Kyoto, I wanted to visit Sister Qinghu. Thanks to her for taking care of me before." The car curtain beside Yuan Xianger opened, revealing half of a girl's beautiful face. She put her hands together in a gesture of asking for help. Both petite and cute.
Zhou Deyun, who was sitting in the other carriage, caught a glimpse of the green jade hand, and was taken aback.
God! The little lady who suddenly appeared out of nowhere, this day is the same, and the heart can't stand it. Zhou Deyun hurriedly covered his chest and lowered the curtain.
"Sister Qinghu in your mouth is the sister fox who said she lived in the classroom before?" Yuan Xianger rode on the horse, next to the window of the carriage. She was a little curious about the vixen that Hu Sanlang mentioned before, who had been living in the crowd.
"She has been living in the capital, has she never been discovered? At the foot of the emperor, in a prosperous and prosperous land, there are many capable people and different scholars. After living in peace for so many years, your sister is quite amazing."
"Well, Sister Qinghu has lived in the world for a long time, and she is very familiar with everything about human beings. At the beginning, if she hadn't taken in me, I might have died a long time ago."
Hu Sanlang accepted Yuan Xianger's invitation and planned to settle in Queqiu together from now on. Therefore, after entering the capital, I plan to say goodbye to my family and report peace.
The towering ancient capital is in sight from afar, and the chariots and horses in front of the city gate are magnificent.
When you enter Decheng, you will see thousands of doors and thousands of households, green trees and silver terraces, and jade buildings and golden towers. Pedestrians on the road, Hua Ju Luo skirt, ring wear Jingle. The bluestone avenue, the golden ring presses the bridle, and the jade bridle is vertical and horizontal. Huajie Liuxiang, the singer is enchanting, and Wang Sun buys laughter. It is a scene of prosperous flowers and prosperous times.
In order to save time, Yuan Xianger and his party did not enter the inner city, but found a convenient inn in the outer city to rest.
Under the service of the servant, Zhou Deyun ordered a fragrant soup to wash his face, scalded his feet with hot water, changed his clothes, pressed his waist and beat his legs, and finally felt that he was alive again. He remembered something at the dinner table, and said regretfully,
"There is a master of melody in Kyoto, who is called Madam Hu. It's a big pity that I didn't get to see her in a hurry this time."
Along the way, because of the playful son Zhou Deyun, every time he passed through the prosperous and important towns and had a meal in a wine shop, he always invited some local singers and qin masters to perform performances to relieve fatigue. "Two are willing to take the second place and claim that they are inferior, which makes Yuan Xianger and Qiu Yueming, who are not very concerned about the way of rhythm, inevitably a little curious.
Yuan Xiang'er then said, "Since we've all arrived in the capital, why don't I send the shop clerk to ask for a favor. I don't remember how much money I have, so let's see what kind of fairy music it is?"
Although she is more casual in life, in fact, the warehouse at home is full of gold and silver, and she can spend it as she likes, so she doesn't care about money.
"Little gentleman does not know, although this lady Hu is a person in the dust, but if you want to hear her wonderful hand fairy, it is not possible to achieve it. You only play one song a day, no matter how much money you pay, As long as there is no advance invitation, I will ignore it. It is said that the invitations for the invitation can already be arranged for the next year." Zhou Deyun sighed one after another, as if he really regretted it.
Just as he was talking, a servant of Zhou Deyun hurried in with a sky-blue greeting card in hand.
"Master, Madam Hu from Yushifang is visiting, and the sedan is already outside the inn."
Zhou Deyun stood up immediately, "What? Who do you think is visiting? Is it really Mrs. Hu? I... How can I have such a face?"
He hurriedly ran out, and hurriedly backed back, "Hurry up, quickly fix your clothes. Idiot, keep your hands and feet neat. How can you make everyone wait? It's rude."
Here, I tidied up and ran out with the hem of the clothes and the hat. Yuan Xianger and Qiu Yueming also pushed open the window of the inn curiously, and they saw a simple and unpretentious green-veiled car parked outside the restaurant door. A lady got out of the car. She saw her with red phoenix eyes, willow eyebrows, light makeup and plain clothes, wearing Zhaojun on her head. hat, holding a lute in his hand.
Compared with the enchanting and colorful women in the classroom, her appearance was ordinary, and her expression was very light. Behind her came a girl with almond eyes and peach cheeks, but it was Hu Sanlang in women's clothing. Hu Sanlang supported the lady's arm, raised his head and winked at Yuan Xianger.
So Yuan Xianger knew that Mrs. Hu turned out to be the sister Qinghu in his mouth.
"Wu Yuan, can you tell? If Saburo hadn't told me, this one really made me not see any clues." Yuan Xiang'er quietly asked Wu Yuan, who was lying at the window.
"Strange." Wu Yuan said oddly, "I can't even see it. In my eyes, this is a human being. My father said that there is only one kind of race in this world that cannot be seen through the eyes of reality, and that is the fox clan. The nine-tailed fox in the middle of the world. Nine-tailed foxes are rare in the world, and I didn’t expect to meet one here today.”
With the warm welcome of Zhou Deyun, the lady Hu entered the house.
She didn't recount the past, she just saluted, plucked the strings, and performed a skill first.
I saw that the jade finger tunes the clouds and the Han Dynasty, the plain hands are chaotic in the mountains, and there are fairy sounds in the song, which is similar to Deng Feiliang.
When listening to Qiuniang's pipa in Ezhou, Yuan Xianger already felt that it was a rare audio-visual enjoyment.
But when the plain hand plucked the cold strings in front of her, and the sound of Qing Lingling's music swayed in the room, Yuan Xianger finally knew what real human fairy music was.
When the vermilion-like music fell to the ground and flowed, you had no time to take into account the appearance of the performer.
The noisy voice in the restaurant was suddenly silent.
The red-faced drinker stopped his glass and suddenly remembered his wife who was coaxing the child to sleep under the oil lamp at home.
The shopkeeper, who squinted his eyes and planned to dish, raised his head, recalling the heartless time of herding cattle in his childhood.
The ranger with the wild goose ling knife hanging from his waist put down his palm tightly gripping the handle of the knife.
Zhou Deyun recalled Zeng Ji's unrestrained and comfortable life, as well as the various sufferings of these days, and couldn't help covering his face with his sleeves.
Qiu Yueming clenched his fists silently, frowned, and his masseter muscles floated on his cheeks.
Even Yuan Xianger followed the music that flowed through her heart, recalling a long time ago, even her own blurred memories, the day before her car accident happened to be her birthday.
The mother, who has always been very busy, suddenly appeared in the living room of the house. When she saw her going downstairs, she got up and looked at her exquisite watch, and said lightly, "I have a meeting today. Let's have dinner together later."
At that time, the corner of her mother's mouth was clearly smiling, but she was so prejudiced against her that she didn't notice it at all, and she even found a reason to prevaricate her mother's rare invitation.
Thinking about it now, the mother who raised her alone may be just a person who is not good at expressing her feelings, and she may not be indifferent to her sudden death.
A warm, dry hand grabbed hers and squeezed hers lightly.
Nan He was looking at her worriedly, Yuan Xiang'er saw herself at a loss in those amber eyes.
Her eyes were wet, and it was already a different time and space.
In this world, I have a good life, I have received the care of my master and my wife, and I have made many friends. You don't have to feel sad for me over there.
I don't know when the sound of the pipa stopped, and the lingering rhythm was long, and it was difficult for everyone to pull away from their sorrowful arms for a long time.
Zhou Deyun wiped away his tears and applauded, "Good quality and beautiful hands, I will meet this world; I will sing a lot, and I will be crowned with all the arts; I have heard a song from you, and I will die without regrets."
Madam Hu put away her pipa and stood up to give thanks.
She raised her eyes to look at Yuan Xiang'er, "This little lady and I hit it off at first sight. I wonder if we can take the trouble to send each other off."
Yuan Xianger knew that she probably wanted to talk about Saburo, so she nodded and left Zhou Deyun and Qiu Yueming to send her out.
The two of them didn't take the sedan and walked along the street where people came and went.
"I'm only named Qing, you can call me Aqing." Madam Hu spoke first, "I heard Saburo say that he wants to live with a human, I was very worried, and insisted to come and have a look. , it made you laugh."
Yuan Xianger felt that what she said was very reasonable. After all, these little goblins are a bit stupid. She probably disagreed with Saburo and a human who did not know the details.
"Just looking at it like this, you're relieved?"
"I am different from Saburo and the others. I have lived in the world for too long, and I know you humans very well, and I have my own way of knowing people."
"What's more, I also saw your apostle - very few people would raise such a small lynx as an apostle, and it would be so round and smooth." Ah Qing glanced at the Wu Yuan on Yuan Xiang'er's shoulder and smiled softly, "A human mage may only take his true eye and refine it into a magic weapon. Most of the time, demons are just tools and enemies that can be killed at will to humans."
She nodded gently towards Nan He next to Yuan Xiang'er, "The Heavenly Wolf clan is the most arrogant, even if he is willing to walk with you, I have nothing to worry about."
Wu Yuan let out an unhappy meow, "You ignorant nine-tailed fox, you don't even know the power of this uncle."
Hu Sanlang poked his head from the side and made a face at him.
Yuan Xianger scratched Wuyuan's chin soothingly, "Yes, yes, Ah Qing, she is not familiar with Wuyuan, so she doesn't know that we are good at Wuyuan."
Ah Qing also turned his head and explained to Saburo, "Queqiu is close to Tianlang Mountain. It is full of spiritual energy, comfortable and comfortable. It is indeed much better than staying by my side. But since you want to live in the human world, you must restrain our clan's habits a lot. , don't give Axiang too much trouble."
They chatted a lot about Saburo's past along the way, and they couldn't help but become familiar with each other.
"Aqing, you don't seem to like humans very much, so why do you still live in a human city?" Yuan Xianger asked.
The lady Qinghu lowered her eyelashes and walked for a long distance in silence. When Yuan Xianger thought she would not want to answer this question, she stopped, raised her neck and looked at Qingshan in the distance.
"Once, there was a beautiful mountain forest where I lived. The mountain was full of life and the stream was gurgling. There lived a powerful adult. That adult was very gentle. The humans there regarded him as a god, built temples for him, and worshipped him with incense." She recalled the past, her thin eyebrows became gentle, with a happy smile, she raised her sleeves to cover her lips, "I At that time, I was still an ignorant little fox, often sneaking out of the house and in danger, the adult saved my life several times."
"But one day, a very powerful mage appeared. He demolished the temple and drove us away. Even that lord was not his opponent. Instead, he… was chained by him in the formation, forcing the deed to be an apostle. Ah Qing showed a sad look, "I also don't have the ability to help that lord, so I can only find a way to live in a human town, to be closer to that lord, and I hope he can hear my violin sound occasionally, okay. Relieve some physical and mental pain."
Holding her pipa, she stood in the snow, her thin eyebrows filled with silence.
At this moment, Yuan Xianger suddenly understood why her piano sounds were so able to evoke people's memories of the past. It was only because the players' deep nostalgia and longing flowed out from her strings, which resonated with the listeners.
"What kind of person?" Yuan Xiang'er didn't want to ask.
"Look at me, you said Saburo." Ah Qing hurriedly restrained her emotions and forced a smile, "What happened to me today, this is not something you can ask a little girl. The crouching tiger, hidden dragon here in Kyoto is very complicated. You stay for one night and leave early tomorrow."