"Imperial Doctor Xia, do you know why the Yan people are still white?"

When Xia Wuhe was gradually leaving the dressing, he suddenly said such a sentence for no reason.

Doctor Xia pondered for a moment and said: "I heard that the place where the Yan people live is the former ruins of Yin Shang, the legacy of business, the text is like business, and the customs are also like Yin Shang, with white as the top. ”

"No, no."

Gao Yanli shook his head and said with a smile: "The Yan people are simple and have no culture, and they will not pay attention to the inheritance of thousands of years ago. The reason why the Yan people like white is only because after the Yan country enters the winter, it will snow a lot every year, and the snow covers all the colors, sounds, throbbing, endless, and blends into the sky, like the beginning of chaos, the beginning of heaven and earth, grand and quiet. ”

"Living in that endless white, we naturally like white."

While talking, Gao Yanli also remembered that many years ago, by Yishui, everyone was dressed in plain clothes and crowns, and said goodbye to Jing Ke.

"That's why?" Xia Wuhe was indifferent, and continued to untie the sackcloth belt that covered Gao Yuan's eyes.

"That's about it, just ......"

Gao Yanli sighed: "I have been in Xianyang for the rest of the month, and I don't know what is white. “

"It's nature."

Xia Wuhe smiled and said: "You are blind, there is only black left in your eyes!" ”

The cloth was untied, accompanied by a faint smell of medicine, Gao gradually separated from the black and white eyes, without the slightest figure, a dead silence, staring hollowly at the darkness that covered him.

He was blinded by Qin Shi Huang's order to punish Xia Wu with a "矐 (huò"): fresh, hot horse urine was placed in a sealed bucket, then roasted over a fire, and Gao Yuanli's head was pressed into it until the horse urine was steamed.

In this way, the person also fainted, and when he woke up, although his eyes seemed to be normal, he became stiff, and the light withered, and he became a dead thing.

This is still not at ease, Xia Wuhe also tried Gao gradually leaving several times, until he confirmed that he was completely blind, and then returned to Qin Shi Huang.

The emperor just said lightly that he knew, and asked Gao to leave to be a musician in Yuefu.

As a fugitive who was arrested, Gao Yanli was supposed to be sentenced to be beheaded, but after being taken to Xianyang Palace and listening to Gao Yanli's song of playing the piano from afar, the emperor was reluctant to play this wonderful music, so he came forward to pardon him, leaving him alive.

The emperor liked his music, but he thought that his eyes were too bright, and there were too many emotions in them.

This is the raccoon's grace to the mouse, listening to it squeak at the edge of its paws.

But can a blind man still play the same music as before? Xia Wu was very skeptical.

"Imperial Physician Xia doesn't know that in ancient times, most of the music officials in the princes' courts were blind people?"

Gao Yanli groped for his building, pinched the bamboo board firmly in his hand, and said: "The ancient god of the god (gǔ), the sound and measurement in the exam, and the one who formulates the rhythm of music is actually a group of blind people. ”

Playing Shao music, so that Kong Qiu's teacher Xiangzi who didn't know the taste of meat in March was blind. Dazai Shikuang was also blind at the time of Jin Pinggong, he learned the piano from Gao Yang, a musician of the imperial court of the Patriotic Kingdom, but to no avail, and later thought that the reason why he could not specialize in music was because he had eyes to see too many things, so he used wormwood to smoke his eyes, and practiced hard, and finally gradually surpassed his teacher in his piano skills, and could play the most beautiful music in the world.

"I'm blind now, it seems that God is destined to let me focus on music."

Gao Yanli was not indignant because he was blinded, and even when facing Xia Wuji, who hit Jing Ke with a medicine basket back then, he did not show any hostility.

His ambition and resentment seemed to have been extinguished with those bright moves......

"In the past two years, I have fled from place to place, been a mediocre protector for others, eaten the food of dogs, and lived a hard life, and now thanks to His Majesty's forgiveness, let me serve the food, what is there to complain about?"

"That's right."

Xia Wuhe bowed his head: "Like studying medicine, who is from a poor background who learns piano and architecture?" ”

While talking, Gao gradually left and with the help of his assistant, he set up the building and played the music......

When the bamboo board in Gao Yuanli's hand gently crossed the strings, Xia Wuhe no longer had the slightest doubt, Gao Yuanli's music was as good as before, and it had a little more meaning, but he didn't understand the rhythm of music and couldn't say it.

After listening to it for a while, Xia Wuhe only felt mixed feelings in his heart, shook his head, and left with the medicine basket on his back.

……

Of course, Gao Yuanli knew that Xia Wuhe was gone, and after he was blind, he didn't adapt to it at first: when he dreamed, he would dream of the white snow in Yanshangdu, the streets and alleys with distinct colors, and the whole world was lit up by the bright stars, sun and moon.

When he woke up, he opened his eyes suddenly, looked wildly, and found that the day was dark, and realized that he was blind, but he refused to close his eyelids, and kept them wide open, as if hoping to find a glimmer of light.

But nothing was found.

In the past month, Gao has gradually adapted to the darkness, he measured the furnishings of the house by his steps, judged the position of people by his ears, touched the wall to the toilet to urinate, sometimes urinated crookedly, making the room full of smell, and could only wait awkwardly for the servants to clean it.

At this time, he would think of the story of Zheng Guo's blind musician Shi Hui deliberately urinating in public in the Song Dynasty in the Spring and Autumn Period, and he laughed dumbly for a while.

"Asaya? No one! ”

The laughter became louder and louder, and the palace maid was not lightly frightened, and she only thought that this blind man was crazy.

The most difficult thing is that the eyes must be constantly dressed, otherwise it will be itchy and painful, like countless ants biting in the eye sockets, Gao Yuanli sometimes hurts and is covered in sweat, but he never moans, and he endures it, as if his tongue has also been cut off.

They are Yan people, accustomed to blowing the wind of the northern country, growing up in the ice and snow, and they all have this temper, stoic and resolute.

After a month of exercise, Gao was able to distinguish the smell of food from the kitchen in the early morning. As he feasted, he could savor the taste and smell, feel the rough touch of the salty pancakes under his fingers, taste the smoothness of the fish, and the sting of the hot soup when it splashed on his hand and was cut by the strings.

Hearing, smelling, taste, touch, without sight, there are many ways to perceive the world, enough for him to live.

For example, not long after Xia Wuji left, Gao Yanli heard another visitor enter the house, wearing soft-soled silk shoes, stepping on the stones silently, but he was still aware of it.

The visitor took off his shoes outside the door, and entered with only his footcoat, trying to be as quiet as a mouse, as if he didn't want to disturb Gao Yuanli, but he was too fat to hide his clumsy steps.

It wasn't until Gao gradually left the song that there was a sound of clapping in the place where the man was standing.

"What a song of "Qing Shang"!"

Everyone's timbre is special, Gao Yuanli already knows who is coming, and can even smell what snacks he has brought to himself.

粔籹 (jùnǚ) in the south market of Changyang Street, Shi's honey bait, and a kind of dim sum is new, soft and sticky in the hand, and sweet in the mouth.

"It's sugar glutinous ba, a popular food in Nanjun in recent years, and my friend's family made it and sent it, I think, Mr. Gao is a northerner, and he must have never eaten it."

But Gao Yuanli only tasted one and then stopped, he raised his wide sleeves, and said to the source of the voice: "The Yan people are close to the seashore, and they are used to the bitter days of salting, and they are not used to eating sweets. ”

The person who came was Zhang Cang, who was under the pillar, and since Gao gradually left Yuefu, Zhang Cang had a great interest in him, or his music.

Zhang Cang is well-read, but when it comes to his biggest hobby, one is mathematics, and the other is music, he has been collecting music scores from the Six Kingdoms, and wants to compile them into new music rhythms.

In ancient times, in addition to relying on the observation of celestial phenomena, the direction of the wind should also be referred to in the formulation of calendars and the determination of seasons. The Yaodian records the establishment of the calendar by observing the "four winds". The observation of the wind mainly depends on hearing, and the blind but deaf blind can gain the ability to predict the season by judging the direction of the wind. Moreover, the ancients believed that the production of music rhythm was also a masterpiece of wind, and wind was a mixture of the qi of heaven and earth, so the "Twelve Laws" were produced.

Now that Zhang Cang wants to rebuild the law calendar, he naturally has to start with the rhythm, and Gao Yuanli, who has learned a lot of ancient music, seems to have become a living fossil in his eyes.

"In Xianyang Palace, there are only a handful of musicians who can fully play the style of the fifteen countries."

"And there are very few people in the world who can play the song of "Qing Shang", not to mention the long-lost "Qing Zheng" and "Qing Jiao", it is said that only Mr. Gao can play it."

Zhang Cang considered his tone, after a month of getting along, he and Gao gradually became acquainted, but is it still too abrupt to ask him to teach him his best music?

"I'll teach you."

Unexpectedly, Gao gradually left but was extremely crisp and picked out the topic.

"Although my eyes are blind, my heart is not blind, how can I not know the meaning of the history under the pillar?"

He directly asked Zhang Cang to bring the piano, and he played it slowly, so that Zhang Cang could memorize the score.

In this world, there is only one person left who can play "Qing Zheng" and "Qing Jiao", which is also the reason why Qin Shi Huang left him with his life.

But soon, the music will be lost......

This can be regarded as the last regret and reluctance of Gao gradually leaving the world, his disciples all died in the battle of Qin Fayan, his wife and daughter were separated and disappeared, he had no skills, but there was no heir.

"It is a blessing for Gao to be able to pass on this song to Xunzi Gao's disciples and carry it forward."

Gao Yanli didn't know how much time he had, an hour's time, fleeting, just after Zhang Cang recorded the scores of the two pieces on the hemp paper, Gao Yuanli stopped the piano in his hand, looked out with empty eyes, and smiled.

"I'm leaving."

Zhang Cang was a little inexplicable, and after a while, he found that a group of people had come outside, who were the emperor's confidants and Lang Wei.

The confessor said in a loud voice: "The musician is leaving, Your Majesty Yanju, summoning you to play music to help the fun, then go with me!" ”

This is the sixth time in a month that the emperor has summoned Gao Yuanli, and you can see how much he likes his music.

Gao gradually got up, asked the attendant on the side to help him tidy up, and held Zhu in his arms—he always refused to let his assistant touch it.

Holding Zhu in his arms, Gao gradually left Zhang Cang and bowed slightly.

"I hope that Shi Neng will be diligent in learning and remember this song, don't make it a swan song!"

After saying that, he followed the confessor in the direction of the palace, his steps were brisk, he didn't know people, and he never thought that he was a blind man.

This sentence made Zhang Cang a little confused, shook his head, didn't think much about it, and left Yuefu with the score.

Yuefu belongs to Shaofu, so at the gate of Shaofu, he met Heifu who hurried back.

"Zi Gurd!"

Heifu came from Duyi overnight, but unfortunately the gate of Xianyang City was opened at dawn, and he did not have the privilege of entering directly, so he was delayed until now, and after entering the city, he rushed to Shaofu, not wanting to meet Zhang Cang.

He jumped off the carriage, didn't care about explanation, and asked Zhang Cang directly: "I heard Shaorong say that you and Gao are getting along, where is he?" ”

"Mr. Gao?"

Zhang Cang was still immersed in the wonderful sound of two peerless music, and was awakened by the shouting of Heifu, pointing in the direction of Xianyang Palace and saying: "Mr. Gao went to play for His Majesty, at this moment, he should have arrived in front of the palace!" ”