I dig ancient tombs for the country

The next day, Hongmao and I wandered around the ruins of the ancient city, hoping to find clues.Unfortunately, we walked around the ancient city wall a few times and found nothing of value.It turns out that the so-called splendid building has long since disappeared, and all that remains are ruins.

Facing the high abandoned mound, we were helpless. If we want to find the orb, it is undoubtedly looking for a needle in a haystack.

The past is like smoke, and the prosperity will never go away.No matter how many more times the city walls of the ancient country of Kucha are exposed to wind and rain, I am afraid that they will really disappear in the dust and smoke of history.

The sun was scorching the earth, Hongmao and I were getting tired and ready to go back.At this time, I saw a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy sitting under a ruin, holding a pipa and impromptu playing a piece of music.The desolate background and the slightly vicissitudes of ancient music seem to lead us to travel through time and space to visit the prosperous Kucha Kingdom in the past and have a dialogue with the ancients.

The two of us were immersed in the melodious pipa sound for a while, and I didn't wake up until the end of the song.At that moment, I thought I was living in the ancient Kucha country.

The pipa in the young man's hand caught my attention. This is not an ordinary pipa, but made of rosewood, because rosewood is good at producing natural overtones during playing, which is top grade.And the shape of the pipa is very unique, smaller than the general pipa, and has a sense of exquisiteness and compactness.And the first string on the strings looks like a gold wire, not a general-purpose steel wire, and the second, third, and fourth strings are silver wires.This is rare nowadays, unless it is left over from ancient times. After all, the ancient Kucha Kingdom was once known as the Le Capital of the Western Regions.

Based on my intuition, I felt that this pipa belonged to the ancient Qiuci country, so I tentatively asked: "Young man, where did you buy this pipa, the sound quality is very good."

When the young man heard me praise his pipa, he showed a satisfied smile: "I didn't buy this pipa, it was left to me by my grandma. I heard that this pipa used to be the favorite of Princess Pipa, and somehow it came to my house. It has become a family heirloom in my family.”

"Oh, I didn't expect your pipa to have such a glorious history. Can you tell us more about the legend of the pipa princess?" I looked at the pipa with envy in my eyes.

The young man shook his head in embarrassment: "There are many things about Princess Pipa, and I also listened to my grandma, why don't I take you to find my grandma."

"That's a good relationship, thank you." Hongmao and I were overjoyed for a while, as long as it was about the story of Princess Pipa, we would listen to it, not only listen, but also ponder and research carefully, this is about the possibility of finding the star of bliss The basis!

The young man's grandmother is a typical Uyghur old lady. She is 86 years old and looks in good health.Although we couldn't understand the dialect she spoke, with the young man acting as an interpreter, we could still understand her better.

It turns out that the ancestors of the old lady were warriors of the Kucha Kingdom, who served King Bai Zhen in the palace all the year round.Later, Princess Pipa got married, and the king rewarded the warrior to the princess as his bodyguard.Unexpectedly, there was a battle for orbs that year, and the samurai protected the princess for his merits, so Princess Pipa rewarded the samurai with countless gold and silver.Later, Prince Baibang secretly colluded with the Uyghurs to attack Yancheng. Princess Pipa gave the pipa to the warrior and asked him to take it out of the city quietly, and told him not to destroy the pipa. Come to take the pipa with the princess' token.

But that night, the royal palace of the Kucha Kingdom suddenly disappeared out of thin air.The samurai family carefully treasured the pipa and never dared to show it.They were eager to see through, but they didn't wait for the person who came to pick up the pipa.So it was passed down from generation to generation, and the legacy of the ancestors has not been forgotten until now.

After listening to the old lady's story, I couldn't help but see a bright light. It turns out that Princess Pipa still has such a pipa in the world. Is there any mystery in this pipa?So I frowned, thinking about it.

I laughed and took out the red lacquer box I hid in my arms: "Grandma, look at this. This is handed down by my ancestors, saying that I took this token to find the pipa left by the princess's pipa." , We have been looking for it for many years, and we didn't expect to be lucky enough to come across it today."

The old lady took the box in my hand suspiciously, and looked at it carefully. She looked at it for a long time, then stood up tremblingly from the chair, and knelt down in front of me with a "plop", terrified. I hurriedly took a step back, what does this old lady want to do?

The old lady was crying for a long time, she was choking and whimpering and talking intermittently, I heard Monk Zhang Er was puzzled, and it was the young man who translated it before I understood what the old lady said.

The old lady said: "This box is indeed from the palace of Kucha. There are only two kinds of seals in the palace. One is engraved with double dragons and peonies, which means wealth and auspiciousness. The other is two dragons playing with beads. The beads refer to that A star of bliss."

After listening to the old lady's words, I completely let go of a hanging heart.After all, it has been passed down from generation to generation for so many years, and now I have been deceived by a few words that I fabricated out of thin air, which is too insincere.

When I finally left, I took out 1000 yuan, saying that it was to thank them.The old lady didn't accept anything, so I had no choice but to put the money into the hands of her grandson, and then I walked out of the young man's house with Hongmao with peace of mind.

When we got back to the mansion, we couldn't wait to take out the pipa, and studied it carefully inside and out. Except for the tune, we opened all the other parts that could be opened, but found nothing.

Is there no mystery in this pipa?The Princess Pipa also asked the descendants to pick it up. I don't know what her intention is?

Looking at the pipa, I just wanted to play a piece on a whim.In the end, he was ridiculed by the red hair: "Can you play it! I think you have taken it backwards."

I looked down and blushed involuntarily, it was indeed the wrong way around.I straightened the pipa, put it on my lap, and played a syllable casually. Just as I was about to continue, I felt that the weight of the pipa was a bit wrong.

This pipa seems a bit heavy, except for the head, body and back which are made of rosewood, only the shaft is made of ivory, and the rest are made of perennial moso bamboo. Could it be so heavy?Is there any mechanism?Or is there something inside?

Seeing me staring at the pipa in a daze, the red hair sighed helplessly: "Oh! Brother Tao, don't be stupid. This pipa is nothing to look at. It's really wrong to change a pipa for 1000 yuan."

I glared at Hongmao in dissatisfaction: "That's not what I said. After all, this pipa is an antique, and it was also something that Princess Pipa liked when she was alive. There must be secrets in it that we don't know. Let me slowly reveal it." This veil."

Hongmao pursed his lips, with a dismissive expression: "I'm afraid the day lily will be cold when you decipher it."

I was about to fight back against Hongmao, but accidentally, the pipa fell from my lap to the ground, and the joint between the head and the body broke in two.