comeback [rebirth]

Cen Yuan didn't know much about this Zheng girl, and based on her reaction last night and just now, he even doubted—if he made this request, would she come with a condition such as "agreeing to marry Yan Xuan".

But unexpectedly, Meyerna readily agreed: "Okay, just say it."

Cen Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.

"But..." Meyena stopped after saying two words on purpose, seeing Cen Yuan's expression froze, she couldn't hold back a "puchi" laugh.

Cen Yuan: "..."

"Conditions, there must be one." Meyerna nodded to the wooden table, "I've packed the wine for this girl."

Although Cen Yuan's own purse is a bit light, it is still not exhausted, and the price of a few drinks is still affordable, unless the other party is crazy and asks him to buy all the wine in this restaurant.

But Meyerna just joked when she was joking, and she didn't overdo things, so she just ordered a jar of peach wine.

Xiao Er was very fast, and went directly to the wine jar and two wine bowls.

"Tell me, what can I do for you?" Meyerna said while pouring wine into the wine bowl, and looked up at the other party after filling the bowl, "Do you want it?"

Danlin’s characteristic peach wine, the rich aroma of the wine can be smelled across most of the tables, and the taste can follow the nose like a shadow for a long time.

If it was in the past, Cen Yuan would definitely ask her to pour the wine without saying a word, but now, he sniffed and took a sip of tea: "The family is strict, so I won't drink."

"..." Meyena's hand that was about to pour the wine suddenly stopped.

She put the wine jug back on the table with a "bang", narrowed her eyes and said, "Young Master Yuan, I almost suspect that your intention is to show me off."

"Then I really have to say that I am wronged." Although Cen Yuan is now in the position of begging for help, he still couldn't help refuting: "It turns out that I really didn't have such thoughts, but after what you said, I think that's the point. Not too bad."

Meyerna choked, "I think I should just go upstairs with the drink and lock you out."

Having said that, she didn't mean to get up, she just raised her head and drank the wine in the wine bowl in one gulp, and poured another bowl.

Seeing this, Cen Yuan also disagreed with her ink marks, and went straight to the point: "I want to learn a song from you."

"Music?" Meyerna was taken aback.

"Yeah." Cen Yuan nodded, "It's sung in the language of your Zheng clan. I don't know the name of the song, but I only know it's used to pray for people."

Meyerna thought about it while drinking, and said after a while: "I don't remember any songs used to pray for blessings. Are you sure it belongs to our Zheng clan?"

Cen Yuan fell silent, thinking back to the song that Yan Xuan sang by the river after taking him out of the city on Zhongyuan day.

——He only heard the existence of this piece of music from Yan Xuan when he was young, and it was the first time he heard the content on that day in Zhongyuan, but in the final analysis, since this piece of music was sung by Yan Xuan’s mother every day, it is a blessing The reasoning is also what Yan Xuan heard from his father, there shouldn't be any mistakes.

Is it no longer circulated now?

Mayena's face looked very young, and Zhong Yuan might have just reached Ji's age, and it's not unheard of possibility.

Cen Yuan added: "That song was made 18 years ago, I'm not sure if it still exists now."

"18 years ago..." Meyerna murmured, "Do you still remember how to sing it? The range is too wide, not to mention folk songs composed and sung in private, just some traditional songs that have been passed down for thousands of years. It may have been modified into a different piece of music."

Cen Yuan lowered his eyes and said, "I'll think about it."

He is not very sensitive to the melody of the music, and he is usually lacking in interest. Unless it is really difficult to listen to, it is not bad to be able to distinguish the level of likes and dislikes for the rest.

However, he was very serious when he listened to this blessing song that day, but now thinking about it, it was simply because it was sung by Yan Xuan.So after trying to recall it, it really reminded him of a tune or two.

He looked around and saw that the only mistress was greeting the drunkard who had just woken up in the other corner, so he lowered his voice and hummed the two tunes he remembered softly, not sure if what he hummed was in tune. .

But Meyerna slapped the table as soon as she heard it: "Oh! This is what you said!"

"..." Cen Yuan was almost startled by her: "?"

"Ham, just now you said it was sung in the Zheng language, so I didn't think of this song." Mayena lowered her head and groped for a while, and then took out a flute-like flute from the right side of her waist. The musical instrument is only one stroke in length.

"It's called the Qinwu, and it's a musical instrument unique to the Zheng clan. The one you hummed just now is our clan's song for calming the soul, and it does have the meaning of praying for blessings."

Cen Yuan was stunned: "There is no libretto?"

"Normally, it doesn't exist." Meyerna said, "I've only known it since I was a child, and the only thing I've heard is that it's played by Qin Wu. I haven't heard the version with libretto. I guess the libretto you've heard is added in addition. "

She explained it very clearly, Cen Yuan nodded, lowered his eyes to ponder for a while, and then said: "Can this piece only be played by Qin Wu?"

Since it is a musical instrument only used by the Zheng people, it is very difficult to buy it in the Central Plains in all likelihood, and it is not suitable to borrow this wind instrument even for a while.

Maiena said: "For us Zheng people, we usually use Qinwu, but in the Central Plains, bamboo flutes can barely replace it, and there is not much emphasis on it."

She thought for a while: "It's really not possible, just grab a leaf, as long as you can blow it out, it's not a problem."

Cen Yuan thought to himself, for a half-baked guy like him, it's really not easy to be able to pronounce the correct intonation, so don't try to go too far.

If you don't have Qinwu, just use the bamboo flute instead.

He was sure, so he told Meyena what he thought, and the latter agreed straight away: "Okay, just come to me when you're ready."

"Thank you." Cen Yuan said, "But the restaurant is too noisy, if we are alone in the same room, it will not affect you well. It happens that we have a vacant mansion here, not far away, I just need to trouble you to move a few steps .”

After that, he raised his chin in the direction of the wine jar: "Don't worry, there will be enough wine."

"Yo, that's really thoughtful." Meyerna raised her eyebrows, "Although I don't really mind, but since you've said that, it's better to be respectful than to obey."

Cen Yuan laughed and said, "You speak Chinese quite fluently."

Meyenna was already half full of wine, and stepped on the stool with one foot curled up. When she heard the words, she first uttered a curse-like Zheng language, and then changed to Chinese, complaining about how difficult this Chinese is to learn. How difficult to write.

Cen Yuan quickly stopped her: "Wait a while, I still have a problem."

"you say!"

"..." At this moment, Cen Yuan understood Yan Xuan's feelings when he watched him get drunk, even though it was only part of it.

He shook his head and asked Xiao Er to make a pot of hangover tea.

After finishing the order, he looked at Meyena again and asked, "Can this requiem be played on a person's birthday?"

Meyerna didn't answer for a while, her eyes fell on the other party, she squinted her eyes a little, and propped her head on one hand, before saying after a while: "People from the Central Plains, I suddenly feel that you are not bad looking now."

Cen Yuan said angrily: "Thank you, you found out too late."

"Then would you like to marry a concubine?"

"..." Cen Yuan felt that his teeth were about to be bitten apart if this continued, he said, "That's really thankful."

Meyerna laughed twice, raised her head and poured a bowl of wine, and replied: "Most of the soul songs are played on some important days—such as the beginning of the new year, when a baby is born, and the birthday is naturally very suitable."

"Then is there any gift that is specially given on the birthday?"

"There are no gifts specially given on birthdays... Oh!" Meyerna suddenly enlightened, "Is it Yuan Lang's birthday?"

"..." Although it was not his real name, Cen Yuan still felt that it sounded awkward: "Can't we change the name 'Yuan Lang'?"

Meyerna plausibly said: "You all have the same surname, I don't make a distinction, can you know who I'm talking about."

Cen Yuan: "..."

Forget it, anyway, it's not the first time he has done this thing of shooting himself in the foot.

"It's going to be his birthday." Cen Yuan said.

"Then I have to think about it..." Meyena said, really thinking, "If it's a Zheng man's birthday, he usually gives some cows, horses, swords, or some self-made gadgets. "

"Homemade gadgets?"

"Yes." Meyerna lowered her head and took off a veil from her waist again, spread it out in front of Cen Yuan, and tapped a corner of the veil, "The same is true for women, like this is my mother's birthday on my last birthday." This is a totem embroidered by her herself."

Of course, this is not the first time for Cen Yuan to see this totem. He held up the jade pendant around his waist, put it aside and compared it, and couldn't help being curious: "What's so special about this totem?"

"It is rumored that we Zheng people are the descendants of the fire god Zhurong, and this totem is the image of the fire god." Meyena said while drinking, "so for the Zheng people, any hand-made, containing Anything with a totem, whether it is a jade pendant carved with a totem or a handkerchief embroidered with a totem, has the meaning of 'asking the ancestors to bless this person with a safe and happy life'."

Cen Yuan: "I see."

"But other than that..." Meyerna looked at the jade pendant and smiled, "The meaning of the jade pendant is more than that."

When the voice paused, it happened that Xiaoer brought up the sober tea that had been brewed, and at this moment, people entered the restaurant one after another, and the surrounding gradually became bustling and chattering.

Cen Yuan poured a cup of tea for the other party, and at the same time recalled what Yan Xuan said when he gave him the jade pendant, and asked, "Bless the harmony between the husband and wife and the well-being of the family?"

Unexpectedly, Meyerna shook her head after receiving the tea: "There is such a meaning in giving gifts between husband and wife, but that's not what I want to talk about."

Cen Yuan was startled.

"If the jade pendant is only engraved with a totem, then it only has a meaning of blessing." Meyerna said, "But if the name of the person you like is engraved on it, it means that the sculptor wants to be with him forever. , wholeheartedly. And the person who accepts the jade pendant shows that they are in love with each other."

Cen Yuan: "..."

"That's why, when men of the Zheng clan receive jade pendants as gifts, they will be very cautious and will only accept gifts from people they like." Meyena looked at Cen Yuan playfully, obviously for him The jade pendant in his hand, "Over time, this jade pendant has become a token of love between lovers."

After that, she picked up the wine jar next to it and poured it into the bowl, but only poured out the wine that only covered the bottom of the bowl.She let out a "tch" and drank that small sip, only to find that Cen Yuan was looking down at the jade pendant with dazed eyes.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

Cen Yuan didn't answer, and rubbed the jade pendant with his fingertips.

In an instant, as if the noise around him suddenly changed, he returned to that begging night——

"It's my mother's jade pendant."

"It is said that when Zheng people get married, they will give jade pendants carved by themselves to each other, so as to protect the harmony of husband and wife and the well-being of the family."

"Mother is not here, I don't know how to carve, and today is too hasty, so I can only pass this one on to you."

……

At that time, because of insomnia, he turned and looked at the jade pendant all night, but he didn't see any lines like his name on it.But at this moment, when he picked up the jade pendant again, he felt his heart beating faster, and the unprecedented tension almost covered all the surrounding sounds.

He seems to have penetrated into the inside of this jade pendant, not only wanting to peep into the inscription completely imprinted in its deep part, but also wanting to explore the heart of the taciturn little general through it.

I saw that the two symmetrical fire dragons carved on the jade pendant are still vivid, and the majestic momentum when holding a spear is vivid on it, and the texture of each fire dragon is like a star dotted pattern.

And at the bottom of their background, because the gully is deep and deep, it can't be seen completely, only a few intricate fine lines can be vaguely seen, intertwined into two fuzzy groups, so that at first glance it looks like the lines of jade.

But after a closer look, I found that it was clearly two words——

"Cen Yuan".