Liangsha was extremely happy today, and even though the weather was gloomy, he could not conceal his joy.
It is said that meeting a deceased person in a foreign land and being named on the gold medal list are the four major happy events. Liangsha feels that two more must be added: the crown ceremony and the proposal of marriage.
The crowning ceremony is still a small matter, just a formality. However, when he thought about the proposal of marriage, he couldn't help but smile with joy. Liangsha, who was looking at the bronze mirror and being dressed up by the old woman at home, felt very happy in his heart.
The petite figure of my cousin who I grew up with is as tender as a spoon dancer, and I gulp down the thought of it.
Bad taste? No, no, no, Liangsha seems to have a daughter-in-law who looks like a small porcelain doll, which is a kind of show off.
When the time came, Liangsha couldn't wait to urge his father and mother to hurry up. Of course, he is not anxious to get crowned. Naturally, he is anxious to propose marriage after the ceremony.
Go to that small courtyard that he hasn't been to for a long time, and get to know the sister he has loved since childhood.
Jieyinping, this nearly 100-acre platform is said to have been blasted out by thunder in ancient times. It is as smooth and smooth as a knife or an axe. When the former watershed water village was just built, it was used as a venue for some ceremonies, such as New Year's Eve. A banquet here, or a banquet to celebrate every important event.
It's really enjoyable to have a lot of fun in this open-air venue.
As for the venue that has been decorated since the New Year, dozens of round tables are arranged neatly, and red silk surrounds the entire venue. If you go to the top of the mountain and take a look, you will see billowing red waves accompanied by the mountain wind that never stops blowing intermittently. , full of joy.
At this time, on this natural platform that has been blessed by the creation of heaven and earth, people are crowded together, and it is very lively.
Over there are gongs and drums, and the suonas are ringing in the ears. Here, firecrackers are blasting, and there are endless cheers. It is a bustling scene.
Jieyinping is the innermost one. It was built just yesterday on a wooden high platform. The heaven and earth are worshiped in the middle, and the gods are worshiped on both sides. A high cauldron is in the middle, accompanied by an incense burner. Three four-foot incense candles curl up the light smoke into the sky.
A group of Confucian virtuous men in plain white Confucian clothes stood on both sides holding a book of "Book of Rites" that has been passed down for thousands of years. Standing among them was a Confucian master who was said to be a guest from Yanzhou, thousands of miles away. His beard and eyebrows were both silver-white, but his natural scholarly spirit in his movements was definitely not something that ordinary teachers could have.
From the beginning, Liangsha impatiently urged the old man, who seemed to him to be almost unable to open his eyes, to read the same complicated and complicated praises faster. He also hurriedly asked his father to ask him where he could get the invitation from. The teacher who came here gave himself a cloth crown, a leather crown, and a noble crown. The great scholars shook their heads and sighed, saying, "Boys cannot be taught." They hurriedly stepped down with their turbans and hats tilted. Even so, it was only at the end of Chen Zhengzheng. At the end of the year, Liangsha just cursed secretly that the crowning ceremony, which had been passed down for thousands of years, was too cumbersome.
If Liang Xia Ke hadn't grabbed this disgraced son, Liang Xia might have forgotten even the Li Guan Banquet.
The Liguan Banquet requires a large banquet for guests. To put it bluntly, the father introduces all his connections to his son. After all, the son is an adult and can take on the big and small affairs of the family with him. He wants to let guests and friends like himself know that his son has Ability to take over from me.
But now Liangsha's performance is really a loss of face.
"If you continue to be so irritable and act like an adult, I will put you in confinement for one month after the ceremony!" Unlike his younger brother, who is thin and weak due to illness, Liang Xia Ke is actually strong, with a full beard, and has a rugged appearance. He looks like a bandit who is ruthless and ruthless. His son was so careless and disrespectful in front of guests, friends and relatives, and a crowning ceremony made him make a joke like having diarrhea and being in a hurry to go to the toilet. Liang Xia Ke Bao's eyes widened and he just wanted to slap this unworthy son out.
Liangsha was really afraid that his father would put him in solitary confinement, so he just walked beside his father and let his mother straighten his clothes. Then he followed his father and chatted listlessly with the visitors.
After walking around Liangsha, I suddenly realized that I didn't see my second uncle's family. I suddenly felt energetic and asked my father quietly: "Where are my second uncle and my aunt?"
Liangsha was smart enough not to mention the person he was thinking about, but instead asked his uncles and aunts who he knew would never appear here.
How could Liang Xia Ke not know what his son, who had been illiterate and ignorant since childhood, was thinking about? He looked askance at his clever son and said, "Want to call your second uncle and the others?"
Liangsha nodded for a while.
Liang Xia Ke obviously knew the internal disputes between the two families that were not common to outsiders. How could these juniors understand the depth of it? He just snorted: "Just stay here, if you dare to run around, I will break your dog legs!" "
Liangsha suddenly lost his spirit.
After all, it was the few kilograms of meat that had fallen off her body. Liangsha's mother, the woman who was dressed in a very eye-catching way today and whose age was not obvious, felt sorry for her son from the bottom of her heart when she saw her son looking like this. She couldn't help but say: " Doesn’t the child just want to see Chun’er, and he can’t be of much help here, so what’s the point of letting him go and have a look?”
Liang Xia Ke looked at his wife, who was not as good as his brothers and sisters, and at his son, who was like an eggplant beaten by frost. He put his hands behind his back and said, "Go back quickly." After that, he greeted him again. The few old friends who came over no longer paid attention to the two women behind them.
Liangsha was overjoyed, and trotted towards the side courtyard without even saying hello to his mother who was trying to flatter him.
When Liangsha arrived at the small courtyard of his second uncle's house, what he saw was Liangchun standing in front of the hall with his second aunt, and a beautiful girl sitting on a stone bench in the courtyard holding a box. His second uncle and a thin man he had never seen before The men were sitting on the ground, one looking at the mountain, the other stirring the water. There were two wine bowls and a jar of wine in the middle.
Liangsha was surprised that his second uncle was drinking.
In the past, I often heard my father mention that my second uncle's stubborn illness was the most taboo against drinking. What happened today?
"Second uncle, second aunt." Although Liangsha was subtly influenced by Liang Xia Ke, he had no feelings for the two elders, his second uncle and his second aunt, but when Liangchun was in front of him, Liangsha still called out politely.
Presumably it was because he hadn't drank for many years. Liang Xiabin's sickly pale face was slightly red, and he turned to look at the person coming. How could he not know what Liangsha was thinking about him on weekdays? This kid had never learned anything else. He had learned his father's fault of being too high-minded and low-handed. Everyone in the village felt that they were being protected by his family. I really felt that I It's like a character.
Liang Xiabin ignored him, but Liang Xia would not ask for trouble. He looked at his sister who was a few months older than him, with a smile on his face and said: "Sister Hongyao, why don't you go to my crowning ceremony?"
Liangchun, who knew what was going to happen next, looked at Liangsha, then turned to look at his father who had already stood up, without saying anything.
Liang Xia Ke tightened his thick cloak and ignored Liang Xia, but seemed to be answering Liang Xia and said, "Go over now."
Liangsha couldn't see anything strange about his second uncle, so he looked happy. He didn't ask the identity of the strange man and woman in the courtyard, and said, "It's just that, drinking here is not as lively as the Liguan Banquet." After saying that, he led the way with lunch. .
After leaving the Liangjia mansion and going up to the square, there are dozens of stone steps. Because of the shade, the heavy snow from the past few days has not melted away and is covering both sides of the road. Liang Xia was at the front, Liang Gaobin was at the back, followed by Li Guanyin and Liang Chun, and Ye Xiayou was at the end at midnight, and a group of seven people went up to Jie Yin Ping.
Naturally, their arrival did not cause much splash. Even if the real protagonist of this event was here, among the people on the reception platform, who was there for him?
Liangsha didn't care about this. He should clear the way first and lead his second uncle's family to the main table at the front.
He couldn't wait to let everyone know his future wife after the food and wine were served.
It's just that the six people behind him didn't follow Liangsha after Liang Haobin at the front stopped first.
"Third Young Master." Liang Xiabin called softly from the edge of the crowded Jie Yin Ping without turning around.
It disappeared directly into the human voice.
But in the middle of the night, he responded the next moment, "I'm here."
The good guests lined up the crowd and moved forward.
"Is there someone playing the piano?" Ye Xiayou, who has a very good hearing, suddenly spoke, his ears moving along with the sound.
Li Guanyin, who was nearest, watched her husband leave and didn't know whether to follow or stay where he was. Hearing Ye Xie's question, he said absently: "In order to show off, the eldest brother in the family specially invited musicians from outside the mountain to perform the crowning ceremony here. to enhance the atmosphere.”
Ye Xiayou pulled the wooden box behind him, rubbed his hands, and faced the third watch of the night.
Naturally, he understood his sister's thoughts. He looked at the good guest in front of him who was just walking forward and ignored the people behind him. He thought for a while and said: "Okay."
Ye Xiayou was so thoughtful. He could guess his brother's plan by listening to his chat with Liang Xiabin in the small courtyard. He raised his hand and held Li Guanyin's hand, and said with a smile: "Sister Guanyin, how about I play you a piece of music?"
Li Guanyin looked at the man in front of her who had walked some distance away, and then at Ye Xiayou, feeling quite embarrassed. On the other hand, Liangchun, who was completely different from Yamashita this day and was extremely well-behaved and obedient, showed a smile that had not appeared since yesterday afternoon and said happily: "Okay, okay, I haven't been to the mountain in the past few months." I thought about listening to people playing music in the outer city." At that moment, I pushed my mother and urged the two siblings to find the group of musicians from outside the mountain in the middle of the night.
"Keep an eye on my mother."
The sound was like mosquitoes and flies, even more inaudible in this noisy Jieyinping, but it really fell on the ears in the middle of the night.
In the middle of the night, he turned to look at Liangchun. The latter still looked careless, tiptoeing around looking for the band's position.
Li Guanyin had no choice but to let her daughter hold her hand and walk away from her husband-in-law in the opposite direction.
Facing these uninvited people, the leader of the musicians would not be disobedient. After all, looking at the behavior of these people in front of them, they must be either rich or noble. And on this Jingyinping, who knows where? The young master and young lady of our house cannot be offended by musicians.
There was a lot of people on Jie Yin Ping, so naturally no one paid attention to the sudden stop of vocal music here.
"Chimes, harp, guzheng, pipa, erhu, Xiao, which one should I play?" Ye Sangen asked.
"You know all these?" Liangchun was surprised.
Li Guanyin said from the side: "Miss Ye Er is well-known as one of the eight most talented women in Jiuzhou. There is no reason why she can't do it."
Ye Xiayou smiled, happily accepted the compliment, and said: "Xiao and konghou are mouth parts, which are too dirty. The chime is too big, I'm afraid I can't play it. The sound of the erhu is too suppressed, not suitable for the young master of Liangxia. For the coming-of-age ceremony, I haven’t played the pipa for a long time, for fear of making people laugh, so I only played the guzheng.”
In the middle of the night, he helped his sister sit down behind the guzheng. Ye Xiayou raised his hand to touch this twenty-one-stringed harp, which is known as the "Zheng Zhongshu Road", but he thought in his heart that he had not touched this thing for more than three years. .
The reason why the guzheng is called "The Way of Shu in Zheng" is entirely because it is the most difficult to practice, just like the way of Shu that is difficult to reach the sky. From the earliest thirteen strings to sixteen and eighteen strings, it was later improved by Zheng Yin, the former guzheng master, and five more ranges were added, resulting in the most popular twenty-three-string guzheng today. In this small space, not to mention the blind Ye Xie You, even those well-known piano players in Kyushu have to devote themselves wholeheartedly to avoid making mistakes. Ye Xie You directly chooses this most difficult instrument, which attracts Li Guanyin, who is proficient in music. Also impressive.
Moving his fingers, Ye Xieyou took off the wooden box and stood beside him. He put on the armor handed over by his younger brother. He didn't know who he was asking, and said, "What do you want to hear?"
"High mountains and flowing water." Liangchun answered first.
Ye Xiayou smiled brightly, "Where can I find a close friend to sing with me? How about I choose a song myself."
Liangchun curled his lips, as if he was dissatisfied that this seemingly powerful blind piano player did not accept his suggestion.
Ye Xiayou pressed the strings with both hands, and familiarized himself with the length of the strings from top to bottom from top to bottom, and fumbled to adjust the wild goose pillars. Then he sat upright, and in the corner of Jieyinping, a crisp voice sounded loudly, "Yejia Ye Xiayou , take advantage of Yangguan Santie to support your journey."
How could the sound cover up the chatter and jokes of the hundreds of people on the landing?
The strings of the piano were suddenly stretched, and there was a "clang" when the hand was released. The silver vase was suddenly broken, and the jade beads fell onto the plate.
"I'd like to ask you, Yejia, at midnight, where is my good brother?"
The mountain wind suppressed the roar of people's voices, and there were echoes in Jieyinping, which was suddenly silent.
"The good guest of the good family in the watershed kowtows again and again to thank the second young lady Ye and the third young master for their favor. He boldly invites his brother, the good guest, to come forward to accept his guilt."
There are crows passing by and returning on Jieyinping, covering an area of one acre, the sky is overcast, windless, and dead silent.
