Chapter 23 Feast

The fields are golden, and the autumn harvest season is coming; there are more and more fallen leaves in the streets and alleys in the city. Every morning, people can smell the smoke from the slaughtered leaves cleaning when they walk on the bluestone road.

Xue Chongxun got up in the morning and added another piece of clothes. The spring and autumn reincarnation was repeated. In the second half of the year, the weather was getting colder and colder. Occasionally, you could see thin white frost on the weeds in the yard.

Autumn is here, will winter be far away?

He was worried about something, and he was about to see the weather getting colder. The end of the year was approaching, and the third year of Jingyun was the year of Jingyun. He remembered that there was no such year of Jingyun in history...

That means that the drastic change will occur in the third year of Jingyun. In which month, the first half or the second half of the year?

He really couldn't figure it out, and he only vaguely remembered that the famous Li Longji ascended the throne because of a celestial phenomenon, and Li Dan passed it to him.

Therefore, reforming the canal transportation is not the most important thing in his mind. No matter how it is done, if it is killed, everything will lose its meaning; power struggle is what he cares about the most, and persuading Li Shouli, the son of Prince Zhang Huai, to participate in the coup was his main goal.

But now Xue Chongxun is still waiting in Luoyang and has not set off for Youzhou yet. He is waiting for someone.

This person is a eunuch named Yu Liben, who is in charge of his position.He is completely unknown, and even people from where he is.

A month ago, the Daming Palace sent an interview envoy Yang Sidao to inspect the canal transportation line on behalf of the emperor.

The eunuch who came to the place with Yang Sidao was Yu Liben. Yu Liben was the inner servant of the emperor. This person is usually very low-key, and everyone can't figure out what it is...

But the interview made a eunuch around him, most of whom were the emperor; but the camp of this court official Yang Sidao was very clear, and everyone in the crown prince, the officialdom, and in the same circle knew it.

These two people walked all the way to Luoyang, and the officials in Luoyang City naturally had to welcome the hospitality.

When the banquet was held to welcome them, Xue Chongxun also went. Although Yang Sidao and Xue Chongxun were not on the same side, they were still enemies in terms of deep relationships, but they were all officials from the capital, so they should be polite in terms of face. Those who are officials are not gangsters, and they always need etiquette.

A group of officials held a banquet in the official prostitute's workshop, and the delicacies were displayed and endless. There were also singing, dancing, singing, dancing, and having fun. The women who were shuttled between the table were all dressed in gorgeous clothes, with half-exposed breasts, and the atmosphere was very cheerful.

The officials were not reserved. They laughed unscrupulously with the singing girls, and while flattering each other, laughing endlessly.

Xue Chongxun experienced a lot of experiences in such scenes, and acted naturally and generously, and did not show any expression just because Yang Sidao was the prince's side.

Yang Sidao praised Xue Chongxun's Three Rivers Law and responded well in the capital, but Xue Chongxun smiled and said: We met very happily today and did not talk about official business, otherwise wouldn't we let the beauty down?

After saying that, he smiled and reached out to squeeze the beautiful woman on the face of the wine-filled woman.

Xue Chongxun didn't take Yang Sidao seriously at all, but just a small character on the prince's side... and the eunuch Yu Liben was the one he was waiting for.

While talking to Yang Sidao, Xue Chongxun paid attention to Yu Liben with his light, because Xue Chongxun had never seen this eunuch before. Later, his mother introduced him to him, he realized that there was such a person.

The eunuch had gray hair, thin and feminine figure, very white skin, and a pair of peach blossom eyes and a fair and long face. He looked handsome.

Unfortunately, the aesthetic tendency of the Tang Dynasty was not this type. The Tang people advocated health and generosity and had no good impression of pathological beauty. Especially Yu Liben was a man and a woman. Such a feminine image could not be praised by people.

His body was very clean and his clothes had straight folded indentation marks.

He didn't speak much, but just smiled and occasionally agreed, and ignored the women next to him. Those singing girls knew that his eunuchs also kept a certain distance, so Yu Liben looked a little lonely.

Yu Liben noticed that Xue Chongxun was looking at him, so he turned his head and nodded slightly.Xue Chongxun ignored him and continued to talk nonsense to Yang Sidao and the women.

At this moment, the prostitute who was pinched by Xue Chongxun said: Xue Lang is determined to save the people in dire straits and gains a good reputation. When will he spend some time saving us, those of us who are awesome?

So Xue Chongxun turned his head and smiled: Are you in dire straits?No, right?

The woman raised her bright red lips with thick rouge and said coquettishly: What do you think, your husband?

Xue Chongxun said: I thought Ah, you are living better than us, you all eat imperial grain, you only need to have fun with us, and you don’t have to pay any attention.It’s not like us, after drinking, we can make our hair white. Eunuch Yu, don’t you?

Yu Liben was a little surprised when he heard Xue Chongxun calling his name in public, and then smiled and said: Zajia's hair is half white.

The woman said unconvincedly: You can't say that. We sisters are eagerly serving our husbands. If you leave, you still have to stay in the empty room for a while. But what about you, hum, turn your back and forget us completely.

Xue Chongxun smiled and said: "Relax is not as painful as passionate, who told you that you are so passionate?

But he said in his heart: Bitch is ruthless, actor is unrighteous, I will believe that you remember me, it’s really a ghost. How many singing girls are like Meng Xiaoyu?

The few people next to him laughed for a while when they heard Xue Chongxun say this.At this time, Yu Liben turned to the interview envoy Yang Sidao and said: Do you still remember the Shangqing Guan that the miscellaneous people have been to?

Yang Sidao put down his chopsticks, looked at Yu Liben and said: Remember Ah, wasn’t it just last night?By the way, did you really hear that 'female ghost' singing last night?

Yu Liben said: What the sings of the sermons are about.

It is interesting to say that business is inappropriate in this kind of occasion. As soon as Yu Liben said it, both men and women became interested. Someone looked at him and asked: Did you meet a female ghost last night?Is that female ghost beautiful?

Yang Sidao smiled and said: Just brag. I lived next to you last night. Why didn’t I hear it? It’s probably because you were listening to the hallucinations.

Yu Liben said seriously: "The miscellaneous family is not kidding. I asked you if you heard it early this morning, but you slept too hard, no wonder I was.The song was very different, and I still remembered it... The person came, bring the piano.

Anyway, it was fun. Seeing that Yu Liben was serious, everyone was happy to agree: It turns out that Yu is also familiar with music, so we should listen carefully.

A maid brought Yu Liben a piano and placed it in front of him. Yu Liben washed his hands in a copper basin and carefully wiped it dry with a white towel.

Seeing this, Xue Chongxun was somewhat expectant, and he himself was also very fond of music.

Yu Liben was equipped properly and said to the prostitute next to him: I play, you and the other.

Is there any word?

Yu Liben said: Use hum, no words, listen well.After saying that, he took a deep breath, his expression changed, and a melodious sound of piano slipped out from his fingers.

Suddenly, the hall suddenly became much quieter, and everyone's attention was attracted by the sound of the piano.

Xue Chongxun was also shocked, and the impetuousness in his heart seemed to be cleansed in an instant.

The sound of the piano is clear and melodious, and it also carries a kind of beautiful sadness, as if telling a heart-warming love.

Xue Chongxun couldn't help but look at Yu Liben a few more times, but he didn't expect that such a piano sound came from the fingering of a eunuch.

The singing girl next to her looked a little embarrassed, but when she saw Yu Liben's gaze, she had to bite the bullet and make a few sounds. Unfortunately, she was very different from the artistic conception of the piano, so she blushed and stopped.

At this moment, Yu Liben's fingering stopped abruptly, and everyone looked at each other and asked: It sounds very nice, why did it suddenly stop?

Yu Liben closed his eyes, savored the artistic conception in the sound of the piano, and murmured: The back is gradually getting lower and lower, and the miscellaneous people didn't hear it clearly, so they couldn't play it out.

Yang Sidao smiled and said: Look at what you said, it was really something you heard by chance?

Yu Liben said: The miscellaneous family did not talk nonsense.

At this time, Xue Chongxun couldn't help but ponder: Why does this style look a bit like the song written by Li Guinian?

After Xue Chongxun reminded him, some officials who were proficient in music suddenly said: Xue Lang is right, there are really traces of Li Guinian.Eunuch Yu has just come from Chang'an. Could it be that he brought Li Guinian's new song and is there nothing to fool us?

Li Guinian is a famous musician and often goes to and from Chang'an Rich House to perform.

Some of the officials here were released from Chang'an, so whether they had heard Li Guinian's performance or not, they all said they were similar, saying that they had heard...

That was showing off that I had been a Beijing official in Chang'an and had seen big scenes.

Xue Chongxun thought about their thoughts, and then changed his mouth with some prank mentality and said: But after thinking carefully, it doesn’t look like Li Guinian. He usually plays among wealthy families, and the music is quite grand. The song played by Eunuch Yu just now has a bit of a powdery smell, and the composition seems to be made by a woman.

The bureaucrat who previously echoed Li Guinian's works was a little embarrassed and then raved and commented on it in a few speculations...

When talking about Li Guinian, Xue Chongxun suddenly remembered a poem, Du Fu's "Meeting Li Guinian in Jiangnan": It is common to find it in the house of King Qi, and I heard it several times in front of Cui Jiutang.

It is the beautiful scenery in Jiangnan, and I meet you again in the season of falling flowers.

This poem is concise and has profound connotations.

So Xue Chongxun remembers clearly, but of course he cannot recite it, because it is completely out of place at this time, and the guests present will find it very abrupt...

It is a poem that reflects real emotions after the Anshi Rebellion. Although the Tang Dynasty is politically turbulent, the country is still strong and is not at all declining, so there is no need to recite poems with such a desolate mood.

Yu Liben said: The Zajia has always been in the palace. If it were a song written by Li Guinian, would the Zajia have never heard it?If you have time, you still want to stay at Shangqing Temple for one night. If you listen to it again, is it really a song of gods and ghosts?

While speaking, he glanced at Xue Chongxun.

Xue Chongxun noticed the wink that Yu Liben cast, and immediately thought about its intention.

Everyone on the side joked: I heard that the female ghost has to dig out her heart, and Eunuch Yu has to deal with it carefully.