"Stinky boy, messing around with these crap all day, you want to piss me off!"

Zhong Zhiqing was kicked to the ground by his father, and the pipa in his arms also fell to the ground. Fortunately, his mother was protecting him, so he would not continue to be beaten. In the face of his father's curses, Zhong Zhiqing said nothing. He was used to this kind of thing. He was born in a family of military generals, and it was common for him to be beaten. What's more, he didn't practice martial arts every day and only played with musical instruments. It was strange that his father was not angry.

During the Tang Dynasty, Zhong Zhiqing, who lived in Guangxi, was born into a family of military generals. His ancestors were all outstanding military generals for three generations. From birth, he was destined to deal with swords, guns, sticks and halberds all his life. At the beginning, Zhong Zhiqing practiced martial arts with peace of mind under his father's arrangement, but when he was eight years old, he followed his father to the house of the household servant and saw a court musician playing the pipa.

The musician embraced the pipa, and his fingers were constantly flying on the strings, playing melodious music. The dancer in front of him danced with the music. The tune was sometimes exciting and sometimes tactful. Zhong Zhiqing was also deeply immersed in the music.

From that moment on, he became obsessed with rhythm, and began to secretly buy various instruments and scores, taught himself, and aspired to become a well-known musician. But in the eyes of my father, it was a playful thing to lose. In addition, in the society at that time, musicians had a low status and belonged to the lower class. Almost no one could look down on musicians. It can be said that Zhong Zhiqing's ideal is a joke.

From that moment on, the struggle between father and son began. It may be that he inherited the stubborn temper of the Zhong family. No matter how his father Zhong tried to console him or even beat him, Zhong Zhiqing never gave up on this dream. Finally, one day, Father Zhong couldn't bear it any longer and drove Zhong Zhiqing out of the house.

Although he was free from the shackles of his family, his food and life became a problem, because his father decided not to provide him with material help, and wanted to make him surrender completely through this method. Zhong Zhiqing naturally wouldn't lower his head, he put down his body and became a musician in the Jiaofang Division as an ordinary person.

Jiaofang is a mixed bag of fish and dragons, and everyone has it. This is a place where dignitaries and nobles enjoy themselves. The women who live in it are all the offspring of the official family. Under the training of Jiaofangsi, they became outstanding dancers. When they grow up, they either perform on stage, or they are bought by nobles and become playthings. In short, it is not a good place.

The Zhong family is a well-known family in the local area, and everyone knows about Zhong Zhiqing and his father. In this matter, everyone looked down on Zhong Zhiqing, thinking that he was just playing with things and losing his mind. In addition, he went to the Jiaofang Division to become a musician, and he was despised by his friends.

In the face of all kinds of rumors, Zhong Zhiqing still went his own way and practiced the pipa with the seniors in the Jiaofang Division. He is very talented in rhythm, and in less than half a year, he became the best musician in the Jiaofang Division.

That evening, a dude named Tian Hu came to Jiaofang Sizhong to listen to music and dance, and asked Zhong Zhiqing to accompany him. Everyone in the city knows that the Tian family and the Zhong family are deadly enemies. The Tian family has more civil servants, and the Zhong family has more military officers. They all say that the scholar meets the soldiers, and it is not reasonable to say. He often embarrassed Zhong Zhiqing's father in court.

But the Zhong family always overwhelmed the Tian family, and Mr. Tian was not convinced, so he named his son Tian Hu, hoping that he could be like the tiger and set the Zhong family's spirit down in the future.

Now that Zhong Zhiqing was kicked out of his home, Tian Hu naturally couldn't let go of this good opportunity to humiliate him. When playing music, Tian Hu was always picky and said that he was a martial artist, only suitable for playing with guns and sticks, and it was difficult to be elegant. Zhong Zhiqing didn't bother to pay attention to him either. Who knew that Tian Hu was so advanced that he even kicked the pipa in his arms and kept insulting him.

After all, Zhong Zhiqing is a hot-blooded man, so he can't stand this humiliation. He went forward and gave Tian Hu a beating. A group of people rushed in and dragged them for a long time before pulling them apart. Tian Hu's face was slapped crookedly. , whimpering incessantly. The two families, Jiaofang Si, could not afford to offend him, and Zhong Zhiqing was unwilling to apologize, so Jiao Sifang had to ask him to leave first for the time being.

Zhong Zhiqing was depressed in his heart, and went to the pub to drink alone until midnight before heading to his residence. Since he left home, he has built a small bamboo hut in the bamboo forest outside the city, which can be considered a shelter from the wind and rain. It was late and there was no one on the road. After walking into the bamboo forest, Zhong Zhiqing suddenly heard a melodious sound of the pipa.

The touching sound of the piano instantly attracted his attention. He followed the sound to a small river. Under the moonlight, he seemed to see a woman in blue, standing barefoot on a boulder by the river, dancing with the sound of the piano. dance. The woman had a beautiful appearance and outstanding temperament, like a nine-day fairy who descended to the world, Zhong Zhiqing was stunned on the spot.

But in the blink of an eye, the woman disappeared, and the sound of the pipa was gone. He walked to the river and found a black cloth bag in the crevice of the stone. He picked it up and saw that it was actually a finely crafted five-stringed lute. At a glance, Zhong Zhiqing fell in love with it. Anyway, it was thrown here, he didn't think much about it, and immediately took it home.

When he got home, he adjusted the strings and sat in front of the door and played a song. This pipa is really not ordinary, its voice is clear and melodious, far better than the ordinary pipa, he is very happy, he has discovered this treasure by accident, he is really lucky.

That night, Zhong Zhiqing fell asleep with the pipa in his arms, but in a dream he saw the beautiful woman in blue dancing standing by the river. The beautiful woman seemed to know herself, so she cried and rushed into his arms as soon as she saw her, raised her head, and kept kissing Zhong Zhiqing's cheek.

Zhong Zhiqing was a little dazed and at a loss for a while, and hurriedly pushed the beauty away and asked who she was. The beauty was about to speak, but suddenly there was a rooster crow all around, it should be a pheasant in the woods. Immediately, the beautiful woman shouted, "Young Master, don't play that pipa in front of people!"

After speaking, Zhong Zhiqing woke up in a daze, and everything in his dream was still vivid in his mind. Looking at the beautiful pipa beside him, Zhong Zhiqing was in a trance for a while. Seeing that the sun was rising, he hurriedly took the pipa to the Jiaofang Division.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the door, he saw Tian Hu with an angry face. It turned out that Tian Hu, who didn't get a bargain yesterday, came here to ask the guilt, and he asked Zhong Zhiqing to apologize to him. Looking at Tian Hu's face that was about to swell into a pig's head, he suddenly felt that these literati were really funny, he didn't care, and immediately apologized to Tian Hu.

Tian Hu didn't expect Zhong Zhiqing to be so straightforward, and was a little overwhelmed for a while. In order to ease the embarrassment, he named Zhong Zhiqing to play music for him. Zhong Zhiqing smiled and said, "No problem, Lao Tian, I just got a five-stringed pipa yesterday, and I will let you be the first audience member today! Enjoy it!"

Immediately, he followed Tian Hu into the private room, and played it selflessly. But at the end of the song, he saw Tian Hu foaming at the mouth, passed out, and there were two black strangles on his neck. Zhong Zhiqing was frightened, and rushed forward to help him. Fortunately, he just passed out and was fine.

It was just the two of them in the room, and it was clear at a glance who started the attack, no matter how Zhong Zhiqing argued, no one believed it at all. Before leaving, Tian Hu's subordinates let go of their harsh words, saying that they must ask Mr. Zhong for an explanation. Zhong Zhiqing was a little helpless, but he suddenly remembered what the beautiful girl in Tsing Yi had told him in his dream last night. Could it be that this Pipa is playing tricks?

After returning home, he checked and checked, but he didn't see anything wrong with the pipa, but there was a strange glaze on the surface of the pipa, and he didn't know what material it was made of.

After thinking about it for a long time, Zhong Zhiqing couldn't come up with a reason, so he had to fall back to sleep. That night, he had another dream, which was more like a memory than a dream.

In the dream, Zhong Zhiqing was a young musician in a brothel, with no status. And the beauty in Tsing Yi was the leading dancer in the brothel, Yingyue. Not only does Yingyue look stunning, but her dancing style is unparalleled. However, she does not sell herself as a performer. Someone once spent a lot of money and wanted to spend a good night with Yingyue, but she was ruthlessly rejected.

Due to the misunderstanding of Yin and Yang, Yingyue actually fell in love with the little musician Zhong Zhiqing. The musician decided to become the best musician in the world and play the best music for the sake of Yingyue. He was very talented, and with hard work, his reputation was quickly established. But at this time, a nobleman fell in love with Yingyue and planned to marry her into the family.

The two, who had no money and no power, were at a loss for a while, and finally the musician made up his mind and eloped with Yingyue. It's a pity that God didn't stand by the two of them. They were spotted by the eyeliner arranged by the nobles not long after they escaped. Yingyue was forcibly brought back, and the musician was severely injured.

Three months later, the recovered musician went to the brothel to find Yingyue, but was told that she was dead. It turned out that just a few days ago, the nobles came to pick up Yingyue, but she did not agree and chose to hang herself. Naturally, no one was willing to collect her corpse for a dusty woman like her, and her corpse was thrown into the burial mound in the back mountain.

When the musician heard the news, he was devastated. He found Yingyue's body and carried it home. And in Yingyue's arms, there is a suicide note to the musician. Yingyue asked the musician to make a peerless lute out of his own body, so that the two could be together forever.

According to Yingyue's request, the musician used Yingyue's ribs as the piano board, cramped and kneaded the strings, and pulled out the phalanges to make the pegs. In this way, Yingyue was made into a lute. After it was done, the musician immediately went to the nobleman and played a piece in front of him. For some reason, when the nobleman was playing, Yingyue's figure appeared in front of the nobles, but in the next second, Yingyue swooped at him and strangled him to death...

After everything was over, Yingyue appeared in front of Zhong Zhiqing, and he finally understood that the pipa he saw was made from Yingyue's body. Yingyue told Zhong Zhiqing that the pipa contained the resentment of Yingyue and the musicians. Once played in front of people, the resentment would overflow and kill the listeners. But after so many years, Qin Zhong's resentment has dissipated a lot, otherwise Tian Hu would die today.

Zhong Zhiqing never thought that there is such a touching story behind a pipa. Early the next morning, he took the initiative to go to Tian's house to make amends and tell the story to Tian Hu. The Tian family didn't believe it, but Tian Hu said that he did see a beautiful woman in Tsing Yi and pinched him unconscious.

After going through this, Tian Hu and Zhong Zhiqing became good friends, and Zhong Zhiqing kept the beautiful pipa and no longer used it. After continuous efforts, Zhong Zhiqing really achieved his goal and became a world-famous musician, and he finally reconciled with his father and returned home.