Ning Chun smiled and left, leaving only the beauty, pipa and tea in the room.
Huaiyu was not surprised by such a scene.
"May I have your name?"
"My name is A Liu,"
This girl's voice was soft, but unexpectedly pleasant. When Wu Huaiyu looked at her, he inexplicably thought of a word, Yangzhou Slim Horse.
Well, there should be no Yangzhou thin horses in this era, but this woman really looks like this.
"A Liu, please play a pipa for your husband."
Huaiyu nodded, closed his eyes and leaned back.
The beautiful woman began to play the pipa.
The pipa was the most famous musical instrument in the Tang Dynasty. Although it was introduced from the Western Regions during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the sound of the pipa was almost everywhere from the palace to the people, from the city to the frontier, and even from the secular world to the temple.
The pipa is so popular that naturally many famous pipa pop songs have been produced.
Huaiyu closed his eyes and listened only a few times before he could already tell that the piece she was playing was Luyao, also called Liuyao. This is also a famous popular piece and a classic pipa piece in the Jiaofang.
This song is an accompaniment for women's soft dance. The dance is light and gentle, so the rhythm is slow and the melody is graceful and gentle. It is very beautiful when adapted into a pipa song.
Especially after a busy day, I feel very good when I close my eyes and listen to this song.
Huaiyu's family had a famous pipa girl as his concubine, who was a top pipa player. He often listened to Pei's playing "Green waist" at home.
Huaiyu felt that A Liutan's green waist was not much worse than Pei's.
Listening to this song with your eyes closed, it feels like you are spacewalking through the sky.
When the music stopped, Huaiyu still felt the lingering sound.
"You were actually finger-playing the pipa just now?"
"Well, I learned the pipa from Aniang, and she taught me how to play fingerstyle."
Generally, pipa is played with plucked strings, and fingerstyle playing is rare. It is a new and non-mainstream playing method and will be regarded as unpopular by the orthodox.
But A Liu used his hands to pluck, and the strength and speed of his plucking changed more freely.
"Can I see your pipa?"
Huaiyu looked at A Liudao who was holding the pipa upright.
Generally, the pipa is played horizontally.
A Liu handed the pipa to Huaiyu. It was obvious that it was a very good pipa, and it was very different from the usual pipa in the north.
The simplicity and fortitude of the north was infected by the elegance and beauty of the south, and the strings were replaced by silk and bamboo strings.
This string is made of silk. This kind of silk string has low tension and low volume. It is difficult to adapt to the plucking of the plectrum.
Moreover, playing with a huge plectrum cannot adapt to the requirements of fast, continuous, and varied playing movements. Therefore, in order to make the silk-stringed pipa more flexible and comfortable, fingerpicking playing techniques were adopted.
In order to adapt to finger playing, the horizontal holding of the pipa was changed to a vertical holding.
The horizontal and diagonal hugs are more suitable for playing the piano immediately and playing with a plectrum.
"Where did you get this piano and this fingerpicking technique?"
"My grandma taught it to me."
Huaiyu knows pipa, and it is easy to open up the topic when chatting with her. Although Aliu looks a little cold, she is also very happy to talk about the lute. It is obvious that she is not only superb in piano skills, but also really loves the pipa.
After chatting for a long time, Huaiyu figured out that her current identity was Ning Chun's family concubine, not Ning Chun's concubine, but a musician raised by the family. Wu Huaiyu's family also raised a whole class of such musicians.
There are both singers, dancers, and musicians.
Basically, the rich and powerful families in Chang'an have their own support. These singers not only provide family entertainment, but also entertain guests.
This entertainment is not only a song and dance performance, but also tasks such as sleeping with guests.
Of course, if the master likes it, he may be lucky enough.
These people's status is inherently lowly, and they only have the status of slaves in the mansion.
A Liu is indeed twenty-eight years old this year. She has been a maid of the Ning family since she was a child, and her teacher is also a musician of the Ning family. But it is said that she used to be from Luoyang, and even came from a famous family, but later she followed her family to Lingnan.
In the end, he became a slave and has been working as a musician in the Ning family ever since.
A Liu learned pipa from her since she was a child, and her teacher personally made her pipa.
After chatting for a long time, Huaiyu saw that it was getting late and wanted to go back.
"My lord, please stay."
A Liu bit her lip lightly and made a sound. The girl's eyes were a little shy.
She plucked up the courage to tell Huaiyu that Ning Chun had given her to Wu Huaiyu, and then took out a slave contract.
Huaiyu originally thought that Ning Chun was just entertaining him with musical instruments, but he didn't expect that Ning Chun actually gave him away directly.
Moreover, A Liu just said that she had been studying piano with her teacher in the Ning family for sixteen years and had never entertained guests. Even Ning Chun had not asked her to serve her.
Huaiyu looked at her again.
"Does your husband dislike A Liu?" A Liu's apricot eyes widened, and there was mist in them. It seemed that Wu Huaiyu didn't respond immediately, which made her feel ashamed and even inferior.
Huaiyu shook his head.
She seemed to have some joy in her eyes, then she took two steps forward and handed over the slave contract that bound her fate.
Wu Huaiyu has now adapted to the life of Tang people,
For example, he gradually came to understand and accept the behavior of raising servants at home and even giving concubines to others. In essence, domestic servants and concubines were still bitches like slaves, and their status was no better than that of a brothel.
No matter how strong a woman is, she is still the same pathetic person.
When people in the Tang Dynasty socialized, they also liked to go to brothels to find prostitutes as companions. For those with higher status, there were also domestic troupes. Scholars also liked to bring geishas with them when they traveled. They often bought them for redemption or gave them to each other.
thing.
With Wu Huaiyu's current status, Ning Chun used family tricks to entertain and even give gifts, which was a normal operation.
He didn't reject it in his heart, it was all about socializing and entertaining.
Huaiyu sat down,
He made another pot of tea and said, "Sit down and chat later."
Huaiyu hoped to hear her talk about her family background. In fact, Aliu didn't know anything. She was very good-looking, but she was bought by the Ning family at the market, so she should actually be a child of the barbarian tribe, or
It is also possible that her parents were actually Han Chinese, but were later abducted by barbarians and sent to barbaric lands.
Anyway, human trafficking among the barbarian tribes has always been quite serious, with people being trafficked back and forth.
She was bought by the Ning family from the market at a very young age. Because she had musical talent since she was a child, she was always given to the pipa performer in the family's troupe. As her talent was discovered, she became more and more valued. For more than ten years, she
I have been learning singing and dancing instruments and have never done anything else.
Because of her talent, it can be said that she is lucky among misfortunes.
But now, in the best years, Ning Chun used her whom he had cultivated for many years to entertain his most distinguished guest Wu Huaiyu, and directly gave her as a gift.
"Do you have no other relatives?"
"As long as I can remember, I have had no relatives. I have always followed my master since I was a child."
Her master was the woman who was exiled from the Central Plains to Lingnan and eventually became a prostitute.
"What's your teacher's name?"
A Liuqing frowned, "In the Ning family, everyone calls me Teacher Zuo Zuo."
"Left hand?"
"Well, our music class all respects the teacher as the musician, but outsiders mostly call the teacher Dugu Zuozhou, the Buddhist temple musician."
Dugu is the surname of her teacher, but the left hand is obviously a name. Musician of the Buddhist Temple should be an honorific title given by the music world.
And no one knows her real name. Even Anu only heard that the teacher seemed to come from a famous family in the Central Plains, a powerful family.
Anu is willing to follow Wu Huaiyu. She has been psychologically prepared for her future. Being given to Wu Huaiyu is actually an unexpected good result for her. After all, Wu Huaiyu is young, in a high position, and looks good.
, what’s even more rare is to understand pipa,
Good friends are hard to find.
"If you want, I can speak to Ning Gong and ask your teacher, Dugu Zuozuo, to come with you."
A Liu was surprised, "Is it really possible?"
"Um,"
Huaiyu said that he could do it naturally, so he went to find Ning Chun and gave Ning Chun a jar of the best Lingxi spring wine and a box of top-quality Snow Valley dragon buds.
Although Ning Chun also liked the musician Dugu Zuozuo in his family, he was only a pipa musician after all. He was even willing to give it to the most beautiful lady A Liu, so what would be reluctant to give it to a woman who had gone through many vicissitudes of life and was an old musician.
It just so happened that this musician was always with the music troupe. He had planned to use the music troupe to entertain Huaiyu, and he had even prepared A Liu as a gift to Huaiyu.
He directly called Dugu Zuozuo and gave her slave contract to Huaiyu. From now on, she would become a musician of the Wu family.
Dugu Zuosheng must be in his fifties. He has gray hair and is very old. Although his clothes are simple, he feels very elegant. At first glance, he seems to be a person with a lot of story.
She was extremely calm about being given Wu Huaiyu.
Say goodbye to Ning Chun and return to your residence.
Wu Huaiyu took out the two slave contracts,
"Tomorrow I will have someone register you at the Yamen and let you go free. You will be good men from now on."
Dugu's left hand was finally moved, and she stared at Wu Huaiyu.
Anu, on the other hand, was a little flustered, even uneasy.
"Does your husband dislike Anu?"
As he spoke, his eyes were moist and he even wanted to cry.
For her, there were two stages in her sixteen years of life. One was before the age of six, when she lived a life inferior to that of a pig or a dog. She was sold in the market, which was truly like hell. The other stage was
After he was six years old, he was bought by the Ning family and became Zuo Zuo's disciple.
Zuo Zuo treated her very well. Not only did he teach her pipa playing skills, but he also gave her a warmth in life that she had not had before.
It can be said that after ten years in the Ning family, she actually lived a good life. At least she didn't have to worry about food, clothing and clothing, and she could just concentrate on learning the piano.
Now that she suddenly heard that freedom was a good thing, she became frightened because she didn't know what she would do after she was freed.
The unknown future is full of confusion.
She cried, thinking she had been abandoned.
On the other hand, Dugu Left Hand was surprised and remained silent.
"You can choose your future life," Huaiyu said.
But Anu said, "My husband, don't abandon A Liu. A Liu just wants to follow my husband."
Huaiyu didn't seem surprised by this result.
Just like when he first arrived in the Tang Dynasty, in Chang'ao Township, Sanyuan, Zhang Cheng's family would rather be slaves to Huaiyu than to be attached to him.
Freedom comes at a price.
For A Liu, although she was a canary in a cage before, when the cage was opened, she was frightened by the outside world.
"I said you can choose,
If you want to stay after being released as a good man, you can still do it. You can still be musicians of the Wu family. I can sign an employment contract for you and pay you. If you have other choices to leave one day, that is also okay.
."
"If A Liu doesn't leave, A Liu will follow Mr. Xian."
Dugu Zuozhi didn't say anything, just watched quietly.
"Can you listen to the Buddhist temple musician Dugu's left hand piano skills?" Huaiyu asked with a smile.
She nodded,
So, Dugu held the pipa upright in his left hand and played a song with his fingers. This time the song was very complex, and he showed even more superb skills.
A Liuze danced to the pipa music,
Dugu plays the pipa in his left hand a little better than A Liu, and can even be said to have surpassed Pei. She plays A Liu well and dances extremely well.
The piano dance performed by this master and his apprentice is really pleasing to the eye.
He is worthy of being called a Buddhist temple musician.
