Liu's fingertips rubbed the pearl engraved with detailed music scores.

He remembered that when he was ten years old, he borrowed Ling Fei's money and bought such a pearl for his sister Shu'er at the Nancheng Market in Yudu. That day, his sister disappeared and was never heard from again.

No trace can be found.

At the age of ten, he was so anxious that he didn't eat for two days, so he took Ling Fei and some Song Palace guards to search the Jade City in person. He didn't miss every shop, inn, restaurant, and brothel in the Jade City.

Even in every ordinary household, he asked the officers and soldiers of the Yudu City Defense to knock on the door and inquire. He also specifically asked not to say that the princess was missing, but to ask if anyone had seen a seven-year-old little girl wearing a necklace around her neck.

Wearing a red cotton rope, there is a pearl engraved with music score on the red cotton rope.

On the third day, he fell ill.

Liu was lying in his mother's Huiren Palace to recuperate. The queen comforted him: "Son, if your sister is not lucky, after two days, she may be in danger. You may not be able to find her even if you torture your body."

If your sister is lucky, even if you can't find her for a while, she will be fine. Take good care of her health, maybe she just sneaks out to play and comes back in a few days?"

Liu had been in good health since he was a child. He had never suffered from such a serious illness. He had headaches, heartache, and pain all over his body. He was so uncomfortable that he shed the first string of tears in his memory: "Mother, I should have been holding her hand! Nancheng

There were so many people in the market, why did I leave Shu'er alone and run away alone? It's all my fault! Why did I take her out of the palace? Why did I take her out of the palace instead of staying in the Ling Mansion?

Going to Nancheng Market to wander around? Why? Why!"

Seeing her son in pain and blaming himself, Qiao Jing felt uncomfortable herself. She said thoughtfully: "Son, this is not your fault. Maybe someone wants to kill her? Even if you don't take her out of the palace, if someone deliberately kills her, the palace will

Even inside and outside the palace, she will not be able to escape in the end. Maybe outside the palace, where the mountains and rivers are vast, she will have a glimmer of hope."

The queen mother's words were like a bucket of cold water poured down on her. Liu shuddered and woke up a little from the stupor of high fever.

As smart as he is, he has always had a vague feeling that his sister's unpredictable life experience and naughty personality may bring disaster to her. In the Song Palace, there are many old palace officials who know that his sister was born to the subjugated princess of Qi. And those

Many of the people in the old palace were servants and maids in the harem of the Qi State. They were from the Qi State. How could they watch the blood of the Qi State's royal family being tainted by the people of the Song State who destroyed the Qi State? Perhaps one of them would

Someone wanted to get rid of his sister in order to save the last bit of dignity of the Qi Kingdom. Or maybe it was the sister's naughty behavior that angered the queen mother and grandma? Could it be that they sent someone to arrest the sister and wanted to warn her and teach her a lesson?

Liu, who was deeply regretful, decided not to trust anyone in the Song Palace when it came to looking for Shu'er. He announced that Lingfei had entered the palace, screened everyone away, and murmured to Lingfei: "There is another clue, we can

I haven’t looked for it…”

So from that year on, the music score pearls from the Five Kingdoms of Kyushu were collected by the King of Song into the White Jade Palace, and the origins of each pearl were repeatedly and carefully investigated by the Song King's cronies. This kind of folk musicians of the Zhou Dynasty

The pearls made by the music score were originally cheap but no one cared about them because few people could understand them. Nowadays, they are hard to find and the prices have gone up again and again. However, the King of Song still secretly sent people to buy them with a lot of money and investigate.

Over the past thirteen years, the pearls of music scores all over Kyushu have gradually become rare in the world, and Liu's piano skills have also passed with the passage of time, becoming something that few people can match. So far, the kings of the world may only have a few hundred years.

Only King Zhou Le, who had previously written the dance music "Xuan Nu Steps" but defeated the entire Zhou Dynasty, was qualified to compare his piano skills with Song King Liu. However, the Song King had a distinguished status and did not want to entertain people with the piano. He never played the piano in front of outsiders, so

The people of Jiuzhou only knew that he was a "madman of royal power", but they did not know that he had superb piano skills.

When he collected the first music score pearl, ten-year-old Liu stood alone under the lamp just like tonight, rubbing the pearl with his fingertips over and over again. He eagerly wanted to know what kind of music was engraved on it.

Even he himself felt that his idea was absurd and childish, but he still believed that only by playing the above tune himself, one of the gods in the sky would be able to hear his sincerity and bring Shu'er back to him safely.

So in the dark night, ten-year-old Liu Xuan invited one of the most senior musicians in the Song Palace to Yongtai Hall and showed him the pearl.

The Song Palace musician said: "Your Highness, I think that what is engraved on the pearl is a lyre score. Although I am proficient in the lyre, I have no choice but to understand the ancient music score circulated among the people in the Zhou Dynasty."

Liu Xuxin asked for advice: "Master, do you know where else anyone can understand such an ancient book?"

The old musician thought for a moment and said: "I think it may be difficult to find it in the Song Dynasty. However, there may be people in the Chu country who can understand. The Zhuge family of Chu Yue has been a scholarly family since the Zhou Dynasty, with hundreds of aristocratic families.

Over the years, the Great Zhou Dynasty collapsed and Chu and Yue were unified. However, the Zhuge clan has endured for a long time and has many branches. Many branches of the clan have changed their surnames and are scattered throughout Chu. The largest branch of the Zhuge clan still lives on Xuanji Island.

, doing business in Kyushu, with business spread across the borders of the five countries, as well as outside Jinyang Pass. The Zhuge family of Chu State is the only prominent family that continues to this day in the Zhou Dynasty. It is said that there are hundreds of bamboo and wood classics from the Zhou Dynasty hidden on Xuanji Island. Maybe there is someone among them.

You can still understand such an ancient book. Maybe there is someone in the branch of the Zhuge family who can understand it."

After listening to the advice of the old musicians of the Song Palace, Liu Tuo Lingfei's father Ling Mo sent someone to invite a piano player from Yuling of Chu State, named "Fang Yu". He was the only musical instrument that Lord Ling Mo could find in a short period of time.

Someone who understands the ancient folk records of the Zhou Dynasty.

Liu still remembers that he originally thought that the Chu man should be as old as the Song Palace musicians invited to Yongtai Palace, but he did not expect that Master Fang looked to be no more than thirty years old, dressed in white, handsome and suave.

Liu secretly sighed, if his father had not died in battle or died young, he would be as handsome and handsome as Fang Yu now. Unfortunately, his vague memory could not remember his father's appearance when he left.

Fang Yu said: "Your Highness, I live in Yuling, Chu State, and have a busy family affairs. I can only stay in the Song Palace for three months at most, teaching your Highness how to read the seven-string music notation spread among the people of the Zhou Dynasty, as well as some piano skills.
Chapter completed!