Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Why could he never die?
Why was he reborn in this world and lived on even if a nuclear bomb exploded above him?
Baili Qingfeng had considered the question for a long time but hadn’t been able to find the answer.
As for right now…
He felt that it was a cycle.
Every life was a cycle.
“Things in the past should be left to the past… Let nature take its own course,” Baili Qingfeng said to himself.
The girl seemed to sense him watching and looked back. However, Baili Qingfeng was keen enough to move his hands to a guqin1.
The girl moved her eyes back and said to the shopping guide, “Sister Yun, I would like those two.”
“Great choice, Sister Gu. I’ll help you pack them,” the young lady said with a smile.
The woman who led Baili Qingfeng up greeted the lady. “Boss.”
The lady nodded and led the girls downstairs.
Not looking at them anymore, Baili Qingfeng approached the guqin and asked, “Can I test it?”
“Go ahead,” The shopping guide said with a smile.
Baili Qingfeng sat in front of the guqin.
Guqin…
Guqin was not a problem.
He could play the flute, too.
Nobody knew what great power he could unleash when he made up his mind.
On the other side, the girls were ready to go downstairs. However, the girl in the jacket was attracted to Baili Qingfeng as he sat down in a calm and carefree manner.
After a month of hard training, he had grown 1.8 meters tall, and he looked energetic and sunny. Now that he had sat down, he was indeed pleasing to look at.
“This guy here will play the guqin, Lingying. Let’s see if he is better than you,” The girl in jacket leaned towards the girl in the blue dress and said in a low voice.
Enjoyable.
Men could be just as enjoyable as women.
The girls stopped and watched Baili Qingfeng from the stairs.
“Dum… Dum… Dum, dum, dum…”
A piece of delightful music was created from the instrument.
The two girls and the owner of the store all knew musical instruments very well. Identifying Baili Qingfeng’s musical expertise, they looked at him in surprise.
Although it was bold to say that few could play the guqin today…
There certainly weren’t too many.
Most of the buyers here were amateurs. The boss had thought that Baili Qingfeng was the same, but unexpectedly…
“It sounds very good. Lingying, which song is this?”
“Well…” The girl who was called Lingying, thought for a moment. “I don’t know.”
“You don’t know? Wow, there are songs that you don’t know? Such great music should be famous.”
“It’s great, but I have never heard it before.” The girl shook her head and said. “However… This music isn’t supposed to be a guqin solo.”
“You mean it’s part of an ensemble? How marvelous would the ensemble be? I can’t wait to hear it.” The girl in the jacket grinned hopefully.
At this moment, Baili Qingfeng stopped playing the guqin.
He raised his head and looked at the girls.
“Did we disturb you? Excuse us.”
The girl said in a hurry.
“No.” Baili Qingfeng looked at the girl named Lingying, or rather, the flute in her hands. “This piece of music is an ensemble of guqin and flute. You have to trouble this young miss if you want to listen to the complete version.”
“An ensemble of guqin and flute?” The girl immediately turned to Lingying and begged, “Lingying, I want to listen to it.”
“But… I don’t know this song…” Lingying was tempted to know how the ensemble sounded, too.
“It’s very simple.” Baili Qingfeng looked at the shopping guide. “Can I borrow a pen and paper?”
“Of course.” The owner of the store handed over the pen and paper and smiled. “I would like to listen to this mister’s masterpiece, too.”
Baili Qingfeng could easily convince someone that he was twenty-five with his steadiness. It was hard to tell his actual age.
Baili Qingfeng wrote the sheet quickly according to his memories.
Several hundred numbers couldn’t take too long.
Other people would be confused, but the insiders of the trade could understand it easily.
After he was done, Baili Qingfeng rose and gave the paper to the girl.
“In that case… I’ll give it a shot.”
Baili Qingfeng nodded and began the adjustment.
A pleasant piece of music began.
The girl was very skilled. She stopped now and then during the first time and became much smoother the second time. In the third, there were barely any mistakes.
In only half an hour, she had almost grasped the song. It was proof of her aptitude.
“It’s a great song,” The owner of the store said sincerely. She could already hear the extraordinariness of the song.
“What about it?” The girl in the jacket asked, full of expectations.
“Don’t laugh at me if my accompaniment is bad,” The girl named Lingying said.
“Come on. Let’s begin. I can’t wait to hear it.” At this moment, the owner of the store said to the shopping guide, “Close the upstairs for now.”
Then, she and the girl in the jacket sat down on chairs as if they were in a concert.
The girl named Lingying sat on Baili Qingfeng’s one side, a meter away from him.
“Please point out my mistakes,” Baili Qingfeng said.
“Please tolerate me if my performance is bad,” Lingying said slowly.
After all, the two of them were only strangers.
Baili Qingfeng cued the beginning.
The guqin echoed first.
The sound of the flute followed and melted into that of the guqin.
The guqin’s sound was melted into the flute, too.
“Dum, dum…”
“Ding, Ding…”
“Wu, wu…”
As the guqin and the flute played together, the room was caught in a touching atmosphere with chirping birds and blossoming flowers.
For a moment, not only were the listeners upstairs attracted to it but also the shopping guides downstairs were also drawn to the ensemble.
Some of the passers-by who were taking the shortcut couldn’t help but slow down and look towards the source of the music when they heard it.
One of them blew into the flute and the other plucked the strings…
Baili Qingfeng smiled as he played with the strings.
The girl sat next to him in as the accompaniment, her blue dress dancing in the breeze.
It was the first time that they had cooperated, but each could easily understand what the other wanted with no obstacle. The flawless teamwork best presented the beauty and magnificence of the song.
Finally…
The sound of the guqin and the flute died down.
The song ended.
Baili Qingfeng, Lingying, the owner of the store and the girl in the jacket were still dwelling in the world built by the ensemble, unable to get back to themselves.
However…
“No problem!”
Gu Le, who had come upstairs at some point, bellowed. He intended to praise the song with fancy words, but eventually, he could only say, “Great! It’s really great!”
“Clap! Clap! Clap!” He did not hesitate to applaud.
Immediately, the atmosphere was completely broken.
Naturally, he was met with the listeners’ eyes full of complaints. He was so scared that he quickly stopped applauding.
“It was really great. I was speaking the truth.” Gu Le said in a low voice.
“You don’t say. Sister Yun is the deputy president of the Association of Ancient Music Instruments in Shire. My friend is a professional, too. They can certainly tell the quality of a song.” The girl glared at Gu Le.
Baili Qingfeng smiled at the girl next to him. “You played well.”
“So did you.” The girl smiled and introduced herself. “I am Gu Lingying, a freshman at the Blue Ocean Music College.”
“My name is Baili Qingfeng. I’m a sophomore student at the Department of Sociology in Shire University.”
“I’m very certain that this song is not in the market. Did you create it yourself?”
“I heard it by chance.” Baili Qingfeng shook his head.
“Then… What’s the name of the song?”
Baili Qingfeng paused for a moment. “The Smiling Proud Wanderer1.”