Scheming Through The Heavens 011 Lianlian's Hundred Hearts

  Yu Wuyou followed Lan Niangniang into the palace with a carefree stride, while Yu Zhu and Yu Cui remained still. This also caused Fu Gonggong, who had intended to follow them in, to awkwardly halt his step mid-air, ultimately withdrawing it back to its original position.

  The Guifo Hall and Taihui Hall are actually not much different in size, but here is arranged like a Buddhist hall.

  The person kneeling under the Buddha statue, closing her eyes and focusing on striking the wooden fish to pay homage is none other than Empress Dowager Gu. With a kind brow and benevolent eyes, she has a beautiful face. Wearing a simple blue long gown, she exudes an elegant charm.

  After Lan led Yu Wu You in, she bowed to the kneeling Gu Tai Fei and retreated out, leaving only Yu Wu You alone.

  Yu Wuyou raised her head to gaze at the Buddha statue standing in front of her. The Buddha statue on the desk was not made of gold, but a wooden carving about one meter high and fifty centimeters wide. The statue was vivid and lifelike, with dynamic and expressive eyebrows and eyes, full of compassion and looking down at the vast sky.

  After sizing up the Buddha statue, she slightly raised her eyebrows. On both sides of the Buddha hung a couplet: Is it Buddha or not? What is Buddha? The nature without nature is just nature.

  Although the handwriting is elegant and beautiful, the elegance and beauty cannot completely conceal the momentum revealed in the strokes of the characters. Intuitively, this couplet was not written by Empress Cixi.

  The sound of the wooden fish continued unabated, but a gentle and benevolent voice accompanied it: "Why has Princess Worryfree come?"

  Yu Worryless didn't retrieve her gaze, but instead smiled and said: "Why have you come? Doesn't Consort Gu already know?"

  The sound of the wooden fish was not disrupted in the slightest by the conversation between the two, still having its unique rhythmic cadence. Consort Gu did not make another sound but slowly opened her eyes, quietly gazing at Yuan Wuyou who stood beside her with a calm and composed expression.

  Yu Wu You Ren was carefree and at ease, calm and composed!

  The Empress Dowager's face was very calm, but beneath her calm face were ripples that only she knew.

  Although she was in this remote Buddhist temple, Princess Wanyan Ping still wasn't completely ignorant.

  A seven-year-old child fell from heaven to hell, for five years she has been in this cold palace without taking a single step out of the yard. She thought that if the child didn't die, he would go mad, but unexpectedly, not only did the child not go mad, but he lived better than anyone else and was at peace.

  What kind of child is this? How did she manage to endure for five years? What kind of mind and willpower does it take?

  But she made it through, at twelve years old, she freed herself from the shackles she had put on herself, walked out of the Taihuidian and into her own Buddha hall!

  Yu Worry-free finished measuring the surroundings and walked into the inner room without being invited.

  Inside the room there was a zither, different from the one sent by Duke Wei. This zither of Empress Gu's was truly an exceptional instrument.

  Dark colors, low-key texture, even the strings look ordinary, Yuan Wuyou smiled, low-key luxury.

  She sat down in front of the piano, her hands flat, slowly closing her eyes, her fingers moved, playing that unbearable tune.

  A piercing shriek was emitted from this famous instrument, the sound seemed even more piercing, a sharp buzzing noise was transmitted from the strings, making all who heard it move.

  Gu Consort paused for a moment, collected her thoughts, and focused on knocking the wooden fish in her hand. The sound of the wooden fish did not become disordered due to this jarring noise.

  Fu Gonggong, standing outside, listened to the familiar and terrifying sound of the guqin coming from inside the palace, his face turned pale. He forced a smile as he approached Lan Yuhua, who was waiting nearby, saying: "Lan Yuhua, our family has something urgent to attend to, you see..."

  Madam Lan's eyebrows slightly furrowed, seemingly due to the piano sound coming from inside and also seemingly due to Butler Fu's words. She silently looked at Butler Fu for half a moment, nodded her head: "Butler Fu, please proceed!"

  Fu Gonggong fled in a hurry, while Yu Zhu and Yu Cui's facial expressions remained unchanged.

  The old lady's eyes seemed to unintentionally sweep over the two of them, listening to the piercing piano sound and the rhythmic wooden fish voice coming from inside the room, her face slowly returned to calmness, as if the frown had never appeared.

  Yu Worry closed her eyes and focused on playing the piano, a sharp whistling sound that could pierce people's eardrums spread out in waves, startling a bird perched on a withered tree branch to take flight.

  Until——

  The sound of the wooden fish has stopped, and the sound of the qin (zither) has also stopped.

  Time seemed to stand still, and then the sound of the guqin rose again, different from the harsh and discordant high-pitched sounds before. The current sound was calm and vast, clear and cold, like a celestial music.

  Sometimes delicate and lingering, sometimes like a beauty's soft whisper, sometimes low and distant, sometimes ethereal and changeable.

  Like a magical melody that can entice people's hearts and evoke inner desires, it is also like a celestial music that can purify the mind, calm the heart and bring peace.

  When the heart is calm, the sound of the zither is calm; when the heart is moved, the sound of the zither is moved; when the heart weeps, the sound of the zither weeps; when the heart is in turmoil, the sound of the zither is in turmoil. Everything follows the heart!

  Listen to benevolence and you will become benevolent, listen to wisdom and you will become wise, listen to demons and you will become demonic, listen to immortals and you will become immortal!

  Yu Zhu Yu Cui listened with rapt attention, feeling as though she had never heard such beautiful music before. In this melody, they seemed to be transported to a fairyland, an experience too wonderful for words.

  Unlike Yu Zhu and Yu Cui's complete immersion and infatuation, Lan's face was deathly pale, with fine beads of sweat seeping from her forehead. Her heart felt like it was being squeezed by an invisible hand, giving her a dull, suffocating feeling.

  This tune... this tune is absolutely not played by the young lady of their house!

  The sound of the guqin suddenly slowed down, and the oppressive force slowly dissipated. Lan's nanny took a deep breath, relieving the dull feeling in her chest earlier.

  Eighteen years ago, before entering the Cold Palace, she had heard Miss play this tune. After Miss finished playing, she asked her how it was. She remembered saying that it sounded good, but Miss shook her head and sighed, saying that this tune was the Heart-Breaking Tune, created by Tian Le San Ren, the national teacher of the founding country.

  At that time she was shocked, Tian Le Scattered People, she also knew.

  The ancestors of the Great Yuan State were able to create the Great Yuan State because they obtained the help of Tian Le San Ren. It is said that Tian Le San Ren has heavenly wisdom, a vast and profound mind, and is good at everything from music, chess, calligraphy, and painting.

  No one knows the real name of Tian Le San Ren. The historical records only recorded a few major events in his life.

  Tianle Sanren was eighteen years old when he came down from the mountain, twenty years old when he met the first ancestor of the Great Yuan, and twenty-five years old when he assisted the first ancestor in replacing Yang and establishing the Great Yuan Kingdom.

  In the first year of his ancestors' ascension to the throne, he led an army of 300,000 and won a decisive victory over the combined forces of Zhou and Chu, forcing their armies of one million soldiers to retreat.

  He disappeared without a word at the age of thirty, leaving behind only two words "return to mountain". The ancestors of the emperor sent countless people and horses to search for him one after another, but none succeeded. No one knows which mountain Tianle Sanren came from and which mountain he returned to?

  The legacy left by Tian Le to the Great Yuan Dynasty, apart from his remarkable achievements, was also a mysterious and unpredictable "Linglong Heart Song".

  This elegant and beautiful melody is the national anthem of Dayuan, it's said that Tianyue Sanren played this song alone on the city wall before fighting against the strong armies of two countries, after finishing the song, the war drum started beating, the soldiers of Dayuan were excited and enthusiastic, while the soldiers of Zhou and Chutian were greatly confused and disheartened, which made the empires of Chutian and Zhou, who tried to take advantage of Dayuan's weakness and fatigue, retreat their troops due to heavy casualties.

  Of course, this is a folk rumor, and there is no record in history books whether it is true or not, but the Linglong Bai Xin Qu left by Tian Le San Ren is indeed mysterious and unpredictable.

  Linglong Heart Song was later called Soulless Melody by later generations, meaning that the Linglong Heart Song played by later people has no soul or spirit.

  For two hundred years, it wasn't just the Great Yuan State, but also Zhou and Chu Tian States. Anyone who understood music would play this Hundred Heart Melody, yet each person's rendition of the Hundred Heart Melody was different.

  Some play with elegance and refinement, some with a fierce and powerful spirit, some with a lingering and distant tone, and some with a sharp and piercing sound... It's as if there are hundreds of emotions that exist, but no one can truly play the legendary "Linglong Bai Xin Qu" that can see into people's hearts and explore their emotions with just a touch of the fingers.

  The music has stopped, but the listener's emotions are still unsettled and uncalm for a long time.

  Yu Zhu Yu Cui was enchanted by the paradise just now, and did not want to come back for a long time. Lan Ya Ya tried hard to calm down her turbulent emotions.

  Inside the inner hall, Imperial Consort Yu stared blankly at the broken wooden fish mallet in her hand.

  Yu Worry walked out of the inner chamber, bowed her head to Empress Dowager Gu and smiled: "I've disturbed you, Empress Dowager Gu, I'll take my leave!"