More than 700 years ago, in Tananomura Bay in the Shimonoseki Strait, the long-standing struggle between the Heike clan and the Genji clan finally came to an end. The Heike family was completely destroyed in this final decisive battle, and the reigning young emperor Emperor Andoku and the women and children of the Heike family were killed in the battle. For more than 700 years, the Heike family's grumbling spirits have been wandering the Tan no Ura and the nearby seaside...
It is said that earlier in the past, the manic and terrifying spirit of the Heike family was particularly prevalent today. They will suddenly emerge from the side of a night sailing ship in the middle of the night and sink it; A person swimming in this area, if he is not careful, will also be dragged into the bottom of the sea by the watching undead and drowned. In order to calm these ghosts, local people built an Amida Temple in Akama Pass. After the temple was built, it was located on the coast to set up a cemetery for the young emperors and important ministers of the peaceful family who threw themselves into the sea, erected tombstones with famous titles, and regularly held Buddhist ceremonies to pray for blessings and peace for the deceased. Since the temple and cemetery were built, the Heike undead have been a little calmer than before, but creepy things still happen from time to time. This shows that they have not yet found real rest.
Time passes in a hurry, hundreds of years at the snap of a finger. Akama Seki came a blind pipa mage named Yoshiichi. Yoshiichi has been practicing the skill of playing the pipa since childhood, and when he was a teenager, his skills surpassed that of his master and became a professional pipa mage. His best show was playing and singing "Heike Monogatari" with the theme of Genpei Battle, which was unmatched at the time and quite famous. Its skill has been perfected, and even the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth are inevitably moved when they hear it. Whenever he and the pipa rapped the heroic and tragic story of the Heike clan in Tan no Po, the audience broke their livers and intestines and burst into tears.
When Yoshiichi first debuted, he was quite poor, but fortunately, the abbot of Amida Temple liked poetry and music and often invited him
Fang Yi went to the temple to play and sing. The abbot admired Fang Yi's superb skills very much, and let him live in the temple for a long time, avoiding the pain of running and wandering. Filled with gratitude, Yoshiichi moved into a dormitory at Amida Temple and settled in.
From then on, he did not worry about food and lodging, and in return, he naturally did his best to play and sing for the abbot. The abbot was generally located in Kawakama Pass, present-day Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, also known as "Maguan", where the famous Treaty of Shimonoseki was signed in the late Qing Dynasty.
One summer night, the abbot of Amida Temple took Xiao Shami to the house of a deceased Zhiyue to perform business.
Only Fang Yi was left in the temple. The weather was sweltering that night, and Fang Yi stayed alone in the empty temple, and Yan felt bored, so he thought about coming to the corridor in front of the dormitory to cool off, and the corridor was facing a small courtyard behind the Amida Temple.
Fang Yi sat quietly in the corridor and waited for the abbot to return. In order to relieve his loneliness, he casually played the pipa. Playing and singing, I didn't realize that it was past midnight, the abbot had not yet returned, and the floor was so hot that it was impossible to sleep, and Fang Yi had to continue to stay in the corridor.
Suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps outside the back door, and someone was crossing the courtyard and approaching the corridor. The footsteps were very unfamiliar, not like the monks in the monastery. When Fang Yi was wondering who it was, the footsteps had stopped in front of him. An eerie and rude voice shouted, "Fang Yi! The voice was hoarse and low, and his tone was like a samurai calling down people.
Fang Yi was taken aback by this strange comer, and was speechless for a while. The voice became harsher:
"Fang Yi!"
"In!" Fang Yi was frightened by the other party's threatening voice, and replied tremblingly, "May I ask which one?" My eyes can't see. ”
The man's tone softened a little and said, "Don't be afraid, I live nearby, and I came here to discuss things."
The lord of my family is noble, and he led his retainers on a trip in the past two days, staying at Akama Pass and visiting the relics of the Battle of Tan no U. I heard that you are a famous player in playing "Heike Monogatari", so I would like to invite you to play a song. Please take the pipa immediately and follow me to the lord's mansion. ”
At that time, the common people could not disobey the orders of the samurai. Fang Yihao put on straw shoes, picked up the pipa, and set off with strangers.
The samurai took Yoshiichi's hand and led the way, and Yoshiichi had to quicken his pace to keep up. He felt that Wu Tu's hands were hard and cold, like iron casting, and there was a sonorous clicking sound on the samurai's body, and he knew that he was wearing armor as soon as he heard it. Fang Yi guessed that he might be a night samurai on the palace of a certain minister of state, right? When he thought of this, Yoshiichi's initial fear subsided, but he was a little flattered, because he remembered that the samurai had said that the lord was a very noble person. Then, those who want to listen to him play and sing will never be inferior to the first-class daimyo in status!
Soon, the samurai stopped, and Yoshiichi listened carefully to the movement around him, feeling as if he had arrived at a gate.
He was a little strange: how could there be such a huge gate in this town besides the main gate of Amida Temple?
"Open the door!" The samurai shouted. Then came the sound of the door opening. The samurai led Yoshiichi into the door and through the wide courtyard, as if he had stopped at some door again. The samurai shouted, "People inside, don't you hurry up and come out to greet you?" I'm here with Fangyi! ”
There were hurried footsteps as he boarded. The sound of shoji doors sliding, rain windows opening, and the whispering of women turning heads to ears. From the women's words, Fang Yi judged that they must all be maids in the Grand Duke's Mansion. But where he is, I still don't know. But there was no time for him to think more, and he was helped up the stone steps, one level after another, and when he reached the last level, he was ordered to take off his straw shoes. A maid took Yoshiichi's hand and led him through a long corridor, around the corners of the pillars, and through the surprisingly wide tatami rooms, until he finally came to what seemed to be a spacious hall with soft mats and incessant fragrances.
Yoshiichi felt that many nobles were gathering here, because he heard the sand that only high-grade silk could emit
The rubbing sound of sand is like the sound of the wind blowing leaves in the forest. There were many people around talking in low voices, speaking the genteel honorifics of the court.
Someone laid out a soft cushion in front of Fang Yi, and Fang Yi sat up and adjusted the strings of the pipa.
An old female voice said, "Please sing a story about the Heike family." This is the song I want to hear the most! ”
As soon as Fang heard this tone, she speculated that it might be a high-ranking female official in charge of the female attendant in the mansion, so she respectfully asked: "The story of the Heike family is very long, I am afraid it will be difficult to sing it in a short time, I don't know which section of the honorable would like to hear?" ”
To be continued, the second episode will be presented tomorrow
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