On the south bank of Yue Kingdom, Qinhuai City, twenty or thirty years after the flood, this ancient city, famous for singing and dancing, regained its vitality.

There is a Wuyi Lane in the west of the city, and there is a piano hall at the end of the alley that teaches people how to learn the piano.

The owner of the piano hall is a pair of sisters, whose sister is Bai Qiuer and whose sister is Bai Donger.

Bai Qiuer is about Double Ten Years, and Bai Donger is about 28 years old.

The two sisters learned piano skills from somewhere. When they played the piano, they were like flowing water, and their merits were related to fate. This attracted many guqin lovers to study and gather in the piano hall.

On this day, a young man came to the piano hall. He looked like a jade-like face and was graceful.

Sister Bai Qiuer came up and asked, "Sir, are you here to learn the piano?"

The young man smiled and said, "No. In Xia Qinguan, whose name is Shaoyou, he came here to learn the piano from Master Bai."

Bai Qiuer looked him up and down and asked, "Mr. Qin, how many years have you learned the piano before? Which level has you reached now?"

Qin Guan shook his head: "I know nothing about playing the piano."

"Ah? Then you have to start learning from scratch? Our library requires students to collect education funds, one or two taels of silver per month."

"No problem, Master Bai, this is ten taels of silver, please accept it."

Bai Qiuer put away the money and called her sister over: "Mr. Qin is just a beginner, so you are responsible for your sister."

Bai Dong'er is only fifteen years old and is still a young girl with a beautiful appearance, lively and cuteness. She ran over to Qin Guan and said, "I teach all children of eight or nine years old, and the oldest is only eleven or twelve years old. Mr. Qin, don't you mind?"

Qin Guan smiled and said, "It's okay, just think I'm a toddler."

Bai Dong'er led him to a big house next to him, sat with a dozen boys, each with a piano in front of him, and then began to teach the way to play the piano.

Qin Guan studied in the piano hall for an hour every day. Whether it was windy or rainy, he arrived on time every afternoon. After learning, he sometimes went to another class in Bai Qiuer to watch their performances, but he only watched for a short while before leaving.

His progress in learning the piano was very fast, which surprised Bai Dong'er.

"Mr. Qin, you really haven't practiced the piano before?"

"I am indeed a beginner, but someone at home likes this, so I don't know anything about them when I'm young."

Bai Dong'er smiled sweetly and said, "Then I'm going to speed up the progress. You have learned the primary fingering method, and there are intermediate and advanced skills below. As long as you can keep up, I will teach you all."

"Thank you, Master Bai."

Bai Dong'er waved her hand and said, "I'm young, don't call me master, just call me my name."

"Isn't this suitable?"

“It’s right, very suitable.”

Qin Guan smiled slightly: "Okay. Dong'er, before I came, I heard that your grandfather was good at making zithers and was a famous zither master, right?"

Hearing this, Bai Dong'er's face changed, and she no longer had a naive image. After a while, she said: "That's right, my old man was the first zither maker in Qinhuai City back then. However, his hands were abandoned many years ago, and the zither shop under his name was taken away by others, so my sister could only make a living by teaching the zither."

Qin Guan asked: "How old is your grandfather this year? What is the situation when both hands are scrapped?"

"My grandfather is seventy years old this year and is in poor health. His hands have withered muscles and look like skin and bones."

"When I learn the piano well, can you take me to see him? I still want to learn how to make the piano with him."

Bai Dong'er's little head was shaking like a rattle: "No, no, since my grandfather was disabled, he didn't want to see anyone except his own family!"

Qin Guan didn't say much: "Learn the piano first, and then talk about making the piano when I can play a song."

Three months later, Qin Guan's piano-playing skills surpassed all the apprentices in the piano museum.

Some apprentices have been studying in the museum for a long time, and some are good at playing the piano themselves and come here just to learn. However, when these people saw Qin Guan’s three-month piano skills, they could not help but admire him when they listened to him playing it once, as if the sound of nature was sounded.

The two pavilion owners, sisters from the Bai family, praised him: "Mr. Qin, you can become a master. We have already taught all the techniques you can teach. In this mundane world, your piano skills are almost at their limit. If you want to go up, only people in the immortal family can do it."

Qin Guan thanked him repeatedly, and then asked again that he wanted to see the old man.

Bai Dong'er still shook her head: "No, no. My grandfather doesn't want to see outsiders."

Bai Qiuer also said: "Mr. Qin, there is nothing he can do. The old man has been disabled for many years and sits at the window to bask in the sun every day. Except for us sisters, even the people of our family, he doesn't want to see him."

Qin Guan smiled and said, "I have immortal techniques that can restore the old man's arms to the same as before."

Bai Dong'er immediately shouted: "Why are you lying to me? How can you have such a magic method?"

Qin Guan also said: "In addition to treating arm disability, I also have a elixir that can make him twenty years younger in an instant."

After hearing this, Bai Dong'er couldn't help but stick out her tongue: "You are getting bigger and bigger in bragging, how can you have such a fairy pill?"

Bai Qiuer's expression became solemn: "Mr. Qin, are you saying true?"

Qin Guan nodded: "Is it true? You will know at first sight. You have a good or bad person for three months to learn the piano. You will always have an impression."

Bai Qiuer gritted her teeth: "Then I'll take you there."

Bai Dong'er pulled her sleeve: "Sister, grandpa will scold you!"

"You have to try it even when you are scolded. I think Mr. Qin is not an ordinary person. If he is an ordinary person, he cannot learn such superb piano skills within three months!"

"This is the first time I have seen a piano learn so quickly, it's a miracle."

The two of them closed the piano hall and led Qin Guan to the deeper Wuyi Lane.

There is a small courtyard at the bottom of the alley, which looks very simple and not like a newly built after the flood. The courtyard is full of bamboo, with five or six houses in the middle, and three wing rooms on both sides.

Qin Guan followed the two sisters to the main hall and went in to see a skinny old man sitting in the window basking in the sun. His arms were hanging down, and his sleeves were empty, as if they were not arm-like.

Seeing someone coming in, the old man simply turned his head over.

Bai Qiuer walked over and shouted, "Grandpa, I invited a gentleman to come over, he said he could cure your hand!"

The old man snorted coldly: "My hands have been disabled for more than 30 years. If I were not from the immortals, don't say such big words."

Bai Dong'er walked over, reached out and rubbed the old man's shoulder, and said, "Grandpa, just let him try it."

The old man turned his head, looked at Qin Guan, and asked, "Young man, who sent you here? Why did you meet me? Is that beast Yue Lu still not giving up and wants you to come over and see if I am dead? Go back quickly. Even if I die, I will not pass on the Three Saints of Making the Qin!"

Qin Guan didn't say much, and immediately shook his sleeves and breeze passed by.

After the old man was blown by the breeze, he felt comfortable all over his body, as if after a nap in spring, facing the warm sunshine, his pores were already open. Then, he felt his arms were itchy and numb, as if there were ants crawling on it.

He was immediately surprised because he had lost his feelings since his arm was disabled. Now he suddenly felt it again. How could he not surprise him?

"Dong'er, please roll up my sleeves."

Bai Dong'er quickly rolled up her sleeves.

Just as the three of them watched, they saw the old man's withered arms quickly becoming plump.

The old man tried to raise his hand, but he could actually lift it up. He tried to grab the other hand, but he also grabbed it, and it grabbed it very strongly!

"Ah, is this true? Grandpa's arm is ready!" Bai Dong'er jumped up suddenly!

Bai Qiuer also became very excited: "Mr. Qin, are you an immortal master?"

The old man was a little uneasy while being happy: "Immortal Master, I don't know why you helped me? You were not invited by Yue Lu, right?"

Qin Guan shook his head: "I don't know Yue Lu. Old man, I have a elixir here, you can eat it."

The old man hesitated a little: "What kind of elixir is this?"

"A life-extending pill, taking it can prolong your life for twenty years!"

"Immortal Master, do you actually have such a pill?"

The old man immediately took the pill and swallowed it without saying a word.

After a cup of tea, the old man's hunched body became straight again, and his gray hair became black. He looked like a middle-aged man in his forties. Although his figure was still thin, he was obviously much stronger.

Both sisters of the Bai family were stunned. Because the changes were too great, one was an old man in his twilight years, and the other was a middle-aged man, which was like a resurrection!

The middle-aged man stood up and bowed to Qin Guan and said, "My surname is Bai's name, Zhu. Thank you for your help. I wonder what you have to give?"

Qin Guan said: "I want to learn how to make a zither from you. I don't know if it is feasible. What are your conditions, just say it."

Bai Zhu frowned slightly and pondered: "According to the saying that the immortal master gave me a new life, I should teach you all my money. But my Bai family has the rules he passed down from ancestors, and can teach the general skills of making zithers, but not the three saints of zithers. Unless someone can bring our Bai family's children back into the immortal sect, I will teach him the most advanced method of making zithers."
Chapter completed!