An unfinished piano score
Shen Wan, the daughter of Le Zheng in the former dynasty, and Shen Meiying, the daughter of a Hanlin editor, got married because of plum blossoms and became sworn friends to Jinlan. One was good at playing the piano and the other was good at painting. The two met to make up the Wei and Jin Dynasty's legacy "Han Ke Cao". However, before the music score was completed, the man was separated from the yin and the yang. Only half of the remaining music score and a white jade plum blossom hairpin became the relics of the unfinished agreement.
A close friend from another life
Twenty years later, Shen Wan's daughter Meng Huaisu and Shen Meiying's son Xie Jingchen, each holding half of the remaining score of "Han Ke Cao", started to play the piano and flute, and they had a tacit understanding as before. However, the palace walls were deep, Huaisu was named Mei Concubine, and Jingchen was sent to the south of the Yangtze River. From then on, the north and the south were separated by two "chisu" letters every month, continuing the unfinished ninth sheet and continuing the unfinished love.
A journey of life and death
After three years of guarding the border, Jingchen was ambushed on his way home, and his life was hanging by a thread. Huaisu risked his life to leave the palace privately and traveled thousands of miles. In front of the sick bed, the song "Return to the Origin" brought back the wandering soul, but it also led to the emperor's final ruling: either they get married and never see each other again in this life, or they both die in defiance and are infamous throughout the ages.
A piano hall and a lifetime together
In Huaihua Lane in the west of Suzhou City, they have the "Weiyang Qin Pavilion" and have an ordinary life with white walls, black tiles, and plum and bamboo. Teaching the piano, composing music, planting plum blossoms, and making tea, from black hair to white hair, I have been playing the piano and playing the flute for fifty years. Until the end of their lives, they were buried together under the plum tree with no monument or inscription, only flowers blooming every year, like old friends returning.
A ray of piano sound that travels through time and space
Three hundred years later, the Jiaowei Qin lies quietly in the museum, and the mutton-fat jade seal is as warm and moist as ever. Whenever the spring breeze blows over the ancient plum tree in Suzhou, it seems that one can still hear the piano and flute, playing an eternal song "Wei Young" in the depths of time.
