Old father playing flute in the cave

Lv Xiangyun, a Dongting merchant, often used to sell Jiangxi groceries with fish and shrimp from Dongting. Take one-tenth of the profit, there is a surplus outside the profit to finance poor friends and relatives, and then there is a surplus to help the poor, and he never saved up money. Lv Xiangyun was good at playing the flute. Whenever he met a good landscape, he did not go there without driving his boat to enjoy it and playing his flute.

Once, on a moonlit night in the middle of spring, Lv Xiang Gyun moored his boat next to Mount Jun and set up a bottle of wine to drink alone, drinking a cup and playing the flute several times.

Seeing a fishing boat coming in the vast waves of smoke, gradually approaching, see an old man with white sideburns driving a fishing boat, behaving differently from ordinary people.

Lv Xiang Yun put down his flute and stood up to meet him. The old man tied the fishing boat to Lv Xiang Gyun's boat and walked across the boat.

After exchanging pleasantries, the old man said, "Hearing your flute loud and clear, the tune is not ordinary, I came to see."

Lv Xiang Yun did not say anything and drank a few glasses of wine, the old man said, "I learned to play the flute when I was young, can I teach you?"

Lv Hyang-geun, who had a deep appreciation for learning, stood up and worshipped the old man, saying, "I would like to be your disciple."

The old man then took out three flutes from his sleeve. One tube was as big as an arm's length, the second as big as a normal person's, and the third as small as a thin pencil tube.

Lv Xiang Gyun again bowed down and asked the old fisherman to play a song to listen to.

The old fisherman said: "The largest tube can not blow it, the middle tube also can not blow. I can play a song for you with the smallest pipe, but I don't know if I can play to the end."

Lu Hyang-geun said, "I am willing to listen to the pipe you say you can't blow."

The old man said, "The largest pipe was originally in the sky and was played for the heavenly emperors, Yuanjun and Shang Yuan ladies to accompany the divine music of the heaven. If it is blown into the human world, people will disappear, the sun and moon will disappear, the five stars will be out of place, the mountains will collapse, and I won't talk about the rest of the consequences. The second flute is to the cave immortals, Penglai, shooting the immortal islands, the immortal mountain on the Fang Shi, and the Kunlun Mountain West Yao Chi Queen Mother with immortal music and blowing. If you blow it on earth, it will be stone flying sand away, soaring birds fall to the ground, beast brain crack, five stars within the wrong, young life will be shaken to death, people have no way to go, the rest of the consequences I will not say. The smallest of this tube is the old man I can entertain with friends of the same generation. All things in the world and all beings can listen. But once blown, they will all be restless, whether they can blow the whole song is not yet said."

After the old man finished, he drew out the thinnest tube of the flute and blew three times, and a big wind blew on the lake, the waves stirred and the fish and turtles sprayed and jumped.

Lv Xiang Gyun and the children's servants panic and fear.