Chapter 65: A Music Score Amazes Yu Ji

After Zhao Yi handed the task of finding a teacher to his scumbag father, he took a carriage to the brothel to find Yu Ji.

He planned to take out some teaching materials about music theory and scores from the textbook library and give them to Yu Ji, and then invite her to live in the village.

In this way, when Yu Ji practices the songs in the music theory textbooks, she can also satisfy her ear craving, after all, no one in the village knows how to play music.

Zhao Yi did not immediately take out the elementary school textbooks for his scumbag father because he was concerned about what his scumbag father would think of if he suddenly took out the textbooks for him.

After all, the production of those primary school teaching materials is so advanced.

The paper is extraordinary and there are color pictures.

If my scumbag dad saw this, he would definitely be suspicious.

So Zhao Yi needed to go back and ask the villagers to copy out a copy and give it to his scumbag father for compulsory education, and the original textbook needed to be kept.

However, there is no problem with the scores in the music theory textbooks.

Before Zhao Yi arrived at the brothel, the news of his arrival had already spread to the brothel.

Yu Ji and Luo Yu already knew that Zhao Yi was coming.

Yu Ji was very happy to hear the news.

Because Zhao Yi came to see her again.

She felt really happy to be with Zhao Yi.

You can hear very interesting stories and new knowledge.

Luo Yu thought that Yu Ji was really lucky to be valued by Zhao Yi.

What a pity! It would be great if I were Yu Ji.

In this way, with the help of Zhao Yi, she can soar to the sky, and by then, the career she can build will definitely be bigger than that of her aunt.

Because Your Majesty attaches great importance to Zhao Yi.

However, based on her understanding of Yu Ji, she knew that Yu Ji would not do such a thing.

Yu Ji's nature is still that of a beautiful lady from a noble family, and love is what matters most in her mind.

If Zhao Yi wasn't so young, who knows what Yu Ji would have done.

Zhao Yi knocked on Yu Ji's door with ease.

Then he received a warm welcome from Yu Ji - a hug.

Yu Ji asked happily, "Brother Zhao Yi, you are here?"

After saying this, Yu Ji loosened her hands.

Because she had to avoid what happened last time where she hugged Zhao Yi too tightly and almost made him breathless.

"Yes, I'm here." Zhao Yi replied.

Zhao Yi was still savoring the huge softness he had just felt.

Xiaoling beside him also greeted Zhao Yi happily: "Good afternoon, Zhao Yi!"

Zhao Yi nodded to Xiaoling.

"I came here this time to show you two something."

As he spoke, Zhao Yi took out a music textbook with ten major musical scores.

Yu Ji asked curiously, "What is this? Is it another story?"

Zhao Yi shook his head and said, "No, this is a music score. In addition to the music I gave you before, there are other music on it."

"The quality is about the same as that of the song 'Yang Chun Bai Xue'."

When Yu Ji heard this, her eyes widened in surprise.

Originally, she thought that Zhao Yi had written another story and was going to save it for her to perform later.

Unexpectedly, this time Zhao Yi took out music score.

And it is still at the "highbrow" level given before!
To Yu Ji, this was more precious than the dramatic story given yesterday.

Because her love for music is deeper than that for drama.

Yu Ji said excitedly: "Thank you...Brother Zhao Yi."

Then Yu Ji opened the music score.

Then she discovered that the music score Zhao Yi gave her was completely different from the one she was familiar with.

There are long lines drawn on it, with some strange symbols that I have never seen before.

Yu Ji could only recognize some of the characters on the side.

I didn't recognize the rest of Yu Ji at all.

Is this a heavenly book?
She asked in confusion: "Brother Zhao Yi, what kind of music score is this? I can't understand it at all."

Xiaoling was a little curious when she heard this. With her level of music theory, how could she not understand the music score?

This is impossible!

So Xiaoling stretched her head over and took a look.

OK! Now I know why the young lady can't read the sheet music.

Is this sheet music?

It's clearly a heavenly book!

In fact, it is normal that Yu Ji and Xiao Ling could not understand the music textbook.

Because the ancient music scores were all written in small seal characters.

The sheet music was written in simplified Chinese characters, and also used Arabic numerals to indicate the pitch of the five-line musical notation.

You should know that Arabic numerals were invented in ancient India in the 3rd century AD.

But this is the Qin Dynasty. It would be strange if anyone outside Shahe Village knew Arabic numerals.

Then Zhao Yi would ask him which era he traveled from.

Zhao Yi smiled and replied: "Sister Yu Ji, it's normal that you can't understand this music score. Because the way it is written is completely different. Let me teach you how to read this music score."

He pointed to the five-line staff and said, "This is called five-line staff, a new form of musical notation."

"The words in the line are called Arabic numerals, a symbol that represents numbers."

Zhao Yi pointed to the number 1 and said, "This represents one, and is pronounced as dou in the musical score."

Zhao Yi then explained the syllables of the musical notation and the traditional Chinese characters corresponding to the simplified Chinese characters in order.

After a simple study, the clever Yu Ji and Xiao Ling were able to understand the music score.

Yu Ji realized that Zhao Yi's music score was too complicated.

This way of writing music is so easy!

Use that Arabic numeral to represent the syllable.

It only takes a little bit of study to be able to read the music and hum the tune.

Yu Ji believed that if this kind of five-line music notation became popular, it would directly replace the complicated text scores.

Anyone who can come up with the five-line musical notation will definitely make a name for himself in the music world.

Oh! Was it Zhao Yi who took it out?
That's okay. Zhao Yi could have made a name for himself in the music industry with the song "Yangchun Baixue" that he had given him before.

Moreover, Yu Ji also discovered that this music score could not only influence the music world, but also influence the Qin Dynasty in another aspect.

That is its text.

It was the first time that Yu Ji saw such concise words.

This text is so convenient to write.

It simplifies while retaining its beauty.

And the most important thing is that it is easy to learn. Anyone who can read can easily learn the simplified characters corresponding to the small seal characters.

Because simplified characters are simplified from traditional characters in small seal script.

Yu Ji believed that if His Majesty discovered Zhao Yi's simplified characters, he would definitely promote them throughout the Qin Dynasty.

Because it is convenient for learning, and it saves ink!
The same text can save much more ink if written in simplified characters than in small seal characters.

This reason alone is enough to promote simplified Chinese characters in Daqin soon.

Because ink sticks are very expensive.

To be precise, pens, ink, paper and inkstone are all expensive luxuries that ordinary people cannot afford.

Yu Ji continued to read the music score.

After reading it, she felt that with this music score, Zhao Yi could be canonized as a saint in the music world.

The songs in it are so good.

Every piece of music is a masterpiece and will be passed down through the ages.

So how many good things does brother Zhao Yi have that he hasn't taken out?

Because after Zhao Yi's simple teaching, Yu Ji already knew what was written on the cover of the music score.

That is to say, there are other parts to this music score.

"Brother Zhao Yi, do you have other music scores?" Yu Ji asked expectantly.

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(End of this chapter)