Huaisang listens to his logic with an understanding expression - he can't actually fault the logic of it. Nobody would actually blame him for using Jin money for it, but then the blame would fall on Jin Ling, or Wei Wuxian, and as frustrated as Jiang Cheng got with both of them, Huaisang knows he'd never allow that.
He's glad he managed to get a laugh out of him, though, because he has such a wonderful laugh.
"I understand," he says quietly "Can I help, at all? Share the cost a little?"
He knows Jiang Cheng might be too proud to accept his help in such a matter, but he'll offer it all the same, and give it freely if it's accepted. If it will save the Jiang clan's coffers from being too badly depleted, he'll happily do it.
Call it an investment in his own future, though he's not going to voice that out loud.
~~~
"I'll ask a-die, thank you though," Yuan smiles softly. He shrugs at the question "sometimes the sound or tone you want works better on different instruments, other times it's... something more personal."
He knows exactly why this song needs to be composed for pipa, even before he's really got very far in writing it.
"I don't think there's any specific rules against it, are there?" Yuan asks innocently. He's still getting the hang of all the rules but he's pretty sure that's not one of them (which is to say, it probably is, but put in such euphemistic terms that it can be skirted around quite easily).
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2021-09-13 10:50 (UTC)Huaisang listens to his logic with an understanding expression - he can't actually fault the logic of it. Nobody would actually blame him for using Jin money for it, but then the blame would fall on Jin Ling, or Wei Wuxian, and as frustrated as Jiang Cheng got with both of them, Huaisang knows he'd never allow that.
He's glad he managed to get a laugh out of him, though, because he has such a wonderful laugh.
"I understand," he says quietly "Can I help, at all? Share the cost a little?"
He knows Jiang Cheng might be too proud to accept his help in such a matter, but he'll offer it all the same, and give it freely if it's accepted. If it will save the Jiang clan's coffers from being too badly depleted, he'll happily do it.
Call it an investment in his own future, though he's not going to voice that out loud.
~~~
"I'll ask a-die, thank you though," Yuan smiles softly. He shrugs at the question "sometimes the sound or tone you want works better on different instruments, other times it's... something more personal."
He knows exactly why this song needs to be composed for pipa, even before he's really got very far in writing it.
"I don't think there's any specific rules against it, are there?" Yuan asks innocently. He's still getting the hang of all the rules but he's pretty sure that's not one of them (which is to say, it probably is, but put in such euphemistic terms that it can be skirted around quite easily).