Chapter 47: The Top Ten Famous Pieces of Erhu Music

  Ever since she saw Zhou Fan at the vegetable market last time, Zhu Ya Qiong has become somewhat interested in him. She even told her classmates that she met a master in the vegetable market. However, after that, Zhu Ya Qiong did not see Zhou Fan again. Nor did she know which school he was from. Unexpectedly, they bumped into each other today.

  Quickening her pace, Zhu Ya Qiong caught up from behind.

  Recently been feeling annoyed, feeling annoyed, feeling annoyed.

  Always feel that life is a bit extreme.

  Friends often tease me intentionally or unintentionally, and I might change my name to Zhou Zhuan one day.

  A sound came from beside Zhou Fan's mouth, and he had no idea that someone was following behind him.

  Of course, even if I knew, what's the big deal? There are so many people on the road, and there are a few people following behind me, it's very normal.

  Wow, what's this song? It's so much fun!

  Zhu Yaqiong just listened to a few sentences and suddenly burst out laughing. This song is so interesting, I don't know how Zhou Fan came up with it.

  "Haha, haha......"

  With this smile, Zhou Fan turned his head and said, "This beauty, is she very funny?"

  After saying it, I just realized, "Hey, why do I feel like I've seen you somewhere before?"

  "Yes, we've certainly met before, Zhou Fan."

  Zhu Ya Qiong deliberately got angry, thinking that she was still a big beauty, but how could this guy be so unimpressive? Moreover, they had met twice before. Once when he came to buy a guitar, and another time when they were both introduced to each other, how could he not remember?

  "I remembered, you're the boss who sells guitars."

  Zhou Fan patted his forehead and sighed silently, feeling depressed and even his memory wasn't working well.

  "You finally remembered, but I'm not the boss, that store is my cousin's, I just went to help out."

  "Wow, your electric guitar is pretty good, quite useful."

  Zhou Fan responded with a lackluster tone.

  Now he is a bit confused in his mind and just wants to be alone for a while.

  "That's good, I misunderstood you last time, it seems that you are a master. By the way, what was the song you sang just now?"

  "Did I just sing?"

  "Of course I do, and I still remember a few lines of lyrics."

  Afterwards, Zhu Ya Qiong also imitated Zhou Fan's style and softly sang, "Recently been feeling annoyed, recently been feeling annoyed, recently been feeling annoyed."

  She was just joking, and after singing a sentence, she burst out laughing.

  "This is too cute, what's the name of this song again."

  "So it's this one."

  When Zhu Ya Qiong sang it out, Zhou Fan finally understood, "Huh, this song is called 'Recently Been Annoyed, It's Fun'."

  "Fun, fun, did you write this?"

  "Yes, it was written when I was bored, and it's not worth showing off."

  This time Zhou Fan didn't deny it, mainly because although this song is interesting and fun, overall it's not necessarily a very classic song. It's just that the lyrics are more interesting and easy to recite. Even if he admitted that he wrote this song himself, others wouldn't think he has great talent.

  "Not bad, not bad, really not bad."

  Being able to compose songs, regardless of whether they are good or bad, is already quite rare. After all, in the Earth Federation, there are many people who can sing, but those who can compose music are few and far between. Moreover, in Zhu Ya Qiong's opinion, this song "Recently Been Feeling Annoyed" may not be anything special, but it's actually not bad either. If a famous singer were to perform it, they could also make this song popular.

  Especially this song is close to life, people just listen, who can sing a few sentences.

  Two people walked and chatted, before long, they arrived at Zhu Ya Qiong's older sister's music house.

  "Hey, Zhou Fan, does your family live on the east side of the river?"

  Zhu Yaqiong stopped Zhou Fan who continued to move forward.

  "No, my home is on the other side of Garden Road, I'm just bored and taking a walk."

  "Why don't we go in and have a cup of tea since we've come all this way?"

  "Alright."

  If it were usual, Zhou Fan would definitely refuse. But now he had just been scolded by his father and felt a bit depressed. Seeing Zhu Ya Qiong's invitation, he thought there was nothing to do, so going there to sit for a while was fine. Moreover, the music room had many instruments, which could be played casually.

  "Drink water."

  The music house is said to be opened by Zhu Ya Qiong's elder sister, but Zhu Ya Qiong's elder sister is rarely seen in the music house. Moreover, most of the friends who come to buy musical instruments nearby are students from several middle schools on the outskirts of Tianhua City. Of course, the largest part is some art students. And Zhu Ya Qiong has had a special talent for music since childhood, and has a small reputation in Tianhua City. Many people will come here to buy musical instruments just because of her name.

  At this time, there were only Zhu Ya Qiong and Zhou Fan in the music room.

  This is also good, there are too many people, Zhou Fan will feel uncomfortable anyway.

  "Thank you."

  Zhou Fan took a sip of water and then carefully looked around this music room.

  "You have quite a few instruments here."

  Like ordinary sheng, flute, suona, hulusi, guitar, erhu, even guqin and guzheng, they are all here.

  "Hehe, it's all business, for the convenience of customers. Whether it's wind instruments, stringed instruments, or percussion instruments... we have them all here. Of course, we also have various ethnic instruments. Like this horse-head fiddle, you might not even be able to buy it in Tianhua City."

  As for this music house, Zhu Ya Qiong is quite proud. In here, there is a big part of her heart and soul. Moreover, somehow today Zhu Ya Qiong seems to be in high spirits, bringing Zhou Fan along, one by one introducing these instruments in detail. From the characteristics of these instruments, materials, including timbre, she analyzes them thoroughly.

  Zhou Fan nodded from time to time, jokingly saying, "Awesome, awesome. Fortunately, I'm just here as a guest. If I were here to buy some musical instruments, I'm afraid you'd persuade me to buy them all with just a few words."

  "Where was it, last time you came, wasn't it insisting on your own views? Where can I influence you again?"

  Haha. Zhou Fan smiled awkwardly, but after Zhu Yaqiong introduced these instruments one by one, Zhou Fan had an itch in his hands and couldn't help asking, "Can I try out these instruments?"

  "Of course."

  Zhu Ya Qiong nodded, she was also very curious about Zhou Fan. Although earlier she had been talking freely, occasionally expressing her opinions on musical instruments. But Zhou Fan had only been listening in appreciation, and didn't think that what he said was particularly profound. However, the fact was that last time a teacher from the music academy came here, he couldn't help but praise her solid foundation in playing musical instruments.

  "Alright, this erhu will do."

  Zhou Fan picked up an erhu from beside him and started playing it directly.

  Before long, a stirring melody filled the music room.

  The erhu piece played by Zhou Fan is called "Thousand Troops and Horses". This piece comes from the music creation of Mongolian minority in Northern Wei Dynasty. The song combines the Mongolian style scale and rhythm with the decorative sounds commonly used in Han Chinese music, making the song have both lively and galloping scenes and lyrical singing scenery.

  This song was learned by Zhou Fan when he used to sing for a living.

  At that time, Zhou Fan was traveling around China with his guitar. When he passed through Mongolia, an old man took out a erhu and played this song "Qian Jun Wan Ma". At that moment, Zhou Fan was shocked. Because before that, although Zhou Fan also played music, but for instruments like erhu, he didn't have any interest at all. Moreover, he thought erhu was very rustic. But the sound of the old man playing "Qian Jun Wan Ma", with its galloping horses and stirring rhythm, lingered in Zhou Fan's mind for a long time and couldn't be forgotten.

  From then on, Zhou Fan began learning some of China's ethnic musical instruments.

  From Erhu, to Dizi, to Sheng, not to mention Guqin and Guzheng, which are more traditional Chinese instruments with strong Chinese characteristics.

  At this time, Zhou Fan had already pulled open the door and put his memories in his past life.

  He seemed to still see that old man over 80 years old, who was still passionate and powerful, pulling out this "thousand troops and horses".

  Until then, when the music ended, Zhou Fan opened his eyes, "Sorry, I was a bit carried away just now."

  At this time, Zhu Ya Qiong was already shocked with her mouth agape, staring at Zhou Fan with wide eyes, her face filled with incredulity.

  "What's the name of this song?"

  Zhu Ya Qiong was really too excited, really too excited.

  In her understanding of it, she had never heard such a stirring erhu song before.

  Just now in Zhou Fan's strings, Zhu Ya Qiong seemed to see thousands of troops and horses, stimulating Zhu Ya Qiong almost wanted to shout loudly.

  "What's this?"

  I almost forgot, how could there be a "Thousand Troops and Horses" erhu song in this world?

  Just now I was in a hurry and accidentally pulled out such a famous tune.

  This erhu piece is more powerful than a classic song from the previous generation if it gets out.

  You should know that the erhu song just now is a famous piece of music that has been passed down for thousands of years, and it's one of the top ten most famous Chinese erhu songs.

  It can be seen from this that this erhu song should be so powerful.

  Thinking of this, Zhou Fan felt a little regretful, if he had known earlier, he shouldn't have reacted like that just now.

  However, Zhou Fan wouldn't naively say it directly.

  "This piece of music is called 'A Thousand Troops and Ten Thousand Horses'."

  "Thousands of troops and horses."

  Good name.

  No wonder from Qu Yue's music, it seems as if one can hear the sound of thousands of horses and soldiers rushing past.

  "By the way, is there a score for this erhu song?"

  "Yes, but I'm sorry, this was taught to me by an elderly person, and for now, I shouldn't pass it on."

  "What a pity."

  Zhu Yaqiong sighed, such a famous song, unexpectedly can't be passed on, it's really an unfortunate thing. Alas, also blame myself, the previous song was too shocking, now I don't even remember a few notes. But after thinking about it, Zhu Yaqiong didn't continue to ask. Maybe in the future, there will be a chance to let Zhou Fan spread these songs, which is also a blessing for future generations.

  Then, Zhou Fan continued playing other instruments.

  However, after the scene of playing the erhu alone just now, Zhou Fan didn't dare to show off anymore and simply picked it up and played a few notes. But even so, when Zhou Fan was casually playing around, Zhu Yaqiong was still amazed. What is this, isn't he just playing? It's clearly a master of musical instruments! You know, someone who plays music, how many instruments can they play? Some people may only be able to play one instrument in their lifetime, and the most talented ones may only be able to play four or five instruments at most. But looking at Zhou Fan, it seems like there's almost no instrument that he can't play.

  No matter whether it's a national musical instrument, a Western musical instrument, or some very niche instruments, Zhou Fan can play them all proficiently. What's more, in the end, Zhou Fan even took up a small drum and excitedly played out a segment of extremely beautiful sound. However, when Zhu Ya Qiong asked him again, Zhou Fan didn't utter half a word, only saying "just playing around, don't take it seriously".

  This made Zhu Ya Qiong both angry and anxious, but there was nothing she could do about it.

  This is not just genius, it's a genius among geniuses.

  It wasn't until then that Zhu Ya Qiong finally realized that what she had encountered was actually such a freak.

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