Chapter 22: From the Year of the Snake to the Year of the Snake

On January 1, 2003 (the lunar calendar is still the Year of the Snake), Huo Feng recorded two more pieces for Zuo, the first is one of Chopin's Op. 64 (MinuteWaltzOp.64/1, the famous Waltz in D flat major, "Puppy" Waltz"), and the second is "Happy Birthday Song". Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

After Zuo Zai received the gift, he expressed two opinions on QQ: "I'm not a dog, why give me "Puppy Waltz", but for the sake of the happy birthday song, I'll forgive you~"

Zuo Zai's own number of artistic cells is zero, but there are still some people who can appreciate other people's art, and hearing the "Puppy Waltz" recorded by "Goodbye Chopin" is as if you can see Huo Feng's fingers sliding quickly and gently on the black and white keys.

"Happy Birthday Song" is even more because Huo Feng added various complex chords, and it was played with Chopin's flavor without any reason, and it was still a pleasant puppy waltz style. Zuo Zai is actually 10,000 satisfied with this birthday gift, she said that she is not satisfied, and she hopes that people will send a few more.

On January 10, 2003, Huo Feng received the "Forest Morning" sent by Zuo Zai. In '03, Beijing hadn't started to detect PM2.5, but the air quality was only bad compared to today. When Huo Feng hadn't lit the candle yet, he was almost frightened by this strange shape, as if someone had sat flat and kneaded it again. The candle didn't know what strange place was written a crooked king character. Zuo sent things this time, and the performance was better than last year, and he also left a small note, with ugly words on it - look at it.

Huo Feng obediently nodded to the morning of the forest, only to find out that Zuo Zai's gift to him was nothing more than ugly. It's just that such an ugly gift can be given, which can be regarded as a kind of ability. In fact, Zuozai's Forest Morning scented candle has already been on the market in the United States and Europe, and the packaging is very delicate and the price is not cheap. But in the real morning of the forest, Zuo Zai only has this one given to Huo Feng.

Speaking of packaging, it is necessary to mention the packaging of the mass-produced Forest Morning. The outer packaging is pure white, and under heavy snow, a miniature version of the oak tree with a stalk is the same kind of stalked oak found in the Normandy forest. When you open the snow-white outer packaging, you can see the original color of the oak, and there is a door on one side of the oak, and when the door is opened, the scented candle can be brought out of it.

The designer of this packaging is Cheng Yan. Cheng Yan was at Yale University, majoring in architectural design and minoring in management.

It wasn't until the launch of the group's scented candle business that Cheng Yan found his own place and single-handedly handled all the packaging design work of scented candles thereafter.

However, the candle that Zuo Zai gave to Huo Feng has never used decent packaging. Zuo Zai's principle of giving gifts to Huo Feng is very simple, she will copy her most impressive taste every year, and after completing a satisfactory sample, she will keep one as Huo Feng's birthday gift for the second year. Some of these recipes are written down for mass production, while others are not.

On January 1, 2004, Zuo received two more songs. The first is Chopin's Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20 (Scherzo No. 1 in BMinor, Op. 20), and the second is still "Happy Birthday".

Zuo Zai said that she liked this birthday gift very much. "Happy Birthday Song" in 04 was recorded even more magical than the previous year, and it was recorded three times in total. The first pass is as upbeat as the first movement of the Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, the second pass changes to the soothing style of the second movement, and then the first movement repeats.

Listening to the happy birthday song three times is the same as listening to the number 1 scherzo once. This year's "Happy Birthday Song" sounds like two people taking turns singing birthday songs to Zuo, a cheerful teenager and a gentle man like water.

Zuo Zai's appreciation of Chopin's piano music is probably the only thing she can do with art. This is the same as a person who can't cook, not necessarily can't eat.

It may also be because Chopin's music is the only one that Zuo Zai can understand, so she loves Chopin so much. So, seeing Chopin in Huo Feng's online name, he can bring out different feelings.

On January 10, 2004, Huo Feng received a birthday gift from his grandfather, which included the "braised pork" candles that Zuo Zai gave him.

The origin of this candle is also very simple, when Zuo returned home from vacation, her mother made her a meal of braised pork, in the United Kingdom has not eaten the braised pork made by her mother for more than half a year, Zuo Zai thinks, this meat should only be in the sky, how many times can you eat it in the world? When I went back, I poured out two braised pork candles.

Zuo Jianshe felt that Zuo Zai was making trouble, and Cheng Fengchun felt that there could be no market for this. So braised pork candles are non-mass-produced candles. One of them, Zuo Zai, originally wanted to keep it when he was hungry and wanted to eat braised pork. However, this is not a good thing, a little more hungry she wanted to cry, so she could only silently put it away.

The other one was given to Huo Feng. The reason why it was sent by my grandfather instead of Zuo Zai himself was because Huo Feng was already in the UK at this time. Before he went abroad, he said on QQ and Zuo that he didn't read No. 4 Middle School, and if he sent candles in the future, he would send the address he was giving now - the address of his grandfather's house.

Speaking of which, Huo Feng and Zuo Zai were actually in the UK at this time, and if Huo Feng gave Zuo Zai a London address, maybe Zuo Zai would personally send it over. But Huo Feng only gave his grandfather the address of his home in Beijing.

Huo Feng's idea was actually very attentive. When the "little girl who sells candles" gave him tiger candles for the first time, she had to worry about the 14 yuan postage charged for returning the package for a long time. If you let Zuo send the candles to the UK again, then don't you directly worry about Zuo Zai to death?

Therefore, Huo Feng asked Zuo Zai to send him a birthday gift on her own birthday. After my grandfather received it, he sent it to himself by EMS and sent it to the UK.

It is also strange to say that when Huo Feng and Zuo Zai met for the second time, they originally wanted to ask Zuo Zai a lot of vulgar questions, such as asking Zuo Zai where he was from Zhejiang and where he studied.

It's a pity that because of the death of his grandmother at that time, Huo Feng didn't have time to ask. Later, Zuo Zai didn't come up to QQ for more than half a year (I came up once in September and received a new address from Huo Feng), Huo Feng began to practice with nothing to do, and Chopin, who had not played for a long time. While practicing, he laughed at himself, and obviously said that he shouldn't play the piano, but because of a little girl who only appeared once a year, he practiced again.

In the second year, when he sent Zuo Zai Rige, and Zuo Zai sent him Forest Morning, Huo Feng felt that he and Zuo Zai were already old friends, and he suddenly couldn't ask those very vulgar questions.

The two of them just missed it so gorgeously, day after day, year after year.

In 2004, there was also a business incident, Cheng Fengchun decided to let the scented candle business become independent from the fragrance group, and set up a company specializing in the production and sale of scented candles, Zuo Zai accounted for 10% of the shares, responsible for perfumery, because Zuo Zai was underage, it was held by Zuo Jianjian, Zuo Jianshe accounted for 20% of the shares, responsible for production, Cheng Fengchun accounted for 70%, responsible for all other matters except production.

In addition to the proportion of shares listed by Zuo again, the new company is actually no different from the original cooperation. But Zuo Zai found out that this is "his own company", and the speed of researching the formula is much faster than before.

The main business of the new company is still in Europe and the United States, Cheng Fengchun asked Zuo to name the company again, Zuo thought about it again, and named it Windle. This word is reinvented from the left, and it is pronounced the same as window, which is a combination of win and candle, and can also be seen as a combination of window and candle.

Cheng Fengchun originally talked to Zuo Zai, and he already planned to hire a professional public relations company to be responsible for choosing the name and completing the visual communication design. The name that Zuo Zai came to take casually made Cheng Fengchun feel very satisfied. He didn't think there was any need to find someone to choose a name, just let someone design the font or something.

Cheng Yan saw the name taken by Zuo, which means that the design of the logo can be handed over to him. While talking, Cheng Fengchun didn't even have time to find a public relations company, so he happily finalized various matters of naming and design.

On January 1, 2005, Zuo Zai received Chopin's 12 etudes in 25-A minor, 11 "Winter Wind" (Op. 25-No. 11 in AMinor, "WinterWind") and "Happy Birthday Song". Left again means that the speed is too fast, and it is easy to fall asleep at night after listening.

On January 10, 2006, Huo Feng received the "Amazon Rainy Night" from Zuo Zai.

On January 1, 2007, Zuo Zai received Nocturne No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 15, No. 2 (Nocturne No. 5inF-SharpMajor, Op. 15 No. 2) and "Happy Birthday Song". Left again indicates that the beginning is too slow, and it is easy to fall asleep anywhere after listening.

On January 10, 2008, Huo Feng received a "wheat cake" from Zuo Zai.

On January 1, 2009, Zuo Zai received Scherzo No. 4 in E major, Op. 54 (Scherzo No. 4 in EMajor, Op. 54), and Zuo Zai said that he liked the recording very much.

Huo Feng has already understood a truth, Zuo Zai is a fan of Chopin's scherzo, as long as it is a scherzo, he can receive a very favorite evaluation. Every year since then, Huo Feng has sent a Chopin scherzo, and then added his own adaptation of "Happy Birthday Song".

On January 10, 2010, Huo Feng received the "Chopin Hometown" from Zuo Zai.

January 1, 2011. Zuo Zai received Scherzo No. 3 in C sharp minor, Op. 39 (Scherzo No.3inC-SharpMinor, Op. 39) and "Happy Birthday Song", and Zuo Zai said that Huo Feng knew more and more what he liked, and it would be better if he could record a video of playing the piano.

On January 10, 2012, Huo Feng received the "fried screws" sent by Zuo Zai.

On January 1, 2013, the left received the second movement of the Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 (Piano Sonata No. 3in BMinor, Op. 58), the scherzo - very lively (II. Scherzo-Moltovivace) and the video "Happy Birthday Song".

This time, Zuo saw goodbye Chopin's slender fingers running wantonly and merrily on the black and white keys. She was very, very, very satisfied.

In the past twelve years, Zuo Zai and Huo Feng have very strangely maintained the rhythm of contact two or three times a year. And two of them must be at the beginning of January every year, when the other party is on their birthday.

From the previous year's birthday to the second year's birthday, for a whole year, when Zuo Zai was happy, she played Chopin and "Happy Birthday Song" given to her by Huo Feng, and she felt even happier after listening to it. When Huo Feng was unhappy, he lit the scented candle that Zuo sent again, and it didn't take a long time to light it, and within a few minutes, Huo Feng forgot about his unhappiness.

Zuo Zai's two songs can be listened to for a year, and a candle of Huo Feng can be lit for a year.

In January 2014 (the Year of the Snake again), Windle, which has been based in the European and American markets, decided to expand into the Asian market and opened a branch in Shanghai.