April 3, Aalto Music Festival.

In the melodious and noisy streets full of melodic reverberations, Lucien is not always dressed in formal clothes or dresses, but a simple brown and red sè long coat, white sè shirt with black sè trousers, and loafers, wandering around easily, followed by Evan dressed as a little gentleman.

Joel and Alyssa want to relive their youthful dates, so they entrust Evan to Lucien's care, and Victor is busy with entertaining, salons, and banquets because many foreign nobles, musicians, and musician friends have come. As his students, Lott and others were of course happy to help him share the busyness and attend such gatherings, and Bi Jing's extensive connections also played an important role in the musicians, but considering the pressure of Lucien as the closing concert, they tacitly did not invite Lucien to let him prepare with peace of mind.

Natasha wants to entertain distinguished guests like Prince Michelle, and on the other hand, she has to care about her love for Sylvia's concert, and temporarily forget about Lucien's "bad friend", Elena naturally can't get out when the musicians' association is so busy, and Rhine's orchestra has accepted invitations to several concerts, and it is said that it will be so busy that it will not have time to fill its stomach.

Originally, Lucien thought that at least John was a good friend, but who knew that due to lack of hands, John was transferred to maintain street security.

"I didn't expect such a romantic occasion as a music festival to have children with me. Lucien reluctantly glanced at Avan, who had food in his hand all the time and his mouth was constantly squirming, and spread his hands to John on the street, "This is really a sad story. ”

Evan focused on the food and didn't pay attention to Lucian's complaints, and John, who was maintaining law and order on the street, couldn't help but laugh: "Lucian, aren't there a few noble ladies who have invited you? ”

After nearly half a year of training by Sir Vane, John's temperament is more calm, his brilliant blonde hair maintains a suitable length, and he looks handsome and straight with silver gray chain mail.

“...... Then I'd better concentrate on taking care of the children. Lucien pulled Aven, who didn't look at the road at all, said goodbye to John, and began to enjoy the festival.

After the festival, he would leave, and it was unknown if there was a chance that he would return, so instead of staying at home, Lucien took to the streets and "really" attended the festival.

Compared with the previous few years, there has not been a significant increase in street entry and street art entry, because there are already a lot of them, and the biggest change is that those bands who still have to rent a house to hold concerts all start to show their musical dreams in a vacant space on the street.

What satisfied Ai Wen and the other children the most was the food stall placed on the street, with pies, nǎi cheese, barbecue, cakes and desserts, etc., once he finished eating what he had in his hand, he would salivate and look around, and then quietly affect the direction of Lucien, making him turn to the stall in his mind.

In the center of the street, floats slowly drive past with four-horned creatures that resemble bulls, and on them are a slightly famous band showing off their music.

In such an atmosphere, Lucien took Aven to walk casually, and occasionally saw a concert hall, so he walked directly in, listened to the previous paragraph quietly, then smiled out, and wandered the street again, and then repeated the previous process, doing as he pleased, free and easy, without any constraints, forgetting all his worries and depressions.

In the Aalto Music Festival, except for the chant hall, the price of all concert halls is extremely cheap, often four or five copper nars can go in and listen to it for an afternoon, and there are even many concert halls, because the "musicians" and orchestras who want to be famous can pay for them for free.

This is the music festival that belongs to everyone.

Near noon, Lucien took Evan to find a lively and not chaotic restaurant on the side of the street.

"Brother Lucian, look at ......" As he was about to enter the door, Evan pointed to the text on the big wooden sign at the door and said, "Dear guests, in order to celebrate our common music festival, as long as you are willing to play once in the restaurant, we will waive half of your meal, and if your performance is warmly applauded by everyone, you will have a free lunch or dinner." ”

Under the tutelage of Lucien and John, Evan was able to barely recognize words.

Lucien laughed: "The owner of this restaurant is really generous, but only by eating in such a restaurant can you experience the atmosphere of the music festival." ”

Walking into the restaurant, Lucien and Aven finally found a small table under the guidance of the waitress, and the rest of the place was already crowded.

After ordering two lemon juice steaks, Lucien sat down and looked with a smile at the stage of the restaurant zhōngyāng, where an old gentleman was struggling to play the piano, and it was obvious that he had not learned this instrument, and the notes were bursting out in a mess, which could be called noise.

But the old gentleman played very seriously, as if he was performing his own concert.

When he finished playing, the whole restaurant burst into warm applause, for his courage and perseverance, and for the joy of participating in the festival.

"This gentleman will enjoy his lunch for free!" said the restaurateur, a man in his thirties with glasses, clapping vigorously, "which gentleman is up next to perform?"

There was no ridicule, only encouragement, and this atmosphere infected a lot of people, so more and more diners went up to play violin, viola, piano, flute and other instruments, so that the melody of the music always echoed in the house.

Although the enthusiastic applause like that of the old gentleman did not appear again, and was more encouraging, for those performers, such an occasion was like giving a concert by themselves, and they got the great satisfaction of their dreams, plus half of the meal was waived, and everyone was very satisfied and elated.

Lucien, like Aven, soaked in the lively and cheerful atmosphere as he ate the steak, clapping vigorously at the end of each performer's end.

The popularity of this restaurant has attracted more and more people to dine.

They quickly got into the atmosphere, preferring to watch from the side with their plates, even if some didn't have seats.

Piora and Sharon are looking for food after a morning of gigs and notice this strange restaurant.

"Oh, Piola, go up and perform!" Leslie figured out what was going on, and immediately encouraged Piola to go up and try it herself.

Piola did not refuse, but walked up excitedly, played the violin, and a light and enthusiastic waltz slowly unfolded with the melody, so that everyone couldn't help but sway along with the humming, pushing the already lively atmosphere to a more fiery fire.

The watery applause of the cháo overwhelmed Piola, who had never been so welcome before, was so excited that he played it again before leaving the stage.

"The handsome lad, along with his companions, will enjoy a free lunch. The boss wasted no time in announcing it, and received a huge cheer.

Lilith and Sara were so attracted by the loud cheers that they were curious to dine after a morning of music in Aalto, and were then overwhelmed by the atmosphere.

............ Lucien put down his knife and fork, looked at Aven, who couldn't eat anymore, and said with a smile: "I told you not to eat so much a long time ago." ”

"But I couldn't help but see the delicious food. Evan looked at the remaining half of the steak sadly, asked the waiter to help wrap it up, and then he said with great interest: "Brother Lucien, you can also go up and play a song, so that you don't have to pay the bill!"

In his opinion, as a musical talent, Brother Lucien will undoubtedly receive the warmest applause.

Lucien enjoyed the previous performances, and his emotions were more active by the atmosphere, and after hearing Aivan's suggestion, he was suddenly a little moved, in the occasion of not knowing who he was, without plagiarizing famous songs, can he be welcomed with his own musical ability alone?

So Lucien stood up and walked towards the humble stage set up in the hall.

"Oh, another handsome lad is about to perform. "The restaurateur was the first to welcome.

The others put down their knives and forks and applauded.

Seeing that it was Lucien who had stepped onto the stage, Lilith almost dropped the plate of bread, butter, and roast to the floor, and whispered to Sarah, "Mr. Evans?"

She couldn't believe it.

"It's indeed Mr. Evans, but isn't he going to prepare for the last concert?" said Sarah, confirming Lilith's judgment, full of doubt.

Lilith immediately became excited: "No matter what Mr. Evans is here, it is the best thing to hear him play himself!"

Piola on the other side also recognized Lucien and smiled at Grace: "It's that gentleman with a high level of musical literacy, I wonder how his performance is?"

"It shouldn't be bad. Grace and Sharon replied with smiles at the same time.

Lucien sat down at the piano and put his hands on the keys, recalling a melody of light music he had composed.

Lucien is not yet capable of composing large-scale, well-structured classical music, but in his spare time, he also tries to compose light music with small structures and simple melodies to relax himself.

Without looking through the library of the soul, Lucien recalled a few fragmented melodies of light music that he had heard in his previous life, and expanded them with the musical knowledge he had learned, perfected their light structure, and composed a few short and semi-original melodies of his own.

The finger is pressed, and a soothing melodious melody is generated in the lively hall.

Like the chūn breeze blowing through the trees, like the pure spring water flowing, the noise of the hall seems to be infected and slowly subsided, and the beautiful and clear music seems to make you feel quiet in the refreshing and natural picturesque scenery.

Lucien's expression was attentive and calm, his eyes slightly closed, his fingers beating gracefully on the keyboard, and his body gently rising and falling with the melody.

Lilith looked at Lucien like this, and when she heard such music, she became calm and happy, and thought silently to herself: "This kind of music is awesome, at least, at least I like the pure and beautiful simple melody of Mr. Evans more than those symphonies." Well, Mr. Evans, who is concentrating on playing the piano, is so elegant. ”

After the extreme excitement, there is always a feeling of exhaustion and a desire for tranquility, and Lucian's light music hits their hearts perfectly, and there is no one in the whole hall except for the melodious and beautiful piano melody.

The melody was very short, ending in less than two minutes, and all the audience were still immersed in the atmosphere just now and did not come back to their senses, so there was no applause at all, and it was unusually quiet.

Lucien was pleased with the reaction, walked off the stage quickly, pulled Evan, threw a silver narr for the reception, and then walked out of the restaurant.

As he exited the door, Lucien heard a loud burst of applause from the restaurant, more fervent than any before.

............" forgot to ask the gentleman's name. Piola, who came to her senses, reproached herself in chagrin, "He must be a musician." ”

Sharon reminisced about the previous performance: "The melody just now is really beautiful, and if you expand, refine and add some structure, it will be a good piano piece." I've never heard this melody before, hehe, until Aalto, I never know how much music I haven't heard. ”

She doesn't think that Lucien created it, but she thinks that the city of music is full of surprises, and many new or little-known music from Bi Jing are not passed on to the "pearl of the sea" so quickly.

"That gentleman's playing also has an indescribable charm, and the sound quality of the piano is also very good, and I began to think about whether I should give up the harpsichord. "Grace yearns for authenticity.

............, "Brother Lucien, why are you going to give money for?" Evan pointed to the restaurant in confusion, and he heard the very enthusiastic applause.

Lucien was about to answer, when he suddenly heard a timid voice from behind him, "Mr. Evans." ”

"Is that you? you're still in Artol?" Lucien looked back to see that it was Lilith and Sarah, the brother and sister who had a problem with their suspicions.