Verse 283: Only one horse's head is missing
Norman was indeed anxious, so complicated and preconceived that he didn't even notice that there was already a person in the room.
It was behind the shelves for musical instruments on the inside side of the room, with a small space separating it from the wall.
The gap was too small for Norman's size to penetrate, but some slender people could lie in it, such as the girl who was there at the moment when she opened her eyes.
The tall shelves not only completely obscured the girl's figure, but also obscured most of the nearby moonlight, and only a few small wisps of moonlight barely penetrated into it, supporting the faint brightness inside.
In this vague disillusionment, the girl lying here can be seen with long snow-white hair with golden glow on it.
Because she had just woken up, the girl's hair was a little messy, and the long bangs blocked most of her face in front of her, and the light here was already very dim, so she couldn't see clearly, and she was in a dark, and she could only see a pair of eyes in her hair faintly reflecting a faint light.
Probably noticing the darkness around her, the girl's eyes were filled with fear, like a frightened fawn, but pretending to be strong.
At this moment, the melodious and soothing violin sound suddenly came.
This made the girl's eyes blink, and the two faint lights flickered, and when they lit up again, you could see the doubts in them, and the deeper fear, the strength that had been deliberately held up before was not much left.
She knew where this was, and it was entirely her own decision that she would be here.
She was mentally prepared, she thought it was nothing to fear, but when she woke up and saw the darkness around her, she couldn't help but think of some of the stories that had been circulating in the castle, one of which had to do with this music room in Shival.
It is said that this music room in Sival was a bedroom decades ago, and the owner at that time was the brother of Sival's grandfather by blood. The ancestor had a beautiful wife, whose beauty was known throughout Douala, and the ancestor was proud of it, but he did not expect that his beautiful wife was secretly cheating on a knight in the castle.
Paper can't contain the fire after all, when one day the matter was revealed, the two who were cheating were blocked in the bedroom by the ancestor who just rushed back to the castle in advance, the knight killed the ancestor in a hurry, but the movement during the battle was too great, it had already alarmed the soldiers in the castle, and they were cornered.
Eventually, the Desperate Knight killed the beautiful wife with the sword he used to kill the ancestor, and then ended his own life with the sword. Since then, this ominous bloody bedroom has been sealed and no one has moved in until Sival's generation, which was divided into Sival and converted into a music room.
When the girl heard the story, she thought it was quite true, because instead of continuing to live in this bedroom, Shival converted it into a music room, probably because she also knew the story and felt that it was unknown to live in such a place, so she did so. And some of the servants claimed that they had heard the murky music of the music room in the middle of the night—— and that the lady in the story was a musician, and that she was said to play as beautiful music as her beauty.
This adds to the authenticity of the story.
And now, when the girl heard the sound of a violin in the room, she remembered the story at once, so the fear in her eyes deepened, and her body trembled involuntarily, and she did not know whether it was because she wore too little cold in this weather, or because she was frightened by the fear in her own heart.
Although the girl's trembling voice was very small, if it was a normal bedroom in the dead of night, Norman would probably hear it, but now Norman did not notice it at all, because his heart was in a mess, and he put all his mind into the performance in his hand.
The piece "Just One Horse's Head Missing" was one of Norman's experiences during his systematic study of background music, and the Knights Templar introduced him to the origin of this piece of music to help him better understand the introductory words that he still remembers.
“...... This unlucky guy just broke up with his girlfriend and was very painful, and outstanding artists are often unreliable, and this unlucky guy is the best of them. In such an extremely painful moment, this guy actually took all the money on him and gambled on horses. ”
Originally, the horse he bought was the first, and the frustration in love and the pride in the casino saved him some of his bad mood, but he didn't expect that at the last moment, the horse he bought was overtaken by the second horse, and it was only one head ahead of the horse he bought. ”
"Life suddenly fell from the peak to the bottom, and then from the bottom to the peak, and from the peak to the bottom, this kind of ups and downs is really exciting, and it is not good to stimulate this unlucky guy, the emotions are very complex and passionate, and there are thousands of words to tell, but he is a musician and is not very good at words, so he simply put all his emotions into the creation of music, and created this song "Only One Horse Head Missing" in one go. ”
That's where Norman's work comes from, and why it has such a strange name.
The first short section of this piece is very soothing and melodious, and it sounds very beautiful and beautiful, like "Canon", it has the qualification of catching the ear, and it is naturally the type that can attract people's attention with one ear, and Norman's interpretation does not detract from this small paragraph.
Although Norman did not study music for too long, he practiced the violin the most during his study time, and what was even more terrifying was that he had the double blessing of the healing chapter of the "Funeral Heart Sutra" and the "Heart Sutra of Catching the Sea".
"Funeral Heart Sutra" was originally constantly improving his physical fitness, making his body enough to keep up with his brain, and the violin level was advancing by leaps and bounds, which was already revealed in the Little Chrysanthemum Art Troupe, and the later "Catching the Sea Heart Sutra" healing chapter amplified this progress speed, making Norman's current violin level even more big than before, which made him stunned when he suddenly got started- Although he hadn't touched the piano in a few days, he could clearly feel that he was getting more and more at home.
This is because of the double blessing of the "Funeral Heart Sutra" and the "Heart Sutra of Catching the Sea", in the process of constantly transforming his body, the memories of his body are more and more deeply imprinted into his bones, including various combat skills and violin skills.
Overall, Norman is now a qualified musician in terms of violin skills alone, which allows him to present the meaning of the work in almost its entirety.
The first stanza of "Just One Horse's Head Missing" is beautiful and soothing, and it is supposed to be pleasant, but the girl in the dark listens to the music and becomes more and more afraid.
What she heard was dance music, a melodious and soothing tone that made her seem to see the scene of the knight and the lady cheating on the side of the gossip, and seeing the two of them embracing and dancing in the dim and romantic candlelight.
Scenes from horror stories seem to be being recreated.
But Norman himself brought it in a different way: it was like he had just wandered aimlessly in the music room, and there were countless undercurrents hidden under the seemingly calm and soothing surface of the lake.
And after the end of the first section, there is a pause, and the music suddenly becomes excited.
After the calm before the storm just now, the fire was in full swing, and the wind and rain were coming.
The violin sound here is sharp but not harsh, subdued but restrained and capable, like a queen on the dance floor, stepping on the noble steps and arrogant to everything, welcoming and rejecting her dance partner, and the audience is her dance partner, completely forgetting herself in such a melody, only the queen in front of her, fanatically following her direction, letting her guide everything.
Passion, collision, tearing, hesitation.
This is Norman's emotion in the performance of this piece at the moment, he seems to have become the unlucky author of this piece, watching the horse he bought and the other horses around him crowd each other and gallop forward, you fight back and forth, one moment it is his own horse that rushes to the front, the emotion has just been raised, but the next moment there is a new horse overtaking the past, so that the emotion falls back to the ground, worried, unguarded, anxious, confused and busy, I don't know what to do。
That's how he's feeling right now.
The emotions in Norman's heart at this moment collided and stirred back and forth in such a music, and the appeal of this piece was raised to a higher level, and listening to the ears of the girl in the dark, there was a different feeling.
This rousing melody was like a level 9 spell meteor storm, and it hit her heart at once.
She seems to have returned to the time and space in the story, her ancestor returned to the castle and discovered the adultery between his wife and the knight, but the ancestor who loved his wife deeply still wanted to win back his wife's heart at such a moment, so he challenged the knight.
The rousing music is the scene of the two fighting in the room, and the lady they are fighting for is standing aside, anxiously trying to stop the scene before them.
It was as if she had seen the wife: she was a beautiful person, her nose was like the brightest star in the night sky, her lips were fiery red and sensual, she had blonde hair as bright as the sun, and she had snow-white smooth skin and a high nose bridge.
The most charming thing is her eyes, the anxious, weak and helpless eyes are so pitiful, so that this woman can't help but have the idea of wanting to protect her and care for her from the bottom of her heart, and it is no wonder that she can let the two men duel for her.
The battle between the two men was extremely fierce, one moment it was the knight who was stabbed in the shoulder and looked like he was about to lose, and the next time her ancestor was also stabbed in the calf, but he limped and continued the fight.
There were more and more injuries on both sides, the battle became more and more intense, and the girl's heart rose higher and higher.
Although she is a descendant of that ancestor, she doesn't know which side she hopes for victory at this moment.
It was as if she could feel the feeling of the beautiful wife's heart: she did not want her beloved lover Knight to die in this battle, nor did she want her beloved husband to lose his life because of his unfidelity.
If she could, she would even want to use her life to stop this.
And as the battle became more and more intense, the victory and defeat were about to be decided, but the song suddenly turned again, becoming melodious and soothing again.
This made the girl who had always carried a heart drop her high heart again, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Both the knight and her ancestor were exhausted and ceased their struggle for a moment, but they did not let up in the slightest, each staring into the other's eyes, but the scene finally eased.
And this girl finally felt something faintly at this time.
Yes, it's all an illusion, it's just a tune!
It was not good to think in a situation that was too tense just now, but when the situation calmed down again, the girl, who was also very good at music, finally noticed this.
It was only then that she realized that she was no longer trembling or afraid.
Being so immersed in the music that she forgot to be afraid, and she can't be afraid anymore - the characters in that story are no longer terrifying to her now. They are all flesh and blood living people, and they have their emotions, which she can clearly understand.
She worries about them, struggles with them, is confused for them, but is no longer afraid of them.
And the beauty of this piece of music seems to the girl to have another way of interpretation: it is probably that the ancestors are talking to her, and want her to pass on the story between them, so that the world will not forget them. That's why the artistic conception of this piece can be so profound and timeless, and the melody can be so every second, because this is not a piece of music that can be created by human beings.
The girl lay still, her eyes shining in the darkness, and at last she closed them and listened to the story of the darkness.
Norman, as a performer, accumulates his emotions through this re-soothing passage.
This is very similar to some of the creative techniques in "Victory", they are not rushing up in one go, but like climbing a mountain, after climbing halfway up, take a rest first, accumulate physical strength and belief, etc., accumulate together, and rush up with the last breath.
He was now accumulating, and soon, the huge undercurrent under the calm surface of the lake could no longer be hidden in the collision and agitation, gushing out like a monstrous wave.