The next morning.

Genoa was very lively on Tuesday.

Since this is Paganini's hometown, the streets around Piazza del Frari are filled with violin-playing street performers.

During the Paganini International Violin Competition, some of the contestants even played on the streets.

This is perhaps the unique scenery of Genoa.

The participants in these violin competitions, unlike the street performers, do not put the violin case in front of them, they just play them seriously.

Every experience in life has an impact on thoughts.

Standing on the street and playing in front of unfamiliar pedestrians is also an experience like no other.

Fang Xing and Lu Xiang'er made an appointment to meet in Plaza Flari, so they arrived here in advance.

didn't wait long, Lu Xiang'er quietly walked over, quickly patted her shoulder, and then walked out from the other side, with a happy smile on her face.

"I Have a Catalogue of Ghosts and Gods"

Fang Xing looked her up and down, and saw that she had dressed up with intentions, but her makeup skills were really average, and even then she couldn't hide her foundation, just a little powder and a smeared lipstick, which was beautiful enough.

"Are you sure you can really go out and play alone?" Fang Xing asked.

"Well, I'm not a child, my mother used to consider sending me out to study abroad, I'm very independent, okay? My mom and her good sister arranged it yesterday for a day trip to Genoa today. I was going to go too, but then I said I wanted to watch other players compete, and I knew that I would not be defeated in a hundred battles, so I came out alone. Lu Xiang'er nodded and praised her shrewdness.

Fang Xing stretched out his finger and pointed at a person playing the violin in front of him, and said, "Then you can come and fight a hundred battles." ”

Lu Xianger followed her fingers and looked over and saw that the street performer playing the violin on the street was Patrick Pate.

Moreover, Patrick Pate also opened the violin case and placed it in front of him, and there were already passing tourists throwing change into his violin case.

"That's ...... Yesterday's contestant? Lu Xiang'er couldn't believe her eyes.

"Player No. 1, yesterday's highest-rated player, your biggest competitor at the moment." Fang Xing added.

He ...... He's a street performer, is he short of money? Lu Xiang'er was a little incomprehensible.

"Do you think the person who sells his violin on the street with a 20,000 euro violin is short of money?" Fang Xing asked with a smile.

Patrick Pate is not playing the same violin he played yesterday.

Fang Xing can hear the timbre.

The violin he uses today is not as good as yesterday's, but it is at least 20,000 euros, which is equivalent to 130,000 RMB in China.

"Then ...... him"

Lu Xiang'er was a little incomprehensible.

If you are not short of money and want to play on the street, you can just play it directly, and there is no need to use the violin case to receive change from tourists.

"Just ask."

Fang Xing said and pulled Lu Xiang'er over, stood in front of Patrick Pate, and watched him play.

Patrick Pate was slightly chubby, and while playing, he noticed two tourists stopping to listen.

Although Piazza Frari is crowded with tourists, there are not many who actually stop by to enjoy the performances of the street performers.

Moreover, violin playing is a relatively boring kind among street performers.

Therefore, even if a tourist stops, it is common to listen for a while and then leave.

Patrick Pate noticed that someone was stopping, glanced at it slightly, and then was attracted by Lu Xiang'er's attention.

Not only because this girl is good-looking, but also because Lu Xianger was his biggest competitor in yesterday's competition.

Patrick Pate put down his bow and, in a questioning tone, said a word in German.

Fang Xing and Lu Xiang'er didn't understand, but they could hear it from the tone, this was a question sentence.

Patrick Pate is Austrian and his official language is German.

He found that Fang Xing and the others didn't understand, so he changed to English again: "Hello? ”

Fang Xing politely explained in English: "You can continue to play when we don't exist." ”

Patrick Pate was cautious and replied, "If the young lady next to you can make it to the semifinals, she will be my rival, and I don't want you to know more." ”

Fang Xing shook his head and said with a smile: "None of the players who can enter the semi-finals are weak, just play your own tunes well, there is no point in beware of other players." ”

"You're right, but you're still going to affect me." Patrick Pate replied.

Fang Xing stretched out his finger and pointed to the violin case in front of him and asked, "Do I need to pay?" ”

Patrick Pate shook his head and replied, "No, I don't live off this money." ”

"Then why do you still collect money?" Fang Xing continued to ask.

"I just want to be a complete busker and that's it." Patrick Pate didn't shy away from it either.

He just wants to experience what it's like to be a busker, even though he doesn't make money from street performing.

"Do you mind if you have one more competitor next to you?" Fang Xing said, looking back at Lu Xiang'er.

Lu Xiang'er's eyes widened, and she hurriedly shrank back: "I don't want it." ”

"Really, don't you try?" Fang Xing had also sung "The Phantom of the Opera" on the street before, and there was no pressure on street performers.

Lu Xiang'er was different, and shook her head vigorously: "Don't." ”

"Let's try it, maybe if you break through this barrier, you will grow?" Fang Xing reached out to pull her.

"No, no......" Lu Xiang'er flattened her mouth, and she was about to cry.

"If you don't pull, then I'll come." Fang Xing took her violin case, opened it, took out the violin, put it on her shoulder and began to pluck the strings.

Patrick Pate was next to him, staring at the two with wide eyes.

The instruments are somewhat common, and Fang Xing knows a little violin.

However, I didn't learn the violin professionally.

So I can play one or two songs, but the level is more average.

Fang Xing tried to pull the repertoire "Moonlight Sonata" from Lu Xiang'er's competition yesterday, and in the eighth measure, two notes were pulled.

Lu Xiang'er laughed out loud, quickly covered her mouth, stepped forward and dragged Fang Xing's arm, and begged, "Let's not be embarrassed here, okay?" ”

"I've thrown everyone out, won't you help me make up for it?" Fang Xing stuffed the violin over.

On the streets of Piazza Frari, the violin is played well and does not attract many tourists.

On the contrary, it attracted the attention of a wave of tourists.

A lot of tourists are looking this way to see who is playing the violin so badly.

has already woken up "Zhuyu is in front", but Lu Xianger is not so afraid.

This is like in KTV, often the most active atmosphere is actually the big brother with incomplete tones.

Someone has already lost all people, and no matter how bad others sing, it's not the worst, and that's easy.

Therefore, Lu Xiang'er was not so scared, took the violin, and began to play.

This time, Mozart's Concerto No. 5 in A major, the first movement.

After Lu Xianger started playing, he came to the real thing, the performance level was good, and anyone who knew music could hear it.

Because someone pulled it before, it suddenly changed to a beautiful girl with a high level of performance, which immediately attracted a lot of tourists.

Patrick Pate has been here all morning, and there are not as many people as there are now.

Hearing that Lu Xianger was playing seriously, Patrick Pate, as a competitor, was a little unconvinced.

After all, in yesterday's game, he was the first in the whole game, and Lu Xianger was only second.

However, when it comes to street performing, the contrast is very tragic.

Patrick Pate was not convinced, and began to put on his bow, also playing Mozart's Concerto No. 5 in A major, the first movement.

The two began to fight with the sound of the piano, playing the violin with each other.

The sound of the piano came out, and the two violins sounded like an ensemble, but all that came out was the smell of gunpowder.

Especially when it comes to the cadenza section, the sound of the piano is like a thousand birds contending.

At the end of the first movement, both men stopped at the same time.

The surrounding tourists involuntarily began to applaud.

Fang Xing couldn't help but shake his head and smile.

For the audience, the level of violin performance is not so important, after all, the average audience cannot distinguish that subtle difference.

However, when the competition arises, the audience likes to watch it.

The more fierce the competition, the stronger the smell of gunpowder, and the more energetic the audience watched.

This is the same as music variety shows, the stronger the competitiveness, the more popular the show.

A blonde female tourist took out her change and asked in English, "Do I need to pay?" ”

Patrick Pate waved his hand and said, "You can pay, but I don't need to." ”

Lu Xiang'er hurriedly put the violin back into the box, pulled Fang Xing's arm and ran away: "Hurry up and go, it's too embarrassing." ”

"What's the shame? Isn't it a good performance? Fang Xing felt that her performance just now was indeed very good.

"I've never been a busker before, and it's horrible." Lu Xiang'er patted her chest, looking like she hadn't come out of the nervousness just now.

"There are always things to go through in life, since you choose to play the violin, you always have to stand in front of people to perform, if you can't pass this level of street performance, there must be something missing."

When Fang Xing was acting in musicals in his previous life, he was also timid, especially when performing in an open-air venue, with an audience of threes and twos, or even no audience.

That feeling, in fact, is a very uncomfortable experience for the performers.

However, after achieving something, looking back, these experiences are accompanied by the process of my own growth.

"I've already performed on the streets, so I've passed this level, and I won't have to go through it in the future, right?" Lu Xiang'er had already found a good reason with an expression.

"Okay. Where do you want to go now? Fang Xing is ready to officially start today's game.

"Hmm...... How about the Basilica of St. Lorenzo? I want to go to the church. Lu Xiang'er thought about it for a while and finally chose this attraction.

"Okay, let's go to church."

Many girls have a unique paranoia about the church.

Because in their hearts, the church represents loyalty and vows.

Therefore, Fang Xing took her hand and walked in the direction of the Basilica of St. Loren's Left.