don't call me singer

Chapter 2005 Eternal Death
At this moment, I don't know how many people, after reading the entire content with not many words, sat there blankly, staring at the page, in a daze.

A simple black and white page with black borders, white background, and black text.

Yet such an important message was written.

Wrote such a cruel half poem.

On the page, the faint, faint sound of the erhu reverberates.

This note, only when you pull the whole page to the end, it will sound, so soft, but so loud.

Every note, even a feather can't be startled, but it seems to be knocking on everyone's heart.

It is a thin, thin silk string, under the cilia of the bow, it can emit the slightest vibration.

It was the slightest sound the microphone could pick up.

That is the most delicate sound that can be captured by human ears.

That is the weight that only life can perceive.

It is like spring silkworms quietly nibbling away at the mulberry leaves, so little by little, it seems that there will never be any progress.

But when you found it, you found that a leaf had disappeared.

There is something that comes when you are not aware of it. It has been with you since the moment you were born in the world, but you cannot perceive its existence until the last moment.

And it has such a sense of imagery, the imagery is so strong that it seems that when you close your eyes, you can see a young man in white, walking alone on a road intertwined with gray and white.

Can't go back, can't go back.

And it's so powerful.

It grabs you right away and leaves you sitting there powerless, unable even to close the page or redirect your attention.

It has such a magical power, and its name is "Death".

Before Gu Xiaobai's "North Atlantic Rhapsody" appeared, the most famous erhu opera in the world was called "Erquan Yingyue".It is the representative work of Hua Yanjun (A Bing), and it is also the most influential erhu music in the world, and one of the most influential Chinese instrumental music in the world.

This piece of music originally didn't have a name, it was just an unnamed piece that Hua Yanjun had been revising, improvising, and performing all his life, sad but restrained, like an elegy written for himself.

Some erhu players once complained that although they admired Mr. Hua Yanjun (A Bing) for his outstanding contribution to the erhu, they were also troubled by the fact that Hua Yanjun's "Erquan Yingyue" was so famous that it had almost become a Many people mistakenly believe that Erhu can only express sad music.

The appearance of Gu Xiaobai's "North Atlantic Rhapsody" changed everything.

As the main instrument in "North Atlantic Rhapsody", the erhu shows endless charm in the hands of Gu Xiaobai.

It can express love, as beautiful as the second theme "Knowing Each other" in the first movement "Farewell". means.

It can express majesty, such as the second theme "Equestrian War" in the fourth movement "Parade", which has another name "March of the Hussars".

In fact, any fan of historical cavalry will put this song on the head of his favorite cavalry, and later it became the recognized "Cavalry Charge Song".

It is said that listening to it, you can use two legs to swing at a speed of [-] miles per hour, "Charging Divine Comedy".

It can express endless light, making people feel the warmth and itching of the sun shining on the skin, just like the first theme in the fifth movement "Myth", "Sunshine".

The song "Sunshine" dispelled the haze and coldness of the Scandinavian mountains, and made the whole of Northern Europe warm and bright. I don't know how many people accompanied me through the cold and depressing winter night.

It can also express a subject as grand as fate. The second theme "Prophecy" in the fifth movement "Myth" is like unfolding a picture scroll of ancient myths for people. The mysterious and magnificent era is re-presented in front of human beings.

Of course, it also explores death several times.

Whether it is after the "Cavalry March", mourning the knights who died in battle, and the mourning but not hurting "Morning".

Still at the end of "Mythology", the dramatization and mythologization attribute all fate and soul to Valhalla's "North".

Gu Xiaobai's "North Atlantic Rhapsody" is a genuine "Rhapsody". It records Gu Xiaobai's time and space travel in this area of ​​the North Atlantic Ocean. The music materials of countries and various ethnic groups are generally romantic, which has expanded everyone's understanding of the erhu as an instrument without limit, and expanded the themes that the erhu can display and its breadth and breadth.

But everyone never expected it.

At the end of "North Atlantic Rhapsody", Gu Xiaobai changed everything he had changed by himself.

Perhaps, just like Ah Bing, there are many heroic and majestic erhu works, but in the end it was this sad and self-inflicted "Erquan Yingyue" that became his masterpiece, the most famous erhu in the world, and the most famous erhu in the world. A Bing's "incarnation" in music.

Because, in this world, there is only one thing that can shock people's hearts.

death.

In the faint sound of the erhu, someone suddenly asked a sentence in Russian:

The sound was very soft, very light, like a noise that was accidentally recorded during recording.

It's so light that someone has heard it countless times before they can clearly understand what this sentence says.

"Xiaobai, do you want to be the king of Europe?"

But at that moment, the music progressed gradually, like a scroll slowly unfolding.

November 1700, Narva, Sweden (now Estonia).

Tens of thousands of Russian troops besieged the city with thousands of Swedish troops.

Inside and outside the city, swords are on the verge of breaking out, and a tragic war is about to break out.

The extremely disparate military strength made the morale of the generals and soldiers sitting in the sad city low, and they had no hope of victory in the upcoming war.

Time advances minute by minute, and every minute and every second is torture for them.

It's just a difficult torment before death.

Just when the sun was about to rise to the sky, suddenly a soldier shouted:

"Everyone, look!"

"what is that?"

Karl XII stood on the top of the city and looked out, and then suddenly showed a look of surprise: "It's the White Knights tonight!"

"It's my teacher, the teacher is here to save me!" Karl XII exclaimed excitedly.

The boy's face was flushed with excitement and tears of excitement: "Teacher...Teacher, he didn't give up on me after all!"

Outside the city, an invincible cavalry has killed the Russian soldiers behind.

Facing this legendary invincible iron cavalry, the Russian army was instantly defeated.

A few minutes later, the gate of Narva also opened wide, and the defenders who had been trapped inside also rushed out.

At that moment, it had turned into a one-sided massacre.

In this battle, the Russian army killed more than 15000 people and lost nearly half of the battle, while Sweden had only 667 people killed in battle.

The battle report reached Peter's ears. Peter was furious at first, but after hearing that the White Knights joined the battle tonight, he fell silent.

At night, when the faint sound of the erhu sounded outside Peter's military tent, Peter repelled all his followers and guards and came to the place where the music came from.

They haven't seen each other for several years, but the teenager is just as they were when they first saw each other.

Under the cold moonlight, an erhu played in the wilderness.

Peter stood quietly behind the boy. After listening to the erhu, the boy stood up and turned to look at Peter.

A pair of friends who once had a heart-to-heart relationship meet again, but they seem to have nothing to say.

After a long time, it was Peter who spoke first: "Xiaobai, do you want to fight me?"

"It's not me who is fighting you, I just have a good student."

"Even if you are not the one fighting me, where did that invincible army come from?"

Gu Xiaobai was silent.

"You once said that you would teach and protect Karl XII until he came of age, so I didn't do anything last year, and you left him this summer, isn't it because you have completed your mission? If you continue now Protect him, then, when will he be considered an adult? Or, do you want to protect him for the rest of your life?"

Gu Xiaobai was silent for a moment, then said: "But I can't just sit and watch him die in front of me."

"One Europe cannot accommodate two careerists. One North cannot accommodate two emperors. People will always die. Karl XII will die, I will die, and you...Your Excellency, Grand Master, will die too. "

Gu Xiaobai continued to remain silent.

"It's bitterly cold in the north. We Russia needs the Baltic Sea. The Swedes will not give up their land. There will be a war between Russia and Sweden, and perhaps only one of me and Karl XII can survive." Peter said, "If you If you really want to protect Karl XII, then you might as well kill me now. You can do this easily, can't you, because you are the invincible Tonight Bai."

But are you going to do it?

"There is only one person in this world who can make me retreat and make me unwilling to be an enemy. Today, I want to ask you a question, Xiaobai, do you want to become the king of Europe?"

After another long silence, Gu Xiaobai shook his head.

Becoming the king of Europe, in fact, he never thought about it.

He doesn't want to interfere with the changes in history, and he doesn't want to.

"Then don't block my way to become the king of Europe." Peter said, "Xiaobai, go back to your east and continue to be your prince, bring your loyal followers and followers, and your invincible army!" Iron cavalry and dreams, go back and inherit your invincible empire, this place is too cruel, there is no justice and fertile ground you want."

"You know, I have a reason why I can't go back." Gu Xiaobai said.

"Then be a bystander. Europe is too small to accommodate two emperors, but Europe is also very large and can accommodate many bystanders. Xiaobai, we will meet our own destiny in the end. Xiaobai, are you not God, you can't save everyone. You can't defy fate after all, let us die because of our ignorance."

Gu Xiaobai closed his eyes, and opened them after a long time.

"You're right, I'm not a god, I can't defy fate after all."

After that night, in the history of Europe, Tonight White, the head of the once famous "Tonight White Knights" in Europe, disappeared, and the invincible "Tonight White Knights" in Europe also disappeared, disappearing from everyone's sight.

As it appeared, it disappeared as silently as it appeared.

Even after hundreds of years, this dusty history was re-veiled.

It was also that night that Gu Xiaobai found his own servant, A Fu, who was somewhat similar in appearance to him, and A Fu, who had been his substitute countless times, said to him: "A Fu, you Go back to the east. I will send a team of knights to escort you back in the name of envoys from the west. After you go back, tell those people, tell them, just say...the people they were waiting for are already dead, in the far west, Died alone, never going back."

Gu Xiaobai has never met his family members in this body, and he doesn't want to go back to see them.

Because he does not belong to this era, does not belong to this period of history, does not belong to any camp, does not belong to any individual.

The person he was after was not even in this era.

He is just a passerby.

This is the first theme of the final chapter "Death", "Eternal Hope".

I'm just an eternal watcher, I don't belong here, I don't belong anywhere.

Whether it is the East or the West, I can only look at each other from afar.

It's like the dead are spying on the living, and the world is dominated by them. I'm just a witness, a passer-by, and a watchman.

In this world, no one needs him.

At this moment, the sound of the erhu trembled, but it was extremely calm, like a person who had decided to give up everything, saying goodbye to his past.

In fact, this topic is about farewell.

The same is parting. The last theme of the first movement, "Farewell", has to say goodbye.

And here is the farewell after careful consideration.

The parting in the first movement makes people sad, regretful, and endlessly missed.

And this movement, calm and cruel, makes people feel chills from the bottom of their hearts.

When a person decides to let go of everything in the past.

How cruel should such music be?

That feeling is like a person coldly counting all his bones and muscles, and then shaving everything off himself.

One knife, the pain pierced the heart.

Just then, the fiddle joins again.

The cooperation between Escobar and Gu Xiaobai runs parallel.

The violin is passionate and turbulent, like the turbulent Europe at that time.

The erhu is calm and cold, like Gu Xiaobai who is watching everything from behind.

It's just that the passionate violin, but no matter what, can't suppress the plain and deserted erhu.

After the battles, Karl XII looked up at the sky and murmured, "Have you really abandoned me, teacher?"

And after each victory, Peter would say to the sparkling Baltic Sea: "Did you see, Xiaobai. I won again!"

Occasionally, on the night of the climax of a certain month, there will be a faint sound of erhu, piercing the night, traveling through time, and echoing in the cruel and cold years.

At this point, we have entered the second theme - "Eternal Death"!
(End of this chapter)