Fisherman’s Harvest Song

While riding, Su Zhen's phone rang, but he didn't bother to stop, he picked up the phone directly.

"Hello Mr. Su, I'm delivering the MV Agusta protective gear to you, but you're not home."

"Oh, I almost forgot. Can I trouble you to leave the goods in the apartment management office downstairs? I'm quite busy right now."

"Yes, no problem."

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When everyone tossed until more than 9 o'clock in the evening, they all decided to go back, and Su Zhen rode back to the community.

After parking his bike, Su Zhen walked to the apartment management office. Fortunately, the office closed at 10 o'clock, so he was able to take his goods now.

Arriving at his room, Su Zhen first put down the big box, heat up a glass of milk, and went to his bedroom to find Lele, only to see that the cat was already sleeping soundly.

After drinking the hot milk, Su Zhen took a hot bath to replenish his energy and lay on the bed, scrolling through foreign news.

After a while, he turned off the phone and fell asleep peacefully.

In the morning, after waking up, he opened the refrigerator and poured himself a glass of milk.

After drinking a few mouthfuls of milk, Su Zhen planned to make a special hamburger today.

Two slices of toast with lettuce, fried eggs, cheese, and two slices of carrots, and his breakfast was ready.

Well, strictly speaking, this should be a sandwich, but in a cooking video that Su Zhen watched not long ago, the chef did just that.

But unlike the video, he didn't add any strange ingredients, but he was used to adding carrots every time he made a sandwich or hamburger.

This thing was good, especially for the eyes. When Su Zhen became myopic, he gave birth to the habit of eating carrots.

After finishing his breakfast in a slow manner, Su Zhen rested for several minutes.

Just then, he received a call from Ye Decai.

"Little Su, the decoration of your villa is ready, don't forget to come and take a look."

"Yes, I will go there in the afternoon."

After hanging up the phone, Su Zhen went to work out, after all, it was his habit.

At 9 o'clock, the things that Su Zhen ordered online yesterday were delivered to the address of his villa and Su Zhen had to trouble Ye Decai to receive them.

A little while later, Su Zhen got a call from a familiar number, it was Wu Jin.

"Brother Su, are you free this evening?"

"Yes, I'm free."

"That's good, my mom has completely recovered now, and she wants to invite you to dinner at our house. Is that okay?"

"Of course, it's okay. By the way, how is your work now?"

"I've stopped from other works and only work at the bar now. My mom wants me to do this, after all, I've been too busy and had little time to accompany her before."

"That's a good thing. If you lack anything, just tell me, you don't have to feel bad, I treat you as my little brother after all."

"Thank you, Brother Su."

When the call was over, Su Zhen continued to sit down on the couch and read books seriously.

As the hour passed, it came to lunch, and Su Zhen made a simple and healthy lunch himself.

For a lot of people, they would feel lazy and always want to sleep after lunch, but it was not the case for Su Zhen at all, on the contrary, he felt full of energy.

Instead of reading books, Su Zhen practiced violin in the afternoon. After practicing for a while, Su Zhen felt like he was already too familiar with this piece, so he wanted to find a new piece to play instead.

Putting down the violin, Su Zhen turned on his phone and opened B Site, one of the largest and most popular video-sharing platforms in China.

Su Zhen typed in a few keywords related to violin and tapped the search button. Quickly, millions of results appeared.

He scrolled through those videos for a while before he stumbled across a hot video, featuring a talented violinist playing an old piece that Su Zhen also knew.

Su Zhen knew this violinist as well. In 1991, at age 11, by the unanimous vote of 20 judges from 11 countries, this man won the first prize in the Fifth Wieniawski International Youth Violin Competition, making him the youngest prizewinner under the age of 16 and gaining for him the accolade of being a remarkable talent.

The only pity was that later, Su Zhen heard that this talented man seemed to have suffered from some health problems and especially related to the nervous system at that, so he retired from the violin world in order to cure his illness.

In the current video, he should be in his 20s, playing a full-of-joy piece called "Fisherman's Harvest Song", composed in 1973 by a famous violin composer and violin professor, Li Zili.

This music was based on the fishing songs of the old generation and the waves of the South China Sea as the background.

Without much trouble, Su Zhen found the sheet music of this piece on the internet.

Su Zhen wrinkled his brows when he looked at it. It was not that this music was hard to play, but that the screen of his phone was too small, making it difficult for him to see. He also had a laptop but it was already broken.

Helpless, he could only zoom in on the picture and read the music score one by one.

Only now did Su Zhen feel the helplessness of having only a small mobile phone.

After a while, Su Zhen picked up the violin and started to play it.

The whole song was divided into four sections.

The first section was the introduction of the piano and the theme of the South China Sea fisherman song on the E string of the violin.

The second section developed from the theme of the introduction, the broad and stretched melody on the E string and the transition to the G string formed different color and speed changes, showing that the fishermen sang fishing songs and returned to the voyage happily.

The third section was a variation of the second melody, and the accents appeared alternately in different positions, making the music full of elasticity and vitality.

The fourth section was the most lyrical passage in the whole piece. The arpeggios and vibrato at the end of the piece brought people into the poetic bay night.

This piece had a lot of ups and downs and most players would generally try to immerse themselves into it to get the gist of the whole song as well as its deep meaning.

Su Zhen's impression when playing this song was like he himself was a fisherman, he felt the tears of parting with relatives and friends to go to the sea, he felt the danger of the storms and waves under the dark clouds, and he also felt the joy of dragging big fish back to the village, relatives, and friends applauded…