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Chapter 313 The Beautiful Jade in the City
In fact, the most charming scenery in summer is not sitting comfortably on a bench by the lake and watching the seagulls flying around on the lake, but people wearing cool and stylish clothes.

Everyone has a love of beauty, and there is nothing wrong with it.

The meaning of this sentence is not that Ye Kai has been looking at the girl with long legs, but that other tourists have been staring at Ye Kai and Saoirse.

Seeing the beautiful house, Saoirse yelled happily as if she didn't see other people's gazes, and sometimes imitated others, leaning against the lake and asking Ye Kai to take pictures of her.

The water is shining, the trees are full of shade, and the photos in the camera are rising steadily.

Today's weather is pretty average, the sky seems to be covered with dark clouds like it's going to rain, but Ye Kai noticed that the weather won't change in these two hours.

So he took Saoirse out to enjoy the lake in Cuihu Park.

Cuihu Lake used to be a bay in Dianchi Lake, and later became a Wangqing Lake due to the drop in water level. It is one of the most beautiful parks in the urban area and is called "the beautiful jade in the city".

The area of ​​the lake is not very large. Compared with other lakes that Ye Kai has seen, this lake is very small.

Two long willow embankments meet in the center of the garden in a cross shape, dividing the whole lake into four pieces.

The north-south horizontal embankment is called Ruan embankment, which was built by Ruan Yuan, the governor of Nanyun during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, imitating the beauty of the Su embankment of the West Lake. The east-west embankment is called Tang embankment, which was built by Tang Jiyao during the Republic of China.

The place where the two willow dikes meet is called the small island in the center of the lake, and a pavilion called the center of the lake is built.

This place is not only popular for tourists, but also for many locals. On the road, they meet ethnic minorities who sing and dance, as well as grandparents playing piano in the pavilion.

Saoirse yelled after seeing someone playing the erhu: "I want to learn this! Whoa, what are they doing?"

Ye Kai laughed, and said: "Singing, the one you mentioned is called Erhu, I really haven't seen young girls playing this."

Not to mention young girls, Ye Kai has never seen many people under the age of 30, and they are usually old men and aunts entertaining themselves.

There are very few young people who can play classical musical instruments. As a hobby, they generally don’t like to show their faces, and as a profession, they don’t like to come to the park to play when they are resting.

Only when you are a little older, your thinking will be different from when you were young.

When Saoirse heard Ye Kai's words, she snorted and said, "Then I'll be the first!" After finishing speaking, she excitedly ran outside the pavilion and waited for the musicians to finish playing.

It seems that when the master inside puts down the instrument, she is about to rush in to learn from the master.

Ye Kai also walked towards the pavilion, at this time the people inside happened to change a song, the one they sang before was Nuqijie, now Ye Kai is more familiar with it.

"You have the heart to hurt me, the Dragon Boat Festival persuades Realgar..."

It's The Legend of the White Snake.

In fact, Ye Kai doesn’t like Peking Opera very much. He thinks Peking Opera is a bit noisy, which may be due to preconceived reasons. He was first exposed to Yue Opera, so now he prefers Yue Opera.

But Ye Kai has heard of these names.

When Ye Kai came to the side, Saoirse whispered in Ye Kai's ear: "This musical instrument is a bit like a violin when it plays high notes. I don't know if it's easy to learn."

"Easy to learn."

Saoirse was seriously watching the performance of the people inside, but after hearing Ye Kai's words, she turned to look at Ye Kai: "Really?"

"Really, I can also play the erhu, and I have one at home. I can sing you a few ditties when I have time."

Saoirse blinked her eyes, not sure whether she believed it or not, and continued to watch the masters in front of them sing Peking Opera, the gongs, erhu...the timbres of these instruments were very different from those of foreign instruments.

When hearing these musical instruments for the first time, Saoirse was instantly fascinated by this culture when she saw Chinese people singing with their unique vocals.

Ye Kai leaned against the vermilion pillar beside the pavilion, tilted his head back a little bored, and banged against the pillar.

Rather than watching other people sing Peking Opera, Ye Kai wants to go to the lake to watch those ethnic minorities sing and dance.

There are lotus flowers blooming on the lake on the west side, and he also wants to find a small boat to go boating on the lake, and take a close look at the beautiful lotus leaves. Why did Saoirse fall in love with Peking Opera?
The uncles and aunts finally finished singing and were about to take a break and drink water from a water glass. Saoirse hurried forward and asked, "Uncle, can I borrow your musical instrument?"

The uncle Saoirse asked was in his 70s, with gray hair and wearing a white Tang suit.

Hearing this, he was taken aback, he seemed to be thinking about what this foreign girl would do with her erhu, you can't speak Chinese clearly, do you know how to play erhu?

Probably want to try it.

He thought it should be like this, so he said kindly: "Try it, I don't see any young people wanting to learn the erhu. If you can play the sound, you are considered talented..."

To make a sound is not to let you make a noise, but a sound with a tone.

Saoirse smiled like a child getting a toy, and said, "Thank you uncle."

She also sat on the rock, imitating the posture of the uncle and putting the erhu on her lap. With a wave of her hand, a stable sound came out, neither floating nor floating, neither high nor low, very stable.

The uncle who lent him the erhu was looking at Saoirse cheerfully before, and question marks were written all over his face for a moment.

Your posture is not right, and you don’t know how to hold an instrument. How did you pull out such a stable tone?Is it luck?
Saoirse's strings turned once again, and it was a relatively stable sound.

Maybe Saoirse doesn't know how to play the erhu, how the fingering and tone are coordinated, but it is very simple for her to complete a stable syllable alone.

After learning the violin for so many years, the strings are not stable, so why do you still play the violin?

After playing two notes, Saoirse was satisfied, and shouted to Ye Kai who was standing in a daze: "Ye, come on, don't you know it? Come and sing a song, like Uncle and the others."

"Forget it, I'll sing for you when I go back."

Saoirse stood up and pulled Yekai's arm, dragged him to the stone bench here, and said, "Just one song, I want to hear you sing your Huaxia play."

Before Ye Kai could refute, the erhu was stuffed into Ye Kai's hands.

The uncle who lent the erhu asked curiously: "Young man, can you play the erhu?"

"I know a little."

This is the knowledge I learned in West Lake. In addition to this, there are several other musical instruments. There are four kinds of classical musical instrument playing skills, and the erhu is relatively well-known.

The uncle said cheerfully: "Since you know a little bit, you can sing a section."

The other uncles and aunts also joked: "You can sing if your girlfriend asks you to sing, and show it to everyone."

I don't know if I want to see a joke or really want to hear Ye Kai sing.

But looking at their expressions, Ye Kai felt that it should be the former. In order to avoid being underestimated and to let Saoirse gain insight, he said: "Then I will show my hands."

Ye Kai returned this erhu to his uncle and borrowed another one.

What Saoirse got was Jinghu, and what Ye Kai borrowed now is an ordinary Erhu.

(End of this chapter)