[Phantom of the Opera] In Praise of Iris

Christine's singing finally came to an end. The former opera singer saluted the audience around her with tears in her eyes. The blue bird screen behind her was covered with blue eyes like the pupils on the feather tips. I don’t know when it has shown a bright golden color under the bright lights, reminiscent of the grand scene when she sang for the first time at the Paris Opera House 12 years ago, as if an angel descended on the world...

"Aunt Meg will be here soon." Most of the people here almost missed the performance of the new star of the Paris Opera House 12 years ago, but they were all intoxicated by this strange scene, except for the owner of the Phantom Paradise, who was pregnant with him. A little girl with a meaningful smile.

"Yeah, it's almost time for Meg." Eric listened to Fleck's explicit and charming hint when he announced the curtain on the stage, and echoed absent-mindedly, a certain repressed regret flooded his heart again, but this time, it was no longer For the voice of his beloved angel.

Meg's new dance code seems to be no surprise. When the French girl in a white dress and a wide-brimmed sun hat of the same color walks from the side of the stage to the audience's sight, even Ferry can only Let's say "not satisfactory", especially against the backdrop of the shocking singing of the voice of the angel in front.Until she began to take off her clothes one by one surrounded by the backup dancers.

When the white half-sleeved long skirt was torn off from both sides by the supporting dancers, revealing the short skirt with blue background and white border, Eric looked calm; but after a melodic but mediocre song and dance, the French girl The dress quickly changed from a blue skirt with shorter sleeves to a sleeveless plaid skirt, and from a plaid skirt with thick shoulder straps to a striped skirt with thin shoulder straps. In the blink of an eye, she seemed to have only Next is a blue polka dot skirt with no straps.At this time Eric's brows were already wrinkled enough to kill mosquitoes.When the French girl was about to be held high by the hips of three men, Ferry stopped her father from rushing up to the stage in time and motioned him to look down.

Meg knew that the three male partners behind her were already in place, which meant that her mother did not approve of her behavior, but she had made a decision.With that short interlude, the French girl made a graceful leap to the left, her legs spread out in a more pleasing arc than when she was a ballet dancer in the Paris Opera House.

"The beauty playing in the beach is shining..." The gaudy melody sounded again, but Meg had escaped from the gaudyness of showing off her flesh, and the French girl calmly picked up the phone that was transmitted to the floor through the scroll door. The dark blue cloak wraps the overly naked/exposed body for the time being, as if in an instant, she changed from a playful beauty to a holy and mysterious priestess...

Meg Geary, promising ballet dancer, most precious treasure.This is what Mrs. Geary once said to her daughter.She kept the latter firmly in mind, for which she taught her self-sacrifice, self-repression, and chasing the person she thought was suitable... But since when did she gradually blur the former?Is it from when she choreographed the dance that she finally ceased to seek a balance between market aesthetics and self-pursuit?Is it because of those pretentious and unfavorable rumors that gradually even her closest people are being deceived?But aren't these exactly the changes you want from her?

"Master, please stop the music!" Finally, very close to Eric's father and daughter, a woman wrapped in black stumbled towards them, her dark eyes were full of pain and anger. A mixed light of relief, "Meg, I am such an excellent little Meg, she shouldn't be dancing to such a gaudy tune..."

Eric didn't respond.In fact, since Meg's astonishing big jump, he has been stunned—like Mrs. Geary, he once believed that this girl had been assimilated into a part of flesh/desire, and repeatedly treated her love coldly. But now, he suddenly found that Meg's blue eyes were still shining with a clear and stubborn light under the ambiguous light.

At this time Meg had already taken off her cloak, and her movements were graceful and powerful, but in the gaudy tunes and fancy dancers, she showed a kind of weirdness that was out of place.It wasn't until the audience was whispering in the audience that Eric realized it. Regardless of the strange eyes of the audience around him, he signaled the band in the orchestra to stop, but he didn't turn off the gorgeous sound system specially arranged for Christine's singing.

Eric thought he had to do something for the absolute heroine of his theater, and the next moment he carried his daughter across the front row of audience and strode into the orchestra pit: "Ferry, let's accompany Aunt Meg together."

Ferry was stunned, but Eric had already snatched a musician's violin, and played a familiar melody with a calm expression—it was composed by Ferry in his previous life, and he evaluated it as "overemphasis on showing off skills" Farewell, but under Eric's hands, there is no doubt that those difficult skills for ordinary people are completely unobstructed. The performance without a trace of fireworks and the original thin and high tone of the violin give it a new look. Charm, those handy adaptations made her, the original author, swing back and forth between shame and admiration.

I can only sing it once for my lover, so I made it into a violin piece?Ferry curled her lips childishly: she didn't want to give this song to others, such as Eric's beloved angelic voice, but she couldn't be angry at all-not only because it was originally written for the Phantom, but also because she sent it from I sincerely hope that Meg will get what she wants.

Ferry's original song is full of affection and hatred of parting, and in Eric's hands, the affection remains undiminished, even adding a bit of unconscious temptation; and parting is still parting, but it is not depressed, but full of farewell Old fashioned, the implication of breaking out of the cocoon and rebirth.Listening to his father's performance without a trace of fireworks, and looking at the French girl's body and face on the stage, which became more and more glamorous in an instant, Ferry cleared his throat, and a child's voice as sweet as honey came out from the orchestra pit— —she has happily "succumbed" to this wonderful adaptation.

The cooperation of the three is seamless, as if the closest family members have a tacit understanding.The audience didn't quite understand what happened, but there is no doubt that the French girl's new dance code was a great success!

"It's Ferry! She sings really well!" "The teacher's violin still sounds so much like my father. Of course, my father's skills are far inferior to his..." At the other end, Gu who had returned to the box Staff and Christine spoke at the same time, and then looked at Raul who was lying drunk in the armchair.

"Go and see if you want." Raul smiled self-deprecatingly, the light in his eyes almost went out, but the breath around him softened, "Little Lottie, you are so beautiful tonight. Gustav, you too .”

Christine was surprised to hear the nickname her husband hadn't used in a long time, and now he looked like the big boy who gave her a rose every day at the Paris Opera.She looked at Gustav softly, thankful that his piano sound left her in the world - at that moment, she suddenly thought: she could accept the affection of her mentor without hesitation; but Gustav, her face A perfect son, even a descendant of ghosts, should not follow his ghosts who live in the dark—he should dance in the light and have a brighter future.

"I know, you all like music so much, it was my fault in the past - I should have known that no one can really cut the wings of the soul." Raul smelled of alcohol in his mouth, but his eyes were more serious than usual In Qingming, he looked at Christine who had not changed her dress, as if he saw the girl who amazed the audience at the Paris Opera, "I regret it very much, but let Gustave go, from now on Then your musical angel will take care of you—and you're free."

"No, you are free." Eric took Ferry's arm and walked into the box, while Meg followed behind him, burning his back with fiery eyes.

Eric looked at Gustav, the boy forced a smile at him, then looked worriedly at his parents who were in a strange atmosphere, he sighed secretly, and turned his eyes to the drunk Raul, "Forgive me for forcing you lightly Make a bet, but rather than fulfilling the bet, I think we should respect Christine's opinion more."

Before that, Christine knew nothing about the bet between the two men, but at this moment, she miraculously understood Eric's meaning, just like the countless nights before she lifted that mask The same tacit understanding.

"I will always remember your music." Christine walked to the side of the armchair, took the initiative to take Raul's arm, and bowed dignifiedly to her former mentor.She felt that Raul immediately locked her arms tightly, and the gaze she cast on her was instantly warmed with the warmth of a passionate love.

"As you wish." Eric's speech was also full of elegance and politeness. He roughly knew what Christine was thinking, but he didn't bother to argue.In any case, after all, they have comforted each other and spent their darkest time together.

"Then Mr. Y, can I come to you again in the future?" Gustav felt the subtle change in the atmosphere between his parents. Although he didn't quite understand what was going on, he immediately recovered his spirits, hugged his mother in one hand, and said earnestly ask.

"Of course, my child, the gates of Phantom Paradise are always open to you." Eric knelt down and put his hands on Gustav's shoulders. He looked at the beautiful boy and felt a sudden fulfillment in his heart. , I think your sister is very talented in singing, so from now on, she will spend at least one-third of each year in Coney Island, and I will teach her personally-when you come to Coney Island next time, Then let Ferry be your guide."

The Shaneys were not even overly surprised when they heard the news, and they immediately acquiesced in Ferry's decision-in fact, they had already been faintly aware of some similarities between Ferry and Eric, so that they had been vague about it for a long time premonition.

As a child of the Phantom, Gustav is of course smarter than the Shani family imagined.At least, after returning home from Coney Island, Ferry was basically able to handle the affairs of Shani’s family independently without letting Ferry wait until the fourth year. With the help of his father, Raul, who spent half a year bid farewell to alcohol, he had already put Ferry, who spends most of the year on Coney Island, packed his bags very simply and took root next to Eric.

The only fly in the ointment is that Meg has not yet become Mrs. Phantom, because Phantom insists that Meg's admiration for her is partly due to the fanaticism of deifying him; for this, Meg's solution is to drag Eric into a fight. Travel as soon as you say go.Before that, Ferry resolutely rejected the Phantom's invitation to go with him, but reading Meg's letters during his travels, he will be able to add a cute brother or sister when they come back.

The author has something to say: the agreed EM is EM, and, at the end of this chapter, Green Olive finally ended with difficulty, with tears in my eyesJPG