When a story is based on a true event, the meaning of tragedy becomes stronger. The Taste of Plum Chicken is a picture book by Marga Shatapi that tells the real life of her uncle.
The story begins with the violinist Nasser breaking his violin, and he goes to the store to buy a violin, but is not satisfied with the violin of the store, and scolds the other party as a liar. He heard from his brother that there was a man who sold violins used by Mozart, so he traveled a long distance to find it and spent all his savings. The next day, he got his haircut, put on new clothes, and sent the kids to a neighbor's house... All the sense of ceremony was done, and he was ready to play the violin, and then he did not know whether it was still bad or because he suddenly understood that no good violin was as good as the old one that had been broken. He looked at the broken violin with heartache, thought about how his wife had broken him, and so, all thoughts were gray, he said that he could not live, so he decided to lie on the bed and die quietly. Eight days later, he did die.
The story begins to revolve around his death, with each day something different happening, and with each day the story of the violinist Nasser unfolds.
He was born into a relatively wealthy family, but he was called a "bad breed" from an early age, and his younger brother was always the one who made his parents proud. He loved the violin, so he studied with teachers everywhere, and there he met a master. The master said that his level is garbage, not in skill, but in his emotions, nothing to grasp.
He sat decadently on a street corner. At this time, a pair of women's legs flashed from his sight, and he felt that his heart had been taken away, and he followed. The woman walked into a watch shop, and it turned out that she was the daughter of the watch shop. He followed him into the watch shop and looked at the woman with a smile and was fascinated. The woman's name was Ylang, and he finally knew his name.
He bought the clock and every time he tried to find a way to break it and go to the store to repair it, expecting to meet Ylang Ylang. Sure enough, they met again, and he plucked up the courage to introduce himself, so gradually, they fell in love. Unfortunately, such a precious love was opposed by Yilan's father, and Yilan had to leave him, and she could not let her father break his heart. But his heart was broken. Heartbroken, he played the violin in front of the master, and the master said that you would become the best violinist in the world, and gave him a violin. The master said that the love between Ylang and you will accompany this violin and will be immortal forever.
Ilan got married, while violinist Nasser traveled around the world, and at the concert, his music brought countless people to tears. And that violin, like Ylang-ylang, accompanies him all the time.
After 20 years, he returned to his hometown, and under the arrangement of his parents, he married the girl who had a crush on him since childhood. The girl loved him so much that she waited quietly for herself to grow up, and then waited for herself to become an older leftover woman, and she stubbornly waited for the man to come back. He finally returned, and though he still didn't love her, she loved him. She is good at making plum chicken, and every time she sees her husband eat happily, she thinks she is one step closer to love.
Unfortunately, he still didn't love her, and that's a fact that time can't change.
His wife bore him 2 children, had to earn money to support the family, and also ran the housework, and the life of not being loved tormented this former girl. And he spends his days with the violin, which contains his love for Ylang Ylang. One day he was still at home pulling the mournful song, and her wife hid outside and listened to it with tears in her eyes, and she understood that he loved someone else, and that many years had passed, and he had never loved her. Disappointed, she spoke out her years of resentment and broke the piano. Perhaps when she was a young girl, she could not have imagined that she would become a crazy resentful woman by marrying him.
And the violinist lost the desire to live because of the broken violin.
How will I respond when I meet again over the years, either in mourning or in silence. - Byron, "Spring Death"
Years later, the violinist met Ylang Ylang, who had become a grandmother. He recognized her, called out to her, and said, "Ylang? Don't you remember me? He took off his hat. The woman looked at him and said, I'm sorry, I really don't remember seeing you. He said, oh, maybe you're not the one I'm looking for.
Turning the corner, the woman leaned against the wall in pain, and she said "I love you, my Nasser".
And the man fell in place, lost his soul.
This is a true story. Just like the people we meet in our lives. Some people look the same on the surface as usual, but their hearts have been broken, and what is glued together is the steel that is getting harder and harder, and they can no longer feel a trace of heat and cold. Those who fall in love with him, trying to gain something through time, can only harvest disappointment in the end.
Even the delicious plum chicken could not save his broken heart.
It turns out that losing someone will really ruin a lifetime. Time seems to be able to heal trauma and destroy everything, but in the face of some love, it seems that there is really nothing that can be done.