【New Red Mansion】Perfect World

Then they sang another song called "Shuai La Shuai La", which was still adapted by their band into a pure Funk style:

Get ready to go

You can't wander

That place of self-pity

Tomorrow's road is still long

Don't let your heart...

Throw away all the memories...

The audience danced along, and some even sang along:

“Swing, swing, swing…”

Shi Xiangyun was wearing a milk tea-colored suede suit today, with tassels on the sleeves and trouser legs. Her hair was braided into many small braids with colorful rubber bands and was left loose. She also wore a cowboy hat, making her look lively, playful and handsome.

She swayed her body to the music, driving the atmosphere of the audience. After the first chorus, Wei Ting performed a long extended solo with the sound of the trumpet, which sounded particularly party-like. There were constant screams and cheers from the audience.

Lin Pin'er had changed back into her own clothes and was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window on the third floor watching Xiangyun's performance.

"You don't look nervous, do you?" Teacher Nie asked after taking a sip of red wine.

"Nervous. I'm nervous before every performance. But the strange thing is: once I'm on stage, I forget about being nervous. And then my heart starts beating really fast."

Teacher Nie smiled and said, "Good, you have learned how to summarize your experience. When you are no longer nervous, you will have grown up. You should learn to use other things to relieve your nervousness, such as looking at the other person affectionately, or looking into the distance. These can help you relieve your nervousness. Once you are immersed in it, you will forget about the nervousness."

Lin Pin'er listened carefully to Teacher Nie's words, and then nodded slightly.

"Also, thank you for your gift and postcard. I haven't received a postcard in a long time. It's a thoughtful and special gift." After saying this, Teacher Nie turned and sat down on the sofa.

Grandmother Jia watched Xiangyun's performance attentively from the side, while Lin Pin'er leaned closer to her grandmother.

"Yun'er is like a star now, and her singing skills are improving so fast." Lin Pin'er couldn't help but say to her grandmother while clapping.

"You are all great!" Jia's grandmother praised.

Madam Li also nodded in praise.

After Xiangyun left the stage, Madam Li ordered the speakers to be turned down, and everyone gathered on the sofa to chat: "We are old, and we can only listen to two songs of such loud music. But they were all sung very well."

Then he turned to Professor Yue and said, "How are the students I found for you?"

"It's very good. I'm in the top ten in the Beijing Art Examination. As soon as the results were announced, my phone was almost blown up with calls. People asked me to give the place to them if the Central Conservatory of Music didn't recruit them. That's a nice thought. My students will definitely follow me, right?" At the end he turned to Lin Pin'er and asked.

"That's for sure. I told you when I became your disciple: I must bring honor to our school." Lin Pin'er quickly expressed her opinion. Those sitting in this circle were either her elders or her teachers, and all of them were little kids. They looked kind on the surface, but they were actually quite jealous in secret.

Teacher Nie also spoke up: "I also contributed half of the unified examination. I learned the sight-singing and ear-training skills bit by bit."

Madam Li immediately disagreed after hearing this, "I was teaching these two children how to sight-sing and ear-training. So if you say so, I should also take one third of the credit."

The three old kids really started arguing. Professor Chen laughed secretly and didn't interrupt them to avoid hurting himself. Finally, Li Shuirong came and changed the topic.

*

In the blink of an eye, it’s March, and it’s Li Shuirong’s birthday.

Lin Pin'er got up early to make a birthday cake for Shui Rong. His birthday happened to be on a weekend. She first mixed the cake batter according to the proportions on the recipe and then put it in the oven.

Then use fresh blueberries to make jam. Lin Pin'er needs the blue color of the blueberry jam to mix the buttercream. Li Shuirong likes blue, so she plans to make a blue and white cake.

The final color was still purple and could not be used. Zijuan came up with a good idea, soaking black wolfberry in water and filtering it, and finally got the blue color that Lin Pin'er needed.

After the cake is baked, it is turned upside down to cool, so that it can be easily removed from the mold. Yuanyang taught her that she should also observe it from time to time when removing it from the mold to prevent the cake from deforming.

Overall it was quite successful. It was a light blue cake with blueberry jam on it and a few simple words written on it: Happy Birthday!

After it was done, it was put into a transparent cake box and tied with a light blue ribbon. Then Lin Pin'er quickly changed her clothes and got dressed. The car had already arrived at the gate of the garden to pick her up.

Li Shuirong’s birthday party was held in his second brother’s hotel, the same private room where they had dinner and played mahjong with Tina last time, so Lin Pin’er also knew the way.

She arrived relatively early, Jiang Yuhan and Feng Ziying had also arrived.

After a while, footsteps were heard outside. Li Shuirong and Li Hanlan came in with Madam Li, followed by Wei Ruolan and Jia Baoyu.

Li Shuirong is wearing a light pink suit designed by Lin Pin'er today, with single-breasted buttons and peaked lapels, and a white one-piece collar shirt underneath. He looks fresh and elegant.

The left collar of the suit is designed with a simple floral embroidery of the English letter R, which means "melt".

Before Li Shuirong sat down, they began to rush to give him gifts. Lin Pin'er just watched them quietly from the side. When everyone was seated: Old Madam Li sat in the main seat, Li Hanlan sat on her right, Li Shuirong sat on her left, and beside them were Lin Pin'er, Jia Baoyu, Wei Ruolan and others who sat down in order.

After Li Shuirong sat down, he pestered Lin Pin'er and asked, "Where are my other birthday presents?"

Lin Pin'er pointed at the cake on the table: "The suit is not a gift? Isn't this cake a gift?"

"What else? What did you promise me?"

Lin Pin'er smiled and said, "I've never seen anyone like you who even specifies a gift." After saying that, she took out an exquisite little box from her bag and handed it to Li Shuirong.

When Li Shuirong opened it, he found not only an exquisite USB flash drive inside, but also a Mickey Mouse head-shaped lock necklace.

Li Shuirong happily hung the necklace around her neck first, while Lin Pin'er used a thick H-shaped chain to neutralize the childishness of the Mickey Mouse head, and paired it with a white shirt, it looked quite handsome.

Then he started fiddling with the USB flash drive and found that it was a multi-port USB flash drive that could be connected to a mobile phone, so he immediately plugged it into his own phone.

At this moment, Li Haoze came in and sat down near the door, with Jiang Yuhan sitting next to him.

"Oh, third brother, this suit is nice." He was in a rare good mood today, and as soon as he came in, he took a fancy to Li Shuirong's suit.

"Don't even think about it. It's not available for sale outside." Li Shuirong didn't even look up and continued to fiddle with his phone.

Li Haoze saw everyone's smiling eyes and realized, "Is this custom-made by my sister-in-law again?"

Madam Li then smiled and said, "You should learn from your brother and find a girlfriend as soon as possible."

Li Haoze listened but didn't respond. Instead, he told the waiter to serve the food.

After fiddling with his phone for a while, Li Shuirong looked up and asked Li Haoze, "Second brother, can the TV in the box be projected?"

"Sure, what do you want to watch?" Then he called the waiter to adjust the TV.

Lin Pin'er gently pulled the corner of Li Shuirong's clothes: "You don't want to watch here, do you?"

"Well, I just took a quick look. There's nothing that can't be shown to them. Let them listen to the new song and treat it as a promotion."

Lin Pin'er didn't believe his nonsense. What kind of promotion was this? Professor Chen said that we couldn't show the album to others before it was released. Besides, it would be embarrassing to show them what I said.

Just as I was thinking about it, the video had already started playing on the screen over there.

The first thing that caught my eye was Lin Pin'er's hands, gently playing the piano, and then she spoke:

"You took me to see the sunrise during this trip. Although I didn't record it, the image is imprinted in my mind, which is the inspiration for this song. I dedicate this song written for you to you: Shui Rong, happy birthday to you! I'm glad to meet you!"

Then the main theme sounded, and Lin Pin'er sang the song she wrote on the plane. The scene began to change, first showing some images of Li Shuirong when he was shooting an advertisement, and then the trip to Hong Kong, and the images of Shuirong from Lin Pin'er's perspective. In her eyes, Shuirong was sunny, handsome, gentle and warm.

Lin Pin'er was glad that she was not on camera and only patted her hands playing the piano. She then observed everyone's expressions and found that no one was laughing at her, so she felt relieved.

The song ended and the video ended. Everyone applauded:

“The new song is good, nice to listen to.”

"Is it just the new song that's good? Don't you feel anything?"