ray of light cafe

It was getting dark and the sound of the rain was getting quieter.

In the cafe, the lighting is warm and soft, and the interior atmosphere is quiet.

Tao Fu exited the song meeting video and opened another video, Xi You sang the original song "Autumn Wind Ci" in a variety show on a satellite TV.

It is still an ancient style song, but because the lyrics were written by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it is very magnificent. It became the theme song of the TV program promoting the civilization of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and it quickly spread across the Internet, making Xi You go from a two-dimensional niche to a popular one. In the eyes of three-dimensional mainstream audiences.

On the exquisite stage, surrounded by white mist, Xi You has a handsome face and is dressed in an ancient costume.

Xi You picked up the microphone, smiled at the camera, and sang, calmly and confidently, as if he had done these things countless times, as if he was born to belong to the stage.

Tao Fu has never watched this show before, but this TV station is one of the best in China, especially its variety shows, which have never been unpopular.

In the related videos shown after the show, there are many Xi You singing other songs, and they are also this station, and they have obviously become its regular customers.

"He's very popular now." Tao Fu said looking at the unprecedented number of bullet screens and comments.

"Well, the cover singer has made it this far and is very successful." Lian Shen glanced at Tao Fu and smiled.

"No one mentioned you in his video." Tao Fu saw that many fans in the comments said they were newcomers, and then they all made various fancy confessions to Xi You.Unlike the previous videos, no matter what Xi You sang, someone would always circle Lian Shen.

Xi You has indeed been adding new fans since he became popular on a cover website to a well-known TV station.Old fans for many years know that Lian Shen used to be Xi You's best-connected insider, but new fans don't even know about Lian Shen's existence.

Over the past few years, Xi You is still active, and his songs and Weibo have been posted, but the number of people who mentioned Lian Shen in the comments has become less and less, and it has almost disappeared.

"I haven't sung for more than two years, it's normal to be forgotten." Lian Shen looked down at his hands clasped on the table, and said calmly.

"Ah? Why didn't you sing anymore?" Tao Fu was scrolling through Lian Shen's cover homepage with his mobile phone, looking at the comments under his last song "Afternoon" released on October 2015, 10, "There are still people giving You leave a message, saying - such a good tone, it's a pity not to sing."

Lian Shen raised his eyes to look at the Tao Fu, and said, "Because I'm working after graduation, my life will eventually return to the third dimension."

Moreover, he is not as serious as Xi You who regards singing as a career, so he has no way to manage the relationship with fans and other singers. After disappearing silently, he doesn't even have any friends who can continue to keep in touch.

"But... a lot of people like you, and some people come to leave messages for you every morning, noon and night." Tao Fu flipped through the homepage that Lian Shen had stopped updating, and said regretfully.

"They will fall in love with others again," Lian Shen looked sideways at the night sky outside the window and smiled slightly, "There are too many nice voices."

"Ugh."

Tao Fu sighed, lowered his head and looked a little frustrated. After sighing, he suddenly put down his phone and stood up from the sofa.

"It's closing time?" Lian Shen was startled and asked him up.

"I'll go—refill your drink! It's free!" Tao Fu cheered up and raised his voice.After speaking, he picked up the coffee Lian Shen quickly drank on the table, left his seat and walked to the bar.

Lian Shen looked at Tao Fu's back, smiled and said, "Thank you."

After not watching the video and not talking, the room was too quiet, Tao Fu opened the playlist first, clicked to continue playing, and then went to operate the coffee machine.

While pouring the coffee beans, Tao Fu looked at Lian Shen across the bar, and the latter looked out the window with his chin on his hands, smiling, very calm.

Tao Fu was suddenly in a trance, as if he could see something in front of his eyes. Two years ago, in a certain place, Xi You was talking and laughing heartlessly in the crowd, while Lian Shen stood beside him and accompanied him silently, just as calm as now smiling.

Sensing Tao Fu's gaze, Lian Shen looked towards him and smiled at him.

The music in the store continued to the next song, Lian Shen recognized the song as soon as it came out, it was Xi You's cover, "One Pedestrian Walker".

Lian Shen subconsciously turned his head to look at the source of the sound - the phonograph on the wooden cabinet in the corner. Looking at it, he showed the same dazed expression as the pottery talisman just now...

He remembered that a long time ago, one day, Xi You called him, and he picked it up in a good mood, but he heard Xi You's voice flustered like never before, telling him incoherently that his father watched their performance video online, and was scared by the bullet screen. Infarction, it was a real myocardial infarction. The old man was not in good health, so he was sent to the hospital by ambulance. Even my grandma in the countryside in her 80s was alarmed...

Then he remembered that he had deliberately started a live voice broadcast later, with a voice that was three-point deliberately relaxed and seven-point nervously serious, explaining to all fans——

"Well... there is a rumor, I want to clarify."

"Xi You and I... are really just friends."

"Don't you want to drink?" Tao Fu put the steaming coffee in front of Lian Shen, but saw him staring at the phonograph in a daze.

"Huh?" Lian Shen turned around, smiled at Tao Fu, and stood up, "Wait a minute."

In the corner, on the woven carpet next to the floor lamp stood a white acoustic guitar. Because few people used it, it was a little dusty, and it changed from a musical instrument to a decoration.

"It's a very good piano." Lian Shen walked to the front of the guitar, looked it over carefully and sighed in a low voice.

"Hey, you will?" Tao Fu put down his coffee and followed him.

"May I borrow it?" Lian Shen said to Tao Talisman.

"You want to sing?" Tao Fu's eyes lit up instantly, and his voice was full of expectation.

"Hmm... Do you want to hear me sing that song just now?" Lian Shen nodded and asked with a smile.

"Think!" Tao Fu nodded vigorously, "Wait a minute." After speaking, he ran to the back of the bar, picked up his mobile phone and paused the music that was already playing the next song, and then took out a white clean soft towel from the cabinet, Quickly ran back to clean the guitar.

1 minute later.

Lian Shen sat on the sofa by the window with his guitar in his arms, took a deep breath, plucked the strings with his fingers, and sang "A Walker Alone".

3 minute later.

"End?"

"It's over."

The singing and the guitar stopped one after the other, and Tao Fu, who was listening so engrossed, hadn't reacted yet. Why did the song finish so quickly? Time flies so fast, I didn't listen enough.

"Can I sing another song?" Tao Fu looked at Lian Shen with pleading eyes.

"Sing one more song!" Before Lian Shen could speak, a clear and clear child's voice suddenly came from afar.

Tao Fu turned his head, looked through the glass window and followed the sound to the entrance of the small courtyard under the street lamp, surrounded by a few little girls in blue and white school uniforms, all looking at Lian Shen with joy and excitement.

"Sing one more song!" Tao Fu also turned to look at Lian Shen, and said to him with a bright smile.

"Okay." Lian Shen looked at the pottery talisman in front of him, then at the little girls, nodded with a smile, and plucked the strings with his fingers again.

The singing sounded, it was in Cantonese, "Death will never change".

Cantonese is amazing. When it suddenly appears in many Mandarin, it can have a sexy or critical effect on the audience who is caught off guard.

When Tao Fu thought so, Lian Shen had already finished singing and was looking at him with a smile.

Lian Shen put down the guitar on the sofa next to him, and said to Tao Fu, "I don't know what songs are popular recently."

Tao Fu was immersed in Lian Shen's deep and affectionate singing and couldn't get out, he was stunned for ten seconds before he tentatively said, "One more song?"

Lian Shen smiled and stood up, "I'm not coming, it's time to go."

"Okay, I'll see you off." Tao Fu glanced at the sky, it was already dark, and a few stars lit up in the night sky after the rain.Looking at the old-fashioned wall clock on the wall again, the time is almost eight o'clock.

In the alley after the rain, the street lamps illuminate the puddles, and the stars are reflected in the puddles. The air is fresh and has the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus.

Lian Shen left the Cafe of Light and walked slowly along the alley after the rain.

"Goodbye, Mr. Lian!" Tao Fu stood at the gate of the courtyard, looking at his back reluctantly, and raised his voice.

"Goodbye." Lian Shen waved his back to him.

After half a minute.

Tao Fu trotted to catch up with Lian Shen, and stopped him panting, "Wait, wait a minute."

"What's wrong?" Lian Shen stopped and asked in confusion.

"Well, I saw that Xi You has a meeting in Guangzhou tonight, at 09:30—" Tao Fu raised his mobile phone, showed Lian Shen the Weibo he just swiped, and said in a breath.

Lian Shen was startled, then lightly stroked the hair of the little boy in front of him, "Thank you."

Tao Fu didn't care about this sudden intimate gesture, and hurriedly finished his sentence: "From 09:30——"

Lian Shen withdrew his hand and smiled a little lonely: "I know."

Tao Fu calmed down all of a sudden, and swallowed the "You still have time to go now" that he didn't say just now, and another sentence came to his mind: You know, but you won't go, why?

Lian Shen left.

Tao Fu didn't move, he was still standing beside the osmanthus tree under the street lamp.

He looked down at a Weibo post on his phone in a daze——

Xi You: Girlfriend's bag, I can't complain.

The accompanying picture shows a furry bag in the shape of a grinning monster, photographed on his lap.

why?He knows.