ray of light cafe

During dinner, Yin Qi sat between Qi Ling and Yin's mother, Lian Shen sat opposite him, and Lian's mother sat opposite Yin's mother.It was Lian's mother's arrangement to take care of Yin Qi, but in this way, Qi Ling sat the farthest by herself.

Not long ago, when Qi Ling went to the bathroom and returned to the living room, she was surprised to see Yin Qi chatting happily with her brother. It was the first time they met, but they seemed to have known each other for a long time.However, before she opened her mouth to ask them, they restrained their expressions the moment they noticed her appearance, looked back at each other, and then turned to look at the TV screen on the wall at the same time, admiring the broadcast inside. Laundry detergent ad.

Except for the sound of TV commercials, the living room was silent, and there were obviously three people.But soon, after almost ten seconds, Lian Mama called the three of them to eat.

On the way from the living room to the dining room, Qi Ling looked suspicious, looked at her brother and Yin Qi from the corner of her eye, always felt that something was wrong.

During dinner, Qi Ling also kept an eye on Yin Qi.He noticed that when the two mothers said something funny and laughed, he would subconsciously raise his eyes and smile at the opposite brother.And the elder brother's eyes met with him, and he either looked at him helplessly, or moved away pretending not to see.

It really doesn't seem right.

Mother Yin noticed that Qi Ling was holding a bowl of white rice and didn't eat much, but looked at Yin Qi from time to time, feeling very happy, she stretched out her hand and gently patted the back of Mother Lian's hand, and motioned her to look with her eyes.Even my mother immediately understood and smiled when she saw it.

Afterwards, Mother Yin coughed lightly, nudged Yin Qi with her elbow, looked at the dishes on the table and said, "Did Lingling eat the sweet and sour short ribs made by Auntie? Do you still like it?"

Lian's mother immediately interjected: "She hasn't eaten yet, it's too far away to catch it."

Hearing what the two mothers said, Qi Ling raised her head unexpectedly.At this time, Yin Qi, who finally understood under Yin's mother's elbow and wink attack, instinctively looked at Lian Shen on the opposite side again.It happened to be seen by Qi Ling who raised his head again.

Yin Qi picked up a spare rib and put it on top of the rice in Qiling's bowl, pretending to smile courteously, and said to her, "Whatever you want to eat, I'll help you pick it up."

Qi Ling gave him a strange look, put the ribs back to him, and said in a cold voice, "No, I don't like others to bring me vegetables."

Even my mother couldn't understand. After a moment of stunned, she saw Yin's mother's face changed, and quickly changed the subject and said, "Dad won't go home tonight, and Aunt Yin will stay here to chat with mother and then sleep together. Lingling, you are fine after dinner." If so, you can send Yin Qi home first, and the two of you can take a walk nearby."

"No," Qi Ling looked at her mother and replied coldly, "I have something to do."

Lian's mother was a little angry, she looked at her daughter with sullen eyes, and turned to look at the embarrassed Yin Qi with apologetic eyes, and her voice became serious, "Then Ah Shen will send it to you."

Lian Shen, who was suddenly called, put down his soup bowl, glanced at his sister and mother who were in a stalemate, and immediately replied, "Okay."

"Well, let's eat vegetables and eat vegetables." Lian's mother nodded in satisfaction and returned to her smiling face.

Qi Ling glanced at Yin Qi, and found that his eyes, who were still embarrassed just now, lit up, and their eyes shone brightly, as if scratching the lottery ticket and seeing a child who won the lottery.

"I'm done." Yin Qi put down the bowl with no rice left, and said to the two mothers with a smile.

"Yeah." Lian's mother smiled and nodded, looking at Lian Shen.

"I've finished eating too." Lian Shen also put down the empty soup bowl and said to Yin Qi, "Let's go."

Yin Qi neatly arranged the bowls and chopsticks. After getting up, he gently pushed the opened chair back and put it away.Even Mom was very happy with it.Qi Ling saw the unconcealable smile from the side of his face, as if he was about to go out on a date, his heart was jumping with joy but he tried his best to keep calm.

This recognition made Qi Ling feel bad, and suddenly the alarm bells rang in his heart, regretting that he refused to send him off, but it was too late to change his words, so he could only watch him drag Lian Shen out.

After going out and down the stairs, Yin Qi sighed and laughed at himself: "Well, your sister really doesn't like me."

"Qi Ling, she..." Lian Shen walked behind him, hesitant when he heard the words, "The character is a bit willful, so I didn't intend to target you."

"It's aimed at everyone around you." Yin Qi turned on the corridor lights and said in a nonchalant tone: "Your sister hated me when she was a child. At that time, I went to your house to play with you, and she always said that you were not here." , when she saw me taking you away, she was still staring at me from behind."

"There is such a thing?" Lian Shen was a little surprised, he couldn't remember what Yin Qi said.

The two walked out of the community and arrived at a nearby small road. The street lights were lit up one by one at night, and the small shops on both sides of the road were bustling with business.

"Don't you remember?" Yin Qi stopped in front of a time-honored convenience store and stared at the stationery rack in the glass window, "I was in the first grade of primary school at that time, and I was a student in your mother's class, because my parents often When I’m not at home, I often go to your house for dinner. After dinner, you help me with my homework... Another time I suddenly wanted to play backgammon, and you accompanied me to buy it here, but found that it was sold out, so we had to spend the night together. Picking up stones in the grass under the banyan tree...do you not remember this?"

Lian Shen looked at the window with his gaze, thought for a while, but really couldn't remember, "Sorry."

"Hey, it's okay, it's okay." Yin Qi looked away, took a deep breath, and pretended to smile relaxedly, "Your mother is an elementary school teacher, and your father is a university teacher. There are always many children and old friends in the family. It's normal if you can't remember."

"Besides, my parents divorced not long ago, and my mother went to the United States. I moved away with my father, and even changed schools, and never came back." Yin Qi looked at Lian Shen under the streetlight, with a faint smile on his face. Yes, looking a little lonely, "Actually, I also forgot. After my mother and Teacher Qi told me, I tried hard to remember it for a long time."

"Yeah." Lian Shen looked at him, his eyes were a little moved, and his voice was soft.

"By the way, my mother looks very young, right? She went abroad to become a fashion designer. Later, I was influenced by her, and I also studied fashion design. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts last year, I opened my own shop, which is nearby." Yin Yin Qi blinked and changed the subject, "What about you? What are you doing now? Singing?"

"No." Lian Shen laughed and shook his head lightly, "I majored in communication and design in college. I graduated three years ago and now work in a magazine."

"Ah, is it also a design?" Yin Qi exclaimed happily, and looked at Lian Shen's whole body seriously, "Then we are considered colleagues, no wonder your taste is as good as mine."

Lian Shen looked at him and smiled, his eyes were happy and his expression was relaxed.No one is one day ahead. At this moment, they are like countless other long-lost old friends in the world. They recall the past, chat about the present, and then become friends again.

After becoming friends, wechat added it, and we made a meal appointment.After all, Yin Qi didn't do anything over the top, so Lian Shen had no reason to refuse others.

One day soon.

When Lian Shen came home from get off work and went to take a shower, he left his phone on the coffee table in the living room.

Hearing the noise, Qi Ling came out of the room, sat down on the sofa while wiping her freshly washed hair, saw Lian Shen's cell phone on the table, and picked it up naturally.Lian Shen doesn't use her mobile phone much and doesn't have a combination lock, so she doesn't mind her borrowing it.

At night, the home is lit with warm floor lamps, and a relaxed and funny series is playing on the TV.Qi Ling lay lazily on the sofa, holding Lian Shen's mobile phone with both hands to look through his photo albums, most of them were photos taken at work, as well as clouds, trees and cats by the roadside.But just looking at these ordinary daily photos, Qi Ling also raised the corners of her mouth in a happy mood.

However, after a while, Qi Ling's fingers swipe across the photo suddenly stopped, and his gaze on the photo also froze, the smile on his face disappeared in an instant, and his expression became cold and gloomy.

She stared at the girl with long hair and big eyes in the photo, who showed two dimples when she smiled. She stared at her for a long time without blinking, her expression changed from surprise to hesitation to comprehension.She recognized that it was Yin Qi in women's clothing, and she was sure that the long hair was real hair. After the shock and disbelief passed, she gripped the phone tightly, calmed herself down for a few seconds, then exited the photo album and put the phone back. on the coffee table.

At this time, a WeChat notification sounded.

Qi Ling immediately picked up the phone again, and saw that the message was sent by Yin Qi, before his brain had time to think, he opened the chat box with his fingers.

Yin Qi first sent a photo, in which was a light gray straight-collar double-breasted coat hanging on a white wall.

Then he said: I made a dress, does it look good, does it suit you?

There was an inexplicable surge of anger in Qi Ling's heart. She suppressed the anger and typed the reply in a Lian Shen tone: send me?

Yin Qi replied in seconds: Yes, are you moved?

Qi Ling also quickly replied: Why do you make clothes for me?

It took half a minute for Yin Qi to reply: I like you. [Smile]

Qi Ling's fingers trembled a little: Which one do you like?

It took another half a minute for Yin Qi to return, just an ellipsis: ...

After the ellipsis is over, it shows that it is inputting again, and it is still inputting after one or two minutes.

Qi Ling sat up straight, became a little nervous, and replied:?

Then Yin Qi finally finished typing, and sent a sentence: You are not yourself, are you?Who is it?Qi Ling?

~

It was Qi Ling's turn to reply to the ellipsis: ...

Yin Qi: Does your brother know that you use his mobile phone to reply messages on his behalf?

Qi Ling had emotional ups and downs, trying to calm down: Will you tell him?

Yin Qi: It's not the first time, do you think he can't guess?

Qi Ling: But he never said anything about me.

Yin Qi: Do you think he is stupid, or do you think he doesn't understand you well enough?He didn't say it because you could save him a lot of trouble.

Qi Ling: Why do you say that?

Yin Qi: According to my male intuition.

Qi Ling: Heh, gay intuition.

After sending this sentence, Yin Qi fell silent, Qi Ling raised one corner of his mouth and smiled, his mood improved, and he continued to chat with him with great interest, asking: Do you want to chase my brother?Do you want me to help you?

Yin Qi: ... Do you think I'm stupid enough to believe you?

Qi Ling: It's good for you to believe it.

Yin Qi: For example?

Qi Ling sent a web link.

Yin Qi opened it suspiciously. It was a music website with a play page for a song: Lian Shen & Xi You "Princes and Generals", which was released in 2014.

Yin Qi's heart tightened, he put on the earphones, clicked play, and listened.When the prelude came out, there was a burst of drums and melodious flute.Oh, Gufengge, it's very grand.

Then, as soon as the male voice sang low and slightly hoarse, Yin Qi's ears immediately perked up.

That smoky and wine-stained voice, when singing those tragic and majestic lyrics, seemed to be suppressing deep and violent emotions and pretending to be calm.The climax of the chorus part is passionate but not noisy, with a long aftertaste.

Moreover, this person's articulation, final sound, and even every breath have a very personal style, which is a kind of cold and indifferent seriousness.

It happens to be the most attractive.

Even though the way this song is sung is far from the casual, low-pitched "Flirting" that was sung in the restaurant before, Yin Qi recognized Lian Shen immediately.

As soon as Lian Shen's voice came out, Yin Qi's heart trembled, and when he recalled his focused posture when he sang in his memory, he was powerless to resist... His heart was surging.

After one play, the music stops by itself.

The new WeChat notification tone drew Yin Qi's attention back.

Qi Ling: Does it sound good?

Yin Qi: Fortunately, I am not very interested in Gufengge.

Qi Ling: Do you match with my brother?

Yin Qi: Huh?

Qi Ling: I'm talking about the opera accent.

Yin Qi was taken aback, and looked at the title of the song again, only to remember that there seemed to be a few times a soprano in the song, very ethereal, very clear, very nice... But, Xi You?

Yin Qi: Xi You?

Qi Ling: He is a man. [Smile]

Yin Qi was stunned in surprise, and before he could react, he saw Qi Ling send another web link.

Click to open, it is Xi You's musician homepage.The avatar is a manga boy with winking eyes and a male gender. He has released 173 songs, most of which are cover songs, and there are more than 50 original songs.With V certification, 125 million fans.The latest update was three days ago.Pull down the list of songs, from 2013 to 2018 there have been songs released without interruption.

Yin Qi is still using this music website for the first time, and he is very unfamiliar. He has no idea or interest in the songs that Xi You sang before and the collaborators written in his song titles. Just an ordinary sunny boy.

Yin Qi continued to scroll down the webpage with no fluctuations in his heart, until he saw the song "Wang Hou Jiang Xiang" a few years ago, and when he saw Lian Shen's name appear, he clicked in.

The song was still the same song, Yin Qi was able to calm down after listening to it for the second time, but those comments under the song... please get along?Looking for a fit?Seeking compound?Favorite CP?

Yin Qi was stunned, and didn't quite understand what was going on. Maybe it was an Internet singer who sang together and then became a netizen, and the two of them were liked by fans together?

Qi Ling sent another message: You are not interested in Gufengge, are you?

Yin Qi: Yes.

Qi Ling: So you like being popular? [cute]

Yin Qi: Well, what?

Qi Ling sent another web link.

Yin Qi saw that the name of the webpage was Lian Shen's musician's homepage, and immediately wanted to click on it, but was stopped by another new message from Qi Ling.

Qi Ling: My brother sang "Undercurrent" for him.

Yin Qi was startled, his hand lost feeling, and he typed numbly: What do you mean?

Qi Ling: You understand. [wink]

Yin Qi looked at that annoying bald head with a blinking yellow face, feeling very depressed, and didn't reply for a long time.

Qi Ling went on to say: But you are quite similar to him, so maybe there is a chance.

Yin Qi was speechless: Like?

Qi Ling: Isn't it like?You can fake it.

Yin Qi choked, and began to recall what his voice was like.

Qi Ling said again: Brother is coming out, I won't chat with you anymore, you can go and listen to the music slowly, absolute voice control benefits, don't thank me too much~

At night, the light is dim.

Yin Qi was alone in the bedroom, lying on the bed, looking sideways out of the window, it was raining heavily outside the window.

He listened to the song with headphones on, turning the volume up and up.

The crashing rain covered everything, and the music in the earphones pierced through the eardrums covered the rain again——

"I'm afraid that the tragedy will repeat itself, my fate is a hit, the more beautiful something is, the less I can touch it..."

The slow prelude of Damien's version is soft and psychedelic, warm and sad.

The voice of the male singer came out, low and hoarse.Every word is clear, melancholy and emotional, hesitant to speak, ambiguous, decadent and blurred.It was a sound like strong wine, which could make people so hot that their eyes were hot, and they were so drunk that they forgot themselves.

After one song, I can't listen enough, repeat it, the more I listen to it, the more tempted I am, and finally I am addicted to it, I can't stop, I can't get out.

It is "Undercurrent" sung by Lian Shen.

Published March 2013, 3.

Looking at the comments again, the latest one was published in September 2017. A netizen wrote a long paragraph with true feelings——

"I love it and hate it. Love your voice, singing voice, laughing voice, even coughing voice. It sounds so good, it makes people lose their minds, no matter how good-looking you are, I want to marry you. Hate yourself After realizing it, I found you so late, and missed the years when you were here, and now, I may not have the chance to know you again."

Another netizen responded enthusiastically: "Another rival in love... But Brother Lian is very good-looking! Dear friends, you can go to his Weibo to see photos! He is so handsome that he doesn't look like a serious singing QAQ."

Yin Qi was a little moved. Compared with others, he found that he was very lucky, so he smiled.Halfway through laughing, with a thought, he exited Lian Shen's homepage like a ghost, and opened Xi You's.

After opening it and scrolling down, I saw with a premonition that on April 2013, 4, he also released a song "Undercurrent", click on it, the Mandarin version.

Coincidentally, "Undercurrent" is almost Yin Qi's favorite song.

So nice and so deep.Needless to say, the Cantonese version is not inferior to the Mandarin version.

They are all Lin Xi's words, and they are written to a person he can't love.Every word and every sentence was sincere and unresponsive, and it was sung by that person later, which was so touching.

This is a song with a lot of story and meaning.

Lian Shen released the Cantonese version the day before, and Xi You released the Mandarin version the day after. What does that mean?

Yin Qi was suddenly sad.

A Friday afternoon, around five o'clock, the rush hour for get off work.

The weather was clear and the sun was as bright as noon.

Near the subway station, Yin Qi sat on a bench under a bauhinia tree, listening to music with headphones on.The single repeats Xi You's "Undercurrent". Every time I hear "Are you not like the one I loved", my heart skips a beat, but I can't stop like masochistic.

After a while, Lian Shen came out from the subway entrance, and saw him in a white dress with long hair, sitting quietly on a bench alone, holding a mobile phone on his lap with both hands, listening to music with earphones on, slightly Head bowed, looking lonely.

Lian Shen walked up to him and asked with a smile, "Have you been waiting for a long time?"

Yin Qi was startled, and quickly took off the earphones, "It's okay, it's okay."

Yin Qi made an appointment with Lian Shen for dinner, saying that he had something to ask him.The two went to a tea restaurant together.Looking at the back, it looks like a couple.

The selected store was a little far from the subway station, and on the way there, Yin Qi didn't chat with Lian Shen as soon as he saw him in the past, but remained silent as if he had something on his mind.

Lian Shen is not a talkative person, so he didn't take the initiative to say anything. After a while, when he took out the cigarette case in his jacket pocket, he asked him, "Do you mind?"

Yin Qi looked at him when he heard the words, and smelled a faint smell of tobacco, but he didn't show any disgusted expression, but smiled slightly and shook his head lightly.

Lian Shen smiled, took out a cigarette, and when he was about to smoke it, he missed the lighter. Thinking that he might have forgotten it behind the company, he was startled, sighed lightly, and asked Yin Qi: "Do you have a fire?"

Yin Qi seemed to be wandering, and was taken aback when he heard this: "What?"

"Forget it." Lian Shen smiled helplessly, ready to put the cigarette back.

"Oh, you want fire?" Yin Qi grabbed his hand holding the cigarette, looked around, and his eyes fell on an art supply store across the street, "Wait for me!"

Lian Shen watched as Yin Qi quickly ran into the store, went to pick up something from the shelf in the corner familiarly, then quickly checked out, and ran back to him.

"Magnifying glass?" Lian Shen looked at what Yin Qi was holding in his hand, puzzled.

"It's a convex lens." Yin Qi smiled playfully, "Hold it first."

Holding a cigarette in one hand and a convex lens in the other, Lian Shen stood on the side of the road, staring blankly at Yin Qi who ran to a street tree, bent down to pick up a piece of bark that had fallen off the ground, and then walked back in satisfaction. .

"This is?" Lian Shen looked at the paper-thin off-white bark, then at Yin Qi.

"Caucasia, is it fragrant?"

As Yin Qi said, he took the convex lens back and adjusted its direction to the sunlight, as if he was doing a physics experiment seriously.

"A bit."

Lian Shen nodded when he smelled the fragrance of the trees, and then looked at Yin Qi holding the thin white bark in one hand and aiming at it with a convex lens in the other. Little white dots.Soon, the small dots turned from white to burnt yellow, and with a swish, a small flame was ignited.

"Quick." Yin Qi said, and at the same time took the cigarette from Lian Shen's hand, and lit it close to the flame on the bark.After igniting it, he let out a sigh of relief, and extinguished the fire source with a shake of his hand.

"Okay." Yin Qi returned the ignited smoke to Lian Shen, turned around and threw the paperbark in his hand into the trash can.

Lian Shen took back the cigarette, but he didn't smoke it for a long time. He looked at Yin Qi in amazement, and he hadn't recovered from his series of movements in one go.

bang.The sound of a bicycle falling to the ground.

Yin Qi turned around when he heard the sound, and saw a few passers-by who were staring at him dumbfounded, forgetting to walk, and one of them accidentally knocked over the shared bicycle next to him.

Yin Qi brushed his hair nonchalantly, and blinked at them innocently, then they hurriedly looked away and continued on their own way.

Not long after, there was a booth for four by the window in the tea restaurant.

Lian Shen sat down first, and Yin Qi sat next to him, not across from him.

After ordering, Yin Qi took out his mobile phone to play. Once he unlocked it, the screen was the page where the previous song was played, Xi You's "Undercurrent", a single loop.

Lian Shen just glanced at it casually, and saw it, too surprised, his eyes froze all of a sudden, Yin Qi coughed before turning his eyes away, barely raised the corner of his mouth, his voice was a little unnatural: "Why do you listen to this?"

Seeing Lian Shen's reaction, Yin Qi's heart sank, and instead of answering, he asked, "Have you... been together?"

Lian Shen quickly regained his usual composure, smiled slightly, "No."

Yin Qi was overjoyed when he heard this, but on the surface he remained calm, and said in a relaxed and casual tone: "Ah? You sing the Cantonese version of "Undercurrent" for him, and he will immediately answer you with the Mandarin version. Are you not together anymore?"

Lian Shen looked up at him unexpectedly, thought about it seriously, and said frankly: "No, I just started posting songs on the Internet at that time, and I didn't know him before, so I just sang casually, not for anyone."

Seeing that Lian Shen didn't look like he was lying, Yin Qi was speechless for a while, and his mood was a little complicated... I dare to feel that he couldn't sleep after listening to it in the middle of the night, and made up an infinitely affectionate song in his brain, but he sang it casually, without any meaning?

But suddenly recalling Qi Ling's meaningful words, Yin Qi wanted to continue to ask more, but didn't want to hear the things he didn't want to know. After struggling for a long time, he finally asked: "What, am I like him?"

Lian Shen raised his eyebrows in surprise, "You and Xi You?"

Yin Qi looked directly at him, nodded, "Yes."

Lian Shen took a serious look at him, and suddenly smiled, "No, he doesn't know how to light my cigarettes...and uses a convex lens."