casual and fun

"Do you want to find a new rehearsal venue?" Chen Nan squatted by the horizontal bar in the leisure square, glanced at everyone timidly, and said tentatively, "Actually, I think the school rehearsal room is good..."

Lin Li, as a junior high school student, had to go back to school to make up lessons in two hours, so she refused without thinking, "I don't want my parents to know that I'm in a band."

Xie Chen was dejected: "Me too."

Yang Sile thought about it all the way, and as the captain, he made important instructions on the future development direction of the band that has not yet been named: "If we don't do original work, we have to find performance opportunities first, and then follow Party A's requirements. Selecting and practicing, we can’t just play the songs we like forever, after all, only when there is response can there be sustainable enthusiasm. Where the base is is secondary.”

Lin Li looked at him amusedly: "After returning to Beijing for a few days, I finally felt the party's call, and made a down-to-earth investigation of the band's survival mode? This realization, tsk tsk."

Yang Sile was speechless.

During the half month in Beijing, he was either held in the palm of his grandparents’ hands and pampered “sweetly” and “heart-heartedly” all day long, or he went to the attic to chat with his father, wipe his face, turn over and rub his legs, and feed him with nasal feeding. Delivering milk and porridge, I never thought of going out like before.

His right hand was injured, so he couldn't practice musical instruments, and the midi keyboard was left in Qingjiang. From time to time, a melody or a few lyrics popped up in his mind, and he could only simply record a sound with his mobile phone to survive, let alone develop Lao Shizi inspected the work.

He scratched his hair, and said to Lin Li with a sigh: "Go for it, your plan is currently the most feasible."

Hearing this, Chen Nan was overwhelmed: "Brother Chen has offended Boss Chen like that, how can we fight for it?"

Xie Chen admitted that he was wrong, so he obediently closed his mouth and accepted the criticism.

"Is this called offending?" Lin Li didn't think that the road was blocked, "That man formed a band, isn't it just a coincidence? It's a gift from the heavens."

Yang Sile agreed: "If we let him know that we are not the kind of whimsical brats who just talk but don't practice, I think there is a high chance that he will change his mind."

Chen Nan: "Aren't we little brats...?"

Lin Li added: "As soon as he heard that we were playing in a band, he didn't want to rent it to us, which shows that he still has feelings for this thing, but he doesn't want us to repeat the same mistakes."

Yang Sile raised his fighting spirit again: "Since it doesn't make sense, let's sing it."

He tried a similar trick in the admission interview in Zhuanlaiyin, and the effect was surprisingly good.

Chen Nan got up from under the horizontal bar: "Wait, let me interject. Which brand of chicken soup do you drink, so fresh? I want to drink it too."

Lin Li acted as if he didn't exist, and encouraged Xie Chen's hair: "Xie Xiaochen, cheer up! Recall the song that impressed you the most when you went to listen to the live."

Xie Chen was swayed left and right by her hand, but his voice was still steady: ""Jump". This song is the one that impresses me the most."

"Can I find it online?" Yang Sile took out his phone to write a memo, "Does their band have a keyboardist? If so, we have to adapt it to restore it better."

"Yes. How to adapt it?"

"It was the easiest to change to a guitar."

"Hmm..." Chen Nan turned around and was about to run away, "I remembered that I still have something to do, so let's take a step first, and see you all friends after school starts!"

Lin Li grabbed the back collar of his T-shirt and pulled him back: "What are you talking about, don't you still have me, senior sister is covering you."

"Thank you, thank you." Chen Nan immediately hugged her thighs, "Sister is in the third year of high school, and she has the heart of being a mother. She is worthy of being the women's army in the team. The burden on my shoulders is inexplicably lighter. If you have something to do, just tell me, I will honor you like an ox like a horse!"

Lin Li let go of her hand and glanced at the time: "In that case, go back to school for me, we'll find a shop and wait for you with coffee."

"Haha, there's no need..." Chen Nan gritted his teeth and wiped his sweat, "I'm practicing. It's just a little longer than usual, so I'll do it."

Lin Li laughed two dimples: "You can think so, mother is very pleased."

As soon as the solution was settled, Yang Sile stopped being salty, and was too busy.

In order to prevent Boss Chen from selling out the store before their performance, he worked day and night to revise the score and think of ideas, and waited for Xie Chen and Chen Nan to come to his house to practice together.

On weekdays, Lin Li has to live in school to make up lessons, so she can only find time to play guitar and practice songs in front of the resources on the Internet.

During the summer vacation, the lights in the dormitory were turned off at [-] o'clock, and her roommates thought she was slow to move and went to bed late, so they took turns suggesting that she apply for day school.She didn't want her parents to guess the reason, so she simply put a pillow under the quilt, and climbed the water pipe to return to the dormitory when she was very sleepy in the middle of the night.

Yang Sile, as someone who had been criticized for climbing a tree without authorization, couldn't help worrying about Lin Li's personal safety, so he secretly asked Xie Chen, who was staying at school, to choose the big breaks and meal times during the day to represent the entire band to cooperate with her. practice.

However, Xie Chen is a fool who is used to being alone, and has no awareness of guarding against gossip. Every time he takes bread and beats it at the door of the dance department classroom, he opens his mouth and says, "Please call me Lin Li."

There are few intranets in mixed schools in senior three, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.In less than two days, the entire third group knew about it, and the composition department of the second year brought Lin Li a meal every day.

Not only will they bring food, but the two of them will mysteriously disappear for a period of time at noon, not knowing what to do, it's so suspicious that people are gearing up and can't concentrate on reviewing!

After properly handling the end-of-semester performance, Lin Li slowly handed over the administrator rights to other junior team members in accordance with the administrator group's "College Entrance Examination Party Temporary Waiting" regulations, and the frequency of logging into the school intranet dropped precipitously.

After waiting for a week, she practiced the tune, and after a while of busy work, she noticed that the strange eyes of the classmates around her were even more strange than before, and everything was already overwhelmed.

"Xie Xiaochen, don't you have a Xiaonei account?" She sat on Yang Sile's drum stool and asked with her face raised.

Xie Chen was concentrating on tuning his voice, and before she finished asking, he frowned and put his index finger in front of his lips: "Shh, be quiet."

Lin Li was amused by his rare command tone, and deliberately disturbed him: "Then do you have a girl you like?"

Xie Chen immersed himself in his work: "No."

"What about boys?"

"No."

"Wow, just right!"

Lin Li stretched her waist in satisfaction: "At first I wanted to warn those who spread rumors about our affair and let them control their mouths and accounts, but since you are unmarried and I am unmarried... it would be better to save trouble."

"Senior sister, work hard and try to fall in love with you as soon as possible." She supported the stool between her legs with both hands, and her whole body turned toward her

Leaning forward, he shortened the distance with Xie Chen, "What about you? Xie Xiaochen, do you want to like me?"

Xie Chen turned pale in shock, and was scared back half a step by the pair of dimples that were close at hand, almost sitting on the back of Chen Nan who was squatting to help Yang Sile set up the drum.

"Hey! My old waist!" Chen Nan shouted.

Xie Chen managed to stabilize his center of gravity, turned half a circle towards the outside of the alley to avoid Lin Li's sight, and fiddled with the guitar strings with a sullen face: "...the sixth string is inaccurate, it's too low."

Lin Li laughed so hard that Yang Sile, who had just assembled the drum set, was speechless, stood up and said, "Stop, Lin Li, be careful that he gets nervous and makes a mistake later."

Lin Li was overjoyed, so she turned around to avoid Yang Sile who was blocking her view, and raised her voice to ask, "Xie Xiaochen, can you play it wrong?"

Xie Chen adjusted the tune, but he still didn't dare to look there. He only dared to hand the guitar to Yang Sile who was next to him, and asked Yang Sile to hand it back to Lin Li.

"No, I know this song very well."

Lin Li held the guitar in his arms and looked at Xie Chen carefully, only then did he notice that his ears and the side of his neck were so red that they could bleed.

——Xie Chen is actually very simple, so simple that she can't bear it.

So she couldn't laugh.

"Listen to the captain, be serious."

She stopped looking at Xie Chen, lowered her head and took out a brass-colored capo from her schoolbag, put it on the second grade, and then beckoned to Chen Nan: "Xiao Nannan, let's cooperate for the last time, and try to make Boss Chen change his mind and start a new life." Consider it."

Yang Sile read out the delicate atmosphere that had arisen between the two of them, turned to Xie Chen intimately, and changed the subject: "It's almost there, shall I call Boss Chen?"

Chen Xu worked the evening shift for ten hours. Before receiving this strange call, he was going to have a "snack" and go home to sleep, but now, he had to go to the store instead to give someone who wanted to rent The shopkeeper opened the door.

At 10:30 on Sunday morning, there were few cars going out of the city, and almost no one passed by in the alley.He rode the battery scooter all the way unimpeded, who would have thought that he would be blocked at the door of his store.

Four and a half children were wearing school uniforms and holding musical instruments. Except for the female lead singer in the middle, all of them had serious expressions on their faces that they wanted to fight someone.

Chen Xu stopped the car two meters away, took a closer look, and laughed angrily: "You guys are the ones who called me? You're smart enough, and you know how to change the number to call."

After finishing speaking, he turned the car around, not wanting to waste precious sleep time on these children.

However, before he pressed his wrist and turned on the accelerator, the female lead singer's soft singing came from behind him.

"I was carrying my schoolbag and passed the Linjiang Bridge after school."

Lin Li picked up the strings alone, and sang slowly like humming a little tune: "Uncle Zhang at the bridgehead sells cigarettes and alcohol, and the mother-in-law at the door is enjoying the shade. The sixth lady next door married her daughter and stuffed a handful of candy into my hand."

There are no microphones and speakers, all rely on the natural mixing of deep alleys.Chen Xu turned her head when she sang "Linjiang Bridge" and stared at her with a gloomy expression.

It doesn't matter to Lin Li, anyway, since she was in high school, what she is best at is to endure the unkind eyes of others, and the hatred that is not directed at her right now is nothing at all.

The second guitar joined, she looked calmly at the intersection outside the alley, and then sang: "Cross the bridge with a candy, home is far away."

"Mom is the teacher who corrects the paper, and Dad is the paper with crosses. The days are as sweet as this candy, and I am a child who has lost his sense of taste."

When she was practicing this song with Xie Chen at school, she once asked him why he had the deepest impression on this song. Xie Chen's answer at the time was: "I don't know. Maybe it's because I was a little boy who couldn't taste anything at that time." Come on kid, you're hungry."

Listen to your mother, put an end to cold and spicy food, fast food and fried food, roadside stalls and fly restaurants, and be a polite, restrained, self-disciplined, tasteful, and great composer.

Lin Li ventured to speculate about his childhood: "Xie Xiaochen, we probably look alike. But I'm different from you. My parents don't let me do whatever I want to do, and I do it secretly when I know I can't do it."

As a result, he accidentally rebelled and rebelled.She was almost stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend.

"But I don't regret it. Live as happy as you want, and wait until you are happy to death."

She smiled and lay on her back on the piano in the piano room, held up the lyrics book, and exaggeratedly read aloud, "Jump, dance day and night, jump shirtless! Jump into the river bed to smash a scar, jump into hell to change the book of life and death." , ah—just keep dancing!"

Xie Chen was amused by her Korean announcer-style poetry recitation, and was in a very good mood that day.

Therefore, his state of mind when playing this song today is very different from the past. He knows that he can be bolder, more comfortable, and less disciplined. He can be as happy as Lin Li said.

In the interlude before the chorus, Yang Sile and Xie Chen joined in together, and the rhythm turned into a commanding gun, pointing at Chen Xu's temple.

He sat on the back seat of the battery car, looked down at the four high school students in Yinzhong uniforms, and twirled an unlit cigarette back and forth.

Lin Li's voice is very malleable and has a wide range. After the original song is up-tuned, the advantages of female voice brightness are revealed.When Chen Xu heard her voice and intensity adjusted with the lyrics, she thought of the moment when the champagne was opened.

Bang!

The cheers are bathed in dense foam and fruity airflow. Everything is hot, steaming, giving it a go, and forgetting everything. At the same time, it is also far away, afraid of being hurt, and fleeting.

When he wrote this song five years ago, he never imagined that one day he would hear a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl sing with a non-hatred look in her eyes and an open tone: "Jump into the river bed and smash a scar, Jump into hell and change the book of life and death."

These kids were of a completely different kind from him.He can hear it.

Two or three residents of the residential building next door leaned out to look into the alley. When Yang Sile finished beating the last drumbeat and looked expectantly at Chen Xu who was not far away, those upstairs finally waited for the opportunity and yelled loudly: "It's awful to hear!" What is it singing about!"

Yang Sile was extremely embarrassed, and was about to bow his neck to apologize, but Chen Xu, who was in the back seat of the battery car, nodded unexpectedly: "It's quite ugly."

Chen Nan turned to Yang Sile and muttered in a low voice, "Look, let's see! I just said this trick won't work!"

Lin Li refused to accept it: "It's ugly, you give me one, two, three, four, five reasons."

Chen Xu lit a cigarette, squinted his eyes in a dense fog: "Did I say you? I said myself, and the writing was ugly."

There is no way to answer this, the four of them still have the basic training to be Party B, and they will never be easily fooled by Party A.

Yang Sile reacted for a while, and was the first to recall it. He couldn't help but jumped off the stool, and used a drumstick to hit the sound effect before revealing the suspense: "Boss Chen, then you now..."

"I am now," Chen Xu interrupted him, "I just want to go back to sleep now."

Yang Sile said very politely: "You sleep, you sleep, it won't take a few minutes."

"It's too late." Chen Xu bit his cigarette and sat back to the right direction, restarting his small battery, "I'll be on day shift the day after tomorrow, and we'll talk about it after work at night."

Xie Chen was cornered by his unpredictable attitude, and couldn't help asking straightforwardly: "What do you mean? You still don't want to rent it to us? Just because we are a band?"

Lin Li heard Chen Xu's wavering, and it was rare for him to explain it "kindly": "Hey, Xie Xiaochen, Boss Chen not only wants to rent it to us, but also wants to help us hold a performance. Such an important matter, a few minutes We definitely can't finish talking, we have to sit down and talk slowly some other day—" She looked at Chen Xu with a smile, "Right, Boss Chen."

Chen Xu changed the cigarette into his hand, turned around and answered irrelevant questions: "When you grow up, eat more and dream less. Let's go, we can talk about it another day."

"I played the piano, sang the song, and made my determination clear, so how can we convince him the day after tomorrow?"

The four of them listened to the boss's suggestion and went to the nearby university snack street for a full meal. At the moment, they were sipping pudding milk tea for dessert and walking to the bus station.

"As long as he has the will, it's only a matter of time before he can be persuaded." Lin Li pointed to Yang Sile, "After all, we have a very righteous captain who is full of the halo of the protagonist."

Xie Chen had seen it at the club carnival, and silently nodded while holding milk tea, expressing his agreement.

Yang Sile was a little melancholy: "I think Boss Chen can speak better than me."

Lin Li: "Can he say that? Can he say that the hot pot restaurant has been rented out long ago, and leave it to us to find out?"

Chen Nan: "Are you sure we call this... picking up leaks? Isn't it good to live on Qinfang Street for 20 yuan an hour for nearly [-] a month without water and electricity?"

Xie Chen: "Qinfang Street doesn't have such a big venue, it can accommodate the four of us at the same time. If we find a keyboard player in the future, it will be even more crowded."

As soon as the red light of the crosswalk came on, the chattering four people stopped and stood idly on the curb and waited.

Lin Li continued to tease Chen Nan: "Qinfang Street is full of acquaintances, Xiao Nannan, let me ask you if you are under a lot of pressure during rehearsal."

Chen Nan was no longer speaking to discuss a plan B, he purely wanted to overwhelm Lin Li in terms of momentum.In case the third year in high school and the number one in the grade continue to maintain the same position in the future and follow suit all the time, wouldn't he be shivering between the hero of the novel and the cheating duo?

Can't stand it!

"Who can hear when the door is closed, everyone is busy, no one will pay attention to us."

We must unite all forces that can be united.

"That's right, Brother Yang!"

He looked at Lin Li unfazed, and stabbed Yang Sile's arm with his elbow, trying to seek the captain's support.However, the captain seemed to be in a trance and didn't give him any response.

Only then did the others notice that Yang Sile had been staring at the other side of the street since he stood by the side of the road, and fell silent abruptly.

"Why are you so focused?" Lin Li curiously followed his gaze to look across the zebra crossing.

Outside the traffic flow is a middle-aged couple holding hands. They seem to be nothing special, except that the woman on the left looks familiar.

"Xie Xiaochen..." She pointed slightly with her chin, "Do you think that aunt looks a bit like..."

"... Shi Nian." Chen Nan answered with his mouth half open.

Xie Chen took a sip of milk tea, compared them carefully in his mind, and then calmly affirmed: "It's quite similar."

Yang Sile was completely stunned upon hearing this, and was caught in the fierce confrontation between conscience and human feelings and couldn't extricate himself.

No matter how rich his imagination was, he never thought that the scene where he ran into an acquaintance's cheating scene would happen to him.

And this "acquaintance" is Nian Nian's biological mother, Aunt Fu.

Just now he was able to comfort himself that he did not wear glasses and recognized the wrong person, but now he can only force himself to remember the appearance of the strange man beside Aunt Fu, and after going home to discuss with his mother, he will carefully consider whether to tell Uncle Shi.

When the green light came on, the fascinating traffic flow broke, revealing the current situation that made people feel trapped and full of emotion.

Yang Sile couldn't talk to Lin Li and the others about this matter, and then led them away.He had to bite the bullet and cross the street, chanting a sentence of Buddha every step he took, and secretly praying that Aunt Fu would no longer recognize him.

However, it is counterproductive.

Although he tried his best to hide behind Chen Nan, pretending that "the milk tea is so delicious, even if you are crossing the road, you have to hurry up and drink a few sips" to avoid eye contact, Aunt Fu still recognized him at a glance.

"Yangyang?!"

Yang Sile did not expect that the person involved would take the initiative to talk to him in this situation.Adults are really scary.

Fu Yi recognized his side face the moment he passed by, and immediately grabbed his shoulders, pampered his head and rubbed his face, and chatted quickly: "You moved back to Qingjiang?! Why? Don't tell me? Does Shi Nian know? I saw a few people wearing the same school uniform as Nian Nian across the street and couldn't help but take a second look. I didn't expect it to be you!"

The man tugged at her hand, reminding her that it was in the middle of the road.

Fu Yi looked at the three people behind Yang Sile, and said excitedly: "Have an appointment with a classmate? Are you in a hurry? Auntie hasn't seen you for a long time, and I want to find a restaurant to sit down with you and have a good chat. How about we make an appointment?" Have a meal together some time? Call your mother."

Faced with a series of questions, Yang Sile had a subconscious smile on his face. He thought he had a natural look at the man in front of him, and simply let Lin Li and the others go first, turned around and crossed the street with Fu Yi.

"Long time no see, Aunt Fu..." He shook the pudding milk tea in his hand, and then glanced at the man holding Aunt Fu's hand, "Let's go to this milk tea shop, their milk tea is delicious, I invite you."

Well, Lin Li is right, sometimes he really has a sense of justice.

Fu Yi's intimacy with Yang Sile remained the same as before, and he sat on the high stool and asked relentlessly, "Isn't it summer vacation? Why are you still wearing school uniform?"

She suddenly thought of something: "Auntie forgot, are you in the third year of high school now? Do you need to make up lessons during the summer vacation?"

Through the glass of the milk tea shop, Yang Sile observed the man smoking beside the trash can indistinctly: "No, no, I missed a grade the year I just returned to Beijing, and started school for the second year of high school."

"Oh, then you and Niannian are at the same level—" Fu Yi realized something was wrong while talking, "Didn't you guys meet each other in school? How could he..."

It's not easy to say the following words, after all, no matter how good the relationship was in the past, the two children may not get along when they grow up, so Fu Yi chose to stop here.

Yang Sile understood her unfinished words, and didn't feel that it hurt too much. He had experienced similar emotions a few months ago, and it was completely dispelled on that night last month.

"I met him before, but he didn't recognize me." Yang Sile smiled at Fu Yi, and said indifferently, "However, it all happened when I was a child. I know, it's normal to have no impression."

Fu Yi frowned.

Seeing her serious expression, Yang Sile thought he was being too ruthless, so he immediately remedied: "He's in Xiyanglou, and I'm in Minlelou, so there's no chance of meeting him. Besides, he studies so well every year, and he's still the chief of the orchestra. He must be very busy, I'm afraid to disturb him, haha..."

Fu Yi shook his head directly: "It's not normal."

She covered Yang Sile's left hand on her lap, and sighed: "Let me first apologize to you for Niannian, he didn't do it on purpose, I can guarantee that."

Yang Sile didn't dare to accept it: "No, no, Auntie Fu, you don't need to apologize, we're fine!"

"Yangyang, listen to me first, there is no need for Auntie to lie to you for the sake of face."

Fu Yi lowered his face, squeezed his fingers, and spoke eloquently.

"I divorced you, Uncle Shi, three years ago, and I won't say anything about it. Anyway, during that period of time, Niannian was in a very bad state, remembering and forgetting, and waking up every day is a gamble|gamble. Don't let him go out alone."

"Your Uncle Shi and I were afraid that he would forget us if he continued like this, so we agreed that one person would take care of him for a week, and we would take turns. That day just happened, and it was your Uncle Shi's turn to take care of him."

"In the morning he opened his eyes..."

Even though more than three years have passed, Fu Yi has completely accepted this matter, but every time she thinks of the turning point in Shi Nian's character, she will still be full of pity and complaints.Blaming God for injustice, why should Shi Nian suffer such a long punishment.

"He just opened his eyes and didn't do anything abnormal...but he still forgot a lot of things, including you."

"He cried a lot because of this, and he ran to me to cry without telling his father. Because I know you better than his father, I can remember you for him."

"Shi Nian was born and raised by me. I can tell that he has always cherished you as a brother and never thought of forgetting you—but he has no choice, really no help, he doesn't remember this Appreciate other people's feelings. He doesn't even know why he is crying."

"It's the kind of loss, helplessness, fear and unreasonable sadness that forced him to be what he is now. He didn't do it on purpose."

Fu Yi tightened his fingers, let out a long sigh, looked into Yang Sile's eyes, and smiled at him in the noisy milk tea shop: "Yangyang, I don't know if you have understood this aspect, amnesia is like this. Year after year Fighting it all the time, harder than you've seen or thought."