casual and fun

But the folks at Tonight don't think so.

When they went to distribute leaflets and were repeatedly rejected by passers-by, they knew that those who were willing to come tonight might not even be able to stand in this 36-square-meter open space.What's more, the weather is not beautiful, and it is still raining today.

However, if passers-by don't come, at least Yang Sile and Chen Nan's roommates will come.Passers-by are not interested, but at least Chen Xu's friends are.

It’s like having a small party in this hard-to-find hot pot restaurant, drink as much as you want, and take Sprite and Coke as you like, anyway, they bought the goods with the money they earned from commercial performances during the summer vacation, and they didn’t spend a penny from their parents .

Those who come are all friends, despite screaming, laughing, striking up a conversation, and reminiscing about old times.Problems in reality are not problems, only ten songs can't save the world, but they can save bad moods.

With such an awareness, Yang Sile's fighting spirit was bursting, and before the opening, he called everyone together, palms folded and backs of hands cheering in unison.

At seven o'clock in the evening on October [-]th, Beijing time, Chen Nan's roommate, two fat and one thin came.

At a quarter past seven, Li Linfan and Du Ruohong arrived.

The two of them went downstairs next to them, and there were three passers-by holding leaflets, who seemed to be interested in the local band.

Five minutes later, Qu Mi took his girlfriend into the basement.

Chen Xu's four friends arrived quickly, and one of them was Xie Chen's first bass teacher, the owner of the piano shop who secretly took him to the livehouse.

Cen Wanping didn't work overtime today, so she was invited.

For Xie Chen and Lin Li, who are extremely strict in family education and dare not let their parents know that they are playing in a band "out of business", playing bass and singing in front of their elders is an unimaginable disaster.

Lin Li blushed in a rare way: "Yang Sile, why didn't you tell us in advance, how can I let go so suddenly?!"

Xie Chen nodded hurriedly.

Shi Nian didn't expect that Yang Si Le would invite his mother to listen to the live, so wouldn't it be impossible to implement the plan of being alone after the show later?

Yang Sile promised: "Don't worry, my mother is very kind and open-minded, and she doesn't like to show off everywhere. She spent so much money and energy supporting me to play around and learn this and that. It's only natural for me to report the results to her. It's... right..."

He carefully observed the faces of other people, and apologized in a voice like a mosquito: "...I thought everyone didn't mind, I didn't consider this level, I'm sorry."

Shi Nian couldn't see that Yang Sile was being wronged, so he immediately showed his aura as the chief cellist of the school band: "Just think of it as a road show in the square, and a relative of a teammate happened to pass by, so it's no big deal."

These words reached Chen Nan's heart: "Listen, the chief knows how to hurt others. Brother Yang did nothing wrong, what happened to inviting his mother to come and report the performance? We are not enemies, why bother to go online like this?"

Yang Sile made a bitter face, and repeated again and again: "My mother is really fine..."

Lin Li craned her neck to look at Cen Wanping, who was chatting with Yang Sile's roommate, smiling gently.

Cen Wanping felt that someone was looking at her, so she looked in the direction of the stage and caught her gaze before she could look back.Seeing that it was the female lead singer of the son band peeking at her, she deepened her smile and nodded, clenched her fists and silently said "Come on".

Lin Li didn't expect to get encouragement from an unfamiliar elder, her face blushed visibly, her eyes fluttered around in panic, not knowing how to respond.

"Then what...Yang Sile, I took a closer look, your mother is quite beautiful..."

Chen Nan thanked God: "You should have said it earlier! The problem that can be solved with Auntie's face, the three of us were wasting our saliva just now."

Xie Chen closely followed Lin Li's pace and asked, "Is the crisis over?"

Yang Sile breathed a sigh of relief, patted him on the shoulder, and replied, "There's no danger, just play with confidence."

At 07:30, the headlights in the basement were turned off on time, and the words "Tonight" spelled out with plastic light tubes behind the stage suddenly lit up.

In the dark, Chen Xu shook the little girl in his arms comfortingly, and vaccinated his friends who used to be in the band: "No smoking is allowed tonight, the stage is full of flowers from the motherland, we have to smoke upstairs. , only drinking and listening to music are allowed here."

Before the voice on the other end fell, Lin Li not far away had already taken a deep breath, pressed the spotlight switch installed on the top of the stage, and then strode onto the stage, standing under the monotonous but warm light Next, stood in front of the microphone stand, and stood in the middle of the three musicians.

She didn't count how many people came down the stage, but just glanced around at random, and found Cen Wanping whom she met for the first time.

After getting a considerate and reliable smile, she also raised the corners of her mouth at Cen Wanping, as an apology for her rudeness and avoiding her gaze just now.

Immediately afterwards, she turned her head to give Yang Sile and Chen Nan the agreed signal, and the first song started amidst the watery guitar sound and light drum beats.

This song was written by Yang Sile before he was admitted to Qingjiang Yinzhong last year, and the first demo is still in his personal song library on the "Play" website.Last week when he was arranging the order of the repertoire, he asked Chen Xu for his opinion. It was an autumn evening, and it was a good time to listen to some relaxing jazz.

The lyrics were written by Lin Li, because Yang Sile is not very good at writing love songs.Lin Li procrastinated for several days, until one weekday night, when she was sitting in the classroom for evening self-study, she was almost tormented by a math proof problem, and then she suddenly had an inspiration.

Love is not like this!It's really a fucking problem with Jiangsu rolls.

She tapped the microphone stand with her fingertips, and sang like pouring out: "What's so difficult about choosing, the difficulty is the proof after all. Wealltellies, ohdaring. The result is like this, it doesn't matter if it doesn't bloom."

The tune of this song is not dull, even a little playful, but the lyrics are written with a sense of embarrassment, and they are sung like sighs.The people under the stage did not expect that they would use such a song suitable for drinking to start the show. Within 4 minutes, the box of Duvel beer on the bar against the wall had lost four bottles.

After singing the last line of the lyrics, Chen Nan was responsible for the long ending alone.He buried his head in the audience's gaze, concentrating on his guitar.

Lin Li waited for him to press the last note, stepped off the stage and fetched his guitar, returned to the microphone and said, "Originally, there was a charge for today's live, but after we discussed it, we changed it to free admission with a leaflet. If not, even if the song is not very good, you are embarrassed to leave, we can play the piano openly and aboveboard."

"Don't tell me, Luantan plays really well!"

Lin Li connected the guitar to the stereo, looked up at the man who answered her loudly.On the road, knowing the active atmosphere of interaction, he is indeed a friend of Boss Chen.

She smiled and said, "I can play randomly, but our guitarist Xiao Nannan can't. He works hard and makes rapid progress. Give him a little applause."

The people in the audience applauded when they had time, and clapped wine bottles when they had no time. Chen Nan was flattered and bowed to them again and again.His skinny roommate whistled loudly: "Xiao Nannan! I want your autograph!"

The other two followed suit: "Me too!"

Chen Nan replied angrily, "No problem! Line up to receive it!"

Hearing the laughter, Lin Li looked at the little girl sitting at the edge of the crowd, dangling her feet and drinking the yoghurt that Chen Xu purchased alone, and said, "I counted, including this special guest, today's total Sixteen people, more than we expected, had to be formally introduced."

"Our band is called Tonight." She turned sideways and pointed to the extremely simple LED light tubes attached to the back of the stage, "This is Tonight. Remember it, everyone. If you can't remember, hurry up and take a photo with your phone."

She turned around and pointed to herself: "I'm the lead singer and rhythm guitarist, Lin Li. Shuangmu Lin, hearty Li."

"On my left is the melody guitar Xiao Nannan. I just met him, an acquaintance. On my right is Xie Chen, a bass player who hasn't had a chance to shine in the last song. He doesn't talk too much. The one sitting behind me, Tonight's captain, Yang Sile, is not the "Siyue" who misses the moon, but the official position in charge of music in ancient times, "Si Le". The most powerful transfer student in this city, without him, our band would not exist, and there would be no such thing as tonight. Ten songs, it’s amazing. There is also a foreign player waiting in the audience, I will introduce him when he is on the stage, he is also very awesome.”

After finishing speaking, Lin Li breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but sigh that it was really tiring to play around: "In that line, we almost know each other, so it should be lively in the future, right? Everyone will be happy later, just like playing disco on your own bed, don't Stretched, we pay for the drinks, and the golden throat lozenges are at our own expense."

She closed her eyes, raised her hand and snapped her fingers to signal Yang Sile, Xie Chen and Chen Nan, and a completely different prelude sounded in response.

After Yang Sile warmed up for the first song, he suddenly gave a deafening drum beat, hitting everyone's eardrums.

Xie Chen just waited until his hands were itchy, and his favorite song finally came. In front of the first teacher in the audience, he showed off his skills without any shyness.

Lin Li also started to move with the rhythm, she walked to Chen Nan with the guitar on her shoulders, strumming the strings with him in a showy way.

She didn't tie her ponytail today, she deliberately curled it in waves. At this time, her long hair danced with her body, and every strand of hair was swaying on her chest and shoulder blades, which was so vivid that it made people move Do not open your eyes.

The song is called "Hobbyist", and she will sing about the adolescence of art students in 5 minutes. Those boring, day-to-day exercises are constantly killing hobbies and reshaping hobbies.

They may not be able to leave a name in the history of art, become a guest of the art palace, or achieve a "real art" throughout their lives.They endure the tears of losing confidence, endure the frustration that their dreams will never be reflected in reality, endure that they are not geniuses, and eventually become the ordinary majority.

But there are always some moments—for example, Chen Nan miraculously practiced the guitar to a unique level within half a year; for example, Xie Chen seized the opportunity to escape from the life stipulated by his mother for a short time and became a member of Tonight It's like Yang Sile had an idea in the fiercely competitive campus, leading them out of the water, leading them to breathe, leading them to imagine, leading them to walk through the streets and alleys, singing different songs to different people.

Like now.

They can see the sparkle of art.

"Artists" are too far away. They recognize the reality, and still practice hard and ponder over and over again. It is really out of "love" that cannot stop.When they have no time for work in the future, they will take care of them, and when they are old and unable to walk, they also have hobbies worth mentioning, and they have youth that will not make them feel ashamed.

Lin Li sang this song with such a mood.

Everyone in the audience is in this business, and they feel the same for Yang Sile and Xie Chen's lyrics. Although it's the first time they listen to it, they can't sing along the whole way, but they can easily pick up the tune of the chorus and the most repeated lyrics .

For the next few songs, five strangers entered the venue late. As soon as they went downstairs, they were shocked by the atmosphere of screaming in twos and threes, singing in unison from time to time, and then smiling tacitly at each other.

There were few people, but the venue was not deserted. Yang Sile couldn't be happier, and his expression gradually became lively.Even though the salty sweat slid from his forehead to his chin, it didn't soften the wantonness and presumptuousness in his eyes at all.

He even has the mind to play tricks and be handsome. During the interval between empty beats, he rotates the drumstick around his thumb twice, stretches out his hand in the skillful chorus, raises his head and points the drumstick in front of him. After catching the next line of lyrics, he would bite his lower lip and show an admiring smile.

Du Ruohong was completely overwhelmed by his roommate's pretense, and screamed shamelessly: "Yang Sile, I love you!"

Chen Xu's friend couldn't help but speak obsequiously, teasing him that he was a young man in Huaichun who was in love online.Shi Nian didn't respond to this.He stood under the stage, staring at Yang Sile intently, envious that his roommate could simply speak out what was in his heart without distracting thoughts.

He also wanted to say "I love you" loudly to Yang Sile, but he couldn't. Just calling out the name of the person he likes is already like a confession.He has to be patient.

At the same time, Chen Nan's roommate was not far behind: "Xiao Nannan, I love you!"

Li Linfan: "Sister, I love you!"

Du Ruohong: "Sister, I love you even more!"

Xie Chen on the stage heard it, and leaned directly to Lin Li without raising his eyelids.It was the interlude, Lin Li was in a good mood, completely forgot about the trivial worries caused by him, and played the piano intimately next to his shoulder. As soon as her own part was over, she immediately put her hands around Xie Chen's neck and placed them on him. Singing with a microphone on his shoulders.

It's no different from having a private party. The people in the audience are playing games, and the people on the stage are almost the same, and everyone is having a good time.

At nine o'clock in the evening, the slow song at the finale gave everyone room to breathe. At the last song, the atmosphere immediately returned to enthusiasm. After standing tired for a while, I stood up again, drank a bottle of beer hoarsely and broke away. voice.

Except for the opening scene, Lin Li didn't say anything in the middle of the song. Anyway, Xie Chen and Yang Sile wrote everything they wanted to say into the song.After finishing a song, drink a few sips of water to calm down, discuss a few words with the team, and then cut to the next song.

However, Shi Nian sat next to her with the cello, and she had to say a few words.

Due to the presence of Yang Sile's mother in the audience, she couldn't take the lead and blow rainbow farts. After a few brief introductions, she tied up her hair and smiled at everyone: "The last song of the Spring Festival Gala."

She pointed to the light behind her with a thumbs up: ""Tonight". Thank you for coming tonight."

Yang Sile rolled up the short sleeves of his T-shirt to his shoulders, revealing two beautiful and attractive arms, with his back straightened.He shook his head quickly, shaking off the beads of sweat hanging from the ends of his hair like a big dog, and nodded to Lin Li who was looking at him, indicating that he could start.

Shi Nian also turned his head and waited for his signal.After Yang Sile saw his slightly nervous face, he took the time to blink his left eye, smiled and poked his chest with the end of the drumstick, and said silently: "Don't be afraid every year, brother is behind you."

Shi Nian's heart beat like spring thunder, and he immediately changed his mind——

He didn't pick a place anymore, and he didn't want to worry about whether he could be alone. When the live was over, he would immediately tell Yang Sile that I like you.

dong dong!

Yang Sile stomped on the kick drum, without any technique, with two almost primitive bangs that overwhelmed the heartbeats of everyone present, making them all gasp for it.

Xie Chen and Chen Nan poured all their strength into their right wrists, and each swept out a strong and deep melody as the bottom line.Lin Li held the microphone with both hands, followed the melody and sang, "Can't forget this night—"

The previous words flew by very quickly, but the last modal particle dragged on for a long time.She squeezed the air in her lungs and forced herself to bend down. The moment all the instruments stopped, the microphone and stereo sent her panting sound into everyone's ears without reservation.

Intro is Yang Sile's re-arranged version, and Xie Chen weakens his own presence, paving the way for a brighter electric guitar.

During this period of time, Chen Nan simplified the fingering a little according to her own level, unexpectedly making the melody look neat.

At the end of the prelude, Lin Li straightened up, without brushing away the hair sticking to the sides of her neck with sweat, and without anyone under the stands, she just looked straight ahead with a gentle and nervous expression, and sang softly like a whisper: "The baguette is not delicious. , Try to remember it today. There are three or two eggs left, what time does the supermarket open? My dream is to be a scientist, so forget it if you are active.”

She played the guitar: "Are these really important? It seems that I can give up. I live in the daytime, and I forget everything completely. But I can't forget, I must never forget, I never want to forget, me and you tonight."

"You look up at me like Shenjing's eyes, you can't forget it."

"The hand that does not let go, the determination to go to freedom, must not be forgotten."

"Small acts of kindness, sincerity to love the world, cannot be forgotten."

"The song I sang, the tears I swallowed in the dark, must never be forgotten."

The rhythm slowed down again, and Shi Nian played the cello in time.

"Never forget this night, never forget it. Never forget this night, never forget it."

The lyrics of the chorus repeated, Lin Li sang to the end, pressed his dry lips to the microphone, and sighed three times: "It's okay to forget anything, don't forget this night, forget me and you."

"My most precious shadow."