song for the city

Ah Cheng didn't show up on the second day either, his phone went from being unanswered to turned off, Ah Cheng's brothers who played music didn't know where he had gone, and the only possibility left was that he fled in fear of crime.Xiang Pei didn't believe in this possibility, Ah Cheng was not a character who would run away, he was daring, and it was even more impossible for him to leave Nana alone.

There are melon seed husks and cigarette butts all over the floor, the indoor environment is terrible, the objects are basically only a frame due to the smoke, Ah Cheng's best brother is An Zi, a bass player, with a bald head and a few wrinkles around his eyes.He took a puff of cigarette and said, "Wang Jie's grandson died beautifully. If I were Ah Cheng, I would never let him die so easily." As he spoke, he showed a ruthless smile, making people feel that he was not joking. Play, but really do it.

Xiang Pei lowered his head, with no expression on his face: "If there is any news about Brother Cheng, remember to tell me, Sister Na is very worried."

An Zi agreed, hesitant to speak, and when Xiang Pei quickly stepped out the door, his voice sounded from behind again.

"He planned to borrow usury some time ago, but I stopped him."

Xiang Pei faltered, turned around stiffly, and stared at An Zi in disbelief.

Anzi said in a cloud of smoke: "It's hard to do anything, he wants to take Nana away. Ah Cheng said that he will die at any moment, at least before he dies, he wants to take her out of the city."

Liang Zhang was waiting for Pei outside. He heard the sound of musical instruments playing from inside. The tune was very familiar. He seemed to have heard it somewhere.He thought hard for a long time, and finally remembered that this song was the one he heard lying on the bed in the dilapidated hotel when he first came to Day City, the song sung by Ah Cheng, and the song written for Nana.

Later, I heard Ah Cheng sing it many times on the streets of Day City, and Liang Zhang was deeply impressed by the lyrics in it——Let you escape by stepping on my dead body, to the other side of the universe.

Ah Cheng sang this song romantically, but the lyrics are not romantic, which is a bit weird when you think about it, but Liang Zhang remembers these two lyrics.Ah Cheng used this song to catch up with the one he loves, but he still wanted to sing it to the whole world, but unfortunately the whole world didn't want to hear it.

Not long after Xiang Pei came out, Liang Zhang greeted him and asked, "How is it?"

"Brother Cheng didn't contact them either."

"Will he leave Day City?"

Xiang Pei shook his head: "It's unlikely, the police won't let him leave Day City, other than that, I really can't think of where he can go. Wait..." He suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and looked at Liang Zhang Zhang, "Do you think it is possible that he has been at home all the time, and sister Na lied?"

Liang Zhang said: "You put it this way, when we met Sister Na yesterday, she didn't seem to be too worried about Brother Cheng's whereabouts."

Nana was particularly impulsive when she repeated that Acheng was not the one who killed her, but she didn't seem so worried when she mentioned that she didn't know where Acheng was. Normally speaking, this is what she should worry about the most.

"Let's go to Brother Cheng's house now? Sister Na gave me the spare key to their house before."

Liang Zhang hesitated for a moment, then said, "If you really see Brother Cheng, what are you going to do?"

Sighing to Pei: "I don't know, anyway, go and have a look first."

They took a taxi and ran into an overzealous driver who accosted them as soon as they got in the car.

"Hey, you guys have a cool hairstyle." The driver looked at Pei's long hair and felt that he was very interested.

Xiang Pei was a little embarrassed, and said thank you bravely, but he didn't know whether the driver was hurting him or really thought he was cool.In his opinion, few middle-aged people can accept men with long hair.

"I also had long hair when I was young, but I didn't look as good as you. My wife looked at my photos when I was young and said that I would look like a golden lion king."

Liang Zhang couldn't hold back his laughter, and asked curiously, "I can't tell, Uncle, why do you have long hair?"

"Then you will be fans of Dou Wei, learn to rock and roll, if you don't have long hair, you don't think it's rock and roll."

Liang Zhang excitedly patted Xiang Pei on the shoulder, and introduced to the driver: "He is also in a band, the lead singer!"

Xiang Pei snickered, thinking that Liang Zhang seemed to be showing off him.

The driver asked, "What's the name of your band?"

"If you're not famous, you sure don't know." Xiang Pei didn't say his name.

The driver let out a long sigh of emotion, looked back from the rearview mirror, and didn't struggle anymore: "The soil of Day City is very suitable for raising a band, unrestrained and tolerant. It's a pity that rock and roll is too small, and few people are willing to listen to it." .We played the band at that time for ourselves. It was like a dream. When we woke up from the dream, we couldn’t continue playing.”

Liang Zhang quietly listened to the days when the driver played him rock and roll, and inexplicably thought of Ah Cheng. He spent most of his life playing in bands, got some grades but was ruined by himself, and he still persists until now.

Liang Zhang does not agree with the idea of ​​dreaming. Although the things played by rock and roll seem psychedelic, they are real and crazy. The songs are full of burning flesh and blood, so hot, no music can show the most wildness of people more wildly than rock and roll. Really that side.He looked sideways at Pei. He didn't have much reaction to this. He was looking at the scenery outside the window, and he didn't seem to take the driver's words to heart.

"Uncle, his name is Xiang Pei. One day in the future, his name will definitely be among the best lead singers in Chinese bands." Liang Zhang grabbed the seat in front of him and said.

Xiang Pei was slightly stunned, watching the light and shadow whizzing past Liang Zhang's eyelashes, he didn't know if a horse had crossed his mind and made his world turbulent.

After getting off the car, he mentioned to Pei how he and Ah Cheng met.

He was singing in the bar at that time, and Ah Cheng just heard it, and then he found Xiang Pei and bought him a drink.He drank a lot, and he talked a lot, saying that when he saw Xiang Pei, he remembered himself when he was young.

Confident, insolent, shining.This is Xiang Pei now, and him in the past. At that time, Ah Cheng was already in despair, so he had Nana by his side to give him hope. He sang on the street at night and taught children how to play the guitar during the day.He hasn't written a song for many years, and he can't write it. The music cells in his brain seem to be useless. He can only sing, but he can't sing the taste of the past. Tobacco, alcohol and drugs have damaged his voice.

He said that if he formed a band and played rock and roll, he would come to this point in the end, no longer young, no longer crazy, just want to live, he hoped that Xiang Pei would not be like this.

Maybe it’s the music that they have in common. Xiang Pei and A Cheng got along well later on, and Nana treated him like a younger brother. No one knows their bitterness better than Xiang Pei, and wants them to be happy.

No one answered the knock on the door, so Xiang Pei took out the key and turned to open the door.

There was no one in the room. What Nana was like before she was taken to the police station is still the same now.

"It seems that I was wrong." Xiang Pei said after looking around for a week.

"Wait." Liang Zhang noticed that there seemed to be a faint light in the bathroom, coming out from the gap under the door.He paced over slowly, put his hand on the door, and the door opened as soon as it was pushed.

What caught his eyes was boundless blood, thick and bright, and Ah Cheng lying motionless on the ground, blood flowing down from his wrist.

Liang Zhang shook violently, his stomach was spinning violently, and all the food—digested and undigested—rushed towards his throat, trying to crush his body.He couldn't breathe or make a sound, and the smell of blood came to him continuously.

Xiang Pei sensed something was wrong with Liang Zhang, and also smelled a strange smell in his nostrils.

He walked over and stood behind Liang Zhang, his pupils trembled instantly.

"Brother Cheng..."

Xiang Pei maintained the utmost composure, and put his hand under A Cheng's nose in the past. Everything was quiet, there was no sound, let alone breathing.

Ah Cheng is dead, and Nana is still at the police station.

"Xiang Pei...is he still breathing?" Liang Zhang asked in disbelief, his voice trembling.

Xiang Pei approached him, blocked all the pictures behind his back, and covered Liang Zhang's eyes: "No more."

"Xiang Pei." Liang Zhang cried, and Xiang Pei felt that his palms seemed to be wet.

He hugged Liang Zhang, and found that he was actually trembling, he tried his best to hug him tightly, as if this could remove the existing fear and avoid the mess everywhere.

"Don't look, Liang Zhang."

"Don't look any further."

The police came quickly, along with an ambulance.

A white cloth covered Ah Cheng's body, and he was carried on a stretcher to an ambulance.

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