silver sea

"You are not allowed to go." Qiu Sheng flatly refused.

Wen Youxia looked at him colder than ever, without any blame or guilt.The recording room was quiet for a while, before Wen Youxia said, "Otherwise, what are you going to do?"

"Will he admit it when you go?" Qiu Sheng asked, "Or are you going to beat him up again?"

"I won't do it."

"Okay, then he said to your face, 'Yeah, I just changed your song to my own, and I just released it before you'-if he can be so shameless, you are going to What did you say?" Qiu Sheng asked him step by step, and he was also asking himself, "Take another step back, and he refused to admit it, saying 'it's a coincidence', 'how can I remember what your new song looks like after listening to it', you What are you going to say?"

Wen Youxia was completely speechless.

Compared with Qiu Sheng's anger just now, he just didn't show it, and his heart felt as if he was suddenly cut into pieces, so painful that he couldn't support himself to take another step.

In just a few minutes, Wen Youxia thought of many things.

If it was his fault, then he would try to find a way to ask Bai Yanhui for an explanation, even if he couldn't help it in the end, at worst the two songs would be handed over for the public to judge whose degree of completion is higher.

However, the public...

Wen Youxia couldn't help laughing, he never cared whether the "audience" accepted it or not, but now he planned to hand over the right of judgment to them.The creator lost control over his own work, and if he mentions this song in the future, it will be called another name, no matter how good it is, Wen Youxia doesn't want it anymore.

The word "give up" came to mind inappropriately, and Wen Youxia seemed to be given a slap in the face.

It was suddenly difficult for him to face Qiu Sheng.

"No matter what, you have to ask, otherwise, pretend you don't know and choose to suppress this matter yourself?" Wen Youxia looked Qiu Sheng straight in the eyes, "I have to go to him for an explanation."

"I'm not sure." Qiu Sheng said, "Who knows if he's doing the same thing in front of you or behind the back?"

Wen Youxia frowned, inexplicably fanned into flames: "What do you mean?"

"You know it yourself."

"Clear what?"

Qiu Sheng: "He has thoughts about you! You knew it before, but don't you know it now?"

"Seeing him because I wrote the song, my song, I want to explain it. It has nothing to do with whether I've been in Rotten Apple or whether he thinks about me!" Wen Youxia suppressed his anger, "Change Do you think I will be indifferent?"

He seldom asked such a series of rhetorical questions. Qiu Sheng hesitated to speak, only angry, and turned his face away.

After venting, Wen Youxia saw that he was uncomfortable, and wanted to reach out to touch Qiu Sheng's shoulder.But as soon as he showed his intention, Qiu Sheng walked around him, went to the corner and sat on the sofa.

There was something wrong with the aura between the two. Gu Qi glanced at Wen Youxia and then at Qiu Sheng. Although he didn't know the content of the charade, Gu Qi hurriedly interrupted them: "Then what should we do now?"

"I suggest that you still look for Bai Yanhui." Liu Wangyu broke the deadlock, "As for the result... I have to contact him once and see again, what do you think Qiu Sheng? Don't be stubborn."

After a long time, Qiu Sheng seemed to listen to her words: "...OK, but I have to go by myself."

"I'll help you find someone." Liu Wangyu said.

"Don't scare the snake." Qiu Sheng is still rational, even though he started to have a stomachache because of anxiety, and covered his stomach with one hand, "Sister Wang, you first say that we have a show... invite him to come and see it. If he is no longer in Donghe I will try to make an appointment with him as much as possible, just talk about what he asked me before, I changed my mind."

"What's the matter?" Liu Wangyu was taken aback.

"Sister Wang, stop asking, just tell him like this, let him think I don't know yet. Anyway, I've never listened to pop music."

After Qiu Sheng finished speaking, he smiled self-deprecatingly.

Liu Wangyu quickly contacted Bai Yanhui for them, and as expected, he got a reply, "I'm going back to Yanjing now, it's not very convenient to go to Donghe."She relayed what Qiu Sheng said, but the other party hesitated for a moment, saying that we can talk later.

While waiting for Bai Yanhui's reply, the singing of "Alice" continued.

Bai Yanhui changed Wen Youxia's song into a layer of flesh and blood, and it became a pop song with ingenious conception and unique style.

Hu Yize's successful transformation was flying all over the sky, and music critics praised this song for bringing Bai Yanhui back to his original state and getting out of the bottleneck of the creative period.The exquisite arrangement, meaningful lyrics and fresh and ambiguous melody together outline a story based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which has been well received by the public. This song quickly occupied the new song list of several music websites The first place, the heat is like a snowball, getting higher and higher.

Hu Yize participated in many interviews, and the male star with a pretty face answered the question of "creative concept" clearly and clearly, as if he and his team really put a lot of effort into it.

In the latest interview, he said gratefully: "I am really grateful to Mr. Bai for his dedication to me. This song can get the current praise, thanks to Mr. Bai! I am also very fortunate to have met such a good producer. ..."

Qiu Sheng put on his earphones to block out what he didn't want to hear in the subway TV program.

He lowered his head and took out his phone, clicked on the demo of the song they didn't record in the end, and started playing it.At the same time, Qiu Sheng opened Liu Wangyu's message.

"I made an appointment for you, at 'White Camellia' in the afternoon."

Qiu Sheng replied "Okay", and opened the text message interface again - although smart phones have become popular, Wen Youxia always uses the old-fashioned candy bar, does not have WeChat, and rarely uses QQ, and they chat more often by text messages - —The previous record was the morning before yesterday when he asked Wen Youxia "Is your family okay?" Wen Youxia replied "It's okay", and then he disappeared.

In the simple text message interface, there were only countless messages from Qiu Sheng.

Shall we have dinner together tonight?

What about people?

You are not coming back?

Answer the phone

Wen Youxia, why are you so angry?

Machine hanged?

I've charged your phone bill, come back to me when you see it

……

They made an appointment today, and I will go by myself, will you come or not.

Wen Youxia?

You are wrong, don't call me back.

You didn't come by yourself.

Go straight to the rehearsal room later

The last message was sent half an hour ago, and like the previous dozens, there was no news.

The day before yesterday, Wen Youxia received a call from Wen Haoqian, who said anxiously, "Grandpa fell down", which made Wen Youxia nervously raise his throat.He was already upset enough, at this moment, the elder in the family fell ill and the younger fell ill, instantly overturning all the fictional worlds he used to hide in, and Wen Youxia had to go back quickly.

In the middle, Wen Youxia didn't come back in time and delayed a performance, canceled it temporarily and refunded the ticket, but Qiu Sheng couldn't care about the loss of that little money.

It's been so long, why is there no sound at all?Don't you just play a show, you don't want to face it, so you just ran away?

If you don't come, you won't come...

Originally, she didn't intend to let Wen Youxia take this trip.

Qiu Sheng was called back by the subway station announcement, he exhaled softly, turned off the phone screen and put it back in his coat pocket.

"Baishan Tea" is an ordinary tea room, located at the entrance of Mocheng Street from Binhai New District to Old South District.Boss Shi used to be the lead singer of a local band in Donghe, and he has known Bai Yanhui for many years, and the relationship is not bad.He made money and chose to retire, and Bai Yanhui was a frequent visitor to his tea room.

Qiu Sheng walked out of the subway entrance. In the early spring, the trees on Tonghua Avenue had not yet sprouted new buds, and the cold wind was blowing. Pedestrians wrapped in black, white and gray clothes looked tired, and found the place along the street number.

The outside of the tea room is not very eye-catching, but inside there is something special about it.Qiu Sheng reported Bai Yanhui's name and was led to that box.He stood at the door and adjusted his breathing so that he would not lose his composure when he first saw the other party, then he opened the door restrainedly.

Before coming here, I took two sedatives deliberately.

"Would you like tea?" Bai Yanhui played with a purple sand pot in his hand, "Lao Shi has two pieces of very good ancient tree tea here, try it?"

Qiu Sheng pursed his lips, "No, Teacher Bai, you know I have business with you."

Bai Yanhui smiled and pushed a small cup to Qiu Sheng's side: "To be honest, I'm not very busy now, and I'm not under a lot of pressure. I don't think I need to buy songs very much recently..."

"It's not this, Teacher Bai." Qiu Sheng thought for a while, then cut to the point, "Wen Xia's song."

"What happened to Wen Xia?"

"Don't pretend to be a fool, Mr. Bai." Qiu Sheng restrained his politeness, "Or, you need us to play through the flow of 'how could it be such a coincidence', 'you also wrote a song with this melody', 'sounds almost the same' , and then explain to me why "Alice" and "" sound almost exactly the same?"

He cut straight to the point, Bai Yanhui picked up his teacup, and put away his smile after a while: "Oh... yes, "" is Wen Xia's song, but does it have anything to do with me?"

Qiu Sheng was aggressive, but he didn't have much confidence: "Do you think it's important or not? After delaying us for so many days, sister Wang almost let go when she said that I would go to Yanjing to find you. Are you afraid that I will make trouble in front of Hu Yize?"

"Xiaoqiu," Bai Yanhui didn't mean to be afraid at all, "Actually, if you make trouble in front of Yize, it won't change anything."

Qiu Sheng's heart beat two or three beats uncontrollably, and he pressed his jaw.

Bai Yanhui said slowly: "Have you seen the score of our song? The melody and beat of the two sides are not exactly the same at all, not to mention the similarity of eight bars... and your song has not been released at all. , according to the law's 'contact', it should be you who contact our song first."

People who can do that kind of thing would be shameless themselves. Qiu Sheng was already mentally prepared, but he was still surprised by Bai Yanhui: "Bai Yanhui! You call this 'contact'? Then how do you explain that you went to listen to our rehearsal and then a How many weeks have you written about the same song? What are you in a hurry for?"

"I really don't know why." Bai Yanhui said without reflection, "Maybe, is it a coincidence?"

Qiu Sheng gripped the teacup tightly.

He wished he could smash this thing on Bai Yanhui's head now and throw him out the window - but he couldn't.What Bai Yanhui said was just because he didn't have conclusive evidence at hand, and if he didn't memorize it with his head and recorded the audio, the original file would probably have been deleted long ago.

"Oh, by the way, you mentioned Wen Xia just now, right..." Bai Yanhui stood up and picked up the computer on another table, "I really have something to tell you."

Qiu Sheng tried his best to hold back his anger, and said in a hoarse voice, "You're planning on Wen Xia again."

Not even interrogative sentences.

Bai Yanhui listened, and just smiled: "You can't say that, I have known him relatively early, and we have some friendship... Actually, I have always cared about him, for example, this matter..."

What Qiu Sheng hadn't said yet came to an abrupt end when he touched the picture on the screen.

Scanned copies of photographs, to be precise.

Seems to be in some bar, looking at the decor like an old version of what hangs on the wall at Blueberry Nights, the bar hasn't changed in the past 20 years.And the person hasn't changed much, his eyes are blurred and his expression is crazy. Generations of young people have come here like this. Qiu Sheng glanced roughly, but saw a face with a familiar outline.

Slightly long hair covering eyebrows and eyes, sharp jaw line, high nose bridge... Wearing a short sleeve, the left arm is covered with tattoos, as dense as a second skin.

The man slung a guitar and held a roll of tinfoil, lighting it with a lighter.

There was a "boom" in Qiu Sheng's head, and then his fingers shrank into his palm and began to tremble uncontrollably.Qiu Sheng bit the tip of his tongue to wake himself up, his eyes couldn't help but stick to that face, unable to move away.

The yellow digital time after film development is marked in the lower right corner, 1989.

He knew that this person was not Wen Youxia, but, but——

"It's very similar, right?" Bai Yanhui tapped the piece of the photo, "Guess what relationship he has with Wen Xia."

Qiu Sheng didn't need to guess.

Bai Yanhui's voice seemed to come from far away: "Then you know what he's doing, right? Qiu Sheng, do you think if I make such a photo public, or tell Wen Xia, I will Help him find his long-lost... Will he thank me?"

Qiu Sheng couldn't hear the second half of the sentence, and there was a "buzzing" in his ears.

In the end he just felt himself saying, "What do you want?"

The author says:

*Wen Xia was 2012 years old in 23 and should have been born in 89, so he is now (referring to 2021) a mature man of 30+, which is the golden age of rock musicians