Pilot

After the college entrance examination, others may go out to travel, relax, eat and drink, play games to their heart's content, stay up late and have fun... But midsummer is different.

In fact, he feels that there is no difference before and after the college entrance examination. His life is still the same. He writes, draws, plays the piano and sings every day when he is free. No one or anything can affect him, and he will not be affected by other things.

Others may worry that they won't be able to get into college, can't find a good job, and won't have a good future... But Sheng Xia never worried about these issues at all.Since he was a child, he has never been asked for grades, and his life is neither good nor bad. He is always restricted, but he also has a certain degree of freedom.

Midsummer seldom thinks about those... the future, tomorrow, ideals, those distant things.His world is small and simple, as long as he has food and clothing, singing, playing the piano and listening to music is enough.And more things, he... never thought about it, it's not necessary anyway.

This afternoon, he went out with his bag on his back as usual, and met Zhao Jie who had just returned.

Zhao Jie helped Sheng Xia straighten her collar, and said: "If that Beijing woman asks you to serve tea, remember to ignore her. I have asked Long Xia to take care of her rent. If she still asks you..."

"Mom." Sheng Xia interrupted her, pointed to a few people on the other side who were probing their brains and said, "Go and have a look, the sister at the front desk seems to have gone to the bathroom, and people may come to live."

After Zhao Jie hurried towards those people carrying mountaineering bags, Sheng Xia walked in the direction of 'Mi' with his bags in his arms.

When I arrived at the store, Shengxia found that everyone was very busy.Both Wang Jie and Li Rong were busy with the arrangement, while Xie Hong discussed the details of the performance with a few people he didn't know in front of the stage.He listened to the rehearsal on the sidelines, and felt that he didn't like the tune of the band very much. Hearing it in the afternoon made people want to sleep.

During the busy break, Xie Hong saw him, walked over and called him: "Midsummer—"

Sheng Xia was drawing by himself with headphones on, but when Xie Hong was talking to him, he happened to be drawing the Big Bang, although no one but himself could tell what he was drawing.

Seeing Xie Hong approaching, he automatically took off the earphones and asked, "Sister Hong, what's the matter?"

Xie Hong pointed at his left cheek with some amusement and said, "What are you eating to get angry? You have such a big pimple!"

"I didn't eat anything, maybe the weather is too hot." Sheng Xia tilted her head a little embarrassedly, "Is it obvious?"

"It's very obvious that you are white." Xie Hong seemed to find it very strange, and leaned closer to see Sheng Xia's strange pimple, "Don't hide, isn't it normal for a young man to have pimples! Drink more these few days The water will be fine. I’ll ask Xiao Wang Jie to cover you up before you go on stage at night, it’s fine.”

"Will I be a fan of their special show?" Sheng Xia was a little puzzled, "No, and I don't know how to sing a few folk songs."

In fact, he doesn't like giving Xie Hong a hot spot.For the business needs of the store, he needs to sing some songs that he is not too cold.

A large part of the reason why Sheng Xia is willing to come to Xie Hong's livehouse from time to time is to allow him to be on stage, and Xie Hong is happy to use Sheng Xia's face to attract guests.

When he is not performing, he can play and sing his favorite songs. Maybe there are not many decent audiences, but he likes to sing and sing his favorite songs.

Xie Hong smiled: "Just sing those old songs as before. Believe me, you must be very happy tonight, and you will see..."

Before she finished speaking, several people in front shouted to Xie Hong to go and check the stereo. She finally rubbed Sheng Xia's hair and ran over in a hurry.

After taking off the earphones, Sheng Xia began to feel very noisy.The sound of the rehearsal in front of the stage, the loud yelling of the staff, the chattering and laughing of everyone... Sheng Xia stayed up late last night listening to music and watching movies under the quilt. He didn't sleep well.

Sheng Xia sighed, knowing that it was meaningless for her to stay here, so she took her bag and went out.

Facing the scorching sun, he brushed shoulders with the tourists around him, bypassed the family that was taking a group photo, and walked slowly through the Foreigner Street, staggering in the sun.

Finally, Sheng Xia stopped at the gate of the ancient city and found a place to squat down.Next to him are a few local aunts selling fruit in the shade, chatting loudly in the local dialect about the recent bad business.

Sheng Xia squatted in a daze for a while, then slowly took out a pack of crumpled soft clouds from his backpack, took out one and lit it, while smoking, he looked at the tourists around him.

He moved to the ancient city with Zhao Jie after he finished high school.Because the school is in the ancient city, Zhao Jie bought a homestay in the ancient city early for the convenience of his study, and brought him to move here after he entered high school.

Knowing Xie Hong was also a coincidence, when he was in the first year of high school, Xie Hong just settled down in this place, and it just happened to buy the bar of a friend of his mother Zhao Jie.The two parties were negotiating the contract in the small courtyard of Shengxia's B&B. That day he happened to be playing the piano and singing in the attic, but in the middle of playing, Zhao Jie called him downstairs.He poked his head out and asked: What's the matter, Mom, am I too noisy?

In the blurred vision due to myopia at that time, Sheng Xia could see an unfamiliar woman standing next to Zhao Jie, and the voice sounded like she was laughing: "Little handsome guy, you sing really well! Sister, after a while I want to open a bar on the next street, come and play when you have time!"

Midsummer went to 'Mi' without telling Zhao Jie once, twice, three times, ten times... Gradually, she became familiar with Xie Hong, as long as there were holidays, weekends, classes and free time, she would go to 'Mi'.

It's been so long in a flash, and he has graduated.

Many people and things seem to have changed, but this tourist city has so many tourists regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Sheng Xia is already used to seeing so many different faces and listening to unfamiliar accents every day.There are so many people coming and going in this ancient city every day. If someone passes by him today, his face will probably be blurred in his memory tomorrow.

He looked at the blue sky in front of him, exhaled slowly, and was about to take out the earphones and listen to the song.

As a result, in the next second, he was attracted by a person not far away.

The man was tall, with a black travel bag in his hand, and a piano on his back, which looked like a guitar.Wearing a black mask and hat, he looked travel-stained. At first he stood at the gate of the city and hesitated for a moment, looked around for a while, and finally walked towards Shengxia.

Sheng Xia watched the man walking straight towards him - he couldn't see the man's face clearly, and the lowered brim of the hat made it difficult for him to see his eyes clearly, let alone Sheng Xia who was nearsighted.But Shengxia felt that this person was very special for no reason. The weather was so hot, but this person was dressed in black and exuded a very stern aura.

It doesn't look like it's here to play.

He watched helplessly that the tall man in his sight approached him, stopped in front of him and stood still, his tall body condescendingly shrouded him in a shadow, blocking the sunlight that shone on Sheng Xia's body.

The heartbeat seemed... inexplicably, very briefly stopped.

"Excuse me, how do I get to a livehouse called 'Mi' in the ancient city? I searched and couldn't find it."

Very standard Mandarin.The sound is nice, low and magnetic.In today's terms, this man is a "subwoofer".

Because this person is very tall, Sheng Xia is still squatting, so he can only raise his head to look into this person's eyes with great difficulty.

Although they didn't know each other at all, Sheng Xia inexplicably felt a little embarrassed to be looked at by this person.He took another drag on his cigarette, pretended to hold his face, and covered his left cheek with a pimple with his hand.

Sheng Xia raised his hand and slowly pointed in a direction: "Go straight down, turn left when you see Foreigner Street, and turn right when you see a shop selling tambourines, go to the end of that street and turn right."

"Thank you."

After saying this, the man left.

Sheng Xia waited for the man to go away and twisted the cigarette. Looking at the blue sky and white clouds in front of him, he lazily opened his backpack.He thought to himself why did that person ask him for directions?When Mingming was in school, his classmates often said that he was not like a local, because his appearance and skin color were very unlocal.

Probably to see the show tonight?

But this doubt quickly passed from my mind, anyway, it will be a person who will never have any intersections again.

Sheng Xia chose the song, leaned against the city wall behind her with her legs crossed, took out her pen and notebook, listened to the song, and continued to draw the unfinished Big Bang.

The universe is actually too big to be drawn.But 'explosion' can be described in terms of color, substance and emotion in Midsummer Heart.Such as dark blue, red, gold, such as scattered nebulae, such as the sky full of fire and falling stars, such as anger and sadness.

Shi Ye was singing in the earphones—"Who broke the sky and waved the stars down"

Sheng Xia wrote this line of lyrics at the center of the explosion.

The universe is in the earphones, and the picture in the pen is also the universe, and the bustling streets of the ancient city are in front of you.

The scene in front of him was blurred in his vision, midsummer seemed to see...

The grapes sprayed with water in the dustpan of the small fruit stand not far away exploded in sight, and the bayberry and watermelon next to the grapes also exploded, bursting out purple-red pulp, sticky and sweet, and the Big Bang in the head Wrapped together, it becomes a summer fruit explosion.

Sheng Xia turned the page of the book and began to write——

'The form of existence of matter... neutron, proton, electron, fruit. '

He drew a bunch of grapes next to the 'fruit'.

'After the explosion, it continues to expand, the temperature and density drop, and it cools... Molecules and atoms recombine into gas and condense into nebulae. '

He drew a cloud next to the 'nebula'.

'The evolution process is probably: nebula → star, galaxy → universe'

The nib stopped next to the word universe.

Sheng Xia paused, and began to draw the universe in his mind at the moment next to the 'universe'——

The strange thing is that the brain is empty, and there is only one person standing there.

That person is tall, carrying a piano, wearing a mask, and carrying a bag... his eyes are very bright.

After Sheng Xia subconsciously drew the outline of that person, he was taken aback, not understanding why a stranger who had only seen one side was drawn next to such an important 'universe'.

He frowned and erased the outlined outline with an eraser.But after wiping it clean, Sheng Xia didn't know what to use to represent the universe.

The person in the earphones is still singing over and over——

'Who broke the sky'

'Swipe the stars down. '

Midsummer looked up.This time, there was no Big Bang in front of his eyes, only the clear blue sky, white clouds and scorching sun.

There is only summer.