When the lights came on, the various song and dance halls in the Entertainment Street also became lively.
Lu Yan hugged her knees and squatted on the wet street after the rain.
There was a peddler on the side of the road selling skewers. She sniffed, and her stomach began to bulge again.
I knew I shouldn't be so honest, so I gave all the money to Shen Kuo. Now she is penniless, and dinner has become a problem again.
Lu Zhen and his gang of brothers were all taken away by the police uncle, and now she doesn't know where to find her father.
Lu Yan stood up with a sigh, touched her stomach, and walked into the dance hall closest to her.
The dance halls at that time were similar to the current disco bars, but the facilities were relatively simple, with parquet floors on the ground, star lights on the ceiling, and colorful light spots reflected by the rotating glass balls.
There is a private booth next to the dance floor, with foldable tables and chairs, and several electric fans blowing lazily.
People dance on the dance floor in the middle, not like a group of disco dancers in a modern bar.
At that time, dancing was ballroom dancing.
Lu Yan found the manager of the dance hall and asked him if he had any work for him.
The manager asked her, "Can you sell alcohol?"
Lu Yan shook her head blankly.
"Will it be settled?"
Still shaking his head.
"Then what will you do?"
"I can sing."
The manager is busy entertaining guests, so he has no time to talk to her: "We have no shortage of singers here."
Lu Yan looked at the woman on the stage who was twisting and singing, and said honestly: "I sing better than her."
As soon as this remark came out, the manager turned around and looked at her. Seeing her dirty clothes and her downcast look, he smiled: "Don't brag, Yingying is our professional singer here. What kind of onion are you? Can you sing?" It sounds better than her? Don't overestimate your capabilities, walk around, don't affect my work."
Contemptuous expressions appeared on the faces of the waiters around, and they looked at Lu Yan as if they were watching a joke—
"Yingying is the most popular singer here. If she says that she sings better than her, isn't that just throwing things at me?"
"She's just bragging."
"I'm afraid I won't be able to utter a single word when I really come on stage."
Lu Yan ignored their taunts, she never liked to argue with others.
She sang better than the woman on the stage, she wasn't talking big, her sweet singing voice definitely belonged to the kind that God rewarded with food.
In the previous life, since she became popular in the live broadcast of folk songs, many agencies wanted to sign her, but Lu Zhen firmly opposed it.
He even went so far as to put her in confinement.
Lu Yan also quarreled with her father, and even went on a hunger strike to protest, but... Lu Zhen was firm.
I heard from Uncle Liang Ting that his father's distaste for the entertainment industry seems to be related to his mother's death.
Thinking of the lonely back of Lu Zhen sitting on the sofa and smoking for countless long nights, she finally stopped arguing with her father.
She gave up her dream and gave up doing what she loves most.
Rebirth in 2000 may be an opportunity for her to regain her dream.
Just when Lu Yan was lost in memory, something went wrong in Yingying, the "most popular singer here". Some guests in the venue interrupted her performance——
"Why are these songs repeated over and over again, can there be something new?"
"I'm tired of listening to these songs, change to something new."
Yingying was very upset when the performance was interrupted, she frowned and looked at them: "What do you want to hear?"
"Sing something fresh."
"These are all songs on the playlist. If you want to listen to new ones, come up and sing them yourself."
As soon as this remark came out, the guests started to make a fuss: "Can you speak! We come up to sing, what do we want you to do?"
Yingying was used to being flattered on weekdays, she was the master with a temper, she immediately put down the microphone and quit: "Would you like to listen?"
Seeing that the scene was about to become chaotic, the manager was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and suddenly saw that Lu Yan hadn't left, so he quickly called her over: "Don't you know how to sing? They want to listen to new songs, can you sing? "
new song? That's too good, every song she sang popular in the live broadcast before, isn't it a new song now.
"Yes, but didn't you say that I am beyond my control?"
The manager said anxiously: "Oh, as long as you can save the game, you can give the commission whatever you want tonight."
If it was the past, according to Lu Yan's temper, she might have run against this humble manager, but now she is so hungry that she simply went on stage directly.
The manager asked her, "You can say whatever accompaniment you want."
"No, you don't have the accompaniment I want."
Lu Yan turned her head and saw a piano on the stage, so she sat directly beside that piano and tuned it.
Yingying's eyes carried some complicated meanings.
She is the pillar here, if she refuses to sing, these people will never even think about dancing tonight.
Originally, she wanted to wait for them to beg her to come on stage, but she didn't expect that the manager would find a substitute so quickly, and this substitute singer could also play the piano
You know, people who can play the piano in this era are not ordinary people. The piano is a standard equipment for a rich lady from a scholarly family.
After Lu Yan adjusted her voice, she quickly opened her voice and sang a few love songs that she was good at. Everyone in the venue, regardless of gender, looked at her at the same time.
The song is indeed a new song, and it is her song that has become a hit on the Internet in recent years. It has been widely sung and is very popular among young people.
And most importantly, it was a song they had never heard before.
Lu Yan's clear and moving voice, combined with the brisk and lively melody of the piano, brought the atmosphere of the dance hall to a climax. It has never been so lively.
Shen Kuo happened to pass by the gate of the dance hall, leaning against the gate, looking at the girl playing the piano in the middle of the stage.
There was a sweet smile on the girl's face, two sweet dimples on her lips, and clear brown eyes, revealing a sense of cleanliness and innocence.
With such eyes, he knew at a glance that she was an obedient girl from a rich family who had never suffered. Only a girl who was pampered and cared for since she was a child can have such a hearty and cheerful look in her eyes and brows.
Unlike him, even when he smiles, there is a layer of hypocrisy and cunning.
Shen Kuo looked away, lowered his head and lit a cigarette.
The manager paid Lu Yan 30 yuan as an appearance fee. In this era when a bowl of noodles only costs two or three yuan, 30 yuan is enough for her to live for several days.
The manager seemed to have found a treasure, and was very excited. He wanted Lu Yan to come to them as a singer, and the price was up to her.
Lu Yan looked back at Yingying who was gnashing her teeth, she refused with a smile, and only said that if she had time, she might come here to work part-time.
The manager readily agreed, and said that there are often scouts in their karaoke hall. If Lu Yan comes to sing here, with her natural singing voice, she will definitely be discovered by scouts.
All in all, for her, the most important thing now is to find her father!
Lu Yan took the money and went to a night food stall, ordered a bowl of mutton noodle soup, and ate it with a snort.
She was thinking that she could go to a small hotel to make do with it tonight instead of sleeping on the streets.
Calculated, this mere thirty yuan was still the first pot of gold she earned in her life.
Thinking back to the past when I went to a happy entertainment club with my girlfriends, I swiped my credit card with four or even five digits, and I lived a luxurious life of spending money every day.
It's like a lifetime away.
At the moment when Lu Yan recalled sweetness and thought of pain, several motorcycles rumbled to a stop at the entrance of the supper stall.
Lu Yan watched helplessly as her handsome and stalwart father got off the Harley motorcycle and walked in front of her. He put the goggle helmet on the table, sat down with his pants in his hands, and ordered a bowl of mutton noodles. .
"I asked everywhere, and finally found you."
"dad!"
Lu Yan was so moved, she never thought that Lu Zhen would still think of her, it was indeed her own!
Lu Zhen touched Lu Yan's face, looked left and right, and then pushed her bangs up, revealing a smooth and full forehead, and looked carefully...
Like, really like, really too much like his sister who was abducted by human traffickers back then, even the retarded eyes are exactly the same!
Lu Yan blinked: "Dad, what are you looking at?"
Lu Zhen patted her face: "Come on, tell me, what's your name, how many people are in your family, do you remember when you were a child?"
Lu Yan didn't know, so: "My name is Lu Yan, there are only me and my father at home, and I lived with my father when I was young."
"Where's your father?"
"It's you."
"..."
Lu Zhen's eyes were a little complicated, as if he was lost in thought, and he didn't bother to eat the hot mutton noodles when it was served.
"You are very likely to be the sister I lost many years ago." Lu Zhen said to her seriously: "My sister's brain is not very good, she is congenitally mentally retarded. I think you are really similar to her."
Lu Yan: ...
She suddenly remembered that her father had said before that he did have a younger sister, who was her little aunt.
Once Lu Zhen took his sister-in-law to the playground to play, but the sister-in-law was abducted by human traffickers, and there was no news of her.
The loss of her little aunt made Lu Zhen feel extremely guilty and self-blaming for so many years. Even after Lu Yan was born, Lu Zhen named her little aunt—Lu Yan in memory of her dead sister.
Later, Lu Yan grew up slowly, and the whole family said that she looked more and more like her little aunt when she was young.
Lu Yan once saw the old yellowed photos of my sister-in-law. They really look alike, especially the delicate and watery eyebrows and eyes, which are exactly the same.
It is also possible for a niece to look like an aunt, especially if the two are at the same age, it is normal to be mistaken.
It turned out that Lu Zhen really mistook her for his sister, so he searched for her non-stop.
But Lu Yan didn't want to make mistakes, she had to make it clear to Lu Zhen.
"Dad, I'm not your little aunt, I'm not your sister, I'm Lu Yan, your only daughter in this world.
Lu Zhen looked at her like an idiot, discussed with Liang Ting and said, "It's her."
"Well, very much like your sister."
Lu Yan took a deep breath and continued: "Although saying this may be regarded as mentally retarded or insane, I still want to tell you that I had a car accident when I was 20 years old, and then I was reborn, reborn back to the present. It sounds incredible , but you believe me, I am really your daughter!"
She finished speaking in one breath, and then looked at Lu Zhen expectantly, but he just stretched out his hand and rubbed Lu Yan's head: "My sister's illness seems to be getting worse."
Seeing that he didn't believe it, Lu Yan quickly thought about how to prove to him that everything she said was true.
"By the way, Dad, my mother's name is Jian Yao. Is there a girl named Jian Yao beside you? She is my mother! You love her very much!"
Lu Zhen and Liang Ting looked at each other, saying that they had never heard of this name before.
"I have a girlfriend, not the one you said." Lu Zhen said dissatisfiedly: "You girl, what's going on, I don't care if you talk nonsense."
Lu Yan looked at him pitifully: "I didn't talk nonsense."
Liang Ting pointed to his brain: "Isn't there something wrong with your sister? What can she explain clearly? Let's just be her 'father' for now, get her home first, and then the paternity test will reveal the truth. Also, doesn’t your old Lu think that something wrong with his daughter is about to come up, even if the paternity test is not good, a girl who looks like your sister, stay at home, as a goddaughter, your family will not be short of food.”
Lu Yan looked at Liang Ting and said in a daze, "Uncle Liang Ting, so you were so smart when you were young!"
Liang Ting's "uncle" smiled, scratching his head in embarrassment: "Thank you."
Lu Yan knew that his father's close friend, Uncle Liang Ting, was a man with a high IQ. Later, his father had a quarrel with his grandfather and left the family to venture out on his own. It was all thanks to Liang Ting, a think-tank, who helped him strategize, so that he could successfully manage the company. To be the top 500 in the world.
When she was young, Lu Yan was very rebellious and often confronted her father at home. Once Lu Zhen called her a loser, so she fought back against Lu Zhen: You have spent your whole life proving to your grandfather that you are not a loser. What qualifications do you have? Say me.
This sentence hurt Lu Zhen for a long time.
Later, Liang Ting told Lu Yan that you were wrong. Your father resolutely left home and wandered outside alone, lived in the basement, and ate box lunches made of white water. He didn't spend his life to prove anything to anyone.
He wants to be your mother's and your little princess's eternal support.
Lu Yan couldn't help pressing Lu Zhen's hand.
All in all, it's great to be back.
It was great to see my dad again as a teenager!
Lu Yan looked at Lu Zhen again, and found that his eyes were a little red.
Could it be that he wants to cuddle with her and cry, Lu Yan's emotions are not ready yet.
Lu Zhen stared at the little girl for a long time, then dragged Lu Yan out of the mutton noodle soup shop without saying a word, and came to the side of the motorcycle.
After finding his long-lost sister, his heart, which was suffering from extreme self-blame, finally let go.
"Dad... are you crying?"
"I didn't cry."
Lu Zhen rubbed her crimson eyes as she spoke, put the goggle helmet on Lu Yan's head, and pulled her onto her Harley motorcycle.
"go home with me."