Tan Si didn't come to rehearsal that week, nor did he go to the bar to work. He only took the exam at the end of the month, and then it was summer vacation. They had planned to sing in three cities in August so they could start planning their first CD in August.
With Tan Si's current state, it is very difficult to let him participate in the tour. Fu Cuo thought it would be better to postpone it for a while. On the band's Weibo account, some fans were asking "It's summer vacation, are you here?" Fu Cuo clicked on to reply, but found that someone had already replied.
There was only one word "yes" in the reply.
At that time, he and Sui Qingchi were eating noodles at a noodle shop. When he saw this Weibo, he looked up at Sui Qingchi. Sui Qingchi had been eating noodles quietly with his head down, with his left hand underneath, neither looking at his phone nor him. It wasn't Sui Qingchi, and it couldn't be AK, it was from Tan Sihui.
Sure enough, Tan Si came with AK for the next day's rehearsal. He seemed to have lost a lot of weight and was not energetic. Clearly, he is already slowly coming out, so don't keep reminding him to think about those past things.
During the rehearsal, Tan Si didn't speak much, but just cooperated with them without saying a word. Fu Cuo could see that he was working hard to devote himself to the music.
When choosing the tour track, Tan Si said for the first time: "Can we add one?"
"Which one?" Fu Cuo and AK asked in unison, and Sui Qingchi also looked up at him.
Tan Si said: "Castle."
AK looked at Fu Cuo, Fu Cuo nodded: "Okay."
The first stop of the tour was still S City, which they had a lot of fate with. That night's performance, "Castle" was arranged as the last song.
The previous song was hard-core rock with a slightly metallic style. After the song ended, the lights on the stage dimmed, and the fans were still immersed in the exciting atmosphere. Fans standing in the first row could still see Sui From the figure of Qing Chi, I saw him turn away from the microphone for a while, and when he came back again, he was holding an acoustic guitar in his hand. The returning young soldier is here to end it all. The light was turned on again, and the warm yellow light illuminated Sui Qingchi who was hanging up the guitar with his head down.
Sui Qingchi lowered his head and plucked the strings, and the sound of the acoustic guitar sounded. The audience was like ruins after the gunfire subsided in the night, and suddenly silence fell. The fans looked up at Sui Qingchi one by one. His movements of playing the guitar became more and more like Fu Cuo, even holding the guitar.
After Sui Qingchi played the acoustic guitar better and better, Fu Cuo made another arrangement for this song. The first verse of the main song is the acoustic guitar solo, and the electric guitar and other instruments will be added in the second verse. It was the first time they performed this song with this new arrangement. With the acoustic guitar, the feeling of the whole song really became very different. The acoustic guitar and the electric guitar sang each other, as if there was a a piano. Fu Cuo looked at Tan Si, AK behind him, and Sui Qingchi in front of the stage. Xifeng may not be mature enough to compare with those legendary bands, but they are all growing up. He is grateful to his teammates for their support. Every song he writes is full output.
This song not only made the fans in the audience cry, but also the bass player on the stage, especially when the last chorus came, Fu Cuo's harmony sounded behind Sui Qingchi's voice, which already had tear-jerking power The sound was amplified by the wind.
Fu Cuo sang the castle written by Sui Qingchi, and sang "This castle of you and me, I hope will be evergreen" with him. This song composed by himself, but on the stage, it completely belonged to Sui. For Qingchi, it is Sui Qingchi's energy and emotion that dominates this song. He just sang along with Sui Qingchi, as if he was brought into his domain, drifting with the current in a small vortex, knowing whether he is warm or not.
Singing with Sui Qingchi is a completely different feeling from listening to him. It's a little addictive. Being accepted by Sui Qingchi's voice is like walking into his body, and it's hard to extricate yourself.
At the end of the song, there was tearful applause from the audience. Sui Qingchi stood in the center of the stage and let the applause rang for a long time. He needed this applause. He thought everyone in the band needed it. Maybe they needed it for different reasons. But each of them is a person who lives by these applause.
After several minutes of applause, Sui Qingchi put the wooden guitar on her back and nodded to the three of them. Everyone walked to the stage, and Sui Qingchi said into the microphone: "We are Xifeng, thank you everyone."
Then he took a step back and held the hands of Fu Cuo and Tan Si on the left and right. The four of them held hands and bowed to the fans in the audience.
They all kept this bow for a long time, and when they lifted up again, Fu Cuo found that everyone's eye sockets were moist. The band brought the four of them together, but in fact everyone is so different, what made him cry may not necessarily move Sui Qingchi, and what made AK cry may not necessarily make Tan Si burst into tears, but this For a moment, maybe it was because of holding hands with each other, and because of the thunderous applause that resounded through the Livehouse, he felt that they had become an emotional community called "West Wind" at this moment.
The July tour ended, and Sui Qingchi hadn’t been on Weibo for a few days. When he logged on to Weibo again today, he found that the number of fans on Weibo had exceeded 800,000. He was a little concerned. He clicked on the watch list, and the number of fans of Xifeng is now 660,000 It's really nonsense who pays attention to him but not to Xifeng. He used to be nervous about this, but now he just finds it funny, why bother to be serious about the number of fans on Weibo, he doesn't believe that the number of fans will change anything, at most it will change them from an underground band to a website that some people say they are talking about. Red band, then he would rather be an underground band for the rest of his life, at least with some dignity.
He has accumulated a lot of unread private messages, most of which are from fans. Anyway, he is idle at the moment, so he clicks on the profile pictures one by one to see if they follow Xifeng. Three or four out of ten fans do not follow Xifeng. After paying attention to him, Sui Qingchi stared at the avatars of the "only fans" and sneered, thinking, then what do you like about me? The song I sang was written by Fu Cuo, and the performance was to be with the band. What would I be without Xifeng? Do you read scriptures to you on stage
Flipping through the pages, he suddenly saw a private message from "Huanyi Liumei". He noticed that this private message was also because the other party didn't pay attention to Xifeng, and only followed him. The content of the private message was actually not carefully read. Click on the other party's profile picture Afterwards, I realized that this wasn't like an ordinary fan. The Weibo was authenticated, and the profile said: Huanyi Entertainment, artist manager.
He has never heard of Huanyi International, and there are actually some pheasant studios whose names he has never heard of contacting like this, but the contacts are all on Xifeng's Weibo, and this is the first one sent to him.
He clicked into the private message, intending to reject it casually if it was nothing important, and forward it to Fu Cuo if necessary.
Huanyi Liu Mei: Hello, I am Liu Mei, the manager of Huanyi Entertainment. I wonder if you are interested in signing a contract with Huanyi. Because your personal information is well protected, I couldn’t find your other contact information, so I contacted this WeChat Bo, hope this is your personal use. This is my mobile phone number: □□□□□□□□□□□□, if you are interested, you can add me on WeChat, we will arrange a time and place, and I will talk to you alone.
Huanyi International, Sui Qingchi read it again silently, confirming that he has never heard of it, what big company can sign an underground band? He glanced a little absent-mindedly, and was about to reply "I'm not the captain, you can contact Fu Cuo", and almost reported Fu Cuo's WeChat ID, when he suddenly saw the word "alone" in the private message, a strange feeling suddenly surged in his heart He logged out of his Weibo and logged into the band's account. Although Tan Si had already told them the account password, this was the first time he logged into the band's account. , not from Huanyi Liumei.
Are you serious? Sui Qingchi raised her eyebrows and opened her eyes wide, a little unbelievable, and clicked on Liu Mei's Weibo again. The first of her popular Weibo was the Weibo of a C idol who won the idol selection competition some time ago. Bo, when she reposted, she wrote "Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared", and the C who had just become popular responded with an applause after her repost.
He searched Huanyi again on the Internet. This is a very new company, established only two years ago, but the backstage is said to be Huanfeng Group. The name of Meng Huanfeng's eldest son, Meng An, was written in the column of Yi's legal representative and CEO. Huanyi has been established for less than two years. It has carefully selected trainees and is now promoting an idol group. These trainees participated in a popular idol program at the beginning of the year, and finally won the C position and the fourth position in their debut. score. In Huanyi's encyclopedia, Sui Qingchi also found another impressive name, An Jie. The reason why he had the impression was that he happened to have heard a song from the other party, which was in the background music of a fast food restaurant. The first British-style lyrical rock, few female singers challenged this style, he checked it with a song recognition software, the singer was named An Jie, and the songwriter was right and wrong. Today he found out that An Jie was poached by Huanyi from a female idol group in South Korea, and he could predict how high the liquidated damages had been paid. Although An Jie is not as popular as the C idol yet, Sui Qingchi saw this name in the list of singers in the latest season of "The King of Music". There is no doubt that she plans to take the singer route.
There is no encyclopedia of Liu Mei on the Internet, but from some scattered sources, Sui Qingchi still found some relevant information about Liu Mei. She used to work in Yitian and brought out a well-known male singer who was born in a talent show. Although this singer was in the In the singing talent show, he only got the fifth place, but in the end he became the most popular and the only name still remembered by people. Unfortunately, the two broke up later, and Liu Mei left Huanyi from Yitian. The popularity of singers has also plummeted due to various reasons. If his fans hadn't complained in the forum and mentioned Liu Mei, Sui Qingchi would probably think that Liu Mei brought out a C idol, it was just a coincidence.
It turned out that it was not a pheasant studio at all, Sui Qingchi stared at the phone, his mind went blank.
When Fu Cuo came back, there was no one in the room. Sui Qingchi went out, and only sent him a WeChat message, saying that he would come back later, so he didn't have to wait for him to eat.
Fu made a bowl of noodles for himself, and when the noodles were ready, he sent Sui Qingchi a WeChat message: When you come back, I have good news for you.
He just came back from the recording studio, asked about the cost of recording and mixing, and finally decided to start recording Xifeng's first CD. After returning from the tour in July, he drastically rewrote the arrangement of several songs. He made up for the progress that had been dropped before, and the accompaniment was ready in less than a week. It's a big deal to release a CD. Although not many people listen to CDs these days, musicians still dream of releasing a CD.
I thought that Sui Qingchi might be going out to eat or hang out, but I didn't expect to come out after taking a shower at night. I saw that it was half past ten, and Sui Qingchi hadn't come back yet. He didn't reply to the WeChat messages sent to him, it's not like Sui Qingchi. Fu Cuo wiped his hair with one hand, looked at the phone with the other, and flipped through the WeChat with Sui Qingchi. There was nothing wrong with Sui Qingchi during this time.
He couldn't help but sent another one: When will you come back
After a while, Sui Qingchi replied: five minutes.
Fu mistakenly thought that Sui Qingchi came back casually, but he didn't expect the door to open five minutes later. He was sitting in front of the computer, and he had just turned it on, when he turned around, he saw Sui Qingchi lowering his head to change his shoes.
"So fast?" He pulled off his headphones and asked.
Sui Qingchi lowered his head and lazily changed his shoes, the corners of his mouth curled slightly, and said, "It's very punctual."
Fu Cuo was a little curious at first, and wanted to ask him where he had been, but Sui Qingchi's action of bowing his head and changing shoes seemed to take longer than usual. After knocking on the cabinet and changing his shoes, he walked in and put his backpack on the sofa, went to the kitchen counter to pour himself a glass of water, and never asked him what the good news was from the beginning to the end.
Fu Cuo frowned: "Sui Qingchi, are you okay?"
Sui Qingchi just looked at him: "Huh? Very good." He put down the water glass, walked over, supported Fu Cuo's computer chair back with one hand, looked at the Cubase interface on the screen, and asked, "What are you writing?" ?"
"I didn't write anything," Fu Cuo smiled, and took off the earphones, "It's the accompaniment tape."
Sui Qingchi blinked: "Accompaniment tape?"
"I'm going to record a CD."
Sui Qingchi looked at him, and after a while he said dully: "... Really? It's good."
This was not the reaction Fu Cuo expected at all. Sui Qingchi's eyes were even a little dull. He took the headphones that Fu Cuo put on the table and put them on. He clicked on one of the songs with the mouse and listened for a while: "Did you change the accompaniment?"
"Um."
Sui Qingchi heard half of it, as if suddenly remembered something, and asked: "Is there enough money to record the CD?"
Fu Cuo nodded: "Enough."
"It's not enough, I have more here." Sui Qingchi said.
"Enough." Fu Cuo said, somewhat puzzled why Sui Qingchi had been absent-minded since he came back.
Sui Qingchi took off the earphones with both hands, put them back on the table lightly, and said, "Just enough."
When I was sleeping at night, after the lights went out, Fu Cuo heard Sui Qingchi ask: "You haven't said the good news in your WeChat."
Fu Cuo couldn't laugh or cry: "Didn't I already tell you?"
Sui Qingchi looked at him sideways: "... just record a CD?"
"Yeah, what do you think it is?" Fu Cuo smiled, "Are you going on a global tour?"
Sui Qingchi also smiled, a ray of light flashed across his side face, that smile seemed weak, Fu mistakenly thought that he should be sleepy, so he said: "Go to sleep."
Although the lights are turned off, the windows of this cheap rental house face the road. Even if the lights are turned off and the curtains are closed, the house is always illuminated by the colorful storefronts of roadside shops. Cars often pass by, and there is a smooth line on the ceiling. Okay, or a tree shadow passing by, like a movie, but fortunately, his sleep quality is good, and he rarely suffers from insomnia. But Sui Qingchi is always on his mind.
Fu Cuo saw Sui Qingchi closing his eyes wearily, the lights and shadows on the ceiling seemed to be disturbing him all the time.
Fu Cuo posted a CD intention survey on Weibo. In just one day, the number of votes reached over 4,000. AK looked at the data and couldn't believe it: "Really? Don't just play around with us! "
Fans have even started to look forward to the cover and lyrics book, but the four of them didn't think much about it. AK said: "Why spend all this money, when the time comes, I will take a picture for each of the four of us with my mobile phone, four pictures Put it all together, and there's a cover!"
After that, the band set a time to enter the studio for recording. On August 10th, there is still one week to rehearse. This week they rehearse almost from morning to night. After all, they have to record ten songs, and half of them are new arrangements. .
Fu Cuo will never forget the days of fighting for the band's first CD, and it may be because it is only this one time that it is so precious.
Before the rehearsal, everyone would chatter and look in the mirror. This time, everyone went all out, and even AK didn’t make any jokes. Before the rehearsal, all four people handed in their mobile phones. Once they were practicing, they started to sweat. Khan, it is indeed much hotter than usual, AK pulled his sweaty T-shirt and asked, "Is the air conditioner broken?"
Sui Qingchi walked to the air conditioner, the air outlet was blowing wind, but there was no air-conditioning, everyone's collars and backs in the mirror were drenched with sweat.
After calling the landlord to fix the air conditioner, they hurriedly waited for half an hour. After all, it takes time to repair the air conditioner. After the maintenance personnel came, several people were overheated, and all four of them took off their shirts. Fans gave them little The electric fan finally worked. Sui Qingchi lay flat on the floor. Fu Cuo stood above his head drinking water. He looked down at Sui Qingchi lying at his feet. The young lead singer's chest was covered with sweat. He was up and down, and his flat and firm belly loosened and tightened as he breathed. The passing AK whistled: "Oh, master, you have beautiful abs!" Fever, as if he had boasted that.
Sui Qingchi looked up and saw him, spread his arms flat on the floor, and said, "Lie down, it will be much cooler."
Fu Cuo lay next to him, and his back touched the cool wooden floor, which made him feel much more comfortable. AK also lay down on the other side, dragging Tan Si to sleep on the floor together, AK suddenly said: "Oh, I thought of it!" Yigulu turned over, ran to the door to get a mobile phone and a selfie stick, and lay down on the spot again , raised the selfie stick high, and shouted, "Brothers and young masters, look at the camera!"
The group photo captured the four of them lying side by side on the floor of the rehearsal house, but only the upper body was captured. AK took back his phone, and shouted after watching: "Sui Qingchi! Didn't I let you watch the camera?!"
Fu Cuo looked to the side, Sui Qingchi closed his eyes and tilted his head to one side, as if he was too lazy to answer.
Tan Si said, "Show me."
AK handed him the phone and said happily: "Except for the fact that the young master didn't open his eyes, everything else is fine. The fans will definitely like it!"
Tan Si couldn't help laughing after watching it: "Why? Because it looks naked?"
AK laughed loudly: "Tang Ge also knows me!"
Tan Si's smile made Fu Cuo feel relieved, as if the cloud that had covered their heads during this time had finally dissipated.
Tan Si returned the phone to AK, AK sent it again, Sui Qingchi didn't answer it at all, and was still resting with his eyes closed, AK patted his arm, Sui Qingchi didn't move, AK curled his lips and said, "Are you dead! "
Fu Cuo took the mobile phone from AK, probably because everyone was dizzy from the heat, and the shots were taken casually. No one posed for the shots, but the effect was surprisingly natural. Although Sui Qingchi didn't look at the camera, he might be sleeping with his head tilted like this The appearance is more suitable for the rebellious West Wind lead singer. Leaving aside the heat in the room and just looking at the photos, it was like a cozy midsummer afternoon when the four of them woke up from a dream together.
That's not right, Fu Cuo looked at Sui Qingchi who was tilting his head with his eyes closed and smiled in the photo, and some people didn't wake up.
AK sat up and gave Sui Qingchi a kick, and said, "Get up and have a look, the three of us took a good shot, but you ruined it alone!"
Fu Cuo said: "I don't think it's ruined, so let's just take this one and use it as the cover."
The rehearsal lasted until the day before entering the shed, and on the last day all the staff had a holiday to adjust their state. That day, Fu Cuo didn't wake up until eleven o'clock. He was woken up by the noise outside the house. Surprisingly, Sui Qingchi, who was always more sleepy than him, had already woken up. He was wearing a large camouflage T-shirt shirt, standing by the window looking down, holding a mug.
Fu Cuo got up and got out of bed, and asked, "When did you get up?"
Sui Qingchi still looked out the window, took a sip from the cup, and said: "It was an hour ago."
After Fu Cuo washed up in the bathroom, he also walked to the window wonderingly, opened the curtains, and the sunlight came in directly, accompanied by the rushing heat. At this moment, the noise outside was much quieter than before. Just in time to see the end of the crowd passing down the street, with little rainbow-colored flags waving in their hands.
He watched them go all the way, like a whale, cruising across the river bend.
Sui Qingchi said: "Fu Cuo, let's come out."
Fu Cuo suddenly looked at Sui Qingchi.
Sui Qingchi also looked at him calmly.
"What did you say?" Fu asked wrongly.
"I said let's come out." Sui Qingchi said.
"...Are you serious?"
"Seriously," Sui Qingchi put the coffee in his hand on the air conditioner window, "Why should I joke with you about this kind of thing?"
Fu Cuo looked back and forth at the person in front of him. Sui Qingchi's expression was like a calm lake. He knew how good Sui Qingchi was at going to extremes. Once he was serious, he would really do that, but he couldn't figure it out. Why does Chi suddenly have a whim, it is impossible to see a rainbow-colored flag one morning, just like a child listening to the wind and rain.
"Why?" he asked.
"Why can't others know when we are together?" Sui Qingchi asked back.
He asked lightly, as if he had already prepared a draft, how to respond to each sentence, Fu Cuo was at a loss, but knew that he couldn't follow the rhythm of Sui Qingchi: "Because you are the lead singer of Xifeng," he said, " It doesn’t matter to me, but it’s not okay to you.” I thought that you are going to come out with me now, have you ever thought about what to do in the future? I went against my original intention and gave up signing Houhai. I just wanted to see the day when you stood on the stage shining brightly, but now you tell me that you want to destroy your future
"Is it really for me?" Sui Qingchi lowered his eyes, turned the cup on the air conditioner with his fingers, raised the corner of his mouth ironically, "Aren't you for Xifeng?"
"For Xifeng, for you, is there any difference?" Fu Cuo said, "You are the lead singer of Xifeng."
"I'll ask you again," Sui Qingchi raised her head and said, "Do you want to come out with me?"
Fu Cuo couldn't take it anymore, and frowned, "Why do you have to come out with me? Is there any reason why you must do this?"
Sui Qingchi stared at him and said, "The reason is because I think."
Fu Cuo finally caught a hint of madness from Sui Qingchi's seemingly calm expression. He still didn't know why, but if it was Sui Qingchi, it seemed that no matter how crazy he was, he was born with the right to mess around with his temper. , no reason is needed.
Fu Cuo took a deep breath, looked at him, and said sternly: "Sui Qingchi, I can promise you anything, not this one, at least not now." At this moment he was really a little angry, thinking that you are going crazy. Can you destroy yourself? !
Sui Qingchi glanced at him, thinking that this person, even if he was so gentle and restrained when he was decisive, he still couldn't be hated. He let go of the hand holding the cup, turned away from the window, picked up the backpack on the sofa, said, "Got it." Then he walked out the door without looking back.
The door opened, and Fu Cuo asked, "Where are you going?"
Sui Qingchi said: "I've been bored in the cabinet for a long time, go out for a walk."