Chen Wan was the first girl to enter Li Mu's room.
When he was a boy, Li Mu was very shy. Before graduating from high school, he never had any close contact with any girls, and he would never bring girls home. But after he went to college, and until he started working, he could not persist in any of his relationships. It was time to meet the parents, so this was the first time that Li Mu brought a girl into his room.
Li Mu's room is not big, only about fifteen square meters at best. This small room is equipped with a 1.5-meter bed, a somewhat old desk, a glass-door bookcase, a wardrobe, and a handful of red cotton cards. wooden guitar.
The room was a little crowded, but very tidy. When Chen Wan stepped in, she smelled a special faint aroma. To her, that smell was like the aroma produced by clothes washed with laundry detergent and baked by the hot sun. It smells very comfortable.
There are several different posters on the wall, including one of Kurt Cobain and a banner poster of the Tang Dynasty band. The most special one is a cold-toned poster with a railroad track leading into the fog and a short-haired poster. The man squatted in the middle of the track, burying his face between his legs. Other than that, there was not a word on it.
"This poster is so strange." Chen Wan looked surprised, "There's no writing on it either. What's it from?"
"Dou Wei's album "Black Dream"." Li Mu said smoothly: "I got this poster from a stall for one dollar or five. I guess the pirates are irresponsible. The original version has the words "Dou Wei's Black Dream" on it, but this one doesn't. superior."
Come to think of it, in this era, Li Mu was still a super music lover. He liked pop music and rock. He was a fan of Michael Jackson, Black Panther, and Nirvana. He could play some guitar and had a pretty good singing voice. Plus Tall, thin, fair and handsome, I dare not say that he has charmed thousands of girls, but at least he is very popular with girls.
In college, Li Mu relied on playing guitar and singing, and also took the first blood of two girls.
When he thought of this, Li Mu missed his college days extremely...
Chen Wan then saw Li Mu's somewhat worn-out Red Cotton guitar and asked curiously, "Can you play the guitar?"
"Just a little, just for fun."
Chen Wan immediately said: "Would you like to play a song for me? There are boys in our school who play guitar. You, my roommate, play and sing, and it sounds pretty good."
"Nowadays, college students only have this little creativity." Li Mu shook his head helplessly.
Chen Wan pursued and begged: "Let me play a song for my sister. Let's play one by Xu Wei, My Autumn!"
Li Mu smiled slightly and asked curiously: "Xu Wei's first album was very negative. How could you, a fair and rich person like you, like it?"
Chen Wan ignored Li Mubai Fumei's teasing and said, "I like it as long as it sounds good."
Li Mu nodded and smiled, sitting on the edge of the bed and picking up his worn-out acoustic guitar from the corner.
This guitar was a gift from my mother to me when I was in the second year of junior high school. It cost more than 200 yuan at the time. It was the cheapest acoustic guitar, but the sound was pretty good. After playing it for several years, the sound got better and better. .
Li Mu picked up the guitar and tuned it using a slightly higher overtone method based on the first string. In order to take the college entrance examination, the guitar had not been played for a while and some of the strings were out of tune.
Chen Wan sat on Li Mu's chair. Seeing that he was very skilled in tuning, she straightened her posture and prepared to listen carefully.
Li Mu first strummed the first chord of "My Autumn", then suddenly stopped and said, "It's boring for me to sing whatever you order. How about I sing something you haven't heard before?"
"I haven't heard of it?" Chen Wan's eyes lit up and she said with a smile, "Okay, let's sing."
Li Mu nodded and recalled the chord score. After a simple and melodious fingerpicking prelude, he sang in his slightly hoarse voice:
"Zebra Zebra, don't fall asleep.
Show me your injured tail again
I don't want to touch the scar of your wound
I just want to lift your hair
Zebra Zebra you are back at your home
But I'm wasting my cold years
No door in your city is open for me
I will eventually get back on the road..."
Before the age of thirty, Li Mu loved rock music, and after the age of thirty, Li Mu loved folk songs. Fatty Song was his favorite, especially this song "Zebra Zebra". It talks about sorrow, but with a bit of vicissitudes and helplessness, telling the special emotion between a man and an injured zebra. Of course, the zebra is not really a zebra. Later generations generally believe that the zebra in the song refers to someone who was killed by someone else. Women who have been hurt.
Chen Wan had never heard of this song and had never seen the lyrics. She could only vaguely discern the lyrics from Li Mu's mouth, and then a fantasy picture emerged in her mind.
Li Mu has a very good voice, and his more than thirty years of life experience make it easy for him to embody emotions when singing.
"Zebra, zebra, do you remember me? I am a fool who can only sing..."
When Li Mu sang this line, Chen Wan held her chin and listened quietly, and felt an inexplicable emotion in her heart. The song in her mind was like a faint sadness floating on the grassland, making her intoxicated.
After singing the song, Li Mu's thoughts returned to the past of his previous life. Everything he encountered, rubbed shoulders with, and missed. Looking back now, it is neither salty nor bland, nor bitter nor spicy. It just makes people feel emotional. Yesterday he moved The first switch in the previous life was moved, but after one switch, the direction of the train of destiny and everything along its path will change.
Li Mu knew that he would never go to the second-tier university in his previous life. Everyone he met in the university in his previous life would probably have no chance to rub shoulders with him in this life, and he would not go to Yanjing to be a hard worker again. The coder, those colleagues, friends, and passers-by who met by chance will all leave their own world completely. On the first day of his rebirth, he chose to subvert everything. While moving his own switch, his The tentacles also found the crossroads in Chen Wan's life.
Chen Wan didn't know why Li Mu fell into silence after singing this song. She just felt that she was suddenly filled with sadness. The lyrics of this song did not directly describe any misery, but the atmosphere created was particularly touching.
Chen Wan asked with red eyes: "What's the name of this song?"
"Zebra zebra."
"Whose song is it?"
"Uh..." Li Mu then remembered that Fatty Song, who was born in 1987, should still be a junior high school student now. Whatever, he should be shameless. Who told you to be idle and still a young boy
"I wrote it myself."
As a person in his thirties, he has already developed the skill of bragging without changing his expression or heartbeat.
"Really?!" Chen Wan's world view suddenly collapsed, and she suddenly felt that she could not help but start to look up to this boy.
"Well, it's an exclusive original, and you are the first listener."
This is true, Chen Wan is the first person in the world to hear this song.
Chen Wan was even more moved. Recalling the poignant lyrics, she asked, "Why do we use zebras as metaphors for people?"
Li Mu raised his head, stared at the 45-degree ceiling at an angle, and sighed sadly: "Animals like zebras cannot sleep when they are alone."
One sentence adds a bit of poignancy and style to this song.
Li Mu said to himself, this pretender can definitely get full marks.
Chen Wan really began to admire this eighteen-year-old "boy" and wanted to ask some more questions, but unexpectedly, someone banged the door and shouted loudly outside the door: "Li Mu!"
It's Zhao Kang!
Li Mu stood up almost immediately and ran out to open the door with some excitement.
Li Mu had not seen Zhao Kang for more than ten years, so Li Mu was naturally very happy, although in this life he and Zhao Kang had only not seen each other for two days during the college entrance examination.
"Kangzi!" When he opened the door and saw the black boy with acne on his face, Li Mu stepped forward and took him into his arms.
Zhao Kang pushed him away in disgust, looked at him in surprise, and spat hard: "Fuck, I haven't seen you for two days, you are such a handsome guy, where did you get your hair cut? Why did you shave your beard? Are you not afraid of me? Aunt Li, do you like me?"
Li Mu looked at him and couldn't help laughing: "Why do you have so many questions?"
"Damn it, I just can't stand handsome guys like you." Zhao Kang gritted his teeth and smacked his lips: "This brother can't do anything anymore. Let's break off our friendship. Go and take out your mat and get another one. Kitchen knife, let's go out and cut the table with Guan Ning."
Zhao Kang is not handsome, with dark skin and passable facial features. However, he has a pimpled look on his face at this age. It is indeed a bit horrible to look at. However, in Li Mu's impression, he is also a standard funny man. If he can guide him well, , maybe I can become a joker in the future.
Li Mu raised his foot and kicked it, and cursed: "You keep talking nonsense, are you still coming in? If not, we will go directly to eat."
"I'm not going in." Zhao Kang waved his hand: "Just lock the door and leave."
"Wait, I'll ask my sister to come out and she'll be with us."
"Your sister?" Zhao Kang asked in surprise: "Where did you find a sister?"
Li Mu smiled and said: "I just recognized you, just wait."