The final is after four weeks, original songs, themes are not limited.
Unlimited themes are like letting go of the reins, the wild horse neighs like cheers, and rushes towards the champion.
The members quickly decided on the repertoire, and after making a more dramatic adaptation corresponding to the stage performance, which can better arouse the enthusiasm of the audience, rehearsals began.
The rehearsals in the first two weeks went smoothly. The arrangement and stage action design were perfected in the running-in time and time again. A little tour or something...
Everything seems to be moving fast and on track.
But accidents happen.
Since the third week, Li Tan has been frequently absent from rehearsals. When the members asked what was going on, he only vaguely answered that something happened at home, and his embarrassing expression made it uncomfortable to ask again.
One day, on the way to rehearsal, Xie Xuanming turned a corner and suddenly heard Li Tan's voice.
"Is it okay for another week? It really won't work in a short period of time... I will find a way, please give me some more grace..."
Xie Xuanming listened silently. Li Tan's voice gradually changed from eager pleading to angry and helpless. He finally hung up the phone violently and squatted down powerlessly.
Xie Xuanming leaned against the wall and didn't move, feeling that something bad was about to happen.
His feeling was right. At the end of the third weekend, Li Tan came to the rental house and said that he wanted to talk to the members.
When Xie Xuanming came from the next door, Li Tan was sitting on the sofa, holding a cigarette in one hand and resting his forehead in the other, with a gloomy and haggard face.
"My younger brother, you all know that too." He gritted his teeth and cursed angrily, "He's a prodigal, and he will cause trouble sooner or later."
"What did he do?" Sheng Kongzhi frowned, "Going to gamble again?"
Li Tan didn't say a word, just buried his head and pumped hard.
Xie Xuanming couldn't get used to the smell of smoke, so he frowned slightly, Ji Sheng glanced at him, and said to Li Tan: "The smoke is pinched, Xiao Xie is not used to smelling it."
He asked again, "How much do you owe?"
"A hundred thousand." Li Tan said in a hoarse voice, pressing the cigarette into the ashtray.
"Fuck." Ji Sheng and Su Jing scolded at the same time.
They are well aware of Li Tan's family background. His father was paralyzed and unable to work, and his mother passed away early. Li Tan went out to work around after graduating from elementary school, and lived alone with his six-year-old brother and sick father.
Although in the past two years, Li Tan has had a stable job and the family situation has improved, but he only gets five or six thousand a month, plus the extra money from acting. This one hundred thousand is absolutely huge for Li Tan's family. payment.
"What is he doing?" Su Jing was frightened and angry, "He still goes out to gamble in the situation of your family."
Li Tan raised his hand and wanted to smoke again, but when he found that the cigarette was out, he could only twist his fingers twice, and said bitterly: "Who knows what he is thinking. The debt collector came to the door, and he could not repay with harsh words. Ten thousand cut off one of his fingers. My dad almost passed out when he heard that, I really... "
He couldn't continue, the members of Qingchu looked at each other in blank dismay, Sheng Kongzhi said after considering, "What are you going to do?"
"I have 50,000 yuan in my account." Li Tan said, "Go to a relative's house to borrow... Maybe I can make do with more than 10,000 yuan, and the rest... My dad asked me to mortgage the house in my hometown for some money..."
"Isn't your father living in that house?" Su Jing was shocked, "The mortgage is gone, where do you live?"
Li Tan patted the sofa anxiously: "I don't know, it's impossible for me to leave my dad with no place to retire. I thought it would be impossible to sell my kidneys, and I happen to know a few people who are in this business..."
"No!" The members said in unison.
Xie Xuanming frowned and said, "Buying and selling organs is against the law."
Ji Sheng followed up: "Xiao Xie is right, we can't do things that break the law, and this thing is illegal and unsafe, can you hold your missing organ and live as before?"
"Then what can I do?" Li Tan rubbed his temples, and said bitterly and irritably, "Will you see my brother's fingers being chopped off?"
Everyone stopped talking again.
"Actually, there are other ways." In the silence, Ji Sheng suddenly said, "We still have 30,000 in hand, and we can get another 15,000 if we win the game."
Li Tan was stunned for a moment, then raised his head suddenly: "But that's the money for the album."
"The album will be released again in the future, can your brother's fingers grow again if they are cut off?" Ji Sheng said angrily.
"I agree with Sheng Zi's opinion." Su Jing said.
Xie Xuanming frowned slightly, disapproving.
He's actually not that obsessed with releasing an album, but he knows how eager Ji Sheng is for it.
He thought for a while and said, "Actually—"
He wanted to say that there was still 10,000 yuan stuffed under his bed that hadn't been deposited in the bank, but as soon as he said it, Ji Sheng turned his eyes to him and shook his head secretly.
Xie Xuanming shut up.
Li Tan looked at the members of Qingchu in a daze and excitedly. He was overjoyed by the appearance of the method to break the game, but he felt guilty for destroying the prediction of Qingchu's dream.
He nana: "This, how embarrassing..."
"There's nothing to be embarrassed about." Sheng Kongzhi, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said, "The band is an unstable combination. Even if this incident didn't happen, Qingchu successfully released an album, and there is a high probability that it will disband."
His voice was as calm as usual: "Xiaosheng and I will return to school in three months, and we probably won't be able to continue our band life. I originally wanted to talk about it after the competition...but now that we have the opportunity, let's talk about it first."
Ji Sheng and Sheng Kong knew they were going to quit Qingchu.
Xie Xuanming was startled, he looked at Ji Sheng reflexively, but found that he was also looking at Sheng Kongzhi with a face of astonishment, as if he had never been told about it.
Aoide ended the conversation. In this conversation, they started with the loss of the guitarist, confirmed the failure of the album as the process, and announced the dissolution date as the end.
After the day of the match, Aide disbanded.
When Li Tan left, Ji Sheng called out sullenly, "Sheng Kongzhi, come out."
He rarely called Sheng Kong by his full name, and his expression was obviously worried.
Sheng Kongzhi's expression didn't change, he even gave Su Jing a comforting smile and followed him to the balcony.
Xie Xuanming couldn't help but glanced at the balcony.
Ji Sheng stood opposite Sheng Kongzhi, Ji Sheng looked gloomy, and Sheng Kongzhi looked helpless.
Su Jing thought that he was worried about the conflict between the two, so he patted his shoulder: "Hey, there is a quarrel at the head of the bed and peace at the end of the bed."
Xie Xuanming looked away: "Oh."
On the balcony, Ji Sheng said, "What's the matter with the dissolution, I never said I'm going back to school."
"You have to go back." Sheng Kong knew that it was hard to be tough, "Next year we will be juniors, and you will fail in the subjects that you say, and if you don't retake them, you will not be able to get a diploma."
"I don't care about breaking the evidence." Ji Sheng was sullen, "Don't teach me like an adult."
"You don't care, I care." Sheng Kongzhi said, "During the time I was playing in the band, my grade point plummeted. I got a scholarship in my freshman year. What about my sophomore year? What about my junior year? Ji Sheng, we agreed back then. Yes, let's go to college together, go to the big city together, the third year of high school was so hard, you gritted your teeth and survived, and now you tell me that you don't want a certificate... What do you make me think, do you want to say next step, you don't want me anymore, All you want is your band, your musical dreams, and your freedom!"
Ji Sheng was overwhelmed by his long-winded speech, and he spoke for a while: "Why... you want to put the band against you, this is not a conflict at all."
"But the truth is." Sheng Kongzhi calmed down and said in a low voice, "The situation at my house... You also know that my dad called me more than a dozen times and asked when I would go back to school... They offered me money It’s not easy to come out, let’s not talk about anything else, at least you have to finish your undergraduate degree, then find a job, and provide them with pensions... But now the band hinders my plan, I also thought about telling you that I quit, you can find another bassist … but… "
Sheng Kong knew for a while: "Do you know how many times my aunt called me?"
Ji Sheng raised his eyes suddenly: "My mother?"
"Yes." Sheng Kongzhi said, "The school called her, and she didn't know how to tell you, so she came to ask you about your situation and whether you can still graduate..."
Ji Sheng was speechless.
Seeing his hesitation, Sheng Kongzhi softened his voice:
"Xiao Sheng, if the band can be disbanded, it can be reorganized. You get your license first, and when you graduate and find a stable job, you can play in a band when you have the financial foundation, okay?"
Ji Sheng and Sheng Kongzhi finished talking, and the other members of Qingchu didn't know what they talked about, but Ji Sheng didn't say anything when he came back, as if he tacitly agreed to disband after the final.
Li Tan has to work hard to pay off his debts, Ji Shengsheng Kongzhi has to go back to school, even Su Jing is silent for a while and says it’s okay, I’m going to participate in an e-sports competition, the band really can’t take care of it...
"Xiao Xie? What are you going to do?"
After rehearsing one day before the final, Ji Sheng packed his luggage and asked.
"I..." Xie Xuanming hesitated.
The man named father called him several times, and his attitude gradually changed from patience to impatience.
Xie Xuanming thought that he should go back to Xie's house.
But he didn't want to say it, it seemed that as long as he was dumb, compromise and helplessness would not exist.
Ji Sheng didn't notice his hesitation, and continued to ask: "You will be in your third year of high school when you go back, what do you want to take?"
"I didn't think so."
Ji Sheng threw a few music theory books into the box, stood up, and looked at Xie Xuanming: "I haven't thought about it, or I haven't thought about it."
Xie Xuanming heard some meaning from his words, and looked up unexpectedly.
Ji Sheng and Xie Xuanming looked at each other for a while, lowered their heads, and smiled subtly: "That day at the bar, I saw the hemp rope in your bag."
"At that time, I thought, such a child who looks like a student doesn't go to school, doesn't like to play, and just dangles aimlessly with a hemp rope..."
"Have pity on me?" Xie Xuanming interrupted.
He took pity on me, so he borrowed the hemp rope to save me, gave me a bracelet to watch the performance, invited me to join the youth show, spent all his energy to repair the clock, took me to run around, bought cotton candy to accompany me on the Ferris wheel...
"It's pitiful, it's better to say it's a pity." Ji Sheng smiled at him, "I thought it would be a pity not to know such a beautiful child. So I knocked on your door and forced you to run away Here and there... Are you wondering what's going on with this big brother, who is rude, inappropriate and has no sense of boundaries, rolling around like a noisy hamster."
"No." Xie Xuanming denied, "Brother Ji, you are fine."
After being recognized, Ji Sheng laughed again. He squatted down and continued to collect the luggage, and said:
"There should be a lot of little girls who like you. If you don't go to school, will they be sad? Will they wait and see that the handsome guy didn't come today... And you, the first love who went abroad, you haven't thought about it Are you going to meet him? You have 10,000 yuan in your card, which should be enough to buy a round-trip ticket. Flying there, finding someone, and confessing to him is barely a youth without regrets... "
Ji Sheng looked up at him with bright eyes: "This world is very bad, but you should always have a few people who care."
"I have someone I care about." Xie Xuanming said in a low voice.
"uh-huh."
"But..." Xie Xuanming turned around, "I don't have my own life."
Ji Sheng didn't speak, but tilted his head slightly.
Xie Xuanming continued, "My mother is just creating a copy of my half-brother. She is counting on the fake to enter the house and replace it. I am her mother's expensive tool. My life is imitating others. I have no own life."
He frankly confessed his bleak life, even though his tone was as flat as telling someone else's story, the anger and loss between his words still flowed out like water.
Ji Sheng was silent for a while, and said, "But the you I know is the Xie Xuanming shaped by your life."
He looked up at Xie Xuanming, the mole at the corner of his eye was obviously black: "I really like Xiao Xie now, if you deny his existence, I will be very unhappy."
"It doesn't matter if you don't have your own life. To imitate other people's lives and live out your own color in other people's lives, that's your own life."
The author has something to say:
So Xiaoxie went to the drama school~ In order to perceive and imitate more "other people's" lives~