Time passes silently.
The evening self-study in the second year of high school has not started yet, and students go home as soon as school is over. Before the evening self-study in the third year of high school starts, the school radio station will play some pop music, including Xu Huaiyu's "I'm a Girl", Lin Zhixuan's "Mona Lisa's Tears", and the recently popular "Sad Pacific". Qin Xizhen's songs are almost the same as these ones, becoming the representative with the most songs on the list.
The ethereal sound floated throughout the campus, and some students hummed along while walking in the flower beds and playgrounds.
It was the song "Love of My Life".
"After the lover leaves, he will never come back. The love has faded. I sit alone and look at the shore of the world without saying a word...
For you, the love of my life is waiting outside the white clouds...
The sea of suffering stirs up love and hate... "
Sometimes when Cheng Ran heard people around him discussing Qin Xizhen’s songs, arguing about her ever-changing styles, and talking about her title as the Queen of Music, he would feel as if he was in another world.
This is only in high schools like No. 10 Middle School. When the trend of entertainment spread, most students focused on their studies and the trend of chasing after things was not too strong. At most, they would share an earphone with a good friend during extracurricular time, and a group of friends would sing on the way home after school.
In the nearby university town, these songs have appeared frequently in recent campus talent competitions and have been repeatedly requested in the music city. In this era when Hong Kong and Taiwan music has become popular in the mainland, there will be songs that lead the trend every once in a while and spread in the streets and alleys. There will also be a group of singers who are recognized for their talents and become the mark of the Chinese music scene of that era.
Sometimes I feel a sense of accomplishment when I think about it this way. Just think about it, who could have known that the trend of Three Kingdoms Kill and the origin of these songs that stirred up this time and space were just in such a small corner of the school. Big things were accomplished in the most unlikely place. Although such a life may not be as powerful as parading around in the streets with a large crowd of people following, it has the beauty of returning to simplicity.
Besides, this is No. 10 Middle School, the "Tsinghua University" among the provincial high schools that only existed in people's legends in his previous life. He never had the chance to study there, but in this life, Cheng Ran got in based on his real ability, just like enjoying a cup of tea in the hot summer, savoring its astringent and sweet taste.
Life is full of flavors, but once you enter the world of fame and fortune, there is only one flavor. No matter whether you like it or not at the time or afterwards, whether you are tired of it or not, even if you are worth billions and have tremendous power, it will only remain in your dreams at midnight and you will never see it again.
The renovation and construction work of the Tianxingdaoguan building is proceeding in an orderly manner. Jiang Zhou quit his part-time job and now helps Cheng Ran to take care of it. Cheng Ran has agreed on a salary with him. The basic monthly salary is temporarily set at 2,000 yuan, and there is a lot of room for fluctuation with profits in the future. He also owns 5% of the shares.
Jiang Zhou's vocational school was in the second semester of the junior year, and now they wanted to kick out the students who stayed in school one by one to sign contracts with employers, so that the school could also promote the employment rate. Jiang Zhou suddenly became the manager of Tianxingdaoguan, which made a big splash in his vocational school. Of course, more people spread it by word of mouth. Jiang Zhou was originally a hidden boss in the school, mainly because he made many friends and had a wide network of contacts. In fact, this was also his advantage. He was a man of great moral integrity. This was a bit of good news, and friends everywhere helped to promote it. Of course, there were also people who said it to flatter him and were proud to know him.
The most popular rumor was that Jiang Zhou was appreciated by a big boss and started a coffee shop with a partner. This made many of his classmates who had found good jobs and felt superior feel envious. Most of them found jobs in enterprises and institutions, and some were formally employed after passing the exam, but the word "partnership" with someone else still made people jealous. From working for others to working for himself, this was no less than completing the second jump in the life plan that most people imagined.
Especially Jiang Zhou, who used to be only seen hanging around in front of the school's part-time job posting board and picking up contact notes, is now the one posting the recruitment notice. After he left, some people went over to take a look and saw that there were often more than a dozen part-time waiter job openings, and they were secretly shocked.
Jiang Zhou's popularity with women seemed to improve all of a sudden. Some of his classmates or senior classmates who heard the news would take time out to visit the street on the edge of the city near Tianxing Dojo.
That day, the neon tubes that Cheng Ran ordered arrived at the store and were to be installed on the facade of the building. The workers worked during the day, and in the evening, Jiang Zhou saw that several parts were not installed in place, so he climbed up the scaffolding, brought tools to adjust them, and hammered the nails in. After finishing, he took off his gloves and put them aside, sat on the iron rack, took out a cigarette and lit it, when he suddenly heard someone calling him from below.
Jiang Zhou turned around and saw the girl who was not unfamiliar to him in the college. Her name was Jiang Yan. Because they both had the surname Jiang, they were always together in a group of brothers. However, Jiang Zhou was notorious for his gangsterism and fighting. His family conditions were not good and he earned his tuition by working part-time. Jiang Yan was considered a school beauty in the vocational school. She had two boyfriends before, but they both broke up. During this period of emotional emptiness, someone wanted to bring them together, but Jiang Yan seemed to have no response. At this time, she was standing under the shelf, wearing a long skirt and carrying a bag across her body. She looked up at him and saw Jiang Zhou smoking from the side, which was quite manly.
In the end, the two of them only exchanged a few words briefly, but the girl said that if it was open, she would bring people to play, and Jiang Zhou smiled and said okay. Jiang Yan hesitated for a moment and then said, let's go to karaoke some other day, let's go together. After Jiang Zhou agreed, the girl left happily.
Jiang Zhou sat alone, lit another cigarette, and watched the sun set over the city limits.
The light tube behind me was tested for the first time at night and lit up.
The four words "Tianxingdaoguan" outlined by the light tube covered his figure.
…
Every afternoon after school, Cheng Ran would walk a little way to see the construction of the inn. Jiang Zhou would wait for him there every time and report the progress to him. On this day, when Cheng Ran was leaving the school gate, Yuan Huiqun hurried up behind him, stood in front of him, and said, "Guo Yi came to Qin Qian to get back together again, did you know that?"
This was a bit impolite, but Cheng Ran thought she was just being girly, so he didn't take it as an offense and just shook his head.
Yuan Huiqun paused and said, "She asked me to ask you, what should she do?"
Cheng Ran was stunned for a moment. What was going on
After thinking for a while, Cheng Ran said from a technical point of view, "Let her protect herself."
Yuan Huiqun was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, she was so good at protecting herself. What on earth do you mean by that!? In fact, Yuan Huiqun came directly to Cheng Ran because Guo Yi directly pulled Qin Qian's hand on the playground today to get back together with him, and his words were full of sarcasm, saying something like "Why are you vomiting this air with me? Do you think you can stimulate me by bringing up that transfer student? That Cheng Ran was Jiang Hongshao's former classmate in Shanhai, and it seems that he is obsessed with Jiang Hongshao, you have no chance at all!"
Later, Qin Qian and Guo Yi had another quarrel, and then Qin Qian broke free from him and ran away. Yuan Huiqun looked at Qin Qian's appearance and felt sorry for her sister, so she went to find Cheng Ran after school.
Seeing Cheng Ran walk past her and say this, Yuan Huiqun couldn't help but ask, "What is your relationship with Jiang Hongshao? Are you really just classmates from high school?"
In fact, Qin Qian cried later and told her that she couldn't stand Guo Yi's entanglement, but it seemed that there was no other way. If someone else could make Guo Yi give up at this time, it would be great. Yuan Huiqun gritted her teeth and asked Cheng Ran if it was okay. Qin Qian wiped her tears and said that if Cheng Ran took the initiative, she could accept it.
Yuan Huiqun, with the idea of sticking up for her sister, went straight to Cheng Ran and said what she had said before.
Cheng Ran turned around and said, "For now, it is. I can't say for sure what will happen in the future."
Yuan Huiqun glared at him for a long while as if on behalf of Qin Qian, then stomped her feet and left.
Cheng Ran then looked over Yuan Huiqun's shoulder and saw a car that had appeared frequently on the street opposite.
Thoughtful.
…
After the sign of Tianxing Dojo was in place, the glass was replaced, and the exterior of the building was completely new, and the solid wood tables and chairs selected by Cheng Ran himself were made and shipped over from a nearby factory, Cheng Ran heard what Lao Jiang had told him some time ago.
Her grandfather came to Chengdu, and she was thinking of going there with Cheng Ran to meet him on Saturday.
When Cheng Ran got the news, he was reading the local news and newspapers in Chengdu, but there was no information for reference. Chengdu was as calm as ever.
But Cheng Ran intuitively felt that there seemed to be a huge ship of 10,000 tons that was slowly and silently approaching the land.