Xia Yitong-[kneeling.jpg]
Lu Yinbing didn't reply, so Xia Yitong called directly. Lu Yinbing picked up the phone and asked indifferently, "What's the matter?"
Xia Yitong: "I miss you."
Lu Yinbing still replied calmly: "Got it."
Xia Yitong: "I didn't mention her on purpose. I just wanted to share with you some funny things that happened when I was recording the show."
Lu Yinbing closed his eyes for a moment, lowered his eyelids and looked at the tip of his shoes, and said, "I know."
She knew Xia Yitong's feelings, and she also knew that she would not look at anyone other than her. However, sometimes emotions were not controlled by reason. She could not see the person, and could not feel the other person's body temperature. There was only an Internet cable between them, just like dry firewood exposed to the scorching summer sun. As long as a little spark splashed on it, it would burst into flames. To put it out, she could only go through long psychological hints again and again to comfort herself.
Xia Yitong had long been accustomed to this kind of mood in the past eight years. Her experience of being unable to meet in a different place was not as profound as Lu Yinbing's, but she understood it. Her originally upbeat mood plummeted, and a shallow wrinkle formed between her brows.
Before she spoke, Lu Yinbing sighed and said, "Let's do a video."
At least you can see the people in the video.
The two of them started a video call on WeChat. Xia Yitong leaned in close to the camera, pressed their lips together, and made a "pop" sound. She called out in a relaxed manner, "Teacher Lu."
Lu Yinbing was not in a very good mood, his smile was gentle but still very light: "Yeah."
Xia Yitong said, "I was planning to give you a surprise, but I'd better tell you now. My next TV series will start filming on April 5th. There are four days between April Fools' Day and the 4th, so I want to come and visit you on set."
Lu Yinbing pulled the corners of his mouth slightly, an arc that could not be described as happy or unhappy: "What do you want?"
Xia Yitong: "No, I want to come and visit you on set. I will definitely go."
Lu Yinbing stared at her and asked, "Aren't you afraid of being photographed?"
Xia Yitong: "I'll be careful and won't be photographed."
"Okay, there's still half a month left." Lu Yinbing took the phone and set a countdown for the anniversary, defining it as the day they meet. After thinking about it, she set another countdown for four and a half months, defining it as "become mine." After looking at it for a while, her mood improved a little, and her smile to Xia Yitong returned to her usual gentleness.
Xia Yitong talked a lot afterwards, but didn't mention Cen Xi anymore. Lu Yinbing also told her about the crew, including a lot of gossip. Xia Yitong asked her in surprise, didn't you dislike listening to gossip before? Lu Yinbing said, I'll tell you what I'll tell you, otherwise I don't know what to say to you at night. Xia Yitong said, "I'm a chatterbox anyway, just listen to me." Lu Yinbing replied, "No, I want to chat with you, we can chat one sentence at a time, I can't just listen to you." Xia Yitong lay on the bed in a big letter, holding up the tablet with both hands and laughing.
"By the way," Xia Yitong said when the two chatted and yawned a little, "the crew of "Breaking Snow" asked me a few days ago if I had time to go to the studio to record the movie theme song."
"What's your name?"
"It's called 'Li Li'. I looked at the lyrics and music, it's pretty nice."
"Then go and record it..." Lu Yinbing could hardly open his eyes, and his voice was intermittent.
"I've already agreed. I'm just telling you." Xia Yitong softened her voice. "Be good and go to sleep."
Lu Yinbing rubbed his face, found the pillow, and closed his eyes. Xia Yitong's soft and beautiful singing voice came from the other side of the screen: "The dark sky is low/The bright stars follow/Insects fly, insects fly/Who are you missing... Insects fly and flowers sleep/Only pairs are beautiful..."
When he woke up the next morning, the tablet on the bedside had automatically shut down. Lu Yinbing held up his neck, which was sore from sleeping in the wrong position, and sat up from the bed. The countdown to the meeting was: fourteen days. The countdown to "coming out": one hundred and thirty-four days.
During these fourteen days, Xia Yitong took out half a day of free time from the gap between variety show recording and script polishing to go to the recording studio. Fortunately, they were in the same city, so she could drive there in the morning.
It was half an hour earlier than the time agreed with her, and the recording studio was not ready yet. The person in charge bowed and clasped his hands together, saying to her repeatedly, "Teacher Xia, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
Xia Yitong said: "It's okay, I arrived early on my own."
She found an empty seat and sat down, taking out the script she carried with her from her bag to read. The person in charge urged the staff to speed up the process. Xia Yitong heard it, frowned almost inaudibly, seemed to sigh secretly, and concentrated her energy on the script that she had already studied several times.
Just as she was immersed in the drama, someone patted her on the shoulder. Xia Yitong turned around and saw no one.
"Hey!" Someone called out from the other side of her. Xia Yitong looked in the direction of the voice and immediately stood up, saying in surprise, "Director Qin, why are you here too?"
Qin Hanlin smiled and looked at her: "Why can't I come? I told you that in our post-production, whether it is the movie special effects or the theme song, I have to check it myself. I don't trust others to check it."
"Why are you here this time?" Xia Yitong was a little nervous.
Qin Hanlin: "Listen to you sing."
"I..." Xia Yitong grabbed the corner of her clothes with her hands, and Qin Hanlin pushed her in. "Stop it, the sound engineer is urging you, go quickly."
Xia Yitong saw that the recording team was already ready, just waiting for her to go in. Usually, this kind of movie interlude might have an MV for promotion, so Xia Yitong dressed simply and casually today. Before going in, she took off her spring windbreaker, leaving only a tight black thin sweater, rolled up half of her sleeves, revealing her tight and white forearms, put on headphones, and under the lighting of the recording studio, her skin looked even whiter and more attractive.
She pursed her lips and smiled faintly, then nodded to the sound engineer, indicating that she was ready.
There was no prelude playing in the headphones. The prelude of this song was sung by a female voice alone, and it was used when Jing and Chen said goodbye to each other forever in the snow. When the person in charge of the post-production music talked to Xia Yitong, he said that humming requires relatively high techniques, and it is easy to make things worse if you are not careful. He suggested inviting a professional singer to take over, and Xia Yitong would sing the part with lyrics herself. Xia Yitong refused, saying that she could do it herself.
Since there is a profession called tuner that can save singing voices, as long as the singing is not too outrageous, it can be perfectly presented through post-production. The person in charge wants to listen to it live and see if it can be saved. If not, he will have to hire someone else.
It’s not like Xia Yitong hasn’t sung interludes for TV dramas before, but people in the industry all know how much water there is in the interludes sung by celebrities. To present a good interlude, the biggest credit goes to the tuner, not the celebrity.
Therefore, the entire recording team did not have high hopes for Xia Yitong, as long as she could perform at a normal level, it would be fine.
Xia Yitong closed her eyes, put her hands on the headphones, and moved her lips slightly closer to the microphone.
When a sound came from the monitoring headphones, the sound engineer suddenly opened his eyes wide, thinking he had heard it wrong.
It was a humming sound between nasal and open vowels, but clean and clear, without any drag, but it also revealed a hint of sadness and the vast emptiness of the world, which instantly pulled people back to the overwhelming snow, and sadness surged like a tide.
The final scene shot a few months ago was still vivid in her mind, flashing back in her mind one by one. Xia Yitong's eyes were filled with heat, and she spoke quietly: "The grass on the plain withers and grows again every year, and the moss on the fence will never see flowers bloom again..."
Her breathing is steady, her technique is expertly handled, and her voice is warm, but the feeling she makes when she sings makes people feel even more sad, because the warmer it is, the more painful it is when you lose it.
Xia Yitong finished singing, opened her eyes, took a deep breath, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with her fingers, and looked at the sound engineer outside the studio.
The sound engineer didn't respond for a long while, his eyes seemed to be sparkling, and finally he lowered his head and gave her a thumbs up, and sincerely commented: "A singer who was delayed by acting."
Xia Yitong smiled softly, and there seemed to be a flash of other emotions in her eyes.
Since her skills were so good, the sound engineer and music producer gave her some suggestions according to the standards of a professional singer. Xia Yitong understood it immediately, and after three takes, the sound engineer and producer could not find any faults and finished work early with satisfaction.
It's unbelievable. Your girlfriend's singing almost made me cry like a groundhog. Qin Hanlin was outside the recording studio, secretly sending a WeChat message to Lu Yinbing while Xia Yitong was recording a song.
Lu Yinbing was probably taking a break and replied very quickly - let me tell you, I thought she sounded very nice the last time I heard her sing a lullaby to me, no worse than professional singers, so I didn't make a wrong choice.
Qin Hanlin - No, no, I originally planned to ask Zhang Ge to sing later. She often sings movie theme songs, and her voice is really good, but she is expensive. This time I asked your girlfriend to sing, saving a lot of money [proud]
Lu Yinbing—Have you discussed with her how much it would cost to sing a song? [squinting]
Qin Hanlin - As soon as she heard about recording a song, she agreed immediately and didn't ask for a penny in remuneration. It seemed like she was going to make her contribution for free. So I didn't mention it to her. Talking about money would hurt feelings, right
Lu Yinbing - I would rather have my feelings hurt. If she doesn't mention it, I will do it. I won't calculate it according to the standards of the Queen of Songs. You just give her 500,000 for one song.
Qin Hanlin—I didn’t hear it, hehe.
Lu Yinbing—Five hundred thousand is already low enough, how much lower do you want to go
Qin Hanlin - one hundred thousand.
Lu Yinbing - 500,000, not a cent less, or I will do more NGs tomorrow so that this movie will never be finished. Don't expect me to participate in your movie promotions, I usually don't participate in promotions anyway.
Qin Hanlin—I don’t believe it. Your girlfriend must come, why don’t you come
Lu Yinbing - I pretended to be sick. I was very sick. Do you think she was going to accompany you on the road show or to take care of me? [Hehe]
Qin Hanlin - 400,000 [gritting teeth]
Lu Yinbing—Five hundred thousand. If you reply again, it will be doubled.
Qin Hanlin—Okay, okay, deal. I shouldn’t have brought this up to you.
Lu Yinbing - Stop taking advantage of our Xia Yitong. You are so shameless. I am going to find my girlfriend. Please kneel down and say hello.
Qin Hanlin knelt down angrily.
Lu Yinbing was having lunch that day when she received a call from Xia Yitong announcing the good news. It sounded like she was calling from inside the room: "My song recording went really smoothly this morning. The recording engineer and music producer both praised me!"
Lu Yinbing put down her chopsticks and motioned Xiaoxi to leave the lounge. After closing the door, she gently asked, "Hmm? How did he praise you?"
“They said I was a singer who was delayed by acting!”
Lu Yinbing was first infected by her and laughed, and then slowly frowned. Because in her memory, Xia Yitong was not so happy when Qin Hanlin praised her for her good performance.
Why can she sing so well? Even as well as professional singers
It seems that I have never asked her.