—You are still very good.
-You did very well.
- Don't be afraid, don't run away.
Lu Yan covered his face with his hands and buried his head deeply.
The back of the man's neck, which had been covered by long hair before, was several degrees whiter than other places, and the exposed skin was dazzled by the lights in the hall.
Wet liquid fell between the fingers.
When Lu Yan cried, there was no sound, it was unbelievably quiet.
He slowed down for a while, and said in a muffled voice, "I told you to call Brother Yan."
Xiao Heng paused.
Lu Yan's breath was unsteady, and he unexpectedly insisted on this insignificant issue. He let go of his hand, and when he looked up again, there were not many traces of crying on his face, but his eyes were red.
"..."
"It's a beautiful idea," Xiao Heng took out a tissue and directly covered his face, "Whoever is older has no points?"
When Xiao Heng mentioned that "little", he deliberately and subtly paused for a second.
Lu Yan took down the piece of paper, thinking of the two months of poor ID card and the 'little' other than age, said: "Fuck me."
After driving Xiao Heng to the computer to type on the keyboard, he sat still for a few minutes, got up and went to the kitchen to boil hot water, and went to the bathroom to take a shower while the water was boiling.
The shower cubicle is so small that you can touch the tiles when you raise your elbow.
When the water splashed on his body, Lu Yan thought: Why the hell is he crying.
Still crying in front of Xiao Heng.
Compared with this embarrassment of being late, Lu Yan turned off the shower switch, and found a more embarrassing thing in front of him: he didn't take his clothes.
"..."
After struggling for a few seconds, Lu Yan opened the bathroom door a crack.
Heng Xiao is checking the code.
The last cigarette has been smoked, so I can only hold the lighter to light it, just press it down with a "snap", let go, and hear a voice behind me: "Hello."
Xiao Heng turned his head and made a gap.
"Help me take off my clothes," said the seamstress.
Lu Yan couldn't see where Xiao Heng was at all, but he could hear the sound of the chair being pulled on the ground when Xiao Heng got up, and then the sound of footsteps from far to near.
When the footsteps got closer, Lu Yan stretched out his hand.
Xiao Heng stood outside the door and asked in a flat tone: "Do you want it?"
Lu Yan had a bad feeling.
Sure enough, the next second, the man said again in that lazy tone: "Call me Dad."
"..."
I, called, ge, ba, ba.
Lu Yan endured ten thousand swear words.
"Isn't it good for you to be a human being?" Lu Yan said.
Xiao Heng just teased him, he laughed, put the change of clothes in Lu Yan's hand, and reminded before letting go: "Your phone is ringing."
After Lu Yan changed his clothes, he opened the door and went out. The mobile phone placed next to the kettle rang several times.
He picked it up and saw several missed calls.
— Captain Spades.
Xiao Heng looked at him sideways: "Is there something urgent?"
"Probably not." Lu Yan dialed back and said.
In this era when daily contact is basically based on the Internet, making a phone call is nothing but an urgent matter.
Lu Yan explained: "...he blocked my Weichat, and there is no other way of contacting me except calling."
Xiao Heng: "Block the black?"
Lu Yan previously contacted many people in private in order to pry the corner, and later, in order to sell cakes to develop performance, he contacted the underground band one by one, and was also blocked by many people.
- How is your life doing recently
-No job hopping.
- We have been brothers for so many years, is it just for this kind of thing that I am looking for you
-
- You transfer me to 19.9 first.
-[transfer]
After receiving the money, Lu Yan replied: That's right, I have a cake here, and I'll send it to you tomorrow.
…
Xiao Heng, who had personally experienced Lu Yanqiang's buying and selling methods, tapped his hands on the keyboard twice, and said to himself that it was indeed Lu Yan's usual style.
Lu Yan originally expected that there must be nothing serious, but he called back. To his surprise, Captain Spade picked up the phone and laughed three times at him first: "Ha! Ha! Ha!"
Lu Yan: "... Are you crazy?"
Captain Spade was really happy, and couldn't help but let out another haha: "Ha! Lu Yan, that yellow hair promised to come to the underground bar to perform with us tomorrow. I'll tell you that your V group will lose."
Lu Yan understood what was going on.
Captain Spades had been oppressed by him for too long, and it was hard for him to get the chance to show off.
Captain Spade skipped over the key message of "It took Huang Mao 500 yuan to invite Huang Mao, and Huang Mao himself has no intention of joining their band" and began to imagine: "As long as he has felt the charm of our band, he will eventually Will definitely choose our band!"
Lu Yan poured hot water into the instant noodle bucket: "Don't say it's too full."
Captain Spades: "I'm very confident!"
Lu Yan didn't speak.
Captain Spades went wild alone, and hung up the phone reluctantly after fully showing his confidence to Lu Yan.
Lu Yan went through the words "tomorrow" and "underground bar" in his mind, leaned against the wall, and clicked on Li Zhen's dialogue box.
[Lu Yan]: Are you there
[Li Zhen]:
[Lu Yan]: Go to the underground bar tomorrow.
[Li Zhen]: Why go
Lu Yan's fingers paused on the phone screen for two seconds.
He stared at the unfinished instant noodles for a second, then turned his eyes away to look at the young master who was sitting in front of the computer typing on the keyboard, and finally bowed his head and typed three words:
[Lu Yan]: To rob people.
Tomorrow is a small music festival held only once a year in the speakeasy.
The so-called music festival is to invite a bunch of well-known and not-so-famous bands from the downtown area to perform, and each band has a song... Last year, their band also went there.
The spade captain deliberately chose this day, and his abacus was very loud.
the next day.
Before Lu Yan set off for the underground bar, he sat next to Xiao Heng and used the excuse of writing a song to watch him type the code for half an hour.
There were not a few lines of notes written on the piece of paper pressed under his elbows, and he only looked at the hands in front of him smoking a cigarette and typing on the keyboard.
He remembered that the man didn't sleep much last night.
Before I close my eyes and go to bed, the sound of the keyboard doesn't stop.
When he opened his eyes the next day, Xiao Heng was still sitting in front of the computer, and he sat for a long time.
Lu Yan tapped on the table with his fingers and asked, "Aren't you going to sleep?"
"Slept."
"How long have you slept?"
"Two hours." Xiao Heng said.
Sleeping for two hours? !
In the end, Lu Yan only said: "If you are sleepy, just sleep in my bed, and I will go out for a while."
"Go." Xiao Heng leaned back, biting a cigarette and looking at him.
Xiao Heng's expression when he said this was very similar to last night.
Lu Yan put the lighter in his pocket before leaving.
go.
These two words lasted until he got off the bus, and finally stood at the door of the underground bar.
The speakeasy is not really built underground, it's just a name. Since there is a performance tonight, there is already a queue at the door to get in.
Li Zhen and Lu Yan went to the bar, Li Zhen leaned on the bar and asked, "How do you know Huang Mao is coming today?"
Lu Yan: "Spades said it themselves."
Li Zhen: "I'll go, he provoked you?"
Lu Yan ordered two glasses of wine and handed him one of them.
Li Zhen slapped the table and shouted: "This is too contemptuous! We will take down this guitarist no matter what we say this time!"
As soon as Li Zhen finished speaking, the band Spades, who were the first to perform, was on stage to tune. The big curtain behind the stage showed the music festival logo, and under the red light, there were layers of smoke mixed with dry ice.
People and musical instruments were hidden in that cloud of smoke.
— This is a scene that Lu Yan is all too familiar with. Before Huang Xu and the others left the team, he had stood on that stage countless times.
After tuning for a few minutes.
A tall and thin boy came out slowly from the backstage. The man was carrying a black piano bag on his back. When he walked in and walked under the light, his dazzling yellow hair was revealed.
Facing Li Zhen's ambition, Lu Yan put his fingers on the glass, nodded and said, "Okay. Watch me take him off stage in three minutes."
"..."
Although Li Zhen's words just now were full of pride, he still has reason and knows what 'reality' is: "...Three minutes, you're bragging a bit too much."
Lu Yan didn't make a sound, leaning against the bar, pouring down the glass of wine in his hand.
on the stage.
Captain Spade sat behind the drum kit and said while stomping on the kick drum.
"Cannon, you will stand next to the kangaroo later."
Cannon nodded to show that he knew, and stood on the right side of the stage to adjust the equipment.
The kangaroo walked up to the captain and asked, "Captain, are you sure? I feel he is quite indifferent to us."
Captain Spade is still very confident: "It's nothing, Kangaroo! Don't you think we've already achieved half the battle!"
Kangaroo: "... Really."
Lu Yan was not far from the stage, and he just looked at Da Pao's yellow hair and that familiar face.
When he first met Da Pao, it was at the backstage of a band performance. The kid stopped him and asked him how to play the speed bomb in the middle.
At that time, Da Pao was still studying by himself, practicing note by note with a guitar book with a problematic arrangement.
The boy was only at the age of junior high school. Although he shouted "You are my opponent, I will beat you", he raised his head and bragged to his classmates at school, "I have a big brother, and my big brother is the most powerful in the world".
Many scenes flashed through Lu Yan's mind. He watched the boy who was so nervous to perform on stage that he was sweating, now standing on the stage calmly with his piano on his back.
One last thought:
… The kid has grown up.
After the cannon was tuned, he played another piece to test his hand feel.
At this moment, through the smoke on the stage, he vaguely saw a familiar figure standing below the stage—a man sitting on a high stool, wearing a simple black T-shirt, and his brow nails were a little dyed by the light. Red, with a cool metallic luster. One leg kicks the ground, and the leg is stretched especially long.
Even though the man didn't have long hair, that figure still gradually overlapped with the figure of the long-haired boy in the bar four years ago. Cannon's eyes suddenly opened, almost widened, and he completely forgot what the next chord was to be played .
Captain Spade was playing drums to the rhythm of the cannon, when the guitar suddenly stopped.
He was about to ask what was going on, when he heard Da Pao staring blankly at the audience, and after a while, he yelled: "Brother?!"
Everyone was full of question marks, and looked down the stage following Da Pao's gaze.
Captain Spade: "Brother? Has his brother appeared?"
Kangaroo: "A lighthouse on his guitar path? His idol?"
Even Li Zhen in the audience was muttering: "The man who is the most handsome and the best guitar player in the legend?"
Cannon's eyes were too hot.
Lu Yan felt that the gaze was so hot that it could almost burn him out, his palms were slightly sweaty, and he unconsciously pinched the tiger's mouth.
—Don't be afraid, don't run away.
Lu Yan took a deep breath, stood up from the high stool, walked to the edge of the stage step by step under the watchful eyes of everyone, and said to Cannon's eyes without hesitation: "Long time no see."
Lu Yan paused, then read out his name again: "Dai Peng."
kangaroo:"?!"
Li Zhen: "?!!"
Feeling very confident, Captain Spade who has already robbed half of the success: "...?!!!"