"He Tianran, how many other things have you hidden from me?"
Wen Liang complained that her boyfriend had been out playing with a band for almost a year, and he didn't even tell her at all!
But does she really not know?
No, when Xue Yong helped He Tianran promote He Tianran in the circle of friends, he also invited Wen Liang. She had always known about He Tianran working outside. Not long ago, Wen’s mother said that He Tianran was the first in the art exam and was a rich second generation. The exposure even appeared on TV, and the interview took place in the bar where his band sang...
Wen Liang just forgot...
And he forgot so neatly and so completely that it caught people off guard...
He Tianran forced to suppress the restlessness in his heart and said calmly: "Don't talk about you, Brother Pu, I would have forgotten if you didn't mention it. Those were all things before I started school. After school started, we had so many things happen. I was so busy. But come here, I don’t even have time to go.”
"Yeah?"
"You are with me every day, do you think I have time?"
"...Yeah, that's right."
Wen Liang had no doubt that he was there. A lot had indeed happened during this period. Moreover, when He Tianran was working, she was either in the art exam training class or returned to her hometown. She was indeed absent for a long time. It was natural that she didn't know... …
"Then wait a minute, you have to introduce me to all the friends you make in the band!"
"Oh, they say it's a new store, but you may not be able to find it. Besides, I'm a part-time guitarist and I'm busy during my senior year of high school. How can I have so much social contact?"
Boss Park on the side smiled and said: "Xiao Wen wants you to ask this. She wants to ask you whether you picked fruits and smelled honey after playing in the band!"
He Tianran simply put it on and said in a sullen tone: "What are you doing?! Who am I!"
Wen Liang, who was driving, saw that he was pretending to be boastful and bragging, so he wasn't so worried. After all, he happened to be with Cao Aiqing at that time. If such a thing really happened, it probably wouldn't be her turn to worry.
"Anyway, you can't hide this kind of thing from me in the future, do you know that?"
"Okay, okay, I promise not to hide anything from you!"
He Tianran made a promise and showed his loyalty, but deep down, he felt sad...
Wen Liang really wants to know everything about him and get involved in his life, but all this...
How long can it last?
…
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The new store in Yanjiao Alley is located on a road called "Yuzhou Back Street North" between the Hong Kong Academy of Fine Arts and the Sports Academy.
This road is right next to the Academy of Fine Arts, so for a long time, large areas of graffiti walls have made this street the most distinctive street in the entire university town.
It is said that the graffiti creativity here was promoted by the dean of the Academy of Fine Arts. At that time, the university town with the University of Hong Kong as the center had just been completed. The Academy of Fine Arts was one of the first art schools to move its campus here. Naturally, It was necessary to make some moves, so the entire graffiti project took half a year, and nearly a thousand workers, students and artists were gathered to participate in the production. Tens of thousands of kilograms of various colors of paint were spent, and various types of brushes were consumed. , oil brushes are countless.
Nowadays, on both sides of this street, there are many trendy toy shops and boutiques during the day. As long as it is something that young people like to play and is popular, there will be it here, such as two-dimensional maid cafes, board game shops, and black box theaters. There are countless more, and once the bars open at night, the place becomes even more lively and lively. If you want to play all night long, it will be effortless.
Although these stores are not as high-standard as the boutiques in the city, what they pay attention to is this unique and orderly atmosphere. The important thing is that these businesses are all business for students. How can students care about the specifications? of? Low consumption is the way to go.
And because this street is so happy, the majority of students affectionately refer to it as the homonymous name - Universe Back Street North.
There is even a proverb:
"Toyo Akihabara, Port City Universe Street, although it is low-end, but, ah~~ I haven't seen this real youthful atmosphere for a long time. It's been a long time since I've been here. I'm a little drunk..."
Wen Liang found an open-air car and parked it. After the three of them got out, Boss Park stared at the cat-eared maids handing out flyers in the cafe not far away and let out a sigh.
The young couple smiled when they heard this, but did not try to expose the adolescent imagination of the thirty-year-old single magician.
The three of them walked along the street for another four to five hundred meters, and finally came to a warehouse building with a banner that said "Not yet open, love is coming". He looked up and saw the name, "Yanjiao Alley 2.0" The signboard with a few words attracts the eye simply and crudely.
Outside the door, He Tianran could already hear subtle music coming from inside. After pushing the door open, hard-core rock music hit from all directions through the speakers everywhere, which was deafening and full of presence.
He Tianran looked around. Not to mention that this place is quite big. A small livehouse can accommodate one or two hundred people. The previous Yanjiao Alley main store probably did not have this size. It can only be said that it was under the banner of livehouse. It's a music bar, but now it's a shotgun. This place can accommodate four to five hundred people without any problem.
"Stop, stop, stop, damn, I just installed the speakers and let you grandsons play with them, right? Change people, change people, the next group is here, go up."
At this time, the violent rock music in the ears suddenly stopped, and was replaced by a burst of yelling, which made several young people on the stage shake their heads in despair, and they were at a loss when they stood on the stage.
"Let me make it clear first, I don't want heavy metal bands here. I'm not discriminating against heavy metal. I'm discriminating against you, a bunch of students who don't have enough skills to play heavy metal!"
The yelling in the speakers continued. The guitarist and lead singer on the stage swept away the uninhibitedness and madness he had shown when he roared just now. He used his own cigarette voice or a voice that had become hoarse, and carefully said hoarsely:
"Aren't you cool enough, teacher? Teacher, please give me another chance. Our band has also prepared a funk song!"
"You still sing funk with that broken voice? I didn't say fxxk, it's good! Get off now and let someone else get on!"
At this moment, Wen Liang listened to the curse and rested his head on He Tianran's shoulder. His body was shaking, and it was obvious that he had stopped laughing.
He Tianran saw that there were nearly thirty or forty people sitting in the audience at this time. They must all be here to be the resident college band.
Fatty Park led the two of them closer to the stage. At a glance, he saw the owner of the Yanjiao Alley bar cursing on the mixer on the side of the stage, holding a microphone and waving to him.
He Tianran originally wanted to hide. After all, the boss had been urging him to return to the band since September. It had been three months since he had given him any confirmation. He was already angry.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he moved his head behind Brother Park's fat body, a sentence came from the speaker:
"He Tianran! Hey, you bastard, just stand there and don't move!"
The three-piece band was immediately startled as soon as they stepped onto the stage.
"You sing yours."
The bar owner added, put down the microphone, jumped off the mixing desk, and walked quickly towards the three of them.
"Hey, Lao Lu."
"Kun'er is here."
Two old boys in their thirties each said hello. The bar owner named "Lao Lu" looked past Pu Zhikun's fat body and looked at He Tianran.
The young man licked his face in embarrassment and said with a smile: "Brother A...Long time no see..."
Lao Lu's full name is a mystery. There is only one nickname: Lu Alan. Most acquaintances call him Lao Lu. Younger brothers and sisters like He Tianran will respectfully call him Brother Alan or Brother A.
"So you're still alive and kicking? Didn't you say your hand was broken? Where was it broken?"
Lao Lu looked He Tianran up and down, and when he saw that the other person was fine, he took the opportunity to express his gratitude.
"Isn't this bad..."
"Okay, why don't you contact me? You young people today like to fire your boss without saying a word, right?"
He Tianran laughed along with him: "Brother A, what you said is that I'm back, right?"
Lao Lu was not polite and said: "Huh, is that right? You said this. Come on, let me introduce you to a band that happens to lack a decent lead guitar. Everything else is pretty good, except for the one just now. Duan SOLO is really bad at playing, just change your work location to here from now on."
When He Tianran heard this, he became anxious: "No, Brother A, I'm just here for a stroll, I don't plan to go to work..."
"What the hell?"
"Oops, I think you gave me too little, Lao Lu."
Park Zhikun on the side helped translate.
Boss Lu was stunned, looked at He Tianran, and then looked at his best friend who played in a band with him when he was young, and felt happy.
"Ah, agent, right?"
Fatty Pu gave a wink, "Hey, half and half, look at what you said, Xiao He was not introduced to you by me at the beginning."
Boss Lu deliberately tried to make things difficult: "Let me be clear about this. If you just give me a guitarist, I won't be able to perform. My current salary is based on the configuration of a band."
Boss Park hadn't even started talking yet, Wen Liang on the side couldn't wait, raised his hands and said cheerfully: "There's me, there's me, I'm the lead singer!"
At this time, Lao Lu turned his attention to the girl next to He Tianran.
In fact, he spotted this hot girl when he came over, but he didn't see her clearly because she was wearing a hat. At first, he thought she was He Tianran's girlfriend Xiao Cao. After all, He Tianran had met her on the first day When I came to work in the bar, the little girl came to accompany me, and we all got to know each other later.
But when Wen Liang raised his head now, his bright appearance that was completely different from Cao Aiqing's soft style lit up, Lao Lu immediately turned his gaze to He Tianran and said meaningfully:
"Tsk, tsk, tsk... you kid... I finally understand why you haven't come to work in the past three months... What a sin."
Wen Liang didn't know why, so He Tianran could only laugh twice and said to his girlfriend, "Do you really want to come?"
Wen Liang nodded happily: "Yes! Let's have fun! And you can also make money, how great! Come with me, it would be fun for us to form a band together!"
"Wait a minute!" Although Wen Liang's cheerful personality is very contagious to others, as a livehouse manager, Lao Lu still has to say something ugly first. He said: "Sister, I am completely assured of your natural guitar skills. Yes, but you said you are the lead singer, then the most important thing for the band is the lead singer. Everyone who comes here can sing, and the three major parts of the band are guitar, bass and drums. What do you know?"
"I don't know how to do it, I can only sing!"
Wen Liang replied crisply, bouncing excitedly with his feet, seemingly not taking this objective factor to heart.
Lao Lu really laughed and explained patiently: "Actually, it's okay, but I only play live bands here. The worst is that if you join the natural duo, he will just have a guitar to accompany you, but the things he can sing are very limited. Oh."
After all, it's not the kind of welcome stage on campus that used to be. The duo only had one piano. It was okay once or twice, but it did become a bit monotonous in the long run.
Wen Liang glanced at Fatty Pu, who immediately spoke: "Hey, Old Lu, that's too much. You have so many people here, why are you allocating just a few of them to me?"
Lao Lu was also happy: "Hey, why do you really think of yourself as a manager? Okay, give it a try, Chengzheng. Anyway, there are no more, it's just one person, do you want it or not? Guitar, bass and drums, you choose one." "
When Pu Zhikun heard this, he said with disgust: "Look at how stingy you are, just give it to one person, which adds up to three people. The lead singer doesn't know how to play an instrument. What's the use of giving it to this third person? You can give us a keyboard."
Today's three-person band is missing something if it lacks one of the three major components. But if it is not available, the keyboard is the best choice!
Because there are so many timbres in the keyboard, the keyboard can basically imitate almost every instrument and timbre heard in a song. Even a powerful keyboard player can play all the instruments by himself, even if it is criticized by others. So pure, but to put it simply, the keyboard is equivalent to a panacea.
Lao Lu was unhappy: "No drums? What a waste of time if you don't have drums? Can you hear the imitation drum sound on the keyboard?"
After all, there is indeed a gap between the drums played on the keyboard and the real drums, and Lao Lu is a drummer. Hearing them play without drums is unbearable.
He Tianran immediately boasted: "Brother A, please help us string it together. Who are you, the King of Drums in Hong Kong City? This is just a matter of convenience. Anyway, in the end, I am not helping you make money!"
"Then if I go up, the nature will be different. Down below, the dozen or so bands who came today are watching. I went up with you just to make proofs. I can tell Tianran, but little girl, you will be under a lot of pressure. Well, if I don’t sing well, I will put down my burden and leave on the spot, so don’t cry then.”
Wen Liang was not afraid at all, and was even a little eager to try. She said loudly:
"I'm not afraid of the teacher. Anyway, if I don't sing well, if you want to blame, just blame He Tianran. Let him tell me the truth!"
Lao Lu really liked the girl Wen Liang's fearless character, and her appearance was also very amazing. He couldn't help but think to himself, even if this girl's singing skills were only at a passing level, the band would basically be successful, because this In terms of appearance alone, it is already top-notch.
"Since you are so confident, well, just wait and I will prepare it for you."
Old Lu walked away. Brother Park exchanged a few words with the two of them, took out his own shooting equipment, and began to help shoot some things in the venue.
The young couple found a place to sit down, and then looked at each other for a moment.
Seeing Wen Liang's eyes sparkling, He Tianran asked with a smile:
"Do you really want to play in a band?"
Wen Liang nodded heavily, then suddenly thought of something again, shook his head repeatedly, and corrected in a serious tone:
“It’s not that I want to play in a band, and it doesn’t have to be a band, but I want to play with you!”
I'm afraid no boy in this world can stand such a sincere words from his girlfriend...
I want to play with you.
The young man felt as if something had been pried open in his heart, and as if something had been put down. He suddenly pulled Wen Liang over, and their lips pressed together fiercely. Wen Liang was confused by He Tianran's sudden kiss. And next, she heard her boyfriend say something that dazzled her:
"Okay, then I'll have fun with you!"
(End of chapter)
