Chapter 46: Immortals

Xiao Yao's addition solved the guitarist's problem and made the band complete again, but there was only one week left for the school anniversary, the rehearsal time was still very tight, and the band's crisis was still not completely solved. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

"Jan has just joined us and the fit-in aspect is a big problem and we need more time to rehearse and run in. But next week is the school celebration performance, the time is too tight, the school activity class during the day is too little, this time is not enough to rehearse, so from today, we will practice more at night. Do you have any questions?" Dean suggested to the crowd.

As a team, we still have this collective consciousness. Everyone shook their heads and said that it was no problem to practice at night, but at the same time, new questions were raised.

George said, "We don't have a problem with the timing, but what about the venue? The instrument room has to be locked after school, so we can't rehearse in the instrument room at night, right?"

"There's a lot of space in our garage," Dean frowned and gritted his teeth, "Go to our garage at night to practice." ”

"Neighbors will complain. Sarmien reminded Dean.

"Sammy!" Dean gave Samion a disgruntled look.

"I'm telling the truth. Sarmien shrugged.

"I have an idea," Xiao Yao said, "There is a warehouse at the back of the supermarket where I work, and the space is large enough, so we can move the stacked goods and rearrange them, which should make enough space for the band to rehearse." And there are a lot of things piled up in the warehouse, and the sound insulation effect is also very good, so it won't make noise to others. Mr. Johnson, the owner of the supermarket, is a nice guy and we discussed it with him and I think he would agree. ”

"Yes, old Robert is a good man, and we can ask him to do him a favor. Sarmien's eyes lit up.

"Agreed. The other three agreed.

"Okay, now that the time has been agreed and the venue has been figured out, let's start tonight. Dean began to command, "Sammy, you've been buying a job too, and you and Jan should go to old Robert after school, and if he agrees, we'll pull the instruments over." Mike, is there a problem with driving your dad's pickup truck out when you get home from school and helping us play the instrument?"

"No problem. Mike made an OK gesture.

"So the next question. Dean waved his hand in satisfaction and looked at Xiao Yao, "Yang, don't waste your time at school today, first familiarize yourself with the songs we are going to perform." ”

"Okay," Xiao Yao nodded, he didn't listen to lectures in class to see anything else, but he was no stranger to him at all. "Is there a score?"

"Scores, of course... No!" Dean looked at Xiao Yao and said: "The song we want to perform is "Explosion" by the band "Daydream", you can download it with your mobile phone and listen to it, there should also be guitar scores picked up by netizens on the Internet, you can download it from the Internet and watch it yourself." ”

"Daydream's 'Explosion'? Why? Shouldn't the band perform their own songs?" Xiao Yao looked at Dean with some confusion.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Xiao Yao said this, the other four members of the band all looked at him.

"Jan, are you making fun of us?" George looked at Xiao Yao and said, "If we can write good songs ourselves, who wants to perform others?" We are all just middle school students, and we can't write our own original songs. ”

"There are also middle school students who can write their own songs. Xiao Yao replied in his heart, but wisely did not say it. It turned out that it was a band with no creative ability, and it was no wonder that the rest of the band was not too popular in the school except for the beautiful drummer Sarnyon.

"I mean," Xiao Yao quickly raised his hands and said, "I can." Since I'm a member of the band now, the songs I write are the songs of our band. ”

"You... Can you still write songs?" The rest of the people looked at Xiao Yao with their mouths wide open.

"Yes. Xiao Yao nodded.

"So, you can write a song for us to perform for our school celebration during the day today?" Dean looked at Xiao Yao in disbelief.

"Of course not," Xiao Yao found that everyone looked at him like a monster, and quickly shook his head and said, "I wrote it before, but I haven't published it." It's just the right time to put on a show for a band. ”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Xiao Yao's eyes a little more normal.

Sarmien asked curiously, "What kind of song, can you sing it to us first?"

"I'll listen to it in the evening. Xiao Yao shook his head, "There are some details of the songs I wrote before, I need to recall them, I thought about the details of the songs clearly when I was in school during the day, and composed the songs." Let's read the sheet music during evening rehearsals. "Actually, Xiao Yao hasn't figured out which song he wants to play in his previous life.

At this point in the discussion, the lunch break is already halfway over, but everyone has not yet eaten lunch. Now that the plans for the rest of the band have been discussed, everyone left for lunch.

Xiao Yao spent two classes in the afternoon, and finally selected "Immortals" by Falloutboy in his previous life as the band's performance repertoire, and wrote the scores for the performance of various instruments.

After school in the afternoon, Xiao Yao heard two car horns as soon as he left the school gate, and when he looked up, he saw Sarmien driving her second-hand car waiting at the school gate.

"Are you waiting for me?" Xiao Yao pushed his bicycle to the driver's window of the car and asked Samian, who was sitting in the driver's seat.

"Yes," said Sarmyne, nodding, "didn't you say that I would go with you to old Robert to borrow a warehouse for rehearsals after school? ”

"But my bike?" Xiao Yao looked at the bicycle he was pushing with some embarrassment.

"Just stay in school, and you won't be stolen. Sarmien glanced at Xiao Yao's bicycle unhappily. I also recalled the scene when Xiao Yao saw Xiao Yao's bicycle the day after beating Joey.

Early the next morning after Xiao Yao beat Joey, Sarmien was about to drive Xiao Yao to school as usual, but saw Xiao Yao pushing a bicycle out of the house.

"Where did this bike come from?" Samion said suspiciously, looking at Xiao Yao.

"I went to the flea market after school yesterday and bought it. Xiao Yao replied with a smile, "So in the future, I will ride to school, so I don't have to trouble you." ”

"Why? Is it because you think I'm in trouble by taking my car?" Samion looked at Xiao Yao very unhappily.

After Xiao Yao beat Joey, there was still a saying in the school: it was because Joey saw Xiao Yao going to school in Samion's car that day and was very unhappy, so he went to Xiao Yao for trouble. And Xiao Yao's approach, in Samin's eyes, obviously means that she is a trouble and wants to stay away from her.

"Of course not," Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "You can pick me up on the way to and from school, but when I want to go to "buy more" to do part-time work, I can't let you drive me to pick me up, right? Now that I've bought a bike, I can just ride it myself to and from school, so I won't bother you. ”

"Whatever!" Samion turned his head, slammed the accelerator, and drove away.

Although Xiao Yao's explanation is very reasonable, since then, Samion is still very unhappy every time he sees Xiao Yao's bike.

Seeing Xiao Yao put the bicycle back into the parking shed on campus and walked out again, the corners of Sarmien's mouth quietly raised a little arc.

"What is this?" Samion said curiously as he watched Xiao Yao open the co-pilot's door and sit in the car, several pieces of paper were stacked on top of each other in the diagonal schoolbag, rolled into a paper tube and inserted on the schoolbag. Then he glanced at the inside of the paper tube and seemed to have a few parallel lines, which looked like a stave, and without waiting for Xiao Yao to answer, he asked again: "Did you really write out all the songs you want to perform in the afternoon?"

"yes. Xiao Yao nodded.

"Do you know how to drive?" asked Samion.

"Yes. Xiao Yao continued to nod.

"Okay, then you come and drive, I'm going to read the score. Sarmien said, and began to unbuckle his seatbelt.

"But I don't have a driver's license. Xiao Yao smiled bitterly.

"What?" Samion stopped unbuckling his seat belt, looked at Xiao Yao in amazement, and said, "You mean you don't have an international driver's license, it's just a matter of supporting documents, why don't you do it?"

"No, I mean, I don't even have a Chinese driver's license. Xiao Yao spread his hands and said, "According to the law in China, you can only take a driver's license at the age of eighteen, not sixteen under the law of the United States, and I am only seventeen, so I don't have a driver's license." ”

"I didn't get a driver's license, you said you could drive, you tricked me?" Samion looked at Xiao Yao with dissatisfaction.

"No, I do know how to drive, I learned, but I'm not old enough to get a driver's license and can't go on the road. Xiao Yao continued to smile bitterly. Driving is a skill that Xiao Yao already knew in his previous life.

“****!” Samion slapped the steering wheel unwillingly, and could only start the car helplessly. She didn't dare to let Xiao Yao drive without a license.

After arriving at "Buy More", Sarmyon and Xiao Yao approached the black boss Robert Johnson and asked for a warehouse to be used as a rehearsal for the band. Whether it was Samian before or Xiao Yao now, his work performance in the supermarket was very good, and Old Robert liked these two young people very much, so he generously agreed.

With Robert Sr.'s approval, Saramien immediately called Dean to inform him. When Dean received the news, he immediately began to arrange for the other two partners to start transporting instruments and equipment to this area. Xiao Yao and Sarmien went directly to the warehouse and began to move the goods and clear the place for the band.

It didn't take long for Mike to arrive at the warehouse in a blue picar with instruments and equipment. Then, three of Sarmien's girlfriends also drove over to help, although the three of them did not know much about the installation and commissioning of musical instruments, but they could also help move the goods in the warehouse.

By about half past six in the afternoon, the goods in the warehouse had been restacked, and a large area had been vacated, and all the instruments and equipment brought by the band had been installed and commissioned.

"It's finally done. Dean exhaled, looked at the watch on his wrist, and asked, "Go home for dinner, and then come back?"

"There is a fast food restaurant next to it, so why don't you go and buy takeout and eat it. "Jan has already written out all the scores for his songs, so you can read them while eating, familiarize yourself with them, and start rehearsing as soon as you finish eating." ”

"OK, agreed. Mike and George said immediately. Hearing that Xiao Yao had already composed the song, they couldn't wait to see it.

"Then let's go buy dinner, and everyone will talk about what they want to eat. Three girls who were not members of the band took the initiative.

"Thanks, I'm going to eat fried noodles. Dean was the first to speak, and what he ordered was Huaxia food.

"I'm going to fry dumplings. George followed.

Several people took turns to report the food they wanted to eat, but I don't know if it was because of Xiao Yao's relationship or Dean's relationship, and the food they ordered was all Huaxia food.

"Well, hopefully there are restaurants in Huaxia nearby. The three girls sighed helplessly.

"Yes, go out and go left, and there is one at the right turn at the third intersection, which tastes good. Xiao Yao reminded. He had already visited the nearby area, and the restaurants in Huaxia were naturally the focus of the investigation.

"Thank you. The three girls said hello, and then went out of the warehouse together and went to the restaurant that Xiao Yao said to buy dinner for everyone. (To be continued.) )