"Okay, I see. Xu Wenxiang stared at Xiao Yao for a while and nodded, "It is also a very common thing in the industry for the creator to appoint an original singer. Since you, the creator, have identified Ah Yun, I have nothing to say, I promise you!"

"Just now you said that you plan to record this song yourself," Xu Wenxiang continued, "The target market for this song is Hong Kong Island, and when the song is released, Ah Yun will do some promotional activities on Hong Kong Island." Our company has a very professional recording studio, I don't know if you are interested in recording this song in our recording studio? In this way, you can avoid Ah Yun flying to Shencheng and then flying back to run the publicity, and secondly, as a musician, I also want to see what you look like when you record your music works, maybe you can also communicate with each other. ”

"I originally wanted to record this song on Hong Kong Island, and by the way, I will see your company's recording studio," Xiao Yao glanced at Yang Shiyun's agent next to him, "Didn't Sister Yan tell you?"

"Really, that's just right!" Xu Wenxiang said with a smile.

"Mr. Xiao, I have one more request. Chen Manli interjected.

"Please!" Xiao Yao waved his hand.

"Mr. Xu just said that the target market for this song is Hong Kong Island," Chen Manli said, "but we all know that the mainland market is much larger than Hong Kong Island now." I know that you are very talented, and I don't know if you can fill in another version of the Chinese lyrics for this song and make another Chinese version of the work. ”

"Good idea!" Before Xiao Yao could answer, Xu Wenxiang took over with a smile, "I remember that your "Red Rose" and "White Rose" are like this. The song is exactly the same, one in Chinese and one in Cantonese. It shouldn't be hard for you, right? We can count it by two songs. ”

"Don't hide it from you," Xiao Yao said with a bitter smile, "When I wrote this song last night, I also wrote a version of the lyrics in Chinese, but I tore it up later!"

"Why?" Xu Wenxiang wondered.

"Not satisfied," Xiao Yao smiled and shook his head, "The lyrics of the Chinese version I wrote look okay, but compared to the Cantonese version of the lyrics, I have no interest in recording it at all." "White Rose" and "Red Rose" back then, I was very satisfied with the lyrics of the two versions, so I came out together, and this time I felt that the two versions were quite different, so I didn't want to release them. ”

"Can you show me?" Xu Wenxiang asked, "I know you said that you have torn it, but I heard that you have a very good memory, even if you have torn it, you should be able to write it out silently, right?"

"I can't take it, I don't want to write!" Xiao Yao waved his hand, "I know that the Chinese market is larger than the Cantonese market, and I will not prevent you from publishing the Chinese version." The original Cantonese version of this song, the original song can only be a rhyme, so I will not authorize the copyright of the cover until at least half a year later. But you can find someone to refill in the lyrics of the Chinese version, and I can give you the right to cover the Chinese version now, and as for the singer, it doesn't matter if it's poetry or not. ”

"Are you confident that no one can write a better Chinese version of the lyrics?" Xu Wenxiang said with a smile, "You are really unusually confident in yourself!"

Xiao Yao smiled and did not answer.

"Then it's settled, and I'll call someone to prepare the contract. Xu Wenxiang saw that Xiao Yao did not answer, nor did he continue the topic, but wanted to finalize it.

"Don't worry!" Xiao Yao said with a smile, "As long as the general direction is said, I don't care about the details of the contract, so I usually don't talk about the contract in person." Since we have paid lip service to agreement, I am confident that we can agree. I'll let my studio send someone over in a moment, and it should be there tomorrow. I'll leave the contract to the professionals, and now, I think I can go to your studio and start working, right?"

"Start now?" Xu Wenxiang said in surprise.

"Well," Xiao Yao nodded, "I'm going back to Shencheng in a few days, and it's estimated that I can only stay on Hong Kong Island for four days at most, so I want to record this song as soon as possible." ”

"Four days? If you just record, there should be no problem, but now you only have a score, no arrangement, no soundtrack, is four days enough?" Xu Wenxiang said.

"If it goes well, I don't think it will take more than four days. Xiao Yao said, "This time I came to Hong Kong Island, I just went out for a day yesterday, and there are still some places I haven't visited!"

"Hiss~" Except for Yang Shiyun, everyone else took a breath and looked at Xiao Yao in surprise.

"That's it," Xu Wenxiang looked at the watch on his wrist, "It's not too early now, I'll be the east, I'll invite you to lunch first, and by the way, let the recording studio make some preparations, and help you contact the musicians and recording engineers you need." After lunch, I'll accompany you to the studio to see how you make the arrangement. ”

"No," Xiao Yao said, "I don't need a recording engineer or musician, I'll just be on my own." Lunch is just fine, and if you can, I think it's a good idea to have a bento box in the studio. ”

Xiao Yao saw that Xu Wenxiang and others still had some contempt for mainlanders in their bones, and they also had doubts about their ability to record a song in four days. In this case, I simply don't need YH's free labor, and I plan to let them see their own recording skills.

"Senior, can I go and watch you do the arranging and soundtrack?" Yang Shiyun said, "I haven't seen it yet." ”

Yang Shiyun is very confident in Xiao Yao. When he was in the show last year, Xiao Yao threw the music of "Learning to Meow" to the six of them after composing it, went to the recording studio by himself, and then brought the soundtrack back in one afternoon. Yang Shiyun absolutely believed that Xiao Yao could do a good job of arranging and sounding music in one afternoon, but she didn't know how he did it. This is a chance to see, and of course I want to see it.

"Yes, don't delay the recording tomorrow. Xiao Yao looked at Yang Shiyun and nodded.

"Recording tomorrow?" Xu Wenxiang and Chen Manli looked at each other, a little speechless.

Xu Wenxiang went out to order someone to prepare the recording studio, and Xiao Yao took advantage of this time to call Fang Yi and asked her to send someone to Hong Kong Island to help him negotiate the copyright contract for the song. Fang is still Xiao Yao's agent, but since the establishment of Xiao Yao's personal studio, Fang still rarely comes forward in person. For such a trivial matter as the copyright of a song, it is obviously not necessary for Fang to still go out in person, and let the studio send someone over.

After Xiao Yao and Fang still finished the phone call, Xu Wenxiang also arranged a recording studio, and Xiao Yao followed Xu Wenxiang to a recording studio on the third floor. In addition to these two people, Chen Manli, Yang Shiyun and Yang Shiyun's agent also followed.

Xu Wenxiang has not seen some musicians independently arranging and producing soundtracks, but most of the people he has seen generally arrange various instruments through software on the computer, and they are basically constantly modified and debugged one bar at a time, but Xiao Yao is different.

After entering the recording studio, Xiao Yao first checked the various equipment in the recording studio, and after reading them all, he sat down on the chair on the operating table, propped his elbows on the armrests of the chair, tilted his chin on his fist, closed his eyes and pondered.

"He's not here to sleep, is he?" Looking at Xiao Yao's appearance, Xu Wenxiang and Chen Manli glanced at each other silently.

Ten minutes later, just as Chen Manli looked a little impatient and wanted to speak, she saw Xiao Yao suddenly sit upright, operate on the operating table with both hands, and then push the door and walked out. A moment later, everyone saw through the glass window in front of the console that the door of the recording studio opposite was opened, and Xiao Yao walked in. After turning around and closing the door of the recording room, Xiao Yao moved an electronic keyboard, debugged it, connected the equipment, and played it with both hands on the keys.

Xu Wenxiang was able to understand Xiao Yao's operation, so he immediately took out a pair of headphones, plugged them into the headphone jack on the console, and then put on the headphones and listened.

After playing for a few minutes, Xiao Yao stopped playing the electronic piano, turned around and opened the door of the recording room, and returned to the operation room in a moment.

After Xu Wenxiang saw Xiao Yao stop playing, he took the headphones off his head and sat aside, but the headphone jack was not unplugged. Xiao Yao came back and saw the plugged in headphones, and he didn't say a word, sat down in front of the console and put on the headphones, and operated the equipment on the console again.

Xu Wenxiang sat next to Xiao Yao, and clearly saw that Xiao Yao pinched off a recorded audio track before and after, and then made some adjustments to the middle part, and then saved it.

"This is going to make a good audio track?" Xu Wenxiang asked in surprise when he saw Xiao Yao take off the headphones.

"Almost, I'm going to record another one. With that, Xiao Yao turned around and went out again, and went to the recording studio opposite.

After playing the electronic piano for a few more minutes, Xiao Yao returned again, listened to the second part he recorded, and did some processing.

When he got up and entered the studio for the third time, instead of touching the electronic keyboard, he moved a microphone to a set of drums, sat on a stool behind the drum kit, and picked up the drumsticks.

Although Xiao Yao looked a little silly running back and forth like this, no one in the recording studio laughed at Xiao Yao for being stupid, but they all showed shocked expressions.

"Ah Yun, did he really write this song last night?" Xu Wenxiang looked at Yang Shiyun and asked.

"It should be~ right?" Yang Shiyun also said with some uncertainty, "He didn't come to Hong Kong Island to look for me, I met him by accident yesterday." Yesterday I did take him to Lee Tung Street, and I told him about the history of Lee Tung Street and some of the stories I knew about Lee Tung Street, and then when I went to him this morning, he showed me the score of the song. Perhaps, when he wrote this song last night, he already thought about the arrangement of this song?"

As far as Xiao Yao's current performance is concerned, it is obvious that the arrangement of the whole song is already in his head. Although I have done it for more than ten minutes in front of the operating table before, it is hard to believe that just sitting for ten minutes, the arrangement of a song can completely appear in my mind.

"Even if he did it last night, it was terrifying. Xu Wenxiang shook his head and said, "If I go shopping with you on Lidong Street, I can write such a song." From being inspired, to coming out to writing a song, to making an arrangement plan, it takes a total of one night. Such musical talent and talent can be said to be overflowing. ”

"Looking at him like this, it didn't take him an afternoon to make this soundtrack. If you play well enough, maybe you can record the official version tonight. Xu Wenxiang sighed again, "It only takes one day for a song to be produced from the time it appears to the time it is produced, and that includes sleeping and talking with us about copyright! He's only in his early twenties, right? Not to mention the young musicians on Hong Kong Island now, even when I was young, I couldn't do this!"

"Mr. Xu, you don't have to be like this. Chen Manli heard Xu Wenxiang say this, and comforted him, "He is not an ordinary person. Singing and writing songs won awards, acting won awards, and the animation films made by the director also won awards, and the two movies produced won billions of box office around the world. ”

"It's just to buy a song, if it's another musician, we need two directors to go out in person? Don't you just want to see this wonder boy with your own eyes!" Chen Manli continued, "If he is like everyone else, how can he achieve those results?

"Yes!" Xu Wenxiang nodded, "If he doesn't have anything special, it will make people suspect that the results he has achieved are fake." It's just a pity that such a young genius is not from Hong Kong Island, not from our company. ”

"The mainland market has surpassed Hong Kong Island, which is the general trend. He is from our company, and I'm afraid we can't control it. Chen Manli smiled, "You can see his character from his performance when he talked to us about the copyright of the song just now." His parents are both well-known stars in the mainland, and he has a studio at home, but he independently opened his own studio and opened a film and television company with a few friends. There are actors and singers in his family's studio, but in recent years, he has worked with almost no singers and actors under his parents' studio. Not to mention that we can't control him, I'm afraid his parents have very limited influence on him. ”

"Ah Yun," Speaking of this, Chen Manli turned her head curiously to look at Yang Shiyun on the side and said, "I'm curious, why did Xiao Yao suddenly write a song for you, and you have to designate the original singer? Is it really just because you took him shopping last night? Do you have any other connections?"

"Hmm~" Yang Shiyun thought for a while before replying, "Maybe it's because we're friends, right? When I participated in the women's group talent show in Hangzhou, the mainland, he was the assistant senior of our group. We stayed together for a week, got along very well, and should be considered friends. ”

After thinking about it, she still decided to hide Xiao Yao's request for her uncle to be an art director. Xiao Yao said that writing songs for himself was in return for being a tour guide for him yesterday, at least on the surface, Xiao Yao did not show that he wrote songs for himself because of his uncle. She felt that even if Xiao Yao had that consideration in her heart, she definitely didn't want others to say that.

"I remember you just said that he didn't come to Hong Kong Island to look for you, you met by accident. Chen Manli then asked, "Then do you know what he came to Hong Kong Island for, just to play?"

"He's here for his new movie. Yang Shiyun didn't hide it this time, "He came to find an art director for his new film." ”

"That~" Chen Manli was about to say something, when she suddenly felt that Xu Wenxiang touched her. Turning her head and seeing Xiao Yao coming out of the recording room opposite, Chen Manli said to Yang Shiyun, "Let's not bother Xiao Yao to make the soundtrack, you can go to the office with me, let's talk alone." ”