February 14, 1996, Zhuolu.

Today is Valentine's Day in the West, but this is a festival that will only become popular in the mainland in a few years, and now it is just an ordinary day that cannot be more ordinary.

The train from Liangcheng to Zhuolu is about 85 kilometers long, passing through six large towns in between, three in Liangcheng and three in Zhuolu, and only Nianzhuang Town, where Wang Ziyan's family is located, has a railway station.

The town of Nian Trang is a very large town, very large, almost the size of a small county town in the southern part of the province of Shangsu.

After having breakfast on the street, at 8:35 a.m., Wang Ziyan stepped on a train to Zhuolu, and his destination was a recording studio called Xinghuo on the 15th floor of the Dongfanghong Building, not far from the Zhuolu train station.

Xinghuo is a relatively professional recording studio, according to the person who answered the phone, they have recorded for some famous musicians, and the owner of the recording studio is the lead singer of a band.

At 10 o'clock, Wang Ziyan, who was carrying a backpack, looked up at the sign on the door, and after making sure that he had made a mistake, he pushed the door and walked into the studio called Xinghuo Recording Studio.

The recording studio is not big, only about 200 square meters.

The boss's surname is Cao, his name is Cao Kai, and he didn't cheat him, just recording a sample, the price is actually not expensive, the arrangement is 300 yuan for a song, and the recording studio charges 50 yuan for an hour.

Wang Ziyan didn't have any opinions, and he paid after he lived.

handed over the lyrics to Cao Kai to copy, and then followed Cao Kai into the only recording studio.

The recording studio is divided into two rooms, the inner and outer rooms, separated by thick glass walls, about a dozen square meters inside, and almost thirty square meters outside. The room was filled with all sorts of instruments and instruments, and there were four people sitting there, fiddling with the various instruments in their hands, talking softly.

Seeing two people enter, several people looked up and said hello, then lowered their heads again and began to fiddle with the instruments in their hands.

Cao Kai nodded in greeting, handed over a copy of the copy paper he was holding, and then walked to the wall full of musical instruments and took down an electric guitar.

While a few people were reading the lyrics, Cao Kai pointed to a heavy iron door on the side and motioned for Wang Ziyan to follow in.

Wang Ziyan followed Cao Kai into the recording studio, then handed Wang Ziyan the copy paper he was holding in his hand, and then taught him how to use the equipment, and handed him the electric guitar.

Wang Ziyan looked at the electric guitar in his hand, Yamaha's, not the top of the level, but it was also very good.

Liu Kai was relieved to see that he was skillfully tuning the electric guitar, turned around and pushed the door out.

Seeing Cao Kai nodding at him, he picked up the pick and began to try to play the first tune according to the melody in his memory, Qi Qin's "Don't Let My Tears Spend the Night with Me".

Ten minutes later, Wang Ziyan played the song three times, and felt that he was proficient enough, so he changed the song and tried to play it.

An hour later, after all the songs were basically proficient, Wang Ziyan put down the electric guitar and walked out of the studio.

After taking a cup of tea that Cao Kai handed over to protect his throat, Wang Ziyan found a chair to sit down and said with a smile: "Teachers, when will we start?"

Cao Kai said with a smile: "We all listened to it just now, and we played it well, you can take a break and we can start." ”

Wang Ziyan nodded, walked into the recording studio again with the glass of water, and then sat on the chair while waiting for everyone outside to prepare the relevant preparations.

About ten minutes later, Cao Kai turned on the microphone and said with a smile: "OK, you can start." ”

Wang Ziyan nodded and made an OK gesture to indicate that he understood, put down the teacup and picked up the guitar, then lowered his head and began to play, and a beautiful and sad melody came out.

It took nearly two hours for Wang Ziyan to record all the seven songs he brought over, and then it was up to him to see how well these people's scores were doing.

These seven songs are "Don't Let My Tears Stay with Me Overnight" written by Bai Jinfa and composed by Zhang Zhen; "Ruthless Love Letter" composed by Liu Tianjian and lyrics by Li Suzhen and Xu Changde; "Don't Let Love Be in a Dilemma" written by Li Manting and composed by Cao Junhong; "Chinese" written by Li Anxiu and composed by Chen Yaochuan; "The Only" written and composed by Wang Leehom; "Descendants of the Dragon" written and composed by Hou Dejian and adapted and covered by Wang Leehom in 2000 and "Falling Leaves Return to the Roots" by Wang Qinglong.

Among them, "Descendants of the Dragon" is an adapted song, and it is necessary to buy the adaptation rights from Hou Dejian, and buying the adaptation rights is not a simple matter of tens of thousands of yuan, and it is likely to be shared for commercial use. But this Wang Ziyan doesn't plan to ask, just let the person who buys the song do it.

After recording the simple playing and singing version, Wang Ziyan put down his guitar, walked out of the recording studio with an empty cup, and came to the control room to sit with a few people and began to discuss the composition and soundtrack.

Discussing the score is more like a few friends chatting together, talking about the amorous or helpless nature of a song, and creating a harmonious atmosphere around these based on the emotional identity that these songs want to express.

He thinks he needs to add a bass, another thinks he needs a guitar, and maybe someone else thinks he needs to add a drum beat here.

Wang Ziyan doesn't know much about music, but he can sing, and his guitar playing is also at the level.

The seven of them were busy all day together, revising, revising, arguing, and even eating lunch and dinner in the studio.

It wasn't until nine o'clock in the evening that the composition and soundtrack of these songs were completed, and everyone was mentally exhausted, and agreed to start recording the songs the next morning, and then they dispersed.

The next day, it took a morning for Wang Ziyan to complete the sample recording of seven songs.

At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, everything was finally done, and the tape was made.

Wang Ziyan thought that he could settle the account, and when he was about to speak, Cao Kai pulled him out, did not give him the money for the recording studio, but dragged him to a high-grade restaurant downstairs.

Wang Ziyan knew that Cao Kai should have something to talk to him about, and it was related to his songs, so he didn't refuse.

When they arrived at the restaurant, several other people went out to order, and Cao Kai stayed behind to talk and chat with Wang Ziyan.

Cao Kai, who was in his thirties, was a little restrained, and sat there indifferently rubbing his hands for a long time, and finally asked, "Brother, is this going to take the singer route?"

Wang Ziyan was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but shake his head with a smile and said, "I don't have the whole plan for the time being, this is ready to be sold." ”

Cao Kai was overjoyed, and a bright smile immediately appeared on his face, and he hurriedly asked, "Has the old brother found a buyer?"

Wang Ziyan glanced at Cao Kai, who was obviously excited, and no longer played with him, and simply made his words clear: "Brother Cao is interested?"

Cao Kai nodded and said, "I'm a little interested, I don't know if my brother is willing to cut his love?"

Wang Ziyan shrugged indifferently, picked up the white water that Cao Kai poured for him, took a sip and said, "These songs haven't been sold to a buyer yet, and it doesn't matter who they sell to." ”

So, Cao Kai bought two songs from Wang Ziyan, "Don't Let My Tears Stay with Me Overnight" and "Ruthless Love Letter", the price was not low, 30,000 yuan for a song, and Wang Ziyan received 60,000 yuan at once.

And during the meal, Wang Ziyan also learned about the basic situation of these people.

There is a band in the Spark Recording Studio, which was established by Cao Kai and Fat Man several years ago, called the Spark Band. Cao Kai is the lead singer, the lead guitar, the backing guitarist and the first accompaniment singer is called Jiang Hanmo, the bass player is called Sun Hongde, Xu Luo is the keyboard player, and Tian Bo is the drummer, that is, the fat man.

When Cao Kai liked rock and roll, he also had some talent, and his family also had some money, so when he was in college, he pushed away the iron rice bowl arranged by his family despite the opposition of his family, and gathered a group of classmates to play in a band.

The Spark Band has released some songs and albums over the years, although they have made some money, but they are not very much, and with commercial performances in various places, they can barely support their daily lives.

This is the situation in the past few years, in the past two years, those stars in the Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment circles have gone north to make money, and the impact on the mainland entertainment industry can be imagined, and the situation of the Spark Band is even more embarrassing.

The Spark Band is not a big-name band in the first place, and the business that is not booming has lost the city in the past two years, and the business outside the city has been almost lost in recent times, and a group of people have shrunk in the city of Zhuolu to occasionally take on some commercial performances.

They haven't released new songs for a long time, and everyone else is tired of listening to those old songs.

Cao Kai's family was furious at his unprofessionalism, and the old man waved a broom to knock him out of the door when he went home to ask for help, telling him that he didn't have such a son.

As a result, the life of the Starfire Band became even more difficult.

So, Wang Ziyan sold the two songs to them.

To whom is it sold not to sell?

And Cao Kai confiscated a penny of the production cost of the recording studio in the past two days, and according to Cao Kai, he had already taken advantage of him.

Seriously, if it weren't for the fact that the Li family owes him a lot of favors, he feels that 10,000 yuan is really a bit too little, and he can't really settle this favor, he probably wouldn't have handed over this matter to Li's mother at all.

Now that Cao Kai wants it, it's good to give it to him.

Wang Ziyan didn't dare to guarantee how much he could sell for all seven songs to Li Mu's operation, he didn't even have a little fame in the lyrics and composition industry, and he couldn't guarantee the price of these excellent works.

In this era of rookie lyricists, a song can be sold for one or two hundred thousand, and many people don't ask if they can be seen in the past, even if they see it, it is adopted, and it is almost the same if they can give tens of thousands of yuan.

According to Wang Ziyan's estimates, this price is very likely to be only 5,000 yuan, or even less.

This is also the reason why Wang Ziyan didn't come up with more songs, the more original funds he needs, the better, but if he can't get more, he won't be too little for tens of thousands of yuan, it's just a little more to do.

The two parties signed a contract, because the copyright of these two songs has not been registered, so Wang Ziyan simply sold the copyright in full, and did not even leave the right of authorship, as for the copyright registration, it was handed over to Cao Kai and them to complete.

After coming out of the recording studio, Wang Ziyan went to Liangcheng with five boxes of master tapes and five music scores, and handed over the things to Li Hu.