Chapter 104: Door-to-door Thanksgiving (Part 3)
Ningbo.
12 p.m.
In a room with no lights on.
A middle-aged man in his early forties was lying on the bed with his head in his hands, looking at the ceiling overhead, his eyes unfocused, not knowing what he was thinking.
For a middle-aged man, he maintains a pretty good figure, just a little bit of a small belly.
Coupled with the hard lines of the face, it looks younger than the actual age, and the traces of time can be vaguely seen between the eyebrows, and the black hair is mixed with a little white hair, bringing a little vicissitudes of life, full of the charm of a mature man.
He is none other than Li Wei.
In the process of growing up, many people have left a gap in their hearts, and there are beautiful things lost from it, which is the regret brought by life.
Sometimes, over time, that gap will slowly fill in.
But sometimes, that missing corner will remain in my heart for the rest of my life.
In the dead of night, whenever I recall those personnel entanglements and those wind and frost folds, I will feel very difficult.
Li Wei knew that "Spring of the Band" had been broadcast, and he also knew that Lin Xuan had written a song for him based on his experience.
But until now, he still has the courage to turn on the computer, but he can't sleep after tossing and turning.
My mind was filled with all kinds of thoughts, and I pressed on my heart like a mountain.
I don't know how long later, Li Wei sat up from the bed and lit a cigarette.
He took a deep breath and exhaled a large cloud of smoke that filled the room.
Whenever he thinks of his embarrassed youth, those memories turn into a sharp hook, and he becomes a fish hanging from the hook, fluttering and struggling.
He groaned for two minutes, finished a cigarette, and finally sat down in front of the computer.
I turned on my computer, went to Penguin Video, and found the first episode of "Spring of the Band".
Click.
Play.
Maybe because he couldn't face it, he didn't fast-forward directly to the part where the White Nights Band appeared, but watched it little by little according to the progress of the show.
When he saw the members of the band talk about how they chased their dreams and struggled to make music, he couldn't help but think of those embarrassing moments in his own life.
They were the same kind of people, they had similar experiences, and those words touched him at once, like a chain sticking out of the long river of time and space, dragging him back in time.
Those pictures of the past came flooding back, and the girl's voice and smile appeared in his heart again, and that smile he thought he had forgotten a long time ago, but it was still so clear.
Memories drowned him out.
Finally, it was the turn of the White Nights.
"I looked at my naΓ―ve self, appearing in the story without me, waiting for my response, a reason why it was here. β
After the prelude, as soon as the first two lyrics came out, Li Wei's lips pursed tightly, his eyes were red, and he tried his best to suppress the surging emotions in his heart, but tears flowed down from the corners of his eyes in an instant.
Others may not be able to understand the meaning of the lyrics for a while, but Li Wei doesn't even need to think about it, and directly understands the meaning of the lyrics.
The song belongs to him.
When he was young, he would fantasize about the future, but now, doesn't he just appear in a story without him?!
In his fantasy story, the girl in the blue shirt should be around.
Without that girl, this is not the future he fantasized about when he was younger.
He's asking himself, he's asking a reason why he's here.
Is it really wrong to stick to ideals?
He felt that he couldn't give Wei Ling a future, so was it wrong to choose to let go?
Immediately after, Lin Xuan roared, "She understands, she understands, I can't afford it, so she turned around and walked towards the mountain."
This lyric, like a bullet, hit him in the heart.
Li Wei couldn't control it anymore, a low cry came from his throat, his shoulders shook, and tears flowed down.
His whole body was torn apart in an instant, and his heart was sparse.
The second lyrics were sung by Lin Xuan.
"I heard the boy's voice, in the past and the future, longing for a happy ending, but not being able to become himself. β
Li Wei muttered the lyrics "I longed for a happy ending, but I failed to become myself".
A wind blowing from his youth blew him to tears.
He longs to be able to mix his head,
He longs to be able to give Wei Ling a good life,
However, he failed to become himself.
The beautiful story that I look forward to is corrupted by life after all.
He stood up from the computer, took out two cans of beer from the refrigerator, and sat on the floor, sipping sip after sip with a lonely expression.
In a few clicks, the two bottles of wine were finished, and he didn't take them again, but slowly lay flat on the floor, looking up at the ceiling above his head.
He felt very powerless.
He was disappointed in himself.
At the same time, in a room in Hangzhou, although she was no longer young, she was still beautiful, sitting cross-legged on the bed, with a computer in front of her and a roll of freshly opened toilet paper next to her.
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Woke up the next day.
Lin Xuan was surprised to find that he was on the hot search again.
To be precise, it is not that he is on the hot search, but that the discussion caused by his works is on the hot search.
Some netizens initiated a topic of "Have you ever been disappointed in yourself", which occupied the seventh place in the hot search ranking on Weibo.
Nine times out of ten, life is unsatisfactory.
Who hasn't had a few things to regret, but time can't be turned back.
Many netizens talked about it and said the things that they regretted in their hearts, some regretted that they didn't study hard, some hated that they didn't save their love, and some felt ashamed of their parents......
All kinds of things are woven into a huge net, and in the net is every life that struggles in the world.
While discussing with each other, netizens couldn't help but praise Lin Xuan.
"I think Lin Xuan is simply amazing, he has an unusually sharp heart, and his songs can always touch the soft parts of our hearts, resonate with us, trigger us to think about ourselves, and soothe people's hearts. β
"Many singers' songs just make me feel good, but listening to Lin Xuan's songs can always cause me to reflect on life, pop love songs are popular these days, and the theme of the song is always inseparable from the word love, but the theme of Lin Xuan's songs is much richer, and I look forward to his follow-up songs. β
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Lin Xuan casually glanced at Weibo, with a faint smile on his face, songs can soothe the hearts of thousands of people, and for anyone who makes music, a strong sense of accomplishment will inevitably rise in his heart.
However, although Lin Xuan's "Mountains and Seas" added some heat to the show, the popularity of the show was completely crushed by "Youth Men's Group".
The first place in the hot search on Weibo is the news about "Youth Men's Group", and the discussion of the mentors and players of "Youth Men's Group" on the Internet far exceeds the discussion of the band members.
The Internet has its own set of algorithms, which count the popularity of programs according to data such as clicks.
The popularity of "Summer of the Band" is only in the early 1,000s, while "Youth Men's Group" is more than 5,000.
However, while losing popularity, "Spring of the Band" won word of mouth.
On Douban, "Summer of the Band" has a score of 9.0, which is the highest-rated program this year, while "Youth Men's Group" is only 6.8.
Lin Xuan didn't care too much about these things, although the popularity of the show is not as high as "Youth Men's Group", but this is the popular trend in the market now, Lin Xuan was able to cause such popularity on the Internet before, and the sales crushed Cai Fan, not only relying on the power of songs, but also partly because it is closely integrated with current affairs and standing on the tuyere, so that it can have such popularity.
Compared with almost no one before, now that the band has sparked so many discussions, it has attracted a lot of audiences who didn't pay much attention to the band before, Lin Xuan is still very satisfied, his goal has been achieved.
Moreover, with the broadcast of the show, as long as each band still has good works, with the fermentation of word of mouth, the popularity will also increase.
After breakfast, Lin Xuan, Zhang Fei and the others rehearsed the song to be sung in the next ideal theme competition.
When he came back at noon, he found a middle-aged man standing in front of the restaurant.
Seeing Lin Xuan appear, the middle-aged man greeted him, with a thick tiredness on his face, stretched out his hand to Lin Xuan, and said with a smile: "Teacher Lin, hello, I'm Li Wei." β