Chapter 394: Bonfire
Under the twinkling starlight of the sky, the bonfire on the threshing floor was lit, and a cluster of red flames jumped among the high stacks of pyre, gradually burning more and more, until finally it became a raging fire, and the flames that rose high reflected every face gathered around.
Lao Zuo brought all the people who participated in the secret training this time, in addition to all the motorcycle babies and seconded test drivers, as well as several technicians accompanying the second new product research and development department, the training class veteran sent by Yuxuan Wenchuan, plus the logistics support group, there were almost more than 20 people together, all sitting in a circle around the fire. Many of them didn't know each other before, and they came from different industries, but strangeness was not enough to form a barrier to communication with each other, and the difference in technical fields would never prevent everyone from laughing around the fire together, and even the generation gap between the ages gradually melted in the hot atmosphere......
Many of the people present have grown up in the city since childhood, and they are accustomed to seeing high-rise buildings covering the sky and the sun during the day, crowds of people like a sea of vehicles, and at night they are accustomed to seeing neon lights flashing thousands of homes, and the shop windows are full of colors......
As for the 20 or so people in this quiet and deep valley, with the murmuring of the stream, around the bonfire, eating barbecue, drinking beer, singing and dancing, Laughter and laughter are the experience that many people have never had in their lives, most of them have been pressed on the burden of school since kindergarten, caught in the battle of going to school day after day, the best years of their lives are spent in books, just out of the simple ivory tower and immediately thrown into the cruel workplace, everyone has to work hard for their own assessment goals, for promotion, for the house and car...... In the limited rest time, people can only rely on the Internet to fill the emptiness of their own hearts, and gradually forget what it feels like to be happy in reality......
This bonfire party woke up the memories of everyone present for the simple definition of joy, although there is no special trick in the show, it is nothing more than that everyone introduces themselves first, and then performs an arbitrary program, the content of the program has no restrictions, singing, dancing, talking and playing the piano, and then beating the drum and passing the flowers, and the person who gets the flowers has the right to designate any one or more people to perform the program with him (her), and so on...... Pair that with a refreshing beer and delicious grilled meats, and it's as simple as that.
There is no doubt that the motorcycle babies are the most beautiful scenery of this bonfire party, they can pass through layers of cruel auditions, each girl has an excellent talent show, Xiong Mi's penetrating singing voice can be called a specialty, Li Mengling and Li Xiang's duet also received bursts of applause, Xiao Ran of the test trio performed a Chinese RAP, and his two companions brought a fashionable hip-hop dance......
Of course, the joyful atmosphere needs the active participation of more people to be set off, and Zuo Longxin, who was pushed onto the stage by everyone (in fact, it is a big stone grinding plate on the threshing floor), simply sang a song, Xiao Nan was pleasantly surprised to find that she was not the only one who had incomplete five tones, and Lao Zuo's running tune was also quite challenging to human imagination......
The high tide of the whole party reached the high tide in the guqin (not the guzheng) solo, the young girl with long hair fluttering held her guqin "fine snow" and stood on the big stone grinding plate to worship everyone, although there was no skirt flying, but there was also a goddess falling into the mortal world, and then she sat cross-legged on the grinding plate, put the "fine snow" on her knees, Qianqiansu brushed the strings with her hands, but the sound of the piano was not an ancient rhyme, but a love song that had been widely circulated.
It's just that the music played by Que Ran does not completely follow the old score, and many places where the original melody is simple and repetitive are added to the complex and gorgeous self-created brilliance, so that such a familiar old song glows with new vitality. Suddenly ten fingers flying, the melodious sound of the piano in this quiet and deep valley, and the bursts of pine waves, gurgling water, and bonfires gradually merge into one, reflecting each other, almost making it impossible to distinguish which are the sound of the piano, which is the sound of the wind, the sound of water, and the sound of the bonfire...... Until the sound of the piano gradually stopped, the audience was still immersed in the beautiful melody as if they were fascinated, and the natural sound in the mountains was also regarded as the afterglow of the strings.
Qingran is also quite satisfied with her performance, she once stood on the stage in front of the thousands of hands in the audience and waved desperately, and after losing her vocal cords due to illness, she experienced the darkest period of her life...... But now, although she is struggling along a strange and more challenging path, she is already full of confidence in her future.
Suddenly returned to the crowd of people sitting around, and she was greeted by Xiao Nan's sincere smiling face and warm hands. There is no doubt that among these girls in the motorcycle baby, Qingran is not one of the best, and her physical defects also contrast with the perfection of other aspects, I have to admit that Xiao Nan likes Qingran very much from the bottom of her heart. Many times, Xiao Nan would silently think, if she was still him, if he hadn't known Xiao Ting yet, would he be like Han Zheng who liked her, crazy and desperate to like Qing Ran?
However, every time he thought of this, Xiao Nan would smile wryly and shake his head, because all this no longer had the slightest possibility. Fate is determined by every choice she makes on the road of life, if he doesn't know Xiaoting, how can he become her? How can he join the motorcycle baby, so as to know Qingran? Every choice is a decision that cannot be regretted, and she has now deeply understood this.
Therefore, she likes her, not the kind of love that former boys like girls, nor the kind of liking between girls and girls, she just admires her deeply, from appearance to talent to heart, and is not mixed with the slightest lust, although Qingran is definitely the best stunner in the eyes of men.
For Xiao Nan, the freshness of this bonfire party is obviously much worse than that of others. After all, when Xiao Nan was in the "Iron Riding Dream" heavy locomotive club, he often drove everyone to the mountains to camp together, and the mysterious and romantic couple Shuangshu was the place where they most often went to camp, especially since he and Xiaoting had been there at least twice after they met.
At that time, a group of friends with common hobbies were also sitting around the campfire as they are now, tiger playing his beloved ukulele, Peng Peng repeatedly rummaged over the barbecue on the steel fork, the brothers discussed their favorite locomotives and the scenery they encountered along the way while drinking freely, and those team members who brought their girlfriends for the first time would swear an oath with his girlfriend under the love tree......
When the song ended, Xiao Nan and Xiao Ting lay in the double tent and looked up through the air window, seeing the flowing fireflies flying on the twin trees of the lovers, seeing the twinkling stars between the branches and leaves, and hearing the mountain breeze sweeping through the grass, blowing the fragrant fragrance of mountain flowers; they looked forward to their common future together: they wanted to build a design studio between the green mountains and beautiful waters, Xiao Nan's workbench was facing the huge glass window, and the window was the Taihang Grand Canyon surrounded by smoke and clouds after the rain; after work, the two held hands and walked through the bamboo fence, strolling on the rutted path covered with knee-high grass, Xiao Nan would pick the most beautiful wildflower he saw and gently pin it behind Xiao Ting's ear, the two hugged and kissed each other at the top of Taihang, and their hearts were never separated from each other......
Suddenly feeling that someone was shaking her arm, Xiao Nan woke up from her sweet and bitter memories, and quickly turned her head to avoid waking her up to find the tears that were about to fall from the corners of her eyes, turned her head and asked with a smile on her face: "What's wrong?"
In fact, she had already realized that Xiao Nan's mood was wrong, but she couldn't speak or persuade her, so she pretended not to notice anything, and pointed to Miao Yutong, who was sitting opposite them across the bonfire.
Miao Yutong slowly stood up with a flower cluster temporarily tied with a silk scarf in her hand, Yingying's eyes swept through the crowd and finally settled in one place, the look on her face seemed a little hesitant, and after a while, she finally made up her mind, the expression on her face was both a little shy and a little resolute, and finally opened her mouth to call out Han Zheng's name.
Han Zheng had been sitting with the test riders transferred from the three headquarters, chatting about something while drinking beer. Although they haven't known each other for a long time, and their majors don't have much in common, the boys always have some common topics together, music, IT, politics and military, and of course, girls...... Living in the same dormitory again, Han Zheng's temper was extremely easy-going, so it didn't take long to get acquainted.
Han Zheng was very surprised that he was named by Miao Yutong to perform together, and in the coaxing of his colleagues, he scratched his scalp and stood up in confusion, looking at the young girl opposite with innocent eyes, quite at a loss.
"Manager Han, I want to sing a song, you and I sing together, this is our rules of the game~" Miao Yutong said and took the initiative to come over and stretched out his hand to Han Zheng.
"This ......" Han Zheng was obviously unprepared for this sudden situation, and he was a little overwhelmed for a while in the face of Miao Yutong's slender hand. However, everyone's coaxing and whistles came and went, and Han Zheng, who had always loved face, had to hold the girl's hand gently.
"Where...... What song are we going to sing together?" Han Zheng felt a little uncertain in the face of the gaze of more than 20 pairs of eyes, after all, this is very different from the nature of each person's performance of a show, and his singing level is only stronger than Xiao Nan.
Miao Yutong held his sideburns in his hand, thought for a while, and said, "Just sing the moon to express my heart, right?"
Han Zheng looked up at the night sky, the starry sky was divided into two halves by a Milky Way, but where was the shadow of the moon?" "Xiaotong, it's late tonight...... There's no moon......"
Han Zheng's incomprehensible style provoked Miao Yutong to stomp her feet, she thought about it again, and said with a little crimson on her cheeks: "Then, let's change the song to make my heart clear, right?"
Written on Chinese New Year's Eve on February 7, 2016, I wish every new and old reader a happy and prosperous New Year!