"The yellow sand gang of Bai Yaya stands up with a drill poplar,

Across the fence there is a sea green house.

I don't always want to have wow,

And what is received is hope,

Looking forward to coming and going, who wants to look forward to a cold heart,

Oh, it's cool.

Women are not water,

Men are not cylinders.

Fate is not that wheel,

Wrap the well rope around yourself.

……”

Very earthy songs, very rustic. But the reality depicted in the lyrics is the shackles imposed on women by various traditional customs for thousands of years, as well as the oppression that makes people breathless. It is difficult for young people in the Internet age to imagine the status of women in backward rural areas in this era.

In this era, although the successive movements of the great grandfather smashed many backward customs, how could many backward customs formed over thousands of years be cleared up in a short period of time? After the movement subsided, all kinds of feudal remnants resurfaced.

Many rural women are more like objects than a whole person. They are the most important tools of the family, the tools of the men to carry on the lineage, the tools of marriage to help the elder brother or the younger brother to exchange their reproductive tools...... Women who do not have an independent economic status are tools that are firmly chained to their parents, husbands, and children! The meaning of their existence is to give men a taste of desire, to pass on their ancestry to men, and to bring up children to men. What trapped them was not only the Huangshagang in Baiyaya, nor the broken caves, but the centuries-old tradition of righteousness.

"The iron backbone of black oil,

Beads of sweat roll the sun.

The wind blows the fence and the rain washes the windows,

Tears bubble the moon.

The human heart is hard to measure,

Anything can happen.

Who wants to carry the yellow water soup for the daughter-in-law who carries the water?

Oh, the yellow water soup.

Women are not mud,

Men are not baskets.

Fate is not that wheel,

Break the rope of the well,

Cowbells shake spring. ”

Only by breaking free from those invisible bonds can women be completely free. However, in this era, how many women can get such an opportunity? Just like Chen Tianliao's beloved in his previous life, he only broke free from the rope of fate by chance.

This is an era of one billion Chinese and 800 million peasants.

Even if there are the remaining 200 million Chinese people, going back one generation or two generations, at least two-thirds of them are rural people.

Therefore, the Chinese people of this era have heavy and unbearable memories of the countryside. Perhaps items such as loess, yellow sand, wheels, and well ropes have obvious northwest or northern characteristics. But the traditional countryside in the song, the countryside with all kinds of constraints on women, is not only in the northwest.

As a result, the song quickly resonated with society. And Liu Xia's wild female voice also adds to the woman's struggle against fate in this song. The original singer of this song in her previous life was Wei Wei, a female singer who looked very characteristic of southern ethnic minorities, and her singing voice and singing skills were impeccable, but Chen Tianliao always felt that there was always something missing in the song she sang. After Liu Xia's interpretation, he finally understood. This song of the yellow earth can really only be sung by a woman of the yellow earth.

Soon, Liu Xia's "Loess High Slope", "Xintianyou", "My Hometown in Love", "The Mountain Does Not Turn and the Water Turn" and other northwest wind songs quickly appeared on radio and television stations in various places. In this era, TV stations and TV stations have not yet undergone the baptism of commercial baptism, and Chen Tianliao only used a meager amount of money, or even just a meager gift such as a watch and a box of chocolates, to give the song many opportunities to play. Before the album was released, the song was already half a hit in China. So when the record was released, it was a hot seller all over the country.

At this time, an unexpected situation happened to Chen Tianliao. The literary and artistic circles have a very high opinion of the Northwest Wind. On the one hand, this kind of music that combines folk songs, rock, and pop Chinese flavor makes musicians shine, on the other hand, Liu Xia's interpretation is really impeccable, these songs give full play to her voice, coupled with her superb singing skills since childhood and the guidance of Gao Yuan Daisuke, making her the spokesperson of the northwest wind for a while. And many musicians who had friends with her family also took the opportunity to praise her. In the past, her voice was not popular, and she couldn't do it if she wanted to. Now that they have such a song that suits her voice and is of good quality, they keep holding it, as if they are paying back the favors they owed to her family before. This undoubtedly helped Liu Xia's cassette to achieve higher sales. Eventually, three months later, the sales volume of the cartridge was fixed at 3.2 million boxes.

During this period, Chen Tianliao received two very important phone calls. The first call was from Liu Xia's mother. Only then did Chen Tianliao know who Huang Yi's mother was who was engaged in music in the art troupe. It turned out that she was a division-level cadre of the largest art troupe of the Republic, and she had written and directed many main theme songs, which had a great influence on the Chinese literary and artistic circles in this time and space. That is, Liu Xia's voice is really unpopular, and she wants to sing alive or dead, otherwise with the resources of her parents, she would have been a winner in life all the way. And this time Liu Xia got Chen Tianliao's help and salted fish turned over, the happiest thing was undoubtedly her parents, so Liu's mother would personally call to thank Chen Tianliao. Chen Tianliao was also very happy.

Another call made Chen Tianliao very unhappy.

This is a threatening call.

The phone was a young man.

As soon as Chen Tianliao picked up the phone, the young man's somewhat arrogant voice came from there: "Hey, is it Chen Tianliao's child?"

Chen Tianliao was very unhappy. In these years, no one who knows him has basically called him a child. But he still replied politely: "I am Chen Tianliao." May I ask who you are?"

"My name is Li Wenye. I am the CEO of Shengshi Datang Records, which has sold nearly 20 million records this year, and which controls more than half of the performance channels in Beijing. Heard of it, right?"

Chen Tianliao didn't have time to listen to him brag, just sighed, and then said, "I've heard of it, is there anything wrong?"

"That's right, the chairman of our company likes your company very much, and appreciates your talent, and wants to buy your company, what do you think?"

Chen Tianliao almost didn't choke to death. With this attitude, this tone, this rhetoric, you want to buy your own company? It's not a joke, is it?

Chen Tianliao said: "I'm sorry, I'm not interested for the time being. ”

"Don't be in a hurry to refuse, it will definitely be beneficial for you to cooperate with us, at least in terms of record distribution and performance channels, we are currently the most powerful in China. And our singers are more powerful than your company, and they are more suitable for you to show your talent. We'll take care of the business when the time comes, and you just need to focus on creating more genius work, what do you think?"

Chen Tianliao smiled: "It's not good." I still like to do what I can control. I really didn't think about accepting someone else's acquisition and then writing a song for someone else. ”

"Oh, is it?" the tone of the voice on the other end of the phone changed again, "Then I wish Xiao Chen's company better and better!"

Chen Tianliao could naturally hear the subtext in the other party's words that were neither yin nor yang, so he said: "Then thank you Chen for blessings." ”

hung up the phone, the more Chen Tianliao thought about it, the more unhappy he became. But he didn't take it to heart. His company invests at any cost in the early stage, and there are a series of legal professionals to provide services, and there is nothing wrong with industry and commerce, fire protection, taxation and other aspects. As for the means of seeing the light, just come. It's not like he's not unseen. What's more, he has more important things to do at this time.

Huang Yi's wedding is coming, and Chen Tianliao is busy helping Huang Yi prepare for the wedding. Huang Yi helped Chen Tianliao so much, Chen Tianliao naturally had to repay the favor.

In this era, there are already many Western-style weddings in the city. The psychology of people worshipping foreigners is unstoppable. Moreover, the literati who bow down and kowtow in the face of the advantages of Western culture all day long, "reflect" on their own long history and culture and completely deny the literati, the Chinese people of this era really have an inferiority complex about their own culture, and the higher the cultural level, the easier it is to come into contact with the foolishness of those literati, and the easier it is to have a sense of cultural inferiority. Under such social conditions, Chen Tianliao himself can go against the tide and despise the West, but he can't let the ordinary people around him be outliers who move against the trend, so he prepared a Western-style wedding for Huang Yi.

According to his memory, Chen Tianliao wrote a marriage plan and handed it to Huang Yi. Huang Yi got the plan and was very uneasy: "This will cost a lot of money, right?"

Chen Tianliao said: "You don't have to worry about money. I've got you covered!"

Huang Yi's eyes widened: "How can I use your money?"

Chen Tianliao smiled and said, "Sister, you don't have to excuse yourself." I regard you and Zhuchuan as my own sisters, and it is also my greatest wish now to let you marry in style. ”

Huang Yi was a little moved in her heart, but she would never ask for the money: "No, I can't ask for this money, forget about this plan." ”

Chen Tianliao said: "Then it will be lent to you." Later, use your share income in the company to deduct it. ”

Huang Yi then remembered that he was a person with a company, so he asked, "How much does the company earn?"

Chen Tianliao said: "The company's income is not much. Because only two records have been released now, plus Huang Gaozhi and Liu Xia have a part of the share of performing outside, it is expected that this year's profit will reach about 600,000. According to the company's operating conditions, the total dividend this year is 100,000 yuan, and you can get 5,000 yuan. ”

Huang Yi was deflated: "You have to spend at least 100,000 yuan on this plan, and I can't do it." ”

Chen Tianliao said: "In this way, use your shares in the company as a pledge, and I will lend it to you, how about it?"

Huang Yi was amused: "No." Didn't you give me the shares of the company? What's the difference between that and you giving me money?"

Chen Tianliao shook his head. In these days, people's economic consciousness is still so weak, especially among intellectuals. In the future, with a person with public relations energy like Huang Yi, it is normal for companies to cry and shout for dry shares. But Huang Yi doesn't use it indiscriminately, and he doesn't use this energy as a tool that can be exchanged for money. Her help to Chen Tianliao is really out of love from the heart. This is also the reason why Chen Tianliao regards her as a sister.