10. Chapter X
At the beginning of the day, the Douglas Bar was devoid of the noise and laughter of the bands of the past.
In the bar, the middle-aged uncle who often came to see Rita's performances cried a handful of snot and tears. He sat down at the bar and took a large glass of dark beer from the bar's owner, Stanley Thornton, and drank it in one gulp, then covered his face and sobbed.
"Woo woo, Rita, I can't bear you!"
Rita on the side patted him on the shoulder and whispered like a child: "Scaller, don't cry, I'm not going to die on the battlefield." ”
"Alas, alas...... I know......" Scaller sighed as he slammed his empty glass on the bar, tears still falling, "but you probably won't come back!" ”
Yan Jing sat aside and did not speak. Rita had just told him all about the incident, and it turned out that she was leaving the Douglas Bar because she had been spotted by ICM's scouts when she went to Marseille last time she performed in the open air.
After Rita returned to Dortmund, the scout managed to get in touch with Rita in hopes of signing her band and allowing her to develop her career mainly in the United States in the future.
Yan Jing has a little impression of the ICM company that Rita said. The U.S.-based brokerage is known as International Innovation Management, one of only three 10 percent brokerage firms in Hollywood, and its strong status is evident from this.
ICM is also very good at running international business, and it is the only company in the five Hollywood brokerage families to have the word international in its name. With offices in London, Paris, Madrid and Rome, ICM helps its stars expand into international markets.
Rita initially suspected that the scout was a liar, but after contacting ICM headquarters and confirming that it was true, she reported it to the rest of the band. They discussed for several days, and after gaining the recognition and support of parents from all parties, they were excited and unanimously decided to seize this hard-won opportunity.
After a while, the noisy Sculler was drunk on the bar, and Thornton called for the waiters to work together to drag the big man with a bear's back into the lounge.
"We've been talking about it for a few days, you've been running around lately, and I see you're very busy, so I'm going to tell you in two days...... It turns out that you are back today. ”
Faced with the answer given by Rita, Yan Jing suddenly didn't know what to say.
He was silent for a moment, then stretched out his arm to pin the lock that had covered Rita's eyes behind the girl's ear.
"When are you leaving?"
It didn't take long for the crimson sea to hang down disobediently, and Rita reached out a little uncomfortably to pull it away.
"The ticket is booked at ten o'clock tomorrow morning."
Yan Jing was a little angry, and although he didn't show Xiàn on his face, his tone was much colder than usual.
"If I don't come back today, are you going to say goodbye?"
Rita looked very aggressive, but in fact, her heart was still as delicate and sensitive as a little girl, and she sensed the unhappiness in Yan Jing's tone very lightly.
"Yan, I'm sorry. I didn't mean that, but I was so busy solving the mess of visa issues lately that I forgot about it. ”
Yan Jing sighed, if Rita argued with him, he could still take the opportunity to vent his dissatisfaction, but Rita immediately pulled down her neck and apologized to him, if he was still angry, it would look like a sulking little woman.
"You've signed a contract with ICM?" Yan Jing softened his tone, "Are you sure there is no overlord clause in the contract?" ”
Seeing that Yan Jing's tone was softened, Rita secretly rubbed her tongue and poured out a large sip of wine: "Don't worry, Mason is a law major, and he has confirmed that there is no problem with the terms of the contract." ”
This guy has been bullied by you all the time...... He turned out to be a law major, but I really can't see it.
Yan Jing glanced at Pierce, who was chatting with the girl in the corner of the bar, and calmly asked Rita: "How often will you come back to Dortmund in the future?" ”
Yan Jing's question obviously made Rita a little embarrassed, and she couldn't give an accurate answer for a long time: "This ...... I don't know very well. It probably depends on the work schedule, but I think there will always be a few holidays in a year that will allow me to come back. ”
Rita's answer was obviously not convincing, and Yan Jing shook his head with a smile.
You must know that celebrities' holidays are not something she can take if she can take them. As a football coach, Yan Jing has at least a winter break and a summer vacation after the season every year. But it is clear that celebrities do not have this right to have regular rest, whether it is Easter, Labor Day or the most important Christmas for Westerners, they may not be able to take a good vacation at home. In order to bring joy to his fans and to make their own future, they had to give up rest and time to reunite with their families and perform the stage where the spotlight shines.
As a result, the two people who didn't have many opportunities to meet because of Yan Jing's work will have less time to be together in the future.
Yan Jing believed that Rita was also well aware of this, but at the same time, he also knew that this opportunity must be precious to Rita. Music has always been something that Rita has pursued since she was a child, and now that she finally encountered such an opportunity, Yan Jing felt that if he changed to himself, he would not be able to give up football because of the relationship between the two.
They don't spend much time together, and Rita's temperament makes the two get along easily and happily. Of course, Yan Jing hopes that there will be more days like this, but this is also based on his spare time, and now that Rita has her own career, he can't convince himself to say the words of retention.
Yan Jing leaned over and kissed Rita.
"I'll send you tomorrow."
Rita finally breathed a sigh of relief when she received the reply, and she smiled and nodded.
Rita wasn't the only one in the bar who had Scaller, and someone stood up at the bar.
"Rita! You're leaving tomorrow...... But at least, sing us another song! ”
Rita turned her head: "But my guitar is already ......"
Thornton returned to the bar at some point, and before Rita could finish his sentence, he smiled and took out a guitar and handed it over.
"Please, Rita, this is our last request."
“…… Okay, no problem. ”
Rita got up and took the guitar, her nose a little sore. She looked around, and every one of the guests who used to visit the bar for her band was there.
She soon trotted onto the stage with her guitar on her back, plucked the strings at will, and the moving singing soon sounded with the clear guitar sound.
“It\-sbeenalongtime. NowI\-mcomingbackhome”
Listening to Rita's singing, the bar owner Thornton was also a little sentimental, and he sighed at the Yan Jing at the bar.
"I used to say that one day Rita would become a big star sought after by millions of people...... Her stage should be in a wider place, and she will never perch in a small bar like mine for the rest of her life. ”
Yan Jing nodded silently, he wanted to respond to something, but at this time, the singing on the stage suddenly stopped.
What happened? Yan Jinggang turned his head to take a look at the situation, but Rita had already rushed over and grabbed his arm and pulled him onto the stage.
Yan Jing stood on the stage with Rita, and he was not panicked when he saw a big scene like the Westphalen Stadium, he just whispered to Rita in confusion.
"Rita? What does this do? ”
Rita smiled and took off the guitar she was hanging on her body and stuffed it into Yan Jing's arms.
"Yan, can you accompany me to a song? Wait, Beatles, I know you're pretty skilled. ”
Rita's voice was heard through the microphone placed on the stage and spread throughout the bar, and when Rita heard her words, many people immediately followed suit.
"Yan, let's have a song! Let's have a song! ”
Yan Jing nodded slightly for a moment, he really didn't have much time to practice the guitar, but all this time focused on practicing his favorite songs.
Wait? He hung up his guitar and recalled the lyrics of the song, which Rita had apparently chosen on purpose.
Yan Jing listened to Rita's whispered three-two-one countdown, her slender fingers moving flexibly on the guitar, and the beautiful music and vocals spread out harmoniously.
“WaittillIcomebacktoyourside.We\-llforgetthetearswe\-vecried”
Wait for me until I return to you, and we will finally forget those tears that we once had.
The people who were chatting in the bar fell silent, and they gulped down their drinks and looked at the two people on the stage, no longer laughing out loud as they used to.
“Butifyourheartbreaks,don\-twait,turnmeaway”
If your heart is broken because of this, don't wait any longer and leave me.
Already drunk, Sculler climbed out of the lounge again, raised his arm to wipe away his half-congealed tears, and stood against the wall with red eyes, choked in his throat and unable to speak.
He also remembers the first time he came to see Rita perform, when he had just divorced his ex-wife and was fired from the company. He got drunk outside and drunkenly stormed the Douglas Bar to make trouble, smashing some of the drinking utensils.
Thornton, the owner of this place, naturally couldn't help him from messing around, calling the bartender, and at the same time preparing to call the police.
Knowing that Thornton might be about to call the police, he still clings to the table legs like a hooligan and refuses to leave.
At this time, Rita came out of the backstage with a guitar, and she persuaded Thornton to call the police, and played and sang a song for him by Canadian singer Daniel Porter's BadDay.
Sculler knew it sounded really silly...... But he still feels that Rita, who is a bad girl in the eyes of outsiders, is simply an angel sent by God to save him.
“Andifyourheart\-sstrong,holdon,Iwon\-tdelay.”
If your heart is tough enough, wait for me, and I won't be late.
Stanley Thornton burrows under the bar counter and finds a camera that permanently freezes the image of two people on stage performing a song together.
When Rita stepped out of the Douglas Bar with her band, Thornton suddenly felt familiar.
Half a century ago, in that tiny underground club in Liverpool, a group of young Liverpool boys formed a legendary band called the Beatles, from which they took their first steps to conquer the world.
And today's Douglas Bar seems to be witnessing the birth of a legend.
Thornton hung his head and looked at the photos on the camera monitor, and tugged at his lips when he saw the image of Yan Jing and Rita performing together.
Well, maybe it's more than a paragraph.
The night at Douglas's Bar seemed to let all the hurt feelings out, and the next day when Yan Jing went to see off Rita, the two of them were smiling and relaxed as usual.
Rita reveals her ambitions to Yan Jing, declaring that she wants to make Red Moon the Sea the number one band in the world.
Yan Jing smiled and touched Rita's head, saying that if she held a concert at that time, she would definitely go to the concert.
After seeing Rita away, Yan Jing returns home, where he sees the note left by Otalia.
- Ulf and I went to see August attend a children's soccer game in the community, and we didn't come back for lunch at noon.
Yan Jing sat on the sofa with the TV remote control, and the various programs on the screen changed back and forth, and in the end, he didn't find one that he particularly liked.
I had been busy before, but now that I was suddenly so idle, Yan Jing was very uncomfortable with this state of having nothing to do.
The manuscript for Yul Lambert was sent in the morning, and Mr. Zolke said that he did not need to interfere with the transfer of Yaya Toure......
Looking at the TV, Yan Jing's mind was not on it, his mind wandered in outer space for more than ten minutes, and the sleeping god who had been on vacation for many days finally found a gap to take advantage of.
After a while, Yan Jing, who had been working for more than a month, collapsed on the sofa and fell asleep.