Chapter 3: Born Like a Summer Flower---8
Sun Ce's study abroad plan has basically been completed, the interview at Harvard University has been passed, and the day of departure is not far away, Li Yuedi is caught in anxiety about whether to go to the United States. Her performance in the song hall has not developed to the extent of becoming popular, Li Yuedi is a monk halfway, although Director Huang Lu has done her best, but Li Yuedi's improvement is not objective, Director Huang is very clear, singers like Li Yuedi, there was no professional training when she was a child, and she barely entered the ranks of singing in her twenties, even if she worked hard, it had little effect, this is like a student, the exam was 80, if you want to score 85 points, it will take more hard work than others, Li Yuedi's singing level has reached a bottleneck, and there are only two ways to improve, one is her own hard training, and the other is that she needs to have a famous teacher to guide her, and these two points are not something that Li Yuedi can do in the short term, she is very hard, which is very important, but who is a real famous teacher who is willing to bend down to teach such a wild student, Huang Lu knows very well that he is Jiang Lang is exhausted for the current Li Yuedi in terms of music teaching, of course, it is more than enough to guide Li Yuedi to live in the current song and dance hall. Huang Lu is a little unwilling to Li Yuedi's singing level, Li Yuedi is born with a good voice, if she doesn't make a name for herself, she will live up to God's favor for her, she should be able to become a first-class singer in China, or a first-class singer, Huang Lu searched for the professors of her conservatory, she thinks that even those professors are difficult to improve Li Yuedi, Li Yuedi owes too much, it is really difficult to make up for it, although it is difficult to make up for the class, but it is just a problem of kung fu, this can be overcome, the problem is that Li Yuedi has her own problems that cannot be found, and these problems are real, and the breakthrough of this bottleneck is a big problem, At the moment, I can't tell her about Li Yuedi's potential, if I tell her, Li Yuedi may run away, and the previous hard work will be in vain, Huang Lu thought, only when this guy doesn't understand his worth, can he effectively control her, so that the income can of course be increased, but the labor contract must have stricter constraints on her, and he can't let him have the idea of changing jobs. Huang Lu wants to be her student Li Yuedi who has really become a talent, and she has not lived in vain in this life, the happiness of "being taught by the world's talents", I Huang Lu must firmly grasp it.
In December, Li Yuedi was rated as a third-level actor in the song hall, the salary was increased from the original 1000 yuan to 1300, the commission was increased from the original 10 yuan to 16 yuan, the singing was increased from the original 30 yuan to 45 yuan, the housing was increased from the original 45 square meters to 65 square meters with a two-bedroom apartment, and more importantly, there was a brand new piano in the dormitory. Although Li Yuedi is currently the lowest-paid cast and crew member in the company, the speed of promotion makes all cast and crew jealous. On the occasion of the New Year, the company signed a one-year labor contract with Li Yuedi again, and Li Yuedi was very happy about the contract, that is, she had 45 days of paid leave. The liquidated damages for the contract are as high as 50,000 yuan, which is the same as Huang Lu and Wang Dong in the whole company.
Huang Lu has invited several professors from the Conservatory of Music to inspect Li Yuedi's singing, but after reading it, they all shook their heads, they couldn't find a better teaching method to improve Yuedi's singing level, they told Huang Lu that this requires the singer to self-understand, many singers to this step, can not be understood, and then can not improve, this is a bit similar to a sword dance master, to the extent of the unity of heaven and man, not preaching can be achieved, only repeated training, can participate in its kendo, because this is not a simple technical problem, so the teacher's teaching, demonstration is not of much value, the teacher's value, in such a person there is only one point, accompaniment and supervision. Huang Lu was unwilling, but there was nothing he could do, let everything go naturally.
The warm sunshine of early spring and February melts the willows on the Han River, and the freshly cut willow leaves sway with an oily sheen in the soft spring breeze. Migratory birds from the north have taken off their winter coats and are ready to return to their homeland. In the past few months, Li Yuedi's singing skills have improved a little under Huang Lu's careful training, and Teacher Li of the Conservatory of Music sometimes comes to the dance hall to study with Huang Lu how to break through the bottleneck of Li Yuedi's singing skills.
One afternoon, Liu Jibao, the logistics manager of the song hall, called Huang Lu and asked her to let Li Yuedi come to his office, saying that she was looking for her, and Huang Lu approved Li Yuedi's leave and came to Liu Jibao's office. Liu Jibao, the manager in charge of logistics work, is a high school classmate of Sun Ce's classmate Ma Rui, and Li Yuedi can come to this song hall to sing thanks to Liu Jibao's help, so Li Yuedi is full of gratitude to Liu Jibao.
Li Yuedi came to Liu Jibao's office, this office is about 70 square meters, composed of two suites inside and outside, the outer room is Liu Jibao's office, and the inner room is the place where Liu Jibao usually rests when he is tired from work, and the furnishings are relatively simple, a three-person sofa, a coffee table, a relatively large single bed, and a TV set of 34 villages is placed opposite the sofa, and a set of combined stereos.
Li Yuedi has come to Liu Jibao's office before, mainly to receive various supplies for the band, Liu Jibao's office has a row of sofas, a desk, a boss swivel chair, and the entire office is surrounded by all kinds of books, walking into Liu Jibao's office, it is like entering a small library.
Yuedi came to Liu Jibao's office, Liu Jibao politely gave up his seat, Liu Jibao asked for coffee, and the two began to chat.
Liu Jibao said: "Li Yuedi, you have been in our song hall for five months, I remember that you came on September 18 last year, my father embarrassed you and asked you to sing "Ode to Sister-in-law", right?"
Li Yuedi nodded and said: "That's the case, come to your song hall to sing, and thank you for your help, if you have time, you deign to come to my dormitory, and I will stew my best stuffed meat for you to eat."
"Okay, but I'm a little worried that your boyfriend Ma Rui's classmate Sun Ce misunderstood."
"You think too much, my brother is very angry, if you go, call him and Sister Ma Rui together, so it doesn't matter soon."
"I heard Ma Rui say, your boyfriend is going abroad, but you signed a one-year contract with me, and you don't plan to go to the United States with him."
"We have discussed, I don't go to the United States, I can't learn English, I can't communicate with others, I don't want to live on my brother for the rest of my life, I also have my own things to do, if I go to the United States, I will lose the opportunity to sing, there should not be many Americans who can understand Chinese."
"Wrong, Americans can't understand Chinese, it doesn't mean that they can't understand music, music has no borders, we listen to English songs, although we don't understand the meaning of English, but don't we all think English songs are also very good."
"What you said makes sense, I still don't want to go to the United States, my relatives are all in China, and my parents are not young, in case we need us, I am in the United States, even if I have the money to return to China, won't it take a long time? Hey, it's true, I've been to Nancheng for more than three years, and I haven't returned to the country once, hey, what I do, always work the busiest during the New Year's holiday, such as restaurants, the festival is the busiest time, where to go, buy food, the best time for business is also the festival, song hall, the busiest time for work is still the New Year's holiday, so I haven't returned home once for more than three years. ”
"It seems that you are quite homesick, why don't I have such a complex, I don't miss my dad at all. When I was a child, he beat me several times a day, I was in high school, and they all beat me, and now, I'm 24 years old, and they still want to beat me."
"You spend every day with your parents, of course you don't want to. Beating you is loving you, I'm afraid you'll learn badly, you see so many girls in your song hall, if you do something too much, isn't it bad?, but my parents have never touched a finger of our children."
"It's still your parents, I'm twenty-four years old, and occasionally find a girl to talk to in the song hall, if my father knows, he will ask and ask without playing, and if he doesn't say it, he will beat me, Li Yuedi, how old are you, you are twenty-two years old."
"It's twenty-two years old."
"Look how good you are, at the age of twenty-two, you fell in love with your boyfriend, I wanted to find a girlfriend, my father was angry, he had to ask me to find Ma Rui, and Ma Rui didn't look down on me, he was a college student at Nancheng University, I didn't go to college, how can I find someone? Not to mention that Ma Rui is not what I like, just like that, how many times have I told Ma Rui that I like her, others think I'm joking with her, and I've never been serious."
"Sister Ma Rui, she is a good person, why don't you look down on it?"
"The main thing is not the type I like, I like girls like you, Ma Rui doesn't look down on me at all, in front of him, I feel no self-esteem."
"You can't use me as a standard, I'm from the countryside, and Ma Rui is a college student, how good."
"What's the use, the monkey fishes for the moon, it's out of reach, it's different for a girl like you, not only is she beautiful, but the culture is similar to me, I don't have that sense of oppression."
"Here it is again, don't talk nonsense, don't use me as a reference, our grade is too low, your parents, you know, and you have to clean up again."
"What's the low grade, Sun Ce of Nancheng University, Sun Ce of Harvard University in the United States, didn't they find you?"
"That's different, we played together as a child, and we were real childhood sweethearts."
"I really envy your relationship, why don't I have a childhood sweetheart."
"Manager Liu Jibao, don't you have anything else to do with me?"
"Yes, yesterday I was wandering around the street and found that the model in the window was wearing a dress that looked good, and the model was about the same size as you, so I bought this dress as a prize for your progress during this time, and take this prize back."
"No, I can't claim this prize, I suspect you have other intentions."
"No, at least not for the time being, everyone else has received the prize, not you, if you don't want to take it privately, then it will be distributed to you at the meeting."
"In that case, then I'll take it"
Yue Di walked out of Liu Jibao's office, Liu Jibao clenched his fists, and excitedly cheered himself up, "yes......!"
Li Yuedi knows that Liu Jibao usually has the practice of giving prizes to the cast and crew of the band, so he doesn't particularly care about Liu Jibao's other intentions, but the price of the prizes that Liu Jibao gave to other cast and crew members is very different from the price of the prizes she gets, Liu Jibao's set of clothes is nearly 2,000 yuan, and the prizes that Liu Jibao usually gives to other cast and crew members of the band are only about 100 yuan at most, and it didn't take long for Li Yuedi to wear Liu Jibao's prize clothes to work。 The employees of the band praised one after another, and even Huang Lu also praised, "Li Yuedi, your clothes are really good, it cost a lot of money, I think this dress costs at least 2,000 yuan, where to buy it, I also want to buy one, everyone in our song hall should be like Li Yuedi, they should clean themselves up beautifully, Lili Suo, don't know how to save money all day long, and don't be willing to spend money on yourself"
"Oops, I can't tell where to buy clothes, two days ago I was wandering around the city, and I saw the model in the window dressed and I bought it, more than 300 yuan, not so expensive." Li Yuedi felt a little wrong in her heart, he knew that Liu Jibao might have made a trick and gave him a set of valuable clothes, the purpose was obvious, in the chat with Liu Jibao, Liu Jibao revealed a point, he likes her type of girl, and to put it more clearly, he likes himself. This Liu Jibao is really, knowing that I have a boyfriend and still doing this, returning the clothes to him, obviously inappropriate, and giving him money, Liu Jibao has money, not to mention returning the money Liu Jibao, isn't it not that Liu Jibao doesn't give face, this clothes are not returned, they are not returned, they are not worn, they are not worn, they are not worn, Li Yuedi is in a dilemma, I don't know what to do, tell Sun Ce about this, if my brother is stingy, won't it be troublesome, if I don't tell it, if my brother asks that day, what do I say, I can only lie first, tell a white lie, just say it is a costume, my brother will not believe it, my brother is easy to say, but how can Liu Jibao explain it hereWhat should I do if people send it again, don't accept it, or accept it, don't accept it, more than 2,000 will accept it, less in the future, more will not accept it, is it appropriate, oops, this is really eating other people's mouths, taking other people's soft hands, Li Yuedi is very embarrassed.
"Li Yuedi, what are you doing, you're crazy" Director Huang woke up Li Yuedi, who was deep in thought. "Li Yuedi, I wore a high-end dress today, I don't know what my surname is, do you know the song I trained today, everyone opened the score and turned to "I Only Care About You", Li Yuedi trained this song today. Li Yuedi, I heard that your boyfriend is going abroad, this song is written about yourself, experience it well, and strive to move everyone once."
"Li Yuedi, this is a song by Teresa Teng, there are also tapes of her singing on the market, you must experience it seriously, so that everyone listens to the tape first, especially the drum kit, this drum beat, we can strengthen it a little more than the tape, pay attention to the mixer, when Li Yuedi sings, you want to lower the music voice, to highlight Yuedi's timbre." Huang Lu arranged the band, and everyone followed the tape to learn the singing and orchestration of the band. Li Yuedi looked at the lyrics seriously, listened to the music, and couldn't help but be moved.
"If there is a day, you say that you are about to leave, I will lose myself, into the boundless sea of people, do not have any promises, as long as we are together every day, I can't just rely on, pieces of memories to live, let time go by, I only care about you, willing to infect your breath, life geometry can get a confidant, it is not a pity to lose the power of life, so I beg you, don't let me leave you, except for you I can't feel, a trace of affection, let time go by in a hurry, I only care about you, willing to infect your breath, life geometry can get a confidant, it's not a pity to lose the power of life, so I beg you, don't let me leave you, except for you and I can't feel a trace of affection".
Seeing the lyrics, Li Yuedi's eyes showed the scene of her brother about to leave her, and the sad tears couldn't help but stay, and the scenes of her brother's days with her were like a movie flowing in front of his eyes.
Huang Lu saw Yuedi shed tears, she made a gesture to quiet everyone, quietly admiring Yuedi's sentimental expression, Yuedi fell into deep thought, couldn't extricate herself, for a long time, felt that there was no sound around, he came back to his senses, and saw that everyone was appreciating her distraction, and he didn't feel ashamed.
"What's the matter, it's okay to write, Sister Yuedi, sing it well, you must sing with true feelings, let's start training, pay attention to the essentials I just talked about."
When the training was carried out for the third time, Li Yuedi cried loudly, Huang Lu was taken aback, and hurriedly called the band to stop, Huang Lu knew that this was the reason why Li Yuedi entered the play, yes, in the face of young people who are about to separate, and let people sing such songs, there is really a feeling of crying and mourning, how can people not be sad, Huang Lu saw Li Yuedi so sad, and went to comfort her and said: " Little sister Yuedi, if you feel that you can't sing, then forget it, you don't have to sing this song, this is a bit of a taste of salt on the wound, I'm really sorry, the division and integration of the world is also an ordinary thing, for people who need emotional expression, it is indeed a little unbearable, Liu Yong didn't write it like this a long time ago, amorous since ancient times, and even more so that can be snubbed on the Qingqiu Festival, where to wake up tonight, the willow shore is full of wind and waning moon" Now when you are about to separate from your boyfriend, it is not appropriate for you to sing this song, let someone else sing it, Lai Xiaoqing, can you sing this song".
Yue Di hurriedly said, "Director Huang, there is no need to change people, let's sing it, it's okay, I can do it."
"Okay, but you have to control your emotions, at least make sure you don't cry like this on stage."
"I won't cry on stage, don't worry, I'll control my emotions," Yue Di said as she wiped away her tears.
At 11:20 p.m., behind the scenes of Huang Lu's report, Li Yuedi waited for the stage, he was full of emotion, his expression was natural, she looked around at the dancers in the audience, it was estimated that there were at least 300 people, the music sounded, the strong rhythm of the drums, the dancers got up and entered the music, the drums weakened, the strings gradually rose, Li Yuedi opened her lips, her teeth were bright, the sound was like a heavenly sound, such as crying and complaining, and she couldn't bear to read. When Yue Di sang: "So I beg you, don't let me leave you", her voice became hoarse and choked, but fortunately, the conductor Huang Lu was prepared, she waved her wisdom stick hard, and directed the strong rhythm of the drum kit, covering up the hoarse singing at the end of the month. After the singing, Yue Di came backstage and cried again. Huang Lu came to the backstage, patted Yuedi gently, and caressed Yuedi's head. Take Yuedi into your arms. also cried with Yue Di, this song not only made Yue Di move her true feelings, but also made her, a middle-aged woman who had to leave her husband and children for her own career, also sad.
After work, Yue Di returned to his residence, he plunged into the quilt, she felt very wronged, graduated from high school, followed her brother to Nancheng, on the surface, you can get her brother's love, should live a very happy life, but in fact, the life is really tormenting to the extreme, although my brother also tried his best to reduce his work intensity, working in a restaurant, my brother went to the restaurant to help, worked in the vegetable market, my brother went to the vegetable market to help, but after all, my brother's help is very limited, an eighteen or nineteen girl, living by her parents' side, how happy she should be, but she chose to wander alone and live at home for a thousand days, It is difficult to go out everywhere, this is what my parents have long told me, but I never kept my parents' teachings in mind, and now I have walked out of the protection of my parents, and I feel this personally, but how many people can know this feeling, working in a restaurant, tired all day long, sometimes tired and even can't eat, even the waist can't stand up, tired is not terrible, there are also attacked by hooligans from time to time, this is the reason why people can't help but be sentimental, if it weren't for the old guy to give himself a few tricks of self-defense, I'm afraid it would have become a victim of the hotel。 When he was wandering on the street and had nothing to rely on, although he met the kind-hearted Gu Hong, Gu Hong's kindness was limited to the relationship between the boss and the employer. The life of selling vegetables is really uncomfortable, carrying vegetables all day and night, sometimes a day to carry thousands of kilograms of vegetables, even if it is a strong young man, it is also a little unbearable, in addition to handling, you have to turn over the vegetables that have been moved and pick them up, endless work, and then come to this song hall to work is easy, I just came, I have not had the opportunity to go on stage for nearly two months, I can only watch others on the side, help others serve tea and water, cleaning, running errands, all this has just improved a little, my brother who has been in love with me will leave, how can this not make people sad。 A few days ago, I also sang the theme song "Father" of "Our Father, Our Mother", isn't my father exactly what is described in the song? In the more than three years since he walked out of the door, in addition to sending some money to his parents, he has done nothing and done nothing, his parents have raised him for so many years, what have they gotten, thinking of this, Yuedi is even more painful, he feels that he should not mix in this strange city anymore, in the absence of his brother, he should return to his parents, do something within his ability, go home, no matter what.