In the boundless night, I finally came to Slender West Lake again. Yueyuan, after waiting for about 10 minutes, Janeway arrived, she parked the car under a street lamp, but did not come to me immediately, but stood on a small bridge with an ancient style, leaned over to look at the moon falling in the lake, and then took out her mobile phone to take a picture of the night scene in front of her.

I got up from the stone bench, came to her side, and asked, "Where's Xiaoyun?" ”

"She is not in a good mental state, so I sent her to the hotel to rest first."

I nodded and asked, "Have you eaten?" ”

"I've eaten in that county" Janeway seemed to be a little immersed in the night scene here, so much so that she was a little absent-minded when answering my question, and kept looking at the landscape lights that flickered in the center of the lake in the distance.

I followed her to look at the landscape lamps scattered in the center of the lake, and subconsciously played with the lighter in my hand, trying to relax myself and let my tired soul rest for a moment in this world made of water and light.

After a few minutes, Janeway finally turned around and leaned against the guardrail of the stone bridge and said, "After so many years in the United States, there is no place in my memory that can compare to the night view here!" ”

"Really? No matter how beautiful it is, there is still a foul-smelling sludge and sedimented garbage under the lake. ”

Janeway glared at me, "Can you please stop saying such a bad thing?" ”

"I don't think it's very beautiful, these things I said are originally stored in this landscape, but you can't see it with your naked eye, it's like you're so beautiful, but when you roll up your sleeves, you'll still see a scar!"

Jian Wei looked calm, but she turned around again, so that I could only see her side face, and then asked me: "My friends over there in Suzhou have already sent me the news, and the gang of people who are looking for Xiaoyun to ask for debts is a vicious organization that has been gathering people for illegal gambling and illegal profits for a long time, and I am going to report the case to the police to deal with it." ”

I hurriedly said, "Don't report it now"

"How?"

"I'm going to pay them back the arrears first, and then report the case to the police after a while, so that they won't link the report with the incident of looking for Xiaoyun to ask for arrears, even if you report the case now, there is no guarantee that this illegal organization will be wiped out, what if those fish that slipped through the net retaliated against Xiaoyun and her family?"

Jian Wei looked at me silently for a long time, and said, "Why can you calmly consider all aspects of other people's affairs, but you have been living in a blind state for a long time?" ”

"Am I blind?"

"Well, a lot of the time."

Actually, I'm not a person who is very obsessed with myself, so I don't like to talk about myself with others, so I changed the topic and said to Janeway: "I don't have that much spare money now, Xiaoyun's father owes those people gambling money, you can lend me first, and I will pay it back to you." ”

"There's no problem with this, but I want to know what you think, Xiao Yun told me, you and she only met a few times, why did you risk your life to help her that day, and now you have to help her repay this huge amount of money?"

"Isn't that weird? Isn't it often reported on the news that some people lost their lives in order to save others! You can equate my actions with these, and you don't need to ask why, you don't need to find meaning, because there is always a group of people who still believe that there is a crystal clear sky city in this world, which is different from the lake in front of you, which is dotted with night scenes, and the bottom of the water is full of silt and garbage. ”

Jane Wei just smiled, then pinned the windswept messy hair behind her ears, and said after a long time: "I really don't know if I can see what the city in your heart looks like in my lifetime, maybe you are now drawing it to me." ”

When I was about to say something, my phone rang, thinking that Mi Cai had replied to the message, and hurriedly lowered my head and took it out of my pocket, but it was sent by Robben's assistant, and the message said: Robben's concert called "Obedience to Heaven's Will" today is very successful, and the video of the scene has been sent to my mailbox.

I remembered that I had told Robben's assistant about it before, and because I couldn't go to the scene, I asked her to help me send the video recorded at the scene, and I was looking forward to the concert, even after downloading this video from my mailbox, which lasted for more than 2 hours.

After downloading, I asked Janeway, "Do you have headphones with you?" ”

"There's one in the car, what do you want headphones for?"

"Just now Robben's assistant sent me a video of the concert scene, and I want to see it now."

Janeway brought me a Monster's red in-ear headphones, handed me one of them, and put one on herself, apparently planning to join me in this Robben concert.

I turned on the video, and the first scene was the dazzling lights and the audience who had entered the state of shouting, and then the camera switched to Robben's body, only to see him wearing a black biker jacket, a white bandana, and the most dazzling thing was the black and white electric guitar in his hand.

Among the many musical instruments, I saw a guzheng, nodded and said: "This concert Luo Ben really put a lot of effort into it, he always said that he wanted to make reggae music with Chinese characteristics, but he didn't expect to play reggae in the first official concert in his life."

"What is reggaeton?"

"It's a form of music, emphasizing social, political and humanistic care, relying on musical instruments with the main melody and rhythm, belonging to the music of four or four beats, which is difficult to explain, you will know when you look at the scene later."

Janeway nodded, and after Robben briefly said the opening speech in the video, he started to sing the first song, but it was a relatively normal song written by himself, but it was more widely sung

In the process of watching, Janeway asked me some questions from time to time about the origin of the musical form and the characteristics of the performance, I answered them one by one, in fact, these questions are related to Robben's live performance today, the concert is only halfway held, he has used a variety of different musical expressions xiàn ways, to give the song a different soul, he is definitely a talented soul singer.

After another song was sung, the sound of live music gradually stopped, and the spotlight from different angles focused on Robben's body, he took a sip of water, and then took off the headscarf on his head, and the hair that had been kept for nearly a year fell on his shoulder, he exhaled, and after relieving his fatigue, he said in a deep voice: "I once had a brother, and we made an album called "Fierce Providence" together, but it was not publicly released, and it has been nearly four years since this album was made, So "Fierce Providence" has also evolved into today's concert called "Obedience to Providence", I miss that time when we made music together, and what I bring to you here is one of the songs from this album "Ferocious. Reptile by the way, this brother of mine went to work later, went to fucking work! I'm so sad! ”

After Robben finished speaking, he picked up the cup and took a sip of water, but the scene was already boiling, because there was finally someone next to the guzheng that had been shelved useless, which means that this song will add the element of guzheng and the most shocking is me! Just when I was about to forget about the album, Robben actually rearranged our favorite song, and probably performed it in the form of reggae with his own personality.

My complicated expression made Janeway see some clues, and asked me, "That brother in Robben's mouth is you, right?" ”

I lit a cigarette and took a heavy puff before nodding my head, Robben's words burned out my feelings, as if I had lived under the crotch of life since I gave up music.

Robben began to perform the song: when the lyrics that I had written came out of his mouth, my heart was pounding, and I felt like I had lost something, four years

Robben in the video starts out like a bard, lazy and cozy, but when he sings the phrase "sink to the bottom of the water, I die", he instantly transforms into a violent singer, his long hair is thrown from his shoulders to his face, his voice is torn into pieces, the dense drum beat and the sound of the zither dominate all the instruments and roll forward like a flood, this picture is too shocking!

When a barding poet transforms into a violent singer in the blink of an eye, not only is the scene crazy, but even Janeway and I, who watched the recorded video afterwards, were deeply shocked!

An even more shocking scene happened, Robben, who was in a state of loss of control, slammed the guitar to the ground with the upper end of the guitar in both hands, and the flying guitar fragments made the band members behind him cover their faces with their hands to dodge, leaving only the farthest distance, and the musician playing the guzheng continued!

The scene began to tear and shout, I turned off the video in an unbearable feeling of suffocation, and after the fingertips holding the cigarette were trembling slightly for a long time, Janeway next to me looked at me and asked: "Don't they regard the instrument as their life when making music, is his behavior of smashing the guitar disrespectful to the music?" ”

I took another heavy puff of cigarette and replied: "You don't understand, Robben is not a humanistic rock singer, he expresses not a warm outpouring, but a violent catharsis, this is the out-of-control that erupts after rational thinking, it is precisely the embodiment of the free spirit of rock and roll He will be the new godfather of the rock world, this is not by smashing the guitar, because he will only smash this guitar in his life"

"What, did you have any story when you were writing this song?"

I was silent for a long time and replied: "It's not a story, it's an agreement between us."