Chapter 16: The Promise (Happy New Year to All!)

Nashville is actually a very atmospheric city. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Although the development of urban modernization has inevitably accelerated the pace of people's lives, when you really live in the city, you will find that it actually hides a sense of leisurely that penetrates the bone marrow under the fast-paced coat, just like the traditional American country music that you can hear anytime and anywhere on the streets of Nashville.

The uncle not far away finished singing the classic old song "500miles", and then he changed to a typical country song.

The melody of the song is very good, but Li Mingcheng has never heard it, in fact, except for those popular classics, Li Mingcheng really hasn't heard a few rural songs, this type of music is very similar to Chinese folk songs, without the same customs, the same environment and the same experience as them, it is actually difficult to really appreciate the special beauty in the song.

Li Mingcheng looked at the girl in front of him, she hadn't changed a lot in more than ten days, and she might not have changed much from her facial features alone, but her temperament was completely different from her ten days ago. She has gradually faded away, and her eyebrows and eyes bloom with charm and glamour that belong to mature women. Now she is more and more like the popular diva who swept the world in Li Mingcheng's memory.

Looking at those bright eyes, Li Mingcheng suddenly felt a little weak, and couldn't help but want to dodge the girl's pair of eyes under the rhythmic eyelashes.

"Why don't we go?" Li Mingcheng almost forced himself to say this, this sentence seemed to take away the strength of his whole body, and he felt that he was about to suffocate.

Fortunately, Taylor quickly nodded and responded, "Okay, let's go." ”

Li Mingcheng was relieved and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

The two walked slowly along the sidewalk. There is a short distance between the two, blending into the hurried crowd, much like two city travelers who have never known each other.

In the depths of the bar street in front of the sidewalk, the layers of hotel signs are dizzying, and before that, Li Mingcheng had never thought of breaking into this "forest" filled with the smell of wine, because he was a bit of a road idiot, and he was afraid that he would get lost in it.

But this time, with the light steps of the girl, he stepped into the street that he regarded as a forbidden area without hesitation.

"By the way, did you watch the video I posted?" Li Mingcheng began to have nothing to say. The main reason is that he really doesn't want the two of them to finally meet, and in the end he just said "long time no see". When this arrives, I don't have any material to reminisce about my memories.

"What do you say?" Taylor gave him a blank look, "I'm going to say I didn't read your letter?" ”

"Of course...... Unbelief. Li Mingcheng smiled awkwardly.

"Then you still ask!" Taylor snorted and asked, "...... By the way, who shot you that short film? ”

"Uh, my cousin." Li Mingcheng scratched his head.

"Oh, really?" Taylor pretended to glance at him casually, and quickly withdrew his gaze to look straight ahead, "Good shot, you're very photogenic!" ”

The corners of Li Mingcheng's mouth twitched.

Eldest sister, what level of appreciation do you have? No wonder her acting skills were so criticized in her previous life, she just didn't understand movies at all! Daisy's amateurish directing and filming skills can no longer be amateur, it just makes us have to commit the embarrassment as actors, okay?!

The two of them went into the depths of the bar street, and the pedestrians around them gradually became scarce, and the bars on both sides of the street came from the melodious guitar playing and singing, which was very good.

I don't know when the two people crossed the distance between them, almost zero contact, and from time to time the left hand and the right hand would collide together.

"By the way, when did you write that song?" Taylor ruffled his long hair to his eyes and looked sideways.

"Uh......" Li Mingcheng's eyes rolled and said vaguely, "Two or three months ago." ”

"Then why didn't you sing it to me that time!" Taylor Road.

Li Mingcheng was stunned, and said a little crampedly: "Didn't you ask at that time...... Besides, you're a professional, how dare I make a fool of myself in front of you......"

"Fart!" Taylor raised his hand and slapped Li Mingcheng's right shoulder, "Are you mocking me?" ”

"How is that possible!" Li Mingcheng hurriedly shouted, "It's not that you don't know, I'm ...... I ......"

"What are you?" Taylor narrowed his eyes at him, and there was a sly look in his gaze.

Li Mingcheng panicked all of a sudden under her gaze, and his face quickly turned red, "That's it, that's it...... Anyway, I'll ...... I think you sing so well! ”

After a pause, he thought about it seriously and said, "It's better than Maria!" ”

"Nonsense again!" Taylor rolled her eyes, but the irrepressible smile on the corner of her mouth had betrayed her serious flattery to Li Mingcheng.

Li Mingcheng scratched the back of his head and smirked.

When getting along with her, Li Mingcheng always forgets his true situation and truly devotes himself to the role of an ignorant teenager who is fourteen or fifteen years old.

The two walked to the end of the bar street, turned their heads in unison, looked at each other and smiled, and then turned around and walked back in tacit understanding.

Maybe Li Mingcheng hadn't spoken for too long, Taylor glanced at him and suddenly took the initiative to open the conversation.

"I'll tell you a story." She looked at Li Mingcheng fixedly.

Li Mingcheng was stunned for a moment, and looked at her seriously, not knowing what kind of wind she suddenly smoked, but he still nodded subconsciously.

Then Taylor turned his head, pondered for a moment, and then spoke in a very flat tone.

"There was a girl who was born in a very small county town in the United States. She has a bit of a withdrawn personality, and she is not particularly good-looking, and when other people's children are lively and crazy all over the world, she always stays at home and writes some strange things that are not there, so her neighbor's children are not willing to play with her. She didn't have any friends. ”

"She has a farm at home, so for her, the Christmas tree on the farm is the most memorable memory of her childhood."

Later, she moved, and in a new place, she found another new hobby, which was music. She began to participate in various singing competitions and perform at various events. She found that she had grown to love the feeling of being on stage, even more so than she loved writing poetry and novels! The adults around her also said to her, "Hey, you should be a singer!" ”

"She's starting to become the favorite child among the adults, but ...... She still hasn't been able to make friends. ”

Later, she happened to see the video of Faith Hill's concert, and she suddenly understood that this was the kind of life she wanted! To hell with friends or something! ”

So she begged her mom to go to Nashville, the country music country, where she would fulfill her musical dreams!

Then things went well, she got her wish and went to Nashville, she learned to play the guitar, she learned to write songs, she met a bunch of people who loved music as much as she did, and she even got a music contract from RCA, a big company! She feels like her dream is coming true soon! ”

"But it backfired...... When she confidently told the company's managers that I was ready and I could release an album, they said to her, no, no, it's not enough, wait. ”

"Wait? She's been waiting for five or six years, why wait! She was not convinced, she was not happy, she argued with the people in the company...... But no matter how much she argued, the answer she got was always those two words - wait......"

"Then she broke off the contract with the company in a fit of rage, and she ran out of the company with her guitar in her arms, and she wanted to prove to them that she was completely ready!"

"But...... It soon dawned on her that this time she seemed to be really wrong...... She sang her favorite songs on the streets of Nashville with her guitar in her arms, but no one stopped her hurried footsteps, not even for a second. ”

Just when she wanted to give up...... The girl meets a man. ”

Taylor said this abruptly stopped.

She paused, turned her head, and stared at Li Mingcheng with wide fox eyes, her gaze blurred.

Li Mingcheng couldn't help but raise his head slightly to look at her, and when he heard this, he could already roughly understand what kind of story she was telling.

Then he heard Taylor continue: "It was a very special person, so special that the girl spotted him at first glance through the crowd. Because, he is a Chinese boy. ”

Taylor laughed, "That Huaxia kid is really special, unlike all her peers she's seen before. Although he looked to be only fourteen or fifteen years old, when he sat quietly in front of her, she had the illusion that he was thirty or forty years old. ”

"And the most special thing isβ€”"

"He's the only one who has stopped in front of her for so many days, he's the only one who can listen to her sing, he's the only one who says cheer on her, he's the only one who is willing to put all the money in her piano bag......"

β€œβ€¦β€¦ He is still the first time in a girl's life that she says that you are so good-looking. ”

The smile on Taylor's face grew deeper, and the bright eyes under the long eyelashes became more and more intoxicating.

So the girl who was going to give up was suddenly full of motivation, because she knew that in this world, there were people who liked her, liked her music, and liked the songs she wrote.

"She finally mustered up the courage to do something she had always wanted to do but didn't dare to do!"

She went to the prestigious Blue Bird CafΓ© to sing in residence, and then she impressed a record company owner. The boss signed her and promised her that he would send her her personal record right away. ”

The dream was finally coming true, but the girl was suddenly a little disappointed...... Because she knew that she might never be able to go to the streets again to sing for the boy alone. She may never see the boy again......"

So, when she saw the boy for the last time, she gave him her first and only guitar. So he wouldn't forget her, she thought! ”

"At the moment of parting, the girl made a willful request to the boy, she asked the boy to sing her a song, she wanted to leave something, she wanted to recall this time in the future, it was vivid and colorful."

Not far away, the singing voice of the wandering singer uncle came to him, and Li Mingcheng suddenly felt that his eyes were a little sour.

"And then?" He asked.

"And then?" Taylor looked down at the Chinese boy in front of him, who was half a head shorter than him, and said softly, "Then the girl thinks that she probably can't forget this boy in her life." ”

Li Mingcheng was speechless, and he seemed to have suddenly lost his ability to speak.

"Leo, I'll be the first to sing new songs to you in the future, okay?" Taylor said.

"Okay." Li Mingcheng nodded.

"In the future, if you write a new song, you will be the first to sing it to me, okay?" Taylor said again

"Okay." Li Mingcheng nodded again.

"Would you like to sign up for my company?"

"Good...... What did you say? Li Mingcheng raised his head in surprise.

Taylor suddenly laughed, like a cunning little fox, seductive and moving.

"I said, let's make a record together!"

Li Mingcheng looked at the girl's white and tender little hand stretched out to her, and felt that he probably couldn't forget this girl in his life.