"Little Town, what's going on?" Li Hongsu looked at his nephew, his eyes were full of disbelief. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Forehead ......"

"Mrs. Carlyle, I think it's better for me to talk about this." Scott preempted Li Mingcheng and said, "To put it simply, I have taken a fancy to Leo's musical talent, and I think that the music he wrote has reached our company's contract standards, so I want to sign your nephew on behalf of our company and make him a signed singer of our company." ”

However, Li Hongsu was even more surprised, she looked at Scott dumbfounded, and said, "Are you kidding?" ”

"How is that possible? If you don't believe me, I'll give you the contract. With that, Scott returned to his Ford and walked back a few seconds later with a stack of contracts.

Li Hongsu suspiciously took the stack of A4 papers handed by Scott, and immediately opened them and read them carefully sentence by sentence.

Scott waited quietly with a smile on his face, but Li Mingcheng next to him was a little apprehensive.

Ten minutes later, Li Hongsu raised his head again. Li Hongsu works in an investment bank, and she usually sees nearly 1,000 contracts, if not tens of thousands, so she is well versed in them. And the contract in front of her, through her inspection, she has found that this contract is not only not fake, but also does not have the traps and scheming that are common in those contracts she usually sees, and even the conditions are very rich.

She finally understood that this Mr. Scott really wanted to sign his nephew.

"Mrs. Carlyle, is there any problem?"

"There's nothing wrong with the contract...... Li Hongsu shook his head lightly as he met Scott's inquiring and expectant gaze, "But, I'm sorry, I can't make a decision for Leo, this matter needs to be asked to Leo's parents." I'm sorry, Mr. Scott. ”

Scott was stunned for a moment, seemingly a little disappointed, but his usual self-cultivation made him quickly smile again.

"It's okay, it's as it should be. It's me who is abrupt. Then I'll go back first, hoping to get good news from you as soon as possible. ”

After saying that, Scott waved his hand to his aunt and nephew, and turned away in a dashing manner.

Li Mingcheng, who looked at his back, was not so free. Thinking of the old mother at home who was very strict with herself, knowing the consequences of these "evil and crooked" things she was doing here, Li Mingcheng felt a kind of loneliness with a bumpy road ahead.

Why is it that everything is so bad when you are reborn?!

After dinner, the time came to about eight o'clock in the evening. After washing the dishes and chopsticks, her aunt Li Hongsu walked into the study, and after ten minutes, she turned back to the living room, greeted Li Mingcheng, who was watching TV on the sofa with her uncle and cousin, and called him into the study.

Li Hongsu stretched out his hand and pointed to the computer on the desk, and said to Li Mingcheng in a warm voice: "I have already told your father about the general situation, you can talk to your father yourself." ”

Li Mingcheng glanced at the computer screen in the direction of his aunt's finger, retracted his gaze and nodded lightly, and whispered, "Well, I will." ”

Aunt Li Hongsu didn't say anything, stretched out her hand and gently rubbed Li Mingcheng's hair, then walked out of the study and closed the door with her hand.

Li Mingcheng stood there for a moment, looking up at the heavy bullet monitor on the desk, the screen showed the MSN video chat window, the video image was a familiar middle-aged man with a handsome face, his father, Li Dexian.

Li Mingcheng rubbed his face, relaxed the stiff muscles on his face, and then slowly moved to the chair in front of the desk and sat down.

Pick up the headphones at hand and put them on, the energetic male voice rang in his ears, Li Mingcheng, who has lived in the United States for nearly a month and heard all the English speakers, suddenly felt very kind when he heard the familiar hometown dialect.

"I said you kid can, it's not easy to run out for a vacation, and people who are not familiar with life can make such a big move! Fortunately, your mother has to make up for the class today, otherwise she must have been on her way to the airport by this time! Li Dexian grinned exaggeratedly a few times as he spoke.

Li Mingcheng was stunned and happy, unlike the configuration of most families with a loving mother and a strict father, in Li Mingcheng's family, his mother Shi Wenju is usually the one who plays a strict role. She is a mathematics teacher in the city's No. 1 middle and high school, and as a teacher, she basically has the idea of "if you can't even manage your own son, you are embarrassed to take care of other people's children", which is based on Li's mother's traditional and serious style of Li Mingcheng's education since she was a child, everything is focused on learning, and everything else is deviant.

"It seems that the money sent to you to learn piano and guitar when I was a child was not spent in vain, you really learned something, I heard your aunt say that the tuition fees were earned back this time? Not bad! Li Dexian continued with a smile.

"That's, don't look at whose seed I am!?" Influenced by his cheerful father, Li Mingcheng gradually relaxed, and boasted to himself that he didn't forget to pat himself.

Li Dexian was stunned, then burst out laughing, patted his knees and said, "That's right, how could you be where you are today without Lao Tzu and my excellent genes?" ”

After saying this, the father and son looked at each other and smiled across the ocean through the data circulating in the network cable, and the two faces that were somewhat similar revealed a tacit understanding that blood was thicker than water.

After laughing for a while, Li Dexian slowly restrained his expression, and his expression became serious. Li Mingcheng looked at his father's expression and couldn't help but put away his impropriety.

On the monitor screen, Dad Li reached out and tapped lightly on the table twice, but finally didn't hold back his addiction to cigarettes and took out a pack of Liqun from his pocket.

Pulling out a dot, Dad Li took a few puffs, flicked the cigarette ash, and finally spoke again: "Since you were a child, your mother has been strict with you, and she makes decisions on big and small things, although sometimes, I also want to ask your opinion, but it's still not good to interfere, after all, your mother is all for your sake." ”

After a pause, he took another puff on his cigarette and said, "So in a blink of an eye, you are fifteen years old, and you are a young man." ”

"It stands to reason that you are so old that you should make your own decisions about some things, and this is the first time you have made your own decisions, so it is reasonable that Dad should support you...... However, have you really figured this matter through? You're only fifteen years old, and you still have a long way to go, have you really decided that you want to take this path in the future? ”

After finishing speaking, Li Dexian looked at his son seriously, showing that he really put the two sides on an equal footing to discuss things.

Li Mingcheng was a little slow to react for a while, this situation is rare in his life experience in both lives, even if Li Mingcheng was already an adult in his previous life, his father had never discussed a matter with him with such a solemn attitude. At this moment, Li Mingcheng looked at his father's expectant eyes, and suddenly understood that even if he pretended not to care much about his own situation on weekdays, in fact, he was so concerned about his son's every move, and he was also worried about his child's future and future like most parents, but he hid this concern very deeply, and did not want his son to bear the burden of this heavy hope.

This feeling of breadth and heaviness is like an inclusive sea, which needs to be measured in a lifetime.

The corners of Li Mingcheng's eyes were a little sour.

Seeing that his son didn't respond for a long time, Li Dexian was a little anxious, took a puff of cigarette fiercely, and extinguished the remaining half in the ashtray, Dad Li frowned slightly, sighed, and said: "Dad said this is not to interfere with you, you know, I am not such a rigid person, what you want to do Dad is basically willing to support you." ”

“…… It's just, Xiaocheng, shouldn't we take it slow this time, think about it and make a decision? I know that your young people are active in thinking and unwilling to be ordinary, and celebrities are indeed a glamorous profession, but have you ever thought about how many people are unknown behind the scenery of a few of them, and even basic food, clothing, housing and transportation cannot be guaranteed? Yes, you are achieving some results now, but what about later? Can you guarantee that you will always succeed in this circle of competition? What would you do if one day you were eliminated? You're still so young, and the days ahead are so long, do you want to mess around like this? ”

Dad Li was a little excited as he spoke, his face flushed, "Xiaocheng, don't think that Dad is alarmist, people must have a sense of distress, you are now in the most critical period of your life, if you just fall into it like this, it will be difficult to start over!" ”

“…… Do you understand what I mean? ”

If Li Mingcheng was really a teenager who was about to turn fifteen years old now, listening to his father's long speech, it would probably be impatient because of the psychology of being in the rebellious period. But now Li Mingcheng is an adult with a psychological age of nearly 30 years old, who has experienced the warmth and coldness of life, and is accustomed to seeing the good intentions of the world, of course he can understand the worries and concerns hidden under his father's faintly apprehensive gaze.

Thinking about it carefully, when he was admitted to the Pearl Drama Academy, he looked at him with such a familiar look in his eyes.

Nervousness, worry, concern, and love.

He loves his son, and he is worried about his future, so he is worried about the promising career he has chosen, so he can't say that he can't be with him, so he can only express his deep concern for the long and bumpy road of his life with a pair of deep eyes behind him.

It's just that Li Dexian doesn't know that the current Li Mingcheng is no longer the Li Mingcheng in his memory.

He is the son of the plane who has been tempered by the hardships of the previous life for nearly thirty years, and with the memory wealth of the next ten years, he has opened the plane of rebirth, the biggest cheat.

At this moment, facing the searching gaze of his father Li Dexian, Li Mingcheng raised his head and looked at the past, his expression was calm and his eyes were firm.

"Dad, I see what you mean."

Li Dexian was stunned, "You...... Really understand? ”

"Well," Li Mingcheng nodded, "I love music, so this road, I want to try to walk, maybe as you said, I will be overwhelmed by thousands of dreamers like me, but I still don't want to give up." ”

Father Li's eyes dimmed.

"But—" Li Mingcheng glanced at him and laughed, "Like you said, I'm only fifteen years old now, I'm still a student, and the most important task at the moment is to study. Therefore, I promise you that I will not give up my studies, I will continue to stay in school, work hard to enrich myself, reserve knowledge, and first ensure that I will be admitted to a major university or even a prestigious school in three years. Such...... May I? ”

Li Dexian was stunned, his eyes flickered a few times, he frowned and thought about it seriously, and then stretched out a finger to the camera: "In the placement test at the beginning of the school, you have to be admitted to the top class, and you will strive to be in the top fifty in the whole grade in every exam in the future...... So I'll promise not to interfere with your music, and I'll help convince your mom too, okay? ”

Li Mingcheng showed a bright smile and snapped his fingers excitedly.

"Orthogonal!" He nodded.

Li Dexian on the other end of the computer finally showed a smile, and stretched out his right hand at the camera, "A gentleman's word-"

"It's hard to chase a horse!" Li Mingcheng smiled and stretched out his palm to cover the camera.

…………

The next day, my aunt Li Hongsu took a half-day off and went with Li Mingcheng to the location of the big machine record company on the outskirts of the city.

In the director's office belonging to Scott, Li Hongsu, as Li Mingcheng's temporary guardian, signed his and Li Mingcheng's names at the signature of Party B of the record contract.

From this moment on, Li Mingcheng officially joined Big Machine Records and became the companion of Taylor Swift, the future country pop diva in the United States.

It was July 31, 2005, and as the last calendar of July quietly turned the page, the last summer vacation of Li Mingcheng's junior high school years came to an end, and the date on the return ticket back to China was also approaching in the warm summer sunshine of Nashville.