The afternoon sun shone down from the skylight, leaving a warm spot of light on the floor of the cat's nest, and countless clearly visible motes floated in the beams, like a group of desperate ghosts imprisoned by magic.

A big cat sleeps with its eyes squinted on its stomach on a spot of light.

Because Ning Qingzhou did not appear in the cat kennel on time today as usual, the rehearsal of the stray cat could not continue, or was not in the mood to continue. Cao Xian and Ye Xuhuan sat on the sofa and chatted about something sentence by sentence, Li Haoran and Hou Lei were in a daze relying on the power combiner, and the other was wearing fist gloves and punching sandbags.

usually rehearses together, and everyone doesn't feel anything, but now that Ning Qingzhou is suddenly absent, everyone feels unaccustomed, and even the sequelae of Wang Zhongxuan's withdrawal are revealed.

After Hou Lei completed another set of quick combination punches, he walked up to Li Haoran while untying his boxing gloves, and said casually: "Haoran, let's make a bet, just bet on whether Ning Qingzhou will also be bought by Cao Zihuan." ”

Li Haoran shook his head and said, "I'm not in the mood." ”

"Not in the mood or not confident?"

Li Haoran was silent, and after a while, he suddenly asked, "Did he carry the guitar back?" ”

Hou Lei smiled and said, "His guitar has never been placed here, so he will leave sooner or later." ”

"At least pass this competition first, otherwise we can't say what the past two years are, and we can't go home."

"If he really agrees to enter Jian'an, we will spend money to buy his songs...... "Before Hou Lei's words fell, the door was pushed open from the outside, making a dull sound, everyone in the house turned their heads to look at the door, and He Ranning walked in with a yellow wooden guitar on his back. Ning Qingzhou saw everyone looking at him in unison, hurriedly stretched out his hand to say hello, and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I'm going back to get the guitar, I'm late for a while." ”

Hou Lei said "hi" and punched Li Haoran in the shoulder, Li Haoran also shook his head with a smile, Ye Xuhuan stood up, looked at Ning Qingzhou and said, "Since you are late, then punish yourself for three songs first." ”

Cao Xian also stood up and said, "When will the three first ones be sung, and there is no need to rehearse?" ”

Ning Qingzhou hurriedly said: "What Sister Xian said is true. ”

Cao Xian said: "One song is done." ”

"Huh?"

"Haha~" Li Haoran and Hou Hou Lei also laughed.

Ning Qingzhou didn't say much, walked to the rehearsal area, took off the yellow wood guitar, picked up Li Haoran's electric guitar, and tuned the tone, as if he was making up and singing:

I've fought for my youth

Is my rock holding it

The bitter tea called the years is not delicious

Still swallow it

I can't remember how I got out of my hometown

Fight with this kid in reality

The night's dreams were full of scars and mud

But I swear I haven't forgotten it

The words of the heart

I'm a rolling stone

Whoever disdains it will follow him

I am not afraid of any kind of road

Be a rolling stone forever

I don't want to stop for anyone

Look back after going over the mountains

Twenty-two years

……

Zhao Chuan's "A Rolling Stone", an inspirational masterpiece, compares himself to a strong rolling stone, tells the dream of persistent pursuit, and praises the fight for youth, "Whoever disdains him will follow him, and he is not afraid of any road", the tea of the years, no matter how bitter, must be swallowed bravely.

Everyone listened to the song, and the smile on their faces gradually changed from ridicule to relief, and then from relief to excitement, and finally condensed into a capitalized, wordless "service", the artistic conception of this song and their current situation, it is exactly the same, and the blood is heard instantly.

It was also at this time that everyone realized one thing, the reason why they felt unaccustomed to Ning Qingzhou's absence was because the band began to have a sense of dependence on Ning Qingzhou, including this "A Rolling Stone", it seems that each of his new songs has a unique momentum, which is not even comparable to Wang Zhongxuan.

The Stray Cats returned to the rhythm of rehearsals and remained silent about Ning Qingzhou's trip to Tongquetai, as if that had never happened.

However, Cao Zihuan, the general manager of Jian'an, couldn't pretend that the incident hadn't happened, on the contrary, Ning Qingzhou's calmness and calmness beyond the scope of his control and the secret prophecy that he finally dropped all made him feel like a fish in his throat and vividly, which was a kind of technical anger after the authority was provoked.

So he immediately asked Wu Jizhong to contact Yuan Xianyi, and arranged a meeting between the two of them in the private room where he met Ning Qingzhou, which means that where he was lost face, he had to find it back.

Cao Zihuan and Yuan Xianyi talked about what they talked about in Tongquetai that day, and no third person knew, but since the two met that day, the scouts of various record companies and entertainment companies who had been ambushing to sign a contract with Ning Qingzhou to discuss cooperation withdrew one after another.

By the end of April, the news had spread in the circle, and Li Haoran and Hou Lei also heard the news from some acquaintances in the circle, the general content was that all companies in the entertainment industry were not allowed to sign contracts with Ning Qingzhou, nor could they provide him with any resources, to put it more bluntly, someone in the entertainment industry had issued a ban on Ning Qingzhou and pulled him into the blacklist.

This kind of thing is not uncommon in the entertainment industry, there are many artists who have been banned by the whole industry because they offended a certain bigwig or a superstar, and it is not difficult to operate, because the entertainment industry is originally the most realistic, the most important, and the most cold place.

Therefore, even competitors are not willing to take this kind of risk and take this kind of trouble to deliberately go against the party who issued the ban order, and the cost is too great.

Ning Qingzhou seemed to be unaware of this, and went to the cat's kennel to rehearse for two or three hours every day, and then left, not having a lot of private communication with other people, and always maintained a distance that would not make everyone too embarrassed.

On May 1st, Labor Day, the "Long Time No See" coffee shop officially opened, and the Stray Cat Band naturally went to cheer and performed for free for a morning.

After the small opening ceremony, the guests who came to celebrate left one after another, Cao Xian, Ye Xuhuan, Li Haoran and Hou Lei also went back to the cat nest, before leaving, Cao Xian reminded Ning Qingzhou again: "Don't forget to bring a copy of your ID card when you go to the cat house tomorrow." ”

"I won't forget it." Ning Qingzhou said with a smile.

Registration for the third season of "The Voice of China" will start on May 5.

After Cao Xian and the others left, Cao Yuqin immediately pulled Ning Qingzhou aside and said to him very solemnly: "I already know what the three of you are preparing behind your backs, you should hurry up and persuade Jiang Jianzhong now and ask him not to do that." ”

Ning Qingzhou looked at Cao Yuqin puzzled, Cao Yuqin's face was complicated and embarrassed, her expression was distorted and she struggled for a long time, and said: "I have tried very hard to persuade myself in my heart, but in the end it is still not the ideal result of everyone's happiness, so I ask you to hurry up and stop him, otherwise you can also think of how difficult that scene will be to clean up." ”

Ning Qingzhou's face was embarrassed, but now, there is no way to hide it, recently, he and Chen Qianfan have been helping Jiang Jianzhong design today's confession, but when the matter came to an end, the heroine suddenly notified him to stop, which made him unexpected, Ning Qingzhou said: "Sister Qin, think about it carefully, is this matter suitable for me to say?" ”

Cao Yuqin asked rhetorically: "Why is it not suitable?" ”

Ning Qingzhou said helplessly: "Sister Qin, you know everything, I didn't expect that there would be such a confused time, you let me say it, wouldn't it make the middle brother even more embarrassed, this kind of thing, you need to talk to him in person to minimize the damage, think about it." Ning Qingzhou nodded his head.

Cao Yuqin was stunned for a moment, suddenly realized, patted Ning Qingzhou's shoulder, and said, "I understand, fortunately you reminded me." ”

After Cao Yuqin left, Ning Qingzhou sighed, and couldn't help but feel sorry and pity for Jiang Jianzhong, Jiang Hanxue walked over, tilted his head to look at Ning Qingzhou, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Ning Qingzhou reached out and pushed her bangs aside, smiling and shaking her head.