Chapter 101: A Stone
The 2002 China Heqi Lobster Festival left everyone with the impression of all kinds of spicy and delicious crayfish. For the first time, many Heqi people feel that the crayfish that usually can't be on the table can turn around gorgeously and become a fashionable dish. The beer with crayfish tastes exceptionally good.
The performance that opened on the day of the Lobster Festival was soon completely forgotten in the craze of eating lobsters among the whole people.
Few people can remember that there was once a band on stage that sang two so-so songs.
However, the fact that the people can't remember it doesn't mean that the debut of Zhang Tan and the Piao Band has just faded away quietly. In fact, at the end of the performance that day, many lobster shop owners came to the organizing committee to ask for the contact information of the band, and wanted the song "The Stone of Hexi" to be played in their respective stores.
I have to say that lyrics like "Sanli Street, Sipailou, Women's Street, forking to the intersection of the Yangtze River" are very attractive to the locals of Hexi.
After Zhang Tan and others finished singing, many young people could be heard eating crayfish while humming "Sanli Street, Four Pailou".
Knowing the needs of the lobster shop owners, Zhang Tan happily uploaded the audio file of the song to the Internet and asked the bosses to download it themselves.
There are those bosses who know how to use Internet technology, and soon the store sounded "Sanli Street, Four Pai Lou".
Of course, in more stores, after walking in, "Spicy Crayfish" is playing.
"You let me eat more spicy, I'm not afraid of spicy, you are my crayfish."
Even after Zhang Tan met with his parents and friends, he went to the strange Xianglou lobster shop, which was also playing the song "Spicy Crayfish". I have to let Zhang Tan marvel that the organizing committee's promotion of the Lobster Festival is really in place, and the theme song has "entered the house". When diners eat crayfish, it's hard not to remember the song.
After eating the lobster in his own singing, Zhang Tan was urged by his parents to go back to school, and his singing had delayed his study for a long time.
Last month's mid-term exam results were not satisfactory, from 39th in the final exams before the Chinese New Year to 41st. Basically, since the first exam, Zhang Tan's grades have been declining. In the first semester of the midterm exam, he was 36th, and at the end of the semester he was 39th, and now he is 41st.
The drop is noticeable.
It is true that you need to meditate and study for a period of time to stabilize your grades, if Zhang Tan still has ideas about college.
Of course, he still has thoughts about college, which is not very strong, but being able to go to college is also to fulfill one of his wishes, and at the same time, it is also a comfort to his parents.
If you have the ability to do it, why not do it.
"Cheer up, boy!"
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Zhang Tan lay dormant. Immerse yourself in reading and writing.
After highlighting two songs, the Drift Band also announced Game-over, each busy with the chores of the music studio, busy to feed their families.
Life is always like this, day by day.
Every day, there are countless ordinary ordinary people who have to bury their heads in monotonous and repetitive work.
Xiaoping is such a girl.
I went out on time at half past six in the morning to take the bus, went to work at seven o'clock, and worked all day, even at noon, I just bought some snacks downstairs in the company to deal with it.
After six o'clock in the afternoon, you can pack your things and get on the bus back.
The sky had already darkened, and Xiaoping finally returned to the familiar old community and walked into the somewhat dark narrow corridor. After a few turns, I entered my own snail-shell-like compartment on the third floor. I didn't care about resting, so I cooked a bowl of noodles on the small stove by the door.
Hold the steaming noodles and place them on the bedside table. I took out a radio from the drawer, FM89.5, and locked the Anwei Music Radio.
During the broadcast, a program related to music, life, and emotions was being broadcast, and the gentle voice of the host Shen Yun echoed in the small room through the radio waves: "Every time someone asks me what my mood is when I host a radio program, I will tell them: Talking into the microphone, I can feel that with the radio, my voice is floating over the city." ”
"It's like I'm adding a little bit of buzz to the city. In fact, Heqi is a very quiet city, when I walk home from work, the shadows are stretched by the lights at night, and the occasional speeding car and pedestrians in twos and threes bring me the information of the city, quiet, like a stone, has always been here. ”
"Let's play a very unique song for you, this is a song that Shen Yun picked up from a friend, it has a very heartwarming name - "The Stone of Hexi", from the singing of Zhang Tan and the Piao Band. I didn't find any information about Zhang Tan and the Piao Band, and I vaguely heard others say that they are local amateur music lovers in Heqi. ”
"Let's enjoy the songs that we sing about Heqi people themselves."
The radio waves brought "The Stone of the Fusion".
Zhang Tan's clean voice, accompanied by the beautiful melody of guitar and other instruments, Lang Lang rises and falls.
The unfamiliar lyrics, the familiar place names, and the melodies that are eloquently narrated all exude a faint warmth. Xiaoping's heart suddenly felt as if it had been hit, drifting in Heqi, she didn't look like a stone in Heqi.
"When you talk about life, you have to talk about commitment, and my commitment is a stone. Go by the bell tower, where you go to work every day, and you will find that the time is never right. It's just that the days go by like this, and you look at my 1.6 meters. But how do you live day by day, I watch you become ugly layer by layer. ”
"But we still have to live with each other."
"The life of Hehuai, the promise of Hehuai, the gentleness of Hehuai, the stone ...... of Hehuai"
The song had finished singing, and Shen Yun began to talk about some other stories again.
But Xiaoping didn't listen to it at all, put down the bowl with a fluctuating heart, took out the diary from behind the pillow, and wrote it on the table.
"It's been two years since I came to Hexi...... Time flies so fast, and I haven't made much money yet...... I don't know how my parents are doing at home, and I am reluctant to make a phone call...... Is grandma's cough healed, did you receive the new clothes you sent back last time...... My brother will take the college entrance examination next year, can he get two exams......
"Today I heard a song called "The Stone of Harmony", and it felt like it was sung to me...... Everything is fine in my life in Hexi, although it is like a stone lying quietly on the side of the road, but I am already very happy. I have food, shelter and work, and when I save money, I will take my parents over and stay in Hehuai and never go back. ”
"Well, I hope to find my other half...... It's just that the days go by like this, and you look at my 1.6 meters. But how do you live day by day, I watch you become ugly layer by layer...... La-la-la. ”
Closing the diary, Xiaoping picked up the bowl, and then ate the noodles with relish, and continued to listen to Shen Yun talk about the romance of life.
Even an insignificant stone actually has its own life, commitment, and gentleness, doesn't it?
"The Stone of Hexi", just in the plain, was quietly sung by the Heqi people.
There is no need to know who sang it.
It's good to love it.