Chapter 10 A New Life as a Street Singer
Chu Ran pulled the collar on the back of Qiao An's neck, led him out of the house like a chicken, came to the corridor and pressed the elevator button, waiting for the elevator to rise, only to push Qiao An on the back and let him go, today she said all the good and ugly things, but Qiao Yang still didn't agree to the job she and Qiao An introduced to him.
Everyone knows that Qiao Yang's job is not as important as the leaders in the past when he was young, and the future is bright. He now belongs to the stage of being buried by young people, and he is nothing when he comes out of this stage, not to mention overall planning, he doesn't even have the opportunity to show up on stage, and he doesn't choose to find a position at this time, then this person is not insisting on his dreams, this person is a typical stupid.
Chu Ran cut his hair, and almost blurted out the sentence 'Is Qiao Yang stupid', but after looking at Qiao An, he had to shut up, and saw that Qiao An was pulled by her in the dark for a while, and then said: "Your brother doesn't accept our kindness, forget it, I don't care about you if you give him this house, don't come to help him again with a new excuse to see Qiao Xia in the future, you tell me how many times you helped him when he went out to have an affair, and we are not immortals."
Chu Ran said a lot, and Qiao An, who had not recovered from the situation, covered her ears and didn't want to listen, closed her eyes, and frowned: "Okay, that's my brother after all, you don't say a few words, what if Qiao Xia comes."
Chu Ran looked disappreciative, but looking at Qiao An, he had no choice but to shut up, and when he turned his head to look at the elevator that rose up to their floor, as soon as the door opened, it was Qiao Xia who was holding mineral water.
The two glanced at each other in surprise, this kind of momentum that Cao Cao Cao arrived, Qiao An hurriedly covered his mouth with both hands, and Qiao Xia in the elevator stretched out the mineral water in his hand to Qiao An: "Little uncle, your water."
Qiao An hurriedly took the water, turned sideways to make way for Qiao Xia, and got into the elevator herself, wanting to say goodbye to Qiao Xia: "Xiao Xia, it's not too early, you take good care of your father, and your uncle will come to see you after you go to school."
Qiao An set a time to see her in front of Qiao Xia, and she didn't listen to what Chu Ran said to him before, 'stay away from Qiao Yang', 'hum' him, and turned her head to say goodbye to Qiao Xia with a good face: "Xiao Xia, let's go, you take good care of yourself."
After saying that, the elevator door closed again, Qiao Xia was also calm when she met them, and she was also extremely calm when she said goodbye to them, seeing them, one said to take care of Qiao Yang, and the other said to take care of herself. The mouth just spit out a 'good' word without being salty, and the voice was not loud, and it was shouted together as the elevator closed at the same time, and I don't know if they heard it.
Qiao Xia turned around and went home, she didn't find Qiao Yang when she pushed the door, and there was no one on the dining table, but there was a vague smell of smoke in the air, Qiao Xia quickly covered her mouth, opened the window, and after a few breaths of fresh air, it was too late, asthma was still committed, she hurriedly took out the medicine bottle from her body in a panic, sprayed it on her mouth a few times, and then looked out the window, and slowly eased up.
She didn't have to think about this smoke smell to know that Qiao Yang must have made it, he said before that he couldn't control his addiction to smoking, if he hadn't had asthma and couldn't get used to the smell of smoke, Qiao Yang would have made the whole house smoky, she sorted out a lot of scolding words that Qiao Yang usually taught her in her heart, and she also wanted to scold Qiao Yang a few times, but then she thought about it or be a civilized and good young man.
She calmed down her rapid breathing, and saw Qiao Yang coming out of his room, holding a guitar in his hand, wearing a cowboy hat specially designed to pretend to be handsome, and holding the chicken feet that he bought back and didn't eat in his mouth, watching Qiao Xia come back, he raised his neck: "Yo, I'm back."
Qiao Xia looked Qiao Yang's decoration up and down, it was almost dark, what hat did he wear, and did he still play the guitar after knowing Qiao Yang for so long, and the oil on his mouth was stained with dirty whole mouth, which really made Qiao Xia unbearable.
Qiao Yang could notice Qiao Xia's surprise at him from Qiao Xia's faint change in expression, so he pulled the strap of the guitar on his shoulder, pressed the straw hat with his other hand, and said in a low tone: "How is it, is there a feeling of a literary young man."
Qiao Xia really wanted Qiao Yang to remove the word 'little youth', and he couldn't experience a little literature and art all over his body, okay, Qiao Xia calmed down for a second, and touched her lower lip indifferently: "Square dancing is not popular in the square near downstairs."
After saying that, the chicken feet in Qiao Yang's mouth were loosened by him and fell, Qiao Xia's direct impact to the soul made Qiao Yang realize that he was getting old and could only tease those square dance aunts, in fact, Qiao Yang saw Qiao Xia's appearance as a girl in the whole flower season standing in front of him, and he had already proved the fact that his face began to age.
The corners of Qiao Yang's mouth twitched, not wanting to worry about her, and pointed to the meal they hadn't finished halfway: "You put away the bowl, clean it, I'll go out and come back late." After saying that, I put on my guitar and went out.
Qiao Xia smelled the smoke that was still in the air, and quickly covered her nose, now as long as she stayed in this room, she had a strong restlessness from her physiology and psychology, coupled with her curiosity about Qiao Yang's dress, she didn't brush the bowl anymore, and secretly followed Qiao Yang to play tracking.
Qiao Yang said that he himself is the most respected actor in the repertory troupe, since he has been acting for 20 years, he is also an old artist, and now the old artist does not act, so he has changed to sing, but he doesn't know how to sing skills.
I saw Qiao Xia follow Qiao Yang to a bridge, it was already dark, and the street lamps also released their own lighting role, this bridge has more manpower,
There are also a few stalls to buy toys by the bridge, Qiao Yang stopped at a place on the bridge, opened the guitar box, took out the long-cherished guitar, and blew the ash on it, he hadn't played it for several years, the strings were rusty, this guitar was very memorable, when he was in college, he hid from his father and spent half a month of his living expenses to buy this one, in order to be the same as those boys who sat in the stands and played a song with a guitar to win the female students to turn back, he looked at those boys so chic, so he also bought one, When he bought it, he asked his roommate to teach him how to practice, but after learning a few songs, he found that the female students seemed to be more fascinated by playing drum kits.
Strangely enough, after his divorce he moved into a rental house with all his belongings, but no matter how many years his possessions have been reduced and reduced, he has never abandoned the guitar, still leaving it in an inconspicuous corner to accumulate dust, and only now has he picked it up and used it as a prop for street singing.
When he came home from work, he saw a few wandering singers playing guitars and singing like this, and people passing by also generously put some money in his guitar box. By the way, you can also make money with this.
So he simply straightened his guitar from home, plucked the strings on it, although the strings were rusty, but fortunately he could hear what the sound was, and he nodded his head and felt that everything was ready to continue.
Even if he sings on the street, he still has to put on his most handsome pose, so he took the stone inside, put one foot on it, posed to play the guitar, plucked the strings, closed his eyes and began to hum, and sang the song called "New Love" in some years, and the singing was the right tone, lacking the amazing sense of those young people on the street.
"The heart is also difficult, the tears are dry, this deep affection is difficult to give up, how to love a person to stay until old age, how to face everything, I don't know... Qiao Yang sang to the *, and when he was obsessed with himself, a string snapped between his fingers. Qiao Yang's singing stopped with the sound of broken strings.
This ruined the mood of the guitar, Qiao Yang hurriedly squatted down and looked at the broken string, and sure enough, after abandoning it for so long, he began to lose his temper, Qiao Yang took the remaining beliefs, and held the two ends of the string in an attempt to make up for them. He tried back and forth, the string couldn't be mended, he couldn't play the guitar, he sat on the ground in frustration, still picked up the cigarette case and shook out one, and put it on his mouth.
Just as he was about to cover his hand and light the lighter, Qiao Xia came over and removed the cigarette from his mouth, and the fire on the lighter in Qiao Yang's hand was extinguished. He didn't know that Josh had followed him all the way, listened to him sing for a while, and saw that at the end he was brought out by the smoking he had been unaccustomed to.
"Why are you here", Qiao Yang looked at Qiao Xia in surprise, and then came back to his senses and asked again: "Have you washed the dishes"?
Qiao Xia sighed, ignoring Qiao Yang's strange logical question, and pointed to the guitar in Qiao Yang's arms: "How long has your guitar not been cared for."
Qiao Yang looked at the guitar in his arms and calculated the next year, since college to now, it has been more than 20 years, so he said vaguely: "It's older than you."
Qiao Xia stretched out his hand to try a few notes of the guitar, frowned, and looked perfectionist: "Sure enough, the string will inevitably break if it is pulled so tightly, it already gives you a lot of face, you let it die."
Qiao Xia's expressionless and serious appearance will always burst into a bit of cold humor, and Qiao Yang sometimes wonders if she is really pretending to be calm on the surface.
Qiao Xia also squatted down with him to adjust his guitar, like a technique that only people with some experience in the guitar would have, and he began to brag unscrupulously again: "Yo, Brother Xia can actually play the piano, it's really incredible, your old-fashioned uncle didn't object at that time."
Josh explained as she played with the strings, "A friend of mine taught me".
"Friends? Male? Female? Qiao Yang asked with a gossipy gesture.
"Male". Qiao Xia answered truthfully, seeing that Qiao Yang was going to ask another series of questions, he directly answered first: "I have a girlfriend, there are many, and my uncle won't let me look for him, so learning these is when I met before."
Qiao Yang pouted when he saw it, to say that Qiao Xia's uncle is really a first-class antique, when he was dating Su Man before, Qiao Yang knew that this brother-in-law didn't like him, even Su Man mentioned to him that Qiao Yang was an actor, he was disdainful of it, in the eyes of this brother-in-law, learning guitar and learning acting are the same as not doing business, this kind of person, Su Man has already met one, so he also resisted letting Qiao Xia meet.