Chapter 12: Singing in the Bar

Qing'e plucked the jade string with a song, and Li Yu stopped to watch when he heard it.

Lotus baby boating and fishing, where to find the sound of heaven?

The resident singer half-sat on the high chair and sang affectionately, with a lonely and sad expression,

“……

If you've also heard,

Have you ever thought about me,

Like ordinary old friends,

Or will you still feel sorry for me

……”

In that melancholy melody, Qiu Se reminisced about the past, as if telling the past of an irrelevant person, Yuan Ningqiu listened quietly, heard the incomprehensible place, tilted her head like a bird, blinked, but she did not interrupt Qiu Se's words.

At that time, Qiu Se's family conditions were very ordinary, and the high tuition fees of Communication University were already a burden on the family, and other expenses were even more troublesome to her. Qiu Se has been sensible since she was a child, since high school, whenever the school has to charge fees, she feels that she can't open her mouth to ask her family for money, she has long been looking forward to growing up, and when she grows up, she no longer has to reach out to her family to ask for money.

In the first semester of her freshman year, her mother gave her 2,000 yuan, and at the end of the semester, Qiu Se was so embarrassed that she almost had no money to buy a ticket home. As soon as the second semester began, Qiu Se began to find a place to work to earn living expenses for himself. In the beginning, she worked as a salesman for Minute Maid in a supermarket, but the sales hours often conflicted with the class time, and the income was not very ideal. So, after the first phase of the sales pitch, she decided not to do it, she used the money from this issue to buy her mother a silk scarf, and invited her good classmates to a small but well-known "rafting" bar near the school to celebrate.

The fasting time was 11 p.m., and in order to get back before that time, Qiu Se and the others started the day's meeting early.

That day, Qiu Se invited the other three sisters who slept with him and the two girls in the opposite bedroom. When they arrived at the bar, the rafting had just opened, and they were the only ones in the whole bar, and Qiu Se ordered a fruit plate for everyone, and symbolically a bottle of beer for each person, and the girls' revelry began. The business of the rafting bar is very good, for the main consumer audience is the characteristics of college students, the rafting bar has a consumption principle - consumption of 88 yuan, the customer of this order can sing a song for free. The décor in the bar is simple but chic, there are no private rooms, only tea seats, lined up along the direction of the wall, leaving space in the middle for singers and guests to sing, or for events. The boat is very close to the Communication University, not far from the Normal University and the Sports University, and there are many students who can sing in the consumer group, which not only attracts fun-loving young people, but also saves a lot of money for hiring resident singers. What's more, the sound of the rafting is directly played, so it is easier to attract more guests.

Qiu Se was the host that day, and she should have sung a song for everyone, and she sang a song "Invisible Wings", which was the most common song in their class during the first semester of military training, witnessing the beginning of their college life. Immediately afterwards, Lin Yang in the bedroom sang a song "Perfume is Poisonous". Song Xiangjue and Mo Jia are loyal listeners, and no matter who comes to the stage to sing, they both offer warm applause. When it was Xue Mengzhu's turn, she waved her hand and said, "If you don't sing, you can't sing, I'm nervous when I sing here." Everyone pushed her to the stage, and Qiu Se ran to the song ordering stage and ordered a song for her "The Sound of Snow Falling" - that was the song she competed in last winter's campus singer competition.

The music sounded, and in desperation, Mengzhu walked on stage and picked up the microphone:

"February snow,

Like a farewell,

When we walked through the street.

Freeze your side face,

It's so cold.

White Day,

You'll never see you ......."

On the day of the singer competition, because of nervousness, the music sounded, Mengzhu was completely stunned, the whole song was not sung in tune, and he did not play the real level at all, and the results can be imagined. Afraid that she would be sad, when it was Qiu Se's turn to take the stage, Qiu Se hid the prepared accompaniment. So, Jing Xuan saw Qiu Se standing on the stage, without accompaniment, only swaying with the beat. Qiu Se has always wanted to find an opportunity to help Mengzhu cross the hurdle in her heart, so today she helped Mengzhu order this song. This time, Mengzhu sang with a steady breath and a gentle timbre. Seeing Mengzhu's state, Qiu Se put his heart down.

After Mengzhu finished singing, some more guests came to the bar, and everyone applauded Mengzhu.

Because Xiaoxiang and Mo Jia didn't sing, they still had two free chances left in this order, and later Qi Pan in the dormitory sang another song "Our Love", and at the last chance, everyone still asked Qiu Se to sing, so Qiu Se picked up the microphone and sang a song "Fake Love" by Zhang Huimei.

Maybe it was because of the wine, after the music started, Qiu Se danced excitedly to the music, which instantly detonated the atmosphere, and even some passers-by walked in because they heard Qiu Se's singing. Seeing this, the boss of "Rafting" asked people to prepare a fruit bowl, and after Qiu Se finished singing, he personally brought it to Qiu Se's table, with a smile on his face, and said to them: "A few of you sing really well, you will often come to play in the future, as long as a few of you come, you will sing for free!" Then he turned to Qiu Se and said, "This girl, you can often come and sing when you have time, and you will definitely not be allowed to sing in vain, and the cost is easy to say." Qiu Se turned his head to look at Xue Mengzhu, who shook his head lightly at her. The bar owner was not in a hurry to reply, took out a business card from his shirt pocket and handed it to Qiu Se, saying, "Call me when you think about it." Rest assured, we don't have any illegal projects here. ”

In the next two weeks, Qiu Se has not found a suitable part-time job, and the school has opened a training class for the "Psychological Counselor Qualification Examination", about "psychological counseling" is a project that Qiu Se liked in high school, and now that she has the opportunity, she is struggling with the tuition fee. In the midst of her distress, she remembered the bar owner.

Qiu Se picked up the phone, walked out of the dormitory, and dialed the bar owner's number.

"Hey, is it Boss Zhang?"

"Hello, who?"

"Hello, Boss Zhang, I am a student of Communication University, my classmates and I sang in your rafting bar a few days ago, you gave me this business card, do you remember me?"

"Oh oh oh, I remembered, remembered! How's it going, little girl? Have you thought about it? ”

“…… I want to ask you, if I go to sing, how will my salary be calculated? Also, our school has a curfew at 11 o'clock, can I leave work from you around 10 o'clock? Qiu Se said as he gently kicked the roadbed on the corridor downstairs in the dormitory.

"Yes, you know that you students have to follow school discipline, yes, there is no problem with the time. You don't have to come every day, but if you want to come, you have to come right away, 200 yuan at a time. ”

200 pieces?! You can earn 200 by singing a few songs?! For Qiu Se, this money is not too easy to earn! was still hesitating, but when he heard this number, all his hesitation disappeared, "Okay Boss Zhang, then I'll wait for your call." ”

After hanging up the phone, Qiu Se was still a little excited, after the age of 9, because of the system reform, his mother's unit was dissolved, and all the expenses of the family were borne by his father alone, and since then, she has lived a frugal life. Mother is strong, don't want to delay Qiu Se's future because of the sudden drop in income, so the family is frugal, but they have not saved a penny in the matter of cultivating Qiu Se, when he was a child, Qiu Se shuttled in the middle of various specialty classes every day, trembling to prepare for every exam, for fear that his slightest incompetence would make his parents sad.

200 yuan, which was already a quarter of the mother's monthly salary at that time, was an objective income for Qiu Se, who needed money and was embarrassed to tell his family. Even if she understands that the status of a bar singer is not glamorous, no one can stop her determination to make money. What's more, isn't it just singing? It's not to sell yourself!

She put away her mobile phone and strode upstairs with her head held high, without mentioning the matter to anyone, waiting for Boss Zhang's "money delivery hotline".