Chapter 3: The Singer (I)
I am a lonely person, and the city at night always gives me a sense of loneliness that I can't tell, and the more crowded a place like a bar, the stronger this feeling is.
The bar that Long Shao brought me to was also lonely, but it did have a different style.
This bar is located near the Badaguan Scenic Area, with dining chairs inside the building and an open-air bar outside the building. The building maintains the style of French classicism, the internal structure almost maintains the original appearance of the last century, the wooden walls, bronze doors and windows, complement each other perfectly, there are books and pianos inside, and the romantic mood is vividly interpreted; Outside the building is a large courtyard of several hundred square meters, European-style pavilions, European-style seats, facing the sea, nestled in the embrace of the sea breeze, like a sleeping girl. It's quiet, it's not noisy, and it's really nice to drink in such an environment.
The only thing that makes us a little puzzled is that generally speaking, there will be more waitresses in the bar, because everyone is generally more interested in drinking when they see beautiful women, but almost all the waiters in this bar are male waiters, even the boss is also a man, and all the clerks, including the boss, are coated with thick fat powder, and their faces are terrible white, and they are a group of little white faces, I don't know if this is a feature, I don't have any opinion, but my friends who only came to see the girl have a lot of prepositions about it.
Long Shao and I sat down at a position near the bar, ordered two glasses of whiskey piled high with ice, and sat quietly, looking at the magnificent sea, and our thoughts were fluttering.
"Brother Quan, let me share with you a little trick that I have summarized over the years." Long Shao took a sip of wine with a casual look, he didn't drink enough, but he preferred to drink, and after drinking, he talked nonsense.
"It's not like you're a hooligan again."
"Haha, almost." Long Shao lay on his side on the back chair, looking at a beautiful bartender at the bar lightly. "My little trick is in this kind of quiet bar, if you want to get a girl, you must learn some little magic tricks to help drink."
"You can do magic?" I looked at him contemptuously.
"Look, I'll show you a show." With that, he took a coin out of his pocket, put it in his left hand, and said to me in a mysterious manner. "Believe it or not, I just need to say a few words of the spell and this coin can be transferred from my left hand to my right hand."
I smiled and took a sip of sweet whiskey, giving Long Shao a skeptical look. "Okay, brother, start your show."
"Look, let's go!" Long Shao's voice was so loud that several beauties sitting next to him looked at him with embarrassed eyes, and after speaking, he stretched out his right hand, and there was indeed a coin on his palm. "Well, scared."
I almost didn't spit out the wine that didn't go into my throat. "It's called magic? Fools know that you put a coin in your right hand at the beginning, and you should now have a coin in each hand. ”
Long Shao's face was embarrassed, obviously the lame deception had been debunked by me. "Yes, Brother Quan, I didn't expect you to be a veteran too."
"Cut! If you can deceive a woman in this way, my name will be written backwards. ”
"Brother Quan, don't swear poison."
Long Shao and I were arguing boringly, and on the stage not far away, an ethereal singing voice suddenly sounded.
It's like a clear stream suddenly gushing out of a swamp.
It was a woman's voice, and it came to my ears through the layers of barriers of the crowd, and I wanted to consciously block out these melodies in the drunkenness, but they poured into my body like a pervasive turbulence, and once you tried to feel it, you couldn't get rid of it.
"When is the bright moon? Ask the sky for wine. I don't know what year it is in the heavenly palace. ”
She sang "I Wish People Were Long" adapted from Su Shi's famous poem "Water Tune Song Head", and the audience was fascinated by it, and they closed their eyes one after another, voluntarily immersed in her rare natural sound.
"I want to go back by the wind, but I am afraid of Qionglou Yuyu, and the high place is unbearable. Dance to figure out how the shadow seems to be in the world. ”
I can't help but look up to see what kind of celebrity this song comes from, this atmosphere, this emotion, and perfect timbre, I'm afraid that those star singers can't reach it.
On the stage was a young girl wearing a black leotard and black leather pants, who looked to be twenty years old, small and delicate. She was quite pretty, with a pair of clear eyes like water, a small face, and long slightly curly hair slanted over her shoulders. It could be seen that she was not wearing makeup, but even so, her fair face was still as bright and translucent as jade. She was singing and playing the acoustic guitar in her hand, and there was no microphone at all of them, but the singing still reverberated clearly throughout the courtyard.
She's beautiful, but her singing voice is even more beautiful. It's so beautiful that I don't dare to breathe, but I'm afraid that the voice in my ears will fade.
"Turn to Zhu Pavilion, low Qihu, shine sleeplessly. There should be no hatred, what is the long time to say goodbye? ”
Everyone in the audience was fascinated by the sound, put down their wine glasses, closed their eyes and enjoyed the comfort of the sea breeze and the song. Only Long Shao's face was disdainful.
"Brother Quan, let me tell you that this girl has something wrong at first glance." Long Shao suddenly muttered in his ear, disrupting my listening to Yaxing.
"Why? How well she sings. ”
Long Shao smiled maliciously. "Look at this girl, she also looks like a student under twenty years old, with a baby face, and she has to pretend to be mature in tights and leather pants. Who does she think she is? 007? ”
Long Shao laughed at the natural girl on the stage presumptuously, which made me very unimpressed.
"People have joys and sorrows, and the moon is cloudy and sunny, and this matter is difficult to complete." The singing continued.
"Why are you so picky, how good this little girl sings, people are here to sing, what do you wear?" I immediately reprimanded Long Shao.
Long Shao still didn't think so, drinking whiskey in one gulp, sipping the drink, and then stirring it with his tongue in his mouth, deliberately making a gurgling sound. This is the action of Long Shao to express disdain.
"There's something really wrong with her singing." Long Shao suddenly began to complain again. "In such a lively bar, everyone is here to drink passionately, this little girl sings such a slow song, it's like a lullaby, I'm almost asleep."
Long Shao's picky and unreasonable problem really made me hate it, and I could only pinch his arm hard, although he didn't feel the pain at all. "Brother, it's not good for you to be like this, you have to learn to appreciate it, now that this society is so impetuous, isn't it good to have a song that can calm you down?"
"I hope that people will last a long time, and they will be together for thousands of miles."
As soon as the song was sung, many of the audience below stood up and applauded desperately, and everyone happily clinked glasses with their friends to celebrate hearing such a beautiful song.
"Little girl, let's do it again! I can't get enough of it. The audience below shouted.
The woman in black didn't nod or shirk, didn't say anything, and didn't even have the slightest expression on her face. I just changed the chords in my hand and played another rhythm.
"The cicada is poignant, the long pavilion is late, and the showers are at the beginning of the break. The tent of the capital is empty, and the nostalgia is urgent. ”
It is another Chinese-style song, adapted from Liu Yong's "Yulin Bell", and the beautiful singing voice sounded again, and the cheers came one after another.
"Brother Quan, I'm right, this woman is really a wonder, and she sang a song of exactly the same style, what's the point. Can you have some more high music? Long Shao was bored and began to complain again.
Long Shao is obviously picking bones in eggs, nothing to do, I don't care about him anymore, I silently appreciate this moving melody by myself, this melody is not only wonderful when you listen carefully, it also has a strong ancient flavor, which seems to distort time and space, and take you to a mountain forest without hustle and bustle.
Holding hands and looking at each other's teary eyes, they were speechless and choked. Thinking of going to a thousand miles of smoke and waves, the twilight is heavy and the sky is wide. ”
The more the woman sang, the more sad she became, and her voice became hoarse, compared with the song just now, it seemed that she had completely changed a person, and in this poignant song, the audience also became sentimental, they may have remembered their own lives, their own sad things, and a few of them were already rubbing their eyes frequently.
"Haha, look at this audience, is there something wrong, they can still cry when they listen to the song." Major General Long took a big sip of whiskey and began to get a little drunk. "Didn't that Taoist priest from Brother Quan ask you to come to Qingdao to find a strange woman? I think this singer is good, and the strange woman should also be a strange woman, haha. ”
Long Shao kept making noise, and I would have liked to smash his head with a wine bottle in the past, but now with this beautiful singing, I must not be angry, because my heart has flown away with the melody.
"Affectionate parting since ancient times, and even more so can be snubbed by the Qingqiu Festival. Where do you wake up tonight? The willow shore dawns and the waning moon. ”
When it comes to the climax, this woman's voice is like a deadly poison, from your veins to your skin, it hurts and makes people unable to extricate themselves from sadness.
In an instant, the hard years of drifting north in Beijing, the basement full of cockroaches, and the small bed that has not been exposed to sunlight for many years, these pictures all appeared in front of my eyes, and the loneliness and despair were vivid. I couldn't hold back, tears welling up in my eyes.
Memory, like what is outside the body, will always be forgotten, will always be sealed in the dust, but the lid of the bottle that buries it will always be revealed.
"This past year should be a good day and a good time. Even though there are a thousand kinds of styles, who can you tell them about?"
The singing slowly stopped, but the audience did not relax for a long time, and everyone entered the weakest part of their hearts, so that after the song was sung, everyone did not react, just stared blankly at the ocean in the distance. It wasn't until the woman walked off the stage briskly and sat quietly at a wine table in the corner that the audience realized that it was over, and immediately erupted in deafening applause.