Chapter 17: The Band of the Time
In the summer night of a city in the south, it is so hot that people can't sleep, and every house turns on the air conditioner, but a resident in an old community, enduring the heat, does not open the air, lies on the mat with the fan on, closes his eyes and hopes that he can go to sleep early, there are three men living in this house, all of them are in the same band, working as a salesperson in the supermarket during the day, playing a band at night, and there is a female lead singer who does not live with them.
The electric fan has been making a buzzing sound, although it can dispel the summer heat to a certain extent, but it also makes the person lying in bed more irritable, the other two of the three people in this house have already slept, the two can't stand the heat so they drank a lot of cold beer, not so much sleeping as drunk, the rest of the one went to bed early, thinking about lying down for a while and falling asleep, but as a result, he didn't fall asleep from 11 o'clock to 1:40 in the morning.
The person who can't sleep is nicknamed Xiaobai, because most of his clothes are white, and the other two, the bassist is called Xiaojie, and the drummer is called Cannon, Xiaojie has a word for Jie because of his name, and the cannon is because he is too fat, and the lead singer is called Lei Lei, because the lead singer loves Lady Gaga the most, and always calls himself Xiao Gaga, but others ignore this stubble and say that she is a little Lei Lei at most, and slowly they all call her that.
Xiaobai walked out of the room, walked to the kitchen to open the refrigerator and took out a bottle of wine, opened it and took a sip, feeling that it was more difficult to fall asleep, Xiaobai went to the living room to sit down and slowly drank the bottle of wine, returned to the room and lay down to continue sleeping, when he woke up, it was already daytime, and he was woken up by the cannon, Xiaobai said impatiently: "What are you doing?" The cannon said, "Don't sleep, get up quickly, something is wrong!! Xiaobai was just about to ask something, when he heard the cannon continue: "Lei Lei has an accident and is in the hospital, let's go quickly!" Hurry up!! ”
Xiaobai woke up all of a sudden, put on a set of clothes and followed Xiaojie Cannon, ran downstairs together, took a taxi out of the gate of the community, and found that it was too late after taking the car to the hospital, Lei Lei's family was already crying next to her, Lei Lei died, Xiaobai and Cannon couldn't help crying next to her, Xiaojie went to the doctor, the doctor said that it was because of sudden death caused by myocardial infarction, Xiaojie was stunned, and walked to the window and slowly cried.
Xiao Jie has always had a good impression of Lei Lei, but Xiao Jie knows that Xiao Bai also likes her, so Xiao Jie has not shown anything all the time, Xiao Jie returned to Xiao Bai and the cannon after crying, and saw Xiao Bai with tears on his face, Xiao Jie couldn't help crying again.
Three days later, everything was done, the three of them attended the funeral, when they went back, Xiaojie proposed to take back the video that the four people had taken together, the three came to a film and television advertising company, explained their intentions, the staff handed over the disc to them, and Xiaobai kept it for the time being, the three of them went home and no one spoke, the three of them played the disc together, watched this video, saw Lei Lei's smiling face, and everyone laughed and laughed together, and the later performance moments, saw Lei Lei singing happily, Xiaobai and Xiaojie's eyes were full of tears at this time.
There is also an interview with Cannon, who asks Lei Lei what she thinks about the future of the band. Lei Lei said: "I don't expect us to become one of the best well-known bands, I just hope that no matter how long it will be, we can still get together like this in the future, chatting, singing, playing music, and doing what we like, and the four of us will be together forever, okay?" When he said this, Xiaobai's tears flowed from his eyes, and the cannon said, "What if you get married and have children in the future, and take care of the children?" Lei Lei said, "Then I'll ask the three of you to take care of me, okay?" Hahahaha...."Xiao Jie's tears also fell, the cannon lowered his head next to him and did not speak, and his eyes were red.
The video has been played, there is only the sound of electric fans buzzing in the room, and the occasional sound of vehicles and horns from the window, the three of them were silent for a long time, and after more than half an hour, Xiaobai said: "Is it over?" Are we going to disband? Xiaojie raised his head, sniffed, wiped away his tears and said, "Ah, it's over, we should disband, my dad has always asked me to go home to take care of the family's watermelon business, and won't let me form a band, I'll go back in two days." Xiaobai snorted and didn't speak again, and the cannon slammed the table angrily and shouted, "Get out!" Let's go! I'm not going anywhere!! ”
Xiao Bai snorted deeply and said: "Cannon, it's over, the band has no lead singer, what are we doing here?" We always worry about rent, we always worry about eating and drinking, we work in the supermarket during the day to see people's faces, and at night we can vent in the band, but now it all makes no sense, it's over, we... We...."Saying that, Xiaobai began to cry again, Xiaojie looked at the ceiling stupidly and said: "Cannon, the two of us are more reluctant than you, but there is no way, it's over, I'll clean up the house next week, I'm going back." After finishing speaking, Xiaojie got up and went back to his room, Xiaobai also went back to his room, Cannon has been sleeping in the living room, and pulled a piece of cloth in the living room as a partition.
Xiaojie and Xiaobai were lying on the bed in their own room thinking about the previous bits and pieces, thinking about Lei Lei when singing, Lei Lei when laughing, Lei Lei when she was angry, the two of them cried for a while in their respective rooms, the cannon repeated the content of the disc in the living room, the cannon clenched his fists, his eyes were always red, and slowly tears overflowed, the cannon blocked his mouth with his fist, and then closed his eyes and shed tears, and bit his fist hard, not letting himself make a sound, the cannon did not make an obvious cry, But the painful exhalation, the cry of the exhalation, makes it sound even more sad.
The cannon lowered his head, tears kept staying, and whispered in his mouth: "I don't agree, I absolutely don't agree, I don't want such an ending, we work so hard, we are so difficult, we have always insisted, Lei Lei definitely does not want such a result, Lei Lei will definitely not agree, absolutely." ”
It was a very hard night, and everyone was very sad, but no one had the power to change all this.
Three days later, on the night of the first seven days, Cannon, Xiaojie, Xiaobai, and the three of them all fell asleep drunk, and the three of them were half-asleep and half-awake, when they heard Lei Lei's voice and heard Lei Lei say: "Don't give up, be together, don't give up, be together, don't give up, be together." The three of them woke up almost at the same time, Xiaojie Xiaobai came out of the room, his face was full of sweat, and he was a little frightened, and he saw the same situation with the cannon in the living room, his face was full of sweat, frowning and staring.
The cannon said, "Did you two hear that?" Xiaojie and Xiaobai knew what the cannon was talking about and nodded desperately, the three of them changed from fear to joy, but they were also sad to cry, and the next day the three came to Lei Lei's grave and said: "We know, we will not give up, we will always be together." ”
The band picked it up again, did not find a new lead singer, the part of the singing was shared by three people, and after two years, the band disbanded, but the relationship between the three did not fade away, although everyone started a new life, but they would come out to meet every year, and go to see Lei Lei together, as if they had never been separated, on the day of parting, the disc was copied by three more points, one for each of the three, and the original one was burned to her in front of Lei Lei's grave.
The three of them did not leave here that night, they drank and ate together here, as the last dinner before parting, and the three of them slept in the bath all night, half-asleep and half-awake, as if they heard Lei Lei say: "Thank you." ”