Jia Shudao, Lao Qin, and Zhang Jinfan came over.

Meng Shi stopped talking, and Guan Bin gave them cigarettes one by one.

Jia Shudao took it and said, "This play is quite interesting. ”

Lao Qin said: "Manager Jia, this is just an accident. ”

"Accident?" Jia Shudao took off the ice pack he was pressing and said: "I have always been sincere, and I have repeatedly emphasized in Li Jiangshan's restaurant that we have never been enemies, and we Huashi stopped the follow-up tour plan, terminated the contract with 'Eight Hundred Miles of Qinchuan', and Renpei was transferred back to the parent company." ”

"We've done enough." Jia Shudao said, "It's just that I didn't expect Director Meng to give me such a good show today." ”

Qin Qingxue walked to Meng Shi's side and stood still, her red lips lightly opened: "Manager Jia, what you said is the premise of our cooperation, and we are also paying." ”

Jia Shudao's tongue pushed his already red and swollen cheeks in his mouth, reached out and touched it again, and said:

"We didn't feel your sincerity and due respect from the beginning to the end, but we remained patient and even decided to set the broadcast platform on our unfamiliar beep station to cater to ......"

"to fit your plans." His gaze stayed on Meng Shi's face, "I think maybe we shouldn't put our posture so low that you have some kind of illusion......

Jia Shudao finally began to stretch his limbs that had been curled up, reminding these people around him that 'Hua Shi' was a fierce beast that was gradually losing patience.

Meng Shi, who had not participated in the dialogue, took a deep puff of cigarette and said, "The beep station is not a map of Du Kang. ”

His words had no beginning or end, but Jia Shudao's gradually straining voice came to an abrupt end.

Lao Qin and Zhang Jinfan were surprised.

Meng Shi said: "Give me and Manager Jia a little time to say a few words." ”

After everyone left the bar, Meng Shi walked to the bar and handed Jia Shudao a glass of ice water, "There are many people who think that I am the same kind of person as them. ”

Jia Shudao was silent.

"But they're all wrong."

Meng Shi found Brother Li's kerosene lighter, flicked open the lid with his thumb, the paddle made a crisp sound, and as the teeth and flint rubbed, the cotton core soaked in aviation kerosene ignited a blue flame.

Jia Shudao lit the cigarette, took a small sip, raised his head, opened his mouth, and a light smoke came out, "Then what kind of person are you?" ”

The lighter closed the lid and there was a muffled sound, and the fire went out.

Meng Shi said: "We are the same kind of people. ”

Jia Shudao raised his head and said with a sneer, "Oh, is it? What kind of people are we? ”

Meng Shi played with the lighter, sat down, and said, "In the eyes of others, they only recognize the stinky beep of money." ”

Jia Shudao said: "I don't deny it, but I don't think you're not." ”

Meng Shi said, "I'm sure there's such a stupid beep in the depths of my soul, but you're a little bad now." ”

Jia Shudao looked at his young face, which was often subconsciously ignored, and said, "Meng Shi, who do you think you are?" Who do you think I am? ”

Meng Shi took an ashtray and put it in front of him, and said with a smile, "I know very well who I am now, but it is your personal emotions towards me that are making you make wrong decisions." ”

Jia Shudao flicked the cigarette ash and said, "Oh, is it? ”

Meng Shi put the lighter between the two and said: "The data of the second quarter of the beep station shows that the average monthly active users are 130.3 million, with a month-on-month increase of only 1.88%.

As of August, there were 7.6 million large paid members, a year-on-year increase of 111%, but paid members accounted for less than 6% of the overall monthly active members.

Compared with the same period, Qiyi Video's subscribers were 107 million.

In addition, the average membership spend of the beep station has also been on a downward trend in recent quarters.

So what made you give up the bizarre, firm choice to put on the beep station? ”

Jia Shudao put out the cigarette in the ashtray and threw the question back to Meng Shi, "So you know, why did I put it at the beep station?" ”

Meng Shi took out the cigarette left by Brother Li, lit one himself, and handed another one to Jia Shudao, "The beep station that is accelerating the expansion of the circle is gradually losing its community cultural tonality and falling into the cruel reality of competing with the larger video platform in the same dimension.

Frequent disputes between low-quality content and UP masters, the influx of a large number of marketing accounts, the destruction of the content ecology, and the weakening of the community attribute of strong interactive feedback.

The loyal users who adhere to the original community tone are gradually losing, the conflict between new and old users is gradually emerging, and the user experience and user stickiness are slowly declining.

The overall impetuous atmosphere is too easy to be inflamed,

In the entertainment of raising moral standards, the underground band is inherently incompatible with it,

In this case, the full operation of the beep station user and even itself in the face of Huashi can be regarded as a weapon, or a map of the superintendent wrapped in the weapon. ”

Meng Shi stretched out his palm, "I'm happy to list the next steps Huashi will take one by one, do you want to hear it?" ”

Jia Shudao was silent.

Meng Shi is not in a hurry.

After half a cigarette.

Jia Shudao sighed and said: "You don't participate in the production, you have nothing, no desires, how can you make people feel at ease, I can't see what you want, you can't sleep at night." ”

Meng Shi said: "Who do you think I am? Why do I have nothing, no desires, do you know what I got in this? All you know is that I disbanded the band, gave up my reputation in the circle, gave up participating in the production, but you can't see what I'm getting. ”

Jia Shudao looked at Meng Shi's eyes.

He thought of Meng Shi and said that he was a hermit crab.

Hermit crabs are soft when they are first born and are easy to be eaten, so when they grow up, they must find a house that suits them.

At this time, it will attack the conch, kill and tear the conch, burrow into it, hook the top of the shell with its tail, support the inner wall of the shell with a few short legs, and crawl with its long legs outside the shell, guarding the mouth of the shell with a large claw.

Since then, the shell of the slain has become its home.

"We have never been enemies." Meng Shi slowly exhaled a puff of cigarette and said, "From the perspective of capital and connections, is there any difference between Qingxue Media's shot and mine's shot?" ”

The hairs on Jia Shudao's arms stood up in an instant—he was looking at Qin Qingxue and the entire Qingxue Media!

"There is no savior, never."

Meng Shi lit the lighter, snapped it back on, and said like an old friend's chatter:

"Rock music has always only attracted people who will be attracted, the so-called variety show, mainstreaming, just let it expand the scope of attraction, that's all, and what we need to do is to stop suspicion, let go of personal emotions, stand and make money, and be a fool in peace."

When Jia Shudao looked at Meng, he felt that he was like a leopard hiding in the dense leaves and gently flicking its tail, which made people feel chills in their backs.

Meng Shi poured himself a glass of water and smiled faintly, "Maybe someone really cares about the future of rock and roll, but it's definitely not you and me." ”

……

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From Ruifang, New Taipei City, Wan Chai to Houtong Station, get off the train and cross the overpass, which is Houtong Village.

Once a declining mining village, Houtong is now known as the Cat Village and is also known as the "World's Six Cat Sacred Places".

As for where the other five were, Zhang Renpei didn't know because he didn't like cats.

Returning to Wan Chai from Sijiu City, Zhang Renpei and the company took a long vacation and took the train back to his hometown alone.

He has already brought his parents to Taipei, and his memories of his hometown are still stuck in the old train station, the abandoned coal mine, and the ruined walls of the old house...

It's just that the monkey in my memory, which is like a desolate western town, has now been surrounded by the "cute system".

Most of the cats here have their own names, and there are special wall paintings with many cats' figurative features and names painted on the walls.

In addition to a memorial statue of a cat at the station, there is also a "cat bridge" shared by people and cats.

Tourism has brought it back to life.

During this time, Zhang Renpei rested little by little to renovate the houses that had been abandoned for a long time, pulled out the weeds in the courtyard little by little, and pruned the bushes.

I bought a second-hand bicycle and rode it around the village all day.

The other day, I cleaned up the attic and turned out a guitar from it.

He replaced the strings that had long been unusable with new ones, glued the cracked plates one by one with adhesive, tightened the screws, and played a song jerky.

It's just that none of this can relax his heart.

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Ten minutes later, Jia Shudao walked out of the bar, and Meng Shi waved him away.

Waiting for Jia Shudao to walk away, Qin Qingxue asked, "What do you say?" ”

Meng Shi said: "Lao Jia and I are now 'good friends who are honest and like-minded', there is no deceit, only sincere cooperation." ”

Qin Qingxue only felt inexplicable, "Talking about people." ”

Meng Shi said: "I just talked about what he wanted to hear and was willing to believe." ”

Guan Bin, Lao Qin, and Qin Qingxue understood-this is a flicker.

Maizi asked again: "Meng Shi, do you have any things and people that you love?" ”

Meng Shi was silent.

Maizi said, "Love me." ”

Meng Shi said: "Girl, I have things and people that I love. ”

Qin Qingxue said, "Who? ”

Meng Shi said: "It's not you anyway. ”

Qin Qingxue kicked over.

Meng Shi patted the non-existent footprints, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, squatted in the corner, and dialed a number.

——

Zhang Renpei sat on the verandah and looked out at the courtyard, and a few moths circled around the lamps around the trees.

The breeze was light, the light and shadow were dappled, and the autumn night sky was starry, but the stars in the sky were like indifferent eyes in his eyes, full of contempt and contempt.

Zhang Renpei once felt that there was always one bright star in the sky that belonged to him.

Now he feels that under this starry sky, there is no place for the world to stand.

He closed his eyes, thinking of relief.

The cell phone rang.

"Mom, they abandoned me, they abandoned me like a song"

“……”

"Mom, when you look back on everything, will the world be okay?"

The bell rang stubbornly over and over again, as if if no one would answer it, it would hit the ground and the sky would be desolate.

It wasn't until the third time that Zhang Renpei opened his eyes.

"Meng Shi."

He read the familiar name on the caller ID.

What a familiar name, a name that you can't forget, even if you haven't really met, or even spoken, but you can't forget it for the rest of your life.

He picked it up and put it to his ear.

Meng Shi lit the lighter and said:

"Come back."

"All along, only you really care about rock 'n' roll."

Zhang Renpei didn't know how long he had been sitting, and when he came back to his senses, his phone had already hung up.

He looked out into the courtyard, where a cat had jumped down from a tree, its white fur rising from the wind, like flying snow in a small cluster of lights.

Zhang Renpei looked up at the starry sky, and a meteor crossed the sky.

He felt a little warm on his face, reached out and touched it, but at some point he burst into tears.

———— Swirling Light and Shadow: Final ————