Yu Dongqing sighed softly.

"Big brother, I'll give you your 8,000 yuan rent as soon as possible after I am discharged from the hospital." Guo Xin said again.

"Don't worry, take care of your body first." Yu Dongqing comforted and couldn't help but ask nonsense: "Aren't you a resident singer?" Why do you drink so much wine if you don't accompany the wine girl? ”

Guo Xin's face showed a trace of bitterness, she turned her head to look at the blooming roses again, and said faintly: Big brother, there is a story here, would you like to hear it? ”

Yu Dongqing had no choice but to nod and sit on the bench beside her.

"You know I'm from Chongqing, my dream is to be a singer, and I came to Yanjing after graduating from university."

"I remember the first time I stood on the bar stage, I was so frightened that I was so nervous that I was sweating all over my body and even trembling slightly."

Guo Xin recalled the first time she was a bar singer, and couldn't help but smile, as if she wanted to use her current ease to appease her timid self in the past.

"Normal, it was the same when I was on stage for the first time." Yu Dongqing interjected.

Guo Xin glanced at Yu Dongqing in surprise and continued. "I only get paid 100 yuan a day, and it's about 3,000 yuan a month, and I have to eat, dress, telephone, water and electricity, and necessary cosmetics, so I can't help but owe you rent."

Speaking of this, Guo Xin smiled apologetically.

Yu Dongqing listened quietly and didn't say anything.

"We often play a game of Oiran in our bar." Guo Xin said again.

"Oiran?"

"When you enjoy the singer singing in the bar, the audience can send flowers to the singer, and a flower represents 100 yuan. The 100 yuan was taken away by the bar for 20 yuan of operating expenses, and the remaining 80 yuan went to the singer. The Oiran is the singer who receives the most flowers, that is, the most popular bar singer. ”

"Last night, you were an oiran?" Yu Dongqing asked.

"Well, I'm very happy, singing for the first time in a long time as an oiran, and I was about to finish, but a drunken guest wanted to pull her to drink."

"The bar owner doesn't care?" Yu Dongqing frowned and asked.

The boss hurriedly stopped the guest, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, the singers in our bar don't accompany the wine." ”

Unexpectedly, the guest smiled: "Don't accompany the wine?" Hehe. Shall I give the money to the head office? ”

In order to scare him away, the boss directly quoted 1,000 yuan for a cup! As soon as the boss's words fell, the guest unzipped the handbag and took out a thick wad of banknotes from it.

"Words count, give me a drink!"

"You just drank it?" Yu Dongqing asked.

"What's the way not to drink? Besides, I really need money. Guo Xin said in a low voice.

"I drank XO, the kind of big cup I used, I drank four glasses in one go, I usually don't drink a drop of alcohol, but now I drink so much, I can't stand it and run into the bathroom to vomit, I feel like my stomach is about to vomit, I really want to run away at that time."

"Don't you dare?" Yu Dongqing said lightly.

"Well, I really don't dare, I'm afraid I'll be beaten, I already opened this mouth at that time, if I don't drink it, it is equivalent to taking the guest to open it, so I have to go back and drink it again."

"What do guests do when they come to the bar? Isn't it just for fun. And many people come with the purpose of socializing, face is very important to them, if you offend them and make them lose face, it will inevitably anger the guests. In this case, they can do anything with alcohol. ”

"Normal." Yu Dongqing replied.

I have been in the entertainment industry for almost 20 years, what dirty things have I never seen?

"I'm doing the math, a girl I knew before, who was a singer in the same bar as me for a while, originally she could only earn 300 yuan a day, and suddenly one day she told me that she earned 150,000 yuan this month without much work."

Guo Xin paused when she said this, and looked at Yu Dongqing: "As for how she earned this money, big brother." I think you get the idea, too. ”

Yu Dongqing nodded.

"Actually, looking back, it's good now. I'm just a person who loves to sing, and if I wasn't a bar singer, my whole life would have nothing to do with singing, and I didn't want to do that. Although I am just an ordinary grassroots singer, as long as I keep going, although I can't see any bright future at the moment, I believe that this is just the darkness before the dawn, and everything will be fine in the future. ”

Hearing the girl's words, Yu Dongqing couldn't help but be a little moved.

"You'll make it!"

"Thank you." The girl had a sweet smile on her pale face.

"I'll send you back tomorrow when you get out of the hospital." Yu Dongqing said.

"No, no, no. Anyway, it's not far away, I'll go back by myself. Guo Xin hurriedly declined: "It's just the rent, I guess I still owe you for a while." ”

"There is no urgency about the rent, first recover your body, and everything is gone when your body is gone." Yu Dongqing stood up after speaking.

"Well, I don't drink anymore."

After chatting a few more words, Yu Dongqing asked if there was anything else she needed to help, and the girl smiled and refused and said You have helped me too much, enough.

Yu Dongqing didn't insist, said to take care of his body and left the garden, walked out of the hospital gate and drove in the direction of home.

The Chinese New Year is just around the corner, and the streets are filled with a festive atmosphere.

He remembered Guo Xin's words just now.

In the context of the declining record industry, being a bar singer has become a practical way for many young people to pursue their musical dreams.

At the end of every nightfall, bar singers like Guo Xin will appear on time in Houhai, Sanlitun and other places in the imperial capital, and perform hard for the audience on the few square meters of the bar. They use hoarse or sweet or vicissitudes or vigorous singing voices to guard their musical dreams that they have never given up.

Yes, dreams.

Didn't you stick to your dreams at the beginning?

Guo Xin's matter, Yu Dongqing no longer thought about it.

The path you have chosen, no matter how hard and tiring you are, you have to go on.

Two days later, this afternoon, Yu Dongqing got up from a nap and drove the supermarket to shop, and soon to prepare some New Year's goods, the car just drove into an overpass near the North Second Ring Road, and suddenly saw a girl singing on the sidewalk under the bridge.

It's Guo Xin!

Wearing a down jacket, in the cold wind, the girl's face was a little blue, with a microphone in front of her, holding a guitar and singing while playing.

Yu Dongqing hurriedly slowed down and pulled over, listening quietly.

This is the first time I have heard Guo Xin sing, but I didn't expect the girl to be a rare smoked voice.

But pedestrians are in a hurry, and passers-by occasionally glance at each other, and no one stops to admire them at all.

The girl was still singing.

Yu Dongqing sat in the car and listened quietly for twenty minutes, then pushed the car door and walked towards Guo Xin.

Guo Xin saw that it was Yu Dongqing coming, and was a little surprised, thinking that he was coming to collect rent again, and hurriedly said: "Big brother, I will pay the rent in a few days."

"Do you have pen and paper?" Yu Dongqing interrupted her.

"Yes, yes." Guo Xin didn't quite understand what he meant, but still took out a small notebook from his satchel.

Yu Dong took it, squatted down and put it on his knees to brush and write, Guo Xin looked at it curiously.

It's a song!

It didn't take long for Yu Dongqing to write it and hand it to her.

"You sing this and try it. There is also this address, if you are willing to find a woman named Luo Yun in the garden after the Chinese New Year. After speaking, Yu Dongqing turned around and left.

Guo Xin took the small notebook and looked at it carefully, humming while playing the guitar, and unconsciously tears flowed:

Dust off the dust

Don't get your eyes dirty

Perhaps

You have long forgotten about it when you talk and laugh

And I'm in turmoil

has experienced the vicissitudes of life

Missing takes time

Recuperate slowly

Aftertaste

Thank you for the monthly pass such as Ikeyufei.

PS, today I went to Jiangsu and Zhejiang with my daughter-in-law to play for a few days, so I sent a manuscript to see if I could stick to the return of the trip, try my best, I wish you all happiness.

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