Luo Shixi looked at their faces with expressions of "Why are you so pessimistic?" and found it funny.
"Hey, it's not that exaggerated."
Bai Jingzhou said: "If I were to choose it, I would consider it carefully."
If nothing else, this word can drive people away.
Jiang Yan looked at the "Mountain Ghost" in Luo Shixi's hand, raised his eyebrows and asked him: "Luo Shixi, are you sure it's this song?"
"Mountain Ghost" is a very difficult Chinese style song. The lyrics are quite difficult. The whole song is selected from the article "Mountain Ghost" in "Chu Ci·Nine Songs". It tells the story of a sentimental mountain ghost who has a tryst with his sweetheart in the mountains, but his sweetheart never shows up.
Not only is the lyrics difficult to memorize, but they also contain rare characters and Middle Chinese sounds, as well as the dialect of the Chu region at the time. After being adapted, the song even has some operatic elements in it.
The dance is a typical Chinese style, which may be easy for Bai Jingzhou, but too difficult for Luo Shixi. Several moves in the MV made Jiang Yan's ligaments hurt after watching them.
Luo Shixi smiled, his eyes were particularly firm under the light: "I want to try."
He had memorized the Chuci poem "Mountain Ghost" a long time ago, but he never expected it to be made into a song and even accompanied by a dance. Luo Shixi fell in love with it when he saw it for the first time.
If it can be presented, it will be a gorgeous visual feast.
But it was really difficult, and Luo Shixi's choice unsurprisingly put him in hell mode.
He let out his anger and stood in his position.
After that, everyone who came in would see Luo Shixi standing in front of "Mountain Ghost". Everyone would pass by him with their mouths wide open enough to fit an egg, looking dazed.
He Yu heard bursts of shouting coming from behind and finally couldn't help but look back.
Then I saw Luo Shixi's choice.
“…”
"That's good," He Yu said after a long silence, "Since we're here, let's try something different."
Luo Shixi: "..." Don't think I didn't hear your silence.
Because the lyrics of this song are really a big challenge, the top-ranked people almost don't choose this song. The other teams are almost full, and Luo Shixi's team is only a few small and quiet people.
The second person to come over was Sang Zi. He didn't expect Luo Shixi to choose this song, but at least the two of them were company.
All the choices have been made. In addition to Luo Shixi and Sang Zi who ranked 17th, the other members of Luo Shixi's "Mountain Ghost" group include Wu Hengyu who ranked 32nd, Sun Luo who ranked 48th, and Han Hanwen who ranked 50th.
All in all, the rankings are not too high.
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It was only 8:30 after we finished selecting the songs for the second public performance. Everyone formed teams and went to a special practice room for a meeting, racing against time to prepare for the second public performance in half a month.
Luo Shixi didn't get home until 10:30 in the evening. When he opened the dormitory door, he found that everyone was there.
The dormitory is quite quiet.
Jiang Yan, who was lying on the upper bunk, was listening to an MP3 player with headphones on and writing and drawing on paper. He was probably preparing to change the lyrics of the song. His long legs were stretched out from the railing beside the bed and were swinging in a particularly comfortable manner.
Liang Yulan was sitting at the desk nearby, reading a book. When he saw Luo Shixi coming back, he casually put a bookmark in it and closed the book.
"Is Xiaoxi back?"
Luo Shixi noticed the cover of the book.
"Cranial Anatomy".
He twitched his lips and felt a chill run down his body.
Jiang Yan noticed the action below, took off his headphones, and greeted Luo Shixi.
“I’m back.”
Luo Shixi nodded. Not seeing Bai Jingzhou, he asked, "Where's Brother Jingzhou?"
Liang Yulan said, "Wash up in the bathroom. Xiaoxi, go to bed quickly."
Luo Shixi responded and knocked on the bathroom door: "I'm coming in, Brother Jingzhou."
There was a quick response from inside, the voice was vague: "Xiao Xi? Come in."
Luo Shixi pushed open the door and as soon as he entered, he looked into the eyes of a green face.
“……!”
He paused for a moment, and after a few seconds it occurred to him that it was Bai Jingzhou with a facial mask on, not a ghost.
Luo Shixi held the door handle for a long time before letting go. He rolled his Adam's apple and said, "Brother Jingzhou, you scared me to death."
"Um, sorry," Bai Jingzhou lowered his head, washed off the mask on his face, and wiped it with the towel at hand, "Xiaoxi, do you want to wash up?"
He said, making way.
After thanking him, Luo Shixi stood there washing up. From the mirror, he could see Bai Jingzhou applying various things on his face, and he couldn't help but feel curious.
"Brother Jingzhou, do you wipe these bottles and jars every day?"
Bai Jingzhou: "Not every day. I'm going to be busy again soon. My schedule will be disrupted again. My skin will get worse if I continue like this. I'll take some precautions in advance."
Luo Shixi nodded repeatedly.
So that's how it is. I feel like Brother Jingzhou is so exquisite. Luo Shixi took a look at the few skin care products she had.
Compared with Bai Jingzhou, I am just a rough old man.
Seeing that Luo Shixi kept looking at him, Bai Jingzhou found it interesting and tapped Luo Shixi's head: "Xiaoxi, do you want to try it?"
Luo Shixi was curious and nodded when he heard it.
Bai Jingzhou asked him to tilt his head back, opened the small blue box, and scooped some jelly-textured mask cream with a mask brush.
"Xiao Xi has a good foundation, so I won't mess around. I'll apply a moisturizing mask on you."
Luo Shixi tilted his head and watched Bai Jingzhou approach. At this distance he could see each of the other's eyelashes clearly.
Even at such a close distance, it was hard to see any flaws on Bai Jingzhou's face, and it even looked a little whiter.
The mask brush was pressed against his face, and Luo Shixi shrank back.
Bai Jingzhou asked him, "What's wrong?"
"It's a bit cold." Luo Shixi muttered in a low voice.
The mask cream is icy cold, more like jelly.
It melts away with just one touch.
"Why are you so delicate? You can't stand it being cold at all." Bai Jingzhou laughed at him and stretched out his hand to lift Luo Shixi's chin to tell him not to hide.
Because his hair was a little long, Bai Jingzhou picked up a hairpin and pinned it on Luo Shixi's forehead.
"I don't want pink," Luo Shixi fiddled with the clip on his head angrily, "I want black."
"No," Bai Jingzhou looked down at Luo Shixi, met his pair of clear black and white watery eyes, and tapped the back of Luo Shixi's hand with the end of the mask brush, "Take it off, what if I can't see it when I apply it on your hair?"
Luo Shixi took it reluctantly.
Seeing that he still cared, Bai Jingzhou comforted him: "Pink is very beautiful, it suits you."
Luo Shixi looked at him and puffed up his cheeks: "No boy is suitable for pink. He is not a little girl."
Bai Jingzhou smiled and applied the cream carefully for him.
"How long does it take to wash this off?" In Luo Shixi's impression, his mother would wash off the facial mask after a while.
Bai Jingzhou screwed the lid on and replied, "This is a sleeping mask. You don't need to wash it off. Just rinse it off tomorrow morning."
Luo Shixi: "That's quite convenient."
He moved closer to the mirror, looked at his current appearance, and remembered the scene when he was frightened by Bai Jingzhou when he first came in, and laughed out loud.
The two of them came out of the bathroom one after the other.
Jiang Yan put down the pen in his hand, jumped directly from the upper bunk to the ground, and leisurely let them go this way.
"I thought he fell into the toilet." His eyes swept over the two of them and stopped on Luo Shixi's face.
"What is this?" Jiang Yan frowned, scraped the mask off Luo Shixi's face, and got some on his fingertips.
"What are you doing? Brother Jingzhou just put it on for me." Luo Shixi immediately moved away from him, not letting him rub it any further. "It's a facial mask."
Jiang Yan repeated: "Facial mask?"
Does a facial mask look like this?
Isn’t it just a piece of white paper on the face?
Bai Jingzhou said at the side: "Xiaoxi wanted to try it, so I applied some on him."
Jiang Yan said "Oh", but didn't say he didn't know this sentence. He just said to Luo Shixi: "I'll help you apply it next time."
Hearing this, Bai Jingzhou glanced at Jiang Yan and said, "No need to trouble you, it's just a small matter, I'll help Xiaoxi."
Jiang Yan: "You said it's a small matter, it's the same if I apply it."
Luo Shixi was just about to say, "How can you help me apply the mask if you don't have one?" when he saw Liang Yulan walk in with a cup of hot milk.
Then, in front of Luo Shixi's shocked gaze, he placed it on the head of his bed.
Luo Shixi pointed at the milk in disbelief, then pointed at himself.
"mine?"
Liang Yulan nodded: "Yes."
Luo Shixi swallowed his saliva, unwilling to accept this fact, and laughed dryly: "Haha, well, I'm not hungry tonight..."
"It helps you sleep," Liang Yulan looked at Luo Shixi, his smile deepening, "and it can help you grow taller."
Luo Shixi: “?”
He seemed to be possessed.
What was even more difficult to accept was that Liang Yulan smiled and told Luo Shixi, "I will prepare a cup for you every night from now on."
"Ah?" Luo Shixi had an expression of "no love anymore", "Can you not drink it?"
He has never liked drinking milk since he was a child because he always felt it had a fishy smell.
Liang Yulan smiled and refused him: "No, Xiaoxi should drink more milk, it's good for your health."
Luo Shixi pulled Liang Yulan's sleeve and shook it, and said to him in a coquettish tone: "Brother... Can I only drink half?"
Liang Yulan hesitated for a second.
Seeing an opportunity, Luo Shixi called out a few more times: "Brother, please."
Liang Yulan sighed and patted his head: "Then drink half, but drink all tomorrow."
"Okay!" Luo Shixi responded happily, not taking the second half of the sentence to heart.
Bai Jingzhou smiled and said, "It turns out that Xiaoxi doesn't like drinking milk."
Luo Shixi pinched his nose and poured milk into his mouth. When he finished half of it, he smacked his lips and found that it was not as bad as he remembered. He didn't know what brand of milk it was, he had never drunk it before.
He replied to Bai Jingzhou: "I really don't like it very much. I always think it tastes weird."
Liang Yulan sat back at the table, but this time he did not open the book "Cranial Anatomy". Instead, like Jiang Yan, he took out an MP3 and started listening to music and writing lyrics.
The rap group chosen by Liang Yulan has the greatest degree of freedom. All the lyrics were removed, leaving them with only a beat, and the rest is left to them to express freely.
He took out a piece of paper and said to Luo Shixi, "Just leave it there when you're done. I'll clean it up later."
"Oh, okay." Luo Shixi put the remaining half cup of milk back to its original place and sat cross-legged on the bed.
Bai Jingzhou got on the bed and was lying on it looking at him. He asked Luo Shixi, "Xiaoxi, how is your group going?"
Luo Shixi felt a headache when this was mentioned. He had a lot to say, but because Liang Yulan was writing lyrics, he lowered his voice and talked to Bai Jingzhou.
"I was chosen as the captain and center of our team."
Bai Jingzhou was not surprised by this result. But when he saw Luo Shixi's worried face, he comforted her: "Don't be too stressed, Xiaoxi. Just do your best."
Luo Shixi shook his head.
It would have been better if he didn't mention it, because as soon as he mentioned it, he thought of what happened tonight.
Their "Mountain Ghost" group was the last to leave, but their progress was not much.
Luo Shixi was elected as the captain as soon as everyone gathered together to discuss, and because of his outstanding performance in the first public hour and his advanced ranking, he got the C position.
Luo Shixi, who had achieved a double harvest, was still in a daze when he was forced to do something.
"But... I don't know how to dance classically, and I'm afraid I won't be able to do it well." Luo Shixi is probably the first person who got the C position but still pushed it away.
Sang Zi, however, was more confident than he was: "It's okay, Brother Shixi. Didn't you know nothing last time? But you still shocked the whole audience and won the likes king in the first public performance! You will definitely be able to do it this time too."
Everyone thought so and nodded frequently.
"Yes, Brother Shixi, you will give everyone another miracle when the time comes."
"Captain, I chose you as the center because I trust you. You really can't do it now, but I believe you will shock everyone like last time."
Luo Shixi took the small sticker representing the C position, and Sang Zi helped him stick it on his chest.
Luo Shixi felt the burden on his shoulders become heavier. He took a deep breath and said, "I will try my best!"
Sang Zi smiled and replied: "I believe in the captain!"
Luo Shixi just felt full of energy now. He picked up the lyrics on the ground and said, "Let's look at the lyrics now. How many days can you memorize the lyrics?"
I am most afraid of the air suddenly becoming quiet.
Even Sang Zi, the most lively one, stopped talking.
Finally, Sun Luo whispered, "One, one week? This poem is really difficult..."
He felt that one week was not enough, and actually wanted to say ten days.
We only prepared for the performance for two weeks, and used one week to memorize the lyrics.
It's so unreasonable.
Luo Shixi considered it and said, "Can you go faster?"
"Six days?"
"... Four days, no more." Luo Shixi gritted his teeth and said, "I know this poem is difficult to memorize, everyone should pay more attention."
Everyone sighed and nodded in agreement.
Looking at the silent team members, Luo Shixi felt that the burden on his shoulders had become heavier.
He asked the most crucial question: "So, who among you knows how to dance classically? Raise your hands if you have the basics."
No one raised their hand.
Luo Shixi was unwilling to give up: "No basic knowledge at all? Just a few classes will do."
Still no one raised their hand.
“…”
Sang Zi looked at Luo Shixi worriedly: "Brother Shixi, what's wrong with you?"
Why that expression?
Luo Shixi murmured, "I am crushed by the burden."
The game is finished as soon as it starts.
How can we play this?
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