Gu Lian took a deep breath, with an excited look on his face as if he had eaten a big melon. He opened his mouth and said, "You...ah! It hurts!"
As soon as he started to move, Shan Shian stepped on him hard, and a big black footprint immediately appeared on his white canvas shoes.
Gu Lian was so angry that he jumped up and down, but Shan Shi'an stopped him in his tracks with just one word.
He said: "There are too many people here, it's not convenient to talk."
Gu Lian choked and thought to himself that this was true. He finally regained some rationality from his extreme shock.
Luo Shixi looked at this, then looked at that, not understanding what these two people were talking about.
He was a little upset.
Maybe I haven’t figured out what song to sing for the final.
Luo Shixi thought about it and said to the two of them, "You guys chat, I'm going to the vocal music classroom first."
Gu Lian: "No, wait a minute!"
Shan Shian: "Okay, you go first."
They both spoke at the same time.
Shan Shian glanced at Gu Lian and told him to shut up. Then he raised his chin to Luo Shixi and said, "Hurry up, if you go too late someone else will take it."
There are not many vocal classrooms open, so everyone takes turns using them.
Luo Shixi nodded and left.
Gu Lian looked at his back as he walked away, and whispered to Shan Shian, "Is this true?"
"How should I know?" Shan Shi'an put away his plate and planned to leave.
Gu Lian quickly followed him, his heart full of curiosity as if a cat was scratching it, "Tell me something, just a hint, just a little bit." He used his finger to indicate "a little bit" the size of a fingernail.
Shan Shian turned and looked at him.
Gu Lian's eyes lit up, he stood still and pricked up his ears.
Shan Shian said slowly, "When it comes to men gossiping, you're the one."
After saying that, he walked away.
Gu Lian stood there, silent.
When the old lady asked, "Will you give my cutlery back to me?", he handed over the plate obediently.
"How come he is such a good person, but he just has a mouth?" Gu Lian sighed.
===
Everyone was having lunch at this time, so there were not many people in the vocal classroom. Luo Shixi chose the innermost room, where there was only one person in front, so he sat on the floor and waited for a while, listening to the other person's song.
The final songs were divided into two, one for each of the ten people. Everyone had a high degree of freedom and could change the lyrics, choreograph, and improvise on stage. The only requirement was to integrate into the song.
After the person in front finished singing, Luo Shixi applauded from behind.
The other person turned around and smiled, his face clear and clean, "I'm done practicing, you come."
Luo Shixi then discovered that the other party was Sun Mo, Xu Xuan’s biggest competitor before.
The reason why I said "before" is because the incident in which Xu Xuan's fans cut up the performance clothes of a fellow trainee was too bad, causing many people to choose to stop being his fans. His reputation also deteriorated, and his ranking dropped sharply. He is currently ranked 20th, and there is almost no hope of forming a group.
Sun Mo's ranking rose rapidly, leaving Xu Xuan far behind.
The so-called fans’ behavior, idols pay the price, that’s it.
Luo Shixi was not familiar with Sun Mo, so he just smiled at him, stood up and took the microphone.
This time he chose a sweet little love song, the kind that makes people want to fall in love as soon as they hear it.
Not many people came at this time, so Luo Shixi sat cross-legged on the ground. After singing once, he looked at the corrector to slowly adjust his mistakes. He played the song over and over again to get the feeling.
As he was listening, he heard footsteps outside. Thinking that it might be a trainee who came to practice as well, he glanced outside.
I just happened to see a familiar corner of clothes.
"yy?" he shouted.
If I remember correctly, this is what Jiang Yan was wearing this morning.
He immediately got up from the ground, rushed to the back door, stuck his head out, and said with surprise, "Is it really you?"
Jiang Yan paused as he was about to leave, turned around, smiled at Luo Shixi, and waved his hand as a greeting.
"Hi."
Luo Shixi: "It's really you, are you coming to practice too?"
Jiang Yan searched his mind for excuses to deny, but found that none of them seemed right. Finally, he nodded and admitted, "Yes, let's practice here."
"Then why don't you stay with me? I'm almost done practicing anyway." Luo Shixi grabbed Jiang Yan and dragged him into his vocal room, then pressed him to the ground and sat next to him.
Luo Shixi lowered his head and turned on the music again, smiling and saying, "I haven't seen you for a long time. Why are you always so busy?"
Jiang Yan looked at his profile, his eyes lingering on Luo Shixi's long and curled eyelashes. After the clear eyes looked at him, he was the first to look away and nodded, "Well, I've been too busy lately."
When others heard this, they knew it was just a perfunctory remark, but Luo Shixi took it seriously, thinking that Jiang Yan was really so busy that he went out early and came back late every day, and the two of them only spoke to each other for several days.
Cheerful songs were played.
Luo Shixi smiled at Jiang Yan and said, "I'll sing it for you. Please listen."
"Okay, let me listen." Seeing that he couldn't dodge, Jiang Yan simply said no more. He bent one leg, put his elbow on his knee, turned his head and looked at Luo Shixi, "This can be regarded as stealing information for our team."
Luo Shixi was amused.
When the prelude ended, he stuck to the rhythm and sang his part. After he finished, he put his hands on the ground, closed the distance between them, and asked Jiang Yan with a smile, "Did I sing well?"
Jiang Yan nodded, "That sounds good. You finally don't intend to let your face down."
Luo Shixi touched his face, "What do you mean?"
Jiang Yan looked at his face and said, "Do you know that when you smile, you can instantly make people feel a surge of maternal love?"
“Is it that exaggerated?”
Jiang Yan: "It's even more exaggerated than that. If you were to go on stage and smile like you did just now, you would definitely kill all the women of your age group in seconds. You would be the new generation of housewife killer."
If he were to say, this little love song in the final seemed to be tailor-made for Luo Shixi.
A blush appeared on the back of Luo Shixi's ears, and he pursed his lips and said nothing.
Jiang Yan didn't force him. He took the lyrics book from his hand, but found that Luo Shixi actually tried to write the lyrics himself and turned that beat into rap.
It goes without saying that this top scorer in liberal arts has great literary talent. The words he wrote are so subtle, straightforward and innocent, just like a love letter that an adolescent boy writes for his sweetheart, stroke by stroke, suppressing his shyness.
Jiang Yan watched and exclaimed in admiration.
When Luo Shixi saw him reading the lyrics he had written, he quickly snatched the notebook away and held it in his arms, "Don't look at it, don't look at it!"
Jiang Yan looked at Luo Shixi, whose face was red, and spread his hands, "I've already written it, why don't you sing it."
Luo Shixi: "Oh, yeah, you seem to be pretty good at rap, so listen to it for me."
"Let me correct you, it's very impressive," Jiang Yan said, "Go ahead and sing it."
So Luo Shixi sang it again along with the background music.
After singing, he stared at Jiang Yan's expression, not missing any details on his face, and asked questions repeatedly.
"How did I sing?"
Jiang Yan didn't know where to start. He was silent for a while, and finally said: "That's good, you are still a singer-songwriter."
After a pause, Jiang Yan added, "Can you sing it again?" He wanted to listen carefully to see whether his ears were broken or his speakers were broken.
Luo Shixi thought he had made real progress and did it again happily.
This time Jiang Yan was sure that it was not a problem with the speakers or his ears.
Luo Shixi looked expectant, "How is it? Is there any progress?"
Jiang Yan, despite his nervous and excited look, clapped, "Great!"
"As expected of you, you created two songs in such a short time!"
Luo Shixi looked puzzled, "But, this is a song?"
Halfway through his speech he realized that this was a mockery of him being out of tune!
"Jiang Yan!"
A roar was heard from classroom 1607.
===
There are three days left until the final.
On this day, before everyone had time to practice in the afternoon, the program team asked them to go to the recording studio.
After the first public performance, Luo Shixi would go into the recording studio to be interviewed every time and he was already familiar with it.
But this time it was different. An entire wall of the recording studio was hung with the portraits of 20 trainees, and he was the one in the first row and first column.
Luo Shixi looked at the director team curiously.
The director smiled and said to him, "Remember you wrote a letter when you first came here three months ago?"
Luo Shixi thought about it and remembered that he had indeed written a letter before. He had no plan to stay for long at that time, but he was still very serious about writing down his hopes for the future. He wrote his plans in great detail in the letter, and every sentence was an expectation for the future.
At that time, the director team said that everyone would be allowed to open it during the finals. Luo Shixi was thinking at that time that he might never have the chance to open it in his lifetime, which was a pity.
But who would have thought that, as fate would have it, after many twists and turns, the letter finally fell into my hands.
Looking at the letter that was handed back to him, Luo Shixi felt a lump in his throat and sighed in his heart.
Director: “Open it and take a look.”
Luo Shixi said "hmm" and opened the envelope.
On the white letter paper was the future he imagined.
“I want to go to a great school, finish my studies, and wake up every day with nothing to worry about but my GPA and endless papers to write;
I want to raise a cute dog, it doesn't have to be an expensive breed, as long as it likes me, we can depend on each other for the rest of our lives, and I will work hard to earn money for its dog food;
I want to save money to buy a house. Fifty square meters is enough. I live alone anyway, but it must have a big balcony. My mother likes to grow flowers, and I can also bask in the sun. "
The director looked at Luo Shixi, who was looking down and silent, and asked him gently, "Can you read it to us?"
Luo Shixi then read the letter in his hand.
It was just a few short lines, but after he finished reading, several people lowered their heads and wiped away the tears from their eyes.
After three months of getting along, everyone already knew what he had been through, and all they could feel was heartache.
"I've seen what others have written, and they all want to get a certain ranking and debut as a group. Xiaoxi, you are still different." Seeing that everyone was a little sad, the director smiled to ease the atmosphere.
Luo Shixi was not affected at all. He suppressed the complicated emotions in his heart and smiled, "I didn't think so much at that time."
He smiled knowingly to the director.
When the director asked him at the end if he had anything to say to everyone, Luo Shixi thought for a moment and said solemnly to the camera:
“I want to be a star.”
The director asked, "The brightest light shining in the sky?"
"No," Luo Shixi shook his head, "I want to shine some light on people like me."
===
There are still two days until the final.
The weather has been bad these days and there has been a lot of rain.
I was supposed to go to the live rehearsal today, but it started raining again.
Luo Shixi held the bag, looked at his freshly brushed canvas shoes, then at the puddles on the ground, and sighed to himself that he was unlucky. Just as he was about to roll up his trouser legs and run to the gate, an umbrella was placed above his head, shielding him from the wind and rain.
The light citrus scent is mixed with the smell of rain, fresh and moist.
Before Luo Shixi even looked up, a smile appeared on his face. "Brother Jingzhou, why are you here?"
Bai Jingzhou's voice was a little blurry in the rain, but still gentle, "I guess you didn't bring an umbrella."
"I left it on the table and forgot to take it away."
Luo Shixi jumped out of the car and crawled under Bai Jingzhou's umbrella. The citrus scent mixed with water vapor became stronger.
He was wearing thin clothes, and his arms holding Bai Jingzhou shook a few times before he recovered.
Bai Jingzhou saw that he was only wearing a short-sleeved shirt, and asked him as they walked, "Why don't you think of wearing more clothes?"
Luo Shixi said: "It was so hot last night that I thought it wouldn't be too cold after the next rain."
"It's September now, it's time for the temperature to drop," Bai Jingzhou tilted his umbrella forward to block the wind, "Xiaoxi, wear more next time."
Luo Shixi hugged his arms and rubbed them, nodding repeatedly.
Bai Jingzhou looked at him like that, his eyes curved, "I'll freeze you once so you'll remember this lesson."
"Brother Jingzhou, why are you like this--" Luo Shixi stretched out his tone to express his dissatisfaction.
The two arrived at the rehearsal site.
This venue is not any of their previous venues. The program crew built a new one.
As soon as Luo Shixi came in, he saw a long flower path. At the end of the path were nine flower clusters, shining brightly under the lights, attracting everyone's attention.
In addition to rehearsing their dance this time, the rehearsal also focused on the choreography for when they walk along the flower path, to ensure that there will be no mistakes in the live broadcast the day after tomorrow.
With the permission of the production team, everyone walked on the flower path during the rehearsal. Even though they knew it was fake and there was no audience except the staff, everyone was still excited and nervous. Some people were so nervous that their hands and feet became weak and their palms were covered with cold sweat.
20 trainees lined up, one by one, walking carefully on the road to their dreams.
Looking at these children, the director smiled and said to He Yu, "I am looking forward to the day after tomorrow."
He Yu looked at Luo Shixi's back as he drank water after the rehearsal and smiled, "I'm looking forward to it too."
The director's voice was a little hoarse. He had been shouting for the whole morning. He took a sip of water to slow down. Then he said, "The Orange Channel contacted me and said they were discussing matters related to the formation of the group. They mainly wanted to know which manager I should choose and where to choose a temporary dormitory."
He Yu asked: "Did you say that?"
The director shook his head, "I haven't responded yet."
"As for the agents, I guess they have their own ideas in mind," He Yu saw the director nod and continued, "But I do have a good choice for the address of the temporary dormitory. Yunqi Junting, what do you think?"
Director: "I heard the security is pretty good. We can't bear the big trouble if our location is exposed during the group show."
The two chatted for a few more sentences, and the director started shouting again.
"Light No. 3 is in place!"
"How does the lighting engineer here use the light? Make it more tilted!"
"Change the choreography here. It's not appropriate."
He Yu listened to the director's hoarse voice again and felt that he had wasted the bottle of water he had just drunk.
After returning, the director gathered everyone together.
It was the first time that Luo Shixi came to the small cinema on the top floor with everyone.
Sun Luo sat next to him and whispered, "What's the director up to?"
Luo Shixi shook his head, "I don't know." He was tired after a day of work and was slumped in the chair like a salted fish.
Liang Yulan patted him and said, "Sit down."
Luo Shixi then supported himself on the armrest and sat up straight.
The center screen lit up.
“Look!”
It turned out to be vcr.
This is a VCR prepared for the parents and relatives of the 20 trainees.
The camera freezes on each face.
"My dear, are you doing well over there? I have missed you so much every day for the past three months. You have never been away from home for such a long time before. I am always worried about you, afraid that you will not be able to get used to the food over there and will not be able to sleep well..."
"This is my grandma!" a trainee said to the elderly woman in front of the camera, "This is my grandma!"
He shouted excitedly, and as he shouted, his voice began to choke.
"After you joined the show, our whole family would squat in front of the TV to watch it. When your sister saw you on TV, she would call you brother and wait for you to come back to see her. She hasn't seen you for a long time. Knowing that you made it to the finals, mom is really proud of you. I hope you can realize your dream soon and stand on a bigger stage!"
Sun Luo stared blankly at his mother in the video and called out softly, "Mom..."
"I am Wang Yiran's father..."
"I am Zhou Qi's grandfather, and this is his grandmother..."
In front of the camera, the family members showed their childhood photos and the furnishings of the room. When they talked about their son, their faces were full of pride and excitement.
Luo Shixi looked at him with envy in his eyes.
The vcr of Liang Yulan was recorded by his good friend Chen Jianyun. He said that he missed the days when they played basketball together. He despised Liang Yulan for returning to China without telling him and participating in some variety show. Finally, he asked Liang Yulan to stop looking so cold and come to play with him.
"Bring your brother with you, I'll wait for you!" Chen Jianyun smiled brightly at the camera.
Luo Shixi poked Liang Yulan, "He said you have a dead face."
It perfectly illustrates what it means to enjoy watching the fun.
Liang Yulan smiled, his face expressionless, but he said, "He is tired of living."
The 19 trainees broadcast their videos one by one, and Luo Shixi was actually a little curious about who recorded his own VCR.
He has no parents and no friends, so it wouldn't be appropriate to find anyone.
Finally, here is Luo Shixi’s vcr.
A pair of hands covered the lens, then took them away, revealing the bright sunshine.
"Hello everyone, I am Luo Shixi's...boss." He Yu's smiling voice came.
Everyone exclaimed.
"I actually asked Teacher He to record it!"
“I’m so envious.”
"Teacher He is such a nice person. I want to be his employee too!"
He Yu adjusted the camera and saw that he was not at home, but in front of a tube-shaped building.
Luo Shixi recognized it at a glance. This was his apartment building.
He Yu's voice came out from the VCR with a slight electric sound, "I met Xiaoxi when he was eighteen years old. I know nothing about his past. I want to tell you something, but I don't have the energy to do so. So I asked him where he lives and came here to take a look."
Luo Shixi looked at everything familiar in front of the camera, blinked, and his eyes were slightly wet.
The first people we interviewed were the uncles and aunts who were chatting downstairs. When they talked about Luo Shixi, everyone was very enthusiastic.
"As for Xiaoxi, I've seen him grow up. My granddaughter went to the same junior high school as him. This kid is really smart and got full marks in every exam."
"Not only that, he also tutors the children in our building for free. After one semester, my grandson's grades have improved dramatically!"
"Xiaoxi is handsome. Now that he's in college, it's time for him to find a girl to accompany him. I think the guy from the old Sun family in the building next door is pretty good. I heard that he was admitted to the same school as Xiaoxi. What's that called? Oh, yes, a college bully."
"Yo~"
The trainees started to make a noise.
"Find a little girl to accompany you, Xiaoxi."
"Our Xiaoxi is so handsome, it's time for him to find a partner."
Luo Shixi covered his face and fell on Liang Yulan, swearing not to look up.
Liang Yulan laughed so hard that his chest shook.
Sun Luo stood behind Luo Shixi and said jokingly, "Brother Xiaoxi, look at me too. Although I am not good enough, I am devoted to you."
Luo Shixi simply covered his ears, looking like he was not going to listen.
He Yu in the camera laughed out loud, "Don't worry, you will find it."
Everyone in the tube building gathered together, surrounded He Yu enthusiastically, and talked about Luo Shixi at once, praising him here and there, and no one said anything bad about him.
Uncle Li, who had just returned from a walk, saw so many people gathered here, so he went up to ask, and He Yu claimed to be Luo Shixi's colleague.
Uncle Li blew his beard and glared, "This kid said he would only lend me the suona for one month, but he still hasn't returned it to me."
Who knows how painful it is to be without him!
He Yu couldn't hold back his laughter, he understood in his heart that this was Uncle Li from the funeral team.
He said: "Xiaoxi has been delayed for a while, but you will be able to see your suona again in a week at the latest."
Aunt Li came over and said, "I know, Xiaoxi just participated in a singing competition. She's competing for the championship and can't come back." Then she turned around and scolded her husband, "How much is a broken suona worth? I should thank Xiaoxi for taking it. I'll be pissed off by you sooner or later if I listen to you playing it every day!"
Uncle Li was at a disadvantage and kept mumbling to save his face.
As they talked, the two began to quarrel, and in the end, Uncle Li was badly defeated and was led into the unit door by Aunt Li with his ear twisted.
After Uncle Li left, everyone gathered together and had some fun.
"You know what, after Lao Li's suona was confiscated, I didn't hear him play in the park for several days. I missed it a lot."
"Then let him be at your house next time and give you a good blowjob."
"No, no, life is more important."
Everyone looked at each other and laughed.
He Yu looked at the residential building in front of him with a smile on his face. It had a very homely feel to it.
Nowadays, many people don’t even know their neighbors’ names or what they do for a living, but it’s different here. Although there are no high-rise buildings in this residential area, the canteen sells spicy noodles that were only available when I was a child, with simple packaging.
But there is a human touch here, everyone can sit down and chat, and everyone is willing to help if anyone has problems.
Luo Shixi must be very happy living here.
Luo Shixi watched the entire VCR, which was full of trivial matters in the neighborhood, but after watching it, he missed his neighbors very much.
He sniffed and whispered even though he knew He Yu couldn't hear him.
"Thanks."
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