Hearing her words, Wang Feng first became confused:
"You said someone taught you how to write lyrics and compose music through correspondence?"
Chen Xi nodded: "Yes."
Wang Feng looked at Jiang Xinhai and Xu Xiangxiao with disbelief, and found that their eyes were equally shocked.
“It’s incredible.”
Chen Xi tilted his head and asked, "Why is it incredible?"
After Wang Feng pondered for a moment, he said to her, "Let me tell you this, if you really learned to write lyrics and compose music just by communicating through letters, then there are only two possibilities."
"Which two possibilities?"
"First, you're a genius," Wang Feng said. "Second, the other person is a top composer and lyricist."
Chen Xi was a little surprised: "Why?"
"Why……"
Wang Feng smiled bitterly.
He had trouble explaining why.
Musicians don't grow out of the ground. They won't suddenly pop up like potatoes just by watering them.
Just talking about composition... He studied at the music conservatory, with so many thick textbooks, and studied for so many years.
How many people still can’t compose music?
Not to mention writing lyrics.
When it comes to writing lyrics, the lower limit is extremely low and the upper limit is extremely high.
"Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, the green grass stretches to the sky" is a lyric, and "You love me and I love you" is also a lyric.
What professional lyricists write is different from what ordinary people write.
The level of skill will result in completely different things being produced.
Chen Xi's lyrics writing skills are not at all like those of a composer.
The lyrics she wrote are gentle, touching, catchy and very good.
The key is that her composing skills are also good.
Wang Feng asked, "Do you still have the original letter? Would you mind showing it to us?"
He smiled and said, "The main thing is, I really want to see what kind of letters could have taught you to write such lyrics and music."
Chen Xi thought for a moment and said, "I won't reveal anything that involves private matters. I'll just reveal the parts he taught me."
She ran to the room where the sundries were stored, rummaged around for a while, and after a while, she brought out a cardboard box.
She put the box on the table and the dust dispersed.
Everyone looked over and saw that the heavy box was full of letters.
Chen Xi picked out a letter and said, "I have stored these letters in chronological order. I'll take out this first one."
She picked up an envelope with yellowed paper and took it out carefully.
Then slowly take the letter out of the envelope, unfold it, and place it flat on the table.
The letter paper read:
"Hello, let me introduce myself. I am a college student majoring in music.
My teacher gave me an assignment to randomly pick an address from the address book, send a letter to that address, and try to become friends with the person who received the letter.
I used the method of selecting soldiers and generals, and I picked you!
I don't know what kind of person you are, and I don't know if you are willing to be my pen pal. Anyway, I'm sending you this letter to test the waters.
There are many advantages to being a pen pal with me. I can share my thoughts, my experiences, and my musical attainments with you.
Let me tell you a secret, I have a pretty good musical talent.
How about it? Are you excited?
Please reply to me as soon as possible!
Oh, and the return address is on my envelope. You should know how to write it, right?
After reading the letter, Xu Xiangxiao exclaimed, "Wow!" and said, "That sounds good."
Wang Feng said: "Although I was never assigned this kind of homework before, I think it's quite fun."
Qin Yunchu felt something was amiss and asked, "What does having a pen pal have to do with music?"
"Maybe he teaches creative music and needs inspiration, so he arranged the pen pal assignment."
Jiang Xinhai blinked and asked Chen Xi, "So you replied?"
Chen Xi blushed a little, as if recalling that afternoon when she jogged all the way to drop the letter into the mailbox.
"Yes, I was only a teenager at the time, at the age when I was prone to wild fantasies, so I replied quickly."
She moved her fingers around in the carton, touched an envelope, and pulled it out.
"After communicating with him for a while, I became interested in music, and he sent me a letter like this."
Everyone looked over and saw the letter saying:
“I recently had a dream in which I was standing on an endless grassland and suddenly the wind started to blow.
Then a melody suddenly flowed into my heart, which is... Try humming it, doesn’t it sound nice?
But I suddenly don’t want to finish it anymore, so I’m giving it to you. I hope you can finish it one day.”
Wang Feng looked at the melody on the envelope, tried to hum it, and suddenly clapped his hands: "Oh!"
Xu Xiangxiao and Jiang Xinhai also hummed along quickly.
"I know what song it is."
Three people said at the same time: "The Wind Rises!"
"Oh, so this is the song." Qin Yunshang also knew this song and clapped her hands.
Qin Yunchu had never heard of it before, so he asked, "How does it go?"
Jiang Xinhai said, "Yun Chu, you must have heard of this song. It was quite popular back then and was considered Chen Xi's famous song, right?"
Chen Xi nodded and hummed: "When I first encountered this time, I was filled with nostalgia, and the horizon seemed to be right before my eyes..."
Qin Yunchu also heard it.
"So this is the song. It's very nice."
Wang Feng looked at Chen Xi in shock and asked, "Did you write this song when you were a teenager?"
Chen Xi blushed and said, "Of course not. I was so young at the time and didn't know anything. I couldn't even hum the tune correctly. It took me a long time to learn how to sing this tune."
"Then how did you learn it?"
Chen Xi said: "I also asked how this song was completed. He spent many letters telling me how to sing, what is composing music, what is arranging music... and then I learned it!"
Wang Feng said with a strange expression, "So, this song was almost completed by your pen pal?"
"Yes," Chen Xi nodded, "So, my pen name at the time was Xiya, which was a combination of my name and his."
"Xiya?" Qin Yunchu was startled when he heard the word "ya" and asked, "What's your pen pal's name?"
Chen Xi lifted the envelope, revealing the name on it: "Lin Ya."
"Linya..." Qin Yunchu muttered the name silently.
I guess I just overreacted.
Ever since she experienced Chen Ya’s identity being exposed, she has become a little bit obsessed with Chen Ya. Whenever she hears the word "Ya", she thinks of Chen Ya.
How could it be Chen Ya?
If it was Chen Ya, the girl would definitely be suspicious.
“Huh!”
At this moment, Jiang Xinhai suddenly shouted.
She leaned over, took the envelope from Chen Xi's hand, and suddenly held her breath.
Wang Feng asked, "What's wrong?"
Jiang Xinhai pointed at the envelope and was speechless for a long time. After a long while, he finally said:
"This, this address, is where I used to live!"
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