The five songs Su Ennan wanted were "Never Say Goodbye", "Rely On", "The Moon Caused the Trouble", and the fourth song was "It's So Hard to Love Someone".
With these four songs, Liang Liang simply picked a song called "Eyes of Dreams" that Su Ennan sang in 2000 to include as the fifth song.
Liang Liang was prepared, and accepted Su Ennan's 100,000 yuan in cash.
Su Ennan happily took the song home to play with.
His concert is still almost a month and a half away.
During the past month and a half, Liang Liang felt that they didn't have much to do.
On March 18th, Mayday and Ocean Waves both set off for the South.
One went to Guangzhou, and the other went to Xianggang.
This left only the Blue Shark band performing at the Ocean Shipping Ballroom, making it seem much quieter.
Liang Liang's mind was no longer on this place, even though it could earn over ten thousand yuan a day.
It's already springtime, and it's time to start building the house. Liang Liang felt it was necessary to go home.
He has to personally oversee the house's construction; otherwise, he'll be in a terrible mood if it's built to his dissatisfaction.
Liang Liang planned to go home on the 20th, and he planned to visit his godfather in Landi City on his way.
Twenty days ago, when he visited his godfather's house for the New Year, his godfather promised to give him some timber and steel bars to build a house. Although they were all second-hand items that had been dismantled, they were all of the best quality. He could save a lot of money by bringing them back.
Even if it's no longer useful, it's still good for burning.
He has to go and check, lest his godfather forgets about it and there's nothing left.
There's also the video footage he promised to provide for Zhang Yu and the others.
He brought back a lot of audio-visual materials from the Pacific Ocean, enough for them to study.
Just as Liang Liang was getting ready to go home and build a house.
Xing Chenghu came in to announce that the Black Island Band had arrived.
Liang Liang was a little confused: What is the Black Island Band doing here?
He received the four members of the Black Island band in his office.
Liang Liang poured each member a cup of hot tea and tossed them a pack of Shilin cigarettes.
"Brother Abalone! Just say what's on your mind. I don't like beating around the bush."
The Black Island band must have come for something, otherwise they wouldn't have come here.
Abalone is the drummer of the Black Island band and is the core of the band.
This guy used to be involved in the underworld when he was young. I don't know what came over him, but when he was 18, he became obsessed with music. He stopped being involved in the underworld and started playing drums. He's been playing drums for five or six years now.
Although his drumming skills are not as good as Xiao Yu's, he is still considered a big name in the rolling music scene in Lianwan City.
Their band is quite interesting. Although their name is Black Island, each member has a stage name, and they are all related to fish.
His name is Abalone, the lead singer is Ribbonfish, the bassist is Carp, and the keyboardist is Yellow Croaker.
It's not surprising to use a fish as a stage name, but can't we all agree on this? Won't it smell bad if we mix freshwater and saltwater together?
"Brother Liang! We'd like to return to Haiyunlai, what do you think?"
Liang Liang reached out and scratched his head.
"Tell me what happened first."
"Sigh! It's not easy for us band members to work hard until after 1 a.m. every day to earn a meager living, is it?"
Liang Liang nodded.
"But the owner of the Hongkou dance hall keeps finding excuses to deduct money from our pay every day. Is that right?"
Hongkou Dance Hall is the new dance hall that Zheng Tuo opened in the development zone.
"They deducted your wages?"
“The salary is only a few dollars. She’s not stupid. What can she possibly skim off? What she’s skimming off is the money for song requests and tips. Our band can’t compare to yours. We sing all night and we only get a thousand or two thousand dollars in tips. She’s making up all sorts of excuses to take half of it. Do you think we’ll have anything left?”
"What about Night Walk? Doesn't the Night Walk band count?"
"They didn't deduct it!"
That's where the story begins.
“Xiao Liang! We’ve been hanging out together for a while now, and you know my temper. I’m the kind of person who doesn’t like things and I’m quick to speak up. That woman, you didn’t see it, did you? She’s so domineering. Which employee in the nightclub hasn’t been yelled at by her? And she’s incredibly vicious. The other day, she even made a new girl cry. I didn’t like it and said a few words, and damn it, I got myself into this mess.”
Having been through the streets, Bao Yu has a bit of a chivalrous heart and sometimes actually intervenes when he sees injustice.
Liang Liang understood as soon as he explained.
You're just asking for trouble by messing with Tao Yanhong!
"Then why don't you go find Zheng Tuo?"
"At first we were too embarrassed, but then we saw that this woman was no good, so we went to report it to Zheng Tuo. It would have been better if we hadn't reported it, because the woman hoarded even more."
"Zheng Tuo doesn't care?"
“Zheng Tuo couldn’t handle that woman at all, he was useless! We brothers saw that this wouldn’t work! We were only left with a few dozen yuan a day, and they were trying to kick us out. Since they didn’t welcome us, there was no point in staying there shamelessly, so we left. Now we brothers have nowhere to go, and we definitely can’t go back to the Lost Bar! We’ve finally had a few good days, and we really don’t want to go back to begging. After thinking it over again and again, we’ve swallowed our pride and come here to you.”
I have a pretty good impression of Liang Liang from the Black Island Band; at least their song "Black Island" is quite good.
"Since you have nowhere to go, I can't just stand by and watch you die. So come back, and you'll be treated the same as before."
Bao Yu was a little excited. The income at the Haiyun Dance Hall was incomparable to that at the Hongkou Dance Hall. They regretted leaving Haiyun for Hongkou.
They were deeply moved that Liang Liang had allowed them to return despite past grievances.
"Xiao Liang! Our band will be based at Haiyun from now on, and we won't leave no matter what happens."
Liang Liang nodded: "Then let's start working at the dance hall tonight. Now I should go home and say hello so we can take care of anything."
"Let's go home and tell our families first, and then we'll come over tonight."
After the Black Island Band left, Liang Liang called Mu Shuihua in and told her about building a house in his family. He then told her that he was going home to take a look and might not be back for ten days or half a month, so he would leave the Haiyun Dance Hall to her.
After explaining things to Mu Shuihua, Liang Liang called over the other members of the Blue Shark band.
“I’m about to take a taxi home. I might not be back for ten or twenty days. The three of you, plus the Black Island Band who are coming back, will be playing here. Any objections?”
"No objection!" Han Chui was the first to speak.
With Liang Liang gone, there would be one less person to share the money, so of course he had no objection.
Liang Liang looked at Han Chui and laughed: "Believe it or not, I'll have Brother Hu stuff you into the furnace?"
With Liang Liang gone, the Blue Shark band is actually missing a bassist, which can be temporarily filled.
As for the lead singers, Liu Yuyong, Wang Fan, and even Xiao Yu can all belt out a few lines, but they can't sing some of the higher notes.
After giving his instructions, Liang Liang dragged a suitcase and carried a backpack, hailed a taxi, and left Lianwan at 12:30 pm.
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