Chapter 239

Last song

Of course, Nie Weiguo will never know how many European and American rock songs his father listened to in five days and five nights in order to help him pursue his dream, in order to study the core competitiveness of this music that he did not understand at all.

How did he muster up the courage to pick up the phone and go find his mentor?

Nie Gong, almost in tears, explained to his mentor how dazzling his second son, who thought he had no future, was on the stage and how determined he was to do rock music even at the cost of his life.

Of course, even though the laborers are old, they are by no means uncivilized.

As for the father, no matter how strong and invincible he is, he has to bend wherever he can in front of his son.

So, in five days, Nie Gong listened to almost all the tapes of European and American rock singers and learned about the life of each band's lead singer. At the same time, Nie Weiguo's tapes were sent to Beijing, and then played to the music tutor of Thames College across the ocean through recording.

The instructor was amazed that in the distant and mysterious East, there existed a child with such a broad vocal range and unprecedented stage performance and appeal.

So, the deal was almost settled at once. Just now, the red phone rang and Nie Gong got the news that Nie Weiguo could study in the UK.

"I always thought that our Nie Weijiang would be the first to go abroad, but I didn't expect Erdan to go before him." Seeing Erdan crying like a tearful child, Chen Lina shook his arm and said, "Before you leave, let's have another concert. Mom didn't dance enough that day, really."

Erdan was stunned again, and Deng Chun immediately raised his hands and said, "Illrockyou! Brother, sing another one."

Sandan also said, "The only regret is that the song is too short. Brother, did you cut corners by only singing half of the song?"

Erdan was very excited. "Dad, will you still go to watch it? Li Mingcheng and I can sing, but I think you can still dance along."

Leng Qi was gnawing on a pig's paw when he suddenly burst into laughter, clapping his hands on the table and laughing until tears came out.

He said, "Is that what your dad does called dancing? No, no, no, your dad is not dancing, he is being electrocuted and is convulsing."

The little satellite was also happy, "I want to watch my dad dance, too. Leng Dad, will you dance too?"

"Wei Xing, when you go home tonight, Dad will dance "I'm a Soldier" for you. I dance much better than your dad. Really, kids shouldn't be curious about that kind of stuff."

The satellite's mouth pursed.

The worker said seriously, "Who danced? Who do you think danced?"

"Dad, it's you." Erdan said.

Nie Gong was furious. "Xiao Chen, I have never danced before. Tell me, have I ever danced before?"

Chen Lina saw that Nie Gong's face turned blue with anger, and quickly shook her head and said, "No."

Deng Chun and Nie Weijiang, two fence-sitters who followed Chen Lina in dancing, also shook their heads and said, "No, Dad never dances."

Well, Erdan was confused again. He clearly remembered that his father had jumped before. Could it be that he really hadn’t jumped before?

In the evening, the worker turned on Miss Chen's sewing machine and sighed while counting the money. "I have inquired about the exchange rate of British pounds to RMB. It is now ten to one. In the UK, he has to pay for his own study in the art college. He has to take many elective courses and learn many musical instruments. All that costs money."

The heartless Erdan was chatting and bragging with Chen Zili, Qian Gong, Wang Fan and others through the wall, talking about his plan to study in the UK.

As for whether you can speak English once you get there, that is not true.

How can you learn music if you can't speak English? That's impossible.

Erdan only knew that he was going to study at Thames College, the birthplace of rock music, and soon he would sit in the seats where those he admired most had sat, to study real music theory.

Many people in the base know Britain because of Hong Kong. Yes, now people are talking about Hong Kong's return.

Qian Goudan was very angry. "The British have taken our territory, and you actually want to go to England to study, Nie Weiguo, you are a running dog of capitalism."

"What are you talking about, Qian Goudan? I still have a debt to settle with you. After I leave, you are not allowed to chase Tiantian, otherwise, I will ask my two brothers to beat you to death." Erdan suddenly got angry.

Qian Goudan was also angry. As a teenager, he always looked down on the naive Nie Weiguo. How could he not be angry when he saw that one day he could go abroad while he had to repair the kowtow machine in the oil field? Qian Goudan said, "An 18-year-old girl is as beautiful as a flower. I can pursue her if I want. What does it have to do with you, Nie Weiguo?"

"You can chase anyone but not my sister." Erdan jumped over the wall and raised his fist to hit someone.

Qian Gong also yelled, "Nie Weiguo, if you dare to use your fists, I will report you to the police and put you in the detention center. How can you continue to study abroad?"

"Stop arguing." Tiantian suddenly yelled. She was washing the pot and pouring water into the sewer. "I have a date in Beijing. He has a good job, good conditions, and everything else. We have agreed that we will get married when I turn 23. You guys have nothing to do with it, really."

After saying that, Tiantian went in.

Erdan and Qian Goudan looked at each other, confused.

They were still trying to grab the meat, but the meat had already been taken away by foxes from other places.

"The tuition fee is one thousand pounds a year, which is exactly ten thousand yuan. We can afford it. The living expenses for a month are fifty pounds, which is five hundred yuan. Miss Chen, no, I have to find another job to do it part-time. Even so, only I can support Nie Weiguo by myself without eating or drinking." Nie Gong said.

In the mining area, his salary was already high among high salaries, 200 yuan in his unit and 250 yuan in the automobile factory. However, this amount of money would not be enough to feed a child for a month in a developed country.

Chen Lina was still dancing, and she came over to watch and said, "Don't worry, reform and opening up will happen soon, and the private economy will be allowed. Your little princess will be one of the first to get rich. Just tighten your belt and hold on for two years. It won't last long, really."

The worker sat on the kang, looking at the roof of his house which had not been replaced for many years, and then looking at Miss Chen who was still twisting and dancing on the ground, and he couldn't help feeling sad again.

For more than ten years, I haven't even bought a new roof for Miss Chen, but she has stayed with me in this room for ten whole years.

Oh, the great apricot tree fork. If he could really meet it, he would really have to hug it and express his gratitude.

Thank him for sending him such a good woman.

Deng Dongya, Ji Chaoqun and their daughter stayed in Uru for another night.

In order to allow the whole family to live in one room, Deng Dongya tried his best to inform Gao Feng in advance and asked him to book only one room instead of two.

When Chen Lina told Ji Chaoqun this and asked her to be on guard against Deng Dongya's hooliganism, Ji Chaoqun just wanted to laugh.

Sure enough, in the middle of the night, Deng Dongya came over quietly.

He moved the lady to another bed and then lay down. His ex-wife was very cooperative and enthusiastic, but halfway through, she kicked Deng Dongya off the bed.

"Ji Chaoqun, that's not right. You have to finish what you started. Can you at least let me finish it?"

Ji Chaoqun said indifferently, "I am happy, so what? Do I have any reason to serve you? What is the basis? You came here by yourself. I gave you this as a favor. Now I want to take it back. Get out of here and stay away from me."

Deng Dongya was so angry that he couldn't vent it. He lay beside Ji Chaoqun and said angrily, "I heard that you are going to meet a male classmate when you return?"

Ji Chaoqun was very happy. "Him? He looked so silly in high school. Now he will be transferred to Jiading Hospital as the vice president. When the time comes, I will transfer there too. We can work together and have more chances to meet each other."

Deng Dongya thought for a long time and asked, "Are you really not going to remarry me?"

“No more.”

Deng Dongya retreated and settled for the next best thing, "Well then, give me another chance tonight. Really, let me finish the job? I beg you to give me another chance, otherwise you will marry your male classmate. I Is your face completely lost?”

"What kind of madness are you in?" Ji Chaoqun asked back.

Deng Dongya said sincerely, "You two are going to get married. If he tries to sleep with you, I will definitely laugh to death."

"What are you laughing at? What can we laugh at?"

After hearing this, Ji Chaoqun was so angry that he laughed.

Well, anyway,

Once her heart knot was resolved, her hand healed and she was as steady as before when she held the scalpel again. So, Ji Chaoqun was transferred back to the inpatient department and continued to be the chief surgeon.

The road to chasing your wife is long, Deng Dongya, just keep chasing her.

When it comes to matters concerning Chinese people, it is always easy to handle as long as someone from above gives a heads-up.

Nie Weiguo's study visa was quickly approved, and Chen Lina meant to let Nie Gong accompany him on the trip.

After all, it's not a good idea to throw a sixteen-year-old child alone into a country where he is unfamiliar with the environment and the language.

Nie Gong thought it was nothing. "Music is the best language. Besides, his money goes directly to the school and no one can steal it. Are you afraid that someone will cheat him away? I would be happy if someone would cheat a child like this. It's too expensive."

The family had saved money for more than ten years, and one day he was asked to spend it all by himself. And the music he played was the rock music that Nie Gong hated the most. He even didn't want to see Nie Weiguo at all. He even wanted to send him abroad, but he couldn't even think about it.

Before leaving, Erdan contacted Li Mingcheng and went to attend another concert, as many people in Uru were waiting to see the concert of Western Wolf.

However, this time it was not in the dark basement of Ming Garden.

Instead, it is located in the People's Cultural Square, and Gao Feng contacted the staff of the cultural center to move the equipment out of the cultural center for them.

Of course, this is a closed-door show, no tickets are required, anyone can watch it as long as they can squeeze in.

In the future, a concert might not mean much, but in the 1980s when ideology was still very tight, it was unprecedented in a place like Uru.

On the afternoon of the day when the news broke, a large crowd gradually gathered at the People's Cultural Square.

By about eight o'clock in the evening, the room was so crowded that no one could move.

In order to ensure that there would be no riots, disturbances, or mob fights in this place where thousands of people gathered, 50 police officers from the entire autonomous region were urgently transferred to Uru. Fire, armed forces, and security forces were all mobilized and stood by on the sidelines to prepare for any unexpected situations.

Chen Lina brought Deng Chun and Nie Weijiang, and originally they were planning to experience it backstage, but in the end they saw that there were too many people and were afraid of something going wrong, so they ran backstage.

Erdan was quite nervous in the backstage, "Mom, is my dad really not coming to watch? Besides, didn't he dance very well last time? Why isn't he coming this time?"

There was a lot of noise outside. There were so many people that the noise was like tens of thousands of crows circling in the low sky.

In two days, the child will be gone.

He was actually a child from a good family. Although he liked to wear some strange clothes, he was not too much. This made Chen Lina very worried. "Weiguo, can you tell mom if you have ever liked a girl?"

Erdan's face was dark, and it was hard to tell whether he blushed or not, but he shook his head vigorously. "No, Mom, why would I like a girl? Don't think too much."

"Do you have a boy you like? Mom is not that kind of person who is not open-minded. But, you found that the dance you danced was..." Chen Lina had been a little suspicious in her heart. After all, Erdan was a different child from Nie Weimin and Nie Weijiang.

I like Liu Xiaohong, a civil servant. I guess I started liking her when I was six or seven years old and used to hit people on the head with a stick.

As for Nie Weijiang, he has been howling about "Lang Ben Lang Liu" every day recently. She probably has some feelings for the daughter of Deng Dongya's family.

But as for Nie Weiguo, he has never shown any sign that he is interested in any girl.

"I can dance any dance, Mom. Look, I'll show you the moonwalk." Erdan said, and turned away.

Chen Lina quickly shook her head, "Mom is not talking about that. Mom is talking about, do you have a boy you like?"

"Does Deng Chun count?" Erdan looked confused. He rubbed the head of Deng Chun who was playing the drums and said, "Nie Weijiang, my brother, I love him the most."

Well, Chen Lina thinks that this child probably hasn't figured it out yet.

Another thing is that, when they went abroad, Erdan was not as shrewd as Nie Weimin and was not a rocker. It was not that Chen Lina discriminated against him, but they were born with more hormones. She was afraid that he would learn to take drugs and get AIDS.

In short, when the child was about to leave, Chen Lina realized that there were still many things she had not taught him.

Leng Qi, Hu Xuanang, Nie Gong, Gao Feng, Secretary A, and several leaders of the autonomous region were actually standing at the back.

They simply don't understand the world of young people.

Take He Lanshan for example. She was almost mad. "Listen, listen to what they are yelling. It's just like ghosts crying and wolves howling. Nie Weiguo's making trouble is fine, but Li Mingcheng, such a good kid, is also making trouble like this. I have really lived too long and have seen everything."

Turning around, she saw Hu Xuanang standing next to her. She said, "This kind of foreign song was still banned two years ago. You must have brought it back when you visited abroad, right? Hu Xuanang, if we say that the autonomous region's ideology is in chaos, you are the first culprit."

Hu Xuanang patiently explained to He Lanshan, "It's okay for kids to do some rock music. Times are always progressing, society is always changing, and young people should be different from us. Yes, I got the tape in, but Comrade Xiao He, you have to accept this change, otherwise, you will be the one getting angry for nothing."

"I know that my daughter will never marry a gangster like your son who has no future," said He Lanshan.

If Hu Su heard this, she would laugh to death, because Li Mingcheng has dozens of girls chasing after him. If the boy hadn't kept himself clean, she wouldn't worry about having a daughter-in-law, but only about having too many daughters-in-law.

Hu Xuanang did not compete with He Lanshan for this.

He does not have as strong a background as Ye Gong, so he cannot get a place for Li Mingcheng to study in the UK. However, he is also working hard to send his son to the United States next year.

Just imagine that when He Lanshan finally sent his daughter abroad, thinking she could escape from the gangster Li Mingcheng, but Li Mingcheng and Gao Xiaobing met again in the United States, He Lanshan must have cried at that time.

Leng Qi bought a few bottles of beer from somewhere, with his son on his shoulders. "Old Nie, I took Ma Xiaofang's son's blood and drove to Uru overnight. What year was that?"

Nie Gong was suddenly stumped by his question. After thinking for a long time, he said, "It was 1964. I remember Wei Min was born not long ago."

Leng Qi listened to the music that was like a bomb exploding in his mind, swaying to the music with a beer in hand, "Thinking back to when I joined the army at the age of 14, went to Qinghai at the age of 16, went to Tianjin at the age of 18, and went to the Soviet Union at the age of 19. You are my brother, and you remember every step I took."

Drinking beer and holding his son, he staggered forward.

The worker didn't know where his wife was. Of course, he thought she would have a great time tonight, so he couldn't help but smile.

Because Leng Qi asked, Nie Gong began to recall.

He had just arrived in Uru in 1962, and it was a desert. He and his late wife slept in a tent at first. They spent many sleepless nights listening to the howling of wolves, lighting kerosene lamps and reading books one by one. She was the only red-faced woman on the desert.

Looking up at the sky, it has been dyed wine red by the neon lights.

Nie Gong recalled that his head was deformed by the impact, and Sun Gong's face, which was holding his hand and refusing to let go, suddenly choked up. She was in heaven, and she could see how hard he tried to guide the children onto the right path.

Originally, Nie Gong thought everyone would be happy tonight.

As a result, when the performance was over and the crowd dispersed, Leng Qi, who had squeezed back in, was very unhappy. "Young people nowadays are simply so corrupt."

Then, he was happy again, "A general's family has no bad sons, a laborer, my son is no worse than yours."

The worker said, "You were shaking and squeezing just now, but you seemed quite happy when you got in. Why are you talking about your son again?"

Xiao Fengfeng said in a clear voice, "My dad's wallet was almost stolen."

Well, when everyone raised their hands and followed Nie Weiguo's swaying, the thief stole many people's wallets.

When he got to Leng Qi, Xiao Fengfeng grabbed the thief's hair.

The young guy rode on his father's head, grabbed the thief's hair and refused to let go. Leng Qi fought in the crowd, caught a thief, called on everyone, and almost trampled the thief to death.

That night, Chen Lina and Nie Gong made an exception and let Erdan sleep on the same kang.

Chen Lina almost never closed her eyes and told him how to save money, how to go out and sing to earn some pocket money, and how to be the successor of communism, not to take drugs, not to have promiscuous relationships, and not to contract AIDS.

Erdan agreed to everything else, but after listening to Chen Lina talking about AIDS for a long time, in order to prevent himself from being infected, he asked her questions for a long time. Only then did he understand that Chen Lina was worried that he liked young boys, the kind that would lead to sleeping with them.

Erdan was so angry that he let out a cry and sat up from the kang, "Mom, how could I possibly like a man? Ah, what you said is so disgusting, bah bah bah."

"Didn't I ask you if you have a girl you like, and you said no." Chen Lina's voice also became higher.

Nie Weiguo jumped off the kang and left. "I won't tell you about this, huh."

Seeing him go, Nie Gong sighed deeply, "You said that rockers generally don't live long. Is that true?"

Chen Lina said, "Lennon died very early. The lead singer of Queen, Big Buck Teeth, had AIDS and is dying soon. As for the Rockies, although the lead singer is still alive, many other members died early. In short, everyone says that rockers die early, it's true."

As excited as the children are about starting off tomorrow, about the unknown road that leads to glory, their parents are as worried as they are about it.

Nie Gong had personally sent his son onto a path in life with the highest probability of death. From then on, Nie Weiguo could no longer control his own life.

After coming out of the house, Erdan was about to sleep in the row of houses on the side of the yard. He looked back and saw that the next door was so quiet under the moonlight. Chen Tiantian was actually standing under the grape trellis of her house.

"You probably don't understand. There are so many evil spirits in foreign countries. You can't learn to smoke cigarettes. If you learn to smoke, you have to learn to smoke marijuana. That's a lifelong drug. You can't quit. Do you understand?"

"oh."

"You can't learn to drink alcohol. Many people put things in alcohol. Even if it's water, you can only drink what you poured yourself. You are a child from a communist country. That's capitalism. No matter how familiar you are with someone, you should still be wary of them. Don't eat the food given by others, and don't drink the water given by others." Tiantian hit the nail on the head.

Nie Weiguo howled again, turned around and went back to his room to sleep.

Well, in Chen Tiantian’s eyes, he is a younger brother who will never grow up.

Nie Weiguo finally understood what it meant to be so close and yet so far away.

At this time, Deng Chun and Nie Weijiang, who had been partying all night, put their heads together and were rocking in their dreams.