Chapter 44 Go Your Own Way

"The wild flowers on the mountain bloom for whom and lose for whom. I wait quietly for someone to pick them. I am waiting for him to come like that flower. Pat me on the shoulder and I will listen to your arrangement..."

In the recording studio, Liao Liao sang emotionally into the microphone with his eyes closed.

Yesterday Li Qian repeatedly emphasized that what she needs is relaxation. Yes, she also felt that she really needed to sing this song in a more relaxed mood and in a more relaxed state.

Wildflowers, born between heaven and earth, are unrestrained, waiting alone.

This song is full of a slow swaying feeling from the words to the music. How can it be good when sung with a tense voice?

So, she tried her best to recall the feeling when she heard Li Qian sing this song for the first and only time that day. She tried her best to relax her mood and state, trying to express this song with a more relaxed voice.

But... it didn't work.

Halfway through the recording, she stopped suddenly.

Outside the recording room, through the transparent soundproof glass, Zhao Meifeng and the sound engineer looked up at her in amazement at the same time.

Liao Liao took a deep breath, took off the Echo headset, opened the door of the recording studio and walked out.

"Hoo... Sister Zhao, let me take a break for ten minutes, okay?"

Zhao Meifeng's face was full of displeasure, but in the end, she shook her head and sighed, and waved her hands to signal her to go easy.

Liao Liao nodded, opened the door of the room and went out.

Inside the door, Zhao Meifeng couldn't help sighing, and said, "Why bother?"

After closing the door, Liao Liao showed a wry smile on his face.

Why bother?

She raised her hand and rubbed her face vigorously, and after a while, she walked towards the bathroom.

There are still a few steps away from the bathroom, and there are already conversations coming.

When encountering this kind of situation before, Liao Liao would definitely pay attention to making some noise to remind the other party, but this time, before she stepped up her pace, the other party's conversation has been clearly transmitted.

"...Who says it's not! It's been the fifth day that she's occupied studio No. 3, and it's said that she hasn't even finished recording a single song! It made my accompanist come out and I'm stunned that there is no place to arrange songs... ..."

"Who says it's not! It's not just occupying the recording studio. Before that, she occupied 70 or 80 songs by herself. If I hadn't begged Sister Zhao anyway, she might not know when she would take those songs. !"

"Huh, it's doing well now. It is said that she spent 400,000 yuan to buy five songs from a high school kid. It's really ridiculous! When I first bought it, I saw her walking posture, and she was full of spirits! Now How about it? It’s been five days since I recorded a song, and I guess I can’t get up and down the stage... But what’s the use of that, the money has already been spent, and she has to use it if she doesn’t need it!”

"That's right! It's called self-eating! I'll have to wait and see how many copies of her album can be sold..."

"There are too few of them. Based on the word-of-mouth of her last single, this album should be a bit of a swindle. However, when everyone really buys it back, will they start cursing their mothers? Then I don't know... "

"Ha... Sister Qin, you are so humorous..."

These two voices are very familiar.

The so-called Sister Qin is called Huang Yueqin, formerly known as Huang Yueqin. She is one of the female singers in the company with relatively good grades. It is said that her parents both came from a Yue opera troupe. Come out and become the company's signed singer.

Her main focus is sweet songs, and she has released five or six albums so far. Although the results are not good, they are very stable. So her status in the company is not low, especially among the female singers, she can be regarded as a big sister.

And the other person is Lele.

It is helpless to say that the trend in the music circle these years has been like this. Sweet songs plus folk songs are the safest way for female singers. It's not that they didn't take other paths, but Zhou Mo had only one, and Zhen Zhen had only one.

Before Zhen Zhen appeared, female singers gave people the impression that they could only sing some soft, disease-free, and feminine tunes, but Zhen Zhen turned out to be, with her more masculine voice, Singing folk songs and love songs has opened up a broad road for female singers—of course, there is only one Zhen Zhen. Therefore, Zhen Zhen has been popular for almost ten years. Everyone regards her as the first day of the Chinese music scene, but after her, there are very few female singers who can really follow her path.

Feng Feifei's folk songs are majestic, and Zhou Mo's urban love songs are lingering, but they can only rank third and fourth among the four queens. Among them, Zhou Mo's status as a queen is still not recognized by many people, let alone She quit the music scene three years ago and got married. It can be said that there are only three queens left in the music scene today.

Zhen Zhen is the big sister in the music industry. She can easily get triple platinum or even five platinum sales when she releases an album. There is no doubt about it, but the sales of the second sweet song queen, He Runqing, are no worse than hers. After all, it was only because Zhen Zhen was too pioneering and her status in the music scene was too high that she was honored as the number one. In front of He Runqing, she had no advantage at all. As for Feng Feifei, it has always been difficult for her albums to exceed two million sales.

Apart from Zhen Zhen and Feng Feifei, those who can sell more than one million single albums and get platinum records in this market are all singing sweet songs and folk songs without exception.

Of course, everyone understands that the future of the music world will definitely not always be dominated by sweet songs and folk songs, so there are still many female singers who are always trying to break out their own path.

Liao Liao is doing this, and Lele is doing the same.

It's just that Liao Liao doesn't bother to follow any established path when making albums. Whether it's country songs, love songs, or light rock and classical styles taken from Li Qian, she has been trying to find her own unique characteristics. Le, according to the way Sister Zhao set for her, her current goal is to become the second Zhou Mo in the music industry.

Not to mention, in terms of sound conditions alone, it's not like she has no chance at all.

"By the way, Lele, I heard that Mianmian gave you the song?"

"Well, I've been begging for a long time. It's said that Liao Liao didn't agree to let go at all, saying that she would use it on her next album! You said... Sister Qin, do you think you are so overbearing?"

"Oh, domineering or not, she hasn't been able to play for a few months. When this album is finished, if it can't be sold... that's a production fee of 800,000 yuan. You say, the company will still talk to her Sign an album contract?"

"That's right! Oh, that's right, Sister Qin, how about this, let's go to Mr. Zheng together, and say that we have to wait for the song rehearsal, and we can't let her occupy it all by herself! She is at ease , where a person dominates the recording studio to practice singing, and has to be accompanied by Sister Zhao, but we can only stare blankly..."

"Mr. Zheng? I advise you not to go! He threw out all 800,000 yuan, and he can't get off the boat. As long as Liao Liao says he wants to use it, he doesn't dare to stop it. Let's just wait." Just wait! I just don’t know when she will be able to finish the recording, heh, I must listen to this ‘album’ by then!”

"..."

Liao Liao's thoughts were racing, and he stood only a few steps away from the bathroom, motionless.

It took a long time before she came back to her senses, just in time to hear the sound of footsteps from the bathroom, she guessed that they were about to come out, so she walked towards her face, and said as she walked, "Okay, it will be done by then." For the album, I must give you an album first, and then you have to give me more opinions!"

The other party's footsteps stopped, but at this moment, they thought they were about to walk out of the bathroom door.

And Liao Liao had already walked in front of them.

The three meet.

Lele was slightly embarrassed, Huang Yueqin looked cold, and Liao Liao was smiling.

Liao Liao's eyes flicked past Lele, and with a quiet smile, he looked at Huang Yueqin.

By now, they certainly understood that Liao Liao had listened to the conversation just now.

Lele may feel embarrassed, and with her shrewdness, she will definitely find an opportunity to explain quietly that she has no other intentions, it is Huang Yueqin who is saying, she dare not offend, so she just echoes it .

After all, until now, she hasn't even released a single, and she is still a newcomer who can't be newer.

But with Huang Yueqin's status in the company, she had nothing to be afraid of when facing Liao Liao. And if you consider the new and old hatred caused by the company's allocation of resources to Liao Liao in the past six months, if she can only say a few words behind her back instead of going to accuse her in person, she probably has endured it. It worked out.

In this regard, Liao Liao smiled.

But Liao Liao's smile, in Huang Yueqin's eyes, seemed to be naturally provocative.

As a result, her face became more and more ugly, "Why, can't the recording be continued?"

Liao Liao smiled, "At least there are still songs to record."

Huang Yueqin's face instantly turned cold, and her eyes were easily filled with anger.

Her new album plan started to be announced more than a year ago, but until now, it has not been released. It is true that the sales of sweet songs are good. In the entire market of female singers, the sales of sweet songs may account for 30% to 40%, but Huang Yueqin's last album didn't sell very well. After more than a year on the market, she finally managed to pass 500,000 copies and got the gold record certificate. Her next album is a little more cautious.

Liao Liao was slapping her in the face directly - her temperament is not the kind that can be tolerated, not to mention that she is not in a good mood recently!

But unexpectedly, Huang Yueqin didn't burst out immediately. On the contrary, she smiled coldly, "Well said, then I'll wait to see how much platinum you can sell for!"

Liao Liao's face froze for a moment, and he smiled, "It's fine if you can sell a gold record."

Huang Yueqin also laughed, with a knife in her smile, "It is said that you signed a share contract? So, it seems that the next album is hopeless?"

Liao Liao laughed again, "Isn't everyone the same?"

Seeing that the two sides were talking more and more, Lele's eyes looked at this and then at that, and forced a smile, "Well, Sister Qin, Sister Liao, we all belong to the same company, so...don't say a few words Don't say a few words..." While speaking, she took Huang Yueqin's arm, "Sister Qin, I just couldn't grasp the two sentences, and I want to ask you to give me some advice..."

She pulled hard, Huang Yueqin took a deep breath, and walked forward with her. The moment she passed by, she stopped again, turned her head to look at Liao Liao's side face, and said softly but gnashing her teeth: "I Waiting to see how you hit the street!"

After finishing speaking, the two of them walked away arm in arm.

With his back to them, Liao Liao smiled helplessly.

After a while, she settled her mood, went into the bathroom and turned on the faucet, scooped up a handful of water and splashed it on her face, and then fixedly looked at herself in the mirror whose face was covered with water marks.

"Heh, he's dead anyway, Liao Liao, why are you so nervous!"

After finishing speaking, she took a deep breath, pulled a few pieces of paper to wipe her face, turned around and walked out of the bathroom resolutely.

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"...The wind is not the wind, the cloud is not the cloud, it doesn't matter if I love you or not, it's just passing by anyway. Flowers are not flowers, mud is not mud, you who dance in the desert, you are close and far away, I need more luck……"

It was just past seven o'clock in the evening, and the western restaurant was full of seats, and there were even many people waiting in front of the counter with number plates in their hands. And the situation in China has always been like this, whether it's waiting for the food to be served, shaking a red wine glass, or waiting in front of the counter, nine out of ten it's a couple.

Li Qian was wearing white sneakers, jeans and a white T-shirt, sitting on a high stool, hugging his guitar, shaking his body slightly with the rhythm, singing very engrossed.

Many people are looking at him.

After a song was sung, there was soft applause all around.

Li Qian smiled and nodded to the audience around him, rested for a while, then plucked the strings and began to sing the next song.

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Beside the counter, Chu Bingbing was watching Li Qian's performance, turned around and saw Fang Shengnan coming out, and asked with a smile: "Nan Nan, how is it, my aunt had an interview yesterday, and I promised him to try singing here for three days, what will you give to my aunt?" Comment and comment to see if he is qualified?"

Fang Shengnan didn't even have a smile on her face. She stood there and listened to half of the song. When Li Qian finished singing, she said flatly: "The voice is not bad, and the intonation is also very good. The male voice singing Zhou Mo's song has a taste. "

Chu Bingbing was surprised when he heard the words, "Hey, it's so rare that the evaluation is so high?"

Fang Shengnan turned to look at her, and nodded, "Singing is not bad, but the breath is not good. It should not be practiced since childhood."

Chu Bingbing laughed suddenly, and reached out to grab Fang Shengnan's face, "I said, little princess, you have such a cold face all day long, are you not tired? You have grown this beautiful face for nothing! Come on, smile for auntie one!"

Fang Shengnan broke away from her hand awkwardly, there was no displeasure on his face, he just muttered, "Auntie..." She still didn't smile, "There are so many people watching!"

Chu Bingbing smiled, withdrew her hand, and said, "Well, since your evaluation is so high, my aunt will let him stay."

Fang Shengnan nodded incredulously, "Then I'll go first."

When Chu Bingbing heard the words, he grabbed her, leaned over and whispered, "Isn't he handsome? Do you know who this young man is?"

Fang Shengnan turned his head and looked at her in bewilderment, with the words "None of my business" clearly written in his eyes.

Chu Bingbing rolled his eyes helplessly, but still couldn't help but leaned over and whispered, "I've already asked, he's from your school! Besides, he seems to be a sophomore in high school too!"

Suddenly, a trace of surprise flashed across Fang Shengnan's face, and he even subconsciously turned his head to look at Li Qian.

However, just for a while.

Soon, she returned to her cold look and said, "I'm leaving, auntie." Then she walked towards the door without looking back, and didn't even look at Li Qian again.

Chu Bingbing shook his head helplessly, watched her go out, and then started admiring Li Qian's singing.

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The name of this restaurant is "Feiaibu Western Restaurant". Li Qian has never eaten it, so he doesn't know how the steak tastes like, but judging from the number of customers, the business is really good.

That's right here, I promised to let him audition for three days.

And when he arrived at 6:30, he discovered that there was a girl playing the piano before him, and her level was quite good. So he knew that it seemed that he was using it to fill in the vacancy of the second period. After all, he would be very tired after playing the piano for a long time.

From 7:00 to 8:00, he sang about 13 or 14 songs in an hour. Judging from the live effect, the results were good. There was even a guest who ordered a song in the middle, so although he may not be able to get the qualification to sing here for a long time, even the three-day audition will not be paid, but at least he already has his first income .

It costs 20 yuan for a guest to order a song, and the restaurant doesn't keep a penny, it's all given to the singer.

It's better than going to the subway station and singing, isn't it?

After the last song that had been arranged was finished, Li Qian took out his cell phone and looked at it. Sure enough, the time was already 8:05. So he stood up decisively, bowed slightly in the direction of the guests in the restaurant, and then took off the guitar to indicate that he had finished singing.

Scattered, there was a burst of applause in the restaurant.

Li Qian walked to the front desk, was about to say hello to the waiter at the front desk and leave, but when he turned around, he saw the manager of the restaurant looking at him with a smile on his face, so he walked over and nodded at her first, "Hello, Manager Chu." .”

Chu Bingbing smiled and said, "You are good too!"

Li Qian said: "I don't know if Manager Chu is satisfied with what I sang just now? If there is something wrong, please forgive me."

Chu Bingbing looked at him with a smile, and said in his heart that he was really as mature as ever.

As the manager of a western restaurant that has to deal with hundreds of thousands of customers every day, her vision and ability in dealing with people are naturally extremely high, and she can be considered transparent in seeing people.

But even she has a feeling that she can't see through the big boy in front of her.

When Li Qian came for the interview yesterday, Chu Bingbing was already a little curious about him by simply asking a few words about the basic situation. Judging by his age, he is probably seventeen or eighteen years old. Considering that he introduced himself as a sophomore in high school, he should be seventeen years old, but his speech and behavior are not at all what a seventeen-year-old boy should be. .

To be honest, Chu Bingbing might not give him this chance just because he sang well. At that time, she mainly felt that this boy was a little different from others, so she gave him such a chance with a heartbeat.

But now it seems that he is really different from his peers.

He is more than a little bit more mature and stable than his peers!

But if it is just like this, it will not make Chu Bingbing, who is used to seeing all kinds of people, feel that he can't see through it. The most important thing is that when he is mature and stable, no matter what he does, even when he is singing, There seemed to be an indescribable indifference on his body and face, giving Chu Bingbing the feeling that there seemed to be a little... vicissitudes of life!

In terms of common sense, this is a bit of nonsense!

Maturity is maturity, children of seventeen or eighteen may not be unable to mature, but how can it be possible to talk about vicissitudes! At his age, how many things can he experience? Where did the vicissitudes come from?

However, he gave Chu Bingbing the feeling of vicissitudes!

This made her feel invisible!

This made her even more curious than when she saw Li Qian yesterday afternoon!

Moreover, thinking of her niece who is also very different from her peers, she couldn't help thinking: Could it be that the Thirteenth Middle School is full of such weird people?

Thoughts were spinning in her mind, but the smile on Chu Bingbing's face was not the slightest bit different, she smiled and said: "Of course I am satisfied, you see, the guests are also very satisfied, aren't they? "

After a pause, she saw that Li Qian's face was neither surprised nor happy, just thanked him with a smile as usual, she couldn't help feeling a little disappointed in her heart, but at the same time, more curiosity came up.

So, she said: "Well, Li Qian, after today's audition, I think it's no problem for you to be the resident singer of our restaurant. So, starting today, even if you officially go to work, one hour a day, thirty Chunk, OK?"

Now, Li Qian finally showed a look of surprise on his face.

But even so, he just nodded at Chu Bingbing, "Then thank you, Manager Chu! Thank you for giving me this opportunity! From now on, I will definitely sing every song with my heart."

Chu Bingbing looked at him, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind.

Then, she slowly laughed, nodded and said, "Okay!"

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By the way, there are more than 5,700 words in this chapter, can you give me a few recommendation tickets?