dhibooks Chapter 89 20-4
Chapter 89 20-4
As 2006 was coming to an end, Dusi people accomplished two things.
The first thing is to buy a new house in Jincheng. The old house on Meixi South Road is in disrepair. The old house can't prevent the tide. Jincheng is foggy in winter and spring. Dad called and said, how much has the house price increased this year?Only a fool buys a house at this time, darling!Her mother's tone on the side was brisk: She spent the money she earned to buy her own house, you don't care about her, if you don't live in it, I will live in it.
The new house is in the south of the city, very close to Lu Xiaohua's home. During the renovation, Lu Xiaohua drove her mother's Audi car to help supervise the construction. After half a month of work, she chatted with Du Si on the phone. After talking for a long time, a sentence finally popped up: Your neighbor downstairs in your new house is quite handsome.
Dusiren: You won't already?
Lu Xiaohua: Yes.
When the house was handed over, Du Siren called Lu Xiaohua again and asked her to attend the housewarming party at her new home during the Chinese New Year.
Dusiren: You won't already?
Lu Xiaohua: Yes.
The country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change.
The second thing is that she released her first solo album.
At the end of spring and early summer, at the new album planning meeting, after listening to the finished version of the title song, she and Li Miaomiao were silent for 5 minutes at the same time. Zhu He looked at her and looked at her again. After 5 minutes, his expression was finally exaggerated Said: "Wow, I think it's great, this arrangement is very complicated, very advanced, and it fits Siren's voice very well..."
Regardless of Zhu He's performance, Li Miaomiao asked Du Siren, "What do you think?"
Du Siren looked at Zhu He, and replied sincerely: "It doesn't sound good."
Then Zhu He was also silent for 5 minutes.
"...Then what do you think? Let me remind you that now is the best time. The MV will be released immediately after filming. After next month, the second competition will start. Not to mention the company's resources and manpower will go out. When a newcomer comes out, fans change their minds very quickly."
A week later, on the drive to an event, Li Miaomiao put an earphone into Dusiren's ear, and a demo was playing in the earphone. The look of snow.
Du Siren called Chen Jia, and Chen Jia said with a smile on the other end, well, this is probably how you look in my heart.Shake off the snow and trot down the hill.What kind of words do you want?You can fill it out yourself.
In the middle of the production of this song, "2006 Love Girls" started. As Zhu He said, everything was disrupted. It was dragged until November, and the album finally came out. Du Siren named both the album and the title song "Sun With the Birds".
In 2006, everything sounds fine.But, that's not all.
For the third time, Du Siren turned his head to look at Li Miaomiao, who was resting beside her with closed eyes. For a full 10 minutes since she got in the car, Li Miaomiao didn't say a word to her, and he didn't even open his eyes.
After the start of the new year's draft, Li Miaomiao was busier day by day. In the second half of the year, for a few months, Dusi people could only see her in a monthly work meeting, which was irregular. Anytime, anywhere, in a certain workplace, Li Miaomiao suddenly appeared beside her, or suddenly came to pick her up in a car, and then opened the notepad and told her the work arrangement for the next month page by page.
The company arranged more staff for her, assistants, accompanying executive agents, and stylists. These people came and went. She is meeting new people, reporters, photographers, on-site directors, let alone their names, many people whose jobs she can’t even name, and these people may disappear from her life in one day gone.
The car CD played new songs in dialect.
"Change song, change song." Li Miaomiao frowned.
Another staff member in the car turned around from the front row and whispered to Siren: "Sister Sanshui was at the company this morning and had a quarrel with the manager of the dialect group next door."
The man from Dusi asked, "What's the reason again this time?"
The company is expanding rapidly, and there are more and more employees. Every time she returns to Beijing, the most common gossip she hears is who in the entertainment circle is actually in love with someone, and who in the company is having a fight with someone.
Li Miaomiao opened her eyes and said fiercely to them, "Is it true that I can't hear you?"
Du Siren laughed, and said to the people in the front row: "Change to "Like Water."
"Don't change "Like Water"!" Miaomiao protested, "Listen to "The Sun and the Birds."
"Why don't you listen to the song Chen Jia wrote for you?"
"Who said it was a song written for me? The last time I saw her, I didn't know it was a year of the monkey."
"We haven't seen each other for so long, how did you do it?" Du Siren blinked and smiled cunningly.
"How do you do it? I have nothing to do with her. If you don't see her, you will disappear. Don't spread rumors all day long." Li Miaomiao said without blushing or panting. Du Siren really wanted to believe the gossip she had heard. It's all rumours.
What did that gossip say?
——Lu Shan said that some time ago, Yiran told her mysteriously that Yiran's manager, Brother Wang, had missed Zhu He's words at a regular meeting. It was Lexin's manager who secretly told her that Lexin was in the company. At the annual meeting, I accidentally heard Miaomiao and Chen Jia arguing in the stairwell, so I rushed to tell Zipei to ask Zipei to persuade the quarrel, but the two rushed to the stairwell, and found that not only was he not arguing, but also——
kissing.
After listening to Lu Shan's eloquence, Du Siren blinked his eyes, and the first thing he said was: "Why didn't Lexin come and ask me to persuade you?"
Lu Shan: "Are you trying to persuade a fight or..."
Siren: "I've already seen that the two of them are having an affair!"
In fact, she didn't see it at all.
The prelude to "The Sun and the Birds" crescendoed, and Du Si, wrapped in a down jacket, hummed softly along with the melody.
"If it hadn't been posted too late, this year's Chinese record sales would definitely be ours," Li Miaomiao took out a piece of information from his file bag, "Our sales in the first week were 1.3 times that of "Like Water"! The film is less than a month old, so it cannot be nominated for the best record in mainland China tonight."
Their car was driving in the deep winter of Beijing, on their way to a certain awards ceremony.
Du Siren just got off the plane, her album promotion period is not yet over, the whole month has been going all over the world to sign sales, go to the radio station, and sometimes fly twice in one day, traveling to three cities.Before entering the promotional period, she was filming in the crew, and she has not returned to Beijing for nearly four months.
During the day, she held an autograph and concert in another city. In a busy shopping mall, an old man squeezed in at the front row and said loudly: What are you singing?so ugly?Ah, forget it, you are famous?Come and take a picture with my grandson.
She was no stranger to such things.
She leaned over to the window, the warm air was turned on in the car, but the coldness of the northern winter still condensed on the window glass. Beijing in this season is always dusty, like the color of dirty glass covered with a thick layer of gray .
The tip of her nose touched the windowpane, and it soon became chilly.
"Where is Lu Shan? What has Lu Shan been up to lately?" she asked.She figured she'd give Lushan a call later when she was doing her styling.
Li Miaomiao responded: "Lu Shan? You shouldn't know better than me? Which team is she in charge of now?"
At the beginning of the year, after the top ten tour ended, the company’s short-term rental apartment was about to expire. They each found another place to live. After all, they are adults. They have different paces and living habits from each other, and they cannot live in groups like they did when they were students. Together, the first person to move away was Dialect, then Chen Jia, and then, the half a year that they had been together almost day and night was completely over. Obviously the process was so unforgettable, but at the end, they did not procrastinate, and each went their own way, working When I get busy, it is difficult to make a phone call in a month.
Only Si Ren and Lu Shan still live together, Si Ren left Beijing, and it took four months to leave, and she had no time to care about what Lu Shan was busy with during these four months.
Miaomiao lowered her hair and read text messages. She always had a lot of text messages and phone calls, "Do you know how many newcomers the company has signed this year? Eighteen! Half of them are full contracts. Zhu He and Mr. Wang are already crazy, they're just sucking blood!" I see how they plan to take responsibility for these newcomers."
"Eighteen...then how many are you in charge of?"
"Three. I'm dying of exhaustion," she whined, leaning her head against the window.
Du Siren changed into a high-tailored dress in the styling studio, and the commercial vehicle drove her to the red carpet of the awards ceremony after waiting for the on-site call.She put a baby warmer in her clothes, took a deep breath before getting out of the car, and stepped into the cold wind with a smile in her eyes. The flashing lights and the shutter sounded one after another, and the red carpet stretched under her feet.
The bronzing lettering on the signature wall is like a dragon and a snake: Chinese Starlight Annual Billboard.
Li Miaomiao entered the arena from another entrance and took a seat in the auditorium behind the artist area. She held Du Siren's down jacket in one hand and a stack of "Sun and Birds" in the other. The auditorium is full of big names in the music industry or Boss, she greeted them politely and gave them the album by the way.
She saw that Chen Jia's seat was next to that of Du Si's, and they were talking, head to head.Not long after, Fang Yan also came, wearing a floor-length skirt with two exaggerated lace borders on the waistcoat, Chen Jia bent down and helped her gather up the skirt.
Chen Jia was wearing a black suit, her back was so slender that she was almost depressed, and her clothes were also very thin.
A short set of steps separates the auditorium from the artist area. Before the ceremony begins, the venue ahead is full of lights. The brightest new stars and most expensive singers in the mainland music scene are here. They are all dressed up, Everyone is not a down-and-out artist.
Li Miaomiao caught a glimpse of Zhu He. She was wearing a backless gown with extremely high slits. She was standing on the steps, talking to the singer she had brought before, Qingtian, holding hands and touching her waist.
Before she could sneer in her heart, she received a text message on her mobile phone.
The night was not peaceful.
She got up and left the table, and found a secluded place to make a phone call.
"Hello? Jiajia. You are resting these two days, where are you?"
Lin Jiajia answered on the other end of the phone: "I'm at home."
"At home, or at your boyfriend's house?"
"...I'm taking a break, so I have to report to the company wherever I go? How do you know?"
"How did I know? The paparazzi knew it before me! Didn't you promise me to break up with him last time?"
The text message she received was a few words: Lin Jiajia stayed at her boyfriend's house overnight, there are videos and photos, talk?
Lin Jiajia raised her voice: "Why did you break up? Isn't falling in love against the law?"
Li Miaomiao turned around anxiously, making sure that there was no one around, "The show will start soon next month, you know how important this drama is, right? Do you know how many newcomers in the company are struggling to get a chance to show their faces. "
"... Sanshui, I don't understand. Even if I'm filming, actors can't fall in love? Besides, I don't want to film at all."
"I know you want to sing," she sighed, "I've already discussed with others, the ending song must be yours. I will find another opportunity to talk to the company about the album. For this drama, the dialect team is short I haven't greeted my ancestors for eighteen generations..."
Lin Jiajia interrupted her: "Why bother? This drama is supposed to be in dialect. Why do you want to snatch it? I know that the film studio will choose me because the dialect is unwilling to cooperate with them to hype the scandal. I'm in a relationship. , will ruin their plan. How do you think I will be willing to do something that dialect is not willing to do?"
"What do you compare with dialect? Dialect's record contract was signed to Echo Music, and dialect masters have been officials for three generations. Do you know how many times dialect has appeared on CCTV this year? This drama is very important to her. Say, if you lose it, you lose it, what about you?" She repeated again: "What do you compare with a dialect?"
Her voice fell, and the audio on the other end of the phone was cut off, leaving only a busy tone.
Lin Jiajia hung up the phone.
She dials again.was hung up.Dial again.Shut down.
The awards ceremony was proceeding in an orderly manner, and the glamorous men and women walked onto the stage, as if they were dressed in glory under the chasing lights of the stage, and she was the only one in the corner of the auditorium blowing the storm secretly.
She bargained with the paparazzi for half the night, and then called to discuss the hush money with Mr. Wang. After hanging up the phone, she secretly prayed that Mr. Wang would not tell Zhu He about the matter.Zhu He was sitting just a few rows in front, just within her line of sight.
Zhu He picked up the phone.
Li Miaomiao sighed deeply.
The award ceremony entered the second half, and several important awards began to be presented.
Leap Singer of the Year, Du Siren.
The best Chinese album in the Mainland of the year, Chen Jia, "Like Water".
Love is undoubtedly the most popular brokerage company in the current Chinese music scene.
After Chen Jia finished her short acceptance speech, Zhu He stood up from his seat and walked down the aisle next to Li Miaomiao.Her fingers brushed her shoulder as he walked past her.
After a few seconds, she got up and followed her out.
Walking to the corner of the stadium lobby, neither of them spoke, and Zhu He lit a cigarette.
Seeing Li Miaomiao looking at her, she asked, "Do you smoke?" She opened her cigarette case.
Li Miaomiao raised her hand to take one, and Zhu He helped her light the fire with one hand, she took a puff, gasped, coughed, and held back her cough, her face flushed red, even the veins in her temples were clear Bi Xian.
Zhu He glanced at her, seemed to smile, and showed no other expression.
When the remaining half of the cigarette was burned, Zhu He finally said: "Are you used to this kind of thing?"
Li Miaomiao was still smoking the first cigarette in her life with difficulty, only feeling bitter in her mouth, she frowned and replied, "Sister He, if you have anything to say, just say it."
"Nothing to talk about. Just come out to smoke a cigarette." Zhu He shook his fingers, shaking off some soot, "Guess, Lin Jiajia's boyfriend, an amateur, how did the paparazzi find his house? Lin Jiajia is not very popular. , is it worth going to follow every day like this?"
"……what do you know?"
"I don't know. I'm just guessing. But some things may never have an answer." Zhu He looked at her, "There is no answer, no morality, no friends, only eternal interests. Interests are the answers." After finishing speaking , Zhu He smiled, turned his head and looked away, "I have been in the industry for 16 years, and I was only 17 years old when I entered the industry. Sometimes I really feel that this industry is a huge deep sea, boundless, black enough to swallow everything. But if you want to say that it is terrible, it is the most tolerant place, it can accommodate all the weirdos in the world, all the shameless people, everyone is well hidden in the dark, no one can see clearly Who. The rules on the sea, the bottom line, all of which don’t count here, and the sensational things are not surprising. The most frightening thing is that once everyone floats on the sea, they can all act in accordance with the rules and show the audience Look, what lovers in the entertainment circle, what public welfare ambassadors, everyone knows what they should be like, but everyone can't resist the temptation. In this sea, everyone tacitly knows who loves men and who loves women , how many people you love at the same time, how many people you betrayed, no one cares, someone is bitten to death in the dark, no one cares."
Red Crane's smoke burned out.Li Miaomiao couldn't take another sip.
"Do you know how to avoid being bitten to death? Either, you kill others first. Or, just be a body that doesn't hurt."
Sunny came out of the studio.A very young girl was already waiting at the door, and immediately went up to him to put on his coat.
He met Zhu He's eyes.
Zhu He smiled charmingly, and finally said to Li Miaomiao, "I'm going first."
Li Miaomiao didn't look at Zhu He, and immediately turned around and walked back to the auditorium.
She received a text message from Lin Jiajia: We broke up.
The award ceremony has come to an end, and the last award is being announced.
The highly respected queen of previous songs is in charge of awarding: "2006 Chinese Star Award, Best Female Singer of the Year——"
The chasing light circles in the field.The last drumbeat fell, and the light chase stopped.
"Chen Jia."
applause.Chen Jia got up from her seat.
The screen switched on the big screen, and a few large characters were reflected.
The applause of the audience fell to pieces, and after a little hesitation, it gradually fell into silence.
Chen Jia stood motionless in the chasing light, looking up at the words on the screen, her back was slender, almost depressed.
Impressively written on it: Best Male Singer of the Year Chen Jia.
An hour later, the commercial vehicle took Du Siren to the gate of the community. She got out of the car, bid farewell to Li Miaomiao in the car, and told each other to have a good rest.As the car drove away, Dusi raised his arm and waved again at the rear of the car.When leaving the awards ceremony venue, Li Miaomiao helped her put on two coats in a row, and she struggled to even raise her hand.
There was a thin girl on the other side of the road squatting on the ground, as if she was looking at her. When she looked over, the other party quickly lowered her head.
She turned and walked into the community.A strange feeling like a shadow of cold air.It seemed as if someone was following her.
she turned back.No one.
The security guard on duty greeted her.She went to the unit building.
The heating was adequate, so she took off her coat and walked around the hardcover three-bedroom apartment with bare feet and socks. Lushan was not at home, and there was nothing in the house, except for a few cans of beer in the refrigerator.
She lay weakly on the sofa for a while, and finally got up to take a shower.
Between the sound of water, she heard voices coming from the living room.
It's Lucanne who's back.When Du Si came out of the bathroom, Lu Shan lay prone on the dining table, muttering to herself.
She raised her head and blinked her hazy eyes vigorously. Seeing her, she said, "You're back? What awards did you win tonight? How many copies of your new album have you sold?"
She never told Lucanne that she was going to the award ceremony tonight, but Lucanne knew.
Lucan reeks of alcohol.
Siren poured a glass of warm water.
Lu Shan held the cup wall, supported her body with one arm, and cursed loudly: "Damn!"
With her tongue out, she chanted: "A bunch of bitch sons. Why can't I? I'll drink them to death! Why can't I? I can sing, dance, and play musical instruments. Why can't I!"
Si Ren had no choice but to pat Lu Shan on the back to coax her, helped her up, and finally put her on the bed, covered her with the quilt, turned around, and closed her door.
Back in his room, Dusi looked at the trophy in the bookcase.She reached out to hold it, it was heavy.I don't know how heavy Chen Jia's is.
At that time, Chen Jia walked onto the stage in the suffocating embarrassment of the audience, received the trophy for best female singer, and only said thank you.
No one could tell whether it was intentional or not. If someone else won the award, it would be just a small accident.
It happened to be Chen Jia.
For a whole year, she continued to be scolded as "not a man or a woman", and the humiliation on the Internet even spread to reality, from Chen Jia himself to many girls who liked Chen Jia.The most unsightly thing Du Siren has ever seen is that someone grafted Chen Jia's face onto a certain naked male body to make a moving picture, with the buttocks constantly twisting.
The company continued to issue warning letters, but it still couldn't stop the carnival. Chen Jia became the common enemy of a certain group of people, like a bullseye used to vent hatred.
No one can tell where the hatred comes from.
Du Siren sat down at the table by the bay window and turned on the computer.
Among her friends, there is a group called "Kids".There are only three people in this group.
The profile picture is that of an intellectual beauty, nicknamed "Xin An", and her signature is "My future is not a dream".This is her little niece Zhian.
The profile picture is a piece of sky, nicknamed "flyingbird", and the signature is very individual, with only one period.This is her little niece Zhi Que.
Neither of these are online.
Only the last one is online. The profile picture is a grinning anime character with the nickname "Invincible Whirlwind" and the signature "Your future is not a dream".
The Dusi people looked at this and the first signature with great interest.
She clicked on Xu Xinan's dialog box.
Hi.Are you there, kid?
Wow?Sister Siren, is that you?I?
It's me, childlike and innocent.Why are you still online so late?It's the third day of junior high school, aren't you busy?
busy!I haven't finished my homework yet, and I'm copying Bird's homework.
You don't live together, why did you copy her homework?
She had finished writing a long time ago, her brain was so sharp that she finished it in self-study class.
How's school going?Are they still fighting?
No noise?Zhian stays in the classroom every day. Bird is very busy, going home with this male classmate for a while, and going home with that male classmate for a while.Sister, don't tell anyone!
Which male classmate?
The closest one seems to be the editor-in-chief of our school magazine.
I remember that Zhi'an also participated in the school magazine.
Well, she is very close to that editor-in-chief, so she was almost not pissed off.
Du Siren tapped the mouse.It seems that Ms. Flyingbird's girlhood was rich and colorful, and the other Ms. Lin should be the same.
She hasn't been to East China for a long time.
Her brother Du Shen's career crisis lasted until the middle of the year, and it was said that he had to pay a large amount of fines and shut down a few subsidiaries to survive, but the situation has not been as good as before.
A small advertisement popped up on the screen, it was news related to tonight's awards ceremony, she glanced at it, and the main title read: Starlight Awards Big Oolong!The authoritative awards in the music world don't distinguish between men and women?
At this time, something suddenly flashed outside the bay window.
She looked up.
A few kilometers away, Chen Jia also raised his head and looked out the window.
She stared blankly for several minutes.
Although it was not the first time, every time, she would be in a daze for several minutes.
It was snowing outside the window. Before the age of 23, she was in Guangdong and had never seen snow.
The snow is getting bigger and bigger.
The doorbell rang, and she went to open it.
Li Miaomiao was standing outside the door, wearing a thick down jacket and a woolen hat with a gray ball of wool on the tip of the hat.
As soon as she opened the door, she said to her, "It's snowing!"
As she spoke, she stepped in, raised her hands, and held Chen Jia's face. The gloves were made of cotton and linen, covering Chen Jia's face, it was hot and piercing.She said, "How are you? When was the last time we saw each other?"
Chen Jia replied, "August 8."
"Then, a total of 120 days have passed."
She remembers well, she counts fast.
Chen Jia reached out and gently pushed Miaomiao's gloved hand away, saying, "It's hot."
Whether it was inertia or the wind, the door closed gently with a click.
Chen Jia flexed her fingers and took off Miaomiao's gloves.
They start kissing.It was snowing outside the window.She took off her chilly coat.
More than half a year ago, on the day Chen Jia released her album, Li Miaomiao said to her: "What is like water? Your dog's tail grass grows in swamps, streams and rivers. I'm not raising someone's little pond. It’s water, and I’m also a vast ocean, you’d better not offend me, I’ll drown you.”
The leather sofa in the living room was neither soft nor hard. Compared with the bare skin, it was slightly cooler. Chen Jia leaned over and said, "It's snowing. I'm fine seeing you. Are you smoking?" They were very close, nose to nose.
Li Miaomiao replied: "Yes. You talk too much nonsense."
She put her arms around her neck.That way it's a little closer.
There was too much snow outside, and the ground soon turned white.
Du Siren knelt on the bay window and watched excitedly for a long time.
She has been in Beijing for more than a year, and every time it snows, she happens to miss it.
She opened the window, ignoring the howling wind, and stretched out her hand to catch it, only wet her palm.
It's snowing!She wanted to tell someone right away.It's snowing!
She got up from the bay window, her legs were numb, and she staggered a bit. She changed her clothes, put on her coat, and decided to go out to see the snow.
Heavy snow fell all over the sky, turning the gray Beijing into a very soft off-white.
She bounced downstairs for a while, and after walking a few steps, she was about to raise her head and sigh, what a heavy snow!She even raised her head and opened her mouth, trying to taste the snow.
Finally out of the community, she turned around and said, "Hello."
A thin girl stepped out of the shadows at the base of the wall, the same girl who had been watching her from across the road when she got out of the car.
The girl looked about thirteen or fourteen.
"You were the one who followed me into the community just now?" Du Siren approached her.
The girl lowered her head and did not answer.
Siren asked again: "How long have you been waiting here?"
The girl's voice was as thin as a mosquito's moan: "It's been four months. It started from the day you left Beijing to film."
"Wait for me, what are you doing?"
"I don't know what to do. Just waiting for you."
"Aren't you going to school?"
"Go to school. After school, I'll wait for you."
"Then you've waited, can you go home?"
The girl raised her eyes, looked at her cautiously, and nodded hesitantly.
Dusi's smile was warm.
"I've got people waiting too. I think it's okay to wait. What do you think?"
The girl nodded her head, and answered her, "Yeah!"
"However, if you just wait and don't do anything else, it's too boring!"
The girl lowered her head again in embarrassment.
She said to her, "Stop waiting, do something you love. No one lives by waiting for another person."
"What do you like?"
"Let's find out? What do you like, what do you do, and what kind of person you will become in the future. You don't want to become the person you've been waiting for, do you?"
She waited with her until her parents came to pick her up, and then walked alone on the snowy street.
The air sucked into her nostrils was icy cold, she wanted to stretch, but as soon as she stretched out, the heat from her body immediately dissipated, she was so cold that she quickly gave up.
This year, she has been running, and when she falls, she stands up and keeps running.
The feeling of stopping at this moment and waiting with all my heart is not bad.