sunk into the earth

Chapter 36 Encounter

With a bang, the edge of the drum hit the ground.

On the other side, Zhang Chen reacted quickly, and immediately held the drum with his other hand, and carefully placed the large drum on the ground after the support was stabilized.

Hearing the movement, the girl from behind ran over in a hurry, stepped on the bass drum a few times, breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that there was no problem, and put her arm on the side, "Fortunately, it's okay, I almost thought I couldn't perform tonight."

After saying this, she turned her head and saw Cheng Sheng who was still in a daze, and her tone was not very good: "Tell you to be careful, I really bumped into you."

The accusation came out, but neither of the two people around him responded.

Cheng Sheng glanced at her at a loss, then turned to look at Zhang Chen, the eyes of the two met in the air, it was miraculous, Cheng Sheng could see a few fire lights in front of his eyes, and a few buzzes in his ears With the sound of rattling, the long memory that was almost completely forgotten was suddenly ignited.He knew that something was wrong again, he waited for a few seconds, and when his overloaded heartbeat calmed down, he realized that it was just a hallucination, they were in the backstage of an ordinary bar, there was nothing but staff and messy audio wires.

The atmosphere was weird, no matter how slow the girl was, she could sense something was wrong. She pressed Zhang Chen with her arm, and asked in a low voice, "What's going on? Why don't you speak?"

The light on the stage on the top was constantly changing, and now it turned into a faint blue. Several people were caged in a gloomy light. Zhang Chen was the first to recover, his eyes moved away from Cheng Sheng's face, and one hand naturally pushed aside the girl next to him. Arm, said: "It's okay, I'll tune."

Qin Xiao, who happened to be in front of her, came back and saw the three of them among the staff coming and going, and immediately acted like a boss. She opened her arms and walked towards the three of them. Zhang Chen who was walking back: "Hey! Zhang Chen, don't leave yet, let me introduce you to someone." He took Cheng Sheng and pushed him forward, and introduced to the person opposite: "Cheng Sheng, my childhood friend has been living in the United States for the past few years. I didn’t mention my study and work. I just returned to China last month and I’m starting a business. Let’s get to know each other? After the end, let’s hang out together, and I’ll treat you.”

Zhang Chen, who had just turned around, turned back again, stretched out his hand, and greeted him politely: "Hello, Zhang Chen."

Seeing that Cheng Sheng was still in a daze with lowered hair, Qin Xiao bumped his shoulder, and said with a low voice: "The buddy I want to introduce to you, he shakes hands with you, you should respond!"

Cheng Sheng looked at the familiar hand in front of him, bravely handed over his hand, and when he touched the thin layer of calluses on the palm and tiger's mouth, his newly recovered heartbeat failed to bounce as he wished, and Cheng Sheng didn't Looking at him again, he lowered his head and said, "Hello, Cheng Sheng", and then stopped talking.

The two didn't seem to know each other, but the atmosphere between them was indescribably weird.Qin Xiao didn't think about anything else. He had seen this atmosphere a lot. Either the old lover broke his face and met again, or the two of them just didn't like to deal with people, and it was a bit embarrassing to be suddenly beaten by someone. They were obviously the second type.It had been [-] when Zhang Chen came to Beijing to study, and it was only in [-] that he was officially stationed in his store. No one would think that he knew Cheng Sheng who went to the United States in [-].

Seeing that the two met each other, Qin Xiao felt relieved, patted Zhang Chen on the shoulder, and whispered to him, "Xiao Cheng wants to talk to you alone tonight about work matters."

Zhang Chen neither agreed nor refused, and only gave an ambiguous answer: "Perform first, then talk after the show, this is not a good time to talk about serious business." After speaking, he left Qin Xiao and Cheng Sheng to go to the stage.

"Hey, you said that this person sometimes deserves a beating, and he doesn't give people permission."

Just as Qin Xiao complained, he heard Cheng Sheng beside him say, "Don't worry, he means to agree."

"How do you know?" Qin Xiao looked back at him, and happened to see Cheng Sheng looking at his back with a look of loss, and patted him on the shoulder vigorously: "Cheng Er, if you are thirsty for talents, you also put away your expression, he is not happy There are others, anyway, do you have money, and people with money can't find any kind of work?"

The staff moved the instruments onto the stage one after another. Zhang Chen sat on the steps and tuned. He was dressed very young, and his hair was a little short, just over his ears.Like all people who play rock music, there are several gaudy marks on his face. Zhang Chen has a nose stud, and there are a few glowing ear studs on his right ear. If you look closely, there is a black hair band in his hair.

Cheng Sheng leaned against the backstage door, his eyes followed the man's every move on the stage, and found that he couldn't find a trace of the past in him.

The person above quickly adjusted his electric guitar, and then gesticulated on the instrument with the remaining three members of the band, with serious expressions, probably discussing professional issues.

The bar started to open, and the band went backstage first. There was a fixed time for the performance, and they had to wait on time before they could go on stage, and they used the time in the middle to brag.

The girl who had spoken rudely to Cheng Sheng just now went backstage to apologize to him, and handed him a pack of Mimi Shrimp Crackers as an apology, her tone still smiling: "I'm sorry, I really didn't realize that you are a friend of the boss, why am I so blind."

Qin Xiao sat next to Cheng Sheng, saw that he didn't pick up the snacks that Qiyuan handed him, bumped his arm like a siege, and took over the conversation first: "Cheng'er, do you think Qiyuan is as poor as you were when you were young?" energy?"

As soon as she finished saying this, Qiyuan said "Huh?" The hand holding Mimi Shrimp Cracker pointed at herself in disbelief, "Isn't it possible? Cheng Sheng saw that he was a good student from the academy, and even a dog would hate him." When I was a child, my neighbors didn't call me by my first name, but when they mentioned me, they always called me someone's crazy girl."

Several people hummed and laughed, but Cheng Sheng and Zhang Chen didn't laugh.

Cheng Sheng suddenly said amidst the laughter of a group of people: "It's not like, it's not like at all, where is it like?"

The words were so abrupt that everyone stopped laughing in an instant.Qin Xiao glanced at him inexplicably, and said "tsk": "You have a temper? It's not that you look like a girl, why are you so angry?"

Cheng Sheng stood up, left a sentence for Qin Xiao, "I'm going to drink in the front, you guys talk" and walked towards the passage without looking back.

Several people in the backstage looked at each other, Qin Xiao didn't know what was wrong with this person, and suddenly fell into an old habit, so he could only make amends with the band in embarrassment: "He is like this, everyone ignore him. He was even more troublesome when he was young, and now I can already hold back things, don't let him affect your mood, I will perform well later, I am here to see you today."

Zhang Chen didn't seem to care, looked at the time, and reminded the rest of the band: "Get ready, it's time to go on stage."

Taking advantage of the preparation period, Qin Xiao moved to the front and watched Cheng Sheng alone among the guests who came to drink, gloomily pouring down his own wine, sighing, walked to sit next to him, and poured himself a glass, While drinking, he asked him: "What's wrong with you today? Why are you so angry with a girl you met once? Didn't you mistook you for a staff member? What's the big deal?"

"I can't hold it back, I just can't hold it back." Cheng Sheng took another sip, this sip strengthened his courage, and he almost showed his original unreasonable look, blushing and said: "I'm just getting angry for no reason. What's wrong? I don't even have the right to be angry? Animals can bump into the railing and bite people when they are angry, and tigers can escape from the zoo when they get mad, can't I?"

"Yes, yes!" Qin Xiao hurriedly said: "It's good to be in a good mood. I used to see you always languid, and I felt uncomfortable. I thought someone was following you and went to Thailand to ask someone to lower your head for you. It's good that one person suddenly came from Flying from one extreme to the other, it’s normal now, with a good temper, especially good.”

The bar was getting more and more full, many regular customers, especially girls, Cheng Sheng looked at the bar full of suspenders, hot pants and red lips, and suddenly said angrily: "There is nothing good about rock and roll, either they want to pretend to be cool or they want to lie to girls. Copying songs and falling asleep, rock and roll is going to die!"

Qin Xiao almost came to cover his mouth, "Why did you suddenly get sick today? Didn't we play rock and roll before? Although we didn't even enter the ring door."

"Are you a good thing or am I a good thing?" Cheng Sheng put the wine glass on the bar, "I became a good thing after I devoted myself to studying!"

Qin Xiao pressed his hand and shook her head: "Brother, let's listen to the music and drink less, or we won't be able to discuss business after the end."

The venue was already heating up, and when the band came on stage, the people holding the wine began to whistle excitedly.Lao Liu was warming up the scene on stage, holding up the microphone and joking with the people below: "Last week, Zhang Chen and Qi Yuan had a fight, and Afluente was almost disbanded."

There was booing all over the place, Zhang Chen was very happy to see others booing him, took the phone, turned to Lao Liu and said, "Don't make me up, I never fight with girls, only Qiyuan fights me."

Qiyuan, who was sitting behind the drum, beat the two of them with a drum stick in the air, and shouted, "Stop talking, start now!"

Zhang Chen pointed to Qiyuan, who was dancing behind her, to the people below, "Qiyuan is in a hurry, let's start right away? It's still the old two."

These two are Afluente's most well-known two songs, new songs last year, electronic type with a little weight.But to say that they are widely known is nothing more than a general among dwarfs. After all, rock music is still a carnival of a small circle. They have not even climbed to the top of the small circle.

Cheng Sheng lay on the table, tilted his head and listened to the song. After a while, he said, "This guitar is really good", and after a while, he said "Bass is also good", and when he said, "This drum is really stable, you can play it well." The tone is the same with such a dense tone." Cheng Sheng sensed something was wrong, and immediately changed his words in the air: "Bah, bah, how can I say that she plays steadily?"

After the two performances, the musicians on the stage were about to leave the stage, but Zhang Chen suddenly made a "don't go" gesture to the others, and then ran to the microphone, and found him lying on the table drinking wine under the dazzling blue light. Cheng Sheng turned to everyone and said, "It is temporarily decided to perform two more songs today. One is "Sewer" from our first album. The first album was paid for by me and Lao Liu, and only 120 copies were printed. They can’t be sold out.” Zhang Chen paused for a moment, and continued: “There are still [-] left, and I threw them all into the trash can on the day I moved to the dormitory, and their final destination is probably the sewer.”

Fragmentary laughter came from below, and several good voices asked, "What about the second one?"

"The second song is an unreleased song. I wrote it on the roof of the dormitory on the first day of [-]. It's called "Three Zero Zero Zero."

The rest of the band were in a daze, and Qiyuan made a "cross" with her arm, a little annoyed: "I don't remember how the original songs of these two songs were played!"

Zhang Chen turned around and made a soothing gesture, and said, "Impromptu, how happy you are, this is a temporary encore, don't be stressed." After that, he went to see Lao Liu, and said in a positive tone: "You must remember How to play."

Lao Liu smiled, confidently gave him an OK, and said relaxedly: "Let's play!"

The blue light disappeared and the overhead light cast a dim yellow line.The electric guitar sounded first, followed by a short solo followed by a burst of drums.Different from the complex changes of the previous two songs, these two songs have simple structures, simple chords, simple changes, and everything is simple.Cheng Sheng lay in the crowd of drinkers, looking at Zhang Chen, who was playing the piano and singing, like an audience.He drank heavily today, especially drinking high-alcohol wine. After a few glasses, he felt a little dizzy. With his head on his arms, he said to the air sullenly: "You have grown up a lot, your appearance has changed, your state has changed, everything has changed. Now, it's not the same as before, I don't even recognize you anymore."