All morning, Liao Liao's heart was completely immersed in those few tapes.
Excitement, agitation, sorrow, discontent, disappointment, surprise... all sorts of emotions kept changing on her face.
After listening to "Goodnight Jinan" for more than a dozen times, she took advantage of the gap between rewinding again and said to Qijie and Huang Wenjuan: "This slow song is one of the best even if it's included in Flying Music's album!"
After listening to "He Must Have Been Very Good to You" twice, she frowned slightly and said: "If it's really like you said, these songs were all written by the same person, your student wrote them, I would tell him not to write this kind of song anymore. Although this kind of pop song is easier to become popular, it's purely a waste of your talent, musical talent, rock talent!"
Then, when she heard the song "No Place to Hide" on the other side of the tape, while rewinding it, she was so excited that she asked Qi Jie, "Are you sure this song is called 'No Place to Hide'?" When Qi Jie replied "I don't know", she didn't care at all, as if she hadn't expected an answer in the first place.
She just listened over and over again, once, once more, and then once more, back and forth.
Then she said a foul word and because she was wearing headphones, she almost yelled: "This one, the one you wrote 'No Place to Hide', is **exploded!"
Then, it's "Wishing You a Smooth Journey".
She said: "Another song like this, so smooth and popular! This kind of song will definitely be easy to get on fire... My god, if all these were written by one person, I really want to worship him as a master immediately and ask him to write more songs like 'No Place to Hide' and 'Goodnight Jinan', or at least something like 'White Moonlight'!"
Yes, this time she was shouting again.
Divination Song
She shouted again: "This song is okay, although it's a bit worse than 'White Moonlight', it's still popular, but the taste is not bad. However, I think the name shouldn't be called Bozangzi, he just borrowed the idea of Bozangzi when writing the lyrics, and the meaning isn't quite right. Calling it 'Picking up Cold Branches' or 'Desolate Sandy Island' would be better than calling it Bozangzi!"
So, for the entire morning, Qi Jie and Huang Wenjuan accompanied her to sit in the room, drinking tea and chatting, from time to time giving Liao Liao's loud voice a white eye - during those school years, their relationship was so good, and they were even sleeping on upper and lower bunks, listening to songs together countless times, at that time she had already gotten used to Liao Liao's random comments while listening to songs.
Well, girls drink a lot of tea, and going to the bathroom two or three times in one morning is perfectly normal.
Liao Liao didn't eat or drink, she just sat there motionless, listening to songs, listening to songs, listening to songs...
At last, she finished listening to all seven songs.
She suddenly took off her headphones, and both Qijie and Huang Wenjuan turned their heads to look at her.
"Sounds good?" Qijie smiled and looked at her, "Not disappointed, right?"
It can be said that her mood for the entire morning was just like this, relaxed and pleasant, with a hint of pride and a slight show-off.
Look, you didn't take it seriously at first, thinking it was just a kid's work, but now... how about it, Old Liao? This student, this little brat, still has some skills, right?
Liao Liao heard this and slowly nodded his head.
Choosing her words carefully, she said slowly: "It's simply... stunning!"
Then she asked: "Are you sure all of this was written by your student? Original?"
Qijie heard this and didn't answer, instead asking, "Have you heard these songs somewhere else?"
The tone of this sentence reveals a hint of pride and complacency.
Normally, Liao Liao would have given her a cold stare back. But this time, Liao Liao surprisingly didn't show any intention of fighting back and instead nodded solemnly. Then she said: "If they weren't his original works, if no one else had heard them before, these songs should have been bought out by someone and become a national hit long ago!"
Then she asked curiously: "What kind of person is this kid? Is he just an ordinary high school student? This 16 or 17-year-old kid... isn't that too against the heavens?"
Zijie was taken aback by his words, "Rebel against Heaven?"
Suddenly, she began to feel something was off.
Yes, these songs were the first to be discovered, and when Liao Liao arrived in Jinan, she couldn't wait to share them with her best friend, wanting her to hear them too, wanting her to agree with her own judgment, wanting her to lavish praise on them - as if this would make her feel honored.
In fact, Liao Liao's reaction just now has already made her find that sense of belonging. Especially, she actually listened to the recording for more than two hours without eating or drinking, and after listening, she was indeed full of praise. These things undoubtedly make the sense of pride in her heart higher and higher.
But... defying heaven?
This is not the crazy state she was in when listening to songs, at that time, she said this is good and that is bad, Qijie didn't care much, casual comments, as long as she also thought these few songs sounded good it was fine.
But this time she wasn't yelling, she was saying it very seriously.
She said this little brat is very against heaven.
At this time, Qijie suddenly remembered that she had said earlier, "This song is also a top-notch in the Flying Music Band's album!", She also said, "This song is very popular and easy to get on fire."
As a result, Qi Jie's expression on her face changed unknowingly.
"You're...serious?"
Liao Liao was taken aback, "Seriously? Of course I'm serious! Didn't I just say that there are several songs in here, like 'No Place to Hide', like 'White Moonlight', they're simply explosive!"
At this moment, Qi Jie's expression on her face was a bit off.
She asked cautiously: "Are you saying that, even from your perspective as a professional singer, these few songs are not only very good, but also of the kind... that can be popular all over the country?"
"Of course!"
Liao Liao replied affirmatively to her.
Qijie opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but suddenly didn't know what to say.
Is he? The songs he wrote, not only do he think they sound good, not only does Liao Liao think they sound good, but they have actually reached the level where they can be popular all over the country and make everyone think they sound good...?
Qijie suddenly thought: So in the end, she still underestimated him?
At this time, Liao Liao asked her: "By the way, you haven't said yet, what kind of person is this kid? Oh, by the way, what's his name?"
What kind of person is he?
Qijie asked herself in her heart.
Subconsciously, she thought of his appearance with closed eyes, slightly swaying body, plucking the strings and singing at the same time, the maturity that shone through his youthfulness, his black pupils that seemed to be bottomless, his slightly shy smile, his poor and tattered clothes, and...
"He...has flirted with me!" Qijie said suddenly.
"Huh?"
Liao Liao and Huang Wenjuan were both stunned.
"Really?" Huang Wenjuan asked.
Qijie was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly felt that what she had just said shouldn't have been said, at least not in front of Huang Wenjuan. But the words were already out, and couldn't be taken back. So she simply nodded her head and said: "Let's talk about it in class!"
She paused for a moment, then suddenly smiled and said: "It's not as dirty as you think, it's just... he said in class that he likes me..."
"Whoa!" Liao Liao almost jumped up, "This guy is too handsome! Flirting with the teacher in class, this was my dream back in the day... it's awesome!"
Zijie cried and laughed at the same time.
After a moment, she shook her head and said: "His name is Li Qian. Well, how should I put it... His father is a teacher at our school, also teaching Chinese like me. And I've been in charge of their class since the first year of high school. At first, his grades were good, but later they got worse and worse, dropping drastically. I guess he's been into music or something? But this has been going on for two years now. Our school has a gala every year, and there's also a singing competition in the spring, but before this, I had never heard him sing, nor did he ever participate in those events... until recently when I suddenly heard someone singing on the rooftop..."
Recently, this thing about the month, actually from head to toe, doesn't take a few words, Qijie quickly told himself from the first time he heard someone singing on the rooftop to the recent recording, all said.
Then Liao Liao asked with a surprised face: "So, does he have many other works?"
Qijie was taken aback for a moment, nodded and said: "Should be... right?"
"Hurray!"
Liao Liao waved his fist excitedly and said, "It's really like that! It's really like that! Now I'm going to get rich, I want to see him! Where is he? Is he in class now? I want to see him!"
"Uh..."
Qijie hesitated for a moment after hearing the words, then she turned her head to look outside and said: "Today is Saturday, of course there are no classes. However, although he often goes to the rooftop of our teaching building on Saturdays and Sundays to sing, it's just this weather today..."
She shook her head and said, "I guess he won't go."
Liao Liao thought for a moment and then said: "Then we can go to his home to visit! You are his teacher, you must know where he lives, right? Or do you have his mobile phone number? Or the phone is fine, you first contact him, and then we take the initiative to visit?"
Qijie stared at her blankly, seeing that she was almost excited to the point of being unreasonable, and asked in puzzlement: "You want to see him? What for?"
"Buy a song!"
Liao Liao replied without hesitation: "If these songs are really his original works, then at least those few... 'No Place to Hide', 'Goodnight Jinan' and that 'White Moonlight', right, these three, I'll buy them from him!"
"Buy songs? Are you sure?"
Liao Liao nodded.
Qijie thought for a moment and said: "Like you finding that unrefined bookstore's... Cao Yun to buy songs?"
"Right!"
Liao Liao replied without hesitation.
At this moment, every cell in her body seemed to be excited and jumping.
Perhaps Qi Jie didn't know the value of those songs, but she did.
She knew she had struck gold this time!
So, of course, we must take advantage of these songs before they are lost, and hurry up to find the person and buy them back!
But at this time, Qi Jie's expression on her face was very wrong.
At this time, she really believed that: although she had already felt that Li Qian was very different from others and had a lot of talent before, but she still underestimated him!
She had known him for many years, and of course she knew that Liao Liao was extremely talented and gifted in music, and she also naturally believed in her own judgment. So, the question is, a song written by a 17-year-old high school student can be praised by Liao Liao, and it's not just empty praise, she even wants to go find him to buy his songs... how can she still continue to praise him with the attitude and tone of praising an ordinary student?
She couldn't help but think: "The kind of praise I used to give, might actually be belittling him?"
Of course, these thoughts in her mind could never be told to Liao Liao by Qi Jie.
So, after hesitating for half a day, under Liao Liao's expectant gaze, she said: "But... these are all secretly recorded songs, if I say them out loud, you'll ask me which song to buy, and others will definitely ask, how did you know I sang that song?"
Liao Liao was stunned and stood still.