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Chapter Thirty-two: An Apology

  At this time, Huang Wenjuan suddenly spoke up.

  She asked timidly: "Uh, sis, are these tapes all usable songs?"

  Liao Liao hadn't yet recovered from Qi Jie's words, he simply turned his head to look at her, thought for a moment, and then replied: "It can be used, of course it can be used! Hmm, just the three songs I mentioned earlier, as long as you get them down, I'll prepare to put them on my album!"

  Huang Wenjuan was taken aback and thought: This is too strange, isn't it?

  So many famous songwriters, so many works, after selecting and filtering, about 70-80 songs were narrowed down to five, now it's even better, seven songs, directly chose three! This ratio...

  But then she suddenly asked: "Sister, isn't this tape just a ready-made song? If the other party hasn't gone to the copyright association to register the rights, it seems like... we don't need to buy?"

  As soon as the words came out, Liao Liao and Qi Jie, who were originally stunned or worried, turned their heads to look at her, and suddenly scared the little assistant, who quickly explained, "Sister, and Qi sister, don't misunderstand, I didn't mean anything else, I just wanted to say that if others don't know that this song has already been recorded, then isn't it like we're getting it for free?"

  "Can it be like this?"

  Qijie was taken aback by his words and couldn't help but turn her head to look at Liao Liao.

  At the same time, she suddenly felt a little flustered in her heart. If Liao Liao really took these songs away directly, maybe... maybe Li Qian wouldn't think it had anything to do with herself after all, he usually came into contact with many people, and who knows if he would even sing them to others, like Wang Jinglu for example, and the few days when he sang those songs, she hadn't gone up to the rooftop either, only secretly recording in the corridor downstairs. However... this was also too unfair to him, wasn't it?

  Not to mention whether Liao Liao will feel guilty or uneasy in his conscience, at least from an emotional point of view, he will find it hard to get over the psychological hurdle.

  As she thought so, her gaze at Liao Liao was filled with some expectation.

  At this time, Liao Liao just paused for a moment and shook his head very decisively.

  Then she said: "Juanzi's idea is not entirely impossible, but even if we don't mention how unethical it is, just thinking about the benefits, they shouldn't be doing this!"

  Jian looked at Huang Wenjuan and Qi Jie, who were both staring at her, and continued: "These are seven songs. Of course, I can use them without spending a single penny, and even claim they're my original creations. But... let's not talk about the fact that I couldn't do such a thing even if I wanted to. Even if I could swallow my pride and actually do it, would I be content with just these seven songs for the rest of my life? Is this person's value really only equivalent to these seven songs?"

  After hearing her say this, Huang Wenjuan's train of thought suddenly shifted!

  Right! If these songs were really created by someone, then when they received such high praise from Liao Liao, this picky person, and it was found out that the author was only in his second year of high school... anyone can understand as long as they think a bit: the person himself is more important than his works!

  Before that, when she was a student, she didn't know or understand anything, but after following Liao Liao for a year, she had also experienced some ups and downs, and she understood the general idea of things in their circle.

  Especially in the past six months, she has been following Qijie to collect songs, select songs, and make appointments... The more experiences she has had, the stronger her feelings have become!

  What is most important in the music circle?

  No doubt about it, it's resources!

  Because resources are always limited.

  Good lyricists are a resource, but very few, only about twenty people. Good composers are also a resource, but equally scarce. Good producers, of course, are also a resource, and... even fewer!

  Of course, the boss's support and promotion, better recording studio conditions, good composition, good guitarists, good recording engineers, etc., these are also resources and are all very important.

  However, all these things put together are still not as important as a good lyricist and composer!

  Because of all this afterwards, including the boss's support, production, composition, accompaniment, singing, recording and so on, their source is song creation! Only if there are good songs first, only if the songwriter creates a good song first, can the resources behind have room to play.

  Otherwise, no matter how well you play your guitar, if you're thrown into a terrible song, it's all for nothing!

  For the audience, people may only focus on a good song first, and then they may pay attention to the arrangement of this song, which seems to be very touching. The guitar accompaniment of this song is great! And it's impossible to like and pay attention to a song just because there's a cool guitar solo in that song!

  In short, the former determines the latter!

  If we put this logic on Liao Liang's body, it means: Don't say more, even if Liao Liang can recognize and make friends with one or two top lyricists in the circle, the preparation and song collection of her new album will not be so troublesome!

  So it's better to offend a record company boss than to offend a top-notch songwriter!

  This is a consensus within the circle.

  Then, after understanding all this, Huang Wenjuan nodded, deeply realizing how terrible her previous idea was. Afterwards, she decisively revealed an expression of sudden enlightenment, indicating that her thoughts had successfully transformed.

  Qijie looked at her and then at Liao Liao.

  She hadn't mixed in music circles before, so although she roughly understood Liao Liao's meaning, the twists and turns here still weren't very clear to her.

  At this time, Liao Liao smiled and said: "Actually, when I listened to the song just now, my heart wasn't completely unmoved. However, I quickly thought it through - if what you said is true, that these songs are all original compositions by your student, and he's only 17 years old, then it's clear that this kid is a genius! So, I wouldn't be foolish enough to offend a genius just for the sake of saving money on a few songs. Simply put, as long as I maintain a good relationship with him, I'll be able to get countless great songs in the future! Good heavens, he's even younger than me - his creative period will probably last several decades! That's going to be hundreds and thousands of songs!"

  Upon hearing this, Qi Jie completely understood and immediately felt relieved.

  However, at this time, Liao Liao thought for a moment and suddenly said: "Although I know it's a bit annoying to say so, because I know that in fact I should thank you for recording these, but, baby, I still have to remind you again, in the future, you'd better not record anymore."

  If it were just now, before discussing whether to buy a song or not, and hearing this, even if Liao Liao had already said it once, Qi Jie would still be a bit confused. But now, she naturally understood what Liao Liao meant right away.

  Then she nodded solemnly.

  But then she asked timidly: "This seems... really not good, right? By the way, you said, if he finds out that I secretly recorded him, will he be angry?"

  Liao Liao shook his head and said, "I don't know if he'll be angry now, but I do know that if these few tapes hadn't fallen into my hands, eight or nine out of ten of these songs would have become someone else's original creations!"

  As she spoke, she waved the tape in her hand and said: "Then... if he knew it was leaked from you, the result, you can imagine yourself!"

  Qijie nodded after hearing the words, then she thought for a moment and said: "So, even if it hasn't been leaked out yet, it's absolutely impossible to tell him about it, right? Then...if you're determined to see him and buy his song, either way...like this, when the weather clears up, he'll definitely go to the top of the teaching building to practice singing. At that time, I'll just say you came to Jinan to play and heard me mention him, so you're very curious and want to go over and listen in person?"

  Liao Liao thought for a moment and nodded, "Alright, let's do it that way!"

  After saying that, she turned her head to take a look and found that the rain outside was still falling slowly. She immediately picked up the recorder again and said: "You guys go ahead with what you need to do, I'll listen to it one more time!"

  After thinking for a moment, she said to Huang Wenjuan: "Wenjuan, go out and buy me a guitar. Don't choose a good one, just buy any one will do!" After finishing speaking, she put the earphones back into her ears again.

  Huang Wenjuan was taken aback for a moment, then quickly nodded and agreed, ready to go out.

  But at this time, Qi Jie reached out and took off her headphones, stretched out her wrist and tapped on the watch, "It's almost twelve o'clock, young lady, you didn't eat breakfast, aren't you hungry?"

  Liao Liao was taken aback for a moment, just thinking of saying she wasn't hungry, but it seemed as if her body had been poked awake by Qi Jie. Suddenly, her stomach growled several times.

  Qī Jié couldn't help but burst out laughing.

  …………

  The sky followed people's wishes, and when the three of them finished lunch and came out of the restaurant, the rain stopped.

  Seeing the red sun in the sky after the rain, Liao Liao almost jumped up excitedly and didn't even mention going to buy a guitar anymore. He kept saying: "Let's go to your school now?"

  Qī Jié couldn't dissuade her, so he had no choice but to drive them there.

  But obviously, the rain had just stopped, and there was still water accumulated all over the road. Li Qian wouldn't be able to come even if he wanted to, at least not that quickly.

  So, after the three of them wandered around the rooftop of the teaching building at No. 13 for a while, they had no choice but to chat idly and wait for Li Qian's arrival.

  After about half an hour, Huang Wenjuan suddenly stopped the two people who were chatting and pointed to the school gate with her hand. "Qi sister, Qi sister, look at that, is that Li Qian you guys mentioned?"

  Qijie turned her head and saw him at a glance.

  A unicycle, a guitar case, absolutely no mistake.

  "It's him!" she said.

  After finishing speaking, Liao Liao suddenly straightened his waist.

  While calm just now, she suddenly became tense.

  She just knew that her student's work was so amazing.

  She just found out that what she did a few days ago almost caused big trouble.

  Suddenly, she hesitated again.

  Before coming here, she had made up her mind to keep this matter hidden, even if it meant burning those tapes tonight, in short, she was not very willing to let Li Qian know about the tape recording.

  But now, seeing the man riding a bicycle, she suddenly felt that she had made a mistake first. If she didn't even dare to admit it, then perhaps for the rest of her life, every time she saw him, she would feel guilty and think she was in the wrong?

  And then, without realizing it, this heart is pounding faster and faster.

  Then, in the bated breath of three people, footsteps sounded, and soon a young man arrived at the rooftop.

  He saw someone on the rooftop and was taken aback at first.

  At this time, Qi Jie, who had been waiting not far from the entrance of the rooftop, took a deep breath and walked over first, smiled and said: "Li Qian, sorry, Teacher has come to apologize to you!"

  As she spoke, she didn't wait for Li Qian to respond and took out three cassette tapes from her bag. Her voice was slightly trembling as she said: "The teacher really likes listening to you sing, so he secretly hid in the corridor to listen. Later, he felt that those songs were so good that just listening to you sing a few times wasn't enough, so he took it upon himself to record a few tapes. I originally thought that doing this was wrong, but not a big deal. However, now my friend has told me that doing this could lead to your hard work leaking out and even being plagiarized, so... I was wrong, sorry!"

  As they spoke, she bowed deeply to Li Qian.

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