The relationship between Li Qian and Xie Bing is certainly not as imagined by those gossiping men and women.

  Xie Bing is very beautiful, no doubt about it. Her smile is enchanting, her eyes are captivating, her soft voice is charming... These good words used to describe her would not have the slightest sense of discord, and even the feeling of praising her wouldn't be there. Because these words on her are completely realistic. This beautifully grown girl, of course, everyone loves to look at, at least Li Qian thinks that interacting with those beautiful girls who share a similar background is a pretty enjoyable thing.

  But that's all there is to it.

  Li Qian is not a sex maniac, nor does he have a hobby of collecting concubines. Even if he thinks having three wives and four concubines sounds pretty cool, he's not shallow enough to want to hug every beautiful girl he sees into his arms.

  As a man in his thirties, he has his own self-awareness and self-control.

  So, in his mind, professionally speaking, he is the producer of this album "Wu Xing Wu Su", he wants to help them make a good album, and at the same time, make some money for himself, as well as gain some credentials that will be more convincing when he enters the industry later. From a personal relationship perspective, to be honest, as a man in his late thirties, he often subconsciously treats these lively and vibrant young girls as younger siblings or children - this is a common problem among many mature men.

  No matter what ripples arose in Xie Bing's heart, for Li Qian, taking Xie Bing to listen to that play was firstly to fulfill his promise and secondly because he thought she would be alone in Jinan Prefecture during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Although Wang Jingxue was also in Jinan Prefecture, her cold demeanor made it seem like she wouldn't be considerate or caring towards others. So Li Qian felt it necessary to show some care for the young girl... As mentioned earlier, this is indeed a common ailment among older men.

  He's heard enough. The concern has been conveyed, and for him, this matter is now over.

  In the afternoon, I watched a good play. In the evening, everyone gathered together for dinner. Then Li Qian rode his bicycle and sent Xie Bing back to their rented house. Before Xie Bing could say anything like "Let me go in and get a glass of water", he turned around and left decisively. Before leaving, he didn't forget to say: You must practice that song "Farewell" well, otherwise I'll scold you when I come back!

  So, got it. Xie Bing had a lot to say, but swallowed it back down.

  …………

  After Mid-Autumn Festival, everything is back on track.

  Although the holiday was short, with just a few days to relax, the fatigue that had been building up in the girls for several weeks of continuous recording disappeared instantly. Although their previous good state also lost a lot, after adjusting for two days and finding the feeling again, their subsequent recordings quickly became smooth again.

  The first to be completed was "Love Me!" with lyrics and composition by Cao Yun and arrangement by Li Qian, followed by "Love Bird".

  Finally. It was that song with a strong Russian folk flavor, "Moscow Nights" - and I'll add that in this world, this song had never appeared before.

  It wasn't until all three songs were recorded that it was already late October.

  Finally, we have come to the last stage of this album recording - "Farewell"!

  …………

  Under Li Qian's planning as the album producer, each song in this album has a clear direction and a specific target audience.

  From "Let's Row the Double Oars" targeting elementary school students and junior high school students, to "Happy Baby" targeting junior high school students and senior high school students. Then to "Sisters Stand Up" targeting senior high school students, college students, and all popular music fans under 30 years old, as well as "Heartbreak Frontline Alliance" targeting all young men and women, in addition to the already confirmed retention of "Charge! Charge! Charge!". And Cao Yun's upbeat and cheerful song "Love Me!", these six songs together formed a relatively complete hit-making system - these songs are made for the purpose of taking money from young people's pockets.

  However, an album can't be all light and easy, although it's not absolutely impossible. But if the entire album is made in this style, then it won't be popular, and once it becomes popular, the development path of the artist will be directly nailed down.

  So they still need some alternative songs.

  For example "The Love Birds", for example "Candy Cane", for example "Moscow Nights".

  These three songs, all of which will also become popular and can be very popular, but they won't attract gold like "Sisters Stand Up" because they each have their own unique flavor and a relatively niche audience.

  The former can bring sales, while the latter can bring word of mouth.

  But just like this, the album is too messy.

  Not to mention the head is heavy and the foot is light, at least for an album, it will appear that the style is relatively chaotic, and even has a direct split in half feeling, can't build a perfect album from the overall style.

  So, another "Farewell" is needed to suppress the footprints.

  With the release of "See You Again", Wu Suo no longer is just a simple idol group that only sings fast songs to make money. With "See You Again" and "Moscow Nights" as representatives, these four songs will bring them quite good professional reputation, and at that time, they may truly welcome both critical acclaim and commercial success!

  In the 21st century, people like to talk about "swag" when they speak, which essentially means style.

  "See You Again" is just used to show off one's skills.

  But everything has two sides.

  "This song "See You Off" is very powerful, not exaggerating to say that in the time and space Li Qian has experienced, it can be ranked alongside "The Yellow River Cantata" and "The March of the Volunteers", which are super works with themes of national survival, so their standards are extremely high, making them seem superior. In contrast, "See You Off" is purely a personal emotional expression, so it seems to have less weight."

  But in terms of music standards, "Farewell" is actually not inferior at all.

  To be blunt, if it weren't for the promotion of the national machine, those two great works that concern the fate of the nation would, once they entered a peaceful era, probably only be listened to and revered by a small number of people. However, "Farewell" is able to rely on the spontaneous word of mouth of the people to spread and become immortal for centuries.

  But it is precisely because of its extremely high status and extremely high work quality that as soon as this song appears, it will inevitably cause a huge shock to the domestic music scene at this time. So, as the first group to sing out this work, Wu Xian Wu Su, they will inevitably face more, stricter, and even nitpicking scrutiny, criticism, and interrogation.

  It was also for this reason that, from the very beginning of the recording, Li Qian had extremely strict requirements for the five girls, and first concentrated on finishing the fast songs in one breath. Putting "Moscow Nights" at the end to further cultivate their emotions and feelings.

  But in fact, it's still very difficult.

  And it has nothing to do with singing skills or voice quality, it's just that the emotions aren't genuine!

  In Li Qian's view, this song is difficult to sing but also good to sing. It's hard to sing because it's a slow song and a very demanding slow song that has extremely strict requirements for the singer's breath control and singing skills. But saying it's good to sing is because what's most important about this song isn't actually singing skills or breath control.

  But feelings.

  Just like the famous evaluation of Su Shi's lyrics, "Scholars' lyrics must be sung with a loud and clear voice, with a copper pipa and an iron clapper board, singing along the Yangtze River to the east." Is it that the songstresses in the brothels were not up to par? Was their singing not good enough? Obviously not! You have to know that during the Song Dynasty, the songstresses in the brothels were professionals! But Su Dongpo's bold and unrestrained lyrics, if sung by a few delicate young girls holding red clappers, would be completely out of tune no matter how you listened to it.

  To sing "Farewell" well. Very simple.

  A person with a certain singing foundation, over 40 years old, preferably over 50 years old, has experienced some things, precipitated some things, and experienced life's separations. Also experienced death's farewell, you give this song to him, even if there are some places where his breath is unstable, some places are even slightly off-key, he may be hoarse or have a broken voice, but that's all completely irrelevant, the kind of age feeling, the kind of years' feeling comes out, "Farewell" this song, listening to a few sentences can make you cry uncontrollably!

  But the average age is only twenty-one years old Wu Su... obviously without that kind of vicissitudes of life!

  So, one day, two days... until the third day, Li Qian simply called them out of the recording studio and returned to the rehearsal room.

  "I know you're all still very young, and I also know it's not easy for you to grasp the emotions in this song. So, my expectations of you are not high. You're all very young, but I believe you have some experience with the kind of emotions expressed in this song! Now, let me say, think back..."

  "You all left your parents at the age of ten or so, went out to Shuntian Prefecture to make a name for yourself, to do music. Now, I'm asking you to recall, do you still remember what it was like when you left home? What did you look like? What did your parents look like? Do you still remember the colors of the quilt covers and pillowcases that your mother carefully packed for you? The small teddy bear, or the small dog, or the ugly stitched alligator on your bed?"

  "You've just spent the holidays at home and returned, so what about usual times? When you can't go back, do you occasionally think of a dish your mother made for you? When you encounter difficulties, when you're troubled by something, when you're alone and shedding tears, is there anything that comes to mind?"

  "And, and... do you still remember the flower beds that can be seen when looking down from the window? And the children running, laughing, and playing around the flower beds? Do you still remember those schools where you spent your childhood, and do you still remember the large patches of weeds growing on the playground after each summer vacation?"

  "You must all have your own good friends, from childhood playmates to bosom buddies. So, do you still remember what they said when you were about to leave home? Have you ever gotten drunk together? How long has it been since you last saw each other? When you meet again, can you still recall the silly things you did in your foolish youth?... OK, I see someone's eyes starting to get red. So now, think back on it, grasp it, and sing it out!"

  …………

  Recorded the first part of five songs, Li Qian brought Wu Xing Wu Su and recorded for less than twenty days.

  They spent about sixteen days recording three songs for part two.

  But when it came to recording "Farewell", Li Qian spent a full 14 days just repeatedly tempering their breath and adjusting their emotions!

  But the good thing is that when I walked back into the recording studio again, the effect was immediately apparent.

  When several girls, and still several just twenty-year-old girls, with that young girl's unique clear and simple voice, sang "outside the long pavilion, by the ancient road" in a leisurely manner, Li Qian, who was standing outside the transparent glass wall of the recording studio, unknowingly found that feeling of sour nose and dry eyes.

  "The Farewell Song" may seem to be in the format of upper and lower paragraphs for ordinary music fans who are not familiar with it, but it is actually in the format of three paragraphs: upper, lower, and upper. That is to say, after the upper and lower paragraphs, there is another repetition of the "Longting outside, ancient road side" paragraph, forming a kind of circular repetition feeling, doubling highlighting the series of images such as Longting, ancient road, fragrance grass, evening wind, willow, flute sound, sunset, mountain, etc., forming an emotional progression that uses sad scenery to write sad emotions and then uses sad emotions to set off sad scenery.

  Every word is sorrowful, every sentence is emotional.

  Li Qian assigned different sections to the five girls according to their different vocal characteristics - no way, "Let's Row the Oars" is mainly for kids to listen to, and the chorus method is already enough, but "Moscow Nights" and "Farewell", are destined to bring countless critical eyes, if they simply continue to use choruses, then not only will Wu Su be criticized, but even he as the producer will be scolded to death!

  And it would be too obvious!

  Fortunately, hard work pays off for those who are diligent. After two months of continuous adjustments and recent in-depth emotional excavation, Li Qian finally succeeded in making the five young girls sing to at least a satisfactory level!

  …………

  November 9th, Saturday, 4:30 pm.

  After recording five times, with at least three of them meeting or even exceeding Li Qian's requirements, Li Qian pressed the intercom and smiled at the five girls behind the glass wall, saying: "OK, now I announce that the studio recording part of your second album 'Sisters Stand Up' is officially completed!"

  He paused for a moment, and before the five girls in the recording studio could react, he had already put his hands together, gathering up all the energy of scolding from the past period of time, with a peaceful smile on his face, saying: "You've worked hard over the past two months!"

  It's unclear whether it's because they've been digging up their emotions too much lately, or if they really feel that the past two months of recording albums have been too exhausting, or maybe it's just that they've been scolded by Li Jian too many times, but in any case... after a moment, the five girls behind the glass wall suddenly all had red eyes.

  Li Qianwei let out a faint sigh and then slowly smiled.

  "Finally finished recording." he thought.