song for the city

When they arrived at their destination, Liang Zhangren was all stupid, really stupid.

The familiar foot bath shop still stands there vaguely, and the small hotel where Liang Zhang lived still looks dilapidated.

Xiang Pei got down from the back seat with his long legs bent, saw Liang Zhang's dull look, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"No," Liang Zhang frowned, found a place to park his bicycle in an alley by the side of the road, locked the wheels, followed Pei Chao forward, and asked nervously, "Can I watch your band perform?"

He was afraid that Xiang Pei would disagree, but Xiang Pei didn't refuse. He just asked Liang Zhang, "First time here?"

Liang Zhang was a little embarrassed: "It's not the first time, the hotel I stayed in before is here."

"You are very brave and come to live here alone."

Liang Zhang wondered, "How to say?"

"There are many bars here, there are often fights, and there are many thieves. With your obvious southern accent, thieves will inevitably attack you."

On the train, Liang Zhang's wallet was brutally handed over. Although he found it later, it still left him with lingering fears.Suddenly mentioning this to Pei seems to be hinting at what happened to Liang Zhang on the train.

“Fortunately I only stayed for two nights...”

Liang Zhang thought to himself that the boss of the commissary had cheated him too much.

The place he walked this time was farther than Liang Zhang went back last time. Liang Zhang didn’t go deep last time, and now he found that there were indeed many bars along the way. , or pour wine into your mouth with a wine bottle, it is a very decadent atmosphere.

It seemed that it was not safe enough. Liang Zhang was stunned when he came to this kind of place for the first time, and he had to put on an awesome posture, implying that he was not the first time to come here, but a veteran.

However, he sneaked his eyes around and found that no one cared about him at all, and more people were looking at Xiang Pei who walked in front of him.

Liang Zhang felt a little sour, thinking that he was a school grass-level figure in school before, so how could he be compared to Xiang Pei.

After thinking about it, he fell behind Xiang Pei a lot, walked to a bar, a man in cool clothes came to pat Liang Zhang on the shoulder, and said softly to him: "Little handsome guy, let me buy you a drink. "

Originally, Liang Zhang thought he was a man, so he didn't care much. Just when he was about to refuse, the colored lights in the bar turned bright colors and shone on the man's face, and Liang Zhang could see his face clearly.After seeing it, I was startled—this man had painted eyeliner and lipstick, and his eyelids were still purple. Looking at Liang Zhang's expression was also very strange, and Liang Zhang couldn't describe the weird feeling.

He was stupid again, if the man's voice was not louder than his, he wouldn't be sure that the person in front of him was a man.

Xiang Pei realized that there was no sound from behind, so he turned around strangely, and saw Liang Zhang being blocked by a man, looking helpless and terrified.

Looking at the man's clothes, Xiang Pei guessed what he was doing. He came here often and had contact with everyone, so he knew that the man must like men.

He hurried over, grabbed Liang Zhang and said, "I'm sorry, he is my friend."

Before Liang Zhang could speak, a strong hand grabbed his wrist, and all he saw was the back of Xiang Pei's head.

Xiang Pei was a little taller than him, and the man he was talking to was very short, so Xiang Pei could completely block the man from seeing him.

After walking a while, Xiang Pei Cai let go of Liang Zhang's wrist, and looked sideways at him: "Follow me."

Liang Zhang nodded.

"Also, don't come here alone in the future." Xiang Pei thought for a long time before adding.

Xiang Pei's voice was so soft, as if he deliberately didn't want others to hear him clearly, Liang Zhang felt that his voice was foggy, and suddenly a sense of security filled his body.

"Oh."

He suddenly didn't know what to answer, so he agreed dumbly.

Xiang Pei didn't speak any more, looking cold, Liang Zhang wanted to find something to talk about, and said, "This is the first time I've seen a man put on makeup."

Said to Pei: "Well, there are indeed very few in China."

At that time, male celebrities rarely wore makeup, let alone ordinary people.However, many foreign rock singers often wear smoky makeup, and their dress is also different.Xiang Pei didn't think there was anything wrong.

But Liang Zhang felt that his cognition was a bit broken, and asked, "Don't you think it's strange?"

He is not disgusted, but thinks that lipstick and other cosmetics are things that girls love to play with, and boys should play basketball and sweat profusely every day.

"Everyone has different preferences. There are too many things in the world that are different from ours. Wouldn't it be tiring if we all feel strange? People should respect each other."

Liang Zhang recollected Xiang Pei's words carefully, and felt that his thinking was very mature, so he nodded silently: "It makes sense."

The name of the bar is "Every Night", and the owner named it casually enough.The decoration is not too high-profile, and the environment is not too noisy.

Liang Zhang has seen many bars, but they are all passing by. Now he is really nervous to let him step in.I think this is also a particularly important turning point on his way of "becoming bad".

Xiang Pei walked forward and pushed the door open, and he stepped in. After entering the door, he unconsciously clung to Xiang Pei, afraid that Xiang Pei would disappear in the next second, his mind was very noisy, and he didn't know which part was messing around.Both the face and ears began to redden.

In short, if Xiang Pei does not move, he will never move.

There weren't too many people in the bar, probably because it was still early.The bar is in the front, and the stage and tables are in the back. The decoration is very simple and the lighting is very dark.

Seeing Liang Zhang's foggy state, Xiang Pei still straightened his waist and pretended to be an adult, and laughed in his heart, so much so that a little smile leaked from his mouth.

"To Pei!"

A blond man walked towards them, his hands raised high.

Xiang Pei nodded slightly to him, the man approached, and saw that there was still a person standing beside Xiang Pei, with a surprised expression on his face: "Why did you bring a handsome guy here?"

Xiang Pei replied: "My roommate, Liang Zhang," he sent his hand over there, and said to Liang Zhang, "Chen Zhaonan."

He clearly said that he was his friend just now, but now he is just a roommate again.Liang Zhang liked to dig into the details of people's words, but he still greeted Chen Zhaonan with a smile.

"Hearing your accent, isn't it from Day City?" Chen Zhaonan asked.

"I'm from Sichuan." Liang Zhang replied.

"Then why did you come to Day City so far?" Chen Zhaonan wanted to continue asking, but Naihe stopped him from chattering: "You talk a lot of nonsense."

Chen Zhaonan smiled and climbed over Xiang Pei's shoulder, and said, "Isn't it rare for you to bring friends over here? I'm just curious. Hey, I'll go! What's wrong with your hand? Why is there a Band-Aid on your face! My God, Fortunately, it's not serious, otherwise it would be a pity for your handsome face."

The lights in the bar were dim, and Xiang Pei deliberately put his hands behind his back just now, only then did Chen Zhaonan realize that Xiang Pei's hands were wrapped in gauze.

Chen Zhaonan made a fuss, talked a lot like a cannonball, and made a distressed expression, but the force was too strong, which seemed very false and exaggerated.

Liang Zhang looked at it and wanted to laugh, and Xiang Xiang Pei must have a displeased face.

Sure enough, Xiang Pei anxiously pushed Chen Zhaonan's face away with his hand, feeling disgusted: "Don't get so close to me, and don't be so exaggerated."

Chen Zhaonan put away his pretentious appearance, but still seriously asked Xiang Pei what's wrong.

Xiang Pei said succinctly: "I fell off the motorcycle."

"Then how did you get here?"

Xiang Pei glanced at Liang Zhang and said, "Liang Zhang sent me here."

Chen Zhaonan: "See how kind they are to you."

The band members hadn't arrived yet, and they had to wait for a while to get on stage, and the three of them were sitting in front of the bar and waiting.

Now standing on the stage is a female singer, singing Jacky Cheung's "Heart Like a Knife".

It happened to be Liang Zhang's favorite song, and he listened carefully.

Heart Like a Knife really fits the title of his song. Although Liang Zhang has never experienced love, Jacky Cheung's song has the magic power to break Liang Zhang's heart.

During the period, Chen Zhaonan chatted with Liang Zhang and asked him where he was from in Sichuan and why he came to Day City.

Liang Zhang replied with reservations, but Chen Zhaonan told him a lot of things about himself, and mentioned Xiang Pei's band. The band's name was "Stowaway", but he didn't explain the origin of the name.

Chen Zhaonan is the drummer of the band, and also the oldest in the band. He is 20 years old, a sophomore, and he is studying in the music department of Day City C University.

The music department of C University is very famous all over the country. Liang Zhang's dream is to be admitted to the director department of C University and make his own movie in the future.He instantly envied Chen Zhaonan, and asked him a lot about C University.

Feeling useless after asking, Liang Zhang was disappointed and said, "But my parents definitely don't agree with me being admitted to C University."

"Why? Your parents don't allow you to engage in art?"

Liang Zhang said: "Well, they asked me to become a doctor or a lawyer in the future, so I have to follow in their footsteps anyway."

It's not a hope, but a requirement, and Liang Zhang's future path is forcibly planned.In the eyes of Liang Zhang's parents, engaging in art is dross, and it is an excuse for depraved people to indulge in the world.

Liang Zhang’s uncle gave him a camera on his 16th birthday. Uncle was the only one who supported his dream and encouraged him not to give up on chasing his dream and never compromise.

That's why Liang Zhang is sitting here now, unwilling to compromise.

After hearing this, Chen Zhaonan was very emotional: "My parents first found out that I was in a band, and they wanted to drive me out of the house, saying that there would be no way out for a band, so they thought I was just playing around. Even when I applied for the music department, I secretly changed my name. volunteer, but they are slowly accepting it now, after all, I can’t go back to my mother’s stomach.”

"My parents are different. They are not ordinary parents. If I secretly change my choice, they will definitely let me repeat for a year."

Liang Zhang felt a little uncomfortable as he spoke, with a sad face.

They were chatting, and Xiang Pei didn't say anything throughout the whole process, just smoking on the sidelines.

It was the first time Liang Zhang knew that Xiang Pei wanted to smoke. He never smoked at home.

Asking Pei for juice, Liang Zhang bit the straw of the juice, quietly looked at Pei with the cigarette in his mouth, and then spit out the smoke again.

He bit the straw and bit the cigarette to Pei.

Is he really younger than himself?Liang Zhang thought, staring suspiciously at Pei's facial features.

High nose bridge and upturned eyes, with a small mole in the corner of the eye.Sure enough, there is a very immature shadow.

"His temperament doesn't look like 16 years old, right?" Chen Zhaonan seemed to have guessed what Liang Zhang was thinking, and asked him in a low voice.

Liang Zhang nodded and looked away.

"So we all jokingly called him 'Uncle Xiang'."

"Uncle Xiang?" Liang Zhang repeated softly, the three words seemed to slide down a slide in his mouth, slipped past quickly and slipperily, making his mouth itchy.

Xiang Pei's hearing was sharp, and when he heard Liang Zhang calling him by his nickname, he turned to look at Liang Zhang.

"Don't study foolishly."

Uncle Xiang frowned, but he didn't look really angry.

Around nine o'clock, the bass player of the band didn't come.

The bass player is Chu Ranfei, unexpectedly handsome, he doesn't look like a band member.He doesn't talk much, even a little less than Xiang Pei, but unlike Xiang Pei, he doesn't look cool, but rather shy.

Chen Zhaonan was really acquainted, he warmly introduced Liang Zhang and Chu Ranfei to each other, as if Liang Zhang was not brought here from Pei, but his friend.

Fortunately, Liang Zhang was a relatively familiar person, and he didn't think Chen Zhaonan's personality was too abrupt.

After Chu Ranfei greeted Liang Zhang, he said, "Xin Yu's family has an accident again, so I might not be able to come tonight."

Xiang Pei asked, "Is she all right?"

Liang Zhang sat beside him, wondering who Xin Yu was, and Xiang Pei seemed very concerned.

"Old problem, nothing serious."

"Then let Lao You take her place tonight."

Chen Zhaonan ran to the other side of the bar, opened the curtain, and a man walked out of it not long after.

"I will deduct your wages for my appearance."

Chen Zhaonan patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile, "It's not kind!"

Liang Zhang asked Xiang Pei next to him: "Is he the owner of the bar?"

"Well, his name is You Jing, and he is also Chen Zhaonan's childhood friend."

There were more people in the bar at this time, Xiang Pei and the others were about to go on stage, Liang Zhang sat on the bar and watched, looking forward to it.

Xiang Pei was the last to come on stage and stood in the middle, holding the microphone, keeping a low profile and doing it with ease, all the light seemed to be gathering on him.