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Chen Xie didn't hear what he said clearly, Xie Jingnian said it again, but the result was worse than breathless, he was almost speechless.

"What's wrong with your throat?" Chen Kui clicked his tongue and stood up, pinching Xie Jingnian's chin with his left hand to make him raise his head slightly, "Open your mouth."

It seems that the mouth and throat are connected, as long as the mouth is opened a little bit, the throat will hurt.Xie Jingnian insisted on staying silent, and when Chen Xi finished reading, his throat was so sore that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear.

Chen Kui asked him again if he had taken his medicine.The answer is of course no.If he took the medicine in time, he probably wouldn't be so serious.

Chen Xi's attitude was as tough as ever, and he said what he said. He put on Xie Jingnian's clothes and then took him out and locked the door.

The streets in the early morning were empty, Xie Jingnian and Chen Xie had seen each other many times.The cool night wind poured into his nasal cavity, making his throat feel a little better.

The car arrived soon, and it was Didi called by Chen Xi.

The driver is also talkative, and he tried to chat with them as soon as the car door was closed.

But of these two people, one had a sore throat and didn't want to talk, the other didn't have any pain and didn't want to talk, neither of them paid any attention to him.

The driver looked away in embarrassment, and the car was so quiet for a while that there was only the hum of the engine.

Xie Jingnian glanced at Chen Xi who was looking out the window, picked up his phone and sent him a WeChat message.

The mobile phone in his hand vibrated twice. After seeing the news, Chen Xi glanced at Xie Jingnian, and replied to him with the question of why he hadn't rested so late: "The customer needs to finish it before dawn."

The driver at the front glanced in the rearview mirror in surprise when he heard him speak, as if he couldn't figure out why he was talking to himself suddenly.

So Chen Xi probably just finished his work and didn't see Xie Jingnian when he got home, so he came to look for him right away.

Xie Jingnian lowered his head to hide the corners of his lips that could not be restrained, and sent another message asking why Chen Xi came to him.

This time Chen Xi didn't speak, but typed back to him in the same way: none of your business.

In the past few days, next to the head of the New Year, there are people coming and going on the street, all shouting to buy new year's goods.

The Spring Festival travel wave was too crowded, and they had no choice but to rent the SUV they had been looking at before.The space in the car was not that spacious, and Chen Shi's long legs couldn't be stretched out. He sat there with his knees pressed against the leather backrest of the front seat, which was deeply sunken.

Chen Yu and Xie Jingnian sat side by side at the back, they were very close.The latter looked at his knees, there was still a little gap from the front seat.He moved his butt forward calmly, letting his knees rest on the backrest in front of him.

Chen Kui pulled down the folded wide brim of the black cotton cap to cover his eyes, and let out a laughing sound from his nose, making Xie Jingnian's ears blush with embarrassment.

Probably every boy has a dream in his heart, hoping that he can grow very tall in the future.Xie Jingnian is about 1.7 meters tall, not particularly tall, but it is still good enough for boys of the same age.

He glanced at Chen Xi quietly again.He has just reached Brother Yu's shoulders - I don't know how tall Brother Yu is, it should be almost 1.9 meters.

Among the group, only Zhou Yantong and Yuan Fangheng had driver's licenses, and they sat at the front and took turns driving.

Yu Ning sat in the middle, and the seat on the right was vacant for an electric guitar and bass.He probably stayed up late last night playing games. He started to sleep when he got in the car, and after a while, he started snoring and grinding his teeth intermittently.

Zhou Yantong's scalp was numb from his grinding, and he looked back again and again: "Does this child have worms in his stomach? I heard that most children grind their teeth because of this."

Yuan Fangheng returned to him while driving: "Buy him some insect repellent tomorrow."

"I think it's okay." Zhou Yantong turned around and continued chatting with Yuan Fangheng, "Does his tooth hurt? How hard can he make it so loud?"

"I don't know." Yuan Fangheng guessed that he had never encountered such a thing before, and felt it was new, so he frequently looked at Yu Ning's sleeping face through the rearview mirror.

Xie Jingnian has long been used to it.Xie Lao San was snoring, grinding his teeth, farting, talking in his sleep, and the two broken door panels couldn't stop him at all.

Zhou Yantong in the front took out his mobile phone, first recorded a video of Yu Ning snoring with his eyes closed, and then turned the camera to himself, talking to the camera like a vlog.

"Here's our drummer and driver, and he's a top-notch driver."

After getting off the high speed, Yuan Fangheng didn't squint, and only waved one hand in front of the camera.

"The one who snored just now is the bass player of our band, and he's still a kid in high school."

The camera quickly focused on Xie Jingnian again.

Caught off guard, Xie Jingnian hid subconsciously, hiding his modest face behind the car seat, only showing a pair of eyes and looking at Zhou Yantong.

Zhou Yantong leaned over and burst into laughter: "This is also a child, our reserve guitarist."

Chen Xi leaned against the car window, with half of his face covered under the black hat.He probably noticed something, and when the camera moved to him, his arm moved, and he raised his middle finger to Zhou Yan.

"Damn." Zhou Yantong, relying on Chen Xi not being able to see, also gave him a middle finger in return, standing upright in front of the camera and occupying most of the screen.

"Zhou Yantong, if you want to die, just say so." Chen Kui turned his body sideways, lifted the corner of his hat, and stared straight at him.

Zhou Yantong shook his hands, shook the phone without holding it steady, and complained: "You still have eyes on your chin?"

Chen Xi was ruthless: "If you continue to quarrel, you will get out."

The livehouse they were going to this time was in a shopping mall, it was overcrowded and it was almost impossible to find a parking space.

Zhou Yantong went to park the car, while the others wandered around the mall with their things.

It has been a long time since Xie Jingnian went shopping.The last time I went, I accompanied Jia Feichen to pick out Fu Xue's birthday present.

Most of the first floor are brand stores, as well as Starbucks and McDonald's.

Yu Ning just woke up, and when he got off the car, he was blown by the cold wind, his whole body was listless, and he slowly fell behind Xie Jingnian with his bass on his back.

"Let's go to McDonald's and sit for a while." Yu Ning dragged Xie Jingnian aside and tried hard to prevent people from going any further.

Xie Jingnian couldn't walk fast with his electric guitar on his back, and he couldn't move when he grabbed him again. He shouted hoarsely, "Brother Rotten..."

Chen Kui probably received his call for help, and grabbed Yu Ning's collar by the back of his neck, forcing him to the other side.

There is a notice board at the entrance of the Livehouse, printing the time of each band's performance.Xie Jingnian also saw Yao Xi and the others on it, and they were scheduled for tomorrow's match, a day later than Back Blade.

Zhou Yantong pointed his finger on the four words peachy CD: "Hey, what a coincidence."

Yu Ning didn't know Yao Xi and the others, so he leaned over to rub his fists, and asked excitedly if he was Fan Jian's deadly enemy.

Zhou Yantong slapped him backhandedly: "Have you thickened your brain?"

"Don't fuck with my head!" Yu Ning held the back of his head, like a cat with fur, jumping three feet high in anger.

"Yes, K's head is not tall, is it?" Zhou Yantong pressed his head even harder, and put his elbow on it, using it as an armrest, "Where did you hear that? It's so superstitious."

Then he suddenly clicked on Xie Jingnian: "You see, my brother is not superstitious, so he is taller than you."

Yu Ning didn't give up, insisted that he was taller than Xie Jingnian, and wanted to compete with him back to back.In the end, Yu Ning was slightly better with his raised "dirty braids", and cheerfully turned on the screen to go to the stage to debug the equipment.

The audience entered the arena, and the crowd poured into the venue, but within a few minutes, it almost filled the blank space in the audience.

Xie Jingnian held the electric guitar and waited for Chen Xi to adjust it for him. As long as he lowered his head slightly, he could see the top of the audience's head below—it was too close.Although there was a small safe distance in the middle, he was still afraid of accidentally kicking the head of someone in the audience.

"Why are you in a daze?" Chen Kui came over and pulled the cord of his electric guitar, "Lift your foot."

Until the start of the performance, Xie Jingnian was in a state of sleepwalking, hot air rushed to his head, he was dizzy, the breath from his nasal cavity became hot, and his throat was red, swollen and painful.

During this month, he practiced these songs countless times, but when he actually went on stage, it all became reflexive muscle memory.

He couldn't remember the score at all.In the ear is a mixture of slightly chaotic and noisy bass, vocals, and keyboard melodies.It was completely different from being in the practice room, where he couldn't hear the whole song, and his eyes were out of focus in the dark, illuminated by the overhead lights.The audience was crowded with people, the eyes looking at him and the camera of the mobile phone held high made Xie Jingnian unable to think.

He could feel himself playing several wrong notes, but the connection between his brain and his hand was disconnected inexplicably, out of control.

He stiffened his neck and glanced at the person standing beside him in a panic.Chen Xi supported Li Mai, his eyes fell on the front, a low and hoarse voice came out from the stereo, and finally merged into Xie Jingnian's ears, leaving only a series of magnetic ripples.

Xie Jingnian paused for a moment.It was only after he heard a steady and powerful drumbeat that he regained his thoughts.

Yuan Fangheng doesn't like to talk, maybe because he feels that there is a generation gap with them when he is old.It is precisely because of the precipitation of time that he has become extraordinarily mature and stable.Although he has little presence in the band, at this moment his drums are as reassuring as the metronome in the practice room.

After the performance, Xie Jingnian was drenched in sweat, and the electric guitar slipped and fell off.

Red and white electric guitar.

I wonder if Chen Xi was as nervous and at a loss as he was when he performed on stage for the first time.

He gripped the neck of the piano firmly, and carefully put it into the piano bag.

Xie Jingnian's throat was still tight, and even swallowing saliva became a difficult thing.He wiped the sweat from his palms on the side of his legs, and took out his phone to talk to Chen Xi.

The last chat record between them still stays in Chen Shi's sentence that it's none of your business.The cursor in the input box of the chat interface flickered for a long time, and finally fell silent without sending a single word.

What can he say to Chen Xi?Talk about how nervous he was on stage, how many mistakes he made, or a few meaningless small talk?

Xie Jingnian felt that the excitement on stage just now hadn't passed, and his heart also felt sour.Seeing Chen Xi's back as he walked further and further away, he was so sore that he could only take a deep breath to suppress the water droplets that were about to condense in his eyes.

What's there to cry about?Brother Yu doesn't like others to cry.