"What are you talking about Wang Wei?" An Yinxuan was confused.

Chen Junshan spoke very fast over there: "Wang Wei! It's Swtich's guitarist! My God, how can you not know him, no, it should be said, how can you know him and not know him?! Didn't you realize that he was Wang Wei when you met him? Then you should get to know him again now! An Yinxuan, is your brain broken!"

"I know Wang Wei, but it doesn't look like him at all. Are you sure you're not mistaken?" He has watched countless Swtich concert videos, and it is impossible not to recognize Wang Wei. The guitarist brother's WeChat name is "playing guitar" "Old Wang next door", but Wang Wei's appearance is very different from Wang Wei, who has long flowing hair and is as thin as a stick.

"Wechat is the same, it can't be wrong!" Chen Junshan was holding the phone and roaring: "He used to be thin, but now he is a little fatter, what are you looking at!"

The fat one is about [-] catties, he complained in his heart, this is really witnessing that time is a butcher's knife.

"Then...he knew he was playing the accompaniment for me?" An Yinxuan asked.

Chen Junshan calmed down slowly, "That's even more strange, he must know it's you, I sent him a short part of your singing, even if he didn't recognize it, he would know it by the name, and at his level , as long as you hear the voice once, you will never forget it. How is your friendship with him?"

"It's not particularly deep. I have cooperated twice. I am the resident singer, and he is the resident band. He also gave me extra commission. He is very nice." He recalled the two cooperations with the guitarist brother , are very pleasant.

Chen Junshan was obviously a little surprised and said, "You mean he's working as a resident band now? The kind in bars?"

"It's not a bar, it's a small private event," he corrected.

"It's the same." Chen Junshan wondered: "Then why would he disagree? I can't figure it out. You really haven't offended him?"

"No." He was very sure.

"That's strange, why didn't you agree?"

He thought for a moment, and suggested, "Mr. Chen, should I try to find him myself?"

Chen Junshan agreed, "It's fine, if not, I'll find a way."

After hanging up the phone, he was first surprised that Wang Wei from Swtich had accompanied him twice, but he didn't recognize it, and he was puzzled, why Wang Wei refused to agree to accompany him now?This is obviously contradictory. Is it because Wang Wei is angry because he has blind eyes?

He took out his mobile phone and dialed the number of "Brother Guitarist". After two rings, he was hung up, and then a message came after him:

[I'm playing, what's the matter? ]

An Yinxuan went straight to the point: [Do you have time to meet? ]

When he almost gave up waiting, Wang Wei replied:

[Tuesday at 3 p.m., Lotus Pond. ]

He quickly typed "OK" and went back.On Tuesday, the day after tomorrow, [-]:[-] pm is the opening time of the lotus pond. There will be no one in the bar at that time, and it is very quiet, so he thinks that Wang Wei must know what he is looking for.

The summer in Yancheng is very hot, the sun is shining on the asphalt road and steaming, An Yinxuan only wears an ordinary short-sleeved T-shirt without any pattern, paired with sports trousers, and still wearing Yang You on her head The fisherman's hat that Rong gave him last year made his already charming face look refreshed, and people could see that he could drop twice in an instant.

Tunli Road in the afternoon is very quiet, it is hard to imagine the crowds at night, he has not been to the lotus pond for a long time, one is that he has no time, and the other is that he is not allowed to go out in public without the consent of the company. Singing—it doesn’t work for free, so it’s hard for him to come again.

When he came to the lotus pond this time, he really didn't have any gifts that he could give away, so he found a photo taken with brother Yu from his phone, developed it, and took it with him.It was his birthday, and Brother Yu bought him a small birthday cake. He was so moved that he almost shed tears. Brother Yu laughed and put his arms around his shoulders. The bartender captured this scene.

This photo is very meaningful, and he wanted to give it to Brother Yu as a souvenir.

Pushing open the heavy gate of the lotus pond, brother Yu was indeed wiping the glasses at the bar counter. He was about to go up to greet him, but brother Yu snorted at him, and he looked in that direction, and Wang Wei was already sitting in the booth waiting for him .

He nodded, then turned to his brother and said, "Give me two mojitos, thank you."

Brother Yu made an "ok" gesture, and he walked towards the booth.

"Long time no see." Wang Wei greeted.

"Long time no see." He took off his hat and sat opposite.

Wang Wei said like an old friend, "I see you are in good spirits."

He smiled and said nothing, Wang Wei chatted and said: "You have sung here for four years, and I have been here for eight years, so I can be regarded as your senior."

"We left our youth in the lotus pond." He said with downcast eyes.

"At most, you left your youth in the lotus pond." Wang Wei sighed, "I'm really old."

"You are not old, you are fat."

Wang Wei laughed out loud.

At this time, Brother Yu came over with two glasses of steaming mojitos, and put them on the coasters in front of the two of them. He just nodded politely, and left without saying a word.

He said in embarrassment: "I didn't recognize you, it's really..."

Wang Wei waved his hand to show that he didn't care, and asked, "Is the new job going well?"

He took a sip of the wine, and the cool feeling of mint leaves spread in his throat, which was very comfortable. He shook his head and said, "It's not going well."

"I heard that you found Shen Meiming as a teacher? Didn't it go well? By the way, how is Young Master Liang? He introduced me to a few jobs later." Wang Wei knew his relationship with Liang Xu, Reminiscent of Shen Meiming being Liang Xu's mother, there is a reasonable explanation.

He was silent for a while, then said, "I haven't seen Liang Xu for a long time."

Wang Wei was obviously taken aback, and then he said with relief: "It's reasonable, but unexpected."

Afraid of An Yinxuan's embarrassment, he took the initiative to change the subject and said, "Your singing is very different from before. Shen Meiming is really good."

"Teacher Shen taught me a lot, starting from the most basic, she helped me find the most suitable singing method for me, and I changed."

"She is a good teacher, and Duan Shang was also brought out by her." Judging from the result, Shen Meiming contributed a lot, and Wang Wei respected her very much.

Speaking of Duan Shang, An Yinxuan asked curiously, "Can you tell me about Swtich?"

"It's been so many years, what else is there to talk about." Wang Wei used to be tall and thin, but now he is strong and burly. If you look carefully, the eyebrows and eyes have not changed much, but the face shape is completely different, and the double chin has come out. The explosive hair was also replaced by baldness.

An Yinxuan was like a child acting coquettishly for her parents to tell a story, she put one arm on the table and held her cheek, and said, "I've seen all the concerts, but I want to hear your story even more."

Wang Wei compromised, his eyes gradually deepened, and he recalled the past.

"More than ten years ago, when everyone was still listening to the music of Mimi, Duan Shang boldly sang rock and roll. Do you know what is his most powerful thing? The sound he sings on the spot is exactly the same as that on the record, even in live He is also more passionate, he has a wide range of voice, and his singing skills are steady. I really haven’t seen such a person since then, don’t mind.”

He agrees: "I'm not like him."

"Well, that's right. He is more uninhibited than you. Of course, when I heard your song this time, I felt that the things that bound you were gradually untied." Wang Wei continued: "At that time, Duan Shang didn't What can hold him back or stump him, he is the backbone of Swtich, so he is gone, Swtich lacks a soul and cannot exist anymore."

An Yinxuan drank a glass of mojito, but the ice in the glass hadn't melted very much. To him, this was not wine, but a drink to relieve the heat.

"When is it the most popular?" He asked with great interest.

"Actually, it didn't take too long between recording our first record and becoming famous explosively, that is, one year. Then we started a national tour, and when we were preparing to record our second album, he..." Wang Wei paused, "So in less than three years, the beginning and the end are both cliff-like."

"However, it has left a lot of images, and it has also influenced many people behind. The revival of rock music is driven by you." He commented pertinently.

"But, it's too short, it's really too short." Wang Wei also drank the wine, and the grief and regret of the year came back, and said in a deep voice: "It's just a flash in the pan."

There were some different emotions in An Yinxuan's eyes, and she asked pointedly: "Does that feel good? I mean, standing on the stage, the spotlights are on for you, and everyone is watching you."

Wang Wei didn't understand, so he asked, "Does this make sense?"

"Of course I have, because I've never felt it before."

Across a round wooden table, Wang Wei felt An Yinxuan's powerful aura that he had never had before. He looked away and said perfunctorily, "That's all in the past tense for me."

In the cup, the ice cubes without liquid melted quickly, and the mist on the outer wall turned into water droplets and rolled down, wetting the paper coaster.

An Yinxuan said solemnly: "Accompany me, and we won't be the past, we still have the future."

"Impossible." Wang Wei rejected him without even thinking about it.

"Are you saying I can't be popular? Or that your guitar can't be played for me?"

Wang Wei was helpless, and said: "It's impossible. It's simply unrealistic to reach Duan Shang's height now. It's not that you are not good, it's that the times are different. Do you understand that the times make heroes? What's more, I have my own life, I also have my own band, I don't want to be trapped in the old days and can't get out, just like Chen Junshan."

How could he give up so easily, and persuaded: "But I need you, you know how important a guitarist is to a band."

Wang Wei frowned and said angrily: "You also know the importance of a guitar player, so how can I abandon my current partner?! They also need me!"

"It's different, Brother Wang." He softened his voice and said, "They need a playmate who can play together, but what I need is a partner who can help me to the top."

Wang Wei asked back: "Can playmates be betrayed at will?"

"It's not betrayal or abandonment, Swtich is your destination."

"Duan Shang is dead! No one can replace him, you can't!" Wang Wei was so angry that he smashed his wine glass on the table, spilling glass shards and ice cubes, and his hand was also punctured, with blood running down his face. His index finger dripped down, his precious guitar-playing finger.He grabbed the car keys on the table and said harshly: "Swtich was just a dream, and now I'm awake."

Brother Yu watched Wang Wei go away after slamming the door, slowly mixed a glass of blood red mary, brought it over, and handed it to him.

He raised his head and smiled wryly, "I never thought of becoming the second Duan Shang."

"I know." Brother Yu blocked his hand that wanted to clean up the mess, "Let me do it, don't touch your hands."

He looked preoccupied, and sat there dumbly, wondering what Chen Junshan would look like if he knew he had screwed up.

"You said he drank a glass of wine and dared to ride a motorcycle. Will he be checked by the police for drunk driving later?" Brother Yu joked.

An Yinxuan was in no mood to tease him, and was thinking about how to explain this to Chen Junshan. Just as she was thinking, her cell phone rang, and a call came from an unfamiliar landline number.

After it rang for a long time, he still decided to pick it up. Not knowing what the other party said, he replied, "Okay, I'll go over now."

"What's wrong? Don't be a liar." Brother Yu asked.

He looked at Brother Yu with a dazed expression and said, "Police, he was arrested for drunk driving."

"Grass."

It was about an hour after the last meeting, and the situation has changed a lot this time, mainly in terms of their positions.It was An Yinxuan who begged Wang Wei before, but now Wang Wei is looking at him eagerly in front of the iron fence.

"It's not very serious, it's not drunk, it's drunk." Wang Wei explained palely while holding the iron railing with both hands.

"Are you all right?" He looked up and down, and made sure that he had either been bumped into, or was randomly checked by the roadside traffic police.

"It's okay, I drove 500 meters and ran into..."

At this time, a policeman came from behind, and said in an authentic Hutong accent: "This buddy asked me to make several calls, and you were the only one who answered, and the old face is almost lost."

"They're all sleeping at this hour." Wang Wei hurriedly found an excuse to explain that most of the band's work was at night, and they were indeed resting in the afternoon.

"Don't say anything, just come here." The policeman beckoned him and Brother Yu to come over: "Both of you are fine, sign here and pay the fine."

The three of them came out of the building with downcast eyebrows. The sunlight made An Yinxuan narrow her eyes. Brother Yu asked him, "Can you drive a motorcycle?"

"No, and I've been drinking too."

"Oh yes." Brother Yu patted Wang Wei and said, "Let's drive you back, and you can pick up the car by yourself some other day."

Brother Yu drove a large Range Rover and galloped on the Donghuan Road. There was no traffic jam in the direction of going out of the city on Tuesday afternoon. In less than 10 minutes, he arrived at Hanchao Village.

The place where Wang Wei lives is very close to Wang Xiaoyi's high-end apartment, but across the street is an old house, which was built by villagers in the early years. It has been around for 20 years, and the living environment is not much better than An Yinxuan's. .

Brother Yu came here uninvited, and Wang Wei did the same. He returned home with two saviors. As soon as he entered the house, An Yinxuan's first feeling was - chaos.

The house with two bedrooms and one living room didn't even have a place to put your feet down. Disposable tableware, ashtrays full of cigarette butts, clothes and pants were thrown around, and most of them were guitars, several of them, and speakers and drum kits piled on the ground.

Brother Yu covered his nose, pulled the curtains and opened the window, and said disgustedly: "You are a garbage station, can you find an hourly worker? You are a high-risk single person who died suddenly at home one day. You and your garbage merged into one."

"I'm already dead, do I still care who will be disgusted after I die?" Wang Wei said disdainfully.

An Yinxuan saw that the blood on Wang Wei's hand had solidified, and asked, "Brother Wang, do you have a medicine kit? I'd better take care of it for you."

He no longer uses the address "you", and just had a quarrel, but he feels closer to each other.

Wang Wei looked at his injured hand. Although he didn't feel any pain, it was better to clean it up. After all, it was a tool for living.

"It's in the first drawer of the bedside table, look for it."

Brother Yu couldn't stand it anymore, so he started to clean up the house, found two big black garbage bags, and threw away everything that didn't look good.

"Hey, this is my piano score!" Wang Wei shouted.

"It's all stained with your instant noodle soup!" Brother Yu picked it up in disgust: "Besides, you have a good memory for the piano score, so why keep it?"

Wang Wei: "..."

An Yinxuan walked into the bedroom, opened the bedside table, first saw a drawer of covers, opened the cover, and found a medicine box from inside.

Wang Wei leaned on the sofa that Brother Yu had just cleaned up. He sat next to him with the medicine box, held up his hand, and wiped it clean with a wet tissue—fortunately, the wound was not too deep, so he wiped it with povidone iodine Poison, and finally apply a layer of liquid band-aid.

His technique was very light, which made Wang Wei very itchy. The two of them were so close, it was inevitable that they could smell the faint smell of laundry detergent on his body. His skin was fair and delicate, and his eyelashes were long. Handsome is not enough to describe him. More precisely, it is charm, a charm that crosses genders, and both men and women are attracted to charm.

Wang Wei quickly withdrew his hand, coughed, and said, "What's wrong with me, I really don't like you."

"Huh?" He raised his head, his eyes gleamed, as if his eyelashes could flutter across his heart in a blink, tight and itchy.

"I mean, your set may be useful to Chen Junshan, but it's useless to me! I'm a straight man with cancer!" Wang Wei put terminal illness on his head without hesitation in order to emphasize his straightness. He took a sheet of music and fanned it nervously.

An Yinxuan didn't pay attention to these words, many people misunderstood him, this is very common, he never explained.He doesn't care about reputation, Chen Junshan has no reputation at all, it doesn't matter.

Brother Yu couldn't bear to listen to it. He took out some papers from Wang Wei's hand and said, "Old Wang, you just have one problem. You think too much."

Wang Wei stopped talking.

"You only have a few eggs left in the refrigerator that you can eat. The rest are either expired or wilted. I'll throw them away for you. Let's have fried rice with eggs tonight." Brother Yu held three black garbage bags that were full Put it at the door, and the house suddenly becomes much brighter. In fact, it is not dirty, it is mainly messy, and it is quite tidy after throwing things away.

Wang Wei didn't want to keep the two of them at home for dinner at all, but after talking about it, he could only acquiesce.

When An Yinxuan put away the medicine box and put it back, he accidentally found a black corner under the bed in the bedroom. He thought it was garbage, so he felt it out.It was only when I took it in my hand that I realized it was a vinyl record, the only vinyl record released by Switch.He looked around, but didn't see the record player.

"Don't look for it, there isn't one." Wang Wei leaned against the door frame and said, "I kept it as a souvenir, I haven't heard of it."

An Yinxuan patted the dirt on it, wiped it clean with her pure white T-shirt, and put the record on the cabinet evenly.

When he came in, he had a strong impression of this room—a sense of the times.

Sofas, tables, chairs, beds, electrical appliances, everything is so old, this home is well preserved as it was more than ten years ago, not even a single cup has been replaced with a new one.

Wang Wei must be a nostalgic person. He said that Chen Junshan was trapped in the past and could not get out, and he could only make it worse.He kept saying that Duan Shang was dead and Swtich no longer existed, he was lying, he must miss that peak era more than anyone else.

At this time, Brother Yu asked them to come to eat, and a pot of delicious Yangzhou fried rice was already on the table.

During the meeting, they chatted about some things, and they didn't mention Swtich again.

Before leaving, An Yinxuan reminded: "Brother Wang, you haven't paid me the 1800 fine you paid at the traffic brigade today."

"Oh yes!" Wang Wei slapped his head and was about to transfer money to him, but he pressed it down: "I want cash."

Wang Wei looked troubled and said, "Where can I find this for you."

"One week later, that is next Tuesday, at three o'clock in the afternoon, I will wait for you at the lotus pond." He grabbed Wang Wei's hand tightly, stared at those dodging eyes, and said, "Brother Wang, if you can come by then , you don’t have to pay me back the money, you buy me a glass of wine, and we will advance and retreat together regardless of each other in the future; if you can’t come, let someone else bring the money to me, and we will settle the matter.”

Wang Wei sniffed, neither saying yes nor no.

After getting into Brother Yu's car, An Yinxuan leaned wearily in the passenger seat and let out a long sigh of relief.

Brother Yu started the car and said, "I don't think it's close to ten, so don't worry too much."

"Well, I think so too." He knew it.

"Xiao An, after you left the lotus pond in the past two years, I feel that you have changed a lot." Brother Yu stared at the windshield and drove seriously. .

He doesn't know Brother Yu's full name. Everyone calls him that, so he is no longer obsessed with what his real name is. After all, he also uses a stage name.Brother Yu is tall and has healthy skin. It can be seen that when he was young, he was also a dissolute and free person. Now he keeps a low profile. Although he is not married, he still has a regular girlfriend.

Brother Yu helped him a lot today, leaving him room to persuade Wang Wei again and again, he knew all of this by heart.

"I always feel that there is a big gap with others, but I don't know how to work hard. I am very anxious. There are many variables at work. I don't know if I wake up tomorrow. Will there be a call to tell me not to do it again? Singing. And once I miss some opportunities, for me, I will never have them again."

Brother Yu adjusted the air outlet of the air conditioner downward so that he would not be blown by the cold wind, and said: "Several big stars have come out of me, you are not the first and you will not be the last, for me Said that you are all passers-by, seeing all kinds of people, coming here and leaving here, I always hope that you can live better."

"Well, thank you. Thank you for many things." He felt warm in his heart.

"Don't push yourself too hard, you've done a good job." Brother Yu drove into the alley where he lived, stopped the car on the side of the road, and said, "Have a good rest, come and sit with me when you have time, Don't sing but drink."

He took out the prepared photo from his bag and handed it over, and said, "The one that I found suddenly that day seems to be the only photo we have together, do you want to keep one?"

"Why, write me a bad check?" Brother Yu said with a smile: "You are popular, I hang the photo on the wall, how much business can I attract, if you are not popular, this is a piece of waste paper .”

"It's not waste paper. I will always remember that you gave me the cake on the day I became an adult." He said sincerely.

Brother Yu accepted the photo and patted him on the shoulder again: "Hurry up and go home."

It was almost nine o'clock, and the nightlife on Tunli Road had just begun. An Yinxuan got out of the car and walked against the noisy flow of people. Gradually, the surrounding area became quiet. The community he lived in still had more local residents. Many people are quite old and have already gone to bed at this time, so it is even more quiet.

He stood in front of the unit door and flipped through the access control card, only to feel that a person came up from behind suddenly, he subconsciously resisted, but was hugged around the waist.This person is tall and strong, wearing a black hat, glasses and a mask, completely in an outfit that he does not want to be recognized by others.

An Yinxuan thought to herself that the robber was too bold, so she stayed at the door at only a few o'clock.He calmly said: "Don't hurt me, I have money in my bag, I'll get it for you, but if you dare to touch me, I'll call someone."

The man pinched his face with one hand, pulled off the mask with the other, showing a row of big white teeth, and said, "You dare to call someone! My fans will trample this down."

"Lu Yueyang?!"

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