There is a bar in Houhai

Chapter 23
Shen Fang stayed with his mother for a whole day the next day, and then took the high-speed train back to Yanjing in the afternoon. Several of his men will be in Yanjing next Monday afternoon, so he has to make arrangements.

No one picked up the car, so I got off the high-speed rail and took a taxi directly back to Yangchang Hutong.

Entering the house, I saw Shen Hui reading a book on a recliner under the tree in the courtyard, and two girls were playing in the courtyard.

"Sister, I'm back." Shen Fang greeted.

"Little uncle!" No need to guess, it must be Jiajia who rushed over.Shen Fang hurriedly put down his luggage, caught Zhang Chifei's little man, lifted it up and spun around a few times, causing Jiajia to exclaim.

As soon as Shen Fang put Jiajia down, he felt someone tugging at the corner of his clothes. Sure enough, Sisi was pulling his clothes with one hand and looking at him expectantly.

"Come on!" Shen Fang opened his arms, Sisi smiled, took a few steps back, and flew over like Jiajia.

After playing around with the two girls, Shen Fang greeted Shen Hui, went into the room and changed into home clothes, then moved a rattan chair and sat on the coffee table next to the rocking chair.

"Your place is really nice. It's not only spacious, but also quiet. It's really comfortable to lie down and read a book under the tree. I don't know if there is a suitable yard anymore. I want to buy one." Taking off the book covering his face, he said to Shen Fang enviously.

"I like to live here, and my brother-in-law is not in Yanjing. It's strange that I live alone in such a big yard. It's deserted. Why don't you move here too, and it's not that you can't fit in." Shen Fang suggested.

"Mom, can we live here forever? I like it so much." Jiajia and Sisi looked at Shen Hui expectantly.

Shen Hui wondered: "Let's forget it, the two girls are going to school, I'll bring them here on weekends." Then she paused, patted the dust on the two girls, and let them continue to play: "Let's talk about it later You found a girlfriend and lived in a world of two. It’s too inconvenient for us to be here. I’d better take the time to find someone to visit a house. You don’t need to be so big, a small yard is fine, it’s better to be closer to you .”

"It's up to you, anyway, I don't have a girlfriend for a while." Shen Fang said so.This time, I was able to untie my heart knot with my mother, and my heart that had been sealed for many years actually loosened a bit.Unconsciously, a graceful figure appeared in his mind, staring at him with anger and shyness. This should be the first time in so many years that he had a slight throb for a girl.

"I heard from Xiaolei, did you meet my sister-in-law this time?" Shen Hui didn't notice his distraction, and asked him about meeting her sister-in-law in Shanghai this time with concern.

"Yes, my mother has finally untied her knot. It's not easy for her after so many years." Shen Fang said: "It's just that she still doesn't want to come to Yanjing, otherwise I will pick her up and live with her for a while."

Shen Hui put the book in her hand on the coffee table, and sighed: "Take it easy, my sister was hurt too deeply. You don't know how haggard she was when she first returned to Shanghai."

"Stop talking," Shen Fang clapped his hands in fear, and stood up: "I'm here to cook today, and I'll show you off."

"You know how to cook?" Shen Hui didn't believe it, she also stood up, stretched her waist and said, "Don't overcook the rice.

"Look down on me, right? I have learned a lot of life skills alone over the years, otherwise how can I take care of myself when I grow up." Shen Fang said confidently.

Shen Hui didn't speak, and looked at Shen Fang, both relieved and sad.It's not easy for my cousin, who has been alone and closed in his own world for more than ten years.

The refrigerator in the kitchen was full of the food that Shen Hui had purchased in the past two days. Shen Fang looked at it and knew it.Take out your apron and wrap it around your body.

Shen Hui and the two girls are not playing here, they are sitting together on the small table outside the kitchen, holding their chins with their hands, watching Shen Fang busy in the kitchen, Shen Hui watching Shen Fang's skillful operation, Knowing that this younger brother really knows how to cook.

With the food in the refrigerator, Shen Fang made three dishes and one soup, one pine nut corn, one deep-fried shrimp, one stewed lion head, plus one Pingqiao tofu soup, plus the smoked fish brought by grandma, the standard Huai Yangcai has four dishes and one soup, both meat and vegetables.

Shen Hui tasted them one by one, and took two spoons to dig a small bowl of pine kernel corn for each of the little girls: "Okay, although your skills are not as good as mine, but it is more than enough to open a home-cooked restaurant."

Shen Fang smiled and said nothing, peeled a few shrimps for the two girls respectively, and then took paper to wipe their little hands that were sticky with juice.

"Well, it's delicious. Uncle's dishes are better than mother's." The two little girls were very supportive.

Shen Hui was a little embarrassed and knocked alone: ​​"I just like to tear down my mother's platform so much, I have raised you for nothing, two little white-eyed wolves."

Because she had to go to class the next day, although she was reluctant in every possible way, Shen Hui took her two children back to Zijin Villa in the evening.

Shen Fang took the opportunity to go to the bar to have a look. The change documents about the bar had been approved. Lin Yue asked several design companies to re-make the store logo and showed it to Shen Fang for confirmation.Shen Fang looked at it and was not very satisfied, so he asked him to combine the first type of English with the third type of Chinese, and then rearrange them to see.

There were still quite a few guests on Sunday night, and the atmosphere in the bar was pretty good. The two bands are now well-known in the underground band circle in Yanjing. Many bands and singers have heard that the original "Wanghai Bar" has changed hands. Now My boss can play musical instruments and compose songs.Already some bands have started to approach Li Xia and the others, hoping to come to the bar to hang out and get to know the new boss.

The two bands sang a few songs respectively, and Shen Fang was a little bit anxious to sit down, so he couldn't help but came to the stage and sang a few songs.There is still a clear difference between Shen Fang's performance and the two bands. The same folk songs are more magnetic under Shen Fang's singing, and under the amplification of professional audio, people are intoxicated. It is full of metal taste, and the treble is passionate and infectious, which makes people excited.

Shen Fang's performance brought some unexpected gains to tonight's guests. During the period, several female customers recognized him as the actor who had an affair with Liang Hui, and asked to take a photo with him, but he declined with a smile.

After singing a few songs to enjoy himself, Shen Fang went back to the bar to chat with Fang Yuan about wine culture.

"Boss, I want to hear your opinion on something." Li Xia found Shen Fang while the abnormal band was performing.

Shen Fang habitually sat at the corner of the bar, so that he could see the whole bar, and it was convenient to discuss bartending skills with Fang Yuan at the bar.Seeing that Li Xia was a little awkward today, not quite like his usual carefree look, Shen Fang glanced at the other people who were adjusting their instruments on the other side of the stage, and joked: "Did the big dog confess to you? Don't you?" Know what to do?"

"There's no such thing, it's just his guts, dare to confess to me." Speaking of this, Li Xia instantly regained the boldness of a big girl in the Northeast.Gou Wei is a bit interested in Li Xia, and Li Xia looks at Gou Wei more pleasingly, and everyone else can see it, but they are still there coquettishly.

"What's the matter?" Shen Fang looked at Li Xia a little embarrassed, motioned her to sit down and asked Fang Yuan to pour her a glass of water.

"Boss, last time you said that I was out of breath and I had problems with my pronunciation. I wonder if there is any way to exercise? I also went to the Conservatory of Music to audit a few times, but I couldn't do it. They have too many theories. Relatively weak, I don’t understand it very well.” Li Xia sat there very embarrassed, she came out after graduating from high school, and her high school grades were not very good, relying on her talent to sing in an underground band in Yanjing It is not easy to come out, so she also wants to improve herself, but there is no way to rely on.Shen Fang's several performances have completely overwhelmed them, and they are already god-level figures in their minds.The boss analyzed her weaknesses last time, so she wanted to try to see if she could get advice from the boss.

Shen Fang has been outside for so many years, the more he has experienced, the more he understands a truth: sometimes you help someone for no reason, but it will make your help cheap. Only I can help him, but I am afraid that if I stretch out too much, the other party will squander it.Although Shen Fang always thought that Li Xia was a good seedling, he didn't give too much advice, but waited until the other party really realized his own shortcomings and wanted to improve.

"Actually, you should have discovered by yourself that your vocal range is quite wide, but you always shout when you are in high notes, and it is especially easy to break your voice." Shen Fang thought about it and decided to give her some guidance: " This is what is wrong with your pronunciation skills. You are mainly relying on your talent to shout with your voice instead of using your dantian to pronounce. After a few years, you will find that such pronunciation will damage your vocal cords, which will become a problem in the later stage. The drake can't even make a sound."

"Well, yes, I have this feeling now. Every day after the performance, the throat will have a hoarse feeling, and sometimes the throat will hurt. It should be that the vocal cords are damaged as you said, boss." He put down his water glass and said to Shen Fang, pointing to his neck.

"I'll teach you how to pronounce the 'bubble sound', you practice first. The 'bubble sound' can improve your voice. After your voice has been cultivated for a while, the vocal cords will relax. I'm looking for someone to teach you a way to pronounce the dantian." Shen Fang didn't want to waste his talent just looking at a good seedling, so he gave her some pointers first.

Some people have said that the most comfortable time for a person is when stretching and yawning, because the whole body is relaxed during the two movements of sitting.The "bubble sound" is actually a sound that we make unconsciously when we yawn. In the Middle Ages, a group of European nobles studied how to make the sound more penetrating when they were bored, and later found that people were yawning. When breathing, the sound will start from the abdomen, pass through the chest cavity, and then "ha" out of the throat, and then resonate with the relaxed vocal cords.This method of vocalization was later widely used in bel canto, and the exercise method for producing "bubble sound" is to relax the vocal cords, and when the weak airflow passes through the throat cavity, a small hole will be blown out of the middle part of the closed vocal cords, and then in the "bubble sound". "Pfft" came out.To be honest, it's too late for Li Xia to practice at this age. If he wants to practice, he probably has to pay a lot more than others.At the beginning, Shen Fang practiced pronunciation when he was seven or eight years old. He practiced step by step under the guidance of his grandmother, and also learned the pronunciation skills of Dan Tianyin from the descendants of the traditional comic dialogue. These skills are more than enough to guide Li Xia and the others.

"Practicing vocalization will be very hard. First, make sure to rest. Only after resting the vocal cords can you relax. Second, you must persist. You must practice pronunciation for at least half an hour every morning without interruption." Shen Fang stared at Li Xia. Knowing this, does the girl who ran from the Northeast to be a Jingpiao have the perseverance.

"I will definitely do it, thank you boss!" Li Xia stood up and bowed to Shen Fang.

　I am not too clear about the origin of the "bubble sound". The statement in this chapter was told by our music teacher.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)