Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 524 You are my woman in the vast sea of ​​people
The most exciting thing was the camera work from several locations on the scene. The awkward scene just now became reasonable after Bian Lang sang this line of lyrics.

Under Qiu Luo's command, the jib that was previously difficult to swing towards the audience now has no worries at all.

Because those who were taking pictures of the sunset were attracted by the singing and shifted their mobile phone photos from the sunset to Bian Lang.

Without knowing the specific reasons, these people thought that this song was the "Perfect Life" mentioned by Bian Lang, and in their opinion, singing this song at this time was a deliberate arrangement.

I deliberately used this sunset to highlight the mood of the lyrics!
The guy who was taking photos of various tuning details on the stage before, trotted over to Dayong and started taking close-ups of Bian Lang, from the expression on his face to his silhouette against the sunset.

Some people also filmed the reactions of other band members. In short, the whole team became busy all of a sudden.

As for the band, after a brief moment of daze and confusion, they began to join in the performance in an improvisational way.

The ones with the fastest hands were Kong Liang and Dayong. Dayong followed in with a loop that was sure to be foolproof and in 4/4 time, while Kong Liang directly used Jianbei to follow the beat of Bianlang.

The drums followed suit, and Huang Kai's bass naturally didn't fall behind, and then it was the two guitarists.

Di Li was very sure that this song was a new song, and he was very sure that it was in the same system as "Blue Lotus". So he followed the familiar path and looked for the coordination point of the main sound along the motive in the edge wave chord.

While Bian Lang was playing and singing, he began to think about the original Earth.

The most intuitive feeling this song gives to the audience is that people in a foreign country dare not listen to it casually, especially when they are alone!
Although the song is called "Hometown", Xu Shaoyan wrote it for his wife at the time.

A woman brings a man a sense of nostalgia and familiarity like his hometown. This sentence may be the highest compliment an adult man can give to a woman other than his mother and daughter.

From the time he started to play music in the 90s to the present day, Xu has had a rough road both in music and in life. Not only has he been poor and hard-working, he has also suffered from severe depression and never recovered...

Behind all this, there is a kind and tenacious woman who has never left him. She is his wife Yuan Feng. When talking about Yuan Feng, Xu Shao Nian always smiles and says with a pious face: "We have been together for more than 20 years, supporting each other. She is my greatest blessing."

Music is an innate mission for Xu Shaonian. He fell in love with rock music at the age of 16, and the music-loving Chang'an boy has been moving forward on the road of music. In 1990, when he was 22 years old, he served in the army for three years and returned home. At the same time, he married his comrade-in-arms and lover Yuan Feng.

At that time, his mind was full of music. Soon after his marriage, he used his demobilization fee to form his own "Flying" band. After that, he drank and practiced piano with his band members almost every day or went on tour. Soon his band disbanded because his demobilization fee was used up.

Two years later, in 1992, Xu Shao Nian went to Beijing and signed a contract with BJ Red Star. He thought that as long as he signed a contract with the company, he would be able to release an album and live a good life. However, the reality made him realize that his music did not attract much attention in BJ.

At that time, his wife Yuan Feng was doing well. After he left Chang'an, she was admitted to the military academy, and after graduation, she returned to the army and was promoted to an officer. Every time Xu Shao Nian returned to Chang'an to visit his family, his wife would secretly put some money in his bag before leaving.

She didn't want her husband to be so successful, she just hoped that Xu Shao Nian could realize the value of family and live a good life with her.

During that time, his heart was filled with unexpressible guilt towards his wife. Coupled with his own extreme confusion in his spiritual world and his delicate and sensitive emotions, one can imagine how much pressure Xu was under at the time.

Xu Shao Nian sang in "That Year": "You have been running non-stop for so many years, and tomorrow is still illusory. In the face of survival, the pure ideals are so fragile."

After releasing his new album "That Year" in 2000, Xu Shaonian's delicate sensitivity and his realistic portrayal of his own living conditions quickly moved countless young people who were pursuing their dreams like him.

Commercial performances and royalties came in succession. He became the second most famous star in the circle after Leather Pants, and was able to hold concerts in large venues.

During the eight years when they were separated in Chang'an, BJ, Xu always swore to his wife: "As long as I make money, I will buy a big house in BJ and take you to BJ to live and work in peace."

In less than half a year after releasing his new album "That Year", Xu Shao Nian made 300 million. However, when the money started rolling in, he found that his "brothers" who he hadn't seen for a long time also came one after another, offering him investment advice and saying that he could use the internal price to get the lowest price. It didn't take long for Xu Shao Nian to spend the 300 million he made in half a year.

At this time, Xu's best friend got married in Qingdao and called to invite him to the wedding. At that time, Xu collected all the money he had, but he couldn't even afford a plane ticket. He called around to borrow money, but the "brothers" who had invested his money before either said they couldn't make ends meet or had already invested in their businesses.

In Xu Shao Nian's eyes, cigarettes, alcohol, and his brothers were his motivation and support, but he was deceived. His world seemed to collapse all of a sudden. He was disheartened and addicted to cigarettes and alcohol all day long, and no longer had the heart to create. He often locked himself in a rented house and lived a life of drunkenness and dreams, and sometimes he didn't even go out for a week.

Colleagues at the company thought Xu had a problem and sent him to the hospital, where they found out he was suffering from severe depression.

The signing company at that time suggested sending Xu to a mental hospital, but Yuan Feng decisively refused: "Find me a car, I want to take him back to Chang'an."

In this way, the two returned to Chang'an to reunite after eight years of separation. However, the once righteous and vigorous music boy now had hair as wild as weeds. His hands, which once plucked the strings skillfully, were shaking terribly, and he didn't even know when he was hungry or full. If he wasn't helped to get up, he would lie quietly in bed for days and nights.

At this time, Yuan Feng called her company and said, "My husband is sick and I don't know when he will get better. I have to stay at home to take care of him. I'm quitting my job!"

Yuan Feng's unit allocated her an apartment on the fifth floor. Xu Shao Nian likes to bask in the sun. As long as there is sunshine, Xu Shao Nian can quietly move a chair to the balcony and sit there until the sun is no longer on the balcony.

Once, he waited until the sunlight disappeared and then stood by the balcony railing, constantly reaching out to touch the sunlight and trying to look out, without realizing that he was on the 5th floor. Yuan Feng was frightened and broke out in a cold sweat. Without saying a word, he took Xu Shaonian to a courtyard in the western suburbs a week later.

Doctors repeatedly told that patients with depression need to communicate with others frequently. Therefore, Yuan Feng tried every possible way to pester Xu Shao Nian, sometimes singing his songs, sometimes asking him if he remembered his past in the army, or if he remembered BJ. In order to get as many people as possible to accompany Xu Shao Nian, Yuan Feng started dealing with the entertainment industry, which she had never been in contact with. She contacted Xu Shao Nian's former friends in BJ one by one according to the phone numbers stored in Xu Shao Nian's mobile phone.

Before this, Yuan Feng didn't know which of Xu Shao's phone books were friends and which were casual acquaintances. She could only bite the bullet and call them one by one to tell them that she was Xu Shao's wife, saying that Xu Shao's current depression, the doctor told him that he needed more relatives and friends to accompany him to talk, and hoped that they could come to Chang'an to see Xu Shao's. When such troubles come to the door, most people will choose to refuse, but fortunately, Yuan Feng got through to ZTS's phone.

Lao Zang told Yuan Feng: "I will spend half a month staying with you."

Three days later, Lao Zang arrived with a car full of people and musical instruments. He placed the instruments in the yard, and everyone started practicing as soon as he called out.

When the drum set sounded, Xu Shaonian couldn't help but tremble.

In this way, a group of people lived in the courtyard in the western suburbs for half a month. The busiest person was Yuan Feng. She was the first to get up, make breakfast and urge others to get up. After everyone finished eating, she had to clean up the yard quickly and then prepare food for everyone for the day.

It was a huge project to prepare three meals a day for a whole carload of people. People who played rock music all liked to drink a little, so she would go to the store to buy wine in boxes and bring them home from morning till night. She never complained, but fortunately, Lao Zang recorded everything with a DV.

In this way, Xu Shaonian's depression was relieved almost rapidly. One day, Zang Tianshuo put a guitar in his hands. Xu Shaonian hugged it tightly and never wanted to let go.

To find the right remedy for the disease, seeing her husband Xu Shaonian's recent condition, his wife Yuan Feng learned guitar to help her husband. The best way to relieve Xu Shaonian's symptoms was live music. At this time, Yuan Feng, who had never touched the guitar, learned some basic knowledge of guitar and then played the guitar for Xu Shaonian.

Five months later, when Yuan Feng was talking about "Persistence" for the umpteenth time, the sound of another guitar rang in his ears.

Sitting opposite, young Xu held the guitar in his left hand and plucked it with his right hand, producing clear sounds. Half a month later, he regained his instinct to sing along with the guitar.

As Yuan Feng and Xu Shaonian recalled together, Xu Shaonian recalled many things from the past.

However, his memory at that time only stopped before he suffered from depression. As for the period from the onset of the disease to his recovery, he had no memory at all.

After being awakened by music, Xu Shao Nian felt that he could no longer stay in Chang'an. He told his wife Yuan Feng that he still wanted to go to BJ to make music.

Yuan Feng asked him if he could take her with him so that he could take care of him. Xu Shao Nian was not very happy about it, and Yuan Feng did not say much, just staring at him quietly. Xu Shao Nian had no choice but to agree, but told her that after going to BJ, she could not interfere in anything about him and could only stay at home and be a full-time wife.

Just like that, after leaving Chang'an where he had been recuperating for two years, Yuan Feng followed Xu Shao Nian to BJ, a place he was not familiar with. In order to ensure the imported medicines during the treatment, the two had no money left. With the help of his friends, Xu Shao Nian signed a new record company. The advance money could only cover daily expenses, so he rented a one-bedroom apartment near the company and settled down.

Young Xu quickly found his former life as a rock youth. His heroic nature and his love of calling friends brought him back to the days of peace and prosperity.

After getting up during the day, they go to the company and work with the producer to come up with the melody score; in the afternoon, they always appear in different restaurants; after drinking, they all go straight to Sanlitun, and they usually go home after 1 a.m., drunk.

After going to BJ, Xu Shao Nian hardly ever had a meal at home, and never sat down and had a serious conversation with his wife.

After his comeback, Xu Shao Nian found the feeling of music again. The album "Time · Walk" released later sold more than 50 copies and won a great victory at the 2003rd Music Billboard Awards Ceremony in .

But his success brought his wife not happiness, but sadness.

Xu Shaonian said to Yuan Feng, you should go back to Chang'an first. If you stay in BJ, I won't have time to accompany you. Instead, I will be uneasy because I will be thinking about you.

Although Yuan Feng didn't want to, he tried his best to hold back his tears, gritted his teeth, and said, "Okay, I'll leave next week."

As a result, Lao Zang found out about this and found time to show Xu the DVs shot in the yard in the western suburbs of Chang'an.

The forgotten memories of his depression began to slowly emerge in his mind.

For the first time in all these years, Xu Juvenile burst into tears. His wife had actually given so much for him... Fortunately, she hadn't left yet.

That afternoon, Xu Shao Nian went home at 4 o'clock, bringing vegetables bought from the supermarket. Yuan Feng was a little surprised to see Xu Shao Nian come back so early. Xu Shao Nian said that he suddenly wanted to go to the kitchen today.

When the dishes were all on the table, Xu opened a bottle of white wine and poured two glasses, then raised them to toast his wife: "I'm sorry, I'm such an ungrateful bastard that I forgot the days when you were the best to me. Don't leave, give me a chance, and I'll make you feel that all the hardship you've endured over the years has not been in vain, okay?"

Yuan Feng smiled with tears in his eyes...

Xu Shao Nian really "turned over a new leaf". After he had more money, he bought a small courtyard house in the west fifth ring road, which he decorated like a courtyard in the western suburbs of Chang'an. After his wife got a driver's license, he bought a car. From then on, Xu Shao Nian had to take Yuan Feng with him wherever he went, and Yuan Feng became his full-time driver.

Although Xu Shao Nian still has a lot of social engagements and still likes to go to bars at night, he will never leave his wife behind and drag her with him again.

That’s what he said to Yuan Feng: “When you’re here, I can drink without worry, knowing that you can get me home even if I’m drunk…”

If one were to write it down in an artistic and delicate way, it would be the lyrics that Bian Lang sang next: "I am a wanderer who always walks alone towards the distance, and you are my woman in the vast sea of ​​people..."

(End of this chapter)