Chapter 208: Raising a Hand(1/2)
Wednesday morning was a bright and warm spring day. The class before lunch was "Modern History of China". Yang Jingxing did not hesitate and still sat at the back of the large classroom. Many people in front looked back.
Xu Xuesi and Luo Jiaqian came to express their condolences to Yang Jingxing. Xu Xuesi asked, "Where have you been for so long?"
Yang Jingxing said: "Running around. Sorry, I missed your first performance."
"Homework! Put it on the shelf." Xu Xuesi flipped through Yang Jingxing's textbook boredly, and then said: "Falling in love is just that, don't take it so seriously."
Yang Jingxing was surprised: "What do you know?"
Luo Jiaqian sympathized: "It's on the forum...everyone knows it."
Yang Jingxing was angry: "Who is so boring?"
Xu Xuesi said: "You are a fan of the authorities."
Yang Jingxing smiled: "What about you? Opposites attract."
Luo Jiaqian was not embarrassed, her eyes were very calm: "That's it, don't be so serious."
Xu Xuesi quickly explained: "I comfort him!"
Yang Jingxing was very surprised: "What do you call comfort? Showing off nakedly."
Luo Jiaqian said again: "No! He and you are the only ones in our class who have a good relationship, otherwise who will come?"
Xu Xuesi looked at Yang Jingxing seriously: "Really, be more bearish."
Yang Jingxing nodded: "Thank you."
Luo Jiaqian said: "Why don't you worry about not having a wife? Find another one."
Yang Jingxing said: "Please don't stand and talk without pain in your back."
Luo Jiaqian suddenly laughed: "Who said that? You are a decent man."
Yang Jingxing asked: "Who said that?"
Luo Jiaqian said: "Didn't you read the forum?"
Xu Xuesi also laughed and guessed: "It's definitely not from our class, maybe it's the people around you. You can go back and take a look at the chat section."
After the first class, Xu Xuesi couldn't wait and came to Yang Jingxing with the borrowed computer: "Did you see it?"
Yang Jingxing begged: "Can I go home and watch alone?"
Xu Xuesi comforted: "It's nothing, it's a bit interesting, hehe."
Yang Jingxing said: "We are not friends."
Xu Xuesi didn't care. He opened the webpage and quickly found the post: "Look."
The title of the dark blue post: "Absolutely powerful information. Geniuses can also fall in love. The night watchman in the North Tower left Pu to heal. The butterfly effect may cause an earthquake in Puyin. Fudan University will be clearly affected." There were dozens of pages of replies.
Xu Xuesi laughed when he saw it, but Yang Jingxing didn't give him any face: "If you don't want to see it, forget it."
Xu Xuesi comforted: "There are many people who can help you. You will know after seeing it. You can see for yourself, and I will go ahead."
Yang Jingxing shook his head: "Don't look."
Xu Xuesi put away the computer with a little regret, and then said: "I have no other intention, I really just want to comfort you. Some of the words make sense, you should read it."
Yang Jingxing said: "You have comforted me."
After having lunch alone after class, Yang Jingxing drove out of Puyin and went straight to Hongxing. Pang Xiting was responsible. He first asked Yang Jingxing if he had had lunch and what he drank, and then took him to the recording studio floor to meet Gan Kaicheng.
Gan Kaicheng and five people were eating lunch in the lounge next to the recording studio. One of them was a female singer named Dai Qing. Dai Qing was about the same age as Cheng Yaoyao, but she was far less popular. She came out of a talent show two years ago.
She had good looks and singing skills, but in the end she only made it to the top eight.
Zhang Yanhao may have signed Dai Qing because he wanted to seize the young market and maintain the taste and style of Hongxing Company. Hongxing Company cultivates its own stars and does not accept second-hand goods.
After Dai Qing signed with Hongxing, she released a video and two singles, but the response was not even average, it was simply bad! She walked down a street in a busy city, and she was lucky if she could be asked for her autograph.
Looking at the clothes, Dai Qing's slender figure of over 1.65 meters does not have any of the big international brands like Cheng Yaoyao. This is also limited by Hongxing's style, because the company will not accept some substandard advertising or commercial activities for artists.
As a result, artists who cannot become popular have to live in poverty with dignity.
Dai Qing, who was not wearing makeup and wore a simple ponytail, shook hands with Yang Jingxing after Gan Kaicheng introduced him: "Hello, actually I have met you."
Yang Jingxing said: "Excuse me."
Dai Qing also asked: "Have you eaten?"
Yang Jingxing said he had eaten and asked Gan Kaicheng: "Shall I wait for you downstairs?"
Gan Kaicheng shook his head with food in his mouth and pointed at Dai Qing: "Well... go and bring the song."
Dai Qing, who didn't have an assistant by his side, hurried away and came back soon, holding a few pages of paper to look at Gan Kaicheng. Gan Kaicheng frowned: "Score!"
Dai Qing ran away again, and when he came back, he handed a stack of papers to Gan Kai.
Gan Kai pointed at Yang Jingxing: "Give it to him."
Dai Qing turned to Yang Jingxing, raising his right hand to hold the paper.
Yang Jingxing took it. Gan Kaicheng said: "Look at it, it seems almost impossible."
Yang Jingxing was worried: "Isn't it bad?"
Gan Kaicheng said: "I keep it secret."
Recording engineer Chang Yiming laughed: "I'll keep it a secret too."
Dai Qing bowed slightly to Yang Jingxing: "Thank you, Teacher 402."
Chang Yiming's apprentice quickly finished his lunch and wiped his mouth, then asked: "Teacher 402, do you want to eat fruit?"
Yang Jingxing shook his head and said, "My face is actually tanned, so I'm not that old."
Gan Kaicheng looked at it and smiled: "Much better. Have you seen Nono today?"
Yang Jingxing shook his head and started to read the score. When he found that there was no author, he asked: "Who wrote it?"
Gan Kaicheng said: "Don't worry about it."
Chang Yiming said: "I'm not on the same level as you."
Yang Jingxing said: "Did I really read it?"
Gan Kaicheng said: "You can watch whatever you want!"
Yang Jingxing read the score and found out that the song was called "Self-Contradiction". The lyrics about complaining about love were quite marketable, but the overall melody was cliché and unremarkable. The chorus of the three-part song was weak, but there were two good lines at the beginning and the end.
Dai Qing sat down next to Yang Jingxing: "Does Teacher 402 need a keyboard guitar?"
Yang Jingxing shook his head and asked Gan Kaicheng: "What do you think?"
Gan Kaicheng ordered Dai Qing again: "Give him a pen."
Yang Jingxing condemned: "You are so irresponsible."
Gan Kaicheng said: "You tortured me for two days, you came at the right time."
When Dai Qing handed the pen to Yang Jingxing with both hands, he bowed again: "Thank you." Then he moved the small coffee table next to the sofa in front of Yang Jingxing.
Yang Jingxing made changes based on the principle of respecting the original work, retaining the sad tone, expanding and changing a few good phrases in the original work, and then making some changes to the chorus before overthinking it...
Gan Kaicheng and Chang Yiming drank tea quietly, while Dai Qing stood at a distance that would not disturb Yang Jingxing, staring at the music score as Yang Jingxing revised and painted more and more. Sometimes it was one or two notes, sometimes it was one or two notes, and sometimes
It was a whole sentence, and Yang Jingxing wrote it over and over again, sometimes even denying his own changes.
After watching for nearly half an hour, Gan Kaicheng noticed that Yang Jingxing had started to change the harmony of the score, so he stood up and motioned for everyone to go out. Yang Jingxing did not send him off, but only said: "It will take another half an hour."
Yang Jingxing was really on time, and he entered the monitoring room of the recording studio half an hour later with a stack of sheet music on which he had scrawled colorfully.
Dai Qing handed another cup of coffee with both hands: "Thank you for your hard work."
Pang Xi handed the score in Yang Jingxing's hand to Gan Kaicheng. Gan Kaicheng glanced at it twice and then handed it to Dai Qing: "Take it up yourself...Thank you, Teacher 402."
Yang Jingxing was angry: "You set such a big trap for me."
Everyone laughed, but thank you for wearing halal.
A few people were chatting. Yang Jingxing saw Dai Qing sitting in front of the computer, opening the software and inputting notes one by one, so he went to save time: "I'll do it."
Dai Qing quickly stepped aside and watched Yang Jingxing work efficiently. He hardly needed to look at the paper and typed on the keyboard with the speed of a professional typist. After a few minutes, the printer started to operate.
Chang Yiming's apprentice admired him again: "It's so awesome, it's amazing."
Yang Jingxing said: "Please spare me."
Dai Qing put away the printed scores one by one without having time to look at them carefully. Gan Kaicheng said: "Print two more copies of the main theme."
Chang Yiming's apprentice helped with printing. Dai Qing first handed one copy to Yang Jingxing, then gave one to Gan Kaichen, and took the last copy for himself.
Gan Kaicheng and Chang Yiming looked at the score together. After reading it for a few minutes, they said, "Listen to the previous one."
Chang Yiming's apprentice quickly played the audio track and moved skillfully. Yang Jingxing exclaimed: "You are so awesome, amazing."
Chang Yiming's disciple laughed evilly.
Dai Qing's a cappella track was sung quite seriously, but unfortunately the song was weak, lacking structure, ideas, and intensity.
Dai Qing felt a little frustrated when he listened to his own song, but Yang Jingxing still said: "Good singing."
To be continued...