Rebirth and the Beautiful Soaring

Ningbo is located on the southeast coast, in eastern Zhejiang Province, on the southern wing of the Yangtze River Delta. It enjoys a very advantageous geographical location and is the world's fourth largest port city.

It boasts a rich cultural heritage and a long history. It is a typical Jiangnan water town and seaport city, serving as the southern end of the Grand Canal and the eastern starting port of the Maritime Silk Road.

In his previous life, Yu Fei frequently traveled between Wulin and Ningbo when he was doing business, so Ningbo was naturally very familiar to him.

In Yu Fei's memory, Ningbo has four distinctive city characteristics: Ningbo Port, Ningbo merchants, Ningbo clothing, and Ningbo scenery.

Among them, the Ningbo business community is very famous in business circles, and together with the Wenzhou business community, they are known as the two major regional business circles in Zhejiang Province.

On August 28th, the weather was just as good as the previous days.

Around 8 a.m., Yu Fei successfully boarded the flight from Beijing to Ningbo.

As the plane took off, Yu Fei felt a surge of excitement and anticipation, not only because he was about to arrive in Lin Yang's hometown, but more importantly because after so many days of rebirth, he was finally going to see his mother.

At 30,000 feet, Yu Fei sat by the window, looking out at the clear blue sky with white clouds rolling below. It was a truly beautiful sight.

Recalling the time he sang "Tomorrow Will Be Better" with someone in the underpass yesterday, his memory couldn't help but return to that beautiful moment.

The connections between people are wonderful. Some people may meet every day but never become good friends, while others can become confidants who can talk about anything after just one meeting.

This is perhaps what people often refer to as having a connection at first sight.

This kind of attraction exists not only between men and women, but also between normal friends.

You can only become friends with someone if you find them pleasing to the eye, right?

This is the case between Yu Fei and Luo Lin.

By the way, Luo Lin is the wandering singer whom Yu Fei called the Xidan Boy.

Speaking of singing with Luo Lin yesterday, the rest of the story took a dramatic turn.

First, the audience increased and gave them tips. The two sang several songs together, which was very enjoyable.

As a result, the underpass became congested due to the large number of pedestrians who stopped to watch, which attracted the attention of urban management officers and subway station staff.

Based on his experience fighting them, Luo Lin quickly cleared the mess on the ground and then pulled Yu Fei away with the crowd.

The two walked breathlessly through the streets of Xidan, and thinking about their embarrassing escape, they couldn't help but look at each other and burst into laughter.

Luo Lin said that the two of them earned a lot from their duet and wanted to give Yu Fei a share of the money, but Yu Fei naturally refused.

Luo Lin felt embarrassed, so he suggested that he invite Yu Fei to a bar for drinks.

Yu Fei said that drinking at this hour was not an option, and that it would be better to have a bowl of Chongqing noodles instead.

In 1996, Chongqing had not yet become a municipality directly under the central government and was still under the jurisdiction of Sichuan. When Luo Lin introduced himself, he said that he was from Chongqing, Sichuan.

Upon hearing Yu Fei's words, Luo Lin felt a surge of pride for his hometown. He then mentioned that he knew of a fairly authentic Chongqing noodle shop nearby, which he frequented recently. So, the two of them went there.

While eating noodles and drinking beer, the two men, who were about ten years apart in age, chatted happily. This was mainly because Yu Fei, though only sixteen years old, spoke with great maturity and insight.

After developing a strong liking for each other, Luo Lin called Yu Fei "Xiao Fei," while Yu Fei called him "Brother Lin."

Then, naturally, Yu Fei learned roughly about Luo Lin's nearly two-year story of living in Beijing.

Luo Lin is 26 years old this year. He graduated from Sichuan Conservatory of Music two years ago, majoring in music performance.

Before 1996, college students were guaranteed job placement. After graduating, Luo Lin returned to Chongqing and was assigned to a local middle school as a music teacher.

During his university years, Luo Lin had a girlfriend who also studied music.

His girlfriend is from an ethnic minority in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, and she has a beautiful figure and a wonderful singing voice.

Encouraged and persuaded by his girlfriend, and with Luo Lin also harboring a dream of music, he disregarded his family's objections and resolutely resigned from his newly appointed music teacher job, embarking on a journey to Beijing with his girlfriend.

After arriving in Beijing, they truly understood the hardships of being a "Beijing drifter".

There are countless musicians from all over the country who come to Beijing to pursue their dreams, and quite a few of them are truly talented. However, most of them are barred from the world of music and art, forced to perform in bars or do gigs, and many are even forced to become wandering singers.

It is said that love in the ivory tower is pure and beautiful, not influenced by too many external things, and comes together simply because of mutual appreciation and affection.

However, it must be said that love that has not been tested by society is very unstable.

Once you graduate and enter the workforce, the ship of love can capsize at any moment.

Even graduation is a time when lovers part ways. Yu Fei remembers a novel called "We Broke Up Together on Graduation Day," which tells a thought-provoking campus love story with graduation as the countdown.

The economic base determines the superstructure; the idea that love conquers all only exists in beautiful fairy tales.

Moreover, everyone is constantly growing and changing. Luo Lin's girlfriend broke up with him less than three months after arriving in Beijing, which was a huge blow to him, but he didn't want to go home in such a dejected manner.

Luo Lin had worked many music-related jobs in Beijing, but for some reason, he always felt bored. Later, he realized that it was because he was born with a passion for singing, and those jobs never gave him the opportunity to sing.

If there's no stage, then find one yourself.

So he eventually took to the streets and became a free-spirited wandering singer.

Although he endured a lot of hardship and exhaustion, his confidence in music, his passion for music, and his control over music truly matured during his year-long wandering performances.

Yu Fei felt that he had seen Luo Lin's story somewhere in his previous life, but he couldn't remember where. However, it didn't matter. Their relationship was based on music and their affinity, and had nothing to do with each other's identities.

When talking about his future plans, Luo Lin said that he actually wants to find a place where few people know him and stay quietly for a few years to focus on creating music, because a true singer must have his own songs, instead of always covering other people's songs.

Then Yu Fei put forward an idea and asked Luo Lin to consider it.

As he recalled this thought, Yu Fei couldn't help but smile, wondering if Luo Lin would actually go.

Yu Fei wasn't actually very confident either.

Speaking of yesterday, we must mention Yu Fei's negotiation with his maternal grandfather and his meticulous planning when calling his mother. Everything was done flawlessly, which made his trip to Ningbo a success.

After a flight of more than two hours, at 11 o'clock, the flight attendant's melodious voice rang out: "Dear passengers, the plane will be landing soon..."

When I called yesterday after booking the plane tickets, Yu Fei's mother said that this was her last day in Ningbo for inspection, and she would basically have no work to do, so she would personally pick him up from the airport.

Sure enough, when Yu Fei arrived at the terminal's public hall with his backpack, his mother Fang Yun and her secretary Yao Na were already waiting there eagerly.

The moment Yu Fei saw her mother, a special emotion that was hard to describe welled up in her heart.

"Mom!" Yu Fei called out softly, quickly stepped forward, and without caring about the crowd, hugged his mother's slender body.