silver sea

After drinking that day and hugging each other quietly in the room for a while, Qiu Sheng didn't have the strength to take a taxi back to his residence.Wen Youxia asked him if he wanted to stay here overnight, Qiu Sheng nodded.

The bed boards in the rental house are very hard and not warm enough in winter.

Boiling water washed Qiu Sheng's feet. His body was weak, and he began to feel cold after lying down for a few minutes.In the end, Wen Youxia put a pair of bare feet on his lower abdomen to keep him warm. Qiu Sheng felt awkward at first, but Wen Youxia insisted, so he stopped resisting.Originally, my hands and feet were cold and I couldn't sleep, but with this kindness, I didn't dream all night.

When Qiu Sheng woke up the next day, the quilt was still warm, and he had a hot water bottle attached to his back, which was still warm to the touch.

Qiu Sheng sat up from the bed and picked up the phone. Before he could react, he saw a money transfer prompt first.

"What is this?" Qiu Sheng held the screen up to Wen Youxia who was heating up the soymilk, "Transferred money to me for no reason, why, won a lottery ticket?"

Wen Youxia reminded him: "Fifty thousand, you borrowed it from me last year."

Qiu Sheng was taken aback: "...I didn't tell you to pay it back."

"I'll return it to you if you have it." Wen Youxia rubbed his hair, "Go wash up, I bought a new toothbrush."

The bathroom was too narrow, so Qiu Sheng habitually brushed his teeth in the kitchen sink.He was still a little confused. They hugged and kissed quietly for a long time the night before, and the morning was slightly cold. If Qiu Sheng hadn't been reminded by the transfer record, he would have had the illusion that they had returned to the beginning of 2013. The house was an old house, and the old house in front of him lover.

Qiu Sheng was aroused by the pungent peppermint flavor of the toothpaste, wiped away the physical tears from the corners of his eyes, glanced at his mobile phone on the counter that kept popping out messages, and gently pushed it down with his knees with foam in his mouth Wen You Xia.

He took a look: "Oh, Wen Haoqian, just ignore him."

Qiu Sheng: "Huh?"

"Teacher Wen has been discharged from the hospital." Wen Youxia still retains the respectful address, "He sent me a message a few days ago, and his posture was quite low. After all, it's still like that..."

Qiu Sheng spat out the foam and rinsed his mouth: "Didn't he hate you to death and apologize to you?"

Wen Youxia said "Yes": "He has to learn to solve many things by himself."

He said to Wen Haoqian that "benevolence is the utmost righteousness". Gu Qi once asked Qiu Sheng what Wen Youxia thought of his exorbitant moral demands on him.Qiu Sheng said at the time that he had no idea, but in fact he was hiding something. He was not a very righteous person. Thinking about it in another way, he couldn't be as merciful as Wen Youxia, let alone whether this kindness was faked or forced.

Because it couldn't be done, Qiu Sheng wouldn't comment on Wen Youxia's choice.

"I think... in the future, when he goes to university, if he really has difficulties, I will help him." Wen Youxia chose his words carefully.

"Why?" Qiu Sheng couldn't help asking.

Wen Youxia had a bit of bitterness in his eyes: "I think I still need to go to university."

This is his own regret.

Qiu Sheng finally said that you can deal with it yourself, he leaned on Wen Youxia's shoulder and refused to mention Wen Haoqian again, thinking of what happened that night was still a little scared, he asked: "But does he know that you live here?  … I think he'll figure it out."

Wen Youxia tilted his head. In winter, he wore a fleece sweater, and he looked several years younger than his actual age.

Between the brows, the sorrow and gloom gave way to peace for the time being, the sharp outline remained unchanged, but the eyes were indeed much softer, and only at certain times could one glimpse the trace of indifference that made him fear and yearn for in his memory.

When they first met again, Qiu Sheng was still secretly sad for this change, thinking that Wen Youxia had lost his rebellion.

But later he figured it out, Wen Youxia had an extremely gentle personality, now that he no longer has a depressing environment, and no longer has to work around for the so-called family, the big stone in his heart has been shattered clean.

He could live as he had hoped.

Outside the small window of the kitchen, they stood in a similar position to watch the first snow in the winter of 2012.At this time, the sky was dazzlingly blue, and a little sunlight fell like golden snow in the gaps between the branches.

Qiu Sheng asked, "Will you move in and live with me?"

"Okay." Wen Youxia thought for a while, but made a strange request, "When we go back to your house, can we pick up 'spring'?"

"Spring" is an adult white cat. When Wen Youxia hugged her, her long and slender cat rubbed its fur on his sleeve affectionately.

Qiu Sheng stared at it for a moment, picked up his phone and opened WeChat, compared Wen Youxia's avatar with the fried cat's face and the little vagabond in the garden in front of him, and finally understood where his familiarity came from——

It's the same one at all, and Qiu Sheng has lived in his community for a long time, so Qiu Sheng has more or less met him once.

Wen Youxia didn't think the white cat was so dirty that it couldn't see its original color, pinched its small ears, and pointed out to Qiu Sheng that there was a small piece missing: "It's the first time I've come here, and I saw it fighting and couldn't beat the others in your community. The stray cat meowed at being bullied, I bought it something to eat, and then it stuck to me."

As soon as Qiu Sheng heard it, he knew that Wen Youxia had planned it for a long time.

Does Wen Youxia like this ugly cat?

But there is only a pot of green radishes in the house, which is considered half a living thing. Other succulents and wild flowers, whatever he raises, will die, not to mention cats and dogs that can move and jump.When encountering someone who needs help, it is not a big problem to pay money and effort. If he is asked to raise one, Qiu Sheng imagined the scene, as if he felt the chicken flying and dog jumping and collapsed in advance.

"Qiu, I want to take it home." Wen Youxia looked at him deeply and asked in a low voice.

It was rare for him to speak to Qiu Sheng in such a tone, a little soft, with a hint of coquettishness.Qiu Sheng's mind buzzed for a moment, and he didn't refuse outright, but he was still a little embarrassed.

The cat in Wen Youxia's arms seemed to sense something, and they also looked at Qiu Sheng with piercing eyes.

A few seconds later, Qiu Sheng turned his head and walked towards the elevator room, and got vaccinated angrily:

"I don't care about it anyway, if you want to take it home, you can raise it yourself! Don't let it enter my workshop, just give it an injection, if it makes me unhappy, send it to the pet hospital immediately—"

The white cat with the new name seemed to understand, it and Wen Youxia looked at each other for a moment, then let out an uneasy "meow".

"It's scaring you." Wen Youxia said softly, the volume was neither high nor low, enough for the other person to hear clearly, "If you act like a baby to him, he will like you."

Qiu Sheng's face darkened: "Impossible!"

Two days later, Lu Yining, a veteran cat slave, first saw a malnourished white dumpling while browsing Weibo. He thought it was a pet blogger on the homepage who had picked up a new family member, so he liked it.

After swiping for a short time, I suddenly realized that something was wrong, so I quickly swiped back to the one just now, and then sat up straight suddenly.

Qiu Sheng V: After picking up this thing, some people insist on keeping the town house.

The photo was taken extremely perfunctorily. The white cat probably has the gene for long hair, one yellow and one blue mandarin duck eyes, pink nose, staring at the camera with straight eyebrows.Its paws are pressing two sheets of music. In the background, a person in a black T-shirt picked up his phone and accidentally entered the mirror. The album cover of a post-punk band is printed on the transparent phone case—it is Wen Youxia.

Lu Yining rubbed his eyes.

Isn't this Qiu Sheng's workshop?He hasn't been, but looks like it.

Shocked and gossiping together, Lu Yining quickly took a screenshot and threw it into the band group: Do you two have a cat?Picked up or bought, younger brother or younger sister, how old is it, do you still have photos? @姜声@闻哥

He Wen Ge ignored it, but Qiu Sheng sent a message: What kind of food is good for adult cats, buy some for me.

Lu Yining:?No

Wen Youxia: [Red envelope]

Lu Yining: ...OK

Gu Qi: [haha]

After Qiu Sheng posted "this thing" in different poses on Weibo for several days, fans basically thought that this person's obsession with masturbating cats was useless, and ran to another person's private mailbox to urge the album without hope. Reminder single.

Maybe the urging worked. On a certain day in late February, at ten o'clock, Yinshan official blog released "-Roaming remix".

Ignoring the effects of various remixes, this song finally revealed its iceberg side.

The prelude piano played a section with the bass, and the five senses have been infected, and they floated on the wide ocean like clouds and fog.The moonlight is flickering, and the stars are not visible. With the change of melody and rhythm, it seems to fall into a light boat and slowly pass through the white mist.

The ocean is the ocean of time, and the stars and the moon are not seen at all.The instrumental music and the ethereal human voice gradually faded away, and when the piano was about to fall asleep, the high note was pressed suddenly, like a bell ringing in the ear, and the light from beyond the sky instantly enveloped the vision.Being alone here, I don't feel lonely, but like returning to the beginning of life, full of tranquility.

"Take me, take me, take my heart,"

"Take me to the blue..."

In the end, drums, guitars, vocals, and bass exited one by one, but the sound of the remaining waves gradually faded away.

Immediately, the "Ding Dong" notification of the convenience store sounded, and there was a lot of traffic, returning to reality.The five minutes just now had become a dream, and when I woke up, the new day was bright and sunny.

This song has a gimmick that was the focus of controversy with Bai Yanhui before. Once released, although it is not the final studio version, the discussion has gradually increased.Senior musicians commented on the characteristics of Wen Youxia's arrangement this time, and discussed why the lyrics returned to the minimalist mode; music fans speculated whether this song will establish the style of Yinshan's new album, and whether it is about to transform...

And some little grievances that are jokes—

"Unilateral announcement is by far Yinshan's most endearing song."

"Actually, you don't need lyrics. Pure instrumental music is also very good."

"Qiu'er said that at least let me do some work..."

"Have you seen Qiu Sheng of the keyboard? It's not that he didn't work hahaha!"

"Can I say it? It's definitely better than Alice."

"Hurry up and don't do the new album, I want to hear it within this year or I will kneel down and beg you!"

"Bass hand-written music, lead singer wrote bass, has been shown."

……

The discussion didn't reach its climax. At around four o'clock in the afternoon, Wen Youxia uploaded a new song on her personal homepage without warning. It only lasted a minute, which looked like a "spoiler" for the new single.

He didn't release it under the name of the band, the title of the song simply reads "Amber of the Night".

Music fans were overjoyed for a while, thinking that Wen Youxia started to write songs alone, preconceived that he must return to his restless and sharp bass line style, and couldn't wait to listen to it for ten seconds, and began to ask questions in the comment area.

The first hot comment is enough to explain the problem: "I came here for the cool bassline, but I didn't expect this song to have no bass."

Piano column chords, without any accompaniment other than that.

The human voice is low, passing over the nerve endings one by one.After listening to a few sentences, he was surprised to find that it was not Yinshan's lead singer's voice, but actually belonged to Wen Youxia.

It's not even a rock song, the melody is in the style of Soul, like playing and singing recorded by Sudden Rise.I didn't know why when I listened to it for the first time, but after I slowly entered the mood for the second time, my heartstrings trembled and my whole body trembled. I closed my eyes and listened to it, as if I was in a quiet dawn when the street lights flickered and the scenery was lonely.

"You are winter, the snow that never melts."

"You embrace me, solidified into spring amber."

"Moonlight, moonlight, let you stay."

"Stay on Met Me."

"You passed me for a few seconds, but I want to kiss you..."

"Kiss you, to the end of the century."

—Iswear.

The whole song ends with a monologue like a sigh, the snow falls silently, and the wind "rustles".

If you listen carefully, you will find that the monologue comes from a famous love movie, the postcard of the mountain scenery nailed to the inside of the closet, and the two shirts overlapping like lovers can never complete a hug.

Wen Youxia quietly releases a certain secret, and those who understand it will not spread it around. This is an explanation in line with his style.

The comments section went all the way from "the song sounds good" to: "Why do I think a handsome guy is in a relationship?" "It turns out that Wen Xia wrote love songs in this style." "Is this song a single or a band, why didn't I see the name of the band"...

Asked to go to the official blog, no one responded.

But not long after, Yinshan released a performance information: March 3, Blueberry Night.

Four years ago, Blueberry Night, which had just reopened, ushered in a lively performance, as if to announce the beginning of something unusual.However, fans clapped their hands and called "encore", but what they called was that the band fell apart.

Set the opening of the tour on the same date and at the same address, and anyone can read the meaning of the ashes and nirvana.

Liu Wangyu took Xu Ran's car to Blue Flower Lane. Before she got off the car, she was still answering emails, and the man in the driver's seat joked: "I'm so busy, otherwise I'll take a vacation, don't go?"

"That can't be done. In case someone smashes the piano and fights again, I learned to evacuate the scene as soon as possible this time." Liu Wangyu was able to calmly mention the accident four years ago that almost caused her lifelong stress, "What about you?" Don’t you want to listen to it? You seem to never listen to Yinshan’s songs.”

Xu Ran adjusted his glasses: "I have a prejudice against Qiu Sheng."

Very serious, it sounded like the real thing, Liu Wangyu refused to comment: "Is there anything you want me to bring to him?"

Xu Ran said solemnly: "Tell him not to be complacent, and when our drummer recovers, come to the ring if he has the courage."

"You guys have different styles, are you bullying?" Liu Wangyu laughed at him, "It's too fussy."

"I can't help it, I'm small-minded. Oh, and, Hu Yize's plan to confess Bai Yanhui's matter in exchange for us to settle with him out of court, I don't agree, but his behavior is not serious, at most it's not serious. Sentenced to a ban...but you can rest assured that you won't be able to get involved in the entertainment industry." Xu Ran paused, "It seems that there is no need to specifically say it, so don't say it."

"Okay." Liu Wangyu closed the computer and opened the car door, "Goodbye."

Xu Ran waved at her: "Call me if you need it, and I'll pick you up."

Liu Wangyu said "OK" with a smile, and watched Xu Ran's car drive away.

She entered Blueberry Night through the side door, saw no one, and first heard the stage area being tuned.

Liu Wangyu went around, on the right side of the stage, Wen Youxia lowered his head, frowned and twisted the bass button a few times impatiently, a strange sound came out from the speaker, so harsh that Liu Wangyu covered his ears all at once.

"What's wrong?" Gu Qi also felt uncomfortable.

"It's broken." Wen Youxia said, and then cursed in a low voice.

The author says:

*Iswear is the line Ennis says to Jack's shirt at the end of Brokeback Mountain

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