Chapter 25#
I Don’t Know Him#
Mo Xuzhi patted his shoulder, indicating that he could look up and be a person again.
Du Minsheng straightened up.
“What to sing?”
The microphone spun in his hand, and Mo Xuzhi looked up and said, “I have to see if I can.”
If not, he could learn it on the spot.
In the past few years, besides dealing with the group of supporting characters, he had been immersed in the laboratory. He hadn’t heard many songs, and most of them were written by himself when he was free. He was almost in a state of being out of touch with the current trends, except for the old songs before.
Du Minsheng said, “Just ‘Whale,’ guitar accompaniment.”
“Alright,” Mo Xuzhi nodded, somewhat puzzled, and asked again, “Is a guitar enough?”
Du Minsheng nodded.
He also clearly knew why Mo Xuzhi would ask this question, but time was tight, and it could only be like this.
—The style of “Whale” actually didn’t fit with a guitar very well, but guitar operation was relatively simple and the best instrument available here to start with.
The crew didn’t expect so many fans would stay behind, and all the arrangements had been disrupted. Tonight’s competition couldn’t be done sloppily. It obviously wasn’t enough for just two groups of people to go up and sing and then score, so the production team arranged for him to go up and sing a song to save the scene, forcibly delaying time so the competition didn’t look so fast and perfunctory.
The segment was temporarily added, all preparations were insufficient, and having a guitar accompaniment was already very good.
“What are Teacher Du and Senior Mo whispering?”
Seeing Mo Xuzhi and Du Minsheng standing together whispering into each other’s ears, Zhang Xuanxuan, who had already come down from the stage and wandered back to the backstage, finally spoke up during the gap where neither of them spoke.
Du Minsheng wasn’t very used to communicating with others. Faced with someone suddenly popping up, he couldn’t squeeze out a word. Mo Xuzhi smiled slightly, his tone natural: “Praising you for being good-looking.”
He seemed to be in a good mood today; although he looked very tired, he was always smiling.
“The hairclip suits you very much.”
It was a very obvious polite pleasantry, but Zhang Xuanxuan looked at Mo Xuzhi’s expression, which didn’t show the slightest frivolity or casualness, and for a while, she began to hesitate again.
She wore her newly bought hairclip today, encrusted with broken diamonds, which she particularly liked. The hairclip was very small, and even Li Jing, who lived with her, hadn’t noticed it, yet Mo Xuzhi had noticed.
“Just now an uncle said it was time for us to enter.”
Footsteps came from the front, and Shen Le’s figure appeared from the corner.
As he got closer, they saw that he was also holding a guitar in his hand.
The uncle he mentioned followed too.
The uncle was a director, who came to notify them to go around the stage edge and go on stage like Group A.
The passage was somewhat narrow and dark, and only one by one could they pass through.
Mo Xuzhi slowed down his pace, slowly falling to the very back of the team.
Light faintly appeared ahead.
At the same time the light appeared, cheers and screams rushed toward them like a wave, filling their eardrums.
When Du Minsheng and Luo Wenyun appeared, the sound reached its peak, making people unconsciously get goosebumps.
The sound only decreased for a moment when Shen Le came out, and after Mo Xuzhi’s figure appeared from the entrance, the sound that had already shown signs of decreasing directly exploded.
It was just that the situation was slightly different from that of Du Minsheng and Luo Wenyun, which could be considered reverse high popularity.
“Mo Xuzhi get out of the entertainment industry!”
“Mo Xuzhi when will you be willing to quit the circle!”
“Stop clinging to my brother and sucking blood! Be a human!”
“Why can you go on a show with our sister!? Recognize yourself, okay?”
Some shouted extremely loudly, and their voices were obviously hoarse, likely because they had shouted too loudly just now and hadn’t caught their breath yet.
“Your voices are like this and you still want to talk to me, thank you, I’m very moved.”
“I’ll play for a while longer and then quit, I’ll definitely notify you then.”
“The crew paid me and I came on, I have a strong spirit of contract, I have to come when I take the money, just suffer your sister for a while.”
Mo Xuzhi held the microphone and slowed down his pace while walking and talking, his posture no different from an old man taking a stroll.
He finally knew why the staff handed them microphones.
It was quite useful.
“…”
Du Minsheng and Luo Wenyun in front were still greeting their fans. Their fans were very enthusiastic, to the point where it was somewhat difficult to hold back.
Shen Le no longer looked at the two. He turned back and saw Mo Xuzhi walking and talking leisurely, appearing more composed than Du Minsheng and Luo Wenyun, and occasionally smiling a few times, which made the others who were trying hard to scold him fall back in anger.
Shen Le looked down at the microphone in his hand.
Everyone had a microphone, but only he had never opened the mic.
No one spoke to him.
No one knew him either.
“Okay, I’m done talking and I’m leaving.”
Mo Xuzhi replied with a few more words, ensured his words had hit the audience’s hearts, then patted his hands with satisfaction and quickened his pace to go on stage.
“Mo Xuzhi…”
A tiny voice was instantly swallowed by the sea of sound.
Mo Xuzhi turned his head and squinted his eyes to search in the sea of people, and finally saw a short girl at the edge.
She opened her mouth as if she was struggling to say something, but the voice was very small, and it couldn’t be heard clearly at all.
Mo Xuzhi walked a bit closer.
As he got closer, the people around him stopped making a sound instead.
Originally that person was very far from them, and their own emotions naturally took the upper hand, making it effortless to scold.
But when Mo Xuzhi was close, they could see the blue and black under his eyes, they could see his eyebrows and eyes that couldn’t hide his fatigue no matter what, and suddenly realized that the person being scolded like this by them was also a human.
A person with feelings and who knows pain and tiredness.
Across a short distance, Mo Xuzhi half-bent his body and asked the little girl: “What do you want to say?”
The little girl grabbed the paper in her hand, her mouth murmured, looking at Mo Xuzhi’s face, looking a bit hesitant, and hadn’t made a sound.
“Did you say something?”
Mo Xuzhi waited patiently, seeing the little girl’s mouth moving but there had been no sound. He thought he couldn’t hear it and handed the microphone forward a bit.
“Sorry, I didn’t hear clearly, can you say it again?”
“Mo Xuzhi get out of the entertainment industry!”
The little girl widened her eyes, and just as she was about to say something, an extremely provocative shout came, and she was startled at first, then handed out the paper she had been grabbing in her hand.
“These are the summaries of those disgusting things you did, and I hope after you finish reading them, you can correctly recognize yourself and quit the circle as soon as possible.”
The crisp voice passed through the microphone and clearly entered the eardrum.
Mo Xuzhi was startled at first, then smiled and straightened his back:
“It’s late, go back quickly.”
Looking at these few dense pages of writing, he had some impression.
He had heard several staff members talk about it this afternoon, that a little girl specifically came here just to condemn him.
He just didn’t expect she would stay until now for this.
Mo Xuzhi said: “People can’t always recall the past, but also look to the future. I won’t recall the past, so you take this back, it’s at least a product of labor.”
“I…”
The little girl wanted to say something more, but Mo Xuzhi waved and left.
This time he didn’t stroll like an old man again, but finally speeded up to the pace of a middle-aged person taking a walk, and finally walked behind Shen Le again.
The several of them finally reached the stage.
As soon as he got on stage, Mo Xuzhi consciously and briskly found a staff member to drag a stool to sit on the side.
Du Minsheng and Luo Wenyun first thought for a moment, and then followed suit, also pulling two stools.
Finally all four of them sat down.
Mo Xuzhi’s group of three sat on one side, leaving most of the stage for Shen Le to perform.
Ready, the scene gradually quieted down.
The rhythmic guitar sound passed through the microphone to the surroundings.
Shen Le dared to take the job because he had a foundation. He had learned some music theory knowledge while he was abroad before, and had practiced for a while. Although not stunning, it sounded better than the low-end version of “Whale” next door.
He changed “Whale” into a fast song. Although it lost that distant taste, what the listeners wanted wasn’t depth, but whether it fit the aesthetic.
Shen Le clearly understood this principle too.
After one song, applause broke out. Mo Xuzhi, who was a bit sleepy, suddenly stood up and was about to pull the small stool and go off stage, when he found that Shen Le had put down the guitar and taken the microphone from the microphone clip, preparing to speak.
His action was a bit large, and the guitar made a clashing sound.
Turns out he still wanted to talk.
Mo Xuzhi sat back down.
“My inspiration for writing the song came from Brother Yun… no, Teacher Luo…”
Mo Xuzhi propped his chin and watched Shen Le’s performance.
Shen Le could really talk.
When Mo Xuzhi was helped by Du Minsheng and found that he had already fallen asleep while listening, he came to this conclusion.
After Shen Le finished speaking, Mo Xuzhi almost floated off the stage.
Du Minsheng followed alongside, his expression very complicated.
Like he was distressed and also wanted to laugh.
After going to the bathroom to wash his face and wake up, Mo Xuzhi went to the room specifically for the crew to find the director, wanting to talk about the holiday tomorrow.
The room door was not closed, but wide open. Mo Xuzhi stood at the door and saw that Shen Le was also inside.
He also came to ask for a holiday, saying that a friend was coming to pick him up to play tomorrow.
The director looked smilingly and asked Shen Le: “Lele just returned to the country and has already made friends?”
Shen Le smiled shyly, “A friend from before, named Xue Feng. We haven’t seen each other for a long time, and he wanted to take me to the old residence to play.”
“Xue Feng?” Several staff members on the side were startled, “Is it the Xue Feng of the Tongda Group?”
“Yes,” Shen Le appeared a bit surprised, “Do you know him?”
After finishing his words, he turned his head and just saw Mo Xuzhi standing at the door, and asked again: “Does Teacher Mo know him?”
“Xue Feng?”
Suddenly being cued, Mo Xuzhi leaned on the door frame, laughed at the words, and spoke clearly and briskly,
“I don’t know him.”