The Imitation of a Star Chapter 6

After dinner, Ethan Lu didn't go out for two days.

I do almost nothing except sleep. I get up when I'm hungry to make noodles, and then I fall asleep after eating.

He didn't bother with his phone when it automatically turned off when it ran out of battery. He just left it on the bedside untouched.

He couldn't tell what state he was in now, whether he was escaping or adjusting.

After Leo Jiang and Felix Huang quit the band, all band performances had to be temporarily suspended. Not only the performances, but also a lot of time was freed up for rehearsals every week. Now these time have been wiped out.

This blankness is like an invisible vine, wrapping around little by little.

Although life is not much different from before.

On the morning of the third day, he finally washed his face, shaved off the stubble carefully, and went to a nearby barber shop to get his hair trimmed. After I came back, I boiled hot water. While I was waiting for the water to boil, I was looking for a charging cable. I rummaged through the cabinet for a long time and found a CD album with rough artwork.

That was the first album their band released.

The name he got from his second grade was 'Ogre'.

The album cover was drawn by Ethan Lu himself, depicting a goat head with potential as an abstract painter. He had never learned to paint, but since most of the budget was invested in the recording studio, he had to do it himself.

The title song has a special style. The cliMax Sun of the song starts with two lines of Ethan Lu singing a cappella in a low voice, and then the overwhelming drumbeats and rhythms sweep over in an instant:

"Crush the past to pieces

Who is left

move

move

Go quickly

...

What is the name of God?

It doesn’t matter even if I keep falling."

Intense rhythm, with the arrogance of wanting to tear everything apart.

The album was sold on consignment in a video store and sold surprisingly well. The owner of the video store even jokingly teased them: "When are you going to have a concert?"

"One day," Leo Jiang wiped his sweat and said with high spirits, "we will stand on the highest and biggest stage!"

Ethan Lu found the charging cable, plugged in the phone, and waited for the startup interface to pop up automatically. Then he saw a long list of missed calls.

Max Sun, Dylan Li, Felix Huang...

Ethan Lu first called Max Sun back.

The temporary cancellation of the performance was unjust. The performance information had been sent out a few days ago. The temporary cancellation also had a certain impact on the bar. Ethan Lu felt that he had to compensate Max Sun no matter what.

But Max Sun is a generous person and is not someone who cares about such things. He cares more about these four young people than the performance: "Why are you still talking to me? I'm not sorry. How was the discussion between you two in the end?"

Ethan Lu didn't say much, just said: "Something happened at home."

As Max Sun said before, he also played in a band when he was young, so how could he not understand the meaning behind "There is something going on at home".

The same goes for the campus band he formed back then. After graduating from college, they went their separate ways, going to work, getting married, having children...

Max Sun sighed silently in his heart.

Ethan Lu's band is definitely not the first band to sing in their bar. These young people play in bands and come and go, but this "Devil Band" as they are known in the world is definitely the one that has been singing in their bar for the longest time.

Four years.

What does four years mean? Max Sun remembers that at that time Ethan Lu was still a lead singer who had never been on stage.

His ability to control the stage was very poor. Accidents occurred all the time during performances. The microphone fell off the stage several times. In the worst case, both the person and the microphone fell off the stage.

Max Sun felt that it was uncomfortable for an outsider to look at him, let alone Ethan Lu, so he comforted: "Life is like this, ideals are too imaginary. Sometimes no matter how much we talk about ideals, we have to return to life in the end. Especially when it comes to rock music...don't be discouraged. Our environment is like this. It's OK to stay underground. But if you want to go above ground, it's too difficult. "

Ethan Lu said nothing.

Max Sun: "Life teaches you how to compromise sometimes."

As Sun Xiang was talking, Ethan Lu suddenly called him: "Brother Xiang."

Max Sun: "?"

"But I think," Ethan Lu was transported back to a few years ago as he spoke. He spoke very slowly in the second half of his sentence, "...life is about never compromising."

Max Sun was stunned when he heard this.

Ethan Lu added: "Forget about Brother Qian, I have to go to the station to see them off later."

Ethan Lu packed up and was about to go out when a loud noise suddenly came from outside the door.

It was the sound of the door being kicked down.

This was followed by the strange woman's increasingly crazier voice: "B!tch, if you want to seduce someone else's husband, you should think about today, you come out ---"

601 opened the door.

The unknown woman in 601 was wearing a black backless short skirt today, and she looked very promiscuous. It seemed that he had just returned upstairs and hadn't had time to take off his makeup. His brows and eyes were tired, and his lipstick and eye shadow were layered very thickly, creating a very cheap and gorgeous look.

She was leaning against the doorframe, holding a slender lady's cigarette between her fingertips. When she opened the door, she was slapped by a strange woman outside and turned her head away.

But she didn't seem to care. She tucked the hair scattered on her face behind her ears, took another puff of cigarette and said, "Is that enough?"

"You can't take care of your own man," she laughed as she blew out the smoke, "Why are you so crazy about me?"

This sentence made the strange woman blush.

But 601 didn't plan to say anything more to her. He just said, "If you don't leave, I will call the police."

"You call the police? You call the police. I'll see if the police arrest me first or you, the prostitute ---"

The word "prostitute" is so sharp that it seems to cut through the air.

601 said nothing and closed the door again.

Ethan Lu witnessed a farce and felt embarrassed. Now when he saw the door of 601, he could think of the young master with a bad temper.

The two of them couldn't get in touch no matter how hard they tried.

What does he want from her?

Do you want to tell her?

But everyone said no.

Ethan Lu struggled between whether to mind his own business or not.

...never mind.

Ethan Lu looked back.

My heart said, why do you care so much?

Leo Jiang and Felix Huang bought train tickets to Qingcheng at ten o'clock this morning. Dylan Li called him for this reason and asked him if he would go to see him off, but the call didn't get through.

The train station was bustling with people.

It was a sweltering hot day, and there were people everywhere sweating and hurrying on their way.

Ethan Lu saw the two members of their band at a glance among a group of people dragging suitcases with their hands and carrying large sacks on their shoulders--among the endless flow of people, they were the only ones carrying a gig bag behind them. .

After coming to Xiajing City to work hard for four years, the two of them didn't have much luggage.

Before Ethan Lu could get closer, Felix Huang spotted him from a distance.

"Brother Yan!" Felix Huang shouted, and then said in surprise, "Did you change your hairstyle?"

Ethan Lu smiled and said, "Well, how about it."

Felix Huang: "Handsome."

He was afraid that Ethan Lu wouldn't believe him, so he emphasized again: "He's really handsome. He's different from before."

Although Ethan Lu was not as unconventional as before after cutting his hair short, his facial features looked more prominent, and the wind-blown hair on his forehead was parted in the middle.

"I called you last night but couldn't reach you. I thought you weren't coming." Dylan Li said.

"My phone is out of battery and I forgot to charge it."

"I've convinced you, why don't you forget about yourself."

"Isn't it annoying, isn't it here?" Ethan Lu handed over the snacks he bought in advance, "I was afraid that you would have too many things to get, so I didn't buy much, so I made do with it."

"Why are you buying these?" Leo Jiang took it and said, "We all have them."

Ethan Lu was very decisive: "Okay, give it back to me."

Leo Jiang: "Are you human?"

Ethan Lu: "Give it back to me."

"How can someone take something back after giving it away???"

A few people chatted for a few cents over nutritious food.

Ethan Lu looked up at the arrival information scrolling on the screen. Train K126 bound for Qingcheng from Xiamen to Qingcheng: "Is it time to check in?"

"Have you brought all your documents?"

"I'm taking it with me. I'll send you Qingcheng's local specialties when I get back! The pancakes we have there are really amazing..."

As Leo Jiang was talking, Ethan Lu stepped forward and patted him and Felix Huang on the shoulders: "Okay, I'll wait. Have a safe trip."

Dylan Li also joined in to join in the fun.

The scene of four grown men holding each other shoulder to shoulder was not a good look. Just as Ethan Lu was about to let go and take a step back, he heard Felix Huang whisper three words in the small space where the four of them were facing each other: "I'm sorry." "

This is actually a very amazing feeling.

Teammates of four years are about to part ways.

Xiajing and Qingcheng are more than 2,000 kilometers apart.

Ethan Lu thought that he had adjusted his mood after two days of adjustment, but it was not until this moment that he realized that the reality was completely different from the preparations he had made in his mind: these two people were really leaving.

Although Felix Huang's guitar skills have not improved much in the past few years, he will never hear it again.

Leo Jiang always felt that his bass presence was too low, so he secretly turned up the volume of his bass in the recording studio and "boomed" against the speakers during performances.

Another low voice whispered in my ear: "I'm sorry."

This sentence was said by Leo Jiang.

"Passengers taking train K126, please prepare to check in and board the train."

The voice announcement was played twice. The two of them lowered their heads to look for their ticket documents and dragged their suitcases in to check in. They heard Ethan Lu say from behind them: "...are you two done yet?"

"What are you sorry for? Take it all back to me."

"So you want to quit the team?"

"Have I approved your application to withdraw from the team?"

Ethan Lu's sudden and rapid-fire words made the other three people dumbfounded.

"It's quite a beautiful thought."

"No matter where you two go or what you do in the future, whether you are selling pancakes in Qingcheng or growing green onions in the countryside, you will always be a part of vent."

Ethan Lu finally said: "This is not a withdrawal from the team, nor is it a disbandment. V Group will not be disbanded."

Dylan Li reacted: "Yes! They won't be disbanded! Selling pancakes is fine, but what kind of strange job is growing green onions..."

After saying this, no one spoke for a while.

Leo Jiang turned around and quickly wiped his eyes with the back of his hand.

Felix Huang's eyes turned red little by little, and tears fell straight down: "Brother Yan..."

After Ethan Lu finished speaking, he felt moved. Looking at Felix Huang's appearance, he wanted to reach out and pat him on the head.

As a result, Felix Huang said in his broken voice with a cry in the next second: "Yan, Brother Yan, after I leave, you really need to practice your guitar... Your guitar playing is really bad." ,Rotten."

"It's really annoying that you have so many demands when you play badly. Not every guitarist is as easy to talk to as me. If you have the ability, you can play it yourself..."

Ethan Lu's hand reached halfway and froze.

Felix Huang cried so much that he almost hiccupped and continued: "You said your fingers are so long, what's the use..."

Ethan Lu: ...

Ethan Lu wanted to take back what he said before.

This band can be broken up.

In the end, the farewell party almost ended with Dylan Li dragging Ethan Lu to prevent him from violently beating his teammates in public, while Leo Jiang and Felix Huang cried and handed their tickets to the ticket inspector.

The train bound for Qingcheng finally took away two rock youths who once carried the piano on their backs and asked one by one at the entrance of the air-raid shelter, "Are you recruiting people for your band?" this summer.