Chapter 9 The Zebra Story
Chen Wan was the first girl to enter Li Mu's room.
Li Mu was very shy when he was a teenager. He had no close contact with any girls before graduating from high school, and would not bring the girls home. After going to college, he could not persist in meeting his parents until he worked. Therefore, this was the first time Li Mu took a girl into his room.
Li Mu's room is not big, at best, only about fifteen square meters. This cottage has a bed of 1.5 meters, a somewhat old desk, a bookcase with glass doors, a wardrobe, and a red cotton tag-based guitar.
The room was a little crowded, but it was very neat. Chen Wan stepped in and smelled a special faint fragrance. The smell was smelling when she sniffed it, like the fragrance produced by washing clothes baked by the scorching sunlight. It smelled very comfortable.
There are a few different posters on the wall, including a Cote Coben, a banner poster of the Tang Dynasty band. The most special one is a cool-toned poster with a railroad track leading to the fog. A short-haired man squatted in the middle of the track, burying his face between his legs, except that, there is no word on it.
"This poster is so strange." Chen Wan looked surprised, "I didn't write, so what did it come from?"
"Dou Wei's album "Black Dream"." Li Mu said in a silence: "This poster was exchanged for one piece of Wutao on the stall. It is probably because the pirates are irresponsible. The original version contains the four words Dou Wei's black dream, and this one is not brought with you."
I think that in this era, Li Mu was still a super music lover, who liked pop music and rock, who liked Michael Jackson, Black Panther, and Nirvana. He could play some guitar and sang well. He was tall and thin, white and handsome. He dared not say that he was fascinating thousands of girls, but at least he was very popular among girls.
When he arrived at university, Li Mu took the first blood of two girls by playing guitar and singing.
When Li Mu thought of this, he missed his college years very much...
Chen Wan turned around and saw Li Mu's somewhat worn red cotton tag guitar and asked curiously: "You can play the guitar?"
"Just make it a little bit, have fun with your time."
Chen Wan immediately said, "Play and sing a song for me? There are boys in our school who play guitar and you, who are at the same table, are quite nice."
"This is the only creativity for college students nowadays." Li Mu shook his head helplessly.
Chen Wan chased and begged: "Play a song for me, let's have a song from Xu Wei, my autumn!"
Li Mu smiled slightly and asked curiously: "Xu Wei's first album is very negative. How could you like a rich and beautiful woman like you?"
Chen Wan ignored Li Mubai’s rich and beautiful joke and said, “As long as it sounds nice, I like it.”
Li Mu nodded and smiled, sat by the bed, and picked up his worn-out acoustic guitar from the corner.
This piano was a gift from my mother to herself in the second year of junior high school. She spent more than 200 yuan at that time, and it was the cheapest acoustic guitar. However, the tone was pretty good. After playing it for a few years, the tone became better and better.
Li Mu picked up the guitar, took the first string as the basis, and adjusted the tuning using a slightly higher-end overtone method. For the college entrance examination, this piano has been out of play and some of it runs.
Chen Wan sat on Li Mu's chair. Seeing that he was very skillful in tuning, she was straightened and ready to listen carefully.
Li Mu first played the swing of the first chord of "My Autumn", and suddenly stopped and said, "It's boring to sing what you ordered, why don't I sing something you haven't heard of it."
"I haven't heard it before?" Chen Wan's eyes lit up and she smiled and said, "Okay, sing."
Li Mu nodded and recalled the chord score. After the simple and melodious prelude of finger-striking, he sang in his slightly hoarse voice:
"Zebra, don't fall asleep
Show me your wounded tail
I don't want to touch your wound scar
I just want to lift your hair
Zebra Zebra, you're back home
But I wasted my cold years
There is no door in your city to open for me
I'll be back on the road after all..."
Li Mu loves rock before the age of 30, and Li Mu loves folk songs after the age of 30. Fatty Song is one of his favorites, especially the song "Zebra Zebra". It is no longer a sick-free Shen Yin, no longer a forced to talk about sorrow, but a bit of vicissitudes and helplessness, telling the special emotions between a man and an injured zebra. Of course, zebras are not really zebras. Later generations generally believe that the zebra in the song refers to a woman who has been hurt by others.
Chen Wan has never heard of this song, nor has she seen the lyrics before. She just vaguely distinguished the lyrics from Li Mu's mouth, and then a fantasy picture emerged in her mind.
Li Mu's voice is very good, and his more than 30 years of life experience makes it easy for him to fall in love when singing.
"Zebra, zebra, do you remember me? I'm a fool who only knows how to sing..."
When Li Mu sang this sentence, Chen Wan listened quietly with her chin, and a wave of inexplicable emotion surged in her heart. This song was like a faint sadness floating on the grassland, making her intoxicated.
After singing the song, Li Mu's thoughts returned to the past of his previous life, everything he encountered, missed, and missed. Looking back now, it is neither salty, neither light nor bitter nor spicy, but it just makes people feel moved. Yesterday, he moved the first switch in his previous life, but after a switch, the direction and path of the train of destiny will change.
Li Mu knew that he would not go to the second-tier university in his previous life. Everyone he met in his previous life would probably have no chance to pass by in this life, and he would not go to Yanjing to be a hard-working coder. Those colleagues, friends, and passers-by whom he met would completely leave their world. On the first day of rebirth, he chose to subvert everything. While moving his turnout, his tentacles also found Chen Wan's turnout in life.
Chen Wan didn't know why Li Mu fell silent after singing this song. She just felt suddenly full of sadness. The lyrics of this song did not directly describe any misery, but the atmosphere created was particularly touching.
Chen Wan asked with red eyes: "What is the name of this song?"
"Zebra Zebra."
"Whose song?"
"Uh..." Li Mu only remembered that Fatty Song, who was born in 1987, should still be a junior high school student now. It's okay, I'll be shameless. Who makes you idle and still a little slutty?
“I wrote it myself.”
People in their thirties have long been practicing a skill of not changing their faces when bragging.
"Really?!" Chen Wan's worldview collapsed suddenly. She suddenly felt that she couldn't help but start looking up at the boy.
"Well, exclusive original, you are the first listener."
This is true. Chen Wan is the first person to hear this song in this world.
Chen Wan was even more moved. She recalled the sad lyrics and asked: "Why should zebras be used to describe people?"
Li Mu raised his head and stared at the ceiling that was 45 degrees above, sighing sadly: "Animals like zebras cannot sleep when they are alone."
In one sentence, this song adds a bit of poignancy and imposingness.
Li Mu told himself in his heart that this person who pretends to be good can definitely get full marks.
Chen Wan really began to admire this 18-year-old "boy" and wanted to ask some more questions, but unexpectedly, someone took a photo of the gate and shouted loudly outside the door: "Li Mu!"
It's Zhao Kang!
Li Mu almost immediately got up and ran out to open the door with some excitement.
Li Mu was naturally very happy even though he and Zhao Kang hadn't seen each other for more than ten years. In this life, he and Zhao Kang had only not seen each other in the college entrance examination.
"Kangzi!" As soon as the door opened, he saw the black boy with acne-faced look on his face, Li Mu stepped forward and held him in his arms.
Zhao Kang pushed him away in disgust, looked at him in surprise, and spat fiercely: "Fuck, I haven't seen you for two days, you are so handsome again, where is your hair cut? Why did you shaved your beard? Are you afraid that I, Aunt Li, will you beat you?"
Li Mu couldn't help laughing at him: "Why do you have so many questions?"
"Damn, I just can't stand you handsome guys." Zhao Kang gritted his teeth and smacked his lips: "This brother can't do it anymore. Let's break up with each other. Go and pull out your mat, and then take a kitchen knife, so we can also use Guan Ning to cut the mat."
Zhao Kang is not handsome, has dark skin, and has barely passed the test, but he is so terrible at this age that he looks a little terrible. However, in Li Mu's impression, he is also a standard funny guy. If he guides him well, he might become a joke player in the future.
Li Mu raised his foot and sweared: "Don't talk nonsense, are you still coming in? If you don't come in, just go to have a meal."
"I won't go in." Zhao Kang waved his hand: "I'll leave with you with a locked door."
"Wait, I'll ask my sister to come out and she will be with us."
"Your sister?" Zhao Kang asked in surprise: "Where are you showing off again?"
Chapter completed!