Middle age: leisurely life in the entertainment industry

"Dad, hurry up, the concert is about to start." The young woman sitting in the passenger seat urged the middle-aged man next to her.

The middle-aged man has gray hair on his temples.

After hearing what his daughter said, he smiled and said: "Be careful when driving when you have time. This is not our Ordos grassland, where you can drive freely."

This father and daughter are Zhang Shuchun and his daughter Zhang Leilei who came from Ordos.

Zhang Leilei graduated from Inner Mongolia University with a major in preschool education and applied to work in a public kindergarten in Ordos. She is now married and has a cute baby who has just entered kindergarten.

When she saw on the Internet that the Qingmanglu Band, which had been dormant for more than ten years, suddenly announced a nationwide tour, she immediately bought two tickets for their nearest concert in Xi'an.

She was going to see it with her dad.

Zhang Shuchun just retired before the Spring Festival this year. If it were another singer's concert, he would be too lazy to go to it even in this city, but Yu Dongqing's concert he readily agreed to.

I am grateful to Yu Dongqing in this life.

He felt that meeting Yu Dongqing was a kind of fate and a blessing.

That was still more than ten years ago.

At that time, my daughter was suffering from depression and dropped out of school. On the way to Qinghai, she met Yu Dongqing and her daughter by chance, and they traveled all the way.

It was his selfless help and the song "Invisible Wings" he wrote that made his daughter feel warm and get through the most difficult moment in her life.

This morning, I took my daughter from Ordos, drove more than 700 kilometers, and finally arrived in Xi'an as night fell.

I didn't even bother to eat. I parked my car in the parking lot and bought some bread and water at a convenience store near the stadium. I entered the stadium and the concert started as soon as I found my seat.

The four members of the Qingmanglu Band appeared in the center of the stage, and the whole audience burst into cheers.

Zhang Leilei quickly took out the telescope specially prepared for this concert and looked carefully.

"Wow dad, Uncle Yu is still so handsome!" Zhang Leilei shouted and handed the binoculars to Zhang Shuchun: "Dad, take a look too."

Zhang Chunsheng took a look through the telescope, and sure enough, Yu Dongqing on the stage seemed not to have changed much from ten years ago.

But I am getting old.

At this time, Yu Dongqing had already started singing.

"Love Song 1980", "Love Song 1990", "Chang'an, Chang'an", "Baqiao", "Rukawa Kaede and Kurai Sora". These were all sung by Qingmang Lu Band at their Xi'an concert, and the audience immediately started singing a chorus.

Zhang Leilei also sang loudly.

Zhang Shuchun didn't sing along. To be honest, he couldn't sing either. He just looked at his daughter who was immersed in happiness with doting eyes.

I feel warm in my heart.

This life is really not easy.

As long as the family can be safe, what could be happier than this?

"Dad, Uncle Yu sang "Invisible Wings"!"

every time

They are all wandering and staying strong in loneliness

every time

Even if I'm hurt, I won't shed tears

I know

I have always had a pair of invisible wings

take me fly

fly over despair

Zhang Leilei immediately started singing loudly.

This time Zhang Chunsheng did not remain silent, he opened his mouth and hummed softly.

Don't think about it

they have a beautiful sun

i saw

The sunset will also change every day.

"Oh, I didn't expect Dongqing to choose to sing this song? Isn't it sung by a female singer?" Liao Qian, who was sitting in the front row, was listening and chatting with Feng Pei.

Naturally, she is not as fanatical as the fans around her. She appreciates Yu Dongqing more, including the songs he wrote.

"I heard Dongqing say that he wrote this song for a girl suffering from depression. It happened more than ten years ago. One summer vacation, he and his daughter went to Qinghai and met a couple with their daughter. He learned that the girl I was suffering from depression, so I wrote this song to give to others." Feng Pei explained.

"What happened next?" Liao Qian asked.

"I heard that the girl's depression gradually recovered in the end."

"Oh, that's really a good thing."

"Yes, a philosopher in ancient Greece once said that music and astronomy are like two sides of the same coin. Astronomy is the study of the eternal existence in the external world, while music is the study of the secret emotions hidden deep in the inner world, which makes people happy."

"Not bad, Feng Pei." Liao Qian glanced at him and smiled: "You liked reading when you were in college. I didn't expect you still do so now."

"It turned out that when I was teaching in the countryside, I was too busy and had no time. After I returned to the city, I had more time, so I picked up books and read them again." Feng Pei explained.

Liao Qian nodded.

The man in front of her was ordinary, but he was actually a man of great literary talent. Liao Qian remembered that when she was in college, her talent in music was not inferior to that of Yu Dongqing.

But, be willing to be ordinary.

In fact, this kind of life is quite good when I think about it now.

Plain and simple.

At this time, Yu Dongqing had already finished singing a song on the stage, followed by Zhang Bao as a special guest who sang the song "Xintianyou".

The high-pitched voice is full of rich Qinbei flavor.

"Feng Pei, I heard that he was a student who taught?"

Feng Pei nodded.

Although Zhang Bao is not a big hit in the music world, he has had a smooth journey and now has settled in Yanjing. Sometimes he even takes his lame father to live there for a while.

This made Feng Pei very happy.

I don’t seek wealth and honor, but I seek peace and joy.

"Holly is singing a new song!" Liao Qian said at this time.

Sure enough, the venue fell silent and the fans looked at Yu Dongqing on the stage.

I saw him holding a guitar and playing and singing:

nothing can stop

your yearning for freedom

A fantastic career

Your heart is free from worries

Through the dark years

I also felt hesitant

It turns out that "Blue Lotus" was sung by Xu Wei in that time and space.

Listening to Yu Dongqing's hoarse voice, watching the lyrics scrolling on the large LCD screen.

Feng Pei smiled.

Yu Dongqing seems to be still the same boy as before, and his yearning for freedom corresponds to the theme of their tour - singing while walking.

After the concert in Xi'an, the Qingmanglu Band left Xi'an the next day and rushed to Lanzhou.

This city in the inland northwest is not a dazzling city, but its music is unique.

In Xi'an, which is also located in the northwest, local pop music is more rock-oriented, and there were many rock singers at that time.

In the early days, there were Zheng Jun, Xu Wei, Zhang Chu, and later Heisa Band, Wang Jianfang, and a rock person who was not very rock and roll. He was Uncle Yu Qianyu, the vice president of the Yanjing Rock and Roll Association. His ancestral home was Lantian, Shaanxi.

Some people say this is like Xi'an people's love for singing Qin Opera - "Eight hundred miles of Qinchuan are filled with dust, and 30 million Qin people are singing Qin Opera together."

Qin Opera can be regarded as the originator of Chinese rock music.

But Lanzhou's music always has a folk flavor. In that time and space, many people listened to folk songs and got to know Lanzhou from Song Dongye's "Miss Dong".

In fact, there are many folk singers in Lanzhou, including the famous Wild Child, Low Absinthe, Zhang Quan, and Zhang Weiwei. Gansu's bleak climate can even have a dusty smell that stirs in the heart.

Yu Dongqing sang a song about Lanzhou at the Lanzhou concert.

This is the first time I have sung a song about a city during this tour. It turned out to be "North by Northwest" by the time and space singer Liu Dongming.

north by northwest

Sheep and horses are very dark

You drink and cry

North by Northwest makes Lanzhou drunk

Whose loneliness is like a knife killing the water of the Yellow River?

Kill the water of the Yellow River

Who is this loneliness you are so prostrated at?

After leaving Lanzhou, the members of the Qingmanglu Band took a train east to Baoji, then turned south along the Baoji-Chengdu Railway, crossed the Yunheng Qinling Mountains to the Hanzhong Basin, and then crossed the Yuba Mountain before arriving in Chengdu again.

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