Although, just tell me if it’s rock and roll enough!

On the other end of the phone, the blonde girl stopped curling her hair. She stood up, picked up a piece of chalk, and started writing and drawing on the blackboard.

"Summer Festival, we've only prepared a few songs, the time is not long enough..."

The band was established not long ago, with the last member joining the band less than two months ago. Coupled with the fact that they write songs slowly, the band has produced very few songs since its establishment.

Normally, when performing in a livehouse, the requirements for the repertoire are not too high, as long as the mix is ​​about right. But the summer festival is a large-scale event after all, and the previous performance time was too short, which was not enough.

“So, I want to cover some songs, preferably popular ones, to increase the popularity of the band.”

"Yes...really?"

The pink-haired girl had cold sweat on her back and black lines on her forehead, so, are you going to cover the song of Ershoumeigui?

For Pochi-chan, Hongxia's next speech was no less than the final judgment before the execution. Like waiting for an ultimatum, the pink-haired girl swallowed her saliva and waited for Hongxia's answer.

"So, can we cover Second Hand Rose's song?"

"Eh?!"

Knew it!

Pochi-chan almost cried, eh? You want me to touch ice again? Is this true?!

There was no reply from the other end of the phone, so the girl asked, "Well, is it not possible?"

"This one……"

Ahhhh, how can I refuse?

Pochi-chan is about to collapse. Ershoumeigui’s songs are like ice. She really doesn’t want to touch ice again!

But if I reject her directly now, she will definitely despise me and break up with me...

The girl imagined a picture in her mind - the pink-haired girl was kneeling on the ground, with one hand holding the blond girl's forearm.

"Please, if it weren't for Hong Xia, I would..."

"…It's over the band, isn't it?"

The blonde girl shook off the pink-haired girl's hand with a heartless look on her face.

"But, I really..."

No matter how the pink-haired girl explained, the yellow-haired girl just smiled contemptuously and said, "You... your mind is full of yourself?"

Don't do this kind of thing!

I will definitely not neglect any expenses for friends!

Please don’t break up with me, okay!

"...My sister Xingge is a fan of Second-Hand Rose. I hope that when we go to the summer festival, I can let her listen to me singing Second-Hand Rose. This is my dream!"

Hong Xia finished talking to herself and found that there was no sound on the other end of the phone for a long time, so she asked quickly: "Hey, Xiao Boqi, is the signal bad on your end? How many times have you lost your voice?"

"……No!"

The pink-haired girl was frantic, "No!"

"Also, I agree to cover Second Hand Rose's song!"

……

"The child's father, in the room..."

Bochi's parents were lying at the door. When they heard their daughter startling in the room, Bochi's mother couldn't help but worry.

The sound of a girl twitching could be faintly heard in the room, followed by her crazy voice.

"a ha ha ha!"

"Second-hand roses and the like are nothing but a little bit of wind and frost..."

Listening to the voices in the room, Pochi's father wondered:

"It should be fine..."

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Volume 1 Wow! : Chapter 140: No More Face

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There was only one bed in Hai Mingli's rental house. After he covered the girl with a quilt, he sat on the floor beside her and flipped through his phone out of boredom.

"Where is Rencai..."

Since being kidnapped by mmk yesterday, Hai Mingli has not seen the door of the room next door open. A day and a night have passed, and Jing Qinrencai is still fooling around with mmk and a few others, and has no intention of going home.

The letter that the landlord asked Hai Mingli to pass on to the girl is still stuck in the crack of the door and has not been taken away. I don’t know whether this thing is important or not...

Hai Mingli quickly sent a message to the girl: "Ninai, your father sent you a letter. It's stuck in the crack of the door. Remember to come back and get it."

After sending the message, Hai Mingli didn't get a reply from the other party for a few minutes. He probably thought that the other party was really busy with something.

What can he do? Just wait.

Hai Mingli was bored and looked through his phone, checking the news.

"Recently, our city's summer festival is in full swing... and recently, due to the previous humiliating defeats of regional bands, it has become the biggest topic in the entertainment industry recently."

"Let's take a look at what former Budokan musicians have to say about this. This is a straight-talking music critic: If new bands don't achieve some success, they may lose face."

In the phone, a dishevelled rock musician was interviewed:

"You said there are so many new bands coming out one after another, but how many of them can continue to make it? It's just a different soup but the same substance."

"A few new bands are selected each year, and then what happens? They go on stage and eat up all the first wave of dividends. Once their popularity drops, they disband the band immediately."

"It's just like a certain light novel website. They watched the subscriptions go down, and immediately stopped the books when no one subscribed. They didn't try to retain them at all, and they didn't even care about their reputation."

"Can they sing? No, they have no ability at all."

"If this continues, bands like Second Hand Rose that emerged from the Summer Festival will become history."

Interviewer: "On the other hand, this summer festival has the largest number of new bands signing up..."

"Oh, thank God."

"Let's take a certain light novel website as an example: imagine these guys who write novels, they don't have the foundation to write long novels, they just start writing books when they have a sudden impulse, and the outline is not there and the plot is broken, can you guarantee that they can continue writing?"

"You know I don't have the ability! I just want to make a quick buck."

"Be pragmatic. I advise new bands not to be impatient and sing one song at a time. Don't disband the band as soon as there is no traffic."

"Eunuchs are the most born!"

Hai Mingli couldn't help laughing while reading the news. Hehehe, it really makes sense.

New bands usually have no patience. After winning a music competition, all they think about is making money. After making all the money, they run away and disband the band.

A certain light novel website... Hai Mingli wasn't sure what website the commentator was talking about, but it sounded like... there were a lot of eunuchs on the website.

I don't know whether the organizers of this event have learned a lesson or really want to make a lot of money, but they started to operate behind the scenes, letting people from old bands form fake bands, and the fake bands participate in the competition to snatch the championship from the new band.

Since your new band always makes a quick buck and runs away after winning an award, it would be better for you to let me make the dirty money. I'll get a few people from the old band together and directly make the dirty money from the new bands.

The organizer of the event asked Ershoumeigui to open a new account and participate in this summer festival. I guess they were annoyed by the sudden disbandment of the new band...

However, Hai Mingli and his band Second-Hand Rose began to gain fame through these music competitions. Seeing the organizers gradually blocking this path, Hai Mingli was of course upset.

The organizers did this to separate the bands that were squeezing money, but what about the bands that were honest? It was also difficult for them to leave.

It’s their business if they walk that way, but if the organizer blocks the road, it’s your responsibility as the organizer.

"He really has no respect for his reputation anymore," Hai Mingli sighed.

He was scolding the organizers of the summer festival.

"…You don't care about your dignity anymore?"

A gentle voice was heard, and Hai Mingli looked up, only to see that the girl who had just been sleeping on the bed had woken up. She supported her face with one hand and looked at Hai Mingli's mobile phone in a daze.

After lying on the street for a whole night, even if she drank a lot of alcohol, she was almost awake at this time. She looked at Hai Mingli in a daze: "What shame do you have?"

"It's okay. I cursed the organizers of the summer festival. I said they have no shame at all."

Seeing that the girl woke up, Hai Mingli quickly got up and ran to pour water for the girl.

"Um..."

The black-haired girl forced herself to open her eyes and was suddenly shocked to find herself in an unfamiliar room.

She looked around. There were not many pieces of furniture in the room. The big-head TV that was popular in the last century was placed on a tattered table. There was a sofa that could barely accommodate one person. Together with the bed she was lying on, there was no other big item in the room that could be called a thing.

Is this... a hotel?

Clothes were hung on the balcony in the corridor. There were no personal belongings in the 20-square-meter room, and the most rudimentary toiletries were placed on the washstand.

The girl stared at Hai Mingli who was busy boiling water, and then she realized that she was in his room.

“…Did you buy this house?”

"How is that possible?" Hai Mingli turned his back to the girl and worked, "I rented it. It costs 20,000 yen a month."

In this city, such rent is not too expensive. The girl nodded, then leaned against the wall to let her newly awakened mind recover.

Second Hand Rose is so popular now, but it is really sad that Hai Mingli, the band's founder and leader, has to live such a hard life, Suzumiya Ryunas thought.

"So, why do you want to quit the band? Quit Second Hand Rose?"

The girl leaned against the wall, holding the sobering tea that Hai Mingli had just brewed in her hand, sipping it in small sips.

"..."

Because I want to go home and inherit the family property! Hai Mingli wanted to explain to the girl, but this reason was too embarrassing, and he really didn't have the face to say it.

He quit the band just to inherit the family fortune, but ended up losing all his fortune!

Who can I talk to to explain this?

Seeing that this topic was difficult to answer, Hai Mingli went straight into running mode and stopped talking...

"Forget it, I won't ask you this stupid question anymore," the girl said helplessly, "Do you want to come back?"

I'll deduct one point when I come back, okay? Suzumiya Ryunasaki seemed to be joking.

"1111, big brother, are you really going to let me come back?"

Hai Mingli's reserve vanished. Please, since he left the team, he had not had enough to eat or wear warm clothes. He had to think about supporting himself and the Lezhicheng bar every day. He had not had a good day. If he could really go back, he would definitely agree with both hands and feet!

Don’t say that you are a dog who quits the team. If you go back to the team, that’s like going back to your mother’s home, okay? !

I don't have any pursuit in life, as long as I can have enough food to eat!

"…It's a deal, you have to come back later!"

The girl's tone didn't sound like she was joking. She jumped off the bed and said, "Let's go, I'm hungry. Let's go out for dinner?!"

"This one……"

Hai Mingli scratched his head. If the girl had made this request a week ago, Hai Mingli would definitely have happily taken the girl to have a barbecue, and then go out for a walk until the evening performance before coming back.

But today...

Hai Mingli and Qiao Mimi reached into their pockets and felt around. The empty wallet made them give up the idea of ​​taking the girl out to eat.

"...I'll cook for you, okay?" Hai Mingli said.

Volume 1 Wow! : Chapter 141: The meal at Lao Li's house

When Second Hand Rose was first being formed, the entire band was running around in various bars and livehouses all day long. Relying on the performance fees earned from all day long, Hai Mingli had a hard time supporting the three people in the band.

At that time, Hai Mingli's daily cooking routine was to pull out the lettuce and green onions grown in cardboard boxes and think about what to use to make soup.

There’s nothing we can do. We’re poor, too poor.

What Hai Mingli promised to Suzumiya Ryuna was "I can give you a place to live." But in the end, the girl really joined the team, and Hai Mingli naturally paid for all of the girl's living expenses.

He also heard from others that the girl had good grades, but her father was a loser who was addicted to alcohol. He hated himself for not having a son every day and couldn't bear to see the girl do well...

Perhaps influenced by this statement, Hai Mingli felt that he had to support the girl.

Hai Mingli was not sure whether Suzumiya Ryunas father was that kind of person, and she was not in a position to ask her about her family situation in person. But regardless of whether such a thing happened or not, Hai Mingli felt that since the girl had resolutely joined her band, she should be responsible for everything.