Chapter 213: Swans at the New Year's Eve Party [6k chapter]
Chapter 213: Swans at the New Year's Eve Party [6k chapter]
Led by the student union members, each class began to line up to enter the auditorium and took their seats in their corresponding seats.
It was cold outside and hot inside. Liu Wei stood at the door and unzipped her down jacket.
In front of the auditorium, there are several doors on each side, which are the dressing room, changing room, electronic control room, and the rest and preparation room for the evening newspaper staff.
"The air conditioner is on so hot."
In the audience, Zhong Jincheng and Gao Qiang sat together. He took off his coat and looked back. He seemed to have suddenly realized something. He quickly sat down and said to Gao Qiang in fear: "Did you see Wang Haoran and Zheng Yifeng?"
Gao Qiang realized it later: "No..."
"Damn, they both actually have a show too??"
Zhong Jincheng opened his mouth in surprise, and suddenly asked, "There are three now, who is the last one?"
Because he wasn't paying much attention to the girls, he didn't realize which ones were not sitting in the audience.
On campus, Lu Yuanqiu led Bai Qingxia to the auditorium and ran, "We're late! We're late! Hurry up!"
He was obviously late because he was waiting for Lu Yuanqiu, but now it felt like he was almost late because of her... Bai Qingxia thought depressedly in her heart.
She called Lu Yuanqiu five times at noon, and it was only Uncle Lu who answered the phone and slapped Lu Yuanqiu awake from his nap.
The two of them ran very fast, and Bai Qingxia almost slipped at the back. Lu Yuanqiu looked back at the girl's resentful expression and couldn't help laughing, then quickly slowed down.
When passing the road with snowmen, Bai Qingxia was in a hurry to get on with her life and didn't look to the side. Lu Yuanqiu glanced at her with a slightly surprised expression.
The rooms inside the auditorium can also be accessed from the outside. The two first went to their respective dressing rooms and put their clothes in the closets, and then walked towards the dressing room together.
The dressing room was very lively at this moment, with men and women sitting in a row in front of the mirrors. Li Tejiao was actually one of the makeup artists.
"Oh my aunt! You are finally here. You are the most important performer today. You will definitely attract everyone's attention as soon as you appear. I almost thought you ran away." When Li Tejiao saw Bai Qingxia appear, she hurriedly went to greet her anxiously.
However, he didn't look at the road and bumped into a chair. Liu Jianqing, who was sitting on the chair, was putting on makeup and her lipstick was knocked crooked.
"Oh, sorry, sorry!" Li Tejiao quickly turned around and apologized.
Liu Jianqing frowned and straightened the chair with force. Li Tejiao looked at her strangely, but didn't care. Then she walked towards Bai Qingxia and pulled her to sit down.
Lu Yuanqiu looked away and asked, "What about me? Who will do my makeup?"
"Wait wait wait! Senior! Wait until I finish here!"
A girl who was putting makeup on Zheng Yifeng spoke up.
Zheng Yifeng turned his head and said calmly: "I thought you two were not coming."
Lu Yuanqiu stood behind him and responded with a smile: "The protagonists all appear later."
Zheng Yifeng chuckled and looked towards the mirror, but he was actually looking at the person in the mirror. Diagonally behind him was Su Miaomiao, who was sitting and drawing her own eyebrows.
Today Su Miaomiao wore a black slim evening dress, looking as elegant and noble as a black swan.
Lu Yuanqiu teased the schoolgirl next to him: "Sister, how are you going to put on makeup for me later?"
The schoolgirl blushed and responded, "Boys just need to trim their eyebrows and put some powder on their faces. If they have hair, they can spray some mousse on it."
Lu Yuanqiu was originally smiling, but suddenly his expression froze: "What do you mean by having hair?! I have a buzz cut, I'm not a monk!"
There was a burst of laughter in the dressing room, and Su Miaomiao and Bai Qingxia both laughed out loud in their seats.
Liu Jianqing didn't smile. After putting on her makeup, she walked towards the dressing room.
"Okay, Senior Zheng." The schoolgirl who was putting on makeup spoke. Hearing the movement behind her, Su Miaomiao hurriedly said, "By the way, Yifeng, wait for me at the door of the locker room after you change your clothes!"
Lu Yuanqiu pulled the corner of his mouth: "Yifeng~~~"
Zheng Yifeng and Su Miaomiao were both stunned. Su Miaomiao smiled and explained, "We are partners after all, so it's more friendly to call each other this way."
Zheng Yifeng agreed with a somewhat unnatural expression and walked out of the dressing room.
Lu Yuanqiu sat in his seat and glanced in the direction of Bai Qingxia. Li Tejiao was helping her put on makeup. At this moment, she had untied her hair and was applying powder to her face.
"Senior, please stop looking. I'm trimming my eyebrows."
"Okay, okay, I know."
After putting on makeup, Lu Yuanqiu walked out of the dressing room and secretly came to the side door to take a look inside the auditorium. The seats on the steps were densely packed with students and teachers. The staff of Lucheng Evening News also set up their cameras on the steps, ready to shoot.
To be honest, this scene made people a bit nervous, even for a veteran like Lu Yuanqiu. After all, this was his first time on the stage of the New Year's Eve party, so he could be considered a novice if you rounded it off.
After waiting for a while, Bai Qingxia finished her makeup. Lu Yuanqiu walked over to her and couldn't help but praise Li Tejiao: "Oh, Sister Jiao, your makeup skills are pretty good."
Li Tejiao rolled her eyes charmingly and proudly: "You are the one Jiaojie, I have learned to put on makeup since I was a child, how can I not do it? But a face like Bai Xuejie is suitable for light makeup, so I put on light makeup."
After he finished speaking, he walked towards the other performers who were waiting to put on makeup. Su Miaomiao had also put on her makeup. When she passed by Lu Yuanqiu and the other person, she gave Bai Qingxia a thumbs up, then bent down and praised in a sweet voice, "Qingxia is so beautiful."
"Thank...thank you, teacher. You too." Bai Qingxia turned around a little stiffly when she heard the compliment and responded quickly.
"Haha."
Lu Yuanqiu looked at Su Miaomiao's back as she walked out of the room and said with emotion, "Teacher Su is really pretty, but Zheng Yifeng is lucky to have her."
"Ah?" Bai Qingxia raised her head, thinking she had heard it wrong.
Lu Yuanqiu quickly explained: "Oh, I mean, Zheng Yifeng is so lucky to be able to perform with Teacher Su."
Bai Qingxia nodded.
After Lu Yuanqiu finished speaking, he looked down at the girl's pure and beautiful face, and said half with emotion and half jokingly: "Lu Yuanqiu is very lucky to meet such a beautiful Bai Qingxia."
Bai Qingxia blushed suddenly, avoided his gaze and stood up: "I'll go to the locker room and wait..."
Lu Yuanqiu smiled and reminded from behind: "Put on your dance costume a few shows in advance. Don't wait until it's almost your turn. Call me on the phone if you need me to help you zip up."
"it is good."
Lu Yuanqiu's show was the third one in the evening party.
He went to his men's locker room and changed into the clothes he had specially prepared for today, which was a set of shirt and trousers that looked sunny and handsome, with a very pleasing color combination.
"Oh my god, Brother Qiu! You are simply my idol!"
Cao Shuang was very enthusiastic and slid down on his knees in the men's locker room, approaching Lu Yuanqiu. He raised his hands high with an exaggerated expression.
Lu Yuanqiu curled his lips: "Come on, if you want to talk about handsomeness, that guy is still the one." He pursed his lips at Zheng Yifeng, who was wearing a suit and a bow tie.
Zheng Yifeng turned his head and looked over, raised his carefully trimmed left eyebrow at the two of them, and then showed a warm and refreshing smile as if he was amused by himself.
Lu Yuanqiu and Cao Shuang immediately shook their heads with dazed eyes: "So handsome, giegie~"
Zheng Yifeng: “…”
The party has begun and the host outside is announcing the show.
The programs ranked in front are considered the second most exciting batch of the entire evening party, the first batch is in the middle, and the third batch is in the second half.
Listening to the singing outside, Lu Yuanqiu sat in the locker room playing with his mobile phone and was no longer nervous.
Soon, the student union's "thick eyebrows" ran to the men's locker room and shouted, "Lu Yuanqiu, get ready!"
Lu Yuanqiu raised his head and put his phone down. He held the guitar and looked at Cao Shuang, Zheng Yifeng, and Wang Haoran. He smiled and raised his sword finger across his forehead: "Brothers, I will go first!"
"come on!!!"
Zhang Yifei in the men's locker room looked at the scene at the door with a calm expression. For some reason, he suddenly envied the way Lu Yuanqiu got along with others.
Although this guy may not be very likable, he seems to be really enjoying the time he spends with others and every day of his life.
But for Zhang Yifei, except for Liu Jianqing, it seemed that the people who were close to him in school were only close to him because of money, which was full of hypocrisy.
……
Lu Yuanqiu stood behind the red curtain and waited for the host to finish his announcement. The red curtain was pulled aside, and he walked out with a sunny smile and waved to everyone.
There was warm applause from the audience. Qin Luo and Editor-in-Chief Hu, who were sitting in the first row with the school leaders, also applauded with smiles on their faces.
On the stairs, the bearded photographer remembered Qin Luo's instructions and told the staff next to him: "This one has been selected, record a close-up."
"okay."
The camera quickly focused on Lu Yuanqiu's face.
After sitting down on the chair, Lu Yuanqiu straightened the microphone. Suddenly, after the applause from the audience disappeared, a burst of neat and rhythmic shouts rang out.
"Lu Yuanqiu! Lu Yuanqiu! Lu Yuanqiu!"
At first there was only a small shout, but gradually everyone followed the rhythm and joined in. Lu Yuanqiu looked at the two boys from Class 28 who stood up and shouted loudly - Gao Qiang and Zhong Jincheng. They were the ones who started the initial shouting.
Suddenly, Zhong Jincheng and Gao Qiang looked at each other, smiled and changed their tone: "One leaf can tell the coming of autumn! One leaf can tell the coming of autumn! One leaf can tell the coming of autumn!"
The boys in Class 28 seemed to have telepathic connection and suddenly changed their online names to Lu Yuanqiu's. Although the other classes were confused, they also followed suit and shouted these four words. After all, Lu Yuanqiu was very popular after the basketball game, and they thought it was a slogan chosen privately by fans.
Lu Yuanqiu on the stage heard the thunder in the auditorium and could only clasp his hands together helplessly, begging for mercy with a wry smile on his face:
"Please let me go, please let me go..."
My scalp is tingling even before I start singing.
The microphone was right next to his mouth. The whole auditorium burst into laughter when they heard his complaints. The boys in Class 28 also shut their mouths as if they had succeeded.
The school leaders turned around and looked. They hadn't been laughing just now, but now they were happy, with a whole row of smiling faces.
Only then did Lu Yuanqiu sit back in his chair and straighten his expression.
He took a deep breath and looked at the light in front of him, but his eyes suddenly narrowed and his consciousness became dazed for a moment.
Three seconds later, his consciousness slowly returned to the stage.
Lu Yuanqiu smiled and realized that he was a teenager here.
Then be as dazzling as the warm sun outside the window, my youth.
He opened his mouth, plucked the strings, and out of his mouth came a beautiful song that lingered throughout the scene.
"When I was a kid, I was noisy and willful~"
……
It snowed heavily that year.
The snow outside has melted by now.
Today, the sun in Lucheng is the brightest in recent days, making the air full of warmth. Lu Yuanqiu looked at every face in front of him, wanting to deeply engrave the appearance of all of them in his memory, even if they were strangers he had only met once.
At this moment, he suddenly thought of something and turned his head to glance at the door to the side. He saw Cao Shuang, Zheng Yifeng and others standing at the door, but did not see Bai Qingxia.
When the song ended, Lu Yuanqiu took his hands off the strings, put his mouth close to the microphone, and shouted, "Happy New Year!"
There was thunderous applause from the audience. The boy bowed to everyone and left from behind the curtain.
When he arrived at the locker room, Lu Yuanqiu looked in the direction of the women's locker room. He took out his mobile phone and looked at it, but did not find that Bai Qingxia had sent him a message.
"Brother Qiu, your performance was so great!" Cao Shuang followed Lu Yuanqiu and sat in his seat like a fanboy.
Lu Yuanqiu waved his hand and looked down at his phone, wondering why Bai Qingxia didn't come out to listen to him sing.
Just as he thought of this, a girl wearing a wig suddenly rushed into the door of the men's locker room. The boys took a step back in shock, but Ruan Yueru didn't care about it. Instead, she said to Lu Yuanqiu anxiously, "Something happened."
Lu Yuanqiu's brows gradually furrowed.
He immediately followed Ruan Yueru out. Ruan Yueru said as she walked, "Senior Bai's dance costume is missing. We all searched through boxes and cabinets for a long time but couldn't find it. It must have been stolen from the cabinet and hidden away."
Lu Yuanqiu stood at the door of the women's locker room and paused for a moment. Thinking of Bai Qingxia's mood at the moment, he didn't care too much and immediately walked into the women's locker room.
Seeing a man suddenly come in, there was a cry of surprise in the women's locker room. Lu Yuanqiu looked towards the cabinet and saw Bai Qingxia wearing a thin white sweater, squatting there with her back leaning against it. Su Miaomiao was trying to comfort her, but the girl just looked at the ground with red eyes, hugging her legs, with a dazed look on her face.
Seeing Lu Yuanqiu coming in, Bai Qingxia turned her head and two tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes. She pursed her lips and gave the boy a bitter smile with some apology.
She is so useless, Lu Yuanqiu comes to save her again.
Lu Yuanqiu looked at the other people in the locker room. He took a deep breath with his chest rising. His eyes were serious for a moment, and he suddenly sneered: "Interesting."
If he still can't find it after searching through all the boxes and cabinets, then it would be useless to ask the people inside, not to mention that he has no evidence.
"Lu Yuanqiu..." Su Miaomiao spoke with a complicated expression.
Lu Yuanqiu nodded gently: "Don't worry, teacher."
He walked up and pulled Bai Qingxia up from the ground, leading the girl out of the women's locker room. A high school girl with twin ponytails was watching this scene quietly in the women's locker room, looking a little worried.
Lu Yuanqiu hesitated at the door for a moment, then took Bai Qingxia out of the auditorium and came to an empty wall.
It was noon now, and the sun was shining brightly outside, but the temperature was still a little cold. Lu Yuanqiu took off his shirt and put it on Bai Qingxia, leaving only a gray sweater on himself.
The two leaned against the wall in silence for a long time.
Lu Yuanqiu looked up at the sun, squinting his eyes as if he felt it was glaring. He said softly, "It's okay. There are still several shows before it's your turn."
Bai Qingxia tightened her shirt and prepared to speak, but when she said the first word, she found her voice choked. She could only pause for a long time before saying, "I just heard you singing..."
"I didn't feel it during rehearsal, but just now it reminded me of junior high school. I remember that the snow was so heavy that day, like cotton candy."
Lu Yuanqiu turned his head and smiled: "And there was a girl hiding inside the school gate who watched my New Year's Day show in advance?"
Bai Qingxia was a little surprised when she heard this: "You remembered?"
"Yeah." Lu Yuanqiu leaned against the wall and nodded.
"It was the night we won the basketball game. I suddenly remembered it... I'm sorry, my memory is so bad. You've been the only one who remembered these things all along."
"It's okay..." Bai Qingxia smiled and raised her fingers to wipe the corners of her eyes.
"It's just that I might disappoint everyone this time." She started crying. She had been holding back for a while, but now she couldn't hold back any longer. "It turns out that the difference between me and my mother is more than just a dance costume... Why do things that we expect so much never have good results?"
Lu Yuanqiu reached into his pocket, but found that there was still no paper in it. He walked to Bai Qingxia and raised his sleeves to wipe her tears.
After a while, he put his face close to the girl and said jokingly, "I'll count to five. You can't cry anymore after five seconds. We are grown up now and are almost adults. We are no longer junior high school students."
Bai Qingxia nodded while crying.
Looking at the crying girl leaning against the wall, Lu Yuanqiu counted down: "Five."
"two."
"one!"
He cheated again and laughed out loud. Bai Qingxia was also amused by his annoying trick, but her laughter was mixed with crying. However, she kept her promise and stopped crying. She raised her face, wiped her tears, and showed a strong smile to Lu Yuanqiu.
Lu Yuanqiu held her hands, squinted his eyes, and said like he was teasing a child: "No, not enough, lift the corners of your mouth a little higher."
"Ah."
Bai Qingxia obediently raised the corners of her mouth.
"Yes, that's it." He looked down at their toes, which were aligned, and suddenly said, "Bai Qingxia, if I sing a song to you now, would you find it abrupt?"
"What song?" the girl asked curiously, pulling his hand.
Lu Yuanqiu stepped back and hummed softly: "Stand on tiptoes~"
"Lift up the hem of your skirt~"
"Let me put my hand gently on your shoulder~"
Outside the bustling auditorium, beside a quiet path, the young man had a sunny smile and sang beautifully.
Bai Qingxia was stunned, and suddenly thought of the simple, unstructured duet they had danced together outside the store window on Halloween night.
"Sweetness~ Happiness~ Turns around and around~"
"Come on, come on, turn around."
Lu Yuanqiu raised his hand. Bai Qingxia hesitated, but seeing that Lu Yuanqiu insisted, she cooperated and turned around.
After turning around, Lu Yuanqiu looked at her with a smile.
Suddenly, he made a strange move. He raised his hands to both sides of Bai Qingxia's face and pressed down an invisible object, with a "click" sound coming from his mouth.
Bai Qingxia recalled the scene that night and said with a smile: "Is it an Ultraman mask?"
"No, it's light."
After he said that, he moved aside. The dazzling sun behind him cast a glaring light on the girl's face. Bai Qingxia couldn't help but raise her hand to cover her eyes.
Lu Yuanqiu, who was standing with the light behind him, regained his composure. He gently opened his arms and hugged the girl in front of him, then said something.
"Bai Qingxia, you don't have to put on a dance costume to become a swan."
The girl rested her chin on his shoulder and was slightly stunned.
"and……"
Lu Yuanqiu suddenly smiled: "You still have a battle suit."
The girl tilted her head in confusion.
……
In the audience, Editor-in-Chief Hu slid his finger down the program list and stopped at the three words "Bai Qingxia".
"We're here," he said softly.
Upon hearing this, Qin Luo quickly made an "OK" gesture to the photographer on the stairs behind him.
The bearded photographer nodded and said to the staff beside him, "Next show, cover girl, get ready for recording, close-ups and long shots, get ready to capture."
In the first row, Editor-in-Chief Hu sighed.
Qin Luo smiled helplessly: "Are you still thinking about what's missing? Editor-in-chief."
Editor-in-Chief Hu smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Yeah, after reviewing the manuscript all night, I still didn't think of it. Maybe my brain is really rusty."
Qin Luo glanced back and said, "Editor-in-chief, why don't you go back and tell them about the angle of the shot?"
Editor-in-Chief Hu shook his head: "I don't want to go. I'm depressed. You may not understand my feelings."
Qin Luo twitched his lips and said "Okay", then looked up at the stage.
The bespectacled girl from the student union was standing at the side of the stage. She was wearing a host's dress and looking down at the script. When she was about to go out to announce the show, a teenager suddenly appeared next to her and snatched her microphone.
The bespectacled girl turned her head in surprise: "Senior Lu, you stole my microphone again?"
"Don't worry, this is the last time." Lu Yuanqiu said.
He walked towards the stage with the microphone and stood in the middle.
When they saw that the host suddenly became Lu Yuanqiu, there was a burst of discussion from the audience.
The school leaders in the first row also had a bad feeling.
This time, Lu Yuanqiu didn't want to cause trouble or issue a challenge.
He smiled and said, "Excuse me, everyone. The next show is brought by my best friend, and I want to announce it for her personally."
Upon hearing these words, Class 28 of Grade burst into warm applause.
Zhong Jincheng was surprised: "It turned out to be Bai Qingxia!"
Gao Qiang laughed and said, "Oh my god, the fourth person is actually Bai Qingxia!"
"it is good!!!"
Listening to the cheers from the audience, Lu Yuanqiu smiled and said, "She was about to perform a ballet performance, but her ballet costume suddenly disappeared."
Hearing this, Qin Luo frowned nervously, but Editor-in-Chief Hu next to him suddenly raised his head with bright eyes.
Lu Yuanqiu continued: "But, I think people who are swans don't need to care about what clothes they wear."
After saying that, he put down the microphone, smiled and left. The red curtain behind him was then drawn open and live music started.
"Dream Wedding"
Behind the curtain, a girl in a blue and white school uniform, a ponytail and a pink hairpin on her head struck an opening dance pose like a white swan. She raised her fair right hand, looked up in the direction of her right hand, a relieved smile appearing at the corner of her mouth.
The sun was very strong today. On the path full of snowmen, all the snowmen began to melt and their heads fell off their bodies one after another, but the one piled by the girl remained standing.
Its head was stuck to its body with a wooden stick, and its body became soft from bloated, as if it had taken off its heavy mask and became the most beautiful scenery on the road.
Auditorium, first row.
Editor-in-Chief Hu suddenly grabbed Qin Luo's arm in surprise and said in a low voice: "School uniform! Yes! She is missing a school uniform!!"
(End of this chapter)