086. Vegetation and Trees Are Chen Ya
After hearing her words, Wang Feng first became confused:
"You said that someone taught you how to write lyrics and music through letters and conversations?"
Chen Xi nodded: "Yes."
Wang Feng looked at Jiang Xinhai and Xu Xiangxiao with disbelief, and found that the other's eyes were equally shocked.
"It's incredible."
Chen Xi tilted her head and asked, "Why is it so incredible?"
After Wang Feng pondered for a moment, he said to her: "Let me tell you this, if you really learned how to write lyrics and music by communicating only through letters, there are only two possibilities."
"What two possibilities?"
"First, you are a genius yourself," Wang Feng said, "Second, the other person is a top lyricist and composer."
Chen Xi felt a little surprised: "Why?"
"Why……"
Wang Feng smiled bitterly.
It was hard for him to explain why.
Musicians don't grow in the ground, they don't grow out of nowhere like potatoes.
Just talking about composition... He studied at the Conservatory of Music and studied many thick textbooks for so many years.
How many people still don’t know how to compose music?
Not to mention writing lyrics.
When it comes to writing lyrics, the lower limit is extremely low and the upper limit is extremely high.
"Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, the green grass reaches the sky" is the lyrics, as is the song "You love me, I love you".
What professional lyricists write is different from ordinary people.
Depending on the level of skill, the things produced are completely different.
Chen Xi's lyric writing skills are simply not like those who can compose music.
The lyrics she writes are gentle, touching, catchy, and are very good lyrics.
The key is that her composition skills are not bad either.
Wang Feng asked: "Do you still have the original letter? Do you mind showing it to us?"
He smiled and said: "Mainly, I really want to see what kind of letters can teach you to write such lyrics and music."
Chen Xi thought for a moment and said, "I won't show you the private parts, just the parts he taught me."
She ran to the room where the sundries were stored, rummaged around for a while, and after a while, she took out a cardboard box.
She put the box on the table and the dust dispersed.
Everyone looked over and saw that the heavy box was filled with letters.
Chen Xi picked out one letter from it and said, "I have stored these letters in chronological order. I will take out this first letter first."
She selected an envelope with yellowed paper and carefully took it out.
Then slowly take the letter paper out of the envelope, unfold it, and lay it flat on the table.
I saw the letter written on the paper:
"Hello, please introduce yourself. I am a college student majoring in music.
My teacher gave me an assignment to randomly select an address in my address book, send a letter there, and try to become friends with the person who received the letter.
I used some troops and some generals, and I got you!
I don’t know what kind of person you are, and I don’t know if you are willing to be my pen pal. Anyway, I will send you a letter like this first to ask for advice.
There are many benefits to becoming a pen pal with me. I can share my thoughts, my knowledge, and my musical attainments with you.
Let me tell you a secret, my musical abilities are not bad.
How is it? Are you excited?
Please reply to me quickly!
By the way, the return address is on my envelope, you should know how to write it, right?"
After reading the letter, Xu Xiangxiao said "Wow" and said, "That sounds good."
Wang Feng said: "Although I had never been assigned homework like this back then, I found it quite fun."
Qin Yunchu vaguely felt something was wrong and asked: "What does making a pen pal have to do with music learning?"
"Maybe I teach creative music and need inspiration, so I arranged a pen pal assignment."
Jiang Xinhai blinked and asked Chen Xi, "So you replied?"
Chen Xi blushed a little, as if she was recalling that afternoon when she jogged all the way and put letters into the mailbox.
"Yes, I was only a teenager at the time, and I was at the age where I tend to have whimsical thoughts, so I replied quickly."
She flicked her fingers through the carton, clicked on an envelope, and pulled it out.
"After communicating with him for a while, I became a little interested in music, so he sent me a letter like this."
Everyone looked over and saw the letter saying:
"I had a dream recently. I dreamed that I was standing on an endless grassland, and the wind suddenly started blowing.
Then a melody suddenly flowed into my heart, just... try humming it, doesn't it sound good?
But suddenly I don’t want to finish writing it and give it to you. I hope you can finish it one day.”
Wang Feng looked at the melody on the envelope, tried to hum, and suddenly clapped his hands: "Oh!"
Xu Xiangxiao and Jiang Xinhai also quickly hummed.
"I know what the song is."
Three people said at the same time: "The Wind Rises!"
"Oh, so it's this song." Qin Yunshang also knew this song and clapped his hands.
Qin Yunchu had never heard of it and asked, "Why are you singing it?"
Jiang Xinhai said: "Yunchu, you must have heard it. This song was very popular back then. It was Chen Xi's famous song, right?"
Chen Xi nodded and hummed: "When I first met this time, I was so nostalgic, looking at the horizon as if it were before my eyes..."
Qin Yunchu also heard it.
"It turns out this is a very nice song."
Wang Feng looked at Chen Xi in shock and said, "Did you write this song when you were a teenager?"
Chen Xi blushed and said, "Of course not. I was so young at the time and didn't understand anything. I couldn't even sing the right tune. It took me a long time to learn how to sing this tune."
"How did you learn it after that?"
Chen Xi said: "I also asked how to complete this song. He used a lot of letters to tell me how to sing it, what composition is, what arrangement is... and then I knew how to do it!"
Wang Feng said with a strange expression: "In other words, your pen pal almost helped you complete this song?"
"Yes," Chen Xi nodded, "So, my pen name at that time was Xi Ya, which was a combination of his and mine."
"Xi Ya?" When Qin Yunchu heard the word "Ya", he was shocked and asked, "What is your pen pal's name?"
Chen Xi raised the envelope and revealed the name on it: "Linya."
"Linya..." Qin Yunchu said the name silently.
Come to think of it, I just overreacted.
Ever since she experienced Chen Ya's waistcoat-dropping incident, she has become a bit like "Chen Ya". When she heard the word "Ya", she thought it was Chen Ya.
How could it be Chen Ya?
If it were Chen Ya, his sister would definitely be suspicious.
"Huh!"
At this moment, Jiang Xinhai suddenly shouted.
She leaned over and took the envelope from Chen Xi's hand, and suddenly held her breath.
Wang Feng asked: "What's wrong?"
Jiang Xinhai pointed at the envelope and was speechless for a long time. After a while, she finally spoke:
"This, this address, is where I used to live!"
Chapter completed!