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Chapter 5 Help me give this to him

As soon as he stepped into Hualang's courtyard, Yue Renge's footsteps stopped.

The sky had already darkened, and the night was gray-blue, lit by the orange-red light strips of the bar.At the end of winter and the beginning of spring, there was a sultry warmth in the night, like a cup of grapefruit tea just enough to warm your hands. In the night filled with the scent of citrus, he saw Li Mu at first sight.

A black sweater, jeans and sneakers, like a male college student running out of school, holding the guitar with the gauze-bound hand, and plucking the strings with the other hand unskillfully.From time to time someone looked at him, and then whispered a few words.Yue Renge didn't know what Yue Renge said, but he knew that Li Mu was almost blindingly dazzling.

So innocent.Li Mu has a youthful face, with thick eyebrows and downcast eyes, and his brushwork that moves like a dragon draws out his profile that is as gentle as a pool of spring water.

It is rumored that Li Mu is taciturn, and it is true.But why does he need to talk so much?Beautiful people don't need to use volume to show their presence.

Li Mu lowered his head and plucked the strings of the guitar. After playing the long prelude, he began to sing.

His voice came over, neither loud nor soft, with a subtle graininess, like a river that had just thawed in spring, flowing from the Hualang white lacquered wooden stage to Yue Renge.

He was instantly swept away by the wave named Li Mu.

Drinkers don't appreciate the music, and the music itself doesn't seem to mind being ignored.After a while, Yue Renge moved and asked his friend, "What song is this?"

The friend thought for a while, but was not sure, "Night in Ulaanbaatar?"

Li Mu looked over inadvertently, and Yue Renge subconsciously hid behind his friend, startling him, "What's wrong with you?"

He kicked the opponent, "I didn't stand firmly. Just sit here." He chose the seat in the farthest corner, "It's comfortable."

Li Mu was singing here, and Yue Renge absently covered half of his face with the wine list, looking at the stage from time to time.Li Mu sang earnestly. After singing a song, there was sparse applause. He stood up holding the guitar, and bowed respectfully.Yue Renge couldn't help but smiled, met his friend's puzzled eyes, immediately sullenly spread the wine list on the table, "What do you want to drink?"

Someone ordered a cheerful love song. Li Mu looked very troubled. He took his mobile phone and started to check the original song. After a minute of tossing, he started singing again.

The friend snapped his fingers at Yue Renge, successfully attracting Yue Renge's attention.The friend raised his eyebrows, "I think that person looks a bit like Li Mu?"

"Really?" Yue Renge poked his neck, pretending to be indifferent, "It's too far away, I can't see clearly."

"I told you to sit in the front, but you didn't listen." The friend snorted, and stretched his neck to look forward for a while, "Look carefully, it doesn't look like that. Besides, Li Mu shouldn't be here... No Did you say that Wang Xinyan has already hired him? Sister Wang is really good at picking people. If I like men, I have to find such a man. Oh, maybe where is he wandering now..."

"Hey." Yue Renge tapped on the table with his fingers, frowning, "When did you say that? It's not that you're not taken care of... It's not a matter of whether you're taken care of or not!"

"I... I just said that casually..." My friend was taken aback by Yue Renge's resentment, "Leo? That's not the case, is it?"

"That's right." Yue Renge was also a little embarrassed. After all, he was still invited out to play, so he had to give others face no matter what. His tone could not help but eased, "Let's not talk about this topic in the future."

"Okay, okay, you are the uncle." The heartless rich second generation picked up Mai Tai, happily took a sip and shouted exaggeratedly, "Hey, this is delicious!"

Of course Yue Renge was not in the mood for drinking, all the words of his friends passed through his ears.Of course it was Li Mu, Yue Renge's eyes were not bad.Unless someone who looks exactly like Li Mu happens to have injured his right hand too.

But why did Li Mu sing here?Oh, he resigned.Yue Renge glanced at the stage again, Li Mu changed the song.But he was anxious to come out to make money, Yue Renge thought, probably he was in urgent need of money.

Li Mu began to sing an English song, and his pronunciation was not bad.Yue Renge leaned on the cover of the wine list, his eyes secretly flew to the stage, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration and began to make up his mind.

In the urban village of Xiasha District, a small dilapidated building where the voice control device is not working, a bare two-bedroom apartment, and a fly restaurant where the table can never be wiped clean.A male college student from a poor family came out to work to subsidize the family. Because of his excessive beauty, he was almost taken care of, but he was not stained in the mud and had to be self-reliant. Thunderbolt sparks bring lightning, constructing a perfect logical chain for themselves.

Yes, that's it.

Li Mu is so handsome and beautiful, but his living environment is so bad—this bad situation makes Li Mu shine like a pearl falling in the sand.

Yue Renge likes beautiful people and things the most, as long as he sees them, he will not allow such wasteful things to happen.

"Hey, wake up." The friend stretched out his hand and shook it in front of Yue Renge, Yue Renge came back to his senses, rolled his eyes at him, and cleared his throat.

"Give this to him for me." When Negroni delivered it, Yue Renge took out a business card from his pocket and handed it to the waiter, "To the one who sings."

"Do you need to leave your name?" the waiter asked.

"No need." Yue Renge picked up the wine glass and drank it down, took two bills, pulled his friend up and left, "You don't need to say who I am, just give it to him."

Li Mu looked at the business card back and forth several times in front of the light, and asked the waiter, "Have you left already?"

The waiter had never encountered such a situation, and carefully wiped the sweat from his forehead, "Well, he said that he just gave you his business card—you don't know him?"

Strange.Li Mu held the business card in the palm of his hand, the hard edges and corners brought slight pain.It is the business card of Liang Chuan, the manager of Dionysia.

Who doesn't know Liang Chuan?The bigwigs in Huadu's bar world, where they came from, and where their teachers came from, can't be tested for the time being. In short, they are very mysterious.Of course, Li Mu can also unilaterally announce that he knows each other. Before that, he also went to Dionys to see the face of the boss.

— just didn't see it.

In fact, there are many opportunities to meet Liang Chuan, but his guest bartending is often overcrowded, and Li Mu always has no chance to go to his master class.Resources are limited, and Li Mu is always half a beat late.

"Oh Huo, you're well-developed." Zhao Shengyan leaned over, frightened Li Mu, and punched Zhao Shengyan, "Old Zhao, what are you doing?"

A piece of Yuxi waved on Old Zhao's lips, "With this business card, you can apply for a job at Dionysia."

Li Mu put away his business card, "Stop coaxing people. I'm not qualified."

The best bar in Quanhuadu, on the list of Asia's [-] every year, how many celebrities in the wine industry have come out - where is he, an unknown junior, who can go if he wants to?

Zhao Shengyan looked awe-inspiring, "You are wrong, Xiao Li. How about a famous saying? If a person has no dreams, what is the difference from a salted fish? In our line of work, although it is difficult to make achievements, the threshold is also high. Not high, as long as you are a healthy person, you have the conditions to enter the industry. You have healthy limbs and a normal IQ, so why are you not qualified?"

Li Mu smiled.Well, not comforted at all.

Zhao Shengyan held a cigarette in his mouth, held the business card in Li Mu's hand, and looked at it with vain eyes, "Yes, it is indeed Liang Chuan's business card. This kid has good skills, but his personality is a bit weird. Back then, he—— I mean, if you get the chance to study with him for a year or so, it's better than hanging out in one of those shitty bars out there."

Li Mu smiled bitterly, and Zhao Shengyan patted Li Mu on the shoulder, thinking about the future for him, "As long as you dare to think, there is nothing you can't do. Go try it! What if you are rejected? You Look at you, you don't even want a rich woman, you're afraid of this..."

Which pot is not opened and which pot is not to be lifted.Li Mu rolled his eyes, and mercilessly bent his elbow, leaving Old Zhao screaming in pain, "Brat, be careful I won't pay you!"

At night, it was still a little cold.I don't know when the sky has become gray and hazy, and the wind is blowing fast. Li Mu wrapped his coat tightly, and his eyes were squinted by the wind.He left Hualang and went straight to the road.The business card was still in his pocket, and the edges were soaked and softened by the sweat of his hands.True or false, no matter what the result is, it will not prevent Li Mu from becoming slightly excited.

If I could go to Dionys—the best bar in Huadu, Li Mu raised his hands and rubbed his face, his cheeks under his palms were slightly warm, whether it was because of singing, the wind, or his heart beating fast for no reason.

Go try it, go try it.What if you get rejected?If you can't play, go to some odd jobs and waste a little more time elsewhere.

waste time.Li Mu's footsteps stopped.

"I've given you school for so many years just to make you bartender?"

"If you have to take a road that doesn't work at all, why should you?"

"Are you the only one in the world who likes this? How many people actually do it? How many people really stick to it?"

"Go home, everything has been arranged for you, and we can live a smooth life, and we can feel at ease."

Li Mu sniffed, his palms throbbing.He raised his head and looked at the hazy sky in Huadu. First there were one or two dots, and then many white dots swirled down from the sky.

Snowing.

This is Li Mu's first winter in Huadu.This is also the only snowfall in Huadu in the next ten years.I don't know who yelled "It's snowing", and the nearby residents rushed out of the tall buildings. Everyone took pictures, and some even started to make snowmen out of those pitiful snowflakes.

Li Mu raised his head, but he just raised his head. In fact, he couldn't see anything clearly, but he tried hard to open his eyes.Snow fell on his face, cold.He was actually wearing only a black sweater under his pea coat, but he didn't feel cold.

His blood was boiling, Li Mu decided to go to Dionys tomorrow to try his luck.

--------The author says------------

It's cold, drink a cup of grapefruit tea.