"Sister Hong, I heard that you are going to hold a concert. Is it true?"
"Sister Hong, you have been away from the music scene for so many years and suddenly announced that you are going to hold a concert. Does this mean that you are coming back?"
"Sister Hong, can we talk a little more? What is the nature of your concert?"
"Sister Hong, who will you invite to the concert and where will it be held? What is the approximate scale?"
"Can you talk about your disease in detail? I heard that it is cancer. Is this true or false? Is it in the early stage or in the middle stage?"
"..."
early morning.
The first ray of dawn shone through the clouds on this land, dispelling the coldness of the night.
At the entrance of Notre Dame Hospital, the reporters who had been waiting for who knows how many days saw Zhong Yanhong walking out with the support of Wang Jing. They swarmed around and looked excitedly at this once-powerful diva...
Zhong Yanhong's face was a little pale, but she was in good spirits.
She was not disgusted with the various questions asked by reporters. Instead, she felt that these reporters were quite friendly...
Like a group of old friends.
She looked carefully and saw a few familiar faces among the reporters. She smiled at those familiar faces.
At this moment, she seemed to go back to the day before her concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum ten years ago...
That day, it was vaguely August, and similarly, countless reporters surrounded her excitedly, asking all kinds of questions.
That was her last concert in the past ten years...
In that concert, she sang and danced to her heart's content on the stage, and even invited fans to come on stage to sing with her and play games together. The happiness was flying over the whole city, and it lasted for a long time. Unexpectedly, time passed. It went so fast, these ten years seemed to have passed by in a flash.
"Thank you all for your concern. I am currently in good health. My illness is not a serious illness. I have already undergone surgery and am recovering well..."
She smiled and answered every question from reporters as best she could.
When asked why she suddenly held a concert, she paused for a moment and seemed to be sorting out her emotions: "Ten years ago, I left the music scene without saying goodbye to everyone. I felt that this was not good. Today, ten years later, I want to say goodbye to everyone. This concert should be the last concert in my life!"
When Zhong Yanhong said these words, the scene was in an uproar.
Fans not far away suddenly started shouting, and the originally high-pitched and exciting atmosphere suddenly turned a little sad...
"Excuse me, is it due to illness?" A reporter who was close to forty squeezed his way to the front of the crowd and asked with a trembling voice while holding a microphone.
"Yes." Zhong Yanhong nodded calmly, with a smile on her face.
I am very familiar with that reporter Zhong Yanhong. In the past, he would rush to the front of every press conference I held.
"Then, could it be that you really had terminal cancer, as the rumors say, and then..." The reporter trembled.
"It's not late, it won't kill me, but it will be difficult for me to go on stage again in the future." Zhong Yanhong continued to smile.
"Then can you tell me why the concert was so sudden? In the past, you had at least two months to prepare for a concert, but now..." After the reporter saw Zhong Yanhong's smile, the vibrato did not disappear. He disappeared and looked at her more seriously.
After Zhong Yanhong faced this problem, she was silent for a moment, and then looked into the distance: "Because I got two good songs! The melody is beautiful and the lyrics are also beautiful. I can't wait to sing it well on the stage.
These two songs..." After answering this question, she suddenly felt a little tired. She calmed down and looked at the fans in the distance: "I have to go. I hope to be there on the night of August 31st.
, thank you for being able to see you at the scene!”
Then she stopped answering any questions from reporters and got into the nanny car with the help of her assistant.
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Nine o'clock in the morning.
"Sister Hong's villa is so big..." Zhou Yang got off the car, looked at the villa, and sighed unconsciously.
"Let's go, Sister Hong is already waiting."
"Um."
Zhou Yang followed Wang Jing into the villa.
When Zhou Yang walked in, he suddenly thought of something and felt a little uneasy.
Sister Zhong Yanhong's concert was originally planned for October, but suddenly it changed to a week later, which made people wonder whether Zhong Yanhong had a physical problem.
Zhou Yang even thought of another extreme possibility...
Could it be that Sister Hong, like Sister Mei, will this concert become the last concert in her life?
After passing through the hall, Zhou Yang walked into Zhong Yanhong's private music room. After knocking on the door, the two of them walked in...
In the music room.
Zhou Yang seemed to be in a musical instrument store, with guitars, pianos, basses, drums, guzheng...
All the musical instruments that Zhou Yang can think of are available here, and if you pick one up, they are all worth a lot of money.
"coming?"
"Well, Sister Hong is good..."
"Wait a minute, I'll finish wiping the piano first..."
At this moment...
Zhong Yanhong was bending down and carefully wiping a piano. She moved slowly and seemed to be struggling, but the expression on her face was as if she were looking at her own child, full of tenderness and care.
When she felt Zhou Yang approaching, she smiled but did not put down the rag in her hand.
Zhou Yang wanted to step forward to help, but was stopped by Wang Jing.
Although there are quite a few servants in the villa, Zhong Yanhong's music room does not allow any servants to come in. The most basic hygiene of the music room is done by Zhong Yanhong alone.
After the two waited for ten minutes, they saw Zhong Yanhong slowly sitting on the piano bench, stroking every key.
"Xiao Zhou, it's quite abrupt to invite you. It won't delay your moviemaking, right?"
"No, Director Huang's crew doesn't know when they will be able to start production again. They are now moving to the mainland..."
"Oh, that's what he has." Zhong Yanhong smiled, then put her arm on the piano, "Xiao Zhou, I'll play the accompaniment of "Qian Qian Que Song" once, and I'll sing it again, how about you listen to it for me?"
"Ah good."
The piano melody sounded.
Zhong Yanhong first sang the song "Qian Qian Que Song".
Her voice is gentle and moving, like a young girl who has never experienced anything in the world, full of confusion about the future.
Zhou Yang was immersed in the melody, enjoying another feeling.
Some songs, under the baptism of time, will not become obsolete, but will become more and more mellow as they age.
perhaps……
"Qian Qian Que Song" is one of them.
If we talk about the Hong Kong music scene in the 1980s and 1990s, and talk about that song, no one can avoid "Qian Qian Que Song".
It wreaked havoc throughout the 1980s and 1990s, bursting out of nowhere in the Hong Kong music scene where a hundred flowers bloomed, causing huge waves...
Even many years later, people will still hum the melody of this song and remember the people and stories of that era from time to time.
Zhou Yang fell into memories, and before he knew it, the song was finished...
Immediately afterwards, Zhong Yanhong sang "Song of the Sunset" again.
The same accompaniment, the same melody, different lyrics, different situations.
If Zhong Yanhong was as energetic as a young girl when she sang "Qian Qian Que Song", then "Song of the Sunset" is more or less filled with a sense of sadness.
"Song of the Sunset" may be unfamiliar to many people, and it is far less popular than "Song of Thousands of Ques", but you can't deny that it is a classic...
If "Qian Qian Que Song" is the pinnacle of an era, then "Song of the Sunset" is the end of another era.
This is Mei*fang, the last song of the last concert in Sister Mei’s life. Wearing a white wedding dress, she stood at the concert, feeling the passing of life and the sigh of the sunset...
Same melody, different lyrics, different stories...
Zhou Yang had watched the video of that concert several times.
In that video, Sister Mei is particularly beautiful.
Amidst the melancholy melody, she walked firmly to the center of the stage and sang this song tenderly. After singing, she said goodbye to everyone and announced to the world that she was married to music. At the last moment, she said goodbye to everyone
With a wave of his hand, that almost legendary life ended.
Looking at Zhong Yanhong, Zhou Yang could not help but think of Sister Mei, and the indescribable feeling became even stronger.
After the song ended, Zhou Yang clapped, but his throat became more and more blocked.
"Sister Hong, can I ask a question?"
"ask……"
"Why did the farewell concert time suddenly change, suddenly advance, and move so close?"
"Because now I still have the possibility of singing on stage, and in a month or two..." Zhong Yanhong did not say the same thing she said to reporters, but looked at Zhou Yang seriously, "In a month or two,
I probably won’t be able to go on stage, I may need another surgery..."
"Is surgery dangerous?"
"Is there any surgery that is not dangerous?" Zhong Yanhong laughed.
"Sister Hong, how about we wait until the operation is over before we hold a concert?" Wang Jing's voice sounded, and her eye circles began to turn red.
"What if you die on the operating table?" Zhong Yanhong still smiled: "While everything is in good condition now, let's leave a perfect curtain call for everyone, so that no one will have any regrets. We will do anything
Everything must have a beginning and an end..."
Over the years, she has seen too many separations, life and death.
For her, leaving with regrets was more uncomfortable than anything else.
Wang Jing suddenly lowered his head.
"Okay, time is limited, let's not talk about anything else, Xiao Zhou, let's go to the rehearsal room on the other side to rehearse."
"Sister Hong, I want to ask, why did you invite me to sing with you? I have never sung before, and I am a newcomer. What if I don't sing well? And I am not very good at singing Cantonese songs...
…”
"Teacher Wu strongly suggested it. He said it might be interesting for you to go on stage, so he wanted to see what you look like when you go on stage. Moreover, he thought you could become a good singer..."
"ah?"
Zhou Yang was quite surprised. When Wu Zhenhong was practicing singing before, Mr. Wu never praised him...
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"Because I got two good songs! The melody is beautiful and the lyrics are also beautiful. I can't wait to sing these two songs on stage..."
After Zhong Yanhong's interview was exposed by major media, the Chinese music scene immediately set off a storm!
Countless media and singers are using various channels to find out what these two songs are, which can make a once-powerful diva impatient.
But the weird thing is...
Zhong Yanhong's company and acquaintances kept this matter very secret.
No clue what song it is...
The more secretive it is, the crazier these reporters become, and all kinds of speculations are endless!
finally……
"If there are no accidents, he should be the beginning of a new era..."
After being asked a lot by reporters, Zhong Yanhong said this.