Chapter 9 The Zebra Story

Chen Wan was the first girl to enter Li Mu's room.

Li Mu was very shy when he was a teenager. Before graduating from high school, he didn't have any close contact with any girls, and he would never bring girls home. After he went to college, all the way to work, he couldn't hold on to those few relationships. When I met the parents, this was the first time Li Mu had brought a girl into his room.

Li Mu's room is not big, at most about 15 square meters. This hut is equipped with a one-meter-five bed, a somewhat outdated desk, a bookcase with glass doors, a wardrobe, and a pair of red cotton cards. wooden guitar.

The room was a bit crowded, but it was very clean. Chen Wan stepped in and smelled a special faint aroma. The smell was like the smell of clothes washed with laundry detergent being baked by the scorching sunlight. It smells very comfortable.

There are several different posters on the wall, there is a Kurt Cobain, a banner poster of the Tang Dynasty band, the most special one is a cold-colored poster with a railway track leading to the mist, a short hair The man squatted in the center of the track and buried his face between his legs, but there was not a single word on it.

"This poster is so strange." Chen Wan looked surprised, "I didn't write anything, what did it come from?"

"Dou Wei's album "Black Dream"." Li Mu said succinctly: "This poster was exchanged for a piece of Wutao from a small stall. It is estimated that the pirates are irresponsible. The genuine version has the words Dou Wei's Black Dream on it. superior."

Chen Wan nodded lightly, then turned to see Li Mu's somewhat worn red cotton guitar, and asked curiously, "Can you play?"

"A little bit, amateur fun."

Chen Wan immediately said, "Can you play and sing a song for me? We also have boys playing guitar in our school. You, who play and sing at the same table, are quite nice."

"College students these days are just as creative." Li Mu shook his head helplessly.

Chen Wan chased and begged: "Play a song for my sister, let's play a song by Xu Wei, my autumn, I like it!"

Li Mu smiled slightly and asked curiously, "Xu Wei's first album was very negative, how could you like a white rich beauty like you?"

Chen Wan ignored Li Mu Bai Fumei's ridicule and said, "I like it because it sounds good."

Li Mu nodded and smiled, sat beside the bed, and picked up his worn-out acoustic guitar from the corner.

This piano was a gift from my mother in the second year of junior high school. At that time, I spent more than 200 yuan. It is the cheapest grade of acoustic guitars, but the tone is good. After a few years of playing, the tone is getting better and better. .

Li Mu picked up the guitar, took the first string as the criterion, and used a slightly high-end overtone method to tune the strings. For the college entrance examination, this piano has not been played for a few days, and the strings are a little off.

Chen Wan sat on Li Mu's chair. Seeing that he was very skilled in tuning, she straightened her posture and prepared to listen carefully.

Li Mu first strummed the first chord of "My Autumn", then suddenly stopped and said, "It's boring for me to sing whatever you order, why don't I sing a song that you haven't heard before."

"I haven't heard of it?" Chen Wan's eyes lit up and she smiled: "Okay, let's sing."

Li Mu nodded, recalled the chord score, and after the simple and melodious fingerstyle intro, he sang in his slightly hoarse voice:

"Zebra Zebra, don't fall asleep

Show me your wounded tail again

I don't want to touch the scars of your wounds

I just want to lift your hair

Zebra Zebra you're back in your home

But I wasted my cold years

Your city doesn't have a door open for me

I'll be back on the road after all..."

Li Mu loves rock before the age of 30, and Li Mu loves folk songs after the age of 30. Fatty Song is one of his favorites, especially this "Zebra Zebra", which is no longer disease-free, nor strong. Speaking of sorrow, but with a bit of vicissitudes and helplessness, it tells the special emotion between a man and a wounded zebra.

Of course, zebras are not really zebras. Later generations generally believe that the zebra in the song refers to a woman who has been hurt by others.

Chen Wan had never heard of the song, nor had she seen the lyrics. She just vaguely discerned the lyrics from Li Mu's mouth, and then a fantasy image emerged in her mind.

Li Mu's voice is very good, and his life experience of more than 30 years makes it easy for him to be emotional when he sings.

"Zebra, zebra, do you remember me? I'm a singing fool..."

When Li Mu sang this sentence, Chen Wan held her chin and listened quietly, and there was an inexplicable emotion in her heart, and she couldn't help but burst into tears.

After singing the song, Li Mu's own thoughts returned to the past in his previous life. Everything he encountered, brushed shoulders, and missed. Looking back now, it is neither salty nor bland nor bitter nor spicy, but it just makes people feel emotional. Yesterday I moved it by myself. The first turnout in the previous life was moved, but after a turnout, the direction and path of the train of destiny will change.

Li Mu knew that he would not go to the second university in his previous life again. All the people he met in the university in the previous life would have no chance to brush shoulders in this life, and he would not go to Yanjing to be a hard worker. The code farmer, those colleagues, friends, and passers-by who meet by chance will completely leave his world. On the first day of his rebirth, he chose to subvert everything. While moving his switch, his The tentacles also discovered Chen Wan's life turnout.

Chen Wan didn't know why Li Mu fell into silence after singing this song. She just felt that she was suddenly full of sadness. The lyrics of this song did not directly describe any misery, but the atmosphere created was particularly touching.

Chen Wan asked with red eyes, "What is this song called?"

"Zebra Zebra."

"Whose song is it?"

"Uh..." Li Mu just remembered that Fatty Song, who was born in 1987, should still be a junior high school student. Well, let's be shameless. Who let you be a little girl.

"I wrote it myself."

People in their thirties have already practiced a skill of bragging without changing their faces and hearts.

"Really?!" Chen Wan's worldview suddenly collapsed, and she suddenly felt that she couldn't help but start looking up at this boy.

"Well, exclusive original, you are the first listener."

This is true, in this world, Chen Wan is the first person to hear this song.

Chen Wan was even more moved, recalled the poignant lyrics, and asked, "Why use zebra as a metaphor for people?"

Li Mu raised his head, stared at the ceiling at a forty-five degree angle, and sighed with sadness: "Zebra, an animal like it, can't sleep alone."

In a word, it adds a bit of poignancy and force to this song.

Li Mu said to himself in his heart, this coercion can definitely get full marks.

Chen Wan really began to admire this 18-year-old "juvenile" and wanted to ask some more questions, but she didn't expect that someone slapped the door and shouted loudly, "Li Mu!"

It's Zhao Kang!

Li Mu got up almost immediately and ran out to open the door with a bit of excitement.

Having not seen Zhao Kang for more than ten years, Li Mu is naturally very happy, although he and Zhao Kang have not seen each other for only two days in the college entrance examination in this life.

"Kang Zi!" When he opened the door, he saw the black boy with pimples on his face, Li Mu stepped forward and hugged him in his arms.

Zhao Kang pushed him away in disgust, looked at him in surprise, and spat fiercely: "Fuck, I haven't seen you for two days, you are so handsome again, where did you cut your hair? Why did you shave your beard? You are not afraid of me. Auntie Li, you?"

Li Mu couldn't help laughing at him: "Why do you have so many questions?"

"Damn, I just can't get used to looking handsome like you." Zhao Kang gritted his teeth and smacked his lips: "This brother can't do it, let's break up our friendship, you go and take out your mat and take another one. Kitchen knife, let's also come out to Guan Ning to cut the table."

Zhao Kang is not handsome, his skin is dark, and his facial features are barely pass the test, but at this age, he has a pimple on his face. , maybe in the future he will become a joker.

Li Mu raised his foot and kicked, and scolded: "You keep talking nonsense, are you still coming in? If you don't come in, we'll go straight to dinner."

"I won't go in." Zhao Kang waved his hand: "Lock the door and leave."

"Wait, I'll call my sister out and she'll come with us."

"Your sister?" Zhao Kang asked in surprise, "Where did you have another sister?"

Li Mu smiled and said, "I just recognized it, just wait."

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