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Aunt Zheng turned her head to look, puzzled.
But they found that the door had been covered with thick tire rubber strips.
"Xiaojing, did you and your brother make this? It's quite useful!"
She opened the door and stuck her head out, and immediately a deafening noise rushed towards her—the sound of retaliation from upstairs.
But as soon as the door is closed, it immediately becomes quiet again!
"Hey...yes, my brother did it this afternoon. I didn't expect it to be so soundproof. I wish we had done it this way before!"
Zheng Jingjing was getting water in the living room when she saw her mother return and went over to take her bag.
"Hey, Mom, you're back?"
Zheng Ning happened to walk out of the living room at that moment and ran into them, looking curiously at the door behind it, which was covered with thick tire covers.
He made that on purpose in the afternoon.
Because it's not good to expose your own system, but you need to soundproof and fight back against the upstairs neighbors, it's impossible for your family not to notice that the noise has decreased recently.
So he made some minor changes at home so as not to arouse suspicion in his family.
At this moment, those noisy people upstairs are probably stomping their feet and dragging chairs to retaliate against themselves.
How much will they be tormented by these reflected noises?
Hehe, just thinking about it makes me so happy!
"Oh, by the way, Xiao Ning, did you go out to busk today? I saw this video..."
As she spoke, Zheng's mother took out her phone, swiped it a couple of times, and handed it to Zheng Ning.
"Hey, did you get all the videos?"
Zheng Ning took the phone and saw that it was the video of her busking on Chundong Road that morning.
The person in the video who was initially nervous but later sang with great intonation—wasn't that me?
"Sure, Xiao Ning, you must have inherited your voice from your dad. He sang really well when he was young, but he ruined his voice by smoking and drinking after he found out he couldn't be a singer."
She smoothed her hair and turned around to pour water, but then suddenly seemed to remember something and turned back immediately!
"No, Xiaoning, when did your voice recover? How come Mom didn't know?"
"Hehe, I just discovered it in the last couple of days..."
Zheng Ning scratched the back of his head a little embarrassed. He hadn't intended to hide it from his mother, since the results weren't out yet.
"That's wonderful, son! Your voice sounds amazing! Your throat has recovered, that's fantastic, that's wonderful..."
The mother kept saying how wonderful it was, and hugged her son tightly, her voice trembling with tears.
……
The day after the Zheng family was overjoyed that Zheng Ning's voice had recovered.
In the same city, at Shuncheng University of Technology, in the dormitory of first-year male students majoring in computer science.
Liu Xiaoshuai was engrossed in watching something on his phone.
On the screen, a tall, handsome boy is holding a wooden guitar and singing a song with deep emotion.
Judging from the surrounding environment, it should be on Chundong Road.
"This street performer sings so well!"
As a seasoned music enthusiast, he spends at least two or three thousand yuan a year on listening to music.
In the past, we would buy headphones, cassette tapes, and CDs.
Now that you can download official songs online, he buys them online to listen to.
But in the last two years, the music scene in Xizhou has made him feel a bit restless.
There wasn't much innovation; it was all just pointless whining, or simply remixing and covering old songs over and over again.
There has even been a veteran singer who criticized the lack of ambition among contemporary musicians on a cover song show.
He was recommended this video by a fellow music enthusiast in a group chat.
He still remembers that when he first opened the group chat, hundreds of messages popped up instantly.
There were all sorts of praises, exclamations of surprise, and expressions of disbelief.
Everyone was encouraging newcomers to watch the video of the young man from Chundong Road busking.
So he clicked on the link and heard the song he had just heard.
He was indeed very satisfied with this song.
Unfortunately, the person filming was standing a bit far away, resulting in very blurry video quality. Consequently, the recorded audio sounded muffled, making it impossible to discern the lyrics.
But after watching the video, I suddenly heard that he had already uploaded the song to Feixing Music Network?
"Wow, this is the first time in years I've heard such a refreshing and unique song. I have to go up and support it!"
He quickly opened the Fetion Music app and, as instructed in the video, clicked on the newly added Newcomer Champion Chart.
Sure enough, he found the song at number 25.
"Wow! My goodness, this song 'Rice Fragrance' has only been uploaded for two days and it's already ranked 25th? What? It's already been downloaded over 2 times?"
He's a seasoned music fan; she was already a long-time user of Feixing Music Network when it opened at the beginning of the year.
Generally, when newcomers who haven't yet made a name for themselves release songs, the number of downloads increases to a maximum of three to five hundred per day.
This is considered very fast, because without promotional channels and resources, almost no one knows these songs exist. Just like novels on a certain Chinese website, without recommendations, there will be no exposure.
But what's going on? He's clearly just a complete newbie, yet he's achieved such a high number of downloads in just over a day!
"A video taken by a passerby shouldn't have this much influence, right? Is there... some company promoting him?"
Feeling excited as if he had struck gold, he put on his high-end Sennheiser headphones worth 3000 yuan, paid 5 yuan without hesitation, and downloaded the song.
"Hey, you know what? Listening to high-quality, original songs with high-end headphones is a million times better than the blurry video recorded by a random person with their phone!"
A melodious yet sorrowful prelude begins, seemingly telling an old story that has faded somewhat.
"Hey, that's really well done... The song is called 'Rice Fragrance,' right? I can already picture rice paddies in my mind."
He nodded and swayed his head to the rhythm.
But as the lyrics began to play...
Liu Xiaoshuai, who was still wearing an expectant smile, suddenly frowned.
It wasn't because of the other person's voice; the other person's voice was very clear and clean.
If it's not absolutely beautiful, it's at least heavenly music.
I don't know if it's because it was digitally edited, but it sounds better than many popular, established singers.
What made him frown, and what instantly stirred up that childhood emotion, was the lyrics of the song that he couldn't hear clearly in the video earlier, but could now see perfectly clearly.
"If this world"
You have too many complaints
Do n’t dare to go forward if you fall
Why do people have to be so fragile and depraved...?