Chapter 137 Family Relationships
(Transition chapter, talking about the family relationship between Lin Zhengmo and Lin Heng. If you are not interested, you can skip it. There will be three updates today.)

"Why don't you want others to know?"

Lin Heng thought about the various responses he might receive after telling Li Yan, but he didn't expect it to be this question.

"Well, she hates me. If other people knew that she was my cousin, wouldn't it be even more annoying if people would always talk about us together?"

"I've been linking you two together a lot now." Li Yan smiled secretly.

Lin Heng was completely depressed. "Don't mention it... Every time I hear rumors about me and her, I feel so embarrassed that I want to bang my head against the wall."

"You hate her too?"

"That's not true."

"Why does she hate you?"

Lin Heng had an expression that said "You finally asked this question" and put his guitar against his feet, as if he was going to tell a long story.

Li Yan is somewhat looking forward to it. After all, what kind of youth is it if there are no secrets to share, and no stories that seem so great during adolescence but turn out to be nothing when one grows up?
Hope it’s not an orthopedic story, otherwise it would be a big problem.

"There's nothing wrong with me and Zheng Mo. She grew up in New Taipei, and I grew up in Changheng."

Changheng City is a large industrial city in the northern part of Linjiang Province. It has strong economic strength and is much better than Lin City.

"In fact, apart from returning to my hometown to worship my ancestors during the Chinese New Year, I rarely have the opportunity to meet her."

Li Yan is waiting for the words "until one day".

"The main problem is my dad and her dad."

Huh? The development of this story is very different from what Li Yan expected.

"As for my cousin, her father is my uncle. He didn't listen to my grandfather's advice and insisted on going into business, which didn't go well with him."

Considering that Lin Heng's father was a senior provincial official, Li Yan had a new understanding of the "Lin family" mentioned by Bai Xiaosheng.

"My dad followed the path set by our family and worked his way up step by step. He got smoother and smoother, and finally reached a position that my grandfather admired. When my uncle started his business, he lacked family support, so he really didn't do well. He was unhappy every year when he went home. My eldest uncle, aunt and another uncle took turns to persuade him to listen to my grandfather, but he just wouldn't agree, and the relationship became very strained."

"This story is quite interesting to me. It's actually very common, but I've never encountered it in real life." Li Yan interrupted.

"During that time, Zheng Mo and I were very young and didn't talk much to each other. Later, my uncle became successful and made a lot of money. He was considered a well-known boss in New Taipei City. I felt that I could finally hold my head high when I returned home. But my grandfather only praised my dad in front of others and said that no matter how big my uncle became, he would still have to listen to my dad in the end. He was really angry."

"It's me, I'm angry too."

“But in fact, my father can’t control my uncle at all. Grandpa is just stubborn and doesn’t want to acknowledge my uncle’s achievements.”

"Then the relationship between your two families must be bad."

"Yeah... During the Chinese New Year, I met Zheng Mo, but we didn't even say hello. I don't know what the quarrel was about." Lin Heng suddenly laughed when he said this. "You say... They are both this old, and they still care about these things. Is it fun?"

"Parent-child relationship is really a big problem." Li Yan sighed.

"My dad doesn't blame my uncle. When my uncle insisted on coming to New Taipei, my dad was the only one who didn't persuade him. But there was nothing he could do. My uncle always thought that my dad was the obedient one who always said bad things about him next to my grandfather."

"Wait..." Li Yan couldn't help but speak, "Do you have to come to New Taipei? I heard before that Lin Zhengmo is a direct descendant of the Lin family, a big family in New Taipei..."

"Perhaps in the eyes of others, my family is indeed a powerful and large family. My grandfather and second grandfather are both well-known figures. After retirement, my grandfather returned to his hometown, and my second grandfather stayed in New Taipei. They have a good relationship. The Lin family in New Taipei refers to my second grandfather's branch, but the direct line is my grandfather's side."

"Wait, so what you mean is that the main branch of the Lin family is in Changheng City, and the ones in Xinbei are the ones who ran away?" Li Yan was stunned. What the hell is this how Lin Zhengmo's "direct lineage" is called?
Lin Heng was quite calm. A middle school student with such a background and family background could actually describe it so calmly.

"You could say that, in Grandpa's eyes, maybe Uncle didn't listen to his arrangements, and came to New Taipei to do business, which also meant he wanted to rely on Second Grandpa. I don't understand this."

"Then why did you come to New Taipei?"

Lin Heng showed a puzzled expression, "The provincial government is in Rongxi District."

From this perspective, although Wang Hang is a very immature kid who forms gangs and engages in underworld activities, he still has a good sense of proportion.

There are many hidden talents in New Taipei First High School. He is the son of the director of the New Taipei City Education Bureau. Although he has the bonus of being a "current manager", he is indeed not as good as some hidden bigwigs.

However, they should have known each other's family details for a long time. It is no wonder that everyone would exaggerate Li Yan's "mysterious background" as there are too many ready-made examples.

In other words, if Li Yan gets along well with this group of roommates and classmates, when he really plans to do something big, he will have ready-made powerful connections!

"So, it's impossible for me to go find Zheng Mo. She won't talk to me. Maybe you can go find her, but once she knows I'm there, she won't agree."

"How do you know if you don't try?"

Lin Heng showed fear and said, "It's the weekend now, and you can't get in touch with him anyway, so why not try using the guitar first?" Li Yan didn't force it because he really couldn't get in touch with him.

The two of them continued their journey of arranging the music, and then both looked sad.

They truly experienced what it means to be "stretched to the limit".

The knowledge in my head is not enough, and the musical instruments at hand are not enough. If we really get into the details, two people with one guitar can only play the rhythm at most, while the other can keep the rhythm.

Apart from the problem that the guitar tone does not match the atmosphere of the song, the final effect is also very thin.

It's totally different from the effect that Li Yan wrote on the music score.

"We can't do this," Lin Heng pondered. "Arranging music requires many lines. We are just relying on the guitar to play this one line live, which won't produce any effect."

"But the part that is overlaid with the vocals can still be finalized first. Let's use the guitar for now. I'll beat the rhythm and you can play it simply, so that we can have a rough outline first."

"Then find Teacher Tao?"

Lin Heng didn't realize that his original idea of ​​"simplification" had long been thrown out of the window. His mind was full of thoughts on how to create a sufficiently professional and stunning work.

Li Yan’s increasingly outrageous learning speed is the source of Lin Heng’s confidence.

In his eyes, there is no problem that Li Yan cannot solve. If there is really something stuck, just learn it.

When you spend more time with outrageous people, your own thoughts begin to become outrageous as well.

When the first wave of basketball teenagers came on the court in the morning, it was time for Li Yan and Lin Heng to return to the dormitory.

It’s better if no one watches this kind of creation.

Then the two of them shocked their roommates.

"How did it suddenly become possible?" Zhu Qinglun was stunned.

“This is called accumulation of strength leading to a sudden explosion.” Li Yan replied.

Lin Hengqiang suppressed his complaint, "You call that accumulation?"

Li Ruofei applauded repeatedly. "To be honest, it's better than I thought. I thought the atmosphere that Ayan described was too abstract. I didn't expect to really hear it from the music and feel like I was there."

"Don't praise it too early, this can only be considered a prototype." Li Yan was very confident.

"I'm really looking forward to it." Liang Tiancheng was very excited.

Li Yan remained rational about her roommate's praise, because praise that comes with low expectations is false.

It can whet their appetite and continue to shock them, that is what a good work is.

What Li wants is for everyone - no matter whether they are professional or not, picky or not - to express their heartfelt admiration on the day of the performance.

Sure enough, after listening to it twice more, Li Ruofei, whose music learning only stopped at "listening to music", also expressed his "thin" opinion.

Regarding the handling of some details, roommates also began to express their opinions.

Li Yan found this very useful; this was what he loved most about Dormitory 403. Everyone liked to delve into things, and although topics about children's nature were bound to come up randomly, everyone was serious and engaged in every topic.

The whole Saturday was spent adjusting the music. Lin Heng's voice became hoarse from singing, but he finally came up with a version of the song that "had no point in adjusting it any further."

Lin Heng, who was originally very anxious about the progress, suddenly felt relieved. Whether or not he had a guarantee in hand really had a huge impact on his mentality.

If it really doesn't work, just go on stage with two guitars, you can still put on a good show, and the original songs are enough as a gimmick.

Everything you do next is icing on the cake.

Lin Heng's mentality suddenly changed from "less than a month left" to "almost a month left".

"I thought I would have to spend this Sunday struggling with notes. Yan, do you want to play ball?"

"No, I..." Li Yan turned on the computer and looked at the message that popped up on the backend of Qiyuan Chinese website, "I have something to do tomorrow."

The message was: Dear author Shenfei Tangqi, congratulations, your novel "Nangong Shao Nian" has reached the contract conditions, please contact...

"Has the gear of fate turned?" This was the only thought in Li Yan's mind.

(End of this chapter)