Middle Age: A Leisurely Life in the Entertainment Industry

Chapter 24 "Bai Suzhen at the foot of Qingcheng Mountain"

"Oh?" Ming Hanwen raised his thick eyebrows: "There are very few songs written purely in ancient Chinese pentatonic scales on the market."

The old man obviously didn't believe it.

Yu Dongqing didn't refute, and asked the father-in-law to go to the piano room in the east wing.

The mother-in-law, Liu Huiyan, once graduated from the Central Academy of Traditional Chinese Opera and sang Huangmei Opera, and later switched to piano practice. She is now a middle school music teacher. There is a special piano room at home. The two of them entered, and there was a piano inside.

Yu Dongqing was sitting by the piano stand, and he was going to play the popular martial arts song "A Laugh from the Sea".

This is a typical pentatonic song. In the 90s of the last century, Huang Zhan was commissioned to compose Tsui Hark's movie "Swordsman" and wrote six drafts. Tsui Hark was not satisfied. In desperation, he browsed at will In the ancient book "Lezhi", I saw a sentence, "Great joy must be easy".

I thought that the most "easy" thing was the Chinese pentatonic scale (gong, shang, jiao, zheng, yu), so I reversed it and changed it to "yu, zheng, jiao, shang, gong", so I wrote " The entire melody of "A Laugh in the Sea" became a masterpiece of martial arts music for a while.

However, when Yu Dongqing was about to play, he suddenly saw Liu Huiyan, the mother-in-law who was busy in the kitchen opposite him, and her heart moved, but she played and sang another folk tune:

Bai Suzhen at the foot of Mount Qingcheng

Cultivate this body in the cave for thousands of years

what……

Practice hard to get the Tao

reborn as a human

"Bai Suzhen under Qingcheng Mountain"!
This song was originally an episode in the TV series "Legend of the New White Snake", but it was later sung by the Good Sister Band, Ju Jingyi and others and became popular.

Ming Hanwen was surprised to hear Yu Dongqing babbling and singing this song with strong opera style.

What song is this?

It is obviously written in a pentatonic scale, but it doesn't look like a pop song. Why does the singing sound a bit like Huangmei Opera?

After Yu Dongqing finished singing, Ming Hanwen couldn't help asking: "Holly, the tone of your song should be like Huangmei Opera, right?"

Yu Dongqing was just about to answer when she heard a melodious female voice: "Hanwen, you are right. In fact, it should be more accurately called Huangmei Tiao. "Huangmei Tiao" is the predecessor of Huangmei Opera, which is another name for Huaiqiang. .”

As soon as Yu Dongqing raised her head, she saw a smiling young woman with an apron wrapped around her waist standing at the door. It was her mother-in-law—Liu Huiyan, standing next to the smiling bright.

The singing in the piano room just now naturally alarmed the mother and daughter who were busy in the kitchen.Liu Huiyan is not interested in popular songs, but when she suddenly heard this song with a grand opera style, she suddenly became curious and came to listen carefully.

This made her stunned.

Although it is the simplest theatrical singing, it is indeed Huangmei tune, which blends perfectly with popular songs, and it is so beautiful!

"Wow brother-in-law, you are awesome! I want to dance when I hear this song! Brother-in-law, sing it again!" Mingmei also came to join in the fun.

As Yu Dongqing's singing sounded again, Mingmei flicked her hands, as if throwing out her sleeves, walked in small steps, and danced to the rhythm of the song!

Flicking sleeves, raising fingers, and covering eyebrows, he learned in a decent way.

It seems that I have learned it seriously from my mother.

Seeing the old mother standing on the side, Ming Mei couldn't help laughing and said: "Mom, you also dance along, you were the Huadan of Huangmei Opera back then."

Yoo Hye-yeon also wants to dance.

When she heard the sound of the piano for the first time, she seemed to have a kind of magical power, which made her eager to try it, but her husband was present to dance with her son-in-law, and she couldn't hold back her face.

"Ahem, listen first, I'll go out and play." Ming Hanwen turned and left the room after speaking.

As soon as her husband left and encouraged by her daughter, Liu Huiyan also began to dance to the rhythm.

Sure enough, he is an expert. Although he is wearing ordinary home clothes with his movements and footsteps, in Yu Dongqing's eyes, he is just like Tsing Yi on the stage!
Such a soft figure, such charming eyes.
Who can tell that someone is over 40 years old?

Even Yu Dongqing's heart skipped a few beats, and her fingering on the piano almost got messed up.

this can't be a wild idea
Yu Dongqing held her breath and continued to sing seriously.

Seeing her mother dancing lightly, Mingmei stopped and clapped her hands: "Mom, you dance so beautifully!"

"I haven't danced for many years, I'm old." Liu Huiyan blushed after dancing.

"Mom, you're not old at all. When we were walking on the street, many people thought you were my older sister." Mingmei hugged her mother's neck with a smile, and pressed her pretty face intimately against her face: "Brother-in-law, you Say it?"

Yu Dongqing took a look.

It really is.

But it seems a bit inappropriate to let me answer as a son-in-law?
But he still nodded with a smile.

"It's not big or small! Don't make trouble, Tongtong, go cook with grandma!" Liu Huiyan patted her daughter on the head lightly, called her granddaughter who was watching the fun, and turned to leave.

Mingmei stuck out her tongue playfully from behind, and ran over to hug her mother, laughing and joking.

The birthday banquet was held with great joy, the father-in-law was happy, and the mother-in-law was also happy. After dinner in the evening, Yu Dongqing, father and daughter, were about to leave, and told him to come back often. Of course, Yu Dongqing readily agreed.

"Dad, Mom, I'm going back with my brother-in-law too." Mingmei said suddenly.

"What were you doing there?" Liu Huiyan frowned slightly.

Bright for good reason:

"My brother-in-law said this song "Bai Suzhen under Qingcheng Mountain" is suitable for girls to sing, so I'm going to record it at his house and upload it to Station B as soon as possible! Let more people hear it!"

This?
Liu Huiyan was just about to say something when she saw Ming Hanwen's doting expression: "Go, young man, he likes to play."

"Dad, you're so kind!" Mingmei jumped up happily, hugging her father and kissing him on the cheek.

"so rude!"

Ming Hanwen smiled wryly, he really had nothing to do with his little daughter.

Everything is used to.

Now that her husband had agreed, Liu Huiyan couldn't say anything more, so Mingmei took Yu Tongtong's hand and bid farewell to her parents with Yu Dongqing.

Seeing the three of them leaving the courtyard happily, Liu Huiyan sighed suddenly.

"What's the matter with you?"

"Hanwen, are you not worried?" Liu Huiyan asked back.

"What are you worried about?" Ming Hanwen was a little puzzled.

"Forget it. It's nothing." Liu Huiyan swallowed the words again.

Perhaps, I worry a little too much?

Besides, when Yu Dongqing was driving back in the car, she saw Mingmei chatting with Yu Tongtong in the rearview mirror, and recalled the reaction of her mother-in-law before leaving, Yu Dongqing said

"Liangmei, you shouldn't have come with me tonight."

"What's wrong? Brother-in-law, you don't welcome me?" Mingmei asked curiously.

"of course not."

"what is that?"

"That's fine, let's not talk about this, in fact, this song is more suitable for another person to sing than you."

"Who is it?" Mingmei was a little unconvinced.

"Your mother."
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(End of this chapter)