【New Red Mansion】Perfect World

Chapter 187: Pin Er 3 Spring Afternoon Tea Sets Sail Now

Since April, the boating afternoon tea designed by Su Miaoyu has been available to everyone. There are several streams in the Guanyuan Garden, which converge into a large lake. Su Miaoyu opened the teahouse because she liked this lake. It is a pity that she cannot use this lake for five months a year.

It was early June, and the weather was just right, neither too cold nor too hot. The boat they were on had just passed the Fengyi Water Pavilion. Now the flowers and plants in the garden were taken care of by a family named Liu. They first admired the camellia frame, then passed the peony garden, saw the peony garden, and passed by the rose garden and banana grove...

Sitting on the boat were: Lin Pin'er, Jia Tanchun, Jia Xichun, Jia Yingchun and Xing Xiuyan. Xiuyan came with them to serve tea. In the afternoon, they went to Tanchun's place to hold an activity for the "Family Art Research Society". The girls were now wearing all kinds of flowers on their heads. It turned out that today's activity was: hairpins with flowers.

Each of them prepared the flowers they needed. Lin Pin'er brought a bouquet of blue, pink and white flowers. The hairpin artist first helped them to put their hair up at the back of their heads, and then fixed the bun with small light blue irises around it. A large blooming flower was chosen as the main flower in the middle of the top of the head.

Lin Pin'er chose a pink and gold peony in full bloom, and decorated it with various small and medium-sized flowers. Pin'er chose more smoky gray wavy platycodon and milk-hearted peony, which made this head look round and fluffy. One or two mini gerberas Santorini were inserted on the side, and a few blue-purple swallowtails were inserted on the top of the head, which looked like butterflies lingering in the flowers.

It was rare for Jia Tanchun to do such a relaxing and leisure activity. Recently, she not only held a debate competition, but also a round-robin talk show. For that event, she placed a small round table in front of the sofa at home as a stage, and also equipped it with speakers and microphones.

Jia Yingchun has now joined the Jia family's company as an intern in finance. She is about to graduate from college, and this job was recommended by Li Wan. She is mainly responsible for the financial statistics of the "Family Art Research Society", and can be regarded as one of Li Wan's right-hand men.

Jia Xichun remained neutral on the surface, not getting close to anyone and not offending anyone. In fact, she had secretly taken a job in Li Shuirong's company, mainly helping them with some IP design work.

There was a porcelain basin at the stern, with a lotus plant growing inside, which had just begun to sprout. There was a tea table in the cabin, with long sofas on both sides. On the table were Chinese tea snacks: blue and white porcelain soft cheese, spring plum cakes, gardenia cakes, peony cakes, and magnolia cakes. Each fruit looked just as its name described, and looked very pretty on the table.

Lin Pin'er was wearing a silk gown with wide sleeves today. It had three buttons at the collar and exquisite embroidery on the chest and cuffs. She was wearing loose light yellow loose-fitting pants.

The boat stopped only when it reached the center of the lake. The rowing staff member, who was wearing a sun hat, was now sitting at the bow of the boat and took off the hat to wipe his sweat.

"She has worked hard, please give her a cup of tea!" Lin Pin'er picked up an empty cup, poured half of it, and asked Xing Xiuyan to pass it to her.

The man seemed to be about the same age as their eldest sister-in-law. He didn't dare to take the teacup. He just thanked them profusely and said, "I brought a cup for drinking water. Thank you."

"Then you can sit in the shade and have a rest." Tanchun said with a smile. The man moved towards them and sat in the shade. Then he took out a cup from the corner and drank water.

"I think it's only a good idea for them to sit here now. In July and August, they will be burned by the scorching sun," said Jia Xichun.

Xing Xiuyan said, "In July and August, there will be more people taking the boat in the evening."

"It's evening, and it's by the water. Will there be a lot of mosquitoes? I'm most afraid of mosquitoes."

"There will be mosquito-proof curtains by then." Xing Xiuyan continued.

Jia Tanchun nodded, and then said to Lin Pin'er, "Let's take more photos today and show them to Xiangyun later to make her jealous."

Lin Pin'er smiled and said, "Don't be naughty, she has something important to do. She saw how well we were having fun and she felt envious and aggrieved. Last time I told her that I would go to your place to participate in a debate competition, she was still uncomfortable. Now she has a full schedule of performances, and she has to learn bass and rehearse, so she is very busy."

After hearing this, Jia Tanchun nodded and said, "By the way, I saw that you were collecting lyrics on your Weibo. I would like to try, but I don't know how to write lyrics for a song." After that, she handed a piece of gardenia cake to Lin Pin'er, and then placed a small plate of blue and white porcelain cheese in front of Xichun, and presented a piece of magnolia cake to Jia Yingchun.

Lin Pin'er became interested as soon as she talked about music. She put down her snacks and started talking:

"For example, if I give you a demo, you can hum the melody first, and then convert the humming into lyrics. Use numbers to replace the lyrics, see the pattern, how to hum more comfortably, and slowly convert it into lyrics. Another thing is that the lyrics must be consistent with the mood and emotion expressed by the composition and arrangement, the meaning of the words and their content, as well as the rhythm, phrases, and meaning of the words."

"What about the rhyme?" Jia Tanchun asked.

"I don't really think about rhyme now. The key is mood and emotion. If there is a good emotional expression, it will be boring if it is restricted by rhyme and becomes stiff."

"Then tell me about the artistic conception of your current music composition and arrangement."

Lin Pin'er said a little embarrassedly: "The songs I write nowadays are all of a more relaxed and lovely style. Light and free with a little romance, just like our age and mood at the moment. There are a few worries, but not too much. There is a little ignorance of feelings, plus hope for the future."

Jia Tanchun clicked on a demo song sent by Lin Pin'er, and followed her instructions by humming first and then slowly taking in the lyrics.

"The sun shines on the tranquil lake,

Thinking of the ship that appeared in the dream.

Full of happiness, everyone is smiling,

Gorgeous cabin heart beat.

Treasure the time one by one...

Soaring into the sky, flying into space,

Towards the distant center of the universe.

Set sail now,

The ship is about to sail.

Towards the sky..."

In a blink of an eye, the lyrics before the first chorus were all completed, and I could hum along well.

"Very good!" Pin'er praised Tanchun.

"I'll write it down on my phone and polish it when I get back."

"If I had known you were so capable, I would have come to you earlier. It's been several months since I wrote the lyrics for the song I wrote for Baoyu."

Tanchun was happy to hear this. This is more difficult than writing a poem. It requires trying to figure out the composer's mood, which is quite interesting.

Lin Pin'er said to them again: "When it comes to writing lyrics, Yun'er is really good. She can write lyrics immediately after listening to the music. But now her band is collecting songs everywhere, and she is probably running out of ideas.

Su Miaoyu is also very good at organizing and revising. When I moved to a new house, she and Yun'er worked together to rewrite a very long lyric.

Xichun asked mischievously, "Why did you let someone else write the lyrics for the song you composed yourself?"

Lin Pin'er was just about to take a bite of the pastry, but put it down again.

"As for me, I want something new. And I feel that I am not good at writing lyrics now. Every time I write lyrics, there is always that unspeakable melancholy, and what I write is always sad. But my music is cheerful, which is a bit contradictory. So I started to collect lyrics. Now I have almost six songs, and two of them are collected by my agent from the music library of Hong Kong creators. The digital album will be released soon." Lin Pin'er counted on her fingers, looking lively and cute.

"Will there be no vinyl record this time?" Xichun asked again.

"Sister Xi's idea is to release a digital album first. If the sales are good, take photos and release some PBs. The threshold for vinyl records is too high. They will only be released if the album is very popular."

Jia Yingchun listened for an entire afternoon and finally spoke:

"That is to say, your agent is here to help you make money. I also felt that you were just playing around before, not making money from this business. Now it sounds like this Sister Xi is quite reliable."

"That's right. If I had known that Sister Yingchun could see things so clearly, I should have asked you to be our agent!"

"I can't. I can understand her intentions. But I can't make these choices."