Chapter 134: 134 How Are You Even More Skilled Than Me?
“Teacher Wang, is this how I should draw this problem?”
Fu Hanwen pondered for a long time and finally felt like he had figured out one problem, so he shouted this out.
Wang Heng leaned over to look, and that messy circuit diagram made him frown involuntarily. After carefully sorting it out for a while, he noticed a problem.
“Your train of thought is fine, but you drew the XOR gate wrong.”
Fu Hanwen: “No way?”
Wang Heng: “Also, let me remind you, don’t foolishly draw a bunch of logic gates. During the exam, you’re supposed to simplify it. With AND gates and XOR gates, why not just label it as a half adder?”
Fu Hanwen: “I forgot…”
Wang Heng patted his shoulder: “Take it slow. There’s still a few days until the exam anyway, plenty of time.”
Fu Hanwen’s face fell immediately: “But I haven’t finished reviewing mathematics yet…”
Wang Heng: “Heh, that’s what you get for always playing together instead of studying?”
Tang Hexing on the side suddenly raised his hand: “Teacher Wang, I have a question too.”
But just as Wang Heng walked over to Xiao Tang, his mobile phone rang. The caller ID showed Pei Ningle’s phone.
Tang Hexing looked up at him and asked: “Is that a girl’s phone?”
Wang Heng was just stunned for a moment, and while he was still considering whether to tell the truth, his roommates already understood a lot.
Fu Hanwen: “It’s indeed a girl… Teacher Wang, you should take the call.”
Wang Ke: “Yeah, wooing girls is the top priority.”
Tang Hexing: “Hey, hey, hey, when Teacher Wang is explaining problems to you guys, you don’t say stuff like that, but as soon as it’s my turn, you start?”
Fu Hanwen: “Who told you to be so unlucky?”
Wang Heng sighed, shook his head, walked out of the dormitory, and answered the call.
“My agent mister, the lyrics and music are all done, and I even have a rough idea for the arrangement. The next step is finding a recording studio, so now it’s all up to you!”
As Pei Ningle finished speaking, Wang Heng had reached an empty corner at the end of the corridor.
He replied: “Of course no problem, I’ll contact them for you right now.”
Pei Ningle was silent for a moment, then asked: “Lately, aren’t you preparing for the final exam?”
Wang Heng: “Correct, what’s up?”
Pei Ningle said very softly: “I’ve checked a lot of materials and figured it out… Making a song has so many steps. Lyrics and music are just the first. Then there’s arrangement, recording, mixing, and mastering. All of them are super complex.”
The young girl’s implication was something Wang Heng could guess without thinking. Clearly, facing a professional field she had never stepped into, she needed more help and companionship.
However, Wang Heng said: “I’m just an agent. I know nothing about making music. What I can do is promote it online for you after you finish the song. As for how to make the song, that you’ll have to do yourself.”
Pei Ningle murmured: “Rely on myself, huh…”
Wang Heng: “Yeah, think about it carefully. Why did I take a liking to you in the first place? Because of your intuition, your talent—even an outsider could see it at a glance. Your biggest problem right now is having ideas but not implementing them, so you have no tag.”
Pei Ningle: “Tag?”
Wang Heng: “Since you want to be an original musician, your tag should be your own work. Your first original work doesn’t need to be very professional or elaborate, but it must highlight your advantage, which is your intuition and talent.”
Pei Ningle: “Intuition and talent, huh…”
Wang Heng: “So I think your first original doesn’t need overly complex arrangement, doesn’t need too much accompaniment—even just guitar or piano is fine. Keep it as simple as possible to highlight your voice and singing skills.”
Hearing him say this, Pei Ningle suddenly felt enlightened.
“I know what to do now, thanks!”
Wang Heng: “Good. Also, I already picked a recording studio in Rongdu online earlier and asked them. For relatively simple recording plus post-production, it can be kept around one thousand yuan.”
Pei Ningle: “That cheap? The ones I saw online were much more expensive…”
Wang Heng smiled: “Of course it’s cheap. The one I found isn’t particularly professional or high-end, maybe a bit amateur. But the recording effect will definitely be much better than recording at home yourself. In a bit, I’ll send you the recording studio boss’s contact phone and the address.”
Pei Ningle: “And then, I go by myself?”
“What else?” Wang Heng said earnestly, “You’re an independent musician. You need a strong mentality, to be independent!”
The young girl said weakly: “Okay, I’ll try…”
After hanging up, Wang Heng sent the recording studio contact info and address.
After sending the message, he couldn’t help but mock himself: “Is it too much to take fifty percent commission for doing this little? Tsk, whatever, I have final exams to review anyway—such a solid reason.”
But thinking carefully, wasn’t there some risk in this?
So Wang Heng quickly returned to the dormitory, grabbed the hamster sleeping a nap from its cage, went to the balcony, and closed the door.
“Will Pei Ningle encounter some unexpected danger going to the recording studio alone?”
The hamster rubbed its little eyes, and after a few seconds, finally woke up.
Then it asked back: “Are you worried there are bad people in the recording studio?”
Wang Heng: “Something like that. That kind of risk, right?”
The hamster looked up at the sky thoughtfully, then stared at him and said in a very affirmative tone: “No.”
Wang Heng: “So I don’t need to worry about Pei Ningle, and she won’t encounter any accidents, right?”
Hamster: “No, her song recording will go smoothly and safely.”
“Good.”
Wang Heng breathed a sigh of relief, opened the door, went back inside the dormitory, and stuffed the hamster back into the cage.
The hamster hesitated to speak—I only said she won’t encounter accidents, but didn’t say Pei Ningle is definitely going alone.
But thinking about it, why reveal it so clearly? He didn’t ask anyway.
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“You should be preparing for final exams, yet you came to accompany me…”
Pei Ningle looked at her best friend in front of her, feeling quite touched.
Han Yixuan smiled: “This is what I should do. Xiao Le is so cute, I was even afraid you’d get kidnapped by bad people!”
Pei Ningle sighed softly, looking a bit melancholy.
Han Yixuan immediately realized—she and Wang Heng both had exams to prepare for, but made different choices. Since that’s the case, could she use this to reduce Pei Ningle’s favorability toward Wang Heng?
However, before Han Yixuan could say anything to stir things up, Pei Ningle said very insightfully: “He told me to be independent from now on, and thinking about it, it really makes sense. Originally, when I ran away from home, I decided I couldn’t rely on others and had to carve out my own place by myself. But after meeting him, my mentality changed… This won’t do. He definitely wouldn’t like a girl who depends on others all the time.”
Han Yixuan was stunned.
Hey, hey, he rejected you just because he didn’t want trouble, how did you overthink it like this? How are you even more skilled at it than me?
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