Chapter 11 - A Surprise at the Gas Station

Lin Mingyang's joining the old Ruide's gas station brought new vitality, everyone soon recognized this boy with a smile as warm as the afternoon sun, but also remembered the boy's mouth often humming an unknown music. The light rhythm was as infectious as Lin Mingyang's smile, and many customers were willing to give him their cars to clean, and feel the boy's clear voice at the same time.

Lin Mingyang didn't notice anything wrong with his self-indulgent way of entertaining himself, and life went on as usual.

As usual, Lin Ming Yang came to the gas station early, he changed into his work clothes, the old Reed's old Ford car which rattled into the gas station, the sleepy-eyed Reed walked down from the passenger seat and greeted him breathlessly.

By the time Reed had somewhat dawdled in changing his clothes and stepped out of his room, Lin Ming Yang had already sent off the first guest of the morning with a smile. The yawning Reid walked past Lin Ming Yang before he once again heard that familiar song. "Hey Felix, I'm pretty sure you're singing this song that I've definitely never heard anywhere else before, can you tell me what it's called?"

"WhenTherewasMeandYou" Lin Ming Yang blurted out the name of the song almost subconsciously.

"Are you sure you can find this song on the internet?" Reid added a question.

"I think...it's probably possible!" Lin Mingyang's tone suddenly became stilted, and the look on his brow was somewhat perverse.

Reed didn't pay too much attention to this strange answer, he just casually slipped the small slip of paper with the song title into his pants pocket, and it didn't take long before he would forget about it.

Ruide this guy has no heart, but Lin Mingyang on the side of this matter is nervous for half a day, he knows that Ruide this guy usually in addition to love to play games, but also did not hear that he has a hobby of listening to music. Even if he couldn't find the song on the internet, he could just find an excuse to get rid of it. After figuring out these joints, Lin Ming Yang was relieved, seeing that Reed didn't bring up this matter again, he finally let go of his heart.

If Ruide were to really search the internet, I guess he would really find something wrong. It was important to know that the song Lin Ming Yang had been humming, "WhenTherewasMeandYou", was an interlude in a movie that would only be released in 2006. Reed's thoughtlessness had reminded him of it, and in the future, if someone asked about it again, he might as well keep another eye out for it.

Because of the recent increase in gas prices, there was a long line outside the gas station, and this little incident was quickly passed over by the busy work, and even the little slip of paper with the name of the song in Reed's pocket was handed to a truck driver as a note to record his phone number, and both parties involved coincidentally forgot about it.

This round of oil panic did not last too long, with the U.S. in Afghanistan to achieve a stage of victory on the battlefield, once high international oil prices fell back sharply, it is difficult to appear outside the gas station before the kind of queuing phenomenon, life has returned to the previous calm. Perhaps things should end quietly like this, but it was at this time that the accident happened.

From noon to receive a text message, Lin Mingyang's mood has become lighter, the Firefox on the players in the eyes of the "Devil Coach" Jefferson suddenly fell ill, although the condition is not very serious, but the doctor recommended that he stay in bed for a period of time, so the rest of the half-month he made a good training program for those who are all out of the question. He had no choice but to leave his players a short vacation, although everyone sent him a message of condolence, but before the end of the vacation, no one will sincerely hope that he will be able to get well.

After training intensely for such a long time, everyone really needed some time to relax, and this news was considered good news for the Firefoxes players, including Lin Mingyang, so at the gas station, everyone heard that long-lost melody from Lin Mingyang's mouth again.

Reed has long played the want to search for songs on the Internet to the clouds, recently he has been fiddling with his new cell phone, mysterious as if he was texting with someone, after all, it is the person's private affairs, Lin Mingyang is also too lazy to ask.

In a good mood, he hummed the song "When There Was Me and You" while seriously polishing a black car. Reed, on the other hand, was playing with his new cell phone, not noticing when the blue Buick pulled into the gas station. By the time Reed reacted, the Buick had already stopped, and he hurriedly shoved his cell phone into his pocket and greeted him enthusiastically.

Stepping out of the Buick was a middle-aged man who looked a little strange, and instead of being busy opening his gas cap like the other customers, he stood there frozen, seemingly mesmerized by something. He only came back to his senses when Reed walked up to him.

"Are you ready to fill up with gas, sir?" Reed asked politely.

"Uh...yes!" The man answered a bit vaguely, but after the words were finished there was no further movement, still standing straight there.

"Sir?" Reed asked cautiously, knowing that the weirder the demeanor, the worse the temper. On the first impression, he had categorized this middle-aged man into one of those customers who were not easy to deal with.

"What?" The "weird uncle" in Reed's eyes hadn't fully reacted to what was going on, and the somewhat unhappy expression on his face clearly smiled at Reed for disturbing him.

"You have to open the gas cap!" Reed whispered stiffly.

"Oh!" The older man slapped his head, "See how I forgot about that when I came to get gas!"

"Sir?" It wasn't more than half a minute before Reed's somewhat hesitant voice interrupted him once more.

"What is it this time, I've already opened the gas cap, do I still have to put the pipe in for you?" The older man said with some exasperation.

"But your gas tank is full!" Reed had an innocent expression on his face, he really had some doubts whether this one in front of him was deliberately teasing him.

"Oh my!" The older man gently covered his mouth with his hand, "I forgot that I had already filled up the gas tank once elsewhere when I came here!"

"It's not April Fool's Day!" It was Reed's turn to get a little upset.

"I'm so sorry!" The older man scratched his head a little shamefully, then pulled a ten dollar bill out of his pocket, "For everything you've done for me, it's yours now!"

The other party gave a generous tip, Reed naturally had no reason to refuse, putting the money into his pants pocket, he still had an unbelievable expression on his face.

"That guy over there who is polishing the car is your colleague?" The strange uncle asked seemingly casually.

"He's my classmate who came here on vacation to work part-time!" For the sake of the banknote that came to him without any effort, Ruide easily "betrayed" the information about Lin Mingyang to the strange uncle.

From Ruide's mouth to get out a lot of useful information, but the strange uncle's face of doubtful expression became more and more intense, he overheard his neighbor humming a melody of this song, feel very strange, and asked to learn that this side of the gas station has come to an interesting teenager. With a strong curiosity, he found this place, but got an even more unexpected answer.

In order to further answer the questions in his mind, this strange uncle decided to talk to Lin Mingyang personally.

"Do you also need a car wash?" Lin Ming Yang initially did not suspect this uncle who came up to him, and the other party's kind expression even made him feel a little good. But this good feeling didn't last too long, because the next thing he heard from the other party was a question he didn't want to hear.

"That song you just cleared, can you tell me its name?"

"Why are you interested in this?" Lin Ming Yang put away the smile on his face, he was already wary of the man in front of him.

"I consider myself knowledgeable about all music including pop songs, but I've never heard you sing this song before, from the melody to the lyrics, it amazes me!"

Lin Mingyang didn't expect this worst outcome to be stumbled upon by himself, the other party's words almost blocked all directions of his defense, and he believed that he had really met a connoisseur this time. Despite the huge waves that had risen inside, Lin Mingyang maintained enough composure on the surface. "May I ask who you are?"

"Kenny Ortega, a director who isn't really very famous, but whose study of music is definitely no worse than those professionals!" This self-introduction of hers was interesting, but what really surprised Lin Ming Yang was the name Kenny Ortega.

As the owner of the name said, he himself wasn't a big name known to everyone, but the name had once been associated with the opening ceremony of the 19th Winter Olympic Games and had appeared in people's view as the general director of the King of Heaven Michael Jackson's curtain-raising finale, "This Is It".

If these alone were not enough to make Lin Ming Yang have such a great reaction, it was on the contrary that this Kenny Ortega had also directed a popular song and dance TV movie, and the song "When There Was Me and You" that Lin Ming Yang had just sung was exactly from the first episode of this song and dance movie series. Fake Li Kui had met the real whirlwind, which gave Lin Ming Yang the feeling that he had nowhere to hide.

"I really want to know the name of that song, if you can provide the lyrics or the score, that would be perfect!" Kenny Ortega rubbed his hands together with a longing expression on his face.

"You really want to know?" Lin Mingyang, who had been pushed to the brink of extinction, suddenly had a desperate thought, and then he threw out a statement that made even Kenny Ortega feel very surprised. "This is a song I wrote myself called WhenTherewasMeandYou."

By saying this, Lin Mingyang sense was precisely certain that the song had not yet appeared at this point in time, and that its original author had not even begun to conceptualize it. Since he couldn't find a suitable reason to do so, Lin Ming Yang simply took its place, and the appearance of Kenny Ortega gave him a bold idea.

"Felix Lin, an amateur screenwriting enthusiast who is also interested in musicals!" This self-introduction by Lin Mingyang was obviously copied from Kenny Ortega's version.

When he heard the word musical, Lin Mingyang noticed Kenny Ortega's eyes light up. He seemed to have stopped doubting whether Lin Ming Yang was the author of the song or not, this was all a minor issue and it wasn't too difficult to verify, the key was that Lin Ming Yang's self-introduction also revealed another kind of important information, that is, a musical.

"So you've written other songs, or you've created a musical, that song just now is just one part of it!"

"Would you like to take a look at the script I wrote?" Lin Mingyang deliberately made a look of surprise on his face, which was very much in line with how an amateur screenwriter should react when he came across a professional director. And his just-right expression made Kenny Ortega more and more certain that the boy in front of him was going to bring himself a surprise!