Chapter 307 [Waiting alone, finale Spring Festival Gala]
Liang Kun's attendance rate this semester is still not high, and he has never read many professional books except when he is in school.
After the final exam results came out, everyone found that he had taken the seventh place in the Chinese department again, better than most students who teach in school every day. He could remember a lot of knowledge by just flipping through books, which made everyone envious of this talent.
Among the six people living in the "elite center", Liang Kun is also the one with the best grades. Others cannot enter the top ten in the academy for the written test, and their performance is average in their respective classes. Constantine, an international student, is the worst. He won if he fails the subject.
Liang Kun has to participate in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and record a new album in Yanjing. He won’t go home for the New Year. Liang Shuang still has to go back. Wei Kun is worried that she will take the train home alone, so he made a bold decision to drive her back to Quancheng.
He specially checked a suitable route, which was more than 400 kilometers and had a round trip of about 900 kilometers. The fuel fee plus the expressway toll will cost about 800 yuan.
This is much more expensive than Liang Shuang's train home by herself, but the meaning is completely different. Both of them feel quite sweet. They are not bored on chatting on the road, and Wei Kun can still go to the house to take a ride when he arrives in Quancheng.
If Wei Kun went to their new home as a guest, it would feel like Liang Shuang was going to get her boyfriend to meet her parents. But neither of them felt that there was any problem. It was probably related to the way of talking about love and her thoughts were relatively pure.
Liang Kun did not object. Liang Shuang was sent home, which was indeed safer than taking an ordinary train back by herself. Taking a train in this era was even more torture, and the speed was too slow.
Although he was very satisfied with Wei Kun's performance, Liang Kun could not learn to send his girlfriend home. He just booked a first-class air ticket to the Magic City for Tang Qi, and did not personally take her to the airport.
His popularity continues to increase. Yanjing entertainment reporters have remembered Sun Rui's business car, Constantine's Audi, and Xu Zhenzhen's Santana. No matter which car he takes to the airport, he may be followed by reporters, revealing the fact that he has a girlfriend.
Starting this year, a reporter has been following outside the community where Liang Kun lives. It is impossible for him to hide where he lives from everyone. Many young reporters want to poach his big news, especially in terms of relationships, so that they have the opportunity to get ahead.
Therefore, Liang Kun asked Li Mei, a native of Yanjing, to send Tang Qi away, and no one would stare at a small employee of Yingyi Entertainment Company.
Tang Qi understood Liang Kun's choice. Before the filming of "Sorry, I Love", people didn't know that they knew each other better. She might get two evaluations, whether she auditioned with her skills or won the role by relying on her relationships. She hopes that the audience thinks she is capable.
On the 18th, Liang Kun was the only one left in the family.
Everyone was on holiday with their parents and their relatives were on New Year's Day. Constantine didn't care about New Year's Day, but his parents took the annual leave and the family wanted to go back to France to visit their relatives.
Xu Zhenzhen is going to go to her grandfather and grandma’s house to celebrate the New Year and will not live here. The only thing left is that she and Liang Kun will live together at home will definitely lead to misunderstandings.
Liang Kun doesn't feel lonely, there is too much serious work to do.
The Spring Festival Gala has reached its final preparation stage, and his new album is also planned to be released after the New Year. The album is released in the New Year, and young people are likely to buy it, and most people just happen to have New Year’s money.
Liang Kun was not idle for a day after the holiday. On the 18th and the evening of the 19th, he was rehearsed by the audience on the 20th, he was rehearsed by the audience on the 21st and 23rd, he was rehearsed by the 22nd, 24th, 26th and 28th, and he was recorded on the 29th and prepared for the broadcast.
Although Liang Kun only sang a song, he had to attend the rehearsal, and such activities were absolutely not allowed to be a big shot.
This is why many celebrities were reluctant to appear on the Spring Festival Gala later. It was really tiring and under great pressure to prepare for the show. Later, a famous sketch actor even said: "Unless I am criminally detained, I will not appear on the Spring Festival Gala again!"
Liang Kun sang better and better. The last four rehearsals he participated in were shocking, and all of them were completed with zero defects.
This time, the CCTV director did not care about Liang Kun's age and directly arranged his solo program to the finale. Only one solo singer appeared after him, Tian Zhen's "Rainbow and Rose".
The director felt that Liang Kun could not appear first. He could turn the scene into a solo concert, which was more infectious than Aaron Kwok, one of the four great kings, who was a singer from Hong Kong.
Liang Kun appeared in the 34th place, Aaron Kwok-cheng appeared in the 21st place, and earlier was Hong Kong female singer Lin Yilian, who appeared in the 12th place.
On January 31, the day for the official performance finally came.
At 8 o'clock in the evening, Wang Xiuying went to the bedroom door to call Liang Shuang. "Stop chatting online, come here to watch the Spring Festival Gala together, don't you pay attention to your show?"
"He said that the show was very low-level. Zhao Bonshan finished the sketch and he would only go on it later. I'll call me when Uncle Bonshan appears." Liang Shuang typed at the computer.
The person she chats with is Wei Kun. Young people don’t like watching the Spring Festival Gala, and it’s not as interesting as the concerts of big-name singers.
Wang Xiuying went back to the living room, sat on the sofa and sighed: "You are not a woman."
"It's pretty good. The child Wei Kun has a similar figure to ours, and he looks a bit like him. Isn't it obvious that he has a fate with our family?" Liang Guohui said with a smile.
The father-in-law rarely looks at the other person as a "son-in-law", but Wei Kun did it. He has a good image and better family conditions. Liang Guohui is only worried that his daughter and him will not be able to end up.
Wei Kun sent Liang Shuang home. He wanted to stay in a nearby hotel for one night, and then returned to Yanjing the next day. He didn't expect that the old couple was so enthusiastic, so he just kept him at home for one night and let him sleep in Liang Kun's room.
I haven't bought a house for a long time, and Liang Kun hasn't lived in this room yet, and the things are all new.
The next day, Liang Shuang and Wei Kun visited Daming Lake and Baotu Spring, a famous scenic spot in Quancheng, and tasted some delicious food. After saying hello to the old couple, Wei Kun drove home in the evening.
This year's Spring Festival Gala has a very cliché start. The first two programs are group singing and dancing. The dancers' faces are full of smiles, striving to create a festive New Year atmosphere.
Liang Guohui and Wang Xiuying watched and complained as before, but did not change the channel. Many viewers in front of the TV had similar mentality to them. Watching the Spring Festival Gala was just a habit, and there were not many interesting programs.
This year's Spring Festival Gala started to promote it very early, and everyone knows that the director wants to come up with some new tricks. The crew has set up an official website, and there are more news about the Spring Festival Gala published in the "China Television News" than in previous years.
The crew not only introduced the big stars who performed on stage, but also collected sketches, program ideas, songs, etc. on the website, including "Song of Songs for the 2003 Spring Festival Gala", "Sound of the Zero Plan for the Spring Festival Gala", and "Sound of the Spring Festival Gala New Year Hope Collection Activities".
The crew interacted with the audience in this way and wanted to select programs that most viewers liked. In less than a month after the "Song Collection" was launched, more than 2,000 songs were collected, and they would filter out appropriate songs and let celebrities sing them.
The third program is the song collected by the audience. The song "DV Tonight" was sung by mainland star Xie Xiaodong and Xiangjiang star Zhang Baizhi.
Zhang Baizhi was cheated when he was on the Spring Festival Gala for the first time and could only sing with his face to attract the audience. The tune of this song is extremely weird, and the lyrics are like DV advertisements, which makes her even more weird. She also has to smile and sing it hard.
As it turns out, original works from the folks won’t be any classic song, and no one thinks this song is good.
Almost all the audience complained, and the only highlight was that Zhang Baizhizhen sings. If the lip-syncing is of this level, it would be too sad.
The subsequent programs also have a lot of frustrations, but lack highlights.
The crosstalk sketches at this evening party pursue practical significance and talk about the great principles, trying to awaken the audience in front of the TV and pay attention to the relatives around them who have been ignored due to their busy work.
The director overlooked a serious problem, that is, the show is not funny. Are the audiences here to get education when watching the Spring Festival Gala? They just want to have fun, right?
Unfortunately, the director was determined to be a "educator", and most of the programs he created were of this type. It was not until Lin Yilian appeared in the solo sing "At least" that the audience felt it was interesting. Then some operas and folk songs made people drowsy again.
Folk songs and operas are difficult to attract audiences, and popular songs have been suppressed in the Spring Festival Gala. The result is that a singer who can sing a new pop song alone will inevitably become the focus of attention, and the effect of cover and refrying cold rice will be worse.
Aaron Kwok's "Moving" is a "refreshing" song. This song is not his representative work, nor has it won any awards. It is just a football advertising song released in 2000.
If he sang "Move" in 2002, fans might like it. Now it's 2003, and everyone is too lazy to mention the sport of football.
Zhao Bengshan's sketch "Heart Disease" also disappointed the audience. The setting of a psychologist in rural areas is very fake, and the plot of finding that his wife is someone else's first lover is not funny.
Countless elderly viewers in front of the TV actually heard this line on the Spring Festival Gala: "I don't want to know how I came here, I just want to know why I have no land. No matter how well the house is built, it is a temporary residence, and this small box is the permanent home."
It’s the New Year, isn’t this going to cause trouble for people?
But this is already the best sketch today. Many people's scripts have been killed. In order to perform good works, Zhao Bonshan has not slept well for several days and nights to modify the script.
The ratings of the Spring Festival Gala are not bad. There are few entertainment projects in this era, so there is nothing to watch when we get together except the Spring Festival Gala.
"It's really boring. Zhao Bengshan's sketches are not very funny. There will definitely be no good sketches next." Liang Guohui sighed.
Wang Xiuying is looking forward to it even more. "Kun Kun's show has not yet come out, maybe he performed the best. It's so cool. Have you ever heard of his new song?"
"I've heard of it. I've heard of the songs he's going to put in the album. I've played piano concerts every day." Liang Shuang smiled and said, "He must be very outstanding today."
After American magician Bray Dennis performed a boring magic trick, it was finally Liang Kun's turn to play.
The song he wants to sing solo is "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky"!
Chapter completed!