China Entertainment 1997.

Chapter 23 Old Classmate Hu Jing

"If you really need a reason

Is 1 enough?

You take this feeling too seriously

I didn't say anything to let you go
......"

After Cao Xuan sang the song, the audience burst into enthusiastic cheers. He bowed deeply, turned around and stepped down, and the emcee hurried up to preside over the situation.

When they came to the backstage, a female staff member enthusiastically handed over a bottle of mineral water. Cao Xuan politely thanked him, but declined it, and drank from the cup in Zhang Chong's hand.

Sitting backstage and slowing down for a few minutes, Cao Xuan returned to the stage and sang "1 Reasons" again, and the performance task was over.

At noon, Cao Xuan ate a meal with the enthusiastic gold master, and was dragged by him to show it off in front of relatives and friends. The other party transferred the balance to Cao Xuan's account, and this commercial performance was completely completed.

Sitting in the back seat of the rented Santana, Cao Xuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Commercial performances often cannot avoid entertainment, which is often more tiring than singing.

Especially now, in order to protect his throat, Cao Xuan chose to stop drinking, and he was in an embarrassing situation at the dinner party. Fortunately, today's gold master is sensible, which saved him a lot of trouble.

Zhang Chong sat in the co-pilot and stared intently at the driver, intending to learn a few tricks, while Jiang Yue read Cao Xuan's announcements in the past few days.

"The day after tomorrow, there's an interview with the Beijing Metropolis Daily, a bar has opened in Gongti on the 24th, and there is a performance in Langshi on the 28th. Besides you, there are Huofeng and Sun Nan."

Cao Xuan heard that there were singers performing together, and stopped him: "Do you know how much their appearance fees are?"

"Huofeng 2 to 3, Sun Nan can't be sure, it should be about the same as you or a little more than you."

Cao Xuan raised his brows: "Good guy, I'm on par with Sun Nan?"

"What do you think."

Jiang Yue smiled and said proudly: "Although Sun Nan is famous, he can't hold back your singing. Now it is rumored that you may be on the Spring Festival Gala."

"Spring Festival Gala?"

Cao Xuan's spirit came to him in an instant. The Spring Festival Gala is not as lonely as later generations. It is at its peak and is one of the highest stages that all Chinese artists dream of.

How many singers became famous overnight in the Spring Festival Gala, and their worth doubled.

Don't look at Cao Xuan's commercial performances are soft now, but it is mostly because of "1 Reasons", his personal reputation is very vain.

The name Cao Xuan, without the prefix of the singer who sang "1 Reasons", many people don't know who it is, and even fewer remember his face.

To put it bluntly, Cao Xuan is now a singer who is not popular.

If you want to change this dilemma, you must brush your face more, and in the whole of China, there is no place where singers can brush their faces better than the Spring Festival Gala.

Cao Xuan really wanted to be on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.

But this matter can only be thought about. It is too difficult to go to the Spring Festival Gala, let alone the Spring Festival Gala. Cao Xuan, who is single-handedly, can't even get the resources of the TV platform.

Since he became famous in July, it has been October. Except for two news interviews, Cao Xuan has never shown his face on TV.

There is no way, these days, the resources of the TV platform are basically divided up by the big record companies and artists from various official units.

Only the top big names in the mainland or celebrities from Hong Kong and Taiwan can break the shackles and enter the venue by virtue of their fame and regional halo.

In general, mainland artists can only watch others eat meat with envy, and they can't even eat soup.

Cao Xuan has self-knowledge, but Jiang Yue has great confidence in him, there are contingencies for everything, "1 Reasons" is so popular, maybe the Spring Festival Gala will also return to the popularity.

.........

Let the driver drive Jiang Yue home. Cao Xuan, who had not eaten enough at the banquet before, took Zhang Chong to eat near Shichahai.

There is a restaurant specializing in mutton. The stir-fried mutton head meat and mutton offal soup are amazing. Zhang Chong discovered this place and took Cao Xuan once, and it immediately became Cao Xuan's favorite.

Entering the restaurant, the proprietress, who recently got acquainted with Cao Xuan, immediately greeted him with a smile.

"What do you want to eat today?"

"Two bowls of lamb offal soup, one pound of hand-cooked, one stir-fried lamb's head, and 5 burnt."

"Dele, you find a seat, and I'll place an order for you."

Cao Xuan found an empty table, Zhang Chong went to the counter and asked for two more bottles of drinks, his coke, and Cao Xuan's peanut milk.

After a while, the mutton soup came up. The slightly white mutton soup was full of intestines, liver, stomach and lungs. Cao Xuan put some chili oil and scooped a spoonful. The soup was delicious and full of mellow flavor.

While eating happily, a hesitant female voice rang from the adjacent table.

"...Cao Xuan?"

Cao Xuan swallowed the haggis in his mouth and looked back, she was a very beautiful girl.

He has a round face and big eyes, a pair of intoxicating dimples next to the small cherry mouth, a high nose bridge, white and tender skin, as if it can be broken by blowing a bullet, and the overall appearance is sweet and moist, with a kind of mixed-race exotic beauty.

Cao Xuan recognized the other party almost instantly.

"Hu Jing!"

"Oh, it's really you, you've changed so much, I thought I was wrong."

Over there, Hu Jing saw that Cao Xuan recognized herself and knew that she had not recognized the wrong person. Her big eyes turned into crescents with joy, and she immediately dragged another girl at the same table to Cao Xuan's table.

"Since the end of the training class, I haven't seen you. I went to the address you left to find it. The landlord said you moved out. I thought you had returned to your hometown."

"It's not going to go back to my hometown, it's just moving a place."

Cao Xuan asked Zhang Chong to move a stool and let Hu Jing sit down. Hu Jing introduced another girl by the way.

"This is Zhang Tong, my college roommate."

Then, she pointed to Cao Xuan and Zhang Tong to introduce: "I remember I told you before that I participated in a three-month performance training class before I was admitted to the theater, and he was my classmate in the training class, and he almost applied for our school. "

"Then why didn't you take the test in the end?" Zhang Tong puzzled.

"Because of poverty."

Cao Xuan laughed at himself: "The tuition fee for the first year of Chinese Opera is 1 yuan, not including accommodation tuition and miscellaneous fees. I can't afford it if I pass the test, so I didn't take the test."

In fact, Cao Xuan didn't say everything. The tuition fee is only part of the reason. The most important thing is that Cao Xuan is not a fresh student, and the various procedures for going to school are also very troublesome.

Moreover, after being admitted to Chinese opera, the school did not allow him to play, but in principle, he was not allowed to sing in bars, which meant that Cao Xuan lost his source of income and had to rely on his parents to support him.

So after thinking about it again and again, Cao Xuan still gave up the idea of ​​​​playing in the exam, which is also a small regret for him.

When she saw Cao Xuan again, Hu Jing was very happy. When she was in the training class, she had a good relationship with Cao Xuan. Later, she thought that Cao Xuan had left Beijing, and she felt depressed for several days.

Cao Xuan felt a little inexplicable.

In his impression, Hu Jing was a shy and introverted little girl who dared not speak loudly.

Now the Hu Jing that I see has become lively, cheerful, smart and generous, and is more inclined to Hu Jing, the star of the Eight Golden Flowers in the 96th class of the Chinese Opera in later generations.

University really does make a difference!

This meal was eaten for more than an hour, and the whole process was Hu Jing and Zhang Tong sharing their college life, complaining about the difficulty of homework in Chinese opera, and how hard their daily rehearsal was.

Cao Xuan and Zhang Chong listened to it with interest. The two who never went to college always have a longing and curiosity about college life.

Seeing this, Hu Jing invited Cao Xuan to watch their rehearsal tomorrow at Zhongxi Opera. Cao Xuan thought that she would go to the recording studio for an audition tomorrow, so she declined.

But he said that if there is a chance in the future, he will go to Zhongxi to visit Hu Jing, and he also left her his phone number.

(End of this chapter)