China Entertainment 1997.

Chapter 34 "Song of a Hero" and the distraught Zeng Li

In the late 90s, television has become very popular in my country.

At the end of 1997, the Ministry of Electronics Industry, which has not yet been abolished, made a general statistic that the number of color TV sets owned by urban residents in my country has exceeded 95%, and the number of color TV sets in rural areas has reached 32.5%.

Note that this is only the number of color TVs. If black and white TVs are included, the number of TVs in rural areas can be doubled.

TV sets have become an indispensable household appliance for every household in China......

However, while television is pervasive, cable networks haven't quite caught up, and most of them only work in cities or towns.

As for the TV in the countryside, if you want to receive the signal, you need to make your own antenna or spend money to buy a satellite antenna, which is commonly known as the size of the pot cover.

But whether it is a cable TV, satellite antenna, or a homemade antenna, no matter how many channel signals are received, there is always a guaranteed TV channel.

That is, CCTV set!
Channel call sign CCTV1, full name: CCTV Integrated Channel, is the earliest developed, most installed and most influential TV station in China.

At the same time, it has the programs "News Network" and "Spring Festival Gala" with the highest ratings in China, as well as the TV drama theater with the most audiences - the golden file.

In this era when CCTV is almost a monopoly, a set of CCTV's prime time at 8 pm is almost equivalent to the guarantee of ratings.

If you add the two halos of CCTV's New Year's drama and the four famous novels, the power generated is enough to make the entire industry tremble.

In the first two episodes, it won 35% of the ratings.

Again, the current ratings statistics are unreliable, and the water content is too high.

However, the data for a single drama is not reliable. You can roughly estimate the data of "Water Margin" by comparing the ratings of other TV dramas in the same period of "Water Margin".

As a result, of course, "Water Margin" was one-sided, beating and crushing.

Regardless of the region, the national ratings of "Water Margin" surpassed the second-ranked TV series by nearly 20 percentage points.

The ratings data of a drama "Water Margin" is the sum of the ratings of the second to fourth TV dramas.

"Water Margin" was no surprise, and it was a mess.

Zang Jinsheng, who played Lu Zhishen, had not been discharged from the hospital at this time, and the ward was directly surrounded by the audience. Thanks to the help of the nurse and doctor, Master Lu would have to be forced to perform an inverted cupping oxygen tank on the spot.

However, Zang Jinsheng was only the first beneficiary, and the episodes of "Water Margin" continued to be broadcast.

Lin Chong, Yang Zhi, Chao Gai, Wu Yong, Song Jiang and other Liangshan heroes appeared one by one, and many actors followed the big fire or small fire.

By the time the 10th episode of "Water Margin" aired, the national audience rating had soared to 48%. According to statistics, it has monopolized nearly half of the TV sets in the same period.

Horror!
Also popular all over the country is the theme song "Song of a Hero" of "Water Margin".

The heroic lyrics and melody, combined with the super popularity of "Water Margin", "Song of a Hero" quickly became popular.

In a short period of time, it reached the top of the major music charts, rubbing the lingering "Soft Heart" and "1 Reasons" and Liu Tianwang's just-released "Ice Rain" on the ground.

With this song, Liu Huan became famous, and his career went to a higher level, and he became a representative figure in the mainland music scene.

It is said that the Spring Festival Gala program team has contacted him and is going to let him temporarily stop to participate in this year's Spring Festival Gala.

It can be seen how popular "Water Margin" and "Song of Heroes" are now!

.........

On January 1, Cao Xuan saw off Hu Jing and Zeng Li, who had gone home for the Chinese New Year at the Jingcheng Railway Station.

It happened that the two of them got tickets on the same day, which was convenient for Cao Xuan.

Qin Hailu, Yuan Quan, Zhang Tong, and Li Min were accompanied by the four golden flowers on the train that day. Zhang Ziyi is a native of Beijing and went home yesterday.

This is also the first collective meeting between Cao Xuan and the Golden Flowers in Chinese opera. These Golden Flowers who have become famous in the future are still very young.

Qin Hailu was a little stunned. She had the tiger-like aura of a woman from the North, her family was very good, and she was wearing a brand of goods.

Yuanquan is introverted, quiet, doesn't like to talk, and doesn't say hello much.

Zhang Tong had a relationship with Cao Xuan once, and he was considered the "most familiar" with Cao Xuan, but he always turned around Cao Xuan, Hu Jing, and Zeng Li with a pair of gossip eyes, which made Cao Xuan feel awkward.

Li Min and Hu Jing have an average relationship, they don't get involved very much, and they continue to paddle.

Cao Xuan is also the least impressed with her, only vaguely remember that she seems to have acted in "Ji Xiaolan with Iron Teeth Bronze Teeth", and later changed her name to Li Xinyu.

Qin Hailu and the others were also watching Cao Xuan silently.

The people are really handsome and have a very easy-going personality. They don't have the air of singers. They are afraid that they will be hungry on the road. They even bought food and drink for each of them at the station.

Several people had a good first impression of Cao Xuan.

Hu Jing's train went first, and she got on the bus with a few fellow villagers in Yunnan Province, followed by others, Zeng Li and Yuanquan stayed last.

Both of them are from Jing City, E Province. They studied opera together in junior high school. After graduation, they were assigned to the same troupe, and then they were admitted to Chinese opera together. They are also classmates, fellow villagers and colleagues.

Yuanquan is also the closest one of Zhongjinhua and Zeng Li in Class 96, and even Hu Jing is slightly inferior.

While waiting for the bus, Cao Xuan pulled Zeng Li aside and stuffed her with something.

Yuanquan was very curious, but because of his personality, he held back and did not speak. He couldn't help asking questions until he got into the car with Zeng Li.

"Lizi, Cao Xuan gave you something just now."

Zeng Li glanced left and right, and whispered in Yuanquan's ears, "Electric baton, for self-defense."

"Is it reliable?"

Yuanquan's eyes lit up. In the 90s, train robbery incidents occurred frequently. He had an electric baton for self-defense, which greatly improved the safety rate.

However, the electric baton is not cheap, and most of the products on the market are low-quality parallel imports. The real guy has to find a way. For college students like Yuanquan and Zeng Li, it is difficult to get them.

"He said that he had tried the power, and it was comparable to police use. Even an adult strong man would be knocked down at the sight of him."

Zeng Li was very excited. For the two young girls, although they were not afraid every time they took the train, they were also apprehensive.

This time, Cao Xuan sent an electric baton, and Zeng Xinli was very confident. He even hoped that he could meet a little hairy thief without long eyes and try the power of the electric baton.

Zeng Liman was thinking about the electric baton, eagerly looking at the passengers in the carriage, but Yuan Quan thought of something else from the electric baton.

"Lizi, do you think Jingjing has this electric baton?"

"There must be, I have it, why didn't Cao Xuan prepare it for her... Wait, what do you mean?"

Zeng Li reacted and frowned slightly, but Yuan Quan hesitated: "I don't know if I feel wrong, I always feel that he seems to have an idea for you.

Think about it carefully. The few times you met, did he care and take care of you? And you said last time, he first found you in the MV, and then added Jingjing, which shows that you She is the first heroine in his mind. "

"Don't think about it, it's impossible."

Facing Yuanquan's analysis, Zeng Li instinctively refuted.

But after carefully recalling the times of getting along with Cao Xuan, I was a little confused.

(End of this chapter)