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Chapter 494 Bashang Spring Festival Gala, "Where Has All the Time Gone"

[The title is wrong, it's not the eighth Spring Festival Gala, it should be the ninth Spring Festival Gala]

On February 2007, 2, it was New Year's Eve
Empress Xigong is pregnant, her great mother takes care of her daughter, and Sun Lan and her husband also choose to celebrate the New Year at Changping Villa this year.

But Empress Donggong is not lonely either. When she returns to her hometown in Yunnan Province, there will naturally be Hu's father, Hu's mother and a large group of relatives celebrating the New Year together.

Sun Lan and Cao Shuangguo have had extraordinary experiences over the years. They once celebrated the New Year with their own family, and Dongxi Ergong spent the New Year with their family alone, and once had two daughters-in-law get together.

Let the psychological quality of the old couple get a good exercise in this time after time.

However, there is still a new difference this year, that is, it is the first time to celebrate the New Year with in-laws. If the child in Nishinomiya's womb is included, this year is even more special, with three generations living under the same roof.

Whether it is the old couple or Zeng Mu, they are all very happy. Since the end of the twelfth lunar month, they have started to celebrate the New Year together.

China has a vast land and abundant resources, and the customs of Chinese New Year are also different.

For example, during Chinese New Year in Lu Province, dumplings are basically eaten on New Year’s Eve, but in Jingshi City, Hubei Province where Zeng Li lives, chicken soup, fish cakes and other foods appear more frequently on the New Year’s Eve dinner table than dumplings.

However, Mrs. Zeng Damei’s family is a bannerman, and she immigrated to Hubei Province with the Eight Banners garrison in her early years, and brought some northern customs with her to some extent.

Anyway, the Zeng family eats dumplings most of the time during Chinese New Year, and Zeng Li himself is good at making wontons, which is well received among family and friends.

However, this year's New Year's Eve dinner still has a lot of Hubei flavor, such as the Jingshi fish cake and lotus root pork rib soup made by Zeng's mother.

Especially the latter, Cao Xuan personally likes to eat it very much. Although Zeng Mu didn't have a good face towards him, as long as Cao Xuan is around, there will always be this dish on the table.

For this reason, Cao Xuan's "Mom" is very sweet no matter how much Zeng's mother throws her face...

As the evening approached, Sun Lan and her great-grandmother joined hands to cook, with the help of two nannies from other places, and Cao Shuangguo hung a lantern at the door.

Zeng Li originally wanted to help but was forcibly suppressed, and was depressed watching TV in the living room.

She is now six months old, and her due date is at the end of May and the beginning of June. Her belly is obviously showing signs of pregnancy, and her status in the family is getting higher and higher. Sun Lan and Sun Lan don't forget to come out to look at her from time to time while they are cooking.

And the TV series Nishigong Niangniang watched was the upper part of "Fengshen Bang" jointly produced by CCTV and Fanxing.

This drama is also the opening drama of CCTV in 2007. As for the lower part of "Fengshen Bang", it will be aired in the summer slot.

The two parts of "Feng Shen Bang" have a total investment of more than 1.5 million, starring Li Xuejian, Sun Honglei, Tang Guoqiang, Fan Xiaopang, Duan Long and many other stars.

Not to mention the guest artists, although they are not at the level of "Founding of the People's Republic of China", there are also dozens of stars scattered here and there, which is definitely a ceiling in the field of TV dramas.

Fanxing did not charge CCTV for this drama at all, and the other party would not spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy it. The two parties cooperated and shared the advertising fee.

Big IP + big production + high exposure, it is still the super platform of CCTV prime time, if you don’t earn astronomical advertising fees, the relevant responsible person of CCTV and Fanxing should pack up their bags.

In fact, they were also very good. The exact amount they sold was not announced to the public, but Zeng Li still knew something inside.

It can only be said that only the advertisements and various items in the upper part of "Fengshen Bang" have a high chance of repaying the capital at one go, and the lower part of the summer vacation is pure profit.

Moreover, the ratings of the upper part of "Feng Shen Bang" are extremely impressive, and the premiere results easily won the championship of the same period, even surpassing the 2006 CCTV ratings champion "Country Love 1".

This data not only made the "Feng Shen Bang" TV series popular, and benefited the leading actors, but also gave CCTV and Fanxing the initiative in the summer vacation negotiations.

Zeng Li didn't really care about these things, knowing that her family didn't lose money, she didn't care.

Sitting on a 20% stake in the trust fund that owns nearly 50% of Cao Xuan's assets, Zeng Damei herself is conservatively estimated to have a net worth of more than [-] billion yuan.

Now she is as light as a chrysanthemum in the true sense.

After all, Cao Xuan, a man who can make money so fast that he can be called an evildoer, has money and fame like floating clouds to her, and he has long since fallen into the Buddha's family...

Sometimes, Zeng Li even feels empty because of too much money, but it is a pity that she told her girlfriends about these times of confusion.

Whether it's the manager Han Mei, Yuan Quan, Zhang Tong's good classmates, or the student Liu Tianxian and others, they will all be silent for a few minutes, then hang up, and they can't get through for a day or two.

The only one who can understand Zeng Li's pain is Hu Jing, and this is one of the few things that have reached a tacit understanding between the two palaces.

This is a clip from "Fengshen Bang", which is Nezha Naohai, played by a child who is less than 10 years old, and his name is Wu Sanshi.

Zeng Li knew this name because she had seen it when she was a guest star in Yunxiao. The child was very cute, and she even bought several bags of snacks for him.

"...

Just let God give me this list of gods
Let God give me the strength to persevere

360 five days and nights
360 five reincarnations
Please take me back to the place where love started..."

As Nezha beat the third prince of the Dragon King to death, this episode also ended, and the ending song sung by Zhang Jie sounded.

This song is the same song as the theme song of the original version of "Feng Shen Bang: Fengming Qishan". Fanxing found the lyricist to write it, and then gave it to Zhang Jie to sing.

For many singers, this kind of well-known and big-production film and television is a good opportunity to show their faces.

From "Mythology"'s "Beautiful Mythology" to "Embroidered Spring Knife 2"'s "Love is Light as You", and the theme song "Painted Heart" of "Painted Skin" not long ago.

It's not that Cao Xuan can't sing these theme songs by himself, but it's not necessary, it's better to leave the opportunity to his singers.

And after the TV show finished, it was almost seven o'clock in the evening, and the New Year's Eve dinner was almost ready.

There is no need to wait for Cao Xuan, the family has gained experience over the years.

Every year, I keep a few unfinished semi-finished dishes. When I watch Cao Xuan’s show on TV, and after he finishes his performance, I will cook and cook hot dishes at home. Cao Xuan will be able to eat hot dishes soon after returning home.

But even so, everyone basically just made up for it, and most of the time, they waited until Cao Xuan came home to eat the main meal.

Especially Cao Shuangguo, as long as they spend the Spring Festival together, they will have a few drinks with their son. This is also a rare time for Cao Xuan to relapse throughout the year.

The family ate, drank, talked and laughed, and survived "News Lianbo" and "Weather Forecast", and finally arrived at 8 o'clock, and the Spring Festival Gala began.

The daily opening song and dance, and then the national singer's show, Feng Gong's cross talk is ranked third, the quality is very average, so many people have no impression of this show at all.

On the contrary, Li Jindou, Dabing, and Zhao Weiguo's cross talk "Free Call" has many bright spots. Under the background of this year's anti-three customs, it has won the mainstream cross talk circle.

Cao Xuan's program this year is very high, it is the fifth program of the whole show, just behind this cross talk.

It is worth mentioning that, compared with previous years, this year's Spring Festival Gala has introduced LED screen technology for the first time, which has enhanced the performance of the stage by several levels.

Cao Xuan is considered to be the first singer on the Spring Festival Gala stage to use this technique extensively.

So when he came on stage, whether it was on-site or outside the TV audience, the first thing they watched was not Cao Xuan, but the dimly lit big screen behind him.

There is a thin layer of sand on it, and one hand quickly draws on it, and those who know it can immediately see what it is——

Sand painting!

According to legend, it was created by an old man named Zhang Yuxian in the Qing Dynasty. It was born out of the ancient craft of cloisonne, and it has gradually matured after several generations.

A handful of yellow sand in the hands of sand painting masters can be ever-changing and has great artistic and ornamental value.

Cao Xuan seldom invites backup dancers, and this year is still the case. However, he invited a sand painting master to record a sand painting version of the MV, which was placed on the LED screen of the Spring Festival Gala stage to accompany the live song performance.

In the TV broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala, the stage and the sand painting MV were broadcast together, and the two edited and flashed back to each other.

This is not the first time Cao Xuan has played like this in the Spring Festival Gala. The previous "Stars and Seas" and "Borrowing the Moon" are both stage + MV routines, and the rendering power of the songs is obviously stronger than pure stage performances.

It's just that only the audience in front of the TV can experience this effect. This year, with LED technology, the live audience can also see the MV+ songs.

Seeing this scene, many old viewers of the Spring Festival Gala had a bad feeling in their hearts.

The one surnamed Cao is going to hold back a big move!

Many people vaguely recalled Cao Xuan's nickname - King of Tears in the Spring Festival Gala.

However, even if someone realized something was wrong, few of them actually tuned the channel. Cao Tianwang is one of the pillars of the Spring Festival Gala. Every year, new songs are the highlights of the Spring Festival Gala. If you worry about it, you have to watch it.

Cao Xuan didn't know what the audience was thinking, he was completely absorbed in the show, and as the soothing piano prelude sounded, the sand painting behind him took the lead in changing.

After all, it is a recorded sand painting. Compared with the normal painting speed, the speed of the MV is accelerated, which can best match the song.

In the first painting, a man and a woman are walking in front of a simple tile-roofed house, guarding a little doll, and there are small flowers blooming on the pomegranate tree next to it.

Erase it with a wave of your hand, and the second painting takes shape in the blink of an eye. The child is a few years older, carrying a schoolbag and riding on his father's shoulders, going to school happily.

The next painting shows the child growing up, waving to the parents watching from the door, and pushing the luggage to the distant train station.

The old painting was erased again, and turned into a close-up of the couple, looking worriedly at the departing child, a wisp of white sand appeared in the sand painting, dyeing the couple's temples a few strands of frost.

After 5 paintings, Cao Xuan's singing voice finally sounded, with a clear and tender voice.

"The old tree in front of the door grows new shoots

The dead trees in the yard are blooming again

Half survived a lot of words

Hidden in white hair

......"

Accompanied by the singing, the sand paintings continued to change again, and the departing children continued to grow up, work, fall in love, get married, and even have their own families. However, during this period, the parents' heads became more and more frosty.

In an accident, the parents were hospitalized due to illness, and the children were taken care of. Suddenly, they saw their pale hair and wrinkled faces. In a trance, the parents who played with them had become old people.

The child was at a loss, and ran out of the room in a panic. When he saw the pomegranate tree in the yard, he couldn't help crying.

At this time, Cao Xuan's singing finally reached its climax.

At this moment, the world pop king didn't use any singing skills, his singing voice was peaceful and sincere, and he sang, but hit the softest part of people's hearts.

"Where's the time

Not enjoyed young age good enough before turning old
have children for a lifetime
My head is full of children crying and laughing

......"

The sand painting on the big screen stopped, and several groups of photos appeared instead.

The first one is a black and white family portrait.

Two young men and women in simple clothes from the 70s are sitting on chairs, looking at the camera nervously and shyly, with a grinning boy in their arms.

This is the only photo of Cao Xuan before he was 10 years old. When he was a child, his family was poor and he had no spare money to take pictures. This family portrait was taken on the day of Cao Xuan’s [-]th day. "Here comes this photo.

The second photo is when Cao Xuan was 13 years old. Their family went to visit relatives and have a wedding. The rustic and crew cut photo was taken with Sun Lan.

The third photo, already in the 90s, was also at the wedding. The eldest sister got married, and the family of three stood on the edge and took a photo.

These three photos are the only group photos of the family of three before 1998. There may be other photos, but Cao Xuan can't find them anymore.

After Cao Xuan became famous.The group photos of a family of three gradually increased, some were taken at home during the Spring Festival in 1998; some old couples came to the capital for the first time, and the family took pictures in front of the Forbidden City; Group photo taken while traveling abroad...

The last one is a photo taken shortly after my grandmother passed away. Just like in 1976, the old couple are sitting on chairs, and Cao Xuan is standing behind them.

However, what is different from the original photo is that the eyes of the family of three are no longer restrained and shy, and the smiles are calm, but at the same time, white hair appears on the heads of the old couple, and the wrinkles that cannot be changed by skin grinding will never be there. in its prime.

"Little feet in memory
chubby little mouth

Give him love all your life
just for that dad

where did all the time go

Not enjoyed young age good enough before turning old
......"

As a professional singer who has experienced no less than hundreds of regular performances, Cao Xuan originally thought that his mental quality was strong enough, but when he sang this part, seeing the comparison of the two photos, he couldn't hold back his tears.

The audience in the audience had been crying for a long time, and the audience in front of the TV did not know how many people shed tears.

It is not auspicious for those who celebrate the New Year to cry, but everyone just can't help it.

Many people think of their parents, who worked hard to accompany them to grow up, but they are gray-haired, old-eyed and dim-sighted, and people can't help but sigh, where the time has gone.

The best performance of a music program is to arouse the emotional resonance of the audience.

After the song was over, I don't know how many viewers looked at the parents around them, expressing their gratitude clumsily, and those who were not by their parents couldn't help but wiped their tears and took out their phones.

"Hey, mom..."

Changping Villa, in front of the TV

Sun Lan had been crying for a long time, and Zeng Mu and Zeng Li were also crying. Whether they were mothers or wives, they could feel the emotional power of this song.

After Cao Shuangguo finished watching the show, he got up silently and quickly left the living room. The nanny who was also wiping away his tears vaguely caught a glimpse of the old man's red eye circles.

Lu province gentlemen of his age have to be strong all their lives, and they will never show a "weak" attitude in front of their wives and juniors...

But when Cao Xuan came home, from the signs that Cao Shuangguo kept pulling him to drink, it was deduced that the old man was not calm, and even a little turbulent.

Cao Xuan wondered if he was going to tinker with "Father" one day, and whether he could let the old man break the second defense on the spot.

Not to mention Sun Lan, Cao Xuan felt that at least a week, he could upgrade from "uneasy bastard" to "mother's big boy".

Even the old mother-in-law, who has been showing no good feelings towards him these days, couldn't help but pick him up a few times during the New Year's Eve dinner, which made Cao Xuan a little flattered.

It's a pity that there is nothing to sing the song that the mother-in-law sings, otherwise, I can't just let my mother take him as her own son...

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ps: This piece is not very easy to write, I have been deleting and subtracting, I owe 2000 words, I will fill it up tomorrow

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