Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 57 Karaoke
Zhou Zhi shrugged the big backpack on his back and looked at the map in his hand: "It's not far from here to the TV station hostel, why don't we take a walk? I feel like I ate too much just now."

"it is good."

Then the two children walked on the streets of the Great Plains city in the image of later generations of climbers carrying big backpacks.

There are many people like this in the capital of Shu in later generations, and they belong to the category of travelers - "backpackers".

However, in this day and age, it is rare for the two children to look around leisurely with their big backpacks on their backs. Those who look at the scenery make themselves into the scenery.

After walking for an hour, Yang He had never been to such a big city, and Zhou Zhi had never seen the capital of Sichuan when it was just starting to develop. I don't feel tired from the journey either.

Yang He used the soles of his feet to get a preliminary impression of the metropolis. He used to think that Jiachuan Chengguan Town was already the largest, but now it seems that it is only two streets long in Shudu.

Arriving at the front desk of the guest house, Zhou Zhi used the front desk phone to call Chi Xueli's pager.

The call came back in a blink of an eye, and Zhou Zhi picked it up: "Sister Chi, we are back, and we are at the guest house."

"Oh, have you eaten yet?"

"I ate it, I ate it at the classmate of the fire squadron."

"Then hurry up and stay here. My sister is still working overtime. Let me tell you some good news. We have found what you want! Overtime is to rush to produce this episode of the show."

"Sister Chi is working so hard, why don't we come over to accompany you?"

"No, no, you have a good rest. I will pick you up tomorrow. I promised you that I will show you around."

"Thank you, Sister Chi."

"Give the phone to the front desk, and I'll talk to her."

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Today's guest house also has the nature of unit benefits. Zhou Zhi and the others lived in a standard room with two beds, a coffee table, a writing desk, a sofa, and a bathroom.

The floor is gray and white carpet, which is not much different from the three-star standard room of the later generations, but there is no kettle for boiling water, and a thermos bottle has to be brought from the front desk.

There are no toothbrushes and disposable slippers, but the tea is good, and beer, drinks and snacks are free.

Now the shower at home is really not comparable to that of later generations, the water is too small, and the hot water used in the guest house is a boiler. Zhou Zhi enjoyed a large-flow shower head for the first time here.

Zhou Zhi thought it was good, and Yang He felt that he was in heaven.

After the two of them took a shower, changed their clothes, and watched TV for a while, Yang He asked, "Who puts on the TV so loudly?"

There was music coming from downstairs, Zhou Zhi slapped his thigh: "I was bored just now, let's go, I'll take you to see something fun."

The two came to the second floor of the guest house. At the end of the second floor, there was a glass door with curtains drawn inside. When the door was opened, the music suddenly became louder.

This is a small ballroom with a dance floor in the middle, a small workshop and a small stage at one end, two small TVs on the side of the stage, and a large projection cloth on the back wall.

At the other end are some small tables surrounded by round sofas.

Light balls are spinning above the dance floor, making the whole dance hall grotesque.

There were also people sitting on many sofa tables, in twos and threes, and two couples of men and women were dancing on the dance floor.

This is an absolutely rare "karaoke" dance hall these days.

Karaoke is a product of digitization of video signals, which can easily cut songs, switch vocal channels and music channels.

Not to mention that there is no Jiachuan Manzhou, it is estimated that even the entire Southwest, even Shu must be the top cultural and propaganda unit to afford it.

In a small workshop, a young man was shaking his head with earphones, holding huge CDs and putting them into a machine from time to time, and there was a mixer in front of him, which was full of knobs.

"What's that?" Yang He asked looking at the big silver plate.

"That's LD, which translates to laser disc, and the laser signal of the video music is engraved on it."

"Elbow, you really know everything."

"Go, find a place to sit down first."

A beautiful girl came over, collected some orders at several occupied tables, and finally came to Zhou Zhi and Yang He: "Two gentlemen...Huh?"

The lights on the dance floor were dim, and when the little girl approached, she realized that the person sitting here was not a gentleman, but a boy.

"Hello sister."

"Ah... what would you like to drink?"

"Sister, do you have Tianfu Coke?"

"Have."

"Then let's have two bottles of Coke, we just arrived, let's write a song first."

He took a booklet from the table and wrote a few words with the pen on the table: "This."

"okay."

At this time, the music ended, and the voice of the young man in the small room came from the stereo: "Next, please invite the gentleman at the second table to present "Ode to Coral" for everyone."

A chubby middle-aged man with glasses on table number two ran towards the stage with great interest.

A picture began to appear on the large projection screen behind it.

The little girl came to Zhou Zhi's table amidst the middle-aged folk singing with thick glasses, and put down the Coke: "Aren't you from the stage?"

"We are from Jiachuan, ah, you may not know it, a county below Manzhou."

"Really? I thought you were from Tianjin." The young lady spoke standard mandarin, including the young man in the small DJ room, and did not tarnish the reputation of the TV hostel.

"Then what are you here for? I think you are quite familiar with karaoke halls, do you often play?"

"Jiachuan doesn't have this yet, but there are Hong Kong and Taiwan movies."

"Oh." The young lady can't think of any Hong Kong and Taiwan movies that have this.

"We're here to visit Sister Chi, and we're asking her for help by the way."

"Sister Chi? Are you talking about Sister Xue Li?"

"Well, she's still working overtime, let's come over to play." Zhou Zhi took an insurance shot to avoid being kicked out as a minor.

"What does Miss Xue Li have to do with you?"

"We met through an interview."

"Interview with you?"

"It's mainly to interview my grandma, I just incidentally."

"I don't believe it. This place is not open to the outside world. If you can come here to play, it can't be by chance." The young lady is still very smart.

So Zhou Zhi used the relationship with Chi Xueli as a story to tell the younger sister the ins and outs.

Zhou Zhi and Yang He have changed their outfits inside and out now. Dongdian's labor insurance is quite "fashionable". Yang He is wearing "Kake" and Zhou Zhi is wearing denim casual suits, giving him the feeling of a "beautiful boy".

The young lady was still puzzled at first, but now she listened with great interest, and finally said: "So you are still a writer! No wonder!"

After some chatting, everyone was familiar with it, so Zhou Zhi asked, "Sister, are you the host? Why is the DJ leading the table?"

"If he likes to report it, let him report it. It's not a serious job anyway." The young lady even nibbled on Yang He's melon seeds on the table.

"Sister, do you like to sing? Let's have a chorus then?"

"No, you have to sing first, and I will sing with you when I feel good."

drink!You have to be qualified!
A few songs passed in the chat room, and the younger brother's voice sounded again: "The guests at table [-] are invited to present "Flowers in the Water" for everyone."

"This is mine!" Zhou Zhi stood up, "Yang and you are with my sister, I'm going to sing."

On the upper left of the picture on the small TV screen, there are three words "PolyGram", which is the largest record company in Hong Kong.

Sitting on a small high leather chair with a microphone, watching the video with subtitles on the prelude, but it is in traditional Chinese.

Zhou Zhi couldn't help but sigh, it's true that where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. The song my brother played to himself was indeed "Flowers in the Water", but it was in Cantonese.

Zhou Zhi doesn’t believe that everyone here is not familiar with it. He has only participated in the Mandarin version of "Flowers in Water" in the Spring Festival Gala. Most people are not familiar with the Cantonese version now. This little brother is holding back a bad trick.

Turning to look at the little brother in the small room, the little brother made an OK gesture to this side through the glass wall, serious.

Sighing, he sang to the music.

"In this deep night, I can't sleep peacefully. I lie down and watch the sky shed tears, let the cold wind blow..."

As an important preservation of ancient languages, Cantonese has been studied by Zhou Zhi in his previous life.

Many of the lyrics in Cantonese songs are quite quaint, which also attracted Zhou Zhi's interest.

The singing level was cultivated by Guan Tingting in the previous life. At that time, Guan Tingting was studying at the Conservatory of Music, and Zhou Zhi spent a lot of time in the Conservatory of Music. Later, because of Guan Tingting's relationship, he worked as a resident singer in a nightclub for a period of time.

It's all about money.

In those years when music was in full swing, Guan Tingting could earn [-] for one song by going to two venues every night, and two venues every night, four songs, and a net income of [-].

And this is not the main income, the main income is rewards.

Men like Zhou Zhi are miserable, and the guests didn't come to see men. There were only twenty songs in one piece, and Guan Tingting got Zhou Zhi to win it from the boss.

Rewards are even more rare, and only by singing Jacky Cheung's "Li Xianglan" can I get points occasionally.

At that time, Zhou Zhi only knew how to imitate, but later he realized that he had to sing his own style in singing, and blindly pursuing similarity was actually inferior.

Although "Flowers in the Water" is Alan Tam's famous song, but affected by the style, the Cantonese song still has a bit of stubborn and straight male emotions.

So now this song "Flowers in Water" has been replaced by Zhou Zhi's soft singing and low-pitched singing, performed with a touch of nostalgia.

The past is past after all, and the cherished ones are still cherished.

As soon as the singing came out, the entire karaoke hall, and the people who were whispering on the table before, all slowly fell silent.

These are two completely different styles. It makes people feel that the original song is basically two songs!

This is personal understanding and style.

Because people in Shuchuan are not familiar with Cantonese, this change in style is particularly prominent when interpreted in Cantonese.

This song is four steps, the simple footwork in the ballroom dance, people left the stage one after another, even Yang He was forcibly dragged into the dance floor by the young lady, his face was flushed, and he was led by the young lady to dance.

"...but let me see you, I don't want to hide from you many times, I am not afraid of ups and downs, but I just want to get drunk..."

At the end of the song, there was silence in the karaoke hall, followed by applause and applause.

Putting the microphone back next to the small TV, Zhou Zhi returned to his desk.

"You sing so well! Are you a professional?" The young lady said excitedly: "Your Cantonese is so upright! And it's completely different from what Alan Tam sings!"

Zhou Zhi stretched out his hand: "My name is Zhou Zhi, and I don't know your name, young lady."

The young lady stretched out her hand and shook hands with him: "My name is Li Nan, and I am an intern in the stage. I come to this karaoke hall just to make extra money."

After speaking, he picked up a pen and paper: "Can you sing "Blood Blood and Danxin"? And "Only Love Is Always There"?"

Zhou Zhi nodded: "Everything."

(End of this chapter)