At the beginning I didn't say anything to let you go
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After Cao Xuan sang the song, warm cheers erupted from the audience. He bowed deeply, turned around and left the stage, and the master of ceremonies hurried up to preside over the situation.
Coming backstage, a female staff member enthusiastically handed over a bottle of mineral water. Cao Xuan thanked him politely, but still declined, and drank the water from the cup in Zhang Chong's hand.
Sitting in the background and slowing down for a few minutes, Cao Xuan returned to the stage and sang "Ten Thousand Reasons" again, and the performance task was over.
At noon, Cao Xuan had a meal with the enthusiastic sponsor, and was dragged by him to show off in front of relatives and friends. The other party transferred the final payment to Cao Xuan's account, and the business performance was finally settled.
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 voice, Cao Xuan chooses to quit drinking, and he is in an awkward situation at the dinner party. Fortunately, today's financial supporter is sensible, which saves him a lot of trouble.
Zhang Chong sat in the co-pilot and stared at the driver intently, planning to learn a few tricks secretly, while Jiang Yue read Cao Xuan's notices from the past few days.
"The day after tomorrow, there will be an interview in "Beijing Metropolis Daily". There is a bar opening on the 24th Gongti, 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, so he stopped him: "Do you know how much their appearance fee is?"
"Huofeng 20,000 to 30,000, Sun Nan is not sure, it should be about the same as you or a little more than you."
Cao Xuan frowned: "Good guy, am I on par with Sun Nan?"
"What do you think."
Jiang Yue smiled and said triumphantly: "Although Sun Nan is famous, he can't hold back your singing popularity. Now it is rumored that you may be on the Spring Festival Gala."
"Spring Festival Gala?"
Cao Xuan regained his energy in an instant. The current Spring Festival Gala is not as lonely as the later generations. It is at its peak, and it 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 net worth doubled.
Don't look at Cao Xuan's commercial performances are soft now, but it is mostly because of "Ten Thousand Reasons", his personal reputation is very vain.
The name Cao Xuan, without the prefix of the singer who sang "Ten Thousand Reasons", many people don't know who it is, and even fewer remember his face.
To put it bluntly, Cao Xuan is now a popular singer and not popular.
If you want to change this predicament, you need to swipe your face more, and in the whole of China, there is currently no place where singers can swipe their faces better than the Spring Festival Gala.
Cao Xuan really wanted to be on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
But I can only think about it, the difficulty of going to the Spring Festival Gala is too great, let alone the Spring Festival Gala, Cao Xuan, who is alone, can't even get the resources of the TV platform.
It has been October since he became famous in July. 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 artists from major record companies and various official units.
Only the top big names in the Mainland or stars from Hong Kong and Taiwan can break this shackle and enter the venue by virtue of their fame and geographical aura.
Generally, mainland entertainers can only watch others eat meat with envy, and can't even taste the soup.
Cao Xuan has self-knowledge, but Jiang Yue has great confidence in him, and there are contingencies in everything. "Ten Thousand Reasons" is so popular, maybe the Spring Festival Gala will also return to the popularity
Ask the driver to drive Jiang Yue home. Cao Xuan, who was not full at the banquet before, took Zhang Chong to a restaurant near Shichahai.
There is a restaurant here that specializes in mutton. The stir-fried mutton head meat and mutton haggis soup are simply outstanding. Zhang Chong found this place and brought Cao Xuan here for a while, and it immediately became Cao Xuan's favorite recently.
After entering the restaurant, the proprietress, who had recently become acquainted with Cao Xuan, immediately greeted him with a smile.
"What do you want to eat today?"
"Two bowls of haggis soup, one catty of hand-cooked, one stir-fried sheep's head, five on fire."
"Dele, look for a seat, I'll go and place an order for you."
Cao Xuan found an empty table, Zhang Chong went to the counter and ordered two more bottles of drinks, his Coke and Cao Xuan's peanut milk.
After a while, the mutton soup came up, and 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 mellow, which was a satisfaction.
While eating happily, a hesitant female voice sounded from the next table.
"Cao Xuan??¡±
Cao Xuan swallowed the haggis in his mouth, and looked back, she was a very beautiful girl.
With a round face and big eyes, a pair of intoxicating dimples lined the side of the small cherry mouth, the bridge of the nose is high, the skin is white and tender, as if it can be broken by blowing a bullet, the overall appearance is sweet and moist, and there is a kind of mixed-race exotic beauty.
Cao Xuan recognized the other party almost instantly.
"Hu Jing!"
"Oh, it's really you, you have changed so much, I thought I made a mistake."
Hu Jing over there saw that Cao Xuan had recognized her, and knew that she had not mistaken her. Her big eyes turned into crescent moons happily, and immediately dragged another girl at the same table to Cao Xuan's table.
"Since the end of the training class, I haven't seen your figure. I went to look for it according to the address I left. The landlord said that you moved away. I thought you had returned to your hometown."
"It's not enough to go back to my hometown, it's just to move a place."
Cao Xuan asked Zhang Chong to move a stool, and asked Hu Jing to 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 and introduced: "Remember what I told you before, before I took the acting training class for three months, 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 was puzzled.
"Because of being poor."
Cao Xuan smiled self-deprecatingly: "The tuition fee for the first year of Chinese opera is 10,000, not counting the accommodation, tuition and miscellaneous fees. I couldn't afford to pass the exam, so I didn't take the exam."
? In fact, Cao Xuan did not say the whole thing, the tuition fee is only part of the reason, the most important thing is that Cao Xuan is not a freshman, and the various procedures for going to school are also very troublesome.
Moreover, after being admitted to the Chinese Opera, the school did not allow him to take plays, but in principle he did not allow him to sing in bars, which meant that Cao Xuan lost his source of income and had to rely on his parents for support.
Therefore, after thinking twice, Cao Xuan still gave up the idea of ??passing the exam, which can be regarded as one of his little regrets.
Hu Jing was very happy to see Cao Xuan again. 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 was depressed for several days.
Cao Xuan felt a little indescribable.
In his impression, Hu Jing was a shy and introverted little girl who didn't dare to speak loudly, and it would be better if she got to know her well.
But the Hu Jing I see now has become lively, cheerful, smart and generous, and I am more inclined to Hu Jing, the star of the Eighth Golden Flower in Class 96 of Chinese Opera in later generations.
University really transforms people!
The meal lasted for more than an hour. During the whole process, Hu Jing and Zhang Tong shared their college life, complaining about the difficulty of homework in Chinese dramas, and how hard their daily rehearsals are.
Cao Xuan and Zhang Chong listened with gusto. The two who have never gone to college always have a longing and curiosity about college life.
Seeing this, Hu Jing invited Cao Xuan to watch their rehearsal in the Chinese Opera tomorrow, but Cao Xuan declined because she thought that she would go to the recording studio to audition tomorrow.
However, he said that if he had the opportunity in the future, he would visit Hu Jing in Zhongxi, and he also left her his phone number.