Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The opening ceremony of the “Chinese New Generation” musician tour was neither big nor small; although it was not as good as the Spring Festival Gala, after all, it was broadcast live on the entire network, and the on-site control requirements were very high, in addition to safety facilities such as fire and explosion prevention and control, even the script had been revised several times, just to avoid the situation becoming irreparable if things went wrong.
The delay of the live broadcast and the actual situation was three seconds. If there was an accident, the bottom line when an accident occurred was that the people on the scene knew about it but the off-camera had no idea at all. In order to ensure accurate editing and recording, Qu Lang even called a member of the special service team who specialized in electronic technology to keep an eye on the scene.
Xiao Yao personally confirmed that no equipment had been tampered with in the entire studio and everything seemed normal.
Bai Ju stayed behind the curtain beside the stage, looking at the messy backstage, feeling that these artists were really tired.
This morning, not long after Little Fox and the others arrived, they participated in a rehearsal. After finishing the one-hour and forty-minute script, it was lunch time; after the lunch break, all the participants in this live broadcast changed costumes, put on makeup, warmed up to open their voice and so on, such that there was no time to spare. Bai Ju was carrying his small backpack and was sitting at the entrance to the backstage, looking in all directions. The various noisy sounds and smells stimulated his senses, making him suddenly sure that he was being pulled back into the human world.
A bit of a headache.
Bai Ju raised his hand and pressed his temples, stuffing back memories that he had not recalled for a long time, and took out his cell phone to send a message to Xiao Yao.
——Yao Yao, where are you now?
——Audience hall, what’s the matter?
——I’m backstage, facing the left side of the stage.
Bai Ju buried his head in typing:
——You come to me.
Xiao Yao was stunned for a moment while holding his cell phone, and was poked by Qu Lang with his elbow: “Brother Xiao, what do you want?”
“You keep an eye on the ticket checking.” Xiao Yao came to his senses and typed “OK”, sent the message, put the phone back in his pocket and raised his eyebrows, “I have to go to a very safe place to stay quietly.”
Qu Lang: “…”
Qu Lang looked at his little boy whose whole body seemed to have come to life, scratched his head in confusion, and after a while he uttered one word: “…f**k.”
You are fooling people, it is true that you don’t want to work… He should look at the Shiba Inu with admiration, during this one month, the workaholic was also taught to be cunning.
Xiao Yao was very clear about Bai Ju’s brain circuit.
This stupid dog most likely didn’t ask him to come over for a petty reason, but because he felt that time was almost up, and he should pull his guardian close to him to guard him, so as not to be distracted by so many people later, and ending up being in a hurry.
Bai Ju really had this idea. After all, he and Xiao Yao have only been together for a short time. Except for fishing for billboards in Fengle Plaza last time, they had never done anything together. They didn’t know each other’s depth. Bai Ju felt that instead of taking risks and cooperating, it was better to bring people together and cover the other person.
Qu Lang stood there feeling sore for a while, then went back to work by himself.
Xiao Yao passed by the last row of the auditorium, walked to the stage and turned his palm up. After a few steps, he walked around the curtain and accurately caught the little Bai Ju sitting between the folds of the curtain.
Bai Ju held his phone and he didn’t know what he was looking at. When he heard the movement, he raised his head and immediately showed a small smile: “Yao Yao, come on.”
Xiao Yao felt like a little arrow hit his heart every time he saw Bai Ju’s appearance, it stabbed him in the knee, making his heart soften, and he almost picked up the little baby and called him his darling.
But there was still some image baggage. Xiao Yao coughed slightly and walked over. He raised his hand to rub Bai Ju’s hair out of habit and asked him: “What are you doing?”
Bai Ju showed his phone to Xiao Yao: “Look at this. Does it look good?”
The mobile page showed a picture of earrings, which looked like rivets and seemed to be made of black jade.
Xiao Yao enlarged the picture and commented: “Not bad, why did you suddenly look at this?”
It was in the shape of a rivet, looked simple and elegant, but also a bit coquettish.
Bai Ju took his phone back, flipped through a few pictures at the back, and replied: “Today I saw a lot of these decorations on the little fox’s clothes. They are so bright and beautiful.” But it didn’t seem to suit Xiao Yao very well.
Xiao Yao didn’t pay much attention to Bai Ju’s motives. In his opinion, it was a good thing that Bai Ju was becoming interested in more and more things in modern life. It felt like a stiff and dusty treasure was gradually waking up and exuding vitality.
Xiao Yao pulled up a stool and sat next to Bai Ju. He leaned over to look at the jewelry pictures crossed on his mobile phone interface and asked, “Do you like these? Do you want to take you shopping next time.”
Bai Ju shook his head and said: “I can’t say I like it very much. But it is true that there are many kinds of modern accessories, and the small objects made in batches are also very exquisite and beautiful. In the past, I don’t even know how much effort the craftsmen would need to have put in to make a single piece, and it would also cost a lot.”
Bai Ju just expressed his emotion casually, ran his slender fingers across a few pictures, stopped looking at it, and stuffed the phone back into his small backpack.
“Yao Yao, is there anything you want?” Bai Ju asked, holding his chin and looking at the backup dancers who were coming and going to prepare props.
Xiao Yao turned his head and looked at Bai Ju’s profile. From his angle, he could see Bai Ju’s thick eyelashes, like fluttering white butterflies.
He couldn’t help but raise his hand to poke the little eyelash boy’s cheek. Xiao Yao couldn’t help but express a little doting in his words: “What’s wrong? Brother Bai, do you want to give me a gift?”
Bai Ju turned his head and pinched Xiao Yao and shook his fingertips, revealing two small fangs: “I am half a mountain god. If you make a wish to me, I will fulfill your wish.”
Xiao Bai Ju still spoke very seriously, with dark eyes, not adding a hint of impurity: “As long as it’s not too outrageous, I can help you achieve whatever you want.”
Xiao Yao was so menged by the little mountain god that he just wanted to moan, so he answered in a daze: “Can you only promise it once? Yes?”
Bai Ju smiled and said, “More than once, but the opportunity is limited, so you can’t be too greedy.”
Xiao Yao rubbed Bai Ju’s hair and said in his heart that I want you, the mountain god, to accompany me throughout my life. Is this considered greedy?
“Then save it first,” Xiao Yao said, “I have to save all the opportunities and make the greediest wish within the allowable range.”
Bai Ju rubbed Xiao Yao’s palm and whispered: “Then you have to get older.”
Xiao Yao didn’t answer this time.
The two of them gathered together and chatted for half an hour. Then the staff came to distribute the lunch boxes, and it was almost time to start after finishing the meal.
Neither Bai Ju nor Xiao Yao were picky eaters. Even though the food in the lunch box was not very good, it was enough to satisfy their stomachs.
While eating, Bai Ju still sighed in a low voice: “It’s so hard for artists. They can’t eat even before the performance.” Especially for these musicians who wanted to sing, eating anything would affect the condition of their throats.
….
At 7:30 in the evening, the opening ceremony was about to start. The VCR was played on the stage, and the host also began to introduce the program.
“China’s New Generation” began as a talent show, auditioning people with musical dreams across the country to participate. It was held every summer, with venues all over the country. The cycle was three months, with auditions in the first two months and national finals in the third month.
This show had been running for ten years and was not favored by people at first. It was not until the second year when the little fox Qiu Ziran became famous at the Luocheng venue that it became famous; by its tenth year, Qiu Ziran had been getting more and more famous. The show had thus also become more and more popular, and the format of this show had changed several times in order to keep it fresh, but it was still inevitable that the market would be diverted by other talent shows. This time, the opening ceremony was held in Luocheng, which may have been to take advantage of the popularity of Little Fox.
It was precisely because of this that at least a quarter of the people who came to the scene were old fans of Qiu Ziran, and they had all watched him “grow up” from a young boy of fifteen or sixteen to a man in his mid-twenties. The enchanting young man played Qiu Ziran’s VCR on the stage, and the scene immediately became lively.
“Little Fox has a lot of fans,” Bai Ju said in the background. “If I had so many followers back then, I might have ascended to enlightenment long ago.”
Xiao Yao thought about the “Koi forwards”, “Koi” craze and various koi characters that appeared from time to time on online platforms, he felt that Bai Ju could become such a koi if he wanted to, and maybe he could even be accurate.
Thinking of the many rewards that Bai Ju won in Fengle Plaza last time, Xiao Yao couldn’t help but complain: “Brother Bai, if you want to, post the results of the last lottery online, I guarantee you that you would have more fans than the little fox.”
Bai Ju glanced at him, knowing that he was joking about this, but still said honestly: “I’m afraid this is useless… I have seen those netizens retweeting Koi, but in fact not many people pray seriously. The enthusiasm comes and goes quickly. Sometimes it seems to work, but it is just luck. Faith is not a cheap thing. If you can collect it easily, you won’t become a god.” It was not that difficult anymore.
…Moreover, this kind of faith is particularly easy to collapse.
Bai Ju lowered his eyes slightly, suppressing the trace of sadness in his eyes, and then cheered up and continued to pay attention to the situation in the entire studio.
As the warm-up came to an end and the clock was about to point to eight o’clock, the host gradually brought the topic to the upcoming tour, making the atmosphere more and more heated; until at eight o’clock exactly, the music of the specially invited musician’s program sounded, and the whole atmosphere in the studio completely exploded.
Bai Ju felt that his ears had been damaged a lot. All this high-decibel music and screaming were really a bit irritating to him.
Seeing Bai Ju’s tender face, Xiao Yao walked up behind him funnily and covered his ears: “Can you still bear it?”
Bai Ju patted Xiao Yao’s wrist, took off his hand, shook his head and said: “It’s okay, there’s no need to block it…otherwise it’s easy to miss other sounds.”
The floor beneath his feet vibrated with the music. Bai Ju listened for a while longer, then pulled Xiao Yao’s hand: “What about you, can your ears handle it?”
Xiao Yao pointed to the earphone on his left side: “The earphones that Qu Lang and I are connected to have noise reduction effect.”
Bai Ju looked at it and didn’t ask him how the other ear was doing. This young man’s work attitude was there, and he would not be pretentious and miss sounds that may be clues because his ears were overwhelmed.
Countless tiny voices gathered from the huge studio. Bai Ju closed his eyes and exhaled deeply.
The audience was whispering to each other, the costume designer was roaring anxiously backstage, the female assistant was running around in ten-centimeter high heels, the lighter was clicking in the director’s room… and under the seats in the auditorium, there was a subtle and unusual… steel frame making distorted sounds.
“Sure enough, he took action.” Bai Ju raised his eyes slightly, a trace of scarlet flashing across his eyes.
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