January 21, 2004, Wednesday, New Year’s Eve, the Great Cold.
The time is three o'clock in the afternoon, and the location is the lounge of Yangma Building.
Although it was their first time to attend the Spring Festival Gala, as Ma Xiaolong and Zhu Sha, they were naturally assigned to the best and largest room. In the past few years, this lounge had belonged to Uncle Zhao.
It is estimated that Uncle Zhao's book this year was not very good and the director did not like him very much. Coupled with Ma Xiaolong and Zhu Sha's status, the director changed the owner of this lounge.
Is Uncle Zhao feeling aggrieved? I am aggrieved! But there is no way, he also knows that his performance this year is not very good, the effect of the previous rehearsals can be seen.
After all, he was not convinced, so he watched the program that Ma Xiaolong and the others rehearsed. Not to mention the singing part, he mainly watched the skits. After watching it, Uncle Zhao fell silent and admitted that the other party was more worthy of the 'Supreme' rest.
between.
And there is another thing. In this year's Spring Festival Gala, the two sketch kings, Chen Xiaoer and Aunt Zhao, returned to the Spring Festival Gala stage after several years.
Thinking of this incident, Uncle Zhao had a headache. He finally relied on the right time, place and people to get rid of the two sketch kings and took the lead. Unexpectedly, only a few years later, the world would fall into chaos again.
In fact, this is also related to Ma Xiaolong. I still remember when watching the Spring Festival Gala last year, Ma Xiaolong felt that the Spring Festival Gala was getting worse and worse, and he kept thinking about the return of Chen Xiaoer and Aunt Zhao.
So after passing the Spring Festival Gala review in the second half of last year, it promoted the return of Chen Xiaoer and Aunt Zhao.
Chen Xiaoer has been performing dramas in the drama troupe under Xiaolong Entertainment for the past few years. Now it has become the largest and most popular drama troupe in Beijing. Every performance is sold out.
The audience loves Chen Xiaoer so much, just like the future Guo Dagang, everyone is willing to support him.
Originally, Chen Xiaoer had no intention of returning to the Spring Festival Gala. In his own words, he has reached the peak of his skit performance. It is really not challenging and the drama is still fun.
But Ma Xiaolong only asked him one sentence: "The audience wants to see you, do you want to disappoint the audience?"
One sentence made Chen Xiaoer change his mind, so he, Lao Mao and members of the screenwriting team spent a month preparing a fifteen-minute script. After a few days of rehearsal, he attended the Spring Festival Gala rehearsal.
After watching it, the director shed tears. It was still the same recipe and the same taste as before. The familiar Chen Xiaoer was back again.
Therefore, Chen Xiaoer was directly rejected in the first trial and was only waiting for his appearance in this year's Spring Festival Gala.
Aunt Zhao's situation is a bit rough. Although Aunt Zhao has been in good health in recent years under Ma Xiaolong's treatment, she is getting older and getting older day by day. Although her mental state is good, her body has deteriorated.
It's not enough to support the duration of a program.
So when Ma Xiaolong sent someone to invite her, or even when Ma Xiaolong called her personally, Aunt Zhao refused to go on the Spring Festival Gala stage because of her old age and frailty.
Ma Xiaolong also asked a question: "Teacher Zhao, do you really not want to meet the audience and friends?"
After all, he is an old artist. When the word "audience" was mentioned, Aunt Zhao was so excited that she was speechless: "Why don't you think about it? You can only dream about it."
That's it.
Afterwards, Ma Xiaolong sent someone to deliver a pill to Aunt Zhao. After Aunt Zhao took it, she suddenly felt full of strength and even her white hair turned black.
After that, Aunt Zhao contacted Gong Hanlin, one of his godsons and a frequent collaborator, and began to prepare the program. During the first trial, the director cried again. It was still the same recipe as before...
Therefore, the case was recommended in the first instance.
In this way, the two kings of sketches from the past returned to the Spring Festival Gala stage. After being exaggerated by the media, the entire Chinese audience paid extraordinary attention to this Spring Festival Gala. It can be said that the attention is unprecedentedly high.
At this time, in the lounge, Ma Xiaolong, Zhu Sha, Chen Jun and Huang Bo were in the final rehearsal. Ma Xiaolong and the three of them had a perfect tacit understanding, so there was no problem. Huang Bo had been silently rehearsing this show in the past few months, just because of the change.
For people, it's somewhat unnatural due to different styles.
Fortunately, Huang Neck is an extremely talented actor. It only took three rehearsals to eliminate this unnaturalness, and he worked very well with Ma Xiaolong and Zhu Sha.
As for Chen Jun? In this skit, she is just a supporting character. She doesn’t have many lines, but she is also a character that runs throughout.
It soon got dark. While Ma Xiaolong and the others were still rehearsing the show in the lounge, grandpa, grandma, Ma Johnson, Liu Ying, Ma Xiaofeng, aunt, uncle, cousin, cousin-in-law and little Didi all came to the auditorium.
, it was the first time in my life to watch the Spring Festival Gala live, and I was extremely excited.
After a year, Little Didi has grown a lot taller, and is now 1.6 meters tall. However, during the past summer and winter vacations, because Ma Xiaolong was busy with work, she did not go to the town to play, which made the little girl very depressed.
Already.
A few days ago, I learned that my uncle and aunt were going to participate in this Spring Festival Gala, and as a family member, I could watch the Spring Festival Gala live, which made the little girl extremely happy.
Now sitting in the auditorium of the Spring Festival Gala, the little girl looked around at the audience and saw many familiar faces, and there were many Spring Festival Gala actors sitting in the front row. If the situation did not allow it, she would have wanted to go there and get a few autographs and photos.
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"Uncle, which show are they on?" Little Didi turned to ask her mother.
"Who knows? Just watch!" My cousin took out a bag of sesame seed cakes from her bag: "There's still an hour left! Eat something first."
"oh."
…
One hour passed quickly, and finally at eight o'clock in the evening, the annual Spring Festival Gala began.
A lot of thought was put into this year's Spring Festival Gala. The stage is quite gorgeous from the perspective of this era, but compared with the gorgeous stage design of holographic projections more than ten years later, it is still a bit inferior.
I don’t know why, but this Spring Festival Gala in history is really mediocre and doesn’t leave a deep impression on people. Even Uncle Zhao’s sketches are not very good. The most impressive one is the Bolling Brothers’
Buy four radishes, cut them, chop them.
This shows how inconspicuous this Spring Festival Gala is. Fortunately, Ma Xiaolong has prepared two programs, plus the return of Chen Xiaoer and Aunt Zhao. Even if the overall program of this Spring Festival Gala is still mediocre, it will definitely leave a huge impression on people.
deep impression.
Ma Xiaolong's first program, ranked sixth, was a duet with Chen Jun. The duet was "Lanting Preface".
After the fifth program started, Ma Xiaolong and Chen Jun were waiting behind the scenes.
Both of them wore masks and improved Hanfu, giving them an elegant look, as if they were really ancient people.
"Now, I would like to invite the Long Yu Group to bring us the "Preface to Lanting"."
As the host's voice ended, the prelude of music also came from the stage, and Ma Xiaolong stood on the stage, with a long table in front of him. On the long table were pens, inks, paper and inkstones. He was holding a brush and was polishing it.
However, this appearance still gave people a stunning feeling, especially those of the older girls and younger wives, whose eyes shone brightly and could no longer look away.
"Lanting's calligraphy is like running clouds and flowing water. The door is pushed under the moon. My heart is as careful as your footsteps." As soon as Ma Xiaolong opened his mouth, he amazed the world.
What he showed was level 4 singing skills. As soon as he opened his mouth, he gave people a feeling of being there. Moreover, as he sang, the brush in his hand began to write the preface to the Lanting Collection on the rice paper.
Lv4 level calligraphy once again amazed the world after being displayed on the screens of thousands of households through the large screen at the scene.
After Ma Xiaolong sang a section, Chen Jun, who was standing at the long table, began to sing.
Although her singing skills are only lv3, she has reached the peak of lv3.
In the past few years, she has spent a lot of time honing her singing skills in the small world, because level 4 is the limit of human beings and it is difficult for her to reach it, but the peak of level 3 is still no problem, plus she has a naturally good voice
, I sang it right away and sang it live with the old and young men in front of the TV.
It sounds so good.
In this way, Ma Xiaolong and Chen Junqi finished singing the song one by one. As the last line came to an end, Ma Xiaolong's handwritten "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection" was also finished. As Ma Xiaolong took out his own seal and stamped it on the rice paper, this scene was so exciting.
All the expert calligraphers were amazed, and the calligraphy works they wanted instantly disrupted the entire calligraphy world.
All the calligraphers who had a call relationship wanted to acquire this work.
Although they have never seen the original work of "Preface to the Lanting Collection", they instinctively believe that even if it is the original work, it may not be as good as this work.
There is no way, apart from those laymen, which calligrapher wouldn’t want to buy lv4 level calligraphy and take it home and pass it down from generation to generation?
But unfortunately, Ma Xiaolong was relatively satisfied with his work, so he had already made up his mind to put this work up for auction at a charity party one day in the future, which was more or less his intention.
Although the song "Preface to Orchid Pavilion" is amazingly sung, singing programs on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala will not be too shocking after all. What is really shocking is actually the unveiling of Chen Jun and Ma Xiaolong at the same time.
One scene.
Because it had been rehearsed a long time ago, when the two of them revealed their faces, the cameras on the scene almost hit their faces.
Therefore, audiences across the country saw the unveiling of the extremely mysterious Long Yu combination at this moment.
As the two men took off the masks on their faces, revealing their original appearance, all the audience were stunned, and then burst into unprecedented cheers.
"Li Xiaoyao! It's Li Xiaoyao!"
"Ah! Zhao Ling'er, it's Zhao Ling'er!"
"The Dragon Jade Combination is actually them!?"
Although the reaction of the audience in front of the TV could not be seen, with the sensational reaction on the spot, Ma Xiaolong and Chen Jun looked at each other and smiled. When the curtain fell, the scene of the two looking at each other and smiling also left the world with the most amazing scene.
The Spring Festival Gala is still going on, but Ma Xiaolong and Chen Jun have returned to the lounge.
As soon as they walked in, Zhusha and Huangbo applauded vigorously, welcoming them back with great honors.
Zhusha smiled and said: "Yes, the final reveal is worth at least one billion. Xiaojun, you are famous."
Chen Jun shook his head: "I don't care."
"Yes, but you are popular." Zhu Sha joked with a smile.
Huang Neck was particularly excited: "Boss, it turns out you are the Long Yu Group. I am a loyal fan of the Long Yu Group. I have bought all your authentic tapes and CDs."
"Haha, thank you for your support, but our program will be polished in half an hour!" Ma Xiaolong said with a smile.
Seeing that the boss was still thinking about the program at such a time, Huangbo was immediately filled with admiration and said to himself: No wonder the boss is successful because he has the ability and attitude. If he doesn't succeed, who will succeed?
Ma Xiaolong and Chen Jun first changed their clothes, and then used the last twenty minutes to polish the show. Finally, not long after, the on-site staff prompted them to prepare to go on stage.
The four of them nodded, all confident in themselves.
…
"Now, please enjoy the sketch "Today's Happiness"."
Originally the audience had no expectations for this show, but when Xiaolong Ma appeared in front of the audience with a small fruit basket and a mean look on his face, there was a burst of exclamations and excited cheers.
"Damn it! It's Bruce Ma, why does he still have a show!?"
"Isn't he a singer? Why is he acting in a sketch?"
Amid the doubts, confusion and expectations of the audience, Ma Xiaolong spoke his lines.
"Let me tell you something, my boss had a seizure recently. You said that I was doing a good job as a waiter, so you suddenly promoted me to the lobby manager, and I accidentally started my official career."
[Pfft~Official career? Hahaha~]
The audience was so happy that they immediately burst into applause.
The reaction at the scene made Ma Xiaolong feel certain. After all, it was his first time to perform a skit on the Spring Festival Gala stage. It would be false to say that he was not nervous, especially for comedy. Whether the burden is loud or not will have a great impact on the subsequent performances. Looking back now
, the response was very good, even exceeding his expectations, and the subsequent performances became even more energetic.
"Happy! My daughter-in-law is also happy. She has a new mobile phone, new clothes, and even bought a fruit basket for me to send to my boss. Why is she so sensible? You said I am on the road to happiness when I have such a daughter-in-law to help me.
Why don’t you get promoted step by step?! According to this progress, I will be able to ascend to heaven before I’m forty!”
【Ascending to heaven!? I’m laughing like crazy!】
【Hahaha……】
"Are you envious, jealous, and hating me? Why am I such a person? I even hate myself!"
There was another round of laughter.
At this time the mobile phone rang.
Ma Xiaolong picked up the phone: "Hey, wife! What are you doing? I'm almost at the door of the boss's house! (At this time, Chen Jun came on stage) Oh, wife, why are you here?"
When Chen Jun appeared on the scene, there was another burst of exclamation.
What's going on today? Why did the Long Yu group come over to perform a sketch as soon as they debuted? Are these two singing giants not going to sing anymore? Will they perform sketches in the future?
When everyone in the audience was muttering in their hearts, Chen Jun began to perform as a jealous daughter-in-law.
"I'm just not worried. Come and take a look. You've got all the fruits?"
Ma Xiaolong said: "Oh my God, you are so fucked up, so fucked up!"