Chapter 304: Do I Need to Learn Chinese?
Deliberately brought a few friends of "Immortals" from the United States to be guests or musicians in the finals of "Singer", Xiao Yao would definitely not consider it, but since a few people sent them to the door by themselves, Xiao Yao was not welcome. Anyway, Dean also said on the phone just now that they would come to Huaxia to play for about half a month, and in terms of time, there is no problem in participating in the finals of "Singer".
Early the next morning, Xiao Yao took an early flight from Shencheng to Yanjing. After arriving in Yanjing, Xiao Yao didn't even return home, and directly changed from Terminal 1 of Yenching Airport where domestic flights take off and land to Terminal 3 where international flights take off and land, ready to pick up the plane.
Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying, who received Xiao Yao's phone call the night before, also temporarily adjusted their work and schedules, set aside a day's time, and each drove a car to the airport to meet Xiao Yao and welcome Xiao Yao's arrival together.
At around eleven o'clock in the morning, the flight of Dean and the other four arrived on time. It didn't take long for Xiao Yao to spot the figures of the four people in the crowd that came out of the exit of the passenger passage.
"Dean, Sammy, Mike, George!" Xiao Yao trusts his eyesight, and he doesn't even hold up a pick-up card or anything like that. When the four of them were still looking up for the pick-up sign with their names written on it, Xiao Yao rushed directly in front of them, smiled and gave everyone a big hug, even Sarmeon Smith was no exception.
"Yang! It's been a long time, I'm in better shape!" the four of them also responded to Xiao Yao happily, and the three boys also beat Xiao Yao's chest or back. Sarmien Smith had met Xiao Yao a few times last summer, but the three boys hadn't seen Xiao Yao for two years. Although the contact has not been interrupted, several people are still extremely excited about the face-to-face reunion.
"You guys are not bad, you didn't lose shape just because you were famous!" Xiao Yao also smiled and patted the three of them, and then led them to Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying, "Let's go, take you to know my parents." β
"It's a pleasure to meet you, welcome to Huaxia and Yanjing!" Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying greeted the four of them one by one and welcomed them warmly. Although it was the first time they met, Xiao Yao had already told them who was who, and the two whites in this band were a man and a woman, a black man, and a South American Latino with Indian ancestry, it was difficult to make a mistake.
"Mr. Xiao, Mrs. Xiao, it's a pleasure to meet you. The four of them were also very polite.
"Mrs. Xiao, you are so beautiful!" Samion also specially praised Ye Jiaying.
"Thank you!" Ye Jiaying smiled happily. Ye Jiaying's praise for this beautiful girl who looks a little cold, Ye Jiaying is very useful.
"Of course, my mother is the actress of Huaxia!" Xiao Yao said proudly, "My whole family is a star, and if I am recognized, I will be watched by onlookers, which will affect the normal order of the airport! Let's leave the airport early and go to my house to talk again." β
Although they knew that what Xiao Yao said was the truth, the four of them still unceremoniously threw a roll of their eyes. However, the four of them did not deliberately oppose Xiao Yao, and followed the three of the Xiao family to the parking lot with the luggage cart.
"Why is it that your whole family is a star, but you don't even have an assistant?" On the way to the parking lot, Dean approached Xiao Yao and said deliberately.
"Because you are friends who came to Huaxia to play, not stars who came to Huaxia to perform, we also picked you up in the private capacity of friends and friends' elders, so we deliberately didn't bring assistants over. Xiao Yao smiled, "Can't you push your luggage cart? Do you want to leave it to me? I can push two by myself." β
When a few people set off to the parking lot, Ye Jiaying happily grabbed Sarmyne's arm, Xiao Yao took Sarmyon's luggage cart, and as for the boys, they could only push it by themselves.
When they came to the parking lot, the luggage of the four people was loaded into two cars, but all four of them got into the car driven by Xiao Yao. The five of them happened to be in one car, and Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying shared another car, which is why they drove one car when they came.
When she came to Xiao's house, Ye Jiaying went to the kitchen to prepare lunch, Xiao Siqi followed to help, and Xiao Yao took a few people upstairs and downstairs to visit.
Xiao Yao's house is a villa, and it is not surprising that there is a piano room and a gym in it, but when they saw that Xiao Yao's house actually had a small studio that looked quite professional, and there was a professional recording studio in the basement, several people were all surprised and widened their eyes.
"Jan, why does your room look like no one has lived in it in a long time?" asked Sarmien when he finally came to Xiao Yao's bedroom. Although Ye Jiaying has always helped Xiao Yao's room keep clean and hygienic when Xiao Yao was away, the careful Sarmien still keenly noticed that this room lacked an inhabited atmosphere.
"Because I haven't been in Yanjing lately, I'm living in Shencheng. Xiao Yao smiled, "I remember telling you that I studied at university in Shencheng, Huaxia. β
"I know, but isn't it summer vacation? Huaxia University also has a summer vacation in July and August, right?" Dean said curiously.
"Well, it's true that I'm on summer vacation, but I still have a job in Shencheng. Xiao Yao said, "When I received your call yesterday, I was still in Shencheng. I took a plane from Shencheng to Yanjing early this morning, but I didn't go home, and I was waiting for you at the airport. β
"Work, then you don't have time to take us out?" Dean said disappointedly, "we should have told you to come back sooner." β
"Not exactly. Xiao Yao smiled, "I participated in a TV show of a singing competition in Huaxia, which has been going on for more than a dozen episodes, and now there is only one final left." The finals are next weekend, and I'm going to sing two songs in the finals, so it's mostly practice and rehearsals, so it's not like I don't have time to play with you guys. I plan to take you to Shencheng tomorrow, and then I will rehearse during the day and go out with you in Shencheng at night. If you want to go out during the day, I can also arrange for someone to accompany you and be your guide. β
"Is the final in Shencheng? Since it's a rehearsal, why can't you rehearse in Yanjing, isn't it more comfortable to live at home?" Mike said, "If I had a home like yours, I wouldn't want to go anywhere." β
"The final is not in Shencheng, nor in Yanjing, it is the program of a TV station in Xiangnan Province, China, and the final is in the studio of that TV station, in Xiangnan. Xiao Yao said, "But in that show, my dad was one of my opponents in the finals, and we wanted to prepare separately so as not to affect each other." β
"What? You're the finalists with your dad, you're competing in the same show, oh my God, what's that show?" called Dean.
"It was a very popular and professional music competition program in China, and the contestants were all very famous and powerful big-name star singers in China. Xiao Yao proudly introduced, grabbed Dean and Mike's shoulders and smiled, "Do you want to see it?"
"Are you going to be an audience?" said George, "you sing on stage, and we're cheering you on in the audience?"
"No, no, no," Xiao Yao shook his head repeatedly, "We're a band, of course we're on stage to perform." β
"Didn't you say it was a competition? We are not contestants, we did not participate in the first ten episodes, can we directly participate in the finals? Or are you going to let us be guest performers? But you are also a contestant, is this not in accordance with the rules?" Sarmien frowned.
"It's not a performer, it's my guest supporter, my musician. Xiao Yao said, "The contestants in this show can invite musicians to bring them to the stage of the show." It was a competition singing program, although we appeared together in the form of a band, but as long as I was the single lead singer, you were all the musicians I invited, then it was still my competition, which was completely in line with the competition rules of the show. β
"But that show will still introduce us as "immortals", right?" Samion said with a smile as Xiao Yao.
"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded.
They are a band that has been on the Oscars, as long as they go, with their own big hint next to them, it is impossible for the program team not to recognize them, and it is impossible not to report their names and focus on them, and Xiao Yao took them there, originally to play the banner of the "immortals" band.
"Are you using the fame of our band to compete with your father?" Dean immediately understood what Sarmien meant, glanced at Xiao Yao and said, "You just said at the airport that we are friends who came to Huaxia to play, not stars who came to Huaxia to perform, and in the blink of an eye, you want us to follow you to perform on Huaxia's TV show?"
"No, you just agreed. Xiao Yao immediately said, "I'll give you an assistant when the time comes!"
"It's not uncommon, I'm here to travel, not to perform!" Sarmien said with his arms around his chest, "If you want to perform, there are more opportunities in the United States, but we have pushed several summer music festival performance opportunities to free up this half-month vacation to China." β
"But Sammy, Jan to usβ" George wanted to say something, but Samion glared at him, and immediately shrunk his neck and swallowed back what he was about to say.
"We listen to Sammy," Dean said with a smile and patted Xiao Yao on the shoulder, "If you can handle her, a few of us will be fine." β
"Jan, do you need me to help you come up with an idea?" Mike leaned closer to Xiao Yao's ear and whispered, "As long as you say..."
"No, I know what you're trying to say. Xiao Yao directly shook his head and interrupted, "I won't ask her to go back to Huaxia to help, and I won't use this kind of lie to blackmail or stimulate people." β
"I don't want to tell any lies to deceive any of you. Xiao Yao said, "Actually, I didn't plan to invite celebrity musicians to be guests, but you just happened to be here, so I wanted to let you play with me under the banner of our band." It doesn't matter if you don't want to go. Anyway, the contestants in that show are all very good, and they are at least ten years older than me, and there are a few big-name stars like my dad who have been famous for a long time, and I have almost no hope of winning the championship, so I just went to play. β
After a pause, Xiao Yao walked to the backpack on the table after entering the door, took out a few pieces of paper from it and handed it to Dean Dao, "It was originally intended to be given to you as a thank you gift after the performance, since you don't want to go, then I give it to you now, as a gift to welcome you to travel to Huaxia!"
"This isβ" Dean took the second look and exclaimed, "Score?!, a new song you wrote for our band?"
"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded, "Speaking of which, I haven't written a song for the band for a year." The last time that song was given to you was through Keith last summer. After you called me last night, I realized that I didn't care as much about the band as I used to, I'm sorry, I wrote it overnight last night, I hope you guys will like it!"
"Sammy, you were joking, weren't you?" Dean said as he looked at the sheet music in his hand and turned his head to look at Samion.
Mike and George looked at Sarmeon with the same expectant expectation as Dean.
"Is this the song you're going to sing at that competition?" Samion hesitated for a moment, and finally looked at Xiao Yao and spoke.
"No, I said I was going to give it to you after the game. Xiao Yao shook his head, "That's my competition, this song is for the band, and I'm going to sing a Chinese song during the competition." β
"So do we need to learn Chinese? Is there a part that requires the harmony of the band members. Samion asked again. A single lead singer does not mean that everyone else does not speak at all, and many music competitions will have singers who ask for harmony alone.
βyes!β George cheered.
"Shut up!" Sammy glared at George again. George shrunk his neck again, but this time, he still grinned with his big white teeth.
"No!" Xiao Yao also smiled.