December 31, the last day of 1995.

From noon, the sky was overcast, and it looked like snowflakes could fall at any moment.

After school in the afternoon, Li Qian packed up his things and rode back to Shengshi Garden for dinner.

For Chinese, the New Year's Day festival is more painful.

Although it has been many years of reform and opening up, and the domestic economy, culture, etc., have begun to be more and more in line with the entire international standard, but if you want to say how much the domestic people attach importance to this solar festival, it is impossible to talk about it at all. In China, it is considered to be a more orthodox festival, mainly Chinese New Year's Eve, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, and since previous years, Qingming Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Chongyang Festival have also begun to have a day off each, which has gradually become more important.

But then again, the times are advancing, the integration is deepening, since 88, the government has stipulated that New Year's Day also has a holiday, although it is also a day, but a day is also a holiday, so not to mention that the younger generation began to quarrel about what Christmas and New Year's Day, even the older generation of people, have gradually begun to recognize the New Year's Day such a holiday.

For Li's father and Li's mother, celebrating the festival is to sit together as a family to eat dumplings and watch the party.

Of course, it's still that problem, Dragon Star Satellite TV made the style of the New Year's Day New Year's Eve song party, the whole thing is a song couplet, and most of them are songs that young people like, it's really not Li's father's dish, so in previous years, he would accompany Li's mother to watch for more than ten minutes, and then he went to the house to read.

It's just that in the past six months, Dad Li's attention to this area has been much stronger than before.

The tapes that Li Qian got back. Even if he didn't like certain tunes at the beginning, he would still seriously hide in the small study and listen to it over and over again, and the Mid-Autumn Festival party was also serious from the beginning to the end, every time his son came over for dinner. The two of them can also discuss some issues decently.

The tune or something, it's really not something that can be learned by talking, and it's not that an old Wenqing like Li's father, who is rigorous, will casually say no, at most, he is complaining that his son has written a lot of bouncing songs recently, but the lyrics are within the scope of Mr. Li's business.

As of now. Li Qian's works have been published through the combination of Liao Liao, He Runqing and Wuxing Wusu, and 14 pieces have been published, which is not a large output, but in half a year, the output is quite considerable. And Dad Li knows more than these fourteen songs.

In his eyes, Li Qian's best works are probably "Dark Fragrance", "Facing the Sea, Spring Blossoms", "My Beloved Hometown", and "Farewell" sung by the daughter of the old Wang family in the cassette tape that Li Qian took back a few days ago.

Well, purely on the quality of the lyrics, especially "Farewell" and "Facing the Sea." Spring Blossoms", one is full of ancient rhyme, mournful and sad, and the other is simple and pure, clean and sad. are the most popular with him.

Of course, standing in the position of parents and in line with the principle of teaching and educating people, Dad Li also appreciates "Let's Swing the Sculls", a work that praises parents and children of all ages to learn and sing.

When Li Qian arrived downstairs, Dad Li just turned a corner and picked up Mama Li, and Mama Li went up to make dumplings. He took out the car clothes he had just bought a few days ago and busily dressed his car.

Wait for Li Qian to come. The two of them reached out together and quickly put on the car clothes. Then when Li Qian locked the bicycle, the two of them went upstairs while talking, Li's father said that it meant that there was snow at night, so don't go back tonight, Li Qian thought about it, and nodded and agreed.

When I arrived at home, as soon as I entered the door, Li's mother had just chopped the stuffing in the kitchen, and when she saw her son entering the house, she put the seasoning and came out with a basin, with a smile on her face, she sat down next to Li Qian, and said mysteriously: "Son, guess who came to our house yesterday?"

Li Qian looked at her and shook his head.

At this time, without waiting for Li's mother to offer the treasure, Li's father had already frowned and said: "What's the matter, people come over to hang out the door, let me tell you, don't be excited, just talk well, it's nothing, but it will taste bad in your mouth!"

Li's mother glared at him, with a displeased expression, "I said what's wrong? I'll just say! Oh, you look at the usual, let's not talk about anything else, their family is doing business, they are rich, and their daughter has become a singer again, you look at the shelf on the other side! She really thinks she is a broad wife? No, how about a big singer? Don't you have to take the initiative to come to my house with something to thank my son? I just have this tone, I just want to send it out, and I don't tell outsiders, I talk to my son, what kind of law did I break the law?"

Dad Li frowned helplessly, and said: "People are not putting on a show, people are just like that, you are a person, let me tell you, don't admit it, you just have a small belly!"

When Mama Li heard this, she immediately became angry, this is that she doesn't have a rolling pin on hand, if she wants to, she will immediately copy it, "I have a small belly......? Li Shuwen, have you been thinking about other people's beauty all the time? That's good, I haven't said anything, your ass is crooked to other people's side, right? You greeted them, but the two of them just nodded at you, so angry that you came back and said that you forgot about the time in the middle of the night, right? It's me stingy?"

Dad Li opened his mouth and was so angry that he couldn't answer, "You ...... You, you're messing around with you! In front of your son, what are you talking nonsense! What do you mean for me to look at other people's beauty, and what do I think about me?"

Li Qian was originally sitting upright, in fact, as soon as he started to say something, he understood what was going on, but standing in the psychology of an old man in his thirties, in fact, he thought it was quite interesting to listen to his parents talk like this, so he was not busy persuading. Hearing this all the time, he found that he wanted to crook the building - the husband and wife quarreled, and they were not afraid of anything else, they were afraid of being involved in other women, and if they were pulled into bad things, small things would become big things!

So, without waiting for Mama Li to speak, he immediately said solemnly: "Mom, what nonsense are you talking about! Aunt Tao at the door? She is also called beautiful? Okay, maybe compared to others, she is a little pretty, but compared to you...... Mother. You're too unconfident, aren't you? I'm going to seriously criticize you, don't you know that you've always been a beautiful woman? What does she compare to you? You eat this vinegar so much that even I feel ashamed!"

Li's mother turned her head and glared at her son, her face could no longer hold back, and she laughed out loud, regardless of whether her hands were stained with meat crumbs. He raised his hand and punched his son in the arm.

"As long as you can say, you have such a mouth! I deserve to be unlucky in my life, and I will be entangled with your old Li family for the rest of my life!" After speaking, Li Mazhi stood up proudly, holding a basin full of meat filling in her hand, stretched out her hand to point at Comrade Li, and said, "Look at my son. Hmph, you, elbow out!" After speaking, I don't know whether to go back to the kitchen in a huff or in a happy way.

Here, Dad Li sighed, looking helpless.

Li Qiancai asked, "Dad." What the hell is going on?"

Dad Li rubbed his brows and said earnestly: "That's the case, on the other hand, your Uncle Wang and Aunt Tao are the two of them, everyone is indeed a capable person, our family ...... You also know that your father is a poor teacher, and your mother is a little accountant, which is normal. The attitude of the two of them is a little higher, no. Your mother is a little angry in her heart! In fact, people are not very good! The same rice raises a hundred kinds of people, one person has a temper, this is nothing! That is, haven't you written a lot of songs for Xiaoxue recently, since these two months, your mother and I have felt it. Your attitude towards the door of your Aunt Tao seems to have been lowered a lot, which you are not at home these days. How many times has your mom been talking about it? Coincidentally, yesterday your Aunt Tao and your Uncle Wang brought some things over to visit the door. I don't know if Xiaoxue called back or what, anyway, the two of them spoke very politely, and they just said thank you, and said that you would be free to visit their house, and your mother felt very relieved......! You see...... Alas!"

Hearing this, Li Qian smiled and said: "It's okay, my mother has this temper, she has a grudge in her heart, then let her send it out, now our family is no worse than them, why bother my mother to hold back? Besides, I believe in my mother, she doesn't look at her temper, but she is smart, that is, in front of the two of us at home, when she goes out, she is better than anyone else, and she will never come nonsense!"

Li Qian's voice fell, and Li's mother immediately poked her head out of the kitchen, and pointed at Comrade Li with a smile on her face, "The surname is Li, you listen, you listen, you don't know me as well as my son!"

Dad Li pouted helplessly, "You make your dumplings!" It's been an afternoon, I'm hungry, I'm waiting for your dumplings!"

Li's mother sighed, retracted her head and went to make dumplings.

Li Qian is so sensible, he immediately stood up and said, "I'll help my mother make dumplings!"

As he spoke, he poked his head out of the kitchen again, "Lao Li, wash your hands and help make dumplings!"

Dad Li sighed helplessly, and honestly got up to wash his hands.

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The two of them did it together, and they wrapped it quickly, and when the dumplings were wrapped, Dad Li looked at the dumplings under the pot, and Mama Li quickly packed up the two dishes. When the dumplings came out of the pot, her dishes were also fried, Li's mother served the dumplings, Li Qian served the dishes, and Li's father went to his small study to get a bottle of wine.

"Look, Xinghua Village, 86 years old wine, this is still the year I went to Tai Yuan Mansion to participate in a pen meeting bought back, shelved for almost ten years, has not been willing to drink! Come son, happy today, you accompany your father to drink two cups!"

Li's mother wanted to persuade her, after all, Li Qian was still a high school student, how could she drink? But seeing that Comrade Li was so happy, and Li Qian didn't refuse, she resolutely endured it, and went to the kitchen to brush two cups for the grandfather.

As a result, when the cup was brought over, Dad Li glared at her: "Why are there only two cups?

Li's mother was a little stunned, "I drink too?"

Dad Li waved his hand proudly, "Drink! You also drink two sips! Although it is a solar year, it is also a year, this year is a smooth sail for our family, good luck, we should drink two cups!"

Mother Li didn't say anything when she heard this, and got up to brush the cup.

Three cups, Dad Li poured himself more than one or two, and poured a cup bottom for Li Qian and Mother Li, which means. Then Dad Li raised his glass, looked at Li Qian, and said, "Son, everyone says that the father respects the son in the first thirty years. In the next 30 years, I will see my son respect my father, this is true! Dad usually doesn't like to praise people, but now, I want to praise you, me and your mother. Blessed people, we haven't waited for thirty years before someone is already worshipping us!

Li Qian and Li Ma both raised their cups, and the three cups touched lightly, making a "ding" sound. As soon as Dad Li raised his neck, he immediately drank half of his stomach!

Mama Li just took a sip, and when she saw this posture, she immediately stopped, "You slow down!

Dad Li smiled. Ignoring her, he said to Li Qian: "Listen to the other door, when your Uncle Wang and the two of them came over, Xiaoxue and their three songs at tonight's party?

Li Qian ate a dumpling and nodded while chewing, "Well, I wrote it." ”

Dad Li nodded, put a dumpling in his mouth, chewed a few bites and swallowed it. He took another sip of the glass and asked, "What's that......?" In the past few days, I listened to this album of Xiaoxue and theirs that you got back two days ago, and I read the lyrics. Of the ten songs on this album, you have eight songs, and how much money do they give?"

As soon as she heard this topic, Mama Li immediately raised her head with concern, and even the half-eaten dumplings were temporarily thrown into the small plate, and asked, "That's it, there are eight songs at once." Even if it's cheaper than the one sold to Liao Liao, it can't be too cheap. Hundreds of thousands?"

Li Qian smiled and ate dumplings by himself. He said vaguely: "No, I haven't gotten a penny yet! But well, when it actually starts selling in the future, I will get a commission!" I guess...... If you don't say anything, you have to have a million or two?"

In fact, as early as the middle of this month, Li Qian had already received calls from Xie Bing and Li Jinlong respectively, and he already knew that Hua Opera's promotion strategy for the album Wuxing Wusu was to focus on the New Year's Day New Year's Eve song party and strive to become an instant hit.

After the last official recording in Songjiang Mansion yesterday, Li Qian received a call from Xie Bing again, saying that the party had been recorded, and the two songs that were originally scheduled to get a better time period were not to mention, and then the director team liked the song "Farewell" very much, and specially added it, and specially arranged it to the opening of the party.

In fact, as early as when he knew that Hua Songs had arranged for Wuxing Wusu to participate in the New Year's Day song party, Li Qian couldn't help but applaud the other party's strategy of promoting and distributing this time, and when he received a call from Xie Bing and knew that the director team had put "Farewell" at the beginning, he could already be sure that their album should not sell badly!

To tell the truth, dare to use "Farewell" at the beginning of a party, of course, it shows the courage of the director team of Dragon Star Satellite TV's New Year's Eve Song Party, but Li Qian knows that if you only talk about the quality and standard of the song, don't say the opening of a New Year's Day New Year's Eve Song Party, it is to get the Spring Festival Gala, whether it is the opening or the finale, "Farewell" is absolutely qualified!

What's more, according to Xie Bing, after they sang this song in the second rehearsal, there was warm applause under the stage at that time, which undoubtedly proved that this song does have a powerful aura that crushes the audience and suppresses the whole party!

When the aura of a song is so strong, whether its name is a bit of a bad meaning is no longer so important!

And three songs in a party, some are fast and some are slow, some are classic and some are popular, if this is not popular, I am afraid that this New Year's Day song party will not be able to come up with a really popular work at all!

And Yihua Records' ability to package and push the Five Elements of Wusu, with the looks and figures of the five girls themselves, and the fact that this album is so capital-rich, it can be said that if they are not popular, as long as they become popular, they will definitely be a fire!

Because according to Li Qian's judgment, the era of idols is coming soon!

And the Five Elements are not only the idols of young men and girls, but also the idols of young men and women!

As long as it becomes an idol in the minds of so many consumers, then ...... The fanaticism of the star chasers has never been beyond doubt!

Besides, they don't need to be too popular, according to the contract signed at the beginning, as long as Wuxing Wusu's album can sell three million copies, then he can already earn about three million with a commission of ten points.

Of course, as soon as the number of one or two million is spoken...... Li's father and Li's mother were directly startled.

Mother Li looked at Li Qian excitedly and asked, "Is it really fake?"

Seeing that Li Qian nodded, he said very calmly: "According to my estimate, according to their current momentum, one or two million is just the beginning, and it shouldn't be a big problem." ”

Mama Li put down her chopsticks in surprise, "So, even if I don't go to work, I don't have to worry about running out of money to spend?"

Dad Li sighed, looking like he was out of the world, "Alas, yes, yes, yes! Hehe, don't say too far, even at this time last year, your mother and I would never have imagined that you would be ...... Just ......"

Li's mother took it and said, "It's more than the money I and your dad have earned in our lifetime!"

Dad Li nodded, raised his hand, and with a sip, it was another sip of wine.

Putting down the wine glass, he picked up the chopsticks, ding, knocked on the edge of the bowl, and then knocked again, looking like a poet, squinting slightly, like humming, like singing, like groaning, and said: "Father is kind and filial piety, brother and brother are respectful." Home gives people enough, time and years are abundant. The muscles are healthy, and the Limin is happy. A gentleman drinks and has endless fun. ”

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I know that after reading this chapter, it is estimated that many people will say that I am irrigating, so I would like to reiterate here: this is an urban life novel, writing about people, life, and the relationship between people, writing songs, singing, making movies, etc., just work, and work, is only a part of life, but not all!

And - you guys are amazing! (To be continued)

ps: I know that after reading this chapter, it is estimated that many people say that I am irrigated, so I would like to reiterate here: this is an urban life novel, written about people, life, and the relationship between people, writing songs, singing, making movies, etc., just work, and work, is only a part of life, but not all!

Plus—you're amazing!