In 1971, Ouyang Feifei became popular in Japan with a song "Rain Midosuji", which won the first place on the ORICON chart for a total of nine weeks, setting a record for the development of Chinese singers in Japan, and becoming a famous song that is still sung decades later.

And Ouyang Feifei herself, with the popularity of this song in Japan, has become a representative of the successful development of Chinese in Japan.

Midosuji in the title of this song, as well as Umeda Shindo and Shinsaibashi in the lyrics, are both landmarks of Osaka. As a music lover, this song also constitutes Ye Zhao's initial impression of the city of Osaka.

The last time I came to Osaka, I was to confirm the venue for the concert. At that time, I first filmed the music video for "Singer's Love Song" at Riku Watanabe's club in Kyoto, and then took a train from Kyoto to Osaka. However, at that time, it was already late in the evening when he arrived in Osaka, and he was in a hurry to confirm the concert venue, so he did not have time to wander around Osaka.

This time, on November 9, the day before the Osaka concert, Ye Zhao arrived in Osaka by Shinkansen with the staff and musicians. When I walked out of the station, there was just a light rain outside, the sky was a little foggy, and it was already dark before dusk.

"This is Osaka. Mika Kawashima stretched and said in a brisk tone.

"Including the previous visit to confirm the venue, it happened to be my second time in Osaka. Ye Zhao said, even so, Kyoto had already been visited when he was on a study trip in his predecessor.

"When I was younger, I used to travel between Tokyo and Osaka with men in Osaka, because the Shinkansen was expensive, so I used to use night buses to save money. ”

"It's so touching. ”

"Judging by your expression, you didn't look moved at all, right?" Mika Kawashima complained, and then said with a smile, "But anyway, we broke up in the end." There's no way, even if it's a very committed relationship, it's still very fragile. ”

The last rehearsal was scheduled for the afternoon of the next day, and since there was nothing to do, Ye Zhao asked the staff to go to the hotel to check in first, and he came to Osaka with great interest.

Before leaving, he politely asked Mika Kawashima: "Sister Mika, do you want to go shopping together?" As for the musicians, they are all big men, and he doesn't have the fun of walking side by side with the same sex in the rain, so he is not even polite.

"Thank you for your perfunctory invitation. Mika Kawashima waved at him, "But, I'll forget it." ”

So, he parted from everyone at the station, and the others took the bus that the organizer came to pick up the station, while Ye Zhao bought a transparent plastic umbrella at the shop next to the station and walked in the rain. From Dotonbori to Shinsaibashi, there are a variety of unique signboards and discounts on both sides of the road, tempting passers-by to shop.

Ye Zhao didn't have anything he wanted to buy, just to experience the style of Osaka. He walked alone in the drizzle, with the mentality of a tourist, looking at the crowded streets on both sides with curious eyes, and from time to time people with the same umbrellas passed by him. When he actually walked around, he realized that the city of Osaka was not as big as he had imagined.

Time was quickly lost in the stroll, and by the time we arrived around Namba Shrine, night had really fallen. The drizzle had stopped at this time, Ye Zhao put away the umbrella and carried it at his elbow, and bought takoyaki in the small shop with a narrow façade next to him, the proprietress who made takoyaki was around fifty years old, and she had short wavy hair full of Obasan's flavor, and when she recognized Ye Zhao in front of her, she greeted him in a casual tone: "It looks really good." ”

"You too. Ye Zhao smiled, looked at the price card hanging next to him, took out his wallet and counted out the change that was just right and handed it over.

The proprietress took the money and didn't forget to joke with him and complained: "There are too few concerts, and you can't go to the concert if you want to." ”

"I knew that with your help, I would have been relieved to add more than that. Ye Zhao followed her words and said.

The proprietress burst into laughter.

Another pair of young men and women who were traveling together happened to come over, and Ye Zhao took this opportunity to say goodbye to the proprietress . After eating takoyaki, he continued to walk around until the watch hand on his wrist pointed to nine o'clock, then he stopped a taxi and returned to the hotel where he was staying.

The weather of the next day was still a little gloomy in the morning, but at about eleven o'clock, the sun still came out of the clouds very enthusiastically, once again proving Ye Zhao's "sunny man" attributes.

The concert starts at 5:45 p.m. and officially starts at 6:30 p.m. Tokyo and Osaka are one east and one west, so the last rehearsal was scheduled for 2 o'clock in the afternoon on the day of the show. Three hours after the rehearsal ended, the performance was held, and in terms of physical requirements, it was not much different from Nakano Sunplaza, which had two shows a day.

After eating udon noodles for lunch, the group moved towards the Festival Toer and entered the backstage of the Osaka Festival Hall through a special passageway, where dozens of staff members were already making final adjustments.

Under the direction of the stage director, the last rehearsal proceeded in an orderly manner. With the experience of the previous two performances, whether it is the tacit understanding with the musicians or Ye Zhao's own mentality, it has reached a very good level.

Having said that, the Osaka and Nakanoba performances have basically changed the flow of the performances, but the selection of tracks and the order of the songs have been slightly adjusted, and there are two or three songs that are different from Nakanoba.

After the rehearsal was successfully completed, it was almost four o'clock in the afternoon, and there were still two and a half hours before the official start, several musicians took advantage of this opportunity and decided to go out for a stroll, while Ye Zhao stayed backstage to recuperate and conserve his strength for the next performance.

The first day of the Osaka field was uneventful, and the four related person tickets that he distributed were all concentrated on the second day, and those who came to the backstage before the opening were visited, that is, the related people who got the tickets through being, and it is said that there were also people from Kansai TV. However, Ye Zhao didn't recognize any of them, so he just greeted them very politely.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, after the concert, after the end of the day's summary meeting, because there was a performance the next day, everyone just ate a little at the nearby Kansai restaurant, and then they dispersed, and if they wanted to experience the nightlife of Osaka, they went to wander around, and if they wanted to fall asleep, they went back to rest. As for Ye Zhao himself, he went to meet an acquaintance.

At a barbecue restaurant near Dotonbori, Ha Akira and Watanabe Lu met again after a few months. Also present at the same time was Naoko Asakura, the wife of Riku Watanabe, or Naoko Watanabe.

The names of these two people are like coincidences, which makes Ye Zhao occasionally remind Haruki Murakami's "Norwegian Wood". It's just that the two of them are different from Watanabe and Naoko, they met and fell in love quite plainly and warmly, and finally moved towards marriage. 2k reading web