Since its opening in 1990, the International Trade Center has been the pearl of the Beijing and even the country's business complexes, in November last year, Liu Yunlai helped Du Qiu rent a luxury apartment on the top floor, with an area of more than 500 square meters, with two living rooms and four bedrooms with separate bathrooms, in addition to providing cleaning, catering, pick-up and drop-off and other convenient housekeeping services, in addition to the rent is too expensive, there are almost no shortcomings.

When Du Qiu arrived, he was surprised to find that Du Cunzhi was playing mahjong with Jin Ning, Qin Weizhen and Lu Zijian in the main living room, and in his impression, his grandfather never liked this kind of entertainment that wasted time and had nothing to do.

"Who won?"

"Yo! Du Dahongren is back, don't fight. Qin Weizhen obviously didn't have a good card, so he directly pushed the mahjong in front of him, washed it twice, got up and said attentively: "Du Qiu, is there a lot of luggage? If you have a lot of luggage, let these two men help, especially Brother Zijian, who is very strong." ”

Lu Zijian smiled at her "brother" call, clenched his fists and posed in a toned posture, and said with a smile with Tan Jingyun, who was playing with Lin Jinyan on the sofa: "Really, you are better than Huang Rong." ”

Du Qiu put the suitcase by the door, said hello to everyone, and then asked Lu Zijian: "Didn't you and Teacher Tan say that you were going to Pujiang for the New Year, why did you come to the capital too?"

"Have you been in retreat lately to the point where you don't hear anything outside the window?" Lu Zijian said while helping to clean up the mahjong: "The situation in the Taiwan Strait has been very tense recently, my father was transferred to the capital at the end of January, and my mother asked me and Jingyun to accompany him for the New Year. ”

The Taiwan Strait crisis in 1996 was one of the most dangerous situations that China had encountered after reform and opening up, and it almost broke out in a firefight; Lu Zijian's father was an officer in charge of logistics in the Sanjiang Provincial Military Region, and Sanjiang Province was far away from the strait, with two provinces in between, and even he was transferred to the capital, and it seemed that the situation had reached the point where it was on the verge of breaking out.

Du Qiu crossed the party, and knew that the matter was finally saved and passed safely, so he didn't take it to heart, and he usually didn't pay much attention to the news in this regard, but other people didn't know, so he was particularly concerned, especially Du Cunzhi, and asked: "Xiao Lu, what does your father think of this crisis?"

"My dad was very secretive and never talked to us about these things. Lu Zijian shook his head, frowned and said: "I heard that a new round of exercises will be held along the coast in March, and the soldiers who participated in the exercise have written suicide notes, it depends on how the strait reacts. ”

"Even the suicide note was written? Jin Ning, a businessman, was most afraid of this unpredictable risk of war, and said worriedly: "It's better not to fight, if it really starts, the domestic economy will have to regress for at least several years, and if Europe and the United States engage in an embargo, it will be even more troublesome." ”

Du Cunzhi couldn't look down on his thinking that he was only thinking about money, and said angrily: "It's about national reunification, not to mention going back several years, even if you go back to before liberation, you have to fight hungry!"

"Of course, I'm just talking about it. Jin Ning was sleek, and immediately changed his words when he saw this: "We can't intervene in this kind of national affairs, everything is listened to, when the time comes, there is money to donate, no money to donate materials, and we will never hold back." ”

"Since you can't get involved, don't talk about it. Qin Weizhen felt that this topic was too heavy, and interrupted: "Du Qiu, I heard that you have been busy with a world-class project recently, and you will return to Cloud City in the second year of junior high school. ”

Jin Ning and Lu Zijian also said a few auspicious words of New Year's greetings, and when Du Chunhua, Jiang Danfeng and others arrived, the lively laughter diluted the haze of war, and no one mentioned the topic of the Taiwan Strait crisis anymore.

Because Chinese New Year's Eve is approaching, Du Qiu will go to CCTV to participate in the rehearsal of the Spring Festival Gala in the evening, so after everyone chatted for a while, they got up and said goodbye, Lu Zijian said before leaving: "Du Qiu, I have a friend who will get married tomorrow, can I borrow your Bentley as a wedding car?"

"The day after tomorrow is the New Year, and you will get married tomorrow?"

Originally, it was scheduled for the New Year, but his father was going to the coast to participate in the exercise after the Spring Festival, and he was afraid that he would not see his son get married, so he did the wedding wine in advance. Lu Zijian is a hot-blooded rough man, and he rarely showed a trace of delicacy at this moment, and said: "My friend's family conditions are average, and I want to help him save some face." ”

"Okay. Du Qiu handed him the car keys and said, "Leave your car for me to spare and wait for the second day of the first lunar month to change." ”

"I'm driving second-hand goods that the army has eliminated, and it's very broken, don't be afraid of the price. ”

What Lu Zijian left behind was a Mitsubishi off-road vehicle made in the 80s, which had run more than 200,000 kilometers, and it was miserable to be drilled, and it was indeed very broken, so Du Qiu did not drive it when he went to CCTV at night, but drove the Toyota Celica coupe that Jiang Danfeng had just bought in January.

Du Qiu is not only the advertising sponsor that CCTV must stutter, but also a youth role model that CCTV must support, so the treatment is different from those ordinary singers or artists, as early as more than a month ago, the director team of the Spring Festival Gala found a famous pop music producer in the mainland to arrange "Jasmine Blossom", and after recording the accompaniment, he specially sent someone to Yuncheng, so that he could practice by himself, not to participate in various selection processes in the capital, but he must participate in the rehearsal before the official start of the Spring Festival Gala, otherwise there will be a live broadcast accident, and a good thing will become a bad thing.

The Spring Festival Gala is the supreme performance stage in the 90s, since Jiang Danfeng is developing in the entertainment industry, he must not miss the opportunity to observe, so he also followed, on the way she said: "Du Qiu, do you think you will have to rehearse a few times tonight to pass?"

"I don't even know what a rehearsal looks like, how many times it will take. ”

"I think you'll be able to get through it twice at most. Jiang Danfeng stretched out his finger and waved it, and said with a smile: "If you pass it once, they will have no face, and if you pass it three times, you will have no face, so two times is just right." ”

"Do you mean I can't sing well?" Du Qiu glanced at her sideways and said, "I have been practicing "Jasmine Blossom" for more than a month, and it is no problem to sing it upside down, why can't I pass it all at once?"

"Singing pays attention to both voice and emotion, you only have voice, no emotion, and the singing is too dry. Jiang Danfeng looked like a mentor and said: "Your singing now is like a computer program, the pitch and rhythm are impeccable, but you can't infect people." ”

This is a fact, Du Qiu's vocal talent is very limited, the vocal range, silver, sense of language, and musicality are very average, and he doesn't like to show emotions in private, let alone in public, when singing emotionally charged songs, he always gives people a sense of alienation, as if he is just a bystander, not a party, and the problem is that everyone in China thinks that the song "Jasmine Blossom" was created by him to express his homesickness, so if he sings very emotionless, it will make people feel shriveled and hollow, and lack of appeal.

Fortunately, Du Qiu is not a professional singer, he just came to be a totem in the Spring Festival Gala, and it doesn't matter whether he sings well or not, so the rehearsal process is not shocking, as Jiang Danfeng predicted, when he auditioned for the first time, the director of the program review team picked a few innocuous little faults and asked him to sing again, and then passed.

In this way, Du Qiu became the most leisurely person in the CCTV studio that night, accompanied by Jiang Danfeng, with the mentality of gossip party to watch the excitement, looking here, looking there, and soon found that the Spring Festival Gala was not an annual entertainment event at all, but a high-end communication platform, all kinds of people haunted it, some for fame, some for profit, some for fishing, full of tricks, and a grand view.

After having this awareness, Du Qiu went to check the list of performers of the Spring Festival Gala in 1996, and the feeling was completely different, not to mention anything else, just those big names who sang the main theme songs were amazing resources, but unfortunately his social skills were limited and he didn't know how to get in touch, so he made a call to Yan Shengrong on the way back to the China Trade Center and asked her to meet tomorrow.

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