Chapter 17: Hurry up, gimbap
How many days have I lost contact with that person? Probably since Christmas Eve last year, that person has never been in contact with him, right? Jiang Shiqi sat on the floor of the practice room, puffing out her cheeks and sulking.
The last time she saw that person was when she watched a video of the SBS song battle at the end of last year on the Internet with Bae Joo-hyun. After the scandal of Kim Taeyeon and Wang Namqian came out, that person seemed to have evaporated from the world, and no one could contact him. Jiang Shiqi knew that it might be the company that controlled his communication with the outside world, but she was used to the life that person had been by her side, and now she inexplicably felt abandoned: "Qian Oppa is really, it's been almost two months, how can a big living person just disappear like this?"
Since the scandal with Kim Taeyeon was revealed at the end of last year, he has appeared on the stage of SBS song wars as a member of the group EXO, before his official debut. I don't know if it was a coincidence or a deliberate act, but the order of his appearance came immediately after Kim Taeyeon, and the two even passed by on stage: this is more of a focus on the attention of those who are paying attention to this incident.
If the spread of the scandal is just the fuse, SBS's song war is like a detonated explosive barrel, which makes people who don't know anything about the EXO group have an impression of this group at once: is the new group of S.M., the one that is entangled with Girls' Generation?
Taking the negative news of a single member as a lead and benefiting the whole group seems to be a good result. As the promotional videos of EXO continued to be released by S.M., they took advantage of the scandal and gained great popularity. The S.M. company itself is the product of years of sharpening its sword, and the strength and appearance of the members are placed here, and they have even been commented by some media as a group that "may rule the Korean idol scene after their debut" - in this unstoppable trend, this group itself has gradually become the center of discussion. Although the image of one of the members of the group was damaged a lot by the vigorous scandal that caused a lot of damage to the group, what is it compared to the huge topicality that EXO has gained as a collective? This turmoil is really a lot of money for S.M. Company.
"How can you say that? Didn't you still see his news on the Internet the day before yesterday?" Bae Joo-hyun sat next to Jiang Shiqi with her knees crossed, and she now took the initiative to do a lot of extra training every day after class. Just now that I was a little sure that I had some special feelings for that man in my heart that transcended friendship, and that person left the world that he could touch. At first, Bae told herself that this was a good opportunity to examine her true heart, but as time went by, the person's gentle smile became clearer and clearer in her heart, so she gave up struggling: she felt that she was actually a very contented person, as long as she could talk to each other on the phone often and occasionally go out to dinner with the other party as before, she would be content. But now she can't even get such an opportunity, so she has to practice a lot so that she doesn't have time to think of the feelings that are suppressed in her heart.
"Zhu Hyun Oni, are you talking about the news from those illegitimate meals?" Jiang Shiqi usually hates to practice late, but in order to accompany her relatives and friends who are obviously in trouble, she has to squat in the practice room every night, "Can you believe those things? ”
Bae Joo-hyun listened to the childish words of the girl next to her, and couldn't help laughing: "If you don't believe it, why do you still have to go to see it every day after returning to the dormitory? And the messages they sent out don't look like Qian Oppa's style? Telling the female high school students guarding the door of the dormitory to keep warm and go home early or something, it feels like it is indeed something he will do." ”
"That's why he's so angry! He was so considerate of those bastards, but he forgot about Zhu Hyun Oni and me. "There isn't much news about that man circulating on the Internet right now, and most of the small number is the aftermath of the scandal, and the other small part is from the illegitimate meal squatting outside the EXO dormitory. Kang Si-ki never believed that anything could happen between her Cheon Oppa and Kim Taeyeon, so her focus has always been on the news that the illegitimate meal spread.
It's really childlike, Bae Joo-hyun held the shoulder of the girl who was still sulking and stood up: "Okay, okay, he won't know if you're angry here." It's been a night of dancing, are you hungry? Let's go get something to eat. ”
Pouted and picked up the backpack placed in the corner, and threw it behind his right shoulder casually, even though the other party diverted the topic, Jiang Shiqi was still full of resentment towards the man who had "lost contact". Jiang Shiqi, who was still puffing out her cheeks, found that Ernie who was walking in front suddenly stopped at the staircase on the first floor, and when she was about to ask a few words, she also saw the three sneaky figures - thick velvet hats, large masks covering half of her face, and looking out of the door, who were these three people? What are they going to do?
"It's really not good, it's dead when Brother Xuan Jun finds out. The person who was sandwiched between the other two people hesitated to make a sound, although it was a little unclear through the barrier of the mask, and it was still Chinese that she couldn't understand at all, but Jiang Shiqi was still pleasantly surprised to hear that the owner of the voice was the man she was complaining about just now.
"Brother, aren't you hungry? I've been eating grass for more than a month, and if I don't replenish a little energy, I won't be able to hold on. The shortest of the three people saw that it was pitch black outside the door, as if no one was squatting at the door of the company, he dragged the person standing in the middle and rushed out, "Brother Xuan Jun just set off to pick up Yixing and Zhong Da, let's go out and come back with something to eat, we will definitely not be discovered." ”
The tallest of the three people has the biggest step, and he has already rushed to the front in three steps and two steps: "Hurry up, gimbap, gimbap." ”
"You two can eat if you want, why do you have to drag me!" The man who was kidnapped by the two men in the middle was dragged forward involuntarily, he wanted to resist, but he was afraid that the noise would be too loud to alarm the others, and the cry seemed a little strange.
"We don't have any money, only brother, you earn royalties, how can we have money to eat if we don't catch you?" Ignoring this weak protest at all, the speed of the two people on the left and right became faster.
"Zhu Hyun Oni, is that Qian Oppa, ......right?" The three of them said all Chinese, and Jiang Shiqi couldn't figure out what they were talking about except for vaguely understanding the name Yixing. Frightened by the speed of the three men who moved like rabbits, by the time she could react, the two hijackers had rushed out of the gate with the man in between.
Pei Zhuxun didn't expect that the three people who looked and thought they were dressed strangely would be members of EXO, but now the people who can be with him and all Chinese speakers should definitely be members of EXO's M team: although she couldn't understand what they said, Pei Zhuxun could feel that the person seemed to be very reluctant, and she didn't know why, she who had always been steady suddenly wanted to go with her: "Shiki, should we go with him?"
Jiang Shiqi's eyes widened and looked at the Ernie next to her, who was half a head shorter than her, what was wrong? Is this what Bae Joo-hyun would say and do?
The weather in Seoul was still cold in early February, and it was rare to encounter a few pedestrians on the streets of Cheongdam-dong at more than 11 o'clock in the evening.
After the SBS Song War, the company once again confiscated the communication tools of the entire team, saying that it would be returned before the official debut. Since then, the 12 of them have been caught in a new round of frantic preparation and work - the choreography of the second push track "History" in the debut mini album was originally a reference to SJ's debut form, and the choreography of the group dance of 12 people was carried out - but after watching the overall visual effects of the company's top management, they felt that it was not distinctive enough, so now the track, which is expected to be released in early March, has been re-choreographed by two teams of six people each.
If the increased workload is only part of the hard work, in order to ensure that they can maintain the best condition when they debut, the company's food control of the entire team is the most terrifying thing: since the beginning of January, not only the company has stopped giving them subsidies, but all EXO employees have only two small boxes of vegetable salad without sauce to eat every day, and they have eaten shredded cabbage, tomatoes and lettuce leaves for a month under high-intensity practice, which makes these big boys feel that life is worse than death.
The agents of Team K and Team M live in the same dormitory as them, and they don't have any chance to steal food in the dormitory. Whenever she returned to the dormitory, she could hear a roar in her abdomen, and Wang Nanqian, as the only person in the two teams who earned a little money, always felt unbearable, and at first she often went to the convenience store outside to buy some vitamin drinks and functional drinks and ran back to let her younger brothers fill their stomachs and maintain nutritional supplements. I don't know when it started, even outside the dormitory of people like them who didn't make their debut, there were illegitimate meals squatting up, and every time he went out, he had to break through in the midst of four or five girls:
"Brother Nan, I'm so hungry, go buy some drinks and come back. ”
"Why don't you go? You know how horrible those girls are out there?"
"Brother Nan, aren't you quite good at dealing with them? Those illegitimate meals on the Internet are all praising you, you have such a good relationship, who will you go if you don't go?"
"Why didn't you see them when they first started scolding me for being a scumbag?"
"Isn't that all in the past? Now you're their heart. In short, only Brother NAN can deal with them, so you can go for it. ”
"I'm @!#!@#@!#!¥%#%¥......"
Conversations like this have been staged in the dormitory many times, although he feels a little sorry for these girls who are in the open air in the middle of the night in the cold winter, often greets them gently, and doesn't care about the cold eyes and abuse that some people have given him at the beginning, and even the good evaluation of him at these illegitimate meals has greatly improved the image of the scumbag who once fell into a scandal. But if every time you go out, it's like going to the battlefield, and you have to brave all kinds of enemy encirclement and interception, then who wants to go out? As Wang Nanqian goes to the convenience store less and less, and even the supply of drinks in the EXO dormitory has become a problem, the faces of these big boys have become more and more obviously shriveled.
finally ushered in an opportunity to steal food, Lin Xuanjun left the company in order to pick up Zhang Yixing and Kim Jong-dae who were filming promotional videos, and Kim Min-seok slept like a dead pig on the sofa in the practice room, how could there be any reason not to take the opportunity to fill his stomach? Lu Han and Wu Yifan just glanced at each other, and they already had a heart-to-heart, which is why the current plot happened.
Seeing the signboard of "The Holy Land of Trainees", and the inexpensive gimbap restaurant in front of him, Lu Han's voice became cheerful: "I want to have a big meal! No one can stop me!"
Dragged into the restaurant with a bitter face, Wang Nanqian silently mourned the 10,000 won bills that had just been taken out and put in the wallet and wanted to use them for a long time: I'm sorry, I really shouldn't have taken you out, I should have starved these two bastards.