Chapter 15: The Kingdom of Curiosity
With the arrival of February in early 2005, the weather in Seoul has become more and more perverse, only a few days ago the sun was shining brightly for the citizens of Seoul to offer a rare warm sunshine, and then it was unshakably gloomy, looking up at the gray sky, gloomy and terrible, even pedestrians did not want to take it outside for a while, for fear of being dyed with the haze in their hearts.
However, in this unpleasant weather, Zheng Yucheng rarely has a good mood, and the smile on his face makes even Xu Zhuxian, an upright girl who only sees him at the bus stop every day, also have a little curiosity, wondering why this usually taciturn person suddenly has such a good mood today, you must know that this gloomy sky, even she is a little annoying.
"See you tomorrow!" As always, smiling and waving goodbye to Xu Zhuxian, this is the only communication between Zheng Yucheng and this strange and familiar girl, except for sweet potatoes, this sentence of seeing you tomorrow is not so much a farewell to the girl as it is his own expectations for tomorrow, looking forward to tomorrow's encounter and the beginning of a new day, at least until the girl recognizes herself as a gagman, pulling the corners of her mouth and smiling on her face, Zheng Yucheng suddenly wondered if he should be a little famous at that time.
"See you tomorrow ......" whispered looking at the figure of the bus leaving, but Xu Zhuxian's face showed a slightly puzzled look, and she keenly found that the bus Zheng Yucheng was riding today was not the one that drove in the direction of Yeouido as usual, but ......
The passengers in the bus sat quietly in the parking space, Zheng Yucheng randomly found a parking space by the window and sat down, leaning on the side of the car and looking at the scenery constantly reflected on the window and constantly reversing rapidly, and disappeared behind the moving bus in the blink of an eye, but the arc of the corner of his mouth never fell.
The street scenery that was originally reflected in the eyes suddenly disappeared, replaced by a bright riverside scenery, in fact, under this gloomy sky, the scenery of the river road was not too attractive, but the smile on Zheng Yucheng's face became brighter and brighter when he saw the wide river in front of him.
"It's here~" whispered in his mouth, Zheng Yucheng, who got down from the back door of the bus, stood in the bus stop, looked at the busy figure not far away, and said, "Han River, curiosity heavenly ......" From the direction where he was, he could vaguely see the figure in the distance carrying all kinds of equipment Figures were running back and forth.
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"Curiosity Heaven" is an experimental variety show owned by SBS TV, and the main theme of the show is to explore everything that makes the audience curious. Some curious viewers wrote to the TV station to put forward what they were curious about, and after being screened by the production team of the program, they filmed and asked questions in the studio, and each time a controversial question was answered by the program team through verification.
Because of the relationship that can interact with the audience, "Curiosity Heaven" has a good popularity among teenage children, and many children will personally write letters to put forward their whimsical questions as petitioners for the program team to answer, so the ratings of the show also hovered between 7% ~ 9%, and from time to time it will reach about 10%, which can be regarded as a variety show with medium ratings.
However, even the best programs will have an end one day, especially in the recent popularity of indoor matching programs such as SBS's "x-man" and "Love Letter", the ratings of "Curiosity Heaven" have been declining more and more recently, and the audience's tastes have become more and more diar, and they are gradually no longer limited to this kind of semi-popular science variety shows, and they have begun to like to pursue the ambiguity between stars and stars.
"If it doesn't work anymore, it's going to end, "Curiosity Heaven" has been around for three or four years, and the ratings have become more and more overwhelming recently...... "There is not much sadness, for the ups and downs of variety shows, PD has long been downplayed, after all, variety shows are very difficult to do for a long time in South Korea, and it is rare to see a variety show that can be done for more than three years, at least in terms of time, "Curiosity Heaven" is already a long-running old variety show, Although its popular science program form is also one of the main reasons.
"PD, the gagman Zheng Yucheng who participated in the experiment has arrived." The words of the program writer interrupted the thinking of the program PD, and when he came back to his senses, he turned his head to look, only to see a black-haired young man with a ponytail not far away who was looking at the busy crew with a curious face, and the production team that informed him did not tell the other party about the filming content of the show.
Looking at the busy staff around him with a little nervousness, Zheng Yucheng's mood at the moment was extremely excited, although he didn't know the content of the production team to let him come to the Han River, but this could not hide his inner excitement and the upcoming nervousness, you know, this is the first variety show other than "Funny Concert" since his debut.
When he first learned on the phone that he could appear in a variety show, he was so excited that he didn't even sleep well, and he kept thinking about how he should behave in the show, and even imagined dozens of times the way he introduced himself at the beginning, and he barely suppressed his excitement and finally fell asleep, and got up early to prepare, just so that his first variety show could be perfected and not make mistakes.
"Zheng Yucheng xi, hello, I am the PD of the program "Curiosity Heaven", and I will ask you for this show......" The program PD of "Curiosity Heaven" actually asked himself, and when he heard PD's request, Zheng Yucheng waved his hand in a panic, "PD, you are too polite, it should be that I thank you for allowing me to star in "Curiosity Heaven". ”
"So, Zheng Yuchengxi, are you ready?"
Taking a deep breath to calm down his nervous emotions, Zheng Yucheng nodded and said to the affectionate program PD in front of him, "Ready!" ”
"Okay, let's change our clothes, wait a minute, and we'll start experimenting soon." Looking at the young man in front of him who had calmed down, PD nodded with satisfaction, and then said to him with a gentle face, "Zheng Yuchengxi, you go and prepare first......"
"Alas, change of clothes? Get ready? Suddenly learned from PD what he was going to do, Zheng Yucheng showed a puzzled expression, and cautiously asked, "PD, what do you want me to do to change my clothes, what is the content of the shooting that I will wait for?" ”
"Today, Zheng Yucheng xi, your task is to swim from here to the other side of the Han River......"