Chapter Seventy-One: Sing a Song
Although Jester's grandfather's hotel is only three-star, it is quite luxurious in the eyes of these international students.
There are not many mainland students in Los Angeles, but it is not a few, and most of them arrived when the scene was set up before the party, in fact, Jester felt that although he had a passion for cheering for the Olympic athletes of his motherland, it may be more that he could eat a rare meal for free.
Otherwise, Jester was a little incomprehensible to see that some of the students had walked more than thirty kilometers to come and had not eaten before they came.
Originally, Jester's grandfather also planned to come tonight, but he couldn't come for some time, but he still asked Jester's sister-in-law to attend on his behalf.
Jester's grandfather had a high reputation among these international students, and he had a private scholarship fund, which would give $30,000 a year to support these international students who came to study in the United States, especially on the West Coast.
Many people have been blessed by Grandpa Jester.
And his sister-in-law mainly came to announce the new funding list on behalf of his grandfather.
The venue is decorated with a very domestic atmosphere, and the decorations inside are specially bought from Chinatown, and they are all used in the traditional domestic kind of large round tables for more than ten or twenty people, and the chefs are also transferred from Grandpa Jester's chain Chinese restaurant.
In fact, they have never seen such a scene in China.
There are still a lot of people coming here tonight, but there are nearly 200 international students and overseas Chinese, and about half of the athletes will come to participate, plus some other miscellaneous people, there are nearly 400 people in total.
The Los Angeles Olympics in '84 was the first privately hosted Olympics in history, so in order to reduce expenses, there were no new venues or new Olympic villages, but only rented dormitories from several universities for athletes and delegation officials.
And there are also a lot of sponsors, reaching hundreds, and Jester's grandfather is one of them.
But there was also a bonus, that Jester's grandfather got six tickets to the opening ceremony from the organizing committee, and all of them were in the best locations.
This also made Jester ask for two, and after the party was over, he planned to invite Qin Shuyao to watch the opening ceremony tomorrow with him.
This year's Olympic Games pioneered the model of recruiting Olympic volunteers, to put it bluntly, because of lack of funds to find some free staff, I did not expect this to be warmly welcomed by the Americans, especially many college students, who spontaneously organized to serve the Olympic Games for free.
However, the most criticized thing is that this year's Olympic firepower relay is for sale, the price is clearly marked, 3,000 US dollars a mile, no bargaining, when it was originally passed to California, Corey Fein Sports Economics also specifically consulted Jester whether to participate in this relay, but Jester knew that this relay was so naked-linked to money and directly refused.
Although he likes sports very much, especially football, and is not averse to sports being mixed into business, he still can't accept such a naked model.
Of course, if the current Olympic Games were not so commercial, it would not have been possible to make a net profit of $225 million in half a month with an investment of less than $500 million, so that the Olympic Games would have gone from being hated by everyone and having given up an event that was extremely unfortunate and facing huge losses, and had become a cash cow that all countries wanted.
Jester's fame in the Chinese community is still very high, not because of his grandfather's prestige in the Chinese circle on the West Coast, but because of the huge success of his Mars entertainment in just two months.
It completely slapped the media and pundits who have been saying that video games are dead in the face.
And faintly, there are rumors that Jester is now the youngest billionaire in the United States.
Therefore, some Chinese who came to the banquet site immediately surrounded Jester enthusiastically as soon as they saw him, all wanting to get close to him.
Recently, Jester's acquisition of the unsustainable Clement card company has also spread throughout the Chinese circle, and Jester is basically regarded as a loser with money in his hands, and he is wronged.
In fact, there is no need for Qin Shuyao and these international students to arrange the scene at all, Jester's grandfather has already asked people to arrange it, and they only need to eat when they come.
However, it is not yet time for the banquet, and the people who came to the banquet hall have all chatted in twos and threes.
Jester finally managed to deal with the Chinese who gathered around, and it was rare to be idle.
He looked around, and after a few moments, he found Qin Shuyao's location, where she and the four international students who had come with her were laughing and chatting with some people who were about their age.
I guess it's a classmate I know.
Jester thought so, and walked straight over.
Qin Shuyao saw his approaching figure, also smiled and beckoned, and said to the people around him: "Li Jie, whose English name is Jester Lee, is also the grandson of Old Man Li, and he is also our patron second only to Old Man Li at this party. ā
There are international students who often pay attention to the news, and they obviously recognize Jester, after all, the most popular Jester and Mars Entertainment are too hot, especially after Jester was nominated as a candidate for Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the American Association of College Entrepreneurs, it has received great attention, you know, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Ashnell, the founder of Atari, have all won this honor.
Several media outlets, such as Footwork ABC, wanted to do an exclusive interview with Jester, but Jester refused, since the last time he participated in an interview, Jester has completely lost interest in interviews with various media, and he is not a high-profile person, and he doesn't like to show his head very much.
Although these international students know Jester's identity, they don't want to get too close, one may have different ideas, and the two identities are also very different, and the two sides are not from the same world at all.
They just said a few words and then excused themselves and left, they didn't want to have too much contact with Jester, and these people could also see that Jester was here to find Qin Shuyao.
Only the student named Yu Yunlong, who was a little hostile to Jester and had a crush on Qin Shumiao when they first met, was a little annoyed by Jester's arrival, but when he saw his classmates and friends, he didn't want to show his crush on Qin Shuyao, nor did he want people to think that he wanted to cling to and curry favor with this young capitalist, so he could only go elsewhere a little reluctantly.
However, his gaze always looked secretly in the direction where Qin Shuyao was, and when he saw Jester's eyes looking at him a few times, he immediately turned his gaze elsewhere, and then showed an expression of indifference.
Jester just smiled and ignored it.
In his opinion, Qin Shuyao is such an outstanding girl, and it is natural for someone to like her.
However, in addition to Qin Shuyao, there was another international student who also stayed.
Jester looked at the young man in front of him, and felt that he was different from those international students, he was not as wary and alienated as those people, and seemed to deliberately want to get closer to him.
"His name is Sun Zeyun, and he is the grandson of one of my grandfather's comrades-in-arms, and they grew up together when they were young." Qin Shuyao introduced Jester like this.
After hearing this, Jester nodded, and understood, this is also a powerful person from the mainland.
However, the magnates of the continent are not worth much in these years, Jester has seen a lot of the world now, not when he was just reborn, and he didn't care about it, he just stretched out his hand and shook hands with this young man named Sun Zeyun, and then quickly separated.
"I heard Shu Yao say that you want to invest and do business in China, I have many friends in China, and they can all help." Sun Zeyun's attitude is very active and enthusiastic.
Jester just smiled and nodded, but didn't say anything specifically.
With his investment of tens of millions of dollars, the senior leaders at the ministerial level have to meet with him personally, and he still needs the help of his friends.
Qin Shuyao listened with a little disdain, she seemed to be very familiar with this person named Sun Zeyun, made a grimace, and said in a sarcastic tone: "As for your fox friends and dog friends, how can anyone have the ability?" Cheng Tian only knows how to rely on the reputation of his elders to cause trouble everywhere. ā
Sun Zeyun didn't care when he heard this, he continued to say enthusiastically to Jester: "Mr. Sun, in fact, I am also a student at UCLA, but I have just finished the language preparatory department and will only enter my freshman year after the summer vacation. ā
"Congratulations, UCLA is a great university." Jester smiled and nodded.
The three chatted a few more words, and then Sun Zeyun also saw that Jester seemed to be interested in Qin Shuyao and lacked interest in himself, so in order to maintain his image in front of Jester, he also found an excuse to leave.
"I'm sorry just now, I didn't expect them to be so alienated from you." Seeing that there were only two people, she and Jester, Qin Shuyao said a little embarrassed.
Jester smiled indifferently, to be honest, he was not interested in making too many friends with these international students at all, he was willing to know those people, or for the sake of Qin Shuyao's face, if it wasn't Qin Shuyao, Jester cared who they were? So they don't appreciate it, and they are happy with Jester.
You know, billionaire time is not so cheap.
"No, didn't you just know one?" As he spoke, Jester gestured with his eyes to Sun Zeyun, who had already arrived on the other side.
"Hmm."
Qin Shumiao saw Jester's face as usual, and she didn't take the neglect of her classmates to heart at all, which can be regarded as a sigh of relief, after all, the matter was also because of her, she didn't explain the situation to both parties in advance, she saw Jester talking about Sun Zeyun, her delicate face couldn't help showing a funny expression, she smiled and said, "He, his grandfather used to be a guard for my grandfather, and my grandfather is also a fellow villager, we grew up together when we were children, and we are a very noisy person, I remember one time he put a caterpillar in my hair and scared me into tears, and then I went to complain, and he was spanked and beaten twenty boards by his father, and he didn't dare to sit for a whole week, and he had to lie on his stomach when he ate, and he almost laughed at me. ā
Hearing Qin Shuyao talk about the interesting things of his childhood, Jester couldn't help laughing, and then he also talked about many interesting things when he was a child based on the memories of the real Jester Lee in his mind, which also made Qin Shuyao's laughter continue to sound.
Qin Shuyao's admirer named Yu Yunlong could only secretly look at this qiÄ, watching Jester and Qin Shuyao laugh and laugh continuously, and his eyes towards Jester became more and more hostile.
Inadvertently, his fists clenched.
When it was almost dinner time, the athletes of the mainland delegation also arrived one after another, Jester is not very familiar with the athletes of this era, he can probably only recognize Xu Haifeng, who scored the first gold for China, and Li Ning, who is known as the prince of gymnastics and the tower of strength, and he is not too familiar with the rest.
However, Xu Haifeng was not present because he was going to participate in the competition the day after the opening ceremony, so he was recuperating, which also made Jester a little regretful, but Li Ning came, Jester just glanced at it from a distance, but it could be seen from the outline that it was very similar to the photos he saw in later generations.
The dinner is still very rich, and the chefs in charge are the chefs in Grandpa Jester's Chinese restaurant, in order to take care of the different tastes of these international students and athletes from all over the country, so this time the dishes are not only the best Sichuan cuisine in Jester's grandfather's Chinese restaurant, but also the Lu cuisine, which is known as the sect of northern cuisine, and there are many Huaiyang dishes that are passed down to the world with lightness.
To be honest, the Chinese people in this era, especially in China, because of the shortage of materials, life is very hard, and the athletes of the national brand may be slightly better, but they will not be much better than ordinary people.
Jester still remembers a story he saw, Liu Xiaoqing, who was already a famous actress in the mainland at this time, when Li Hanxiang's crew was filming the burning of the Old Summer Palace, because the crew members in Hong Kong had meat to eat, but they didn't in the mainland, they could cry and boycott the show directly in order to eat meat.
Therefore, Jester's sister-in-law on behalf of his grandfather simply said a few words hoping that the athletes would win glory for the country in the Olympic arena, and we overseas Chinese would definitely cheer for the motherland without hesitation, and then after announcing the official start of the banquet, the international students in the United States who were eager to save every cent of foreign exchange to buy useful books, as well as those athletes who had long since faded out of their mouths in China, immediately devoured the sumptuous delicacies in the face of the sumptuous delicacies.
It is said that this party was organized by these international students with the assistance of the consulate, but this is just a name, and it is Jester's grandfather who really organized this welcome banquet.
And Jester's sister-in-law could also see that her nephew was interested in the little girl named Qin Shuyao, so she deliberately arranged the two together.
After three rounds of wine, the dishes tasted five flavors, everyone's feelings were also mobilized, and I don't know who mentioned yƬ to sing a song, and then it was quickly approved by everyone, but it was impossible for the whole four hundred people to sing, at first it was voluntary, and the result may be that the Chinese people or introverts are in the majority, so the number of volunteers is not much, and in the end, they draw lots and sing in the lottery.
In addition to those who voluntarily sing, about twenty more will be drawn, and twenty people out of nearly four hundred people will be drawn, and the probability of being selected is still very small.
But what Jester didn't expect was that he had bought a lot of scratch tickets in his previous life and had never won the jackpot, and this time he actually won the jackpot.
Although Jester is not very good at singing, he still has the ability to go to KTV with his friends to howl his throat, so he will be drawn if he wins, it is nothing more than singing a song, and although his singing is average, it is not unpleasant.
It's not hard to fool around.
In order not to collide with the song that someone else wants to sing, after taking the song entry with the accompaniment tape in the hotel, all the people who are going to sing also choose the song they are going to sing according to the song entry.
Jester looked at it, he was not familiar with the songs of this period, like those red songs that love the party and the country, it is not suitable for him to sing as a Chinese, although he can, and it is not very suitable for him to sing the songs from Taiwan, after all, he also sprayed Taiwan is a sick cat not long ago, and he chose to choose, he chose a song that is very famous and suitable for his identity to sing.
Huang Zhan's masterpiece, "My Chinese Heart".
The problem is that this song is too famous, too good, too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and too easy to sing, so there are many people who want to choose this song, although it is not forbidden to sing the same song, but it is not very good to sing the same song as others.
However, Jester's reputation is there, and his grandfather's prestige among the Chinese is very high, so when others saw that Jester wanted to choose this one, they all gave up.
There's no need to offend Jester for a song.
Jester thanked them all.
Yu Yunlong also plans to choose this one, he really likes this song very much, since he heard this song in the United States, he can't help but fall in love with this song that is completely written in his heart, and his voice is very good, and he is also very good at singing, when he was studying in college in China, he was the pillar of the school's party, but he saw that Jester wanted to sing this song, and after others immediately gave up, plus Qin Shuyao's close attitude towards Jester before, Immediately, a sense of injustice arose in his heart.
Why does he have so many privileges? Why should everyone be polite to him and respectful? Doesn't he just have a good grandfather, wasn't he born in the United States? Where am I worse than him?
He is conceited that he is the pride of the sky, since the resumption of the college entrance examination, he was admitted to Peking University from the depths of a poor mountain, he is desperately absorbing a qiÄ can gain knowledge, in China, every exam, he has not taken the second, the place to study abroad, he also effortlessly obtained, before coming to the United States, he is extremely proud and confident.
After coming to the United States, he worked hard in the eyes of these Americans, and he was an A in every exam, and none of the students at USC Business School, whether American, European or Japanese, had better grades than him.
He is extremely conceited about his abilities.
He only felt inferior when facing Qin Shuyao, because he knew Qin Shuyao's identity.
He knew how far he was from Qin Shuyao.
However, this banana man called Jester Lee ...... At this time, countless thoughts flashed through Yu Yunlong's mind, and the way he looked at Jester was no longer the hostility he had at the beginning, but turned into disgust.
At this time, Jester also found Yu Yunlong not far away, he saw that the other party looked at him with a strange look, and it seemed that the other party was also drawn and ready to sing, so he also wanted to ask if the other party also wanted to choose "My Chinese Heart", so Jester walked towards him.
And Yu Yunlong looked at Jester walking towards him, his disgusted eyes immediately disappeared, and he lowered his eyes slightly, trying to hide his feelings.
"What song did your classmates choose?" Jester asked.
Yu Yunlong pretended to be embarrassed and said, "I don't have many songs to choose yet, what did you choose." ā
"My Chinese heart won't collide with you." Jester continued with a smile.
"This song." Yu Yunlong's face showed a thoughtful look, but after a moment, a smile immediately appeared on his face, "No, although I also like this song, but if you choose it, I'll choose something else." ā
"Thank you then, I'll treat you to dinner when I have time." Jester also smiled and expressed his gratitude.
Seeing Jester's back walking towards Qin Shuyao, Yu Yunlong's eyes once again revealed a strange look that blended with hostility and disgust, and it was fleeting.
"What did you choose?" Seeing that Jester had chosen a song and walked towards him, Qin Shuyao also asked with some curiosity.
"My Chinese heart." Jester said with a smile.
"Yes! I also like this song very much, Yu Yunlong is very good at singing this one, he is the pillar of our international students, he can sing a lot of songs, and he sings very well. Qin Shuyao smiled on his face and kept talking.
"I also want to thank him, just now he heard me say that I want to choose this song, he said that he changed it, I knew that he was the best at this song, in fact, it doesn't matter if I change it to something else." Jester had a somewhat embarrassed look on his face, "You can help me contact me after the party, I will treat him to a meal in a few days, thank him well." ā
"No problem." Qin Shuyao also agreed.
Then, the stage of singing officially began, and the songs sung this time were still relatively distinct, mainly singing red songs from China, overseas Chinese sang some popular songs from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and international students sang both.
To be honest, this is not a professional singer, and the singing is still average, but the audience's feelings are also very warm, and every time they finish singing, no matter how they sing, they are also reciprocated with warm applause.
Jester was actually a little bored to listen to, and he was chatting with Qin Shuyao without a match, he was only interested in this.
"Next, Yu Yunlong!" With the announcement of an international student who was a guest host, Qin Shuyao hurriedly pushed Jester and whispered, "The next one is you, aren't you going to go?" ā
Jester just smiled: "What else are you going to prepare?" I have listened to the song "My Chinese Heart" countless times, and I can recite the lyrics backwards like ......"
Before he could finish this sentence, the banquet hall sounded the melody of the prelude to the classic song that made Zhang Mingmin famous in this year's Spring Festival Gala.
Hearing this prelude that he was already very familiar with, Jester suddenly stopped talking, he looked at Yu Yunlong who was standing on the stage and preparing to sing, remembering the smile on his face when he said to himself that he was going to choose another song, Jester's eyes showed a trace of coldness.
And Qin Shuyao also looked at Yu Yunlong who was about to start singing with some shock, and then glanced at Jester with a cold face, on one side was her classmate, and on the other hand was the friend she had just made, she opened her mouth, and she didn't know what to say.
However, she still felt a little angry at Yu Yunlong, "How can he be like this!" ā
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