1992, New Taipei County, Taipei City, Baodao Province.

"When I was a child...... Squeak squeak...... There are many jasmine flowers in front of the door...... Zizizi...... It has a faint fragrance...... Zizi Zizi ......"

The old tape recorder is like an overwhelmed old cow, pushing the tape hard, and making a sizzling noise from time to time.

Syllable!

A hand slapped on the tape recorder, and the noise disappeared in an instant, and the singing became clear.

"As I grew up, the jasmine flowers in front of the door had slowly withered and no longer sprouted......"

"Come, take a look, Lin Zhiying's "Not Every Love Song Has Good Memories", the last ten, all those who haven't bought it, have come and take a look!"

In front of the humble stall, Chen Qiming withdrew his hand from the tape recorder and shouted at passers-by.

"Hahaha, Chen Qiming, there are only the last ten tickets, isn't it the last five yesterday afternoon? Why can't you sell out of this product every day, you say, do you have a Tinker Bell pocket? ”

Not far away, a middle-aged man who also sold tapes joked loudly.

Being ridiculed by the middle-aged man like this, Chen Qimingjun blushed and said angrily: "It's your business, can't I pick up the new goods?" ”

"Hahaha!" The middle-aged man smiled and said: "Who doesn't know that you kid bought all the inventory in this street video store, I have heard, Liu Ji Audio-Visual Old Liu hates you to death, and said that he will never sell tapes again!" ”

"I said how can it be sold so expensive!" A young man who was rummaging through the tapes in Chen Qiming's booth couldn't help but say something when he heard the middle-aged man's words.

Chen Qiming glared at the middle-aged man fiercely, turned his head and said to the young man: "I still have this record here a few streets nearby, and the price is not expensive." ”

The young man whispered, "Profiteer! He picked up a cassette tape, threw down eighty Taiwan dollars, and walked away scolding.

Chen Qiming put away the money, pulled up his throat and shouted again.

This time, he didn't say there were only ten.

Many people in the vicinity heard the middle-aged man's words just now, and it makes no sense to shout like this again.

"Not Every Love Song Has Good Memories" is out of print tape, and I am the only one in the whole treasure island, don't miss it when you pass by."

Although the words are exaggerated, they do attract a lot of people.

Recently, Lin Zhiying's record has been really popular, and about three weeks after its release, most of the video stores around the country have been out of stock.

Therefore, when they heard that there was this record here, many people gathered in front of Chen Qiming's booth.

"Boss, how do you sell this tape!" A middle school girl with a schoolbag asked.

"Eighty yuan, no bargaining!" Chen Qiming pointed to the price sign next to him.

"It's so expensive, video stores only sell sixty-five yuan, you're too expensive!"

As soon as they heard this price, many people who wanted to buy it were immediately frightened.

However, there are also people who pay for it immediately.

Chen Qiming had already expected this.

Since a car accident a few months ago, Chen Qiming has always had strange dreams.

These dreams are strange, there are news, music clips, and film and television clips, anyway, most of them are about the entertainment industry.

Among them, what he remembers very vividly is an article called "The First Record of Lin Zhiying, the Four Little Kings of Treasure Island".

In the description of this article, Lin Zhiying debuted in 1992 and released her debut album "Not Every Love Song Has Good Memories" in March.

This record Lin Zhiying not only created a miracle of millions of sales, but the title song also became the most popular song at home and abroad at that time.

Originally, Chen Qiming didn't pay so much attention to the information in the dream.

Until one day when he went to the video store to pick up the record and set up a stall, he found the promotional poster of this record.

He found that several of the posters were identical to the ones in his dream articles, plus the songs played on the radio that were exactly the same as those in his dreams.

This made him realize that the message in his dream might be true.

After that, he studied the information in the dream for a long time.

Soon he came to the conclusion that this information was true and that it was something that would happen in the future.

So, he put his idea on Lin Zhiying's record.

A week after the release of this record, he confirmed that this record would indeed sell well and had begun to become popular, so he directly took out all his belongings of 50,000 Taiwan dollars and swept up the inventory of this record in several nearby video stores.

And it turns out he was right.

A few days after he bought all the inventory in the nearby video store, the record "Not Every Love Song Has Good Memories" completely exploded, and in the next week, this record directly became the best-selling record on Treasure Island, and many places even went out of stock.

And he also took this opportunity to take out his inventory and began to sell it at a higher price.

He sold a record that cost 65 yuan in a video store, and he sold it directly for 80 yuan, which was a full 15 yuan more expensive.

Even so, there are countless little girls who come to him to buy goods.

So far, the more than 800 sheets of stock he bought have almost all been sold, and there are less than 100 left.

"Little brother, can you tell me, how did you know that this record would be popular?"

The records on the stall sold more than a dozen copies after a while, sending away a few girls who had been accosted, and Chen Qiming was raising his head to calculate how much he could make on this gambling when a female voice pulled him back from his thoughts.

Looking up at the middle-aged woman in front of him, Chen Qiming rolled his eyes, "I said I found it from my professional point of view, do you believe it?" ”

"You know music?" The middle-aged woman looked curious.

"I started learning piano at the age of five, and at the age of thirteen I wrote a children's song by myself, and won the title of the best genius boy in the school, do you think I understand?"

For this kind of people who don't sell things and want to chat, Chen Qiming has never given them a chance, and directly opened up.

Of course, what he said is not false, but the truth.

Chen Qiming's experience is very similar to that of Wu Qilong, the Little Tigers, who grew up in a wealthy family, and then the family suddenly went bankrupt, causing the family to become poor and had to work and study on his own.

Although he is now down, he used to be a rich second generation and also studied professional music theory.

"That's it!" The middle-aged woman nodded thoughtfully.

Then, she took out a business card from her bag and handed it to Chen Qiming, "I'm Ge Fuhong of Fulong Company, are you interested in signing a contract with our company as a singer?" ”

Saying that, she looked at Chen Qiming carefully a few times, and said with satisfaction: "You are very good in appearance and height, and you also understand music, if you sign with us, I promise to package you as an idol of the times like Lin Zhiying!" ”

"Fulong Company Ge Fuhong?" Chen Qiming looked puzzled.

He does have some interest in music and movies, but he really doesn't know a few entertainment companies on Treasure Island.

He knew about Flying Saucer and Rolling Stone, two record companies that had been beaten from the earth to the sky.

"Yes, we at Fulong are a brokerage company." Saying that, she glanced at Chen Qiming with a smile, "If you think I'm a liar, you can ask someone familiar with the entertainment industry to ask about me, my name should still be known to quite a few people." ”

Chen Qiming was silent for a while, took the business card from her hand, glanced at it, and saw that in addition to the phone number, it was also written:

Ge Fuhong, general manager of Fulong Brokerage Company.

Seeing the position above, Chen Qiming couldn't help but ask, "General manager?" Are your brokerage companies so rolled? Even the general manager came out to run the business? ”

"Volume?" Ge Fuhong was stunned, obviously not understanding what this meant.

Chen Qiming explained: "It means fierce competition! ”

He sometimes didn't understand why he kept uttering words that didn't match the era, and he could only attribute them to the influence of those broken dreams.

"A very apt word!" Ge Fuhong said with a smile: "I didn't come out to run business, my home is nearby, I heard a friend in the video store said that a boy predicted that "Not Every Love Song Has Good Memories" would be popular, and bought up all the inventory of this record on this street, and he was a little curious, so he came to see it. ”

The more he said, the stronger Ge Fuhong's smile became, "I thought you were just a marketer with a keen sense of smell in the market, but I didn't expect you to understand music and become a good star." ”

Ge Fuhong was indeed very satisfied, she originally planned to come to see what her friend said about the marketing genius, and if she could, she would recruit Chen Qiming into the record company under Fulong Company to be responsible for publicity and distribution.

But what she didn't expect was that Chen Qiming not only had good looks, but also knew music.

At this moment, an idea immediately crossed her mind, that is, this big boy is a baby.

The appearance is not inferior to anyone in the Little Tigers and Lin Zhiying, and even surpasses.

Coupled with his own knowledge of music theory, this is simply a treasure given to her by God.

Hearing this, Chen Qiming nodded suspiciously, and raised the business card in his hand, "I will consider it seriously, if you have ideas, I will contact you!" ”

He plans to find someone to find out about the company later, if he can......

……

In the afternoon, Chen Qiming, who had sold all the tapes, went back to school.

The school he attended was Treasure Island University, a school that enjoys a certain reputation internationally.

He studied in the Department of Foreign Languages, which is more liberal than other departments.

Of course, the main thing is that Chen Qiming should be able to learn, so he can skip class on Tuesday to go out to sell tapes.

When he came to the school, Chen Qiming first went to his mentor Lin Zhenxing and returned the tuition he had borrowed from him.

Since his father lost the company by speculating in stocks at the age of thirteen and committed suicide by jumping off a building, his family's conditions have been very bad.

Since the age of fifteen, Chen Qiming has been working part-time to support his family.

This year, because the tuition fees of the younger sister Chen Qirui became higher after she went to middle school, the family struggled to provide for the tuition fees of the two, so Chen Qiming borrowed some money from the tutor to pay for the tuition.

"You don't have to give it to me so quickly, I know your family's situation very well, you can use this money to subsidize the family first, and then pay me back after you graduate and work!"

Lin Zhenxing is an old-fashioned-looking old man, and his classmates at school are usually afraid of him and think he is old-fashioned and mean.

But only Chen Qiming knows that this man is a very good person.

Although he is strict with his students' studies, he can also be gentle in private.

For example, now, when Chen Qiming handed over the money to him, he did not take it immediately, but asked Chen Qiming to take the money back to subsidize the family.

Hearing this, Chen Qiming was slightly silent for a moment, and said with a smile: "Mentor, you just take it!" I've got a good job! ”

"Work?" Hearing this, Lin Zhenxing frowned, "Qiming, the most important thing for you now is to study, and it is best to wait until you graduate to work." ”

"Rest assured, mentor, I'm not going to do a mess of work!" Chen Qiming explained: "There is a brokerage company that takes a fancy to me, and they want to sign me as a star, that is, a singer or actor!" Although this industry is a bit busy, but this is a serious job, and it can still make money, I studied music theory when I was a child, and my music literacy is good, so I don't think it will bury me in this industry! ”

One afternoon is enough time for Chen Qiming to inquire about Fulong Brokerage Company and Ge Fuhong.

But what he inquired about was a big surprise to him.

Fulong Agency is a well-known agency in Treasure Island, which has a lot to do with UFO Records.

Aaron Kwok, who became popular throughout the Chinese-speaking region with the song "Can't Stop Loving You" on Treasure Island the year before last, was the contracted Fulong brokerage company.

In addition, Ge Fuhong is not a nameless person.

As she said, many people will know her name.

Her name is very well-known in the Treasure Island entertainment industry.

She is the mother of variety shows on Treasure Island, and the variety shows that were popular on Treasure Island a few years ago, "Serial Cannon" and "Super Sunday" were produced by her and Wang Weizhong.

In addition, she herself is also the owner of Fulong's brokerage company, and she also has shares in treasure island media giants such as UFO Radio and Times TV.

It can be said that her name can be described as famous in Treasure Island.

After learning about some of Ge Fuhong's deeds, Chen Qiming knew that this was an opportunity for him.

If he misses this opportunity, he doesn't know when he will have another chance to soar like this.

Therefore, he decided to go to Fulong Brokerage Company tomorrow according to the address on the business card.

"Entertainer!" Lin Zhenxing is not a person who can't keep up with the times, he naturally knows that in recent years, a huge entertainment trend has risen in Baodao and even the whole world.

Speaking of Xiangjiang, the name of Oriental Hollywood is far and wide all over the world, and the economic GDP of Xiangjiang has been pulled to a very high level.

Even, it can be said that if it weren't for the film industry, Xiangjiang would have sunk with it when the RB economic bubble occurred a few years ago.

It is precisely by relying on the output income of movies that Xiangjiang's economy has been stable in the forefront of the Four Little Tigers.

Thinking like this, Lin Zhenxing couldn't help but nodded, but he quickly reacted again, "Then you mean to ask for leave again?" ”

Chen Qiming smiled, "Yes, mentor, I want to ask you for a period of leave!" ”

"This is not negotiable!" Lin Zhenxing turned his back directly, "When will you gain a foothold in this industry, you will come to me to ask for leave." ”

Seeing this, Chen Qiming sighed, he knew that this would be the case.

Lin Zhenxing is a more pragmatic person.

Even if Chen Qiming said what he was going to do in the future, if he didn't come up with real results, it would be absolutely impossible for him to let Chen Qiming delay his studies.

He is like that, which makes people hate and love at the same time.

Hate him for not knowing how to be flexible, love him and take care of himself, and don't want his future to be ruined.

After school in the afternoon, Chen Qiming and the students who were also riding bicycles galloped away in the direction of their homes.

The ears are full of frolicking and slapstick, which makes people can't help but sink into this atmosphere that belongs to youth.

"Chen Qiming, Chen Qiming, wait a minute!"

Chen Qiming had just ridden some distance when he heard someone shouting at him.

Whew......

Using his foot as a brake to stop the car, he looked back at the passer.

"Chen Qiming, do you run so fast after school every day, are you in a hurry to reincarnate?"

The person who came was a girl, and she chased after her on a bicycle.

"I'm very busy, and I have to go back to help my mother watch the store and close the stall, I don't have time to talk nonsense to you, you have something to say quickly." Chen Qiming said impatiently.

The girl in front of her is called Zeng Baoyi, she is a rich girl, once because she was bullied by hooligans outside the school and was relieved by Chen Qiming, she relied on Chen Qiming, either writing love letters to him or confessing to him in person.

To be honest, Zeng Baoyi's appearance is actually not bad.

It's a pity that Chen Qi is busy making money tomorrow, so how can he have time to play family love with her.

Just like Zeng Baoyi every time he asked him why he rejected her, he said "Women will only affect the speed at which I draw a knife", he didn't want to affect him to make money to support his family.

"You're going home to see the store again!" Hearing Chen Qiming's words, Zeng Baoyi couldn't help but be depressed and said: "I joined the TV Planning Department of Shingon Society as an executive producer, and I want to talk to you about TV production. ”

Although it is very annoying Zeng Baoyi, Chen Qiming usually chats and eats with her.

During this period, Chen Qiming talked to her about some TV episodes in his broken dream, and he also talked about the Tao.

Therefore, in Zeng Baoyi, Chen Qiming belongs to the kind of all-round talent who knows astronomy and geography.

When she went to Shingon Club for an interview last week, she asked Chen Qiming for advice.

Chen Qiming also taught her two tips to deepen the impression of the interviewer.

"You're so annoying!" Chen Qiming muttered and jumped off the bike, "Give you ten minutes, let's say okay first, my time is very precious, you have to eat popsicles!" ”

All right! Another reason why Chen Qiming is often with her is that Zeng Baoyi is rich and very generous, and the consumption of the two of them is basically paid by her.

"That's fine!" Hearing Chen Qiming's words, Zeng Baoyi couldn't help but smile, and quickly ran to the store next to him to buy an ice cream, and then opened the schoolbag and took out a pineapple cake from it: "Here you go!" ”

"Hurry up and talk about your problem, and I can't guarantee that I can help you solve it!" Chen Qiming unceremoniously took the thing and said while stuffing it into his mouth.

"That's right, my boss asked me to independently complete a realistic script outline, I have no clue, I want to ask you how to write it?" Zeng Baoyi secretly glanced at Chen Qiming, who was eating pineapple crisp, and said.

"This pineapple cake tastes so good!" Chen Qiming praised the snack, and then said: "It's very simple, you go to Monga for a walk, you can write ten articles like this if you want!" ”

As he spoke, he stared at Zeng Baoyi with squinting eyes, "A beautiful girl like you, go there, tsk......"

I have to say that Chen Qiming is very talented in acting, and his appearance as if he was going to eat Zeng Baoyi made her reflexively hide back.

"You're scaring me again!" Zeng Baoyi, who reacted, said angrily.

"Remember! Remember your fear just now, you can use this to write a script about an innocent girl being bullied by unscrupulous Taiwanese guests when you go back, of course, the specific development of the situation, you think for yourself! Chen Qiming ignored her anger, stepped on the bicycle with one foot, and walked away directly.

"Wait, one more thing, can I put that story you told last time into a script?" Zeng Baoyi shouted from behind.

"Whatever you want, but you have to pay the original copyright fee!" Chen Qiming rode away on his bicycle as he replied.

Chen Qiming's home is on the periphery of Xindian District, which is a bit like a slum, and basically all the people who live here are poor people like Chen Qiming.

On the way, there were also students who were on the same road as Chen Qiming, and there were familiar people, and everyone would say hello to each other.

"The bitter sand, the feeling of blowing the painful face, like the father's scolding, the mother's crying, will never forget, when I was young, I liked to be alone by the sea......"

The bicycle passed through the streets and alleys, and Chen Qiming hummed "Sailor" while pedaling at a rapid pace.

This year's New Year has just passed, and the competition in the music scene is unprecedentedly fierce.

Lin Zhiying swept the treasure island with a song "Seventeen-year-old Rainy Season", followed by April just started, Zheng Zhihua, who just joined the UFO last year, immediately came out with a song "Sailor", so that the whole treasure island fell into the inspirational story of sailors.

To be honest, compared with Lin Zhiying's "Seventeen-Year-Old Rainy Season" and "Not Every Love Song Has Good Memories", Chen Qiming prefers this "Sailor".

Because, from this song, he seems to see himself.

lost his father at a young age, his mother's education is not high, he can only do some hard work, and there is a sister who is waiting to be fed, he began to work at a young age to earn money, just like the sailor in this song, both strong and brave.

A few minutes later, Chen Qiming returned to the alley where his house was located.

"Mom! I am back! After locking the bicycle, Chen Qiming went straight to the store at the door.

It says it's a storefront, but it's just a separate hut.

It is full of all kinds of audio and video products, all of which are records of some popular singers.

"Ahem...... I'm back, wait, your sister hasn't come back yet, wait for her to come back and eat! ”

In the hut, Huang Xiaomei was packing up the tapes.

glanced back at Chen Qiming, and after saying a word, he was busy receiving the tapes on the shelves into the carton one by one.

Because the hut doesn't have a door, every morning, Huang Xiaomei will take the tape out of the inner room and put it on the shelves, and then put it away and move it back in the evening.

"I sold out all the tapes, this is the money, these are the leftovers after I paid back the tutor's money!" Chen Qiming took out the money from the recent sale of tapes from his schoolbag and handed it to his mother.

"How can there be so many?" Huang Xiaomei took the money and counted it, and couldn't help but be surprised.

"Haha!" Hearing this, Chen Qiming couldn't help but smile, "I sold all those tapes for eighty yuan each, and I made a total of about 11,000!" ”

"Ahem...... If you sell it too expensive, will others still ask you to buy it in the future? Huang Xiaomei coughed and blamed.

Huang Xiaomei fell ill because of the hard work in the past few years, and her health has been poor for the past two years, not only can she not do heavy work, but she also coughs.

Therefore, Chen Qiming changed this small store for her and let her sell tapes at the door of her house.

There is no audio-visual store near Chen Qiming's home, so although the customer flow of his small audio-visual store is not as good as that of the big stores on the street outside, he can still earn some money every month to subsidize his family.

This money, coupled with the money that Chen Qiming occasionally earns from working and selling tapes in his spare time, is all the income of this family.

This money is not much, but it is enough for a family to live.

"It's okay, they're not regular customers!" Chen Qiming said indifferently.

After a pause, he felt that he should still tell his mother about his plan to go to Fulong's brokerage company, so he said: "Today I met the owner of a brokerage company, she asked me to sign with their company, if I can, she will package me for my debut." ”

"Really?" Huang Xiaomei said worriedly.

The mother of the child is worried, as a mother, even if Chen Qiming has never let her worry about it in the past few years, she still can't help but be a little worried that he will meet a liar.

"Don't worry! I can't be wrong if I inquire clearly! Chen Qiming said.

As he spoke, he couldn't help but smile on his face and said, "Mom, you know the Little Tigers!" Maybe I will be as popular as them in the future, and when the time comes, we will move directly, I will buy a big villa, and we will live in it together as a family. ”

"Aim high!" Huang Xiaomei scolded with a smile.