I heard that the two of them came over this time, and the salary alone was 20 million per person, and this was for Ding Liang's sake as a gold medal variety show producer.

But the filming cycle increased by one month, so the salary of the two directly reached 50 million.

You must know that Gu Yi is only eight million now, and Yu Xue is only three million.

Among the other two actors, there is a well-known actor named Wei Jiarong, who is a well-known actor in the Mesozoic Era, from the Xiangjiang side, but he has started to develop in the mainland very early, so his popularity is not bad, and he has played many emperors in the past, and he also won the Mythology Award for Emperor Shi six years ago.

The other is called Wu Yue, who won the movie, and most of the TV series he starred in were costume films, and most of the roles he played were ruthless mothers.

But everyone was very polite when they met for the first time, Shi Li and Peng Fei were all smiling when they saw each other, even if they shook hands with Gu Yi, it was a deep bow.

After all, their rank is higher than Li Xi, and when they come out to shoot variety shows, they naturally understand the importance of popularity among passers-by, and it is impossible to overturn in these small details.

But Gu Yi saw that the other party bowed, so he could only bend his body lower.

In the end, Peng Fei was about to squat down, and Gu Yi could only say Brother Fei, if you go down further, then I can only lie down.

Everyone present who was laughing couldn't close their mouths.

It's just that Gu Yi is in his heart, but it's a pity that the EQ of the people who came this time is quite high, and there is no such thing as Zeng Xuejun.

But he thought about it again, this time it was abroad, and it was more difficult, and now they had to earn at least 25,000 dollars a month, not including the cost of living.

If nothing else, just according to the exchange rate of 7:1, this 25,000 is equivalent to 175,000.

In two months, it was 350,000.

In this case, it seems that there is no need to find some people with low emotional intelligence to come over and do the effect of the show.

After all, in order to earn these 350,000, they have to do their best.

After the six of them got to know each other, Ding Liang walked in from outside with the staff.

"After a few days, I think everyone already knows each other, and the fourth season of our "Extreme Life" will officially start tomorrow, so I still have to announce the rules to you today.

Of course, it's a rule, but there are not a few, and the rooftop villa you live in now has a very good view, including the night view, but you need to pay $26,000 a month plus all other expenses, and it's 52,000 for two months.

Equal sharing on everyone's head is about 8600 US dollars, of course, this is your goal for two months, and the next thing is the way to make money, due to the arduous task of this time, so the program team will not have too many restrictions on your money.

But you can only make money in New York, you can't rely on China, if you want to make your own songs, then you have to find a way to make your own songs here, and then find someone to release them yourself, if you are lucky, you can make all the money back with a song.

If you want to go to some theaters to be an actor, you have to go to the theater to communicate yourself, but what I'm talking about is just an example, you can also go to some restaurants to work as a waiter, go to a bar and sing and so on.

Anyway, you decide what to do, as long as you find the job yourself, and I personally recommend that you don't go to some unsafe places, and I will give each of you a map later to mark those unsafe places.

If you encounter any problems during the filming, you must contact the program team in time, after all, we are in a foreign country now, and some things are still not very convenient to do. ”

As Ding Liang said, this rule is much broader than when it was in China.

That includes allowing them to be actors in the theater, and allowing them to sing songs, as long as you can.

"Next, according to the old rules, you have to divide into groups in pairs, and then act separately, and after you are sure, you can go out tomorrow to find a job."

Gu Yi knew that the director would not interfere with all the behaviors after this, as long as there was work, he could do whatever he wanted.

"Next, we have to divide into groups, but Gu Yi Yuxue, the two of you are two, it's not good to break you apart, otherwise how about the two of you form a team, and then the remaining four of us will be divided?" Wei Jiarong said with a smile.

Although he is from Xiangjiang, he speaks Mandarin very well, and only by listening carefully can he hear some of the taste of Hong Kong and Putonghua.

"That's right, you two team up, and we won't intervene." At this time, Shi Li also said with a smile.

"Okay, then the two of us will team up."

The pair of Gu Yi and Yu Xue was the first to decide.

I have to say that it is convenient to do things with these people with high emotional intelligence, at least at this stage, there is no open and secret fighting, and everyone is also very harmonious with each other, unlike when they participated for the first time, Wang Siqin even robbed himself with Yu Xue.

Immediately after that, there were four people left.

The remaining four people were going to be divided according to whether they knew English or not, but after getting to know each other, they found that all four of them could communicate with foreigners fluently in English.

"Otherwise, let's divide it according to men and women, as the saying goes, men and women match, and they don't get tired of working."

As soon as these words came out, Peng Fei and Shi Li moved their hearts and minds.

Since you are on variety shows, you can't just be on variety shows.

If you don't fry CP, that's a waste.

So the four of them discussed it behind the camera for a while.

After coming back, Wei Jiarong said that he could team up with Teacher Wu Yue, and the name of the two-person combination was called the mighty combination.

In the end, only Peng Fei and Shi Li were left.

In fact, when they discussed, they said that they would let the two older selves form a team.

Otherwise, for Shi Li and Peng Fei, with their fan size, on this variety show, it is not appropriate for anyone to take the initiative to ask to team up with each other, so saying it is equivalent to being a head shorter than the other party.

After all, taking the initiative is equivalent to begging others to form a team.

Although it is normal to say this on most people, but on the two of them, there will definitely be fans who are unhappy about it.

Once the teams were divided, they began to discuss what they could do together.

First of all, the director said to go to the small theater to apply for drama actors.

Wu Yue and Wei Jiarong felt that this method was good, and they were completely capable of being drama actors with the strength of the two of them, but the other four young people all felt that it was a bit of a loss to come up and do it like this, and no matter how they were, they had to earn their usual living expenses.

Then they talked about going out to sing and going to work as waitresses.

The average hourly wage for a waiter in the United States is about $12, but if you can go to some of the bigger hotels, the salary will be higher, so that you can work more than 100 dollars a day for eight hours, and if you can also collect a small tip, maybe a month will be enough for their basic expenses.

In the end, Shi Li and Peng Fei decided to find a big hotel to work as waiters, after all, this is Manhattan, and there are many five-star hotels.

Maybe people can recognize themselves or see that they have brought a camera over and give them more?

And Gu Yi and Yu Xue thought about it, and decided to sing first.

When Ding Liang left, one of them gave them an initial capital of three hundred dollars.

And they can also help each other in the future, and the amount is not limited.

Once they had decided on each other, they began to discuss it separately.

Gu Yi and Yu Xue came to the room and began to make plans.

"Now the two of us have a total of six hundred dollars, which is actually a lot of initial capital, even if it is enough to get a small car to sell pancakes, but it may be a little more troublesome to sell pancakes, because we don't know if we need to apply for a food business license or anything like that.

But we are not locals, and it may be very troublesome to get this kind of certificate, so I think it is safer for us to take the road of selling and singing. Gu Yi said.

"Yes, the two of us wanted to go together, in fact, I have seen some videos of selling pancakes and fruits here and making money by selling finger cakes, but it is not suitable for the two of us, but since you want to sing and sing, you also need musical instruments."

"Then let's take a look at any nearby places that sell musical instruments, and at least get the equipment ready."

Afterwards, Gu Yi and Yu Xue searched on the Internet while discussing what they wanted to buy.

First of all, guitar and bass are definitely wanted.

In addition, you can buy a drum that can be operated with your feet, and the microphone and sound system must also be prepared, but I don't know if there is a microphone with an external function here.

If you think about it this way, it's better to be in China, and online shopping can be delivered the next day.

After making a list and seeing that it was still early, the two of them went out first.

This time their destination was clear: Ding Bang Alley on New York's 28th Street.

As early as the last century, there were many music publishing companies and many musical instrument stores, and at that time, there were many song salesmen and musical instrument stores who played the piano all day long in order to attract customers, but because the piano was overused, the sound was like striking an iron plate, hence the name.

When I arrived, there were still many shops on both sides, and some of them played with musical instruments in front of the door.

They plan to look at it store by store.

First of all, the proprietress of this shop is a young woman with wavy blonde hair and blue eyes.

After explaining his intentions and expressing his budget, the other party quickly brought the two to a shelf.

"It's all guitars, and if you're a beginner, I recommend you buy this Beyoncé for a hundred dollars, plus we've got a pick and a brand new pair of strings."

Yu Xue thought for a moment, then took off the guitar and looked at it, and frowned after playing a few notes directly.

Turning his head to look at Gu Yi: "This is not good." ”

So Gu Yi continued to communicate with the other party: "Sorry, we are not beginners, we want to buy a guitar for playing, and the tone is as good as possible, by the way, we are a band." ”

The proprietress looked at Gu Yi, then at Yu Xue, and then at the photographer who was following them.

Thinking about Yu Xue's posture when playing before, it was indeed very professional.

"If you're a professional band, I'm afraid two hundred won't be able to buy the instrument you want, at least in my case, but where are you from? Neon or South Korea? There are really not many Asian bands in Amelican. ”

"We are Chinese." Gu Yi said with a smile.

"I'm sorry, but you speak English really well, do you go to school here?"

"No, we are singers and actors from China, and this time we came to shoot a show, and the program team gave us $300 each and let us live here for two months, so we have to find a way to make money."

"Sounds like a lot of fun." The proprietress said with a smile.

This proprietress is obviously still very friendly to the yellow race.

"yes, we're going to perform in the subway then, so if you have time, you can come and have a look."

"Well, no problem." The proprietress smiled and nodded, "But if you want to buy a good instrument for a small amount of money, you might want to go to Uncle Reiner's shop, he has a lot of old instruments." ”

"Uncle Reiner? So where is his shop? ”

"Just turn right after you get out of the store and you'll see a very retro-style store."

"Thank you!"

Saying that, Yu Xue returned the guitar in her hand to the other party.

But at this moment, the proprietress suddenly seemed to think of something, took out her mobile phone and began to search.

Just as Gu Yi and the others walked to the door, the proprietress stopped him again.

"Sorry to excuse me." The proprietress walked over with her phone as she spoke.

"Is this you?"

Gu Yi listened to the voice inside, and then looked at the picture above.

This is not my own video on "Summer of the Band".

"Yes, this is our band, but there were originally five people in our band, and only two of them came this time."

"Wow, then you must be Mr. YeeGu, the lead singer of the band."

"That's right, but according to our Chinese name, it should be Gu Yi."

"Oh, this is crazy, it's unbelievable, I didn't expect you to come to my shop to buy musical instruments, I like your songs very much, including some Chinese songs you sing, although I can't understand it, but it feels very good, can I take a photo with you?"

"Absolutely."

Then Gu Yi, Yu Xue and the proprietress took a group photo, but Gu Yi thought in his heart that since this proprietress was also a fan of the new bee, wouldn't it be okay.

"Ma'am, may I ask if we can first owe money from you to buy a harp? When we make money, we'll give you a discount or a discount. ”

The proprietress laughed and crossed her hands on her chest: "No, you better go to Uncle Reiner's shop, I hope you can find your favorite musical instrument there."

Of course, if you have a concert or a performance here, I will definitely go and see it. ”

was poured a basin of cold water on his head, and Gu Yi had to sigh at the reality of these Americans.

After remembering one of the other party's phone numbers, Gu Yi and Yu Xue left the musical instrument store called Alice.

As they walked, they saw a rather retro shop that looked out of place with the others.

But when they stood at the door, they found that the song "We Will Rock You" was playing in the store.

The two looked at each other and smiled, then walked inside.

"Hello, is Uncle Reiner there?"

"I am, we all have old instruments here, you can take a look at it for yourself, and if you like it, you can tell me, but don't touch it, I'll take it down and try it on you."

The other party seemed a little nonchalant.

Gu Yi looked in the direction where the voice came from, and saw Uncle Reiner lying on a chair drinking beer.

He has a scruffy beard and a little red cheeks.

But since the boss was so casual, they quickly looked here, and looking at it, Yu Xue suddenly saw an electric guitar, and stopped in an instant.

It's a bit of a walk.

"Gu Yi, I want to try this, this one looks beautiful, and the workmanship is also exquisite."

Gu Yi and they have a lot of musical instruments in the studio, and the cheapest of those instruments is more than 60,000 yuan, so they can tell at a glance whether an instrument is good or bad.

Although he knew that this piano would definitely be very expensive, Gu Yi still spoke: "Uncle Reiner, I want to try this." ”

Finally Reiner got up from the crunching chair and came here with a huge beer belly.

Carefully open the glass case door and remove the guitar from the shelf.

"Be careful when you try."

At this time, the song in the store has been switched to the latter one, which is also rock.

It's just that Gu Yi hasn't heard of it.

It was only then that Reiner saw the camera following them.

"What do you guys do with this camera?"

"Sorry, we're filming a show, we're from a band, and the show requires us to make money here, so we just want to buy some instruments."

"You're a band? Then give it a try, and remember to be careful not to break it. ”

Yu Xue nodded, and took the guitar with the same care.

After trying a few notes, all the notes of EADGBE are tuned, and apparently the owner of the shop tunes these instruments from time to time.

After trying it, Yu Xue began to play, and subconsciously played the interlude part of "We Will Rock You".

The more you play Yu Xue, the more I like it.

A song hit the boss's heart, and the boss was obviously very happy, so he asked, "You guys like this song too." ”

Gu Yi smiled: "Uncle, this song is from our band." ”

But the boss was full of disbelief after hearing this: "How is it possible?" ”

"Uncle Reiner, if you don't believe me, you can search the Internet."

Then Reiner did take out his phone and search it.

Then I saw the photos of the New Bee band on Wikipedia, and Gu Yi's photo was at the front.

In the group photo, Yu Xue was standing beside Gu Yi.

"It's really you, it's amazing, you're New Bee."

"Yes, we're New Bee."

Yu Xue nodded and said, but soon she returned the guitar in her hand to the other party.

Because it was written on the shelf that the guitar was priced at three thousand dollars.

"Why? Don't you like this guitar? ”

"Yes, but we don't have that much money for this shoot, maybe we can wait until the show is done and come back and buy it."

Yu Xue was also full of regret when she said it.

But Gu Yi had already thought about it in his heart, and he would come here again when he turned around, to see if he could let this Uncle Reiner keep this piano, and when the show was finished, he would come back directly and buy it as a gift for Yu Xue.

The boss also has some regrets, after all, he also likes the New Bee band.

If it weren't for that, he wouldn't have added the song to the playlist in the store.

Then they looked at other musical instruments, and Gu Yi also took a fancy to a very retro bass, but when he looked at the price, two thousand dollars, he couldn't afford it either.

It's just that Uncle Reiner did as they asked, and took out some used guitars and basses for one or two hundred dollars, and both of them shook their heads after playing, and this level of instrument was much worse than what they were used to.

But now there is no way, they can't pick up the leak and can't find it, so they can only go back and discuss it, if it really doesn't work, they will come to Uncle Reiner's side again, and buy two musical instruments to make do with one for use.

Just when the two of them were about to leave.

Uncle Reiner suddenly stopped him from behind.

"What is the maximum amount you can pay?"

Gu Yi thought for a moment: "Guitar Gabes, we can only pay four hundred dollars, because we still have to keep the money to buy other things." ”

Uncle Reiner asked, "Are you going to have a concert here?" ”

When Gu Yi heard the concert, he felt that it was a particularly distant topic.

Now they can't even open at home, let alone abroad.

"Sorry, we may not be qualified to do that right now."

"Will you do it later?"

"It will definitely be in the future."

"And what are you going to do next?"

"Next, we plan to go to the subway station to sing and make money."

Uncle Reiner thought for a moment: "Actually, I used to be a guitarist in a band, but then an old guy died, and we got married, so it was disbanded, and "We will rock you" is my favorite song in the past few years, so if you want, I can sell you that guitar and another bass for four hundred dollars." ”

Hearing this, Gu Yi only felt as if a huge piece of pie had fallen from the sky, and it should be smashed into his mouth.

"Thank you, thank you so much, but how should we thank you in that case?"

"What if...... I mean, if you're going to have a concert in New York in the future, you can give me a ticket, and I'd like to see you perform with these two instruments. ”

In fact, as soon as they entered the store just now, Gu Yi and Yu Xue found that this boss was a rock fan.

But I didn't expect the other party to have such a pure love for rock and roll.

"No problem." Gu Yi agreed directly.

In the end, they managed to buy the two guitars, which together were worth $5,000, for $400.

"This guitar was used by Paulian in the past, and this bass was also used by the legendary bassist James in the past, I hope you can treat them well."

"Definitely, Uncle Reiner."

"If we have a concert at that time, we will definitely give you the best ticket."

Although I know that this ticket may not be worth the difference in price between the two instruments, the tickets in the front row are usually difficult to buy.

"Thank you!"

"You have to do a good job."

But in the end, Uncle Reiner asked the two of them if there was anything else they needed.

After learning that the two of them lacked a lot of things, they started to move them directly from the store.

What is lacking gives what.

The stereo even gave them the pair placed at the door of the store.

In fact, Gu Yi couldn't figure out why Uncle Reiner did this, but when he asked this question, Uncle Reiner replied that it was impossible for him to perform on stage again in his life anyway, and the guitars in the store were all collected by him when he was young.

Rather than die with him, it is better to give it to someone who truly loves music.

Gu Yi was very moved in his heart after hearing this.

Immediately gave all the money on him to Uncle Reiner.

Uncle Reiner also accepted it with a smile, and said that he could help them send them back, and then he made a phone call and called a young man to drive a few people back to their place of residence.

In this way, they got everything they needed to play that day in an almost vain way.

"Good guys, did you go to buy it for zero yuan? How did you get so much stuff back? I'm afraid the combined price of these things can't be bought for 600, right? ”

Wu Yue asked in surprise.

"No, we went out and asked a store today, but the money could only buy the most ordinary instruments, and then we went to Uncle Reiner's second-hand instrument store, and later found out that he was our fan, so we spent all the money, and Uncle Reiner sold us all these treasures."

"Yes, it's quite charismatic, I didn't expect you to have so many fans abroad."

At this time, Uncle Reiner did not leave, and saw that these people were speaking Chinese, so he asked curiously what it meant?

Peng Fei roughly translated it in English on the side.

Uncle Reiner smiled.

"The song by the band New Bee has been the most played on YouTube since two months ago."

Hearing this, not only others, but even Gu Yi and Yu Xue were taken aback.

They had never cared about these aspects before.

I only know that the song "We Will Rock You" was the number one on the domestic music platform for a few months, and then it was squeezed out by other songs.

Finally Reiner is gone.

I lost thousands of dollars, but I was very happy when I left.

On the way back, he didn't even scold his son for driving unsteadily.

After Gu Yi and Yu Xue moved their things back, they went into a room again and began to plan which subway station to sing in tomorrow.

The two of them are a couple in themselves, so they are not afraid of being seen when they go into a room, and they can discuss it together, but they still have to be separated when they sleep at night, after all, the impact is not good.

But they looked at the subway line and found that the largest subway station here was the Fulton Interchange Center, which handles 300,000 passengers a day.

After thinking about it, they decided that this was it.

After all, there are a lot of people.

But they thought about it again.

To sing, it is certainly impossible to sing all day.

If you go on like that, your throat will be wasted.

Therefore, they have to rest and rest for a few days, and they can also find something to do during the day.

"Xiaoxue, what other specialties do you have? , in addition to music performances and dancing. ”

"In addition to these. I can still draw. ”

"I think it's okay to draw this."

Yu Xue said with a smile: "Then we will find a place to paint people during the day, and paint that kind of fine product, and charge them 15-20 US dollars for one piece." ”

"Yes, but if you paint, I have to find some other ways to make money, otherwise I won't be able to eat soft rice, although I can also paint, but first, I can draw slowly, and second, I can only draw some cartoons, and I can't draw portraits."

There was also a camera next to me.

But Yu Xue still smiled: "Then you will eat soft rice, anyway, I made a lot of money with you in the first season, and then you can help attract guests and collect money." ”

"No, no, no." Gu Yi shook his head.

"So how else can you make money? I know a lot of things besides these, but I definitely can't drive a large combine harvester, farm the land, pick locks, and sell breakfast. ”

At this moment, Yu Xue suddenly thought of a way.

"By the way, you can also make the domestic one, and then get a set of frog clothes to wear on your body, and then sell frogs, which should also be sold, and then you will stand next to me and attract customers."

But these words gave Gu Yi inspiration.

Selling frogs may not be able to be eaten abroad, but another image is that it must be eaten.

Although there is no IP in front, the fact that the IP can become that kind of fire also shows that the image can be accepted.

"Xiaoxue, how is your level of drawing?"

"How good is the drawing? It's definitely no problem to pass the art joint examination, in fact, if I don't take the art exam in performance, it is very likely that I will become a painter who can music, but then I will have to go abroad, and I don't really want to study abroad, so I still studied acting. ”

"That's it, I have an image now, I'll draw a rough sketch first, you help me add the details, and tomorrow I'll go and have people make the clothes, and this is easy to do, it doesn't cost much."

Gu Yi first drew a rough look, and then Yu Xue filled in the details according to Gu Yi's requirements.

After the painting, an image of Spider-Man landing in a handsome posture jumped on the paper.

"How is it a spider-man?"

"What Spider-Man? It's called Spider-Man, and I'll take pictures with them in this outfit to make money for $5 at a time. ”

"Why does it look like a straitjacket?"

"It's tights, don't doubt it."

"And you're going to wear this then?"

"yes, that's handsome."

"Forget it, I don't understand these anyway, since you want to do this, then there should be a reason for you." Yu Xue thought about Gu Yi's appearance in tights, and felt a little ashamed, but since Gu Yi had decided, she would support it, even if she couldn't make money at that time, she should be able to make a lot of money just by painting.

After that, they talked for a while about the specific plans for tomorrow.

Go to the subway station in the morning and sing for an hour, then another two hours in the evening during rush hour.

This can also be done with some space.

You can rest during the day, or head to the Madison Square Garden to find a place to paint and take photos for a fee.

If business is good, you can go out and hang out on weekdays.

At least don't make your throat too tired.

And the song can't be sung too high-keyed, you can find some music to play and not sing when necessary, in short, it's mixed like this.

Even in the morning, it is not suitable for being too noisy.

But in this way, Gu Yi felt that it was necessary for him to release some new songs.

But after chatting, Yu Xue thought of a key question: "We don't have a dime on us now, and Uncle Rainer sent us back when we came back, how are we going to get out tomorrow?" If you can't make money in the morning, you can't even afford breakfast, let alone make your tights that look shameful. ”

"It's fine." Gu Yi didn't care at all, "I'll borrow some money later, it's enough to have a few dozen dollars on me, anyway, it's still the beginning stage, everyone has money, just borrow a few dozen yuan, it's a big deal to borrow 10 yuan for one person, so you can borrow 40." ”

Yu Xue never expected that when they came to live abroad this time, their first pot of gold was actually borrowed.

I watched an anime called "Sky Invasion" today, and it was pretty good

(End of chapter)