Yu Xue herself is actually not very good at borrowing money, because she has never borrowed anything from others since she was a child.

Everything will be prepared for her in advance, including what she may or may not use.

Even if there were some real ones, Yu Xue could have bought them with money, so in the end, this glorious and arduous task fell on Gu Yi's head.

For Gu Yi, borrowing this matter is as simple as eating and drinking, when he was working in the past, there were many things that required multi-department coordination, so he could go to other departments to borrow some props and other messy things.

Originally, their goal was to be able to borrow forty dollars, but Gu Yi turned around and came back, with a hundred dollars in his hand.

"Alas, when Mr. Wu heard that I was going to borrow money, he directly borrowed me fifty, and Peng Fei borrowed thirty from me, and the rest were ten yuan."

Now that I've borrowed a hundred dollars, I'll definitely not have a problem living for a while.

And so, they went out empty-handed early the next morning.

I went out on the subway and went to find a tailor shop and told each other about the drawings and various dimensions.

But the other party said that it still takes a certain amount of time to make this, after all, the clothes are easy to sew, mainly because the cobwebs on it are very troublesome to make.

They needed two people to make it.

The cycle is about a week.

Gu Yi said that he was in a hurry, and finally the store owner said that if he added money, he could expedite it, and adding ten dollars per piece of clothing could speed up three days.

In the end, the two of them bargained again, and decided that the two clothes would cost a total of 100 dollars, but they paid a deposit of 60 first.

This price is okay, after all, it is hand-sewn, and the price will definitely be much cheaper if it is mass-produced.

But now they don't have the money to go to the factory.

And this is still in New York, if it is in China, the price will definitely be much cheaper.

After paying the money, they went out to buy things for painting.

It cost a total of twenty dollars.

In the end, they were only twenty left.

It was now noon, and they settled lunch for ten dollars, then went home and went out with their instruments.

The various musical instruments are still very heavy for two people to hold, so Gu Yi once again aimed his eyes at the photographer.

In the end, Gu Yi carried a guitar and bass on his back, and a stereo in his hand.

One of the photographers helped to carry another stereo, while Yu Xue stepped on the floor drum and various lines.

And so, they took the subway to Franklin Station.

Then I found a spacious place to put things out.

In fact, there are often many people performing here in these subway stations, but the appearance of two yellow people with photographers here still makes them stop and watch.

After setting up the equipment and then tuning the sound and instruments, they also began to perform.

The songs they sing are basically songs from their bands, and anyway, whether you can understand them or not, as long as the music itself sounds good.

There were constantly people standing here taking pictures with their mobile phones, but soon Gu Yi and Yu Xue were recognized.

After all, the New Bee band is still very popular on YouTube now, although few people have really watched the scene, they all know Gu Yi as the lead singer.

So people kept coming up to take pictures, but Gu Yi was at most singing and taking pictures with them, and he didn't stop on his hands and mouth.

At this time, people also began to put banknotes and coins of various denominations into the guitar bags placed in front of them.

Someone gave a penny coin, someone put down ten dollars.

But I have to say that the music atmosphere here is indeed stronger than that in China.

A lot of people are squirming around while watching.

In this way, they began to sing and rest for a while from the afternoon until the evening.

One last look at the money in the bag, it added up to one hundred and sixty-five dollars and five cents.

"Gu Yi, I think it's pretty good for us to do this, on the one hand, to promote the band, and make a lot of money."

"It's really quite impressive, I didn't expect us to make so much money on the first day, I thought it would be about the same as making twenty or thirty, obviously there are a lot of people who give it to the name of our band."

"yes."

At the end of the day, they packed up their things and took the subway back.

Since it was late, there were not many passengers on the bus.

But today is just a test of the waters.

From tomorrow onwards, they will have to make money according to the plan they have set before.

I earned a total of more than 100 today, and after Gu Yi went back, he returned all the 100 dollars he borrowed to others.

"Teacher Wei, Teacher Wu, how did you apply today?"

"Today we asked a total of five companies, two of which said that they would give us news later, and three did not agree." Wei Jiarong said.

"Alas, it's still quite difficult to come out and find a job, mainly we can only do part-time, so tomorrow we plan to ask the remaining ones, but if it doesn't work, we can only make money through other ways first."

On the other side, the duo of Peng Fei and Shi Li found a hotel, and the hotel said that they could stay as waiters, with an hourly salary of 18, and overtime pay if they worked overtime.

So they've been working for a day, and now their group has earned a total of two hundred and fifteen dollars, which includes tips from guests in addition to their salaries.

Both are entertainers, so there's still nothing wrong with etiquette.

At the end of the day, they all felt very tired.

In the end, it was Gu Yi and them, when everyone heard that Gu Yi and the others had earned more than 160 yuan just by singing today, they all expressed their envy.

"Aren't we just getting started?"

"There's no hurry."

The next day they went to the subway station again early in the morning, and this time they only planned to sing about ten songs here before leaving.

But in the morning, because everyone was in a hurry to go to work, there were not many people who stayed to listen to the songs.

They made only a dozen dollars in one morning.

Then they went to the Madison Garden Plaza, found a shady place, and began to paint people.

Since Spider-Man's clothes are not yet ready, Yu Xue is painting over there, and Gu Yi is here to practice new songs with musical instruments.

He plans to write a song "Jasmine" to come out.

Although this song has been a long time ago, in Gu Yi's impression, those foreigners seem to like to listen to it, including them learning to sing Chinese songs, and many people regard "Jasmine" as the first Chinese song to learn.

But while trying out the sound and helping to collect money, looking at the people of different colors around him, Gu Yi somehow thought of Teacher Da Zhang Weiwei.

"If I make "Sunshine Rainbow Little White Horse", I guess there will be no black fans in the future."

After thinking about it, Gu Yi felt that it was better to forget it.

Unless you can't develop it in China, you can still give it a try, but if you want to develop it and make this song again, maybe one day you will be forced to experience the freedom of America.

So it's better to be honest.

It's just that their painting career didn't go well at first.

Because no one came to them to paint at all.

There was no way, so they discussed finding some people to sit and rest here.

"Let's give them free drawings first, and then give them free of charge. Let's see if we can get people's consent and let us put the photos we took nearby for publicity. ”

"And what if they don't agree?"

"If you don't agree, let's give them the painting for free, after all, it's useless to keep it in your hands." Gu Yi said, "Actually, we still don't have enough plans, so we would have drawn a picture of the other guests first, and then we would use their portraits to advertise." ”

Gu Yi said, although there are still some things that have not been said later, Yu Xue understands what Gu Yi means, after all, everyone is filming variety shows together, and the painting is used as publicity, and it is estimated that they will agree.

And this kind of thing naturally can't be said in front of the camera, otherwise there is a suspicion of moral kidnapping.

The first few were quite smooth, Yu Xue first painted a family of three, and after the family of three got it, they said they were very happy, and even Yu Xue got a kiss from the blonde and blue-eyed little girl.

The second one was a young girl waiting for someone, and the girl was very surprised when she got it, and happily agreed to let them take pictures for publicity.

The third depicts a fierce-looking black man dressed in a bit of hip-hop.

As a result, Yu Xue was a little afraid to give it after finishing the painting, so Gu Yi took the painting and found the other party.

At first, this black man thought that Gu Yi was selling here, and instinctively wanted to refuse.

"Hey bro, this is a picture we just drew for you."

As a result, when the black man saw the painting, he was immediately surprised.

"Oh my god, it's so well drawn, thank you very much."

As he spoke, he raised his hand and shook it with Gu Yi, and then bumped his shoulder.

When Gu Yi was leaving, the other party also knocked on his chest again, and then pointed at Gu Yi, expressing his gratitude again in his own way.

But just after the third, they didn't go so well.

Basically, before the painting is finished, the person leaves.

Helplessly, these paintings can only be turned into scraps.

In the end, there was no way, Yu Xue began to draw photographers and Gu Yi here.

After the painting was finished, he hung up their paintings first, and Gu Yi took the previous photos to print.

It's just that when Gu Yi came back, he found that Yu Xue actually had customers there.

The customer is a couple.

After walking in, the couple also recognized Gu Yi and behaved very happily.

also said that they were here to travel, and then they saw Yu Xue here, and after asking, they learned that Yu Xue was going to paint people here, so they immediately paid twenty dollars to paint a portrait of a couple.

Since this was their first business, Yu Xue painted very seriously, and it took half an hour to paint the painting well.

The young couple was very satisfied after watching it and paid very happily.

As a result, as soon as the couple was sent away, Gu Yi saw that several black people were walking towards him not far away.

Faced with this situation, Gu Yi was somewhat scared in his heart.

The men walked over and pulled out the black man's drawing they had just drawn.

"Is this a drawing?"

Gu Yi nodded honestly.

At this time, the black man just now also came over with the soda he had just bought.

"They're all my friends, and they all want to draw a picture after seeing it, how do you charge here?"

After hearing the intention, Gu Yi, Yu Xue and the photographer breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fifteen for a single person, twenty for a double, and thirty if the four of you are going to be together."

This is also the price that Gu Yi negotiated with Yu Xue before.

"Then we'll have four of them."

"Yes, thirty dollars, but a little longer."

"It's okay."

In this way, Yu Xue followed up with the drawing again, but I have to say that it does cost pencils for black people to draw.

Others' shadows are lightly painted, but blacks' shadows are whiter.

It took Yu Xue an hour to draw a group photo of the four of them.

Several people expressed their satisfaction after reading it.

Then the imposing black buddy took out thirty dollars and paid Gu Yi.

Then they drew two more on this side and earned thirty.

Today they have earned a total of eighty by painting.

But after removing Gu Yi's previous printing costs and the cost of buying water for himself Yu Xue and the photographer, there were only seventy yuan left.

In the evening, I went to sing.

But there are obviously a lot more onlookers today, and it is obvious that someone came to see the news that they were going to sing here.

So at night, they stayed for a total of three hours with rest, chatting and singing, and earned a total of 100 yuan.

Because a few of the people who gave money today were very generous, and they were ten or twenty yuan when they took out.

It's just that when I went back at night, there were only a few of them in the car, and there was a big man with a very exaggerated appearance sitting opposite.

It looks like a white person, but the tattoos are tattooed from the head to the heel, as long as the exposed skin is tattooed.

Yu Xue looked at the other party like this, took out a pen and began to draw, but the other party seemed to be dozing, so she didn't notice it.

It wasn't until they got out of the car that the painting was finally finished.

Yu Xue poked Gu Yi with her elbow and asked Gu Yi to give it.

It was the same set, but the big man was so happy when he saw the painting that he even stuck out his tongue to show them the tongue studs on his tongue and the tongue that had been trimmed to look like a slime.

In the end, the man even took off a nail from the door of his head and gave it to Gu Yi.

Although the other party's appearance was very scary, Gu Yi felt that the other party was still very friendly.

It's just that in the face of the nail that was pulled from the door of his head, although he felt a little strange in his heart, he finally took it.

In this way, Gu Yi's business gradually entered the formal.

It wasn't until he got Spider-Man's clothes that Gu Yi began to make steady money.

Because in order to attract people to come and take pictures, Gu Yi also deliberately made a sign on which the background of Spider-Man's story was roughly written.

Many people also took photos with Spider-Man after watching it.

Gu Yi is doing all kinds of Spider-Man's signature moves in Madison Square every day.

I still go to sing in the evening, but now there are many people waiting for them to come and sing at this time every day.

Some of them leave work early and wait a little longer here.

After listening to your favorite song, take out a dollar and put it in your bag, then turn away.

At the same time, many people's photos and videos have also been posted on Facebook and YouTube.

But that night, when they were about to go back to rest after singing, a man in a suit blocked their way.

Then in authentic American English, he asked, "Are you New Bee?" ”

"Yes, sir, may I ask you what is the matter?"

"I'm Taylor's agent, John Taylor, and you gave him a portrait the other day at Madison Square Garden, do you remember?"

Gu Yi and Yu Xue glanced at each other.

And who is this Taylor? I don't know, in the past few days, when they didn't have much business, they did paint a lot of pictures for other people.

But I don't remember what this agent said about Taylor.

"Sorry, I didn't pay attention at the time."

Gu Yi said.

"It's okay, anyway, after Taylor went back, he saw you performing in the subway station on the Internet, and then found out that you were the lead singer of "We Will Rock You", so he planned to invite you to be a guest at the concert in three days."

"Did happiness come so suddenly?"

Although they don't know Taylor, they can be a guest at a local star concert, no matter what, it's a sure win.

But at the moment, they still have some concerns, that is, now they are filming variety shows, so they have to take Ding Liang into account.

"Sorry, it's an honor to be invited by Taylor, but we're filming the show right now, so we still need to talk to the director."

"No problem, but can I meet with your director?"

Gu Yi definitely couldn't agree on behalf of Ding Liang, so he called Ding Liang on the spot, Ding Liang was leaning on the sofa playing with his mobile phone at this time, and jumped up on the spot after hearing Gu Yi say this on the phone.

"What Taylor? Is that Taylor Jordan? ”

"Yes, Director Ding, do you know him? Is it famous? ”

"It's not just famous, it's quite famous, right? You guys in the entertainment industry don't even know Taylor? ”

"Director, we really don't know this, if Brother Le is here, he might know."

"Where are you now?"

"At the subway station, this agent wants to see you."

"Then you go directly to the hotel, and we will meet at the hotel."

"Okay."

After hanging up the phone, Gu Yi first asked what kind of car the other party was driving, and after hearing that it was a sedan and there was a driver waiting outside, Gu Yi was a little embarrassed and said that the four of them couldn't sit down now.

And took so many things.

In the end, Gu Yi took this agent named Lawrence on the subway.

Sitting across the subway was a woman who looked a little older, but was dressed very ladylike.

Yu Xue took advantage of this gap to draw a picture for the other party and gave it to the other party.

Lawrence was amused by this behavior of theirs.

After returning to the hotel, Ding Liang talked to the other party, saying that if Gu Yi was willing, it would be no problem to go to the concert, but they would also have a few photographers to follow them.

It wasn't a harsh condition, so Lawrence just agreed.

Then he talked about the appearance fee.

But when it comes to appearance fees, Gu Yi has to come out.

"Mr. Lawrence, my idea is that we don't need the appearance fee this time, but in exchange, can you help us put on a concert here?"

"Concert?"

Lawrence didn't expect Gu Yi to make such a request.

Because normally, if you ask Gu Yi and them to go up and sing a song, you can get it for up to 200,000 US dollars.

But the concert will cost more than 200,000 yuan.

The first thing to rent a venue is to have a big head.

Then there are the hiring of security personnel and the stage lighting of the concert.

Including propaganda also costs money.

Lawrence was not in a position to answer that.

So Lawrence dialed Taylor's video call again.

After explaining Gu Yi's request, he himself met with Gu Yi on the phone.

Looking at Taylor's face, Gu Yi couldn't remember that he had seen such a man.

"Hello, Mr. Gu, we met again, maybe you didn't recognize me, but two days ago at Madison Square Square you painted a portrait of a man wearing a hat, sunglasses, and a mask, and that person was me."

Speaking of this, Gu Yi and Yu Xue remembered that they had indeed painted a portrait of such a person before, but he covered it so tightly that the ghost could recognize who he was.

So Gu Yi greeted the other party for a while.

Taylor then asked, "Why do you want to do a concert?" ”

Gu Yi didn't say that he wanted to make money, nor did he say that he wanted to increase his popularity or anything, but said: "Because I want to surprise my friend who helped us a few days ago." “

And this friend is naturally Uncle Reiner.

If there was no Taylor, Gu Yi would have thought that if there was a concert in China in the future, he would invite Uncle Lena over.

But now that he has such an opportunity, Gu Yi still wants to give it a try, anyway, even if he fails, he won't lose money, it's a big deal to get an appearance fee of more than 100,000 or 200,000 yuan, and he can end the show at one time.

As for the future, you can live and go out to spend.

Taylor was also puzzled, so Gu Yi told him how he met Uncle Reiner in the first place and how they bet.

"I remember, there was indeed such a band more than ten years ago, but then they seemed to disband for some reason, and you want to hold a concert here just for this Uncle Reiner?"

"Yes, our New Bee band's songs are played a lot on YouTube, and we also have some fame in China, so if we only open one show, the tickets should be sold, and if we can achieve this wish, we can give you all the money we make from the concert at that time."

Gu Yi's move is called retreating as advance.

Because according to their current ability, it is impossible to hold a concert in Ameliken, if this Taylor can help, it is a trivial matter to make money, the main thing is to increase fame.

In addition, there is also Uncle Reiner's relationship, and they can also receive a wave of favor.

Coupled with the fact that he can be connected with Taylor, it is already the biggest benefit.

After hearing Gu Yi's thoughts, Taylor thought about it.

"And when are you going to open it?"

"As long as it's before September."

"Okay, but I also have one condition, that is, you need to authorize the cover of the song "We Will Rock You" to me, after all, it is very troublesome to hold a concert, although you said that you can make money at that time, but there is also the possibility of loss."

It's not so bad to use the cover license of a song to buy a concert qualification.

This is not only a change of concert, but also a ticket to enter the European and American music scene.

But since it is a negotiation, it must strive for greater interests.

"We will rock you" is of course a classic, but "Uptownfunk", "we are the champion", "Beat it", "My Heart Will Go On" are not classics, there are too many classic songs, and now Gu Yi is like a child of the landlord's family, and he is not distressed at all.

What's more, it's still a cover license, rather than selling the copyright of a song in its entirety.

At that time, Europe and the United States will still have to find themselves to buy this song if they want to use it, which is equivalent to spending money on publicity in the early stage and other returns in the later stage.

Gu Yi agreed on the spot to give Taylor the cover copyright of "We Will Rock You" for free, but at the same time he made a new request.

That is, Taylor has to sing three songs as a guest at this concert, and Taylor's appearance fee has to be counted in the revenue of the concert.

The reason why this request was made was also that Gu Yi wanted to expand the fame of the new bee again, so he needed to keep pulling.

Taylor didn't expect that such a simple matter as inviting Gu Yi to be a guest would involve so much in the end.

But he does have a bit of a covet for "We Will Rock You".

But if you don't buy the copyright, you can't sing it at a concert.

Taylor agreed after talking for a while, but he felt that just doing so would be equivalent to taking a part of the benefit, and then giving a greater benefit.

"But Mr. Gu, I remember you were a creator, right? I can agree to all your previous requests, but after all, I have to help you with a lot of things for a concert, and my appearance fee is very high, so I have one last request, that is, you can help me write a song that suits me, if you can agree to this condition, I will help you prepare a concert in Madison, so that you can fulfill your dream for Uncle Reiner. ”

"Okay."

Among the many conditions, this one is the least demanding.

It's just a song, and when the time comes, just find a first-line English song that has been popular on the earth and take it out.

As for that kind of super classic, Gu Yi is still reluctant.

In this way, they pulled back and forth and negotiated all the conditions.

Both sides felt that they had made money, but only Gu Yi knew that he had made a lot of money.

It's not just Taylor's concert that you can be a guest.

You can also have a concert at Madison Garden without worrying about anything.

Ding Liang was also very happy.

In the fourth season of "Extreme Life", he was inexplicably taken away by Gu Yi again.

After sending everyone away, Ding Liang came directly to the editing team.

"Overtime, everyone is working overtime these days, if you can't be busy, you will work two shifts, today's material is too important, today's material is stuck at the end of the second issue, and the first issue is stuck when Gu Yi puts on the clothes of the spider spirit, and then Yu Xue gives a portrait of a few people who look like gangsters."

But after finishing speaking, Ding Liang felt not very relieved, after all, Taylor's entry added too many variables to the show.

"I've been working overtime with you in the past few days, and if our first two issues can be done well, then no one on the website will be able to surpass us in any data."

Ding Liang is like being beaten with chicken blood at the moment, full of energy.

The two took a shower after going back, and got together again to continue chatting about the concert.

"I checked just now that a concert here is less than an hour and a half on average, but usually people will have some singer friends to warm up, which will make the concert longer.

But we don't have any friends here, so we just go up and sing three songs, and talk for a few minutes at most. Yu Xue sat on the bed with her mobile phone, and said with her feet on Gu Yi's lap.

Since it was not early now, there was no photographer in the house, including the camera installed in the room had been covered, so Yu Xue naturally seemed a lot more casual.

Gu Yi pressed Yu Xue's feet and said: "That hour and a half is about twenty songs, this condition can be reached now, of which three songs by Taylor are seventeen, and if Uncle Reiner sings two more songs, there are only fifteen songs left."

At that time, the audience will definitely not only be these foreigners, there should also be many international students or tourists, and there may be our fans who will fly over to watch the concert, so the Chinese songs must not be too less.

When the time comes, we can find more songs that can warm up the atmosphere, and we only have three English songs now, two of which are still sung by Lao Zhu, so we have to make some English songs during this time. ”

"In this way, when the time comes, we will leave six Chinese songs on our fifteen songs, and then take out a total of nine English songs."

Hearing this, Yu Xue felt that Gu Yi was putting a lot of pressure on her back again.

"To apply for a concert, you must first submit songs, so you have to make six new songs in such a short time, can you catch up? Won't it be too tiring? It's really not possible, let's sing a few more Chinese songs. ”

"I'll try my best, I'll get a few songs when I can, mainly depending on the time on Taylor's side, and I'll call again tomorrow to ask Lawrence what the cycle of applying for the concert is, and what things are needed at that time."

"Okay."

Early the next morning, Ding Liang rubbed his dark circles, he stared here all night yesterday because he wanted to ensure the quality of the first two issues.

But seeing that it was already dawn, he went out again to make a call.

He made this call to Zhou Le.

"Hey, Zhou Le, have you been busy lately?"

"Director Ding, I'm not busy, what's wrong? Could it be that something happened to Gu Yi over there? ”

"Haha, Gu Yi, this kid is fine, how can anything happen, I called this time to ask if you have time in August?"

"In August, I'm going to go to the last music festival alone, Jia Zhe has two variety shows to be guests, what's wrong Director Ding, aren't you filming variety shows in the United States? Do you want to double open? ”

"That's not it, it's just that Gu Yi has found me a lot of work here."

(End of chapter)