When it was almost six o'clock, Nomura Shu was interviewing passers-by when he suddenly heard a cry not far away.

He quickly turned his head to look, only to see a car parked on the side of the road, and then saw a tall beautiful woman walking down from the car.

Obediently, it's Wang Zuxian.

Nomura Xiu was stunned for a moment, is Wang Zuxian also here today? He didn't get any news beforehand.

Seeing Wang Zuxian, Nomura Xiu didn't care about interviewing passers-by, and hurriedly ran in the direction of Wang Zuxian with the team members.

But there were too many people around, and Nomura Xiu also saw that many peers had already rushed to Wang Zuxian first.

He and the team members spent a lot of effort, only squeezed halfway, and they couldn't squeeze in, the closer they got to Wang Zuxian, the more people there were, they were still holding the equipment, and it was too difficult to squeeze in.

Because I had met it once before, it was considered an acquaintance, so Nomura Xiu tried to call Wang Zuxian's name, but there were too many people calling Wang Zuxian's name on the scene, and Nomura Xiu's voice could not attract Wang Zuxian's attention at all.

In fact, only these people who saw Wang Zuxian were leaning on the surroundings, and the audience farther away only knew that there was a star, but they didn't know who it was.

"Who, who."

Standing at the main entrance of the concert hall, Rina Sato saw the scene in the distance and asked curiously.

Ping Song and Guang listened attentively, "It seems that I heard someone shouting Wang Zuxian." ”

"Wow, Wang Zuxian! I like her the most. Rina Sato exclaimed.

"Don't you like Momoe Yamaguchi the most?"

"I like Yamaguchi Baihui the most among domestic female stars, and I like Wang Zuxian the most among foreign stars."

"I feel like Wang Zuxian is a little too tall." Hiramatsu Kazuhiro said.

Tian Zhongjian asked, "Who is Wang Zuxian?" ”

Hearing Tanakamaji ask, the other three all looked at him strangely.

Ping Song and Guang pouted, "Don't you even know Wang Zuxian?" ”

"Ah, is she that famous?"

"Although she is not so well-known that she is a household name, she is the heroine of Zhou Yan's new movie "The Sixth Sense", and she appeared with Zhou Yan on the TV Asahi program last time."

"Ah, is that her?" Tanakaji scratched his head, he didn't pay much attention to what the actress's name was.

"Did she come to see Zhou Yan's concert on purpose?"

"Probably not, Wang Zuxian has a lot of work in Neon, I have seen her on another show before, there should be other jobs, come by the way."

"She's the face of Shiseido." Rina Sato said.

"Maybe she came with Zhou Yan, isn't she the heroine of Zhou Yan's new movie? This time I came along to promote the new movie. Ibuki Suzune guessed.

Sato Rina shook her head, "Probably not, how could anyone come to do publicity so early, and I haven't heard that Zhou Yan has any activities to promote the new movie this time." If you want to promote a new movie, you will definitely have a special event such as a press conference. ”

"That's ......" Ibuki Suzune had just spoken, when he suddenly saw a familiar figure in the crowd, "Look, is that Heisuke-sensei?" ”

"Where?"

"What about that?" Ibuki pointed at the tone.

Tanaka Maji and Sato Rina looked in the direction of her finger, and sure enough, they saw Heisuke.

"Wow, it's really Heisuke-sensei, is he coming to the concert too?"

"It turns out that he also likes Zhou Yan."

"Would you like to say hello?"

"I don't want it."

Just as they were discussing whether to go and greet Mr. Heisuke, Wang Zuxian had already walked to the door of the concert hall, and the crowd following Wang Zuxian suddenly dispersed them.

By the time Wang Zuxian entered the concert hall, they couldn't find Heisuke's figure.

Here, Nomura Xiu has been chasing Wang Zuxian, but he just can't squeeze around, there is no way, he didn't seize a favorable position at the beginning, and it is very difficult to go over later.

But when Wang Zuxian entered the concert hall and the crowd around him dispersed, Nomura Xiu suddenly patted his head.

"What are we robbing them of, we are partners in today's concert, just go directly to the backstage for an interview."

He beckoned to the group, "Let's go, let's go in." ”

Then the group swaggered into the concert hall.

……

When Wang Zuxian went backstage, many members of the orchestra took the initiative to greet her.

"Sister Xiaoxian."

"Sister Xiaoxian is here."

Zhou Yan was explaining things to the head of the group, Fang Xiu, when he heard the voices of the members of the group, he turned his head to look over.

Wang Zuxian is dressed very casually today, with a long brown suit on her upper body and a burgundy shirt underneath, she is tall, so she looks very good when she matches it casually.

At this time, Wang Zuxian also walked up to him, and Fang Xiu next to him greeted him with a smile, "Sister Xiaoxian is here." ”

"Well, I came to see you guys, didn't bother you to get down to business, did you?"

"No, I'm done with my senior brother, I'll go talk to Biru about something, senior brother, sister Xiaoxian, you can talk."

After Fang Xiu left, Wang Zuxian looked Zhou Yan up and down, "Third brother, this suit looks good today, who bought it for you, you really have a vision." ”

Zhou Yan pulled the corners of his mouth and said in a low voice, "Wang Po sells melons and boasts about herself." ”

The whole set he wore today was bought for him by Wang Zuxian.

In fact, this outfit is nothing special, except for the white shirt underneath, it is basically black from head to toe.

After all, it is a concert, so the costumes are still decent, but the set of clothes that Wang Zuxian chose for Zhou Yan is relatively casual and very slim.

Wang Zuxian watched Zhou Yan wearing the clothes she chose for him, the more she looked at it, the more she liked it, if it wasn't for the large number of people next to her, she would definitely have to give Zhou Yan a whole sleeve collar.

At this time, Nomura Xiu came in with a few team members, and saw Wang Zuxian looking at Zhou Yan with his head half-tilted, and hurriedly said to the photographer, "Hurry-"

Before he could finish his sentence, he realized that the photographer was already shooting.

"Did you get it?"

The photographer nodded, "Got it." ”

Nomura Shu nodded, "That's good." ”

The picture of the two looking at each other just now is really eye-catching.

Zhou Yan's lace news, Nomura Xiu has also heard of it.

said that Zhou Yan and Zhang Manyu were in love, but when filming "Green Snake", Zhou Yan had feelings for Wang Zuxian again.

It is impossible to judge whether these lace news are true or false, but Wang Zuxian's eyes when he looked at Zhou Yan just now made him feel that Wang Zuxian and Zhou Yan should have something to do, at least Wang Zuxian has feelings for Zhou Yan.

This is also understandable, people like Zhou Yan are too lethal to women.

After making sure that the photographer had taken the picture just now, Nomura Shu walked up to the two of them with the photographer again.

"Mr. Zhou Yan, Miss Wang Zuxian."

Wang Zuxian still remembered Nomura Xiu, and greeted him with a smile, "Mr. Nomura, are you here to interview Zhou Yan again this time?" ”

"Yes, it is a great honor that I am responsible for the work docking between our TV station and Mr. Zhou Yan this time. Did Miss Wang Zuxian come to the concert this time? ”

Wang Zuxian shook his head, "I happened to have other jobs in Neon during this time, so I came over to take a look." ”

"That's really fate." Nomura Xiu nodded, and then asked Wang Zuxian directly, "I don't know how long you will stay in Neon, and if you have time to do an exclusive interview with our TV station?" ”

"I'm afraid it won't work, my schedule in Neon is quite full."

Nomura Xiu just tried to ask, and when he heard Wang Zuxian say that the itinerary was full, he didn't continue to invite, so he could only regret it, "That's a pity, I hope I can cooperate next time." ”

Wang Zuxian waved his hand to the camera, "It's okay, I can appear today." ”

"That's great."

Nomura Xiu hurriedly beckoned to the cameraman, asked him to set up the camera, and gave Wang Zuxian a simple interview on the spot.

When the camera was set up, before Nomura Shu could speak, Wang Zuxian waved to the camera again, "Hello everyone, I'm Wang Zuxian, I'm very happy to be able to come to Zhou Yan's concert, and I hope you can support our very talented Mr. Zhou Yan." There is also Mr. Zhou Yan's movie "The Sixth Sense", which will be able to meet you next year, and there is also my performance in it, I hope you can go to the cinema to support it then. ”

Wang Zuxian's words were in Chinese, and Nomura Xiu couldn't understand it, but it didn't matter, when he came to the scene today, he also brought a Chinese Chinese translator with him.

After the translator translated Wang Zuxian's words into neon, Nomura Xiu couldn't help nodding, Wang Zuxian took the initiative, he was so happy, if every guest could give face like Wang Zuxian, then his work would be much easier.

Since Wang Zuxian mentioned the movie "The Sixth Sense", Nomura Xiu also took the opportunity to ask, "Miss Wang Zuxian, can you talk about the feeling of working with Mr. Zhou Yan?" ”

Wang Zuxian said without thinking, "Of course it's very good, it's the second time I've worked with Zhou Yan, but we were both actors last time we worked together." ”

"Can you tell us about the difference between the two collaborations?"

"It's very different, the first time we were both actors, I could still teach him as a senior, but when he was a director, I only had to be trained."

"Sounds like director Zhou Yan is a tyrant on the set?"

Wang Zuxian waved his hand, "It's not a tyrant, but it's scary for him to be serious on the set, he's really very strict." ”

"Well, that's understandable, because only rigor can make a good work."

……

Although Wang Zuxian cooperated very actively, after all, today was Zhou Yan's concert, and it was impossible for Nomura Shu to catch Wang Zuxian alone, so after asking a simple question, he said goodbye to Zhou Yan and them, and then went to shoot other places.

After Nomura Xiu left, Wang Zuxian asked Zhou Yan for credit, "Am I great?" ”

"Excellent." Zhou Yan gave a thumbs up, and then asked Wang Zuxian, "How was your sake advertisement?" ”

On the day they came, they talked about filming advertisements in the past two days, and Zhou Yan asked casually.

"The sake advertisement was filmed, but the shampoo advertisement was still a bit problematic."

Wang Zuxian endorsed Jiuniang sake the year before last, and the advertising fee was 3 million at that time, and he also set a record for foreign actors' endorsement fees in neon. Jiu Niang's sake advertisement was filmed the year before last, and this time I came to shoot a new version.

And the shampoo she said refers to Shiseido, this endorsement was received last year, and a version was also filmed at that time, and this time I came to shoot a new version.

"What's the problem?" Zhou Yan asked.

"I made a version, but Shiseido was not satisfied with it after reading it, and I felt that the advertising effect was not good."

"And what are they going to do now?"

"They're going to make another plan and shoot again."

"Isn't that a waste of your time?"

The reason why actors like to accept endorsements is because this money is easy to make, and they can get a lot of money by spending a little time shooting an advertisement.

When Wang Zuxian received Jiu Niang's endorsement, her salary was only about one million Hong Kong coins, which means that she had to make three movies to earn this endorsement money.

It will take at least a month to make a movie, and the follow-up will have to cooperate with the participation in the event to promote it.

The endorsement is different, an advertisement is a few seconds short, ten or twenty seconds long, and it can basically be filmed in one day, and the actor can do it with a little time.

From the perspective of making money alone, the cost performance of endorsements is too high.

Usually, the brand will first finalize the advertising plan with the advertising company, and then invite the actors to come over to shoot, under normal circumstances, there will not be a situation where the first version is filmed and re-filmed.

On the one hand, the actor may not be willing, after all, this time and back are very time-consuming, and on the other hand, the brand does not want to toss, and it will waste a lot of money if it takes time.

"There's no way, they gave the money, and the plan didn't work out this time, it has something to do with me, it's me who advanced the time."

Originally, Wang Zuxian was going to wait until next spring to come to Neon when she filmed Shiseido's advertisement, but she wanted to see Zhou Yan's concert, so she discussed with Shiseido and advanced the time to this winter.

In fact, this matter has nothing to do with Wang Zuxian, because she only discussed, and did not force others, naturally Shiseido agreed, so it was their own problem that they were not prepared.

"Then I'll go to Nagoya next, can't you go?"

Wang Zuxian looked at him with a smile, "Do you particularly want me to go?" ”

"You're not knowingly asking."

"Hehe, I can go to the next show, they haven't decided on a plan yet, and when they have a new plan, I'll shoot it. I told them that I would be in Neon for a while. By the way, Shiseido also had people come over today, and I heard them talk about it during the shooting. ”

"Then I'll talk to them later, and let them add money to you." Zhou Yan joked.

"How much do you want them to add to me?"

Zhou Yan thought about it seriously, "You have to pile it up higher than Tokyo Tower, after all, I have to hire you as a translator for this price." ”

Wang Zuxian gave him a roll of his eyes, "I won't talk to you, you can prepare well, I'll go to the front." ”

"Well, there you go."

……

After Wang Zuxian left, Zhou Yan took Fang Xiu and them to correct tonight's process.

By half-past six, they began to prepare for the stage.

The concert started at seven o'clock, and when the musicians started on stage at half past six, the audience was almost there.

Today's concert is different from "Yanjing Silent", there is no professional host on the stage, only a curtain announcer.

At 6:58, Zhou Yan walked to the side of the stage and waited for the announcer to announce the curtain.

Although he had not yet taken the stage, the audience applauded enthusiastically as soon as they saw him.

Zhou Yan could only stand on the side and wave to the audience.

At 6:59 a.m., the announcer began to announce the curtain.

"Next, the first piece of music "Memories of the Forbidden City" will be played tonight, and Zhou Yan will be invited to the stage."

The voice of the announcer was full of emotion and very excited, if it weren't for Zhou Yan knowing what the announcer was, he would have thought that the characters in the neon cartoon were introducing the big move.

Such a serious and bland announcement actually made the announcer say a kind of taste of middle school.

In the warm applause of everyone, Zhou Yan walked onto the stage.

He first walked to the chair in front of the conductor and sat down, then raised the microphone, as an opening, and he, the protagonist, naturally had to say a few words.

"Hello everyone, I'm Zhou Yan, I'm very happy to come to Neon, to Tokyo, "Voices of the East" has been preparing for a long time, and I am very much looking forward to this concert."

Because he had to take care of the translator, Zhou Yan stopped after he finished speaking, and after the translation was finished, he continued.

"After doing four concerts of "Piano Boy", I originally wanted to continue to do this feature, but then because of the good response of "Mystery Country", we changed our thinking and started to prepare for "Voices of the East".

"You have already got the program list, and you should also know why this concert is called "Oriental Voices", and all the repertoire performed today will be mainly performed by traditional oriental instruments. Some of them were originally arranged with traditional instruments, such as "Memories of the Forbidden City" and "The Great Wall", while others were originally mainly performed by Western instruments, but later I rearranged them with a large number of oriental instruments, such as "Forever Together" and "Kite". ”

"Of course, in addition to the tunes you have already heard, there will be some new tunes today, such as "Distant Journey" and "Borrowing Cucumbers".

Zhou Yan didn't say too much, and after a few simple words, he put the microphone aside and started today's performance.

The Suntory Hall is indeed of a very high standard, and as a concert hall that has only been built for a few years, the sound structure of the entire hall is very advanced.

The size of the concert hall has a very significant impact on the acoustics, especially the size of the seating area, and too wide seating often leads to excessive absorption.

The Suntory Concert Hall has more than 2,000 seats, but it has done a very good job, and the impact of sound absorption is well controlled.

In different concert halls, the orchestra is also different.

For example, in the first song "Memories of the Forbidden City", when the music of "Yanjing Silent" was before, the scale of the Yanjing Concert Hall was relatively small, and the number of listeners was less than 1,000.

When playing in a smaller chamber music hall, the number of orchestras should not be too large, because if there are too many instruments, the volume will be too loud and the audience will feel uncomfortable.

When you arrive at the Suntory Hall, you have to arrange the same piece in a much larger number of people, otherwise the audience will feel that the volume will be overwhelming.

Although it was the first time to perform abroad, the Piano Junior Orchestra had already seen a lot of big scenes, so today's performance was also easy and without any mistakes.

Jiro Hattori sat in the first row, watching the performance on stage, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the atmosphere of listening to the concert was really good.

As the head of Shiseido's sales department, Jiro Hattori is usually very busy, and he is not a lover of music, the last time he came to the concert hall to listen to a concert, it may have been seven or eight years ago, and his wife brought him here.

However, it was not a good feeling, and for someone who doesn't pay much attention to the concert, the atmosphere of the concert was very important, and although the level of the concert was supposed to be high, the attendance in the concert hall was very low.

If the attendance of a concert is low, the impact will be fatal, and the audience's perception will be directly affected.

On the other hand, today's concert, not to mention the level of performance, at least I saw that the concert hall was full and everyone was listening carefully, and this atmosphere gave Hattori Jiro a good feeling.

The tunes in "Piano Boy" and "Mysterious Country", he had heard some before, but not all, this time in order to come to watch Zhou Yan's concert, he listened to the music of these two albums several times.

When he listened to the CD, he already thought that the music was very good, but after listening to the live at the moment, he understood why everyone was keen to come to the concert scene, and this feeling of being wrapped in the exquisite natural sound of vocal music made it easy for people to immerse themselves in the music.

Especially when you find out that the other 2,000 or so people in the concert hall are just as immersed in the music as you are, it makes you feel very good.

There is also music like "Always Together", after re-arrangement, the taste is completely different, which is very pleasantly surprised.

Halfway through the concert, Jiro Hattori also found the reason why the neon people like Zhou Yan so much, and these songs of Zhou Yan are written on the aesthetics of the neon people.

Jiro Hattori's wife, Ai Hattori, sat next to him, and at the end of the performance of "Always Together", Ai Hattori gently rested her head on her husband's shoulder, "Thank you for bringing me to such a good concert." ”

"As long as you like it, it's fine." Jiro Hattori whispered.

Ai Hattori looked at her husband with love in her eyes.

This time, her husband took the initiative to invite her to the concert, and although she knew that her husband was because of his work, she still felt very happy.

She often comes to the concert hall herself, but she still prefers to come with her husband.

At this point, the performance on stage continued, and she turned her eyes back to the stage.

……

A concert, two hours, but it went by quickly.

Before the last song, Zhou Yan picked up the microphone again.

"And then there's the last piece of the day, 'Borrowing a Cucumber,' which I did in April, and some of you may have seen this video, and that's exactly what I captured when I improvised this piece."

The audience was fascinated by it, and they were a little confused when they heard that it was already the last song.

Two hours, so fast?

For a normal concert, two hours can be said to be a long time, but because the quality of the music in today's concert is so high, each piece can be called a classic, so it makes them feel that time flies very quickly.

Zhou Yan continued.

"This piece was composed in Jiangtun, Yanjing, when director Wu Ziniu was filming "Tree Hole" there, and because I was the original author and screenwriter, I went to the scene to visit the class. At that time, there were two writer friends, Yu Hua and Shi Tiesheng, yes, the two people you saw in the videotape. ”

"After listening to "Borrowing a Cucumber", many people came to tell me that they heard the ignorance of young boys and girls in this song, as well as the loveliness of love, and they also asked me why such a music with a girl's poem would have a name like "Borrowing a Cucumber".

Hearing Zhou Yan's words, the audience couldn't help but whisper.

Like those in Zhou Yan's mouth, they also have this question.

After listening to the song "Borrowing a Cucumber", most people feel that the song is full of youth and love, but the name of this song is confusing.

Borrowing cucumbers, who borrows cucumbers from whom, and why do you borrow cucumbers?

Is the cucumber an image, an allusion? What exactly does it represent?

If it represents love, then why? There are many images that represent love, but they have never heard of cucumbers either.

Zhou Yan looked at the audience with a look of anticipation, as if waiting for him to say the answer.

In fact, Zhou Yan originally wanted to publish the answer in a bad taste, but when he saw the expressions of the audience, he still couldn't bear it.

He was worried that if he told the truth, suddenly the beautiful picture that many people had built in their hearts would be shattered in an instant.

Funny is fun, but it also makes him feel guilty.

In the end, he still didn't tell the truth, but said, "Borrowing this word, like the last word, has a lot of meaning." Borrowing money, borrowing debts, this is a meaning, and another meaning is to borrow. You can imagine the cucumber as a certain image, and this song is to use the cucumber image to express what you want. ”

"As for what to say, it's up to me to decide. Every listener is a special individual, and the meaning of a piece of music to each of you is that you hear it. ”

"Finally, I would like to send you a sentence from the ancient Chinese philosopher Wang Yangming."

"When you don't look at this flower, it will die with you. When you come to see this flower, the color of this flower is understood for a moment, and you know that this flower is not outside your heart. ”

After Zhou Yan finished saying this, the concert hall fell silent for a while.

Not because they were moved by Zhou Yan's words, but because the translator didn't translate at all.

At this time, the translator was looking at the sentence he had just written, sweating profusely.

How to translate this sentence, it is not particularly difficult to look at, but he always feels that it is not right to translate.

This is completely out of the program, and when he took this job, no one told him that he still had to engage in philosophy.

After a while, the translator knew that he couldn't stop talking, so he had to translate the sentence head-on.

When it was over, the interpreter let out a long sigh of relief.

In fact, the translator still underestimated the audience's ability to understand, although his translation was very straightforward, but the audience could hear the deep meaning.

After he finished speaking, the audience also applauded, this applause, not only for Zhou Yan, but also for the translator to encourage a little.

Zhou Yan smiled and began to play "Borrowing Cucumbers".

When the piece is over, the concert ends.

After that, it was the same old thing, Zhou Yan got off the stage, and then the audience applauded Encore.

Like other concerts before, Zhou Yan also invited four times to return today, and after the end, he returned to play four pieces.

After the fourth return, Zhou Yan went down again.

Many audiences actually already know Zhou Yan's "convention", which is to return to the show four times each time, but they still don't give up, they still applaud hard, as long as the lights in the concert hall are not on, they will not stop applauding.

After three minutes, just when the audience had lost hope, Zhou Yan actually took the stage for the fifth time.

The applause, which had been a little weaker at first, began to resound again, and this was the fifth time that it had returned! Never before!

After returning to the stage, Zhou Yan beckoned to Ma Dongfang, the chief of the erhu.

When Ma Dongfang walked to him, he took the microphone and said, "Next to me is the erhu principal of our orchestra, and the next piece will also be presented by the two of us." ”

"This song is called "Drinking the Yangtze River Water Together", I hope everyone can like it." (End of chapter)