Entertainment 1998

Chapter 590 589, Auspicious Year of the Horse

A bit of a miscalculation!
According to Jiang Feng's plan, he would spend a few days leisurely before the Spring Festival, come up with a song that suits the occasion, and then perform it no later than the fourth rehearsal of the Spring Festival Gala.

But when Chen Yulu, the director of the 2002 Spring Festival Gala, came to the door and heard Jiang Feng's demo singing at the Guiwei BBQ restaurant, everything changed.

The impetuous national television director took out 200 yuan from his pocket, put it on the table, and then dragged Jiang Feng out of the Guiwei BBQ restaurant.

"No ..."

"Director Chen, how about we record it tomorrow?"

Jiang Feng understood what she meant.

The song is totally OK, festive and appropriate for the occasion, and it is being sung for the first time on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala. As the director of the Spring Festival Gala, she must record the song as soon as possible.

But Jiang Feng still wants to renew his relationship with the gentle Gao Yuanyuan? !

As soon as Jiang Feng finished speaking, Chen Yulu, who is now approaching menopause, began to express her opinions.

"Jiang Feng, this song is good and very festive, but it is not suitable for you to sing alone on the Spring Festival Gala stage.

Instead, we need to add some dancers to liven up the atmosphere. After all, this is a blessing song and we need to make it more joyful.”

"Jiang Feng, since we need dancers, we must practice together. If we don't practice together for this kind of song and dance, the stage effect will be very poor.

But the rehearsal... today is already January 1st, if we don’t hurry up, we probably won’t be able to perform well on stage.”

...

Jiang Feng didn't have to worry about dancers, as the Spring Festival Gala program crew had no shortage of dancers. Only three hours after leaving the Guiwei BBQ restaurant, Jiang Feng met his own dancing team at the Media Center Hotel.

There are 4 men and 4 women, all of whom are professional dancers from a dance troupe in Beijing. These eight actors will sing songs with Jiang Feng on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.

In addition, there are 20 children. 2002 happens to be the Year of the Horse, so these children will be dressed in furry horse costumes and act as the atmosphere group during the performance. They can even perform a galloping of horses on the stage.

It has to be said that with the intervention of Spring Festival Gala's chief director Chen Yulu, the director team attached unparalleled importance to Jiang Feng's "Gong Xi Fa Cai" and specially arranged a planner and a dance choreographer to help Jiang Feng.

Jiang Feng was not good at this, so he simply followed the instructions, then recorded it to see the overall effect, and everyone discussed it together. If the effect was good, they would keep it, and if the effect was not good, they would delete it.

It took several people nearly three days to finally decide on a plan, and then they began rehearsing.

The rehearsal room of Media Center Hotel was crowded, so Jiang Feng simply borrowed the rehearsal room of students from Beijing Film Academy through teacher Wang Jinsong. Because it was winter vacation, the rehearsal room was empty.

Jiang Feng was quite generous and also covered the three meals a day and round-trip transportation costs for all the staff.

Yes, the national television station is indeed a large company, but it has always been very careful with its spending. Jiang Feng experienced this deeply when he was filming "Swordsman", and after participating in several Spring Festival Gala rehearsals, he understood it even more deeply.

Well, it can't be said that the national TV station is stingy, but its treatment of Spring Festival Gala performers is only average. They eat standard boxed meals that cost 5 to 7 yuan, and the young actors sleep in a dormitory with a large bunk bed. They claim to be picked up and dropped off by car, but many times, no one can get a number, and the time is not punctual.

Of course, these are ordinary performers. Stars are treated better, but only slightly better.

There is no way, the Spring Festival Gala is just like that now. If you want to perform, perform. If you don’t want to perform, get out. If the extremely popular Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao are banned, then that’s it. Let alone others.

Jiang Feng couldn't care less about other people, but these dancers had worked with him after all. It would be fine if he didn't have the conditions, but if he did, there would be no need to make everyone suffer, not to mention there were a group of children involved.

So, Jiang Feng asked Li Xing to help book a hotel near the Beijing Film Academy for the dance team members to stay in, and asked Qin Chuan to rent a bus specifically for the team's travel, and then packaged the meals to the beef ramen restaurant on the top floor of Xingtan.

The cooking skills of the beef ramen restaurant boss Niu are getting better and better. He prepares several dishes and a soup for every meal, and feeds the group of dancing bunnies until they are fat and white. He changes his clothes and plays the role of a piglet without any sense of disobedience...

With strong logistical support, the dancers were in high spirits, the rehearsal progress was fast, and the results were quite good. Looking at the dancers who were rehearsing, Jiang Feng completely figured out the correct way to use "money power".

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2002/ 2/ 11

On New Year's Eve, Jiang Feng got up in the morning, washed his face and brushed his teeth, and ate half a pound of dumplings that Gao Yuanyuan had specially made for him last night.

The beautiful Gao Yuanyuan is now diligent and has some homely attitude. As long as there is no one at Jiang Feng's house, she will come quietly.

Cook, clean, and then help Jiang Feng tidy up his desk.

What made Jiang Feng a little speechless was that this beautiful woman had a little habit when cooking, which was that she had to wear a raincoat. Even when she was sitting in the kitchen making dumplings, she still did so.

Wang Fei, Li Xing and Yu Feihong are basically not used to eating dumplings stuffed with pork and green onions, but Jiang Feng and Gao Yuanyuan like them very much. They are served with mashed garlic vinegar, some braised beef and pickled cucumbers.

Absolutely!

After finishing his meal, it was still early, so Jiang Feng posted the Spring Festival couplets himself, and he wrote them in the Slender Gold style.

First couplet: With virtue first, all households are in harmony and love

Second line: Tolerance leads to greatness, a city of generosity and joy
Horizontal banner: Spring returns to the north

After pasting the Spring Festival couplets, Jiang Feng hung two red lanterns in front of the gate, and then took out two strings of firecrackers, one at the door and one at the entrance of the alley.

Although the use of fireworks and firecrackers has been banned in the old city of Beijing since 1993, the enforcement is not very strict, so despite the regulations, people still set them off.

At least since seven o'clock in the morning, people began to set off firecrackers one after another. The crackling sound was very lively, and everyone's face was filled with the joy of the New Year.

Of course, there were also people who were woken up by the firecrackers and cursed...

At 9: in the morning, sisters Kim Kyong-hui and Kim Ok-hui drove to pick people up.

Sitting in the car, Jiang Feng took out his cell phone and first called his hometown to inquire about the preparations for the New Year, and then sent text messages to his women one by one.

[Happy Chinese New Year, Gao Yuanyuan. I hope that filming will go smoothly after the Spring Festival.]

[Wang Fei, I wish you a happy Year of the Horse. Whether you celebrate the Spring Festival in Australia or in China, I still like you.]

[Yu Feihong, I wish you and your son good health, all the best, and a happy New Year.]

[Student Li Xing, you don’t need to go to Studio 1 of the National Television Station today. You can just stay at home and reunite with your parents.]

[Classmate Guan Xiaolin, I temporarily rented the villa at No. 16 Repulse Bay Road to you. You also agreed to the monthly rent of HK$195000, but I have not received your rent yet. If you don’t pay the rent next month, I will close the door and let the dogs out.]

...

Jiang Feng sent five or six text messages in a row. He was thinking about whether he should also send a greeting text message to the women he had had one-night stands with, such as Fan Jiuyi, Xu Qing, and Wang Zuxian.

At this moment, Jiang Feng's cell phone suddenly vibrated.

[Afeng, me!
Yesterday I gave birth to a baby boy in a Toronto hospital. He is healthy, weighs 6 jin, and has two whorls on his head. I named him Wang Sifeng! 】

(End of this chapter)