Rebirth 2010, the best

Chapter 213 Happy Camp

"Run forward! With the pride of a child..."

When Lu Yao and Xu Ruochen were walking back to the dormitory with the basketball in their arms, chatting and laughing, they immediately heard the familiar sound.

?

Xu Ruochen was stunned and instinctively looked at Liu Mingze's computer.

Then the first sentence that came out was very classic.

"You're not working, but are here to cheat?"

"..."

Lu Yao's mouth twitched.

I thought to myself, what kind of black-hearted capitalist are you, even more evil than me?

Liu Mingze was also speechless:
"What do you mean I'm not working? I've just been free for a while."

"Bullshit."

Mr. Xu rolled his eyes and said:

"When we went to play basketball just now, you were checking Weibo... When we came back, you were still checking Weibo. How could you be working at all?"

"Are you some kind of black-hearted slave owner! And you spy on others?"

Liu Mingze didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

When Lu Yao heard this, he always felt it sounded familiar...

How does it go? You play games when your girlfriend goes out, then you start working, and when you finish work you want to play games to take a break, but when your girlfriend comes back you're still playing games.

Then she will naturally think that you have been playing games...

So, the relationship between these two people is quite ambiguous...

The thoughts in his mind began to go astray unconsciously.

Until I heard Liu Mingze say:
"Hey, a lot of people are asking you for this song now."

Master Xu kicked the ball into the corner and asked casually:

"What's wrong? ...Where did you hear this studio version?"

"Here."

As soon as Liu Mingze switched the computer screen, Lu Yao saw a very familiar scene.

Isn't that me in that picture?

"Someone edited the video of your speech, Lao Lu, and made a pure version. It doesn't include your speech, but only the song... That is, under this Weibo post, many people asked you for the link, asking you to quickly upload the song."

"?"

Lu Yao asked curiously:
“Video of my speech?”

"correct."

Liu Mingze responded, clicked the mouse on the screen a few times, and made a gesture to ask him to come over and take a look:
"Look. This video has quite a lot of likes, over 70,000."

Lu Yao took a closer look and discovered that the official account was from Nanyang Model High School.

I understood it instantly and didn't pay much attention to it.

“My speech is in there?”

He asked as he changed his clothes.

"Yes, #themeaningofstudying# has become a hot topic. Tsk tsk, you know what, my aunt's child is also taking the college entrance examination this year, and she just forwarded your video. I guess..."

"Jingle Bell……"

A phone call broke the silence.

It belongs to Liu Mingze.

Seeing the incoming call number, he quickly answered:
"Hello, Mom...ah?...Oh, Auntie, hey, I'm here."

As he said this, he was stunned:
"what?"

Then he turned his gaze to Lu Yao.

"Okay, I'll give him the phone. Auntie, please wait a moment."

As he spoke, Liu Mingze held up the phone:

"Lao Lu, come on, give my sister a blessing."

"...???"

Lu Yao was stunned.

"Send blessings?"

"Yes, my sister... has good grades and wants to apply to Shaanxi Jiaotong University... You two can chat and tell her about study methods and so on."

Lu Yao was speechless.

Brother, it’s almost the half of May, and you want me to teach others how to study?
With a bit of a smile on his face, he answered the phone:

"Hello, how are you?"

"Hey, is that Lu Yao?"

"Uh...it's me, hello, auntie."

"Oh, that's great. Oh, you are really outstanding... Not only are you good at studying, but you are also handsome and sing so beautifully..."

"This...haha, thank you auntie, thank you auntie..."

moment.

"Well... finally, I wish you to be admitted to the university of your dreams, junior sister, come on, work a little harder and you will see the light at the end of the tunnel soon... um... yes, no problem... if you have any questions, you can ask your brother to ask me... um... OK... um, come on! I'll hang up... uh... hello, auntie... well... I think we should just relieve her stress now..."

Mr. Xu listened to Lu Yao's non-stop chatter, and speechlessly opened Weibo on his phone and searched for "the meaning of reading".

Whoa...

In an instant, countless topics came up.

“#The meaning of reading#, the song “Chasing Dreams with a Childlike Heart” is so beautiful! The most inspirational song of the year!!”

"Come on! I will definitely make it this year! #The meaning of studying#"

"It's so funny, can a song with broken sound be considered music?... Why did I start crying while listening to it? #The meaning of reading#"

"As someone who has been through it, I can only say that what the top scorer said is absolutely right. For example, I am very regretful now. If I had tried harder, could I have improved my score by 5 points and got a ticket to Qinghua? Although it is not bad now, it is still a regret for a lifetime. Come on, students, you are just a little bit away! #The meaning of studying#"

"This is the most inspiring song I've heard this year! Does anyone have an MP3? Could you send me one? I'd be grateful."

"That's absolutely right. Look at the picture. It shows the education subsidies for each school each year. From here, everyone can intuitively feel the gap between good schools and fake universities. Although I don't know if you can understand what I said, it's just like what the top scorer of last year's college entrance examination said, you are not studying for your family now, but for yourself. Otherwise, you will always be at the bottom of the pyramid in this picture. Ten schools share 10 billion yuan, while you have to compete with more than 400 schools for cafeteria subsidies. This is the reality of the gap."

“#The meaning of studying# I couldn’t sleep in the middle of the night because my heart was blocked. Let me tell you about my situation. I was one of those people who gave up in my senior year of high school. I am currently studying in a very ordinary private university. During the Chinese New Year this year, my high school classmate who was admitted to the school of his choice came back, and we got together. Now I want to talk to you about the gap between us…”

"Is this the top scorer in last year's college entrance examination? Wow, handsome guy! The song is also very nice, but why does it sound like his voice is broken?"

"Brothers and sisters, let me give you some general knowledge. First of all, the song is called "Chasing Dreams with a Childlike Heart", and it has not yet been put online on the music website. The name of the band is: No One Survives. @No One Survives Band, this is their Weibo. It is a band composed of a group of Fuhua University students. The members are: Lu Yao, the national No. 720 lead singer who won the top prize with a super high score of points last year. Guitarist: Xu Ruochen. Keyboard: Wei Qianqian, bass: Zhang Lina. Drummer: Zhao Hang, all of whom were freshmen last year. Oh yes, Wei Qianqian and Lu Yao are in the same school and class, and Wei Qianqian is the class monitor... I suddenly like them so much!"

"Friendly reminder, this Saturday, May 5th, the band "And Then There Were None" will hold a LIVE at our Shanghai University. Alumni can go and support them. I've seen their live performance at the Normal University, it was so exciting. Especially Lu Yao, who is much more handsome in person than in the photo. And the songs are also very nice."

One Weibo post after another gathered around this topic.

Mr. Xu kept flipping through the pages, as if the content of this topic would never end.

He watched and pondered.

Does this count as... becoming popular?
Tsk.

And it turned out that his idea was actually not wrong at all.

To Wei Qianqian, the band seemed... to be really popular.

Although she has never been a celebrity, she doesn't know how busy those singers on TV are, or how full the schedules of the so-called "first-tier and second-tier" singers are, or how busy their commercial shows are. But since the video of Lu Yao's speech began to spread on the Internet yesterday, her phone has been flooded with calls.

In the past, some schools in Shanghai invited them to perform, and it was all word of mouth.

For example, the people from Jiaotong University were brought here by Bai Yao to watch the performance, and they invited Lu Yao and his team after they saw their live performance.

For example, a few people from the student union of the Normal University came to join in the fun. When they heard that the people from Fuhua University were organizing this performance, not only was it free, but the atmosphere was also quite good, they sent out the invitation...

A few days ago, the fame of And Then There Were None was limited to the exchange of information among student unions of some schools.

But in the past few days, after a group of people did some research on the Internet, the phone of the only band member who could be contacted was flooded with calls.

The first is school.

She has applied to almost all the universities in Shanghai.

And it's not just public schools, there are private schools as well... The private schools actually hope that a few people can go and perform, and hope to pay a fee to have these Fuhua college students appear in their enrollment brochures this year to promote the school.

Wei Qianqian thought to herself, did you drink fake wine?

We are college students of Fuhua University. Are we promoting a fake university?

Are you poisonous?

But... the band's popularity can actually be seen from this aspect.

Because, among these private universities, the highest-paid school has already offered an "endorsement" fee of 500,000 yuan.

Unfortunately, Wei Qianqian didn't even inform other people of her idea and rejected it directly.

Even though the band isn't making any profit right now, they're simply generating power out of love...but that doesn't mean they have to do these nonsense things just for the money.

You can tell with your toes that this kind of thing is not reliable at all.

Besides the university, there are bars.

I don’t know why…the small performance venues in Shanghai are like crazy, wanting them to perform.

Tickets 46 cents, theater 4, them 6.

Or just pay a performance fee...

It seems like they have become popular all of a sudden.

Let’s not talk about this aspect for now... In several cities near Shanghai, there were actually school student union members who sent emails to ask if they could invite them to perform at their schools.

All of a sudden, the squad leader, who had already accepted himself as the "spokesperson" of the band, felt a little overwhelmed.

Going to other places?
This... won’t work. I need to discuss this with everyone.

So, on the 12th, Lu Yao, who was "in business", was forcibly dragged to a bench in Yanyuan by Mr. Xu.

When the weather gets warmer, Yanyuan reaches its most beautiful time.

According to Master Xu: "Let's meet in Yanyuan, Lu Yao is almost gone bad"

Lu Yao, with a greasy head, unwashed face, and still half asleep, sat blankly on the chair, looking at the other four teammates, wondering:

"Why am I here?"

Looking at his innocent look, Master Xu rolled his eyes and pointed at Zhang Lina:
"Just now, when you heard that a solar flare was about to erupt, you stepped on our window and flew into the sky. You smeared a freckle-removing spirit on the sun, exhausted all your strength, and fell here. You were saved by this ignorant village girl..."

Zhang Lina's mouth twitched.

How the hell did I become a country girl?

Village girl...

You are also a literary and artistic person.

"Then I learned that you are a person who will die without the sun, and you have to lie on a park chair every day to bask in the sun to replenish energy for your cells..."

"Just wait a moment."

Lu Yao couldn't bear to listen any longer and interrupted him quickly.

Pointing at the sun outside the shade of the tree, he asked silently:

"I am a person who will die without the sun?"

"Correct."

Master Xu nodded, looking very serious.

"...Then, the reason I was unconscious was because I applied sunscreen to the sun during a solar flare. I lost my power and needed to recharge?"

"The enemy."

Amid the rolling eyes of the people around him, Lu Yao nodded:

"Okay, let's not talk about this village girl for now... A solar flare should be a good thing for me, right? With increased ultraviolet activity, I should be able to charge better. Why should I put sunscreen on it?"

Before Master Xu could answer, Zhao Hang subconsciously corrected him:
"It's actually a freckle remover..."

Before he could finish his words, he noticed that several people were staring at him in silence.

"Why is your focus so strange?"

As soon as Wei Qianqian finished speaking, Zhang Lina nodded:
"That's right, why do you care about Qubanling? What you should really care about is..."

"It should be Lao Zhang's village girl~~~"

Master Xu, who was pinched, wailed and retreated to the side like a defeated dog.

Wei Qianqian waved her hand:
"Okay, stop messing around. We still have to go to class soon. To make a long story short, I called you here today mainly because of the performance. We have a lot more performances all of a sudden, and not only in Shanghai, but also in several surrounding cities. There are invitations to our school."

Zhao Hang was speechless:

"Why do I feel like they do it because we're free... and have they said they'll reimburse the tickets for the surrounding cities?"

Wei Qianqian was stunned.

Subconsciously shook his head:
"I haven't thought about it that much yet."

"How about we change the fee?"

Zhang Lina asked tentatively.

Before anyone else responded, Zhao Hang expressed his resistance:

"Come on, we are all students... How can we accept money?"

"Too……"

He and Zhang Lina were talking to each other here.

But Wei Qianqian kept her attention on Lu Yao who was yawning:

"Lu Yao, what do you think?"

"I don't have any ideas. I'm thinking about Fourier transforms, but you don't understand."

"Kick you to death!"

The squad leader's white Converse stepped directly on top of his Adidas slippers that cost him over a hundred yuan.

"I'm talking to you seriously, can't you be serious?"

"Ok."

Lu Yao shrugged indifferently:

"I don't think it's necessary for now. We're not a professional band, and we don't have to make money to make a living... Isn't music our hobby? If we really charge, it means... we're going commercial. Remember when we talked about it, whether it was Queen, Guns N' Roses... or others, there was a consensus that all bands' albums were the first, second... or even the first few, which could express their talents to the fullest. But once commercialization begins, then... their albums are more or less no longer pure. Personally, I actually enjoy the atmosphere of our band now, what about you?"

"Yes."

Zhao Hang nodded:
"Although I also want to make a lot of money... but when I think about what Chen Pu's agent said, we have to shoot commercials and participate in activities... and what Xu Ruochen said about accompanying some sponsor to dinner, drinking and forcing a smile... I feel uncomfortable. I don't like that kind of life."

Lu Yao was amused and pointed at Mr. Xu:

"Coincidentally, he likes it."

"..."

Mr. Xu's mouth twitched.

He rolled his eyes and waved his hands:
"I don't care. I'll listen to you. Anyway, you know... I don't care about money."

It's Zhang Lina's turn.

The village girl also shook her head quickly:
"I don't care about how much money I make. My father told me that a gentleman should earn money in a proper way. I think that's true... Let me eat and drink with the sponsor every day..."

"What if it's Lin Junjie?"

"I'll even sell my body!"

"..."

"..."

"..."

Zhao Hang, who asked the question, didn't expect the girl's words to be so wild.

I couldn't help but mutter:
"Sister, you are quite vulgar..."

"Oh!"

"vomit……"

This punch made Zhao Hang vomit.

"You two can do it."

Wei Qianqian was speechless and said:

"I think so, if..."

"Jingle Bell……"

Suddenly, a phone call broke the chat atmosphere among several people.

"what?"

Looking at the caller, Wei Qianqian waved the phone screen in front of everyone:

"Chen Pu."

As she spoke, she answered the call and went straight to the hands-free mode:
"Hello, Agent Chen, hello."

"Haha, Qianqian, are you busy now?"

Chen Pu's voice rang out.

Wei Qianqian glanced at a few people and said:
"I'm not busy. I'm taking a walk outside. What's the matter, Manager Chen? Do you need me for something?"

She didn't mention who else was there.

Chen Pu didn't think much about it, but flattered:
"Haha, taking a walk is good. It keeps you healthy..."

"Uh...haha, Agent Chen, is there anything you need from me?"

“Yeah, it really is.”

Seeing Wei Qianqian asking, Chen Pu didn't say anything more and said directly:

"It's like this. I happened to be in southern Hunan. At noon, I had lunch with several hosts of Happy Camp. During the meal, we happened to talk about you guys who have been very popular recently. Teacher He wanted to invite you to be guests of Happy Camp. Are you... interested?"

"...?"

Wei Qianqian was stunned.

Subconsciously, he glanced at a few teammates and asked uncertainly:
"Invite us?"

"Yes, as a guest performer. After all, the college entrance examination is coming soon. They also want to help relieve the pressure of many students, bring them joy, let them sort out their moods, and better face the upcoming life choices... In fact, just like Lu Yao said in his speech, before the final day comes, let's relieve everyone's pressure... How about it?"

"Uh……"

Wei Qianqian looked at her teammates again.

After thinking for a while, he said:

"Can we think about this?"

"Well, sure. Give me your answer after you've thought it over. Try to give it to me today. After all, as you know, their schedule is actually very tight, so we need to prepare in advance. It's already mid-May."

"All right."

Doodle.

The phone hangs up.

Wei Qianqian looked at these people:

"What to do?"

she asked.

(End of this chapter)