Entertainment: Who still wants to fall in love when there are cheats?

Chapter 111 Zeng Li
Just after Li Boda had been filming for a while on the set of "The Legend of Xue Pinggui", he was pulled back by the director again.

"Boda, please stop filming for a moment." The director said to Li Boda with a smile.

"Ah? Director? Did something happen?" Li Boda couldn't help asking.

"It's nothing. Didn't you tell me before that your song 'Wu Jiao Po' is best performed as a duet between a man and a woman? So I specially found a female actress to work with you. Now I'll give you a week off. During this week, you don't have to film or worry about anything else. Just concentrate on recording the song 'Wu Jiao Po'." The director explained.

"Recording the song 'Wu Jiao Po', that's no problem, but director, what kind of actress are you looking for? Although I have changed some things in 'Wu Jiao Po' to make it more pop music, it would be better to find someone who can sing opera to sing this song." Li Boda couldn't help but say.

Li Boda was worried that the director would find a female singer who sang pop or popular songs to work with him.

It's not about the other person's level, but if he doesn't have the foundation in opera singing, he will definitely sing "Wujiaopo" poorly, without that unique charm.

"Don't worry, you said before that it would be best to find someone who can sing, so the person I found this time is someone who can sing. You know Zeng Li." The director said a name with a smile.

"Zeng Li, sounds familiar—"

"She's the actress who played the second female lead, Yan Ruyu, in 'Beauty and the Beast' a few years ago." The director explained.

"Oh, it's her, Zeng Li. I remember, I remember. But isn't she an actress? Not even a singer, director--" Li Boda remembered who Zeng Li was. After all, the TV series "The Handsome Siblings" was also very popular. It was with the help of such a drama that Lu Yi became even more popular on the basis of being very popular.

"Boda, don't be anxious. Listen to me. Although Zeng Li is an actress, she studied Peking Opera before she was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama. She has been learning this since elementary school and even worked in a Peking Opera troupe. It was only later that she was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama and became an actress. So, if we need to find someone who can sing, Zeng Li is just the right person," explained the director.

"Ever worked in a Peking Opera troupe? I see. Director, you must have put a lot of effort into finding someone like this."

"That's right. It's really difficult to find an actor who has a certain degree of fame and can also sing opera. If it weren't for Zeng Li, I might have to go to the Peking Opera Troupe to look for someone." The director said with a smile.

So, Li Boda had a week to record songs.

It takes a week to record a song, which is neither long nor short.

Some great singers may be able to record an album in just a week, but some singers whose singing skills or other aspects are not so suitable may need several months or even half a year to record an album.

Li Boda was not a singer before, so the director was more or less hesitant when giving Li Boda time to record songs. What if Li Boda was not suitable and it took ten days or half a month to record a song and it was still not finished? That would be a big loss. Finally, the director decided to give Li Boda a week. A week would be enough, no matter whether the quality of the recording was good or bad.

After all, Li Boda’s performance of “Wujiaopo” at the previous press conference was indeed quite good.

When he arrived at the recording studio booked by the crew for recording songs, Li Boda met his co-worker Zeng Li, a very pretty girl.

Whether it is her figure or her looks, they can be said to be top-notch. The most important thing is that this girl looks quite old. It’s not that she is old or something, but she has a kind of mature charm that people like Liu Yifei and Shu Chang at this age do not have.

Li Boda had seen the mature charm of Zeng Li in Jiang Qinqin and Sun Li before. Well, it was quite attractive, more alluring than those teenage girls.

When Li Boda met Zeng Li for the first time, he had a good impression of her based on her appearance alone.

In Zeng Li's eyes, Li Boda was handsome and had a very unique temperament. He had a light and kind smile on his face, and he had a subtle classical gentleman style. Women would unconsciously develop a favorable impression of him when they saw him. Of course, the favorable impression here was not the kind of favorable impression between men and women, but the feeling that Li Boda was not aggressive, so he had a kind of demeanor that made the opposite sex not too wary of him.

Anyway, just by meeting like this, Zeng Li had already developed a vague liking for Li Boda.

"Hello, Zeng Li, I'm Li Boda. This time we are going to work together to record a song called "Wujiaopo", so I'm sorry to trouble you." Li Boda said with a smile and stretched out his hand.

Zeng Li also smiled and reached out to shake Li Boda's hand gently: "Hello, Li Boda, I have seen the TV series you acted in. I hope you will take good care of us during this cooperation."

When the two met for the first time, they were both a bit reserved. The man was gentle and elegant, and the woman was dignified and generous. Standing together, the two of them looked quite compatible to outsiders. After a brief introduction and a few more words, the unfamiliar feeling between the two was quickly dispelled.

"I didn't expect that "Wujiaopo" can be sung like this." Zeng Li looked at the music score handed to her by Li Boda and sighed a little.

"It's just a slight modification. Overall the changes are not that big. Anyone can do the same." Li Boda said modestly.

"I can't come if it's my turn. Can you tell me how you came up with this change?" Zeng Li asked with curiosity in her big eyes.

"How did you come up with the idea of ​​making this change? Actually, it was just a sudden inspiration. Before, I received an invitation from "The Legend of Xue Rengui". After getting the script, I read it carefully and checked a lot of related content on the Internet. Then I saw the two characters Xue Rengui and Xue Pinggui..." Li Boda expressed his original thoughts.

In fact, the reason for this change is that after Li Boda inherited Li Kuilei's legacy, his singing could not help but have a bit of opera singing tone. Even when he was singing at various performances, he had to pay special attention to it so as not to sing it wrongly.

Under this premise, after reading "Wujiaopo", Li Boda subconsciously made some changes, which led to the current version of "Wujiaopo".

"It's amazing that you can think of these things. I'm afraid your foundation in opera singing is also very high." Zeng Li herself is a professional opera singer, so she can understand a lot of what Li Boda said, but it is precisely because she can understand that she thinks Li Boda is more amazing.

"No, no, actually I learned it from the radio when I was a child..." Li Boda dug out his grandfather who had been buried long ago.

"You are really amazing. You have learned so much without a professional master. If you had a professional master, you would have become the mainstay of the Peking Opera Troupe now, right?" Zeng Li looked at Li Boda with more admiration.

“I didn’t know anything at the beginning. I just learned a little bit for fun. After I went to school, I didn’t have much contact with it anymore. In fact, if I hadn’t entered the entertainment industry by chance when I was in college, I might have given up singing opera completely.” Li Boda waved his hand.

"Fortunately, you entered the entertainment industry, otherwise it would definitely be a huge loss!" Zeng Li was a little relieved.

"Hahaha, I think so too." Li Boda laughed loudly and spoke in a deliberately complacent tone, with a hint of mischief in his tone.

Zeng Li already had some admiration and affection for Li Boda because of the talent he displayed, and the little mischief Li Boda showed at this time made Zeng Li feel that Li Boda had a good character.

The two of them had a very happy chat, and then started singing a few songs together with each other to show their strength and Peking Opera skills.

After this display, Zeng Li admired Li Boda even more.

Zeng Li has given up a lot of things since she became an actress, such as Peking Opera. When she starts singing again, she will inevitably feel a little unfamiliar, or there may be some shortcomings.

But when Li Boda spoke, he was so professional! Not only professional, but also exceptionally outstanding. This made Zeng Li see in Li Boda the performance of the pillars of her Peking Opera troupe when she first joined. She even felt that Li Boda's performance was even better than the pillars of her Peking Opera troupe.

Zeng Li was best at, and most proud of, two things: acting and singing. Putting aside acting, Li Boda possessed such a high level of skill in singing that Zeng Li's admiration for him deepened. Even looking at him made her heart beat a little faster.

Even Zeng Li's mind was a little confused, and the idiom "love at first sight" even appeared in her mind.

Why is Li Boda's Peking Opera skill so high? It's still about the golden finger.

As for the fact that Li Boda's inheritance comes from Li Kuilei during the Northern Song Dynasty, and Peking Opera only appeared during the dynasty with pigtails or even at the end of it, why is there this in Li Kuilei's inheritance?

Although it is true that Li Kuilei lived in the Northern Song Dynasty, he is from a martial arts novel, and the author of the novel is a modern person. Therefore, a character like Li Kuilei has Peking Opera as part of his heritage.

It's just like when Li Boda was filming a movie before, a general in the middle period of Tang Dynasty wrote the poem "One general's success means thousands of bones are broken" by the poet Cao Song in the late Tang Dynasty. There is no explanation for this bug.

(End of this chapter)