Ho Tung will eventually save the world

In the late 1980s, "Journey to the West" became a household name in mainland China and became a common topic among people of that era.

On the calendar at Ho Tung’s house, apart from Mayumi and Momoe Yamaguchi, they are actors from the Journey to the West crew. The actor who plays Zhu Bajie is Teacher Ma Dehua, who has thick eyebrows, big eyes and a bright look. What Tung Ho Tung has always wondered is why such a handsome guy wants to play Zhu Bajie. "He can obviously play Tang Sanzang," Tung Ho Tung thought. He asked this question to everyone around him.

His father told him: Tang Monk is a man that goblins like, and a strong man with thick eyebrows and big eyes will not be loved by goblins. He Dong's little mind still didn't understand what was going on.

Until one day, he had a fight with his classmate Liu Yi. The reason for the fight was that Liu Yi said that Niu Dehua was more handsome, what kind of Niu Dehua, who was Niu Dehua! ? Ho Tung's only fan is Ma Tak-wah. Ma Tak-wah is the well-known three male protagonists of "Journey to the West". Ho Tung's fights are very confident. Liu Yi covered her nose and went to sue the teacher. The class teacher was a modern female teacher who often wore leggings. The female teacher exclaimed in the office, "Oh my god, He Dong actually said that Ma Dehua is more handsome than Niu Dehua! Oh my god!" The teachers in the office! They all nodded, and they concluded that this kid He Dong had bad views!

Reality has cruelly taught Ho Tung that everyone around him, not Liu Yi, thinks Niu Dehua is more handsome. After the parent-teacher meeting, my father dejectedly pulled Ho Tung over. He did not beat him, but looked frustrated, "Oh, you actually fought with your classmates and talked back to the teacher because you thought Ma Dehua was handsome. Ma Dehua, Ma Dehua, didn't he act like a Zhu Bajie!" He stood up and tore up the page with Ma Dehua on the calendar. Soon, He Dong dropped out of school and returned home, taking his father's place and working in a factory.

The loser Ho Tung’s chance to make a comeback is this summer. He got a good opportunity to change his three views...

Ho Tung counted the cicadas' cries a thousand times, and finally waited for the presidential car. The neighbors opened their windows and took a closer look. Let’s see if there’s an alien coming out of this strange behemoth. Obviously Ruan Xianji disappointed everyone. He was still so thin, even with a neat tie... However, Ho Tung did not disappoint everyone. Since Ho Tung's father left and his mother passed away, there have been no visitors to Ho Tung's house. The Cadillac brought in distinguished guests and set the neighbors' imaginations alight.

At the small square table in He Dong's house, which creaked and was covered with peeling paint and oil stains, Ruan Xianji picked up the enamel cup that won the first prize in the factory union's Dongfanghong Singing Competition and looked at it carefully. He Dong took a boiling water bottle and filled him with a cup of warm water.

"I told you last time that I have good news for you, brother!" Ruan Xianji took a sip of water and said slowly.

He Dong's voice suddenly became hoarse, "Thank you, brother, what's the good news!"

"Look!" Ruan Xianji mysteriously took out a piece of paper from his bag. It was a long ticket.

Ruan Xianji handed the note to Ho Tung, who picked it up and looked at it, "This is...Niu Dehua?"

"Yes, that's him, hahaha, this is us The company has just commissioned the printing factory to make sample tickets for the concert!" Ruan Xianji said proudly, leaning back on the old wicker chair.

"Thank you. I can go and see it then. Is this ticket given to me?" This news is good or bad, but I still feel a little sorry for the anticipation of the thousand cicada cries.

"No, this ticket has not been officially released yet! The concert will take a long time." Ruan Xianji reached out and took the ticket back.

"Huh!?" He Dong laughed awkwardly.

"Our company is now officially entering the entertainment market. We are going to invite Hong Kong superstar Niu Dehua. We will operate the entire concert. What do you think, brother? How is the benefit of this part? After all, brother, you are also an excellent person. Singer!" Ruan Xianji smiled brightly.

"That's good, that's good. If Niu Dehua comes, there will definitely be good benefits. After all, young people nowadays admire him!" He Dong responded.

"Brother, can you estimate what the situation will be like at the concert?" Ruan Xianji continued.

"Then, the crowds must be packed and the event must be unprecedented. After all, this kind of concert is very difficult, there are too few, too few! It is rare to meet people who are seen on TV every day! "He Dong continued to deal with it.

"Then let me bring brothers the good news I mentioned last time..." Ruan Xianji stared at He Dong.

"Uh, brother, you just started. I thought you were inviting me to the concert. Brother, you are teasing me..." He Dong was a little confused.

"Hahahaha, misunderstanding, misunderstanding, I am not teasing you, I want to explain the matter clearly first, there is a foreshadowing, otherwise the brother will be confused when he opens the mouth!" Ruan Xianji said eloquently Come.

"Well, I'm confused now!" He Dong thought to himself, but he didn't say it out loud.

"Since we are entering the entertainment industry, we must also have our own players. By holding celebrity concerts, we can both build our own brands and launch our own stars. This is the industrial development strategy, brother, I There's a reason why I found you in the first place!" Ruan Xianji's words were indeed clever and clear, and he still played hard to get.

"Brother, what do you mean...?" He Dong vaguely felt that a major moment in his life had arrived.

"For this concert, we want to bring Brother He on stage to sing with the King Niu!" Ruan Xianji was like the pope at the coronation ceremony.

The fate of life is so strange. The so-called failure is Niu Dehua, and the success is Niu Dehua. In this way, Ho Tung became an artist under the early commercial packaging model in mainland China.

He Dong carried his suitcase and checked into the Ahton Hotel. Every day in the hotel's small multi-functional conference room, physical teachers and vocal teachers came to give him intensive short-term training.

The vocal music teacher is an old goblin who cannot speak normally. When she speaks, the air will escape from her nasal cavity and she will make a nasal sound like "um". She said that Ho Tung didn't understand breathing, pronunciation, and rhythm... Ho Tung was a musical blind! She forced He Dong to make various bird and animal sounds and trained repeatedly. In the end, He Dong found that when he spoke, he began to sound more and more like the Tang Monk in Journey to the West. After more than ten years of ups and downs, he finally understood what his father said a long time ago. Sure enough, Ma Dehua cannot play Tang Sanzang.

The bodybuilding teacher is a young man who can't walk well. He always walks with a staggered waist, as if he can't stand firmly. The young man's butt is twisted better than Sun Li's. Sometimes it's on the left, sometimes it's on the right, but it just can't stay at the back of the body. The physique teacher would break the straight He Dong into a curved one every day, just like this. When he was thirsty or hot, He Dong always wanted to eat a peach...

Time passed very slowly , He Dong seemed to have become a lark in a cage. He looked at the stranger with tall hair and blush in the makeup mirror. He often thought, "Who am I and where am I?"

It's as if Liang Shanbo will eventually be ordered to peace, and wild singers like Ho Tung and Sun Li will eventually die out, replaced by "products" launched by glamorous and flawless commercial trading companies. The era of barbarians will eventually be replaced by great civilization!

Niu Dehua's management company did not agree with Hot Tung appearing in the middle of the concert because Hot Tung was not famous and would lower the King's profile. After coordination among many parties, the consensus reached is that the organizer, Songyi Xintiandi, a subsidiary of the Southern Commercial Group, can arrange the warm-up show. Ho Tung's self-selected song "Girl in the Flower House" was rejected again because it did not match the style of the entire concert. In addition, Cui Jian's authorization was required to perform the song publicly. The other party's management company believed that the opening ceremony should be performed with music. The main thing is to be the Lord, and one should not overdo it.

In the end, there was a lot of back and forth, and when there was still half a month before the concert started, Songyi Xintiandi invited a band from the Municipal Cultural Palace to play with Ho Tung. This band from the Cultural Palace At this time, they were in a state of being half out of the sea. The drummer was their old leader, and the band was of course centered on him. The whole band was neither foreign nor foreign, neither impartial nor selfish.

They chose a piece they were good at, "Hotel California", which is an old foreign song from the 1970s that has been covered many times. At that time, the internationalization of copyright was still in the exploratory stage, so it was also suitable for a concert. It was relatively safe, considering that Ho Tung is also a rock singer and can also sing English songs, so I made a compromise.

The problem is that this is the track selected by the band. When they played in the past, there was no lead singer, only music, and it was based on drums. Niu Dehua's management company also required that the warm-up should be based on music, so Ho Tung's singing was almost destined to be buried in the noisy drum set...

Ho Tung imagined a hundred times in his mind the scene of him singing "The Girl in the Flower House" on the big stage. He imagined He has passed through the spider web-like spotlight, imagined a swarm of glow sticks under the stage; imagined that good-looking female fans would run up to the stage to give him flowers, and even hug him and kiss him passionately; imagined that Hou Sisi would look like autumn water in the audience, and imagined his grandson. Li once again rushed to the stage to dance with him; she fantasized about the TV sets in the streets and alleys, and people were looking at the close-up shots of Ho Tung on the TV screen.

He had conceived every movement and every look, "I walked by you alone, and I had nothing to say to you." When reading these lyrics, He Dong thought he should cover his face with his arms. , turned around slowly, and then suddenly looked back, "I don't dare to look up at you! Face!" At this time, he should kneel down on one leg, then raise his head, feeling unbearable pain...

He thought about many, many things , many nights, he saw the rising sun in his gushing thoughts. Sometimes the sunlight slowly rolls into the room in a spiral shape; sometimes it is like a slow beast, slowly climbing up the window; sometimes it is as if a flashlight with a hundred AA batteries is placed outside the window and suddenly Open the same...

Unfortunately, all this is a vain thought, the reality is different!

Sure enough, before the concert started, I saw Niu Dehua on TV arriving at Xinlong Airport. Many young female fans screamed at the exit aisle of the airport. Various local TV stations did interviews and reports. .

The Crown car drove to the hotel and picked up Ho Tung, who was going to meet Niu Dehua and the brokerage team. They arrived at the venue two hours early. Ruan Xianji's secretary sent a printed document and asked Ho Tung to read it according to the document. The general meaning of the document was that Ho Tung welcomed Niu Dehua's arrival and hoped to bring superstars with him when he was free. Walk around this city and eat local delicacies, such as a certain chicken, a certain duck, and a certain snack (all advertisers). As a supporting singer, I hope to learn more from the Niu Tianwang...

After waiting for nearly an hour in front of the huge oval conference table, suddenly there were flashes and noises outside the door. Under the guidance of the staff, Niu Dehua walked in with a smile on his face. He was not tall or burly, and he looked like an ordinary man. Man, his smile is casual, his movements are natural, he sits down and greets everyone.

He Dong sat there, not daring to move. He was now a "product" of Southern Trading Group. The band's drummer was quite talkative. He might have been used to being a leader, so he spoke a variety of official words. Niu Dehua's smile began to look a little awkward. The assistant quickly filled a cup of tea for him. Taking this opportunity, someone secretly interrupted the drummer. The host began to introduce Ho Tung, and Niu Dehua looked at Ho Tung kindly.

He Dong did not expect that it would be his turn so soon. He suddenly found that the note in his pocket was missing. He hurriedly searched for it with his hands, but couldn't find it! The host glared at him. He Dong slowly calmed down. He could only improvise first and then recall the contents of the manuscript. He said loudly: "Mr. Niu, you are very welcome to come to our city. In recent years, Hong Kong style has risen, and the mainland has become more and more accepting of new culture and new things. I still remember that more than 10 years ago, I couldn't tell the difference between Niu Dehua and Niu Dehua." Where's Ma Dehua?"

Niu Dehua immediately turned to ask his assistant Ma Dehua who he was. After whispering a few words, Niu Dehua laughed. The people around him also laughed in response.

He Dong remembered that it was time to talk about the topic, and he continued: "I also hope that when you are free, you can go around and try our specialties, such as..." But Niu Dehua immediately interrupted him.

"This little brother, your speech is very interesting and very real. I also like to watch Ma Dehua's movies. The movies in Hong Kong and mainland China are also very popular. From now on, we will come and go often. We are a family." People!" Everyone applauded.

Major news stations reported on that day used this sentence by Niu Dehua as the title or lead, "From now on, everyone will come and go frequently, and we will be a family!" This sentence was later quoted by the central mainstream news media. . But no one knows that this sentence was introduced by He Dong, and the family here also includes Niu Dehua and Ma Dehua.

Ho Tung's advertising lines were not spoken, and the New World of Music suffered a certain loss, but it gained social benefits. The leaders of Southern Trading did not blame Ho Tung, and the matter was settled like this. .

The day before the concert, in the afternoon, Ruan Xianji came to the hotel. In fact, Ruan Xianji had not shown up since Ho Tung participated in this intensive training. Although they were called brothers, since Ho Tung joined him company, and the class gap is thousands of miles away, this sense of status gap is natural.

Ruan Xianji was still so attentive, greeting him as soon as he arrived, and even asked to change Ho Tung to a bigger room.

Ho Tung said no. He Dong suddenly remembered something important, "Brother Ruan, I want to inquire about someone!"

Ruan Xianji smiled and said, "Haha, brother, who are you asking about? Let me know!"

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He Dong said hurriedly: "Is there a person named Hou Sisi working in your company?"

Ruan Xianji hesitated. He Dong had never seen Ruan Xianji hesitate before. Such a veteran movie actor hesitated for a moment!

The smile on Ruan Xianji's face disappeared, and no expression could be seen, "Oh, there are many people in the company, right? I'll go find out and talk about it after the concert!"

On the day of the concert, the reality was different from the imagination. Although he had rehearsed many times and the weather was still hot, Ho Dong's hands and feet were still cold when he walked from the backstage to the stage. He looked down the stage and saw that people were still entering. The scene was chaotic, the security guards were working hard to maintain order, and the music was playing all over the place. Seeing such a situation, the veteran band members simply fished in troubled waters and started playing without a trace.

The introduction of "Hotel California" lasted for 2 minutes. During these two minutes, the lights did not shine on Ho Tung, but between the band members.

After the messy off-stage scene and the messy music on the stage, the long prelude passed, Ho Tung began to sing, and the stage spotlight hit Ho Tung. Ho Tung felt a halo in front of his eyes, and he got up. A tone was played, the microphone let out a whistle, and the piercing whistle passed through the entire stadium stands, and then there was no sound from the microphone. A staff member quickly ran over, tapped the microphone twice, and then took out another one from the bag on his waist. There was still no sound. He Dong was now embarrassed because the light was still shining on him.

He glanced around the audience and found that there was nothing to be embarrassed about, because no one in the audience was paying attention to the stage at all. Some of them were looking at the program, some were whispering, and some were still talking. Looking for a seat...until he saw a familiar face, in the center left seat of the third row. It was Hussi who he thought about day and night. She was wearing a black dress and light makeup, sitting next to her. The man I saw for the first time. Hu Sisi and He Dong's eyes met, and she gave him a smile. This was the only smile she gave him since they met.

He Dong gritted his teeth, and now he had to sing even without a microphone.

He discarded the various vocal methods used by the goblin teacher and began to sing with all his strength using his most primitive strength:

“There she stood in the doorway, I heard the mission bell (She stood in the doorway, I heard the mission bell) , I heard the preaching bell);

And I was thinking to myself, This could be Heaven or this could be Hell (I said to myself, this is heaven or hell)

Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way!”

At this moment, a microphone was handed to him. When He Dong saw it, he saw that it was the drummer of the band. The wrinkled old leader was so kind and encouraging that he actually left his drum kit and handed him the microphone!

At this time, sporadic applause broke out from the audience, and the leading applause seemed to come from the front row.

He Dong caught a glimpse of Hou Sisi applauding hard.

“Welcome to the Hotel California!

Such a lovely place, Such a lovely face!

They livin' it up at the Hotel California, What a nice surprise bring your alibis!

Mirrors on the ceiling, The pink champagne on ice.

And she said: We are all just prisoners here of our own device. : We are all prisoners here, and we are all willing)!"

In Ho Dong's mind, he seemed to recall the time he was drunk at that wonderful manor hotel where he still doesn't know where it is. In a bedroom with a huge mirror on the ceiling, a young girl with dyed yellow hair blew out a puff of smoke at him, and then they danced on the bed naked in the mirror...

That The plot is really like the song "Hotel California".

Before the music ended, the curtain came down, and Ho Tung didn’t have time to take the curtain call. There was only sparse applause outside the curtain. The staff quickly set up the scene, and Ho Tung was pulled into the backstage. At the same time, a Yamaha Prince motorcycle was pushed onto the stage. A seductive girl dressed in leather and black passed by Ho Tung, ran onto the stage and lay on the motorcycle's fuel tank cover. Niu Dehua ran up from the other side of the stage with a group of backup dancers. On the stage, the curtain opened, the lights turned red, and there was a burst of applause and cheers. Then the King performed a few classic moves, and the music started. The King lay on the girl and danced closely. The audience went crazy, and the screams of girls were everywhere. ...

"Once I wake up from a dream, I am a guest!" Ho Tung, who had a very average cultural level, suddenly wrote a poem.

Due to a series of reasons such as microphone malfunction, drummer leaving the position, and chaotic opening of the concert that day, Ho Tung's warm-up program was not broadcast live. He was nowhere to be seen in the TV programs that day. It was only in the concert VCD authorized by Xintiandi that Ho Tung was specially cut into it. The warm-up music was played by the band from the Cultural Palace and added to it. The whole piece of music lasted only five or six seconds, and Ho Tung showed his face. Two seconds.

In the wild days, the man who picked up half a wine bottle and was thrown by the crowd, rushed into the flood and hugged Sun Li in the dark night with lightning and thunder, and held an air gun to confront dozens of farmers in the wilderness. Ho Tung, he was imprisoned in the Alhaton Hotel, the Crown Car, and behind the curtain of the warm-up. In the VCD of Niu Tianwang, he was just a passerby passing by like the general audience.

A few days later, he received a call from his old classmate Liu Yi, "He Dong, have you been to Niu Dehua's concert? It's very popular..."