Chapter 298: Tianjin Narrative Guankou Show
After the barbecue party, everyone went back to their rooms to rest. When they woke up the next day, it was time for the recording of the second episode. I first set up a task to get up. After the alarm rang, I told them that they had ten minutes to go to the restaurant to have breakfast.
After that, they are divided into groups to go out to sea for fishing or work in seafood farms.
Kiki is the female guest of this episode, making it exactly four against four.
Everyone worked to get a certain amount of ingredients to participate in a cooking competition. This episode will be divided into two parts. One part is about working to get ingredients and then playing small games after the combination to get condiments, ingredients, etc.
Basic kitchen seasonings like oil and salt, spices like onion, ginger and garlic, and some classic side dishes can only be obtained by winning the game.
The games are some beach games, such as running with a parachute to see who can run faster, who can flatten the inflatable life buoy first, filling a bucket with sea water, and exciting banana boats, island flying, etc. It is a purely fun session.
After the Qilong group and the Dongqiang group have obtained a certain amount of food, it is time to record the next episode.
The next episode will open with name tag tearing. Two groups of people will tear off name tags in a group of buildings. They will not be eliminated if the name tags are torn off. Instead, it depends on whether the other party's name tag is a give or a take. If the one they tear off is a give, they can give one of their own seasonings or side dishes; if they take, they take the same from the other party.
If you give it to them, you can use some unusual seasonings to trick them, such as Wang Ge’s stinky tofu, natto, and durian. The other party must use the ingredients they give out in their own dishes.
If you take something, just take the key things, such as oil and salt.
The last two groups, the Qilong group had no salt and the Dongqiang group had no oil. Both sides started a cooking competition under the guidance of professional chefs.
Qi Long, who had no salt, cooked a pot of delicious crab soup under the chef's guidance, using soy sauce and oyster sauce to add salt.
The Dongqiang group, which did not have oil, also made oil from a piece of pork belly under the guidance of the chef.
In the end, the dishes presented by both sides were unexpectedly good, and after the public judges voted, the Dongqiang team won with a slight advantage!
After two and a half days of recording, three episodes were completed. Everyone left the beautiful island and went their separate ways to take care of their own things.
Qi Long and Dong Qiang went to Tianjin, and Guo Degang also organized his own commercial performance in Tianjin to visit his relatives. He was planning to open a branch of Deyun Society in Tianjin in the second half of the year, so he wanted to go and test the waters.
In last year's special performance, Long and Qiang won the love of young and old men in Tianjin with a tongue twister called "Eighteen Sadnesses", so they were also invited to join the show this time.
After this show, Dongqiang will go to do the travel variety show, and Qilong can also take a break for a while. The performance will just be to go to the small garden to play with his fellow apprentices. It is a good opportunity to take advantage of this nearly one-week break to watch more videos and recharge.
Crosstalk performers have a lot to output on stage, so there is a lot they need to know. If they don’t read and only output, it won’t be long before they have nothing to say.
The performance in Tianjin will of course feature traditional activities. Last time they showed tongue twisters, and this time they are going to show tongue twisters, narrative tongue twisters. The two are going to put the activity of "Selling Five Instruments" on the cornucopia and perform this segment.
"Next, please enjoy the crosstalk: "Cornucopia", performed by Qi Long and Gao Dongqiang!"
"Great!!!" The audiences today are quite enthusiastic. The last show was by Guo and Yu. The stage effect was very explosive and the audiences were very excited.
Qi Long and Dong Qiang walked onto the stage, bowed, and adjusted the height of the microphone.
The main reason was that Qi Long adjusted the height, as Guo Degang's microphone was too low.
"Which giant said that just now?" Qi Long adjusted the microphone in his hand and muttered to himself.
The audience burst into laughter in the lively atmosphere.
Dong Qiang, who was folding a handkerchief, stopped and looked at Qi Long: "Is this a giant?"
"The one whose leg was sawed off!"
The audience is laughing loudly. You can't let the atmosphere cool down when you are adjusting the stage props. Since the effect is good, you have to maintain it. So you can't just tidy it up silently, you have to say something.
Now this works very well.
"Oh, a person whose legs are sawed off is called a giant?"
"That's right, the show just now was a sideshow, called Farewell My Concubine, and it tells the story of Concubine Yu!"
“Yes, it’s this show!”
"His senior brother Yu Qian played a fish, and my senior brother Guo Degang played a Ji."
While making the audience laugh, Gao Dongqiang stopped him and said, "You are talking nonsense. Yu Ji is a person, played by your senior brother. My senior brother played the Overlord Xiang Yu!"
Qi Long turned around in surprise: "Oh, your senior brother is playing the role of Wang Xiangyu, this Wang Xiangyu is amazing."
"I've never heard of King Xiang Yu or Ba?" Dong Qiang asked.
The audience in Tianjin was eager to chime in and immediately responded: "Here!" Then there was laughter.
Qi Long pointed at the audience and said, "Look, there are quite a few of them. Your dad is here!"
"Your father is in the audience, Overlord Xiang Yu, please explain clearly."
"Hey, I'm just kidding. How could I not know Overlord Xiang Yu? Your father has been telling us stories about Overlord Xiang Yu since we were little!"
"I thought you forgot!"
"I can't forget it, everyone. I'm Qi Long and he's Gao Dongqiang. We're just ordinary crosstalk performers. It's nothing that we're so lucky to be popular. As the saying goes, there are always better people. There are always better people. His father is a famous businessman, but he's very educated. He's been telling us historical stories since we were young, including the Overlord Xiang Yu just now!"
"How did you say it?"
"Every night when it's time to go to bed, his father would call us both," Qi Long said, looking at Gao Dongqiang: "Son, son!"
"You go over there!" Dong Qiang pushed Qi Long to turn.
Qi Long turned around and said, "I am your father now, playing the role of your father, godson, godson!"
"How come I became my father's godson again?"
"You're calling me. I'm your father's godson!"
"What are you yelling at me for?"
"How can I yell at myself? You are playing me now. You are both my son and my godson!"
Dong Qiang looked at the audience helplessly: "I've suffered two more losses!"
"Son!"
"Hey," Dongqiang agreed, then turned back to the audience and raised three fingers: "Third time!"
"Today, Dad will tell you a story about Overlord Xiang Yu"
The ethical joke was just a joke, and the next step was to show off his skills. Qi Long spoke like a storyteller, with an ups and downs in his tone, and told the story of Xiang Yu:
[He was born with great ambition and was born to be the most powerful among the three Wu states. He regarded the 120 Qin passes as if they were made of iron. He treated them as if they were fish on a chopping board. He held his halberd in his hand for eternity. He reined in his horse and proclaimed himself the king. He stopped fighting and laughed at the territory. They swore an oath of blood and showed great loyalty. But Liu Bang was not a man. He sang his last words across the river.]
"I really remember it!" Dong Qiang praised Qi Long for an obvious pause after he finished reciting the poem.
Qi Long continued, telling the story part: [At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the government was in decline, heroes emerged, and a great hero emerged in the State of Chu]
The first part is said slowly, and Dongqiang would add some words in the middle. For example, when talking about Xiang Yu's strength, Dongqiang would say: "You are really strong."
When talking about being “besieged on all sides”, Dong Qiang sighed: “This is the hero’s end!”
Later, Qi Long began to comment on Overlord in the Li Sao style of "XXX兮XXX", and his words became faster and faster. Dong Qiang stopped adding words and looked at Qi Long sideways, not trying to steal the limelight from him.
[The sound of Chu dispersed the Chu army. I can play the six musical notes. I am not Xu, but I am a Danyang singer. I am not Zou, but I sing in the Yan style.]
As Qi Long spoke faster and faster, his words remained clear, and the audience began to applaud.
By the last part, after the story was told, the pace slowed down again.
[This song has 300 words, and every word and sentence has a deep meaning. I hope you will not take it lightly, and my two sons who care about me should remember it well! ]
Dongqiang immediately gave a thumbs up: "Good!"
The audience below the stage also cheered again, this is real skill!
Qi Long finished his speech and said with emotion: "Whenever I think back to when his father told us bedtime stories when we were young, I feel so moved. In order to prepare the stories, his father would spend time reciting them every day. We are grateful for that and sometimes we would tell his father some stories in return!"
"Yes!" "You are like me. You told his father a story at that time."
"what story?"
Qi Long opened his mouth and said again: [Dongsheng Shenzhou, Xiniu Hezhou, Nanzhanbuzhou, Beijuluzhou]
The beginning is the beginning of the story about Roaring Sky Dog in "Eight Screens". This passage first talks about the Monkey King, then the Monkey King fights Erlang Shen, and then hits Roaring Sky Dog with a stick, but the dog is unharmed and praised as "What a good dog."
But Qi Long modified it and said that Wukong followed the river into the East China Sea, and the story changed.
[The traveler found that the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea was heavily guarded, so he turned into a shrimp and lay in the old turtle's ear, waiting for an opportunity to sneak in. However, the East China Sea Wonder saw through his transformation, and the shrimp soldiers and crab generals surrounded him: Hey, why are you in the old turtle's ear, you monkey? ]
"why?"
[The traveler said calmly, "I'm telling a story to the old turtle!"]
"My dad?" Dong Qiang immediately responded to prevent the audience from thinking that he was talking about them.
His response also made everyone laugh.
"My story is not good, Dongqiang's story is great."
This time Qi Long started with [On the vast ocean, the wind was rolling up the dark clouds. Between the dark clouds and the sea.] The beginning of The Seagull.
Talking about the strong sea breeze, he went on to tell the story of an old man taking his grandson out to sea. The waves were too big, and the old man paddled hard, but the oars were broken by the waves.
"Dong Qiang was very proud and told his father that the old man said something at this time. Do you know what it was?"
"what?"
"Grandson, grandpa is done paddling."
Dong Qiang concluded: "We are really filial. You call me dad, and your godfather is an old bastard. I call my dad grandson?"
With this summary, the audience, who had just laughed at “Grandpa has finished paddling”, burst into even louder laughter.
"Godfather thinks that children's words are innocent, and he is not angry. From this, we can see that his father is a most powerful person!"
"How did you know that?"
"The most powerful person has ability but no temper, and never gets angry. The second most powerful person has ability but a bad temper. The third most powerful person has no ability but no temper, and is cheerful and just acts like an ordinary person. The worst person is the one who has no ability but a bad temper, and always asks: Can you do crosstalk? Can you play clappers? I want to clear the door!"
All the men, young and old, were amused. There had been a lot of buzz in the crosstalk circle recently. Li Zhai was picking on other people again, saying that they couldn't perform crosstalk or clapper talk and all that shit. Qi Long was hitting him again!
“There are quite a few people like this!”
"No, that's far from your father. Just look at his schedule and you'll have to admire him for being such a successful billionaire."
“That’s because my dad is hardworking.”
"Get up at four in the morning every day?"
"You're up at four?"
"Yes, because he monopolized the profitable business in the entire Jin Province."
"When it comes to monopoly, that's awesome!"
"Get up at four o'clock, brew the tea leaves and boil the water."
"Let's get some tea to refresh ourselves first?"
Qi Long ignored Dong Qiang and continued, "Cook 400 tea eggs! The breakfast guests will be here soon."
The audience laughed. They thought they were talking about a great monopoly business, but it turns out they were just boiling tea eggs and selling them for breakfast?
"It's so lively, my dad runs a breakfast stall?"
"It's a monopoly. I do whatever business I can to make money. When the oil temperature rises, I have to fry the dough sticks. I also have to cut the pickles, make the soy milk, boil the sauce for the tofu pudding, and thicken the sauce. I'm busy until six o'clock."
"This breakfast stall has quite a variety of food."
At six o'clock, Dongqiang's father delivers milk on his bicycle; at seven o'clock, he delivers express on his electric tricycle; at half past seven, he stands guard at the gate of the community for half an hour; at eight o'clock, he drives the school bus to take the children to school on time.
I go to the company at nine o'clock, hold the board meeting at ten o'clock, review documents at half past ten, receive investors at eleven o'clock, and have breakfast at twelve o'clock.
"Why are you having breakfast at twelve o'clock?"
"Do you think he has time in the morning?"
Dongqiang looked puzzled: "If I don't boil the eggs, there's plenty of time!"
He is such a big boss, but he only takes five minutes to eat at twelve o'clock. After that, he goes downstairs and rides his electric scooter to start delivering takeout. It is the peak period, and he receives a lot of takeout orders and earns a lot of money.
When it was one o'clock, he hurriedly rode his electric scooter to the small theater, put on his gown, and went to the small theater to perform crosstalk.
"My dad also does this business?"
Qi Long nodded: "Of course, sometimes he tells stories that are the same as the bedtime stories he tells us."
"He doesn't waste anything!"
"Yeah, forty bucks a show?"
"Is forty dollars worth the rush?"
"Your father once said, do not let a small act of kindness go unaccompanied, and do not let a small amount of money go unearned."
"Is that what you said?"
After finishing the book, he set up a pancake stall and a barbecue stall, and held a cross-border video conference with people. He was busy until midnight. Finally, his father had his own leisure time.
"Finally I can take a break!"
"Take out your phone, open the live broadcast platform and give gifts to the female anchor. This one is called brother, give me a plane, this one is called rocket, and this one is called aircraft carrier."
Dongqiang sighed: "My father works so hard to make money for them?"
"Spread the coins for an hour. You have to give to gain. At one o'clock, let everyone leave. This is when something big will happen."
"what's up?"
"Exchange feelings with a beautiful female secretary."
"Then we need to get everyone on the left and right to move away!"
"Leave home on time at 1:05"
"Just five minutes of communication?" The audience laughed again. This was the beginning of the conversation. Every time he talked about his father, a big entrepreneur, doing this small business, the audience laughed. This dirty joke was the one that made the audience laugh the loudest.
Qi Long nodded: "I'm in a hurry. I have to go to the door of the bar to sell flowers, otherwise I'll be late."
"Wouldn't the time be right if we gave fewer gifts?"
"After selling the flowers, at two o'clock, your father will ride his bicycle to rush home. Hurry back, it's time to cook tea eggs!"
"Well, I've been connected all day. This is too tiring."
"So I don't envy your father for making money at all. He should make the money!"
I didn't get home until half past twelve. Between the two choices of sleeping and writing, I resolutely chose to write. I can't owe any more. If I owe any more, I have to pay it back.
(End of this chapter)
