Entertaining Children

After the final four of the tutor team and the final sixteen of the program were decided, there was a relatively long period of recuperation. There was an interval of 20 days between the recording of the next round of 16 competitions, that is, about three weeks to prepare the competition songs for the instructors and students.

The competition method of the top sixteen is still in the form of two-two duels. First, the top eight will be determined from the top sixteen, and then the top eight will pk to determine the top four. Therefore, to enter the top four from the top sixteen, everyone has to go through two rounds. In other words, during these three weeks, each instructor must prepare at least two songs for the students.

The number of participating students has been reduced from seven groups of fourteen to four alone. For the tutors, preparing two songs in three weeks is not considered a stressful time. Moreover, twenty days is considered a relatively long period of time. Several instructors also have their own affairs. It is impossible to stay in Hangzhou for such a long time. Therefore, after the top 16 list is released, the students will be eliminated. Then they can return to their own lives, and the four advanced students will be led and arranged by the instructor himself for subsequent preparations.

Shen Na's home and the location of her company are both in Yanjing, so after the recording was over, Shen Na discussed with several students and wanted to bring them all back to her base camp, Yanjing.

Several students naturally had no objection to Shen Na's arrangement. In order to participate in this program, all students have already made pre-arrangements. As a student, during the summer vacation, those freelancers who are purely engaged in music are not restricted, and the two are not affected. And those who have their own occupations also greeted the company early and took a long vacation. Naturally, they can go wherever the instructor tells them to go.

After returning to Yanjing, Shen Na applied for a rehearsal room at the company's headquarters to be used as a practice room for the students. At the same time, for convenience, she arranged the three students to a four-star hotel not far from the company's headquarters. Inside. Of course, the program team did not ignore them for the past twenty days. During the period, they also needed to shoot some footage of their practice, so the program team not only installed a huge program in their rehearsal room The logo will also help Shen Na afford some students' expenses accordingly.

Originally, Shen Na hoped that Xiao Yao would also live in the hotel with the other three students for the past 20 days, but considering that Xiao Yao's home is in Yanjing, she did not force it, but just suggested it. Of course, Xiao Yao couldn't bear to stay in the hotel for more than 20 days when he was in Yanjing, so he went home to live.

But Xiao Yao didn't stay in the hotel, and more than three students in Shen Na's team stayed in the hotel. Among the eliminated students in Shen Na's team, a few rich and free guys who had a particularly good relationship with the promoted students followed Shen Na and the others to Yanjing, and also stayed in this hotel.

Shen Na happily welcomed their arrival. After all, it was impossible for her to spend all her time and energy on these four people in the past twenty days. In addition to practice, they also have a lot of free time, not to mention that after Shen Na came to Yanjing, she first gave them three days off to let them relax. Fortunately, Xiao Yao said something, since the other three students from other places came to Yanjing, they must have fun and stroll around Yanjing. She is also relieved to have someone to accompany the group activities.

Since the practice room is inside the company, in order to make it easier for the students to come in and out, Shen Na specially arranged for her assistant to pick up the three students at the hotel on the day of practice and lead them into the company. Xiao Yao doesn't live in a hotel, so naturally he can't enjoy this kind of considerate service, but he has no problem at all with entering and exiting Shen Na's company and practice room. Because the record company Shen Na belonged to was his father Xiao Siqi's previous owner, China Entertainment. Before Xiao Siqi's contract expired and his studio went out independently, he was often brought here. Now even if they go out independently, they maintain a close cooperative relationship with each other, so not only can he come and go freely here, but he is also very familiar with this place.

But even if Xiao Yao doesn't live in the hotel,

The team members did not intend to let him go easily. Shen Na gave everyone a holiday because she had work to deal with. Xiao Yao is a middle school student on summer vacation, and he has no work to do. Since Shen Na didn't have time, everyone arrested Xiao Yao, a strong local, and asked him to be a free tour guide for everyone for two days.

For a total of three days of vacation, everyone took Xiao Yao to play around with everyone for two days. On the third day, everyone kindly let Xiao Yao go and let him go back to accompany his family.

Most of Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying have work to do during the day, and Xiao Yao lives at home at night, so naturally they don't need to spend any extra time with their parents. So Xiao Yao naturally gave his grandfather the time to spend with his family on the third day. He still remembers that he was in the car on the day he returned to China, but he promised his grandfather Xiao Chengru to accompany him to the theater. As for Sun Tingting, she was already familiar with the members of Shen Na's team when she was in Hangzhou, and she spent the past two days playing with everyone.

Hearing that the elder grandson really took the time to accompany him, an old man, to listen to Beijing opera, the old man Xiao Chengru was naturally very happy. I booked tickets early at the Liyuan Theater where I often go, and I was waiting for Xiao Yao to enjoy the quintessence of China with him.

The Liyuan Theater that Xiao Chengru booked tickets for is closed, only afternoon and evening shows. Because Xiao Yao had to go home at night, Xiao Chengru booked a ticket for the afternoon. After lunch that day, Xiao Yao took a taxi to the courtyard where Xiao Chengru lived. After picking up his grandfather Xiao Chengru who was waiting, the two took a taxi to the Liyuan Theater again.

Although Peking Opera is known as the quintessence of the country, it is relatively small at present. The audience is a relatively fixed group of fanciers, with the elderly accounting for the vast majority. The troupe of this Liyuan Theater is relatively well-known in the Peking Opera business, and there are a little more people who come to see the play. Xiao Chengru often comes, and he also knows each other and makes friends with many fellow fans in it. So when he took Xiao Yao into the Liyuan Theater and sat in the auditorium, some old friends who were sitting next to him also greeted him one after another.

"Old Xiao, is this your grandson? There are very few young people who are willing to accompany old men like us to watch Peking Opera." A silver-haired old man next to him said to Xiao Chengru.

"Yes, but my grandson is not bad. He is more interested in traditional Chinese culture. He has learned calligraphy from me since he was a child, and he can play the erhu, so he can listen to it." Xiao Chengru smiled and said, "But even if it is He is like this, and he also negotiated with me about the conditions, saying that he only listens to the allegro jokes, and can't listen to the slow ones."

"That is, the young people nowadays live in a fast pace, how can they spend so much time listening to Peking Opera like us." The silver-haired old man said, "But your grandson is already very good, let alone Allegro and Adagio, he It's very rare to be able to come. Look at this place, there are not many people under the age of forty, let alone as young as your grandson. By the way, how old is the little guy? What's his name?" The last sentence was to see asked Xiao Yao.

"This is Uncle Liu." Xiao Chengru introduced to Xiao Yao.

"Hello, Uncle Liu, my name is Xiao Yao. I will be eighteen next month." Xiao Yao said politely.

"Only eighteen, so young." The silver-haired uncle Liu seemed very interested in Xiao Yao, and then asked, "Let me ask you, can you understand this Peking Opera?"

"This...you should be able to understand it," Xiao Yao hesitated, "Although they sing slower, they still sing in Chinese."

"Hehe," Uncle Liu smiled, "The little guy is quite interesting. I mean to ask you, can you understand what they sang? For example, the opening section of "Drumming Scold Cao, do you know this story?"

"I know that," Xiao Yao nodded and said, ""Beat the Drums and Curse Cao" tells the story of Miheng Mi Zhengping, the number one deadly expert in history, beating drums and cursing Cao Cao."

"The number one killer in history? You sealed it?" Uncle Liu was stunned.

"Isn't it?" Xiao Yao smiled, "He is very talented, and he became famous at a young age. It's a pity that his EQ is too low, he is arrogant and arrogant. Kong Rong recommended him to Cao Cao, and he scolded Cao Cao. Cao Cao cherished his reputation and did not kill him, so he sent him to Liu Biao, and he began to scold Liu Biao again, which made Liu Biao unable to stand him, so he sent him to Huang Zu, where he continued to scold Huang Zu. Cao Cao and Liu Biao wanted his reputation for loving and cherishing talents so he didn't kill him, but Huang Zu is a big boss, but he didn't have the cultivation skills like Cao Cao and Liu Biao, so he wiped Mi Heng with a knife. Follow which leader scolds which leader , Isn’t this playing to death? And being kicked out twice doesn’t teach you a lesson, so I think he is the number one in history.”

"Old Xiao, this kid is not bad." Uncle Liu gave Xiao Chengru a thumbs up and said, "A Mi Heng's life is so clear, and if they are all of their age just now, it is not memorized at all. , I have a lot of historical knowledge in my head."

"Hehe," Xiao Chengru smiled triumphantly, "This kid didn't go to kindergarten when he was young, so he learned calligraphy and painting from me, and pestered me to tell him historical stories when he was free, so he has a little understanding of history."

"It turns out that you teach well." Uncle Liu nodded, "But yes, your skills are far superior to those of kindergarten teachers."

"You can't say that. I also teach to read, write, draw and draw. I don't know how to sing and dance." Xiao Chengru laughed.

"I remember I didn't tell you about Miheng when I was a child. Even if I did, I probably didn't explain it in such detail. How do you know it so clearly?" After dealing with old man Liu, Xiao Chengru asked Xiao Yao in a low voice.

"I know I'm going to watch "Beat the Drum and Scold Cao" today, so I read some materials last night and learned about it." Xiao Yao also smiled softly, "Don't you just like to hear people praise your grandson, so of course I Be prepared, let you show your face in front of the old buddy. When you took me to the park to practice boxing, didn't you also have the same idea?"

"You kid, you are really a fine person." Xiao Chengru laughed.

Not long after, the performance began on the stage.

In his previous life, Xiao Yao’s only impression of Peking Opera was the wonderful part of “The Concubine’s Son-in-Law Looks Closer and Closer” in “The Case of the Beauty”. Although "Beating the Drum and Scolding Cao" is a traditional repertoire of Beijing opera veterans, Xiao Yao has never heard of it. Sitting with Xiao Chengru at this time, he listened calmly and heard something.

Although Xiao Chengru was very happy that Xiao Yao was willing to accompany him to listen to Peking Opera, he still hoped that Xiao Yao would like this traditional Chinese quintessence, not just to accompany him. So in the process of listening to the play, Xiao Chengru also paid attention to Xiao Yao's expression from time to time. When he saw Xiao Yao's unusually focused expression, Xiao Chengru was really happy from the bottom of his heart.

But what Xiao Chengru didn't know was that Xiao Yao's thoughts had already flown to other places at this time. The only thing that Xiao Yao can count as work at present is the competition after "The Voice of China". He boasted that he would be completely original in the future, and he was worrying about the selection of songs. Now that he is listening to Peking Opera here, he unconsciously remembered a few songs in his previous life that contained Peking Opera vocals.

Therefore, after the show ended, Xiao Yao held Xiao Chengru back and said, "Grandpa, you can be regarded as a senior fancier in the Liyuan business, right? You must know many famous Peking opera artists?"

"I know a few people," Xiao Chengru said with a smile, "What do you want to do?"

"I want to learn to sing." Xiao Yao said directly.

"You want to learn to sing opera?" Xiao Chengru was a little surprised, and then said happily, "Okay. Although you are a bit old now, it is difficult to sing, but Peking opera is the quintessence of the country, even if it is cultivated as a hobby It's also good."

"However, the Peking Opera industry is divided into roles. The five major roles of Sheng Dan, Jing Mo, Ugly, even if it is suitable for you, there are several types of roles: Laosheng, Hongsheng, Xiaosheng, and Wusheng. Different people are good at different roles. Son, you have to tell me which one you want to learn, so that I can find a teacher for you." Xiao Chengru continued.

"No, I don't sing raw roles," Xiao Yao shook his head and said. "I want to learn to sing Danjiao!"