Entertaining Children

In the recording studio where the result was announced, seven singers sitting on single sofas lined up in a row, and each manager also sat on the high chair behind their respective singers. And standing in front of them is Tao Ran, the chief director of the show who will announce their fate in the show.

"This is the first kick-off match of this season. Let's welcome the first kick-off singer, Xiao Yao!" After reading the program's sponsor's advertisement, Tao Ran first spoke to Xiao Yao, who was on the show for the first time. Welcomed. Everyone applauded, and Xiao Yao politely stood up and bowed to the other singers.

"I want to ask first, how does it feel for Xiao Yao to come to our program?" Tao Ran asked Xiao Yao.

"It was okay before I came here, it was okay when I was preparing, and it was okay when I sang, but now I am a little nervous after singing!" Xiao Yao said calmly.

"Bah, you're not nervous!" Hong Wei couldn't help shaking his head and complained, "Just like you, you seem to be a nervous person?"

"I heard that you had a good time in the lounge just now, right?" Tao Ran said with a smile, "When my assistant asked you to come over and listen to the results, something seemed to be interrupted?"

"Yes!" Several singers and managers laughed, "Let us miss a good show!"

"Teacher Hong," Tao Ran looked at Hong Wei again, "I remember you said in the last issue that no newcomers are allowed to come in, and you just lock the door of No. 6 door! How do you feel now?"

"I feel that door No. 6 can't be locked, even if it is locked, it will be kicked open!" Hong Wei smiled, and continued, "I still don't want any starting singer to leave, but if Xiao Yao squeezes in If you come, I can accept it emotionally!"

"Teacher Hong, don't you love us?" Zhao Lixun immediately said in substandard Mandarin with an aggrieved look.

"Love, I love you all!" Hong Wei said immediately.

"But I love the little guy Xiao Yao more," Hong Wei changed again, "Even though he urged you all to force me to dance that inexplicable dance, I still love him very much!"

"Hehe~" Hong Wei's performance naturally aroused another burst of laughter.

"It seems that Xiao Yao not only performed very well on stage, but also performed very well off the stage. He quickly won the love of our teacher Hong Wei." Tao Ran said with a smile, "But in the final analysis, our show It’s still about the results of performances on stage. Now the results of the audience’s votes are in my hands, and I’ll start announcing the ranking results of everyone’s votes for this issue.”

When announcing the results, the director will inevitably play some tricks to catch people's appetite, but there is no "singer mutual casting" link in the programs of this world, and Tao Ran is not like the chief director in the previous life who suddenly ran to drink water in the middle of his speech Or read out the ranking and the name of the singer and then add the sentence "Do you think it will be you?" to play those crazy stalks. So about a few minutes later, five of the seven singers announced their results.

Xiao Yao's suspense about whether to leave or stay is naturally left to the end. The only singers who have not announced their results are Xiao Yao and Korean singer Liu Youyuan, and the unannounced rankings are the second and sixth. If Xiao Yao gets the second place, then Zhao Lixun, who has already announced the seventh place, will be eliminated, and if Xiao Yao gets the sixth place, Xiao Yao himself will be eliminated.

"Then who is second and who is sixth, Xiao Yao or Liu Youyuan? Is it Xiao Yao or Zhao Lixun who is eliminated? Let's enter a commercial, and after the commercial, we will come back and announce the results." Next to him, he took a sip of the sponsor's branded mineral water.

"You are so annoying!" Hong Wei shouted dissatisfied immediately.

Other people who were anxiously waiting for the result also complained a few words, only Xiao Yao was still sitting in his seat with a smile on his face, unmoved. After being baptized by the show in the previous life, Xiao Yao felt that Tao Ran, the female chief director, was already very "conscientious".

"Okay, now we announce the second place in the audience voting ranking,

Tao Ran continued after taking a sip of water to soothe his throat. The commercials were edited later, so there was no need to actually play the commercials on the spot.

After hearing Tao Ran's words, everyone fell silent and stared nervously at Tao Ran's mouth.

"The second place in the audience vote this time is...Xiao Yao!" Tao Ran said Xiao Yao's name without delaying too long.

"Yeah!" Xiao Siqi and Xiao Yao, who were sitting together this time, did not pretend to be "unfamiliar", Xiao Siqi immediately yelled, and hugged Xiao Yao sideways, and Xiao Yao also hugged his father tightly back.

"Then the sixth place is Liu Youyuan!" Amid the applause from several managers, Tao Ran also announced the last singer's ranking.

"Congratulations to Xiao Yao for successfully kicking off the stage. At the same time, I also have to regret to announce that our other debut singer, Zhao Lixun, will leave our stage for the time being." Tao Ran continued, "Thank you very much for being on this stage for these three episodes. We are also looking forward to your performance in the breakout match."

When it was time to bid farewell, several applauding managers immediately fell silent, and Zhao Lixun also stood up from his seat, bowing to greet everyone.

After several singers took turns to hug and bid farewell to Zhao Lixun, Zhao Lixun stood and faced the camera lens in front of him and gave a rather emotional parting speech. Several emotional female singers also unconsciously wiped the corners of their eyes.

"Wait a minute," Tao Ran had to interrupt everyone when he saw the singers left their seats and was about to bid farewell to Zhao Lixun in private, "We still have a task today."

"Huh?" Everyone stopped and looked at Tao Ran strangely.

"Zhao Lixun is the host of our show. He temporarily left the show today, which means that he will not be able to return to continue to be the host of the show in the next few episodes, so we have to choose among the six singers of you today. Come up with a new host." Tao Ran said, "In the past, our director team made the decision to choose a host, but today, our director team wants to hear your singer's opinion. Who do you think is more suitable to succeed Zhao Lixun as the host? People? Feel free to comment."

"I think let our sister Ruki come on!" Cai Ruoqi's manager raised her hand first, "Brother Lixun's weird Hong Kong-style Mandarin is a major feature of the show, although our sister Ruki's Mandarin sounds quite standard, but That whiny Baodao accent is also very attractive."

"Then we Youyuan Oppa can also do it." Zhang Qiao also said, "Isn't it more interesting for Koreans to speak Chinese?"

"Can Youyuan speak Chinese?" Tao Ran looked at Liu Youyuan and asked.

"I can only speak a few words, but I can learn it." Zhang Qiao said, "How many words can there be in the script, can you learn it every week?"

"Are you sure?" Zhao Lixun, who hadn't left the scene, said with a wry smile, "Those of you who haven't done this before don't know the hard work involved! Do you know that it takes me more than an hour to memorize the stage book every time, and every time I go on stage, I was so nervous every time, even more nervous than I was when I sang. And if this kind of nervousness continues, it will also affect my singing performance.”

"Ah?" Zhang Qiao and Cai Ruoqi's managers were dumbfounded. They all just want to help their singers increase their chances of showing up, but they don't take this factor into consideration.

"When did poor Mandarin become the criterion for selecting a host." The manager sitting behind Hong Wei said with a smile.

"Isn't our show always like this?" Shen Man looked at him and said.

"That's right~" Hong Wei's manager nodded, which immediately elicited laughter from the audience.

"We're not all thinking about fun." Tao Ran also said with a smile, "Actually, when Zhao Lixun was young, he was the host of a children's program on Hong Kong Island. Although the host was in Cantonese, it was more than ten years ago. , that also has hosting experience. Although the audience has a relatively high tolerance for participating singers as hosts, we don’t want the hosts to make too many mistakes and omissions on the stage. And I want to be honest, being a host is indeed It will have a certain impact on singers' preparations, and it will take a lot of extra time just to be scripted."

Hearing what Tao Ran said, Zhang Qiao and Cai Ruoqi's managers hesitated.

"Let me come!" Xiao Yao raised his hand and said.

"You?" Everyone looked at Xiao Yao.

"Well," Xiao Yao nodded and smiled, "I'm the youngest, so I'd like to work harder. But if I'm in, the host will be in a completely different style. I have a Mandarin first-class certificate, that's weird. I can imitate his playful accent, but I definitely can’t say it when the host is on the stage, I’m afraid our line teacher will make trouble for me.”

Since the first time he showed everyone a few self-created tongue twisters, Xiao Yao went to take a Putonghua level certificate at the suggestion of his lines teacher, because he was too busy before the exam and did not prepare enough, and it happened to be I encountered some errors in the pronunciation and intonation of a few relatively uncommon characters. I scored 96 points in the test and only got a first-level and second-class result.

"Level 1?" Tao Ran was surprised, "It has reached the Mandarin requirements of a professional host."

This result is already very good in everyone's eyes. The requirement for professional announcers and hosts is only a first-level Mandarin, and A and B are acceptable.

"The mandarin requirements for our film and television drama actors are also above the first level." Xiao Yao pointed to himself and said.

What Xiao Yao said is true, but the current reality is that, apart from the better situation of drama actors, the regulations for film and television actors who can perform dubbing in the later stage are not so strict, and most of them do not meet the standard in Mandarin. Someone is there, it doesn't affect them much at all.

"Hey, you are participating in "Singer"!" Tao Ran deliberately smiled and reminded Xiao Yao, "Our program is a very professional music program, what are you emphasizing, you film and television drama actors, you are telling other teachers Provocative?"

"He kid, who dares to provoke him?" Hong Wei pouted, "He is so good, let him be the host. Make it more difficult for him."

"Agreed! Make it more difficult for him!"

"That's right, he's the youngest, if he doesn't work hard, who will work hard?"

Several other singers also echoed their views.

"Hmph, Xiao Yao in our family is someone who can recite a thousand words in a minute. He showed his ability in the drama examination last year." Shen Man said arrogantly, "Brother Li Xun needs an hour to recite the script. Our family, Xiao Yao, might get it done in a few minutes, and it doesn't necessarily have to be so difficult."

"Hey, do you mean that I'm bad?" Zhao Lixun on the side immediately pretended to be angry and pointed at Shen Man and walked over, "I'm IKEA Zhongqi Duga (I'm still standing here)! " Zhao Lixun was so excited that he even spoke Cantonese.

"Your family Xiao Yao's success in kicking out Brother Li Xun is enough to make him sad, and you deliberately provoke him," Wei Sen also deliberately fanned the flames, "Shen Man, you have learned badly!"

"Oh, brother Lixun, I was wrong!" Shen Man quickly got down on the ground and hid behind Xiao Yao's back.

"Young lady said something wrong, so don't be a scumbag (little girl said something wrong, don't lose your temper)!" Xiao Yao stood up quickly, stopped Zhao Lixun and said.

"You Zhongshi speak Cantonese?" Zhao Lixun looked at Xiao Yao in surprise and said.

"Damn, this guy can speak Cantonese?" Everyone looked at Xiao Yao in surprise again. Although they didn't understand what Xiao Yao said, they still recognized Zhao Lixun's "Cantonese".

"It's numb (so-so)." Xiao Yao said modestly.

"Well (not)," Zhao Lixun shook his head with a smile, "It's pretty good (not bad), it's good (okay)!"

"Oh!" Zhang Qiao suddenly called out, "Brother Youyuan asked me what they were talking about just now, but I couldn't understand myself, so how can I translate for him!"

The translation software connected to Liu Youyuan's Bluetooth headset can translate Chinese into Korean, but it cannot translate Cantonese.

"Don't talk about Korean oppas, I didn't understand what they said about mothers and fathers just now." Hong Wei shouted to Tao Ran, "Director Tao, do you think we should have a Cantonese translator for each of us? .It’s too uncomfortable not to understand what other people are saying.”

"Yes, yes." Several other singers also booed with a smile.

"We don't have such a high configuration." Tao Ran smiled and shook his head. "Besides, Zhao Lixun will leave temporarily after today. Is it necessary to have a Cantonese translation? Xiao Yao is talking to himself?"

"Aren't there replacement singers and kick-off singers from Hong Kong Island or Guangdong Province?" Xiao Yao laughed.

"Uh..." Tao Ran choked.

Seeing that Zhao Lixun had forgotten to trouble Shen Man, Xiao Yao walked up to Cai Ruoqi and said, "Sister Ruki, do you speak Hokkien or Hakka? If you want to chat with people in your hometown language, you can also find me."

"Huh?" Cai Ruoqi stared and said, "You can even speak Hokkien and Hakka?"

"No, so I want to learn from you." Xiao Yao smiled.

"Pfft~ha!" Everyone laughed again.

"I have a good memory, I can remember it once I say it, and I am very talented in learning languages." Xiao Yao said solemnly, "On the day we recorded the program, you told me the whole day, as long as we can persist until the end I guess I will be able to learn your native dialect after this show is over."

"Hey, Xiao Yao, that's enough!" Hong Wei said unbearably, "This kid, he must be made a host! Cantonese for a while, Hakka for a while, who can stand it?" The host is a singer They stayed in the rest hall for the shortest time, and they had to stay in the studio all the time when they were competing.

"Well, I think so too." Tao Ran nodded with a smile, "The little guy is too noisy, let him be the host and find more things for him to do. That's the decision, do you have any opinions?"

"No opinion!" Everyone smiled and nodded in agreement.