Although Liang Liang was tricked into going on stage by Qin Wenju, he only sang two songs from his new album: "Hometown" and "Grey Bird".

After finishing their performance, they prepared to leave the stage.

Just then, a woman with heavy makeup and still charming appearance pulled out a stack of bills.

This stack of bills is in fifty-yuan denominations, and probably amounts to over a thousand yuan.

This is a woman who is almost forty years old. She wants Liang Liang to sing. It doesn't matter what she sings, you just need to sing.

Qin Wenju, who was originally relaxed and carefree, immediately felt uneasy after seeing this woman.

What brings this slut here?

What the hell are you doing here instead of staying in your own nightclub?

Is the beam erection here?

Qin Wenju rolled her eyes a few times, then stood up and approached the woman with a big smile.

"Oh my! Isn't this Manager Wei? What brings you all the way to the East?"

The other party was Wei Fenglian, the owner of the Hongdu Dance Hall in the east of the city, and Qin Wenju was her direct competitor.

Hongdu Dance Hall opened six months earlier than Dongfang Dance Hall.

Before the Oriental Dance Hall opened, the Hongdu Dance Hall was the largest and most successful dance hall in Yahe City.

While it may not be a fortune, it is certainly a steady stream of income.

However, since the opening of the Oriental Dance Hall, the Hongdu Dance Hall's revenue has not plummeted, but it has certainly decreased significantly.

Wei Fenglian couldn't sit still any longer.

I've heard that the Oriental Dance Hall has a resident band that's far superior to the backing tracks at the Red Capital Dance Hall, which is why many customers go to the Oriental Dance Hall.

Moreover, on the opening day of the Oriental Dance Hall, two famous bands from Lianwan City came to perform.

One of them is the now somewhat famous Blue Shark band.

At that time, Wei Fenglian didn't know who the Blue Shark Band was, but now she does.

Yesterday, while shopping at a department store, she was inadvertently drawn to a box with a cover featuring three men and one woman in various poses.

She bought one for ten yuan.

What's the name of this cassette tape? Who sings it? She didn't even notice what songs were on it. The reason she bought the album was because of the man standing in the middle on the cover.

He was dressed in shiny black clothes and had a clean-cut, handsome face.

It was obvious from his face that he wasn't very old, but as a mature woman, she could sense a maturity about him that didn't match her age.

It was this kind of charm that attracted her to buy the cassette tape.

Back in her office, bored out of her mind, she put the cassette tape into the tape recorder and listened to it over and over again three times that afternoon.

Wei Fenglian's family is from the northern mountainous area of ​​Yahe. More than 20 years ago, she was on a government-subsidized food supply and found a worker in the city to move to the city.

In the early years, she would go back home every few days, but as she rose through the ranks at her workplace from team leader to factory director and party secretary, the number of times she returned to her hometown gradually decreased.

The cassette tape titled "Hometown" immediately stirred up her longing for her hometown.

Upon reflection, she realized that she hadn't been back to her hometown for three or four years.

Since she left the company to become self-employed five years ago for some reason, she seems to have rarely returned to that mountain village.

Over the years, the mountain village where she was born and raised has become blurred in her memory, but it has gradually become clearer in her mind thanks to the songs sung by the agent of this box.

The lead singer's voice had a sense of having experienced many hardships, which puzzled Wei Fenglian. The lead singer was very young, so how could he sing with such a sense of vicissitude?

This was very attractive to her.

For the sake of her business at the Hongdu Nightclub, and also to see the lead singer, Wei Fenglian decided to visit the Oriental Song and Dance Hall in the next couple of days.

Many public institutions give employees a holiday for New Year's Day, and that young man might also have a holiday and might come to the Oriental Dance Hall, although the possibility of this is extremely small.

However, it was precisely this near-zero probability that she actually saw the young man here.

Moreover, there was something about this young man that fascinated him.

This is different from the other young men she has had entanglements with.

The other men were just young and handsome.

And this lead singer has one more fatal quality: maturity!

This is a very contradictory phenomenon. The other party is clearly only a seventeen or eighteen-year-old youth, but he exudes a unique mature man's temperament.

Wei Fenglian was so excited that she immediately spent two thousand yuan to request Liang Liang's song.

It doesn't matter what you sing, just sing.

But then the owner of the Oriental Dance Hall showed up.

"Manager Qin! The way you're talking to me doesn't sound very welcoming."

"Manager Wei, you're overthinking it. Everyone who comes is a guest, how could I not welcome them? Sir! Would you please come and sit in my seat? I need to have a good talk with Manager Wei."

Qin Wenju switched seats with a guest next to Wei Fenglian and then sat down next to Wei Fenglian.

"Manager Wei! You didn't come to my Dongfang just to take a look, did you?"

She owns her own nightclub, yet she spends money to sit in someone else's nightclub. If she doesn't have some ulterior motive, then she must be out of her mind.

"Manager Qin! Since we're competitors, beating around the bush is pointless. Let's be frank. My Hongdu Dance Hall's business has been declining quite a bit lately. Isn't it reasonable for me to come and learn from your experience?"

"Welcome, welcome! I, Qin Wenju, am not a petty person when it comes to legitimate business exchanges, so of course I welcome them."

"This young man singing on stage, I can hire him to sing at my nightclub for a few days, is that alright? Ah! Manager Qin?"

No problem? There's a big problem.

Don't you have any idea how you got out of the factory, Wei Fenglian?

Besides, over the years, Wei Fenglian has become quite famous in Yahe City. Everyone knows that you spend money to buy the youth of any young man you fancy. There must have been ten or twenty of them in the past few years, right?

How could Liang Liang get away with anything after arriving at your nightclub?

That would be like handing the fish right under the cat's nose, which is absolutely unacceptable.

"Manager Wei! I can't say that. He's the lead singer of the Blue Shark band, a band that has released albums and is quite famous in China now. My little place can't control him. But as far as I know, he's only going home for two days for New Year's Day. He only came because he has a good relationship with the resident band at the Oriental Dance Hall. You want to hire him to sing at your dance hall for a few days? I don't think that's possible. He won't agree to the time conflict."

Wei Fenglian chuckled: "Could you please ask Manager Qin to put in a good word for us? We can have a good talk, and maybe he'll go when the conditions are right?"

Should I thread a string for you?

Do you think I'm some kind of Lei Feng?