What are you doing if you don't have your own compositions?

"Brother Liang! Your level is barely good enough to get into a small theater, but let's be upfront and get this straight. Your band can perform in a small theater, and you can get a share of the revenue after the performance, but there are two things you must abide by."

"Tell me about it!"

"First rule: You must abide by all the rules and regulations of the small theater. Zheng Tuo will explain them to you. Second rule: Since you are going to perform in the small theater, you must treat everyone here as equals. Never think that you are a bully and that you can't mess with me. Do you understand?"

You can't bully people here; this small theater isn't a place to keep a lord over a fool.

"I understand."

"If you don't have your own songs, you can sing our Blue Shark Band's songs in this small theater. We don't have many folk songs for you to sing. You can sing the two folk songs I've sung before, but it would be best if you could have your own songs in the future."

“We actually have some unfinished works, that is, they are not complete.”

Are these guys even qualified as slackers?

He can also compose music? Can you believe it?

Liang Liang called Zheng Tu over.

“Brother Zheng! This Brother Liang and his band will be the resident band at our Songyang Small Theater from now on. If they bully or harass us here, call me. If you don’t dare to deal with it, I will.”

"Brother! Don't worry about that. I, Liang Tianlei, keep my word and guarantee that I won't bully any of the brothers in the small theater."

"That's good!"

Liang Tianlei doesn't bully anyone here, and of course, no one will bully him. With them around, basically no one will come to the small theater to cause trouble.

This is equivalent to hiring several security guards for free.

I don't feel like I lost out at all.

After settling Liang Tianlei in, it was already past eight o'clock.

Liang Liang said goodbye to Zheng Tuo and the people in the small theater, and went with Ban Ya to a nearby bus stop to wait for the bus.

At 8:30, Liang Liang and Ban Ya boarded the bus to Lianwan.

Yesterday, a heavy snowfall closed the expressway from Songyang to Lianwan, so we could only take the regular roads. None of the taxis in Songyang would accept fares to Lianwan, saying it was unsafe on the road, so Liang Liang and Ban Ya boarded a bus.

The Azure Wind Band will stay in Songyang for a week, and then they will bring a Songyang band back to Lianwan.

Upon returning to Lianwan from Songyang, Liang Liang concluded that he had suffered a huge loss.

Not only did the damn bus take seven hours to travel, but the passengers were also incredibly sluggish; I almost froze to death.

We boarded the bus at 8:30 in the morning and didn't arrive in Lianwan City until 3:30 in the afternoon.

As soon as I got off the car, I hailed a taxi and ran back to the dance hall like a shot. I hung myself on the radiator for half an hour to recover.

I will never take a bus again.

Now that we're back, we need to get down to business.

The first important thing Liang Liang had to do was to give Xu Wei the first share of the album's revenue.

Xu Wei's album was released in September, so it's been more than four months now.

The first share of the profits should have been transferred to them long ago.

But the finance department is useless; they dare not touch such a large sum of money and insist on waiting for Liang Liang to return.

As of December 1st, Xu Wei's album cassette tapes had sold 8.5 million copies, and CDs had sold 500,000 copies.

The net profit from each cassette tape is three yuan, and Xu Wei gets 40%, which is 10.2 million yuan.

The profit from CDs is five yuan per CD plus a small amount. With 500,000 CDs, Xu Wei gets two yuan per CD, which adds up to another million.

When Liang Liang handed Xu Wei a check for 11.2 million yuan, Xu Wei felt like there was something wrong with his language system.

Why can't I speak even though I open my mouth?

His girlfriend was even worse than him. At least he stood up properly, but his girlfriend sat down on the ground as soon as she saw the number on the check, and almost fainted.

"This is the revenue sharing before December 1st. There will be more in the future, and whether there will be this much depends on sales volume. Anyway, it won't be less. You two can decide how to handle this money yourselves."

Xu Wei earned over ten million, so Liang Liang naturally earned even more.

Xu Wei's album alone earned Haiyun Audio-Visual Company 17 million yuan.

There's also an album by the Hanmei duo.

Although Hanmei's album was released a month later than Xu Wei's, its sales were already on par with Xu Wei's, and they also received the same amount of money.

Their money can no longer be paid by a check.

Liang Liang gave each person a check for 5.5 million.

The two little girls' hands trembled uncontrollably as they held the checks, and their words became incoherent.

Five million five hundred thousand!

This number really shocked them.

"Stop trembling, you two. There will be plenty of days to make money in the future. Tell me what you plan to do with this check first?"

With these two little girls carrying this thing around, don't expect them to get a good night's sleep.

"I want to send it home." Lin Hanrui felt it would be safer to send the money home.

“It’s not safe for you to go home by yourself. I’ll send someone to take you home when you have a holiday in a couple of days. If you trust me, I’ll keep the check for you.”

Lin Hanrui confidently handed the check back to Liang Liang.

Before Liang Liang could even speak, Xu Mei had already placed the check in front of him.

Her explanation was that what's mine is yours.

He was kicked a thousand miles away by Liang Liang.

However, she ran back after Lin Hanrui returned to the disco.

"Brother Liang! How am I going to tell my mom about all this money when I get home?"

If she went home and honestly told her mother, she was worried that her mother would faint from excitement.

"Are you stupid? Why do you have to tell your mother the truth? Couldn't you have told less, or at least a hundred thousand or eighty thousand?"

“I am an honest child.”

Liang Liang was amused and exasperated: "A person who lies all their life is definitely not a good person, but a person who never lies all their life is also not a good person, that's a fool!"

"You're the fool!"

"Alright! Let's go back!"

"Take me to the Spring Festival Gala this year!" Xu Mei made her request.

The Blue Shark band had just received a call about being invited to perform on the Spring Festival Gala when she came over to add to the show.

She was irrelevant last year, but this year she toured with the Blue Shark band for four months, so she should definitely be on the Spring Festival Gala.

"This request is worth considering."

"No time to think about it! I need a definite answer right now."

"We're going to be in the capital for almost two months. Do you know how boring it is there?"

"No matter how boring it is, I'm going!"

Aren't you afraid I'll sell you?

"You dare!"

"Okay! I'll take you there!"

Xu Mei left with a smile.

Now Liang Liang can calm down and think about participating in the Spring Festival Gala.

Going to participate in the Spring Festival Gala is a good thing, but the only unpleasant thing is having to stay in Beijing for two months, which is a very boring period.

What program to perform on the Spring Festival Gala? This is no problem at all; it's either "The Red Flag Fluttering" or "Chasing Dreams with a Pure Heart"—it's a choice between the two.