When talking about Lin Qiao, Shao Jingque felt really guilty.
In her memory, she and Lin Qiao were from the same group of young women who went to the art troupe to look for jobs. Lin Qiao was recommended by their brigade as a cultural and artistic backbone to interview for a singing role in the art troupe, while she relied on her beauty and was determined to go to the art troupe to look for a job.
During the interview, Lin Qiao sang "Yingshanhong" with a crisp, bright and full voice. At first glance, she sounded very similar to the original singer Deng Yuhua. Three of the four judges couldn't help but nod their heads frequently. Only Qu Jingyun looked Lin Qiao up and down, then frowned and had a cold face.
After the song was finished, Qu Jingyun found many faults during the judges' discussion, such as lack of stage presence, stiff pronunciation, and lack of personal characteristics... In short, she was not satisfied with Lin Qiao.
The other three judges were all senior employees of the troupe. They were not as high-ranking as Qu Jingyun and did not dare to refute him.
When it was Shao Jingque's turn for the interview, Qu Jingyun's eyes lit up as soon as he came on stage.
Although Shao Jingque has neither singing nor dancing talent, he has gained a lot of confidence from being admired in the countryside for a long time.
He was not stage-shy at all and performed a tongue twister he had prepared on the spot. He confidently said that he was capable of doing the clerical work in the art troupe, which made several judges in the audience laugh.
Originally, the three judges thought that this country girl was too presumptuous after laughing, but Qu Jingyun, who had been very strict just now, became interested now and asked her with a smile if she could sing or dance. When she got the answer that she could not, she did not get angry, but kept her in the office to talk alone after the interview.
After a while, Lin Qiao, who had been eliminated and was waiting at the gate to return to the village with Shao Jingque, was called into the office.
The final result was that Shao Jingque walked out of the deputy director's office triumphantly, followed by a blushing Lin Qiao. He told everyone he met that he had passed the interview for the art troupe and would be a singing actor in the troupe in the future.
At first, the staff of the art troupe just thought that there were two new employees in the troupe, but as time went on, everyone gradually realized that there was no chance for Lin Qiao to go on stage.
The struggle situation was severe at that time and the art troupe's performance was not good.
Just when everyone was wondering how the group could keep such an idle person, someone accidentally discovered that when Shao Jingque went on stage, Lin Qiao was hiding alone in a small room equipped with audio equipment, microphones and other equipment to sing for him!
As soon as the news came out, it quickly reached the head of the group.
Who knew that the final result would be that the person who informed on the matter was found to have ideological problems, and not only was he transferred from the art troupe, but even his family's work was affected.
As a result, everyone understood the situation and no one dared to talk about it anymore.
However, since the arrival of Shao Jingque, a new singer, the art troupe has had many more performance opportunities, and its reputation has even spread to other provinces and cities. Many organizations have come to invite the art troupe to perform in their local areas.
Soon, the wages and bonuses that had been delayed for two months were distributed to the employees.
Now no one mentioned the issue of substitute singing anymore, and it became an unspoken secret among all the staff of the art troupe.
The original owner, who was warmly welcomed, did not feel any guilt or gratitude towards Lin Qiao, who sang for her. Instead, she felt that it was Lin Qiao who got the position in the art troupe because of herself, so the original owner was always arrogant towards her.
Lin Qiao herself knew that if she had not sang for the original owner, she would have been eliminated and sent back to the village to work in the fields. She might have married a random countryman by now and would have had to live a life of toiling in the fields.
After seeing the scenery in the city, Lin Qiao's heart could no longer go back, so she could only swallow her anger and watch Shao Jingque win the applause and praise of the crowd with her singing.
There is a performance to comfort the troops today, which is an important political task arranged a month ago. At this time, Qiao Yulan asked Lin Qiao to pretend to be sick. It is easy to imagine what her intention was.
Shao Jingque sneered in his heart. It seemed that Qiao Yulan didn't listen to his warning at all.
She even dared to hit the dog owner, so how could she be afraid of a pug?!
Looking at Wu Shuang's worried expression, Shao Jingque raised the corner of his mouth:
"Thank you, Sister Wu, for reminding me. I know about this. Don't worry, it's okay."
As the saying goes, enemies often meet on a narrow road. As soon as she reached the door of the backstage dressing room of the art troupe, she ran into Lin Qiao who was coming out.
When Lin Qiao first saw her, she looked a little unnatural, but she still forced a smile and greeted Shao Jingque.
Shao Jingque felt a little complicated at the moment.
On the one hand, she felt that it was unfair to Lin Qiao that the original owner had taken all the credit for Lin Qiao's achievements for a long time. On the other hand, she was not sure whether Lin Qiao would obey Qiao Yulan's instructions and trick her on the stage.
She thought about it and smiled at Lin Qiao:
"Lin Qiao, there's something I wanted to talk to you about!"
Lin Qiao thought she had some terrible thing to tell her to do, so she forced a smile and replied:
"What's the matter? Tell me and I'll help you right away."
In fact, at this moment, her disgust towards Shao Jingque reached its peak. This man's good days were about to end, but he still didn't forget to order her around. If it wasn't for the purpose of avoiding alerting the enemy, she really wanted to fight back right now.
Shao Jingque saw her reluctance but didn't point it out:
"Look, isn't there a rural performance in a couple of days? I'd like to negotiate with the troupe to skip the performance and have you sing on stage. What do you think?"
Lin Qiao was stunned. She never expected that Shao Jingque would give her the chance to go on stage.
"Me, go on stage? No, that's not possible..."
She subconsciously denied it, wondering if Shao Jingque was making fun of her, but at the same time she couldn't help but feel longing for him.
Shao Jingque saw the expectation in her eyes and smiled even more deeply:
"Why not? I know your singing skills very well. Not to mention one song, even singing ten in a row is no problem. How about it? If you agree, I'll go discuss it with the band leader after the performance."
Shao Jingque's straightforward praise caused a blush to appear on Lin Qiao's originally thin and pale cheeks. She nodded involuntarily and whispered:
"Then... then thank you."
Shao Jingque smiled brightly at her:
"Why are we being so polite? Haven't you helped me enough? Well, it's settled then. I'm going to go put on my makeup first!"
After saying that, she turned and went into the dressing room, then closed the door, blocking Lin Qiao's figure behind her.
Shao Jingque made a helpless expression towards the mirror. It was understandable that Lin Qiao had resentment towards the original owner, and she was willing to try her best to make up for the original owner's debt to Lin Qiao, but human hearts were unpredictable after all.
Although she expressed her goodwill, it was still unknown whether Lin Qiao would accept it.
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