Shao Jingque felt sad for Qi Shengzhi in his heart. Sure enough, he could not escape the "three-month" curse.
After settling Ding Ling here, Shao Jingque made an appointment with Yue Feiying to help her move after the photo studio closed in the evening. He was now preparing to report back to the art troupe.
When the art troupe's security guard, Lao Liu, saw Shao Jingque coming back, he happily greeted her from a distance:
"Hey! Isn't this Xiao Shao?! I haven't seen him for a few days. Where did he go?"
Shao Jingque smiled and nodded at him:
"I went to Henan Province on some urgent business and came back as soon as I finished it."
Although he hadn't seen Shao Jingque for a few days, Old Liu couldn't help but be shocked by her beauty at first sight.
Originally, he thought the new girl, Xiao Tang, was pretty enough, with thick eyebrows, big eyes, an oval face, eyelashes as long as a palm-leaf fan, fair skin, red lips, and a high nose bridge. Except for her black eyeballs, her other facial features looked exactly like the foreigners staying in Ningcheng Hotel.
As a result, Shao Jingque's return awakened the vague image in his memory. Little Shao's face could be described as truly peerless and beautiful.
Under a pair of curved eyebrows, a pair of almond-shaped eyes are flowing like a pool of autumn water, the fair and flawless skin is faintly pink, the cherry mouth is red without makeup, tender and juicy, and the iconic heart-shaped face has two dimples faintly visible on the cheeks when she smiles slightly, which makes people fall in love at first sight.
In this comparison, although Xiao Tang looks pretty, she appears much rougher, and her eyebrows and eyes are far less delicate and attractive than Xiao Shao's.
Old Liu kindly waved to Shao Jingque and said in a low voice:
"You're back at the right time today. The leaders of the Provincial Art Troupe are here too. Director Liang and Deputy Director Qu have been waiting at the door since early this morning. I just saw them heading to the rehearsal room. I heard they're going to assess your skills. You better hurry over!"
Shao Jingque nodded. She also had something to ask Lao Liu:
"Has the group issued any new notices recently?"
Old Liu shook his head:
"No new notice has been issued. The notice posted on the bulletin board is still the one about Qiao Yulan's expulsion! The entire troupe has been busy preparing for the provincial leadership's inspection. The lights in the rehearsal room don't go out until midnight every day. Nothing special has happened."
Shao Jingque was a little surprised. She thought that she had violated the discipline of the art troupe and Qu Jingyun would definitely seize the opportunity to make a big fuss about her. Unexpectedly, there was no movement.
She felt that Qu Jingyun couldn't have a change of heart and let her go so easily. It was most likely that he was delayed by something and didn't have time to distract himself and operate on her.
"Okay, I understand. I'll go over first. Thank you, Uncle Liu!"
The word "Uncle Liu" reminded her of the Henan Provincial Military District Hospital, which was thousands of miles away. The uncle in the message room there was also surnamed Liu, and he sold sunflowers to her. Unfortunately, she waited for a few days but left before the wintersweets bloomed.
The wintersweet flowers in full bloom at this time... must be very fragrant. Uncle Liu said that he would select the best ones and send them to her. It will surely fill the entire ward with the rich and refreshing fragrance of wintersweet, so that she won't have to keep smelling the cold and unpleasant smell of disinfectant.
As soon as Shao Jingque finished thinking this, a self-deprecating smile appeared on his face.
Just like arranging flowers in the ward, everything she did from beginning to end was her own wishful thinking. Lu Zhan never said that he found the smell of disinfectant unpleasant, nor did he say that he wanted to drink wolfberry pigeon soup, nor did he say that he needed her to stay with him at night...
He just said that he didn't know her, didn't remember her, didn't need her, and wouldn't stop her...
But at that time, she chose to play dumb and ignored what he said. Now, instead of blaming Lu Zhan for being cold-hearted, she should blame herself for being too sentimental.
She shook her head, as if trying to completely get rid of these thoughts from her mind, and then strode towards the rehearsal room.
At this time, the rehearsal hall has been arranged as an assessment site. A brand new and eye-catching red cloth slogan is hung on the wall, which reads - Warmly welcome the leaders of the Provincial Art Troupe to visit our troupe to guide our work.
A long row of judges' seats were arranged against the wall under the slogan, and the table was covered with dark blue velvet, making it look particularly formal.
In the corner of the rehearsal room stood the actors from the Ning City Art Troupe, all quietly waiting for their turn to take the test, their faces inevitably filled with nervousness.
As an acrobatic performance ended, Deputy Director Peng of the Provincial Art Troupe, who was sitting in the center of the judges' seats, took off his glasses, rubbed his eyebrows, and looked a little tired.
Liang Jinchun and Qu Jingyun, who were sitting on either side of Deputy Director Peng, were a little nervous, wondering if their leader was dissatisfied with the show. Qu Jingyun even glared at one of the acrobats who had made a mistake, which immediately scared her so much that she shrank her neck.
To be honest, ** Ling's evaluation of the current performances of the Ning City Art Troupe is that they are just average, and there are no highlights that surprise her.
The main purpose of their inspection in the province this time, in addition to completing this year's assessment work, is to select the most novel and outstanding works from various cities to participate in the selection of Beijing TV Spring Festival Gala at the end of the year.
Earlier this year, Beijing TV conducted its first trial broadcast of the National Television News Network program, transmitting the signal to more than ten provincial and municipal TV stations across the country, which received warm welcome and praise from people across the country.
Therefore, the superior leaders decided to prepare a Spring Festival Gala for the people across the country before the end of the year, so that the people across the country can enjoy the literary and artistic works created by outstanding literary and artistic workers from all over the country without leaving their homes, and bring the most beautiful songs and the most beautiful dances into thousands of households, presenting an audio-visual feast to the people across the country on New Year's Eve.
Time was tight and the task was heavy, and soon all the provincial art troupes received this task, and they all worked hard to recommend their province's programs to Beijing TV Station.
However, the content of the programs recommended by various provinces were too similar. They were either singing red songs, telling crosstalk, or adding an opera performance. Excellent works soon stood out in these three categories, and the remaining provinces that were not selected could only rack their brains to prepare programs of other categories to participate in the selection, so that they would have a chance to be selected to participate in the first Spring Festival Gala broadcast simultaneously to the people across the country.
The honor of appearing in front of the people of the whole country for the first time is taken extremely seriously by all provinces, and is even regarded as a reference for demonstrating the artistic level of the provincial art troupes. The news of which province's program was selected and which province's program was rejected spread quickly.
The Jiangsu Province Art Troupe had previously recommended two programs, but both were rejected by Beijing TV Station.
Director Xing of the Provincial Art Troupe was very embarrassed when he was questioned by the provincial leaders at a work meeting. After returning, he called all the middle-level cadres of the Provincial Art Troupe to the conference room for a meeting. The central idea of the meeting was to find a program that was both novel and amazing and successfully appeared on the stage of the first Spring Festival Gala of Beijing TV Station.
This huge pressure was placed on the deputy head in charge, ** Ling.
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