"Your show will definitely not be canceled, keep it up!" Xu Mei clenched her little fist.
"You didn't even see what show we were performing, how do you know we can't keep up? Alright! It's almost Chinese New Year, be careful. If you're not going to do anything, just stay in the disco and don't wander off. I won't be responsible if you get kidnapped. We're leaving!"
11:00 AM on the 1st.
The five members of the Blue Shark band, along with Ban Ya and a security guard he recruited, appeared at the Beijing airport.
The moment her feet touched the ground, Liang Liang was somewhat bewildered.
At this moment, some questions arose in my mind: Are they really here to participate in the Spring Festival Gala? Why does it feel so unreal at this moment?
Given Liang Liang's current situation, the Spring Festival Gala production team naturally wouldn't send a special car to pick them up; they would have to take a taxi to the CCTV building themselves.
One taxi was definitely not enough for so many people, so they took two taxis to Fuxing Road.
Before the CCTV building (nicknamed "Big Pants") was built, CCTV was located diagonally opposite the Military Museum.
They were only allowed to enter the CCTV building after showing the notification slip.
Half an hour later, someone arranged accommodations for them and gave them name tags, and they were officially considered part of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala performance team.
Since they only arrived today, the Spring Festival Gala production team didn't ask them to start working, so they had a free afternoon.
The CCTV canteen was past lunchtime, so they had to go outside and find a restaurant to eat at, which was a bit of a hasty affair.
If Liang Liang remembers correctly, the Black Panther band is also at home now.
When they returned from Guangzhou, they went to the same airport as the Black Panther band, but they didn't board the same flight.
Since he had nothing better to do anyway, Liang Liang decided to find Dou Wei to hang out with.
So he found a phone booth and paged Douwei.
Unexpectedly, there was no response.
Is this guy still in bed, chatting with Guo'er?
Or do they think they're a big shot now and are acting like divas?
Liang Liang was not giving up, so he kept calling the pager. If the guy didn't reply, he was prepared to keep calling until night.
This time it was not bad. A few minutes later, a voice that sounded like someone who hadn't woken up yet came from the other end of the phone.
Hello! Who is this?
"Hey Dou-ge! You're not still not up yet, are you?"
"Ah! That voice sounds familiar, who are you?"
"My surname is Liang!"
The voice on the other end of the phone suddenly rose: "Xiao Liang! Where are you paged from?"
"At the entrance of CCTV!"
"At the CCTV entrance? You've come to Beijing?"
"Yes! We've only been here a short while, and we haven't even had lunch yet!"
"Is it just you, or the whole band?"
"Of course, it's the whole band."
"There are too many people, we can't afford to invite them!"
Liang Liang burst into laughter.
"Wait a moment, I'll be right there!"
The phone clicked off.
"This guy must have been rambling on about salted eggs last night, otherwise he wouldn't still be in bed at this hour, it's already past 12." Liang Liang muttered to himself as he hung up the microphone.
It's true that Douwei stayed up very late last night, but he wasn't chatting with Guo'er; he was composing a new piece of music.
Their album "Light of Hope" is estimated to have sold over a million copies by the end of the year, and Pacific Records hopes they can strike while the iron is hot and release another new album.
He started composing music and has already written two pieces.
It took Dou Wei about half an hour from hanging up the phone to appearing at the CCTV entrance. If he was able to get a taxi easily, it means that his home is not close to the TV station.
Douwei saw that Liang Liang's nose and head were red with excitement.
Liang Liang later learned that it was from being frozen.
The temperature in Beijing that day was not high.
"Why did you suddenly come to the capital?"
After asking the question, Douwei glanced back at the CCTV building.
"Don't tell me you're here for the Spring Festival Gala rehearsals."
This is simply impossible.
"Hehe! Your little heart should be prepared to be hit hard. We really are here to participate in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala rehearsal."
For at least five seconds, Douwei was still in a daze.
"To...to rehearse for the CCTV gala? Really?"
"What do you think?" Liang Liang pulled out his number plate and waved it in front of Du Wei.
Douwei looked back at the CCTV building and then at the number plate in Liangliang's hand, his face full of envy.
"I really envy you guys for getting the favor of CCTV. If you can make a splash on CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, it will be a good thing for the rock music scene in China. At least it will give those rock musicians some hope."
"Don't get too excited yet. From now until the Spring Festival Gala performance, all the programs will go through four or five rounds of rehearsals. Whether they will be cut is another matter."
"Xiao Liang! If your band gets eliminated this time too, then there's really no hope for rock and roll."
"Stop with the nonsense. Although this is our second time in Beijing, it's no different from our first time. We have a free afternoon to explore the city and see what fun places there are to visit."
The last time they came to Beijing, they only climbed the Great Wall once and didn't go anywhere else, so it was no different from never having been to Beijing at all.
Once they start rehearsing, they're unlikely to have much free time to explore the capital. So, they'll take advantage of the afternoon they have to see as much as they can.
"Have you eaten yet? If not, let's go eat first."
"We've finished eating."
"Alright then! I'll take you somewhere."
Douwei flagged down two taxis at once, which took in eight people, including himself.
Then the taxi headed straight northwest.
Although Liang Liang wasn't very familiar with the directions of the capital, he had heard of some places in the capital in his previous life as a rock musician.
After figuring out which direction the taxi was going, I had some guesses in my mind.
"Brother Dou! You're not going to take us to Tree Village, are you?"
"You actually know about Tree Village? That's impressive!"
"What's so mysterious about that? Aren't all the rock musicians in Beijing hiding in Shucun?"
It seems impossible to find out when a group of rock musicians started gathering in Shucun, and probably not many people can say for sure.
Even the landlords in the housing estate could only give a rough estimate. It was probably in the late 1980s that people started renting houses here to play music and sing. This was when the number of people here was the largest and the impact was the greatest, probably a few years later.
In 2000, a director from Xianggang made a movie called "Beijing Happy Road" set in Shucun, which featured two big-name movie stars.
The rock musicians in Shucun thought the movie was there to give them a voice, and they were initially very busy helping out.
But upon closer inspection, it turned out that wasn't the case, and this was tantamount to helping to smear his own reputation, so he issued a statement.
But that happened a few years later, and it has nothing to do with Douwei bringing Liang Liang to Shucun now.
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