Among the singing performances at the Spring Festival Gala, Liang Liang and his team's "Hua Guo Huo" segment was the most popular, bar none.
The improved version of "The Fiery Years" by the Gold Rush team featured a variety of visually stunning dance moves that amazed audiences both at the venue and in front of their televisions.
The applause grew louder and louder.
Subsequently, Xu Wei's heartfelt singing brought many people back to their unforgettable first love.
Finally, Blue Shark Band's "Red Flag Fluttering" was exhilarating and emotionally stirring.
Their singing performance naturally became the most popular singing performance at the 1997 Spring Festival Gala.
Its viewership ratings were on par with Lao Zhao's "Red Sorghum Model Team".
There's a little anecdote here: Lao Zhao's skit also incorporated the song "Big Cotton-padded Jacket and Two Cotton-padded Pants" by the Yinna River Band.
Actually, this was originally their own song, but Liang Liang had copied it beforehand.
Liang Liang was too embarrassed to ask for money, so he let them use it for free.
After their performance, their Spring Festival Gala mission was complete. After resting at the hotel for one night, they took a plane back to Lianwan on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year.
As in previous years, Liang Liang returned home around 5 p.m. on the first day of the Lunar New Year.
After returning home and having dinner, Liang Liang chatted with her parents for a while before going back to her room to look at Haiyun Company's financial statements from last year.
He participated in the Spring Festival Gala rehearsal before the Lunar New Year, and he didn't look at the company's report from the previous year.
In 1996, Haiyun Company's financial situation was very healthy.
In other words, all of the company's projects are showing strong growth and are profitable.
Although Haiyun Audio-Visual was established relatively late, it became a pillar of the company within a year.
Last year, the company's total album sales reached 40 million copies, generating a net profit of 120 million yuan.
The biggest profit-makers are those who share the profits from albums not published by Haiyun Audio-Visual.
The main division is between the "Sea Waves" album and the Mayday band's second album, as well as a portion of their previous albums.
This portion of the revenue is around 20 million.
The two guitar factories earned fourteen million.
Next up are the Haiyun Dance Hall and Haiyun Disco, which together generate eleven million in revenue.
The total revenue from the six small theaters is around five million.
Next, Haiyun Music School has an income of around one million.
Finally, the music store brought in hundreds of thousands of yuan.
Of course, there's also a huge sum of money from selling copyrights, which translates to over 140 million RMB.
This is all of Liang Liang's income last year, totaling 300 million yuan.
It looks like a lot, but at least 200 million yuan of it will be invested in the film and television city next year, which means two-thirds of it will be gone in an instant.
Investment in film and television cities must not be stopped. Liang Liang plans to make Pingshan Film and Television City reach the scale of Hengdian Film and Television City in 2018 by around 2005.
He has no intention of relinquishing the title of Asia's largest film and television city to anyone else.
A film and television city, the largest in Asia, can generate billions of yuan in tourism revenue annually from tourists alone, creating tens of thousands of jobs and stimulating other industries.
All things considered, the annual output value is over 10 billion yuan, so of course it can't be given to others.
The movie "The Dream Factory" was released last night, Lunar New Year's Eve, and we don't know how well it did at the box office on its opening day.
It's being shown in thousands of cinemas across the country, but I don't know if it can even gross a few million at the box office.
Never mind, I'll go to sleep first. I haven't been sleeping well lately because of rehearsals in Beijing.
Liang Liang went to sleep.
As I was sleeping, my nostrils started to itch. When I opened my eyes, I saw Xu Mei's cheeky face and her little, sly hand holding a chicken feather.
What time is it?
"It's already eight o'clock! Aren't you getting up?"
Xu Mei did not go to the Spring Festival Gala with Liang Liang this year. She couldn't handle the two months of rehearsals in Beijing, so she voluntarily decided not to go this year.
Liang Liang sat up and put on his clothes, casually slapping away Xu Mei's shameless hand that was groping his back.
"Does a young woman know what kind of behavior it is to lay a hand on a man?"
Xu Mei chuckled: "I was helping you get dressed, but you're biting the hand that feeds you. You don't appreciate my kindness."
Are you wearing clothes?
"Have you mastered the dance yet? If you feel you're almost there, we'll organize a concert for you guys in a few days, and that will be your second debut."
The waves have stopped for more than half a year; this is a loss.
"The dancing is no problem, the four of us dance very well."
"Just dancing isn't enough; you have to sing while you dance."
"No problem!"
"Where are the others who trained with you?"
There were thirteen girls in the first batch who trained with the gold-digging couple, and with Xu Mei and the others, there were a total of seventeen.
These were selected from hundreds of people, and I don't know how well they've learned.
Xu Mei is eighteen years old this year. She is a beautiful young woman who could charm an entire regiment.
Eighteen is an adult, you can bite beans now...hehe!
I just don't know who will benefit from it.
"Everyone encourages each other and is doing very well. Are you planning to form a few girl groups?"
“Form three groups: one group of seven, one group of six, and one group of four.”
The four-person group was naturally the sea waves.
Liang Liang planned to launch three regiments as the first attack and see which one would be the most successful.
Liang Liang was preparing to visit her neighbors to wish them a Happy New Year.
"Help me pack the red envelopes. Each red envelope contains 800 yuan. Don't you dare sneak any into your own pocket."
This woman really doesn't consider herself an outsider; she's actually planning to pocket some money.
Liang Liang brought over a large handful of red envelopes and several bundles of money and asked Xu Mei to help him pack them.
"Do you have any for me?" Xu Mei asked with a playful grin as she pretended to be innocent.
"Just ask me if I want a Happy Chinese New Year and I'll get it."
"Brother Liang! Happy New Year!"
Liang Liang shook his head, stuffed a prepared red envelope into Xu Mei's hand, and after thinking for a moment, put another one into her pocket.
Liang Liang put on a cotton-padded coat, filled all the pockets inside and out with red envelopes, and went out the door.
Liang Liang started by visiting his neighbors' homes, going in to offer New Year's greetings to each family and leaving a red envelope for the head of the household. If there were elderly people in the family, he would also leave one in their pocket, and he would give an extra one to families that were particularly poor.
Walking from the back street to the front street, Liang Liang visited all sixty households in Liangshuiwan Village, and it was past eleven o'clock by the time he finished.
He gave away more than 50,000 yuan during this year's New Year's greetings.
He felt it was worth it to buy a good reputation in the village with that little money.
After visiting each household to offer New Year's greetings in the morning, Liang Liang arrived at the small shop in the afternoon.
There's more than just this one shop in Liangshuiwan Village now; they've opened another one on the front street.
However, this small shop on the back street is still the most crowded.
The shop expanded during the summer, adding an extra room and setting up an extra mahjong table.
Those who play poker and mahjong are all local villagers.
Aside from starting their own business, the rest of them worked at Liang Liang's guitar factory, earning a few thousand yuan a year.
In 1996, this was already considered a high-income group in rural northern China.
Therefore, the young people in Liangshuiwan Village are all dressed smartly and smoke cigarettes that cost no less than three yuan a pack during the Spring Festival.
Everyone greeted Liang Liang when he came in.
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