Chapter 309: Another one cries
An advertisement is being inserted on the TV, and the final PK will only start in a few minutes, but the program planner is already immersed in the joy of victory and cannot extricate himself.
“This combo of my punches is really clever!” The planner thought about it carefully and became more and more complacent.
When the competition has reached this point, the program team has already recognized Zhang Wei as a musical genius. Songs of various types and themes can't stump Zhang Wei.
This also made the program team realize the reality. If they want to eliminate Zhang Wei, it is useless to limit the type and theme of the songs. The key is to limit Zhang Wei's originality.
In this special performance of Hong Kong and Taiwan songs, a rule for Cantonese songs was initially set up to bully Zhang Wei, a Jiaodong native who could not speak Cantonese. This was also intended to use this method to limit Zhang Wei's originality and force Zhang Wei to sing classic Cantonese songs. Oldies.
Once Zhang Wei loses his original songs, he will be an eagle without wings and a tiger without claws, and there is nothing to fear.
However, Zhang Wei directly broke the program crew's plan with his song "Naked".
But there is a back-up plan, and that is Liu Boer. Liu Bo'er was asked to run undercover next to Zhang Wei, and during the singing session, he deliberately pretended to have forgotten the lyrics, playing tricks on Zhang Wei and allowing Zhang Wei to enter the final PK.
If Zhang Wei showed that he was not proficient in Cantonese in the previous game, then PK would still sing Cantonese songs in the end.
And if Zhang Wei shows that he can sing Cantonese songs in previous competitions, then a lottery session will be set up to let Zhang Wei sing Hokkien songs.
The other player participating in the final PK is from Cantonese, and his Cantonese must be very authentic. In terms of language proficiency, Zhang Wei is 100% defeated.
So no matter what the situation is, Zhang Wei will definitely lose the final PK and be eliminated.
Now I just wait for Zhang Wei to report the song he is going to sing, and then he stumbles to complete the song in unskilled Hokkien, and then he is eliminated, and everything is done.
"Zhang Wei's song newspaper is here!" The errand boy came over in a hurry, holding a piece of paper in his hand.
"Is it "World's Best"?" the program planner asked immediately.
“No.” The errand boy shook his head.
"Is it "You Will Win If You Love to Work Hard"? It's an old song from the 1980s. Is Zhang Wei trying to make it more difficult for himself?"
"No!" Errand Boy Still shook his head.
"What is that? Except for these two songs, other Hokkien songs are not well-known in the mainland, right?" the planner asked.
"It's a song I've never heard of." The errand boy said, looking at the manuscript paper in his hand, and then said: "This song is called "The Prodigal Son Returns"."
""The Prodigal Son Returns"? You guys Who has heard this song?" The planner looked at the entire studio.
However, everyone looked confused. After looking at each other, no one said a word, obviously they had not heard anything.
The errand boy said: "This song seems to have been written by Zhang Weigang."
"What? Just wrote it? Are you not mistaken?"
"There should be no mistake. When I found Zhang Wei, he was writing this song. I waited for a while before he finished writing the song and then gave it to me." The errand boy said, taking the manuscript paper in his hand. Handed to the planner.
The planner took the manuscript paper and looked at it. The handwriting was very new. If you touch it with your hand, you can wipe out some ink marks. It is obviously new writing.
"Writing a song on the spot, he really thought he was Cao Zhi, could he write a poem in seven steps?" the planner said, looking at the lyrics with disdain.
"Lit cigarettes one by one, and drink wine one glass at a time. Please be considerate of me. I am not a good drinker. Please sell me Chongkang. What does Chongkang mean? And this, What does it mean to bring someone into a fight?”
“It sounds like Hokkien. I really don’t know what it means,” someone next to me said.
"Minnan? Zhang Wei can't really speak Hokkien!" The planner shook his head, thinking to himself: "Impossible, absolutely impossible. How could he, a Jiaodong native, know Hokkien!"
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At the judges' table, everyone's eyes were focused on Qi Qin.
"Teacher Qi, I come from a background in ethnic singing. I'm really not very proficient in Hokkien songs. I'll have to rely on Teacher Qi's guidance for the next comment." One of the judges said.
Another judge next to him also said: "Although there are many Malaysian Chinese who speak Hokkien, my ancestral home is Guangdong, and the elders in my family all speak Cantonese, and none of them can speak Hokkien. Speaking of Hokkien, I know a few words of greeting, such as '呷裷伟' and '无空why'.”
Except for another teacher Bao who was also born in Taipei, the other judges all said that they did not understand Hokkien songs. The implication is that when commenting later, just ask Qi Qin to say a few more words, and they will just follow suit.
As for Teacher Bao, although he is also from Taiwan and can definitely speak Hokkien, his position is far different from that of Qi Qin, the King of Heaven. Naturally, King Qi Tian follows suit.
Qi Qin said a few polite words to a few people. At this time, Zhang Wei also came to the stage with his guitar in his arms.
The song Zhang Wei was about to sing appeared on the big screen: "The Prodigal Son Returns".
""The Return of the Prodigal Son"? I have never heard of this Hokkien song! Teacher Bao, who sang this song?"
Teacher Bao shook his head: "There is no such song in my memory. Teacher Qi, you are well-informed, do you have any memory of this song?"
"Not at all. I don't remember either, There is such a song." Qi Qin also shook his head, and then continued: "This should be his original song, right? I remember you mentioned to me before that this player Zhang Wei is very original. The first song, "Naked", was very well written. The second song also felt good, but it was a pity that there were mistakes in the performance. "
"It is possible to say that it is a Mandarin song, but it is southern Fujian. Yuge, I think it’s impossible to be original! Teacher Qi, you don’t know that this Zhang Wei is from Jiaodong and it is unlikely that he can speak Hokkien.”
“Is that from Jiaodong? Ah! My father named my brother Qi Lu because he missed his hometown!" Qi Qin said, looking at the lyrics on the big screen again, and murmured to himself: "The Prodigal Son Turns Back, this name is interesting."
There was a hint of memory in Qi Qin's eyes, and at this time Zhang Wei also started to perform.
"Lit cigarettes one by one, and drink wine one glass at a time. Please understand me. I am not good at drinking and sell it to me. Time goes by day by day, sweat flows drop by drop, and one day , we are all old, we are going to play with a certain son, the prodigal son turns back..."
"I have never heard of this song, it is really an original song. Zhang Wei is very good, and he can also write songs in Hokkien. "
"Teacher Bao, what do you think of this Hokkien dialect? Is it authentic?"
"He speaks pretty good Hokkien. I don't know, I thought he did too. He’s from Taiwan, and Zhang Wei is very talented in language!” Teacher Bao commented. And Zhang Wei continued to sing in standard Hokkien: "Dear, lovely, handsome, friend! Trash, worthless, useless, friend! Riding on my motorcycle with two lights on the bumpy road, everything is fine My life is nothing but shit. I have no money, no money, no son, no life. My friend, let’s fight!”
Few of the audience at the scene could understand Hokkien, but they could feel that the melody of this song was very nice and they felt very comfortable listening to it.
“It’s a pop-rock style with a tight rhythm.”
“The intervals jump and change very well. This design makes the melody have a sense of layering without losing unity.”
For professional musicians, even if they cannot understand Hokkien, they can still understand this song from the perspective of music and melody.
For those who understand Hokkien, the lyrics of this song are the essence.
The lyrics are like a mirror, reflecting the prodigal's inner struggle and desire;
It is also like a glass of strong wine. It may be spicy and pungent when you first taste it, but you can feel it after careful tasting. It contains profound emotions and life philosophy;
It is more like a book of life, recording every important moment with real lens language, and every page is a story of growth and transformation.
However, on the side of King Qi Qin, this song "The Prodigal Son Returns" has a different flavor.
The lyrics, paired with this melody, reached Qi Qin’s ears, like bubbles, expanding in his heart. Memories of the past were reflected on each bubble, exuding It was full of brilliance, but eventually it broke, leaving only a little bit of regret.
At this moment, the past surged into Qi Qin's mind like waves.
He recalled that when he was a child, his father's strict discipline made him have a rebellious mentality. When he was in middle school, the conflict between him and his father became more and more serious, and he finally ran away from home after a conflict.
Then he made friends with a group of bad youths, just like in the movie "Monga", wandering around all day long, drinking and fighting.
But he did not have the father who was a gangster in "Monga", so he was caught by the police after a fight and was sentenced to three years in prison. Being sentenced to three years means that the opponent was beaten very seriously, probably at the level of serious injury.
Fortunately, he was only sixteen years old at that time. Because he was a minor, he did not need to go to prison. He only had to serve his sentence in the reformatory.
A young man who enters a reformatory at the age of sixteen probably has no future and will be abandoned by society after he comes out. The best case scenario is probably to join a gang, fight and kill along the way, and finally die in a gang fight.
But his sister did not give up on him. She would go to the reformatory to see him every weekend. She also used her winnings from singing competitions to buy him a guitar. From then on, he also embarked on music. road.
Recalling this, Qi Qin couldn't help but take a deep breath, and tears appeared inexplicably in his eyes and began to spin.
In the lyrics, "Anyway, my life is nothing but shit. I have no money, no son, no son, no life." Isn't that exactly what I was talking about at that time?
"Lighting cigarettes one by one, drinking glass after glass of wine." Isn't that what I was like when I was a gangster?
Some of the people who were gangsters with him in the past, who were once called brothers, struggled to survive at the bottom of society with disabilities;
Some were squatting in prison and may never get out for the rest of their lives. ;
For those who were less lucky, their bodies were already lying on the streets. Some people were even directly sunk into the sea and fed to sharks, and even their bodies could not be found.
But I am a well-known music king in the three places across the Taiwan Strait!
“When the prodigal son turns back, is he talking about me?”
Qi Qin thought of his sister. If it weren't for her, maybe he would be dead like his original companions.
The gratitude to his sister turned into tears at this moment, but Qi Qin held back and did not let the tears fall.
This song is so immersive! It’s so relatable!
However, at this time, the song has also entered its climax. The low melody in the front has gradually become passionate and high-pitched, and richer emotions are generally coming.
“Time passes day by day, and sweat flows drop by drop. One day, when we are all old, we will take a certain son to play with, take a certain son to play with, take a certain son to play with, the prodigal son will turn around!” Zhang Wei's singing finally came to an end.
"One day, when we are all old, we will take a certain son to have fun with us." It means that one day, when we are all old, we will take our wives and children together. This lyric expresses the former prodigal son's longing for family and longing for future life. However, when it falls into Qi Qin's ears, it has a different meaning.
Especially when Zhang Wei repeated the phrase "bring someone to make fun of you", the image of another person appeared inexplicably in his mind. That was not his current girlfriend, but the one he had with him. After dating for more than ten years, they were separated and reunited many times, but she was still the same person who ended up breaking up.
One of them is talented and the other is charming. They are recognized as golden boys and girls in the entertainment industry, talented men and beautiful women.
Back then he wrote the song "About Winter" for her, which was sung all over the country and became popular all over China.
The two have gone through ups and downs for more than ten years, during which they were separated and reunited. Their parents even met each other and purchased a wedding house together. They were only one wedding away, and this love was finally realized. .
But in the end, the two separated. She quit the entertainment industry completely and ran to Canada on the other side of the world to live a secluded life just to avoid him.
Since we can’t be together, let’s never see each other again!
Recalling this point, a heartbreaking pain filled his heart. The warm time they once spent together has now become an unbearable weight in his heart, just like the fallen leaves in the autumn wind. Even though there is still a bit of summer warmth, what is shown is irreversible decay.
Loss, regret, self-blame, confusion, all kinds of painful emotions mixed together and turned into a small saw, inadvertently sawing off his soul bit by bit. The wound was not big. But it makes people feel heartbroken. When the pain is over, only regret is left in the end.
This feeling is like being trapped in an endless cycle. Every time you want to escape, you are pulled back by deeper regret, letting you continue to feel the torture and letting you know that there will never be any more. opportunity to make up for this regret.
That's the way people are, they don't know how to cherish something until it's completely lost.
It was also at this moment that tears finally burst out of my eyes uncontrollably.
One minute ago, these tears were just gratitude to my sister. Then, these tears turned into longing for my former lover. When the painful emotions accumulated and finally separated the soul, the regret The tears could no longer be controlled.
At this moment, the tears were like broken pearls, constantly pouring out of the eyes, sliding slowly along the cheeks, and finally dripped on the skirt of the clothes, blooming into sad water splashes. .
He cried uncontrollably. It was low and suppressed at first, and gradually turned into uncontrollable crying. Even the people around him could feel a sense of sadness and sadness. despair.
The camera also gave Qi Qin a big close-up at this time. Seeing Qi Tianwang crying like this, everyone in the audience and in front of the TV were shocked.
I have seen people cry when they were moved, but this was the first time I saw them cry like this.
At least Teacher Wang Feng didn’t cry so miserably before! Not so sad!
On the stage, Zhang Wei looked at Teacher Qi Qin with surprise in his heart.
“Another singer cried. But this crying is too exaggerated, isn’t it? Is this touching some point of tears?”
(End of this chapter)