Chapter 210 Azalea
As soon as the eldest brother said to refund the money, the others also followed suit.
The person in charge couldn't control himself after seeing the scene, and without saying anything else, he turned around and muttered a few words to the musicians, and then walked off the stage.
A few young musicians were stunned for a while on the stage, and then they continued to play.
The performance was originally not good, and everyone in the audience was shouting for a refund, so the effect was even worse.
The leading brother couldn't bear it when he saw someone running away, and shouted, "Call the police, call the police quickly."
Seeing that things were getting worse, Zhou Yan pulled Wang Zuxian and walked outside quickly.
He and Wang Zuxian were not allowed to get involved in this matter.
And he also knew that in the end, this matter would only make the audience suffer. Although his performance level was poor, he still performed on stage seriously, and there was nothing he could do about it even if he called the police.
The most the police can do is help negotiate a peace in the middle. If the boss insists on not refunding the money, he cannot force him to refund the money.
Why did the person in charge still let those musicians continue to perform under such circumstances? It was just to make others speechless.
Look, our performances were completed normally, and we have fulfilled our obligations. There is no reason for people to refund tickets.
Maybe, after some time, the person in charge can change the name of the orchestra and organize a concert.
The two walked out of the concert hall, only to see the person in charge just now, who was arguing with two half-year-old boys.
One of the boys grabbed the person in charge’s clothes and said anxiously, “No, our wages must be paid today!”
"What else can I send you for your three melons and two dates? I'll tie them for you tomorrow when I come over."
"No, we have to tie them today."
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The person in charge was about to say something more when he suddenly saw Zhou Yan and Wang Zuxian coming out of the concert hall. He quickly took out two fifty fifties from his bag and threw them on the ground, "Kow this many first, and we will tie the others tomorrow. "
After saying that, he waved his hand and opened the boy's hand, and then he walked quickly towards a black car.
Got in the car, started it, and the man ran away quickly.
The two boys picked up the money from the ground and wanted to chase it again, but found that they could no longer catch up.
Watching the car speeding away, the boy who had been silent said, "Haining, what should we do now? Will Boss Cui come tomorrow?"
Li Haining spat on the ground. , "Bah, this grandson must have run away."
"Ah, what should we do? We still have fifty yuan."
"I know his house. Let's clean it up later. Let's go to his house to block him."
Hearing that he was going to Boss Cui's house to block people, Xia Guobao was a little frightened. "Are you going tonight? Why don't you wait until tomorrow?" Well, if he doesn't come tomorrow, let's block him again."
"Maybe he will run away tomorrow."
"How about... let's call the police."
"Why do you report to the police? Can they take care of your matter?"
Zhou Yan stood not far away and listened for a while, then walked over and asked, "Two children, what happened?"
Li Haining glanced at Zhou Yan warily, "It has nothing to do with you."
Zhou Yan was not angry and continued to say with a smile, "I just listened for a while. Does that person owe you a salary?"
Li Haining did not speak, Xia Guobao nodded and replied, "Yeah , that person is Boss Cui, we are all members of his choir, and we agreed to sing for 20 yuan a time, and we sang with Li Haining for five times, for a total of 100 yuan, and he was still short of 50 yuan for each of us. "< br>
“Can you two sing?”
Xia Guobao scratched his head in embarrassment, "I can't sing well, Li Haining is very good."
Zhou Yan glanced at Li Haining and asked again, "It's everyone in your choir who owes something." "What about the salary situation?"
Xia Guobao shook his head, "No, in the choir, Haining and I are the only ones who are paid, the others..."
Before he finished speaking, Li Haining interrupted him, "Why are you talking to him so much? Let's go."
After that, Li Haining pulled Xia Guobao to leave.
Zhou Yan said, "Don't you want the fifty yuan back?"
Hearing this, Li Haining stopped, turned his head, and looked at Zhou Yan with suspicion. , "Can you help us get it back?"
Zhou Yan shrugged, "Maybe, at least for you, there is one more possibility, isn't it?"
Li Haining bit his tongue. He thought for a moment and asked, "What do you want?"
Zhou Yan smiled secretly. This child is really vigilant. Everyone seems to want to lie to him.
The reason why Zhou Yan asked about this matter was firstly because he didn't want the two children to be deceived, and secondly because he was very interested in Li Haining.
Li Haining is about thirteen or fourteen years old, and he is quite handsome, and his temperament is very consistent with the Lin Ai written by Zhou Yan in the script, so after hearing that Li Ai and the others were in the chorus, he More interested.
Unexpectedly, Boss Cui not only started a band, but also a children's choir.
Looking at Li Haining's wary eyes, Zhou Yan said, "I want to hear you sing a song to me."
Li Haining and Xia Guobao were stunned for a moment. They did not expect Zhou Yan to actually will make such a request.
Who is this guy, helping them just to listen to singing?
Li Haining looked at Zhou Yan up and down. He always felt that the man and woman in front of him were strange. Who was wearing sunglasses and a hat at night? Can you really see the road clearly this way?
But he really wanted to recover his fifty yuan, and he also knew that it would be difficult for him and Xia Guobao. Apart from anything else, it would only take a car to get to Boss Cui's house from here. It takes a long time, and it's getting late now, so it's not easy to get there by car.
"What can you do?"
"Then you have to tell me, what is the name of this boss Cui and where does he live."
"I don't know what his name is. We usually call him Boss Cui. His family lives in Unit 201, Building 7, Shi Fuli Campus, Yaoyuan Road. It's just a rented house."
Zhou Yan said unexpectedly. , "You don't even know his name, how do you know the specific address of his home?"
"Don't worry about it, I know it anyway."
Zhou Yan nodded, "As long as he If you really live there, I can help you find him, but you have to sing a song to me first."
"Sing it now?"
"Okay."
"Okay."
It's just a song anyway, so they won't lose anything.
“What do you want to listen to?”
“Anyone is fine, just sing what you are good at.”
Li Haining nodded and said to Xia Guobao, "Let's sing "Azalea"."
"Okay."
Then the two children began to brew. Looking at the two of them, Zhou Yan felt that they His temperament has changed, especially Li Haining, who is no longer as sharp as before, and is full of confidence and calmness.
“At midnight, I look forward to the dawn
In the twelfth lunar month of winter, I look forward to the spring breeze
..."
As soon as they spoke, Zhou Yan was stunned.
Zhou Yan originally thought that as long as Li Haining could sing well, he would consider letting him audition for "The Spring of the Cowherd Class" 》.
But what I didn’t expect was that Li Haining sang so well.
Although it was a duet between two people, Zhou Yan’s ears were naturally able to separate their voices.
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Both Li Haining and Xia Guobao have poor skills, but Li Haining has a particularly good foundation, and his timbre has reached a level that surprised Zhou Yan. The key is that Li Haining's intonation is very good, which is a manifestation of absolute talent.
He has a talent that is difficult for ordinary children to match. With such a foundation, with a little training, he can be much better than others.
Wang Zuxian was also very surprised. She could not tell how talented Li Haining was. She felt that the voices of these two children were so beautiful and contagious.
She also guessed Zhou Yan's thoughts at this moment. Zhou Yan must have taken a liking to these two children and wanted them to participate in "Spring of the Cowherd Class". Zhou Yan suppressed the surprise in his heart and listened quietly to the two of them singing the entire song "Azalea".
After they finished singing, Zhou Yan nodded and said, "It's okay, it's worth twenty yuan."
Li Haining stared at Zhou Yan, "We have finished singing, it's your turn to fulfill your promise."
Zhou Yan smiled, took out a pen and paper from his pocket, and wrote down a list of addresses and phone numbers, "Tomorrow afternoon, go to this address to get your money. Just ask Boss Zhou when you get there. If If I don’t see you tomorrow afternoon, I’ll treat the money as if you gave it up voluntarily.”
Li Haining took the note and looked at it, and saw that the address above was not very far from their place. Then he nodded and said, "We will go. If you lie to us, I will never be done with you."
"See you tomorrow."
After saying goodbye, Zhou Yan took Wang Zuxian away.
On the way back, Wang Zuxian asked Zhou Yan, "Do you want to help them find that Boss Cui?"
Zhou Yan nodded, "Well, I have promised them."
"I thought you would make up for their one hundred yuan yourself."
For Zhou Yan, it is the easiest thing for him to make up the one hundred yuan himself, because this hundred yuan To him, it was a drop in the bucket, but it was a very troublesome thing to help Boss Cui ask for salary.
Zhou Yan shook his head, "My money is also money. This boss Cui owes money, of course I don't want to pay him."
Wang Zuxian smiled, she knew that Zhou Yan actually still wanted to seek justice for the children. .
Although it is easier to make up the money yourself, it allows the bad guys to get away with it.
......
After returning, Zhou Yan called Huo Siqi and briefly told him about the matter.
After listening, Huo Siqi agreed very readily, "No problem, I have an acquaintance in Chaoyang, I will ask someone to find this boss Cui."
Huo Siqi is very efficient, Zhou Yan will give him a call at 8:30 He called and received a call from Huo Siqi at ten o'clock, saying that someone had been invited in.
Boss Cui insisted at first that he didn’t know anything, but he soon confessed honestly.
“This guy is a repeat offender. He owes money not only to these two children, but also to many other musicians. The most outrageous thing is that he has two or three children’s choirs under his command, and they are very big. Some children don’t spend money.”
“No money?”
"Well, he lied to the parents of those children and said that he could send their children to perform on the big stage and hope to win prizes. Not only did he not spend any money, he even collected money from some parents."
Zhou Yan I also suddenly understood why Xia Guobao said that only he and Li Haining were paid, but I dare not believe that other children were deceived in this way.
This Boss Cui has really grasped the psychology of parents of children. Many wealthy parents are naturally willing to spend money when they hear that their children have musical talent and can perform in concert halls.
Then Boss Cui went to the concert hall to rent a venue and sell tickets.
If the tickets sell well, it’s an extra income. If they don’t sell well, it doesn’t matter. The parents have already given money anyway, so he won’t lose.
As for why Li Haining and Xia Guobao were given salaries, it's not very clear.
“Brother Siqi, thank you very much for this.”
“You’re welcome, it’s our responsibility to punish evil and promote good.”
Zhou Yan sighed slightly Tone, punishing evil and promoting good, also requires capital.
If Li Haining and the others hadn't met him today, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to get the money back. I have to say that this boss Cui is really a miser. He makes so much money, and even this hundred yuan has to be cheated.
When Zhou Yan hung up the phone, Wang Zuxian asked from the side, "Has it been solved?"
"Well, Boss Cui has been arrested and the facts have been clearly explained."
" It's so fast." Wang Zuxian sighed, and then regretted, "Unfortunately, the experience of attending the concert tonight was very bad."
Zhou Yan touched her head, "It doesn't matter, wait until next time. If there is a chance, I will take you to listen to some high-level ones. And if it hadn’t been for tonight, I wouldn’t have met Li Haining and the others.”
Wang Zuxian leaned into Zhou Yan’s arms and asked, “ Are you going to let these two children play "Spring of the Cowherd Class"?
"Whether I will use them or not depends on tomorrow's interview. Li Haining is very talented, but I don't know much about him yet."
"I would like to see this choir formed. , when I read the script, I really wanted to hear the choir singing. "
"You will see it."
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The next afternoon, Zhou Yan went. Went to the studio and waited for Li Haining and others to pass by.
But when I got off work at 5:30, no one was there.
Just when he was about to leave, the phone on the table rang. It was Xiao Li at the front desk.
“Boss, there are two children who want to see you.”
Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows, “Well, bring them here.”
……
Li Haining and Xia Guobao actually arrived very early, but they kept wandering outside and didn't dare to go in because they didn't know if it would be a trap.
After observing outside for more than two hours, the two of them plucked up the courage to walk in.
Looking at the big sister at the front desk making a phone call, both of them felt their hearts in their throats. Li Haining was worried that the address was fake at all and that the person was not here at all.
Maybe the phone hangs up and this sister will kick them out.
After the phone call, Xiao Li said to Li Haining and others, "Two children, come with me."
Li Haining and Xia Guo looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief, then followed Xiao Li to the second floor and went to Zhou Yan's office.
“Boss, we’re here.”
Zhou Yan nodded, “Well, go ahead and do your work.”
After Xiao Li left, Zhou Yan stood in front of The two people at the door waved, "Come in."
Li Haining and the others dared to go in only after hearing Zhou Yan's greeting.
"Sit down." Zhou Yan pointed to the sofa and motioned for them to sit down, and then gave them two more envelopes, "Here are your wages."
Li Haining took the envelope, opened it eagerly, and saw There was a brand new fifty yuan note inside, and his face was full of surprise.
“Have you really gone to see Boss Cui?”
“Let’s put aside Boss Cui’s matters for now. I still have some things I want to ask you.”
Li Haining asked in confusion, "What happened?"
"Today is not the weekend. If you show up here at this hour, aren't you already not in school?"
"Didn't you ask us to come in the afternoon?"
"If you are in school , I should refuse."
Li Haining lowered his head and said, "I don't want to answer this question."
Zhou Yan stood up and poured a glass of water for each of them, "You don't have to resist. , I don’t have any ill intentions, I also want to hire you for some work, but I must know your situation, and I have to tell you that the salary will definitely be higher if you work here than Boss Cui.”
Hearing this, Li Haining raised his head, "What kind of work?"
"You have to answer my question first."
Li Haining gritted his teeth and said, "We are still in school. ”
“So you guys skipped school?”
“There are no teachers in the school during this time.”
Zhou Yan asked doubtfully, "Which school of yours is on holiday at this time?"
"Chunsheng Middle School."
Zhou Yan had never heard of this school, but when he saw the expressions of Li Haining and Xia Guobao, he was surprised. It doesn't seem like a lie. But the reason why the school is closed because there are no teachers seems outrageous no matter how you hear it.
(End of this chapter)