Entertaining Children

   Chapter 1287 Alternative Performance

  Nicky Thompson did not tell Xiao Yao to go to the casino to find him. After entering the casino, he went around inside and found Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis sitting at a blackjack table.

   "Won or lose?" Nicky Thompson quietly walked over, suddenly sat next to Xiao Yao, turned his head and asked him.

  Xiao Yao didn't expect Nicky Thompson to appear suddenly, but after all, he had told him his location on the phone before, and he was not too surprised at her appearance. Xiao Yao's surprised expression was fleeting, and he smiled and replied, "I won a little bit."

  "Are you coming to play too? Let me borrow a little?" Xiao Yao played with the stack of chips in front of him, and continued smiling.

"No!" Xiao Yao's surprised expression appeared too short and he recovered too quickly. He didn't even ask "Why are you here?" Nicky Thompson turned his head a little uncomfortably, took out a pile of cash and threw it away. He went to the croupier and said, "Change your chips!"

   "Two thousand dollars!" The croupier took up the cash and counted it, reported the number, put away the cash, took out two thousand chips and pushed it to Nicky Thompson.

Two thousand yuan is not too much for Nicky Thompson, but Nicky Thompson is not here to gamble. She came to see Xiao Yao betting. It seemed too obvious to sit next to him, so she changed it. Chips, just place a small bet and watch while playing.

  Nicky Thompson's attention was mostly on Xiao Yao, but after watching for a while, she found that she could not see why Xiao Yao liked to be in the casino so much.

  First of all, from the perspective of winning or losing, Xiao Yao has won and lost. Although overall there are more wins, but in her opinion, it is just a little bit better for luck, and she can't see the fun of this kind of result at all.

  Secondly, although Xiao Yao wins less and loses more, Xiao Yao's bet amount is not large. Xiao Yao's bet amount is only a few thousand yuan each, and there is almost no tens of thousands. Of course, a bet of a few thousand yuan is already a lot for ordinary people, but compared to Xiao Yao's level of celebrity net worth, it is not too much in any case.

  Nicky Thompson knew that Xiao Yao was not at the casino for the first time. In the past half month, he went to the casino almost every day. In such a situation, she didn't feel much stimulation after seeing it for a long time. She really couldn't figure out how Xiao Yao kept this enthusiasm for more than half a month.

  Almost two hours later, Xiao Yao's cell phone rang. Xiao Yao took out his mobile phone and glanced at it, then pressed it off. After this round, Xiao Yao said to Tim Haggis: "I should go. Do you want to continue playing?"

   Xiao Yao wants to attend the awards ceremony and walks on the red carpet, so he needs to prepare in advance. The phone rang just now was the alarm Xiao Yao set up for fear of delay. The phone alarm rang, which also meant that it was almost time for him to change his clothes and style, and prepare for the red carpet show.

  Tim Haggis's bodyguard for Xiao Yao is a help among friends, not a real hired bodyguard. Last night wasn't actually a formal work place. Tim Haggis said he was a bodyguard, but he actually went as a friend of Xiao Yao, otherwise he wouldn't be able to leave early. Today’s award ceremony is a formal public occasion, and Xiao Yao has no plans to let Tim Haggis continue to be a bodyguard. Tim Haggis is a regular audience tonight, so there is no need to leave now.

"I'm leaving too." Tim Haggis said, "I asked my friend for help yesterday. I asked about the situation. When it's over, it's almost time for the audience to enter the awards ceremony. I will go straight in. Auditorium."

  Nicky Thompson was next to him, and Tim Haggis didn’t say clearly about the investigation of Hopson’s food poisoning. He believed Xiao Yao should be able to understand.

   "Okay!" As expected, Xiao Yao nodded, "After the awards ceremony is over, let's go back to the Caesars Palace Hotel bye!"

   "What about you?" Xiao Yao turned to ask Nicky Thompson, "Are you leaving now?"

   "Let's go!" Nicky Thompson threw the more than 1,000 chips left in front of him to the croupier at the gambling table, "Give you it!"

   "Thank you!" The croupier smiled and thanked him, and put away the chips.

   "Thank you, give me a chip box!" Xiao Yao pointed to the chips in front of him and said to the dealer.

There are more than 400,000 chips in front of him. Not to mention that the croupier at this gaming table may not have enough cash. Xiao Yao himself does not need that much cash. It needs to be transferred. If you want to transfer money, you need to go to a special chip exchange office. of. There are dozens of chips in front of Xiao Yao with more than 400,000 chips, and two hands are not necessarily enough. Therefore, if you ask the croupier for a box with chips, the croupier will also provide the gamblers who need it.

  Nicky Thompson and Tim Haggis waited for Xiao Yao for a while, and after Xiao Yao installed all the chips, they followed him to the chip exchange office.

  "How many have you won in total?" On the way to the chip exchange office, Nicky Thompson asked Xiao Yao curiously.

   "More than two hundred thousand!" Xiao Yao said.

   "Huh? So many?" Nicky Thompson asked a little surprised, "I don't think you have always won!"

   "Heh!" Xiao Yao smiled.

   "I don't look like a gambler when I see you, why do you go to the casino every day after you come to LV?" Nicky Thompson said, "Is your luck so good every day and you win so much every day?"

   "I said, I will tell you the reason, but not now!" Xiao Yao smiled.

   "Cut~" Nicky Thompson curled his lips. Although she just said a guess, she did not believe that Xiao Yao's luck was so good every day and that he could win money in the casino every day.

  After redeeming the chips, Tim Haggis separated from the two and left the hotel alone. Xiao Yao and Nicky Thompson continued to travel for a while, and they separated after the area rented by the bulletin board for the awards ceremony, and went to their respective dressing rooms under the leadership of the staff.

  The next period of time is to change clothes and make-up for styling, and then wait for the red carpet show to start.

  Because Xiao Yao joined temporarily, the organizer of this award ceremony, "Bulletin Board" magazine, even had no time to promote Xiao Yao's participation in this award ceremony. At the beginning of the red carpet show, when Xiao Yao walked onto the red carpet, there was a burst of discussion among the reporters and fans who were watching.

   Even if the organizer has no time to update the lineup of celebrity guests to the media and the public, Taiben, the host of the internal and external venues, will definitely do it. Under the introduction of the outfield host, the media reporters and the audience will not know who Xiao Yao is. What they are talking about is that Xiao Yao, a Chinese star who has not been in the United States for more than a year and has not been nominated for this year’s award Why did it suddenly appear in this year's awards ceremony guest list.

  Billboard awards ceremony red carpet show, there is also an interview session with the outfield host. During the interview, Xiao Yao explained his identity as a guest performer under the guidance of the host’s questions, and revealed that he would perform an original new song at the awards ceremony. As a result, many people think that Xiao Yao wants to use the award ceremony as the stage for the debut of the new song to be released, and is taking this opportunity to promote the new song. Since Xiao Yao has never done this before, some people even speculate whether Xiao Yao is ready to seriously develop his own music market in North America.

  Of course, the outfield host did not ask these two questions, nor did Xiao Yao say, those people are just speculations, and they are temporarily unsure.

  After the red carpet show, Xiao Yao entered the venue and was led by the staff to his seat. Since he is not a nominee, Xiao Yao's seat is in the guest area. Including Cordy Scott and Nicky Thompson, the stars Xiao Yao met last night who came to the rehearsal were nominated. The seats are in a different area from him. The organizers may have considered last night’s The thing, including the seat of the group BTBS who was the guest of the ceremony, was arranged far away from him. Xiao Yao looked around, and the stars around him didn't even know anyone.

  Music awards ceremony, the nominees are naturally music stars, but in the part of the guests, they are not necessarily music stars. At this awards ceremony, the Korean BTBS group among the guests was actually a minority, but most of them were stars from other industries.

  The so-called other industry stars are mainly actors and sports stars. And Xiao Yao's popularity in the United States does not entirely come from his music works. He has made several sensational cases in the United States. Some of his films have been screened in the United States and participated in the American All-Star Masters. In addition to music circles and fashion circles, there are many people in the film and sports circles who know Xiao Yao and are interested in him.

   Xiao Yao is not the last star to walk on the red carpet. At this time, the red carpet show is still going on, the awards ceremony has not yet started, and the venue is a relatively free time. It’s not easy for everyone to walk around at will. It’s okay to talk and chat with the next door. Several guests sitting next to Xiao Yao took the initiative to greet Xiao Yao and start a conversation.

  Although Xiao Yao doesn't like to participate in the award ceremony, he has actually participated in quite a few. At the age of seventeen, he participated in the American Oscars as a guest performer. Xiao Yao, who is now twenty-four years old, came to the awards ceremony of the Billboard Music Awards. Of course, he was not ashamed. Xiao Yao's language is not problematic, and he is not psychologically disturbed. Naturally, he is polite and decent, with humor and humor, which left a very good impression on the people next to him.

Several BTBS people who walked on the red carpet in front of Xiao Yao had already entered at this time. Although there was a distance from Xiao Yao's seat, they still paid attention to Xiao Yao's side unconsciously. Seeing Xiao Yao talking happily with the American celebrities next to him, of course, the hearts of the few people were even more uncomfortable.

  After a period of time, the red carpet show is over, and the awards ceremony in the venue also begins.

  Generally speaking, the award ceremony for which Xiao Yao is nominated may not necessarily go, and the award ceremony for which he is not nominated is definitely not. However, since this time is here, even if there is no expectation of winning, Xiao Yao will still devote himself to it with a better mentality. Regardless of whether the camera lens on the scene is shaken or not, laugh when sitting in the seat, and when others win prizes, they should applaud and applaud. Even others stand up from their seats and cheer on the stage just like the people next to them during the performance Screaming, performance can be said to be blameless.

  Almost halfway through the award ceremony, the staff quietly ran over to inform Xiao Yao to prepare for the performance, and Xiao Yao immediately got up and went to the backstage with the staff to make preparations.

  Prepare in the middle of the award ceremony, which means that Xiao Yao’s performance was arranged by the organizer in the second half of the award ceremony. Relatively speaking, it shows that the organizer still values ​​Xiao Yao's performance. And Xiao Yao's performance did not disappoint the organizers.

  After awarding an award for the best alternative song of the year, the host introduced the next guest performer on stage. When the host finally said the name of Young Shaw, Cordy Scott and Nicky Thompson in the nominees area took the lead and stood up from their seats, applauded and cheered. With these two people taking the lead, there was a lot of applause.

An electronic curtain wall in the front of the stage slowly rises. The audience and celebrity guests saw Xiao Yao dressed casually dressed in dark T-shirts and jeans, and carrying a wood-colored acoustic guitar on his back, standing behind the microphone stand. , The applause at the scene was a bit louder.

Next, the scene scanned the camera lens of the stage, and the big screen showed that there was a square carpet on the stage behind the microphone stand in front. Xiao Yao didn't wear shoes and socks, just bare feet. Step on the carpet.

   "Ha~ This guy is barefoot!" Someone laughed.

   "This guy actually has tricks?" Cordy Scott was also surprised, "He didn't have this design for last night's performance. Could it be that he came up with a new idea during rehearsal today?"

   "No," Nicky Thompson shook his head, "As far as I know, he has been in the casino this afternoon, and there is no dress rehearsal at all. He may have thought of it temporarily before going on stage!"

This picture did not last long on the big screen. Soon the shot was given to Xiao Yao's upper body, but that was enough for the audience and celebrity guests to see Xiao Yao's bare feet clearly, and it also made the applause and cheers on the scene louder. It's a bit.

   "Unconventional? Grandma?" Although the applause and cheers were a bit louder, it was not that no one thought of Xiao Yao's barefoot that way, but most of those who thought this way were just before Xiao Yao's performance began. When Xiao Yao's performance began, many people who thought this way changed their minds.

Although Xiao Yao sang a new song that has not been released yet, judging from the melody and rhythm of the whole song and the state of Xiao Yao during the performance, Xiao Yao, who is dressed casually and barefoot, is very relevant to this performance. Take it.

The seemingly changing rhythm of the song, the casual strumming, the meaningless humming of the chorus, and Xiao Yao's shaking his head while performing, occasionally showing a little cute and mean smile, all showing Xiao Haruka is free and casual when performing this song. In the eyes of many people, Xiao Yao’s performance of this song gave them an unfettered and casual feeling. It is the same feeling when performing barefoot without shoes and socks on the stage, and it should be.

  In general, Xiao Yao’s performance was a rather different and exciting performance, and the songs sounded very good. Since the previous award was the Best Alternative Song of the Year Award, some people even think that Xiao Yao’s song can directly be nominated for the Best Alternative Song of the Year Award next year.

   Therefore, when Xiao Yao’s performance ended and bowed to the audience, many star guests and audience cheered and stood up from their seats. It was not surprising that there was huge applause and cheers.

  (End of this chapter)