Entertaining Children

   Chapter 632 Ready

   "Then what if we ask for harmony?" Samien asked suddenly in Chinese.

  "I said I sang a song in Chinese..." Xiao Yao replied, suddenly realizing that it was wrong, and exclaimed in Chinese, "Damn! Do you speak Chinese?"

"We will all!" Dean patted Xiao Yao and said in Chinese with a smile, "We have all taken Chinese courses after entering the university. Are we surprised or surprised?" Obviously they are not just studying in class. I must have visited Huaxia's Chinese website, and even known Huaxia's popular online language.

   "You cows!" Xiao Yao said with a thumbs up. Regardless of the world, for foreigners, Chinese is definitely one of the most difficult languages ​​to learn.

  "Sami's Chinese is the best!" Mike pointed to Samin and said, "We all started learning Chinese in the first year of college. She entered the university a year earlier than us, and learned a year longer than us."

   "Start studying as soon as you enter university?" Xiao Yao said, "That is to say, you were able to say it during the summer vacation last year. Why didn't you hear it when you were in the United States last summer?

"That time we just met, three police officers came to arrest Tiana, and then all your attention was on her. Do you still care if I can speak Chinese?" Samin said. Pouting.

   "Yes!" Thinking of what happened in the summer vacation last year, Xiao Yao scratched his hair with emotion.

  "You haven't answered my question yet." Samien asked again, still in Chinese.

Xiao Yao didn't care about her sentence-breaking problem, and said with a smile, "Of course there is no problem. Guests like you are hard to find, but there are many songs I can sing. I just need to change to a song with the harmony of the band members. Of course, it’s still a Chinese song, anyway you can speak Chinese."

The song Xiao Yao originally planned to sing in the second round of the solo stage of the "Singer" final is the song "Broad Sea and Sky" by the "Xin Orchestra" in the previous life. Although it is a rock song, the soundtrack of the first verse is very simple. The sound of the acoustic guitar is accompanied by other instruments such as drums in the chorus. Of course there was nothing wrong with Xiao Yao playing alone, but since he brought the "Immortals" killer with him, it would have been a bit inappropriate to let them stand for a long time. Now that Samin said he wanted to sing harmony, Xiao Yao decided to change to a song that better reflected the band as a whole.

  Everyone discussed here, and they decided to participate in the "Singer" finals. Just in time, Ye Jiaying came up to inform that lunch was ready, and asked everyone to go down to eat. Xiao Yao took the four of them and left his room and went downstairs to the restaurant.

  This meal, Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying also fully demonstrated the hospitality and enthusiasm of Chinese people. For a meal for seven people, a dozen dishes were placed on the table. Taking into account that several young people are from the United States, this dish is still a mix of Chinese and Western dishes, including traditional Chinese food, as well as salads, pasta, steak, mashed potatoes and other foods commonly found in the West.

During the dinner, Ye Jiaying was obviously more enthusiastic to Samien, a beautiful girl who praised her for her beauty. Not only did she chat more in the family, but also greeted her to eat food and helped her pick dishes more often than with the three boys. So many, Xiao Siqi couldn't help but laugh and joked in Chinese: "Your son now has a girlfriend, don't you still miss this American daughter-in-law?"

What Xiao Siqi said was that when they watched the live broadcast of "Immortals" on Oscars on TV, after the camera scanned Samien, Ye Jiaying once marveled at the beauty of this girl, and then asked Xiao Siqi and Xiaoyao with an open mind. Will it be her when he brings a foreign girlfriend back?

   "Huh?" Hearing Xiao Siqi's words, the three boys looked over in surprise, Samien's expression was very embarrassed, and he immediately looked at Xiao Yao with complicated eyes.

   "Dad, they can all understand Chinese!" Xiao Yao said with a bitter smile, "Also, it is very impolite to speak a language that they don't understand in front of foreign friends."

   "Oh, let me go, why is this so illogical?" Xiao Yao then laughed at himself.

  "This is just a joke!" Xiao Siqi smiled awkwardly, and spoke to several people in English, and gave Xiao Yao a casual look.

  Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying both speak very good English. Although they are not as good as Xiao Yao, they still have no problems with ordinary conversations. So since meeting several members of the "Immortals" band, they have always communicated in English. Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying didn't expect these young Americans to understand Chinese. Xiao Yao never mentioned it to them before.

"I didn't teach them Chinese when I was in the United States. They only learned it after college, and I just knew it." Xiao Yao understood the meaning of Xiao Siqi's glaring at him, and said, "I'm glad I didn't use Chinese after meeting. Said bad things about them."

   "Bad thing? What can you say bad about us?" Dean asked curiously.

   "You don't want to know, this guy is venomous, few people can stand it!" Xiao Siqi switched back to English and changed the subject, "How long will you stay in China this time? Do you have plans to go where to play?"

"About half a month," Dean replied, "We have no plans, listen to Yang's arrangements. But we don't seem to have much time and opportunities to play. He said that he would take us to Shanghai for rehearsals and then to a TV show. Go against you."

   "TV show? "Singer"? You want to be his guest? Do you want to sing with him?" Ye Jiaying heard it and immediately asked a series of questions.

   "We are guests, but we are just musicians and harmony, he is a single vocal..." Dean replied.

   "Hey! Dean!" Xiao Yao interrupted, "The two in front of you are our opponents. You shouldn't tell your opponents about my plan!"

   "Both of them? You just said that your father is your opponent, and that the contestants on that show are very professional singers, and your mother is an actor." Dean curiously asked.

"My mother can also sing, and that program can invite guests to help." Xiao Yao said, "My dad is a contestant, and my mom is my dad's guest. He is there to help him. Just like you are helping him. Same as mine!"

"Different?" Xiao Siqi smiled and looked at Xiao Yao. "You should have at least one other guest?" The song "Immortals" performed at the Oscars was in the form of dual vocals. Xiao Siqi thought Xiao Yao at first. Yaohui and Dean sang together, but he had already heard from Dean's solo vocalist that "Immortals" was not Xiao Yao's guest to sing, but was going to be reserved for the second round of solo singing.

   "There is another guest?" The four people from "Immortals" all looked at Xiao Yao.

"Yes," Xiao Yao nodded and admitted, "There are two rounds in this final. In the first round, seven contestants each find a guest to sing. The audience voted to eliminate one contestant, and the remaining six singers entered the second round. Sing solo and combine the results of the two rounds of voting to determine the final ranking. You are my killer, of course I will stay in the second round later. You don't think I can't even pass the first round, do you?"

It is not unreasonable for Xiao Yao to be so confident. Even because of his age, "Singer" is unlikely to give him the championship, but as the most topical contestant on the "Singer" program, and no matter how he sings, almost every performance of his is the best in the current period. There are interesting performances. He doesn't believe that the program group will prevent him from making the second round.

  There are enough rooms in Xiao’s villa, and because he will fly to Shencheng tomorrow, Xiao Yao doesn’t bother to book a hotel for them. After discussing with Ye Jiaying, they arranged four friends to stay in their own home for one night. After lunch, Xiao Yao wanted to let the four of them rest and adjust the jet lag. But all four of them said that they slept well on the plane and were in good spirits. They didn't need to take a break to adjust the jet lag. They were enthusiastic about Xiao Yao taking them out to play.

  Although the world does not have the famous verse of the predecessor Taizu, “If you are not a good man without the Great Wall”, the “Great Wall” is still one of the miraculous sights that foreigners have most impressed with China. Now that he is in Yanjing, Xiao Yao took four of them to climb the Great Wall.

  The temperature in early July was already quite high. It happened to be a cloudless day again. In the afternoon, climbing the Great Wall under the scorching sun all at once destroyed the physical strength, energy and enthusiasm of the four of them. When they returned to Xiao's house, several people almost tried to eat dinner, took a shower, and then fell directly on the bed. As for the previously discussed activities such as asking Xiao Yao to take photos of them in the small studio of Xiao Yao's home, and playing musical instruments in the recording studio in the basement, all four of them were thrown to the country of Java.

  The next day, Xiao Yao flew to Shencheng with the four of them. Xiao Yao's rented place definitely couldn't fit these four people. Pei Minyi, who had long been informed, had booked the hotel for the four people in advance. After getting off the plane, Xiao Yao sent the four of them to the hotel to place their luggage, and then took them to Yin Xi's studio.

When they visited Xiao Yao’s house yesterday, the four friends were already surprised. But when they saw that Xiao Yao still had such a studio in Shencheng, the four felt that Xiao Yao’s studio and recording studio were not What the hell.

Although Xiao Yao said that this studio is not his, he only owns half the ownership of one of the design studios and the management and use rights of a recording studio, but when he walked in, the front desk lady and the dozen or so designers in the office area shouted They can understand the word "Mr. Xiao" in the design studio, and the big office door on the second floor of the design studio is also posted with the nameplate of "Design Director" in Chinese and English.

   "No wonder Keith has been refused several invitations for Young to go to the United States for development. If I had such a place in China, I wouldn't want to go anywhere." Dean couldn't help muttering.

   Xiao Yao did not take them to the recording studio, but took them to the design studio first, not just to show off. When they were on the Oscar stage for the first time, they were a high school student band, and they were also very matte newcomers. They wore their own clothes to perform to highlight their rustic qualities. Now that they are a star band, it is not appropriate to wear their own clothes when participating in the show.

   And the "Singer" final stage is such a high-profile occasion, "Immortals" such a famous band, how could Xiao Yao miss such a good opportunity to promote his own brand. Xiao Yao brought them here to prepare costumes for them. But this time Xiao Yao didn't plan to do it himself, instead he was going to hand over the work of designing them to the designers in the studio, and naturally he wanted to bring them over for the designers to take a look.

  In the design studio, the members of "Immortals" also unexpectedly met an acquaintance, and that was Rick McCullin who worked here. At the beginning of the rehearsal and competition of the "Rapid Stream" dance troupe, the members of "Immortals" went to see it with Xiao Yao more than once, and knew many people in the dance troupe. The band members are also familiar with this guy who tinkered with Xiao Yao in lighting costumes.

In the words of Huaxia people, they can be regarded as "familiar with each other from home", so the Americans who unexpectedly met on Huaxia land were also very happy. Xiao Yao also took advantage of the situation to design and produce the four-person costumes. It was handed over to Rick.

After visiting the design studio and asking the designers to measure the body data of the four people, Xiao Yao took the four people to the annex building where the recording studio was located. It happened that Hong Xiuyan came to practice in the studio. Xiao Yao gave another introduction to both parties.

  Hong Xiuyan knows about this student band that has been on the Oscar stage, and also knows their relationship with Xiao Yao, and behaves very politely and enthusiastically to them. But the band members didn’t know Hong Soo-yeon, and only after listening to Xiao Yao’s introduction did they realize that the beauty in front of them is a Korean female star who is more famous in Korea and China. In addition, there is also a certain age difference between the two sides. Yes, but the enthusiasm is obviously not as good as Hong Xiuyan to them.

Xiao Yao planned to practice the first round of chorus with Hong Xiuyan before starting to practice with the band members. Therefore, after the band members visited and introduced Hong Xiuyan and the band members, Xiao Yao told Pei Minyi. The four friends with the band went to Shencheng for a stroll and play, and they prepared to practice with Hong Xiuyan as planned.

  After the four band members visited Xiao Yao’s recording studio, they were not interested in going out and asked Xiao Yao to play the scores of the second round of the final solo song. Based on the understanding that they had spent a year together in Calabasas, they knew that Xiao Yao's musical instruments and musical literacy were much higher than those of them. In order not to hinder him, they decided to practice first. Anyway, there are all musical instruments here, and there is not only one practice room, and they will find another practice room to practice musical instruments, and it won’t affect Xiao Yao.

Hearing that the four friends had to practice in advance, Xiao Yao naturally couldn’t ask for it, and immediately wrote them the performance scores of each instrument in that song. Anyway, that song is also a song from a previous life, and the arrangement has already been in him. In his mind, it took only ten minutes to write on the spot, which was not a problem at all for him. Although they changed their minds and did not go out to play, Xiao Yao arranged for Pei Minyi to accompany them. Here, if they have any needs or encounter any problems, Pei Minyi can basically solve them.

  In the next few days, Xiao Yao's life became step by step. Rest in the morning, take the band members to the recording studio in the afternoon, and practice with Hong Xiuyan, while the band goes to another room to practice their own. After a break, I went to the next room to listen to the band’s practice. If you have any questions, you can give me some guidance. In the evening, I took the members of the band out to play and strolled around the international metropolis of Shanghai.

When Xiao Yao participated in the previous episodes of the "Singer" program, he went to school and recorded pure music. He also filmed MVs, recorded other songs, and did a lot of other things. The preparation time for each song was calculated. It will take a week or so. This time, because the two songs are in collaboration with others, the preparation time is longer.

  Although Hong Soo-yeon is a star, she first debuted as a singer. Not only does she sing online, she also has a lot of experience in singing and cooperating with others. "Immortals" only had a few simple harmonies, mainly musical instruments, and then took the action of "the stupid bird flies first". Therefore, the efficiency and progress of the two groups of guests and Xiao Yao's joint training exceeded Xiao Yao's expectations. Originally planned to practice two songs in two weeks, but after a week, Xiao Yao felt that both songs were almost practiced. For the "Singer" finals, it seems to be ready.

  (End of this chapter)