Entertaining Children

  Chapter 674 Cherry Blossom

Xiao Yao felt the gaze of the audience, and knew that Xiao Wei said to himself that he meant to urge him to continue to increase the price, so he shrugged to Xiao Wei on the stage, and then smiled and spread his hands. Pointing to Shi Lingqiang's direction with the palms together, the meaning is obvious: "I won't fight with him!"

   "Oh oh~" As soon as Xiao Yao's action came out, not only Xiao Wei understood it, but also all the guests at the scene. I thought there was a good show to watch tit-for-tat, but Xiao Yao didn't expect Xiao Yao to retreat so soon. But think about it, in terms of popularity, Xiao Yao in the entertainment circle is indeed higher, but in terms of financial resources, it seems that Shi Lingqiang, the son of the richest man in Yanjing, is even better.

  "2.5 million for the second time!" After understanding Xiao Yao's meaning, Xiao Wei also started the second quotation. Although Xiao Yao is not in contention, this price is already the highest price so far tonight and the first price to reach seven figures. Xiao Wei is also very happy.

   However, Shi Lingqiang at this time was not very happy. Although he had achieved his original goal, Xiao Yao was forced to withdraw from the auction. However, Xiao Yao’s expression was not as unwilling or angry as he had expected. Instead, he had a smile on his face and his face was light and breezy. It seemed that he didn’t care about the competition with him at all, making him nothing. Feel the thrill of victory and revenge. At this time, when he heard Xiao Wei quote his price for the second time, Shi Lingqiang felt a little depressed again.

When bidding with Xiao Yao, Shi Lingqiang did not pay much attention to the meaning of the price figures. He originally added five hundred thousand and two hundred thousand to the price of Xiao Yao, but Xiao Yao's offer was directly five hundred and one thousand. He didn’t want to be stingy, so he added a half-hundred-hundred-thousand-a-half integer to Xiao Yao’s two million. But now, as soon as Xiao Yao disappeared, Xiao Wei reported his price twice. , Shi Lingqiang suddenly realized that the numerical meaning of his offer did not seem to be very good.

  "2.5 million, isn't that "two hundred and five"?" Thinking of this, Shi Lingqiang doubted whether Xiao Yao deliberately lured himself to report this number, in order to laugh at himself as "two hundred and five." However, the current situation is that unless there is another person on the scene who makes another offer, he can no longer increase the price of his own offer. Regardless of compliance or compliance, doing so will only remind some people who did not notice the special meaning of this number, and this kind of thing that has already been acquired, I have to add 100,000 yuan, this behavior It is also very "two hundred and five".

  However, the bid between him and Xiao Yao just now was really too fierce. The others on the scene basically entered the theater mode, and no one was interested in the lot that far exceeded its own value. If Xiao Yao looks upset or shows an expression of unwillingness, maybe someone will come out to help him fight, but Xiao Yao smiled and made a "please" action in Shi Lingqiang's direction, which everyone understands. Xiao Yao was very happy to let Shi Lingqiang take the picture, and no one made an offer at this time.

"The third time for 2.5 million!" Xiao Wei took the wooden hammer and knocked it on the base of the table, and said with one hammer, "Congratulations to Mr. Shi Lingqiang, No. 38, for winning Yin Xi for 2.5 million. The Swan diamond necklace donated by the lady."

   "Papa, papa!" Xiao Yao stood up first, making Qiang Qiang applaud with a smile on his face.

"This is the first lot that was sold for more than one million today, and it suddenly reached a high price of 2.5 million. It is very likely to become our bidding king tonight. Let us give Mr. Shi Lingqiang a generous gift to the people in the disaster area. Thank you for applause.” Seeing Xiao Yao standing up and applauding, Xiao Wei raised the microphone and said, and applauded along with him.

  Yin Xi also stood up and applauded with Xiao Yao. Then, many people around stood up, applauding Shi Lingqiang's generosity.

  Shi Lingqiang felt that Xiao Yao’s applause seemed to be a deliberate slap in the face, but he could not be indifferent to the applause of all the guests on the scene, so he could only stand up and wave his hands to the guests on the scene.

"Next, I will invite Miss Yin Xi and Mr. Shi Lingqiang to come up and complete the handover ceremony of this lot." After the applause fell, the guests all sat back on their seats, and Xiao Wei also put the old and new pieces of this lot on stage. The host invited onto the stage.

After completing the handover ceremony, Yin Xi and Shi Lingqiang walked off the stage and returned to their seats. A model took the next lot and walked onto the stage from behind. Lu Ke also took over Xiao Wei’s class and walked to the middle of the stage. Introduce everyone: "The next lot is an acoustic guitar donated by Xiao Yao! I need to explain to you that this guitar is not a guitar of any musical instrument brand, but Xiao Yao made it himself. of."

   "Wow~" There was a sound of exclamation from the audience. All the auctions so far this evening are valuable luxury goods purchased by donors. The things he made are sold for auction. This is the first one for Xiao Yao.

"But!" Lu Ke turned around, reached out and plucked a few times on the guitar strings that the model was holding, and deliberately moved his head close to the speaker of the guitar, listened to a few notes from the guitar, and then continued frowning. Said, "Apart from Xiao Yao, we don't seem to have any professional musicians at the scene. It seems that we can't judge the sound quality of this guitar."

   "Huh?" The guests on the scene showed a hint of doubt, "I doubt the quality of the things that people bring out. Isn't this a public dismantling?"

"So, I have a suggestion, that is to ask Xiao Yao to come on stage to play a piece for us with this guitar, and let us experience the sound of this guitar live." Having said that, Lu Ke looked at Xiao Yao. He said to the guests on the stage, "I believe that the better Xiao Yao's performance on the scene, the higher the transaction price of this guitar will definitely be, don't you think?"

  "Yes!" The guests at the scene understood, they all clapped and shouted with a smile.

  Since Xiao Yao was invited, the organizer didn’t expect to let it go so easily. Xiao Yao refused the organizer's opening performance because of his poor voice. But the poor voice condition only affects singing, not his performance. What if Xiao Yao was asked to play the guitar as the opening performance at the opening? On the one hand, it was a little dry in form. On the other hand, the organizer probably guessed that Xiao Yao didn't want to be a guest performer at the party, so he might still refuse.

  But this time is different. Now that Xiao Yao is on stage to play is for him to show the lot he donated, so that the guitar he donated can be sold at a higher price and make more contributions to the disaster area. Compared with the opening performance, the performance on stage in the middle of the auction is more casual and relaxed in form. Coupled with the booing of the guests, it is unlikely that Xiao Yao would refuse to come.

  Indeed, Xiao Yao was really not as embarrassed in this situation, and he did not intend to refuse. So he smiled and nodded, got up from his seat, and walked onto the stage.

   Seeing that Xiao Yao took the guitar from the model, Xiao Wei, who was temporarily standing next to the stage, also moved an idle chair from the stage and placed it in the middle of the stage.

  Xiao Yao thanked Xiao Wei, sat down in a chair, put the guitar on his lap, stretched out his hand while plucking the strings and tuned the knobs, and began to tune the guitar.

  After a while, Xiao Yao tuned the guitar's tone. He stretched his hand across the six strings of the guitar, nodded, coughed, and adjusted his sitting posture a little.

   "Are you going to play and sing?" Lu Ke heard Xiao Yao's clear cough, and hurriedly sent the microphone to Xiao Yao and asked.

"No," Xiao Yao shook his head, "I have been in the disaster area some time ago and I haven't had a good rest, so my voice is not very good. I am not suitable for singing in recent days. I came on stage to show you this guitar. Singing will also bring some interference, so I’ll just play a tune for everyone."

"Then what tune are you going to play for us?" Lu Ke said, "I know you have a guitar album. Although I like the song "A Beautiful Day" in it, it doesn't seem to fit today's theme. ."

   "Then what do you want to hear? You can order it." Xiao Yao smiled.

   "Let's take the song "City in the Sky". I remember that in that video you played the harmonica to the wounded in the medical tent in the disaster area. Let's listen to the guitar version today." Lu Ke said.

  "Let’s take "City in the Sky"," Xiao Wei also said, "If there was a city in the sky, this kind of misfortune would not happen."

"Wait a minute!" Shi Lingqiang sitting in the audience suddenly said, "I heard that Xiao Yao is a creative genius, and every time he performs in public, he sings original new songs. Although I don't sing today, it is considered a public occasion. Since you have been in the disaster area for so long, you must have deep feelings. How about composing a guitar song for the people in the disaster area now? This can better reflect your feelings for the people in the disaster area."

   "On-site creation? Isn't it too difficult to be human?" Some discussion sounded below, and Lin Xiaoyi stood up directly.

   "Of course, he can also play previously written songs, as long as they have not been released, we have not heard of them, he said they were created on the spot, and no one of us can refute them." Shi Lingqiang turned around and said to Lin Xiaoyi.

   "How long has it been since Brother Bayi released his guitar song album? He doesn't specialize in composing music. Where is the stock, and the guitar song that happens to be related to today's theme?" Lin Xiao said with enthusiasm.

   "Can't you?" Shi Lingqiang turned to look at Xiao Yao on the stage and said, "Great genius!"

  "Sit down!" Sitting Lin Shaohua pulled Lin Xiaoyi who stood up.

   "Dad, that person clearly embarrassed Brother Bayi deliberately." Lin Xiaoyi sat down unwillingly, pouting.

   "I know," Lin Shaohua said with a smile and pointed to Xiao Yao on the stage, "But when does your Bayi brother need you to help him out? Look at his expression for yourself."

   "Of course." Xiao Yao smiled and nodded, "Then I will play a guitar song I wrote for the people in the disaster area."

  This Shi Lingqiang is also a layman for music. If he now asks Xiao Yaoxian to write a song for the people in the disaster area, Xiao Yao might still be a little bit embarrassed. The main reason is that Xiao Yao might not be able to think of the appropriate lyrics for a while. But if it is pure music, this range is much larger. As long as it is not a particularly cheerful and intense song, a little sad or a song that sounds warmer, it can be said that it was created for the people in the disaster area.

  When Xiao Yao released the three music albums before, he did not empty his mind of the classic pure music songs of the past life. Xiao Yao still has a lot of sad or warm songs in his mind. There are also many special guitar songs. Now let alone play one, just play three or five songs that have never appeared in the world and are suitable for today. Songs on the theme of disaster relief at night are not a problem.

   "I will give you a guitar song below, and the song is called "Sakura of Wish"." Xiao Yao said to the microphone that Lu Ke held in front of him.

  Xiao Yao decided to play a song "Wish 桜" by GIN, a former fingerstyle guitarist. During the introduction, Xiao Yao directly changed the name to a more Chinese culture.

   "Is this really there?" Shi Lingqiang was a little surprised, and then began to stab, "Sakura? Give us the Chinese people's song, why use Japanese flowers as the name?"

  "Japanese flower?" Xiao Yao stopped preparing to play, and looked at Shi Lingqiang in amazement, "Who said that cherry blossoms are Japanese flowers? Is it because it is Japan's national flower?"

   "Isn't it?" Shi Lingqiang struck his neck.

"Of course not." Xiao Yao smiled and shook his head. "Cherry blossoms are native to the Himalayas. After being artificially cultivated, they gradually spread to China's Yangtze River Basin, Southwest China, and Baodao. In the ancient Chinese Tang Dynasty, all nations came to China. At that time, Japan admired Chinese culture and sent a large number of envoys from the Tang Dynasty to China to study. The cherry blossoms were also brought back by Japanese worshippers at that time. Although the cherry blossoms are the national flower of Japan, it is also the most famous cherry blossom in Japan, but it does not represent the cherry blossoms. It is exclusive to Japan. In terms of history, the history of planting cherry blossoms in China is much longer than that of Japan. The National University in Jiangcheng City, E Province has a cherry blossom festival every year at the end of March and beginning of April. We don’t have to go to Japan to see the cherry blossoms. It depends."

   "Really?" Shi Lingqiang asked suspiciously.

"Of course, Brother Bayi won the championship in both "Ancient Poetry Conference" and "One Stop to the End". He was called the "Walking Encyclopedia"." Lin Xiaoyi did not stand up this time, but sat on her own. On the seat, he cheered Xiao Yao, and said crisply, "The books he has read and the things he understands must be more than you!"

"Sakura is a symbol of love and hope, we will not talk about love, but hope this point, I think it fits with our theme tonight." Xiao Yao continued, "We are holding this auction party tonight. Don’t you just want to bring hope to the people in the disaster area?"

"I know that when it comes to cherry blossoms, it is indeed more famous in Japan. It represents Japan to a certain extent. But what about it?" Xiao Yao continued, "I have not forgotten history, and I have no intention of being that national collective. Whitewashing. Just say that this Wuyou County earthquake, I was at the scene, I know that the first foreign rescue team to reach the disaster area was the Japanese rescue team. They did a lot of work and saved a lot of people. At least these came to the rescue. Japanese people in Japan are very worthy of our respect and gratitude. Since Japan also has such a group of people who have indeed gone to the disaster area to help us, then I wrote my first song under the name of Japan’s national flower, and I didn’t think there was anything wrong with it. ."

  (End of this chapter)