Hello 1983

  Chapter 816 Apology is definitely not an apology (ask for a monthly ticket)

   Members of the Heart to Heart Art Troupe arrived at the reserved hotel in the bus arranged by the organizer.

  Compared with Los Angeles, the Big Apple is more prosperous, and it is one of the best metropolises in the world.

   "Wow, there are so many tall buildings, look at those two, they are so tall!"

  Looking at the rising skyscrapers outside the car window, the little stool cheered again and again.

  Liu Qingshan also glanced at it, and then his eyelids twitched involuntarily, because the little stool pointed to the two twin buildings.

   "Stay away from those two buildings."

  Liu Qingshan muttered in his mouth, making everyone a little confused.

  When we arrived at the hotel, the reception lunch arranged by the embassy, ​​everyone didn’t drink any alcohol. After flying all morning, they all wanted to go back to the room to rest early, and they had to go to the performance venue for rehearsal in the evening.

  These two cities, one on the east coast and the other on the west coast, are quite far apart.

  Liu Qingshan was fine, he woke up after a short nap, went to Wu Tong's room next door, and found that she was also awake, so the two of them sneaked out for a walk.

  Liu Qingshan is going to go to Broadway, go to the opera house, talk about some business by the way.

  Unexpectedly, just as the two of them left the room, they bumped into the small stool head-on.

  The little stool also yelled, and the team quickly expanded to more than a dozen people. Sister Zhang, Amao, and a few girls from Lefang all joined in, but there were no men.

  Looking at this posture, Liu Qingshan decided that it would be impossible to sneak around, so he simply called all the girls who performed Avalokitesvara together.

  For these disabled girls, Liu Qingshan has always taken good care of them, and tried to let them all participate in group activities.

   At this moment, the team expanded to nearly thirty people, and they left the hotel in a mighty manner.

  The temperature here is a bit lower than in Los Angeles, basically around zero degrees, so it's rather humid and cold.

   But for these people who live in the capital, it is not a problem.

  Women get together to go shopping, which is basically the same: shopping and eating.

  Of course Liu Qingshan knew this, so he went to the big shopping mall first. These girls gave full play to the virtues of diligence and thrift of the Chinese nation, so I just went shopping and didn’t buy.

  Tired from walking around, I found a fast food restaurant, and everyone started eating. Liu Qingshan, the boss, of course had to pay the bill.

  What hot dogs, donuts, tiramisu, etc., all these girls are smiling.

   "No, no, no, if you eat any more, you'll be fat like a donut!"

   The little stool yelled, and then took another hard bite of the donut in his hand, causing everyone to burst into laughter.

   "vulgar."

  There were other customers in the store, and a voice sounded as a result.

  The little stool sticks out its tongue, then puts its fingers on its lips, and everyone stops talking.

  I am used to it in China. I had a good shopping and eating just now, so it is inevitable that there will be a little trouble.

  In fact, this is not a high-end formal western restaurant, and you need to pay special attention to etiquette. This is just a fast food restaurant.

  Many people in the store are loud, and there are children running around screaming, adults don't care.

   But someone reminded, everyone should pay attention immediately, and immediately become well-behaved.

  Liu Qingshan took a closer look, the person who spoke just now was a young white man, very handsome, with oily hair and pink face, he looked a bit motherly.

  Across from her was a pretty lady with chestnut hair and a **** and enchanting figure. She was probably a couple who had been quarreled just now.

  Liu Qingshan just smiled and didn’t care too much. He has seen this kind of situation a lot, seeing people with tinted glasses, why don’t you care about those white people talking loudly around?

  Unexpectedly, the young man didn't stop talking, he raised his hand and pointed at the small stool and the others:

   "You Chinese people just don't have quality."

   These words were a bit harsh, and Liu Qingshan couldn't help frowning.

   And the red-haired woman also added: "Please, with such qualities, don't be ashamed, a bunch of bumpkins."

  Some singers can't understand English, and those girls from Avalokitesvara can't hear it at all.

   But Sister Zhang can understand, and she has a bad temper, jumping out of her seat in a blink of an eye:

   "You just pointed at people and talked, so you have quality?"

   "And you, why are you pretending to be noble, a real nobleman, do you ever gossiping and say that others are bumpkins? You are not pretending."

   "Looking at people ordering dishes, you really think we are easy to bully, don't you believe it or not, I turned your little boy face into shredded potatoes!"

   This eldest sister was not polite at all, she roared loudly, and frightened the man and woman so much that their faces changed.

  The young man dragged his girlfriend and left directly.

   "You coward, you have no responsibility at all, thanks to you you are still a man." Sister Zhang was very contemptuous, the other party was about to leave the store, she did not forget to add:

   "Stay away from this kind of man, embroidered pillows are useless."

  The man also blushed, turned his head and glared at Sister Zhang angrily. Sister Zhang made a gesture to chase after her. She combed her afro hair, her eyes were wide open, and her mouth was grinning wide. Looking at her appearance, she was indeed quite scary.

  The man left his female companion directly and ran away. It seems that Sister Zhang is right, he is a coward.

   "Okay, don't scare other people's children." Liu Qingshan called Sister Zhang back.

   "This kind of posturing guy is the most annoying. He brings a lot of pictures when he talks, and he picks on our faults. It is obviously discriminatory and we can't stand it."

  Sister Zhang walked back angrily and continued to deal with the hot dogs on the table.

  Amao also reminded everyone: "When we go abroad, we represent the image of our own country. We really have to pay attention to it in the future."

   There is nothing wrong with this statement, everyone nodded.

  Liu Qingshan smiled: "Actually, it's not that serious. Let's just keep our true colors. After all, we can't let people bully us casually."

  He really appreciates Sister Zhang's character, if she is timid, worried about this and that, why don't she come out?

   After everyone finished eating, Liu Qingshan was in charge of the accounts. Actually, there was not much money, and this is not a high-end restaurant.

  As soon as he left the store, he saw a large group of people rushing towards him. The leader was the young man just now. He pointed out:

   "That's the group!"

   It turned out that they were calling for someone. Liu Qingshan could tell from the running posture of this group of people. Some of them seemed to have a bit of dancing background. It was probably like fighting.

   "You must apologize to Downey!"

   A group of middle-aged people headed by looked at Liu Qingshan with a serious face, because among this group of people, only Liu Qingshan was a man.

  Liu Qingshan smiled and shook his head: "Why?"

  The middle-aged man was taken aback by the question, turned around and asked the young man named Donny: "Why?"

   "Chris, they humiliated a noble opera singer!" Downey said angrily.

  The middle-aged Chris also nodded in agreement: "Yes, you foreigners, how can you humiliate the most distinguished opera singer on Broadway, you must apologize."

  Who gave you confidence, Broadway? This time Liu Qingshan was really amused by their group.

   It is true that on the street of Broadway, the actors of the pattern are indeed respected, but there is no such thing as putting gold on the face, they are all used to it.

   "You opera singers are superior to others, so we are also singing, we are even, if you want to fight, do it, don't grind!"

  Sister Zhang stood up again, and she was a little confused about the other party's theory.

   "The one who sings popular songs dares to be compared with us opera singers. This is the funniest joke I have ever heard."

   "As for fighting, no, no, no, that's what barbarians do"

  Chris is very disdainful, isn't it just an apology, is it so difficult?

   And the people behind him also blamed Liu Qingshan and others in one go. Obviously, these guys just ran out of the opera house.

  Many people were still wearing the costumes they wore during the performance. Liu Qingshan saw several people dressed as cats, probably rehearsing the famous musical.

  Here on Broadway, an outstanding play will often be performed for several years or ten years.

  It's like "Cats", which began in 1982 and continued until 2,000 years, with a total of more than 7,000 performances.

   There is also the famous "Phantom of the Opera", which is the one starring Sarah Brightman. After its premiere in 1986, it has performed more than 65,000 performances around the world until now.

  Of course, these famous operas have also created extremely considerable economic benefits.

  Cat, the box office revenue alone is nearly 400 million U.S. dollars, and this is not counting other derived revenues.

  The Phantom of the Opera is even better, creating a total income of more than 1.6 billion pounds worldwide.

   And opera is especially loved by those in the so-called upper class. This is probably the reason why the group of actors in front of them also feel good about themselves and are superior to others, right?

  With this group of brainless guys, Liu Qingshan couldn't make any sense, so he simply said to the middle-aged man:

   "We did nothing wrong, so an apology is definitely not an apology. If there is an apology, it will be Downey who apologized to us first."

  Perhaps others will be afraid of foreigners, but Liu Qingshan has no such psychological pressure at all.

  Chris turned around and discussed with his partners, and then said to Liu Qingshan:

   "Since you are unwilling to apologize, and you are also singers, do you have the guts to compete and compete on stage, and the loser will apologize to the other party."

  Liu Qingshan thinks this group of people is also very interesting, they can come up with such a method, probably they are usually a group of spoiled children.

  Then laughed and said: "What is the competition? If it's an opera competition, then we just admit defeat."

   “Of course we don’t bully people.”

  Chris shook his head: "Come on, you'll know it when you go to the theater. It's all basic training skills. Everyone sings. It's the best way to compete."

  Liu Qingshan also roughly understood, and felt that although these guys are not very smart, they are quite interesting when they are stupid, so let's play with them.

  However, we still need to seek everyone's opinions. Liu Qingshan turned around and looked, good guy, everyone is gearing up, it seems that there is no need to ask for opinions.

   "Go, play with them, let them know that we are not easy to mess with!"

   Sister Zhang waved her hand and let out a loud roar, which made the other party feel a little confused: This voice is really high enough.

  So, Chris led the way, and dozens of people, mighty and mighty, rushed towards a theater not far away.

   There was a lot of noise on their side, and there were already people around to watch the excitement. When they heard that there was going to be a competition, many people followed.

  It seems that there are many people who eat melons abroad.

  Of course there is no performance in the theater right now, but there is a group of people rehearsing on the stage, and they are surprised to see two or three hundred people rushing in.

   "Chris, what are you doing?"

   Standing on the stage, a middle-aged man in a suit asked the audience.

  Chris obviously respected the man in the suit on the stage, bowed and saluted:

   "Oh, my dear Mr. Weber, these orientals have offended the great art of opera, so we shall have a contest with them."

   At the same time, Liu Qingshan also looked at the man in the suit and recognized him.

  Liu Qingshan also raised his eyebrows: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Great Britain, famous musical composer.

  Such as "Cats" and "Phantom of the Opera", etc., are all works of this person, and they are definitely regarded as the masters of the opera world.

   Once was canonized as a knight by the queen, that is, the later European grandmother, and was later awarded a lifetime lord, becoming a true nobleman.

   Unexpectedly, in this theater, I could meet such a heavyweight.

  Chris’s words obviously pierced Mr. Weber’s lungs. As a person who loves drama very much, of course he cannot allow others to slander drama.

   He slapped his hands hard twice: "Chris, well done, you should teach them a lesson!"

   Well, this guy isn't a big deal, but he's following along with him. It seems that this group of people has a problem.

   Let’s compare, Liu Qingshan is not afraid of getting into trouble.

  With the support of Mr. Weber, Chris and the others became more courageous: "Everyone is practicing singing, so the breath is of course the most important. Our first item is to compare who has the longest breath."

   Soon someone brought two large glass boxes, a bit like the kind used to raise fish, and filled them with clean water.

  The method is very simple, one person from each side will put their heads into the water in the glass box, and see who can last longer.

   "Okay, I like to play this the most, I'll come and I will." The little stool cheered happily.

  Sister Zhang was still a little worried: "Can you do it, little stool, or can I do it myself?"

   "If I can't do it, you can come on again." The small stool has already gone directly to the stage, and the practicing actors have also stopped, and they all gather together to watch the excitement.

   There were more than 200 free spectators, who also gathered in the front row, watching with laughter.

  The most exasperating thing was that there was a man with long hair who started to sit in the dealership, and asked everyone to place bets.

  Don't tell me, there are those who are not open-eyed, and then bet a few dollars.

   But the situation is one-sided, betting on those opera singers to win.

  Seeing the short little stool on the stage, the young man named Donny was eager to take revenge, so he took the initiative to stand up.

   With an order, both of them plunged their heads into the water tank, and the competition officially started.

  (end of this chapter)