Chapter 113 Extreme Men's Gang
After a period of preparation by Yan Min, "Extreme Men's Group" has been confirmed to be broadcast on his former employer, Shanghai TV, and the guests have also signed contracts.
Although Yan Min left Shanghai TV, it was a peaceful termination of the contract and there was no conflict between the two parties.
However, just in case, Qi Long insisted that the copyright of "Extreme Men's Group" must be in the hands of the company and cannot be handed over to Shanghai TV.
He doesn't want this world to be like another world, where all the men's gang are gone and a group of other artists use the name of the show to make some programs with poor results!
Although they are all six men, unlike CCTV's "Amazing Challenge" which is a positive career experience challenge, "Extreme Men's Gang" is more entertaining and will feature various elements such as espionage, alliances, and confrontation.
On that day, Qi Long flew to Shanghai with the program crew. Sun Honglei invited Qi Long to have dinner together, and Qi Long gladly accepted the invitation.
While we were eating, two people came from the private room next door.
One is Zhang Yixing, an artist who is a boy band idol in South Korea, and the other is his agent.
Zhang Yixing was also a guest chosen by the program team because of his high cost-effectiveness. Other top idols in the country asked for high fees, but Zhang Yixing reached an agreement with the company to come to China to open a studio. It would definitely be a big reward for just opening a studio, so he asked for a low performance fee and was chosen by Yan Min.
His agent is a relatively famous agent in the Chinese industry and obviously knows Sun Honglei.
"Brother Honglei, Teacher Qi, this is my artist, Zhang Yixing. Please guide her and take good care of her during the show!"
"Hello, teacher!" Zhang Yixing bowed to the two of them obediently.
Sun Honglei also gave his agent face, stood up and nodded: "Okay, don't worry!"
"Yixing, come on, toast!" the agent urged.
Zhang Yixing came over and picked up the wine glass, but the glass was placed higher than Sun Honglei. It was visibly that Sun Honglei looked a little ugly. Qi Long calmly held out the wine glass and lifted Sun Honglei's arm up. The three of them held the wine glasses and drank.
Qi Long looked at Zhang Yixing: "You've never had a drink?"
"No!" Zhang Yixing replied.
"That's great. You should drink less alcohol and just drink beverages next time!" Qi Long smiled.
Sun Honglei glanced at Qi Long and said, "You are asking this for me. I have never drunk alcohol so I naturally don't know the etiquette of the table. Please don't mind it."
Crosstalk performers are very good at dealing with people!
After going out, Zhang Yixing's agent also told him that Qi Long helped him out of the situation. Zhang Yixing was confused. Did I do anything wrong? Why did you help me out?
After listening to the agent's explanation, I suddenly realized: "Brother Qi Long is so nice!"
"Of course not. He has been promoted by CCTV for only half a year after his debut and is recognized by the entertainment industry as CCTV's favorite son. He must have no problems as a person. You should learn more from Teacher Qi."
"Yeah!" Zhang Yixing nodded obediently.
In the private room, as soon as the child came out, Sun Honglei was delighted: "You!"
"The kid knows how to be polite, but you can tell at a glance that he has never drunk alcohol and has never been exposed to the drinking culture. That's good, he's simple!" Qi Long poured Sun Honglei a full glass of wine.
A full glass of wine is a sign of respect. Qi Long has been eating with his master since he was a child and learned all kinds of rules from him.
However, Qi Long always believed that rules are for oneself and one's family. You cannot use your rules to demand others. There is no need and they are not laws.
"So gullible, just watch how I bully him on the show!" Sun Honglei also said with a smile: "Take good care of him! Pay the price!"
The recording officially started the next morning, and Qi Long also met three other cast members, namely movie star Huang Bo, actor Wang Xun and veteran idol Luo Zhiqiang from Taiwan.
What surprised him was that Huang Bai and Sun Honglei, both well-known actors in the film and television industry, actually met each other for the first time and shook hands for the first time today.
When Wang Xun met Qi Long, he called him "junior brother". He was also from the crosstalk school and a legitimate successor of the Hou family's crosstalk.
His master's master was Mr. Hou Baolin, the father of Qi Long's master Mr. Hou Yaowen.
"Senior brother, you have to take care of my younger brother!" Qi Long said with a smile immediately.
Wang Xun waved his hand: "You are good enough to take care of me. Look at the variety show you are doing. It is so popular!"
"You were performing crosstalk behind me at the previous party. I didn't expect that we would have the opportunity to collaborate on a variety show so soon!" Huang Bo also came up to chat.
Qi Long also laughed: "If I had known earlier, I would have praised you a little more!"
"It's not too late to praise now!"
Qi Long nodded: "Okay, Brother Huang Bo, you have your merits."
Having said that, Qi Long froze in place, with his hands stretched out and his mouth half open, never opening.
"Hahahahahahaha!" Huang Bai, Wang Xun and Sun Honglei burst into laughter at the same time. Crosstalk actors really know how to liven up the atmosphere!
"Just kidding, Brother Bo said it in interviews, after he became famous, there are no bad people around him, only good people!"
"So you are the first bad guy, right?" Huang Bai responded quickly.
Qi Long shook his head: "No, no, I am speaking up for my senior brother Wang Xun through this interview!"
"Why?" Wang Xun was puzzled.
"He doesn't treat you as a human being. There are no good crosstalk performers. He insists that there are no bad people around him. Doesn't that mean he doesn't treat you as a human being?" "Hahahahahaha!"
"So can I praise his strengths?" Qi Long shouted proudly.
Huang Bo clapped and burst into laughter, and pointed at Qi Long with Sun Honglei: "It's so funny, hahahaha, now I know why his show is so popular, even small talk is full of jokes!"
“With people like this, how can I perform crosstalk?” Wang Xun also chimed in: “So I went to act!”
"You mean acting is easier than crosstalk, Brother Honglei, Brother Bo, that's not what I said. I'm not the one who stirs up trouble."
"Why aren't you trying to cause trouble? You're almost destroying the relationship between Wang Xun and I that has lasted for so many years!" Huang Bai scolded with a smile.
Four people were chatting here, and on the other side Luo Zhiqiang, as a veteran in indoor variety shows, was telling Zhang Yixing that in variety shows, one must let go and bravely show oneself, so that the shots can be preserved. If you slack off, the editor will cut all your shots.
At this time, the program crew was still debugging the equipment, and only one camera faithfully recorded their interesting interactions, ready to be played as a behind-the-scenes feature.
Soon, the recording began. Six men in suits walked towards the villa in neat steps. They also agreed to push up their sunglasses together and appear coolly. When they entered the room, they saw the butler played by Yan Min herself, and told the content of this episode.
In the secret room, there are gold bars left by the master. They will enter the room one by one and take away the number of gold bars they want.
In the final task, the one with the most gold bars will be eliminated, the one with the least gold bars will be eliminated, the one with the same number of gold bars will be eliminated, and the one with the most gold bars among others will win.
What determines the order of entering the room is the freshly baked sweet potatoes. Qi Long touched it and felt that it was impossible to eat it too fast because it was too hot.
However, Luo Zhiqiang and Wang Xun on his left started to eat the skin as soon as it was peeled off. Luo Zhiqiang took a big bite and it was so hot that he opened his mouth to inhale.
Wang Xun was like a hamster, his teeth moving very quickly.
When Qi Long saw that they were all playing like this, he immediately put down his sweet potato and turned to look at Huang Bai who was digging a sweet potato beside him.
"Brother Bo!"
"what happened?"
"How about an alliance? I'll eat the sweet potatoes for you, and when you go in, you can take more and share some with me. How about that?" Qi Long asked.
Huang Bai was very satisfied with Qi Long's proposal: "Sure, come on!"
He had a good idea. When the time came, if he gave Qi Long a few fewer points, he would definitely have more than Qi Long. As long as he did not get the most, Qi Long would definitely not beat him.
But Qi Long also had a plan. Since he was the last one, he could also hide some gold bars, and then there would be more people who got Huang Bai than him.
Zhang Yixing and Sun Honglei followed suit and began to form an alliance. Zhang Yixing asked cautiously, "Can I trust you?"
"If you don't trust me, who can you trust? Believe me, didn't I promise to take care of you yesterday?" Sun Honglei successfully dispelled Zhang Yixing's doubts with what happened yesterday, and started eating sweet potatoes.
Yan Min was confused. Wasn’t the speed of forming this alliance a bit too fast?
"Isn't this a foul, butler?" Wang Xun asked.
Yan Min’s answer was, if the rules don’t state that it is not allowed, then it is allowed!
Of course two people eat faster than one person. Sun Honglei won first place and entered the room. Huang Bai came second, Luo was third and Wang was fourth. Qi Long ate leisurely, a little slower than Zhang Yixing.
When he entered the secret room, he found that there were still a lot of gold bars left. What surprised him even more was that the gold bars were real gold.
"Is the production crew so rich? Real gold bars?! Then I have to take more!"
Qi Long opened the box and prepared to pack it, but then he thought, No way, Huang Bai would find out. He had to pretend that there were not many gold bars in the box and let Huang Bai give him some.
So, he put gold bars inside Qi Long's shoes and behind Bie Mai's belt.
Yan Min was horrified and repeatedly asked Qi Long and the camera crew to be careful and pick up the gold bars as soon as they fell, because they were rented gold bars and would have to pay a huge price for losing them!
Carrying the gold bars, they came to a rare small mountain scenic spot in Shanghai. There were keys to open the garage on the mountain, and there were six types of transportation, asking them to find the keys.
Qi Long and Huang Bai did not set off immediately, but asked for gold bars.
"How much did you take?" Huang Bai asked.
Qi Long shook the box, and a clattering sound came from inside: "Did you hear it clearly? There are not many. I went in last, and there are only three left. Give me a few more!"
"Impossible, how could there be only three left out of so many gold bars?" Huang Bai questioned.
"So many?" Qi Long looked confused: "How much?"
"When I went in, it was full. They filled the boxes so full that they couldn't take them all away. You're not honest!" Huang Bai looked like he saw through everything.
Hey, this old guy is not easy to fool!
But Qi Long had a solution: "Someone must have hidden the gold bars somewhere else. Anyway, there were only three when I went in. Look at my eyes!"
A crosstalk performer has to make the lies he tells on stage sound like the truth, as long as he holds it together!
Huang Bo chose to believe him despite his doubts: "This is the first issue. If you cheat me, I will cheat you back later!"
"How is that possible? Brother Bo, trust!"
(End of this chapter)
