Chapter 301: Disciple
After making two random remarks, the scene exploded. Zhao Yunyi pretended to be angry and ignored Qi Long.
Qi Long began to coax her, and at the same time, he said to her: "Yun Yi, don't be angry, Uncle Shi is also a funny man. This time I am not used to being the supporting role. I didn't follow your rhythm and was reckless. Just treat me as a reckless person and don't bear grudge against me!"
"You are worthy of being a reckless person?"
At this point, we enter the part where Zhao Yunyi performs the lines.
Qi Long stood on the stage and listened with his body slightly sideways. Judging from his performance, he definitely did not learn it after joining the training society. He must have practiced privately by watching other crosstalk performance videos before. The postures he made while holding the fan as Zhao Yun's spear were all correct.
However, there are flaws in some places, which are due to the fact that the details have not been paid attention to and I have to learn from them.
"How can you compare with this reckless person?"
"I can't compare to you. Uncle is still young. Just give in to him. Just treat him like a child!"
This gives the children another job to do.
Overall, Zhao Yunyi's performance was so-so, not very good, but there weren't too many problems either.
Qi Long handed over a few more eight-panel beams and said, "I'm not a thing, okay?"
"I really didn't realize that!" He finished this job.
The teachers secretly scored and replaced the next pair of students.
Qi Long sat in the front row against the wall and began to pay attention to the students' performances. Some were obviously good, while some were obviously bad.
There were several students who were so bad that Gao Feng and other teachers stopped them on the spot. Some did not even want to give them a grade secretly, but criticized them directly, saying, "I told you last time that there was a problem with this part, why did you still make the same mistake? It's obvious that you haven't practiced. If you have this attitude, you don't need to work in this industry!"
Soon it was the turn of the two children, Jin Xiaoyu and Xia Lingyuan. Qi Long, who had been sitting beside them with a smile on his face, became a little nervous and picked up his phone to turn on the recording function.
Oh, now he knew how the master felt when he saw his apprentice going on stage. Although they had not yet officially become apprentices and the verbal pledge did not even count, he had just checked the two of them's homework and gave them the little words he wrote, so he was worried that they had made mistakes.
The two children strode onto the stage and bowed.
"That was the performance of the two brothers just now. Now it's our turn. Let me introduce myself first. My name is Jin Xiaoyu! And his is Xia Lingyuan!"
"it's me!"
"We are childhood friends. You may not know that Xiao Xia was very ugly when she was little!"
"Hmm?" Xia Lingyuan pouted his lips in dissatisfaction: "How am I ugly?"
"Don't refute me. Do you know how our two families met? We met on the train. When my mother carried me on the train, she found that our seat was occupied by your mother. Your aunt was crying out of grievance at that time!"
"Why is my mother crying?"
"My mother was also curious. After asking, she learned that someone seemed to have said she was ugly. She started crying. My mother rushed over to comfort her. She took a glass of water and a banana from our backpack and handed them to the aunt, saying something."
"say what?"
Jin Xiaoyu used his hands to move his ears, imitating the action of a woman tucking her hair behind her ears, which meant that he was now playing a female role. At the same time, he said in a pinched voice: "Sister, don't cry, beauty and ugliness are not defined, and I think you are very beautiful!"
"Auntie is really good at comforting people!" Xia Lingyuan gave a thumbs up.
Jin Xiaoyu still had that feminine attitude: "Here, this glass of water is for you, and this banana is for the monkey in your arms!"
Xia Lingyuan nodded: "Look, how gentle!"
"Auntie cried even harder!"
"What's going on?"
Xiaoyu wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and another character came: "People didn't say I was ugly, they said my son was ugly, but you said my son was a monkey"
Xiao Xia looked like he had just realized something and pointed at himself: "Me?"
Everyone was amused by their little joke. The jokes were well laid out, the characters were well-involved, and Xia Lingyuan's emotional transitions were also on point. He definitely knew the script, but the way he acted like a fool, as if he had never heard of this scene, was played very well!
Qi Long was also smiling. Well, these two guys performed well.
Xiao Xia fought back: "Don't blame me. You weren't that pretty when you were little either. Remember when our two families went to the zoo, you got lost, and in the end the keeper gave you to the gorilla as if you were a baby!"
"When you were a kid, you looked in the mirror and cried because of how ugly you looked in it!"
"When you were a kid, you played in the water during the rain. You saw yourself in the water and cried, saying there was a monster."
"When you were a kid and went to kindergarten, all the girls in the class cried when you walked in. They were so ugly!"
"Hello, when you came in, all the boys in the class were happy. One of our classmates cosplayed as a monster!"
The two brothers started to perform a mother-and-child joke, but they were not very skilled. Normally, one should finish speaking and the other should start speaking immediately, but they had just received the set of words less than half a day ago, so they had to think before they spoke.
When I think about it, it feels like a child thinking about how to fight back, which adds a different kind of laugh.
The two were arguing, and one of the arguments ended with: "You fool!"
The other side: “Thank you for the compliment!” Then there comes a passage where Confucius says Yan Hui is a fool. I am a disciple of the saint, and you are not a human being!
There comes a passage from Cao Cao: What's the use of being a sage's disciple? I'm the prime minister now, and I won't bother with a fool like you.
Here comes a passage of Xiang Yu's rhyme
Their little routine of comparing themselves to the people in the eight screens was just like saying in the beginning that their partner was no match for XX person, which was very fresh. Everyone listened with great interest. The two kids also got praise and came to find Uncle Qi happily.
With this performance, I should be able to eat a hamburger!
"Eat, you must eat!" Qi Long agreed immediately: "But wait until the assessment is over, then I will take you to ask your senior instructor for leave!"
Qi Long put away his phone and continued to pay attention to the performance of each pair of students, which was a sign of respect for them.
After all the performances were finished, Qi Long sent the video to Gao Dongqiang, letting him see the style of his apprentice.
Xiaoyu and Xiaoxia are really talented. Not only did they memorize the text they were just given, but they also basically performed the expressions, movements and reactions marked on it. They deserve praise!
That’s right, the expressions and movements of the two on stage are all written in Qilong’s script. Now that they haven’t started to learn the real work yet, the text will be more detailed. Later, when it comes to the time to perform the real work, it won’t be like this!
When I went to Gao Feng to ask for leave for the two children, he agreed immediately. It was already a matter of course, and the two of them who did not live in the dormitory could go home, so of course there was no problem.
"By the way, when will you let the children call you Master? Xiaoyu calls him Master Dongqiang every day, and Xiaoxia is so envious!" Gao Feng said with a smile.
Qi Long has also made up his mind to accept Xia Lingyuan as his apprentice: "Then let's do it now. It's just a verbal agreement. You have to call me master. I have to choose this first disciple carefully. I can't just look at his skills, but also his character." "Oh, yes, I have to choose the first disciple carefully!" Gao Feng said with deep sympathy.
In the crosstalk world, the eldest brother has the highest status. If the master wants to accept a disciple, he has to discuss it with this "eldest son". If the eldest disciple disagrees, the master has to think carefully.
Especially if the master passes away, the eldest disciple will be in charge of all matters of the sect, including passing on skills on behalf of the master and teaching younger disciples; accepting disciples on behalf of the master and bringing people into the sect; and clearing the sect on behalf of the master and expelling other disciples.
If the eldest senior brother has a bad character, then he will pull all kinds of people into the sect, and expel the other junior brothers who have not made any mistakes. That would be misfortune for the sect!
Qi Long's senior brother Jia Lun is a very good senior brother. After the master passed away, Qi Long was still young. Jia Lun often sorted out the master's recordings and videos and sent them to Qi Long. Whenever he passed through North China on official business, he would go to Shanxi Province to see his junior brother and check whether his crosstalk skills had fallen behind.
No matter how turbulent the outside world was, Senior Brother Guo from Qingmen was causing trouble, but Senior Brother Jia Lun paid no attention to them. He was a very honest and kind eldest brother who his junior brothers could rely on.
On the contrary, some senior brothers have bad character, so Gao Feng thought of his own senior brother.
After their master Mr. Fan passed away, his senior brother took in a person who brought shame to the sect as his disciple. During the live broadcast, he drank alcohol and sang karaoke under the name of Mr. Fan's disciple.
Gao Feng and others collectively issued a statement, refusing to acknowledge the junior brother who was brought up by the senior brother.
Qi Long had no intention of exposing the scars of his master, so he ran over and picked up Xia Lingyuan, put him on the ground, and asked him to stand at attention!
"Xiao Xia, call me Master from now on. But like Xiao Yu, you are not a formal apprentice yet. You need to keep working hard!"
"Great!" Xiaoxia shouted happily.
Gao Feng looked at him from the side and said, "Don't just think about it. What are you going to do after becoming my disciple?"
Xia Lingyuan immediately knelt on the ground and was about to kowtow. Qi Long hurried forward and said that disciples who had made an oath did not need to perform such a great ceremony.
In the crosstalk circle, accepting a disciple publicly is a formal act, but accepting a disciple verbally does not require any introduction, guarantee or replacement by three masters. It is just a verbal acknowledgement that the other party is one's apprentice, which does not include the other party in the family tree.
Gao Feng stopped him: "After receiving the gift from others, you must teach them well and not hide anything. This is the inheritance of crosstalk!"
"Of course, this is my apprentice, Mr. Gao. You have witnessed my first apprentice. When you have five apprentices in the future, you must call me. I can't be the guide, but I can still be the host!"
"Then Luan Yunping will be unemployed!"
"Two hosts!" Qi Long said with a smile.
Gao Feng also laughed and nodded: "Okay, I'm planning to accept a disciple in September. When you come, I'll give you a gift!"
"Then I'm not welcome, hahaha!"
Qi Long, who was feasting on hamburgers with his new apprentice and nephew, soon received congratulations from many people, including Guo, Yu, Hou Ye, Sun Yue and other peers, as well as many close nephews and apprentices. Qi Long thanked them one by one.
The following week, Dongqiang was away and there were no recording tasks for "Let's Run" and "The Comedy Club". Qi Long performed in the small theater twice to mix with others. The rest of the time he went to the study club to give one-on-one lessons to the two children, teaching them various precautions for speaking the same lines word by word.
It is my duty to teach my apprentices. The other one is both my nephew and Dong Qiang's apprentice. I can definitely get a position in the Yinbaodai. There is no problem in teaching them together!
Knowing that he was accepting disciples, Zhang Wanyi also took a day off to come to the training center. Xia Lingyuan called her "Master's Wife", and Zhang Wanyi couldn't stop smiling.
"If you are short of money and want to eat something, just tell Master's Wife. Master's Wife will give you money and buy it for you. The same goes for Xiaoyu. Auntie will buy it for you. You may not have a Master's Wife in this life!"
"Hahahahahahaha!" Qi Long burst into laughter.
Xia Lingyuan was proud. A few days ago, it was Xiaoyu who had a master, but he didn't.
Now, I have a master's wife, but Xiaoyu doesn't!
At this time, Zhao Yunyi, who heard that her bestie was here, ran over and said, "Wanyi, you didn't come to see me when you came. There's no love for you!"
Jin Xiaoyu's competitive mentality came to his head, so he ran over and tugged at his senior sister: "Sister Zhao, can you be my master's wife?"
Qi Long spat out his drink. "They don't even know each other, what are you trying to do?"
"Hahahahahaha!" Zhang Wanyi also laughed.
Zhao Yunyi sighed: "Uncle Master, I learned this from you. You said I was the wife of the young master and the boss lady on stage."
Qi Long nodded: "Blame me, blame me, haha, I have to talk to Dongqiang about this. If you don't find a girlfriend, your apprentice will help you find a master's wife!"
A week passed quickly, and soon it was time for Qi Long to leave for Europe to meet up with Dong Qiang to be a guest on the "Sisters Over Flowers" travel group. When packing, he not only had to pack his own luggage, but also some other things he needed to prepare.
For example, Dongqiang didn't know that Qi Long had prepared a crosstalk performance for him to perform for international student friends at a European university, so he didn't bring his gown.
He had sent the coat in his suitcase home at the airport, so Qi Long had to take his coat with him as well.
"Godfather, godmother, I'm here!" Qi Long took Zhang Wanyi to Dongqiang's parents' home. Godfather and godmother had mentioned him several times, and it was a good time to go this time.
Gao Qi's face suddenly became serious: "What else did my son bring home?"
Qi Long pushed Zhang Wanyi and said, "Okay, you can go out now!"
"You are the thing!" Zhang Wanyi hit him with a smile.
“Hahahahaha!” Dongqiang’s mother walked up quickly and pulled Zhang Wanyi up: “We are here to see Wanyi, you go to Dongqiang’s room and pack your things!”
Qi Long acted like a child, acting like a spoiled child to his godfather: "You were my son just now, but now you're an outsider?"
Like Dongqiang, he is relatively respectful in front of his own parents, but when facing other parents, he always remains a child who pretends to be naughty and act like a spoiled child.
"That can't be helped. You know that I have the final say on major matters in our family, and your godmother has the final say on minor matters. Nothing matters more than life and death!"
"So none of them count!" Qi Long said with a smile.
Dongqiang’s mother snorted coldly: “Humph, I want to teach my daughter-in-law some housekeeping skills, you can’t listen!”
"Okay, I'll go pack my things." Qi Long entered the cloakroom of Dongqiang's big villa. There was a wardrobe specifically for Dongqiang's coats. He selected two sets and brought a few more clothes for Dongqiang. After all, he only had three sets of clothes when he went out. It would not be good to wear them all the time on the show. He had to change them.
After packing up and going to the living room, I heard my godfather and godmother asking about Zhang Wanyi's best friend from Deyun Drum Music Society.
"Please help us find out if any of your best friends have bad eyesight and would like our Dong Qiang!"
Qi Long immediately laughed out loud and went up to talk to him: "Yes, his apprentice found a mistress for him."
As he spoke, Qi Long told the two elders about the interesting things that happened in the study center.
I didn't pay attention when I clicked send, and it was scheduled to be sent. I got up at night to check my novel, but found that it was not sent. I thought it was stuck for review, and then I took a look and found that I was wrong. I was really too tired to think clearly in these dog days.
(End of this chapter)
