Chapter 69 Issue 5 "Years"
In the hotel lobby, Han Zhou and An Lan sat together.
An Lan listened to the demo quietly.
The demo albums were the songs Han Zhou wrote for her, and they were also sung by Han Zhou.
In this world, except for her, no one else has heard Han Zhou's demo. What others will hear is the album she will make in the future.
An Lan asked Han Zhou for suggestions for the new album.
Han Zhou picked up the pen and crossed out An Lan's "This Is Love".
Renamed it.
"love at first sight".
There are generally several ways to name a song album, either it is what the singer wants to express, or a certain song is directly used as the album name.
Han Zhou's "Falling in Love at First Sight" can be said to be a double entendre.
The two were listening to the song when Lu Jin arrived at the scene carrying a large bag: "Hello, Brother Han, Goddess An!"
Han Zhou raised his head and said, "Hey, where did you escape from?"
Lu Jin put down the big bag: "No, this is a gift for everyone."
Han Zhou: “…”
"Does it have to be this curly?"
As they were talking, Wang Mingyuan and Rang Bing arrived together.
"Hey, everyone is here? Only Lao Luo is missing?"
"Da Ming hasn't arrived yet?"
A new episode of "Real Challenge" is about to begin recording.
Moreover, the location is in Shudu.
Therefore, Han Zhou and An Lan did not have to catch a plane this time. After attending the movie roadshow, they just waited in Shudu.
As they were talking, Lu Jin began to give gifts to everyone present, including ordinary employees of the program team.
Honestly speaking, having reached this point in his life, Han Zhou doesn't believe that he has no intention of becoming a high-quality idol.
Of course, this is just because they have money.
If it were Han Zhou, he could go bankrupt by treating everyone present to a bowl of noodles.
After all, all the new money has not yet been received.
This time the recording took place overnight, including the afternoon of the previous day, one night, and the entire next day.
The agreed time was getting closer, but Luo Daming still hadn't arrived.
At this time, Chang Xiao said, "Welcome everyone."
"Today will be the fifth episode of this season of 'Real Challenge' and the second episode after the revamp."
Several people then realized that it seemed that Luo Daming would not be present at the beginning of the show.
Maybe the flight was delayed?
Han Zhou: "Brother Daming didn't come?"
Chang Xiao smiled and said: "Today's theme of our issue is "Years"."
"According to this year's social science survey, the average life expectancy of Chinese people is 77 years old, so each of us will have a watch."
"Every number you walk represents one day."
“When the watch reaches 28,000 days, it means a lifetime has passed.”
While everyone was still sighing, An Lan said, "Seventy-seven years has at least 28,125 days, and what about the remaining 125 days?"
Wang Mingyuan smiled and said, "Life is muddled, and a hundred days less is considered too little."
Chang Xiao smiled and gave everyone a watch: "So, let's get started."
Everyone took a bus to a place that looked rather old.
In fact, it is an old machinery factory, which has now been converted into an urban park called Music Park.
Now we are doing exhibitions, and sometimes there are some music activities.
The old house in the exhibition became the first scene for today's shooting.
"Before 1977, the country was building the Third Front, and your parents came from all over the country to Shudu to support the construction."
Wang Mingyuan: "Oh, my parents should be from Yanjing."
Lu Jin: "From Beihu Province."
Han Zhou: "I'm a local."
Chang smiled and continued: "It was also from this point that the national college entrance examination was resumed. In 1984, you will finally enter the first grade of elementary school."
"It is from this time that you have grown to the stage where you have a little understanding of life."
Everyone's watch jumped directly to '2555'.
The soldier was very surprised: "Hey! Hey! How come 2,555 days have already passed before it even starts?!!!"
Wang Mingyuan joked: "It's like 2,555 days have passed before it even started. We were so happy when we were little, but in a flash, our childhood is gone."
Lu Jin: "Two thousand five hundred and fifty-five days, one tenth of your life, and it's gone?"
There are only 28,000 days in total, and more than 2,500 days have been deducted at the beginning.
Chang Xiao: "You need to make your first choice today."
" How many days do you plan to spend on studying?"
"You each have a selection card, please choose."
Lu Jin scratched his head: "There are only 28,000 days in total. Once they are used up, they will be gone. So try to choose as few as possible."
Wang Mingyuan said: "At that time, I didn't study enough, and my study life was so carefree. At that time, I hadn't even graduated from college, but I was eager to find a role. If I had to do it again, I would study more."
"Six years of elementary school, six years of middle school, four years of college, two years of graduate school, three years of doctoral studies, I invested twenty-one years."
Twenty-one years. There were two people at the scene, and neither of them lived for twenty-one years in total.
Wang Mingyuan's choice did indeed surprise others.
Rang Bing: "I choose ten years of hard study."
Lu Jin: "Then I'll choose ten years too."
Han Zhou: "Let's just follow my current schedule, six years in primary school, six years in middle school, and four years in college, a total of sixteen years."
An Lan: "Same."
Chang Xiao smiled and said, "Then you can go to school."
One of the old factory buildings in the Music Park is designed to look like a classroom.
And here, there is actually a teacher who is giving a lecture, and he is talking about mechanical knowledge.
"Obviously, this knowledge can be put to use."
Wang Mingyuan really listened carefully, and let Bing and Lu Jin laugh and play, with constant laughter.
It was already three o'clock in the afternoon when we finished shooting this segment.
The teacher on the podium: "Students, we have a new transfer student here today. Welcome everyone."
Luo Daming walked in with his signature little eyes and a smile, wearing a student uniform of that era, a hat and glasses.
The people in the audience laughed so hard that they were numb.
"Oh, this new classmate looks like a classmate's parent."
"This new student must have taken the college entrance examination more than thirty times, right?"
Everyone was laughing when the teacher on the stage turned grim: "Give way! Lu Jin!"
Everyone was shocked.
The teacher's ruler smacked the table: "Every time I ask you to study hard, you always turn a deaf ear to it."
"Look at your grades?!"
"I can't teach you anymore."
"When you enter society, you will realize how big a mistake it is to not have an education!"
"Let's go."
The soldier reacted: "Oh, we chose to study for only ten years, so we have to drop out of school before graduating from high school."
Lu Jin finally realized: "Ah, you dropped out of school before finishing high school?"
"You're not going to study anymore? Where are we going then?"
The question Lu Jin asked was actually, if they were not shooting in this scene, then where would they go to shoot next.
Rang Bing: "If you don't study anymore, what else can you do? Just find a class to attend."
Soon, the two left the classroom and went to the human resources market together to find jobs.
However, with their academic qualifications, the human resources market simply does not want them.
So the two of them went to the bridge.
At the bridge head, a group of people were squatting, holding signs and saying what they could do.
Lu Jin quickly found a job, helping to carry rice at the grain station.
Rangbing also found a job, shining shoes.
Carrying rice took half an hour, and Lu Jin was so tired that he couldn't straighten his back.
The soldier spent the whole afternoon polishing shoes, and the money he earned was only enough for one meal.
At lunch, everyone gathered together again.
Lu Jin: "I should have studied earlier. I'm so exhausted."
Let the soldier smile: "Not bad."
Lu Jin: "Then let's switch? I'll polish the shoes and you carry the bag?"
Let the soldier: "No change."
The two asked about the other people.
The other people were having a headache at this time, because there was a real exam to simulate the college entrance examination, and the test was on the things that the teacher had read out once.
Needless to say, Luo Daming, the transfer student, heard nothing.
Except for Han Zhou, the other three people could not remember what the teacher said.
After dinner, it’s time for the exam.
Everyone took the exam together, leaving Bing and Lu Jin to hang out outside the exam room and watch.
After the exam, it was Chang Xiao's turn to announce the results.
"Han Zhou."
Han Zhou stood up.
Chang Xiao said: "After years of study, you successfully passed the exam and entered university. This year you are 23 years old and have completed your university studies. This is your outstanding university diploma."
Han Zhou stood up: "Take it easy."
Rang Bing was a little envious: "You really have a diploma? I should have studied for a few more years if I had known."
"An Lan."
An Lan stood up.
Chang Xiao: "After years of study, you failed to get into university on the eve of the college entrance examination due to some interference factors. But then, you continued to study and take self-taught exams. At the age of 23, you obtained a self-taught university diploma."
An Lan breathed a sigh of relief.
"I thought I wouldn't be able to get my diploma."
Chang Xiao: "Wang Mingyuan."
Wang Mingyuan stood up.
Chang Xiao said: "After years of hard study, you failed the college entrance examination for two consecutive years, but you still persisted in studying and finally succeeded in the third time. You worked hard to study for a master's degree and a doctorate. This year you are 30 years old, completed all your studies, and became a doctor of mechanics."
"Luo Daming, after you failed the college entrance examination, you graduated directly and found a good job. This year you are 23 years old. After five years of hard work, you have become a grassroots manager of a small company."
All times are also being adjusted.
Chang Xiao: "Lu Jin, after you dropped out of high school, you could only do manual labor. You are 23 years old this year and already have six years of work experience."
Lu Jin was stunned: "Ah? So tricky?!!"
"Why am I not just seventeen years old, but have six years of experience in carrying bags?"
Let Bing put his hand on Lu Jin's shoulder: "Then you should live your life."
"Give up the troops."
"After you dropped out of high school, you started a small business. You don't make much money and live a very ordinary life. You are 23 years old this year."
"You all now face a choice. It's time for you to get married."
Everyone was stunned.
But then I immediately realized that today's theme is to live out your life, so of course you have to get married, but what is the specific situation?
Everyone received a task card.
Lu Jin opened the card and was dumbfounded.
[Your income is very low, so in order to get married, you have no choice but to work harder.]
[Option 1: Spend six years making money to get married.]
[Option 2: Do not get married.]
Lu Jin ran to look at Wang Mingyuan's card.
[You are a doctor of mechanics. Even though the machinery factory went bankrupt, you successfully came to a new machinery company and became a consultant.]
[Option 1: spend three years to earn money to buy a house and get married.]
[Option 2: Do not get married.]
Everyone went to look at Han Zhou and An Lan's cards.
Just found it interesting.
[You and An Lan (Han Zhou) have studied and worked together since childhood, and now you have decided to get married. ]
[1. Gather enough money earned in ten years to buy a house, a car and get married.]
[Second, save up enough money earned in six years to buy a house and get married.]
"Oh? You two are playing husband and wife again." Luo Daming started to make fun of him, and the others also started laughing.
Han Zhou looked at An Lan: "Do you want a car?"
An Lan shook her head.
Han Zhou made the decision: "Yes."
"Think about it, if you want to go back home for fun, you need a car, right? If you want to pick up your kids from school, you need a car, right? If you want to go out with your family on weekends, you need a car, right?"
"That's right." An Lan: "Then that person will be deducted five years."
Han Zhou: "No, that won't work. My wife must be younger than me. I'll deduct three years from you and seven years from me."
The two looked at Chang Xiao, who said, "You decide for yourselves."
Soon, everyone's information was updated.
Wang Mingyuan, 33 years old, married, consultant for a machinery company, PhD.
Han Zhou, 30 years old, married, and a full-time college student.
An Lan, 26 years old, married, a self-taught college student.
Luo Daming, 28 years old, married, high school graduate, grassroots manager of a trading company.
Rang Bing, 29 years old, married, dropped out of school and started his own business.
Lu Jin, 23 years old, unmarried, dropped out of school, unemployed.
If only things were that simple.
Everyone just lives their life as they wish, and this period ends.
But in fact, this episode took a total of two days to shoot, and only half a day has passed!
The soldier returned to his home according to the mission card and found that his wife and children were at home!
In this episode, there were no unnecessary segments. When the wife saw Rang Bing, she immediately came forward with her passbook and said, "Husband, you said you wanted to start a business. I've been thinking about it for a long time."
"I support you. This is my dowry, as well as the money I've saved over the years. I'll give it to you to start your own business. You must succeed."
His wife was hugging a little girl, and it was obvious that this was a simulation of real life.
Rang Bing also immediately got into the role and patted the little girl's head: "Don't worry, Dad will definitely succeed in his business and work hard to make money so that you and your daughter can live a better life!"
Like Rang Bing, Luo Daming and Wang Mingyuan's family situations are the same.
But Luo Daming's family has one more child, a son and a daughter.
When Han Zhou and An Lan returned home, they found a pair of clever twin daughters waiting for them.
"Daddy, where's my lollipop?"
"Mom, I'm hungry!"
If the design was only for the first few segments, then the show would be too boring and would just be a pretend life.
I am still pretending to live my life, but the meaning is different now.
It all depends on the acting skills of his wife and children, which supports the authenticity of the show.
We are all neighbors, and when we came out, we knew what happened.
Wang Mingyuan sighed: "Ah, struggle, struggle for family, this is what life is all about."
Han Zhou sang: "Life is just a few short autumns, I won't stop until I'm drunk, I'll all turn into that beauty, the Yellow River flowing in the west..."
Luo Daming: "Come on, Lao Wang, Lao Rang, Lao Lu, come and have a few drinks."
"Sister An Lan, you won't forbid your old Han from drinking with us?"
An Lan hugged her twin daughters and smiled, "Drink it. You're tired from working during the day. Drink something."
The show ends the day's filming with drinking.
In the setting, drinking is the end of this ordinary day.
Outside the show, this dinner also marked the end of a day's filming.
"Drink something so you can sleep well." Chang Xiao also reminded: "Get some rest. Your life has just begun. Tomorrow is a life of struggle."
Obviously, Chang Xiao was hinting that today's filming was more about following the structure of the program flow.
The real competition, the fight, the cruelty and the funnyness will all come tomorrow.
If you don’t get enough rest, it will affect your shooting state.
Han Zhou immediately realized that Chang Xiao was a truly capable person.
The format of this episode has many similarities with some episodes of Go Fighting that I have seen in my previous life.
After the camera was turned off, the crew packed up their things. Han Zhou found Chang Xiao and said, "Director Chang."
Chang smiled and said: "The shooting is over, you guys go back and have a rest. Tomorrow will be different from today. There will be a lot of games tomorrow."
Han Zhou smiled: "I have an idea to end the scene."
Chang Xiao: "Oh? Let me listen."
Han Zhou: "In exchange, please pass me a business card."
Chang Xiao pinched his chin and said, "Interesting, let me hear your thoughts first."
Han Zhou told Chang Xiao about the Time Bridge.
After hearing this, Chang Xiao was stunned. Finally, he said, "Why don't you just be a planner in name only? I'll give you a salary."
Han Zhou: "No, I have to prepare for the filming of a TV series next."
