1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Zhou Yan was talking to the museum museum, and a staff member came over and said to Zhou Yan, Miss Shizuka Kudo is outside, do you want to let her go?

Zhou Yan was a little surprised to hear that Shizuka Kudo was outside.

Zhou Yan knew that the museum was going to have a concert. His management company, Yoshimoto Kogyo, had communicated with Zhou Yan in advance.

So after arriving at the museum, I went directly to the backstage to say hello to Zhou Yan.

But Shizuka Kudo was coming, but Zhou Yan had no idea at all.

Is she alone? Zhou Yan asked.

Yeah, she's the only one.

Not even security personnel?

No, but we have sent people over to protect her. She is still in the crowd being interviewed by reporters. It will probably take a while before she can come in.

Zhou Yan nodded, If she wants to come, just let her go.

Since people are here, they naturally want to meet each other. The scene must be acceptable and it will have no impact on Zhou Yan.

If he didn't let Shizuka Kudo come in today, there would be a lot of news in the future.

With Zhou Yan's agreement, the staff nodded, Okay, I understand.

After the staff left, the museum museum curator also asked curiously, Kudo Keika came to the scene, didn't you know in advance?

I don't know. Zhou shook his head.

The museum manager secretly sighed, Shizuka Kudo is really rebellious, she must have come directly without telling the agency.

Kudo Shizuka is an idol singer. Usually, the management company of these idol singers is very strict. Whether to attend such a concert will be decided by the management company.

If Kudo Shizuka's agency knew about this, they would definitely communicate with Zhou Yan in advance.

Mr. Guanbo, do you know Kudo Shizuka? Zhou Yan asked.

We have met before, but we don't really know each other. Our age gap is too big, and I haven't been in the music industry for a long time.

Guanbo also worked as a singer before, but his performance was average. Now he mainly shoots some TV series. It is really difficult to interact with idol singers like Kudo Shizuka.

The two chatted for a while, and then the museum manager took his leave. He came here just to say hello and didn't want to delay Zhou Yan for too long. Besides, Zhou Yan was quite busy before the concert started.

After the museum left, about half an hour later, Zhou Yan was tying the royal guard he bought at Sensoji Temple with Wang Zuxian last time to the bamboo flute.

Many people like to tie various pendants on bamboo flutes, but under normal circumstances, Zhou Yan would not tie anything on the bamboo flute because he thinks the tied things swing around unsightly.

But since Wang Zuxian asked him to tie it, he made an exception.

As soon as he tied up the guard, there was a commotion at the door of the backstage lounge.

When he looked up at the door, Kudo Shizuka had already walked in surrounded by several staff members.

Seeing Zhou Yan, Kudo Shizuka's eyes lit up and she walked over quickly.

Mr. Zhou Yan, nice to meet you.

The reason why Shizuka Kudo is an idol singer is naturally because of her good looks. It is said that the character Maori Ran in Detective Conan was drawn according to Shizuka Kudo.

Although Zhou Yan doesn't know if it's true or not, looking at the hairstyle, Mao Lilan does look very similar to Kudo Shizuka, with their long hair parted to the side.

Maybe it's because the staff are not very tall, so when Shizuka Kudo came in just now, Zhou Yan felt that she was quite tall. But when he got there, Zhou Yan stood up and realized that Shizuka Kudo was not even close to the tip of his nose. This was still With some height on her heels.

Remove the heel, Kudo Shizuka should just reach Zhou Yan's chin.

The neon translator next to him translated Kudo Shizuka's words to Zhou Yan. Zhou Yan nodded and replied, Nice to meet you, Miss Kudo Shizuka.

Can I take a picture with you?

This is not an excessive request. Zhou Yan nodded, Of course there is no problem.

As soon as the photographer accompanying the group came over, Kudo Shizuka walked up to Zhou Yan and hugged his arm, looking at the camera with a smile.

When the group photo ended, Kudo Shizuka let go of Zhou Yan's arm, but the distance did not close.

Because she was standing too close, she looked up at Zhou Yan.

Actually, I wanted to go when you held a concert in Tokyo last time, but I was working in Fukuoka at that time and couldn't go.

Well, you must be very busy at work. Zhou Yan put the bamboo flute into the box and took a step back to distance himself from Kudo Shizuka.

Then he waved to the staff of Daifeng Entertainment. When the staff came over, he asked, Are there any reserved seats in the front row?

The staff explained, All reserved seats have been allocated.

They will reserve some seats for every concert just to deal with such emergencies, but it is impossible to keep the tickets until now. The concert will start in a while.

Shizuka Kudo waved her hand and said, No, no, I bought the tickets in advance.

Zhou Yan was just being polite. Hearing Kudo Shizuka say this, he nodded, When you come next time, let me know in advance and I'll have someone leave a ticket for you.

Okay, if I have time for the next few games, I will definitely go there.

Thanks for the support.

Afterwards, the two chatted for a few more words, and Fang Xiu came over to Zhou Yan to make final preparations.

Kudo Shizuka saw that Zhou Yan was busy and very sensible, so she took the initiative to leave.

After saying goodbye to Zhou Yan, Kudo Shizuka went to the hall.

Arriving in the hall, Kudo Shizuka was a little surprised because there were already two people sitting in the first row before her.

A man and a woman, still quite far apart.

She knew the man among them, who was an actor and director. The other woman was wearing a hat and scarf, and the light in the front room was so light that she couldn't see her face clearly.

She glanced at the woman twice, then walked up to the Museum Museum, bent down and said hello, Hello, Senior Museum Museum.

Well, hello, Ms. Kudo, you are coming to the concert today too.

Yes, I came here today because I didn't have any work.

You must be very busy recently.

It's okay. I was busy some time ago.

…

The two chatted for a while, and Shizuka Kudo couldn't help but ask about the museum, Senior, do you know that lady?

The museum museum director smiled and shook his head, I don't know her. She was already here when I came. She may be Zhou Yan's friend or someone from the organizer.

It's quite mysterious.

After a while, the band began to slowly walk onto the stage to prepare, and the audience outside began to check in. Shizuka Kudo went to find her seat and sit down.

The seat she bought herself was also in the first row, but it was on the edge and not in the center.

At 6:55, Zhou Yan came on stage early and said a few words, and then the concert officially started.

There is nothing complicated about the series of concerts, and the process is basically the same. The regular schedule of performances has been printed on the program list in advance, so it cannot be changed easily.

The difference is that they are all encore tracks later.

But Shu Nomura, who had been following Zhou Yan, discovered something different, that is, the bamboo flute Zhou Yan used for this performance actually came with a pendant.

Most people can't find such details at all, because it is very normal to hang things on bamboo flutes.

Even if some people at the scene have watched the Tokyo show before, they will not pay special attention to this.

But Nomura Shu is a journalist and is inherently more sensitive than the average person. Moreover, he knows Zhou Yan better than the average neon person. He knows that none of Zhou Yan's bamboo flutes have pendants on them.

Including many videos of Zhou Yan's previous performances, I have watched them on Show Nomura. Without exception, there are no pendants.

There is always a reason for a person's habits to change.

Such details may not necessarily mean that something special happened, but Nomura Shu still kept it in mind, and he kept staring at the pendant, wanting to see what it was.

However, he was sitting in the middle, some distance away from the stage, and could not see clearly what the pendant looked like.

It looks a bit like a guardian...but I'm not sure.

If there is really a guard hanging up, it can be regarded as news that can be written. After all, this is also an element of neon.

Kudo Shizuka kept staring at Zhou Yan without moving her eyes.

Originally, when Zhou Yan held a concert in Tokyo last time, Shizuka Kudo was planning to go there, but the company didn't allow her to go, so she didn't go.

But Kudo Shizuka is obviously not a good girl. This time Zhou Yan was holding a concert in Nagoya, and she came here secretly without telling the company.

Shizuka Kudo's rebellion has always been a headache for her agency.

When she was still in the group, she often had problems.

Once on the show, the host asked her if there was anyone she hated in the club.

Normally, when faced with such a problem, even if there is someone they hate, most people would not say it outright, but Kudo Shizuka was different from ordinary people and directly said the name of the person he didn't like.

Their girl group has a cute and pure style. Of course, the company also hopes that Shizuka Kudo can maintain the same style, but Shizuka Kudo completely ignores this. Her makeup and dressing style are bolder, and even her bad style It also caused many neon young women to follow suit.

In the end, the company had no choice but to take Shizuka Kudo out alone and let her fly solo.

After her solo career, Kudo Shizuka's development entered the fast lane. In just a few years, she became popular in Neon's home country, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

She went to Xiangjiang and Taiwan to hold a concert for the first time, and it was even more lively than Zhou Yan's previous Piano Boy.

The tickets for Piano Boy were all sold out near the start of the concert, but the tickets for Kudo Shizuka's concert were basically sold out within one day of release.

Kudo Shizuka expressed her admiration for Zhou Yan in front of the media before, but the company did not care because Zhou Yan is now quite famous in East Asia. Being able to have something to do with Zhou Yan may help Kudo Shizuka to enter the markets of Hong Kong and Taiwan. It's helpful, and I might be able to use it to enter the mainland Chinese market later.

But Shizuka Kudo said she wanted to come to the concert, but the company disagreed. After all, Shizuka Kudo was not a newcomer, so it would not be good for her to take the initiative to go there without receiving an invitation from Zhou Yan.

Kudo Shizuka insisted on coming today because she heard that Zhou Yan played the new song Drinking the Water of the Yangtze River Together during the encore of the last performance.

After arriving at the scene, she also found that the live performance was better than listening to a CD because Zhou Yan's appearance was very eye-catching.

People say she is an idol singer, and she thinks Zhou Yan should be an idol musician. In her impression, there seems to be no such good-looking composer.

She had met Ryuichi Sakamoto before, but face to face, Zhou Yan was better.

…

Zhou Yan returned to perform five songs in Tokyo. This time he did not favor one and arranged five encore performances in Nagoya. The last one was still the new song Drinking the Water of the Yangtze River.

After the five encores were over, the audience still enthusiastically gave an encore, and then Zhou Yan led the musicians to leave.

The whole process was nothing special.

But there was still some special episode. When Zhou Yan took Ma Dongfang and Yue Lin to the stage for the sixth time, Kudo Shizuka suddenly walked up holding a bouquet of flowers.

Under normal circumstances, Zhou Yan's concerts do not have a flower-laying part. Previously, some audience members wanted to go on stage to lay flowers, but they were stopped by the staff and explained the situation.

But today Shizuka Kudo came, and it was difficult for the staff to stop her. They even thought that Shizuka Kudo’s flower presentation was arranged in advance, so they let her go.

As soon as the audience in the audience saw Kudo Shizuka holding flowers, the cheers became more enthusiastic, and there were many young people among them who were booing.

Young people usually pay attention to entertainment news. Many of them know that Shizuka Kudo has expressed her admiration for Zhou Yan before, and handsome men and beautiful women always make people daydream about her.

Zhou Yan was stunned for a moment when he saw Shizuka Kudo coming up with flowers in her arms.

Where did this girl get her flowers?

It's not important...the key is that there is no flower laying part in the concert, and the staff is so serious that they just let her come up.

But at this point, Zhou Yan couldn't push the person away, so he could only keep a smile on his face and watch Shizuka Kudo come over.

When they arrived in front of Zhou Yan, Shizuka Kudo handed the flowers into his hand with a smile, Mr. Zhou Yan, thank you for bringing such a wonderful performance to everyone.

Zhou Yan took the flowers and was about to bend down to express his gratitude when Shizuka Kudo gave him a hug.

It didn't last long, it was just a polite hug, but Zhou Yan was still startled and quickly looked to the left of the first row, where Wang Zuxian was.

Although it was a courtesy hug, the audience was extremely excited, especially journalists like Shu Nomura. This meant that they would have news to report after returning home.

It's a pity that you can't take pictures or video at the scene, otherwise if you take a picture of the scene just now, there will be photos on the front page of the news.

After Kudo Shizuka went down, Zhou Yan handed the flowers to Ma Dongfang next to him, then coughed lightly and said, Thank you, Miss Kudo, for the flowers.

After saying his thanks, he took Ma Dongfang and the others off the stage.

There were no surprises in the next few exits, and they were all passed peacefully.

After the concert, Zhou Yan took some musicians to perform for the audience outside.

Now Zhou Yan's concerts have almost defaulted to an outdoor performance after the official performance.

But when Zhou Yan went outdoors today, he found that snow started to fall in the sky.

There isn't much snow in Nagoya in winter, and there was no snow in the previous weather forecast, so Zhou Yan was quite surprised to see snow falling in the sky.

Fortunately, it was snowing, and the snow was not very heavy at the moment, so it had no impact on the outdoor performance. On the contrary, because of the snow, the atmosphere at the scene was pretty good.

Walking onto the makeshift stage, Zhou Yan first looked up at the sky, then took the microphone and said with a smile, I heard that it doesn't often snow in Nagoya in winter. It seems that I'm pretty lucky. It just so happened that there was an outdoor performance today. The first song is Walking in the Snow in Search of Plum Blossoms, which is also quite appropriate for the occasion.

After finishing speaking, Zhou Yan led the orchestra to play four pieces of music including Walking in the Snow in Search of Plum Blossoms, but many people were waiting for the last piece.

At the Tokyo venue, Shu Yan played a new song without a name at the end. Many audience members knew it, so they were also looking forward to hearing this unnamed song.

Zhou Yan did not disappoint the audience. On the fifth song, he changed to a shakuhachi and played this unknown song for them.

Last time Zhou Yan played this unnamed song with a large bamboo flute. He used the bamboo flute to simulate the sound of the shakuhachi, which was a show of skill. This time, he replaced it with the shakuhachi and used the shakuhachi to fully demonstrate the piece. .

After all, it was originally composed for the shakuhachi, and the effect of performing it on the shakuhachi is still better than that on the bamboo flute.

When the song ended, Zhou Yan did not step off the stage or speak, but looked up to the sky again.

The snow seemed to be getting heavier and heavier at this moment, and each snowflake was thicker than half an hour ago. When Zhou Yan raised his head, a snowflake fluttered and landed on the center of his eyebrows.

After the snowflakes came into contact with Zhou Yan's skin, they began to melt slowly.

This melting process is very slow, much slower than the falling snowflakes around him, but Zhou Yan can clearly feel the feeling of the snowflakes slowly sticking to his skin as they melt.

It was as if his six senses were pulled to the center of his eyebrows by this snowflake and were not affected by external objects.

The audience was applauding, but when they saw Zhou Yan raising his head and not speaking, the applause slowly stopped and they remained quiet like him.

Although they didn't know what Zhou Yan was doing, they felt that they shouldn't disturb Zhou Yan in such a situation.

After more than a minute, Zhou Yan suddenly breathed out. He raised the shakuhachi to his mouth again, and then a long and deep sound came from the shakuhachi.

After a long silence, a sudden sound made many viewers' hearts tremble.

This sound is long and desolate, and when the long sound ends, it is followed by a tune with a simple structure.

People who are more familiar with Shakuhachi may hear that this piece is a bit like Udo, but the style is similar and the melody is different.

The melody of Zhou Yan's song is generally downward, fluttering, and every note will be released and eventually withdrawn.

This is also the difference between the shakuhachi and the flute. The flute emphasizes on not letting it go and not taking it back on the basis of the freedom of retracting and releasing it, but the shakuhachi is more focused on letting it out and taking it back.

Because the tune is simple, it doesn’t sound special at first, and the audience’s focus is on the timbre of the shakuhachi instrument.

But with the snowy scene, the artistic conception of the song suddenly came up.

The so-called great sound and sound may be this feeling.

When Zhou Yan's song ended, the audience was still immersed in this artistic conception. I don't know if it was because of this song, but many viewers felt that the snow now was more beautiful than the snow just now.

Zhou Yan put down the shakuhachi and said into the microphone, I felt something on the snowy day, so I played a simple piece of music at random. I hope everyone likes it. I just thought of a name for this piece of music, and it's called Flying Flowers.

When the translator translated this passage to the audience, the audience was both surprised and puzzled.

To their surprise, Zhou Yan improvised another song, and everyone present was a witness.

What is confusing is, why is this song called Feihua?

Should this scene be called Flying Snow more appropriately?

Aware of the audience's confusion, Zhou Yan explained with a smile, There was a famous poet in ancient China, Han Yu, who once wrote a poem: Even the New Year is not yet full of youth. In early February, I was surprised to see the grass buds, but the white snow was too late for spring. Therefore, the trees in the garden become flying flowers.”

The translator this time has a good understanding of ancient Chinese poetry and translated this poem very accurately.

Generally speaking, if Neon people want to understand ancient Chinese poetry, they must use the reading method, that is, by adding reading symbols and pseudonyms to ancient Chinese sentences, the sentences can be rewritten according to the word order of the Neon language.

This depends on the experience and level of the translator.

After translation, the audience at the scene roughly understood why this piece was called Fei Hua. It turned out that Fei Hua represented flying snow. The name seemed to express an expectation for spring.

They also discovered that Zhou Yan liked to use allusions from ancient Chinese poems to name his music. After Drinking the Water of the Yangtze River came out, many people became interested in that poem.

In fact, Neon people also like this. They are very yearning for ancient Chinese culture, and ancient poetry is naturally a top priority.

The music is connected with ancient poetry, which also makes the music more traditional oriental charm.

After explaining the name, Zhou Yan did not waste any time. He stood up, bowed to the audience to greet him, and then led the team members off the stage.

This time, the audience continued the encore, but Zhou Yan did not appear again.

Because the snow was getting heavier and heavier, when Zhou Yan walked off the stage just now, he saw a lot of snow falling on the heads of many audience members.

It's better to end it early and let them go home early.

…

When Zhou Yan returned to the hotel, Wang Zuxian had already gone back first.

Wang Zuxian sat cross-legged on the bed and looked at Zhou Yan with a half-smile, Why didn't the great musician bring the flowers back?

Zhou Yan pretended to be stupid and said, What kind of flower?

The flowers the beautiful Miss Kudo gave you.

Zhou Yan patted his head and said with a sudden realization, Oh, you said this, the audience sent flowers, I couldn't take them home, so I gave them to Ma Dongfang and the others.

As he said this, he walked up to Wang Zuxian again and said, Why, you are so jealous.

Wang Zuxian said harshly, How could I be jealous?

Otherwise, Comrade Xiaoxian is very enlightened. Zhou Yan flattered his girlfriend, and then said, Look at the imperial guard hanging on my bamboo flute today, does it look good?

Speaking of Yu Shou, Wang Zuxian smiled and said, Of course it looks good. You don't care who chose it for you.

Zhou Yan nodded repeatedly, Yes, yes, classmate Xiaoxian has good taste. With this pendant today, I feel that my breath is longer than usual when I play the flute.

Glib talk. Wang Zuxian gave Zhou Yan a roll of his eyes, and then said, No, I haven't even given you flowers.

Zhou Yan immediately said, Isn't this simple? In the next show, I will arrange a flower-laying session for you... If you are not satisfied, I can go down and give you flowers.

Wang Zuxian was a little jealous, but not angry. After being coaxed by Zhou Yan, she felt much better.

In fact, it was because of Kudo Shizuka's initiative that she felt a little threatened.

There are often girls around Zhou Yan, and many have a crush on him, but Wang Zuxian is relatively confident in himself, so he doesn't take them seriously.

It's just that Kudo Shizuka is not an ordinary girl, so she can't ignore it.

The next show of Oriental Legacy will be in Osaka three days later. Thinking of this, Wang Zuxian muttered, I don't know if I can be there for the next show.

Zhou Yan smiled and said, There should be no problem.

Wang Zuxian asked in confusion, Why do you say that?

Because I have agreed to be endorsed by Shiseido, this advertisement will be arranged according to my time. Zhou Yan said.

Why did you suddenly agree?

Because they agreed to film according to my request.

This afternoon, Zhou Yan had another phone call with Hattori Jiro. Hattori Jiro showed full sincerity, agreed to shoot according to Zhou Yan's request, and invited Zhou Yan to be the director of this advertisement.

For Zhou Yan, shooting this advertisement was an easy matter. He already had a complete idea and took the time to write out the advertisement script. It would take another day to shoot the advertisement, and it would not affect his work in Neon. itinerary. (End of chapter)