Rebirth: Back to 1993 as the richest man

In the 90s, the city of Chengdu at night was not as lively as it was 30 years later.

I didn't drive tonight, Chu Tianyao and Lu Qiuyu strolled on the street.

After nine o'clock, most of the cars on the bus are gone. Occasionally, you can see an old man playing mahjong at a roadside tea stand in the middle of the night.

In the roadside teahouse outside the People's Park, the sound of playing mahjong seems to be integrated with the city.

Chu Tianyao looked at the grandpa and grandma in the teahouse, and stopped in front of a canteen.

"Here comes a pack of China!"

Chu Tianyao shouted at the owner of the commissary.

The boss was playing mahjong in the store, and when he heard there were customers, he quickly got up and took out a hard box of Zhonghua from the glass cabinet and put it on the table.

"Hard medium, eight yuan!"

The boss looked up at Chu Tianyao. After all, he might not be able to sell a pack of Zhonghua for two days in his shop. The young man in front of him looked like a rich man.

Chu Tianyao subconsciously reached out for his bag, but found that he didn't seem to have eight yuan change on him.

"Let me do it!"

On the side, it was Lu Qiuyu who took out a [-]-yuan "Unity" from his satchel and handed it to the owner of the commissary.

"Thanks!"

Chu Tianyao smiled slightly and took the cigarette in his hand.

Unlike Zhonghua in the 80s and 1994s, since [-], the hot stamping printing of Zhonghua cigarette shells has been changed to more advanced gravure printing, and the material of cigarette labels has also been changed from white cardboard to aluminum-mounted paper.

Retailing for eight yuan a pack, the price is not cheap.

At the beginning, Zhonghua Tobacco was a special cigarette, but it was widely sought after. On the first day of listing, it rose from 40 yuan to 65 yuan, triggering a wave of panic buying across the country. As a result, in desperation, the State Tobacco Administration released Zhonghua Tobacco is priced at 72 yuan a piece.

There is not much difference in retail prices across the country, all around [-] yuan a pack, and some even higher.

"Can you quit smoking?"

After receiving the two yuan change from the boss, Lu Qiuyu rolled his eyes at Chu Tianyao and said.

"I've been smoking for decades, how can I just quit!"

Chu Tianyao said with a playful smile that he didn't smoke in his previous life, but since his business was blocked and he stayed up late in the office every day, he also developed the habit of smoking.

Over time, this habit is difficult to quit.

"Foreign medical research shows that smoking is not only harmful to health, but also has a disadvantage specifically for men."

Lu Qiuyu watched Chu Tianyao open the cigarette case, and said deliberately.

"The bad for men?"

The movements in Chu Tianyao's hands froze, and he looked up at the person in front of him.

"What's the downside?"

Lu Qiuyu pretended to smile mysteriously, and then looked Chu Tianyao up and down, with a bit of scrutiny and contempt in his eyes, and then walked out with his satchel without saying a word.

"Hey, tell me clearly!"

Seeing Lu Qiuyu play tricks, Chu Tianyao lost the mood to smoke for a while, and quickly followed.

When the two passed a busy intersection, Lu Qiuyu stopped.

On one side is the night market, where there are not only vendors, but also many night food and food stalls at the street. The reason why both Lu Qiuyu and Chu Tianyao stopped was because a group of people in front blocked their way.

At the intersection of the night market, no. 30 people crowded together, all surrounded by a man in a denim jacket holding a guitar.

What is most noteworthy is that this man looks like he is only in his early thirties, but he looks very much like a heavenly king with the surname Liu, no matter his body or face.

There is a microphone in front of the man, and there is an external speaker at his feet. Although the sound quality is not good, but listening to the prelude played on the speaker, it is the popular Cantonese song in the past two years, and the days we walked together.

"How to face it, the days we walked together, now I am left to walk alone, how to let my heart tell you one by one..."

The man had Liu Tianwang's standard bangs hairstyle, and when he opened his mouth with a somewhat thick voice, everyone in the room was instantly shocked.

Not only does it look alike, but this guy's voice is exactly the same as Liu Tianwang.

"My God, if I didn't see it with my own eyes, I really thought it was Andy Hua Tsai!"

In the crowd, a girl almost covered her mouth and said in surprise.

In the 90s, the limelight of the four heavenly kings has gradually blown from Hong Kong and Taiwan to the mainland, and they have become idols in the hearts of countless people.

"Interesting, is it a parody singer?"

Lu Qiuyu also muttered to himself.

Although looking carefully, the other party's appearance is still somewhat different from Liu Tianwang, but the voice is eight or nine percent similar to Liu Tianwang.

Standing where he was, Chu Tianyao also became interested in the guy singing in front of him.

In the 90s, as Hong Kong and Taiwan stars became popular in the mainland, domestic entertainment industries such as film and television, music, etc. were considered to have really developed, especially after the turn of the millennium, the so-called entertainment circle was formed.

Chu Tianyao has seen too many imitation singers like this, but after he saw the person in front of him, he inexplicably remembered an interesting story he had heard before.

It is said that there is a roast duck restaurant called Lai Pi Ya, which actually put up a huge portrait poster of Jay Chou at the door of its house, and hired him as the spokesperson of Lai Pi Ya's image.

Overnight, the well-known Jay Chou became the spokesperson of the "Duck Restaurant", which can be said to have spread all over the country, making this roast duck restaurant an Internet celebrity overnight.

Everyone thought it was true, after all, the person on the portrait poster did look exactly like Jay Chou.

However, what people didn't expect was that the fact that the roast duck restaurant invited Jay Chou to advertise turned out to be fake, as for the so-called celebrity on the poster, it turned out to be just a professional celebrity imitator who looked a lot like Jay Chou.

For a while, the matter became a big issue, and even involved a lawsuit, but in the end the law ruled that the roast duck restaurant did not infringe, and this could only be regarded as an edge-of-the-box operation at best.

"The product has been sold for so long, why didn't I think of hiring an image spokesperson!"

Standing outside the crowd, Chu Tianyao suddenly had an idea and slapped his forehead.

At this moment, after the man in the crowd sang a song, he opened his guitar bag and begged for money from the surrounding audience.

"What are you doing, you're a fake star, and you're asking us for money!"

Seeing this scene, the onlookers who were standing there just now waved their hands and strode away.

Holding the empty guitar bag, the man stared at the crowd leaving the venue, and he also froze in place with a bitter smile on his face.

This is not the first time he has encountered this situation.

"Good singing!"

Just when the man thought he would get nothing tonight, a figure walked up to him and put a hundred-yuan bill into his guitar bag.

This is a four-person head, a full 100 yuan.

The man raised his head in disbelief and looked at the person in front of him with excitement.

"Thank you for your support..."

"What's your name?"

Chu Tianyao stood on the spot, looking at the slightly downcast man in front of him.

"My surname is Zhou... By the way, this is my flyer!"

Subconsciously replied, while talking, the man suddenly remembered something, and took out a colorful leaflet from his pocket.

There was a photo on the leaflet, which was the man himself, and besides the photo, there was even a paragraph about his self-introduction.

"Zhou Dehua, a singer and a professional celebrity imitator, participated in the 1993 Kunming Star Imitation Contest and won No.1..."

Chu Tianyao looked at the leaflet in his hand, and then looked up at the person in front of him.

"Your name is Zhou Dehua?"

The man nodded, smiled and said to Chu Tianyao: "The person on the flyer is me, boss, I am a professional celebrity imitator, and Liu Tianwang is the best imitator!"

"I see."

Chu Tianyao nodded, and then put the flyer back into Zhou Dehua's hand.

"Since you have this ability and won an award, how did you end up in this situation?"

Hearing Chu Tianyao's words, Zhou Dehua couldn't help but sighed.

"So what if I won an award, I'm just a fake. At the beginning, people invited me to be a resident singer in nightclubs, but then the novelty gradually disappeared, and I could only come out and be a wandering singer."

Perhaps it was because of the 100 yuan, or because he felt that he was very close to Chu Tianyao, Zhou Dehua rarely opened up the chatterbox and said: "Boss, to tell you the truth, my wish is to be a singer, to become a singer like the Four Heavenly Kings." people."

As he spoke, Zhou Dehua waved the guitar in his hand.

"If nothing else happens, your dream should be hard to come true!"

Chu Tianyao looked at the confident Zhou Dehua, but mercilessly exposed the reality.

He has seen too many imitators of celebrities, and there are many better imitators than Zhou Dehua, but those people are just a flash in the pan to make the audience happy, and there are very few people who can really become popular by imitation.

"That's what my mother said..."

Chu Tianyao's words also caused Zhou Dehua's expression to stagnate, and then he said with a wry smile: "But where there is a will, there is a way. As long as there is a one in ten thousand chance, I will not give up."

"You have no chance by singing, but I have a way to make you famous and rich!" Chu Tianyao said with a smile.

"any solution?"

Zhou Dehua asked subconsciously, and then looked at Chu Tianyao with doubts.

On the side, I didn't want to interrupt at first, but seeing Chu Tianyao talking with Zhou Dehua with a purpose, Lu Qiuyu on the side also became curious.

"I want to ask you to shoot an advertisement and be the image spokesperson of our products. If there is no accident, it should make you popular."

As soon as Chu Tianyao said this, the doubt in Zhou Dehua's eyes gradually turned into surprise.

"Scout, you must be a scout, right... I knew that as long as I sang outside every day, a scout would always find me."

Zhou Dehua said excitedly, he actually held Chu Tianyao's arm with both hands.

Maybe it's because he has read too many Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment magazines. Zhou Dehua has always imagined that he can be discovered by scouts like Hong Kong actress Guan Zhilin, and thus become popular.

Hearing what Chu Tianyao said now, he was almost certain that Chu Tianyao was the Bole he had been waiting for for a long time.

"You misunderstood, I'm not a scout, I'm just a businessman!"

Chu Tianyao broke free from this guy's hand, then took out his own business card and handed it to Zhou Dehua.

"The general manager of Xingyao Wine Industry..."

Zhou Dehua looked down at the business card, as if he had confirmed Chu Tianyao's identity, he couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

"Although I'm not a scout, it's true that I invited you to shoot an advertisement. You should think about it carefully. My phone number and office address are on the business card."

After Chu Tianyao left his business card, he took a look at Zhou Dehua who was full of disappointment, and immediately led Lu Qiuyu away together.

"Commercials?"

Holding the business card given by Chu Tianyao, Zhou Dehua felt somewhat doubtful.

After all, the people who can shoot commercials on TV with this idea are all big stars, how could he be treated like this for a mere wandering singer.

Subconsciously thinking that Chu Tianyao was lying to him, Zhou Dehua looked disappointed and was about to throw away the business card in his hand, but when he turned his head and saw the 100 yuan in the guitar bag, he was stunned, and finally put the business card back into it. in his trouser pocket.