Chapter 7 Partner Meeting The number of views of Qi Long's crosstalk has continued to soar due to the spontaneous recommendations of crosstalk UP hosts and audiences who have watched it. Another song that was also on the rise was "Looking into the Window" which he sang during the encore. You didn't need to understand the lyrics directly, just the opera-like singing was enough to amaze you. On the short video platform, that section of opera singing was captured, and the number of views and likes soared. After listening to it, many people wanted to find the original song but found that it had not been released yet. Only the copyright website had any information about it. So they went to Deyun Club and Guo Degang’s Weibo to comment, asking Qi Long to record the song and release it as soon as possible. Some people even found Qi Long's partner Gao Dongqiang's Weibo and left comments on the video platform. The reason for looking for them is that Qi Long does not have any public Weibo, short video or video platform accounts. Qi Long was not aware of the audience's demands for the time being. At this moment, he was sitting in the corner of the high-speed rail dining car, with his laptop open, typing on the keyboard. Since you are participating in the National Crosstalk Competition, you must prepare some new jokes. You can't just perform the same old jokes that traditional audiences have heard countless times in the national competition, right? The crosstalk from another world is Qi Long’s greatest treasure. However, due to the limitations of the times, some crosstalk needs to be modified to be more reasonable.
For example, there is a crosstalk about TV shopping. If it is put into today's information-based age where everyone uses smartphones, it would be inappropriate. Because there is no TV shopping now, everyone shops online. Then this crosstalk can be changed into live streaming to sell goods. This change will be more in line with reality and make the audience feel more involved. In addition, there are many subtle differences between the other world and this world that need to be modified, so after Qi Long meditated on the high-speed train, he went to the dining car, ordered a 45-yuan box lunch, and began to make modifications intensively. Soon, the high-speed train arrived at the station. Qi Long then put away his notebook, picked up the lunch box he bought for 45 yuan, and got off the high-speed train. After turning down a large number of taxi drivers and illegal taxi drivers who were soliciting passengers along the way, Qi Long found a domineering Land Rover in the parking lot. The left and right front sides of the car were covered with gold rims, making it look like it had a pair of big gold teeth. "You are so ostentatious, driving a big hippo with gold teeth!" Qi Long knocked on the car window. The car window was rolled down, and a muscular man wearing sunglasses and a large vest looked at him. With this image, it would not be out of place for him to play a gang leader in a TV series! This person is Qi Long’s childhood good friend, Gao Dongqiang, who has been his crosstalk partner for more than 20 years. "This is already the most low-key car in our family. Get in quickly. Let's go to the small park near my master's home to practice poetry and then go find my master!" Although Dongqiang is big, he is afraid when his master is mentioned. When they were young, they learned crosstalk and their master really beat and scolded them, so they all have psychological trauma. After Qi Long complained about the inhumanity of the rich, he got into the car. Gao Dongqiang's family is wealthy. His father was a coal boss. Later he switched to steel and building materials business and was considered a wealthy family. After discovering that Gao Dongqiang was not a good student since he was young, he readily agreed to let him perform crosstalk. He said there was no need to worry about the family assets as they could be handed over to a professional agent in the future. As long as his son did not take the wrong path, it would be fine. His father's request to him was that you can spend the money but not start a business. You will lose more than you spend if you start a business with that kind of brain. So this brother only managed the Jin Province Crosstalk Club, and was forced to take over after the old gentleman invited by the original crosstalk club went home to recuperate. He had long wanted to join another club and not be in charge of anything, just being an actor would be fine. Qi Long sat in the back seat and fastened his seat belt carefully. Gao Dongqiang, who saw this scene through the rearview mirror, silently gave up the idea of stepping on the accelerator to let him feel the push from the Land Rover, and drove steadily. It was not rush hour in the capital, and because the roads were relatively wide, there was no serious congestion. Not long after, the two arrived at a small park near Mr. Shi Fukuan's house and came to a small pavilion on a small earth slope, which was called a rockery. This small pavilion was where they used to do morning exercises, and many of their lines and quick-paced stories were memorized here.
Qi Long opened the manuscript in his laptop and handed it to Gao Dongqiang, then he started eating the lunch box. Although it didn't taste good and was cold, it was 45 yuan and he couldn't waste it. "Hahaha, holy crap, you must have evolved after being hit. You wrote so many new jokes, and there are so many little gags in them?" Gao Dongqiang raised his head with joy after reading a few articles. At this time, he had taken off his sunglasses. Without the sunglasses, Gao Dongqiang's gangster temperament dropped sharply, because the small eyes appeared on his relatively large face, which was very inconsistent and added some dramatic effect. "Don't call me a star. I'm not one yet! There's nothing to do lying in bed, so I'm just thinking about things. If you have any good ideas, write them down!" Qi Long replied as he put the finished lunch box into a plastic bag. Gao Dongqiang praised: "I think it's all good. My master couldn't find any fault with it. You're really a talent. You've been delayed by performing crosstalk in small theaters every day. You should be given some time to calm down and recharge! I was also recharging myself during the year you were injured!" Qi Long wiped his mouth and joked, "You found a girlfriend? Recharge every day?" "Bah, please don't make me unable to look at the word 'charging' in the future, okay? I'm working out, can't you see that my muscles are bigger?" Dong Qiang bent his arms slightly to show off his arm muscles. Qi Long glanced at him with disdain: "Is it useful to train such big muscles? I tell you, with your muscles, you will cry if you punch me!" "Why am I crying?" Dongqiang said this completely subconsciously. Qi Long chuckled and said, "You have to cry and beg me not to die!" “Hahahahahaha!” Dongqiang laughed and clapped his hands: “This is a good joke, we can use it on stage later!” Oftentimes, the little jokes that crosstalk performers throw on stage are jokes that they suddenly come up with because of some trivial things in life. After they accumulate, the two of them speak fluently on the stage, with the funny man saying the first line and the straight man naturally following up with the next line. If there are so many crosstalk segments, and one has to memorize every word from the introduction to the main part, it would be too long and only a student can do it. Qi Long clapped his hands: "Come on, let's do it. I saw the semi-finals, the time is six minutes, let's do a simple one, let's do a quick-paced counting of rhymes? Tong Ren Tang is the last one!" "Row!" The two brothers took out a small cloth bag from their bag, opened it, pulled out the clappers, and started beating the clappers. The melody of bamboo and their articulate voices came down from the rockery. [Tong Ren Tang was originally an old medicine store. The master is like the King of Freedom. The King of Medicine sits in the middle, and the ten famous doctors are on both sides.] (End of this chapter)