That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1024: Chameleons Have to Call Grandpa (Two in One)

In the 1980s and 1990s, if you were to ask who was the best breakdancer, you would definitely have to mention MJ. His moonwalk influenced at least two generations.

But it is not necessarily correct to say that MJ is the unsurpassed number one in breakdancing, because people later followed the path he opened up and evolved so many extremely entertaining dance steps.

When Li Ye was young in his previous life, he was also obsessed with MJ. He often skipped lunch just to get an MJ CD. Later, after the rise of short videos, there were more channels for learning.

So when Li Ye changed seven or eight different dance styles in a one-minute improvisation, the applause and cheers in the small screening room were about to drown out the sound of the speakers.

"Okay, that's almost it!"

Li Ye turned off the sound system himself, and then said to the workers who were still not satisfied, "Do you understand now? Whether you are a good person or not is not determined by what kind of dance you dance. Dance has no original sin, it is people who are guilty.

Oh, of course. As for those who dance in the dark, just ignore what I said. I will fire anyone who dances in the dark."

"Hahahaha~"

All the workers present laughed, and a few girls blushed slightly, looking a little embarrassed.

Dancing under the dark lights was an unhealthy trend that suddenly emerged a few years ago. It has now been suppressed, but its aftereffects are extremely serious.

Many people went to dance halls to dance just to experience those few minutes of black lights. The exciting feeling spread from one person to another, and even the good kids who had never been to a dance hall had heard of its legend.

Although that thing is just child's play compared to the various tricks in later generations, Li Ye absolutely does not approve of it. He is now the head of a large family and he has to take good care of the good children in the family.

"But I also want to emphasize one thing! You can like dancing, but you can't hinder others."

Li Ye suddenly changed the subject and said to the workers who were rehearsing, "Everyone has their own freedom. When you are dancing at noon, if others want to take a nap, then you should turn down the volume to the minimum.
Because if you are too noisy, you will inevitably affect other people’s freedom.”

"."

The rehearsal staff was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, we won't turn on the sound system at noon, we'll turn it on after get off work."

Li Ye nodded and said, "Then in the same way, if someone says that they don't like seeing you jumping around so lively, then you can ask them to look elsewhere and not watch you dancing. This is also respecting your freedom."

"The highest level of freedom is not to interfere with other people's freedom. Do you understand?"

"."

Everyone looked at Lai Jiayi. It was obvious that Li Ye's words were meant for her.

If you don't like someone, then why don't you just stop looking at him? You have two eyes on your forehead, who forced you to look?
"Humph~"

Lai Jiayi turned and left.

Ever since she lost face during the last selection, she had completely turned against Li Ye and sided with Niu Hongzhang. Now that Niu Hongzhang and Li Ye had fallen out, there was no room for reconciliation between her and Li Ye.

"Humph~"

Li Ye also snorted and returned to his office.

He is not the kind of person who would just snort and show his opponent some of his strength. Does he really think he is a good person?
"Hey, Lao Xu, didn't Workshop 4 report that it was short of foundry workers? Transfer Wang Dazhen from the small projection room to me. Issue a formal notice this afternoon and have him start work tomorrow."

"."

Old Xu, who was in charge of personnel opposite, was startled and whispered, "Director Li, that Wang Dazhen is a member of the union."

Li Ye didn't even wait for Old Xu to finish, and started to curse: "I don't care who he is related to, who he is related to, let him come to me!"

"Okay, okay, I'll do it right away. But Director Li, after Wang Dazhen is transferred away, who will be in charge of the small projection room?"

"Give me the key and I'll take care of it myself."

"Okay, okay, I understand, Director."

Old Xu hung up the phone in a hurry and quickly arranged for Wang Dazheng's job adjustment.

Even though he was a fool, he knew who Li Ye was angry at.

If it weren't for Lai Jiayi's relationship with Wang Dazhen, Li Ye might not have dealt with him!

"Hey, being a foundry worker is not bad either, the salary is high! Hehe~"

Old Xu could only mourn for Wang Dazhen in his heart. Although the foundry workers in Workshop 4 had high salaries, the work was tiring and dangerous. With Wang Dazhen's small body, it was not known whether he could withstand it.

But in the afternoon, when the news of Li Ye breakdancing in the small screening room spread, Old Xu couldn't help but scold him.

"That factory director's cop is a complete idiot for not taking the matter seriously. He deserves it!"

. . . . . . . . .

After Li Ye got the key to the small screening room, he threw it to Huang Mengjia.

"Remember to return the key to me after you use it!"

"Okay~"

"If someone wants to use the small projection room, do you know what to do?"

"Don't worry, Director. Others can use it at will, but some people would never let her use it."

"."

The reason why Li Ye took the initiative to take over the management of the small screening room was actually to stop Lai Jiayi from interfering.

Didn't Lai Jiayi say that no one could enter the small screening room without her permission? Now the situation was reversed, and anyone who wanted to enter the small screening room had to find Li Ye.

But Li Ye gave the key to Huang Mengjia, so the management rights of this small screening room now belong to the Life Management Department in disguise, right?
[I wanted to give you some face, but what I got in return was you showing off. I let you show off. 】

From now on, this kind of thing will continue to happen until Lai Jiayi is completely sidelined and brought down.

Huang Mengjia obviously understood this, and even this result was due to her contribution.

"By the way, Director, Ge Qiang and the others asked me to tell you that they want to learn breakdancing from you. When do you have time?"

"How can I have time for that?"

Li Ye shook the thick documents on his desk and said meaningfully: "When you gain something, you must give up something. I used to be as happy as Ge Qiang and the others, but now..."

"I understand, I understand. Director, I'm sorry, I'll go explain to Ge Qiang and the others."

Huang Mengjia quickly apologized and went out.

What is Li Ye's current status? Can he teach you guys to breakdance?
What's going on?

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However, Li Ye was unwilling to teach the workers to breakdance in person, nor did he want to disappoint them too much. After all, the young people in the first branch were Li Ye's important objects of unity.

So after Li Ye returned home, he asked Wen Leyu to take out the camcorder and help him record some teaching moves of classic dance steps.

Wen Leyu didn't understand what Li Ye was trying to do at first, but when he saw him divide the movements of the moonwalk into several small sections and explain them clearly and easily, he was completely stunned.

"When did you learn this? How come I don't know this?"

"There's a lot you don't know," Li Ye said while jumping and showing off, "I'm a treasure boy. Even if you dig for a lifetime, I can still give you some surprises from time to time."

Wen Leyu's big eyes kept blinking as he scanned Li Ye, as if he wanted to see how many treasures he had.
But unfortunately, she couldn't find any secrets even when Li Ye took off his clothes, let alone that he was still wearing a suit?

In order to provide correct guidance, Li Ye wore a suit and sportswear when teaching the movements, looking like an absolute gentleman.

Moreover, he does not teach those "zombie" type movements, but only the smooth and beautiful movements.

Wen Leyu took photos enthusiastically for a long time. After finishing, he smiled and pulled Li Ye's arm.

"Please teach me how to dance!"

"Why should a good girl learn that? Let's learn something else."

Li Ye narrowed his eyes and smiled, and said, "Sister, let me teach you how to dance in the dark!"

"."

The smile on Wen Leyu's face disappeared, and he asked murderously: "When did you learn how to dance in the dark? Who did you learn from?"

Li Ye was surprised and asked: "Do we still need to learn this? Let's turn off the lights and learn it by trial and error."

"I'll teach you a lesson."

"Ouch~, hiss, hiss, you kicked me again."

After many years, Li Ye was kicked out by Wen Leyu again.

He really couldn't understand. They were not married and it was not legal back then. Now their children have grown up, why are they still so embarrassed?
But just when Li Ye was about to force his young wife to do a wall-bang, the voice of grandma Wu Juying was heard from outside.

"Xiao Ye, what are you shouting about?"

"Ah? No! I accidentally bumped into the corner of the table and hit the corrugated cover."

"Oh, then why did I hear some black light dance just now?"

"."

Li Ye's forehead was almost sweaty.

Wu Juying is very open-minded in some aspects, but in some aspects, she may be more conservative than people like Niu Hongzhang.

At the critical moment, it was Wen Leyu who spoke up to save the situation.

"Grandma, I'm teaching Li Ye how to ballroom dance! Our company is having a Spring Festival dance party, and his legs were too stiff, so he bumped into the corner of the table."

"Oh, a couple dancing! Just dance as you like, even in the dark."

"."

Wen Leyu looked at Li Ye blankly, unable to guess whether Wu Juying was speaking sarcastically or truthfully.

Is this how you spoil your grandson?
Li Ye tried to hold back his laughter and stamped his feet, then reached out and pulled Wen Leyu into his arms.

"Come on, come on, teach me how to dance. My calves are stiff."

. . . . . . . . . .

The New Year's Eve party of the first branch was so successful that the main factory came over to borrow people and programs.

Because December 31, 1988 was a Saturday, and Li Ye didn't want to take up everyone's day off, the New Year's Eve party was scheduled for Saturday. Coincidentally, the celebration of the headquarters was scheduled for Sunday, so several wonderful programs of the branch were copied verbatim to the headquarters' party.

Now that was good, Niu Hongzhang took advantage of the first meeting after the New Year to make a lot of innuendos against Li Ye.

"Some of our comrades, instead of thinking about how to work hard and repay the country's trust, are obsessed with crooked ways.
A leading cadre encourages the workers in his unit to dance. No matter how well you dance, can you achieve the Four Modernizations? Can you achieve a prosperous country and a strong people? "

"." Li Ye raised his eyelids and glanced at Niu Hongzhang, ignoring him completely.

You don't even dare to point at my name. You can tell at a glance that you are just a coward and are just bluffing. If you have the guts, just point at my nose and say something and I'll spit at you to death.

"Lao Niu, what you said is a bit biased. Dancing was very popular in Yan'an a few years ago. Now our country has a Ministry of Culture and a dance academy, and of course it also supports the people to enrich their cultural life."

Ma Zhaoxian certainly would not let Niu Hongzhang do what he wanted, and he put the big hat on him. With so many big shots, who hasn't danced yet?

"How can that be the same? That's ballroom dancing, do you think I don't understand?"

Niu Hongzhang said seriously: "But if you look at the breakdance at this New Year's Eve party, it is simply full of demons and monsters. These are all corrupting tricks deliberately spread to our mainland by overseas enemies."

"."

Niu Hongzhang began to fulfill his duties and corrected the thoughts and work styles of everyone present.

But just as he finished speaking, he heard Li Ye say faintly: "Ballroom dancing was also spread to our mainland from overseas."

"."

Niu Hongzhang looked at Li Ye viciously, his back teeth were almost bitten off.

Li Ye was obviously making a fuss, but he didn't know how much time and effort he would have to waste if he wanted to make things clear with Li Ye.

“Tuk-tuk-tuk~”

There was a sudden knock on the door of the conference room, and then Huang Mengjia pushed the door open and walked in.

Li Ye frowned and said softly, "Is there something urgent?"

Huang Mengjia nodded excitedly, and then said: "A big star came to our company and said he wanted to watch our breakdancing."

As soon as Huang Mengjia finished speaking, Niu Hongzhang's eyes sternly reprimanded: "What big star or small star? Can't you see we are in a meeting?"

Li Ye frowned and helped Huang Mengjia resolve the situation, saying, "You can just come and handle this kind of trivial matter. If they are willing to watch it, you can take them to find Ge Qiang and don't disturb the normal work of the unit."

But Huang Mengjia did not go out, but explained awkwardly: "It's like this, the factory director, he has already confirmed that he will be on the Spring Festival Gala, so I think it's an opportunity for us,
Because they are a group dance, I came to you in a hurry to see if I can discuss with them to put the name of our unit on the subtitles of the supporting performances."

"."

The meeting room was silent for a moment, and then suddenly became lively.

"Hey, this is a good idea! If we can leave the name of our company on the Spring Festival Gala, it will be equivalent to advertising."

"It's better than advertising. I still remember all the performers of last year's Spring Festival Gala! I even remember the sponsors."

This is not the multimedia era of decades later, when massive amounts of information fill your head every day. So for a program like the Spring Festival Gala, which has a viewership rate of over 90 percent, every little bit of it will be remembered by many people.

【Appearing on the Spring Festival Gala? Breakdancing?】

Li Ye grasped these two key words and thought of the man known as the "Michael Jackson of flower growers".

Ma Zhaoxian was also very interested in Huang Mengjia's idea, so he asked kindly: "Xiao Huang, who is the big star you are talking about? How did he find us here?"

Huang Mengjia explained: "His name is Tao Xin, he is a college student at the Dance Academy, and he shot the film Rock Youth.
The word of our first branch's break dancing skills spread, so he came here to watch our videotapes."

Huang Mengjia looked at Li Ye as she spoke, because when Li Ye gave Huang Mengjia the "teaching videotape", he stipulated that it was "internal learning material" and was not allowed to be passed on to others.

"."

"Tao Xin? I haven't heard of him, but I know about Rock Youth. There was a poster of that movie outside the cinema a few days ago."

"Now that you mention it, I have an impression of it. That movie does exist."

This is not an era where hundreds of people make their debuts in a week. Anyone who can appear in a movie is a "big star", so after listening to Huang Mengjia's explanation, everyone in the conference room has agreed to this.

But Li Ye was not so enthusiastic, because he knew that the subtitles of the Spring Festival Gala were not decided by Tao Xin. Even if he was really a big star, he had no say in the Spring Festival Gala.

He came to watch breakdancing, probably just to learn some techniques so that he can make his own "Jump" more exciting.

However, Ma Zhaoxian didn't think so. In his opinion, as long as Li Ye wanted to do it, let alone changing the subtitles, even changing the protagonist would be a piece of cake.

Is Li Ye a bad dancer?

Does Teacher Ke have no connections?

So Ma Zhaoxian said: "Xiao Lu, Li Ye, you two go entertain the guests first, test the waters, and then remember to keep them for dinner tonight."

“Okay, okay.”

Lu Zhizhang agreed readily, and Li Ye had no choice but to stand up and follow him out.

But before they even took two steps, Niu Hongzhang suddenly asked Huang Mengjia, "You just said that breakdancing will be on the Spring Festival Gala?"

Huang Mengjia nodded and said, "Yes, it has been decided."

Niu Hongzhang thought for two seconds, then said: "Since we are on the Spring Festival Gala, it means the country supports us. Let's go together! We must let others feel our importance and strive to wish the whole country a happy new year on TV."

"."

Li Ye looked at Niu Hongzhang in surprise as he stood up and walked out of the meeting room first, not knowing what to say.

[Didn't you just say that breakdancing is evil? Why are you taking it seriously now? ]

Lu Zhizhang pulled Li Ye's sleeve, reminding him to keep up, and whispered: "If you want to go on the subtitles, you can only go to the Light Automobile Company, not the first factory."

Ok!

Only then did Li Ye understand.

If it is true as Huang Mengjia said, that the name of the unit can be left on the program list, then Niu Hongzhang, who is in charge of spiritual thoughts, can take advantage of it!

Sure enough, after arriving at the reception room of the first branch, Niu Hongzhang changed his previous attitude of being deeply saddened by breakdancing and shook hands with Tao Xin and others very enthusiastically.

And when he found out that someone who came with Tao Xin was a TV station staff member, he became even more enthusiastic.

"Hey, who? Xiao Lu, don't you have any teaching videotapes? Open it for me to watch. We can't keep it secret!"

"."

Lu Zhizhang smiled at Li Ye, then turned on the video recorder, showing Li Ye's lower body.

"Stand on tiptoe with front legs, hit with back legs one, two, three."

"Left leg 35 degrees, right leg gently slide, rotate."

Li Ye’s teaching videos are broken down so that people can understand them at a glance.

"Huh? So that's how it is! Isn't this simple?"

"Yes, yes! I understand it too."

A group of people in their forties and fifties watched Li Ye’s teaching video, and each of them felt that they could do it too.

But masters like Tao Xin understand the secrets. Sometimes you don’t even realize how difficult it is to improve your skills just a little bit.

"This is so helpful to us. Thank you so much, Secretary Niu."

"Such a simple technique, what are you thanking me for, Xiao Tao? You are so polite, but I want to ask, I heard that your dance is a group dance, you see our workers, they are all experts, can you add a few people?"

"."

Tao Xin was in a difficult situation. He came here today just to learn some breakdancing techniques and never expected Niu Hongzhang to make these requests.

It's already January, and the Spring Festival Gala recording will start in more than a month. His group dance team has already been fixed. How can he expect good coordination if he adds more people to the team at this time?

Besides, Niu Hongzhang said that Ge Qiang and others from the first branch were masters, but they were really not good enough in front of a genuine professional graduate like Tao Xin.

But Niu Hongzhang's level was there, so he couldn't refuse directly, so he smiled and said, "We have been rehearsing for several months, and it is difficult to change it. But if the master you mentioned is at the level of the videotape, then we can give it a try."

Niu Hongzhang frowned slightly, then turned to Li Ye and said, "Director Li, since they think so highly of you, just give it a try!"

I'll try you.

Li Ye said calmly: "I'm very busy with work this month. I'm afraid I don't have time to record the Spring Festival Gala, so let's not waste everyone's time."

"."

Everyone was surprised.

No one expected that Li Ye could resist the temptation to perform on the Spring Festival Gala.

Even Tao Xin was shocked.

He didn't expect that the breakdancing master in the video tape was the "factory manager" in front of him.

Have you seen any factory manager breakdancing?
This is as "abnormal" as the principal who danced the ghost step dance.

"Hello Director Li, I was blind and didn't expect that there was a master right next to me. Don't worry, we won't take up much of your time. We will start recording after two rehearsals."

Tao Xin hurriedly shook hands with Li Ye and extended a sincere invitation.

Li Ye looked at Tao Xin, who was still in his prime, and couldn't believe that he would lose his life in a few years.

"If there is a chance in the future, we can exchange dances, but I really don't have time to participate in rehearsals and training. Our unit has two imported production lines waiting to be put into production."

"."

"Li Ye, this is wrong."

Lao Wan, the head of the finance department of the main factory, said with a smile: "If you can appear on the Spring Festival Gala and become a big star, it will also be good for our factory's production work."

[If I want to become a big star, do I still need to rely on them? ]

If Li Ye wanted to become famous, wouldn't it be easier to just make a movie?
With Aqiang's current film and television team, they can make Li Ye famous in minutes. Just saying "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven" can win you an award for the best lines.

The entertainment industry is a big melting pot. Those who study art like to be free and lawless.
My brother-in-law got into trouble with Ning Pingping, and all kinds of troubles kept coming up.
Li Ye is so handsome and has the physique to attract bees and butterflies. If he causes trouble like what happened to Ning Pingping, it would be strange if Wen Leyu didn't deal with him in the middle of the night.

But after Li Ye refused repeatedly, Niu Hongzhang frowned and said righteously: "Comrade Li Ye, work is not limited to any occasion. Putting the production line into operation is work, and appearing on the Spring Festival Gala is also work. This is your job."

Fuck you! Chameleons would kowtow to you and call you grandpa.

but
Li Ye was a little confused.

[That's not right! This is not Lao Niu's style. If something is out of the ordinary, there must be something fishy going on!]

(End of this chapter)