1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Because he had important things to do the next day, after Zhou Yan prepared everything for them, he went back to his room to take a shower and go to bed.

Being able to stay up late is his first talent, and being able to fall asleep at any time is his second talent. After taking a shower, he lay on the bed at one o'clock and fell asleep at one minute and five minutes, which was not much slower than the speed of falling asleep under anesthesia in the operating room.

At seven o'clock the next morning, he got up on time.

Nearly six hours of sleep was more than enough for him.

In fact, as long as he can get four hours of sleep on a normal day, he will have no problem with his energy.

If the work is tight, sleeping two hours a day is not a big problem. The key is that his sleep quality is indeed high, and a high proportion of deep sleep.

When I passed by several girls' rooms, I didn't hear any noise, so they probably didn't wake up.

He had something to do today, so he ignored them and let them take care of themselves. He went to the cafeteria to eat first.

When Zhou Yan arrived at the cafeteria, he ran into Fang Xiu there and greeted her with a smile, "You're here to eat so early?"

"Senior brother is here too. The main reason is that the shepherd's purse vermicelli dumplings in the cafeteria are so delicious. I feel uncomfortable if I don't eat them for a day."

Last spring, Kong Chao developed a shepherd's purse vermicelli dumplings. The steamed dry dumplings tasted great and were very popular.

But shepherd's purse is in season, and we only ate it for a few days and then the dumplings were gone.

This year, the canteen learned from experience and took advantage of the peak season of shepherd's purse in March and April to organize people to go to the suburbs to dig shepherd's purse several times, and made a lot of dumplings and froze them.

The canteen has a cold storage with a large capacity. It is said that Kong Chao and his team made tens of thousands of dumplings this time, and they plan to eat them until shepherd's purse grows next year.

However, they found that the dumplings were consumed very quickly, and these tens of thousands of dumplings might not last until the shepherd's purse grows again next year.

When Zhou Yan heard it, he was very surprised. After all, tens of thousands of dumplings sounded like a lot. But then he calculated and found that tens of thousands of dumplings were not a lot.

If there are 300 days in a year and 100 dumplings are consumed every day, that would be 30,000 dumplings.

The shepherd's purse dumplings they made were not very big, but a contestant like Fang Xiu could eat a hundred of them in three meals a day.

There are a lot of people eating in the cafeteria every day, and it is easy to consume one or two hundred shepherd's purse dumplings.

In order to make the dumplings last longer, the shepherd's purse dumplings are now limited in quantity. Only those who come early can get them, and each person can only have one small basket, or eight dumplings, for a meal.

Fang Xiu came so early just for the shepherd's purse dumplings.

"Don't always eat shepherd's purse dumplings. It's also okay to try pork and green onion ones. They are all freshly made." Zhou Yan also likes to eat this kind of shepherd's purse vermicelli dumplings, but he gets sick of it if he eats too much.

"The pork and green onion ones are not as delicious as this." Fang Xiu smiled. She loves eating shepherd's purse vermicelli dumplings and she never gets tired of them.

If there were a ranking list of the amount of shepherd's purse vermicelli dumplings consumed, Fang Xiu would definitely be ranked first. She comes early almost every day just to eat shepherd's purse dumplings.

Others eat it occasionally, but she wants to eat it every day.

"Okay, then let Kong Chao and the others do more next year."

"Thank you, Senior Brother." Fang Xiu smiled and asked Zhou Yan, "Senior Brother, are you busy at the end of the month?"

"It's the end of the month, I'm quite busy." Zhou Yan asked in confusion, "Why are you asking this?"

Fang Xiu wiped her mouth and said with a smile, "I want to treat you to a meal."

"Invite me to dinner?" Zhou Yan was even more confused.

He and Fang Xiu have known each other for a long time. When he was composing the soundtrack for the film "Letter from Heaven", Fang Xiu helped him a lot and was also the earliest member of the Piano Youth Orchestra.

Over the years, Fang Xiu has been doing a very good job as the leader of the Youth Piano Orchestra, which has saved Zhou Yan a lot of worry.

But over the years, Fang Xiu has never taken the initiative to invite Zhou Yan to dinner.

When their band was first established, Zhou Yan usually paid for all meals, and no one would argue with him since he was the boss of the band, after all.

So, when he heard Fang Xiu say that she wanted to treat him to a meal, he was a little confused.

What's more, it's already the beginning of May, and she has scheduled the dinner invitation for the end of the month, which is even more strange.

"Yes, I'll treat you to a meal." Fang Xiu took out a red invitation from the cloth bag beside him, "Brother, this is for you."

When Zhou Yan saw the invitation, his eyebrows raised, "Are you about to get married?"

Fang Xiu nodded and said, "Yes, I'm getting married at the end of the month."

Zhou Yan opened the invitation, which showed that the wedding date was May 31st, the last day of the month.

The bride is Fang Xiu and the groom is Zou Yong.

Zhou Yan had known that Fang Xiu had been dating for nearly two years, but he had never met her boyfriend. Today was even the first time he heard his boyfriend's name.

"Well." Zhou Yan patted his head. "I usually don't care about you enough. I just found out about this when we are about to get married. I heard that your partner is from Normal University?"

He was not just being polite, he really felt ashamed. In official terms, Fang Xiu was his right-hand man, and in private terms, they had a good relationship. No matter what, he should care more about Fang Xiu's life.

"Yes, he is from Yanshi University, two years older than me. After graduating from graduate school, he stayed on to teach at the university."

"Very good, very good, time flies, and you are already married. Hey, are you the first one in our group to get married?"

"That's true." Fang Xiu nodded with a smile, "We are all relatively young in the group, and most of us have just graduated."

Many of the older members of their orchestra are students from the classes of 88 and 89, and they have graduated from college less than two years ago, and many of them have stayed in school for graduate studies.

Those who joined the group later were even younger, so many members of the group now have not graduated.

For example, Fang Xiu had just graduated, so Zhou Yan was actually quite surprised to know that she was married.

Among the members of the orchestra, the oldest ones are Zhou Yan himself and Yu Feng, who previously served as conductor. Yu Feng is already in his thirties and is still unmarried.

Zhou Yan looked at the invitation again and said with a smile, "Okay, I got it. I will definitely try my best to go there when the time comes."

Fang Xiu laughed, "It's okay if you don't go, but the red envelope must be there."

"Don't worry, when you get married, Senior Brother will definitely give you a big red envelope."

"Forget it. No matter how big the red envelope is, I will give it back when you get married. It would be better for you to give me a raise."

"Don't even think about a salary increase for now, but after you get married, the studio can help you find housing."

"Really?" Fang Xiu was so surprised that she almost jumped up.

After graduating from school, accommodation became a big problem for graduates like Fang Xiu. They used to rent houses outside, and the studio would give them some rental subsidies.

Later, the dormitories in the park were renovated and they moved in.

However, the dormitory is small, and except for the team leader Fang Xiu, everyone else shares a room with two people.

For single people, the accommodation conditions are actually okay. After all, not all teachers at CAFAM can live in single rooms, and some university teachers even sleep in dormitories.

But after getting married, things became a little inconvenient.

Since Zhou Yan said he would solve the housing problem, the conditions must be better than the single room Fang Xiu lives in now.

"Of course, you are a veteran employee and you are qualified."

"Thank you, senior brother."

"You're welcome. Let's eat."

Zhou Yan waved his hand and ran to get food.

...Fang Xiu returned to the dormitory after dinner. As soon as she walked downstairs, she saw Joey Wong coming down.

Her eyes widened, "Sister Xiaoxian?"

Seeing Fang Xiu, Wang Zuxian said with a smile, "Good morning, Xiu, have you had breakfast?"

"I've had breakfast, Sister Xiaoxian...you..."

"Oh, we chatted too late last night, so we didn't go back to the hotel and stayed here."

"That's it..."

"You go back, I'm going to the cafeteria to eat."

"Well, okay, goodbye, Sister Xiaoxian."

After saying goodbye, Fang Xiu stared at Wang Zuxian's back for a long time.

I don’t know where Sister Xiaoxian slept last night. Senior Brother Zhou Yan also lives in this building, but he is not on the same floor as them.

But Sister Xiaoxian is really approachable. It’s amazing that such a big star can live in the dormitory.

"Xiu'er, good morning."

When Fang Xiu was in a daze, Kudo Shizuka's voice came from behind.

She turned around and saw Kudo Shizuka, Nakamori Akina and Sakai Izumi standing in a row in front of her.

In fact, it was not surprising to see the three of them. After all, Fang Xiu had seen many celebrities. However, it was too surprising to see these three people downstairs of the dormitory early in the morning.

"Sister Shizuka, you guys..."

Kudo Shizuka smiled and said, "We chatted too late last night, so we didn't go back to the hotel and stayed here."

Fang Xiu's eyebrows twitched, feeling like she had heard this sentence somewhere before.

"Oh, I see..." Fang Xiu forced a smile, "Are we going to have breakfast now?"

"Yes, go to breakfast, have you eaten yet?"

"I've eaten. There are fewer people in the cafeteria right now, but there are more food. I just saw Senior Brother Zhou Yan."

"Then we're going to the cafeteria. You can go back now." Then, Kudo Shizuka clenched her fist towards Fang Xiu again, "Good luck tonight."

Akina Nakamori also clenched her fist and said, "I look forward to your performance."

"Thank you."

"Goodbye."

Fang Xiu stared at the backs of Kudo Shizuka and the others for a long time. This world gradually became different from the one she knew.

If this was captured by a tabloid reporter, he would be so happy.

One can even imagine how rich the news content will be.

……

When Wang Zuxian and the others finished their meal, Zhou Yan had already finished eating.

He sat among a few girls and watched them yawning.

"If you didn't sleep well, why did you get up so early?"

After yawning, Kudo Shizuka said, "Because we have to adjust to the jet lag, so we can't sleep in."

Zhou Yan rolled his eyes. With such a small time difference between Tokyo and Beijing, is it necessary to make a special trip to adjust?
However, he didn't dare to be too presumptuous when speaking at this moment. Seeing these women together always made people feel uneasy.

Fortunately, there is Izumi Sakai here, otherwise he would feel even more guilty.

"What are you going to do later?"

"Sakai has never been to China. We plan to take her to visit Yanjing and then go to the Imperial Ancestral Temple to watch a concert in the afternoon," said Shizuka Kudo.

"I don't have anything to do. If Sister Mei and the others look for me, I'll go play with them. If they don't, I'll just hang out in the studio."

Zhou Yan breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately they were not together.

"Well, then you guys do it on your own. I don't have time to take care of you today."

"You don't need to take care of them." Wang Zuxian waved her hand and said, "How about I help you take care of Miss Kudo and the others?"

Before Zhou Yan could speak, Kudo Shizuka said, "No need, Ms. Wang, we may be more familiar with this place than you."

For some unknown reason, there was a bit of tension between the two of them.

Zhou Yan's heart tightened, and he immediately said, "You should take care of yourselves and stop worrying too much. When we go to the concert tonight, there will be a red carpet at the front door. If you don't want to walk, just go through the side door."

The red carpet was prepared by Zhang Youan for the stars who came to the concert, but not every star would be willing to walk the red carpet. Perhaps they just wanted to watch a concert in a low-key manner, so if they did not want to walk the red carpet, they could enter through another door.

"I will definitely go through the front door." said Shizuka Kudo.

"Me too." Joey Wong followed.

"I'm with Shizuka." said Akina Nakamori.

Only Izumi Sakai didn't understand Chinese. She stared at Zhou Yan and the others blankly, not knowing what they were saying.

……

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was very high in Yanjing, and people's hair was tanned.

Although the concert didn't start until seven o'clock in the evening, many people had already gathered in front of the Taimiao gate.

Many people didn't buy tickets, so they came here early and waited for someone to come and refund their tickets.

There are also many scalpers who are keeping an eye on whether anyone wants to refund their tickets, while also keeping an eye on whether anyone wants to sell tickets. Even at this time, the market for this ticket is still very good.

There are also some people who do nothing but come early to join in the fun.

There were some small groups holding homemade banners with words like "Support Zhou Yan" written on them. They were probably members of a fan club.

In addition, there are some vendors selling snacks and drinks, as well as managers who maintain order.

Normally, vendors are not allowed to sell goods in front of the Temple of Heaven, but the management staff turned a blind eye and formed a special tacit understanding with the vendors.

The vendors will not go too far and they will hold back when shouting. The management staff will occasionally come out to patrol twice, and that's it.

In fact, it would not be good not to provide water for the vendors. After all, there are so many people here and the weather is very hot. Without the vendors, these people can't even get water to drink.

It was probably starting from three o'clock. As the sun moved further west and the sky became darker, more and more people gathered at the gate of the Temple of Heaven.

By half past four, it was already very lively.

Jessica and Hardison arrived at the entrance of the Temple of Heaven at 4:30. They expected that there would be a lot of people at the entrance, but the scale of the scene still exceeded their imagination.

The area in front of the Jimen Gate of the Taimiao is very small. There is a river that protects the temple and a small bridge in the middle. The bridge is already crowded with people, and there are also several circles of people outside the bridge.

The management was afraid that people would get into trouble if they were crowded on the bridge, so they used roadblocks to create a small passage that could only allow two people to pass side by side. (End of this chapter)