Chapter 1017: Unexpected Discovery

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"Who is this?"

Near noon, Wen Xia, who got up and went to the living room to prepare to look for breakfast, saw Ye Zhining and asked curiously.

"This is my agent, named Ye Zhining." Luo Quan answered with a smile, "This is Wen Xia, my good sister who I grew up playing with, and also an artist in the company."

"Hello." Ye Zhining looked at Wen Xia and showed a cold but friendly smile.

Wen Xia said in surprise: "Where did Luo Luo find such a beautiful sister to be an agent? This attractiveness is more than enough to debut on the spot!"

"I met her while eating. We hit it off at first sight and talked happily, so I hired her to be my agent."

Luo Quan's explanation can be considered half-true and half-false. She and Ye Zhining did meet while eating, but as for "hitting it off at first sight and talking happily," it depends on how you understand it.

Ye Zhining was certainly very happy, calling her "beloved concubine" every sentence, wishing she could have a wedding night that day.

And Luo Quan only knew that she was almost "poked" at that time, which was really life-and-death.

Of course, the details are not enough to be told to others, it can only be a secret between her and Ye Zhining.

Wen Xia was a bit curious about when Luo Quan went out to eat after hearing Luo Quan's answer, but didn't ask much.

After all, Luo Quan is busy now, and she is handling all the big and small affairs of the company, so she is really unable to separate herself.

When the company was small before, she could still manage her life and work in an orderly manner without an agent or assistant. As for now, she really needs a few more people to help her share her worries.

"By the way, Luo Bao, didn't you say you had a sketch for the Spring Festival Gala before? Why didn't I see you rehearsing?"

After welcoming the newcomer, Wen Xia asked about this matter.

Before, the Spring Festival Gala invited Luo Quan to perform a sketch about urging birth. The general plot was that a foreign daughter-in-law came to China with her husband to celebrate the New Year, and the mother-in-law was anxious to hold a grandson, so she urged the daughter-in-law to prepare for pregnancy and give birth to a baby.

And the foreign daughter-in-law didn't want the world of two to be destroyed so early, so she didn't agree.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had a conflict and unfolded a debate on domestic and foreign customs, thoughts, and cultures that made people laugh and cry.

Then the quarrel between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law evolved into a quarrel between the husband and wife. Seeing that the contradiction was about to intensify further, the mother-in-law took the initiative to make concessions and was no longer anxious to hold a grandson.

And the foreign daughter-in-law also understood the mother-in-law's mood and began to learn how to be a good mother.

Finally, the whole family happily and reunited in the kitchen to wrap—dumplings!

The plot had no twists and turns, simple and plain. The foreign daughter-in-law was the only new idea.

If it were placed around 2008, this sketch would probably make the public feel quite worth watching.

After all, it was the time when China was rapidly expanding its influence internationally, and the whole country was immersed in a stage of longing for international recognition.

Any praise and thumbs up from foreigners could make the public show a proud smile, feeling honored.

If a foreigner could speak fluent Mandarin, it would be too popular, directly rising to the level of an international friend, and even frequently appearing on the Spring Festival Gala to perform, and was deeply loved by the audience.

However, now, the increasingly tense international relations have made it so that foreigners haven't appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage for a long time, and even foreign faces like Luo Quan have only been her for several years.

So this new idea of a foreign daughter-in-law seems quite interesting at first glance, but thinking about it carefully, the public might not necessarily buy it.

After careful consideration, the director team decided to let another sketch about urging marriage replace Luo Quan's sketch about urging birth. After all, marriage and childbirth, the result is in the front.

In recent years, the newborn population has continued to decrease. The direct reason is that people are unwilling to give birth, and the fundamental reason is that people don't even want to get married, let alone give birth.

So compared to that, urging marriage is more important than urging birth.

As for why they don't get married, there are many reasons: the gender contradiction set off by the "female fist," sky-high bride price, car and house pressure, and the infidelity to marriage and love caused by the collapse of etiquette and music.

These are all reasons, and it is impossible to find a solution in a short time.

As for this sketch about urging marriage, Luo Quan felt that it would be good if it didn't have the opposite effect.

But the director team didn't think so. Of course, it's possible that the director team had no other way.

In short, this sketch of hers was killed after rehearsing once. Fortunately, she had another singing program, and could still appear on the Spring Festival Gala.

Facing Wen Xia's inquiry, Luo Quan explained the situation truthfully, which made Wen Xia sigh with regret: "Originally quite looking forward to this sketch of yours... then there is nothing to watch in this year's Spring Festival Gala again."

Luo Quan smiled confidently: "Not necessarily, don't I still have a duet with Gao Liang? Does the strength of the Phoenix Legend combination need to be said more?"

This time, for the sake of popularity, she prepared a divine song at the level of "Agent Code."

What is an agent code?

For example, when you talk to a guy who claims to be Chinese, you say "Palace Jade Liquid Wine," if he can't answer "180 a cup," then he must be a foreigner.

If he answered, and even expanded to: How is this wine, let me blow it for you, etc.

No need to doubt, this must be a Chinese person.

Similar codes have advanced versions, such as how much is the price of Palace Jade Liquid Wine and big hammer small hammer, how many steps to put an elephant in the refrigerator, two woods is a double bed, what do ten woods read, etc.

Speaking of which, these codes are known to the Chinese people through the Spring Festival Gala of previous years.

The Spring Festival Gala in the past was to create memes and stars, while now, whoever is popular goes to the Spring Festival Gala, and then plays rotten memes crazily. The gap is clear at a glance.

However, this time, she intends to let the Spring Festival Gala go back more than ten years, returning to the level of the beginning of the century.

Today, when the cultural and entertainment industry is getting worse and worse, if you really go backward, I don't know how happy the audience will be.

However, Luo Quan can only guarantee that her program can go backward. As for others, she can only pray for their own blessings.

Last year's Spring Festival Gala was awkward from beginning to end, and was evaluated by netizens as the worst Spring Festival Gala in history. In more than four hours, they couldn't find a program above the passing line.

And Luo Quan, who had experienced rehearsals, could only say that netizens were still too rash. Soon, last year's session would not be the worst, because this year is likely to be even worse than last year.

And when everyone is rotten, her program will be set off to be even more spectacular.

However, Wen Xia had a different opinion on this: "Are you talking about the song you sang with Gao Liang in the living room a few days ago?"

Luo Quan nodded proudly: "That's right, is it very catchy?"

"Hmm... feels a bit earthy." Wen Xia said a bit embarrassedly.

With her musical literacy, saying such things in front of Luo Quan is equivalent to an unlearned robber accusing Confucius of having no culture, which is extremely arrogant.

But although her musical literacy is not good, she still listens to many songs and knows what is elegant and what is vulgar.

The girl group hot dance that made her famous is vulgar, but who doesn't like a young girl with fair skin, beautiful appearance, and long legs singing and dancing to brainwashing melodies?

And those classical music that Luo Quan is well-received are elegant, but there are definitely not as many people willing to listen as the girl group's energetic singing and dancing.

It is very difficult to have both, but Luo Quan did it, so she is a genius.

However, the song that is going to be performed on the Spring Festival Gala this time sounds a bit strange to Wen Xia.

To say it is elegant is definitely not the case. The melody and lyrics are straightforward to the point that even children can understand.

But to say it is vulgar, it is actually very difficult to open her mouth, because this is Luo Quan's work. These two words are a golden signboard, and it was created specifically for the Spring Festival Gala. How could it be related to vulgarity?

However, the fact is that Wen Xia's first reaction after listening to the song was that it felt earthy, making her think of the square dance BGM that was noisy outside the window when she was a child, brainwashing and noisy, and at the same time possessing a magic that makes people can't help but hum along.

Whenever similar music rings, don't think about reading and studying for a period of time. The brain has all flown out of the window.

Compared to the songs she heard when she was a child, Wen Xia felt that Luo Quan's song was even better in terms of brainwashing degree. After listening to it at that time, she couldn't stop the melody from replaying in her mind for half an hour before she barely stopped.

If this song is really performed on the Spring Festival Gala, she feels that the people of the whole country won't be able to sleep well during the Spring Festival.

Hearing Wen Xia's complaint, Luo Quan replied: "You don't know this. It is said that 'great music is soundless, great shape is formless, great elegance is close to vulgarity, and vulgarity to the extreme is elegance.'

The quality of a work cannot be concluded so simply, and it still needs to be evaluated by the vast number of listeners."

"I read few books, don't lie to me." Wen Xia said hesitantly, always feeling that Luo Quan was fooling her.

However, one thing to say, being able to write a song to this point is indeed not something ordinary people can do.

It is said that internet celebrity brainwashing songs have no gold content, but how many people can really write internet celebrity brainwashing songs with over 1 billion views?

Doing it to the extreme in any industry is a level, and it cannot be simply labeled with an "elegant" or "vulgar."

"In short, look forward to your and Gao Liang's performance on the Spring Festival Gala. Maybe next year the combination of Phoenix Legend will be popular all over the country." Wen Xia sent her blessings.

"That is bound to be popular all over the country." Luo Quan answered confidently.

After a while, everyone went downstairs for lunch. Luo Quan introduced Ye Zhining to everyone just like she introduced Xu Yanqing before.

Everyone was applauding and welcoming, only Xu Yanqing was full of doubts while applauding, thinking why is this Ye Zhining so familiar?

It is necessary to mention that not many people know the real name of the Saint Tang Empress. Most people only know that the national surname is Ye, and they don't know much about the rest.

And in order to cover up her appearance, Ye Zhining also used a disguise earring to modify her face, and the difference from her original appearance was still quite large.

Xu Yanqing hadn't seen the Empress for a long time, so it was normal not to recognize her for a while.

Fortunately, she didn't recognize her. If she really recognized her, she would probably have to kneel on the ground with a "thump."

Luo Quan is not a Saint Tang citizen and cannot understand what the Empress means to them.

Don't look at the many people who mouth-talk YY Empress on the Internet, but a considerable part of them are from the Shenyou Federation. Although there are many people in the Saint Tang Heavenly Dynasty, that is on the Internet after all.

When it comes to offline, these people wouldn't dare to do this even if they had ten thousand guts, and even being looked at by the Empress for a longer time would make them feel terrified.

Pondering for a long time, Xu Yanqing still couldn't recall where she had seen Ye Zhining, so she could only treat it as a sense of déjà vu caused by arriving in a new environment.

After lunch, Gao Liang took Mia out for a walk, Luo Ni wanted to teach her youngest daughter to speak, and Xu Yanqing also had to continue learning Chinese.

In the blink of an eye, only Luo Quan and Ye Zhining were left.

However, after returning to the room, Luo Quan found that Ye Zhining's complexion didn't seem to be very good, looking worried.

"Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?" Luo Quan asked with a smile, "What made you look so worried?"

"My beloved concubine, is there anything else you are hiding from me?" Ye Zhining stared at Luo Quan tightly, a sharp gaze shooting from her eyes that seemed to be able to see through people's hearts.

"What else do I have to hide?" Luo Quan didn't understand why Ye Zhining asked this.

"You said your home planet is a second-level civilization that hasn't developed controllable nuclear fusion technology. Then what method did you use to come to Huan Yu Xing?"

This question was actually discovered by Ye Zhining a long time ago, but she didn't take it too seriously.

But now, she really wanted to hear Luo Quan explain it properly, why a second-level civilization could possess super-distance transmission technology that spans the star sea.

"I said I picked up a treasure, and this treasure allowed me to travel through space. Does Your Majesty believe it?"

Luo Quan looked at Ye Zhining with clear eyes, without any evasion or hesitation.

"A second-level civilization can have such a treasure?" Ye Zhining felt that Luo Quan must be joking, but looking at her appearance, it was completely a state of telling the truth.

"Our current technological level is indeed not high, but it doesn't mean that the technological level in ancient times was also so low.

When I was a child, I often saw on TV that Earth's ancient times might have had extremely advanced civilizations, but for some reason, these civilizations all perished.

And the current human civilization development has only been about ten thousand years in total. I don't know if this is long or short on Huan Yu Xing."

"It's already quite short. Many planets' civilizations take tens of thousands of years to realize from using fire to inventing steam engines."

Ye Zhining pondered Luo Quan's words and muttered: "But even if it's a lost civilization, it shouldn't be that not a single bit of technology could be left behind, right?"

"So what did Your Majesty see on the Internet that made you suddenly care about this matter?" Luo Quan asked curiously, intending to get to the bottom of it.

"It's not what I saw." Ye Zhining shook her head lightly, "I just discovered that my strength has been suppressed by this world, which is something I haven't experienced on other planets.

An ordinary planet definitely doesn't have this ability, which shows that your home planet Earth is definitely not as ordinary as you think."

"There is actually such a thing?!" Luo Quan opened her mouth wide in surprise when she heard this, but she actually had expectations in her heart. ===== CHAPTER 1018 =====