Chapter 373: Old Wei: My son has a wife!

Wei Ming cleared his throat and began to sing a cappella. The style of this song sounded very novel and catchy at the moment.

"All the beauty is just the intoxication of yesterday, the faint bitterness is the taste of today."

"Think about tomorrow, it's sun and wind again, no fear or dread no matter how bitter or tired."

Wei Ming's singing voice was definitely not as gifted as Tian Zhen's, but he had tried his best to sing with emotion, and the audience listened carefully and nodded frequently.

"The pain on the body makes me hard to sleep, there is more tiredness on the road under my feet."

"Chasing dreams is always full of twists and turns, facing it calmly without complaint or regret."

Wei Ming's gaze swept across the 12 women's volleyball players. They had played seven games in ten days, and today's game lasted for a full two hours. Each of them carried injuries, some exposed, some covered by clothes. Wei Laoshi's song sang into their hearts.

"Wind, rain, rainbow, clanking rose. Carry the sorrow and pain yourself."

"Wind, rain, rainbow, clanking rose. Galloping across the four seas, laughing at the world, never retreating."

Wei Ming's voice suddenly increased, and several women's volleyball girls had already started to wipe their tears.

Not only because of this hard-won victory, but also because such a big cultural figure as Wei Ming actually wrote such a good song for them. What a great honor!

After going back, they must buy a book by Wei Laoshi to support it.

Actually, this song wasn't originally sung for the women's football team. Wei Ming simply gave it to the women's volleyball team first. Although the women's football team's results were good, they couldn't compare with the peak record of the women's volleyball team. This song would also spread across the country, and even the world, with the future five consecutive championships of the Chinese women's volleyball team!

After singing, they asked what the song was called. It sounded too good.

Wei Ming found it troublesome, so the song title was simply called *Clanking Rose*.

Coach Yuan asked: "Wei Laoshi, are there lyrics?"

Wei Ming hurriedly tore the lyrics from the notebook, and the girls immediately started copying them.

At this time, Cao Huiying, the eldest sister from Tangshan, asked: "Is 'clanking' too hard to write? And I don't know what this 'rose' is?"

Everyone laughed. Wei Ming patiently explained: "Rose is a very beautiful flower, but there are thorns on the rose branches, a bit prickly."

Lang Ping smiled: "We are not just a bit prickly, we are very prickly!"

Everyone agreed one after another. It seemed they liked to use roses to describe themselves.

Wei Ming felt that sending a song wasn't enough, so he said to Team Leader Zhang and Coach Yuan: "Do you have time at noon? I have to rush to Tokyo in the afternoon to attend an event, so I want to treat everyone to a meal."

He also greeted Reporter Zhao, asking him and his colleagues to come too.

Team Leader Zhang pondered for a moment and agreed. If they were celebrating themselves, they would just eat tonkotsu ramen plus a sausage at most. But if Wei Laoshi treated them, they didn't dare to think, really didn't dare to think!

Actually, it was nothing, just unlimited Kobe beef, eat as much as you want, and you can also eat seafood if you want.

Sea cucumber? Have it, enough!

After a meal, Wei Ming became the best friend of the Chinese women's volleyball team. At the dinner table, he used Wei Ming's camera to take several photos. Reporter Zhao held Wei Ming's Pentax LX Gold camera and couldn't put it down.

This was already Wei Ming's third camera, limited to 300 units worldwide, with only two hundred in Japan. The body was wrapped in 18k gold plating and brown leather. Wei Ming saw it at the Japanese airport and felt it was beautiful, so he took it directly, about 4000 US dollars. Now he had reached the point where playing with a SLR wouldn't go bankrupt.

When parting, everyone was very reluctant. Wei Ming said he would write another small essay for them when he went back.

Lang Ping said bluntly: "Better find a singer to record *Clanking Rose* first. Actually, Wei Laoshi, you seem to be a bit off-key."

Chen Zhaodi: "Seems like some notes didn't go up."

Look, this is called a friend. He really says what he has to say.

In the afternoon, Wei Ming stepped on the Shinkansen back to Tokyo with Masashi Sada. During that game, Masashi felt it was inappropriate to accompany Wei Ming to cheer for the Chinese team, and it was not good to boo the Chinese team with Japanese spectators, so he simply hid in the hotel to study Wei Ming's new work.

Wei Ming promised to let him sing, but there were no Japanese lyrics yet, and Old Zuo needed to handle it himself. This concert definitely couldn't catch up.

His concert would be held tomorrow night. Tonight, Wei Ming could enjoy Tokyo's nightlife.

Wei Ming took out the player: "Let's not talk about other things first. Where can I buy this thing? I want to buy it, and the quantity is relatively large."

He had to return one to A-Min, Sister Lin and Sister Xue should also have one, right? If Xiao Hong wanted to learn English, did she have to buy one too?

If parents could listen to music when they were at work, wouldn't it be quite good?

When Uncle Ping'an saw Old Wei had one, would he also think about buying one for Aunt Xiaoyan?

Anyway...

In short, let's buy ten to taste the salt first.

To buy this kind of thing, Masashi Sada took Wei Ming to Akihabara.

Initially, Akihabara was an appliance street. Now electronic products were also increasing, and one could already see some rudiments of the two-dimensional holy land. Wei Ming and Masashi Sada walking in Akihabara could also see arcade halls.

"Do you want to go in and see?" Masashi Sada saw Wei Ming turning his head frequently, so he suggested.

"Okay."

Arcade games were born in the United States ten years ago. A few years ago, arcade games entered a period of rapid development, but the mainland didn't have this thing yet.

Masashi Sada exchanged a few coins. Wei Ming took a look. *Space Invaders*, *Pac-Man*, *Donkey Kong*, all were classics of the time.

Wei Ming first played *Pac-Man*, and then played *Donkey Kong*.

He also saw a carpenter in *Donkey Kong*, wearing overalls, looking a bit familiar. Oh, isn't this Super Mario!

The name should be Mario, but at this time he was just a small supporting role in *Donkey Kong*, and didn't even have a formal name.

Two years before Wei Ming was reborn, the Mario movie had just won more than 1 billion US dollars at the global box office. The IP influence was still huge. Wei Ming stared at the little people on the screen, and his brain turned very fast.

After playing the popular arcade games for a while, Wei Ming saw that there was also a doll-catching machine here that no one asked about.

Calling it a "doll-catching machine" was not accurate, because the "doll-catching machine" at this time didn't catch dolls, but caught various snacks and candies. It was also a type of arcade game and had a certain gambling nature.

It would take a few more years for the doll-catching machine to combine with various plush toys and cartoon derivatives, the UFO doll-catching machine of the Sega company.

Sega was also a game company, a competitor of Nintendo that loved and killed each other. The two arcade games Wei Ming just played were Nintendo's.

It was a pity that Nintendo hadn't launched the Famicom yet, otherwise he really wanted to buy a few to go back and play with Xizi.

However, when shopping in the electronic goods store to buy a Walkman, Wei Ming saw that there were really handheld game consoles for sale.

This thing was called "Game & Watch", a portable game console released by Nintendo last year. It was also the world's first handheld liquid crystal electronic game console, and it was also equipped with games like *Pac-Man* and *Donkey Kong*.

So Wei Ming said one word: "Buy!"

Wei Ming had a fruitful harvest in Akihabara. He bought a pile of electronic products. For this reason, Wei Ming bought another bag and returned to the hotel to put things away.

As for the Japanese national essence at this time, they were some pink movies with a style different from the textbook films of later generations. The artistic content was higher. Director Koji Wakamatsu was a god in this field, and there were countless classic works. The famous *In the Realm of the Senses* was also produced by him.

Wei Ming liked it very much, but was afraid of being embarrassed by customs, so he started to inquire about Japanese housing prices and the requirements for foreigners to buy houses.

After having houses in Modu and Yanjing, Wei Ming's next step was to buy a house in Hong Kong, and then it was abroad.

"If the share of that album given to you didn't hit China, it would be enough to buy a set in Tokyo," Masashi Sada said.

Wei Ming: "Then I'll wait."

Wait until he earns money from Japan next time before considering it.

It was dark. The two went to Shinjuku's 1-chome to drink some small wine. Wei Ming was very familiar with this place. A-Long often brought him here, just like his own home, but some shops were a bit different. Things are different, people are different.

And they didn't touch women in this life. Both were decent scholars.

But someone did.

When seeing Cheng Long coming out with two women in kimonos, Wei Ming could clearly see the embarrassment on his face, and his two hands also moved away from the shoulders of the Japanese women.

Wei Ming looked at the two Japanese women with thick powder. Big brother, you are really hungry. Could it be that Cai Lan's "kill the ugly ones" was taught by you? This is much worse than Lin Fengjiao or even Deng Lijun.

Cheng Long met Wei Ming at the charity concert. He also donated a watch. They knew each other, but it couldn't be said to be very familiar. Cheng Long was also afraid of the Freedom Association.

However, Cheng Long still came over to greet the great writer and said a few nice words, so that he wouldn't write him into an article and say something ugly. Scholars don't need knives to kill people.

"A-Ming, why are you here!" Cheng Long hugged Wei Ming enthusiastically.

"We came on the same day. I came to attend this friend's concert," and then Wei Ming introduced Masashi Sada, "His last album was an adaptation of my music."

"Your songs have spread to Japan. Great!" Cheng Long grinned, and then waved his hand to let the two hostesses go first.

Wei Ming smiled and asked: "Then do you want to sing my songs?"

"You are willing to write songs for me?" Cheng Long's eyes rolled. He felt this was a good opportunity. If he could spread his influence to the music scene, his next movie's box office should be higher!

These two times coming to Japan, besides bars, Cheng Long liked karaoke the most. He also had a talent for singing.

And with musical works, he could participate in various commercial performances. It was always more decent than flipping somersaults on stage.

Seeing Cheng Long sit down, staring at him with burning eyes, Wei Ming took out the lyrics from his bag. Masashi Sada also stretched his neck to look. Good guy, he actually wrote two songs last night!

Wei Ming handed it to Cheng Long. Cheng Long asked "what is this word" from time to time.

He wasn't illiterate, just because of simplified characters.

After reading it, Cheng Long said: "Although I don't know how the song is, I like these lyrics very much. It has spirit, but it seems to be sung by a woman."

Still had some culture. Wei Ming said: "Recently, the Chinese women's volleyball team just won the championship at the Women's Volleyball World Cup. After watching the game against the American team yesterday, I wrote this song. From now on, this song will be the team song of the Chinese women's volleyball team." ===== CHAPTER 374 =====