Chapter 392

"Wei Laoshi," Northern Qiao Feng called out to Wei Ming.

Wei Ming couldn't laugh or cry: "Brother Feng, you're mocking me, right? Calling me Ma Xiaowei or Little Ming is fine."

Brother Feng laughed: "Then I'll call you Teacher Ma Xiaowei."

"That's fine too. What's this?" Wei Ming pointed to his hand.

"This isn't confiscated by me, it's the *Wish You a Smooth Journey* cassette tape sent by the students."

Wei Ming took it to look. It was just a copy made on a blank cassette tape, but it was very popular among graduates in Peking University and even in Yanjing recently. Tsinghua, Beijing Normal University, Beihang, and Beijing Foreign Studies University were all singing it.

"If they wait a little longer, the genuine cassette tape from Pacific should be out." Wei Ming handed it over, and the two walked side by side to the May Fourth Playground.

Speaking of this batch of college students, Northern Qiao Feng was also very reluctant. When they enrolled in '78, he had just arrived at Peking University and was also responsible for the school's security work, so he could be considered to have watched them grow up.

From today on, this group of people will embark on various important positions in society. Regardless of whether they can become pillars of the country, at least the expectations of society for them are like this, hoping that they can "shine like stars and illuminate Shenzhou."

In four years, many changes have taken place since they first enrolled. Welcoming them to school were Secretary Zhou and President Zhou, and sending them off were Secretary Han and President Zhang. The school cafeteria also added several, and the familiar old professors also left several.

"Wei Laoshi, here!" Liang Zuo greeted Wei Ming, surrounded by his classmates.

At this time, they were not wearing bachelor's uniforms. The boys were basically wearing Zhong Shan suits, and the girls were wearing plain-colored tops.

There would be no ceremony like tassel turning later, but bachelor's degrees would be awarded.

The scene had already been set up, with the background banner "Peking University's First Bachelor's Degree Awarding Ceremony." Wei Ming also saw Yang Hao from the school journal office taking pictures with a camera, and Wei Ming also raised his camera to greet him.

"Don't leave later. This might be the last time I treat you to dinner. Before coming, I already booked a place at the Changzheng Cafeteria. Everyone come."

"Long live Wei Laoshi!"

"Wei Laoshi, I love you!"

Wei Ming watched these students go on stage one after another to receive their certificates. In addition, there were 27 outstanding graduates, whom Wei Ming basically knew. This is networking.

After finishing the work, it was just time to eat. Seeing Liu Liu Zhenyun on the way, they simply went together.

Seeing that the brothers were leaving, Old Liu was extremely reluctant. He didn't know when he would see them again next time.

"Nothing to say, it's all in the wine." His eyes were red as he drank one first.

In addition to the degree awarding ceremony, the school leaders also held a meeting in the afternoon to select the advanced workers of the past year, including Wei Ping'an, who was in charge of the production management office, and specifically praised him, making the profits handed over to the school by the four factories increase by 150%, which means that '81 reached 250% of '80!

Considering that Comrade Wei Ping'an often needs to coordinate and contact multiple ministries and key organs, and his rank is too low to speak, the production management office was reorganized into the School Property Department, and Wei Ping'an's rank was also raised to the deputy department level.

At this time, he was only two levels away from the deputy ministerial level of the secretary and president. Of course, some people can't cross these two levels in their whole life.

Wei Ping'an's advantage is that he is young, a 39-year-old deputy department level, and he can work for more than 20 years.

Actually, a 39-year-old deputy department level is okay. By next year, Brother Chen Qiang in the Youth League Committee will also be deputy department level. He is 12 years younger than Wei Ping'an.

To celebrate, Wei Ping'an asked Wei Hong to notify her brother to go to Donglaishun to eat instant-boiled mutton in the evening. At this time, Wei Ming was lying on the table at his post, feeling uncomfortable.

It's not that he couldn't bear to leave the students, but he drank too much at noon. The students' emotions were in place, and they sang *Wish You a Smooth Journey* collectively, so Wei Ming also got carried away.

And at this time in Hong Kong, Zhou Zhou Huimin, wearing a dress, was sent to the Sunbeam Theatre in Causeway Bay, the venue for the Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs awards, by Old Gui and Lin Ni, who came out for a date.

Also accompanying them were Wei Wei Jiefang and Xu Xu Shufen. Amin got two tickets for them. If Wei Ming's song won an award, they could listen to it live.

"Amin, come on, I hope to see your performance." Xu Xu Shufen held Amin's little hand.

Being said so by her aunt, she was a little nervous. Amin had been in the industry for a while, and several songs were representative works with good popularity, but those songs had never been performed in public. The largest scale was in their class.

After going in, the uncle and aunt sat in the ordinary audience seats behind. Amin stepped forward and also saw Brother Zhang Mingmin, but his seat was also relatively behind. Nearby were also Young Master Rong and Chen You.

Zhou Zhou Huimin's seat was relatively forward, sitting with Tan Tan Yonglin. After a while, Zhong Zhong Zhen Tao also came. The two big brothers let her sit between them, isolating some unkind eyes, looking like flower protectors.

She couldn't help but think, could it be that the seats were arranged according to whether they won an award or not? Could it be that she really won an award?

She told the two about her doubts. Alan said: "Those behind are all people who have no chance to win and came to listen to songs. At least we have a chance to win."

"Ah? Why?"

Zhong Zhong Zhen Tao laughed: "It seems you don't know the selection rules of the Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs?"

Amin: "Isn't it fan voting plus judge selection?"

Tan Tan Yonglin: "There is also a prerequisite here, which is that it must be the weekly champion track of the 1981 Chinese Song Dragon and Tiger List of Radio Television Hong Kong to be shortlisted. Like Old Zhang and A-You, they don't have champion tracks."

"Ah? Don't they?" Zhou Zhou Huimin said, "*Love to Win* should be more popular than all my songs combined, right?"

Brother B said: "It's also a bit more popular than *Let Everything Go with the Wind*, but there's no way. After the charity concert, Amin's dozen good songs were crowded together, which were all critical periods for rushing the list, but only two songs won the weekly list champion."

"Ah?"

Tan Tan Yonglin nodded: "First, Sister Xu Xiaofeng's *Flowing with the Current* dominated the list for four weeks, and other songs couldn't rush up. I didn't expect that the *Pearl of the Orient* sung by Amin herself had more stamina, actually overturning *Flowing with the Current*, and dominated the list for another month."

"*Tomorrow Will Be Better* doesn't have it? This song should be the most popular, right?"

Tan Tan Yonglin: "Because it's a chorus song, no singer exerted force, so it has always been the ranking of the millennium second and third, and it has been in the top ten for three consecutive months."

Zhou Zhou Huimin pointed to herself: "Then what about me and Amin?" They didn't exert force either.

"Your *Girl's Prayer* was released late, catching up with a low period of song release, and won a weekly list champion. Amin's *Pearl of the Orient* is probably because other singers didn't dare to release new songs. There were almost no new songs during that period, so he exerted force in the later stage and rushed up," Tan Tan Yonglin explained. "I relied on *Thinking of the Future* in the first half of the year. Brother B is relatively funny, you say it yourself."

Zhong Zhong Zhen Tao grinned and laughed: "I was *Wronging the Seven Days of Love* last month and it exploded. *Let Everything Go with the Wind* is an interlude in the movie. Relying on the popularity of the movie, the song became popular again, and actually won a weekly list champion in December."

Tan Tan Yonglin: "The same situation is *The Great Wall Never Falls*. Because the TV series broadcast didn't overlap with the concert, it also won the weekly championship."

Wei Ming wrote a dozen songs with explosive popularity, but because they were released at the same time, there were only a few champion singles, such as *Love to Win*, *Seems Like an Old Friend*, *How Many Winds and Rains*, *Melinda*, *Prefer You*, etc. Many of them sold out, but none of them were even shortlisted.

So it is said that people release albums now, and it is amazing if an album has two or three good songs. Moreover, they all release a lead single first, and then release the whole album to sprint for another lead single, otherwise it will affect the ranking and award rushing.

No way, the rules are like this. The good news is that after the emcee went on stage, he announced that there have been some small changes in the Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs this year.

"In addition to the fixed Top Ten Gold Songs, we will also add three awards, namely the 'Best Chinese Pop Song Award' for composers and the 'Best Chinese Pop Lyric Award' for lyricists."

"That's right. In addition, there is also a heavyweight Golden Needle Award, used to commend musicians who have made outstanding contributions to the Hong Kong music scene and the Chinese pop music scene, covering singers, behind-the-scenes lyricists and composers, and other music-related people. However, be careful, this award is not permanent. If there is no winner worthy of the Golden Needle Award, we can leave it vacant."

Understood, this "Golden Needle Award" will become the highest honor of the Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs, somewhat similar to a lifetime achievement award.

Huang Zhan, sitting in the front row, looked around. He felt that it was either himself or Old Gu. Of course, it would be no problem if it were given to old seniors who were more senior than them.

The awards ceremony officially began.

"First of all, this is a very special song. The singer is not a professional singer. You can only buy single records on the market, but it also won the good results of a gold record, or you can go to the Fairwood fast food restaurant to order a hamburger or fried chicken, and you can also hear it..."

Li Zhi, who was listening to the radio at home, knew as soon as she heard it that the little girl named Amin had actually won an award!

These judges really have no vision. Xiao Li was so angry that she trembled. She was taking a bath, but when she thought that the lyrics and music of this song were all by Amin, her mood calmed down a lot.

On the scene, Alan, Brother B, and friends behind were incomparably happy for her, cheering for her with their throats, especially the couple Old Wei and Xu Xu Shufen, who were extremely excited.

In their eyes, after Amin won the award, this should be considered a singer, which matches the writer very well.

At the invitation of the emcee, Zhou Zhou Huimin stepped onto the stage. It's a pity that no TV audience could see this scene, only the audience on the scene made the exclamation of "so beautiful."

Didn't expect it to be such a beautiful and green girl. Reporters on the scene frantically pressed the shutter. The mysterious amateur singer Zhou Zhou Huimin finally made an official appearance!

Actually, *Girl's Prayer* is not as popular as *First Love*, but when *First Love* was released, it was completely crushed by the popularity of the charity concert repertoire, and it didn't even make it to the top ten of the weekly list.

The two emcees were also very interested in Zhou Zhou Huimin, asked her age, what grade she was in, and also asked the audience below if Zhou Zhou Huimin was beautiful. The audience below was very neat: "Beautiful!"

Now the boys and girls in front of the radio knew that the singer they liked was a little beauty who was only 15 years old. It's a pity that they can't see it now.

Then the emcee asked her about her relationship with Wei Ming, which is also something that people inside and outside the industry are very concerned about: "Why did he write so many songs for you."

Amin: What other relationship can it be? Including me, the singer, this song is all his.

"Actually, we are pen pals. We got to know each other by writing letters at the beginning." Amin would not admit their relationship as lovers. Although the emcee always guided in that direction, they hadn't done anything, and this was a kind of protection for herself and Amin.

After dealing with the emcee's questions, it was Amin's turn to sing the song *Girl's Prayer*.

Although she was only 15 years old, she had studied for nearly a year with Teacher Dai Dai Sicong, and this was a song Amin wrote for her. She had to cycle and sing it almost every day, polishing every sentence to be incomparably proficient, so it was easy to control.

Except for the voice being a bit tight because of nervousness at the beginning, it gradually improved later, and there was even a faint style of a general, not at all like a child of this age.