Chapter 477 - The madness of Central TV! (1/2)
Chapter 477: The madness of Central TV!
Noon.
The National Crosstalk Compet.i.tion was in the midst of being held.
The official website began posting each preliminary round's footage onto its page. Netizens were already beginning to vote for their favorite crosstalk actors and works. The show had only just begun, but there were already a few bouts of compet.i.tion. Some supported one team, while others supported another. The corresponding votes grew as a war of words ensued.
”Teacher Sun is still the best!”
”Get lost! When Teacher Chen was performing crosstalk, Old Sun wasn't even born yet!”
”Supporting Zhang Xiao and Liu Yuan! Did everyone watch the live broadcast? Their performance was really too enjoyable to listen to!”
”Oh, right. Are Zhang Xiao and Liu Yuan in Division C? I remember when the group draw was announced, the team after them were Yao Jiancai and Zhang Ye!”
”Oh, that's right.”
”Yes, I remembered it too!”
”Those two G.o.ds of plague are next?”
”But even if it's their turn, we won't be able to see them.”
”What a pity, I really hoped to see Zhang Ye do crosstalks. Although I know that he definitely does not know how to do it and won't be as good as those professionals, I still wanted to see it.”
”You're thinking too much. Anyone's performance can be aired but not theirs. Do you think Central TV is stupid?”
Tang Dazhang's two disciples' performance had been live streamed online on the official website's preliminary compet.i.tion page. Because of the audience's vote for their favorites to win, they were in 10th place and were considered one of the hot favorites. As such, the production team also had paid more attention to them and thus allocated live streaming resources to Zhang Xiao and Liu Yuan. The live broadcast spot on the compet.i.tion web page was one of the best promotional spots one could get. It had even better reach than banner style advertis.e.m.e.nts, as a lot of people would take a look at it. Naturally, some people also connected this to the next group performance, Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai. Although Central TV had been doing their best to suppress and ban them from receiving any coverage, that didn't mean that the viewers did not pay any attention to them.
”Hey, it's such a pity for Zhang Ye.”
”Yea, I like him quite a bit. Why did he have to get banned?”
”Old Yao isn't bad either. Attempt at soliciting prost.i.tutes? What kind of misdeed is that! There wasn't any proof or explanation and they've already treated him as guilty? He's just unlucky as h.e.l.l.”
”There's no other way. Decree #43 has already been pa.s.sed and won't be retracted.”
The live broadcast footage went off for a few seconds.
”It's time for the next live broadcast.”
”It should be division A's turn right?”
”Oh, it has come back on. Why is it still showing division C though?”
”It can't be? Did they forget to change it?”
”Look, the judges are still the same three people.”
Suddenly, an image that left everyone shocked appeared. A staff member could be heard announcing, ”Please welcome the next contestants, Zhang Ye, Yao Jiancai!”
What?
Welcome who?
And then, Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai, who were wearing their crosstalk attires, walked onstage.
At this moment, the whole world fell silent. The image on screen seemed like it froze!
Countless peoples’ mouths were left hanging in shock as they could only stare at the live broadcast of the crosstalk compet.i.tion. They were all dumbfounded and could only say, ”What the f**k! What the h.e.l.l is happening?”
......
At Zhang Ye's parents place.
It was winter vacation now and Zhang Ye's cousins had come over here early in the morning after hearing of his partic.i.p.ation in the crosstalk compet.i.tion.
His third sister pointed at the computer screen and said, ”This is funny, this is really funny!”
The eldest sister pouted, ”Those two are disciples of Tang Dazhang. They can't be good people.”
”Ah? The one that scolded our brother?” The third sister's tone suddenly changed, ”What kind of lousy crosstalk is this! It's not funny at all!”
The second sister, ”........”
Zhang Ye's mother said, ”Don't bother watching this anymore, Little Ye's not going to be on it anyway.”
The third sister said moodily, ”These people are really too much. Why did they go and ban my brother for?! Our brother didn't post a poem last night, so his ranking is going to drop soon.”
The eldest sister said sighed, ”Our brother's done for today. He won't be keeping his spot on the C-list anymore.”
His mother turned around and went into the kitchen, ”I'm going to cook.”
Suddenly, the third sister exclaimed, ”d.a.m.n! Look at this, quick!”
The eldest sister said, ”Look at what?”
The third sister jumped up in excitement, ”Our brother! It's our brother!”
The eldest sister took a look and was shocked to see, ”It's really our brother! And it's even a live broadcast!”
Zhang Ye's mother looked back at them and said, ”Alright, don't tease me so much. You make it sound as if it's really happening. What do you all want to have for lunch? I will prepare it for you.”
The eldest sister hurriedly said, ”Why do you still want to prepare lunch now? Come and see, quickly! Our brother's really on live broadcast!”
His mother was stunned and she quickly came over to their side and looked at the computer. She was also dumbfounded by what she saw and said, ”That's impossible!”