I became a poor little sophora japonica in the courtyard

Tan Yali brought Liu Quan back to Hong Kong from the old city. Her affairs went smoothly, and the big villa in Dongdan had been agreed to be returned. But it would take half a year for the residents to find a house to move to.

Her house deed has been changed to a new real estate certificate, and the name on the certificate has also been changed to Lou Jingyi.

She and Kyoto Hotel signed a letter of intent for their cooperation project. Tan Yali was going to invest HK$8 million to build a four-star hotel near Jianguomen in the old city.

Since both parties have signed the letter of intent, Jingyi has nothing to say! If she knew about it before it was signed, she would definitely try to stop it.

But when she saw the property certificate handed to her by her grandmother Tan Yali, Jingyi was startled at first, then her nose felt sore and her eyes immediately turned red.

Although my grandmother and mother are not my biological children, they always think of me. But what about me? I always put myself first and never look at things from their perspective.

Since my grandmother and the others wanted to recreate the style of Tan's cuisine in the old days in Sijiu City, I must give them my full support. Sijiu City is not a den of dragons and tigers, why should I be so timid?

She picked up the letter of intent signed by both parties and studied it carefully. After a while, she had her own plan.

"This letter of intent needs to be changed. First of all, this city is the capital, and its future development potential is immeasurable. So a four-star hotel is not good enough, and we should open a five-star hotel. If you don't have enough funds, I will provide 10 million US dollars."

"As for the equity ratio of the joint venture, we must obtain 51% of the equity that can control the shares. It doesn't matter even if the investment amount is a little higher."

"Then we have to go over and renegotiate! Jingyi, can you spare 10 million US dollars?"

Tan Yali suddenly felt the burden on her shoulders was heavy. Ten million US dollars was equivalent to more than 60 million Hong Kong dollars, and the investment amount increased eightfold in an instant.

"Don't worry, grandma. I just released two more albums. I have enough money for you to invest!"

The US dollars she had were enough to build the wall! She had to find a way to convert the 10 million US dollars into cash drafts. She couldn't just hire a few people to carry the cash to the city.

All her legitimate income in the past few years was deposited in her HSBC account. The piano album she made five years ago alone earned tens of millions. But for some reason, she was reluctant to spend even a penny of her hard-earned money.

"Don't be in such a hurry to go! Let Grandpa Liu Quan go over to negotiate in a couple of days. When the talks are almost done, grandma can go over to sign, so you don't have to run back and forth."

Seeing that grandma had just returned and wanted to book a flight, Jingyi hurried forward to dissuade her. The joint venture could be discussed slowly, so there was no need to rush.

She drove to Lou's Group to find her second uncle Lou Qigang to discuss whether she could deposit 10 million U.S. dollars in cash into the company's account and have the company issue a cash draft for 10 million U.S. dollars.

This is a legal risk for the company. Lou Qiming agreed to her request without thinking too much, but he needed to issue it to her in multiple batches. He should have his own way of dealing with financial problems!

On the eve of the Spring Festival in 1982, Lou Jingyi's two legendary albums were released and sold all over the world. After a month of promotion by Warner Records, the two albums were immediately snapped up by music fans.

The demand simply couldn't keep up with the supply! Warner Records had to work overtime day and night to produce the albums. The popularity of the two albums also boosted the popularity of her old album released five years ago. That old album became popular again!

Originally, her fans were spread all over the world, but her fans were very few and limited to the Chinese-speaking regions.

Now, the number of Lou Jingyi's fans around the world has suddenly increased. When they learned that Lou Jingyi had released two instrumental albums, they bought them to enjoy. Unexpectedly, they fell in love with them as soon as they heard them!

This fan became a music fan, and the majority of music fans became her fans. Slowly, the number of her fans is getting bigger and bigger.

"Ms. Jingyi, I can guarantee that the sales of these two albums will reach more than 100 million copies within a year." The bearded man called and was so excited that he was incoherent. Just take the sales in this month as an example, it has already broken the record in the history of world music distribution.

On the North American music billboard, twelve of the top fifteen songs were Lou Jingyi's songs. This was a scene that had never happened before. Lou Jingyi also dominated the top twelve of the British singles chart.

The sales in Hong Kong are also very hot! The two new albums were sold out as soon as they were released. There is no language barrier for young people in Hong Kong to listen to English songs.

Everyone who knew her called to congratulate her, and the World Music and Art Association in Vienna also sent a congratulatory message.

Fans in Hong Kong have a big regret! These twelve classic songs of Lou Jingyi are not even ranked in the Hong Kong Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs Chart. Now commercial radio stations can only play her new songs, but they don't count the rankings.

At this time, TVB, a wireless television station that had been brewing for a long time, opened its own TV music channel and launched its own Hong Kong Top Ten Golden Songs Chart.

TVB is a copy of the Cable Awards, and any song that needs to be on TV must have an MTV. If it is not an MTV, the TV station is not allowed to broadcast it. This forces those record companies and singers to pay for them to shoot.

The annual selection and award ceremony of the Top Ten Golden Songs is always questioned. There are many inside stories! The top executives of TVB have 60% of the voting rights, which makes them very manipulable. In the past, the top executives of TVB and many singers were invited to have tea by the Independent Commission Against Corruption for this.

Its public authority has never surpassed the Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs Chart, which is mainly organized by commercial radio stations and co-organized by numerous record companies and the Music Association.

This year, TVB will hold its first New Talent Singing Competition. Jingyi is also looking forward to this competition, as most of the famous singers in Hong Kong music scene will come from here.

As a director of the Music Association, Jingyi was already selected as one of the judges for the final of this competition.

Now the preliminary rounds of the peripheral competition have begun. Originally, judges of her level did not need to participate in the selection of the peripheral preliminary rounds, but she looked through the registration form of the preliminary round contestants and selected a preliminary round to serve as a judge.

"Next is contestant number 11, Zhang Xueyou, who will sing the song 'Sooner or Later We'll Be a Couple'."

There wasn't even a host for this preliminary round. There was only a wireless station staff member who pressed the registration form in his hand and shouted at the contestants waiting outside the door.

A young man wearing a light-colored striped T-shirt came in from the door. He was not very tall and was a little thin. His small eyes were very bright! He bowed to the five judges in the audience and took the microphone handed over by the staff.

The prelude of the music started, and the young man started to sing. "I asked you if you were ready before, and one day I had doubts. Why did I ask you? Because I was already doubting in my heart. You didn't answer...!"

From his singing techniques, it can be seen that he has not systematically studied vocal music, and he has not even mastered professional breathing techniques.

Sure enough, after the song was finished, the five judges gave him only 44 points, and the weak singing god was eliminated.

Judge Zhou Wenshan, who was sitting next to Jingyi, picked up the microphone and began to comment on him patiently.

"Mr. Zhang, contestant No. 11, the ending tone and breath you sang were not clear enough and not complete enough. I think it has something to do with your breathing! Because when we sing, no matter what song we sing, we have to pay attention to our breathing. That's all I have to say."

Nineteen-year-old Zhang Xueyou bowed to the judges again. He returned the microphone and turned to leave, but Jingyi stopped him.

"My classmate, I hope you won't be discouraged. I suggest you sign up for a vocal class and learn systematically. Because your voice is excellent, I am very optimistic about you. Come on!" Jingyi clenched her fist and gave him some encouragement.

"Thank you, Teacher Lou Jingyi! Thank you, judges."

Zhang Xueyou was obviously inspired by his idol! He was so excited that a smile appeared on his face.

The other four judges all turned to look at Lou Jingyi, all of them were very surprised! Judge Lou Jingyi had been sitting there for a long time, just giving scores without making any comments.

I never thought that this contestant with plain looks and unremarkable singing skills would be favored by the music princess. It's really strange!