Chapter 377 Hanging Out (Part 1)
Just when the flood was flooding outside, Kim Jong-ming rarely sought peace. Then, he went to the TV station to comfort the grassroots people.
"It's rare!" Below a rehearsal stage on KBS TV, Li Xiugen turned around and showed two extremely dark circles of eyes. "Why didn't you see Baker?"
"You know it's rare, too?" Jin Zhongming, who was walking along the gap in the seat, almost laughed angry. "I still have a bandage on my hand. Don't ask me about my injury, just ask Baker?"
"You don't understand. Baker can bring people a sense of security, but you can't!" Li Xiugen shook his head and replied. "Pets have this kind of power, but people don't."
"Pets not only have the power to give people a sense of security, but also have the power to bite people to death." Kim Jong-ming sat down next to the other party disapprovingly. "Be careful, you recognize my Baker, but my Baker doesn't recognize you. If you take it as the previous Baker and jump directly over, beware that it bites you to sepsis... It's okay, with your body and current state, it's really possible."
"Sepsis?" Li Xiugen repeated the word in a daze. "What do you have to bite it?"
"Who knows, I just said it casually." Jin Zhongming responded casually, and then the two of them closed their mouths together.
Obviously, the two partners who were unable to stop talking in "Two Days and One Night" are now a little unfamiliar.
However, this sudden silence did not last long, because after just over a dozen seconds, the rehearsal on the stage officially ended. Out of instinct and habit, Kim Jong-ming naturally plucked his palms... Of course, it was just a formal applause. After all, one of his hands was still wrapped in bandages, so it was impossible for him to make a sound. He even had no real contact with his hands. He just raised his hands to show the people on the stage his politeness.
"You shouldn't applaud, it's a waste of time." Li Xiugen interrupted a sentence without any end, and then he plucked his palms helplessly.
Kim Jong-ming was a little confused, but soon he understood what the other party meant - his polite raising his hand caused an inconvenient stir among the people on the stage.
Among these people are a few funny artists, a few vague male group members, and a few vague female group members. Then we danced a dance that was obviously a girl group style. Obviously, this is a funny hot scene made by the host and the guests, and by the way, it should also be that these two idol teams promote their songs.
Of course, there was no time to think about anything. Now these people have taken this opportunity to fly to Kim Jong-ming, and then prepared to conduct an in-depth exchange with him using some polite, childish or scheming questions.
As a last resort, Kim Jong-ming could only help but deal with these people.
The boy group is a newcomer, the kind of newbie, called BTS, and I don’t know that there is nothing in front of me; the girl group is aoa in the rapid rise, but I didn’t see the familiar silly girl, nor did I see the captain with some recognition. As for the hosts, he simply didn’t know any of them except for the senior Li Xiugen who was sitting under him for a long time. He even inquired about Li Xiugen here... that’s all.
"Okay, that's about it." After a few minutes of entanglement, Li Xiugen, who was a senior at the scene, interrupted in time. "You guys really don't think he is a good-tempered person. A good-tempered person cannot get to the point of being at this point. Don't look at him being kind now, maybe you'll be upset in your heart."
"That's what he said..." Kim Jong-ming couldn't help but laugh dryly, but he didn't deny it. "It's a bit too much."
Then, the idol and the hosts who were surrounding him immediately became nervous and disappeared politely within a minute.
"How to say it?" Jin Zhongming breathed a sigh of relief in an instant.
"Except for his own TVN, how long has it been since you came to the TV station?" Li Xiugen asked with a sneer, her big head looked particularly funny under the light. "Half a year or a year, or two?"
"I don't remember." Jin Zhongming's face became confused, and after he thought about it carefully but couldn't get an answer, he shook his head fiercely. "I really don't remember."
"That's right." Li Xiugen sighed slightly. "You big man, you are out of touch with this ecological circle."
"Disconnected? Does it mean that I can't keep up with the rhythm here or..."
"The kind in all senses." Li Xiugen replied understandably. "The entertainment industry has become so fast. If you don't come into contact with it for a few months, the popular communication methods here and the underlying culture that conforms to the current social situation will become unfamiliar. Otherwise, why are those male artists so afraid of military service? How to say it? Now Idiot is a little younger and has taken the initiative in opportunities. Generally speaking, it is very good at climbing along the pole... Let me say that, if you continue to fool with those people just now, they will stay in this place and get rid of you, and then everyone in the backstage will come to hear the news, and more people will gather, and in the end you can't get out at all!"
"Let's watch the fun?" Kim Jong-ming frowned slightly. "Don't you go to work? What's the benefit of this? I won't give them money, and I won't give anyone a role just because they surround me..."
"So, you are really out of touch." Li Xiugen sneered. "With your current level, why do you need to give it to me in person? Look, just like that just now, those hosts will definitely talk about you on the show later, and then those idols will post on SNS when they go back, saying that they have met you today, and then they are so happy to chat with you... Maybe when they meet any TV station PDF or advertiser next time, they can still bring you out in a noble way."
Kim Jong-ming nodded as usual: "This is understandable... In South Korea, there is a lot of pressure in any industry. If you seize the opportunity, anyone will do it. It is better than being crushed by pressure! If you are not the person involved, you don't know what kind of life they live, so don't criticize them easily!"
Lee Soo-gen narrowed his eyes and wisely did not continue the topic.
"But it's the truth that you said I was out of touch." Kim Jong-ming continued. "Now I do feel that something is becoming more and more meaningless..."
"For you." Li Xiugen added.
"That's right, to me." Jin Zhongming sighed slightly.
"Then there are some people." Lee Soo-gen continued to add.
"Maybe." Kim Jong-ming still didn't refute anything. "Tell me something, this is the first time I've told people about this. Now, "Runningman" is in its fastest soaring period, and its influence is rapidly increasing throughout Asia, so it's hard for me to leave. When this year passes, I'll be ready to leave this show completely..."
"It's not me that you were not in line with this show." Li Xiugen finally felt a little more energetic again. "Not to mention that your identity is different now, you originally withdrew from "Infinite Challenge" and then reached the peak of variety shows in "Two Days and One Night". The three major TV stations, several famous PDFs, that is, Luo Yingshi PDFs, are the ones who match you most! You really like this documentary-style variety show... And Luo PDFs are not as fierce as before. They always stop filming for two or three months, and they are even more in line with your current state. A while ago, you did a lot of fun in the program cooking in Jiangyuandao Village? Fame, profit, and heart!"
"I'm very envious of me from what you mean?" Jin Zhongming smiled slightly.
"How could it be that I don't envy you?" Li Xiugen smiled bitterly. "Who in Korea doesn't envy you?"
"What do you envy me?" Kim Jong-ming smiled. "I envy me for being rich, or am I envious of being able to break my hands for acting at this point?"
"Everyone is envious." Li Xiugen shook his head. "Who doesn't envy you for being rich? But it seems even more amazing to be able to devote yourself to doing what you like so much... You see, I guess it's impossible to compare with you in this life, but the enthusiasm of your career seems a little ashamed. After all, we are at the same starting line in this kind of thing."
"That's not necessarily." Kim Jong-ming looked up at the lights above his head, then narrowed his eyes slightly. "Do you know what acting is to me now?"
Li Xiugen glanced at the other party and said nothing.
"It's not a career, but a kind of spiritual release and revision." Kim Jong-ming replied on his own. "Every time I deal with all kinds of bullshit things and finish various business and intrigues in the political circles, I will feel a sense of accumulation and depression... To be honest, this feeling indirectly shows that my conscience is not lost."
Li Xiugen opened his mouth, but finally said nothing.
"And at this time, if you can find a character you like, or stay away from your real life, and then interpret it at all costs and complete it... that feeling is simply so cool!"
"I'll just pretend you didn't hear it." Li Xiugen smiled slightly obscenely, or he seemed very obscene. "It sounds a bit like make love... Will you enter the sage time next?"
"That's right." Kim Jong-ming glanced at the other party again, then raised his left hand with a blank expression. "At this time, I can calm down again, and then carefully think about and plan the next intrigue, but sometimes I will take the opportunity to deal with or decide on some things that may cause me a headache on weekdays."
"For example?" Li Xiugen laughed dryly. "If you have something to say, just say it. I understand very well. With your current attitude of calling the wind and rain, how can you have time to chat with me? It must be that I caused some trouble. Then you feel that my brother, I was a free driver for you for two years, and there was still some favors on you, so it is rare to run to this TV station to find me in a condescending manner... Don't worry, I can hold on, I can understand whatever you announce..."
"It's good that your intelligence is still there." Kim Jong-ming replied frankly. "Actually, it was just noon. An acquaintance from the media came to me. This person specializes in using news to flush toilets for political figures. I have had a little...agreement or something. Anyway, if he wants to post some news before October, I have to agree with me..."
"I don't need to explain this. No one wants to do something big, but who really doesn't understand?" Li Xiugen smiled a little tiredly. "I have been on TV for so many years, and the direction and taste of the wind can be felt. For the sake of our hardships together for two years, I'll give my brother a happy time."
"He told me you're gambling." Kim Jong-ming simply nodded, and then burst out a big piece of information. "And based on his personality, there must be ironclad evidence in his hands. Considering that he is planning to use this news to cover up the current political scandal of so-called so-called so-called so-called so-called so-called so-called so-called so-called but it means that you're gambled a lot this time..."
"Although I know it's illegal, which Korean male artist doesn't gamble?" Unexpectedly, Lee Soo-geun admitted it seriously. "But I am indeed a little older. I went through the path that Joo Jae-hoon knew, and then boom, An Seung-ho... Anyway, people who are almost all involved in TV stations are betting on that website, including me, many of them are worth hundreds of millions of won..."
"There are so many people and the amount is so large, which is really easy to attract attention. What's more important is that you think these people are still from the KBS system, which is directly controlled by the Blue House. As far as I know, the gambling website itself was created by a gangster boss who has a relationship with the Blue House political and legal master. The so-called one won is one won, and one catches one, and you can't even escape..."
"That's right." Li Xiugen sighed slightly, and his tone was still trembling after all. "I can't even run away, but I have to quit all the programs first before I can go to court. I hope that those big shots can be given a lighter punishment in my due to my proper cooperation, so that I can make a comeback in two years."
"Is the child under a lot of pressure?" Jin Zhongming suddenly raised his intact right hand for no reason, then pressed his upper lip and twitched his nose.
Lee Soo-gen did not admit it or deny it, but fell silent.
By the way, the reason why those people in "Two Days and One Night" are obsessed with this show is not only because it has created an unreplicable miracle in the history of Korean variety shows, nor because this show has brought career explosions to these MCs. In fact, in those two years, almost every member of the show accidentally walked on the fast track of their respective lives!
Among them, Kang Ho-dong had his own child during the show's upsurge; Yin Zhiyuan made a marriage contract with his childhood sweetheart during that period; Kim C also secretly had a feeling with his makeup artist at that time; even Kim Jong-ming... and back to Lee Soo-geun, he also met his current wife at that time, and then got married and had children.
However, as we all know what happened next, when the show came to an abrupt end, almost everyone's luck also encountered a cliff-like collapse. It was just that some of this collapse was reflected in the careers of some members, while others were reflected in the emotional lives of some people.
For example, Luo Yingshi and Lee Myung-han pd and the main creators of the entire program team were excluded by KBS, and they were unable to get a new life even after struggling to support them, so they had to switch to TVN; and Jiang Hudong and Mc Meng, let alone, although their families had nothing to do with them, they had suffered a devastating blow in their careers, and both of them almost went to prison; as for Yin Zhiyuan and Kim C, they were the opposite, their careers were not bad, but they also paid a heavy price for their relationships. Both of them were typical marriage failures, and Kim C had not yet sorted out their minds with their ex-wife and the makeup artist! To be honest, even Kim Jong-ming had not escaped this curse to some extent, and he had also suffered a heavy blow in his emotional life, which made him become cautious in this regard!
However, compared to these people, Lee Soo-gen's luck seems much better.
You know, before the show started, he had almost nothing, just a pauper. As the show broke out, he basically got everything he could get, just like everyone else. What's more terrible is that when the show ended and everyone else lost some precious things, he didn't show that he was in trouble with bad luck - his career continued to move forward and his family was harmonious, and even his wife became pregnant after the first season of the show, and then gave birth to a second child for him.
However, it was this child that made Li Xiugen quickly understand that his fortune for many years might end here!
In fact, as soon as the child was born, the doctor told Li Xiugen a terrible reality that his second child suffered from cerebral paralysis, and the left brain was not fully developed, and the right body was basically unable to move normally after birth.
To be fair, this pressure is too great for a father! Then, a middle-aged Korean man who was trapped in this pressure was unable to drink alcohol due to work reasons and could only turn to gambling on gambling websites. It seems to be able to make people feel understanding to some extent.
In this way, facing such an inquiry, Li Xiugen has not spoken for a long time. However, Kim Jong-ming's expression was as usual, just waiting quietly for the other party to reply... Just as the other party said, he has been a free driver for two years, and he has no friendship, let alone how many times during that period, and enjoy a cake or a bowl of instant noodles.
"Gambling is illegal after all." Li Xiugen sighed again. "I can't do such a thing, but I can't control myself after all! I have nothing to say!"
"No matter how powerful and glorious you said, it's useless." Kim Jong-ming sniffed a little abnormally again. "I didn't want to protect you from the beginning. In fact, I had already made an explanation to that person before I came. That was his business. I have no reason not to let others make my hard-earned money..."
"I understand." Li Xiugen nodded, unable to see any expression.
"But I made a little agreement with him, and agreed that he would not be allowed to open it before October, so I still tricked him for my sake." Kim Jong-ming continued. "So he will break this news again at the beginning of October!"
A trace of light appeared in Li Xiugen's eyes.
"Now I'll give you a chance." Kim Jong-ming ordered at the end. "Tell me privately about my family, especially your mother with heart disease, and your wife who has been doing rehabilitation training for your child, so that they can't worry at that time. Then, when the news comes out on October 1st, you will surrender directly. Finally, you are not allowed to talk about your buddies' loyalty. You can't even mention this matter to those people! Do you understand?"
Chapter completed!