Chapter 119 Famous, are you ready?(1/2)
Chu Zhongtian thought about it all the way from King's Ranch to Wimbledon, but finally decided to show up with his parents. Xu Xiaodi's interview should have been sent. He said that the day of publishing in China was Monday, and now it was Tuesday. I don't know if his parents saw it. Chu Zhongtian felt that it would be better to be lenient if he confessed this kind of thing.
What was the feeling of the person who was closest to me when I learned that the news about him was actually through the newspaper?
Chu Zhongtian planned to call his home when he went back to work.
There is an eight-hour jet lag between the UK and China. When he returned to his apartment when he worked, it was almost twelve o'clock, and it happened to be eight o'clock the next morning in China. When he called, his family should have gotten up.
It is better to explain this kind of thing clearly to your parents. Anyway, I didn't want to give up my studies and pursue professional football, so it can be said that "I am not afraid of being slanted." He has nothing to be guilty about. If my mother asks her, she sends her last school year's transcript so that she knows that she has not delayed her studies when she plays football.
This should reduce some of the mother's anger.
The Wimbledon bar at night was more lively than ever, and it seemed that since they won Wimbledon, there have been many strangers here. It was their first time to come and then chose to stay here.
Boss John was very happy that his bar business was getting better and better, so he once again proposed to raise Chu Zhongtian's salary, and his hourly salary increased from five pounds per hour to six pounds.
Chu Zhongtian's arrival surprised the newcomers. They didn't expect that they could meet the legendary hero when they came here to drink, so Chu Zhongtian was busy dealing with the enthusiastic newcomers all night.
It was not until the end of the closing that Emily didn't seem to come tonight again - not just today, since the day of the competition, Emily has never been to the Wimbledon Bar again these days. It seems that she is just thinking what everyone said, Emily is famous, and Emily has lost a lot of freedom after becoming famous. It is unlikely to come to a bar with mixed fish and dragons alone at night.
Perhaps in the future, he can only meet a "living" Emily in school.
Fortunately, he could still meet Emily there.
Why don’t you drop out of school and play professional football directly? Maybe it’s because once you leave, you will never see Emily again?
But even if she doesn't drop out of school, there is only half a year left between the two of them. In June this year, Emily will end her three-year undergraduate study at Wimbledon Art School and officially graduate. After that, she will go to Hollywood and fly according to the route her mother planned for her, chasing her dream of performing.
And what about himself? He will stay here for a year and continue his studies.
He suddenly discovered a problem - after spending two years with Emily, he could no longer get used to the days without Emily. He even felt that he could no longer live the kind of days where he was alone and no one knew a friend. The year he just went to the UK to take preparatory courses was getting farther and farther away in his memory.
If Emily went to the United States, she would be boring in her last year at Wimbledon, because after all, there were football and other friends, but she always felt that something was missing... Just like when she made authentic Sichuan refrying meat, Pixian beanban was missing.
Although Emily looks much better than Pixian Douban...but the importance is the same. Pixian Douban is called the "Soul of Sichuan Cuisine". If Emily is gone, would Chu Zhongtian feel that his soul has been hooked away?
He didn't know what happened in the future, but he knew that he was a little absent-minded tonight because Emily was absent.
※※※ Chu Zhongtian, who returned to the downstairs of the apartment, took out a magnetic card and called home. But no matter how many times he called, no one answered the phone. He felt strange and then looked at his watch.
After twelve o'clock, he suddenly realized that it was already eight o'clock in the morning in Chengdu, and maybe his parents had just left for work.
What a pity... Chu Zhongtian thought about it and would rather call his home at 11 o'clock tomorrow. It was seven o'clock in the evening in Beijing time, and his parents should have gotten home from get off work.
※※※When Chu Zhongtian returned to his apartment with regrets and was about to go to bed.
In fact, his parents did not leave home to go to work, but sat face to face in the living room with a telephone set in front of them.
The ringtone that had just been repeated finally calmed down, and Chu Zuosheng and Zhou Xiaoxiang both breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
Actually, they haven't gone to work yet.
Last night, when Chu Zuosheng came back, he saw a few strangers around his house. He always wandered downstairs. When he came back, he asked his wife, and his wife also said there was, which scared her to death.
Then my wife asked him if he had gone to the telecommunications to ask about the phone. She went home and plugged in the phone line, and the phone rang again. She didn't dare to answer the phone and pulled it out directly. No matter whether it was a stingy woman, she was always worried about having strangers wandering around her home.
I felt more at ease when I saw my husband coming home.
Chu Zuosheng thought about it and finally told his wife the truth. He said that their son played football in the UK, participated in the FA Cup, scored a goal, and had an assist, and was elected the best game.
So what does this have to do with keeping calls from home?
Maybe it’s because my son is famous, and those reporters want to come and interview?
But you can’t always make harassing calls in interviews?
As a mother, she couldn't figure out why her son ran to play football again, but she didn't have time to blame her son, but she was thinking about what to do if she kept pulling out the phone line and living there, what if the son called home or his hometown? What should he do?
I plugged in the phone line at night. Although there were fewer calls, I still received many unfamiliar calls. This time, I not only had kind praise and encouragement, but also had many inexplicable calls. For example, when I answered, I didn’t say anything, but I just laughed strangely, which made the person who laughed so much that he was creepy, and then hung up. When I answered again, I changed it to a few children yelling around, and after a while, I hang up.
In the end, Chu Zuosheng pulled out the phone line again.
The mother blamed her son again, and why was it wrong? She ran to play football again? We worked hard for a month to save money, not to let him play football outside... As father, Chu Zuosheng, didn't say anything, just buried his head in smoking.
Until this morning, the couple thought they were going to work soon and plugged in the phone line to see if the situation was getting better. As soon as they plugged in, they rang again. The two looked at each other, but no one answered. After thinking for a while, the ringtone automatically stopped, but after a while, it rang again.
It rang three times, but it finally stopped.
"How can I continue like this? I can't live at home all day long!" Zhou Xiaoxiang felt that she was almost nervous. As long as she calmed down, she could hear the constant "Dingling Dingling Dingling" in her ears, which made her feel urge to answer the phone. She thought that if she continued like this, she would become crazy.
"Why don't you change the number? Then call them one by one to notify them that we will change the number..."
Zhou Xiaoxiang thought about it for a while, but there seemed to be no better solution, but this was always a very troublesome thing. Why is it so troublesome for her family because her son became famous for no reason? She was a little confused.
"Don't we all respect citizens' privacy now?" Zhou Xiaoxiang said angrily, "I'll publish other people's phone numbers without permission. This is a lawsuit!"
Chu Zuosheng also felt very upset. He was happy that his son could succeed, but he did not want his family's peaceful life to be broken because of this incident.
But what can we do to stop the strangers from harassing their family?
"Let's call in the media, so that they don't disturb us..." Chu Zuosheng thought for a while. Since the media can hype their sons, why can't they use the media to make their own voices? He believes that those media must now hope to interview Chu Zhongtian's father, right? He sent him to their door to ask them for interviews, just hope that they can help to call for respecting our privacy. This is not a difficult thing, right?
My wife also thought this problem was feasible: "Then go quickly! You took a leave today and got it done."
The two discussed the specific matters again and then went out one after another. The wife went to school to attend classes, while Chu Zuosheng called the unit to ask for leave, and then rode an electric bicycle to the building of Xichuan Metropolis Daily.
※※※The young Gao Jie is an intern reporter of Xichuan Metropolis Daily. Because of his father, he was assigned to work in this newspaper with the largest circulation and influence in Sichuan.
In addition to work, he usually loves football and the Internet. When these two things are combined, it is not surprising that he found Chu Zhongtian online.
He knew about Chu Zhongtian when he went online yesterday. Not only that, the whole story was basically revealed by his deliberate search. When he saw that Chu Zhongtian was from Chengdu, Sichuan, he keenly realized that this was a good news.
The problem of traditional media is that it is slower than online media. Today, when the information explosion is booming, news reports should pay more attention to "fast" and "new". At the beginning of 2004, the news and news on the Internet in China were the latest and fastest, but not authoritative enough. Most people should know the real information and be accustomed to traditional media. After all, although the news on the Internet is fast and new, it is mixed with the truth and the false is difficult to distinguish.
If he could use his identity as a reporter in a big newspaper to collect the information on the Internet and further explore the reports, wouldn’t it be both new and correct, and the best of both worlds?
At night, Gao Jie collected information, sorted out her ideas at home, and then wrote a report. When she came to the club early this morning, she was like an editor in charge of the urban section and proposed her own plan.
The editor also thought this method was credible, so he reported it to the editor-in-chief for approval.
Although Gao Jie is an intern reporter, his family is still a bit powerful. When the editor-in-chief saw that the applicant was Gao Jie, he approved without saying a word.
It's really a green channel... In the past, things that might have taken several days to find the results were all done in less than half an hour by Gao Jie. He carried the interview bag, which contained a camera, notebook, recorder... and other equipment needed for the interview, so he planned to go out. Thanks to those human flesh searches, he knew Chu Zhongtian's home address and phone number, and no longer had to look around like a headless fly.
When he walked to the first floor hall with his bag on his back, he saw a middle-aged man with ordinary-looking face with black-framed glasses coming in the hall. The man also saw him and looked at him, he hurriedly came up, as if he had something to ask for.
"This little brother... wants to ask you something..."
Although Gao Jie was born in a wealthy family, he was not the kind of arrogant and domineering person. If others find him to help, he is willing to help others.
"I want to be interviewed..." The visitor grabbed Gao Jie, and the first sentence scared him.
Basically, it was the reporter who came to ask someone for an interview. This was the first time he saw someone who took the initiative to go to the newspaper to apply for an interview... He didn't react for a while and didn't know what to say.
Seeing that he did not respond, the middle-aged man looked puzzled and hesitated for a while and explained: "That's right. My son recently named him... and then he didn't know what happened. The phone number of our family was known by others. He called our house all day long, and we were a little uncomfortable... I want to take the opportunity to be interviewed and declare that - don't disturb our family's life..."
At first, Gao Jie found it very funny, but as he listened, he gradually couldn't laugh in his heart - why is this so similar?
He interrupted the other party and asked, "Uncle, what's your son's name?"
"Chu Zhongtian."
Gao Jie was stunned for a moment, then laughed. This was really a place to search for something, and it took no time to get it!
He grabbed the other party's hand: "That's great!"
"That's great?" Chu Zuosheng didn't react. What's great?
"I'm going to find you!"
"Look for me?" Chu Zuosheng didn't expect that he would be so coincidental that he could find a reporter who would interview him if he just pulled someone to ask for directions.
"Yes! I saw the deeds about your son online yesterday. As a Chengdu native, I am very proud. I think more Chengdu and Sichuan people should know your son..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard the other party shouting: "That's great! I promised to accept your interview, but can you please call on those people not to call our house again during the report... Our house doesn't even dare to plug in the phone line these days, and my wife can't sleep well..."
Finally found the "savior", Chu Zuosheng breathed a sigh of relief.
※※※ Chu Zhongtian was not surprised at all when he saw Xu Xiaodi in a Wimbledon bar. Since he became famous, this place has become the destination for many people. Even Abel would drive from London to come here for a drink and have a brief chat with him.
"There is good news and bad news." Xu Xiaodi did not ask him "who do you want to listen to first", but said it directly: "The good news is that you are famous, especially on the Internet. You have even been labeled as the best player in England in Chinese football history by those enthusiastic netizens."
Chu Zhongtian shouted, he didn't care about it and didn't take it seriously.
"Bad news is bad... Netizens are too enthusiastic, and we provide too little information. They are eager to know all the information related to you, so they launched a human search engine..."
Chu Zhongtian felt the word "human search engine?" was very fresh.
Search engines, what is a human search engine?
"Well, it is a new term on the Internet now, which is to mobilize netizens to search, rather than relying on search engines like Baidu and Google. Because it is fully manual, it is called a 'human search engine'." Xu Xiaodi explained. Chu Zhongtian has been in the UK for more than two years and has not been online much, so it is normal for him to not understand this emerging online term.
"That's it, so what?" Chu Zhongtian thought, he is not an online celebrity, even if you search, you can find out what?
"Well... I have to apologize to this, Xiao Chu." After the two of them had contacted each other several times, Xu Xiaodi even changed his name, which seemed more intimate, but it was also a psychological comfort - he had a different relationship with Chu Zhongtian!
"Why do you apologize to me? I'm famous because of you... Did my mother know?" He suddenly thought of a terrible fact.
Xu Xiaodi looked a little embarrassed: "It's not just that I know... The search for human flesh on the Internet almost turned your information upside down. Your birthday, height, where did you go to high school, and your graduation exam results... Not only did they know all of this, they also found your home address and phone number..."
Xu Xiaodi and Chu Zhongtian didn't know what happened next, but as long as their brains were developing normally, they should be able to guess what would happen - Chu Zhongtian's home will definitely receive many unfamiliar calls, and even some strange faces that they had never seen before will appear near their homes.
This obviously would cause great trouble to his parents' lives.
"This is indeed a very bad news..." Chu Zhongtian was stunned for a moment and reacted.
To be continued...