novelraw Chapter 496 - 495: Laughing Like a Monkey
Chapter 496 - 495: Laughing Like a Monkey
In the middle of the venue, the staff in black suits constantly moving sassily to the beat of drums almost couldn’t hold back their laughter as they continued the performance, head down and mouth tightly shut.
The long-haired person conducting the orchestra also tried hard to hypnotize themselves, but it was useless. They laughed silently, their conducting hand trembling, and their shoulders shaking uncontrollably.
Only they remained standing, everyone else was laughing so hard they squatted down, and in the most exaggerated case, Li Yang even sat on the floor, head buried between his knees, laughing until he was about to fall over.
The three people on the awards platform couldn’t hold back, with Wei Yi’s laughter being one of the loudest in the entire basement.
Guan Yu sat on the platform, covering her face, unwilling to look at this group of people.
Shi Yuhuai was even more impressive; he turned his back on the group, sitting on the second-place platform, covering his ears like a rebellious kid sulking and pondering life in a corner.
Mu Qiu laughed until her voice was almost broken, coughed twice to clear her throat, and took a closer look at the staff.
Once again confirming that the combination of choreography, music, and dance was from the same genre as plaza dancing.
The smooth formation changes, the drum belt like a Shaanxi waist drum, the enraptured expressions, the somewhat chaotic performance sounds, the bodies shaking as if electrified...
Being the staff for this program is really not easy.
When the two-minute drumming time was up, the conductor’s other hand, which was hanging at their side, suddenly also raised.
Mu Qiu shuddered and immediately looked up at them.
The staff lined up in two rows stopped the drums, then the sound of gongs rang out, followed by a change in the drum beat, now with added vocal sounds.
"Congratulations! Guan Yu!"
"Congratulations! Shi Yuhuai!"
"Congratulations! Wei Yi!"
"Congratulations on winning the championship!"
"Congratulations on a spectacular comeback!"
"How amazing! First place! We deeply admire you!"
Guan Yu’s mouth dropped open: "......"
What a corny way to celebrate.
After two silent seconds, even more exaggerated laughter erupted around them.
Like a wave surge, a crest hit, washing the entire space into a single rhythm, the laughter sweeping through the whole basement.
[... Whose idea was this?]
[Ah, this, after our college entrance exams last year, we hired a group of aunties to play drums and gongs.]
[So unique, so festive, so funny]
[Brother Huai already doesn’t want to face this victory hahahahahaha]
[Li Yang, can you mind your image? Sitting on the ground in a suit]
[I’ve been timing it, Brother Cheng has been laughing all this time]
[hhhhhhh looking like a pointy-mouthed monkey with a grin]
[Laughing so much that there’s no strength to type much]
[Why does quiet residential community frequently erupt with laughter, and why are sound-activated lights on everywhere after dinner]
[The show’s taste and preferences are truly difficult to figure out]
[I haven’t got over the last story, and now they’re hitting me with this, forcibly dragged out]
[Crying one moment, now laughing hysterically, my mom thinks somethings wrong with me]
[Laughing my head off hahahahahaha]
[Jiang Lu: Thank goodness we’re in second place]
[The program team has only one principle: No one should think of escaping]
[Alright, I can already imagine the excitement of the next punishment segment / dog face]
[Camera brother, stay steady!]
[Shu Ran, close your mouth a bit, your lipstick is going to crack]
[Hahahahahahaha hahahahaha]
Laughter mixed with the sound of drums and gongs, pounding against everyone’s eardrums.
Especially on Shi Yuhuai’s eardrums.
His head was hurting, covering his ears while sitting hunched on the side, long legs stretched out casually, wishing he could disappear on the spot.
It’s too eye-searing, not only eye-searing but also severely disrupting his brain neurons.
After laughing for who knows how long, the drum sounds finally stopped.
As the staff hurriedly retreated one after another, eager to vanish, they pushed and squeezed each other.
The conductor at the front made a final gesture to end, then bowed to them.
Mu Qiu watched him retreat off camera, unable to hold back her laughter: "He’s a real conductor, holding back laughter until his face turns green."
"My face is turning green soon too," Guan Yu glanced at Shi Yuhuai sitting below, saying, "Oh, Brother Huai is already green."
Wei Yi and Li Yang, two people with extremely low laughter thresholds, started their ha-ha-ha duets again.
Shi Yuhuai finally released his hands from his ears, swinging a long leg to rest it back on the first-place podium.
"Terrifying." He said.
Originally, Guan Yu also thought it was scary, but after he said that, all she felt was bemusement, rubbing her chin, she said, "Maybe this is the worldly tribulation the first place must endure with humiliation."
"......" He glanced at her, "You’re pretty terrifying too."
Guan Yu choked.
"Hey, is that the prize?" Next to them, Wei Yi shook his clothes and stared at the tray brought over by the staff.
"Prize?" Guan Yu whipped her head around.
The familiar ceremony lady, the familiar white-gloved staff, the familiar tray and the red cloth covering it.
The flow finally returned to normal, and Guan Yu almost wanted to cry tears of joy, patting Wei Yi’s shoulder.
"Finally this moment has arrived, what color of red armband do you like?"
Wei Yi blanked: "A red armband... aren’t they all red?"
Could there be a hidden segment - a choice of principle MVP armband color?
He was dumbfounded, casually saying, "Then if I can choose, can I pick yellow?"
Guan Yu: "Of course not."
"....." Then why did you ask that?
The ceremony lady carried the prize tray to them, and three muscular male staff members uncovered the red cloth draped over it.
"It’s obsidian this time." Guan Yu opened her mouth wide, taking out the black obsidian brooch inside, looking it over back and forth.
"The program team is generous only at this moment, make sure you keep it safe, Wei Yi."
Wei Yi was still waiting for the staff to help him put it on, nodded when he heard this, and let out an oh, then his gaze fell on another item in the tray.
"This... the red armband, should we wear it now?"
"Of course."
A few people gathered around to see the prizes, and Mu Qiu pointed at his red armband, seriously measuring the size and saying:
"Just perfect, dressed in school uniform, wearing this won’t make you look like a security guard, only like a class health officer."
"...But I don’t want to be a class health officer."
"You have to be, look at your Brother Huai."
Wei Yi turned his head to look.
Shi Yuhuai was tilting his head, gritting his teeth, enduring the staff putting the red armband on him, looking less like receiving an honor, more like enduring a painful vaccination.
Look at Guan Yu again, still attempting to cozy up to the staff, trying to dodge this segment, but the staff not only could play drums and dance plaza dance, but also pretend to be deaf and mute.
They grabbed Guan Yu’s arm and, with brute force, put it on in no time, adjusting it with satisfaction once done, looking deeply honored.
Then someone rushed in, shaking open a rolled red carpet, and placed colorful flower baskets on top.
When the red carpet was laid down to the awards platform, they waved at Mu Qiu and the others.
"Outsiders, move aside, pull your feet in."
"....."