Chapter 1278 Before the rehearsal
Chapter 1278 Before the rehearsal
According to incomplete statistics, there are more than two hundred legal casinos in Las Vegas in this world. When Xiao Yao came to Las Vegas this time, it was almost impossible and he did not plan to go to all of the two hundred casinos at once.
It is already the 1920s of the 21st century. Many casinos’ blackjack tables have been replaced with turbo-licensing machines. In addition, some factors such as the size of the casino, the location and the surrounding environment, and public security, etc. Before coming to Las Vegas this time, Yan Ke and others introduced him to only a dozen target casinos suitable for card counting. After learning about the local gambling girl Paula and the party planner Charlie, Xiao Yao’s target casinos have increased a bit, but it has only increased to more than twenty.
Now Xiao Yao has been in the casino for nearly half a month. Except for the first day, there are at least two casinos and as many as three casinos every day. He has already visited more than 20 casinos once, two or three days ago. I started to repeat the casino I visited before.
Although Xiao Yao’s memory and mental arithmetic abilities are stronger than those of Yan Ke and others, he doesn’t need to concentrate so much when counting cards, and he has also exerted certain performance skills to make himself count cards. Shi’s appearance, expression and other external performances seem to be different from those of ordinary card counters, but he went to the same casino twice and won a lot, and it is inevitable that he has attracted the attention of some casinos.
When entering the casino in the last two days, especially when the chips on the table were piled up in the later period, Xiao Yao had already discovered that there were people in suits and uniforms with nameplates on their chests and earphones sitting next to them. Observe him quietly on the table.
This situation was actually expected by Xiao Yao. To be honest, maybe there was another Tim Haggis who was obviously his companion but would lose money. This expected situation came a little later than Xiao Yao expected. In any case, as long as the casino does not clearly find him and tell him that he suspects that he counts cards, and puts him on the blacklist, Xiao Yao just pretends that he has not discovered that the casino has sent someone to secretly observe him, and still acts in the casino according to the plan.
Due to Amy Hatton’s visit in the morning, Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis went out later than expected, but it did not affect Xiao Yao’s results today. In the evening, when Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis left the second casino, Xiao Yao once again collected nearly one million dollars in the two casinos.
Xiao Yao promised that Amy Hatton would go to watch the rehearsal of Nicky Thompson’s performance, and the two would naturally not go to the third casino in the evening. Amy Hatton said that Nicky Thompson’s rehearsal time is ten o’clock in the evening, and Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis don’t need to worry. After the two went out of the casino, they went back to the hotel room to take a shower, changed their clothes, and went to dinner with ease.
In this way, the dinner time for the two is a bit late. However, regular western food takes a lot of time, but Tim Haggis is from a disciplined army and Xiao Yao is a Chinese native. Sometimes he is particular about the food he eats, but he is not so particular about the eating procedures. The two big men are both more efficient people, and the speed of eating is still relatively fast. They received a call from Amy Hatton when the two had dinner and stayed in the restaurant for a coffee break.
The place where Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis ate is the restaurant of the hotel where they are staying, and Amy Hatton and Nicky Thompson also set off from the hotel to the theater where the award ceremony was held. Both parties are in the hotel. Okay, meet in the hotel lobby and set off together.
The restaurant is located on a lower floor, and the two are in a state of going out, so Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis first went to the lounge area of the hotel lobby to wait. But when Amy Hatton called Xiao Yao, she was almost ready to go out. Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis didn’t wait long before they saw Amy Hatton and Nicky Thompson and his party. People walked out of the elevator.
It’s not only Amy Hatton and Nicky Thompson who got out of the elevator, but five or six people. Nicky Thompson’s rehearsal is a work schedule, and the people next to her should be members of her personal team, assistants, makeup artists and other staff.
“Mr. Xiao, trouble you.” Seeing Xiao Yao, Amy Hatton walked two steps forward and said, “I hope you can give us good advice in a while.”
“I just went to watch the excitement, and I may not be able to help you.” Xiao Yao smiled.
“Yang, hello!” Nicky Thompson followed up and greeted Xiao Yao, looked at him and said, “I wonder if you can see your skills other than eloquence tonight?”
“I shouldn’t see it!” Xiao Yao smiled and shook his head. “It’s the rehearsal stage. Your performance should be a more mature performance. I don’t think I can help you. I promised Ms. Hatton to see it. You rehearsal, it’s not that I can help you, but I like to watch other people’s rehearsal, which is a very interesting thing.”
“You huh!” Nicky Thompson snorted when Xiao Yao didn’t answer the move.
“Let me introduce you!” Amy Hatton took the conversation, and briefly introduced Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis to the people who came back. Those few people are indeed members of Nicky Thompson’s private team.
Someone in Nicky Thompson’s team had heard of Young Shaw, and was surprised after hearing Amy Hatton’s introduction. As for Tim Haggis, Amy Hatton did not disclose his career. , I just said it was Xiao Yao’s friend, those people didn’t care much.
“Let’s go!” Nicky Thompson urged after Amy Hatton’s introduction.
Everyone came out of the hotel door, and Nicky Thompson’s nanny car and a car had been parked at the door of the hotel. Nicky Thompson and Amy Hatton and a young assistant girl got in the nanny car, and the other three, including the makeup artist carrying the makeup case, got in the car.
Xiaoyao and Tim Haggis will naturally not get in Nicky Thompson’s car. The two of them had already rented a vehicle to travel through the hotel during this period. There are some parking spaces in the ground area next to the hotel entrance. The two knew they were going to watch the rehearsal tonight. When they came back from the casino, they did not park their car in the underground parking lot, but parked in the ground parking space next to the hotel entrance. Nicky Thompson and others got in the car, while Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis got into their own car and drove behind them.
The venue for the billboard awards ceremony this year is located in the theater of a hotel called MGM in Las Vegas. The hotel is located in the center of Las Vegas, about ten minutes’ drive from Caesars Palace Hotel where Xiao Yao and others lived, not near nor far. In addition, this hotel also has a casino. Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis only visited a few days ago. Even if they were lost, they were not afraid of finding a place, so they were not afraid of being lost.
As he approached the MGM hotel, Xiao Yao, who was sitting in the co-pilot’s seat, noticed that there were media reporters waiting at the gate of the hotel.
The relevant news of this year’s Bulletin Board Awards Ceremony was announced long ago. The time and location of the award ceremony and most of the star guests are not a secret to media reporters. For some interested media reporters, it is not difficult to inquire about the rehearsal time. For entertainment reporters who want to dig more news, it is normal to record and report on the rehearsal, so it is not surprising that there are media reporters in this place.
“Tim, go to the underground parking lot. Let’s take the underground passage and take the elevator directly.” Xiaoyao saw two cars with Nicky Thompson and his party driving towards the hotel door to meet the media reporters and turned to Tim Ha. Jisdao, at the same time, took out his cell phone and sent a message to Amy Hatton.
Regardless of whether the media reporters at the door were notified and arranged by the organizer or they found it by themselves, it is normal for a star participating in the rehearsal to walk through the door and show a face in front of the reporters. It is not necessary for someone like Xiao Yao to watch the excitement. Joined the fun in front of reporters.
Tim Haggis drove the car into the hotel’s underground parking lot, and took the elevator with Xiao Yao to the floor where the hotel’s theater was located. Perhaps the hotel did not want to affect other guests of the hotel because of the award ceremony, so only some reporters gathered at the entrance of the hotel. No reporters were seen in the underground parking lot or on the floor of the hotel’s theater.
The two walked to the back door of the theater and found the assistant girl who was in the car with Nicky Thompson and a young man in a suit and uniform with an earplug in one ear, who looked like a hotel theater staff standing there. Looks like this, it should be that Nicky Thompson and Amy Hatton have already entered, leaving this assistant here to wait for Xiao Yao.
Seeing the two appearing, the assistant girl immediately waved to greet them. When the two approached, the young man took them all in.
Nicky Thompson’s rehearsal time is around ten o’clock, and the group of people set off at nine o’clock. It is less than 9:30, and there is more than half an hour from Nicky Thompson’s rehearsal, so Nicky Thompson is now In the lounge.
The young man took the three of them to the door of a room where the name of Nicky Thompson was written on the door, nodded to the three of them, and left. The assistant girl knocked on the door, and before the people inside opened the door, she pushed the doorknob to open the door and led Xiao Yao into it.
Xiao Yao walked in and found Nicky Thompson sitting in front of the dressing table, and her makeup artist was applying makeup to her.
The so-called rehearsal was originally the lingo of opera, referring to the final rehearsal of drama and dance before the official performance. The colorful characters refer to the disguised rehearsal before the formal performances of Chinese opera and dance. So, to be correct, rehearsals without costumes and makeup are called rehearsals, and rehearsals with costumes and makeup are called rehearsals.
But with some people’s wrong usage, many people recognize that rehearsal has become the meaning of rehearsing on the performance venue before the official performance. There is no meaning of having to wear costumes and makeup, which is theoretically incorrect.” The word “makeup rehearsal” replaced the original meaning of rehearsal.
When Amy Hatton communicated with Xiao Yao, she spoke English, so naturally she would not make such mistakes. What Amy Hatton said to Xiao Yao was “DressRehearsal” which means the dress rehearsal before the official performance. Since it is a makeup rehearsal, it is natural to make up and change costumes.
Nicky Thompson saw Xiao Yao coming in from the mirror, but just raised his hand to indicate. Xiao Yao didn’t bother her, smiled casually in response, and sat on the sofa in the lounge with Tim Haggis.
“Nicky, where is Amy?” The assistant girl stood next to Nicky Thompson and asked.
When she came in, she found that Amy Hatton was not in the lounge.
“Go to say hello to the band.” Nicky Thompson said, “They have arrived, but they have too many people and they are arranged in another lounge. Amy said he wanted to go and see.”
“Oh!” The assistant girl nodded.
“Excuse me, can I go to your band’s lounge?” Xiao Yao suddenly raised his hand and asked.
“You hate me?” Nicky Thompson frowned.
“You are putting on makeup, it is not very convenient to talk,” Xiao Yao said, “I just think it will be more fun to be with the band members.”
“Huh ” Nicky Thompson snorted again and was about to speak when the door of the lounge was suddenly opened.
It was Amy Hatton who came in.
Amy Hatton saw Xiao Yao and two on the sofa, walked to the other side of the sofa and sat down, and said to Xiao Yao: “Mr. Xiao, you are here.”
“Ms. Hatton,” Xiao Yao said, “Can you ask me if anyone is rehearsing on the stage? Can I go to the auditorium in the performance hall to watch the rehearsal?”
“I invited you because of…” Amy Hatton reminded.
“I know,” Xiao Yao interrupted, “I came to see Miss Thompson to rehearse, but she hasn’t started rehearsing yet. I’ll go and see other people first. There should be no problem, right?”
Xiao Yao thinks it’s a bit boring to sit here and watch Nicky Thompson make-up.
“Okay, let me ask you a question.” Amy Hatton hesitated for a moment, but nodded.
Just as Amy Hatton was about to get up, there was a knock on the door of the lounge.
The assistant girl ran to open the door. After opening the door, she was a little surprised to find a group of people stood outside the door.
Outside the door is a group of young men with colorful hair, all of whom are Asian-looking. One of them was wearing a suit, and the older young man said to the assistant girl in English: “Excuse me, excuse me, we want to visit Miss Thompson!”
“Huh?” The assistant girl turned to look at her agent Amy Hatton.
Amy Hatton got up and walked to the door to take a look. At first, he showed a confused expression, but quickly put the expression away, waved his hand and made a please gesture, and smiled: “Please come in!”
It seems that Amy Hatton knows people outside, but doesn’t understand why they are here.
People from outside walked in, a total of eight young men. After entering, seven of them stood in a row, the middle one counted one, two, three, and then the seven bowed together and said, “Hello, we are BTBS!”
The seven people spoke English, but Xiao Yao felt a strong smell of kimchi. The taste of kimchi that Xiao Yao felt was not just an accent.
“Hello, this is Nicky Thompson.” Nicky Thompson stood up and smiled politely.
When these seven people came in, it was obviously different from when Xiao Yao came in just now, so Nicky Thompson’s makeup artist has stopped.
“Hello, I’m Nicky’s agent, my name is Amy Hatton!” Amy Hatton also said.
“Hello, I am the agent of BTBS, my name is John Lee!” The older man in the suit said next to him, “I have heard of your name a long time ago, so glad to meet you!”
“Me too!” Amy Hatton nodded, and then asked curiously, “Are you here because of?”
BTBS is a Korean male idol group that has gained considerable popularity in Europe and America in the past two years. They were nominated for the “Best Team” award on the bulletin board last year. Although they did not win the award, Amy Hatton knew them. But what makes Amy Hatton feel weird is that those who have not been nominated this year are just observing guests. They are neither nominated nor performers. I don’t know why they appeared here tonight.
(End of this chapter)