Song'an Academy has one day off every ten days, and three days off in a month.
Before the holiday that day, the students were particularly noisy and could hardly sit still.
Master Lin was sitting in the front, looking a little unhappy.
Recently, a theater called Cinema opened on Song'an Street, causing people to become restless.
These monkeys keep chattering about it every day, just waiting for the holiday to come and go to the theater.
Little did they know that the garden charged a high price, thirty cents a ticket.
It is difficult for an ordinary family to support a student, so how could they be willing to spend their spare money to send them to the theatre
Master Lin had heard other teachers in the academy talk about the cinema many times and originally planned to go and see one.
Later, I heard that the ticket price was extremely high, so I gave up the idea.
External things can easily disturb the mind, so it is better to read a few more books at home to calm your mind.
After finally waiting until the end of the school day, Songyuan student Zhang Ziqi and his friend Liu Mingyuan packed up their school supplies and ran out of the classroom.
Zhang Ziqi smiled like a flower: "Finally, I have a holiday. Let's go to the cinema!"
Liu Mingyuan followed him, his steps quick: "I saved two cents, I can buy a bucket of popcorn tomorrow."
He can smell the sweet fragrance every day when he passes by the cinema. He has been craving that smell for a long time.
Zhang Ziqi: "My brother happens to have a day off tomorrow, so I asked him to take me to the cinema and buy tickets to watch the feature film."
Liu Mingyuan showed an envious look, "I wish I had a brother too."
Zhang Ziqi: "Your sister is not at home, ask her to take you there."
Liu Mingyuan lowered his head and shook his head, saying, "My sister is embroidering her wedding dress at home."
His family is different from Zhang Ziqi's. Zhang Ziqi's brother is the squad leader of the city's patrol guard, and all the vendors who do business ask him for help.
His brother has a monthly salary, so watching one or two movies is no big deal.
Zhang Ziqi was silent for a while, then said, "Then I'll go and see it, and I'll come back and tell you what happened next."
Liu Mingyuan's eyes lit up: "Okay!"
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Cinema.
After the last movie screening in the afternoon, Lu Yao called Zhu Zhu, Wen Jian and Gou Zi, pointed at Ku Ba and said, "This is Ku Ba, the new ticket collector. Wen Jian will take care of him when he has time. He will mainly check tickets, guide guests and clean up."
The cinema has not found a suitable cleaner yet, so the cleaning work is temporarily divided and assigned to each employee.
Lu Yao thought for a moment, and then said, "I found that many guests don't know how to use the courtesy room. Ku Ba is here, and there are extra people. When it's time to leave, one person will take turns to go to the door of the courtesy room to guide them."
Initially, there were written instructions in every corner of the restroom, and later pictures were added. However, many guests still did not understand and had to have someone to guide them.
Ku Ba couldn't help laughing and looked at Lu Yao with a weird look, "Boss, are you kidding? Who doesn't know how to use the toilet? Are the people of Liangjing all fools?"
Wen Jian, Zhu Zhu and Gou Zi looked at him with calm and tolerant eyes.
Crying Eight: "Why are you looking at me like that? Am I wrong?"
Lu Yao waved at Wen Jian and Gou Zi, "Please take him to the screening room and the toilet, and teach him what to do tomorrow. The first show of "The Little Chef of Shengjing" will be tomorrow, so don't offend the guests."
Ku Ba was carried away by Wen Jian and the others. Lu Yao waved to Zhu Zhu to come closer: "Do you have any sisters who want to watch the movie?"
Zhu Zhu nodded repeatedly: "A lot. Sister Xiaohua who lives next door to me knows that I work at a movie theater, and she has been talking to me a lot recently. And Sister Xue'e who lives across the street secretly stuffed a handful of peanuts into my pocket this morning to ask about 'Ye Qingzhou'."
Lu Yao frowned slightly, "This is strange, why are all the customers who come to the store these days men, and I haven't seen a single woman."
She has been observing every day recently and found that there is really no woman coming to the cinema.
Occasionally, there were women standing on the side of the road looking around. When Lu Yao walked out and tried to strike up a conversation with them, they would immediately move away.
After spending more than ten days with Lu Yao, Zhu Zhu realized that the shopkeeper had a very weak sense of separation between men and women.
Not only that, in her eyes, there seems to be no difference between men and women.
During the half month she had worked in the store, the owner treated her exactly the same as the other employees.
Zhu Zhu never revealed that many neighbors were talking about her working in a movie theater behind her back.
Her parents were conflicted and worried, and at one point they didn't want her to continue working here.
Although Zhu Zhu is not very old, she has been working with Aunt Zhu since she was a child and has seen how difficult it is for people working outside.
In her eyes, working in the cinema was better than being a maid in a wealthy family, so she was very determined.
No matter what his parents said, he refused to resign and even learned some of Lu Yao's rhetoric to stop them.
They may not have listened to her, but they couldn't find any words to refute her, so Zhu Zhu just kept wasting her time.
Zhu Zhu thought for a moment and said, "It's not that they don't want to come, it's just that it's inconvenient for them as women, and the money is in the hands of their parents. I didn't mean to say the ticket price is high."
She had seen the movie and felt from the bottom of her heart that the price was not expensive.
The shock that the movie brings cannot be described in any words.
Even now, when Zhu Zhu thinks of Ye Qingzhou and Junior Sister Ningshuang, she still feels depressed and unhappy.
Lu Yao lowered his eyes and thought.
She knew early on that this era had its limitations, but when she saw women doing business on the street, she thought it was not that serious and seemed to be too optimistic.
When you open your door to do business, everyone who comes is a customer.
She never cared about the gender, age or status of her guests.
But now that cinemas have opened in this era, Lu Yao selfishly wanted the women here to see it too, so that they would at least have a chance to understand.
She took Zhu Zhu to the ticket office, operated the machine to print out forty tickets, wrote down the ticket numbers, and made a magic mark on the tickets that ordinary people could not detect.
Lu Yao turned around and handed over the tickets in his hand. "Here are 20 tickets each for The World's Number One and The Little Chef of Shengjing. Please do me a favor and give these 40 tickets to the girls you know. Tell them that the cinema is inviting them to watch a movie for free."
Zhu Zhu twisted her hands together and didn't take it immediately: "Boss, you don't charge for this ticket?"
Lu Yao nodded: "Yes, the time is the second show in the morning and the second show in the afternoon tomorrow. Bring your ticket directly to the ticket office and you will get an extra Coke and popcorn set. But remember, these tickets are only for women. I won't recognize tickets brought by men."
The ticket price for "The Little Chef of Shengjing" is cheaper than that for "The Best in the World", 20 wen per ticket, and 40 tickets add up to one hundred wen, with free food.
Zhu Zhu felt that the shopkeeper was too generous and couldn't understand why she did so.
The cinema is packed every day, with many people queuing up but still unable to buy tickets. There is no need to attract business in such a big way.
Zhu Zhu couldn't figure it out, but she believed Lu Yao.
She took the ticket, squeezed it in her hand, and asked in a low voice, "Shopkeeper, can I give one to my mother?"
Her mother was worried about her every day and refused to buy tickets to the cinema. This opportunity made her realize that cinemas were not improper places.
Lu Yao: "Of course. You can also give some tickets to Aunt Zhu and ask her to give them to other aunts she knows, so that they can come together."
"Thank you, shopkeeper!" Zhu Zhu bowed towards Lu Yao, smiling so much that her eyebrows were visible.
Lu Yao: "Forty tickets, can all of them be issued?"
Zhu Zhu: "Don't worry, there are many people who want to come to the cinema on the street where I live. The tickets are free, so they will definitely come."
Lu Yao asked, "Isn't this inconvenient?"
Zhu Zhu: "Most of those who find it inconvenient are unmarried women. If they go out with their mothers and elders, no one will gossip about them."
Lu Yao felt relieved: "Thank you for your hard work. Once this is done, I will bring you something delicious tomorrow."
Zhu Zhu became even happier when she heard there was something delicious to eat.
I don’t know how the food the shopkeeper brought out was made, but every one of them was so delicious that I wanted to bite my tongue.
After discussing things here, Kuba, Wen Jian and Gou Zi also came back.
Ku Ba's face was calm and he stopped chattering. He raised his eyebrows and glanced at Lu Yao secretly, then thought she didn't notice, so he glanced again.
He had lived for eighteen years, and this was the first time he had seen a toilet cleaner than the kitchen.
That would have been fine, but the pit was so peculiar that when you squatted down and stood up, water would flow out and wash away the filth, and no one knew where it went.
And the paper is so soft and much more useful than small bamboo pieces.
Ku Ba had to overturn his previous thoughts. This store was indeed very mysterious, and the female shopkeeper was also very suspicious.
Lu Yao ignored the crying and called Gou Zi over. "Come over early tomorrow and show me how to operate the popcorn machine and the beverage machine. If you don't make any mistakes, you'll officially be hired."
Gouzi's eyes lit up: "Thank you for the promotion, boss."
The shop assistants are relatively young and have relatively strong receptive abilities.
After Gouzi came to the cinema, he was not as smart as when he was a beggar. He was honest and silent and worked hard.
But he was originally a beggar, and his behavior was rude, which could be seen from the way he ate.
He noticed it himself and was afraid of being disliked, so he secretly learned to speak like Lu Yao and Wen Jian.
Lately I've been speaking in an inexplicably mature and flowery way.
Lu Yao saw it but didn't say much.
After arranging things, it was getting late, so Lu Yao let the clerk go.
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Ku Ba left the cinema, hurriedly found an inn to stay in, wrote a long letter, and sent it back to Ling Xiaoge overnight.
He will stay in Liangjing City for a long time this time, so he didn't write much else.
Even if we want to expose the young shopkeeper, we have to wait until he has long purple hair.
He has liked the sexy color purple since he was a child. He loves to wear purple clothes, purple boots, and even the tassel on the handle of his knife must be purple, but he never thought that he could also make his hair purple.
Many of the things he saw in that cinema today were new, but what Kuba wanted most was purple hair.
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Zhu Zhu went home with the 40 movie tickets Lu Yao gave her. She went to the kitchen to find Aunt Zhu and said, "Mom, I'm back."
Aunt Zhu didn't even turn her head and said, "Go wash your hands and eat right away."
Zhu Zhu walked over and said, "Mom, I have something to say."
Aunt Zhu raised her head, with some bad thoughts in her mind, "What's the matter?"
"Mom, the shopkeeper gave me some movie tickets." Zhu Zhu took out a stack of tickets from her sleeve.
"What ticket?" Aunt Zhu was puzzled.
Zhu Zhu told Lu Yao what he had told her.
Aunt Zhu sat on a low stool in front of the stove, at a loss, "Why should we go and see those? Besides, we have to do business."
"There's one show each in the morning and afternoon. Our duck blood vermicelli always sells best at noon. There are fewer people in the afternoon, so you can go then. Call Aunt Wu and Aunt Liu along, it will be more lively." Zhu Zhu tried to persuade.
Aunt Zhu was still hesitant, "Oh, why did your boss let you give away tickets for free, and only gave them to women? Is there something going on..."
"Mom!" Zhu Zhu stamped her feet. "The shopkeeper just means well, but you always think too much. You've always been worried that something might happen to me in the cinema, so this is a good opportunity to go and watch it without having to spend your own money."
Aunt Zhu thought about it and it made sense. Zhu Zhu was determined to stay in the cinema. It was useless for her to talk to her father. She might as well take this opportunity to go and see the movie. It didn't cost any money anyway.
Aunt Zhu asked Zhu Zhu which show she wanted to watch. Zhu Zhu thought for a while and recommended "The Little Chef of Shengjing".
She hasn't seen the full movie yet, but the cook in the trailer is very skilled, and her mother also likes to prepare food.
Zhu Zhu gave Aunt Zhu ten tickets, five each for "The Best in the World" and "The Little Chef of Shengjing". She kept one ticket for "The Little Chef of Shengjing" for herself and gave the rest to women she was familiar with.
Before curfew, Zhu Zhu gave away all the dozens of tickets she had.
Xiaohua, who often came to see her, had a younger sister. She gave them two copies of "The Little Cook of Shengjing". The one Liu Xue'e gave her when she stuffed peanuts with peanuts in the morning was "The Best in the World".
After Liu Xue'e finished talking to Zhu Zhu at the door, she happily took the ticket back to the house.
Liu Mingyuan heard the voice and saw the ticket in his sister's hand. He felt vaguely familiar with it.
"Sister, do you have a ticket to the cinema?" Liu Mingyuan strode closer, unable to believe that his sister actually had the money to buy movie tickets.
Liu Xue'e: "Zhu Zhu gave it to me. She said the cinema owner wanted to invite some women to watch a movie."
Liu Mingyuan was puzzled: "Why only give it to women?"
Liu Xue'e shook her head: "I don't know either."
Liu Mingyuan looked at his sister eagerly.
The movie written on the ticket was "The Best Under Heaven". With this ticket, he could go and watch it with Zhang Ziqi.
Liu Xue'e held the ticket in her hand and lowered her head. "Zhu Zhu said that this ticket is only for women, and it is useless for men to take it."
Liu Mingyuan said nothing and turned back to the house angrily.
Liu Xue'e stood there, at a loss as to what to do.
In the room, Liu Mingyuan lay on the table, tears falling from his eyes.
Mrs. Liu came back from outside, also holding a movie ticket in her hand, with a happy face. Seeing her daughter standing in the yard motionless, she asked, "Why are you standing here? Where's Mingyuan?"
Liu Xue'e looked back and said weakly, "Mom, Zhu Zhu gave me a movie ticket."
Liu held up the ticket in her hand and said, "Your Aunt Zhu just gave me one to watch The Little Cook. I'm so happy."
Liu Xue'e: "Mingyuan wants to go too."
Liu frowned, "He's not going to the academy to watch a movie."
Liu Xue'e: "He will rest tomorrow."
Liu was silent for a while: "Then you two go, I'll give him the ticket. I need to do business, and I'm worried that I don't have the time, so you two will be perfect."
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The next day, the cinema opened on time and "The Little Chef of Shengjing" premiered.
The glass wall on one side of the screening room was split into two, with two posters pulled up, one showing "The Best in the World" and the other showing "The Little Chef of Shengjing".
There was a long queue at the cinema entrance early, and the tickets for the first show of "The Little Chef of Shengjing" were sold out in less than a cup of tea.
Ten tickets for the second show had already been taken, and the remaining thirty were quickly sold out.
When Chen Jingshan heard that the cinema was going to show a new movie, he came early to grab tickets and successfully bought tickets for the first show.
The owner of Rongxi Study and the boss of Chunxi Tower next door also lined up to buy tickets early in the morning.
"The Little Cook" premiered in Hall 2. The audience lined up for ticket checking and entry. After the advertisements and safety information were played, the main film began.
As soon as the show started, guests who had seen "The World's Number One" felt their eyes brighten. This story was really completely different.