It was noon in Dawu Dynasty, and the phone showed seven in the morning.
Fu Chi usually goes to the furry shop around this time.
Lu Yao asked him to come directly over.
The black Bugatti Veyron drove out of the villa area, and the familiar and monotonous scenery passed by. Fu Chi's face was numb and tired. He was not looking forward to this so-called treatment. Everything around him made him feel exhausted.
Those experiences and memories continued to torment him, dragging his body and becoming his nightmare.
He seemed to be lying in the mud, confused and dazed, but he ultimately chose not to forget.
Fu Chi felt a little gloomy at this time.
The store owner gave him two choices. For him, or for the store owner, directly erasing the memory would be an easier way.
Someone as emotionally unstable as him should be gotten rid of as soon as possible.
But he insisted on choosing option 2. He lived in pain and just wanted someone to accompany him.
Lu Yao hung up the phone and was in a good mood.
The cinema lobby manager is coming.
System: [… Fu Chi would be willing to be the lobby manager? Absurd!]
Lu Yao: "What's wrong with the lobby manager? Our cinema is so interesting, I guarantee he will be unable to walk once he comes."
System: [… You are drifting. ]
Fu Chi is different from the Ji family. He is just a simple rich man. He is not as reverent to ghosts and gods as the Ji family. They all think that the shop owner's wishful thinking will fail this time.
Kuba was passing by and saw Lu Yao answering the phone. He stared at the phone and couldn't take his eyes off it. "Boss, what did you get?"
Lu Yao raised his hand: "Ah, this? A cell phone."
Kuba was puzzled: "Cellphone?"
Lu Yao: "A communication tool. By the way, come over here and I'll take a picture of you."
Kuba was even more confused: "What is taking a photo?"
Lu Yao asked Ku Ba to sit down at random in the rest area, picked out a few angles to take pictures of him, and showed them to him: "Here, this is your picture."
Kuba held the phone with both hands, his eyes widened, and he was stunned. The person on the screen looked exactly like him: "Is this... me?"
Lu Yao nodded: "Yes, you don't want to dye your hair purple, let me use your photo to simulate it first."
Kuba automatically filtered out the words he didn't understand and looked at Lu Yao eagerly: "Boss, can you give me this photo?"
Lu Yao lowered his eyes and thought, then nodded and said, "I can't give you the phone, but I can give you photos. Tomorrow, I'll print a few for you."
Kuba didn't understand these things, but when he heard that the photos were OK, his eyes lit up, "Thank you, shopkeeper."
Fu Chi stood at the door of the cinema, looking through the glass at the interior decoration and Lu Yao sitting in the lounge area. He frowned slightly. This cinema had no business at all.
He walked up the steps, raised his hand and tapped the glass, and said loudly: "Lu Yao, I'm here."
Lu Yao looked up when he heard the voice, but didn't see Fu Chi. The entrance was full of people from the Dawu Dynasty coming in and out.
She stood up and walked over, closed a glass door, changed her mind, and opened it again.
The Star Gate had turned toward the shopping street, and Fu Chi was standing outside the door.
"Come in," she said.
As Fu Chi stepped into the cinema, he heard many noises. He turned around and looked behind him, his pupils slightly contracted.
Outside the transparent glass, it is no longer the deserted and quiet old shopping street, but a bluestone street that runs across the street, with quaint houses on both sides.
The pedestrians on the street, both men and women, all had long hair, wore coarse cloth gowns, and walked leisurely on the road.
Completely different from the specially built antique buildings in Hengdian, this street is full of an indescribable sense of reality and breath of life.
After seeing the furry shop, Fu Chi already had some guesses about the world of movie theaters, but he never expected it to be set in ancient times.
In an era like this, when opening a cinema, are the owners really not afraid of being treated as evil objects and burned to the stake
Fu Chi didn't know that his appearance also shocked the people of the Dawu Dynasty.
He said he would take a look first. Considering that it was a workplace, out of professional habit, Fu Chi dressed more formally - a shirt and tie with a high-end suit, and the leather shoes, tie clip and watch were all custom-made.
Before going out, he felt that his complexion was not good, his eyes were sunken and lifeless, and he had dark circles under his eyes, so he put on a pair of plain glasses with a rose gold frame and gray lenses.
His attire was as conspicuous as Lu Yao's, and with his short hair and glasses, he really startled the guests in the cinema.
It would be fine if the shopkeeper was the only one who was crazy, but why did another weird man come
Wan Baozhu was dressed like a young master from a wealthy family, wearing a silk dress, a jade crown on his head, a pendant around his waist, and a folding fan in his hand, as he walked into the cinema calmly and leisurely.
Before she had time to observe the furnishings in the store, her eyes were attracted by Lu Yao and the man standing beside her.
These two people are dressed strangely, but inexplicably coordinated.
Wan Baozhu felt that these two people standing in the cinema seemed to be more pleasing to the eye than the people around them, and he had an indescribable feeling.
Hongyu was also dressed in men's clothes, but she was dressed as a guard, and had a dagger on her waist.
She followed Wan Baozhu's line of sight and squinted her eyes, but still couldn't see clearly. She took two steps forward silently and vaguely saw a man and a woman in thin clothes standing together. She thought she had mistakenly entered a brothel, so she turned around and grabbed Wan Baozhu, "Master, let's go back!"
Wan Baozhu did not move: "Interesting, really interesting. Let's go buy tickets first."
Hongyu couldn't disobey Wanbaozhu, and after much hesitation, she turned around and went to buy a ticket.
The tickets for the midday show were sold out, so they bought tickets for the second and third shows in the afternoon, one each for "The Best in the World" and "The Little Chef of Shengjing".
The wait lasted nearly an hour, and Wan Baozhu didn't want to go anywhere else, so she found a seat in the rest area and sat down to watch the trailers and commercials while eating the free popcorn.
Hongyu sat beside her and squinted her eyes hard, barely able to see the picture on the screen clearly.
Lu Yao took Fu Chi around the theater, walked out of the corridor of the screening room, and returned to the lounge area. "Mr. Fu, how do you feel?"
Fu Chi turned his head to look at the street outside the glass, and said in a reserved and restrained manner: "Not bad."
"Then let's sign the contract first?" Lu Yao skillfully pulled out a stack of confidentiality agreements.
Fu Chi: "Do you still need to sign?"
Lu Yao: "Employee contracts and guest contracts are not exactly the same. If you join a movie theater, you will need to sign a few more documents."
Fu Chi picked up the contract and looked through it. The position was lobby manager and the term of office was six months.
During this period, the salary and benefits are the same as other store clerks in the shopping street.
Fu Chi's lips curled slightly, wanting to laugh but holding it back, "Six insurances and one fund, a monthly salary of six thousand?"
Lu Yao nodded: "To experience life, it must feel real."
Fu Chi couldn't help but chuckle, "This job is the least realistic place."
Having said that, Fu Chi lowered his head and signed the contract.
The contract was concluded, Lu Yao put away the contract, stood up and said: "Xiao Fu, let me introduce you to the other employees first."
Xiao Fu
Fu Chi tapped the glass tabletop with his fingers and murmured softly, "This name is quite new."
Xiao Fu dropped into the cinema, and Wen Jian, Zhu Zhu and Gou Zi were a little reserved.
Kuba looked at him calmly, pretending to be very reserved.
It's obvious at first glance that this guy is of the same ilk as the shopkeeper. He's dressed even weirder than the shopkeeper and is older than the shopkeeper. He looks like someone who's not easy to mess with.
After a brief introduction, Lu Yao left it alone.
Fu Chi was not as uninterested in this cinema as he appeared. As soon as the owner left, he wandered around and even took the initiative to talk to the clerk.
Xiao Fu has been in the world of fame and fortune for many years, and his ability to read people's expressions is no worse than Ji Zhixin's. He has a very good sense of proportion and quickly grasps the current operating conditions of the cinema.
This cinema had just opened and had only shown two films.
The people of the Dawu Dynasty have been accepting of the policy for the time being, and the shop owner is not in danger of being caught and burned.
Fu Chi stood at the entrance of the cinema with his arms folded, gazing into the distance. A small cluster of emotions quietly surged up, constantly beating his heart, and he could hardly control it.
He couldn't imagine how the people here would react when documentaries, suspense films, science fiction films... all kinds of films were put on the big screen one by one
It’s unimaginable, so I’m looking forward to it.
Fu Chi suddenly remembered that Ji Zhixin had been busy with copyright issues recently. His stingy behavior earned him a reputation as a miser in the circle. Some people even suspected that Ji's company was going to go bankrupt. He was still wasting money on small copyrights worth tens of millions. It seemed that the owner was short of funds, so Young Master Ji had to be thrifty.
The movie theaters that were once crowded in ancient times seem to be becoming more and more interesting.
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Lu Yao stood behind the popcorn machine, observing a table of guests in the lounge area.
"Those two guests at table E are girls, right?" she typed into the system.
System: [… Can you tell this? ]
Lu Yao: “…It would be strange if you can’t tell.”
Although the two men were wearing men's clothes, their skin was more delicate and fair than that of normal men in the Dawu Dynasty. Especially the girl who looked like a young master, with a small frame, red lips and white teeth, her advantage was her graceful manners, which concealed some of her girlish pampering.
Lu Yao looked at it for a while and said, "That female guard always squints her eyes. Is she nearsighted?"
System: […I don’t know.]
It didn't bother to pay attention to the shop owner's strange concerns.
Lu Yao: "Have they bought tickets?"
System: [Bought two games.]
Wan Baozhu was also observing Lu Yao. She heard everything that happened between the female shopkeeper and the man.
I only had a vague understanding of it, but I memorized it all and would check it later.
At this time, the midday show ended and the audience filed out of the screening room.
About a cup of tea later, the broadcast notified the second show guests to line up for ticket checking.
Many girls and ladies came to watch the movie with event tickets. They came in groups, checked their tickets in Lu Yao's hands enthusiastically, and entered the screening room with joy.
After this day, the cinema continued the free ticket promotion for four days.
On the fifth day, the second premiere of "The Little Chef of Shengjing" was held. Although there was no free ticket activity, there were still quite a few female guests willing to buy tickets to watch the movie.
Lu Yao once again felt the urgency of having too few screening halls and prepared to release his third film on a chosen day.
Originally, Ji Zhixin was negotiating for that fantasy drama, but the price was too low, making the negotiation difficult.
Lu Yao changed his mind at the last minute and chose a new film.
This is a film adapted from a novel. First a TV series version was released, and later a movie version was released. It was very popular back then.
Lu Yao was interested in the movie version, and coincidentally, the copyright of this movie belonged to Fu Chi's company.
Fu Chi knew that the owner wanted to show the film in the cinema, so he opened a green channel.
Ji Zhixin is in charge of the copyright. The process was very fast and the price was very affordable.
He couldn't help but teasing: "Xiao Fu, the lobby manager did a good job."
Fu Chi: "Xiao Xiao Ji, same here."
Ji Zhixin: "..."