Lu Yao arrived at the cinema first, and Harold followed.
The premiere of "Moon Landing" and the 3D screening room on the second floor were also opened to the public for the first time. Shuishan and Mingshi were arranged to check tickets together, and Harold distributed special glasses.
In the morning, the shop assistants of Dawu Dynasty had to work hard to squeeze into the cinema through the door, as the entrance was already blocked by a crowd of people.
As soon as the store door opened, customers waiting in line poured in like a torrent.
Ye Xiao and Ku Ba managed to calm the situation by standing at the door. The customers who were about to fight in the queue were restrained by the guards with bad auras and queued up obediently to buy tickets.
Ever since Shuishan and Mingshi found out and hired them to work at the cinema, Jinlu and Qiwu have been a little depressed. Recently, whenever they have time, they sit in the lounge area on the first floor and express their resentment towards Dieqi with their eyes.
But when the trailer for "Moon Landing" came out, the two were so excited that they almost forgot about Shuishan and Mingshi.
On the day of the premiere, they figured that since most of Ling Xiao Pavilion's top killers worked at the cinema, it should be easy to get two tickets through the back door. But when they arrived in the morning, before they could even squeeze into the cinema, the tickets for the premiere of "Moon Landing" were gone, and the second and third shows were quickly sold out.
Jin Lu and Qi Wu sat on the steps outside the cinema, as if they had reached a crossroads in their lives, feeling confused, helpless, and depressed.
There were so many guests today that many of them failed to buy tickets and stayed in the rest area without leaving.
Lu Yao felt that he couldn't take care of everything, especially the second floor, so he walked to the door and asked, "Jinlu, Qiwu, do you want to be a temporary worker?"
Jinlu & Qiwu!!!
Lu Yao asked Jin Lu to look after the staircase and rest area on the second floor, and to help Qin Sanwei and Chang Ming when necessary. Qi Wu helped Wen Jian check tickets on the first floor.
These two men hung out in cinemas every day and were already familiar with the basic business. They took the job with secret joy.
Lu Yao negotiated with the two men to work for three days and settle their wages after closing each day.
After three days, the popularity of 3D movies should subside a little.
She didn't know that Jin Lu and Qi Wu had already had the idea of entering the cinema. She just thought that the brothers and sisters in the same sect of Ku Ba were all good in their business, so she asked them for help.
Jin Lu and Qi Wu had their own plans in mind. They wanted to make the shopkeeper see their value within these three days and convert their short-term employment contracts into regular employment contracts.
Moreover, the young shopkeeper took the initiative to ask them for help, so Die Qi couldn't say anything.
Lu Yao arranged the people and returned to the ticket office of the 3D screening room on the second floor.
Shuishan and Mingshi were checking tickets. Harold, wearing a pair of 3D cinema glasses, handed them to the guests and said, "When you go in, just wear them like this."
The guests were quite curious when they received the glasses.
They had seen cinema employees wearing this thing and had been curious about it for a long time. They didn't expect to have the opportunity to experience it.
Lu Yao took a quick look and saw many familiar guests, such as Xie Xu's group of three, Xie Wan, Sun Qinghe and other noble ladies, storytellers Chen Jingshan and Liu Gennong, Wan Baozhu and her maid, Xuan Li and Wangsheng from Baixiang Pavilion, the girls from Jinghong Pavilion, the Jiang family's grandparents and the chief butler...
There is only one 3D screening room, which does not support private screening reservations, so tickets are hard to come by.
Customers only wanted to buy tickets for the premiere, and suddenly they didn't care so much about etiquette and the viewing environment.
When guests walked into the screening room holding glasses, they could clearly feel the difference of 3D screening rooms. There were arm-width gaps between the seats. The screening room was spacious and quiet, and the screen in front was twice as big as that of an ordinary screening room.
After sitting down, I looked at the screen without wearing glasses. The screen seemed to have two layers, one of which was strangely floating up and was blurry and unclear.
Xie Xu put on his glasses, and the screen became clear. He took off his glasses and looked up to see the blurry screen. He put them on and took them off several times, and finally took off his glasses to study them. "This thing is really useful."
Chen Yuning was also looking at the glasses. "Do you feel that once you put on these glasses, the people, objects, and scenes on the screen seem to be right in front of you?"
The two people beside him nodded, and the Prince of Jin said, "It's like the feeling of the spaceship taking off at the end of the trailer. It's not on the screen, but it really appears in front of you."
There was a guest next to me wearing glasses. He couldn't help but wave his hand in front of his eyes. The image was right in front of him, but he couldn't touch it.
Mr. Jiang’s eyesight has not been good in recent years. He has difficulty seeing things close up, but seeing things far away is not much worse.
He also took off and put on his glasses repeatedly, with a hint of inquiry on his old face.
After the initial novelty wore off, as the plot deepened, the audience began to watch attentively.
Some guests initially thought that "Moon Landing Project" was a story similar to "Seeking Immortality", telling the story of gods, monks and monsters, because the dream of the group of people in the trailer was to fly to the moon and take a look, and it was hard to imagine how to do it without the help of immortal magic and supernatural powers.
But the beginning of this story is different, a group of people sat together and talked about the fantasy of landing on the moon, there were men and women. Their eyes were bright and their tone was uplifting, which made people unconsciously infected by the positive atmosphere.
A group of six people, four men and two women, worked out the initial plan for the moon landing.
Wan Baozhu sat up straighter, a gleam of light in his eyes.
Her favorite thing about the cinema was that she could see many people, things and objects that did not exist in the Dawu Dynasty.
They appeared before her in an extremely ordinary manner, as if there really was such a place in the world.
For example, the women in the film who have the same status as men wear the same clothes as men, go to the same places, and discuss the same issues. Such behavior is called "work."
As you follow the story and get deeper into the characters, you will find that these women, like men, are well educated and have professional qualities.
Even if they express their opinions in public, they will not be accused of being ambitious.
Wan Baozhu is always fascinated by such stories, which always make her reassure herself that she is not an outlier.
Her thoughts are common in the world of the film, or maybe she was just born in the wrong world.
During the first five years of the Moon Landing Program, this group of people had a headache about building the spacecraft and they lacked the relevant technical support.
At this time, they received support from other countries and a guidance team came.
At first, Wan Baozhu felt anxious. Could these so-called experts and professors from other countries be trusted
Gradually, she began to understand that behind this kind of assistance, there was something very familiar to her.
The first five years had passed and the construction of the spacecraft had just begun.
However, due to some reasons, the assisting allies withdrew their original technical support, and the moon landing plan once again came to a standstill.
Wan Baozhu concentrated his attention on the story, but his thoughts were wandering unconsciously.
Movie theaters may not be as scary as you think.
Because people's hearts seem to have never changed.
Even those idealistic people in the film are always misunderstood and have to face endless difficulties.
By the fourth five-year period, two of the people who originally formulated the "Moon Landing Plan" had passed away, one died of illness, and another had an accident on the way home from get off work.
The impermanence of life seems to be an eternal truth.
But as time went by, many young and talented aerospace scientists joined the Moon Landing Project.
They took over the torch from the previous generation and worked day and night to push forward the completion of the "Moon Landing Project."
In the sixth five-year period, manned spacecraft, astronauts, safety tests, logistics teams... everything is ready, and we are finally going to start the last step of the moon landing plan - landing on the moon.
In the screening room, all the audience couldn't help but look up and watch the spaceship named "Hope" take off.
Then, they saw the appearance of the earth from the perspective of "Hope", and everyone reacted.
Earth, is this where humans live
The images I saw while wearing the glasses were so shocking that it was even more difficult to describe than when I watched the trailer that day.
It turns out it’s not the moon.
It turns out that the world is a sphere.
In addition to being shocked, some people can't help but wonder, is the world really like this
But the ground they felt was clearly flat.
In other words, this is just a fictional story, the fantasy of the film's author.
They just saw one person's dream.
At this time, the spacecraft was getting closer and closer to the moon.
The shape of the moon began to appear before everyone, and everyone held their breath, imagining the palace built on the moon, the fairy Chang'e, the jade rabbit and the laurel tree...
The spacecraft landed smoothly, and the astronaut in a spacesuit carefully opened the hatch and stepped out of the spacecraft cautiously.
The audience in the screening room was stunned. What appeared before their eyes was a desert-like world with no vegetation, no rivers, no animals, and no... humans.
The astronaut landed on the moon alone, and there was nothing on the moon.
The sky was thick with blackness, and the surface of the moon was full of craters and looked desolate.
The guests in the screening room were also silent, feeling endless loneliness and confusion.
Is there really nothing on the moon
Not even humans existed.
Is it really worth all the efforts of two generations for more than 20 years just to have this one glimpse
Is the end of the truth that mankind pursues also a wasteland
So, what is it that we spend our entire lives, efforts and energy trying to grasp
Perhaps, it is nothing but nothingness.
The astronaut was holding a flag in his hand and wearing heavy and inconvenient clothes. He walked slowly on the moon, and his faint breathing could be heard in his ears.
At this time, astronauts are the only visitors to the moon.
At this moment, he shares the moon with everyone in front of the screen.
The road he walked left behind a long and thin trail of footprints.
Step by step, so lonely, so heavy, and so determined.
The astronaut suddenly stopped, stood up and looked at the earth.
Seen from the moon, the Earth is also a small sphere, just like the Moon seen from Earth.
But the earth is a blue planet.
The astronauts then solemnly planted the flag in their hands on the surface of the moon.
Suddenly, cheers came from all directions, startling the guests in the screening room.
It turned out that people on Earth were also watching the moon landing via satellite broadcast.
After nearly three decades of efforts, only one person successfully landed on the moon, but he fulfilled the dreams of millions of people.
Even though there was no fairy palace, no Chang'e, and nothing they had imagined on the Moon, even though they only saw a barren land, those people were so happy that they were about to die, as if they had also landed on the Moon.
Jiang Yudie lowered her head and pulled out a handkerchief from her sleeve. She felt a little complicated. She turned her head inadvertently, her eyes slightly stagnant.
Old Master Jiang tilted his head slightly, his slightly gray eyes staring straight up into the sky, two lines of tears sliding down his face that looked like old tree bark.
Jiang Yudie was startled.
This was the first movie the old man had ever seen. It was indeed different from the ones they had seen before, but it wasn’t enough to make him cry.
In her entire life, she had never seen Mr. Jiang so fragile and out of control.
Over the years, Jiang Yudie was more afraid of her grandfather, who had long since retired to the family and had a kind face, than her stern and cold father.
In her eyes, grandpa is the sky of the Jiang family.
Old Master Jiang raised his hand and wiped his face with his sleeve, muttering in a low voice, "The world is always like this. Only a few people can walk in the front. And those who walk in the front are the torch."
Jiang Yudie didn't hear clearly and wanted to move closer.
With a "boom", the lights in the screening room came on and the show was over.
Like Jiang Yudie, most of the guests looked confused, their emotions still lingering, and they sat there like puppets, motionless.
Only Wan Baozhu took off his glasses, stood up immediately and walked out.
She wants to find Lu Yao.
The Imperial Palace.
Just after the court session, Minister Chen came out of the Hall of Supreme Harmony in a hurry.
A colleague behind him called out to him, "Master Chen, Master Chen, why are you so anxious?"
Minister Chen stopped walking, paused for a moment, and whispered, "I wonder if Lord Du has ever heard of a movie theater?"
Lord Du shook his head, but Lord Zhou who was passing by couldn't help but interrupt, "The cinema, everyone is talking about it recently. I also watched the trailer of "Moon Landing Plan", it's really a wonder of the world, I wonder if those people really landed on the moon in the end?"
Mr. Chen nodded repeatedly, "That's exactly what happened. I'm also curious about whether they landed on the moon. It happens to be released today, and I asked my son to buy a ticket and we're rushing to watch it."
Mr. Zhou clapped his hands and regretted, "Why didn't I think of this method? I was thinking of buying the tickets in person this afternoon, but I don't know if I can still buy them."
Lord Du was usually absorbed in studying books and doing official business, and had never heard of a movie theater. He did not understand what his two colleagues were talking about, but when he looked up, the people around him seemed to be discussing the movie theater and the moon landing plan, and he could not help but feel a little curious.
Minister Chen came out of the palace and walked into the cinema in his official uniform without even going back to his house to change his clothes. When he saw Chen Yuning sitting in the lounge area, he walked over quickly.
Chen Yuning was discussing the plot of "The Moon Landing Plan" with Xie Xu and Prince Jin when Minister Chen patted him.
Chen Yuning was shocked, "Dad, you're coming directly here from the next court?"
Minister Chen looked serious and asked instead of answering, "Where's the ticket?"
Chen Yuning took it out from his pocket and handed it to him, "Dad, this video is a little different from what we imagined."
Minister Chen looked even more nervous. "Don't tell me. I'll see for myself."
Along the way, when we entered Song'an Street, we could hear keywords such as "moon landing" and "spacecraft" everywhere. Minister Chen blocked his ears, fearing that he would be spoiled in advance.
Minister Chen went upstairs with the ticket. Shuishan and Mingshi saw him in official uniform and subconsciously wanted to run away, but were stopped by Harold. Only then did they realize that he was now a good citizen.
Qinzheng Hall.
Emperor Wu was reviewing memorials when Qin Mingde suddenly walked in, followed by a young eunuch in blue.
"What do you think?" Emperor Wu put down the memorial.
The young eunuch had just returned from outside the palace. He looked a little dazed, as if he had not yet come to his senses. He knelt down and sorted himself out for a while before whispering, "Your Majesty, the Moon Landing Project..."
Nearly half an hour passed before the young eunuch finished his report.
Emperor Wu sat for a long time, "Qin Mingde, pass on my order and summon Lu Yao, the manager of the cinema, to the palace."
Qin Mingde was slightly surprised, but he was also quite curious about the cinema. He accepted the imperial edict and left the palace in person.