"Has the investment department contacted you regarding the suspension of the shop lease?" Her quiet red lips slightly parted, and her incredibly beautiful eyes looked at Lai Yang with watery eyes.
"What the hell, Li Dian took the initiative to ask yesterday and confirmed that they would not rent it. You didn't do your job well at the grassroots level, so you have to deduct their money."
Lai Yang put on a relaxed tone, raised the corner of his mouth and moved his eyes downwards. Under the quiet white neck, the tight dress showed off her tall breasts. His throat felt a little dry and he swallowed.
"Hey! Where are you looking?"
Lai Yang looked up quickly and found that the quiet and beautiful eyes were staring at him coldly, the petal-like red lips were a little arrogant, and there were a few traces of pink on the snow-white cheeks.
"No, my mind was wandering just now. Where was I looking?" Lai Yang asked back with some guilt.
The tranquil and delicate face was frozen for a moment, and a pair of jade hands opened the folder on the table and said, "Then you go back and travel in your mind first. When you are tired of traveling, we can make an appointment again."
"No, you're tired from swimming now, let's talk about business first." Lai Yang immediately stretched out his hand to press down the document, put on a sly expression, and smiled.
Looking at this rogue, Tian Jing smiled unhappily: "The company just decided to stop renting the shop because we have negotiated with some big brands to move in. We are only preparing to give the shop a formal notice these days."
"Yes, yes, yes, whatever you say is right. So why did President Tian ask me to come here? "
Lai Yang knew that she came to him because she was willing to help, so he looked happy, but Tian Jing's next words made his smile freeze.
"What I mean is that I will rent the theater for you for one more month for free, so that you can prepare in advance."
"… "
"Hey, why do you look unhappy?" There was a confused expression on Tianjing's face.
Happy? What's the point of being happy
Calling me here just to rent an extra month? What's the difference between a death sentence and a suspended death sentence
Lai Yang's heart was suddenly filled with mixed feelings. After a while of thoughts, he said, "You are kidding me, right? Didn't you leave a note saying you owed me a favor? Are you helping me like this?"
"You change a theater with one light for a month, isn't that enough?" Tian Jing's pretty face was full of confusion.
"You... I..."
"If you feel it's not okay, I'll return the lights to you and the theater will take them back at the end of the month."
Seeing her beautiful eyes gradually turn cold, Lai Yang became really anxious and raised his voice:
“What’s the benefit of big brands moving in? Does Shanghai lack those things? What it lacks is emerging industries like ours. We…”
"But the company's business district lacks traffic. Can you bring it?"
After she finished speaking, she pursed her lips and looked at Lai Yang with longing eyes; "And I know about your theater. It's hard to maintain it at the moment. If it goes on like this, even if I rent the shop to you, you might go bankrupt, right?"
"Well… "
These words really left Lai Yang speechless. The theater is indeed not making much profit at the moment. It is a little better on weekends, but during the week only a dozen tickets are sold for each show, and sometimes it is not even enough to pay the actors' performance fees.
Seeing Lai Yang frozen, Tian Jing took a deep breath and reached out to tuck the scattered hair behind her ears.
"Or, let's give you one more month. If you guys can make it work and bring traffic to the business district, then we can reconsider the lease renewal."
"Can you give me another half year?" Lai Yang touched his face heavily.
Her rosy little mouth raised a charming smile, and she took out the crystal ball from her pocket with her jade hand: "Take the lamp. You helped me once, and I helped you, and we are even now."
"Oh, don't be like this, Mr. Tian~ Please give me a way out~"
"You yourself are so unconfident? How can I dare to give up big brands and choose you?"
"Jingjing, you can't say that, Jingjing~"
"roll!"
…
For the entire afternoon, Lai Yang sat in the theater in a daze, staring at the microphone on the stage.
Because the theater was well enclosed, the air was still filled with the faint scent of Gu Qian's perfume. These scents filled his nerves, constantly reminding Lai Yang that his love was gone and his career seemed to have come to an end as well.
I am too embarrassed to go back to Xi'an, but if the theater closes down, what will I do if I stay in Shanghai
Time quietly came to dusk. In an alley not far from the theater, Lai Yang, Li Dian and Yuan Shengda were sitting in front of a wonton shop with different expressions on their faces.
Li Dian lowered his glasses, took a puff of his cigarette and said, "What should we do? I feel like what they said is right. If we continue like this, we'll really have to eat dirt. How about selling wine instead?"
"You're good enough to just sell alcohol? How can I dare to cooperate with you when you are so unconfident?"
Lai Yang exhaled a puff of smoke and looked at Yuan Shengda who was sitting opposite him.
She was wearing a blue windbreaker and had long hair.
Her collar was hanging down quietly, and when she lowered her head to scoop up the wontons in small mouthfuls, her snow-white collar was faintly visible, which made people feel a little hot.
Lai Yang pursed his cracked lips: "Ahem, you are usually the loudest one, are you mute today?"
"What are you talking about? What can a little girl like me do?" Yuan Sheng raised his eyes and put on a pitiful look.
"Brother Sheng, can you please stop disgusting me?" Lai Yang pretended to retch, which made Yuan Sheng glare at him and kick him under the table.
Lai Yang moved his legs and sighed, "If it doesn't work, let's cut costs. Our current part-time actors are charged 100 yuan for telling jokes for 10 minutes, and they are all old jokes. It's too expensive. How about reducing the appearance fee to 50 yuan in the future?"
"Fifty? The round-trip taxi fare is more than that? Go tell the actors if you have the guts." Yuan Shengda raised his pretty face and retorted.
"ThenWhat do you say we should do? If not, we can do a dance talk show. After you finish telling the jokes, you can go up and dance for a while." Lai Yang flicked off the ash from his cigarette.
Yuan Shengda's pair of icy jade hands directly pinched Lai Yang: "Why should I dance? I'll dance for you!"
"Hey, you two stop fighting. My wontons are all spilled. Can you think of a solution?"
Li Dian held the table to separate the two. Yuan Sheng's cheeks were flushed and his chest was heaving. Lai Yang turned his head away with a red face.
After a moment of silence, no one had a solution. The only thing they could think of was to promote tickets, but everyone knew how difficult that was.
After dinner, the three of them walked on the bluestone slabs in the alley back to the theater. On the way, Li Dian asked Tian Jing if she would come again tonight.
Lai Yang was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Who knows? Love comes or not."
"Hey, tell me the truth, do you have any feelings for Tian Jing? She's such a beautiful girl. If you can really develop her into your girlfriend, then all our problems will be solved." Li Dian smiled meaningfully.
"Haha, I don't feel anything. Even less than I felt towards Yuan Shengda, I..."
Bang!
Yuan Shengda raised her long beautiful legs and kicked him hard on the butt and balls.
…
Since the weather turned colder, people are reluctant to go out at night.
There were less than twenty people in the theater tonight, and the atmosphere was unusually cold. Lai Yang was like an old wolf on sentry duty. He just lifted the curtain and took a walk around, but he had a feeling that tonight would not be easy to deal with.
This atmosphere is very wrong. I hope Tianjing doesn’t come tonight, otherwise it will be so embarrassing!