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"Excuse me, the theater in town officially opens today! Regular theater tickets are half price for the first three days of the opening, and you can enjoy free tea in the private rooms."

In Taiping Town, a child who was not yet old enough to enter elementary school and had skipped kindergarten for a day was wandering around Taiping Town holding what appeared to be hand-drawn but actually photocopied theater flyers borrowed from an employee’s house.

Grandma Qisi is taking her fans to visit Taiping Town.

"Kid, can you give me a picture of this?" Grandma Qisi stopped the child who was promoting it.

When the child saw that there were several people with Grandma Qisi, he gave her a few more cards, and then ran away happily.

Grandma Qisi began to read the contents on the flyer.

This flyer was not written by an employee of the amusement park design and publicity department, but was designed by Wang Xinghua herself. I designed them all myself. In fact, they just copied the flyers that Wang's class originally distributed.

Wang Xinghua thought she was good at music, chess, calligraphy and painting, her calligraphy was okay, and her painting was no problem, so she simplified the original leaflet and added a few things.

The flyer depicts a static picture of Feng Ling leaning sideways, raising her head and extending her arms to sing. The picture is not very similar. Only those who are familiar with Feng Ling can tell that it is Feng Ling.

Next to Feng Ling's portrait are several large characters written vertically: Every day at Unity time, Bai Ling starts singing.

Originally, the theater scheduled the opera to start at 6:00 pm every night, but through yesterday's internal performance, Jiang Qi and others found that starting at 6 pm was still a bit too late. Amusement parks are not like serious theaters. Normal theaters are usually still performing at 8:30 pm, and the amusement park is closed by then.

A big play usually lasts about two hours. If it starts at 6 o'clock, it will not end until 8 o'clock. In addition, the audience will leave the stage. If Feng Ling and others become popular, there may be time for the audience to ask for autographs and photos. When the amusement park is about to close and clear out people, not all the audience in the theater may be able to leave.

So after discussion, we decided to set the time for the big show to start at five o'clock in the evening, and skip the small show in the afternoon.

In the words of Wang Xinghua, a ruthless opera lover, the singing of small operas is just that, and there is no value in watching it.

Grandma Qisi stood in Taiping Town and carefully read the details on the flyer. The person she had the best relationship with last night packed her luggage after answering the phone. Grandma Zhang, who asked her children to send her to rent a house near the vocational high school early this morning, also Get closer.

"Is the little girl painted here the one who sang particularly well in the opera you mentioned on the phone last night?" Grandma Zhang asked.

"It's a bit similar, maybe." Grandma Qisi put away the flyer, carefully folded it in half and slowly put it into the small bag she carried with her, "Little Bailing."

"Although I only heard one part of the female voice last night, that little girl's singing was indeed as beautiful as a lark's call."

"Ouch, is that window selling theater tickets in front of you? I have to go check it out!" After seeing the ticket selling window, an old man who was with Grandma Qisi hurriedly walked over to watch the excitement.

Grandma Qisi is quite influential in the circle of theater friends to which he belongs.

First, her son is rich.

Although everyone is rich, the Qi family is considered to be the richest in their circle of rich people. After all, Qi Si's own father is a banker, and besides the bank, the family also has a lot of strange things. Industry and economic strength are quite strong.

Secondly, she is professional.

Grandma Qisi's profession is not limited to her being a professional opera lover. She was an opera actress when she was young and has performed on stage and sang in operas. It’s just that her singing skills were average. After getting married and having children, she left the stage to do clerical work.

But as a former professional opera actress, Grandma Qisi became the most authoritative person among her group of opera friends.

Everyone believes in her taste and believes that the young man who can make her praise her must be a new talent in the opera world. It was precisely because of this that Grandma Qisi was able to call fifteen old men and women who were retired at home like her and had money and leisure. They took the car from the next city over early in the morning to rent a house and watch a movie.

Jiang Bing was shocked when she received these dozen old men and women this morning. When Jiang Qi told her last night, he didn't tell her that there would be so many elderly people renting houses (in fact, Jiang Qi himself didn't expect it). Jiang Bing thought that these old men and women were not the same people as the ones Jiang Qi talked about on the phone last night.

She thought that this group of people had formed a group to rent a house for her grandchildren who were taking the postgraduate entrance exams. She even posted a post on WeChat Moments lamenting that the postgraduate entrance exams these days are so difficult that even the grandparents have to take the exams together.

There were already many people gathered in front of the window selling theater tickets.

After simple decoration, the window selling theater tickets looks very simple and formal. The original glass windows were changed into simple small windows made of paper, and the walls were repainted. Hand-painted posters were pasted on the windows, and a hand-painted stand was placed next to them. The calligraphy on them was written by Wang Xinghua. The price of theater tickets.

The onlookers were basically young people watching the fun. After all, young people were the most popular in the amusement park at this time.

Elderly people like Grandma Qisi are indeed free, but who has the best time to organize a group to visit an amusement park?

Normal old ladies usually visit parks and supermarkets.

"How is it? How is it? Have you asked me clearly? What is that tea ticket?" A man wearing long rabbit ears of the same style as the big rabbit bought from the toy store, with colorful ropes tied on his hands, drank a cup of tea. The grass juice, even the shoulder bag hanging on the elbow is a senior female college student visitor to the amusement park around the princess, and she can't wait to ask her friends who go to the window to inquire.

"After asking clearly, they said that there are big plays in the evening and small plays in the afternoon. Because the small plays are short, they don't sell theater tickets, only tea tickets."

"There are three small plays every afternoon, starting at 2:00, 3:00, and 4:00. You can go in and listen to the play when it starts."

"A tea ticket allows one person to listen to a short play. A tea ticket costs 4 copper coins. You can choose black tea, green tea, lemon green tea and lemon black tea. If you want to continue listening to a short play but don't want to drink tea, add For a copper you can continue to the next show.”

"It doesn't sound expensive." The girl said thoughtfully, "A pot of tea should be quite a lot. It costs 20 yuan for a pot of lemon black tea and you can sit and listen to the show. I think it's okay."

"The place where we listen to the opera won't be very simple, right? It'll just be a few small plastic benches for us to sit on, right?"

"There is a theater!" my companion said excitedly, "It seems to be a newly opened place. It is outside Taiping Town. The ticket seller told me that there are road signs along the way."

"Let's go take a look. Maybe we can trigger a hidden mission! I read in the book that many people who came to the amusement park a few days ago noticed that the NPC in the town said that a new troupe had recently arrived in Taiping Town. , this is probably a new map and a new plot. I thought those were previews in advance, and I had to wait until next month for the update anyway. I was thinking of telling you that we should come later and come back next month, but we were caught up unexpectedly. Got it!"

"Okay!" The girl was extremely happy, "I'm going to buy tea tickets, what do you want to drink?"

"lemon Red tea!"

A group of old men and women just watched two young girls excitedly buy tea tickets and then start looking for the theater. They didn't ask for directions and had to find it on their own. They felt that young people these days are really incomprehensible.

"It's quite cheap." Grandma Zhang exclaimed, "A pot of tea costs 20 yuan and comes with a play. For the plays we usually watch, a ticket for the first three rows costs 500 to 600 yuan."

"Oh, that's because the little girl I told you about won't be on stage in the afternoon, and the other actors in this troupe are of average quality. I also watched the afternoon show yesterday, which is something we don't usually watch. "Grandma Qisi explained with a smile.

Hearing what she said, Old Yang, who was traveling with him, began to worry: "There is only one little girl who can sing well, and the rest are not very good, so this troupe is not very good either."

Grandma Qisi smiled mysteriously: "You will know after you watch tonight's show."

"When the protagonist is good enough, everyone else is a supporting role and not important."

Although Grandma Qi Si said that the performances in the afternoon show were generally not interesting, she still followed a few old friends who were also interested in the afternoon show to the theater honestly.

I met Jiang Qi, who was sitting in a corner seat on the first floor of the theater, worrying about the attendance rate at night.

In fact, the ticket sales in the afternoon were very good.

Buy tea and watch a movie for free. For 20 yuan, you can drink a pot of tea and sit in the theater for half an hour. Many tourists are not interested in watching a movie, but think the price is relatively affordable and want to come and join in the fun. I bought it casually.

The attendance rate for the 2 o'clock show is almost 80%. You must know that the afternoon show has many more seats than the evening show. If the evening show can sell as many tickets as the 2 o'clock show, a lot of standing tickets will have to be sold.

However, everyone really just came to have tea and watch a show.

How convenient is that?

People were chatting, people were playing on their mobile phones, and there were people playing Honor of Kings with their legs crossed facing the stage. There were basically no people who were really interested in the content on stage.

Because there are basically no people coming to listen to the show, there is no one who influences who. Whether they are chatting, watching TV, or playing games, the sound they make is very small. People watching TV wear headphones, so you can't say that they affect others watching the show.

I can only say that it may have affected the mentality of the actors on stage to some extent.

At this moment, Jiang Qi finally understood why Wang Xinghua said that recruiting mentality is important.

This mentality was a little worse. As soon as he got on stage, he found that no one in the audience was watching the show, so he didn't collapse on the spot and turned the show into rubbish.

But the good news is that because no one is listening to the play, no one can tell if you mess up the play.

Afternoon shows are inherently unprofitable.

In the normal planning of the theater, Wang Xinghua did not expect to make money from the afternoon show. The reason why she sells tea tickets instead of theater tickets in the afternoon show is that the actors in the afternoon show are really not very good, and the other is because many theater troupes in her era did this.

Tea tickets sell popularity, but they also provide opportunities for actors who are not so good at singing to perform on stage.

A big drama, except for "The Legend of the Princess", which has a lot of actors and is a cool drama where you kill monsters and bosses all the way, it is impossible for a normal drama to have so many actors with lyrics, and most people come out to say a few words and sing. There may not even be many background panels that leave the scene in two sentences.

Opera actors, if you practice 50 times in private in the yard, it's still not as good as singing a verse on stage.

The aura and typhoon must be practiced on a real stage.

Wang Xinghua doesn't know how to run a theater troupe, but her father Wang, the director, does. She just needs to slightly modify and copy what his father did back then, and she will be a pretty good theater manager.

In the provincial capital, Hongjiao used deceit and deceit to suppress her colleagues and her own opera troupe through various unfair means. Later, she successfully married a rich man as a concubine and established a firm foothold. She became bigger and stronger and became one of the top tycoons in the provincial capital. When the Wang Family Troupe was at its most prosperous, all they sold in the afternoon show were tea tickets.

Tea tickets don't make money, and the actors who perform on stage don't usually have the chance to appear on stage. When the audience supports it, they really support it; when they don’t support it, they really don’t support it.

In the words of Team Leader Wang, only when you get on stage, get angry, and get scolded will you realize how bad you are. Those who give up on themselves from now on are trash destined to have no future. Only those who hold back the anger in their hearts and want to avenge their shame can become successful.

Of course, theaters in amusement parks now do not need such harsh training. The audience in the audience is not as ruthless as the leader Wang was at that time, and the actors on the stage will not lose their mentality because of such a trivial matter.

Those who can be recruited are not young freshmen who have just graduated, have no experience in the world, and have little acting experience. On the contrary, these people are basically friends of Leader Feng and have rich performance experience. These two factors are destined to have many similar performance experiences.

If the salary is in place, you can do anything.

Jiang Qi is not worried about their mental collapse, he is worried about his own mental collapse.

If this was also the case in the audience during Feng Ling's "A Fairy Match" tonight, it would probably be because there was no audience.

Jiang Qi didn't know whether Feng Ling's mentality would break down on stage, but he would probably break down off stage.

Jiang Qi felt that he was the one who really needed to practice his mentality on stage in the afternoon.

"Boss Xiao Jiang."

Just when Jiang Qi was feeling extremely worried about tonight's big show that he still didn't know the outcome of, Grandma Qi Si called him.

"Grandma Qisi!" Jiang Qi was really surprised when he saw the food and clothing parents and the dozen or so old men and women of about the same age beside them.

Good guy, so many friends came to support me in one day.

Jiang Qi's mentality suddenly improved a lot.

grandmother!

"Si Si has gone back to school. Xiao Jiang, you don't need to call me Grandma Qi Si anymore. My surname is Nangong. You can just call me Grandma Nangong."

What a last name for the heroine Mary Sue!

Jiang Qi said politely: "Grandma Nangong."

Grandma Nangong began to introduce her acting friends to Jiang Qi.

"I still have a few friends who can't come over now for various reasons. It may take some time before they can come over to watch the show. If the three boxes are not enough, I will reserve one more. Boss Xiao Jiang, can you please Give me a good position first."

"Absolutely!" Jiang Qi said that there is nothing else to say when facing parents who have food and clothing, it must be the best service arrangement!

"Are you guys going upstairs to listen to the show? Just scan the code on the table to drink whatever you want. The tea and snacks in the private room are free for the first three days before the opening. If you don't know how to scan the code with your mobile phone, wave at the window and we will have someone go up to help. You order.”

"Okay." Grandma Nangong nodded with a smile and motioned for her friends to go up first.

"Can I ask?" Grandma Nangong asked with a smile, "Boss Xiao Jiang, why are you selling tea tickets at the afternoon session?"

"Huh?" Jiang Qi was stunned by Grandma Nangong's question.

"There must be a special reason, right?"

Jiang Qi thought for a while and simply explained the reasons Wang Xinghua and him explained to Grandma Nangong.

After hearing this, Grandma Nangong nodded thoughtfully: "That's it."

"But..." Grandma Nangong looked up at the actors on the stage, "This is a good method, but it may not be suitable for Boss Xiao Jiang and your theater troupe."

"Although except for the little girl last night, everyone else's singing was average, but the performance was good. It can be seen that they have been singing operas and have rich performance experience."

"Your tea ticket is more suitable for young people who have never been on stage and are just starting out."

"It's just for fun." Jiang Qi smiled, "After all, there are not many people like you who like to go to the theater these days, so we can find a gimmick to bring everyone in. What if someone really likes it?"

"Yes." Grandma Nangong agreed with Jiang Qi's words.

After asking the question, Grandma Nangong had no intention of going upstairs, but continued to look at Jiang Qi.

Jiang Qi:?

"Boss Xiao Jiang, don't worry."

"The audience is the most honest. If you don't sing well, no one will listen. If you sing well, people will listen. With Xiao Bailing's performance last night, even if the attendance rate tonight is not high, it will definitely win a full house in the end."

The smile on Jiang Qi's face faltered.

"Even if the people below don't cheer, there are still a dozen of us old guys upstairs."

Grandma Nangong winked at Jiang Qi: "I know this group of my old friends best. Don't look at that old man Yang just now, his back is hunched over. He cheered up all three of them, and his voice could knock down the ceiling. Well, those of us who are older and deaf think he is noisy."

After saying that, Grandma Nangong Shi Ran went upstairs.

After Grandma Jing Nangong said this, Jiang Qi's originally nervous and frightened heart actually calmed down.

The old man's action was indeed extraordinary.

Food and clothing parents are awesome!