As Lu Qiuya spoke, she excitedly jogged towards the queue of people.
Lu Zhan was not a person who liked to join in crowds, and he saw at a glance that all the people queuing up were women. He thought that the store must be selling things related to women, and it might be inconvenient for him to go there.
Thinking of this, he slowed down his pace.
But from a distance, the store's sign is particularly eye-catching and has a unique shape that attracts people's attention at first glance.
Youth...Photo Gallery...
What is a photo studio for?
Lu Zhan had no idea about this. He just looked at the sign that looked like a film and wondered if it was related to taking pictures.
Lu Qiuya walked closer and saw that the store's entrance alone was decorated in a stylish and beautiful style. She became more and more eager to go in and take a look.
However, there was a long queue in front of the store, blocking the view inside the store. No one wanted to let her squeeze in to take a look, for fear that she would take the opportunity to block their seat.
Lu Qiuya could only obediently stand at the end of the line and asked curiously:
"Hello, what does this store do? Why do we have to queue to get in?"
The person at the end of the line looked back at her:
"Of course a photo studio is a place for taking photos. If you're not taking photos, you don't have to queue. If you do, it's just for registration. Now the queue is at least three months later!"
"Photo shoot?"
This was the first time Lu Qiuya had heard of this term, and she became increasingly curious:
"What is a photoshoot?"
The people at the end of the line were bored anyway, and seeing that she didn't even know what a photo album was, they felt a sense of superiority and were naturally willing to say a few more words:
"You don't even know about photography, you must be from another place, right? This photo studio is very famous in our Ning City. I heard that there is only one in the entire province. Now many people from other places come here to take photos."
"Look at those photos in the window. They're called portraits. They're a hundred times, a thousand times better than those taken in ordinary photo studios!"
The queue moved forward two steps, and Lu Qiuya could just see one side of the window. Following the direction of the man's finger, she saw a few photos on display. She was immediately stunned and couldn't take her eyes away.
The girls in the photos are all smiling sweetly and looking around gracefully. The background behind them is lifelike and full of atmosphere, making them look like the female stars on the big posters hanging at the entrance of the cinema!
The photos I had seen before were all in black and white, with people sitting upright in front of a white wall. Where had I ever seen such a vivid and bright photo?
Lu Qiuya stared at the photos intently, muttering to herself with envy:
"What beautiful photos! They must be celebrities!"
Even if ordinary people like them take pictures, they can't take such beautiful pictures.
The man laughed and said:
"What celebrities? They're just ordinary people like us. It's all thanks to the makeup and photography skills of Fanghua Photo Studio that they look good in anyone's photo!"
"I had already taken a set of photos last year. I heard that the photo studio had upgraded and added two new and beautiful themes. I rushed to get a number, but unfortunately it was still too late. The earliest I could go would be in June."
What about makeup, theme, queuing... Lu Qiuya was confused the whole time, and only understood the last sentence. It would take until June at the earliest to take this beautiful photo shoot. She felt very disappointed.
She will have to go back to school in a few days, so she won't be able to take these photos no matter how beautiful they are.
The line was still moving slowly forward, and Lu Qiuya was a little hesitant about whether to continue queuing. After all, even if she got in, it would only be an appointment, and she wouldn't be able to take photos today.
She suddenly remembered a more important question and quickly asked:
"Then may I ask...how much is this photo?"
The person in front of her saw that she looked like a student and guessed that she couldn't afford the photo shoot, so she didn't need to waste time queuing, so he kindly replied:
"Looks like you're still a student, right? Photoshoots aren't cheap!"
"A set of four photos with a single scene is ten dollars, and two sets of ten photos with two scenes are more cost-effective, eighteen dollars."
Lu Qiuya was shocked after hearing this. The photos were beautiful, but the price was too expensive!
Taking a photo in her hometown only costs fifty cents, but the prices in this city are really scary, they have increased five times.
Seeing that Lu Zhan was about to come over, she hurriedly thanked the person in front of her and trotted towards her brother.
She didn't want her brother to spend this money on her!
Lu Zhan was a little surprised to see her running back after queuing:
"What's wrong? Don't you want to go in and take a look?"
Lu Qiuya shook her head, pulled her brother's sleeve and walked out of the commercial street:
"The line is so long, I don't know how long I have to wait! I'm tired and want to go back and rest first."
Lu Qiuya said she was tired, but she still looked reluctant to leave. Lu Zhan noticed her conflicting feelings and looked in the direction of the photo studio.
He was quite tall, so he was able to peek into a corner of the store over the shoulders of the people in line.
I saw a girl with a round face talking to the customer in front of her with a smile on her face. She was writing as she talked. It seemed that it took her a lot of time to serve each customer.
Lu Zhan looked at the long queue in front of him again and estimated that it would be difficult to wait for another hour. He had to report back to the army in the afternoon and really didn't have that much time to queue with Lu Qiuya.
He nodded.
"Okay, then I'll take you to the military district guesthouse first, and then pick you up for dinner later."
Lu Qiuya nodded, looked back at the entrance of Fanghua Photo Studio reluctantly, and then turned and left.
Li Fen, the front desk clerk, encountered a new problem——
The customer in front of her wanted to take a set of single-scene photos, but she didn't want to take them alone. She wanted to take them with her good friends.
The store had never taken a couple photo session before, and Li Fen was unsure whether to accept the appointment. She could only ask the customer to wait and she needed to confirm before giving her a reply.
Li Fen looked up for a while. Rong Yongsi was busy taking pictures, Yue Feiying was busy putting on makeup, and only Shao Jingque was chatting with waiting customers in the lounge area. She called out to her:
"Sister Jingque! Please come here!"
Shao Jingque responded and walked over. Before Li Fen could say anything, she suddenly felt a strange feeling in her heart. She subconsciously turned around and looked out the window, but she only saw a long and densely packed queue of people.
She looked through it carefully and didn't see anything strange, but her heart clearly skipped a beat just now, and at that moment it felt like something important was happening outside the window.
Li Fen saw her staring out the window in a daze and quickly called out again:
"Sister Jingque, this customer wants to take a photo shoot with her friends. Our store hasn't done this before. I wonder if we can make an appointment?"
Shao Jingque came back to his senses, quickly calmed himself down and said with a smile:
"We've never had a precedent for taking couple photos in our store before, but it's not impossible."
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