Chapter 66 Fantasy Circus (16) Final Performance
"Your voice is hoarse, moisten your throat first."
Guan Shan promptly handed Tan Yue a large thermos cup, and was very considerate enough to unscrew the cup and hand it to him.
The thermos cup contains rock sugar and pear water that he stewed in a small casserole, and also added tangerine peel, lily, and almonds to clear away heat, reduce fire and moisten the throat.
"Thank you, dear." Tan Yue did not intend to hide his relationship with Guan Shan. Mr. Rabbit's possessiveness has always been obvious, but Tan Yue also has possessiveness.
After a few days of getting along and adjusting to each other, Tan Yue no longer felt any uneasiness in his heart. He knew very well that he belonged to Guanshan and Guanshan also belonged to him.
Over the past three days, he used magic performances on stage and the constant intimacy off stage to tell everyone and everyone: he, Tan Yue, and David Sher are in an equal relationship, not a captive pet!
Tan Yue drank the remaining half cup of pear water in one breath, and his hoarse voice regained some clarity: "The specific planning cannot be explained in a few words. I need to write a detailed report..."
He was not so stupid as to teach this black-hearted leader everything in his head. Valuable knowledge can be exchanged for conditions. He was being so vague now just to leave enough room for negotiation.
The circus director was so anxious that he was smoking. In the physical sense, the boiler room in the tent was gurgling and boiling, and the iron cover was clattering. "Why don't you write the report quickly!"
Tan Yue suddenly said, "You may have forgotten something very important, but I am Mr. David Sher's assistant, I only get a fixed salary of ghost coins, not the planner of the circus, this kind of report is not within my job scope."
You can't do two jobs at once, and free things tend to make people feel cheap.
The stingy circus leader counted the generous deposit he received today, thinking about the more wealth he could receive later, and finally reluctantly cut his losses: "Then I'll give you another salary!"
Tan Yue said: "There is one more thing..."
"How many things do you have?" The circus leader said. The sound it makes is very harsh, which has a good deterrent effect on ordinary people. It is a kind of noise pollution on the sound waves that can affect the mental state of the audience and lower their sanity.
But Tan Yue still sat steadily in the chair, frowning slightly. To him, this harsh sound like a boiling kettle was just a daily noise, without any other side effects.
“Ding ding ding…”
Seeing his state, the circus leader's voice became even louder, and some of the weird employees present couldn't help but cover their ears.
“Captain…”
Tan Yue and Guan Shan were still the same, no problem at all. Tan Yue wanted to cover his wife's ears, but when he turned his head, Mr. Rabbit's two ears that were erected became folded in half, becoming a folded-ear rabbit. He didn't need to do anything, and he perfectly completed the action of covering his ears.
His eyes were clear and his spirits were excellent. He asked politely, "Mr. Captain, the water in the kitchen seems to have boiled. Do you need my help to pour some water?"
The team leader compromised: "No, just tell me what you want to say."
“I hope that the performances in the last few days will be closer to today’s revisions and slightly shorten the performance of Mr. David Sher.”
It is only the third day and there are still four magic shows. If Guanshan has to follow the procedure and perform for a sufficient length of time every time, it will be very difficult for him.
"That's no problem. Just add a new program to make up for it."
Their program list is not released all at once, but one day in advance, so that it can be adjusted if anything unexpected happens.
The circus didn't have much experience in selling clothes, but it was quite proficient in the process of running a circus performance.
Tan Yue said: "The most important thing now is to deliver the orders first. If you can't deliver them on time and in quantity, and just keep taking over the entire market, I don't think you, the group leader, will be able to cope with the anger of so many customers."
"What after-sales service? If a weirdo comes to cause trouble, I will swallow it!" The weird world obviously follows the law of the jungle. If someone causes a problem, the guy who caused the problem will be directly eliminated and the trouble will be dealt with from the root.
Tan Yue said, "I know you are very capable, but if that happens, no one will buy your products in the future. If the news gets out, it will affect the circus audience. You can use existing employees for after-sales service. You just need to feed them and keep them alive."
The Fantasy Circus is very rule-abiding. Even if they need to deal with something weird, they won't do it at the beginning, otherwise the audience would have run away long ago.
Speaking of the circus's foundation, the circus leader's brain finally cooled down a little, and he urged again and again: "Okay, okay, then we'll set up after-sales service, and write it all down in the report."
Before writing the report, Tan Yue obviously had a lot of questions to ask: "I have a question. Will the Fantasy Circus only perform here for 7 days? Will they have to go to another place after 7 days? Will they be forced to leave?"
The invitation letter stated that the performance would last for 7 days, but Tan Yue was worried about Guan Shan. If he went away, it would definitely be inconvenient for his lover to take care of her pregnancy.
No matter what kind of creature it was, it would become weaker than usual during pregnancy, but he didn't intend to tell the circus director about this.
Obviously, the Fantasy Circus does not have such a thing as the Labor Law. As a mechanical life, it is a ruthless capitalist. Telling it not to do so will not benefit it, but may instead be threatened.
The circus leader responded cooperatively: "Seven days of performances, and then we will speed up the delivery."
After some calculation, he found that the number of orders was indeed a bit too large. He had only received the deposit and had not yet received the balance. Even if he cut the training time of these actors, it would not be enough.
"This time we will deliver all the orders here before we leave! It will be done in about six or seven days."
Tan Yue asked: "Everyone still has to perform, and there may be more orders later. Is it enough in only seven days?"
"It's still in time. Just let them work all day and night."
In fact, it is not easy for a circus to make money, mainly because the inner world is very large. Unlike the real world, most areas of the inner world are shrouded in fog. Places without fog will have their own rules.
The development levels of different regions are completely different. Some villages have few people, some timelines are very backward, and some areas are extremely poor. Even if you sell all the weirdness of that place, you won’t get much money.
Animal Town is a relatively good place with a developed economy, similar to the developed countries in the outside world. It is weird and rich.
But they won't stay in Animal Town forever. After all, the circus only performs the same classic shows over and over again, and the weird residents basically just come to see the novelty of the show.
That is to say, magicians have slightly more tricks, but actors with other abilities do not have as much as the others. The process is basically fixed, with repeated content every day. Usually, there are the most people on the first day, and then gradually become fewer in the following days.
The Animal Town has a good location, but its disadvantages are also obvious. The circus charges for the area it occupies, and a large amount of strange coins must be spent every day.
If there are no audiences and it can't collect enough money, it's simply losing money, and it's not stupid.
The black-hearted boss grumbled to Tan Yue, "They eat my food, use my things, live in my house, and get paid. They can also take a break, sometimes for several days. I am a rare and conscientious person."
During the performance, the employees train during the day and perform at night, so it's strange that they almost don't have any rest.
However, the circus director will not be so strict about the time it takes to travel from one area to another and can allow employees to rest.
During this period, it will also collect travel fees to ensure that employees do not have too many strange coins in their hands.
Tan Yue frowned: "Weirds won't die, but humans can't. You should know that humans are very fragile and can't work all day long."
"They are consumables anyway. If they are killed, we can just replace them with a new batch." The circus director said nonchalantly.
Tan Yue added: "It is not easy to train a skilled worker, and it takes time to recruit new people. Newbies cannot complete their work in a frightened environment. If they are exhausted, they will be killed. The cooperation of employees will be even worse, which will affect the quality of product delivery..."
The nature of the work is completely different from that of the performance. In the circus performance, all the captured humans are consumables, and you just need to act fearfully and naturally. However, the work requires a stable mental state, especially when making clothes and accessories. An excellent skilled sewing machine operator may be ten or even twenty times more efficient than a novice who knows nothing.
What he wanted was to give these former "consumables" a stable, long-term job so that they could survive longer, rather than causing them to be abandoned faster.
Tan Yue didn't expect this weirdness to be of much benefit to the person trapped in the cage, as long as it was better than before.
After learning the details and getting his second part-time salary, Tan Yue spent half an hour articulating a 3,000-word market plan and marketing content: "You have a good memory. I think there is no need for a written explanation. Your brain is enough to remember the content here. The rest depends on the specific implementation, including the subsequent advertising promotion. All these tasks require your efforts."
He was not simply complimenting the other party. The memory of mechanical life must be much better than that of the human brain.
"No problem, but if the income doesn't meet expectations..."
Tan Yue said: "This is an additional project, and you didn't invest much in it, right? If it doesn't meet your expectations, you can always choose to give up and keep the status quo."
There are always risks in doing business. Tan Yue cannot make a 100% guarantee whether the new project will be welcomed by the weird people in the other world. He can only try his best, do his best, and leave the rest to fate.
After reaching an agreement, Tan Yue and Guan Shan returned to their residence.
Today was two hours later than the previous two days. Considering Guan Shan's pregnancy, Tan Yue only kissed and exchanged saliva with his lover, and did not dare to do anything serious.
He cleaned a lot of vegetables and prepared to use chicken soup and mushrooms as the soup base for hot pot in the evening. This way he could eat all the time and save time.
When he was wearing an apron and washing things, Guan Shan hugged him from behind, resting his chin on Tan Yue's shoulder and rubbing his furry ears against the young man's handsome face.
Tan Yue cut the mushrooms into cross-shaped slices and casually asked, "Ashan, do you know a big black and white snake?"
On the first day, he got separated from the group of five and was handcuffed by Guan Shan. Even when he saw the group of five, he did not approach them to avoid causing trouble for them.
On the second and third day, Tan Yue went backstage and performed on stage again. When the show was over, the five people also left.
Today he also remembered that there seemed to be the same big flower snake around the group of five people. It was very likely that the big flower snake was a resident of the Animal Town and had taken in those five people.
"There are many big snakes in Animal Town. Which one are you talking about?"
Guan Shan certainly knew that Tan Yue was talking about the giant flower snake, but he was not very willing to let others disturb their peaceful life.
With that invitation letter, that group of people have been protected by God in disguise, and they will not die as long as they don't do anything wrong.
They are all people who have experience in entering the other world, and there is a "superpower" from the National Special Bureau leading the team. If they still die, it is what they deserve.
He knew that the human organizations in the surface world had been paying attention to and studying the residents of the inner world. If they couldn't seize this opportunity, they would be truly useless.
Even if I go back now, I will die soon after the two worlds collide and merge.
Tan Yue wiped his hands and said, "It's a big, fat-looking snake. Let's eat hotpot first, and I'll draw it for you later."
He said, "But it doesn't matter if you don't know him. Let's get to the circus early tomorrow and I'll find time to ask him."
Tan Yue remembered that humans should be very concerned about strange coins. In addition to strange coins, there are also very few items that are attached with strange powers and can be brought out of the other world.
It was not easy for the program team to come here. He was thinking that if those people were willing, they could do part-time jobs for the circus owner like him and bring back some ghost coins.
The people he introduced only work as short-term part-time workers. This depends on the results of the circus's plan tomorrow and the opinions of those people. There is no rush.
Because Guan Shan was pregnant, Tan Yue combed Guan Shan's loose hair tonight to help her relieve the pain, but he firmly refused to hand in his homework, which made Shenming feel like he was shooting himself in the foot.
Fortunately, the rabbit nest was completed successfully tonight. Guanshan did not sleep in bed in the middle of the night, but turned himself into a complete rabbit. With his long legs curled up, he looked like a ball of rabbit marshmallow while sleeping in the nest.
Tan Yue was touched by the cuteness: "Whose little rabbit is this! It's my little rabbit."
His voice turned into a clapped sound, and he buried his face in Mr. Rabbit's fur and sucked hard.
Mr. Rabbit opened his red eyes and glanced at him. He knew that animals in the "pregnant" state were very aggressive and had an overwhelming desire for territory. However, when he sensed a familiar breath, he closed his eyes again and allowed the overly presumptuous human to ravage him.
Tan Yue was worried about Guan Shan being alone, so he didn't sleep in the comfortable big bed that day. He took a pillow, hugged his curled-up lover, put his long arms around him, and fell asleep with his arms around the bunny pillow.
On the morning of the fourth day, Mr. Rabbit's chest muscles seemed to have become bigger. Tan Yue touched Guan Shan's lower abdomen and the original abdominal muscles seemed to have become a whole piece and were a little soft.
But when he put his ear to his abdominal muscles, he could only hear his own heartbeat and not the movement of the child.
Tan Yue couldn't help but make fun of himself. It had only been a few days, how could the child move so quickly?
The performances of the next three days were repetitions of the first three days, because these three magic shows were new magic tricks and it was impossible to perform something different every day.
The seventh day will be the grandest magic show, and these few days are the preparation period.
On the fourth day, Tan Yue successfully contacted several people. Bai Lan hesitated for a moment, but decided to do part-time work. During the performance, they could operate the sewing machine backstage and return to Dahuashe's house after the performance.
Although they had tickets to the Fantasy Circus, they were not sure where the door was before the passage opened. What if the door was in Animal Town?
After all, the circus will leave, and they have to run both ends.
But since they came to work part-time, it was impossible for them to live in the house of the big flower snake. Zhao Fei helped everyone negotiate: "We can hand over a portion of the ghost coins as salary, just as compensation for rent."
The big flower snake family did the math and agreed.
This part-time job was signed with the help of Tan Yue to ensure that several people could leave. In addition to the five-member group, some other people also cast expectant eyes, hoping that Tan Yue could take them out together.
Even those who have been living in darkness, once they have enjoyed the benefits of freedom, cannot help but desire more.
But Tan Yue ignored those gazes. It wasn't that he was cruel. This group of people couldn't explain their origins, and they were not sure whether they were humans from the surface world. He was not sure if they could leave.
Since there is no way to give people a better future, it is better not to give them hope, so as to avoid a more tragic ending, leaving only hatred and resentment.
The circus is undergoing a major reform. As long as you work hard, you can change your situation. If you only rely on external forces or on God's salvation, Tan Yue can only say sorry.
They are all manual work, but everyone's abilities are obviously different. Tan Yue's suggestion is to change to a piece-rate system, where the more you work, the more you pay. If you do more, you will get a bonus.
As for the bottom line requirement, at least it must ensure that this group of people can survive and avoid a vicious cycle.
If you just eat and wait for death, no, no one would just eat and wait for death unless they don't want to live anymore. If I had known earlier that the circus director never kept idlers and idlers, the waste would be thrown into the boiler and become energy for walking in the fog.
Time passed quickly as everyone was working on their sewing machines, and it was the 7th day.
Today is the last day that the Fantasy Circus performs in Animal Town. After the first and second rounds, there are fewer audiences willing to watch the circus. However, the orders for that day are still increasing.
There is no need for additional advertising. The first batch of clothes and accessories delivered have already been worn by the audience, attracting a steady stream of new customers.
The acrobatic troupe actors who were originally training during the day also temporarily put aside their hard training and set up a small open-air stage outside the circus to serve as models to display "actor peripherals"
As the number of orders exceeded expectations, the circus director decided to raise the importance of the new business by several levels, and it is now second only to David Sher's animal shows.
After all, the celebrity-led effect is also very important. Without wonderful performances to touch the hearts of the audience, these goods and peripherals would not be able to sell so well.
"The last day, the last day, the last day of the Fantasy Circus' performance in Animal Town. Do you still remember the clown's red nose? Do you like the wonderful acrobatics of Pink and White? Have you seen the interesting interactions between the trainer and the domesticated humans? Have you seen the wonderful performance of David Schell, the greatest magician in history?! On the last day, the Fantasy Circus will present the most exciting performance ever to you at 7 o'clock tonight!"
The circus leader was selling merchandise like crazy, so on the last day of the show he gave up all the previous programs and changed it to just one show, a fashion show. Based on the residents' preference for the merchandise as observed from the sales in the past few days, he chose a theme show of an animal town.
Tan Yue and several people from the program team brainstormed and drew a lot of pictures for today's performance, using up all his previous stock.
Although he did not study fashion design, art and design go hand in hand. He has a steady hand and many of the clothes he draws are made by him himself.
Tan Yue didn't care about the clothes of the other actors, he just cut Guan Shan's clothes himself. Fortunately, Guan Shan's belly was still slightly protruding, not bulging exaggeratedly.
Tan Yue paid special attention to the design of the waist and abdomen, as well as the materials. He did not use anything that might affect the baby, and also paid attention to the comfort of the "pregnant man". It had to be both beautiful and comfortable.
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During these few days of getting along, Tan Yue's memory became much looser. He recalled that when Guan Shan was still a mermaid, she gave birth to a child in just five days, and she gave birth to a thousand children, but it seemed that only four survived in the end.
Fortunately, the children grew up and had grown up when he left, so he didn't have to worry about them as a father at the aquarium.
This is the bad thing about memory loss, because you can only remember the most impressive fragments, and some details are unclear. You can only rely on your own logical reasoning and imagination, so there will be discrepancies between the actual facts.
With the increase of ghost coins in recent days, the strength of the circus leader just happened to break through. On the last day, there were 5,000 more seats in the tent, and the stage design such as lighting was also improved.
With the intensive organization, it was dark in the Animal Town.
There was a long food festival outside the tent, and the Animal Town also set up a special small stall outside to receive potential orders before the show started.
Everyone attached great importance to today's performance. In the lounge of the stage, there was silence for several days as the clown put on his hat in front of the mirror and corrected his red nose.
While others are working hard for their new careers, the clown is still silently practicing his magic. He has been preparing for many days, and today is a very important day for him.
He will prove to everyone that David Sher is nothing but a fraud, and that he, the clown who has brought countless joys to children, is the greatest magician in the world!
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