Taipei City, Si Xi Lou.
It was not even noon yet, but the lobby was already full of diners, but none of them were in the mood to eat, all facing the table on the right, with a focused look.
Liu Gennong stood on the table, telling the story of "The Number One Under Heaven" in a vivid and colorful way.
He spent half a month rewriting the plot of the movie "The Number One Under Heaven" into a storybook, during which he went to the cinema several times, watched the movie repeatedly, and pondered the words and sentences.
The rewriting was more difficult than expected, but fortunately, God did not let down those who worked hard, and he finally succeeded.
The rewritten "The Number One Under Heaven" has a total of six chapters. Liu Gennong finished his work in Si Xi Lou after telling the story for one hour every day, and his income was more than the original two or three hours a day.
Many people were interested in "Number One Under Heaven", but the ticket of thirty cents was a bit expensive.
I found that the storyteller in Sixi Building was telling "Number One Under Heaven". I came to listen to it once, and ordered a pot of coarse tea for three or five cents. It seemed to be more cost-effective than watching a movie.
This day, Liu Gennong talked about the battle between Ye Qingzhou and the enemy who destroyed the clan. Both of them were possessed by demons. The climax was getting closer and closer, and the audience listened attentively.
"Shua——" He put away his folding fan and leaned forward slightly: "If you want to know what happened next, please listen to the next chapter."
The guests below sighed in disappointment, but there was nothing they could do. They could only come back tomorrow.
Liu Gennong's career has been revived by rewriting the words of "Number One Under Heaven". He was in a very good mood. He turned around to pack up his things and prepared to go to the cinema again in the afternoon.
Someone in the audience asked loudly, "Sir, when will you talk about "The Little Cook of Shengjing"? That trailer is more interesting than "The Best Under Heaven." "
Someone else asked, "Where did you watch the trailer, brother?"
The man who asked first replied, "In the cinema, of course. It has a big screen and you can see it through the transparent wall."
A big bearded man at the next table said, "You dare to go to the cinema? I think you are risking your life."
"What do you mean, brother? I see people go to that cinema every day and it's very lively. Is there anything wrong with that?"
The big bearded man glanced around with a hint of pity in his eyes, and a little mystery: "Tsk, I can see that you have never been to the cinema. I don't know if something happened. Recently, many people dare not go there."
Liu Gennong's face changed slightly when he heard this.
Recently, he really wanted to rewrite the script of "The Little Chef of Shengjing", so he went to the cinema almost every other day, and he never heard of anything wrong.
Could it be that he missed something because he went every other day?
He stepped forward and wanted to listen to the man with the whiskers.
Not only Liu Gennong, but the diners around him had some yearning for the cinema. When they heard this, they almost stopped what they were doing and looked at the big man who was talking.
The man with the whiskers slapped the table, his eyes widened, and he said in a loud voice: "At first, I listened to the story for a few days, and I was really itching to go to the theater. That day, I made up my mind and went to the theater with my wife. My wife had a ticket for the event. It was infuriating to talk about it. The ticket was only for women, and men had to buy another ticket to enter. I spent twenty cents and finally got into the theater. Who would have thought that there were evil things in it."
"A claw as big as a table was clinging to the edge of the stage. The ugly monster was drooling and roaring at the audience. The saliva flowed to the ground, making grooves as big as bowls on the ground." The bearded man watched the people's reactions and gestured with his hands, "I was so scared that I pulled my wife and ran away. She was almost eaten."
Someone in the crowd said, "So you mean that commercial? I saw it outside as well. It was really scary at first, but I got used to it after watching it a few times. I'm curious about the popcorn in the cinema. A monster like that actually likes to eat it. I wonder if there is a significant difference compared to the ones sold outside?"
After popcorn became popular in cinemas, vendors outside began to make and sell the same commercial.
Although the taste is different from that in the cinema, many people don't know that they can buy popcorn without watching a movie, so they dare not go into the cinema. When they see similar food outside, they will buy it to try it.
Recently, popcorn is also a very popular snack on the streets of Liangjing.
Some people have tried to imitate Coke, but unfortunately, from the appearance alone, it is really hard to tell what ingredients are used.
Some people also want to taste the taste of Coke, but they can't find any alternative ingredients that can make that taste.
The Coke in the cinema is also added with ice cubes, which is particularly cool and refreshing in the summer.
Ordinary people in the Dawu Dynasty did not have ice cellars at home. The taste of Coke with and without ice was more than one level different, which also discouraged many vendors who wanted to continue researching Coke.
Hearing this, the man with the mustache frowned and said with a look of disgust: "They are all liars. How delicious can that popcorn be? It's not as good as the ones sold on the street, and the quantity is less."
Hearing this, Liu Gennong felt something was wrong.
He had eaten popcorn in the cinema and on the street. The difference between the two was not just a little bit, and the ones in the cinema were definitely better than those outside.
Liu Gennong walked down the stage, approached the man with a beard, and said loudly: "You may have some misunderstandings. The popcorn in the cinema is actually much better than the one on the street. You said that there are monsters in that cinema, which is arbitrary."
The man with a beard snorted coldly, "You rely on that cinema for your livelihood, so you will naturally speak for it. If you don't believe it, just stay in that cinema. Good words can't persuade a damned ghost, hum."
After the man finished speaking, he raised his head and drank the rough tea in the big bowl, stood up, pushed away everyone, and left with an angry face.
For several days, not only in Sixi Building, but also in nearby restaurants and teahouses, there were always people who jumped out and said that there were monsters in the cinema when others were talking about the cinema.
At first, many people didn't take it seriously, but later the matter spread farther and farther.
Three people make a tiger. Gradually, many people heard that the cinema had a monster and even bit someone to death. Lu
Yao stood at the door of the cinema, looking at the passers-by, frowning slightly, "It seems that there are fewer customers recently."
Ku Ba squatted on the steps, holding a lollipop in his mouth, "It's rumored everywhere in the city that there is a monster in our cinema and it bit someone to death."
After two consecutive shows, both theaters were not full. The situation was indeed a bit serious.
Fu Chi crossed his arms and leaned against the door, "I said a long time ago that the advertisement was too advanced."
Lu Yao glanced at Ku Ba, "Besides this, what other rumors are there?"
The number of customers dropped sharply, and there were almost no walk-in customers during the show time, and the clerks had nothing to do.
Gou Zi was just passing by as he came out of the bathroom. Hearing this, he said, "San'er said yesterday that people in many restaurants and teahouses in the city were talking about this. They also said that the shopkeeper gave tickets specifically to women in order to capture them and feed them to the monsters."
Lu Yao thought for a moment, turned back to the hall, and said, "Ku Ba, come out with me later."
Ku Ba didn't know why the shopkeeper asked him, but he agreed straightforwardly.
Behind the advertising screen in the lobby is a staff lounge, which also serves as a warehouse.
Lu Yao entered the lounge and took out a set of women's clothing from the Dawu Dynasty from his personal warehouse.
This dress is not a system product, but an embroidered long dress that Lu Yao had customized at a ready-made clothing store on the street.
The base is a light green color, made of the finest silk and satin, and the hem, cuffs and lapels are embroidered with intertwined lotus flowers and lotus leaves with silver thread, which is elegant and unconventional.
Lu Yao is thin and tall, and when she put on this dress, her long hair was tied up and tied up, with a silver hairpin inlaid with large pearls in her hair. She looks
fresh and natural, and she doesn't look out of place for a girl who claims to be fifteen or sixteen years old.
The shop assistants had different expressions when they saw the shopkeeper coming out of the lounge.
Fu Chi raised his eyebrows and stared at the embroidery on Lu Yao's skirt, which was much more delicate than modern machine embroidery.
Ku Ba crossed his arms and looked Lu Yao up and down: "Finally you are willing to wear clothes properly. From this point of view, you are a pretty beauty."
Lu Yao opened her hands slightly and turned around on the spot. The silver embroidery on the hem of her skirt spread out on the green base fabric, shining.
"Not bad." She was satisfied and told Fu Chi to look after the store and called Ku Ba to go out together.
Fu Chi looked at Lu Yao and Ku Ba walking out of the door and onto the bluestone street with envy in his eyes.
Ku Ba followed Lu Yao lazily, "Where does the shopkeeper want to go?" Lu
Yao said, "To the restaurant and teahouse that are rumored to be there."
She was not used to putting things in her sleeves, so she carried an embroidered cloth bag across her body, which contained some small change, a mobile phone, and a small speaker in her hand.
Ku Ba was curious, "What is the shopkeeper holding in his hand?"
Lu Yao showed it to him, "A speaker, a small object used for amplification."
Ku Ba took it in his hand and played with it, but after checking it for a long time, he still didn't know what it was for, so he gave it back to Lu Yao.
The shopkeeper had too many interesting objects in his hand, and he didn't understand them even if he asked or looked at them.
He had learned to observe silently, waiting for the shopkeeper to use them.
Ku Ba rented a horse-drawn carriage and took Lu Yao directly to Sixi Building, where the rumor first spread.
East Market and North Market are adjacent to each other, but they are also separated by several streets. Riding a horse-drawn carriage is faster than walking.
It happened to be noon, and the lobby of Sixi Building was almost full.
Lu Yao and Ku Ba stood at the door and saw at a glance that there was a table of diners in the middle of the hall that looked a little unusual. A big man with bare arms was standing on a stool with one foot, and was recounting "interesting stories" about the cinema in a loud voice, attracting all the diners to look over. Lu Yao
took out his mobile phone, turned on the camera, and slowly walked closer.
Ku Ba saw that the big man who was talking and the diners around him were all framed in the palm-sized mobile phone, and he didn't understand the intention of the shopkeeper.
After the big man finished speaking, Lu Yao just walked over and stood in front of the man, his eyes slightly cold.
The other party blinked, a little confused, "What are you looking at me for, little girl? Are you thinking about sex?"
The rough man laughed, and the diners around him also laughed. Lu
Yao didn't want to waste his words, so he took out a small speaker, turned it on, and spoke into the small speaker. The sound was clear and deafening, instantly suppressing the laughter in the room, and even the private room upstairs could hear it: "Your Excellency spreads rumors here every day, and you talk like a regular customer of the cinema, how come you don't even recognize me?"
Everyone was stunned by the small speaker, and the rough man's face changed slightly, but he quickly came to his senses and didn't take the little girl seriously, "Who knows where you came from, wild girl, get out of the way, don't disturb us talking."
"My name is Lu Yao, and I am the owner of the cinema you mentioned." Lu Yao spoke slowly, "I listened at the door for a long time just now. You said that you went to my cinema to watch a movie, and you also said that the cinema kept monsters that only ate women. May I ask when did you go to the cinema? How many movies did you watch? When did you find out that there were monsters in the cinema?"
The rough man was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect Lu Yao to dare to come over and confront him face to face.
He had indeed been to the cinema and met her.
It's just that she was wearing different clothes today, and he didn't recognize her for a while.
"Why do you care when I went there? Your broken cinema must have monsters that give tickets to women just to catch those greedy idiots and eat them. They are stupid, but I am not stupid. Don't be bluffing here, I'm not afraid of you." The rough man said viciously.
Lu Yao felt that he was struggling to speak, so he took out his phone, opened the video he had just taken and turned the volume up to the maximum.
All the scenes in Sixi Restaurant were displayed on the small screen, and the rough man's loud voice also came out from it.
Like a drop of water falling into an oil pan, there was a bang, and the people around stood up in shock, not knowing what to do.
Lu Yao pressed the screen to pause, raised the speaker and shouted: "Don't panic, sit down."
The diners were stunned by the shopkeeper's continuous operations and sat down silently: "..."
In the private room on the second floor, several doors opened quietly, and the people who came out greeted each other and stood silently at the railing to watch the excitement. Lu Yao
's face was calm, and she continued, "I came here today for no other reason than to clarify the recent rumors about the cinema."
She turned to look at the rough man who spread the rumors, "You just said that on the day you went to my cinema, your wife had an event ticket, and you didn't have a ticket so you had to buy one yourself. But you two met a monster in the cinema and were chased all the way?"
The rough man swallowed hard and said, "So what?"
She never expected that she would have such a scary object in her hand that could directly preserve evidence.
Even if she refused to admit it, she couldn't deny it.
"In other words, you only went to the cinema to watch one show?"
"Who would dare to go there again when their lives are about to be lost?"
Lu Yao nodded with satisfaction after getting the information he wanted: "There is an obvious contradiction in what you said. Regular customers know it, or you can ask around Song'an Street and you will know that the event that gave free tickets to women ended the day before the second premiere of "The Little Chef of Shengjing", which was on July 21st. And the advertisement for the little monster was released on the same day as the second premiere of "The Little Chef", which was on July 22nd. You and your wife would not have seen the monster on that day when you went to the cinema with your event tickets. If you went to the cinema with your wife on July 22nd, the event ticket in your wife's hand would have expired, and she would definitely not have been able to enter with the ticket."
Liu Gennong, who was standing in the crowd, suddenly realized that he had felt that the rumors in the past few days were strange earlier, and only now did he want to figure out the secret. The time did not match.
Lu Yao tapped the screen again and played the video he had just recorded. "The rumor that the cinema raises monsters that eat women is ridiculous if you think about it. The cinema held a five-day ticket giveaway, and at least 30 women visited the cinema every day. Later, there were also female guests who bought tickets on their own initiative, but no one has ever reported to the police that a woman in the family is missing. Where did the woman who was eaten by the monster come from? You and your accomplices are the real culprits of the rumors these days. He mentioned again that the cinema gave free tickets to women, and said that the monster only ate women, which showed that he was dissatisfied with this matter. I made a random guess. You should have been to the cinema during the period of the cinema's free ticket promotion. A man did not buy a ticket, but took the event ticket of the women in his family in an attempt to watch the movie for free. In the end, he could not enter the theater, so he was resentful. It happened that the cinema launched a new advertisement, which gave you an excuse to manipulate people's hearts. "
The rough man took a step back and his face changed drastically. He guessed it all.
Those who spread rumors everywhere these days are dissatisfied with the cinema's free ticket promotion. Originally, they just gathered together to drink and complain, and then I don’t know what happened. Someone got drunk and said that there was a monster in the cinema.
On the second day, several things were inexplicably mixed together, and the rumors became more and more intense.
The group of people secretly made a plan and started to stir up trouble. They told everyone that there was a monster in the cinema who ate women. They also made up true and false stories and told them in a convincing way.
Within a few days, rumors were everywhere and more than half of the people went to the cinema.
The rumormongers were complacent and prepared to continue spreading rumors to ruin the cinema.
It was a lie that was spread according to the trend. After being exposed, they could no longer find an excuse. The rumormonger turned around and wanted to run away.
Ku Ba had already blocked the way out and directly held him down: "You want to run away after spreading rumors, but it's not that easy."
The rough man struggled and shouted, but he couldn't get away from Ku Ba's hands at all.
He was obviously much stronger than Ku Ba.
Cryba was annoyed, so she picked up a cup from the table and stuffed it into the rough man's mouth upside down.
The diners who were forced to eat melons: "..."
Lu Yao looked at the diners' suspicious faces and sighed secretly.
Although the rumors were clarified, everyone seemed to be more afraid of the cinema...
She had an idea, raised the small speaker and said loudly: "The monster that appeared in the popcorn commercial is actually a filming prop. If you have any doubts, you can come to the cinema tomorrow to see the real popcorn monster."
Someone in the crowd whispered: "No, no. The shopkeeper and the waiter are so rude, who dares to go?"
Lu Yao's eyes swept around the lobby, and no one dared to look at her the whole time.
This matter can't be reversed for a while.
Forget it, I won't force it.
Lu Yao turned around and called Ku Ba, preparing to send the rumormonger to the authorities first, and then return to the cinema.
"Wait a minute." A young man on the second floor jumped down from the railing and landed in front of Lu Yao, "What was that thing in your hand just now? How can the image and voice be preserved?"
The young man was wearing a purple and gold robe and a golden crown. He was young, but he looked very dignified, and the word "powerful" was almost written on his face.
Lu Yao took out his mobile phone from his pocket, "You ask this?"
The young man was curious, but he kept a straight face and just nodded slightly. Lu Yao
clicked on the screen, turned on the camera, and casually took a short video. "This is the camera function of the mobile phone. The principle is a bit difficult to explain. Simply put, by shooting through this small hole, you can preserve the image and sound of people or things."
Liu Gennong was standing in the back and saw Lu Yao shooting a video with his mobile phone and playing it. An idea flashed in his mind, "Could this be the tool used to make movies?"
Regular customers who have patronized the cinema were all shocked when they heard this, as if it made sense!
Lu Yao turned his head and smiled: "The basic principle is similar, but the machines used to shoot movies are more professional."
Liu Gennong was shocked, "So the characters in those movies are actually real people like us?"
Lu Yao pondered for a moment and nodded: "Yes."
Someone else asked: "The monster that likes to eat popcorn is also a human?"
Lu Yao nodded affirmatively: "Yes. There are no monsters in the world. If there are, most of them are people pretending to be ghosts. Tomorrow, the cinema will reveal the true identity of the popcorn monster, and everyone can come and see it."
The air was silent.
The diners' eyes seemed to say "You are lying, the monster is right in front of us."
Xie Xu had just returned to Liangjing and had not heard of the movie yet, so he looked confused.
Lu Yao took a picture of him and handed it to him, "In addition to video, you can also take photos."
Xie Xu's beautiful almond eyes widened slightly, "Is this... me?"
"Yes. Photos can be printed out. If you are interested, come to Lu Yao's Super Time and Space Cinema on Song'an Street tomorrow, and I will give you one."
Xie Xu grabbed Lu Yao's hand and stared at himself on the screen, his mood was complicated.
Kuba was a little proud that these country bumpkins didn't even know what photos were.
He took out a stack of photos from his arms and handed them to Xie Xu, "Here, these are the photos. The shopkeeper gave them to me a few days ago."
Xie Xu raised his eyes and was surprised again.
The person on the paper is exactly the same as the man in front of him.
Is this called a photo?
Not only Xie Xu, but also the diners who were close to the lobby saw it, and they were more jealous of the owner in their hearts, but they could not resist their curiosity and wanted to know more secrets about the cinema.
Until Lu Yao and Ku Ba left with the rumormongers, the lobby of Sixi Building was still quiet, and everyone was digesting what they saw and heard today.
Xie Xu returned upstairs, his face still confused.
The young man who came to eat with him had a similar expression.
Most of these officials' children lived in the official residence in the West City and rarely set foot in the market. They had never heard of the popular cinema in the East City. Today was really an eye-opener.
Wan Baozhu watched the excitement for a while, and passed by Tianzi No. 1 when she left.
The door was half open, and Xie Xu and a group of people were sitting in a group. Before she could recover, she knocked on the door with a smile, went in and said a few words.
Back at the mansion, Wan Baozhu called Hongyu and said, "I want to give you one last mission."
Hongyu was shocked. Her eye disease was getting worse and worse. Now she couldn't even see things clearly. His Highness was still willing to use her.
Even if it was the last mission, she would definitely do her best, even if it cost her life.
Wan Baozhu's eyes dimmed and her tone was cold: "I want you to go to the cinema and monitor the little shopkeeper's every move, and report to me all the situations in the cinema."
Hongyu bowed her head and said, "Yes."
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