Chapter 22: Put on Hanfu
Liu Lan looked at the female employees, then at the diners who were trying to look at her over the green plants, and she had to stand up from her chair.
"Ma'am, please follow me first."
"Xiao Ke'er and this lucky person need to prepare backstage for a while. Everyone, eat and drink well first, and then continue watching the show," said the host.
Liu Lan followed the female employee through the employee passage to the backstage. She was taken into a room and the female employee handed her a package and said, "Please change into this outfit."
Liu Lan took the clothes and unfolded them. It was a set of white Hanfu. She touched the texture and knew that this was the "prop costume" that Yu Zhan mentioned. "Let me help you put it on," said the female employee.
"No, I can do it myself."
"This dress is divided into several parts, which makes it a bit troublesome to put on," the female employee insisted. She didn't believe Liu Lan would wear complicated Hanfu.
Liu Man smiled and said, "Real Hanfu is much more complicated than this. I have worn it too."
The female service staff had to leave and let her change her clothes.
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Five minutes later, Liu Lan opened the door and walked out, holding up her skirt. All the restaurant employees in the corridor saluted her, and some opened their eyes wide in amazement.
Xiao Keer, who came out of another room, saw her and exclaimed, "She is so beautiful."
"Oh my God, you are the most suitable person for Hanfu I have ever seen," she circled around Liu Lan and looked up at her, "You look so beautiful without much makeup, little sister, are you a star?"
Liu Lan couldn't help laughing, "I'm an ordinary person who comes here to eat, you are the star."
Xiao Ke'er pouted, "I'm just an online singer who sings for money on the Internet. I'm not a star at all."
In fact, Xiao Ke'er is quite famous now, as can be seen from the audience's reaction just now. She has signed a contract with a record company and will be able to release records like a professional singer in the future.
Liu Lan thinks Xiao Keer has a very cute personality and a self-deprecating and open-minded attitude in her words. No wonder she can adapt Zhuang Zhou's articles and sing out her own ideas.
The female employee looked at Liu Lan's shoulder-length hair and said to another person, "Didn't I ask you to find a hairpin? Where is the hairpin?"
The man said in difficulty, "All the hairpins are used up." Because of the ancient style theme, every waitress now changed into Hanfu, and each of them had an identical hairpin on her head.
Liu Lan said, "One clean chopstick is enough."
The thing that was most in short supply in the restaurant was chopsticks. In less than a minute, a pair of wooden chopsticks was in Liu Lan's hand. Under the gaze of several girls, she used the chopsticks with her nimble fingers to easily tie up her hair. Her hair was tied up high behind her head. No matter whether she was viewed from the front or the side, she looked dignified and elegant. The girls who were watching thought that her hands were probably disabled.
Xiao Keer asked the restaurant manager beside her, "Is she really a random audience member you chose, not a pre-arranged actor?"
The restaurant manager was very good at talking and said humorously, "Our catering company has limited funds. If we want to hire an actor like this, wouldn't it cost a lot of money?"
The second song that Xiao Keer will sing tonight is her new song "Thinking of You". The song has not been released online yet, and she wants to promote the new song here today. "Thinking of You" sings about the mood of an ancient woman who misses her husband on the battlefield, looking at him from afar, but praying for him to come but not coming.
What Liu Man needs to do is to sit as a background when Xiao Ke'er is singing. Yes, her job is just to sit. The background will not give Liu Man light, and the audience can only see a black figure of a woman, a bit like the effect of shadow play, imitating the heroine in the song, sitting sideways and looking at one end, as if missing her lover.
Since they want to interact with the audience, the restaurant planning team must of course come up with a foolproof plan. It is impossible for every female guest to be beautiful and photogenic. Some are fat, some are thin, some are tall, some are short, some are young, and some are old. How can they all fit into the stage perfectly without making them feel embarrassed? The answer is to blur their faces and body shapes. Anyway, Hanfu is loose and the shadows are mostly the same.
When the diners were not paying attention to the dark stage, Liu Man went on stage, but heard the staff beside her whisper, "Oh no, they forgot to bring the chairs."
"It's okay, I can sit on the floor."
After saying that, Liu Lan waved her sleeves and sat down on the ground. Her movements were natural, smooth and majestic, and she did not look out of place at all on this slightly narrow stage.
The staff member stared at her blankly, lost in thought for a long time before he remembered to gesture to the lighting engineer to light the room.
Then the light shone in front of her, and Xiao Keer walked onto the stage again with her guitar. From the audience's perspective, Liu Lan was indeed a dark shadow.
"Sorry for taking a few extra minutes, because I was lucky enough to admire a rare beauty backstage," Xiao Keer made a playful joke.
The audience knew that Xiao Ke'er was referring to the chosen female guest, and thought that she was just complimenting her out of courtesy. No one took it seriously. After all, Liu Lan was just a black background and had no appeal at all. Perhaps only Yu Zhan's attention was on her.
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