Chapter 368 A vulgar drama
Hu Qing is a standard activist.
He works efficiently and takes the boss's orders as the highest priority. As long as Jiang Qi doesn't make any outrageous requests, Hu Qing will complete them as quickly as possible.
The meeting just ended on the morning of February 28. The sign and hand-painted poster for the theater ticket window on March 1 were made, and a version of the theater tickets was also made. However, Jiang Qi was not very satisfied and had to redo it.
It is said that Hu Qing is also looking for financial allocation to build a new batch of road signs to facilitate early tourists to walk directly from Taiping Town to the theater.
It can be said that before Feng Ling and Wang Xinghua started writing the characters, and the interviews with other members of the troupe had not yet started, Hu Qing had already almost completed the preparations that needed to be done.
March 2 is the day of interviews for troupe members.
Because most of the people who came for the interview were friends of Class Leader Feng, March 2nd was the 16th day of the first lunar month, just after the Lantern Festival, and Class Leader Feng’s New Year’s limited acceptance had ended. Anyway, the master and apprentice, father and son, don't have any serious jobs, and there are not many students in the opera training class. They simply cancel the class and refund the tuition fees, pack up, and come to the amusement park on March 2 to sign the employment contract.
Jiang Qi has already prepared the contract.
Feng Qinghua and Leader Feng's apprentice Xu Yu are the actors who will appear on the stage. Their basic salary is 4,000, plus commission and bonus. Like all actors in the amusement park, their working hours are from 9 am to 8:30 pm. Because the theater has now joined the Taiping Town section, each person can perform in Taiping Town for no less than 20 days per month and there is no additional performance subsidy.
The persona of Leader Feng is still the leader of the troupe. Because he does not perform, he is directly counted as an actor in Taiping Town, with a basic salary of 4,700 and no commission.
The three of them read the contract carefully, and Team Leader Feng expressed his acceptance of the sudden increase in work content. Although the work intensity increased, the basic salary also increased. Leader Feng happily signed the contract without any objections.
"It would be nice if the level of social security was a little higher." After signing the contract, Team Leader Feng said with a little regret when HR sent him a few notes to collect the entry package.
Feng Qinghua glanced at his father helplessly: "Dad, what are you thinking about? The basic salary is 4,000, including food, half and room, five insurances, one fund and commissions. If the social security pays you the highest level, I'm afraid you will have to pay for it in your dreams. Wake up with a smile.”
"That's right." Leader Feng nodded and squinted at the note, "The HR just now said that actors like us who have set roles should go to Jinxiu Clothing Studio to tailor the costumes. Do you guys at Jinxiu Clothing Studio know where it is? "
Feng Qinghua and Xu Yu shook their heads together. Leader Feng reluctantly took out his mobile phone and started navigation.
"Navigation starts, the whole journey is 720 meters, it is expected to take 9 minutes, and the current GPS signal is good."
"Oh, this amusement park is really big." Leader Feng exclaimed in surprise.
"Yeah yeah."
His son’s disciples all agreed.
But people just follow the navigation directions and never make a mistake. Leader Feng is in the front and only looks at his phone and not the road. Feng Qinghua and Xu Yu are following behind and they only look at Leader Feng and not the road. The three of them just walk like this. He almost walked onto the lawn.
"Master Feng?" Jiang Qi, who had returned from Taiping Town to watch Master Bai's freshly baked cakes, held a half-eaten cake in his hand and looked at the three people who tried to trample on the lawn of the amusement park with a look of surprise. New employees.
"What are you doing on the lawn? Have you completed the entry procedures? If so, I will accompany you for a walk?" Jiang Qi happened to have nothing to do.
"No, no, it's so embarrassing." Leader Feng declined repeatedly, "We have already completed the formalities, and now we go to Jinxiu Clothing Store to order clothes. The three of us have never been to the workplace before, and we are not familiar with the road, so we turned on the navigation .”
Jiang Qi frowned: "The HR person who handled your onboarding process didn't take you there?"
Jinxiu Yifang is easy to find, but the place to receive meal cards is at the back door of the employee canteen. The employee restaurant is not marked on the map. Under normal circumstances, if new employees join the company, HR will at least take them to receive a meal card.
"He told us the location, and it was us..."
Jiang Qi nodded and said he understood. He took out his mobile phone and sent a message to Huang Fugui to tell him about the matter and let him handle it.
"I'll take you there." Jiang Qi took a bite of the cake, "I'm familiar with the onboarding process."
"Isn't this bad? Boss, how busy are you? Such a big amusement park has so many things to do all day long. How can we have the nerve to let you take us to apply for the job? We can just look for it ourselves." Class Leader Feng was a little nervous, and he stuttered a little. , but the words he speaks are very nice, and he is indeed a master of taking jobs.
"It's okay, I just have some free time." Jiang Qi smiled, "But you guys came quite early, it's only around 9 o'clock now. The interview at the theater starts at 10 o'clock. Now that the onboarding process is over, let's go watch the interview together. .”
"Have you ever been to a theater and seen the working environment in the future?"
The three of them shook their heads.
"That's a good time to get acquainted." Jiang Qi led the three of them towards Jinxiu Clothing Shop and turned on the chatting mode.
"Master Feng, I remember that you also opened an opera training class in the city, right? You are still working part-time in the city theater troupe. Have everything over there been taken care of?"
"It's been taken care of. It's been taken care of when I have spared time these days. There are only four students in our opera training class, three are 5 years old and one is 6 years old. They have all refunded their money and introduced them to a friend's opera training class. As for the city theater troupe, it’s just a matter of making a phone call to resign because it’s a part-time job, so the person in charge doesn’t care, since I haven’t rehearsed for more than half a year, it’s no different than resigning.”
"Everything at home has been packed up, and Bingbing's agency has also contacted me to book a room. I can move here to work tomorrow."
Jiang Qi didn't expect that Team Leader Feng was quite efficient. He looked at the three of them and asked curiously: "I would like to ask, if you three move here like this, will your lover and your son's apprentice's lover... …”
Leader Feng's smile gradually turned bitter, and his expression became darker: "My lover has been gone for more than ten years. As for Qinghua and Xiaoyu, they are single and don't know when they will get a wife."
Feng Qinghua and Xu Yu looked at the sky awkwardly.
Jiang Qi:......
Jiang Qi didn't expect that he would mention the sad past of Leader Feng when he asked casually, so he simply kept silent and quietly led Leader Feng and the other three people to have their bodies measured and order clothes. After ordering the clothes, he led them to pick up other items for employment. Suit.
After going around and around, Jiang Qi finally led the three of them to the theater.
Theater and dollhouse.
The doll house was also renovated by Lili because of its three-star upgrade. The focus of the doll house is on the interior decoration, and the exterior is not important. Therefore, the doll house looks like an ordinary white house from the side and the back. You have to go around to the front to see the walls. Other decorations.
Theater is different.
Because it has not been upgraded to a star yet, the theater has remained in its original appearance. After simple renovations, the current theater looks like a theater on the outside and on the inside. It is the kind of building that you can tell from a distance that it is an antique-style building. Single-family building.
To sum it up simply, from a distance you can tell that a lot of money was spent on this building.
The carved beams and painted buildings cannot be called it, but the antique charm can still be touched.
Feng Qinghua's eyes widened in surprise when he saw the outline of the theater from a distance.
When Jiang Qi led the three of them closer and could clearly see the exterior of the theater and the word "tea garden" on the plaque, all three of them had their mouths opened in an O shape.
"How is it?" Jiang Qi asked with a smile, "This working environment should be pretty good, right?"
"Wow." Feng Qinghua couldn't help but screamed. He turned around and asked Leader Feng, "Dad, why is the sign on the theater a tea garden?"
Leader Feng: "...Why do you act like a layman? It turns out that in the early days, the theater only charged tea fees and free theaters, so it was necessary to have a tea garden. Didn't you listen to what HR told you when you just joined the company? Our position is The actors are linked to Taiping Town, Taiping Town is an ancient setting, and the theater’s signature is a tea garden. Is it so strange?”
"But our theater charges tea money and theater tickets together." Jiang Qi said with a smile, leading the three of them inside.
There are already many people in the theater.
It's almost time for the interview at 10 o'clock, and basically everyone who came for the interview today has arrived. Jiang Qi looked at it and saw that there were men and women. Generally speaking, there were relatively few young people in their 20s. They were basically around 30 or older. It seemed that the two interviewers, Feng Ling and Wang Xinghua, were very immature. .
These people were basically brought here by Leader Feng. Seeing Leader Feng and the three of them coming, they quickly approached them to inquire about the situation.
Jiang Qi looked at it. Wang Xinghua was sitting at the tea table in the first row like a normal person. There were also freshly brewed hot tea, melon seeds, peanuts and shortbread on the table. She looked like a guest coming to the theater. Same.
Feng Ling is not here, I don’t know where he went.
"How are you going to interview today?" Jiang Qi sat down next to Wang Xinghua and poured himself a cup of tea.
"It's simple." Wang Xinghua pointed to the stage, "You can tell your level by singing just one paragraph."
"Everyone will do two parts, one that they are best at, and one that can be paired with a female actor and Feng Ling. I am the judge."
"The interviews with the piano masters are at the end."
Jiang Qi grabbed a handful of melon seeds and started cracking them. He found that some interviewers were asking the three deputy team members to inquire about the situation, and some interviewers were squatting in the corner muttering something.
"What you are doing is just like a movie audition." Jiang Qi murmured, "But for movie auditions, you go in one by one, and you can't see each other's performance in a small room. You are acting in front of everyone, what the hell? Everyone is under great pressure.”
"How can singing be so special?" Wang Xinghua said with a look on her face, "If you are good, you are good, and if you are not, you are bad. When it comes to singing, people can basically tell how much you weigh as soon as you open your voice."
"And our requirements are not high. It's enough to be good at one of the two parts. If you can play with Feng Ling, it's fine. If you can't play with Feng Ling, it's fine if you can take the leading role yourself."
"After recruiting people, we still have to arrange a new play, run it in, and order costumes and props. Of course, we need to recruit people who can get along well with Feng Ling or who have excellent skills. Otherwise, the play will not be scheduled until the Year of the Monkey."
"Feng Ling and I have discussed it. When the theater troupe is established, she will be the general person in charge. She will be responsible for everything in the theater troupe. I am the person in charge of the theater. I will be responsible for everything in the theater and writing the books. The division of labor is very clear. Make it clear that without conflict there will be no problems.”
"The only problem now is that the name of the theater troupe has not been decided yet. Although her surname is Feng, and the leader Feng is also surnamed Feng, leader Feng is still the leader in Taiping Town. In theory, this theater troupe should be called Feng Jiaban. But this theater They are from our Wang Family Troupe. Why can’t the troupe be called Wang Family Troupe if the troupe’s surname is Feng? I think we can also call it Wang Family Troupe!”
Wang Xinghua's last long string of words confused Jiang Qi. She was from Feng's class and Wang's class.
This amusement park belongs to Jiang Qi. According to Wang Xinghua's theory, this theater troupe can be called Jiang Family Troupe.
"As long as you are happy." Jiang Qi smiled, indicating that he would not get involved in the name dispute.
Wang Xinghua curled her lips, glanced at the time on her phone, and took out a microphone from under the table that Jiang Qi had not noticed before.
"Hey, the interview for the first interviewer will start at 10:20. It can be done alone or collaboratively. Everyone, hurry up and prepare. Each person only has three minutes per section."
As soon as these words came out, the people who were still asking Mr. Feng to inquire about the situation stopped asking about the situation and dispersed to prepare the interview music for later.
Wang Xinghua put down the phone and started eating melon seeds.
Jiang Qi also knelt for a while, and suddenly realized that there was a very important information point in Wang Xinghua's long list of nonsense just now.
She is responsible for writing the notebook.
Write a notebook?
Jiang Qi looked at Wang Xinghua fiercely, which shocked Wang Xinghua. She spat out the melon seed kernels and swallowed the melon seed shells.
"You said you were responsible for writing the notebook?"
"That's right." Wang Xinghua silently picked up the melon seeds she had just spit out and stuffed them into her mouth to eat. "Is there any problem?"
"Can you still write a notebook?"
Jiang Qi always thought that Wang Xinghua would only write some rumor-mongering articles in third-rate newspapers that could get her boss into trouble.
Wang Xinghua:?
Question my strength?
Wang Xinghua sat up straight in an instant and put on the posture of a contemporary literary giant: "What's so strange about being able to write a notebook? If the theater troupes of our time didn't produce new plays every day and the audience would get tired of performing old plays, who would come to your show? Is the team watching a show?"
Jiang Qi thought it was right when he thought about it carefully. At that time, listening to operas was just like watching TV series now. It was impossible to watch one drama over and over again. There would definitely be new dramas every year.
"Is it difficult to write a notebook?" Jiang Qi was curious.
"It depends on what type of writing it is." Wang Xinghua said, "A third-rate literati would never be able to write something like "The Female Consort" or "Meng Lijun" even if they think about it, but if they write something that is vulgar and bad but There will always be people who like to read it, just write whatever you want with your eyes closed.”
As she said that, Wang Xinghua counted the numbers for Jiang Qi with her fingers: "It's like the number one scholar among the poor who was chosen by the princess and finally became the consort. The poor scholar met a female ghost. The female ghost originally wanted to harm him, but in the end she fell in love with him and sent her to him. The money was used to send him to take the imperial examination. The poor scholar was attracted by the wealthy daughter and insisted on backing him, but was thwarted by the rich daughter's father in every possible way. In the end, he succeeded in being slapped in the face by being the number one scholar in high school. He can publish a hundred and eighty books a year."
Jiang Qi: "...I thought this was the plot of a bad proverb book."
"It's the same with vulgar operas. After it's released, no one wants to listen to it for more than half a year. Then a new one is released and it's sung again. This is the case with folk opera troupes."
"Will our theater have to sing this kind of play in the future?" Jiang Qi suddenly became worried about the future of the theater. If he still sings such a vulgar play in this era, he will probably be scolded by the audience until he doesn't even know his father.
"Of course not." Wang Xinghua's expression suddenly became excited, "I originally thought that our theater would sing classics that have been handed down, but -"
"Do you know how exciting the play that Feng Ling and his troupe originally tailored for Feng Ling was?"
Jiang Qi: "How exciting?"
"Normal plays can only sing about a female consort and a female champion. The play their troupe tailor-made for her is about the queen."
Jiang Qi:? ? ?
This is the heroine, I have learned, I have learned!
Jiang Qi was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a moment. After organizing his words for a long time, he weakly asked: "Can you sing this play...?"
"Yes, no one dared to sing in my world at that time. It was different from their world. There was no queen in their world, but there were several famous female warlords in Feng Ling's era. Taoist priest."
"The theater troupe wrote a lot of dramas with female protagonists in order to flatter those female bosses. When Feng Linghuo was in power, the most popular one was the one in which the female protagonist's mother made the female protagonist pretend to be a prince in order to win favor, and finally succeeded in ascending to the throne. Common story.”
"...Wait, a vulgar story?"
"Although it's a vulgar story, it's cool. The pearls, agates, and jade on Feng Ling's clothes were all rewarded by the young ladies who were happy to listen to the show."
Jiang Qi: "..."
"I think we should perform the classics first and then perform this kind of vulgar and cool drama for a while."
Wang Xinghua looked disappointed: "I thought you would support me."
"Feng Ling feels the same way. She feels that whether it is a male-led drama or a female-led drama, the essence is a vulgar third-rate plot. To be able to act well, you must first act well. Boss, there are some classics in this world. It’s something that neither of our worlds have.”
"Hey, why doesn't anyone understand us third-rate writers who are vulgar? I am good at writing this kind of vulgar and entertaining drama. It's just that due to the social environment at the time, I couldn't write this type of entertaining drama."
"I really want to write."
Jiang Qi:......
"Oh, is the first interviewer ready? Hurry up and sit down, the interview is about to start."