Chapter 5 Interest Gagman Lu Hongzhe
Hongdae, one of the favorite gathering places for young people in Seoul, is known for its art department at Hongik University nearby, so the neighborhood is full of art, art lovers often show off their work here, and there are many performance halls and exhibition halls, as well as unique cafes. Young people can be seen everywhere on the streets, making people feel the breath of youth.
At the same time, as a gathering place for crowds, it is natural that all kinds of small objects and commodity vendors are sold on the streets, and in fact, stalls have unconsciously become an integral part of Korean road culture. Walking through the streets and alleys of Seoul, it is essential to see these vendors, appearing at the entrance of subway stations and market streets.
The culture of stalls is also the result of a compromise between the South Korean government and the hawkers, who generally do not use forceful measures to ban these vendors as long as they do not interfere with traffic. After all, these hawkers are low-income people in the city, and if they are forcibly banned, their lives will be difficult.
In the street market of Hongdae, Zheng Yucheng was carrying large bags and small bags towards the stall where he usually was, and from a distance, he could hear a loud voice screaming excitedly in the stall not far away, spitting out shouts like bullets, attracting many pedestrians from Hongdae to gather in front of the stall.
"Oops~" came to the lively stall and put down the bag in his hand, Zheng Yucheng greeted the stall owner next to him in that familiar tone, and all kinds of strange gadgets were placed in the stall, from hair accessories and gloves that can be worn to tricky toys, which completely makes people unable to see through the stall owner's taste.
"Oops~" The bearded stall owner with dyed yellow hair responded enthusiastically to Zheng Yucheng's greeting, and then started his conversation with the speed that seemed to others to be extremely fast, "What, Yucheng came to set up a stall again today, it's really good to come, this three thousand won, just today is the day when we play together in the 'Dog Pig Club', this, this is only five thousand, wait a moment to close the stall together...... HAHA, he'll wait a minute......" While turning his head and chatting with Zheng Yucheng, Lu Hongzhe did not forget to negotiate the price with the customers in front of the stall.
Although his manners and costumes are strange, the so-called stall owner Lu Hongzhe next to Zheng Yucheng is also a real gagman like him. In the 2004 South Korean "Beauty Beard Contest", the greasy performance and the exaggerated beard were familiar to the Korean people debuted, and now he is serving as the DJ host of the M-net program "Dr. Lou's Psychological Clinic", because he did not debut through the serious gagman selection, but became a gagman halfway through the monk, and he is just a hobby, so he will also do his own job in Hongdae in addition to appearing in the show.
"I know, I know......" For Lu Hongzhe's unusual speech speed and body movements, Zheng Yucheng has long had a certain immunity. Although sometimes I still can't understand too much what the other party wants to express, I can guess a rough idea, which roughly means that I want to have a dinner with friends, so I readily agreed.
"Oh yes, that's okay, we'll ...... after Yucheng closes the stall," Lu Hongzhe's bullet replied in response.
"Well, well~" How did he communicate with the other party at the beginning, silently sighing that he could understand Lu Hongzhe's words, Zheng Yucheng nodded perfunctorily and began to slowly put his stall out, only to see him take out the neatly folded clothes from the bag and put them in front of the stall one by one, these clothes were carefully selected by him from the east gate.
As the clothes in Zheng Yucheng's bag were placed one by one, gradually many customers began to spontaneously gather in front of his stall, among which young girls accounted for most of the number, and I saw that their faces were full of expectant eyes, I don't know if it was because of the clothes or Zheng Yucheng who was arranging the clothes.
"It's so good~" looked at the young girl in front of Zheng Yucheng's booth with envy on his face, Lu Hongzhe was completely jealous, and he didn't know what was going on, Zheng Yucheng's booth has always been very favored by female guests, and he is completely a live Hongdae street version of a female killer, so that Lu Hongzhe has always been "grudgeful" and angry with Zheng Yucheng, thinking that the other party snatched his own girl customers.
Zheng Yucheng was completely speechless in this regard, saying that just by virtue of what the other party sold in the stall, it also discouraged most of the girl customers, that girl would like tricky toys with broken hands, not to mention that he is obviously selling women's clothes, and it is not normal for female customers in front of the stall.
Of course, such an idea is just Zheng Yucheng's own rhetoric to deal with Lu Hongzhe, in fact, he also understands that although it is partly due to the relationship between the goods, in fact, a small number of girls come to the stall is also because the stall owner is more handsome, especially the ponytail that matches Hongdae very well, and the artistic ponytail makes many shopping girls come to the door to see this so-called "handsome ponytail guy on Hongdae Street", which is also thanks to their blessing Zheng Yucheng, Zheng Yucheng can barely pay the rent and live.
"Okay, let's start~" Lin Lin always put out dozens of clothes, and Zheng Yucheng's booth was finally opened.
"OPPA, do you have any recommendations~"
"Boss, how much do I want to buy this dress?"
"Twenty thousand, all the clothes are twenty thousand won!"
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"I said, Yucheng, you can sell clothes directly in Hongdae, you look at that popularity, popularity, those girls, if the two of us do business together, completely!" After setting up the stall in ×2, he went to the "Pig and Dog Club" with Lu Hongzhe for dinner as agreed, and Zheng Yucheng's ears heard Lu Hongzhe's nagging cooperation, every time, as long as Lu Hongzhe finished setting up the stall, he would think about working together to do business in his ears, compared to being a gagman, he still prefers the feeling of setting up a stall to do business, which is completely different from Zheng Yucheng, who set up a stall in order to subsidize his life.
"Brother Hongzhe, didn't you also debut as a gagman, get rid of and concentrate on this!" was helpless by the other party's quarrel, Zheng Yucheng really opened his mouth and said to Lu Hongzhe, so now compared to himself, the other party can be regarded as a gagman with a show, why can't he be professional, which makes Zheng Yucheng, who is still only performing in "Funny Concert", embarrassed.
"I'm just interested in being gagman, I'm interested, I want to plan for my future, although it's very interesting to appear in the show now, but ......" Hearing Zheng Yucheng's response, Lu Hongzhe, who had been doing a one-man show by himself, immediately replied excitedly, and he only became a gagman because of interest. (Lu Hongzhe, who is now the leader of the Effort Artist, has been claiming to be a gagman out of interest at the moment)
"Even if it'......"
"Oops~" Just as the two were chattering about Lu Hong's so-called topic of becoming gagman because of interest, suddenly a familiar greeting from the side of the road not far away interrupted the conversation between the two.
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