737 Lively Lantern Festival

Because I felt safe, I let the maids go out to play with the people in the girlfriend group. Of course, this girl doesn't want to go at all. She was the only one who didn't even leave the warehouse. I didn't even come out for breakfast to eat together. Anyway, this girl has a very good relationship with the mandarin duck and the duck. So there's never a shortage of snacks and dry food around her. And this girl didn't go to stay in the cabin she had arranged for the sake of electricity. But after leaving the academy, he has been living in the RV 'Xuanjia Iron Award' in the warehouse. The main reason is that the RV can be electric. She went to chase dramas and read books again...... It seems that during this period of time as a teacher in the academy, the grass has long been suffocated! I plunged into the RV and refused to come out. For this reason, the RV has to be replaced with a battery twice a day to supply the grass with electricity......

Leave her alone, as long as she likes it anyway.

I looked out through the window of the restaurant and found that even the place where there used to be a lot of small traders and vendors and a bunch of Hu merchants gathering was now decorated because of the Lantern Festival. Nowadays, the streets of Nishishi are also full of lanterns of all kinds. It looks much more luxurious than when I visited it in the first year, and the number has increased dramatically.

Thinking about it, Datang had just passed a year of natural disasters at that time. And another big war with the Turks is brewing. Therefore, whether it is the people or the court, they are more than enough to stand up.

Now it's different, although there was a food shortage in Luoyang City because of the last incident. But later, the matter was perfectly resolved, and Datang has been smooth and war-free for two consecutive years. So there's nothing wrong with being more prosperous this year. Otherwise, how could His Majesty decide to hold a grand 'film screening' in front of the Imperial Palace of Chang'an City! There is also a reason to celebrate the recent well-being of the world.

If you can't celebrate with the whole world, it's still okay to have fun with the people......

I looked at the bustling hustle and bustle outside. I decided to go around the streets as well. Take a look at the lively scenery of Chang'an City, and take a look at what this year's lanterns are like in advance. After all, I don't think I have a chance to see the lanterns again after dark. I've got to be in charge of the film projection in front of the palace! It's not just for His Majesty and the people of the city to watch a movie that transcends its time. In fact, my main purpose is to make a perfect promotion for the commercial street that has not yet been built~ especially the signboard building in the commercial street: the 'theater'!

To this end, I also deliberately shot a short video, which was prepared to be played as an advertisement before the movie was screened...... Oh yes! There are not only various promotions in the commercial street, but also the recruitment of college admissions, skilled craftsmen and restaurants. Anyway, this is the first time that a movie in this era has appeared in Chang'an City, and I guess someone will always watch it even if I broadcast the whole of the advertisement...... No one cares, why don't you advertise first!

While pondering, he wandered around the streets of Chang'an City. It's just that it didn't take long for me to be disturbed when I was shopping alone~ I met a large number of disciples who were hanging around together...... It's all acquaintances! I used to fight together in Chang'an City, and I also worked as a colleague on the grassland battlefield. So when they saw me, they came around directly, and they insisted on pulling me to have a drink with me, and by the way, they went everywhere to 'cause trouble'...... It's a favorite pastime of gentlemen.

I really don't want to mess with these people anymore, but I'm not willing to go, in fact, we can cause trouble everywhere together, and by the way, it's quite interesting to tease the Wuhou patrolling along the street or something!

It's just that I still have a lot to do today! There is less than an hour to hang out.

When I told these people that I was going to go to the front of the palace to screen the movie today, these people knew that this time, they had been promoting for several days, and that they were going to perform a 'big scene' in front of the palace and that His Majesty wanted to have fun with the people, and it turned out to be a public screening of the movie~ How can this not make a kind of disciples who have tried the 'trial' and know what the 'movie' is all about, ecstatic! So these people have to come along and help.

Come to think of it, the preparation activities for a while are not very technical anyway. Just arrange the seats, dig a few holes in the ground by the way, erect a few flagpoles, and then climb up and hang the curtains that have been prepared long ago. It's all hard work! Since these people like to 'help'~ then go for it! It is also a waste of physical strength and energy for mandarin ducks and ducks to shoot.

So I wandered around the streets for a whole hour with a bunch of disciples, and after almost seeing the main oversized lanterns, I came to the square in front of the palace slowly. At this time, the square had already been cleaned up by the Yulin Army.

In previous years, it would also be filled with all kinds of homemade lanterns in the palace, including lanterns made by the royal relatives and palace maids and eunuchs. In previous years, lanterns of various sizes and several extremely magnificent large lanterns would fill the entire square. Therefore, at this time of year, the number of people who come here to enjoy the lanterns is also the largest.

However, now that the square is being requisitioned to show movies, it looks very empty and deserted.

When I arrived with a bunch of disciples, I was surprised to find that the award with her best friends and Xiao Lizhi had already arrived here first, and the flagpoles that were ready to be used as screen supports were almost erected. It seems that these people are more anxious than me!

"I'm still stunned to do something, let's help together!" I had to quickly command the gentlemen behind me to rush up to help.

I was responsible for bringing out all kinds of tables, chairs and sofas from the mall, and building a comfortable viewing area in front of the palace. After all, the front screen is to be shown to the emperor's side. You can't let Your Majesty and them all need to bring their own benches to watch like the people...... Oh yes, the most commonly used in this era is not a bench, but a small piece of furniture called 'Hu bed'~ To put it bluntly, it is a 'Mazazi'!

Although the screen is big enough and it is played in the open air, I feel that I still need to build a viewing platform. It's better to watch it this way.

So I went to the construction site of the shopping street yesterday to take a turn. Let Nie Xiaoqian lead the craftsmen to work together to build a trapezoidal viewing platform with wooden planks. After the small table with a sofa bench on it, this should be comfortable enough for the royal people to use! I've learned a little bit of this quiet way of patting horses now.

In addition, I also instructed the farmers of my own village to come here today, and several people worked together to support a snack stall, and then used the honeycomb coal stove produced by me and the improved pressure cooker I took out of the mall, ready to make my own farmers make a small amount of money by the way!

Popcorn is made on a stove and a modified pressure cooker, and a vat of lightly flavored drinks is brewed out from the various juice powders in the mall. In this case, the dozens of stalls scattered around the square will definitely make a lot of money at this screening. Of course, these popcorn and over-water-filled drinks are very cheap, because the main sales target is the people who come to watch the movie. For three pennies, you can buy a drink in a disposable paper cup, plus a small paper packet rolled into a cone and filled with popcorn. Although in this era, three pennies can buy a bucket of rice, but the people of Chang'an City can still afford this price. But even so, I estimate that the stalls opened by these dozens of dealers will make a lot of money. After all, most of the people of Chang'an City will gather to watch the excitement when the time comes.

I've also prepared some 'high-end' snacks and drinks for the stalls, which are ridiculously expensive, just plain carton drinks and tubs of potato chips from the mall. But the price I set was that it could only be purchased with gold, and each of them was one tael of gold...... Although I know that ordinary people will definitely not spend this expensive price to buy. But I can't stand it, there are still a lot of rich people in Chang'an City! So this is also a promotion for the products of the commercial street in advance......

Of course, on the side of the grandstand of the palace, I also prepared a small counter to come out, for which I also specially brought a car out as a power, and then moved a refrigerated display case like the yogurt in the supermarket. A variety of snacks and cold drinks are placed inside. It's a cold New Year's Day, but I think these things will still be very popular with the royal people!

When I got all these ready, the viewing platform was also lowered to the front of the imperial city gate with everyone's help. The stereos scattered all over the square were also moved to the viewing platform four or five later. That's when I realized that it was getting darker now. It's almost dark!

However, because the entire Chang'an City is full of all kinds of lanterns. So it was getting dark. But looking at it, Chang'an City seems to be a little brighter and more lively than during the day! The lanterns have been lit since the sky was getting dark. It seems that the people of the whole city can't wait to visit the Lantern Festival! Before it was dark, they all ran out to enjoy the lanterns.

In an instant, the entire Chang'an City became lively and noisy.

Fortunately, with the help of a bunch of gentlemen and disciples, plus the help of the people from the girlfriend group and the people of the Yulin Army, we finally got everything done before dark, and even the special seats specially prepared for His Majesty on the viewing platform also placed a large number of fresh fruits and juice snacks. There was even a four-dish and one-soup meal and a pot of wine heated in a small alcohol stove.

Although this wine and food are placed here, it has a somewhat nondescript feeling. After all, no one in the future will go out to watch a movie while eating food and drinking wine...... But this was proposed by Cheng Yanjin. I thought of the Cheng family's appearance of preparing banquets all year round even in the study, and decided that it would be better to do it. Maybe Your Majesty likes this set!

Moreover, the emperor's position is still a specially made circular suspended platform at the highest point of the viewing platform. There's enough room for a few people to sit around and one of those big leather sofas. I guess Your Majesty will be satisfied when you see it!

Night has completely fallen. Now the people of the whole city are on the streets, celebrating the Lantern Festival while enjoying the lanterns and strolling the streets. And the people of the girlfriend group and the disciples were also attracted by the excitement on the street. So now there are only the Yulin Army that maintains security in the square, and the Xuanjia Army that is scattered around the viewing platform and in the square at some point! These people actually ran out so early, it seems that every time Your Majesty travels, there should be all kinds of protective measures in the dark! Maybe even my restaurant has a lot of mixed in. Just protect it secretly every time Your Majesty runs away with Xiao Lizhi to satisfy your hunger!

Because the lanterns were not in the square, not a single person who came to the square did not. According to the plan, it should be waiting for the sub-clock drum tower to ring, and then the people will slowly gather in the square to watch the film. Anyway, this is how it has been advertised in various 'Di newspapers' posted all over Chang'an City in the past few days.

So I took advantage of this time to quickly debug the projector. The fuel tanks of the two garbage trucks that supplied electricity on one side were also checked. After finding that everything was normal, I glanced at the time on my phone, and just as I was in the middle of the day, I began to turn on the projector, and the large curtain supported high in the square scrolled and played the propaganda advertisements that I had worked on in the past few days......

There are recruitment advertisements in the form of PPT, as well as conceptual drawings of commercial streets, etc. There's even a small commercial for my maid to shoot as a model. The content is to let the two maids, big flowers and small flowers, change into fashionable winter clothes in the afterlife, and then walk on the street of the commercial street after the strongest filter is turned on. Of course, those commercial streets have not been completed, so these shots are basically simple synthesis. The backgrounds were all taken from the mall. Fortunately, several mobile phones in the mall have very powerful video production tools installed on them. With just a little effort, the large and small flowers are automatically synthesized into the street scenery. Even a green screen doesn't work. And using a green screen to shoot a PS composite video, in fact, I really don't know how to make it! Fortunately, the mobile app is powerful. And you can use it without an internet connection.

Sure enough, even if it was an advertisement, in this era, after you could see the "moving, dancing and singing characters, scenery and words" from the 'canvas', even the people of the Yulin Army and the protectors of the Xuanjia Army were attracted by the images that appeared on the screen. Soon, some people were also attracted by the sounds in the square and the pictures on the big screen. There was still an hour before the start of the screening, and a large number of people had already gathered around the periphery of the square and began to look at the advertisements on the screen in a daze......