Chapter 80 Ticket Sales
At night, after the brightly lit art garden sent off the last group of guests, whether it was the carpenters who built the art garden, the victims who followed Dong Ce, or the actors who didn't even have time to take off their costumes in a hurry, they all gathered in the theater at this moment.
On the stage, Dong Ce put on a black coat and looked at the audience a little tiredly: "Are you tired?" ”
"Not tired!" The crowd responded in unison.
After a busy day, it is obviously a lie to say that you are not tired, but at this moment, everyone is very excited, and even if you are tired, there will be no complaints.
Dong Ce smiled slightly and said: "Today's three games can be full, it all depends on these three owners, let's give them a little applause!" After that, Dong Ce applauded first, and after everyone in the audience was stunned, they also followed Dong Ce's example to give warm applause to Meng Feng, Zhou Cong and Wang Fuyan on the stage.
Meng Feng took a step forward and waved his palm to signal everyone to stop, and then smiled lightly: "Now that the art garden has just started, everyone is the patriarch of my art garden, I have no extra words here, I just hope that everyone will not dislike the current monthly money is too little, as long as the art garden is up, everyone present in the future will be able to enjoy the best treatment in the world!" ”
"Steward Meng is too good at joking, each of us has the least two taels of monthly money, can the owner afford it now?" Tao Rong laughed.
As soon as he spoke up, the rest of the people immediately agreed, and no one disliked the problem of monthly money.
This is not surprising, except for the carpentry led by Tao Rong, the rest of the people are either disaster victims, or they are plays, although the plays can earn more in the past, but it is not as comfortable as staying in the art garden, because there is no discrimination here, and there is no custom of accompanying guests, as long as the play is good, you can also get the respect of others, for them, this is the best place in the world!
The reason why Tao Rong kept it was because Dong Ce told him that he was going to build an art garden in Gusu, and secondly, he was also optimistic about the future of the art garden, and thirdly, because Dong Ce's personal ability was too strong and seemed to understand everything, and his own carpentry skills were only stronger than his own, which made Tao Rong very impressed, and he also wanted to learn more under Dong Ce, so he decided to become a long-term worker.
"Haha!" Zhou Cong took a step forward and laughed loudly and said, "What kind of money is two taels, no one will take two taels from me here to spend them first!" ”
Everyone was overjoyed when they heard this, and Dong Ce immediately said loudly: "This is the personal contribution of Hall Master Zhou, and it has nothing to do with our art garden!" That's it, everybody! ”
"Hahaha!" The audience burst into laughter, and they all looked at Zhou Cong with a good look.
Zhou Cong was depressed, glanced at Dong Ce and said: "It's a reward, of course, it's my own money, you're afraid of a ball!" The last sentence is also deliberately learned from Dong Ce, but now the people in the art garden have more or less begun to learn Dong Ce's way of speaking, which may be the charm of leadership!
And now there are more than 60 people in the art garden, and each person has two taels, which is only more than 100 taels, which is really not a matter for Zhou Cong's family background, and after Zhou Dahai came to the art garden today, although he was very disdainful on the surface, he was very satisfied in his heart, so he also specially rewarded this son with three hundred taels of flowers!
"Huh! The master of Zhou Hall is kind-hearted, and he is reluctant to let everyone tired, so he pays for rewards, and everyone must thank Master Zhou a lot! When Wang Fuyan said this, he stepped forward and said to everyone in the audience: "Contemptible people are not as generous as Hall Master Zhou, but I have also ordered people to prepare a banquet with fragrance in ten miles, and everyone will go directly to have a full meal after a while, which is the only way for me, a poor man, to repay everyone, but remember, there are some drinks, and it is too bad to drink!" ”
When everyone in the audience heard this, they were all overjoyed, few of them could go to the restaurant, let alone eat in a first-class restaurant like Shili Piaoxiang, and they didn't need Dong Ce to take the lead, and everyone congratulated Wang Fuyan with warm applause and blessings.
Dong Ce didn't expect Wang Fuyan to pluck his own hair, this is really not like his style, but Dong Ce is also happy to see this scene, the so-called reluctant children can't trap the wolf, the art garden has just started, and it is too much for everyone to go all out.
"Okay, from tomorrow onwards, everyone will have no leisure to have dinner, so tonight I will go to the building outside the king to have a good meal, you must give me a full meal, eat enough, go!" With a wave of Dong Ce's hand, everyone in the audience suddenly exploded like a pot, and under the leadership of Zhou Cong, they all marched towards Shili Piaoxiang.
After watching everyone leave, Wang Fuyan said to Dong Ce: "Today's three free games, I don't know how many guests can be exchanged for them?" Wang is very worried! ”
Dong Ce said indifferently: "Our movie ticket is only 20 yuan, so we don't have to worry about no guests." ”
"Twenty Wen is one person, one full of customers is only nine, and three games a day are only twenty-seven, which sounds like a lot, but there are so many people in our art garden, I'm afraid this is not enough!" Wang Fuyan frowned.
Meng Feng smiled and said: "That's just the lowest ticket price, the front row is thirty Wen, the middle row is twenty-five Wen, and the guest seat in front of the stage is one hundred Wen, so just calculate it, thirty times a day is not able to run away, and it is enough for the daily expenses of the art garden, and the main income of the art garden comes from the stalls, and the monthly rent is easy to collect hundreds of yuan, plus the handicrafts of several stalls, in addition to the expenses, it is not a problem for the art garden to receive two or three hundred yuan per month!" ”
Dong Ce continued: "This is just the beginning, after all aspects start, you can make money at will!" ”
"In all directions?" Wang Fuyan frowned after hearing this, he rarely asked about this matter, he only knew Dong Ce's general plan, and he thought that the art garden had been perfected, but listening to Dong Ce's meaning, it seemed that it was much more than that!
"Looks like I'm going to have to use more snacks here in the future!" Wang Fuyan finally smiled.
In Dong Ce's eyes, the art garden can only be regarded as a semi-finished product now, because whether it is the lack of tea, tea sets, handicrafts, opera types, script talents and directors, etc., they have not yet been fully implemented, and many aspects still need him to control, especially the script and director, which is simple to say, Dong Ce also thought so at the beginning, and felt that he could be discharged after watching many good plays, but in fact, it is not the case, the real good drama must be combined with the current situation, resonate with the audience, and let the drama understand and integrate into the role, which is extremely difficult, otherwise Dong Ce would not have played Gongsun Fu, he really couldn't find a good male actor, and even the one who staged the official service on stage was a real official borrowed from Fang Mu, for this matter, he also promised to help Fang Mu solve it ten times for free when he encountered a problem!
Although Dong Ce is very confident in Yiyuan, his real mood is the same as Wang Fuyan's, and he is worried about the audience's problems! After all, the current situation in Jiangnan has caused many people to be in the mood to watch the show!
However, his worries seemed to be superfluous, and tonight, the news of Yiyuan's new drama began to sweep the entire Jinling Mansion, and when Zhu Dashan first opened the door early the next morning, he was directly taken aback!
"What's the situation?" Zhu Dashan rubbed his sparse sleepy eyes, and before he could fix his eyes and look at the situation outside the door, he heard many people clamoring: "Hey, didn't you open the door when this sign was written, it's almost three poles a day!" Still in business? ”
Zhu Dashan did drink a little too much yesterday, but he didn't make a mistake about the time, he looked at the sun that had just risen, and then looked at the crowd outside the door, and was stunned: "All of them came to see the play?" ”
"Nonsense, what are you doing when you don't watch a play?" A young man has no good airway.
After Zhu Dashan was reprimanded, he woke up and said to the back: "Yu Niangzi, have you gotten up, and Xiaoguo, hurry up and sell tickets!" ”
Nowadays, the art garden is very short of manpower, so many people have multiple jobs, not to mention Xiaoguo, who doesn't need to perform now, even Yu Nan and several actors have to shoulder the work of selling tickets.
There was no need for Zhu Dashan's orders, Yu Nan and a few actors got up very early, and began to raise their throats according to Dong Ce's instructions, and they already knew the situation outside, but because the inside was not ready, they were not in a hurry to open the door.
Because of the high cost of paper in these years, the tickets of the art garden are made of bamboo cards, each bamboo card has a special fire seal anti-counterfeiting, and the engraving distinguishes the time period and the seat number, and when it comes out of the theater, it must be returned, so that it can be used repeatedly to save costs.
The ticket booth of the art garden is also sealed, only revealing three windows the size of the head, so the guests who do not know the situation are a little confused as soon as they come in, but fortunately, Xiaoguo stood outside the pavilion and explained to everyone, while Zhu Dashan and several old people greeted the guests to line up to buy tickets, which did not turn into a chaotic situation.
"Ladies and gentlemen, have you seen this big wooden plaque? The small squares carved out of it represent the seats in the theater, with the first three rows being 30 Wen, the middle three rows being 25 Wen, and the last four rows being 20 Wen. Tu Xiaoguo patiently explained to a guest who came forward to buy tickets.
"What do the first few big squares mean? The price was marked for 100 wen next to it! A young man asked, pointing to the sign.
Xiaoguo smiled sweetly and said, "That's the VIP seat, because it's the best seat in the theater, and it also gives some pastries and tea, so it's more expensive." ”
"I see, interesting, then give me a ticket to a VIP seat." The young man laughed.
"Childe, please choose a seat, and then hand the money here, and someone will give you a ticket." Xiao Guo pointed to a hole beside him.
The young man smiled again, and pointed to a middle position, and then Xiaoguo immediately drew a circle on that seat with charcoal.
When the young man took out a bunch of money from his waist and handed it to the ticket booth, then he saw someone hand out a bamboo card, he took it and looked at it, then nodded with a smile and walked away.
Although this is the first time to sell tickets, Dong Ce, as the boss, would not have expected the trouble encountered in ticket sales, so he had already arranged for them to intern, but Rao was like this, and he also kept the inexperienced people dizzy.
Yu Nan, who played Su Hui, Lu Qing, who played Yan Yu, and Li Fei, who played Han Yao'er, sat in the pavilion, each managing a window, and there was nothing wrong at first, but with the acceleration of the speed, and the money was collected to sell tickets and find money, they were suddenly so busy that they were dizzy, either the tickets were misplaced, or they forgot to find money and find more money, but fortunately, with the addition of Meng Feng, who learned the news, he reminded him, otherwise these three women would really be busy and crazy.
It's just a quarter of an hour, and the two hundred and fifty tickets in the morning are all sold out, but the number of people in line is increasing, which makes Meng Feng very surprised, because they haven't done much publicity, and there shouldn't be many people who know the art garden, but he didn't expect that if he doesn't do it, it doesn't mean that others won't do it, especially the businessmen who are interested in renting a booth, and after they go back, they will help promote the new play of the art garden.
Of course, this is also because this drama is really good-looking, otherwise let alone publicity, they wouldn't even look at the stalls!