The beauty pageant venue is located in a large banquet hall on the 19th floor.
There is a huge stage in the middle of the venue, studded with countless decorative lights, and there are spotlights on the top that the staff are adjusting.
In the open space in front of the stage, there were nearly a hundred round tables covered with white tablecloths. Flower arrangements of various shapes and Western silver tableware were already placed on the tables.
Luxurious crystal chandeliers hung high, and in front of two long tables on the side of the court, people from restaurants placed food and drinks on the tables.
Staff from TV stations and newspapers were debugging various machines used for live broadcasts and photo sessions.
When Chi Feichi walked into the venue, he happened to receive Ginjiu's reply email.
[If nothing else happens, I will be prepared for an accident. ——Gin】
Chi Feichi: "..."
Gin is a crow’s mouth.
However, he also felt that the possibility of no accident tonight was very low.
"Lighting!" The person in charge of the venue stood on the stage, looking up at the staff adjusting the searchlights. He had no time to take care of the group of people entering the venue, and shouted loudly through the microphone, "Adjust the degree of concentration of the beam again, move faster, time Not much more! The puppeteer has to rehearse, so pay attention to the lighting and color presentation through his puppets!"
"Puppet Master?"
The three children and Koshimizu Nanatsuki thought of the 'puppet' in the threatening letter and couldn't help but look towards the stage, searching for the figure of a young man holding a puppet on the edge of the stage.
The man looks to be in his twenties, with short brown hair and slightly curly hair. He is wearing a white dress for performances. He lowers his head to check the child-sized female puppet in his hand. His expression is focused and his movements are gentle, like a man who is preparing to give a crown to a princess. knight.
After Chi Feichi put away his mobile phone, he led the way towards the stage and introduced the puppeteer beside the stage, "World-class puppet performer, Amano Shoichi. Although he is still young, whether he is a machine puppet or a string puppet He can control puppets with ease..."
Getting closer, Koshimizu Nanatsuki also recognized Amano Shoichi, "He has been mentioned in many related reports, right? He can perform wonderful puppet shows by himself by manipulating various puppets, so I have also appeared on world-class performance stages more than once, and I have received a lot of praise every time I performed.”
"His puppets are all made by himself," Chi Feichi continued. "The purpose of inviting him here this time is so that when the judges are rating Miss Hefeng, he can do the sideshow to avoid disturbing the audience. It’s so boring to wait.”
As soon as Amano Xiang noticed someone approaching, he paused his inspection of the puppets in his hand, looked up at the group of people, and heard what Chi Feichi said behind him. He smiled shyly and said hello, "Are you from the hotel? ?”
"Be considered one of the investors."
Chi Feichi said, extending his right hand towards Amano Xiangyi.
"Hello, I am Amano Shoichi." Amano Shoichi quickly put the puppet under his left arm, freed his right hand to shake hands with Chi Feichi, and quickly looked at Chi Feichi's cyanotic eyes, smiling. He said, "You are...HIOSO from the name of SO Hotel, right? I heard the hotel manager mentioned you and Miss Sonoko before. Thank you very much for your invitation this time."
Since Amano Shoichi spoke in the same gentle and gentle manner as Nide Tomaki, and seemed a little shy, Chi Feichi did not say anything offensive, and went along with the greetings, "I am also looking forward to Mr. Amano's wonderful performance with puppets. "
This is also true.
He was more interested in watching the puppet show than watching the Japanese ladies take the stage.
Beautiful women are often available, but wonderful puppet performances are rare.
"I will do my best," Tanano nodded seriously, and returned a polite smile to Koshimizu Nanatsuki and the children, "Are you bringing this lady and the children to see the venue in advance? Or? …Are the children hungry?”
"Gululu..."
Gentai's stomach growled in response, and he laughed sheepishly, glancing at the long table beside the venue, "I seem to be really hungry."
Mitsuhiko felt a little embarrassed and put his hand on his forehead, "Genta, don't forget that we still have business to do..."
"It's okay. If you're hungry, go get something to eat first," Chi Feichi comforted Yuanta, who was about to make a fuss, and then said to Amano Xiang, "Then we won't disturb Mr. Amano's preparations."
Amano Xiangyi nodded with a smile, and waited for Chi Feichi to lead the children to the long table, then he looked back, lowered his head and continued to inspect the string puppet in his hand, and soon changed to a large mechanical puppet for inspection.
Chi Feichi asked the hotel staff for a dinner plate, and asked the three children and Koshimi Nanatsuki, who would be watching backstage at night, to get something to fill their stomachs first, while he looked at the large crystal chandelier in the venue and the blackout curtains in front of the windows. and hanging yarn, and walked around the venue, looking at all the obscured places such as behind the curtains and under the tablecloths.
The crystal chandelier is very heavy. When broken, it will produce many sharp fragments, which can hit or stab people to death. However, the crystal chandelier is above the banquet table. Shou Hualian will only appear on the stage and is unlikely to be hit by the crystal chandelier. .
The place behind the curtains and under the tablecloth was kept clean, with no crossbow mechanisms or any strange items.
The only thing worth noting is that the spotlights mounted on iron stands above the stage, as well as the lifting ropes, may become dangerous items.
The former has a metal shell. If it hits a person's head, even if the person does not die, he will be knocked unconscious and suffer concussion and skull trauma.
The latter can be used in conjunction with other items to hang people, such as the necklaces of Japanese ladies...
Since Amano Shoichi had already started rehearsing on the stage, Chi Feichi was not in a hurry to check the stage facilities again and stood under the stage to watch Amano Shoichi's puppet performance.
Many of those puppets were the size of children. The spotlight shone on a puppet dressed in a samurai uniform. The samurai puppet held a bow and arrow in his hand, spun around in a circle, aimed the arrow at a target not far away, and shot out an arrow. Hit the bullseye.
A group of smaller mechanical puppets gathered behind the samurai puppet. When the arrow hit the bullseye, they either kept jumping up and down or kept clapping their hands, very happy.
The string puppet controlled by Amano Shoichi walked from the darkness into the light. The female puppet had golden curly hair and a pair of beautiful big eyes. When it came to the samurai puppet, she bowed before getting up and making hand movements.
Under the control of Amano Shoichi, the movements of the female puppet's hands and feet are smooth and harmonious, with a dignified and elegant amplitude. Even if the puppet does not make a sound, it still makes people feel that the female puppet is speaking gently to the samurai puppet.
Not long after the puppet next to it stood still, it jumped and clapped again. The female puppet turned and walked aside, her movements obviously much lighter. The spotlight also followed the movement of the female puppet and quickly left the area where the samurai puppet was.
Koshizui Nanatsuki and the three children carried plates to the stage, and stood with Chi Feichi watching the puppet rehearsal.
Fei Chidu poked his head out from under Chi Fei Chi's sleeves and stared at the puppets on the stage with interest.
On the stage, the female puppet walked and rotated in a circle from time to time, moving briskly and calmly, like an elf landing in the mortal world.
When encountering a puppy puppet that is lifted alternately by its four legs and walking in place, the female puppet will squat down and stroke its head back and forth with her right hand. When encountering a male mechanical puppet playing the violin, the female puppet will lean back. He took a quick step back, then tried to lean forward little by little, took a step forward, and came to the male puppet again. After raising his hand for some 'silent communication', he circled the male puppet like a dancing ballet dancer. Just keep going.
The light on the stage completely dimmed. When the lights came on, a mechanical puppet somersaulted down the steps. Next to the steps was a clown puppet who was crying and writing a letter. A group of puppets riding rolling balls surrounded the clown. The clown puppet is spinning in circles, which is not only lively, but also brings out a kind of loneliness that no one can understand.
Amano Shoichi controlled the string puppet and appeared under the light again. The female puppet first went to the somersault puppet and clapped her hands to encourage it, then went to the clown puppet and gently stroked the clown puppet's back as if to comfort it. Soon, it came to the rolling ball. In front of the puppets, we played rolling ball with other puppets.
"Bravo!"
“The puppets look like they’re alive!”
"Mr. Amano is so awesome!"
After the rehearsal, the three children exclaimed in admiration. If they hadn't held plates in their hands, they would have applauded.
Amano Shoichi saw the children's eyes shining, and smiled shyly, "Thank you, I'm really happy that you like the puppet show."
On the stage, after the lights were turned on, the puppets placed everywhere on the stage also appeared in the light.
Koshimizu Nanatsuki looked at the puppets, "There are so many types of puppets. With so many puppets together, it is as lively as a puppet paradise. Are all these puppets made by Mr. Amano himself?"
"Yes, I made all these puppets. The puppet that somersaults down the stairs and the puppet that hits the bull's-eye with an arrow are all Japanese-style mechanical puppets," Amano Shoichi squatted down to clean up the puppets on the stage, and mentioned the puppets, There seems to be endless things to say, "Puppets playing the violin, clown puppets crying and writing letters, and these ball-stepping puppets are called automatic puppets, which are French puppets. In addition, I have also made English puppets and German puppets, but Those two kokeshi dolls actually already had round shapes in the Edo period.”
Koshimizu Nanatsuki continued to test whether Amano Shoichi has a hobby of making real puppets, "These puppets are so big, they are basically the size of children."
Amano Xiang put a bunch of mechanical puppets into a cardboard box and said with a smile, "Originally, they shouldn't be so big. This is so that the audience can see the puppets clearly, so I made them like children. The size makes the puppet show look like a live performance, which makes it more popular with the audience."
"Then, wouldn't it be easier for the audience to see the puppets if they were made into adult sizes?" Koshizui Nanatsuki pretended to be harmless. The eyes of the puppets in the stands were filled with fondness, as if they were really watching. He gave Amano Shoichi an idea, "Puppet performances look more like live performances. Puppets as big as human beings can also give the audience a great visual impact. Thinking about it, I think such a stage is very interesting."
"A puppet with the size of an adult..." Amano Xiang raised his head and scratched his head, with a bit of a dumbfounded expression on his face, "This idea is very interesting, but such a string puppet will be difficult to control. If you use silk threads to control the puppet, it will be difficult to control the puppet. The fingers are required to have considerable strength, and it will also be difficult to control the movement of the puppet. If too thick a thread is used to control the puppet, the puppet performance will lose its original sense of mystery because the thread is too obvious. Use the palm of your hand to control the puppet. Performance methods like pulling strings may seem clumsy, but making the puppets as flexible and flexible as human beings, as if giving them life, is a puppet performer's lifelong pursuit."
Koshizui Nanatsuki couldn't help but nodded, "That's right..."
(End of chapter)
