Chapter 362: The Second Team Building
The stadium's entrance was a sea of people, all here for the concert.
Ma Lu had just parked the car when someone came up to chat, "Brother, need tickets?"
"No, we have tickets."
"Then are you selling any?"
"…So no matter what, you've got business, huh."
The man chuckled, "I'm just here to serve everyone, man. If the boss changes his mind, come find me. I'll be wandering around here."
After he spoke, he went to find another newly-arrived Passat owner.
He Xiaoqian was attending a live concert for the first time. As she got out of the car and saw the dense crowd not far away, she couldn't help but click her tongue in amazement.
"Boss, there are even more people here than lining up outside our shop."
"Of course, there are tens of thousands of people at a concert. At most, we serve a few hundred customers in a day, and that already keeps you busy from start to finish," Ma Lu said.
Ma Youyou was also very excited. Strictly speaking, of the four people today, only she was a true fan of Love&Five.
She had bought every album of Love&Five. No matter how obscure the song, she knew it. Yesterday, when Ma Lu announced that this team building activity would be to attend a Love&Five concert, she jumped straight up from the ground.
She had already started warming up with some karaoke in the car, and as soon as she got out, she ran to find the fan club and bought a mouse head lamp.
That was because Love&Five had a song called "Love Mouse in the Sewer."
When Ma Lu found her, she was squatting in front of a little stall getting her fan makeup done, even painting Angie's English name, Ane, on her face.
"Are you for real? You reminded me earlier to say 'we're just friends' if asked, and here I thought you knew Angie from somewhere else."
"We do know each other. We've sung karaoke and ridden horses together, but that doesn't stop me from being a fan of her music," Ma Youyou said.
Their voices weren't loud, but unexpectedly, they were still overheard by the people around them.
It was a short girl with acne, looking around 20 years old, who suddenly sneered and said.
"Hey, don't exaggerate your bluff. Singing karaoke together, riding horses… like you're all chummy.
"Besides, other than in the 'Steed Through the Rivers and Lakes' crew, Angie only rode horses at Hui Ma Shi Horse Farm with the other members of Love&Five once, and that was the ride that ended up with her accidentally breaking her leg. Before that, she had never ridden a horse.
"You actually claim that you rode horses with her, heh, you don't even know how to brag properly."
Hearing this, Ma Lu raised his eyebrows, "And you are? Why do you know so much about Love&Five?"
The acne-face girl puffed out her chest proudly, "I'm the vice president of the Love&Five fan club in the China region. We have a dedicated website, with over a hundred thousand registered members. There's nothing about Love&Five that I don't know.
"I've taken pictures with all five of them and got their autographs. On my birthday, I even received a birthday message from Christina.
"Heh, I'm just low-key and don't like showing off those things, but what I can't stand the most are those pretentious jerks."
After she finished speaking all in one breath, the younger girls around her looked at her with even more admiration.
Someone said, "Sister Lulu, you're so cool!"
"Yeah, yeah, Love&Five even remembers your birthday! And they sent you a blessing, that's so enviable."
"It's not just that. I've added all five of their personal assistants on WeChat; we're on good terms," Lulu said proudly.
Just then, a look of surprise flashed across Lulu's face, and she spoke up, "Sister Minmin, what brings you here? Is there something you need our help with?"
The woman whom she called Sister Minmin didn't have time to chat with her, as she was looking around as if she was searching for something.
Not until her gaze settled on Ma Lu did she breathe a sigh of relief, then grabbed Ma Lu's wrist, "Come on, hurry up and follow me, Angie is waiting for you backstage."
"Wait a minute, my staff is still here, let me talk to them first."
"No need, let's all go together," Yi Xiaomin hesitated, then said.
As Angie's assistant, she knew how obsessed Angie had been with Universe Infinite Canteen recently.
Most of the meals for work during this period were ordered from this restaurant, and after the other members of love&five sponged off her meals, they all started to order from Universe Infinite Canteen as well.
Besides that, Angie had also been checking her phone much more frequently lately, casually opening WeChat to take a glance whenever she had a moment.
Yi Xiaomin once passed by behind and sneakily caught a glimpse, even discovering that Angie had pinned Ma Lu's WeChat at the top.
This obviously went beyond the relationship of a diner and a restaurant owner, to be honest, Yi Xiaomin was a bit worried.
Angie was in the prime of her career, and any scandal at this point could affect her, especially if the scandal involved a small restaurant owner.
Neither for her, nor for Ma Lu, was it a good thing.
However, as the assistant, she knew Angie, who appeared docile and compliant on the surface, was actually the most difficult one out of the five members of love&five.
Once she made up her mind, not even ten oxen could pull her back.
Moreover, Yi Xiaomin was just an assistant, not an agent, and at most she could only remind Angie, she couldn't make decisions for her.
So when Angie asked her to fetch Ma Lu, she immediately came, and even led Ma Lu and his three companions all the way to the backstage.
Leaving only Lulu and that group of young girls with mouths agape in the wind.
The hairstylist was setting Angie's hair at the moment, and upon seeing Ma Lu, Angie's eyes, which had been indifferent, suddenly lit up and she said, "Brother Xue, give me five minutes."
"Sigh, I can't deal with you, don't move, I'll be right back," the hairstylist said before he went aside.
"You've come," Angie said eyeing the other three behind Ma Lu, among whom she recognized He Xiaoqian as a server at Universe Infinite Canteen.
She hadn't paid much attention to Ma Youyou during the last visit, but now that she saw her, she realized she also looked quite pretty.
Angie's eyebrows involuntarily twitched, she didn't understand why there were always so many beauties around Ma Lu, especially since she had given this guy four concert tickets.
And he had brazenly brought all these women over.
Just then, Ma Youyou suddenly spoke up, "Miss Angie, I'm Ma Lu's sister Ma Youyou, and I'm also your fan, could you give me an autograph?"
As she spoke, she handed over her ticket with both hands.
Hearing this, Angie's eyebrows finally stopped twitching, especially after taking a closer look at Ma Youyou and finding a resemblance to Ma Lu, she suddenly felt much more at ease.
Taking the ticket, she smiled and said, "Is that so, then let's go for supper together after the concert."
"Ah, really?" Ma Youyou said delightedly.
"Of course, I've already said it, could it be false?" Angie flamboyantly signed her name on the ticket stub.
Afterwards, Ma Lu opened the thermal bag he was carrying and took out a lunch box.
"What's this?" Angie asked curiously.
"A singer's sandwich, eat it before going on stage and you can experience what it's like to be a music god," Ma Lu said, "You're getting a good deal."