Chapter 276: She has a sister-in-law. Are you surprised, brother-in-law? (Please order in full)
After the meal, everyone was chatting.
Wu Tianmin of West Film Studio also revealed that the filming of the "Loess High Slope" movie has basically come to an end.
At the dinner table, Cheng Xuemin, the original author and screenwriter, was repeatedly invited to attend the premiere of "Loess Plateau".
The premiere time will be almost scheduled around the National Day.
Anyway, they will send the film to Yanjing for review. Then they will definitely visit Cheng Xuemin and invite Cheng Xuemin to sign the film for review.
Cheng Xuemin must have agreed wholeheartedly. The film was sent for review and premiered. It seemed that he had never been part of this excitement in his life. He just took advantage of this invitation from West Film Studio to broaden his horizons.
After the meal, Cheng Xuemin took advantage of the running water in the guest house and quickly took a shower.
I didn't take a shower for three days and three nights on the train. In such a hot weather, I smelled all over my body. It was just a group of old men together, and everyone was dripping with stinky sweat. No one disliked anyone.
When Cheng Xuemin came out fresh and fresh, Wu Tianmin, the director of Xiying Film Studio, wanted to drive himself to take Cheng Xuemin to the train station to catch the train, but Cheng Xuemin declined!
Don’t drink while driving, and don’t drive after drinking. No matter what age you are, you must strictly abide by this traffic rule.
Although everyone drank beer at noon today, everyone drank a little more or less. Even Cheng Xuemin was the same. He also drank a little beer happily.
In the end, Hu Cai called an old driver from Yanhe Literature, Lao Li, who had retired from the driver's class in the government compound, to help drive Cheng Xuemin to the train station.
When getting off the train at the train station, Cheng Xuemin also told Master Li to take the trouble to send the three Wu Tianmins from Xiying Studio back.
Don't let them drink and drive.
Cheng Xuemin didn't want someone to have a meal with him and cause a drunk driving accident.
Returning to the sleeper compartment, it was still sweltering and the smell of sweat still filled the entire compartment. Fortunately, Cheng Xuemin had just washed himself and his body felt much cooler.
In addition, after having some drinks at noon, I climbed into the middle berth after getting in the car and fell asleep.
The train didn't know when it started again. When Cheng Xuemin woke up again, it was already pitch black outside and the train was also running slowly and slowly.
In the 1970s, the speed of trains had not increased for the first time. The speed was still the same as in the Republic of China. The speed of 60 to 70 kilometers per hour was nothing but a slow speed for Cheng Xuemin, who traveled by high-speed rail in his previous life.
If Lao Teng of Yanying Factory hadn't arranged a berth for him, this would have been just like the last time he went south to Yunnan to express his condolences.
It was still early spring, and the weather was not as hot as it is now.
I slept all afternoon. In the dead of night, there was only the slow clatter of the train, and I didn’t know where I was.
Cheng Xuemin, who was not sleepy, could only jump off the middle bunk and sit on the small side table in the corridor of the carriage, thinking about writing something.
I didn’t continue to work on that foreign language manuscript.
In this way, after another two days and two nights of stop and go, the train finally entered Lanzhou, the terminus of the Yanlan Railway line.
The five days and five nights were almost the same as the last trip south to Kunming!
The distances are almost the same, but one runs almost east-west, and the other runs north-south.
However, this is the terminal station of the train, not Cheng Xuemin’s final destination. Their Wrangler crew has to go further west and north to choose locations.
But then, there was no train to take, so Cheng Xuemin had to transfer to a long-distance bus to go to the area below.
This road was more than 300 kilometers long with yellow sand and mountain roads. The bus was bumpy and bumpy for a whole day and night.
Cheng Xuemin arrived in the Zhangye area after a long journey.
It's not the final destination yet. It's still in Shandan County below. We chose Shandan Ranch, the farthest and largest horse herding grassland in the northwest.
"Xuemin, Xuemin, Xuemin, this way, this way, you are finally here!"
When Cheng Xuemin got off the bus, someone was waiting here at the station. When he saw him getting off the bus, he quickly waved and shouted, it was his uncle Feng Jiazhao.
"Brother, why are you here?!"
Cheng Xuemin was a little surprised when his uncle came to pick him up. He thought the crew would randomly arrange for someone to pick him up.
"I've been looking forward to you! Lao Xie was afraid that other people wouldn't know you well, so he asked me to follow you!"
"Come, our car is over there, let's go, we're waiting for you, Xuemin!"
My eldest uncle Feng Jiazhao has obviously lost a lot of weight, and he has also lost a lot of weight, but he seems to be more energetic.
"Brother, is the progress on the production side good now?"
Cheng Xuemin's luggage was snatched away by his uncle, and he followed behind empty-handed, asking with concern.
"The progress is going well. When we first came here, everyone was a little acclimated because of the hot weather."
"But it's fine now, everything is on track, and the number of scenes is almost the same. The only thing missing is you, the male protagonist!"
While talking, my uncle led Cheng Xuemin to a large truck and said, "Xuemin, this is the truck we rented from the Ranch Commune. Lao Xie specially arranged to pick you up!"
"That's pretty good, pretty good!"
Cheng Xuemin also nodded repeatedly. If the crew is on track, the filming will go faster.
"How's it going at home?"
"How are you, Jia Mo and your sister doing in the college entrance examination? They all have their scores evaluated, right? How are they evaluated?"
The uncle and Cheng Xuemin squeezed into the carriage and continued talking.
He said he came here specially to pick up Cheng Xuemin, but in fact the carriage was already crowded with people, all of whom came from the ranch and came with the carriage early this morning.
"Everything is fine at home, and our scores are all very good!"
"Right now, Jia Mo and my second sister-in-law are at home, thinking about what major to apply for at Yenching University."
Cheng Xuemin nodded. Everything was indeed going well at home. They all did very well in the college entrance examination and were preparing to apply to Yenching University.
"Yeah, so you can get admitted to Yenching University?"
"I'm a good boy, then, Xuemin, you are so awesome! You actually guided Jia Mojuan'er and your sister to enter Yenching University?"
When Feng Jiazhao heard what Cheng Xuemin said, all the college entrance examination students in his family were thinking about which major to apply to Yenching University. Wouldn't this mean that they all got admitted to Yenching University?
Good guy!
Feng Jiazhao has to calculate carefully. This time, several of his family will be admitted to Yenching University!
Brother-in-law Cheng Xuemin himself, his younger sister Feng Jiamo and his sister-in-law Sun Juan, as well as brother-in-law Cheng Xuemin’s own sisters and cousins, there are five of them attending Yenching University at once!
Is this true or false? Who would dare to believe it?
"No, no, the second sister-in-law's family is still working hard on their own. I actually didn't tutor them for a few days!"
Cheng Xuemin and his uncle chatted about each other, but there was one most important and happy thing, but Cheng Xuemin did not mention it to his uncle.
Before going out, the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, and sister-in-law at home asked Cheng Xuemin to come over immediately to tell his uncle and brother the good news.
Sister-in-law, she has it!
I wonder if my uncle will be so excited when he hears this good news that he will jump out of the truck.
However, the uncle didn't take the initiative to ask how his sister-in-law was, so Cheng Xuemin didn't take the initiative to tell him the good news.
I also thought that I might as well not tell my uncle about the spoilers. During the filming of the movie here, I wouldn’t tell him.
After the filming of the movie here was completed, my uncle went back in a daze and was told that his sister-in-law was pregnant. He didn't know how excited he would be.
Therefore, Cheng Xuemin simply won’t spoil the story. It took almost an afternoon of bumpy running, and it was around 8 o'clock in the evening that we finally arrived at our destination, Shandan Ranch.
It's amazing to say the least.
If he hadn't confirmed it repeatedly, Cheng Xuemin would have doubted whether his watch was two hours too fast.
The watch showed it was half past eight. It would have been dark over there in Yanjing, but now it was still like broad daylight here.
The sun is very similar to the evening in Yanjing.
After being told by his uncle that the sun here is longer and the time difference is different from that in Yanjing, Cheng Xuemin realized that this was indeed the case!
"Xuemin, I hope for the stars and the moon, and finally your boy is here!"
"Hurry up, hurry up, slow down, slow down, it's been nearly a week on the road, are you tired?"
The crew director Xie Jin saw the truck rushing towards the ranch and knew that Cheng Xuemin had arrived, so he trotted over to greet him.
All other crew members also ran over to greet him.
"Hello, Director Xie. I'm sorry. I'm late. I'm late!"
Cheng Xuemin helped Lao Xie, jumped out of the truck, and greeted Lao Xie repeatedly.
"It's not too late, it's not too late. The preliminary preparations have just been completed here. Xuemin, you come just in time to join the team and start work!"
Lao Xie is just like his uncle, he has a lot of black hair, and his face is also dusty!
"Hello, Xuemin, I finally have you here!"
Then Cheng Xuemin shook hands with the crew one by one and expressed condolences. They really worked hard.
Finally, there is the heroine, daughter King Zhulin.
This girl is no longer as graceful as she was in Yanjing. She has an extra layer on her body. The simplicity and simplicity of the female herdsmen in the northwest should have made her suitable for the role of Li Xiuzhi.
"Sister Lin, is it hard?"
Cheng Xuemin shook hands with him and expressed concern and condolences.
"It's not hard work or not. The mental state of our crew members is very full and solid. It can't be said that it's not hard work or not."
Zhu Lin followed Cheng Xuemin with a smile on his face, shaking his head and saying.
"Okay, okay, then let's work together sincerely and strive to make Director Xie's movie a success!"
After Cheng Xuemin was polite, he was brought into the crew by Lao Xie and was given a private room. Cheng Xuemin was asked to go to the river to wash himself first, and prepare to wash him off in the evening.
"Let's go, Xuemin, I'll take you to the Shandan River next to the ranch. The water there is refreshing and sweet. We always go there for open-air swimming and bathing at this time in the evening!"
The eldest uncle Feng Jiazhao also greeted Cheng Xuemin and went to swim in the river outside the ranch to cool off.
The sky is clear, the fields are vast, and the grass is blown by the wind, and cattle and sheep can be seen low.
Cheng Xuemin was led by his uncle and the others on the large pasture. A gust of evening wind happened to blow by, and the sheep hidden in the grassland disappeared and appeared. This confirmed the phenomenon of cattle and sheep appearing on the grassland when the wind blows. A royal song?
This is the Shandan Ranch mentioned in the original book "The Wrangler", and the story of the Wrangler also takes place here.
Shandan Ranch, also called Shandan Military Horse Farm, may be very unfamiliar to everyone, but if Cheng Xuemin mentioned a person to them, they would be very familiar!
This name is the first owner of Shandan Military Racecourse, champion Hou Huo Qubing!
In 121 BC, the champion Hou Huo Qubing defeated the Xiongnu, drove the Xiongnu out of the Hexi Corridor, and included the Hexi Corridor in the map of the Han Dynasty. A married woman has no color.”
The Qilian Mountains here are the mountains where Shandan Army Horse Racing Station is located.
Shandan Military Horse Farm was originally a horse breeding resort for the Huns. The war horses raised here are well-proportioned, strong and strong, with excellent adaptability and excellent speed and endurance.
The reason why the Xiongnu had been hovering in the northwest for a long time and sometimes went south to invade the Han Dynasty was because of the Huns' light cavalry.
And their war horses came from the Qilian Mountains, where Cheng Xuemin is now standing at the Shandan Army Horse Farm.
After the champion Hou Huo Qubing drove away the Huns, all the pastures under the Qilian Mountains were owned by the Han Dynasty.
Therefore, the Huns would sigh, "My animals will not multiply."
Of course, these things just flashed through Cheng Xuemin's mind now, and there was not so much nostalgia for the ages that he could improvise and compose a poem.
Following my uncle and the others, they came to the river and found that this small river followed the trend of the Qilian Mountains and spread down from the other side of the mountain. The place where their crew was stationed was right at the foot of the mountain.
Therefore, after the sun goes down, the weather does not seem sultry, but rather cool.
It may also be related to the fact that when you are near water, there is a tide.
"Xuemin, look at how cool it is! I'm telling you, it's actually only a little hotter here during the day, but at night, it's actually a bit cold without a blanket!"
"The temperature difference between day and night can be twenty degrees!"
I jumped into the water, which was really not too satisfying. After swimming for a few laps, my uncle came around, helped Cheng Xuemin rub his back, and started chatting again.
With such a big temperature difference, it was really cool at night. It was even cooler than when Feng Jiaxiao and the others turned on the air conditioner at home!
It’s a good place to escape the summer heat!
It's a pity that the Feng family's young mother and son have just turned one month old and it is not suitable to travel long distances, otherwise they would have been brought here this time.
"What? Didn't the little girl from my family and Lao Zhu's family keep arguing that the college entrance examination was over and they wanted to come with Xuemin to collect information?"
"Why didn't you see them coming?"
"Didn't my parents also say that they would come with you and go back to your hometown in northern Shaanxi to spend the summer vacation?"
The uncle was chatting about one thing or another, and Cheng Xuemin also picked up the key points and replied to him, saying:
"The weather is too hot. My baby and the little squirrel are just one month old, so it's hard to take them out!"
"As for Jia Mo and Zhu Shan, I really wanted to follow them when I came over, but my mother stopped me!"
"And when I went out, I didn't see anyone in the house. After the college entrance examination, she went crazy outside all day long and didn't see anyone."
"She also said that she helped her sister take care of the little squirrels throughout the summer vacation, and she was nowhere to be seen all day long."
Feng Jiazhao also smiled bitterly and nodded when he heard this, and said: "This is how my family is. When I was raised by my grandpa and grandma in Yanjiao, I was wild and crazy!"
"But it's okay if you haven't come here. The sky is full of yellow sand here, and the surface temperature can reach forty or fifty degrees during the day. It's not a good place to collect wind!"
It's really best not to come, otherwise it would be difficult for the two girls' families to make arrangements.
After taking a shower, Director Xie's Jiefeng meal was also prepared. It was open-air, with a long table, and almost the entire crew sitting together. It was so lively.
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Asking for a monthly ticket!
(End of chapter)