251. Northwest Line
Director Huang, the Northwest Chemical Corporation, received a contact letter from United Film and Television. Director Huang wanted to prepare for a film about the West, and wanted to bring the crew and several actors to his company to experience life for a period of time.
Director Huang made a film with extremely realistic restoration of life. In this regard, he dared to be the second, but no one in the country dared to be the first.
Mr. Xiang likes the films made by Director Huang very much. He highly praised this young talent in the director industry, but he didn't have the chance to know him.
Director Huang wanted to go to his company to experience life, and also took Editor Liu and the crew. There was Yu Xiaoxuan, the policewoman in the crew. This was his favorite actress and the only one who could remember his name.
Mr. Xiang immediately replied to United Film and Television, and also called Mr. Wu and Director Huang to determine the time they arrived at his company.
He made preparations early. He had to personally arrange accommodation, food, public security, and everything. The company was far away from the city, and vegetables, fruits and vegetables had to be purchased in advance. He also had to set up the company's guesthouse to be as warm as possible so that Director Huang and others could not feel strange. When he arrived at him, it would be the same as when he was at his own home.
Then, he asked Director Huang and the others what work they had to do and how he needed to cooperate.
Director Huang didn’t know what he was doing? Isn’t this all the boss Zhou Dalin forced him to do!
"Well, there is no need to prepare for it. It's just to experience the geographical environment of the northwest. In addition, you may have to go to your subordinate units, contact employees on site, chat with them, and learn local dialects. Maybe you have to do it in the position to actually operate it. This may be useful in the movies in the future. Then, you may have to go to a few places to choose scenery and other things. This is here, and we will discuss it when we need it. It's really a troublesome Mr. Xiang."
Director Huang was jokingly talking nonsense for a long time. He couldn't make people realize that there was nothing wrong with him, right?
After hanging up Mr. Xiang’s phone call, he immediately lost his temper with Mr. Wu.
"Where is Jay Chou? He doesn't come to deal with what he wants to do, so he asks me to wipe his butt! You ask him to explain to others. Otherwise, if you keep his mouth open and always think about fooling us, can't you bear it?"
Mr. Wu laughed and said nothing. He thought to himself, where he was, you asked me? You drank together until midnight, and then he disappeared. How could I know where he went?
In fact, Director Huang knew that Zhou Dalin had gone to the Capital Airport to pick up Yu Xiaoxuan. He just felt angry and had nowhere to vent his temper. He caught Mr. Wu and lost his temper.
He has been preparing for the movie for half a year, but the notebook is still flawed, so he can't be busy thinking about revising it all day long. Zhou Dalin still has to force him to work for him!
But he is the boss. Although he doesn't look like a boss, he doesn't care if his brothers get angry at him, but he still has to take what Director Huang seriously when he wants Director Huang to do, and he can't really refute his face.
Director Huang summoned a few cast members who had no filming for the time being, and quickly gathered a team. He agreed to take everyone to experience life in the northwest, prepare quickly, and set off with the equipment the next day.
Those people were not happy after hearing this. They had no specific scripts and tasks, so what would we experience?
Director Huang said: "You are experiencing the scenery and humanities of the Northwest? Are you unhappy if you don't spend money to let you go out for a trip?"
Why are you happy? In this winter, you take us to Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunnan. Of course we are happy. Ah, you took us to the northwest to drink the northwest wind. Are we happy? This is the time when the northwest wind is biting, and the vast Gobi Desert is the biggest wind in winter, which can overturn the train! Are you taking us on a trip? You are almost the same as taking us to die!
"Where is so much nonsense?" Mr. Wu said, "The company's decisions naturally have the company's ideas. Look at you one by one, you know how to eat, drink and enjoy it all day long, and you will not be willing to eat at all. You must know that making movies and TV series is the most difficult task. Can you make good works if you are so pampered all day long? This time, I will take you to endure hardships, temper and cultivate a steely will. Only when you work in the future will you produce high-quality works! Well, you have to go, and you have to go if you don't go! At 8 o'clock tomorrow morning, the company will gather downstairs. The year-end bonus that you don't go is gone!"
Mr. Wu dared not provoke Director Huang, and he was not so polite to his subordinates who were not very famous.
Director Huang heard that Mr. Wu was scolding others, and he seemed to have even told him. He felt so angry. Do you think we were full at home all day long? But Mr. Wu was blocking him. Originally, he didn't have to go, but he volunteered to follow him. With this courage, he was also very commendable.
But this guy probably knows that this is Zhou Dalin’s personal matter? This is a disguised flattery of the boss.
It was originally scheduled to meet with Zhou Dalin and Yu Xiaoxuan at the airport of the provincial capital of Northwest Chemical, but they were not a plane.
Director Huang, Mr. Wu and others set out from the city where United Film and Television Headquarters are located, while Zhou Dalin and Yu Xiaoxuan flew directly from the capital.
The result was that Director Huang and his plane arrived in the morning, and Zhou Dalin and Yu Xiaoxuan were on the afternoon flight.
The northwest provinces are all very large in area, and Northwest Chemical Engineering is more than 800 kilometers away from the provincial capital. Unexpectedly, Mr. Xiang was really enthusiastic and sent a company Iveco to wait early at the airport.
When Huang and his team got off the plane, Iveco was already there. But at this time, Zhou Dalin and Yu Xiaoxuan were still in the terminal of the Capital Airport and had not passed the security check.
Director Huang just depends on Mr. Wu. What should I do if I think this is the case? I can’t let others wait here for four or five hours, right?
Mr. Wu didn't dare to make decisions either, he had to call Zhou Dalin for instructions.
Director Huang was upset and said, "You told him that we will not wait for him anymore, let him find a way to get over by himself."
Mr. Wu looked embarrassed and didn't want to make this call. He came here in person, and there was a special car to sit and didn't wait for the boss. Although this was Director Huang's idea, he was the general manager and the theoretical leader. If he didn't wait for the boss's sin, wouldn't he have the end? If he had known this, he might as well not come with him and show his diligence!
Director Huang looked at him contemptuously and said, "Look at your cowardly look! Let me tell you that Dalin is not the kind of petty person. Why do we want him to be the boss? They are all gathered in his company? After so many years, don't you understand? We are first friends, and then we have superiors and subordinates. The more you are so cautious, I will tell you, the more he hates you. If you don't believe it, just go and see."
Mr. Wu asked Director Huang to force him out of his way, so he had to call Zhou Dalin and explain for most of the time, but he still didn't mention the matter of them leaving first with Iveco.
However, from his words, Zhou Dalin understood and told him, "You go there first. I will see the situation. If this Mr. Xiang treats you well, tell him that I am in the provincial capital and think about going to visit him. If others are not enthusiastic about us, we will discuss it later."
Mr. Wu was timid and finally hung up the phone. Director Huang had already taken everyone to Ivecori and waited for him. It was so cold that the northwest was so cold. Xiaofeng kept drilling into his bones, leaving some gaps in his clothes, and the wind could find him and blow your heart to cool down.
Ivecori has air conditioning, so warm it is. Let Lao Wu, the flatterer, get frozen outside!
Next, Iveco left the provincial capital and headed west. Everyone sat in the car, jogging on the uneven highway. Looking out the window, it was mostly a desert with no grass. It was said that the desert was not like a desert, and that the land did not grow any plants.
The driver told them in a northwest accent, "This is a beating up the plateau to death. The wind is strong, there is no broken portion in the soil, there is a lot of saline and alkali, and there is no growth."
At first, when we looked at the scenery outside the window, everyone thought it was quite fresh. But along the way, they were all the same yellowish yellowish color, and soon became aesthetically tired and closed their eyes on their seats.
At noon, I passed by a small town and the driver went in and parked the car.
"We still have a lot of ways to go. Let's have some food here at noon. The mutton and beef here are pretty good." The driver told Mr. Wu.
This town has a central street, with asphalt roads on the street, which looks quite spacious. There are some high-rise buildings of four or five floors on both sides of the street, which can show the appearance of some towns.
After leaving the central street and walking through the alleys, it was composed of some low small dirt houses, the real, past, and town.
In the distance of the small earth house, there is endless loess, with few green and few trees. Occasionally, I saw a tree, which was also bare and stood there alone.
The most interesting thing is that the northwest trees have no trunks, and the branches grow from below to the top of the tree.
The driver told them: "It's very windy here. When the tree grows, the trunks are easily blown off by the wind, so they don't grow trunks. The wind keeps going all year round, and winter is the most powerful. Two days ago, my neighbor was a girl, five or six years old, and she let the wind blow away. She blew more than a mile before she grabbed a branch and finally stopped."
An actress doesn't believe it and says, "The wind can blow people out more than a mile, so powerful, are you telling a joke?"
The driver was a little anxious and said, "Hey, I don't dare to lie, it's really true!"
The group walked around the town under the leadership of the driver to feel the style of the Northwest town. Although it was not as desolate as seen in the movies in the past, it did give people a shocking sense of vicissitudes. The facilities and buildings in this town are at least twenty years behind the inland towns.
Everyone finally returned to the Central Street, and the driver took the lead in walking into a mutton restaurant. He often drove along this line and was more familiar with the town. He said that the mutton restaurant he entered was the most delicious.
"They never make it easy to cook the pot of mutton." The driver told everyone, "It has been decades since I cooked mutton and water, and mutton and water. This soup is called old soup, and it is only fragrant when I cooked with old soup!"
For Mr. Wu and Director Huang, the mutton was really fragrant, and it was so oily that it kept saying it. But for the two girls who followed, the taste was too mutton and they couldn't eat it. The driver was prepared and went to another store and bought some cooked beef. The two girls could barely make do with it.
There is no one selling pork in the entire town.
Director Huang looked at the lonely smoke all the way to the desert, ate and cooked mutton, and drank it with a glass of wine. One word, beautiful!
Chapter completed!