Middle age: leisurely life in the entertainment industry

After being introduced by his friend, Li Wan personally flew to Ningxia to check it out on the spot. Zhongwei is located on the southeast edge of the Tengger Desert, where the famous Shapotou Scenic Area has relatively good transportation and conditions.

Li Wan and other crew members had already arrived early. Actors from Xiangjiang and Baodao also took their assistants to Xi'an by plane, then transferred and flew until noon. Yu Dongqing was the last group to set off.

There is no way, this time I am not alone, but with my family.

"Meiliang, hurry up, you won't be able to catch the plane if you are late." Yu Dongqing looked at his watch and urged his wife.

"Don't worry, I'll take a look and see if Lele has everything." Meili opened the suitcase and checked.

The little nanny Xiaxia stood aside holding Lele.

Yu Dongqing felt helpless after hearing this.

Although the conditions in Zhongwei we went to are not as good as those in Yanjing, they still don’t live in the wilderness. Can’t we just buy whatever we need?

Do you have to carry so many big and small bags?

But you'd better not interfere with women's thoughts, otherwise they will be the source of quarrels.

After finally waiting for Mingliang to check her luggage, the three of them walked out the door with their luggage. Li Wei, who was waiting outside, also helped put the suitcase in the trunk of the car.

"Where's Tongtong? Does Tongtong have the key to the house?" Meiliang thought of another question.

"Didn't you give your mother the key to the house?" Yu Dongqing asked.

"Oh look at my memory."

According to Mingliang's wishes, Yu Tongtong was asked to follow them to Zhongwei for a few days. It was summer vacation anyway, but Yu Tongtong said that she and her father had been to Ningxia a few years ago and didn't want to go again and wanted to go somewhere far away.

Finally, Mingliang simply signed up for Yu Tongtong to go to a 14-day summer camp in Brisbane, Australia. The girl went to Australia happily!

Finally, a family of three and a nanny checked in their luggage at the last minute, rushed to the boarding gate after security check, and finally boarded the plane.

At this time, Yu Dongqing took a long breath.

After a nearly two-hour flight, the plane stopped steadily at Zhongwei Shapotou Airport. When Yu Dongqing and his family exited the station, they saw Zhang Yang, a fat man wearing sunglasses and a floral shirt.

Zhang Yang not only invested, but also played a small role in the play.

In fact, for him, it doesn't matter whether he is filming or not, the main thing is to have fun.

It's boring to stay in Yanjing. It's exciting to see the great mountains and rivers of the motherland!

"I said Dongqing, I want you to come with me. It's so fun to travel around in my RV all the way. I have to come by plane."

Zhang Yang said while helping to carry the suitcase.

Zhang Yang came here in his own RV this time!

Starting from Yanjing, along the line of Inner Mongolia, we also made a special turn to visit an old classmate's house in Qinbei for two days.

Yu Dongqing thinks so too.

But he curled his lips towards Meiliang, who was holding her son next to her, meaning, if I run away with you, what will the two of you do?

I'm not like you. My son is already grown up, and now we are living happily together.

I'm still early.

Zhang Yang immediately looked at him with sympathetic eyes.

We got into Zhang Yang’s RV and went straight to the hotel we booked.

"Have the actors from Xiangjiang and Baodao arrived?" Yu Dongqing asked casually.

"Wong Ka Fai's first film hasn't been finished yet, and I heard it will be a week late."

Yu Dongqing nodded after hearing this.

These were all communicated in advance, so it didn’t matter.

"Hey, Liang Xiyan is here. She is really a beauty, even more beautiful than on TV." Zhang Yang chuckled.

"Nonsense, when I was studying at Baodao University of Arts, I was selected as Miss Baodao. Isn't it pretty?" Yu Dongqing replied.

"You men!" Meiliang, who was sitting in the back row and holding her son, snorted.

"Meiliang, don't be angry." Zhang Yang smiled while driving: "Dongqing and I are both serious people, just talking casually."

The crew stayed at the Zhongwei Jervis Holiday Hotel near the Drum Tower in the city center. The conditions and environment were pretty good, but of course it couldn't be compared with those luxurious five-star hotels.

In Yu Dongqing's words, regardless of whether they are from mainland China, Hong Kong or Taiwan, actors and crew members are all treated equally in terms of accommodation. The difference is that the big stars only have single rooms.

Of course, if you have to stay at the famous Desert Star Hotel in Shapotou Scenic Area for more than 1,000 yuan a night and watch the stars every night, Yu Dongqing won't say anything.

Just pay for it yourself and don’t delay the filming.

In the evening, Yu Dongqing and Li Wan specially invited all the cast and crew members to have a mutton hot pot meal at a hot pot restaurant called Xiangyang Four Seasons Bingzhuyang.

A dozen tables were packed, and the Sunit lamb tasted really good.

Early the next morning, several buses drove actors and staff straight to the filming location, as well as reporters.

These were invited by the outreach team, and Li Wan personally checked them. A reporter from the province, city, and even Xiangjiang also came.

The shooting location was a village called Wangjiabao in the northwest suburbs, which is already on the edge of the desert.

About six or seven miles to the north from the village, passing through a Gobi desert full of red willow trees, you will find a sea of ​​sand. The famous Shapotou National Scenic Area is still some distance away.

The village is not big, with less than fifty households, and an abandoned primary school. After preliminary temporary repairs, the crew's filming base camp and temporary resting place were placed here.

The conditions are a bit difficult.

Yu Dongqing stood at the gate of the school and looked at the surrounding environment.

The usually deserted small village suddenly became lively with the arrival of so many vehicles and people. Many villagers came out to watch the fun, mostly the elderly and children.

The village party secretary named Wang Laifu, an old man of nearly sixty years old, wearing a small white hat unique to the Hui ethnic group, found Yu Dongqing and gave him two unique local selenium sand watermelons.

He greeted me very warmly and said that if you encounter any difficulties during the filming of the movie, you should come to him and he would help solve it.

Yu Dongqing expressed his gratitude continuously.

"Why don't you go to Shapotou? The conditions are better there."

Wang Laifu asked.

Originally, according to Li Wan's wish, he simply went directly to Shapotou Scenic Area, where the conditions were much better than here.

Of course the cost is much higher.

But Yu Dongqing said it was best to save some money and finally chose here.

Of course Yu Dongqing would not say that it is cheap to rent a house for filming here, and you don’t have to pay a penny for filming in the sea of ​​sand.

Even though the budget is as high as 190 million, Yu Dongqing has his own plans, and sometimes he has to save money.

Of course, these words cannot be said to this old man.

"Secretary Wang, because the watermelons in your village are very delicious." Yu Dongqing smiled and pointed to the watermelons that had been cut open on the table.

Wang Laifu grinned.

He already knew that the man next to him named Li Wan, who was said to be some kind of producer, had promised to take over all the watermelons he had grown on the three acres of land this year, and would have twenty or thirty watermelons delivered every day.

"Our watermelon is very sweet, tastes like Charlene, and it is rich in selenium. Experts say eating it can improve human immunity and resist oxidation!"

Wang Laifu's saliva flew everywhere.

Although Wang Po sells melons and boasts about herself, this watermelon is indeed sweet.

After Wang Laifu left, Li Wan whispered to Yu Dongqing: "There is a broken bridge in the west of their village. I promised Wang Laifu that the crew will help rebuild a cement bridge."

"How much will it cost?"

"Wang Laifu gave us a budget, about 280,000."

"Just repair it. Contract it directly to him and let him find someone to buy the materials. We will just pay for it." Yu Dongqing said.

"That's what I mean too." Li Wan smiled.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the power-on ceremony officially began.

8.18, briefly explain the recent plot

Thank you readers for your support, mainly because of Pig's recent filming of the movie "Ashes of Time". Some people say that without the original work "The Condor", this movie is very abrupt.

In fact, Wong Kar-wai just borrowed the three titles of East Evil, West Poison, and Bei Beggar when he made this movie. The character setting and storyline have nothing to do with the original work.

Even if you haven't read the original work, it doesn't affect the movie. On the contrary, there is no sense of preconceptions (the character image of Zhongxie Xidubei Beggar in the original work is completely inconsistent with that in the movie.), so it is easy to understand. If I make an adaptation later, I will first write a novel based on the situation.

Why not write "New Longmen Inn"? That movie was also very well shot, but it also repeated the filming routine of "The Swordsman". As an author, I wrote it again here. I felt that it was meaningless and a waste of everyone's subscriptions, so I wanted to write "Ashes of Time".

Write something different and what happened during the filming process. Don't forget that "Ashes of Time" has a sister movie, haha.

In addition, let me say a few more words.

According to the concept of this book, more than half of the plot has been completed, and the performance is relatively stable, which is just above the quality level, but the subscription has declined recently.

I will write the following content carefully and try my best.

Finally, thank you readers for your support!

The evening of August 18, 2023