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Chapter 276 Sister-in-law is pregnant, are you surprised, brother-in-law? (Please subscribe)
After the meal, everyone had a great time chatting.

Wu Tianmin from Xi'an Film Studio also revealed that the filming of the movie "Loess Plateau" 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 probably be around National Day.

Anyway, they will send the film to Yanjing for review, and they will definitely visit Cheng Xuemin and invite Cheng Xuemin to sign the film for review.

Cheng Xuemin must have agreed without hesitation. It seemed that he had never experienced such a lively occasion as submitting a film for review and attending a premiere in his entire life. He just happened to take advantage of the invitation from the Xi'an Film Studio to broaden his horizons.

After dinner, Cheng Xuemin took advantage of the running water in the guesthouse and took a quick shower.

I hadn't taken a shower for three days and three nights on the train. In such hot weather, I smelled. But I was with a group of old men, and we were all sweating profusely, but no one looked down on anyone else.

When Cheng Xuemin came out refreshed, the director of Xi'an Film Studio, Wu Tianmin, wanted to drive Cheng Xuemin to the train station himself to catch the train, but Cheng Xuemin politely declined!

Don't drink and drive, and don't drive after drinking. This traffic rule must be strictly followed no matter what era.

Although we all drank beer at noon today, everyone drank a little, even Cheng Xuemin, who was happy to drink a little beer.

In the end, Hu Cai called an old driver from Yanhe Literature, Lao Li, who had retired from the driver class of a government compound, to help drive Cheng Xuemin to the train station.

When getting off the train at the railway station, Cheng Xuemin also asked Master Li to take the trouble to send Wu Tianmin and the other two from the Xi'an Film Studio back.

Don't let them drink and drive.

Cheng Xuemin didn't want someone to have a meal with him and then get into a drunk driving accident.

Back in the sleeper car, it was still stuffy and the stench of sweat still filled the entire car. Fortunately, Cheng Xuemin had just taken a shower and felt much cooler.

Plus I had a drink at noon, so I climbed onto the middle bunk as soon as I got on the bus and fell into a deep sleep.

No one knew when the train started again. When Cheng Xuemin woke up again, it was already pitch black outside and the train was still moving slowly with a clanging sound.

The trains in the 1970s had not yet been speeded up for the first time, and the speed remained the same as in the Republic of China. Sixty to seventy kilometers per hour was a snail's pace for Cheng Xuemin, who had traveled by high-speed trains in his previous life.

If Mr. Teng from Yanying Studio hadn't arranged a berth for me, it would have been just as unbearable as the last time I went to Yunnan to give condolences!
It was still early spring and the weather was not as hot as it is now.

After sleeping for the whole afternoon, it was late at night and the only sound was the slow clanging of the train. I had no idea where I was.

Cheng Xuemin, who was not sleepy, could only jump down from the middle bunk and sit on the small side table in the corridor of the carriage, thinking about writing something.

I didn't continue working on the foreign language manuscript.

In this way, after stopping and starting for another two days and two nights, the train finally arrived at Lanzhou, the terminal station of the Yanlan Railway Line.

It took five days and five nights, almost the same time as the last time I went south to Kunming!
The distances are almost the same, but one runs across the east and west, while the other runs across the north and south.

However, this is the terminus of the train, not Cheng Xuemin’s final destination. Their Wrangler crew has to go further west and further north to select filming locations.

But next, there was no train to take, so Cheng Xuemin had to transfer to a long-distance bus to the following area.

This journey was more than 300 kilometers of yellow sand and mountain roads, and the bus was bumpy and jolting for a whole day and night.

Only then did Cheng Xuemin arrive in Zhangye area after a dusty journey.

It is not the final destination, which is located in Shandan County below it. The destination chosen is Shandan Ranch, the farthest and largest horse pasture in the Northwest.

"Xuemin, Xuemin, Xuemin, over here, you're finally here!"

When Cheng Xuemin just got off the bus, there was someone waiting at the station. When he saw him get off the bus, he waved and shouted, "It's my brother-in-law Feng Jiazhao."

"Brother, why are you here?!"

Cheng Xuemin was a little surprised that it was his brother-in-law who came to pick him up. He thought the crew would just arrange someone randomly to pick him up.

"I've been waiting for you! Old Xie was afraid that other people wouldn't recognize you, so he asked me to come along!"

"Come, our car is over there, come on, we're waiting for you, Xuemin!"

My brother-in-law Feng Jiazhao has obviously become much darker and thinner, but he looks much more energetic.

"Brother, is the crew progressing well?"

The luggage in Cheng Xuemin's hand was snatched away by his brother-in-law. He followed behind empty-handed and asked with concern.

"It's going quite well. When we first came here, it was hot and everyone had some difficulty acclimatizing."

"But now it's good, everything is on track, and the scenes have been almost filmed, except for your role as the male protagonist!"

As the elder brother-in-law spoke, he led Cheng Xuemin to a large truck and said, "Xuemin, this is the truck we rented from the ranch commune. Old Xie specially arranged for it to pick you up!"

"That's good, good!"

Cheng Xuemin also nodded repeatedly. As long as the crew was on the right track, the filming would go quickly.

"How's things at home?"

"How did you, Jiamo, and your sister do in the college entrance examination? You all have estimated your scores, right? How did you estimate them?"

My brother-in-law and Cheng Xuemin squeezed into the carriage and continued talking.

They said they came specially to pick up Cheng Xuemin, but in fact the carriage was already packed with people. They were all people from the big ranch. They came with the car and had arrived early this morning.

"Everything is fine at home, and our estimated scores are very good!"

"Now my husband and my second sister-in-law are at home, considering what major to apply for at Yanjing University."

Cheng Xuemin nodded. Everything was indeed fine at home. They both did very well in the college entrance examination and were preparing to apply to Yenching University.

"Oh, so you can get into Yanjing University?"

"Oh my god, you are so awesome, Xuemin! You actually managed to help your daughter Juan'er and your sister get into Yanjing University?"

When Feng Jiazhao heard Cheng Xuemin say that all the college entrance examination candidates in his family were thinking about what major to apply for at Yenching University, didn't that mean they would all be admitted to Yenching University?
Good guy!
Feng Jiazhao has to calculate carefully how many people in his family will be admitted to Yenching University this time!

My brother-in-law Cheng Xuemin himself, his younger sister Feng Jiamo and his sister-in-law Sun Juan, as well as my brother-in-law Cheng Xuemin's own sister and cousin, there are five of them studying at Yenching University in total!

Is this true or not? Who would believe it if I told them?
"No, no, it's still my second sister-in-law's family who are working hard. I didn't even tutor them for a few days!"

Cheng Xuemin was chatting with his elder brother-in-law in a random manner, but there was one most important and happiest thing that Cheng Xuemin did not mention to his elder brother-in-law.

Before leaving, the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law and elder sister-in-law all told Cheng Xuemin to come over and tell his elder brother-in-law the good news as soon as possible.

My sister-in-law is pregnant!
I wonder if my brother-in-law will be so excited that he will jump off the truck when he hears this good news.

However, the brother-in-law did not take the initiative to ask about his sister-in-law, so Cheng Xuemin did not take the initiative to tell him the good news.

I also thought about not revealing any spoilers to my eldest brother-in-law, and not telling him while I’m filming here.

After the filming was finished, my brother-in-law went back in a daze. When he was told that my sister-in-law was pregnant, I don't know how excited he was.

Therefore, Cheng Xuemin simply did not spoil the story. After another bumpy ride for almost an entire afternoon, it was around eight o'clock in the evening when we finally arrived at our destination, the Shandan Ranch.

It's quite magical.

If he hadn't confirmed it again and again, Cheng Xuemin would have suspected that his watch was two hours fast.
The watch shows that it is already half past eight. It would have been dark in Yanjing a long time ago, but it is still as bright as day here.

The sun was very similar to the evening in Yanjing.

When his elder brother-in-law told him that the days here were longer and the time difference was different from that in Yanjing, Cheng Xuemin finally realized that it was indeed the case!

"Xuemin, I have been looking forward to seeing you for so long, and finally you are here!"

"Hurry up, hurry up, slow down, we've been on the road for nearly a week, are you tired?"

When the crew director Xie Jin saw the truck rushing towards the ranch, he knew that Cheng Xuemin had arrived, so he hurried over to greet him.

The other crew members all ran over to greet them.

"Hello, Director Xie. Sorry, I'm late, I'm late!"

Cheng Xuemin gave Old Xie a hand, jumped directly off the truck, and greeted Old Xie repeatedly.

"It's not too late, we have just finished the preliminary preparations, and it's time for you to join the team and start work!"

Old Xie is just like his elder brother-in-law, with a lot of dark circles on his face and dust on it!

"Hello, Xuemin, I finally got you here!"

Then Cheng Xuemin shook hands with the crew members one by one and expressed his condolences, saying that they had indeed worked hard.

Finally, the heroine, Zhu Lin, the Queen of Daughters.

This girl is not as pretty as she was in Yanjing. She has an added layer of the simplicity and honesty of a female herdsman from Northwest China. She must have gotten into the role of Li Xiuzhi.

"Sister Lin, it's very hard, right?"

Cheng Xuemin shook hands with him and expressed his concern and condolences.

"It's not hard, it's not hard. The mental state of our crew members is very full and rich, so there is no need to talk about whether it's hard or not."

Zhu Lin said to Cheng Xuemin with a smile on his face and shook his head repeatedly.

"Okay, okay, then let's work together sincerely and strive to perform and film Director Xie's movie well!"

After Cheng Xuemin was polite for some time, he was brought into the crew by Lao Xie and was assigned a single room. He was told to wash himself in the river first, and they would prepare a welcome dinner for him in the evening.

"Come on, Xuemin, I'll take you to the Shandan River next to the ranch. The water there is refreshing and sweet. Every evening at this time, we go there to swim and bathe outdoors!"

Brother-in-law Feng Jiazhao also invited Cheng Xuemin to go swimming in the river outside the ranch to cool off.

The sky is green and the fields are vast.

Cheng Xuemin was walking on this large ranch with his elder brother-in-law. The evening breeze happened to blow by them, and the sheep hidden in the grassland appeared and disappeared from time to time. Didn't this confirm the Chi Le song that "cattle and sheep appear when the wind blows through the grassland"?

This is the Shandan Ranch mentioned in the original novel of "The Shepherd", and the story of the Shepherd also takes place here.

Shandan Ranch, also known as Shandan Military Horse Farm, perhaps everyone is very unfamiliar with this place name, but if Cheng Xuemin mentions a person to them, they will be very familiar with it!

This person’s name is the first owner of Shandan Military Horse Farm, Champion Marquis Huo Qubing!

In 121 BC, Marquis Huo Qubing defeated the Huns and drove them out of the Hexi Corridor, incorporating the Hexi Corridor into the map of the Han Dynasty, causing the Huns to sigh, "The loss of Mount Qilian has caused my livestock to stop breeding, and the loss of Mount Yanzhi has caused my married women to lose face."

The Qilian Mountains here are the mountain range where the Shandan Military Horse Farm is located.

Shandan Military Horse Farm was originally a horse-breeding resort of the Xiongnu people. The war horses bred here are well-proportioned, strong and sturdy, with excellent adaptability, speed and endurance.

The reason why the Huns had been hovering in the northwest for a long time and occasionally went south to invade the Han Dynasty was because of their light cavalry.

Their war horses came from the Qilian Mountains, at the Shandan Military Horse Farm where Cheng Xuemin is now standing.

After the champion general Huo Qubing drove away the Huns, all the pastures under the Qilian Mountains became the property of the Han Dynasty.

That is why the Huns sighed, "My livestock cannot reproduce and rest."

Of course, all these just flashed through Cheng Xuemin's mind now, and he didn't have so many lofty aspirations to improvise a poem.

Following my brother-in-law and the others to the river, we discovered that this small river follows the course of the Qilian Mountains, flowing down from the other side of the mountain. Their crew was stationed right at the foot of the mountain.

So, after the sun goes down, the weather does not seem hot and humid, but rather a little cool.

It may also be related to the fact that the tide is formed near water.

"Xuemin, look how cool it is! I told you, it's only hot during the day here. At night, if you don't cover yourself with a blanket, it's actually a bit cold!"

"The temperature difference between day and night can be as much as 20 degrees!"

He jumped into the water, it was so cool. After swimming a few laps, his brother-in-law came over, rubbed Cheng Xuemin's back, and started chatting with him again.

With such a big temperature difference, it is really cool at night. It is even cooler than when Feng Jiayou and her friends turn on the air conditioner at home!

It’s a great place to escape the summer heat!

Unfortunately, the mother and child of the Feng family are just one month old, so it is not suitable for them to travel long distances, otherwise they would have been brought here this time.

"Why? Didn't Jiamo and the little girl from Old Zhu's family keep arguing that after the college entrance examination, they wanted to come here with you, Xuemin, to collect folk songs?"

"Why didn't I see them coming?"

"Didn't Jiayou also say that he wanted to come with you and go back to your hometown in northern Shaanxi to spend the summer vacation?"

The elder brother-in-law was chatting idly, and Cheng Xuemin also picked out the key points and replied to him, saying:
"It's too hot. My little one and the squirrel are just one month old. It's hard to take them out!"

"As for Jiamo and Zhu Shan, they did want to follow me when I came here, but mom stopped them!"

"Also, when I went out, I didn't see Jiamo. After the college entrance examination, she was out having fun all day. I didn't see her at all."

"She also said that she helped her sister take care of the squirrels during the entire summer vacation. We could hardly see her all day."

Hearing this, Feng Jiazhao nodded with a wry smile and said, "Jiamo is like this. When he was brought up by his grandparents in Yanjiao, he was already wild and crazy!"

"But it's better not to come here. The sky is full of yellow sand, and the surface temperature can reach 40 or 50 degrees during the day. It's not a good place to collect folk songs!"

It is indeed best that she did not come, otherwise it would be difficult to make arrangements for the two girls.

After taking a shower, Director Xie's welcoming meal was prepared. It was served outdoors, with a long table. Almost all the crew members sat together, making it very lively.

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Asking for a monthly ticket!
(End of this chapter)