1978: Female educated youth, don’t want an illiterate husband

Chapter 278 Theme song of the movie "The Horse Herder", lasso? (Request full order)
Xie Jin, who had doubted Cheng Xuemin's horse riding skills, finally saw how good Cheng Xuemin was.

After dismounting and relaxing for a long time, Xie Jin breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling extremely happy. He then asked Cheng Xuemin how he could ride so well even though he had never practiced riding.

Cheng Xuemin replied jokingly, saying that he was a quick learner and that he grew up riding horses and cows in his hometown.

Although they were not war horses like today, pack horses were also horses.

This was barely enough to get by.

Now that they have seen Cheng Xuemin's horse riding skills, brother-in-law Xie Jin and the others are no longer worried. In the next few days, they will film the grand scene of releasing horses in Qilian Mountain.

"How do you learn from the people? Can you handle our pace?"

"Don't resist!"

Because the other actors' parts were basically the same, only Cheng Xuemin, the male protagonist's role was left, so the filming lasted for more than a week, one scene after another, with other supporting actors taking turns to play opposite Cheng Xuemin and Xu Lingjun.

After another day of high-intensity filming, Xie Jin was really worried that this strong man couldn't bear it, so he handed a large piece of iced watermelon to Cheng Xuemin and asked with concern.

"Director Xie, I'm fine. You know my body is like this. It's just like before in Wild Monkey Mountain. Don't take it too easy!"

"Yeah, sweet!"

“When eating watermelon, it’s best to eat the watermelon found in the cracks of the rocks at the foot of the Qilian Mountains. It’s full of sunlight, juicy and sweet!”

Cheng Xuemin shook his head at Xie Jin and said, how could such a rapid progress be unbearable?
At the same time, he took the watermelon handed to him by Lao Xie and ate it with big mouthfuls!

The iced sweet juice tasted so refreshing that Cheng Xuemin couldn't help but sigh.

"That's not it!"

"In Beijing and Shanghai, if we want to eat watermelon, we have to go to the hospital to get a receipt, take the receipt to the warehouse, and collect it one piece at a time!"

"It's nowhere like here in the Northwest, the source of watermelons in our country. Other things are not guaranteed, but you can eat as much watermelon as you want!"

Xie Jin was also holding a large piece of watermelon. He sat down next to Cheng Xuemin's butt and started eating it, then said with emotion.

"Yes! It is indeed only here that we can enjoy eating melons so happily!"

"When I was in Yanjing, I never bought watermelon for my husband!"

"It's mainly because it's hard to get the certificate and the procedures are too cumbersome!"

Cheng Xuemin nodded. In this day and age, common seasonal fruits are actually very easy to buy.

The only thing is watermelon, which is on the list of special medical medicines. It is a controlled fruit used as a fever-reducing medicine. It is not sold in normal supply and marketing cooperatives or department stores, not even in Overseas Chinese Stores or Friendship Stores.

If you want to buy it normally, you have to go to the hospital with a certificate to get a slip before you can buy a dollar or two.

Moreover, the one or two pieces of watermelon you bought cannot be taken home to eat. You have to give them to patients with high fever in the hospital in front of the doctor. You are not allowed to take them out of the hospital!
Don't really not believe it!

Watermelons of this era are so weird. They are controlled fruits. If you are not sick or have a fever, it is basically unrealistic for ordinary people to eat one or two pieces to satisfy their cravings.

Unless you are like Cheng Xuemin and others, who buy directly from watermelon farmers at the watermelon planting bases, then as long as you have money, you can eat as much as you want.

"is not that right!"

Xie Jin nodded, expressing the same sentiment, and then said, "If the cultivation of watermelons can be carried out on a large scale, the control may be relaxed!"

Maybe the speaker was unintentional but the listener was intentional. After listening to Lao Xie's sigh, Cheng Xuemin also had an idea!
Yes!

If you want to eat watermelon, why don’t you grow your own?

Cheng Xuemin's courtyard in Yanjing is as big as it is, but almost half an acre of land in the front and back yards is left unused. If only he could bring some melon seeds back from here and plant them himself!

Moreover, Cheng Xuemin has the technology, so he can build a small greenhouse in his yard and use it as a test site for watermelon hybrid breeding.

Once his watermelon seedlings are successfully hybridized, he will be guaranteed to have a bumper harvest of watermelons he grows next year and can eat as much as he wants.

I just do it when I think of it. This time when I go back to Yanjing, I will definitely bring a bag of watermelon seeds back to see if it works.

Should be easy.

After all, the hybrid breeding of watermelon seedlings is not like that of rice.

To grow hybrid rice, you have to go to the rice fields and find rice grains on the mother plants with huge rice ears, which will serve as the mother seeds for hybrid breeding.

But watermelon is different. Cheng Xuemin doesn't want it to be seedless, but wants it to be big and have a high yield.

But now the size of the rock crevice watermelons is actually quite large, it’s just that the production has not kept up, so it has been listed as a controlled fruit.

If Cheng Xuemin had increased the yield through experiments, there would not have to be a wait of five or six years for the country to spend high prices to import watermelon seeds from abroad, increase the yield, and then gradually relax regulations until watermelons were widely popularized.

Therefore, if Cheng Xuemin could cultivate the melon seeds in advance, it would be a benefit to ordinary people in advance, as they would have an extra fruit to relieve the heat in the hot summer.

Some people may think, this is too ridiculous and exaggerated, isn’t it fictional? ?
Cheng Xuemin would definitely not worry about this matter. He just needs to pay attention to the price of watermelons outside and he will see the situation clearly.

Don’t talk about it!

In the neighboring country of South Korea, if Cheng Xuemin remembered correctly, even in the highly developed era when he traveled through time and space, the people of South Korea still had not achieved watermelon freedom.

In our country, a 10-kilogram watermelon generally costs 20 to 30 yuan, but in South Korea or other island countries, it costs at least 300 to 400 yuan.

It is equivalent to a day's salary for an average worker in South Korea, so watermelon freedom cannot be achieved at all.

In other words, it is even harder to have durian freedom than for us in China who like to eat durian.

visible!

In this age of extreme material scarcity, it is normal that watermelon, a juicy and heat-relieving fruit, is listed as a controlled fruit!
In this era, only patients with high fever and heatstroke are qualified to go to the hospital and eat a slice of watermelon to reduce their fever.

It is only natural that Cheng Xuemin would want to cultivate the watermelon seedlings himself in order to have watermelon freedom next year.

After all, this thing is a scarce commodity that is hard to buy even if you have money, unless you grow it yourself.

"Xuemin, Zhu Lin has been in pretty good shape these past two days. In a week or so, we will be able to wrap up our filming here!"

"But Xuemin, your scenes haven't been completed yet. When you return to Yanjing, you will have to reshoot several scenes with the old man!"

Xie Jin was eating watermelon while talking to Cheng Xuemin.

Over at the Chi Le Chuan Ranch, everyone else's scenes have basically been finished, and Cheng Xuemin, the male protagonist Xu Lingjun's scenes will also be wrapped up in a week or so.

However, after returning to Yanjing, Cheng Xuemin still had to reshoot several scenes.

Most of the scenes are about Xu Lingjun, played by Cheng Xuemin, who goes to Yanjing to recognize his relatives at the invitation of his father Xu who returns to China to find his relatives.

These scenes basically all involve the male protagonist Xu Lingjun, so they were not filmed when we were in Yanjing.

We have to wait for the filming here to be finished, and then go back home to reshoot.

Once the Yanjing scenes are reshoots are completed, the filming will be truly wrapped up, and the shooting work will enter the post-production stage of editing and dubbing.

According to Xie Jin, he feels that the original voices of Cheng Xuemin and Zhu Lin are both very clear and high-quality, and he hopes that Cheng Xuemin will personally dub the male and female protagonists.

Cheng Xuemin will definitely do it to the end. He has already filmed, so why would he miss the dubbing? He will definitely do it himself and dub his own scenes.

This again reflects the shortcoming of filming in this era. Even if the actors are speaking their lines with emotion on the set, the crew only has one camera, and cannot record the sound of the lines simultaneously!

We have to wait until post-production, when the dubbing artists will do the dubbing based on the actors’ mouth shapes in the picture.

of course!

After the 21st century, although the filming crew had advanced simultaneous recording equipment, the young actors could no longer speak their lines!

Basically, they just recite '123456', and they recite just a few lines. It is completely dependent on the dubbing workers, who will do the dubbing based on the numbers '12345' in the later stage.

So it often happens that either the lip movements don’t match, or the number of lines doesn’t match!
The actor in the picture only read up to '5', but the line has six or seven words, so it doesn't match at all.

Or maybe the actor on the screen read out the number '5', but the actual lines were just the three words 'Hello'!

It doesn't match at all. There are so many mistakes like this.

"Director Xie, after finishing the filming here, I may have to take a detour back to my hometown to pick up my sister and her family to Yanjing, so it may take three to five days!"

Cheng Xuemin knew that Lao Xie was giving him a heads-up in advance so that Cheng Xuemin could make arrangements after the filming was finished.

Old Xie certainly hopes that after the filming is finished, Cheng Xuemin can go back to Yanjing with him, finish reshooting the Yanjing scenes as soon as possible, and then concentrate on finishing the filming and disbanding the crew.

But after hearing Cheng Xuemin's words, Xie Jin felt relieved that he was only going to take a detour back to his hometown to take his sister's family to Yanjing. He said, "Xuemin, it's okay, it's okay. It's okay to delay for three or five days. I'm just afraid that you will suddenly have other plans and be gone for a month or so. Then I will be worried!"

Xie Jin kept waving his hands and saying it was okay, but in fact he was really afraid for Cheng Xuemin, a very busy and capable man, who was temporarily transferred out on official business by his superiors and would be gone for a month!

Then Xie Jin would be really worried to death.

Fortunately, I only have to take a detour back to my hometown, which will only take three to five days, which is definitely affordable.

"No, no, no, for the next few days, I will stay in the campus of Yanjing University and study peacefully for a few years to calm down my tendency to show off!"

"So, Director Xie, you must come to Yanjing more often to see me in the future!"

Cheng Xuemin also smiled and joked with Xie Jin.

"It's good to study! I heard from Jiazhao that you did well in the college entrance examination this time, Xuemin?

You are a specially-appointed lecturer at Yenching University, and a new undergraduate at Yenching University. You are both a student and a teacher. You are unique, Xuemin. You are amazing!"

Then Xie Jin wiped the watermelon juice from his mouth, patted Cheng Xuemin on the shoulder and laughed.

"No, no, Director Xie, you are such a boaster. I am really a little flattered by you!" Cheng Xuemin also carelessly wiped a mouthful of watermelon juice. He really enjoyed it.

It’s a pity that I can’t bring some back to Yanjing for my wife Feng Jiayou and my son to try, nor can I bring some back to my hometown Chengjiawan for my parents to eat.

Controlled fruits cannot be taken on trains.

Normally you have to go to the hospital and eat one or two pieces in person. They are not available on the market.

Otherwise, if you are caught, you will be accused of speculation.

Moreover, for regulated products like watermelons, the nature of speculation is even worse. There is no need to take the risk because the gain will not outweigh the loss.

"By the way, Xuemin, I have something else to trouble you with!"

Xie Jin, who was about to stand up and leave, suddenly stopped, turned back, and said something to Cheng Xuemin.

"Director Xie, if you have anything to say, just tell me. It's nothing too much trouble for me to do. You are so polite!"

Cheng Xuemin threw the watermelon rind far into the stable, and it landed very accurately into the target stable, then he spoke to Xie Jin.

"Uh! Everyone says that you, Xuemin, are good at shooting. You killed a lot of wild monkeys on the southern front. Now it's true!"

It was estimated to be about 50 to 60 meters away from the stable, but Cheng Xuemin threw him directly into the stable, which made Xie Jin's eyes light up and he gave a thumbs up in praise.

"It's all in the past, there's nothing to mention!" Cheng Xuemin waved his hands, feeling embarrassed.

But what he said was not right. It was not so easy to pass the southern line, and there were constant frictions in the next ten years.

Especially in 1984, the intensity of the fighting in Laoshan was no less than the counterattack at the beginning of the year.

Therefore, Cheng Xuemin, a first-class combat hero, might be called up again at any time. After all, in the past two months, the commander-in-chief said that he was reluctant to let him go.

"Then I won't say any more!"

Xie Jin also waved his hand and stopped talking too much on this topic. Instead, he got back to the point and said to Cheng Xuemin again:

"Xuemin, you are also good at writing songs, aren't you? I wrote that song for the consolation performance in the south before, and now it has been spread to the Chi Lechuan Ranch, and I can hear those herdsmen singing it again!"

"And the poem 'Loess Plateau' that you wrote for Lao Hu of Yanhe Literature. Although I didn't hear it at the time, I'm sure it won't be bad!"

“So I was thinking, our filming of The Horse Herder is almost finished, and we’re just short of a theme song!”

"How about you, Xuemin, take the trouble to compose a song?"

Okay, I’m here to get something for free again!

Previously, Lao Mo from Xi'an Film Studio sang the theme song of "Loess Plateau" for free in front of Xie Jin, and Lao Xie finally remembered him.

Now Cheng Xuemin has been given another task, and he has taken the time to compose a theme song for "The Shepherd"!

Row!
For Cheng Xuemin, copying songs is just a matter of convenience.

Cheng Xuemin immediately agreed and said, "Okay, Director Xie, I'll take this matter to heart and try to write a song when I have time!"

"But I can't guarantee whether it sounds good or not, I'll just give it a try!"

"That's fine! Everyone says that what you write, Xuemin, must be a masterpiece, so I'm looking forward to it!" Seeing Cheng Xuemin readily agree, Xie Jin couldn't help but smile happily.

Then let Cheng Xuemin have a good rest, as there are still many scenes to catch up with tomorrow.

Write the theme song for "The Horse Wrangler"?
Cheng Xuemin went over it in his mind and found that the original theme song of the movie "The Shepherd" was actually from the Chi Le Chuan Ranch.

It is the classic ancient poem "Chi Le Song", which is just composed with a heavy melody.

but!

Since Xie Jin had asked Cheng Xuemin to compose a song, it would seem that Cheng Xuemin was being too perfunctory if he directly used the ancient poem "Chi Le Song"!

Therefore, I have to copy another poem to pay tribute to Xie Jin.

Which song are you paying tribute to?

Since it’s the theme song of “The Horse Wrangler”, it must be appropriate to the occasion!
Give Xie Jin a song called "Tie the Horse with a Pole". I wonder if Old Xie will strangle himself to death? !

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Asking for a monthly ticket!
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