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Chapter 235 Dinosaurs from the Jurassic Period
Wei Ming and Biaozi were chatting in the yard. There were only the two of them under the starry sky. They both thought at the same time, it would be great if they had Sister Yan Zi/Xue, Sister Lin and Melinda around them.

"You know about my cousin and Xiaomei." Wei Ming glanced at the moon and spoke first.

"Mei Wenhua told me in the letter that your cousin is a very beautiful girl, even prettier than my Yan Zi. Is he bragging?" Biaozi looked as if he didn't believe it at all but also cared a lot.

Wei Ming smiled and said, "Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. I think they are equally matched."

Anyway, they are not as pretty as my sisters Xue and Lin. This is not just beauty in the eyes of the beholder, this is the voice of the people.

"Are there any photos?" Biaozi asked hurriedly.

"I did have it originally, but I left it to my uncle."

"What a pity."

"You'll see them when you finish filming and return to Beijing. You'll have to be their best man then." Wei Mingdao said. Only Biaozi could be the best man, not him, because he was from the bride's family.

"What, best man, they are getting married?!" Biaozi said in surprise.

Wei Ming nodded: "It will be done within this year. Since the clothing store has made a lot of money, Xiaomei is already thinking about buying a house and a car."

Biaozi felt a sense of urgency as if he was being surpassed, but he was more confused: "Are they in such a hurry? Is it true? Is it time to do it?"

If the girl wasn't Wei Ming's cousin, Biaozi would have said it more directly: You got the girl pregnant!

"Go to hell, I'm watching you, how dare he!" Wei Ming snorted, "But you, you and Yan Zi should be careful, you are not old enough, you can't do it even if you want to."

Biaozi and Wei Ming are the same age. When they turn 20 next year, hey, guess what? The marriage law has changed and they have to postpone it for two years!
Biaozi's face turned red: "Oh, I'm paying attention."

"Did you really pay attention? I'm afraid you don't understand." As a veteran in the love field, Wei Ming could hardly hide his sense of superiority. The senior could give him some popular science when necessary.

"I don't understand? What shouldn't I understand?" Biaozi took out a family planning product from his pocket and shook it in front of Wei Ming. "Once I was injured, I took three from the clinic."

"There's only one left now?" 3-1=2, Wei Ming did some calculations.

Biaozi coughed twice and quickly put it away, his face flushed in the dark: "Then don't worry about it."

Tsk tsk, it seems that Xiaomei is the only virgin left among the four men in the dormitory.

Wei Ming touched his trouser pocket. It was a pity that he didn't have the habit of carrying Durex with him, otherwise he would definitely recommend this foreign product to him.

"Why don't you come to the set with us tomorrow?" Biaozi suggested.

Wei Ming: "Well, let's go and have a look."

"Then stay for a few days. Don't you want to take pictures of the scenery? I know several places with amazing scenery, just like paradise on earth!" Biaozi said, "I'll take you there. I'm not very useful to the crew anyway."

Wei Ming shook his head: "I will leave the day after tomorrow. I still have to go to Zigong to look for someone."

"Zigong?" Biaozi was startled. "Looking for your aunt?"

"Well, no matter whether we find her or not, I have to take my mother back to Beijing after this."

Biaozi thought for a moment and said, "Why don't I go with you guys?"

"Ok?"

"I've been so bored on the set. Sichuan is so big, but I haven't even been to Chengdu. I just passed by it once when I was changing trains," Biaozi became more and more excited. "It's settled. I'll tell the director tomorrow to give me a few days off. Anyway, it's fine as long as I can be back for my final battle scene."

Then Biaozi asked again: "By the way, Brother Ming, what are the good things to eat and do in Zigong?"

Zigong Mobile? Wei Ming shook his head and thought for a moment: "Uh, rabbit?"

Biaozi asked: "Is it for eating or playing?"

Wei Ming: “It’s delicious and fun.”

The next day, Biaozi asked Yanzi for permission first. Even though he was so determined last night, if Yanzi said no, he probably wouldn't be able to leave.

After getting Yan Zi's approval, Biaozi went to persuade Director Xu Xiaoming. Although Director Yang Qitian is a mainland director, Director Xu is more flexible and easier to talk to.

Biaozi described this search for relatives as being fraught with danger, as if Wei Ming, without his personal bodyguard, would never be able to leave Zigong alive.

Xu Xiaoming said happily: "I didn't expect that there is such a dangerous place in the mainland where you can survive a near-fatal accident. You must be careful. If you can't come back, we will have to change the boss."

That day, Wei Ming followed the crew to watch them shoot a fight scene. Fight scenes are very complicated to shoot, especially if you want to shoot them beautifully. It seems that a one-minute scene may be composed of many shots. The transition of each shot requires adjustments to the lighting, props, personnel, etc. Han Sanping also quickly joined the work. He is also an experienced lighting engineer and integrated quickly.

This movie has a lot of fighting scenes, which is definitely a visual feast for mainland audiences who have not had much fun these days.

Not to mention the mainland audience, Wei Ming watched it for a long time and felt that even Hong Kong audiences would give it a thumbs up. It seems that Yuan Xiangren has brought out his best skills and Xu Xiaoming did not disappoint Ms. Xia Meng's trust.

I heard from Biaozi that when they just started filming, Ms. Xia Meng flew to Wuhan to visit the set and cheer everyone on.

Of course, because Wei Ming was not highly involved, and coupled with the limitations of the times, there is definitely a big gap between it and the action movie masterpiece in Wei Ming's mind, even compared to "Shaolin Temple". This can only be made up for in the future, so we have to seize the initiative first.

After staying in Jiuzhaigou for two days and taking many photos of the scenery and people, Wei Ming took his younger brother Biao and his cousin and boarded a tractor to Zigong.

"I haven't asked you yet, have you met your father after arriving in Sichuan?" The tractor was making a very loud noise, and Wei Ming shouted at Biaozi at the top of his voice.

Biaozi: “It’s possible that we’ll see him this time.”

Wei Ming was stunned: "Your father is in Zigong!"

Biaozi nodded with a chuckle.

Wei Ming: "When I get to Chengdu, I'll develop the photos of the swallows I took yesterday."

Biaozi took something out of his bag and said, "I have it with me."

Yan Zi is the leading female role and has a very full role to play after arriving in Sichuan and she cannot leave the crew. Biaozi can only bring photos to show his father, which is why he insisted on following Wei Ming to Zigong.

Wei Ming nodded. He knew that the Third Front construction would soon be over, and Mr. Zhao, who had sacrificed so many years for the country, would be able to return home and reunite with his family. Maybe if Biaozi was careless, he would even be able to enjoy the company of his grandchildren.

After riding a tractor for a while, then a bus, a train, a bus, and a donkey cart, Wei Ming wrote a few essays on the way.

Men of letters are bound to be full of emotion. Once they are moved by a stunning beauty, they cannot control their pens, just like they cannot control their hearts when they see a stunning beauty.

Sichuan is very big. Although Jiuzhaigou and Zigong are not the farthest two places, they are almost as long as Jiangsu. In addition, the road construction is not very good, so it may take two or three days to walk there.

Biaozi told Wei Ming that his father was responsible for digging holes in the mountain, and that the road could be built by digging holes. Long Xiaoyang, who was standing by, was in awe when he heard this, as he understood too well the importance of building roads as he was in the mountains.

When they passed through Chengdu on the way, they spent a night here to satisfy Biaozi. They ate Tiancan Tudou and Sandapao, and then the three men left with a clear conscience.

After entering Zigong, they sat in a somewhat shabby bus and bumped along the way. Wei Ming chatted with the local passengers around him in a familiar manner. When they encountered dialects that Wei Ming could not understand, Long Xiaoyang would come forward to translate in time.

Just as he was talking, the car suddenly stopped.

"There's construction ahead. We have to take a detour." The driver looked at the warning sign in front of him, which meant they had to take a long detour and might arrive later.

Biaozi glanced at the unit on the sign and said hurriedly, "Master, please drop us off. We will stop here."

Wei Ming asked: "Where does your father work?"

"Ok!"

So the three of them were left in this remote place where there was no village or shop nearby. They walked forward for a long time with their bags before they saw the construction team.

Zhao Debiao immediately stepped forward and asked, "Brother, may I ask if there is a person named Zhao Tiezhu here?"

The worker spoke in Northeastern dialect. When he saw Zhao Debiao's physique, appearance, and bald head, he was startled at first and asked cautiously, "Who are you? What do you want to do?"

Wei Ming hurriedly stepped forward and handed him a cigarette, then said, "Hello, comrade. We are here to visit relatives. This is Comrade Zhao Tiezhu's son."

"Zhao Tiezhu from Yanjing?"

"Correct."

"You are Mr. Zhao's son?" The Northeastern man looked at Biaozi carefully, "I really can't tell."

Wei Ming said casually, "He takes after his mother."

The brother from Northeast China suddenly felt a little sorry for Mr. Zhao. No wonder he didn’t want to go home for the New Year.

The big brother from Northeast China is called Changhai. He told Wei Ming and the others, "Engineer Zhao is not at this construction site. He is in Dashanpu. We dug up a dinosaur over there during construction, and he went over to deal with it."

Long Xiaoyang: "What, dinosaur? What is a dinosaur?"

He only knew about dragons and Confucius, but he didn't know what Konglong was.

"I'll explain it to you later," Wei Ming said again, "Thank you, brother. If we want to go there, how do we get there? Where can we get a ride?"

Brother Changhai said, "How can there be a car here? If we walk, there are mountains all around us and it will take us a whole day and a night to get there."

Long Xiaoyang: "What should we do?"

Brother Changhai smiled and said, "You are lucky. We have a vehicle going over there to transport some equipment. Anyway, the work over there cannot start for the time being, so you can follow us."

"Oh, that's great, thank you, Brother Changhai!"

After waiting for more than an hour, the Jiefang brand truck started. Wei Ming and the other three sat on the truck bed. There were two other workers on the truck bed, one from Shandong and the other from Xuzhou, who was a very Shandong-minded man.

The construction of the Third Front was basically from industrially developed provinces, and everyone spoke with a variety of accents, with only one goal: even if they had to fight the damn Soviets, they had to keep the spark of industry alive, so that there would be no shortage of firewood. The two elder brothers also knew Zhao Tiezhu, and they admired his ability, which made Biaozi very happy.

They knew that the vicious man was Zhao Tiezhu's son, and asked what Wei Ming and Long Xiaoyang did.

Nowadays, you don't need two people to accompany you even when visiting relatives. With Mr. Zhao's son's physique, is he afraid of being robbed?

Biaozi immediately started to brag: "This is my brother, the famous writer Wei Ming. You all know the works of The Horse Herder and The Shepherd Class."

They both shook their heads, and none of them had ever heard of the name Wei Ming.

Biaozi was not discouraged: "You must have heard of "In the Field of Hope"."

The two nodded in unison. How could Chinese people not have heard this song? You can still occasionally hear it on the radio, sung by different singers.

Biaozi laughed and said, "This song was written by him. The other songs, 'Where is Spring' and 'Little Grass' were all written by my buddy."

"Oh, that's awesome!" The two workers instantly became enthusiastic and even invited Wei Ming to sing "In the Fields of Hope".

Wei Ming is so smart, he is determined not to show his weakness: "What's the point of singing alone? Let's sing together. I'll start."

"Our hometown is in the field of hope..."

After Wei Ming started, everyone soon sang along, even the driver and co-driver in the front joined in. This song is very popular and in line with the times. Moreover, because it is sung in the hometown, it is of great significance to those who are working hard outside.

As they sang song after song, Long Xiaoyang became a little anxious. After finally waiting for them to have some free time, he was finally able to ask the question again.

"Brother, what is Kong Long?"

Wei Ming: "Dinosaurs are a general term for a class of extinct animals. They first appeared 200 million years ago and became extinct tens of millions of years ago. Some of them could fly, some could swim, and a large number lived on land. The small ones might not be as tall as you, while the tall ones could be dozens of meters tall. They were also very ferocious and brutal. For more than 100 million years, they have been the rulers of the earth..."

In recent years, knowledge about dinosaurs has been constantly updated, with new results appearing almost every year. The popularity of dinosaurs is still very high abroad, so Wei Ming did not say anything too advanced. He just told them what was said in the latest edition of 100,000 Whys.

Not only Long Xiaoyang listened attentively, but even the two workers listened quietly.

It has to be a great writer who explained it so clearly. In fact, they didn’t even understand what a dinosaur was.

Long Xiaoyang was shocked and said, "Ah, it's dozens of meters high. The people back then must have been so miserable!"

Wei Ming laughed: "There were no humans at that time, so there was no need to worry about humans."

"I don't know how big the dinosaurs dug out this time are. I really want to see what dinosaurs look like." Long Xiaoyang was eager to try. It was really eye-opening to go out with his cousin. He saw how movies were made a few days ago, and today he could see the corpses of dinosaurs.

Wei Ming: "You probably won't be able to see what a dinosaur looks like."

Biaozi said knowledgeably, "That's right. It's been so many years. I guess only the skeleton is left."

Wei Ming: "In fact, it is not a skeleton, but a dinosaur fossil. To be precise, it is not a dinosaur bone. Moreover, because it has been buried underground for hundreds of millions of years, it has been squeezed and deformed. When it is first dug out, it is usually not complete. It is just pieces of stone. Scientists need to clean up the dinosaur fossils based on their own knowledge, and then piece them together into a dinosaur skeleton piece by piece."

Wei Ming gave them some knowledge about dinosaur fossils and described the appearance of dinosaurs.

They still had no idea, so Wei Ming took out the notebook and pen he carried with him.

"Let me draw it for you." He simply drew a classic Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Although Tyrannosaurus Rex is world-famous because of the movie series "Jurassic Park", it is actually a creature that lived in the Cretaceous period after the Jurassic period and was the overlord of the late dinosaur era.

In order to give everyone a more intuitive impression of the horror of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, Wei Ming drew a Tyrannosaurus Rex with its mouth open and a mouthful of sharp teeth, and also drew a human being next to it for comparison.

A standing Tyrannosaurus Rex is as tall as three adult humans. If a human were lying down, it would probably be six or seven times as long.

The four people immediately gathered around to look at Wei Ming's paintings, and they gasped. My goodness, if this Tyrannosaurus Rex was still alive today, he would have eaten them to pieces!

Moreover, this great writer can not only write songs, but he can also draw!
"Brother, can you give me this painting?" Long Xiaoyang requested. After all, his last name is Long, so it is inevitable that he would be interested in various forms of dragons.

Wei Ming directly tore it off and gave it to him: "This is a carnivorous dinosaur. I will draw a herbivorous dinosaur."

This time, Wei Ming still used humans for comparison, but he drew humans very small. This dinosaur has a very long neck, which is more than a dozen times as long as a human.

Several onlookers were amazed again. This dinosaur is too big. How long would it take to eat such a big one? It would probably be enough to feed a whole village for the New Year!
When seeing herbivorous dinosaurs, Chinese people no longer worried about being eaten, but instead started to consider whether to stir-fry, stew or grill them.

"This is Liang Long," Wei Ming introduced, saying he likes singing, wearing women's clothes, and playing alternative rock.

The guy from Shandong suddenly said, "I remember there is an animal called giraffe in foreign countries. Is it related to Diplodocus? It also has a long neck."

Wei Ming laughed: "This is actually not related. The ones that are closely related to dinosaurs are actually the birds today."

"what?"

No one could imagine how big the bird was, and they couldn't associate it with anything at all.

The idea that dinosaurs were the ancestors of birds was considered a relatively cutting-edge idea in the paleontological community at the time. Wei Ming had seen it in foreign magazines published by international students.

It was not until the discovery of Sinosauropteryx about a decade later that key evidence was provided for the evolution of dinosaurs into birds, because it was the first discovery of a feathered dinosaur.

So the dinosaurs in the old Jurassic Park trilogy had no feathers, but in the later Jurassic World trilogy, dinosaurs with feathers began to appear because academic views were updated.

Seeing that they couldn't imagine it, Wei Ming said: "You know ostriches."

Only Biaozi nodded. He had seen it in the Yanjing Zoo. After all, it was an African bird, and most Chinese people didn't know that such a large bird existed.

"An ostrich can grow to more than two meters, taller than a human, and it runs very fiercely," Wei Ming drew another picture. "Imagine a Tyrannosaurus Rex that was smaller and covered with feathers. Wouldn't it look a bit like it?"

The four of them were silent for a moment, as if for a moment.

"Brother, what kind of dinosaur was discovered here?" Long Xiaoyang asked again.

"I'm not sure about that, but there should be a lot of dinosaurs in Zigong. I heard that dinosaur fossils were unearthed here a few years ago, and there was even a complete sauropod dinosaur fossil. It might be of the same type. Oh, Diplodocus is a sauropod." Wei Ming explained.

Although Changzhou is famous for dinosaurs, that is an amusement park. The places that are truly famous as the hometowns of dinosaurs are Zigong in Sichuan and Lufeng in Yunnan, where there are many dinosaurs, many types, and some are well preserved.

When they heard that it might be a giant like Diplodocus, they all became a little excited. It turned out that humans have an innate fear and excitement of giants.

Because the distance was a bit far, they had a meal on the road at noon. Biaozi treated them and Wei Ming didn't try to grab it. They also ate Zigong's famous cold rabbit, which is just one of the countless ways to eat rabbit in Zigong.

No rabbit can leave Zigong alive, and the people of Zigong have plenty of tricks waiting for them.

The two people in the carriage listened to their colleague bragging about Wei Ming, a great writer who was versatile and knowledgeable about dinosaurs.

Then they refused to do it anymore and insisted on riding in a truck for the second half, letting the two Shandong guys and the spirited Shandong guy drive.

We continued to talk about dinosaurs in the second half, and this time we mainly talked about the extinction of dinosaurs. How could such an awesome species that could do anything, anywhere in the sky and in the sea, just disappear?

Everyone had a strong thirst for knowledge and were madly absorbing Wei Ming's knowledge of dinosaurs. They wished they could directly participate in the excavation of dinosaur fossils at the site. Wei Ming was almost draining out all the paleontological knowledge he had learned from Fangstaff.

So these guys gained some knowledge about "asteroid hitting the earth".

Biaozi said in fear: "So meteors are so scary. A small one is just a meteor, but a big one could mean the extinction of humanity!"

"Yes, just like the dinosaurs back then, they disappeared in an instant. It's so scary!" The driver from Zhejiang sighed.

While chatting and laughing, the truck arrived at the Dashanpu area in the northeast of Zigong.

Most of the Sichuan dinosaur fossils discovered since the 70s were found in this area. This must have been a dinosaur habitat billions of years ago. Wei Ming remembered that a dinosaur museum seemed to be built here later, and it was quite large.

Before finding Biaozi's father, Wei Ming first found someone he knew.

He first saw a jeep, which looked familiar, and then he spotted the people.

As soon as the car stopped, he jumped out and shouted, "Hey, Brother Lao Wan!"

Lao Wan was stunned when he saw Wei Ming, then he smiled and ran over to shake Wei Ming's hand: "Writer Wei, hey, why are you here? I know, you are still looking for your relatives, right?"

When Wei Ming brought his family to Chengdu for the first time, he asked Mr. Ma from the Writers Association for help and asked Lao Wan, the editor of Science Fiction World, to drive them to their uncle's house.

"Yes, I passed by here and heard that dinosaur fossils were discovered here." Wei Ming looked ahead.

Lao Wan said, “We are here for this too, to see if we can write something, or have the experts here write some popular science articles.”

Seeing his helpless expression, Wei Ming knew what was going on. Science fiction is difficult to write, and "Science Fiction World" could only be filled with some popular science articles without any storytelling.

Although they were helpless, Lao Wan and his colleagues were indeed very curious about dinosaur fossils.

"I came earlier than you, and I heard that a big one was dug up."

Long Xiaoyang asked: "How old is it?"

Wei Ming introduced: "My cousin Long Xiaoyang, you still remember him, right?"

"I remember, it's my aunt's, right?" Lao Wan had a good memory. "It's about ten meters long, and it's said to be very complete."

While they were chatting, Zhao Debiao had already walked into the crowd, specifically looking for those wearing uniforms and helmets. After not seeing his father for three years, his memory of him had become a little vague.

It was not until he heard the obvious Beijing accent and the noisy tone that he walked over nervously and patted his shoulder: "Hey, Lao Zhao~"

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(Yesterday's guaranteed two-in-one)

(End of this chapter)