Starting from the deputy company commander of the Soldier Assault Team

Wang Cheng pulled over two umbrella-shaped fill lights and placed them on the left and right sides in front of the red curtain. He then called out to Zhang Anbang, "Come on, comrade, sit here with your wife. Let's take the last picture."

After this photo is taken, you can take your wife to get your marriage certificate. Seriously, you're really something, finding such a beautiful wife. Awesome!

"Hehe, that's for sure. Someone as outstanding as me will definitely find an outstanding wife."

Seeing Zhang Anbang's smug look, Wang Chenggang didn't give him any face at all, "Come on, I think you just got lucky."

"Let me tell you, you'd better take good care of such a good wife, otherwise you'll be sleeping on the sofa and won't even have a place to cry."

"Hehe, Lao Wang, you're talking about yourself, aren't you? My wife is very gentle, she would never treat me like that."

"Okay, okay, you're good. Comrade, hurry up and take your wife over there. Let me tell you, the men should stand on the left and the women on the right, with their shoulders close together and their heads slightly touching. Don't tilt your heads, don't turn your faces to the side, and definitely don't look down."

Look directly at the camera, smile naturally, keep your shoulders level, don't shrug or hunch your back, and keep your waist straight.

"All done," Zhang Anbang replied with an OK sign after hearing Wang Chenggang's instructions.

Following Wang Chenggang's instructions, Zhang Anbang stood close to Gu Xiaonan. Then he realized he didn't know what to do with his left hand, so he simply raised his hand and placed it on Gu Xiaonan's shoulder.

"Hey, comrade, I know this is your wife, but you don't need to hug her so tightly."

"You've forgotten what I just told you: you can't put your arm around someone's shoulder for the marriage certificate registration photo. The Civil Affairs Bureau is very strict; if you do, it'll be considered an 'artistic photo' and they won't process it. Besides, your arm is wrapped around someone like a comrade-in-arms, which is very inappropriate."

"Okay, Lao Wang," Zhang Anbang replied, while casually sliding his hand onto Gu Xiaonan's waist.

"Hey comrade, that's enough. If you want to take advantage of your wife, go home. You can't even put your arm around her waist. You two should just lightly touch shoulders together and lean your heads a little closer together."

Face the camera directly; that's the only way to get a proper shot. You can use it directly without having to reshoot, understand?

And when you laugh, don't stretch your mouth so wide. A slight smile that shows your teeth is enough. I know you're happy, but when you open your mouth that wide, it doesn't look good at all.

Seeing the photographer Wang Chenggang's teasing expression, Gu Xiaonan raised her hand and slapped Zhang Anbang's hand. "Alright, stop fooling around. Hurry up and finish shooting. We'll go to your sister-in-law's place to help prepare the food later. We can't just wait to eat."

Following Lao Wang's instructions, Zhang Anbang stood up again, and soon the two-inch wedding photo was taken.

Wang Chenggang sat in front of the computer with his digital camera and started exporting the pictures. He didn't do any retouching, mainly because Zhang Anbang didn't let him do it. So what if there are some black spots? It's nothing to be ashamed of.

What if the photo is ruined and the Civil Affairs Bureau doesn't recognize it? We'd have to go back and take another photo, which would be a waste of money and, more importantly, a waste of time.

Because there was no need for photo editing, Wang Chenggang was able to produce the photos very quickly. In just ten minutes, all the pictures, including six-inch artistic photos and two-inch ID photos, were printed out.

Fifteen photos: five versions of Gu Xiaonan's solo photos, four versions of Zhang Anbang's solo photos, and three versions of fifteen photos of the two of them together. This was printed in large quantities, mainly because Aunt Zhang asked her to get photos as well.

In total, Lao Gu wants one, Aunt Zhang wants one, we'll keep one for our own family, and the two of them want to bring one for themselves.

The marriage certificate photo was printed normally; there was only one photo, but four were cut out. Three were used for registration and obtaining the certificate, and Gu Xiaonan planned to keep the extra one in her wallet.

Old Wang neatly arranged all the photos and handed them to Zhang Anbang. "Alright, comrade, are you going to save these digital originals on your computer or take them with you?"

Original professional photos take up a lot of memory; I can only save them for two days at most, while original ID photos can be saved for half a month.

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Anbang grinned and pulled a USB flash drive out of his pocket. He had bought it when he went out earlier.

It has very little memory, only 128MB, and it's an Aigo USB 2.0 device. This piece of junk cost 400 yuan, which is more expensive than his previous 512GB USB 3.0 devices.

Zhang Anbang handed over the USB drive, "Old squad leader, could you copy the original digital images into this drive for me?"

Don't save the original image; delete it completely. If it's convenient for you, Senior Sergeant, I'd like to do it myself. Don't worry, I won't touch your other clients' files.

Wang Chenggang didn't take the USB drive. He gave Zhang Anbang a meaningful look, then stood up and said, "Haha, I understand, I understand. We're all brothers, you can do it yourself."

After saying that, Wang Chenggang stood up and made way for him.

Because he was wearing civilian clothes, it was inappropriate and against regulations to salute according to the internal service rules. Zhang Anbang straightened his back and said in a loud voice, "Thank you, old squad leader."

After speaking, Zhang Anbang pulled out a chair, sat down, plugged in the USB drive, put all the negatives into a newly created folder named 1, and then copied them to the USB drive.

Then click "Safely Remove Hardware" in the lower right corner, wait for the system to pop up a prompt, and then unplug the USB drive and put it in your pocket.

He then created a new text document and started typing Windows batch scripts on the keyboard. Soon, lines of code appeared in the text box.

@ Echo off

Warning: All photos in D:\Photo_Client_1 will be permanently deleted and cannot be recovered!

pause

echo is completely deleting the client's negatives folder...

rd /s /q D:Photo_Client_1

echo Initiating overwriting residual data on the hard drive, please wait...

cipher /w:D:

The cleanup is complete. The original photos cannot be recovered.

pause

After you finish typing, click "Save As" and enter "Clean Film.bat" as the filename.

As the mouse double-clicks, the script starts running automatically, and a line of prompt text flashes on the screen.

Warning: All photos in D:\Photo_Client_1 will be permanently deleted and cannot be recovered!

Please press any key to continue...

Zhang Anbang casually pressed the space bar, the same key his colleague from his previous life, who worked as an auditor, pressed most often.

The screen display changed to show the message: "Completely deleting the client's negatives folder..."

With images flashing by so fast they're almost invisible, the directory jumps by rapidly, and the screen displays again that it's starting to overwrite residual data on the hard drive, please wait...

A large number of light-colored English and numerical logs began to scroll rapidly in the black window, indicating that a three-layer overwrite of the disk's free space was underway.

Three minutes later, the screen displayed that the erasure was complete and the original photos could not be recovered.

Please press any key to continue...

It seems that Wang Chenggang's computer's D drive had very limited remaining space, otherwise it wouldn't have finished overwriting so quickly.

Press the spacebar again, and the black window closes.