The snowman that Sun Dahai and the others built gradually took shape. The second child no longer sat on the sledge. After thanking the security guard, he ran over and built a snowman with his brother.
Two security guards were at two high places, watching them play while helping them guard against wild beasts that might come down the mountain in search of food due to the heavy snow.
The snowman was piled up, but it was a pity that there were no briquettes and carrots, the eyes and nose were not visible, and there was no hat. The snowman was too simple.
Fortunately, the second child didn't care at all and jumped around the snowman. Sun Dahai also regretted that he didn't bring a camera or a videographer. It would be great if he could take a photo of this scene and keep it as a souvenir!
Speaking of cameras, Sun Dahai suddenly remembered and wondered how the preparations for "A Better Tomorrow" were going?
It was originally said that the movie would be released in mid-January, but after the test screening, Director Wu added several sets of special effects for the sake of perfection.
To this end, the three major investors increased their investment by a proportional amount of HKD 1 million for special effects production and publicity expenses. In the end, due to delays in post-production, the film had to be delayed.
The new release time of the movie has been arranged and will be officially released on the first day after the Spring Festival holiday, which is the sixth day of the Lunar New Year.
But that's fine. Originally, this movie wasn't a family-friendly movie with a happy ending. It's always a bit weird to release such a bloody and fatal action movie during the Spring Festival.
What's more, after the preview screening, the five-minute applause from all the invited audiences had already spread throughout Hong Kong, causing a great sensation in the film and television circles and among movie fans.
There is no ticket sales at the test screening, and the audience is all invited by the crew and producers, and is mainly industry insiders, professional film critics and loyal movie fans.
In view of the industry regulations, all moviegoers are not allowed to reveal the plot before the movie is officially released. Forcing those who are passionate about expressing their feelings after watching the movie, they can only post some comments and play around with the plot.
Amid almost overwhelming praise, the movie actually had to be delayed and released a month later. This seemed to be a kind of hunger marketing, raising people's attention to the movie to a very high level.
The postponement of the movie's release is actually a good thing for Sun Dahai. Originally, the movie was released in mid-January, and only 30,000 pieces of Lan Sili's windbreaker of the same style could be delivered.
Now that the release date has been delayed by a month, the Landa Garment Factory in the capital is working overtime to ensure that 50,000 windbreakers will arrive in Hong Kong before the movie is released.
Landa Garment Factory will only have one and a half days off during the Spring Festival this year. Starting from the morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, three shifts will start again, with people stopping and machines working non-stop to complete a new order of 50,000 pieces of windbreakers of the same style as the movie as soon as possible.
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With the barking of the shepherd dogs and the "bleeping" of the sheep, all the sheep in the base came back.
Seeing that it was getting late, Sun Dahai called everyone over and returned to the base together.
There are now more than a thousand sheep in the base. They are walking in a vast expanse of white flowers in the wilderness. There are employees on horseback and shepherd dogs around to stop the sheep that try to leave the herd.
Behind the sheep, there were two horse-drawn sledges following behind. In addition to shovels and other tools, there were also several dead hares on the sledges that were pulled back.
"You're going to catch rabbits when you're herding sheep?"
Sun Dahai became curious and asked the security guard holding the horse.
The security guard replied: "The animals that do the most harm to the grassland are hares and prairie zokors.
Especially our grassland, because it is well protected, their natural enemies cannot enter and they reproduce quickly, so we must hunt them appropriately to reduce their number."
Sun Yuanyuan asked curiously: "Uncle, the rabbit runs so fast, how do you catch the rabbit? Do you let the dog catch it?"
The security guard smiled and replied: "No, the dogs at the base are mainly responsible for herding sheep and guarding. Have you seen those long iron poles on the sledge?
We place these iron poles at a distance away from the sheep, stand them up, smash a section into the ground to secure them, and then put two or three hunting traps on the iron poles, and that's it.
When the sheep are preparing to leave, we collect the iron poles and hunting traps, and we can often harvest them.”
Hu Cheng asked: "The rabbits we eat on New Year's Eve are the ones you caught, right?"
The security guard said: "Yes. The hunter who taught us these methods said that rabbits must be caught every winter, otherwise there will be too many rabbits in the coming year.
Sun Dahai said: "But to be honest, rabbit meat is too thin and poor. It's okay to eat it once in a while. It's not interesting to eat it often."
The group of people chatted and laughed and followed the sheep back to the base.
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The next day was the second day of the Lunar New Year. In the afternoon, several people came from the base to pay New Year greetings.
Sun Dahai was in the cafeteria, teaching people at the base how to use the karaoke function. A girl from the office came to Sun Dahai and said that Manager Gao invited him to the office.
Sun Dahai followed. As soon as he entered the door, he saw three soldiers and a villager in his thirties chatting and laughing with Gao Hongjun in the office.
When Gao Hongjun saw Sun Dahai coming in, he stood up and introduced him: "Dahai, this is Company Commander Zha from the unit next door, and this is Comrade Wang Sanpao, the captain of the backing camp ranger team. They are here to pay New Year's greetings. The base has just been established.
They helped us a lot.”
Sun Dahai said hello to them, and then everyone sat down.
Gao Hongjun went to the unit next door to pay New Year's greetings yesterday afternoon. Today, Company Commander Zha brought his orderlies and drivers for a return visit. This is normal.
Wang Sanpao is actually very familiar with the troops and the base, which is quite interesting.
Sun Dahai listened to their chat with great interest and observed the main supporting role in "The Little Landlord".
It turned out that Wang Sanpao was the local hunter mentioned by the base security. When the base was built, he provided training for the base security and all employees. The content of the training was the situation of local animals and plants, as well as some common sense about survival in the wild.
Every year when new recruits arrive in the army, the company will invite Wang Sanpao for training. Therefore, he has a very close relationship with both parties.
After chatting for a while, Wang Sanpao also took the time to express his gratitude to Sun Dahai. It turned out that one of the children Sun Dahai brought back on New Year's Eve was his daughter Wang Xiaowa.
After chatting for more than half an hour, they stood up and said goodbye. Of course Gao Hongjun would not let them go like this, and he warmly invited them to have dinner together.
Company Commander Zha was very happy and agreed to stay. Anyway, we were very familiar with each other. Wang Sanpao refused with a smile. It was getting dark and he wanted to go back to Kaoshantun. There were no street lights on the mountain road.
Sun Dahai likes the character Wang Sanpao in "The Little Landlord". The character in front of him is exactly the same as the character in the book. He is also an honest, forthright and responsible person, so he also has a good impression of him. When I met him
When he wanted to leave, Sun Dahai also offered words to persuade him to stay.
"Uncle Sanpao, please stay and have a meal together. If you have something to do at home, we will send a car to take you back. If there is nothing else, you will stay here today.
We have been invited by Village Chief Li to participate in the village's flowing water banquet tomorrow, you know. Let's go together tomorrow."