Chapter 32 My sister's name is Bo Caiyan, and you saved my life.
Chapter 32 My sister's name is Bo Caiyan, and you saved my life.
For those who came after, the journey didn't seem as rugged and bumpy as they had imagined. At least, there was still a road, and everything was new and exciting.
"Hey, Teacher Zhou, did you see the tires just now? They felt like they were twice my height!" The youngest student, Bu Xiao, was bursting with enthusiasm to share: "Wow, this car is amazing! I really want one; driving it on the road makes me feel superior!"
"Don't call me teacher, call me sister!" Zhou Zhou clearly spoke with a local accent. "This car is more expensive than our shared van, and you'll get caught before you even reach one intersection. You need a license to drive this kind of car, a G license, right, Teacher Liu?"
The oldest among them, Liu Fen, laughed and said, "Yes, but when I was a child, my family couldn't afford that. It was one of those really, really small ones, and very expensive. I remember it cost over 17,000 yuan with one carriage. Back then, there was still the concept of a 'ten-thousand-yuan household.' Well, at that time, these kinds of vehicles could still be driven on the road, but you had to pay road maintenance fees. My parents would use shovels to dig sand, shoveling it into the truck bed one or two cubic meters at a time from those one or two-meter-deep sand pits, about four or five cubic meters, and deliver it to the boss's house, making a net profit of 5 yuan!"
"Five dollars??" Another young female artist, Weng Jing, exclaimed as if she had discovered a relic of the past, "How tough it was... Ms. Liu, Ms. Liu... May I ask how much five dollars could buy back then?"
Liu Fen took off her sunglasses, revealing a pair of particularly standard phoenix eyes. Her bright eyes sparkled as she thought hard: "The prices of many things haven't changed. For example, back then, rice grown in the fields cost a little over one yuan, and now the price of rice is only three or four yuan. Some things have changed a lot, but what I remember is a schoolbag. I was quite vain when I was little..."
Weng Jing said timidly, "Teacher Liu, you're already so beautiful, can't you give us young people a little chance?"
The artists immediately burst into laughter.
"Go on~" Liu Fen said, "It's that schoolbag, 22.5 yuan, enough for me and my friends and classmates to brag about for a whole semester. I have to cover it with a plastic bag when it rains or is windy!"
"That's quite something to show off!" Zhou Zhou said. "Sister Liu must have to memorize a lot of books to recite, otherwise it won't look good if she can't stretch it out properly!"
Liu Fen laughed so hard she buried her head in her knees: "Yes, yes, you're absolutely right! And you have to have one book for each subject, and then you have to put them in one by one and take them out. I was so vain when I was little, and I still am now~"
The youngest, Bu Xiao, broke down: "Stop talking, stop talking! Isn't this what I was doing a few years ago? My toes are already digging into the ground..."
"Is Bu Xiao still in school?"
"Uh-huh!"
"Communication University of China? You and one of my best friends are alumni. I'll introduce you two sometime. She's become an investor now, and I don't need her services myself, but I feel like I'm missing out if I don't ask her for something. Considering you helped your aunt with a back massage after you got off the plane yesterday, you were very filial—"
"Oh, Sister Liu, why are you like this? I... I didn't mean it that way..."
"No, no, no, she's two years older than your parents, I'm not good enough for her!"
"Goose, goose, goose~"
"Haha, Comrade Bu, you're going to get cyberbullied by Sister Liu's fans!"
"How dare you!"
The three photographers were quite satisfied. Luckily, they were quick-witted enough to keep a hand with them, which would be more than enough material to edit into the trailer. So, they didn't feel that the time was too long. When the group of bulky and furry guys got off the bus, they even managed to make each other laugh.
"Quick, quick, help Xiao Bu up! If she falls, she'll roll all the way to the airport!"
"Sister Liu, why do you have frost on your head?"
"This place is amazing! The house is so big! Except for the cold!"
"Don't worry, there's definitely heating. These are several houses in total; you can't keep them warm just by burning firewood..."
"Wait, what's that? Is it an unfrozen river? No, no, it's a hot spring!"
"Huh? Really?"
This is a rare scene of harmony and unity, a true gem in the industry. Compared to those production teams where the competition for status is so fierce that even punctuation marks are meticulously divided, this team is incredibly relaxed. It doesn't feel like we're here to work; it feels more like a real vacation.
Bo Caiyan and Bo Chunyu stood in front of the car, their breath steaming in the white mist, looking at the houses before them, or rather—
fortress.
Last time they were rushing around in a panic, but this time they were calm and composed. As they looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar building that they had barely memorized, they felt as if they had been transported to another world.
The entire interconnected building complex is built against the mountainside, backed by a jagged, fractured cliff. Cracks crisscross the mountainside like a spiderweb covered in dust, further emphasizing the steepness, ferocity, and sheer size of the precipice. The buildings, carved into the cliff face, show clear chronological stratification. The easternmost building is almost entirely embedded in the mountain, with little trace of modernity except for its doors and windows. The middle building, slightly more recent and larger, is carved deeper into the mountain, its eaves and brackets exuding an antique charm. Its main structure is integrated with the third building on the westernmost side. One building stands out as quite rebellious, with its facade transformed into a simple and crude structure of reinforced concrete inlaid with massive stones. A solid concrete "eave" is probably four or five meters thick, rising abruptly and sloping eastward for over a hundred or even two hundred meters, forcibly giving all three main buildings a large eaves cap, making one feel extremely secure. Then there are various oddly shaped floor-to-ceiling windows embedded in the mountain, until the westernmost and outermost fortress-like right-angled triangular concrete stack, which is tens of meters high, finally brings the building structure to an abrupt end.
The weight of time, the stark contrast of styles, the rugged and untamed spirit of growth...
Bo Caiyan stared blankly at everything before her, a barely perceptible smile appearing on her face hidden beneath layers of protective gear. For some reason, or at some point, a chaotic yet reassuring feeling filled her chest once again, burning hot.
A group of people entered the room with great fanfare. The staff didn't even bother to remove their own equipment before preparing to check it, until one of them reminded them, "Why don't we wait a bit? It's too cold and the moisture will evaporate."
"This house is so hot!"
"This floor, with its size and grandeur, is breathtaking! It's magnificent!"
"Hello, landlord! I'm Xiao Buzi. I'll be relying on you for support these days!"
"It's so good to be young~"
Bo Caiyan removed layers of protective gear, stood in front of Lu Chi, gracefully twirled around, and then extended her hand as if inviting him to dance, her eyes mischievous yet provocative: "Let's get to know each other again. My name is Bo Caiyan, and you saved my life. Now you know who I am, right?"
Lu Chi sighed helplessly and held out his hand: "I know, I know. The ten-year period has ended. Dragon King, return to your throne?"
"Hehehe~" Bo Caiyan's perfectly composed mature and sophisticated demeanor vanished, replaced by a wide, goose-like grin, giving off a girlish vibe with a low threshold for laughter: "Now you can remember what I look like, right?"
Lu Chi: I remember, of course I remember. I also remember the little mole hidden under your round southern hemisphere.
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