As soon as he got off the train, He Xin exhaled a long breath of turbidity, the air outside the car was cold, but it was not as fresh as he imagined, and there was a smell of coal burn that he was once very familiar with, just like returning to his hometown of the small county town with billowing black smoke in the big chimney when he was a child.

Looking up, the whole sky was gray, and there was no ray of sunlight in sight, and a cold wind rolled up a cloud of dust and blew over, which made him shiver suddenly, and quickly turned his back and pulled the zipper of his down jacket up, and put on the hat behind him.

Dragging the suitcase, he slowly walked out with the flow of people, and he still regretted that he knew this, so he might as well have promised Ning Hao to let him send a car to pick him up.

Although there is still a month before the Chinese New Year at this time, and it has not really reached the peak of the Spring Festival, the tide of people returning to their hometowns has begun to take shape, especially in Zhangjiakou and Datong, and most of the destinations for going out to work are in the capital.

The train at half past three in the morning, it was almost ten o'clock at this time, and for more than six hours, he was stuffed in an airtight carriage, crowded with people, and there were all kinds of smells, which tortured him enough. At the same time, I also deeply feel that I seem to have become a lot more squeamish in the past two years, and I didn't have so many problems before.

As soon as he got out of the station, he saw Ning Hao, who was wrapped like a bear, waiting there with a cigarette in his mouth and stomping his feet.

"Haozi!" He Xin shouted.

Ning Hao heard the prestige, his eyes searched in the crowd out of the station, and after seeing him, he quickly threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, trotted over, took the suitcase lever in his hand, and said with a smile: "The road is smooth, right?"

"It's okay, it's just that there are more people. He Xin smiled reluctantly.

"Look at you like this, you know that the road must be crowded enough! In the past, every time I came back from winter vacation, it was the same, this carriage was like a stuffy jar, crowded with people, and I had to endure it for about ten hours each time. Your trip is fast, less than six and a half hours. ”

When He Xin heard this, he was immediately unhappy and said, "Then you didn't say it earlier!"

"I said that I would send a car to pick you up, but you don't want it, and you also said that you want to see the scenery along the way, so what else can I do?" Ning Hao said with his hands.

“......”

Before, He Xin heard that the scenery along the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway was particularly beautiful, so he wanted to take the train to enjoy it all the way. As a result, when I bought the ticket, I didn't buy the ticket during the day at all, and the rest were the tickets that departed in the early morning, and the car he did at half past three in the morning this time was the latest one.

When the car started, it was dark and sloppy outside the window, and he couldn't see anything, and when the sky began to brighten, it was almost to Zhangjiakou, his eyes were full of loess, and he had been accompanying the destination of his trip - Datong.

"Alright!

Ning Hao raised his arm affectionately, originally wanted to hug his neck, but found that some of it was out of reach, so he had to lower his height, put his arms around his waist, and said affectionately: "I've been waiting for you here for almost half an hour, people are almost freezing, let's go quickly, take a bath and rest after going back, I will invite you to eat mutton at noon, this is the real sheep outside the mouth!"

Ning Hao still drove the half-new Jinbei van, which he drove all the way from Qingdao a week in advance.

The car exited the train station parking lot and headed south, across the city. He Xin came to this place for the first time and looked out of the car window curiously.

His impression of Datong is still stuck in the geography class when he was in junior high school, Datong is a city rich in coal reserves and an important industrial base in China.

"The city is quite big, and there don't seem to be many people!" he muttered until the buildings on the side of the road were becoming sparse and low.

"Of course the city is big!"

Ning Hao pointed to the car coming from the opposite side while driving, and said with a smile: "See, Jin B! This is the second largest city in Shanxi! The secretaries are all members of the provincial standing committee!"

said, and said in a low tone: "But now that resources are scarce, some time ago there were rumors that those big factories here were going to move to Xinjiang, and I don't know if it's true or not, and everyone is panicking." By the way, Chief Jia's film was filmed here. ”

He Xin nodded, but it seemed that what he saw was a little different from the city that appeared in the movie.

Ning Hao's hometown Huairen is only about 20 kilometers away from Datong City, less than half an hour's drive, which used to belong to Datong, and a few years ago the local system was redivided, and Huairen was divided into Shuozhou.

When the car was driving in the dilapidated county seat, Ning Hao saw that He Xin was still looking out curiously, and couldn't help but smile and ask, "How is it here?"

"Sort of. ”

"Haha, it makes sense! I was originally filmed in Pingyao, here used to be the same as Pingyao, it was also an ancient city, but the history is much longer than Pingyao, here was called Yunzhong in ancient times, have you heard of it?"

"It turns out that this is Yunzhong County!" He Xin suddenly blurted out.

He had seen it several times in his previous life, and the most impressive of them was that whenever Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty wanted to crusade against the Xiongnu, he generally divided his troops into two ways, one from Youbeiping and Yuyang, and the other was Izumo.

Right Beiping and Yuyang He Xin estimated that it should be the part of the capital, and at this time I knew that Yunzhong was here.

"Yo, I can't see it, you still have a little knowledge, do you?" Ning Hao unexpectedly forgot about him and said.

"Fart, I used to learn history very well, okay?"

While laughing, the van pulled up and turned into the courtyard of a guest house.

The façade of the guest house is very old and not large, with three floors and only a dozen rooms on each floor.

It is estimated that business is not very good at this time, Ning Hao stood downstairs and shouted twice, and saw that people came down one after another, and even his girlfriend Sister Na had already come.

There are only about a dozen people in the entire crew, Ning Hao is also a screenwriter, director, and photographer, in addition to the partners behind the scenes, there are also his classmates and actors at Nortel, for the time being, there is only He Xin alone, which is quite a bit of a grass stage team.

Although the guest house is small, there is always a separate bathroom in the room, and the heating inside is very sufficient, the bath water is very hot, and the amount of water is also very large.

At noon, the meal was in a small restaurant next door to the guest house, which was regarded as a pick-up for him.

This small restaurant is called a restaurant, in fact, it is a mutton restaurant, there are few stir-fried dishes, the main business is mutton, and the mutton here has the characteristics of the mouth, that is, the mutton is boiled in vain, the large piece of mutton is taken out from the cauldron of a mouth of eighteen loads of water, chop it, put it in a large basin and serve it directly on the table, the size and thickness are not particular, in short, it is a very large piece.

The dipping sauce has soy sauce, vinegar, oil chili, garlic foam, coriander, chopped green onion and the like, and you can match it according to your own taste, and then there is a large pot of mutton soup, with a solid alcohol stove underneath, and all kinds of chops in it, and the mutton blood and cabbage vermicelli that are cut into pieces and put on the plate aside, you can eat it at the same time, and it has a bit of a hot pot taste.

The sake is loose sake, and it is said to be a pure grain sake brewed in a local sake brewery, and although it is average, it will not be good if you drink too much.

Because everyone is about the same age, some have just graduated, and some are still students, and after a few sips of wine, their stomachs quickly became warm.

Some of them are just for a job, some are taking advantage of the winter vacation to practice, earn some money by the way, and at the same time to add a sum to their resume. However, from their conversations, He Xin can still see that they are a group of people who love movies.

There is no industry in this small place, except for a few coal mines, mainly relying on agriculture and breeding, and the sheep here are very famous, just like the meal they eat at noon, the mutton has no smell, it is very delicious.

He Xin once worked in the canteen of Chinese opera, and got up early every day to buy vegetables with Zhang Qilin, and he knew a little bit about whether the so-called mutton had a smell, mainly because the mutton had been exposed to the air for a long time, and there was oxidation, which would make the mutton taste bad. The sheep that has really just been killed is directly put into the pot, and there is no smell at all.

The monk He Xin wants to play in this film is from a village called Nanxiaozhai under the county seat, which is Ning Hao's real hometown, it is said that the village is an administrative village with the most sheep in the county, and the history of sheep raising even dates back to the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty.

Ning Hao said that if his father hadn't gone out of his hometown to become a glorious steelworker, then he would definitely be a member of the village's sheep raising and killing army, and he himself would probably be a little sheepherd.

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