During the Chinese New Year this year, except for Yu Tongtong going to school in the United States, Yu Dongqing's family spent time in Yanjing.

Mingmei feels that this year is very happy, in addition to being able to accompany her parents in the thirties of the Chinese New Year's Eve, of course, the more important reason is that the "Roadside Picnic" has a word-of-mouth box office double harvest.

In the next step, according to the contract that has been negotiated, the film will be broadcast on the three major video websites in China, and the sales of copyright income will be 6.5 million, which is another lot of income.

In addition, this film was also shortlisted for this year's Yenching University Students Best Screenplay and Best Director Awards, waiting for the final results to be announced.

At the same time, Lao Xu also took this film to participate in the New Jersey International Film Festival and the European Independent Film Festival, striving for more awards.

Of course, after the New Year, he returned to Yu Dongqing's hometown as usual, and it has become a practice to travel between the two elderly families from the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve to the fifteenth day of the first month every year.

Many post-80s and post-90s generations are like this.

You don't need to say much, just listen to your parents' nagging and happily finish the table full of dishes they make.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the family returned to Yanjing, Yu Dongqing originally wanted to continue to live a leisurely life, but received a call from Li Wan from Shanghai, asking him to come to Shanghai.

"The Wandering Earth 2 has ended, and now it is entering the most critical post-production stage, you, the director, always want to come and see it, right?"

"Before the Chinese New Year, Du Xuefeng sent me some video materials taken by him, I think it's very good."

"It's good, but what are you doing in Yanjing one day? The spring in the south of the Yangtze River is coming, and you don't want to feel the breath of spring? ”

The breath of spring?

When did you become so romantic?

However, after listening to Li Wan's words, he was also a little moved, so Yu Dongqing said goodbye to his wife and children and rushed to Shanghai by high-speed train.

However, at this time, Li Wan had already rushed to Nanjing.

"I Am Not the God of Medicine" is also about to be completed.

Shanghai is still relatively cold in February, but there is really a breath of spring, and you can often see tulips blooming on the streets and roadsides, in full swing.

Yu Dongqing first came to the audio-visual center of Pudong New Area and Science Fiction Film and Television Base, stayed in the audio-visual center for three days, and had serious exchanges and discussions with Du Xuefeng's team.

Compared with the original time and space of "The Wandering Earth 2", the script written by Yu Dongqing has been greatly revised, and Du Xuefeng's movie is naturally different from the original.

But it doesn't matter, as long as the tragic and touching atmosphere of human beings facing the end of the world described in the script is depicted, and finally uniting to save the earth.

Including the sentence "The Chinese space flight squadron, those over fifty years old, are out of the ranks!" ”。

Of course, the focus is on special effects.

For this reason, on the first day after leaving Yanjing, Yu Dongqing went to RAYS Company again to meet Wei Wenming's team.

At this time, Wei Wenming did not have the decadent Tang Dynasty that Yu Dongqing saw for the first time, but seemed to be high-spirited.

"Uncle Yu, are you here? Sit, sit. Wei Wenming greeted warmly, poured Yu Dongqing another cup of hot tea, and then took out a document from the drawer of the boss's desk.

"This is the company's financial statement, I was originally going to mail it to Ms. Yang Liu, since you are here, I will let you see it."

Yu Dongqing waved his hand.

"You better let Yang Liu see it, I have a headache when I look at the numbers."

Wei Wenming laughed when he heard this, and simply reported to him the business situation next year.

"Uncle Yu's "The Wandering Earth" was a great success, making our company famous, and in October last year we received part of the special effects work for the Hollywood sci-fi movie "Thunder Warrior", and now we are in intense production, this matter is mainly in charge of Fei Fei, she is in Los Angeles, but she is back today."

"You have to make special effects for American films, but also for "The Wandering Earth 2", do you have enough manpower and equipment?" This is a question that Yu Dongqing is concerned about.

For this, Wei Wenming is confident.

"Uncle Yu, the company has recruited 40 engineers for data processing, and more importantly, we have contacted the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, where we will perform data calculation and graphics rendering, which greatly reduces our workload."

"I dare to say that the special effects production cycle of "The Wandering Earth 2" will definitely be shorter than the first part, and there will definitely be no machine work and employees on vacation."

Yu Dongqing smiled when he heard this.

He remembered that one day when he came to RAYS the year before last, he saw that the entire office of the technology center was empty, and only Shangguan Feifei was on duty.

Depressed, he had no choice but to go fishing in Chenjiabang.

Yu Dongqing returned to his hotel after finishing his errands, and he didn't want to go out at night, anyway, he would return to Yanjing tomorrow.

At nine o'clock, I talked on the phone with my daughter who was far away in Philadelphia, and after taking a shower and getting ready to go to bed, I received a call from Wei Wenming.

"Uncle Yu, haven't slept yet, have you? Out for a barbecue? ”

"Barbecue?"

"That's right, Fei Fei rushed back from Los Angeles, and I heard that you are in Shanghai, so I want to invite you to dinner."

Yu Dongqing originally wanted to refuse, but he couldn't resist Wei Wenming's enthusiastic persuasion, so he had to agree.

Wei Wenming's place to eat is located in Xujiahui Tianyaoqiao Road Snack Street, not too far from the hotel where Yu Dongqing lived, and it was only more than ten minutes to take a taxi.

Although it is already ten o'clock now, and the spring is cold, there are still many diners and tourists, and it is very lively.

Yu Dongqing: They went to a barbecue restaurant.

In China, barbecue is one of the most popular foods, no matter what city you are in, from all over the world, barbecue is undoubtedly the most accessible to people with different eating habits.

Needless to say, Yu Dongqing and Wei Wenming, Shangguan Feifei, who has only been back in China for more than two years, already likes this kind of food very much, and is still clamoring to put more chili noodles!

Scold?

Could it be that he inherited the characteristics of his father's Jiangxi people?

The five of them chatted while eating, talking about filmmaking and some anecdotes, which was very happy.

"Uncle Yu, do you know what I like to eat most after returning to China?" Shangguan Feifei was holding a skewer of mutton and eating it in a big gulp, while talking, not caring about her image at all.

"I know, barbecue."

"That's right! Grill! Oh my God, I didn't expect there to be such delicious food in this world. Shangguan Feifei had an exaggerated expression.

"So, as soon as I return to Shanghai, I can't wait to eat, I often come here to eat, doesn't it taste particularly good?"

Yu Dongqing nodded.

"Our pot of stew in the Northeast is also delicious." Li Li interjected.

Unexpectedly, Shangguan Feifei replied:

"I don't like it, it's a mess all put together, it's just a waste of deliciousness!"

Li Li was speechless for a moment.

Seeing his old friend's son eating deflated, Yu Dongqing smiled secretly in his heart, but said on his lips: "Feifei, then you haven't eaten an authentic Northeast one-pot stew, Li Li's father made it very delicious." ”

"Uncle Yu is true, the one my dad made is called authentic." Li Li immediately became frowning again, "When you came to BJ that day, I invited you to my house and asked my dad to make you a pot stew in the Northeast." ”

"We'll talk about it then." Shangguan Feifei couldn't deny it.

It seems that the two are talking?

Doesn't it seem like it?

Yu Dongqing is not easy to ask about the younger generation.

"Here, here, cheers!" Yu Dongqing raised his beer glass.

The five of them drank it all at once.

At this moment, Shangguan Feifei suddenly lowered her voice and said:

"Hey, I found a weirdo."

(End of chapter)