Chapter 249: Moving 20 Centimeters, Is It Formalism?

Sun Li nodded and gave a thumbs up, "Awesome, you are worthy of being from Shandong Province."

Chi Yu smiled.

Wang Rui took the phone back and smiled, "Director Sun, I think your 'AI cannot replace humans' is somewhat reasonable. Can AI come up with this form?"

Sun Li shrugged and smiled awkwardly.

Amid the laughter of the crowd, the crew arrived at the hotel in Zhoucun District.

After checking in, Chen Xiao simply packed up and left the room, ready to go to the shooting location.

Art director Min Hongqian came to arrange the venue ten days ago.

He contacted Min Hongqian online and basically determined the scene.

However, the actual effect online and offline may be different.

The shooting will start tomorrow. He just made an appointment with Min Hongqian to meet at Zhoujiayuan in 20 minutes to see if there is any problem.

Chen Xiao walked to the hotel lobby wearing a mask and met two young people, a man and a woman, who also walked towards the gate.

The two looked to be in their twenties or thirties, with a camera hanging in front of their necks.

These two people are reporters from Xinxia Entertainment and came with the crew.

Xinxia Entertainment is affiliated with Xinxia.com, which is also an official organization. However, it is not as influential as CCTV.

When he saw the two, they also noticed him.

The female reporter smiled and greeted, "Hello, Director Chen, are you going out?"

"Yes, to the filming location."

"We are just about to go outside the Zhou family compound. Director Chen, is it convenient for us to go in today?"

"No problem, but I will be busy later and may not be able to take care of you two."

"You are polite, we will take a look by ourselves and get familiar with the environment."

"Okay, no problem."

With that, the three walked out the door.

After walking out the door, the three got on the crew's car and drove to the Zhou family compound together.

Chen Xiao asked, "Where is Teacher Duan?"

There were three reporters this time.

Reporter Duan was the oldest, in her fifties.

The second was the female reporter in her thirties, surnamed Feng. There was also a newly graduated reporter named Xiao Zhou who had just joined the company.

Among these three reporters, Reporter Duan should be the leading reporter.

But the most famous one is Xiao Zhou who just graduated.

Chen Xiao had an impression of him.

Because when Xiao Zhou was in school, he and his friends filmed a short video "Post-00s Rectify the Workplace", which became a big hit.

I heard from reporter Duan that Xiao Zhou's ambition was to be a reporter who upholds justice. So, after graduation, he resolutely left the team and joined Xinxia Society.

Reporter Feng replied: "Teacher Duan just got off the plane and is not feeling well. Let us come to the field to investigate first, so that it will be convenient for the interview later."

"Is that so? Is Teacher Duan okay? Does he need to go to the hospital?"

"He said he just needs to rest for a while."

Chen Xiao nodded and said to the secretary in the front row: "Chi Yu, you arrange someone to go over and say hello and see if there is anything we can help with."

"Okay."

...

Ten minutes later, the car stopped at the gate of Zhou's compound.

As soon as they got off the car, they saw that at the gate of the compound facing north and south, two stone lions were guarding the gate.

Walking on the stone road and crossing the knee-high threshold, everyone walked into the courtyard, and the magnificent classical courtyard came into view.

The houses around the courtyard are symmetrical, with wooden window frames painted red and carved with exquisite patterns. The red eaves are covered with green tiles, and the eaves are slightly upturned.

The red walls and green tiles look particularly bright in the sun.

Everyone continued to walk forward and came to the front hall.

Here, the scene where Fugui lost the old house and his father mortgaged the house to Long Er under the witness of the elders and witnesses will be filmed.

There is also a scene where Fugui borrows money from Long Er.

The crew will shoot the former tomorrow.

As soon as they came in, a man with half white hair came over.

This is the art director Min Hongqian this time.

Because the art director needs rich historical knowledge this time, this old senior was specially invited. And the old acquaintance Wang Rui, this time as the deputy art director, cooperated with him.

Min Hongqian greeted Chen Xiao, then turned his head and looked across the main hall.

"Director Chen, take a look, is there anything else that needs to be changed?"

"Let me take a look."

Chen Xiao sat forward, and on the wall of the main hall, the beginning of "Zeng Guang Xian Wen" was posted. The paper is old and yellowed, and there is some dust on the edge.

The art team did a very good job, which is to highlight that "Zeng Guang Xian Wen" has been posted on the wall for many years.

There are a few sentences on the text on the wall:

It is easy to grow and retreat in the mountain stream, and it is easy to change the heart of a villain.

When you meet someone, just say three points of what you want to say, and don't throw your heart out.

It is difficult to draw the bones of a tiger, and you can know a person's face but not his heart.

It's a pity that after so many years of being posted on the wall, Fugui didn't remember a word.

It's done very well here.

Chen Xiao continued to walk forward and carefully looked at the layout of the hall.

He walked to the northwest corner and turned his head to look across the room.

In the center of the room is a round table and round chairs, and there are Taishi chairs on the east and west sides.

To the south is an Arhat chair that can be sat or reclined.

To the west of the Arhat chair is a floor-standing candlestick with a red candle on top, and to the east stands a mahogany screen with gold flowers.

Behind it hang three characters - Fu Lu Shou.

Chen Xiao stood still and observed the angle of view, turning slightly to adjust his vision.

Half a minute later, he said to Min Hongqian: "Teacher Min, I need to ask the props team to move the three characters of Fu Lu Shou on the wall 20 centimeters to the east."

"Okay, I'll remember and ask them to adjust it later."

"Thank you."

Chen Xiao continued to move forward.

At the entrance of the main hall, Xiao Zhou frowned slightly, looked at the three large characters on the wall in confusion, turned around and whispered to the female reporter who was looking at the door frame decoration.

"Sister Feng."

Reporter Feng came over, "What's wrong?"

Xiao Zhou whispered, "Sister Feng, Director Chen asked to move the three characters 20 centimeters to the left. Can you see the purpose?"

Reporter Feng stared at the wall for a while and shook his head, "Let's ask Director Chen later."

Xiao Zhou nodded and murmured, "20 centimeters, what can it change?"

"Xiao Zhou, watch your tone."

Xiao Zhou waved his hands quickly, "Well, Sister Feng, I don't mean anything else. I respect Director Chen very much. I watched his online open courses when I was in school."

As he said, Xiao Zhou looked at the three characters of Fu Lu Shou again and said in a low voice:

"But now many companies and units often do useless work. The character is more than one meter high, and it doesn't look better if it is moved 20 centimeters to the left. What's the need? I think it's a bit like the formalistic reports in some units."

Reporter Feng pursed her lips and looked at Chen Xiao and others who were busy in the room.

She didn't react strongly to this matter. After all, she also wrote a lot of reports that no one read, so she was used to it.

Many leaders do pretend to be busy.

If that's the case, they'll go and ask Chen Xiao, what's the meaning of moving 20 centimeters to the left?

This is annoying.

They're not a picky media, they just need to find some hot spots to write about, there's no need to ask.

"Forget it, let's not ask. Let's follow Teacher Duan's instructions and take a closer look at the Zhou Family Courtyard first."

Reporter Feng walked directly to the wing room.

Xiao Zhou looked at the three words "Fu Lu Shou" again, sighed a little unwillingly, and turned to follow Reporter Feng.