Huayu for engineering students

Chapter 388 No.60: Psychological preparation before shooting

Most of the movie "The Matrix" will be shot indoors, so most of the exterior scenes are basically fake, that is, made with computers.

When it comes to using computers to create three-dimensional models, there is a saying, “It’s easier to make something new, but it’s harder to make something old.”

This is why at the beginning, the main applications of three-dimensional modeling were in industry, such as construction, decoration, furniture, and workpieces. It is because most of these things need to be new, and the newer they are, the more glamorous they appear.

But it’s different when you want to make a movie. If you want to show a big city, the city can’t be all new, most of it is used old things, so you need to make it old.

New things can be painted as a whole. This is stainless steel and that is glass, and every surface can be neat.

But what needs to be aged is often the details, such as the wear and tear of furniture, the mottled houses, dust, and cobwebs. These things cannot be solved by one material and a set of lights.

For example, we often use a plane to represent a wall, and then lay the material you need on the wall, such as a brick wall. This is very simple.But what came out looked like it was newly decorated, and it looked like bricks with wallpaper, lacking the texture of the bricks themselves.

So you need to use concave and convex black and white pictures to describe the height difference, so that the bricks on the wall and the gaps between them can show a sense of hierarchy.

But this still doesn't work. You will find that such bricks are all the same, and even if the bricks are industrially produced, each brick is different, and the concavities and levels inside cannot be completely consistent.

And to use wallpaper-style bricks, it is to use a small piece of image to repeat the paving. Each piece is the same, and the entire wall looks like a complete repetition.

This is completely inconsistent with reality. If you do it like this, it will be fake at first glance.A lot of the so-called [-]-cent special effects come from this, because it's cheap.

Of course, this is impossible to meet Wang Xu's requirements. For scenes that are too complex, Wang Xu chooses to use entities to complete them. Those physical special effects he has done have been done for several months now, and the required scenes have basically been completed. It's almost built.

Most of them are perfecting the details. The real-life special effects team has expanded from the original 300 people to a large team of nearly [-] people now. Dadong is leading the team to restore Wang Xu's vision for each scene.

Wang Xu also invited a lot of foreign aid from the two major art academies in the imperial capital to help. Most of the art workers at this time were very poor. After all, the domestic collection and art market had not really started yet.

It is not difficult to support yourself by painting. After all, you are a primary school teacher and teaching art is an easy and comfortable job.

But if these people could really sit down and teach, they probably wouldn't choose art as their major. Who doesn't have a dream to be a painter?

In addition, most painters become famous late. On the one hand, their techniques and ideas are not mature when they are young. On the other hand, the market and vision also need time to cultivate. In the new century, publicity is much more important than the level of painting.

If you can win the favor of capital and then spend a lot of money on publicity, then there are indeed some people who become famous at a young age, but most of them have to endure it slowly. Painters like Leng Jun who won a gold medal at the age of 30 are already considered young.

But you didn't look at him. When you came to the imperial capital, you went to Wang Xu to catch the autumn wind. In this way, you know how hard the artists of this era worked.

Leng Jun was also invited by Wang Xu as an art director, mainly focusing on details. He is as keen on hyper-realistic painting as Wang Xu, but the content of his paintings is often closer to reality.

Wang Xu's paintings are actually more imaginative. Although they are very detailed, connoisseurs can almost tell who painted them at a glance.

Wang Xu's paintings are better at the flow of light. He especially likes to show the splendid effects of light produced by reflection, refraction and scattering on mirrors, water droplets, dust, and air, which can give people a warm feeling.

For example, her paintings of Wang Fei, well, there are several of them now, and they are no longer isolated pieces. There are already oil paintings by Wang Xu in the exhibition room of the new building, and they no longer rely on a bunch of sketches to support the show.

His paintings always have a dreamy effect, which is obviously very real, but also very illusory. This is Wang Xu using hyper-realistic painting methods to create dreams. It can be regarded as a genre of hyper-realism. This genre is more common in the West. .

As for the cold paintings, as the name suggests, they are really cold. She likes to express reality with reality, watching with a cold eye, leaving the emotions of the characters to the characters themselves, and using the characters themselves to express the characters' own souls.

Wang Xu also likes his paintings very much. His "Little Tang" is like this. Well, this time it is Tang Yun. Wang Xu has spent hundreds of thousands to buy it and hang it in the exhibition room. This amount of money is enough to be cool. It’s time to live a life without worries about food and clothing.

The same painting method, but completely different means of expression. This is the characteristic of artists. Two artists always have distinct self-styles. If you do not form your own style, then it will be difficult for your paintings to sell at a high price. .

The style must be something you fully recognize and love. It will be formed slowly and naturally in the painting day after day. You can't be new for the sake of being new, let alone make up a new style.

Well, at least this is the case for classical artists. As for modern artists, most of them are also like this. However, there are also too many so-called artists who are promoted forcibly, such as the son of a certain poet who can become an artist without knowing anything. It is really cheap.

Of course, when you talk about foreign modern artists, Wang Xu won’t comment on them. After all, they earn their own money, so just like them.

Therefore, the so-called retro is often dissatisfaction with the present. Whether in China or the West, it is a consistent practice to use retro to subvert the present, such as the Renaissance, neoclassicism, the rise of hyperrealism, etc. When art gradually becomes a plaything monopolized by some people, newcomers spontaneously resist.

When art becomes a joke to some people, when you hang a piece of white paper in the exhibition hall and call it art, art has been trampled by yourself, so it deserves to be trampled by others.

The international art atmosphere is very strange. Western art has really made great achievements in the classical era. It is hard to say whether the works of ancient Greece and ancient Rome are true or false. Those works of art are really too advanced.

But from the so-called Dark Middle Ages to the Renaissance, the West actually made great achievements at least in oil painting.

The Renaissance was actually dissatisfaction with the church's monopoly on art. A group of ordinary people began the process of literary and artistic creation. The core of the works gradually changed from gods to humans. Then, in the name of ancient Greece, it became the so-called Renaissance.

There are many such works that refer to ancient times, and they are not uncommon in Chinese history. Therefore, the political commissar's statement may not be unreasonable.

Especially in fact, most of the early archeology in Europe relied on merchants.This is similar to China relying on Panjiayuan for archeology. What do you think the proportion of real things can be?

Wang Xu especially likes oil paintings, sculptures, etc. These are really developed in the West. No matter which year they started, at least during the Renaissance in the [-]th century, they were really very mature.

For many oil paintings, if you really see the original works, you will feel like worshiping them. They are really great, similar to the feeling of going to Dunhuang.

Of course, some ancient Chinese paintings also have a similar feeling. If you have seen Wu Dai Dangfeng, you will be surprised to find that many modern comic painting techniques can be found in it. The elegant and wind-like feeling is simply magical. .

Leng Jun can actually be regarded as a pretty good one among the younger generation of painters. Although he may not be the leader, he can definitely be regarded as the best.

Moreover, his style of painting is particularly suitable for being the art director of Wang Xu's film. The reason is that his understanding of the real world is pictorial. He can well understand what Wang Xu wants to express, and he can also see that there are still elements in the scene. What's missing?

Of course, Wang Xu would definitely not look for someone who is too famous. Most of the people he looks for are people born in the [-]s and [-]s. These people have not yet grown up, and their paintings cannot be sold for much money. Not even enough to buy paint.

Oh, by the way, most of Wang Xu’s various pigments have finished the laboratory stage and are currently looking for manufacturers to implement industrial production.

Even though pigments are a small business, the upstream and downstream operations are not simple. The basic material, pigment powder, needs to be made by chemical plants. The Imperial Chemical Plant was about to be relocated, so they found a place in Yanjiao and are building a factory.

Color powder can not only be used as pigments, but also for industrial paints, coatings, various printing inks and the like.

Color is a big business. Which color should be produced, where it should be produced, and how much should be produced. There is a lot of knowledge involved, but Wang Xu doesn't have the ability to figure it out.

The finished paints require professional paint factories. Oil paints, acrylic paints, and moisture paints all have different production processes. If they are not specialized in this, it is hard to explain.

However, the standard colorimetric national standard he is concerned about is already being formulated, led by the National Standards Committee and a group of experts from relevant units organized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

It is estimated that this thing will take several years to finally take shape. This is not something created from scratch. Wang Xu said how to do it, just do it. The use of colors has a history of thousands of years. Now we need to set standards and design There are so many aspects.

And, in the final analysis, color is not just a physical appearance, it is actually more of a biological interpretation.

In other words, pure physics cannot explain people's perception of color. Biology, even humanities, and social research are needed to understand how people understand various wavelengths.

For example, the human brain will automatically make up for the dictation of colors. If you put a piece of gray paper on a piece of red cloth, you will think that the paper is green, and this is what the brain makes up.

This is the deviation between people's perceived colors and actual colors. It also needs to be standardized in the standard color system. This is a very big project.

However, naturally there are scientists who are willing to study these things, and Wang Xu will not get involved. It is not known how many papers will be produced, and it has nothing to do with Wang Xu. He can just wait and use them.

Although Wang Xu was looking for people from the two major art academies, in the end it was not just the two major art academies who came, but most of the people who came were not from the two major art academies.

The main reason is that there are not many people in each school, and there are even fewer who can live outside. However, the Imperial City has always been a place where various artists like to gather together. Therefore, there are many art students from all over the country who come to the Imperial City to make a living. .

In these days, there are many sculptors who do decoration and oil painters who paint wall paintings. Wang Xu pays them to provide art guidance. It does not cost too much. In Wang Xu's eyes, these and that family It's just cheap labor.

And the important role of these people in Wang Xu's crew is to make the old things look like they have gone through time, not the ones that have gone through thousands of years of vicissitudes, but the ones that have been used for several years. Natural wear and tear.

This requires even more grasp of details than thousands of years of vicissitudes. After all, you cannot strengthen people's perception of antiquity through physical means such as fragmentation and damage. Instead, you need to carefully pass scratches, discoloration, mottled, and creases. , to express changes in details such as depressions.

And this is why even though I have been busy for several months, these details are still not done well.

It's easy to make something new, but it's hard to make something old, and it's the same in the field of physical special effects.

Wang Xu attaches great importance to his first film, and the texture of the film often comes from casual details, which define the tone of the entire film's atmosphere.

Wang Xu travels between the Imperial Capital and Changping every day. If motorcycles were not faster and could take shortcuts on various roads, he would probably have to take the shuttle bus for more than an hour compared to a big car.

During the day and night, various prop models were modified and various scenes were simulated over and over again. Jiang Wen also participated in it now. Although he did not come every day, he did help Wang Xu point out a lot of problems.

Even though the filming has not started yet, various preparations have not stopped for a moment, and we are fully prepared for the filming to start in early March.

It can be said that Jiang Wen is purely idle. His "Sunshine Days" was just finished filming a few years ago. It was just edited a few days ago and was sent for review. This film is a bit sensitive and I guess I have to break with it.

He was officially free, but at this moment, the relationship between him and Liu Xiaoqing might not be very pleasant. Wang Xu rarely inquired about other people's affairs, and Jiang Wen would not talk to a friend as young as Wang Xu. Nagging about this.

It's just that Wang Xu rarely sees Liu Xiaoqing coming over recently, so he made such a guess.

Although Jiang Wen may seem domineering, he is actually quite easy to get in touch with, and as long as it is not related to film work, he is really easy to talk to.

Wang Xu was here thinking about how to use various props and models, and what to do when shooting. While posing, he talked to Jiang Wen about his ideas. As a director, Wang Xu was also a big girl who got on the sedan chair for the first time. Thinking about being more prepared.

"You have the wrong mentality." Jiang Wen watched Wang Xu's busy work all day without saying anything, but suddenly said this during dinner in the evening.

"What's wrong?" Wang Xu seemed to be aware of it, but didn't react for a while.

"You're a little too detailed. When making a movie, you still have to look at your feelings. You can't prepare everything without any mistakes. If you prepare too carefully, it will mess up your own thinking.

I think the painters you found are very responsible and they do a good job. You should grasp the overall effect more, rather than taking their work and working out the details with them. "Jiang Wen thought about it carefully and took a sip of Erguotou. Well, it would be nice to have Erguotou here. Changping is surrounded by fields.

"I just feel that something is wrong, but I haven't been able to find it." Wang Xu scratched his head a little. He was very energetic these days, but the results were just like that. There was no such hearty feeling as when he was working before.

"You are making a movie, and your preparation is the most complete of any director I have ever seen. If you go into detail, it won't actually help much. Although movies rely on details to enhance the atmosphere, they are also limited.

You have already prepared the key environment, but what is more important is the actors’ performances. You cannot prepare everything perfectly, and you cannot use props to replace the actors’ performances.

I feel that you are nervous now. "Jiang Wen pointed out Wang Xu's problem to the point.

He discovered this and didn't really believe it at first. He had been in contact with this kid for half a year. Ever since he decided to perform "The Matrix", they had been drinking and chatting together.

He has always admired this young friend very much. He is a monster in all skill levels. He can also be said to have a great vision and an extremely clear and certain understanding of the future. He is a person who makes him feel confident. There is something excessive.

But this time, his energy was wrong. He seemed a bit demanding about details. Although most of them made sense, there was something wrong with being obsessed with details.

"Let me think about it, don't say it. It seems to be true. What you said makes sense." Wang Xu was silent, thinking for a while, and then said with emotion.

That's right, he was just nervous. He was no longer the poor student he was before, nor was he a migrant worker who had nothing to lose in his previous life. Now he was successful and famous, giving advice everywhere, as if there was nothing he couldn't do in the world.

Instead, he began to be afraid of failure and failure.

His mentality was wrong from the beginning of his career in movies. At first he was thinking about not making money, then he was thinking about setting a benchmark for future generations, and then he was thinking about raising the level of the film industry.

He was too anxious to eat hot tofu, but in fact he was right to choose the movie "The Matrix". Among science fiction movies, this kind of movie that relies entirely on imagination does not actually have such high requirements for special effects. Many things can be shot with normal Solution by means.

There is no need to go overboard at all. For example, if he is willing to go to other countries to shoot, many scenes do not need to be set up and can be directly rented ready-made.

He can only do it again here, and then make it old. Not to mention the trouble, the effect may not be as good as shooting abroad.

However, having said that, he is a little reluctant to go abroad now. Every time he goes abroad, he is a little cautious and goes back quickly. The thought that there are always unruly people who want to harm me has never been eliminated from his mind.

Choosing such a laborious and not very flattering method to shoot may be the reason for avoiding going abroad.

Although he seems to know everything, he has always known that in fact he doesn't know much, and his talent is not that amazing. He is just an ordinary person with a plug-in.

In essence, he is a lucky person. His skills have not been fully integrated through his own study. His music is not bad. Although he was not a musician in his previous life, he is still a professional musician. He also likes to listen to music and is interested in all kinds of music. He is a lover of literature and art among engineering students.

Art is not bad either. In my previous life, apart from my handicap, my appreciation ability was still online.But when it came to film, a complete systematic subject, he was actually at a loss. But after two years of smooth sailing, he had become accustomed to the style of doing things first and thinking later.

But in retrospect, if there were not so many teachers, professors, and doctors supporting Mizuki, the things he tinkered with might have reached the limit of single crystal copper.

He was in the front, but it was the professors at Mizuki who were behind them. He threw out projects one after another and came up with topics one after another. Each one seemed important, and he also played an important role.

But without the talent pool in the Imperial Capital that was so huge that it was almost impossible to see the boundaries clearly, he would have been left with piles of unfinished projects that he would not be able to clean up at all.

The patent pool, technology pool, capital pool, open source pool, everything he created, in fact, he just started it, and then countless others filled in the gaps for him. This is how he can have a smooth journey. The core key to smooth flow.

Is Wang Xu important? If he says he's not important, he probably won't be able to do it among the higher-ups, but he definitely doesn't say he has the ability to conquer the world by himself.

He is a leader, a pioneer, and the one who can really grow food and build cities relies on national-level scientific research institutes such as Shuimu, Imperial University, and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

At critical times, critical people, critical words, a great opportunity can be encountered once in a lifetime, and Wang Xu was lucky enough to meet another one.

"Understood?" Jiang Wen blurted out as he saw Wang Xu slowly raising his head, his eyes bright.

"Understood, Brother Jiang, thank you, I'll toast you." Wang Xu nodded, relieved, raised his glass, touched Jiang Wen, raised his head and drank it.

The spicy Erguotou is swallowed like a knife, and a burning sensation like a flame surges up. It is pleasant and hearty, this is the feeling.

"Don't be so polite. Tell me more carefully. You have something on your mind." Jiang Wen knew that Wang Xu had figured it out, but he was also a little curious about what Wang Xu couldn't figure out.

"It's like you said, I'm scared." Wang Xu rambled about what he had done in the past two years to Jiang Wen. It didn't matter whether Jiang Wen understood it or not. From entertainment to scientific research, it was almost a talk. Over and over again.

Jiang Wen didn't think it was a big deal when he first listened to him talk about writing songs and singing. Then when he heard the stuff he was tossing about in Shuimu, he felt a little confused and a little stupid. It was like I couldn't understand what he was saying. What, but he looked shocked.

"Come on, I'm still trying to persuade you. I can't help but feel sour. How dare you say just this little thing? Not to mention that you're only 22 years old, you're still flying to the sky at the age of two hundred and two. I heard what you said is so lively , what level are your achievements?" Jiang Wen really doesn't understand the scientific world, which is also the norm for people engaged in literature and art.

In their view, there is almost no overlap between the industrial, scientific and literary fields.But in fact, almost all literary and artistic revolutions are continuations of the industrial revolution, without exception.

Without the 12-well temperament spread from China to Europe, there would not have been a great revolution in music. Without the invention of new pigments, there would have been no great revolution in painting. Without various precision processing capabilities, the piano would not have been born.

The influence of industry on literature and art far exceeds the imagination of practitioners. Let’s not talk about the far-reaching, just talk about modern times. The invention of radio broadcasting directly brought music from the concert hall to thousands of households, and singers officially became a decent profession. .

Before that, they were called actors. Those who sang operas in the opera house were just actors raised by the nobles, and they were just toys for the nobles to play with.

It wasn't until the [-]th century that radio and radio brought music to thousands of households, and the profession of singer really began.

Later movies, TV shows, online dramas, and short plays, none of them are like this. Technology has always been the root of the development of art. In an era of technological explosion, if you can’t grasp the trends of technology well, I’m afraid there’s nothing you can do. In the field of literature and art, it has always been prosperous.

Most of the directors and actors of this generation have disappeared from the public eye over time, and it is probably due to this reason.

“Some of them are very powerful, top-notch in the world, and some are just like that, top-notch in the world, but there are no historical discoveries, so they may not be included in textbooks.

"Wang Xu filled a light cup.

"Yes, yes, if you continue to talk, I guess I have to slow down first, return to the history level, and enter the textbook, grandma." Jiang Wen quit and reprimanded angrily.

"Okay, okay, let's change the topic. You have to understand the development of some technologies. Even if you don't understand, you still have to understand the trends of technology. At least you need to know what those things can do and who they can impress." Wang Xu wanted to understand it himself. , he started to change the topic and spoke to Jiang Wen. He was good at this.

"It's true. If it weren't for your film, I would have never thought about many things.

To be honest, I feel like I really made a profit by following you in this film.

Even though I have made several more films than you, I have not even thought about many of your concepts and ideas. They are completely like things from two different worlds.

Then, you slammed this thing in front of me, and I was really shocked.

It’s not just me, let me tell you this, Lao Mouzi came to have a drink with me two days ago, and I showed him what I saw at your place, and he even mentioned that he wanted to come to you and learn from it. "Jiang Wen and Wang Xu, you toasted me a glass, and I drank it back to you. Three bottles were gone before your eyes."

"Didn't he say that he would come before? Why did he change his mind? Why, the great director can't bear to lose face? You still want to say it?" Wang Xu was very surprised. Zhang Yimou has always said that he will come. Ever since After watching a few clips of Wang Xu, he couldn't forget the film.

He has always had the idea of ​​​​getting out of the existing stereotypes, and has been trying, trying rural themes, but still has not deviated from his original fixed internal logic.

But science fiction films are two completely different fields from what he has shot before. It is a brand new attempt. He wants to learn more about how to make science fiction films, and there is no better way than to join the crew.

"That's weird, he was busy going through the trial. Like me, I heard that his "Alive" was blocked by the authorities. He came to me for a drink and asked me about the film. He probably felt that he was in the same boat.

He will probably come over in two days, and Xu Ke will probably come too. They are all very worried. You have to say that they can still hold Qiao in front of the audience and actors.

Here with you, haha. "Jiang Wen smiled and did not continue to show the timidity of some great directors.

"What's wrong with me?" Wang Xu didn't react for a moment, and looked up in confusion and asked.

"Pretend to be stupid, right? You are an ordinary actor, you are an ordinary director, and you are an investor. You are still the kind of employer who takes money as money and just plays around with more than [-] million yuan." Jiang Wen made it clear. , pointed at Wang Xu with chopsticks, suggesting that he was pretending.

"Uh-huh, it's true. In fact, what I don't care about the most is the identity of the employer." Wang Xu smiled sarcastically. He was telling the truth, but people don't always believe the truth.

Or how can we say that the Chinese ancestors are powerful? They have set their morality there early. Many good things are actually anti-human, such as selflessness, generosity, gentleness, humility and so on.

If there is no moral restraint and all depends on human nature, then human nature is actually no different from animal nature.

The reason why people are different from beasts is that people have concluded that those morals are beneficial to the entire group but harmful to the individual. Because of this, morality is as awe-inspiring as the starry sky.

Wang Xu knew the truth about himself, and he also knew that no one believed the truth he told. He also knew that the fact that he was very tough in doing things many times really came from his status as an employer.

Since he has wealth and freedom, he will naturally not give up for five buckets of rice. If he wants to use the latest technology and computers to build a city, he can only let him.

He dares to use all the scenery for filming, and the producer will not interfere too much. But at worst, he will invest his own money and not take you to play with his style, which is scary.

Even Jiang Wen, who is known as a rogue, ask him if he dares to be as willful as Wang Xu.

Therefore, Wang Xu does not value money, in fact, it is just because he has it, and there are many more.Others don't believe in Wang Xu, just because others don't have it, it's still far from it, that's all.

"You just stand and talk without pain in your back. 2000 million, I heard it has gone up again? According to the official exchange rate, this is [-] million less. Good guy, just make a movie, don't care about the result, just this place, you have to be scared Most of our colleagues in the industry will die." Jiang Wenzila took a sip of wine. He and Wang Xu drank the most casually. They drank whenever they wanted without any persuasion.

Because he knows that there are not many people in this world who can make him drunk, but this Wang Xu must be one, but this man is very particular, and he will never make others drink.

"That's true. Xiangjiang is boasting about big productions all day long, but it has not even invested a quarter of the money for this film." Wang Xu's daily visits to Xiangjiang have become a habit.

"No, it's strange to say that you seem to have a strong opinion on Xiangjiang. Didn't you also make your mark there? Your wife should still get her ID card there."

"No, it's impossible, it's not me. My daughter-in-law's imperial household registration is recognized by the country." Wang Xu denied the three consecutive times and helped Wang Fei clarify that in this life, he did not let Wang Fei cancel her household registration. The imperial household registration is very easy to use. , the ones from Xiangjiang are worthless.

At this time, the domestic household registration management is not strict. Many people who have acquired overseas nationality still retain their Chinese household registration, not to mention that Wang Fei only lives in Xiangjiang.

Wang Xu said hello to the superiors through Director Jiang. Wang Fei's household registration was naturally kept stable. The superiors did not really hope that Wang Xu would actually have a foreign-related marriage. Although it was not impossible, it would always give people excuses in the future, which would be very troublesome. .

After a small drink, Wang Xu called Wang Fei and reported that he would not go back and slept with Jiang Wen in Changping.

After thinking about it, he actually let go of his worries. Wang Xu did not lack skills, but was too afraid of failure.But now, Wang Xu looked away. If you fail, just fail. Why do you have to worry about the country and the people?

All he wants now is to make a movie he likes. Telling his own story and getting his own pictures right are all that is enough. It would be great if other people can grow, but if he doesn't, he won't die.

China is so big, and it’s no big deal that the previous movies and TV series were so bad. There are things that people will naturally explore, and there is no need to bear the responsibility on themselves inexplicably.

Wang Xu's project team now rents a lot of private houses here. Sometimes Wang Xu is too lazy to go back, or Wang Fei is not at home after a performance, so he stays here for the night.

The crew also built a temporary hotel specifically for reception. It was built using prefabricated panels. It is the first phase of a scientific research project jointly undertaken by the Department of Architecture and the Department of Civil Engineering. The house has been built, but the interior is not yet available. It's done. The water and electricity are not connected yet. It will take a few days before it can be used.

Opening the private house, it was rented for a long time, and someone was always looking after it. The stove in the house was always burning, and the house was warm.

There is also an aluminum kettle sitting on the stove, with boiling water inside and steam rising, keeping the dry room a little more moist.

This is a traditional humidification method. People in the imperial capital wash their faces in the house, use washbasins, and dry towels in the house. This can add a little moist feeling to the house.

In his previous life, Wang Xu didn't understand why the air conditioner needed a dehumidification setting until he was very old. It was so boring, until he went to the south for a few years.

That's true. When he first went there, he always felt that his clothes were not dried and his quilt was forgotten to dry. It was not until he saw the mushrooms on the bedside that he completely gave up the idea of ​​making a fuss.

There is a tin foil bag next to the pot, which has been roasting on the stove, and the visible black oil is leaking out.

This is the sweet potato that Wang Xu asked the cleaning aunt to bake before he went out. Well, he was once again misled by the Northeastern veteran. In the imperial capital, he still likes to call it sweet potato.

After coming back from the freezing cold outside, you walk into a warm room and take a bite of roasted sweet potatoes. They are sweet and have a hint of caramel on the outside. It is sweet for your mouth and warm for your heart. It is simply the best must-have in winter. Night snack.

I don’t know how the hotel will be done this time. That is the first stop in the future architectural concept proposed by Wang Xu. This time it is a bit rushed and the time is indeed a bit too rushed.

Wang Xu didn't go for any inspection, it was just adding chaos and not making his presence felt anywhere.

Anyway, the civil engineering professor said that it will definitely be used by then, so that’ll be fine.

In fact, it doesn't matter if it doesn't work. At the worst, we can just arrange to stay in Changping County. There are still hotels in the county. This place is not a tourist attraction, and the rooms are abundant.

Mr. Shaye will naturally handle it. In fact, Robert Shaye, Wang Jinghua, and even Zhang Dajun are not needed to handle such a small matter.

Wang Xu also felt that he was a little too eager. Such a small crew carried too many scientific research projects, and it was a little too hasty, which made many things less controllable.

There is really no need for him to be so anxious. Just do one thing well and let the results speak for itself, as he did before. It is better than anything else. Shoving in something of little importance only distracts his attention.

Take this quick-detachable hotel for example. In fact, it is not something that is needed urgently, and it does not have much market value. Apart from being used to brag and publish a few papers, it really does not have much commercial value.

What's more, this thing is not yet mature. There may be a lot of problems here and there when living in it. It will distract your own crew and the gain will not be worth the loss.

But now that it’s done, forget it and just trust the professors to do their best. If it doesn’t work, then just be distracted. What else can you do?

It’s just that no new things can be brought in. The crew still has to operate like a serious crew, and it can’t really turn into a scientific research base.

Wang Xu rubbed his hands and pulled up the duvet to cover him. The house was not big, so he slept not far from the stove. The fire and chimney were burning, keeping him warm. What, gas?Don't worry, Feng Dou is all set up, and Lao Didu is familiar with it.

There is no fire kang here in Changping. In the imperial capital, there was still the custom of setting up a fire kang. But the fire kang had to be burned with firewood. As the population increased, the Western Mountains were almost bald, so they no longer allowed wood cutting and used coal to burn the kang.

The common people could no longer afford to cook, so they all switched to coal stoves. The fire kang gradually faded out of the sight of people in the imperial capital and became an ancient legend.

The winter in the Imperial Capital is generally not too cold, and weather temperatures below minus ten degrees rarely occur. Later, probably in the past few years, the winters really became shorter and shorter, and the temperatures became higher and higher.

When Wang Xu was a child, there was still about a foot of snow every winter. It was not a problem to have a snowball fight or build a snowman. The students from the south would happily go downstairs to play in the snow during the first snowfall in the imperial capital. After playing all morning, they only got their clothes wet. , will not look dirty.

Ten years later, it seems that the Imperial Capital has never seen heavy snow of more than ten centimeters. The snow begins to melt before it falls on the ground, and it looks very muddy when it falls. Even if there is some snow, it must be carefully scraped off by hand, otherwise It will scrape the soil underground.

Not to mention building a snowman, even a snowball fight will look dirty. When you get home from playing for a while, your clothes will have to be washed. Who wants to touch cold water in this winter?

Therefore, later on, students from the south no longer came to the imperial capital to play in the snow. If they wanted to see snow, they had to go to Northeast Laotie's territory.

Global warming is really visible to the naked eye. Didn’t you see that the Arctic route is almost going to be open year-round?

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(See you tomorrow, 10K, I’m so disappointed)

(End of this chapter)