Seeing the strange looks from the people around him, Ye Han changed his tone to Chinese again, "Who are you?"
The man was a little surprised, as if he hadn't realized yet that she could speak English. "My name is Brand, and I was invited by your Dragon Country to come here to film a documentary."
Hearing the word "documentary", Ye Han was slightly stunned. This word is common in later generations, but it sounded particularly strange in the 1970s.
"Do you have proof?" Ye Han asked.
Foreigners, the 1970s, and rural markets, putting these three words together seems awkward no matter how you look at them.
"I have it," Brand took out a certificate from his upper pocket and handed it to Ye Han to look at. "This is the certificate issued to me by your county leader. There will be no problem."
Ye Hanhan checked carefully and found that the other party really came here for work, that is, to shoot a documentary, and he was not lying.
"That's good," Ye Hanhan felt relieved, put the tomatoes into the bicycle basket, and prepared to go find Aunt Guihua.
"Wait, beautiful girl, can I ask you for a favor?"
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Hearing the words "beautiful girl", Ye Hanhan couldn't hold back his laughter and burst out laughing.
Before the end of the world, she had seen foreigners, but she had never been in such close contact with them. She didn't expect that their conversations were quite funny.
"What's up?" Brand didn't answer, but waved behind him, and saw a man in a white shirt walking over. He looked to be in his thirties, wearing black-framed glasses, and indeed looked like a publicity agent.
Please wait a moment, I want to discuss something with him," Brand pointed at the man next to him and said. The two men came close and discussed for a while.
Ye Han was not in a hurry. Aunt Guihua was busy bargaining with the man selling bamboo baskets, so she didn't need to rush home. Besides, she was a little curious about what Brand wanted her to do.
The man in the white shirt walked up to Ye Han and said, "Comrade, my name is Chen An, and I'm from the publicity department of Yun'an County. Director Brand would like to invite you to shoot a documentary. Is that okay?"
“How long will it take?”
"One day."
"Well..." Ye Han hesitated, "I have to go back to our Huaihua Brigade and discuss it with the captain."
She has already taken half a month's leave this time. If she asks for another leave, it would be a bit unreasonable.
"How about this," Chen An said, "I will go to the county and get a certificate from your commune in a while, and then go to your brigade tomorrow morning. Your brigade is called Huaihua Brigade, right?"
"Yes." Chen An turned around again and discussed with Brand.
A surprised smile appeared on Brand's face. He then said "Goodbye" to Ye Hanhan and left with Chen An holding the camera.
Only then did Ye Han realize that there were six people following Brand, not just Chen An.
It seems that the higher-ups attach great importance to the filming of this documentary.
Aunt Guihua, who had just bought a bamboo basket, just missed this scene. She happily carried the bamboo basket and said to Ye Hanhan, "Hanhan, the bamboo basket I bought is only 1.5 yuan each. Do you want to buy one too?"
Ye Xuanhan smiled and shook his head, then said to Aunt Guihua: "Aunt, it's getting late, we should go back."
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After returning home, Ye Han took the cloth shoes and cotton socks he brought back from the capital and went to the home of the team leader Li Erhe. He also informed him that Brand might come to the team to shoot a documentary tomorrow.
It was just time to get off work, so when Ye Han went there, Li Erhe's family was all at home.
What surprised her was that Qian Lanlan was also there. She was standing at the base of the outer wall with Li Erhe's eldest son Li Zhiyong. They were discussing something and did not notice Ye Han.
"Uncle Li, Aunt Lu, long time no see."
After entering the yard, Ye Hanhan greeted Li Erhe and Lu Qiao.
"Xianhan, is it time for you to come back from the capital?" Li Erhe asked.
"I arrived at noon," Ye Hanhan put the cotton socks and cloth shoes in his hand on the stool, "Uncle Li, I brought some things from the capital specifically for you and Aunt Lu. Come and have a look, these shoes and socks are so comfortable to wear."
Although Li Erhe was confused sometimes, he was not bad to Ye Xihan and helped her a lot, so Ye Xihan bought things and brought them back to him.
Cotton socks are the same, so both he and his wife Lu Qiao can wear them.
As for cloth shoes, Ye Han decided to buy a slightly larger size.
Anyway, people of this era don’t care. If the shoe doesn’t fit, they’ll just put two more insoles in it and it will become too small.
"Girl, why are you buying this?" Li Erhe said, "It's not like your aunt and I can't afford it."
"Uncle Li, look at what you said. I just bought a pair of shoes casually, and your shoes are already patched up. Which brigade leader is as frugal as you? If you go to the commune meeting, won't people laugh at you?"
"That's right," Lu Qiao followed up, "Since Yanhan has brought the child back, we should accept him."
So Li Erhe pretended to be reluctant and said, "Okay, okay, I'll listen to you."
Seeing the couple accept the things, Ye Hanhan began to talk about business and told Li Erhe about his encounter with Director Brand at the market today.
"You said that the county wants to send people to our brigade to shoot that kind of film?" Li Erhe said in a very surprised tone.
"It's a documentary," Ye Hanhan said, "I think it's necessary to ask for your opinion on this matter, so I came to you without waiting for them to come."
Li Erhe didn't know what a documentary was, so Ye Han explained it to him.
Documentary is a form of television or film art that films real people and real events and inspires thinking.
But after he talked for a long time, Li Erhe only heard the words "TV and movie".
"You mean this documentary might be broadcast on TV?"
"Maybe," Ye Han was not sure.
After all, television and movies were not very popular in that era, and movies were only shown once every other week in the brigade.
Even if the documentary is broadcast, they may not know about it.
"So what good does filming this documentary do for us?"
"It may make other countries abandon their prejudice against our Dragon Country."
In this era, Longguo is actively developing diplomacy. If we can make a good documentary and show people all over the world that their Longguo is getting better step by step, it will be a very proud thing.
Upon hearing about the importance of filming a documentary, Li Erhe expressed his full support.
Ye Hanhan told him that the meeting time was set for tomorrow morning, and that she and Li Erhe would go to the main road at the east end of the brigade to wait for Director Brand and the comrades from the county who were responsible for publicity work.
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