Chapter 534 Chapter 535: Take a photo
The next day, Zhou Huaian drove a tractor to see Wang Zhen and Yang Dongmei off. The two took with them glutinous rice cakes made with the juice of ramie leaves made by Zhou's mother, as well as dried red mushrooms, mushrooms, fungus, some green vegetables, vegetable moss, and baby vegetables, filling a basket with all kinds of miscellaneous things.
When Zhou Huaian came back from delivering truffles to the city for the second time, he brought the owner of a photo studio in the city with him.
After entering Fangtian, the boss saw that the road was becoming more and more remote, and murmured worriedly, "Brother Zhou, are you sure someone is taking pictures there?" I left my shop in the city and ran to this mountain with you to take those two photos of your family. It would be a big loss.
Zhou Yiding smiled and said, "Don't worry, there will be a lot of people taking photos this year. I will help you promote it when we enter the village."
"Okay, thank you for your help." The boss agreed, but he still felt that he had lost money on this trip.
After crossing the stone bridge and climbing up the hill, he saw only thatched houses. He felt disappointed and thought that no one in the village would be willing to spend a few dollars to take pictures. With that money, they might as well go and buy two pounds of fat meat to satisfy their hunger!
The tractor soon arrived at the brigade's drying dam. Zhou Yiding stood up and saw many people playing cards in the drying dam. He patted Zhou Huaian and asked him to stop.
Standing on the tractor, he shouted at the top of his voice into the dam: "Photographing is in progress! The boss from the county town is here to take pictures!"
The people playing cards stopped, turned their heads and looked over curiously, and the children all ran towards the tractor.
Zhou Yiding pointed at the camera equipment in the tractor and said, "Go back and tell your mother and husband that the owner of the photo studio in the county is here to take pictures. If you want to take pictures, go back and prepare them."
The snotty-nosed kid turned around and ran away excitedly, "I'll go back and call my mom..."
Xu Hongbing, Li Guangming and a few other guys came over holding poker cards, "Youngest, Yiding, did you guys hire a photographer to take a family photo?"
Zhou Huaian nodded and said, "You guys should take two too. Take two pictures now while you are still young and interesting. Take them out and look at them when you are old."
Everyone thought that they were reluctant to spend a few dollars on taking photos in previous years, but they were willing to do so this year.
Xu Hongbing pointed at the drying dam and said, "Boss, come over here and shout after taking pictures. I want to take a family photo."
Li Guangming also said: "We want to take some photos too, come here and call us later!"
The boss's already small eyes narrowed into slits as he smiled, "Sure, sure! I'll come find you guys after I take pictures of Brother Zhou and the others."
"Okay!" Xu Hongbing and his friends went back and shouted to the people playing cards in the sunbathing area, "The photographer is here. Let's take a family photo later."
"Really? Let's take a picture too!"
Zhou Yiding got off the tractor at the door of his house and asked Zhou Xiaomei and the old man to get ready. Zhou Huaian drove the boss back.
When they arrived at the grove, the boss found that the whole row was filled with brick and tile houses, and the road was flat, just like walking on an asphalt road.
Zhou Jiakang, Zhou Xiaoru and others heard the sound of the tractor and ran out. When they saw the boss sitting in the truck bed, they turned around and ran home.
"Mom, old man, come out and take pictures. Dad has brought the photographer back..."
Zhang Xiuxiang walked out of the room with a smile, "Go put on the new clothes I found for you and wash your face..."
"Oh oh!" Zhou Jiakang pulled Zhou Xiaoqian, who was sitting on the steps reading a book, and ran towards the room.
Zhou Huaishan's family and Zhou Huairong's family were also busy. Adults and children all changed into new clothes made for the New Year. Zhao Huifang wore new leather shoes and a small tweed suit...
When Zhou Huaian drove the tractor into the yard, Yang Chunyan and Zhou's mother were watering the codonopsis, dahlias, and smilax china in the flower garden. She wanted Zhou Huaian to dig some orchids when he went up the mountain...
"Yan'er, go change your clothes and get ready for the photo shoot. Mom, go call the old man and grandpa over! And call my sister and sister Haili!"
Zhou's mother nodded happily, "Your grandfather and the old man are in the back mountain, Yumei and Haili are with your sister-in-law, I'll call them right away."
Zhou Huaian stopped the tractor and helped the boss move the equipment and bicycles down.
While packing up his equipment, the boss said to him cheerfully, "I was worried that only your two families would come here!"
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "Even if other people don't take pictures, my family has quite a few. My four brothers each have a family portrait, and then we take another one for the whole family, which makes five. And there's also Ding's family, so there are six or seven for us alone!"
Yang Chunyan didn't buy new clothes for the Chinese New Year, so she changed into a looser sweater, and put on a dark-colored suit and elastic pants of the same color.
After putting on the clothes, he took out the woolen Zhongshan suit that Zhou Huaian had made for the New Year and his flared trousers from the closet.
Before Zhou Huaian's family had finished packing, Zhou Huaijun's family arrived. They called the boss to his house first to take a family photo of the four of them, and then Zhou Jiakang's siblings came.
The two of them leaned on both sides of the bicycle and took a photo. The last one was Zhou Huaijun and his wife. They sat at the door of the main room and took the sewing machine and radio inside into the photo.
The boss couldn't stop smiling. He took three photos with the first house. He didn't expect that the people in this mountain village are so rich and generous.
After Zhou Jiakang finished taking the photos, he took him to Zhou Huaishan's house and took three photos again. After taking photos of Zhou Huairong's house, everyone went to Zhou Huaian's house to take a family photo.
"Dad, Auntie!" Zhou Jiakang was still shouting at the door: "Are you ready?"
Zhou Huaian rubbed the balm in his hand on his face and rubbed it a few times, "I'm ready. Let's see if your dad is handsome today."
Zhou Jiakang gave a thumbs up, "Handsome, so handsome!" Then he said to Yang Chunyan, "Auntie looks so good today!"
Zhou Huaian happily stroked him, "Your father is already a handsome guy, your aunt must be even prettier!"
Zhou Jiakang sniffed, "How conceited! A man should wear perfume!"
"Go away, you know shit!" Zhou Huaian went to the basin stand to show off.
"Lulu!" Zhou Jiakang stuck out his tongue, "Daddy is such a jerk!"
Yang Chunyan rubbed him amusedly and asked, "How many photos did you take at home?"
"Three..." Zhou Jiakang said again, "Where are the ancestors and grandpa?"
"Here I am!" Zhou's father came out with a smile on his face, wearing a dark blue woolen Zhongshan suit. Zhou's mother was also wearing a small square-collared jacket of the same color.
Then the old man opened the door and walked out. He was wearing the woolen double-breasted jacket that Zhou Huaian made for him during the Chinese New Year, and he looked very energetic.
Zhou Yumei and Luo Haili also wore new clothes made for the Chinese New Year. Luo Qiaoling wore a new corduroy round-neck jacket made for the Chinese New Year, and Zhou Xiaoxi even put a round red dot on her forehead with rouge.
Everyone gathered in the yard, and the boss set up the camera equipment. "Where are you going to take the photo?"
Zhou Huaian pointed at the old ones and said, "They have the final say!"
Father Zhou looked at the old man and said, "Old man, where should we sit to take pictures?"
The old man pointed at the tractor in the yard and said, "Ask Huai'an to drive the tractor closer and take a picture of both the house and the tractor."
He thought that when he got there, he could show the photos to his wife. Her beloved youngest son had bought a tractor and built a brick house at home.
Father Zhou: "There are so many people that the tractor is blocked." Actually, he wanted to take the photo while sitting at the door of the main room. He thought the wooden chairs inside and the wooden tea table on the eaves were so classy!
After hearing this, the boss said, "It's impossible to stop them. The old man is sitting and the two little grandsons are standing next to him. It's just right for them to stand in two rows."
The old man nodded, "Okay, let's do as the boss says!"
Zhou Huaian drove the tractor over and parked it. Zhao Huifang and others brought out stools. Everyone sat down or stood up as arranged by the boss, with happy smiles on their faces. Zhou Huaian quietly took Yang Chunyan's hand.
The boss standing opposite found the focus and pressed the button of the lens.
Next came Zhou's mother and father. This time, according to Zhou's father's request, at the door of the main hall, Zhou Jiakang and Zhou Jialiang mischievously ran behind the two to sneak a peek!
When Zhou Jiaming and others saw the photo, they all ran over. In the end, it became a group photo of the children and the two elders, and only at the end did they take a separate photo of the two elders.
Yang Chunyan said to the old man: "Grandpa, take a photo alone!"
Zhou Huaian nodded repeatedly, "Yes, take a separate photo of Grandpa as well!"
Under the boss's arrangement, the old man sat in a rattan chair. On the coffee table next to him was his beloved radio and a fruit plate full of snacks. Zhou Xiaoqian also ran to the vegetable garden to pick some pea flowers and put them aside.
Zhou Huaian looked at Yang Chunyan with a smile, "Let's take one too."
After hearing this, the boss said, "Bring a rattan chair over here, and you two can just sit on each side of the coffee table."
Yang Chunyan thought this was a good idea. She turned around and saw the dogs lying at the gate. "Wait, I'll bring Wangcai and Laifu over and let them lie in front of us for a photo!"
"That's right, how could you forget them!" Zhou Huaian waved at the dog, "Come here."
The dog immediately ran over, wagging its tail, and obediently lay down in front of the two men.
The boss, who was a little scared at first, saw the dog lying there docilely and said enviously: "Your dog is so obedient!"
"That's because we are here. If we're not here, someone we don't know will come and do something nasty!"
Before Zhou Huaian's family had finished taking photos, several families sent their children to hire a photographer. The boss quickened his pace to take photos of Zhou Yumei and her daughter, as well as Luo Haili and her daughter, and then he was busy packing up his equipment.
"Brother Zhou, come get the photos when you can get to the city. If not, I'll come back in a few days and bring them to you."
Zhou Huaian said with a smile: "I think you can't take care of it all day, so you have to give us a discount price!"
"No problem, no problem!" The boss happily put the equipment on the bicycle and followed the children.
Zhou Huaian finally heard that the boss would come again tomorrow, because no one from Funius Village had ever come to take pictures, and since it was Chinese New Year, they had some extra money left over from digging and selling truffles last year.
The boss left Zhou's house and took pictures of the two families in the grove. Then he went door to door and finally used up all the film he brought. Before he even left the village, the villagers from Fangtian and Guanyin came to call out to him.
The boss was so happy that he even printed a few family photos for Zhou Huaian's family for free.
(End of this chapter)
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