Chapter 29 Photos
If the girl had not revealed in the letter that she had funded the other party several times, she would have really believed that the young man was a man of integrity.
The last time she wrote to Cheng Rong, she made up a story for her, "I Have a Relative", which tells the story of a rich girl who was deceived by a poor boy and secretly signed up to go to the countryside without telling her family. The grandfather at home was so angry that he fell ill.
Cheng Rong wrote to her, first sharing Zheng Yang's deeds as usual, and then asking her what happened next.
Grandpa is already ill, what else do you want? Then, Xia Zhizhi was speechless for a while, picked up her pen and wrote a very tragic sequel.
After arriving in the countryside, the two could not adapt to the rhythm of the production team at all and suffered a lot. Finally, the poor boy could not stand it anymore, abandoned the rich girl, married the daughter of the village party secretary, and became the village scorekeeper.
Then he and his new wife made things difficult for the rich girl and bullied her. They assigned her the hardest and most tiring work. The rich girl suffered terribly from picking up manure, digging the fields and feeding the cows. In the end, she fell ill and returned to the city in misery, only to find that her grandfather, who had always loved her, had been angered to death by her.
If you want to cure love brain, you have to do it as early as possible.
The next day she went out early in the morning and took a bus to climb the old city wall. There was no ticket required at that time, so it was free and enjoyable.
From the old city wall, you can overlook half of Yang City. As the sun rose in the east, she took a beautiful photo of the city scenery.
I looked around and saw that there was no one around, so I placed the camera on the battlement at the edge of the city wall, used my mental power to control the focus and shutter, and facing the rising sun, I took a side photo and a photo of myself looking back. Isn't this the same as using a Bluetooth selfie remote control? It turns out that only I know which angle makes me look more beautiful!
Then I went to the park and took some pictures of the beautiful scenery. I also took a few pictures of myself in the corners. I mainly took candid pictures. They were natural, vivid and not deliberate. They looked full of stories and were beautiful!
If this is posted online in forty or fifty years, won't it fascinate all the young girls and boys?
She was so happy that she even spent fifty cents to buy Xia Lanlan a palm-sized fruit cake on the way back.
Xia Lanlan held the aluminum lunch box and looked at the cake from left to right. She felt flattered and frightened for a moment.
She thought Xia Lanlan was afraid that she would poison it, so she consoled her, "Eat quickly. If I wanted to kill you, I would just do it. There's no need to poison you."
Xia Lanlan looked at her nervously, and finally agreed with what she said.
The dessert cake she had with Lu Weiguang last time was still fresh in her mind and even appeared in her dreams again and again, haunting her and making her unable to forget it.
Recalling that the last time she ate cake, she seemed to have used a small spoon. There was no such small spoon at home, only a thick porcelain spoon, and it was missing a mouth. Xia Lanlan thought for a while and took out a pair of chopsticks.
She watched Xia Lanlan finish her meal, then patted her head lovingly and asked, "Do you like it?"
Xia Lanlan nodded blankly.
Xia Zhizhi nodded and said with a cheerful face, "As long as you like it, I'll buy you some tomorrow. Please wash this lunch box and I'll give it to you in the future."
Xia Lanlan always felt that she was holding back a big move, so she stared at her door for a long time, making sure that she would not rush out and beat her up. Then she went back to her room in a daze, lay down for a while, and then came out to start cooking.
Xia Zhizhi returned to the house and started moving boxes and cabinets in the space's warehouse. It took her an hour to find what she needed.
A box of 135 film, a box of nostalgic vintage matte photo paper, a few bottles of chemicals, developing/fixing/stop fluid, and a box of miscellaneous odds and ends were bought for free in a nostalgic photo studio.
When she picked up all kinds of junk, she was often laughed at. Now look, she is using them. She is really far-sighted!
Just move a container out and it will become a darkroom. As for lighting, that is not necessary at all. But for the sake of atmosphere, I still wrapped a desk lamp with red plastic paper to make a red light.
After mixing the three doses of solution, put the film roll into the film core, put it in the developing tank, wash it with water first, then pour in the mixed developing solution, start shaking, and pour it out after ten minutes.
Add stop-film solution and shake for one minute, then let it sit for ten minutes before pouring it out.
Finally, pour in the fixing solution, shake it for one minute, let it stand for five minutes, then pour out the solution, rinse it with clean water for ten minutes, and finally pour in the water stain remover, take it out, scrape off the clean water, and let it dry.
Then cut the films one by one, fix one on the film clip on the enlarger, turn on the light, and project the image onto the photo paper on the base.
She tested the exposure value and selected different exposure times according to different photo styles. She put the exposed photos into the developer solution, and the image began to slowly appear, which took about two or three minutes.
Then take out the photo paper and put it in the stop solution for half a minute, then take it out to control the water, and finally put it in the fixing solution, first leave it there for one minute, take it out and let it air for a while, then leave it there for two minutes, rinse it in clean water, and then let it dry.
Xia Zhizhi was admiring a photo of herself standing on a city wall and looking back. The hair by her ears was lifted by the breeze and fluttered gently along with the hem of her skirt. Behind her was the city under the morning sun, which was indescribably lively and energetic.
She is truly a photography genius. Following the book "Photo Developing Techniques", she was able to develop acceptable photos after trying six or seven times!
That's true, if you ignore the pile of discarded photos on the floor, where the film has changed color due to the heat of your hands, or where you accidentally overexpose the photos.
Xia Zhizhi printed a 4-inch photo of the city wall looking back and sent it to Tan Xiaoying together with another panoramic photo of the park. She also enclosed a brown-green background with red floral headband with a rubber band, and provided pictures and instructions on how to use several types of headbands.
Without favoring one over the other, Cheng Rong also got a brown and yellow one.
A light pink one was prepared for Fang Yuan. Li Ling has loved red for a hundred years, so naturally she couldn't do without it.
The next morning she went out to mail the letter and brought her pink headband to Fang Yuan. Fang Yuan's hair was almost shoulder-length and could be tied up, so she made a three-plus-two rib braid for her and woven the headband into it.
Fang Yuan touched the end of her hair and told her happily that the scarf he was knitting for her was almost finished and asked her to look forward to it.
The last time she told Fang Yuan that she couldn’t knit a sweater, Fang Yuan became excited and said she wanted to learn how to knit a sweater. From then on, she would make all her own sweaters.
What else can she say? Naturally, she can express her strong support and affirmation.
On the way back, she bought another piece of cake for Xia Lanlan. After Xia Lanlan finished eating, she touched her head gently and gave her the bow hairband that Xia Lanlan had long coveted.
She had only worn it a few times, so it looked like new. Xia Lanlan touched it lovingly and couldn't help asking, "Why are you so nice to me? Do you want me to do something for you?"
"You are so stupid and dumb, what can you do for me?" She looked at Xia Lanlan with contempt in her eyes: "I just feel sorry for you, eat it, you can eat it for a few times, it will be difficult to eat this again when you go to the countryside."