Rebirth of top photographers

Chapter 195 Absurd Human Colors
The route given by the police officer did have unforgettable scenes.

Chen Pingsheng stood along the Yellow River and looked at the bulging tombs and tombstones in the distance. They were continuous and formed an undulating mountain range.

He didn't know why there were so many cemeteries of the dead here, nor why they were buried here.

He only knew that he really couldn't miss such a shocking scene.

Walking closer, Chen Pingsheng found that most of these tombstones only had a name, date of birth and death, and two rows of common inscriptions.

There are no addresses, no photos, and even some tombstones are so scrawled that they don’t even have their names written on them, only their surnames.

Come in a hurry, go in a hurry.

Chen Pingsheng felt that this might be life. They were born here and died here.

Nothing is left but this dust.

The world does not know what they have experienced, nor their identity. They can only understand these people through cold words and tombstones.

Chen Pingsheng set up his camera and pointed it at the tombs here.

At this time, the wind suddenly became strong, and the yellow color visible to the naked eye continued to roll forward with the wind and waves from a distance, dyeing the white sky into a light sandy yellow.

"Crack!" After quickly taking a photo, he stepped forward to hug the camera and greeted the dust in the sky with his back.

"call!"

"Clatter." The tripod was even blown by the wind.

Chen Pingsheng kept his body steady to prevent the camera from being accidentally damaged.

After the strong wind passed, Chen Pingsheng took a few spits filled with sand and felt that his face was covered with a layer of fine soil.

Back in the car, he washed his face with mineral water and continued driving to his next destination.

"When I fall in love with you, erase everything. I quietly touch your balls and stop breathing."

In the car, Chen Pingsheng howled along with Teacher Wu Bai's song.

He didn't know if he sang it right or not, but the lyrics were probably like this.

However, I have to say that it is a bit unexpected that Teacher Wu Bai's voice matches very harmoniously with Karen Mok.

I was turning on the card in the car, and outside the car glass was the scenery along the Yellow River.

But it's not so much scenery as it is a monotonous scene with muddy colors.

The khaki ground and white sky make people feel as if they are driving on the Gobi Desert, with no direction and no buildings.

If it weren't for the route on the navigation system, Chen Pingsheng would have felt like he was just taking a detour.

It wasn't until half an hour later that he discovered some less monotonous scenes.

But this scene is really not that good.

Chen Pingsheng parked the car far away and walked towards the river with his camera.

There is a slope there, and behind the slope, you can see several families.Chen Pingsheng actually felt that the adjective "household" was not quite accurate, but he couldn't think of any other adjectives.

Because the scene in front of him really made him feel a little worried.

Behind the slope, I saw a few huge rusty steel pipes. They were placed in a random order.Outside the pipe, there are telephone poles along the river bank, but below the poles are shelves made of wood, with various clothes hanging on them.

As he got closer, Chen Pingsheng could still see newspapers and magazines stuck on the pipes, which should be used to block air leakage.

He really didn't expect that there were still residents in such a deserted place.

What was the reason that made them leave their hometown and settle here?
Chen Pingsheng strolled forward and saw two middle-aged men with messy hair squatting inside the pipe, looking at him with wary eyes.

There was a thump in his heart, and he suddenly thought of the robbers he had encountered before, and thought to himself that this was not a gathering place for fugitives!

Fortunately, he soon realized that his idea was wrong.

Because from the inside of the pipe, another woman crawled out with a child on her back.

She was wearing a red cotton-padded jacket and a dusty hat on her head. After saying a few words to the two men, she also turned her attention to Chen Pingsheng.

"Brother, where are you from?"

A few minutes later, Chen Pingsheng sat on the chair they moved out and accepted their hospitality.

The woman wiped an apple with her hands. Just as she was about to hand it over, she wiped it with a yellowish white towel hanging around her waist.

"Eat an apple! Here!"

After Chen Pingsheng took it with a smile, he held it in his hand, but did not eat it. Instead, he asked: "I am a photographer, and a police officer recommended this route, so I came to take a look. Sister, where do you live?" In the pipe?"

The eldest sister smiled shyly, sat on the chair, and turned the child from her back to her arms.

The child slept peacefully, and even if someone spoke, his snoring would not be interrupted.

"We don't have a home, we have to find a place to live." Just as the eldest sister finished speaking, the child suddenly woke up and screamed for milk.

The eldest sister didn't mind outsiders, so she directly lifted up her clothes and breastfed the child.

Chen Pingsheng was so frightened that he turned his head and looked outside. The two eldest brothers were standing outside, taking small sips of the cigarette he handed over.

He got up and walked over. The two eldest brothers were chatting in dialect, and he couldn't understand a few words at all.

Seeing this young man coming over, the older brother turned to Mandarin and said, "What kind of guy is this?"

They were referring to the camera in Chen Pingsheng's hand.After all, this thing looks very eye-catching.

Out of a mentality that doing more is worse than doing less, Chen Pingsheng lied and said: "This is an old antique I bought. I took pictures with it."

"Antique camera?" One of the brothers in a gray sweater bent down and looked at it and said, "I think other people's cameras are very small. Why is yours so big?"

"It's an old thing." Chen Pingsheng patted the casing: "It's been decades, but no one wants it now. I bought it just as a hobby, otherwise who would take pictures with such a heavy thing!"

The eldest brother nodded: "How heavy can this be?"

"Try it, brother." Chen Pingsheng said in a natural tone, as if the large-format camera in his hand was worthless.

After hearing this, the eldest brother weighed the weight with his hands, and then took two steps back in surprise: "This thing is so damn heavy, you don't mind the trouble."

Chen Pingsheng smiled and said, "That's right. This thing has been in the boss's backlog for many years, and no one buys it."

"Then your hobby is really not easy." The eldest brother took a puff of cigarette and said enthusiastically: "Let's have a meal together later. We just bought meat from the city yesterday."

"Forget it, brother, I won't eat. I have to be on my way soon." Chen Pingsheng refused.

"You're on your way, why don't you rush for this moment!"

"There are still people waiting for me, there's nothing I can do about it." Chen Ping's life story was difficult to wave away.

"Hey, it's my mother-in-law." One of the elder brothers had a rather vulgar expression.

"Yes." Chen Pingsheng nodded.

"Then we really can't wait." The eldest brother took a puff of a cigarette and watched the smoke rising in front of his eyes. It seemed that he hadn't had a good cigarette for a long time.

"By the way, brother, can I ask you a favor?"

"What's the matter? Tell me."

"I want to take some photos." Chen Pingsheng hesitated before making his request.

"Crack!"

The big brothers agreed happily, maybe it had something to do with the carton of cigarettes they were holding.

The first photo taken by Chen Pingsheng showed the steel pipe where they lived. The eldest sister was shy and went into the pipe.There were only two elder brothers sitting on the edge watching him take pictures.

The second photo was taken from a stove not far away.

They surrounded it with several wooden sticks connected with wires to hang clothes.Next to it is a stove made of bricks, with a large iron pot and aluminum lid placed on it.In addition, there are several broken motorcycles parked here, which are their means of transportation.

The two eldest brothers also built a table with a wooden frame and placed it outside, where they usually eat and drink.

There are not only two families here, there is one family in each pipeline, but they go to work in nearby counties during the day and come back at night.

It's like a small primitive tribal settlement, far away from the bustle and noise of human society.

Every day I fall asleep to the sound of howling wind.

"Crack!"

After pressing the shutter, Chen Pingsheng looked at the picture on the screen and felt that there was nothing wrong with it.

After chatting with his elder brother for a while, he made an excuse and left in a hurry.

The roar of the car engine sounded on the road again, and Chen Pingsheng continued to move forward with an inexplicable mood.

There are still many traces of human beings that can be seen on this road. He just walked and took photos along the way.

Four days passed in a blink of an eye.

After all, he has been here for eight days.

At this moment, Chen Pingsheng was standing by a river bank, looking at the boats floating on the river in the distance, and felt that this scene was very suitable for shooting.

On the endless Yellow River, a boat with a green shed is connected to a pontoon.The gloomy sky and the color of the river are very close to each other, as if they are connected end to end.

"Crack!"

After the shooting, Chen Pingsheng put his hands on his hips and blew in the breeze pushing from the river.

"That's almost it," he said to himself.

Although it didn't last long, the experience along the way was indeed quite thrilling.The picture in his mind has been captured, and now it's time to start the third leg of the journey.

It is also the last part of his journey. He will go straight to the source of the Yellow River to see the more inaccessible scenery and look for the people and nature along the coast that are worth photographing.

In the evening, after returning the car to the dealership, Chen Pingsheng took a good shower in the hotel.

His appearance has changed a lot in the past few days, the most obvious thing is that his hair and beard have grown.

The rough beard feels very irritating to the touch.

It also turned his little fresh meat into an old bacon.

But Chen Pingsheng doesn't plan to shave it off now, because he feels that such an appearance is more intimidating when facing other people.

Dressing up neatly will only make people think that he is an embroidered pillow and is easy to bully.

With the stubble on his face and the exposure of his strong arms and tanned skin, Chen Pingsheng suddenly looked like a muscular man in an action movie.

"Okay." He tapped his chin, then clenched his fists and made a bodybuilding pose in front of the mirror.

(End of this chapter)