Chapter 3073

Zhai Yingjie was the one driving today. He drove very steadily. Although there wasn't much accumulated snow on the road surface, it was still slipperier than usual, and since there was a significant incline, he drove at a slower speed than normal.

Along the way, the group saw several specialized snow-clearing vehicles. These vehicles were designed specifically for snow removal, with a shovel bucket at the front just like a loader. They pushed the accumulated snow on the road to the side, and then used a special snow-throwing device to toss the piled-up snow into the valley outside the road, leaving the road clear of snow and suitable for vehicle passage.

These snow-clearing vehicles traveled back and forth on this mountain road, continuously throwing the snow from the road into the valley to keep the road open.

Fu Weiping said, "The cost to keep this road open is truly not small."

Su Xinghui said, "There's no other way. If we didn't clear it like this and let the snow fall for a day, the accumulation could reach several dozen centimeters, making it impossible for vehicles to pass. How would the ski resort operate then?"

Fu Weiping nodded silently. Su Xinghui added, "Being able to do this now is already the best outcome. In the past, every snow season, this village would be snowed in, with people unable to get out. They would be isolated from the world for the entire winter. If someone fell ill or something, they couldn't reach a hospital and could only leave it to fate."

Fu Weiping was, of course, aware of this situation. He was also a northerner and had certainly witnessed villages in the northern mountains being snowed in. He said, "Yes, the people in the mountains have it too hard."

Su Xinghui said, "That's why we must find all sorts of ways to improve the living environment and traffic conditions in the mountain areas, give the mountains their own pillar economy, and let them live better lives. A ski resort like this can benefit Niutouyu Village and several nearby villages, reaching thousands of people."

Fu Weiping nodded. He now understood how significant the documentary he was filming was; it concerned the livelihoods and hopes of thousands of people.

Up on the mountain right now, countless ordinary people must be eagerly looking forward to tourists coming here to ski.

The car finally arrived at the ski resort. The general manager of the ski resort, Shu Cailiang, had already led all the staff to wait at the intersection leading to the resort to welcome them. When everyone got out of the car, he stepped forward to greet Su Xinghui first, and Su Xinghui introduced Fu Weiping and the others to him.

Shu Cailiang reached out to Fu Weiping and said, "Director Fu, hello. I've long admired your name. Thank you for coming here to film in such terrible weather. You've worked hard!"

Fu Weiping shook his hand and said, "It's nothing, this is our job."

Shu Cailiang then led everyone to the hotel attached to the ski resort, arranged rooms for them, and let them rest so they could start work tomorrow.

However, Fu Weiping had a rather impatient temperament; he insisted on starting work today. Of course, this didn't mean starting filming today, but rather doing some preliminary preparation work, and Shu Cailiang could only nod and agree.

Hearing that the ski resort had hired a group of retired members from the former national cross-country skiing team to serve as ski instructors, Fu Weiping asked them to demonstrate so he could decide how to film this piece.

Shu Cailiang then called out those ski instructors and had them demonstrate skiing scenes for Director Fu.

These ski instructors were indeed very professional skiing experts. After all, they were retired national team members. Although they hadn't achieved top rankings in world competitions, their skiing level was first-class within the country.

Some of these ski instructors had even worked as instructors at other very famous ski resorts in the country and had been hired by Yu Ruizhi with high salaries. They were also very experienced in serving as ski instructors.

They performed many beautiful skiing moves, some of which were quite thrilling, causing some of the girls in the film crew to gasp in amazement.

Fu Weiping nodded repeatedly. The ski runs at this resort were built very professionally, with specialized artificial snow machines and snow groomers to supplement the lack of natural snowfall. There were alpine downhill runs, snowboard runs, alpine ski jump runs, and various other types of runs, such as wild snow runs through dense forests, to meet the needs of different tourists.

He heard that the ski runs here were not yet fully constructed. Once fully completed, the scale would be even larger, the variety of runs would be more diverse, and the reception capacity would be stronger. This made him look forward to it even more. If it were fully completed, this scenic documentary could be filmed even more beautifully.

However, it could still be filmed very well as it was now; it would just require more effort.

The performance of the ski instructors here also made Fu Weiping very satisfied. National-level athletes were indeed worthy of their reputation. With such professional-level athletes, the filmed footage would be even better, and the attraction for tourists who liked skiing would be even greater.

After the ski instructors had performed for a while, Shu Cailiang said to Su Xinghui, Xing Guodong, and Fu Weiping, "Mayor Su, Secretary Xing, Director Fu, would you like to try skiing as well?"

Xing Guodong and Fu Weiping had skied before, as they were northerners after all. Su Xinghui had never skied; he was a southerner and didn't have the conditions for it, and in the few years he had been working in the north, he had been too busy with work to have time for such leisure sports.

Xing Guodong and Fu Weiping both looked at Su Xinghui. Su Xinghui waved his hand and smiled, "I won't ski. Guodong and Director Fu, you guys go ahead and try it."

Shu Cailiang said, "Mayor Su, with a professional ski instructor accompanying you, you'll definitely be fine. Your physical fitness is so good, how could a mere bit of skiing be difficult for you?"

Xing Guodong and Fu Weiping also encouraged Su Xinghui to try it, saying that Su Xinghui's physical fitness was good and skiing would be easy to learn. This moved Su Xinghui as well. Since he was already here, there were professional ski instructors to teach him, and his own coordination was quite good, so he might as well try it once.

If Lu Xiaoya came over the weekend, Su Xinghui could even ski with her. That would also be quite interesting.

Thus, everyone changed into ski suits, put on ski boots, gloves, and hip protectors, wore helmets and ski goggles, stepped onto skis, and picked up ski poles. With that, everyone was fully armed, and at a glance, no one could recognize anyone else, which made everyone burst into laughter.

This feeling made Su Xinghui feel even more novel. He had never even roller-skated before, let alone skied. Skiing once was also a novel experience in his life.

Shu Cailiang, of course, assigned the best ski instructor to Su Xinghui. This was a young man in his twenties named Lin. According to Shu Cailiang, this Instructor Lin had once been a national champion in several national cross-country skiing competitions. Later, he retired due to injury and was hired by the ski resort with a high salary to serve as a ski instructor.

Although Instructor Lin was very young, he was still very steady. After all, he was someone who had experienced big scenes and had lost count of how many times he had gone abroad to compete. Although he knew Su Xinghui was a vice mayor, he wasn't timid at all and methodically guided Su Xinghui in doing warm-up exercises, putting on ski equipment, and then entering the field.

Because Su Xinghui was a complete beginner, Instructor Lin took him to a relatively gentle ski run. The slope wasn't that steep, so the difficulty wasn't high, making it the most suitable run for beginners.

Su Xinghui saw those ski instructors skiing very gracefully and easily, but when he entered the ski run wearing the ski equipment, he always felt his center of gravity was unstable and felt a bit timid.

This was the natural fear people had of unknown things.