Li Jiaguo and Ding Xiulan had a clear strategy in mind.
Yet, Yue Qingqing had not left home at all.
She originally planned to meet up with friends and her senior brothers in Zhuancheng and Lingguang, but a call from Gong Qiming changed her plans.
She also wanted to know what exactly had happened to her junior brother.
Gong Qiming had timed it perfectly, heading for Zhuancheng as soon as Yue Qingqing's exams were over.
The film crew that had just wrapped up shooting stayed deep in the mountains and forests where there wasn't even a bus station, let alone an airport.
He and his manager finally managed to hitch a ride on a villager's bumpy ox cart to the county town before finding a car.
It was such a bumpy journey that he felt his bones might fall apart.