Before finishing this film, Qi Hao didn't plan to leave; the award ceremony task indeed had to wait until December.
Qi Hao often didn't even return to the county, just lived in the room that he was filming in.
The environment was really bad, there were even cockroaches lurking around.
Fortunately, the cockroaches were generally small, unlike those in the South that look like they might have an appetite.
I've heard that in the South, cockroaches are roasted for eating, just like how cicadas are eaten in the North.
Most of the scenes with Qi Hao and Wan Qian were finished, Wan Qian only needed to shoot one more singing and dancing scene with Qi Hao before she could finally wrap up and go back to enjoy life in the big city.
The scenes with Yue Hong and others were also basically completed.
Li Dawei estimated correctly; if it weren't for the scenes involving so many animals, this movie would have been mostly filmed in twenty to thirty days.