Chapter 102

Soon, Wang Yong's contract was sent over, in duplicate, both with the magazine's seal.

She took a careful look at it and found that it was the same contract as the one she signed for "The Great Song Dynasty". It was still a single copy, and all the copyrights were written clearly and in detail. Except that the number of words increased from 1,000 to 300, there was basically no change.

Seeing that there was no problem, Jiang Ning signed the contract and sent it to Wang Yong.

Once Wang Yong received the contract, he could serialize "White Snake" in "Wuxia".

After this issue of "Da Song" was serialized, there was only one issue left. In order to promote Ningmeng's new article, the magazine directly put a big "gg" on the cover: "Ningmeng's latest masterpiece!" "The Years I Was a White Snake Cultivating Immortality".

Readers thought that "The Great Song Dynasty" had been finished, but they found out that "The Great Song Dynasty" was not finished and his new work appeared right after it.

Many people have no interest in White Snake, and they come to read this article purely because they are attracted by the word "cultivation of immortals". Some readers come to read this article after seeing the words "Ning Meng", and they were attracted by the beginning.

At the beginning of the story, the heroine found herself in a closed space, and then she tried hard to break out of the shell, and found herself in an egg.

They had never seen such an opening before. How come Ning Meng had so many creative ideas? Other martial arts works either started with a blood feud or encountered an old master who was a peerless master, and he was transformed into an egg.

This angle is so novel. Among the many martial arts novels, there is suddenly a different one, which makes readers remember it immediately.

As they kept reading, they unknowingly reached the end. The first episode ended at the point where the little white snake was rescued by the man collecting herbs. The readers then realized that this was the "Legend of White Snake" currently being broadcast on Apple TV.

Is this also considered a martial arts novel?

But because there was the criminal investigation and martial arts novel written by Ning Meng before, and seeing the name was "Xiu Xian", I thought that the latter part was a romance novel like "White Snake". Male readers were not very interested in this, but female readers liked it very much.

Unexpectedly, after the second issue was released, the little white snake, which was a mortal snake in the previous issue, was transformed into a demon because of encountering the Emperor Liujiang that occurs once every sixty years.

One Emperor Flowing Liquid can increase one's cultivation level by sixty years. Many animals and plants are ignorant and foolishly accept this thing that falls from the sky like moonlight. However, when the Emperor Flowing Liquid fell on it, the little white snake found that it was a good thing, so it kept catching the Emperor Flowing Liquid and swallowing it actively all night long. Then, because it swallowed too much, it fell into a deep sleep. After waking up, it found that its brothers and sisters around it could speak.

Survival in the demon world has always been cruel. After discovering this weak little snake, other snake demons wanted to bully the little white snake.

Crack! The second episode was interrupted here again.

The readers who got a glimpse of the fun just now are going crazy. They have tasted something from the golden finger buried by Ning Meng. Only one Emperor's Liquid fell on the other little snakes, but the little white snake had been swallowing it all night. If these little snakes want to bully the little white snake, they will definitely be beaten severely by the little white snake, right?

Will you hit back hard?

A slap in the face plot is about to happen. At the critical moment, the magazine company actually disconnected here. It's simply inhumane!

They all called Cui Geng of the magazine, asking him to serialize more articles in each issue and to stop being so picky.

At the same time, letters like snowflakes also flew to the "Wuxia" magazine.

The magazine was also in a bad situation because they had to take over the run of "The Song Dynasty". After receiving Ning Meng's manuscript, the magazine published it immediately and had no extra manuscripts in stock. Jiang Ning also went to the store to write for 40 minutes every evening and sent it directly to Wang Yong. After a week, there were only about 20,000 words. In order to promote "White Snake", the magazine tried to serialize as much as possible to retain readers first. They did not keep any of Ning Meng's manuscripts and serialized them all.

Li Ang also discovered why when other martial arts novels were serialized in their magazines, many readers would lose track of them and the magazine sales would become lower and lower, but readers of "The Great Song" written by Ning Meng would read every issue and follow the magazine so steadily.

It's not that their magazine is a bad person, it's that Ning Meng is a bad person. Ning Meng is just a person who interrupts the chapters. No matter which issue they serialize, if you go to see it, she can make it into a climax chapter for you.

They have discovered that what Lemon Studios produces must be high-quality. Although it is completely different from traditional martial arts novels, it is still good to read.

Li Ang and his friends were scolded by phone every day, but they were so happy to hear the scolding that they said, "Keep pushing this article in the best position!"

After the completion of "The Great Song", Director Li and his team have reduced the first print run of "Wuxia". Even though "White Snake" is currently showing a trend of taking over "The Great Song", Director Li Ang and his team are still not too optimistic. The truth is that "The Great Song" is just like the previous TV series "The Fragrant Marshal", it is too phenomenal, and its huge success is also due to too many coincidences.

Even if "White Snake" is riding on the popularity of "New White Snake" like "Song Dynasty", this drama was a hit two years ago after all. Now that Apple TV has brought it out, it is just a rehash of old stuff. Its popularity can never be compared with "Justice Bao" which was aired last year.

After searching for nearly a month, Wu Gongan finally found the body of the real county magistrate across provinces.

The reason why it took so much time was that the scene of the first homicide was not in the local area. Even though the book used transliterated pseudonyms with local accents, he couldn't figure out which two transliterated characters were because of the different characters. He searched for clues bit by bit. Even if he found the location in another province, the specific burial place was written very vaguely. Just when he was about to think that the case written by Ning Meng was because he had imagined too much and wanted to give up, he finally got a definite clue and took the members of his criminal investigation team to dig out the body.

Afterwards, they did not make it public, but secretly searched for the family of the real county magistrate and asked them to identify the body.

The case was finally solved after more than half a year, which was more than six years earlier than the world Jiang Ning originally knew.

The reason why Jiang Ning knew that the case was solved was because it was too special. An official sent down from the capital could actually be replaced by the murderer. He had been the county magistrate for more than half a year and no one knew about it. After the case was solved and the media reported it, Jiang Ning saw it in the news.

Public Security Wu had already been promoted to team leader because of several cases he had solved before, and this time he was directly promoted to political commissar of the Public Security Bureau.

It is obvious that his name is registered on the list. Although his current bureau is a bit small, the political commissar is at the deputy county level, and the next step up is the director.

Even Wu Gongan's lover did not expect that he would be able to have a successful career in middle age, and was promoted from an instructor of a criminal investigation brigade to the "deputy county level".

Now, each member of their Criminal Investigation Brigade has four physical copies of "The Great Song Dynasty", and there is a thick pile of "Martial Arts" magazines in the office. They did not buy them at the newsstand, but directly subscribed to a year's worth of "Martial Arts" magazine. Every time a new issue of the magazine comes out, it will be sent directly to their bureau.

Now they study "The Great Song Dynasty" every day when they have nothing to do, trying to see if they can get any clues from it.

Unfortunately, after studying the next case for a long time, they still couldn't figure out anything. It seemed to be just an ordinary fictional case in the world of martial arts.

Political Commissar Wu also watched the latest issue of "Wuxia" and found that "The Song Dynasty" had ended.

People from other magazines all hope that "The Great Song" will be finished as soon as possible, but Political Commissar Wu and his colleagues hope that "The Great Song" will not be finished. They hope that it will be written more and more. No matter who the author behind the scenes is and how he got these clues, he can remind them in this way, which is a good thing for them, the criminal investigation personnel, and for the deceased and their families. They don't even have time to investigate the case, so why bother to delve into who the person who reminded them of the clues is?

He felt a little regretful. He wished that "The Great Song Dynasty" could go on forever, but he didn't expect it to end so soon.

Thinking of this, his eyes couldn't help but fall on the archive room again, looking at Xiao Chen who was quietly sorting files in the archive room, and then his eyes fell on Ning Meng's new work "The Years When White Snake Cultivated Immortality", and he read it unconsciously.

Regardless of whether it is related to the case or not, people in their department have developed a habit of watching Ning Meng's latest works regularly every week.

Jiang Bai's second and third mock exam scores were better each time. Jiang Ning also helped him analyze which school to fill in on his application form based on Jiang Bai's third mock exam scores.

For the candidates of their year, the policy on filling out the application form before the college entrance examination has not yet been reformed, so after the three mock exams, he has to go to Shanghai to fill out the application form first.

This time he went to Shanghai, he stayed there until the college entrance examination was over. In order to take care of his diet, Grandpa Jiang closed the shop and went with him.

Before they left, Jiang Ning told Jiang Bai: "Ask your class teacher or school teachers at Shanghai High School directly where there are houses to rent. It would be best if it is close to the school and you can eat in the school cafeteria every day. If not, it would be best if the house you rent has a kitchen."

The area around the house Jiang Ning bought is still under construction and is a mess. Not only is the environment noisy and not suitable for college entrance examination candidates to live in, but only one apartment in her house has been renovated so far. The villa and other apartments are either not renovated yet or are still pre-sale properties and are far away, making them not suitable for their current residence at all.

After the third year of high school, almost all the houses near No. 1 Middle School were rented out. Many parents who cared about their children's grades would rent a house near the school to take care of their children's studies closely. Generally, the father would stay outside to work or farm at home, and the mother would come to school to accompany her children.

Some parents accompany their children throughout the entire school year, while others have to come and take care of them in the last month.

In Jiang Bai's situation, he especially needs someone to help him solve his three meals a day problem while studying.

Jiang Ning couldn't leave, Jiang's father and mother couldn't be contacted, and Grandpa Jiang's cooking was terrible, so there was no choice but to invite Aunt Jiang to come.

But Aunt Jiang had never left Shuibu Town in her life. Apart from Jiangjia Village and her mother's home, she had never even been to Wucheng, let alone going to a strange place like Shanghai. She was illiterate and didn't speak the language, so she was afraid that she would get lost if she went out to buy vegetables and wouldn't know how to get back.

This is indeed a very realistic problem.

Aunt Jiang was really scared too.

Uncle Jiang also didn't let Aunt Jiang go out, and asked Grandpa Jiang to go find Aunt Jiang.

Aunt Jiang is busy with business in the store every day. Although she lives under the same roof with her parents-in-law, they have a separate family and have two school-age children who need to be taken care of.

Uncle Jiang and his three cousins ​​have currently taken on a job building houses in Xinjie, Shuibu Town, and they cannot leave until the work is finished.

In the end, there was no choice but for Grandpa Jiang to accompany Jiang Bai to Shanghai.

With Grandpa Jiang around, Jiang Bai felt like a backbone in his heart, and he might also have to take care of Grandpa Jiang in return, which made him stand up unconsciously. He took Grandpa Jiang to Shanghai by bus and then went to the high school where he was studying.

I don’t know if it’s because he bought a house in Shanghai, but even though the house hasn’t been sold yet and he hasn’t seen the property certificate, Jiang Bai still inexplicably has an indescribable sense of belonging to this city, and he is not as afraid of leaving Wucheng as he was before.

The city was still unfamiliar, and the people were unfamiliar, but as long as he thought that his grandfather was by his side, and that soon his sister, grandfather, and Tong Jingang would all come here, he would not be alone, and he would no longer feel confused or uneasy.

Grandpa Jiang couldn’t enter the school, so he waited at the guard post at the school gate.

Jiang Bai found his class teacher and received his college entrance examination application form. According to what he had discussed with his sister before, he filled in Shanghai University of Science and Technology as his first choice.

There is basically no chance for Jiang Bai to get into the first-tier schools in Shanghai. He had fallen behind a lot in the previous two years. Even with the progress he made this year, he had already ranked in the top 100 in his grade in the last three mock exams. There is no chance for him to get into the first-tier schools.

Jiang Ning asked him to try East China University of Science and Technology as his first choice, but Jiang Bai was still not confident enough. He didn't want to take risks like Jiang Song, he wanted to play it safe.

Jiang Song was too confident at the beginning and filled in too good of an application form for the school he chose, so he failed to get into university and was unwilling to repeat his senior year.

In Jiang Bai's mind, as long as he could get into university and go to college, that would be great.

This is a very common choice in this era. Because of the policy of filling out applications first and then taking the college entrance examination, there are even cases where the top scorers in the college entrance examination did not get into the Double First-Class Universities, but instead chose a very ordinary school. This is because they are afraid that they will not perform well in the college entrance examination and end up not being able to go to university, so they seek safety.

This policy certainly has both advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantage is that it leaves many students who could have entered very good schools with lifelong regrets; the advantage is that high-quality students are not concentrated in the top schools, but many less famous schools also receive some very high-quality students.

Not every family has the ability to let their children repeat a grade, and not every person has the opportunity to repeat a grade.

Jiang Bai himself didn't want to repeat his studies, and he didn't have the opportunity to do so.

After a busy day, Jiang's father suddenly remembered and asked Jiang's mother when he was sleeping in bed at night: "Ailian, is Baizi going to take the college entrance examination?"

He gets up at three o'clock every day to buy vegetables, and when he comes back he has to make soup and cook rice. He can only take a nap in bed when Jiang Ma washes the vegetables and prepares the food. At half past nine, he has to get up to continue cooking and prepare lunch boxes for lunch. He has no rest in the afternoon and has to prepare lunch boxes for the evening. He has to work until eight or nine o'clock every night before going home.

day to day.

In such a busy schedule, he even forgot when Jiang Bai would take the college entrance examination.

Jiang's mother did all the washing and cleaning at home, and the couple went out to sell lunch boxes together. Jiang's mother was tired after a day's work, and when she heard what Jiang's father said, she said unhappily, "How should I know that?"

"Didn't you accompany Songzi to school for a while last year? When did Songzi take the college entrance examination last year?"

As for Jiang Song, Jiang's mother remembered it clearly: "July 7th."

Father Jiang was shocked. "Baizi will take the college entrance examination next month!" He sat up and said, "I forgot about this because I was so busy. Why don't you go back tomorrow and come back after Baizi finishes the college entrance examination."

Selling box lunches is really very profitable. Although the profit is meager, there are many people coming and going at the train station every day. The dishes he cooks are delicious, and he provides free bone soup. Those who are reluctant to buy water or soup will scoop a big bowl of bone soup from him after eating the box lunch. He has good business every day and earns much more than he used to work on the construction site.

His mind was now filled with thoughts about earning money so that he could build a house at the end of the year. He had indeed forgotten that Jiang Bai was going to take the college entrance examination.

Jiang Ma was so sleepy that she said, "Okay, it takes three or four days to go back by train. I have to take care of him for a month. He is not a child anymore. How can he not take care of himself when he comes here this big? Besides, isn't there an old man here?"

Father Jiang was worried, so after selling his lunch boxes the next day, he called the brigade headquarters and asked about Aunt Jiang.

After waiting for a while, he called again. This time it was Jiang's aunt who answered the phone and told him that Jiang Bai had gone to Shanghai.

Aunt Jiang kept nagging, "Baizi's college entrance exam is such a big deal, you should at least have one person come back, right? You were working outside before, and when you heard Jiang Song was going to take the college entrance exam, you both stayed at home, none of you went out to take care of Jiang Song. Now that Baizi is taking the college entrance exam, you should at least have one person come back, right? They are all sons, and you treat them differently. Be careful that Baizi will resent you in the future."

Father Jiang also felt a little guilty: "We came to Shenzhen to look for pine nuts but couldn't find any. Now we sell lunch boxes here. We get up before dawn every day and go to bed at 9 or 10 pm. We are so busy that I would have forgotten about it if I hadn't suddenly remembered it." He asked: "Why is the college entrance examination now? Isn't there still a month?"

Aunt Jiang sighed: "When Dad came back, he wanted me to go to Shanghai to take care of Baizi for a few days, but I have never even been to Wucheng in my life. The farthest place I have been to is my mother's home. How could I dare to go to Shanghai to take care of him?" Although her mother's home is in the neighboring county, it is in the rural mountains. Every time she goes back to her mother's home, she has to cross mountains and rivers.

Besides, Grandma Jiang is still at home, and her eldest daughter-in-law is pregnant again. If she leaves, only Grandma Jiang and a pregnant woman will be left at home, and she will be worried.

Jiang's father listened and asked Aunt Jiang in confusion: "What is Baizi doing in Shanghai?"

Aunt Jiang said, "I don't understand either. It seems that Baizi is going to Shanghai to take the college entrance examination, right?"

After Jiang's father hung up the phone, he couldn't figure out what Jiang Bai was going to do in Shanghai. Could it be that the college entrance examination was over and Baizi was admitted to a school in Shanghai?

But if he gets admitted to a school in Shanghai, he can just go to the school to register directly, and he doesn't need his sister-in-law to go to Shanghai to take care of him.

Moreover, no matter how ignorant he is, he has taken the college entrance examination himself and experienced Jiang Song’s college entrance examination last year. At this time, the college entrance examination should not have started yet, let alone the university admission notice.

He really couldn't understand why Jiang Bai wanted to go to Shanghai to take the college entrance examination. Could it be that his sister-in-law had heard it wrong?

This is possible. After all, my sister-in-law is an uneducated rural woman who has never been to the city in her life. She doesn't understand these things, so it is possible that she heard it wrongly.

Maybe his father asked his sister-in-law to go to Wucheng to help take care of Jiang Bai for a few days, but his sister-in-law didn’t understand and heard it as Shanghai?