Chapter 94 [Two Updates in One]

There are really a lot of papers. Each teacher has collected a big stack. I can’t mark so many papers as there are too many of them, but I will still look at them.

After checking it out, I found that there were many papers with the same writing, even the mistakes were the same, and no one corrected a decimal point. This made the teacher so angry that she complained to her colleagues in the office: "Look at these students nowadays, they don't even know how to copy. One person made a mistake in writing a decimal point, and then all the rest were wrong. I don't know who copied from him. And here, the mistakes are all the same. I can't even pretend that I didn't know it was copied."

I finally found Jiang Ning's test paper. Well, she did get it right, but what happened? Why hasn’t she finished her test paper? You feel proud of getting the first place in the county, right? So many classmates have finished copying the papers, why is she the only one who hasn’t finished?

The teacher knew that Jiang Ning's work was written by himself and others copied it, so he looked through it angrily.

Not only one teacher discovered that Jiang Ning had not finished her winter vacation exam, but all seven main subject teachers discovered that Jiang Ning had not finished her exam.

When Jiang Ning does homework, he treats all subjects equally. As long as he is doing exams, he will concentrate on finishing all seven subjects in one day and will not intentionally leave any subject unfinished.

Although she had no other problems, she had strong self-control. Except for the time when she could not do her homework because she was running between Wucheng and Shanghai, and the time she had to write in front of the computer every day, she spent most of her time doing exercises. Even when she was helping to sell clothes in the store, she would do her homework at the desk in the back if there were no customers.

During the days she returned to her hometown, she really did not leave the house. She even did not go to watch the movies shown in the village cinema on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Every day, she either did her winter vacation homework or wrote winter vacation test papers in her room.

If the teachers had not assigned too much homework, she would not have been unable to finish it. So when the teachers of the seven main subjects were looking through her test papers, a large stack was filled up, and there were seven or eight blank sheets at the back.

If other students had completed this amount of work, they would be satisfied. But who made them expect too much from Jiang Ning?

I originally thought that everyone in the class might not have finished their homework, except Jiang Ning. But who knew that others had not finished their homework and had already copied it, but she didn't even bother to copy it and just handed in a blank paper.

The first day of school was still an exam. When the teachers came to the classroom, they all looked at Jiang Ning first, looked at the students with cold faces, and greeted them: "Is everyone having a happy New Year?"

The class was as quiet as a chicken, no one dared to speak. The excitement for the New Year had been completely extinguished by the two opening exams given by our homeroom teacher, Mr. Wang, last night, as well as the winter vacation homework and test papers collected by the group leaders last night.

I could only hear the teacher on the podium still talking: "I have read your winter vacation homework and winter vacation test papers. Here I want to praise a few students, Xu Xiuli, Chen Xiang, Madi...you have completed your winter vacation homework very well." After a pause, his eyes swept over some students again: "There are some other students who have completed their homework and handed it in, but these people are like telepathic communication. I won't say anything about the same right answers, but they can also make the same mistakes. I don't understand. Twins have telepathy, but they can't make such consistent mistakes, right? Even the decimal point can be made in the same way? Who can tell me? Why are your brain waves so consistent?"

"There are still some people!" He looked at the boys with a serious look. After all, there was Xu Xiuli, who had finished her homework and could copy it from the girls. As for the boys, they were too excited to go back to school. They were either talking about "The Legend of Xiangshuai" which was broadcast during the winter vacation, or the recently released movie "Young and Dangerous", or the "Song Dynasty" case in "Wuxia", or some who went to Grandpa Jiang's store to buy clothes at the beginning of the year. They were so excited about the conversation that they originally wanted to study in the evening and make up their homework at night, but in the end, they handed in the blank papers before they had time to make up their homework.

When the teacher looked at the boys, his eyes also fell on Jiang Ning: "Just hand me a blank paper!"

"Some people, even though they copied their homework, at least they have an attitude and are willing to do their homework! But what about some people? They don't even have an attitude!" He looked at Jiang Ning and those boys, but he wasn't angry at all. He just deliberately scolded them with a cold face, "Don't think that you can skip homework just because you have good grades. You're only in the first year of high school. Without a correct attitude towards study, it's useless to have good grades now! I've seen many students who have good grades in the first and second years of high school, but poor grades in the third year!"

"So, you must never slack off at any time. You must keep working hard to move forward. Only then can you succeed in the most important exam of your life in two and a half years!"

The exam time is limited, and teachers cannot always just look at the time on their watches, divide the papers into several copies, hand them to the students in the first row, and ask them to pass them to the back to start the exam.

After a whole day of exams, all the students were listless. They no longer had the excitement they needed after spending nearly a month at home during the winter vacation. The teachers at No. 1 Middle School skillfully brought them all back to the state of studying.

He Qiaosheng also looked listless.

Ever since he talked to Ning Meng that day, he thought that he would soon be able to wait for Ning Meng to come and go online with him, so that he could see the contents of "The Great Song" up close and in advance, and live a happy life with Ning Meng urging him to submit his manuscripts. As a result, he waited and waited, day after day, but Ning Meng never came to find him.

While he was disappointed, he also thought that Ning Meng was shy. After all, Ning Meng didn't look very old, and it would be embarrassing for a girl to come to him.

So he went to the gate of No. 2 Middle School and waited.

The security guard of No. 2 Middle School became alert, thinking that he came to their school to look for girls.

It's no wonder that the guard at No. 2 Middle School was so suspicious. It was because the expression on this kid's face was too much like that of a student who was in premature love. From time to time, he looked through the big iron gate of No. 2 Middle School, eagerly waiting for the students coming out of the school. From time to time, he showed a conflicted look on his face. Sometimes he would lower his head and turn on his toes towards the ground with a silly smile, and then look up at their No. 2 Middle School, his eyes full of expectation.

If he hadn't fallen in love with a student from No. 2 Middle School, he would have worked as a security guard for so many years in vain.

The guard at the gate of No. 2 Middle School sounded the alarm and was on guard against He Qiaosheng as if he was watching a thief, swearing to find out who this kid was waiting for.

Especially this kid, who had dyed yellow hair and wore a down jacket with metal chains on it. He didn't wear the jacket properly, with the zipper open, revealing the sweater underneath. He also didn't wear his scarf properly, and imitated Xu Wenqiang, hanging it on both sides of his neck. He also wore a pair of flashy orange flared pants on his legs, which also had two long chains hanging on them. He put his hands in his pockets, looking very sloppy.

He saw him walking out of the No. 4 Middle School across the street with his own eyes, and it was obvious at first glance that he was not a good student who studied hard.

All the students in No. 2 Middle School are good students, and we must not let him lead the good students of No. 2 Middle School astray. Especially if their principal knew that the students of No. 2 Middle School did not study hard and went off to date with people from No. 4 Middle School, he would probably be furious.

What makes the director of their No. 2 Middle School most angry is that it is located on the same street as No. 4 Middle School, diagonally opposite each other.

If they were opposite No. 1 Middle School or Wu Middle School, perhaps their school would have already become a key high school like No. 1 Middle School and Wu Middle School. It would not be like it is now. The impetuous atmosphere of their school was brought by No. 4 Middle School!

Every time He Qiaosheng came, the security guard would watch him. After watching him so many times, he remembered this person. However, this kid from No. 4 Middle School never waited for the person he was waiting for.

Looking back, the guard of No. 2 Middle School couldn't help but smile with satisfaction.

It seems that the boy from No. 4 Middle School is just in unrequited love. He said, how can a student from No. 2 Middle School like a boy from No. 4 Middle School? This boy has so many flowers on his head, and it’s obvious that he is not a serious person.

He Qiaosheng waited at the gate of No. 2 Middle School for more than ten days, but no one showed up. He then went to an Internet cafe and waited for more than ten days in a row. He stayed up all night in the Internet cafe every day, but Ning Meng still didn't show up. He was so disappointed that the yellow hair on his head was no longer bright. It drooped down. He had dark circles under his eyes and waited for school to start listlessly.

On the day of registration, he was still wondering if Ning Meng was a first or second year high school student. She had gone home before, but now that school had started and registration was underway, she was finally back, right? I went to the gate of No. 2 Middle School and waited eagerly.

The guard saw that the boy, who was originally listless, became energetic again and looked around at the school gate. With so many students returning to school, he was afraid that the boy would abduct the girls from their No. 2 Middle School, so he came out with a stick and chased him away: "If you are not from our school, don't stand here!"

He Qiaosheng was driven away by the security guard and had to go back to the other side of the street. He kept looking at the gate of No. 2 Middle School expectantly, hoping to see a familiar figure.

The security guard at No. 4 Middle School had long discovered that the boy from their school was looking around at the gate of No. 2 Middle School all day long. However, the atmosphere at No. 4 Middle School was more open, and although it also prohibited students from falling in love early, it was not as strict as at No. 1 Middle School, Wu Middle School, and No. 2 Middle School, so they did not do anything about it.

Seeing him coming back and still looking towards No. 2 Middle School, I couldn't help but look over there curiously and asked He Qiaosheng, "I saw you looking at the gate of No. 2 Middle School for several days. Who are you looking for?"

He Qiaosheng was startled, calmed himself down, and coughed: "Didn't you find anyone?"

"Your neck is stretched longer than a giraffe's, and your eyeballs are almost flying to No. 2 Middle School, and you still say you are not looking for anyone?" The guard of No. 4 Middle School complained.

He Qiaosheng didn't expect that it was so obvious. He blushed in embarrassment: "Just... just a friend."

The guard at the Fourth Middle School understood: "Girlfriend?"

He Qiaosheng was choked and kept coughing. It took him a long time to catch his breath. His face flushed and he screamed, "How is this possible!"

Having said that, he fled back to No. 4 Middle School.

After I got back, my heart was still pounding. I wanted to go back to the dormitory, but I turned around and ran to the piano room in the art building to play the piano.

He has been practicing piano since he was a child, not because he has any artistic talent or wants to grow up to be an artist. It's mainly because his mother likes to play the piano and there is an old-fashioned piano at home. He has learned piano from his mother since he was a child and learned to play the erhu from his grandfather. Naturally, he applied to an art school when he grew up, and he is also preparing to apply to an art college in high school. His real dream is to become a rock singer, and he dreams of wandering all day long.

There are actually not many piano rooms in the Art Building, and most of the piano rooms upstairs are still equipped with old-fashioned wooden piano stands.

Piano music flew out from his fingertips one after another, and as he played, he somehow started playing "Wedding in a Dream". He smiled foolishly while playing, and imagined himself being a chivalrous and intelligent girl like the heroine in "The Great Song Dynasty", wandering around the world together.

Ning Meng must be a person with the same personality and character as the heroine she created, right?

In his mind, he imagined wandering with the lovely heroine in "The Great Song Dynasty". His hands unconsciously wrote and drew on the notebook, writing the lyrics and humming as he wrote.

Jiang Ning had no idea that someone had equated her personality with the heroine in "The Great Song Dynasty". If she knew, she would definitely ask him to review his junior high school Chinese knowledge: Does the "I" in "Young Runtu" refer to the author himself?

Our Chinese teacher once told us clearly: the characters in the novel are not the author himself.

Jiang Ning is particularly not good at writing characters with similar personalities to herself. She herself is a quiet person who doesn't talk much, but the heroines she writes about are all bold, lively and outgoing.

It can be said that the character of the heroine adapted by the crew of "Judge Bao" just fits the character of the heroine written by Jiang Ning. In the adaptation of "Judge Bao", the heroine is lively and competitive, so she can better develop an emotional line with Zhan Zhao. Otherwise, with the character of Zhan Zhao shown in the first part of "Judge Bao", it would be difficult for him to develop an emotional line with someone like Zhan Huwei.

After more than a month of intensive shooting and editing, the second part of "Bao" is currently filming the fourth case. In the later stage, the plots of the first two cases were all edited out and handed over to Director Li. They need their internal people to take a look at the shooting and editing effects before the official screening.

I have to say that it is worthy of being a script adapted by the original screenwriter of "Bao" and a plot shot by the original crew. Lemon Meng's "Da Song" is well written, the plot is compact and coherent, one thing leads to another, and the editors are even more amazing. The editors in the editing department are probably readers of "Da Song" and have followed "Da Song" issue by issue. So they understand too well the feeling of being upset when each issue of "Da Song" is interrupted. Therefore, the editors fully used their feelings when following the episodes in the editing of "Judge Bao". Each episode is interrupted at a critical point, and you can't stop watching.

When Director Li finished watching the edited final episode, not to mention the viewers who hadn't seen it yet, he himself wished he could lock up the editors who had been editing all night in the editing room and told them not to leave until they finished editing the third episode's case!

I also went to ask about the situation of "The Legend of Xiang Shuai" and whether it has been released.

"The Legend of Xiangshuai" has 50 episodes and was released on the day of winter vacation. It is specifically aimed at the winter vacation audience. The winter vacation lasts for 28 days, and "The Legend of Xiangshuai" is broadcast for 25 days, and the finale happens to be on the 15th day of the first lunar month.

Director Li originally wanted to warm up the show before it was released. When he heard that "Xiang Shuai" was taken off the screen, he quickly called the second crew of "Bao" and asked them how the filming of the fourth case was going. He learned that the fourth case was almost finished and they were about to change to the next scene to shoot the fifth case. He asked the staff at the station to calculate whether the current shooting progress and the existing number of episodes could guarantee the TV station's daily broadcast volume if the show was broadcast from now on, with two episodes per day.

When the second crew of "Bao" first started filming, the progress was a bit slow because the screenwriters needed to work together, the scripts had to be written on the spot, and there was a language barrier. But now that the work has been done and there is a translator to communicate with each other, the filming progress has picked up, but it is still impossible to guarantee two episodes a day.

Director Li paced back and forth in his office and finally made the decision: "Let's broadcast it! Start broadcasting from this weekend! Broadcast two episodes at a time on weekends, and broadcast one episode at a time on non-working days. Let's see the ratings first!"

The timing is really great now. "The Legend of Xiang Marshal" has just ended, and there are no new hit TV series released. There is a very good gap in between. Even if other channels rebroadcast "The Legend of Xiang Marshal", the popularity will not be as high as during the winter vacation. After all, almost every household has watched it during the winter vacation. Although there are some who have not watched it, if a new TV series comes out to grab the ratings, it can also snatch some of them.

Director Li really couldn't bear to miss this great opportunity.

Before the second part of "Bao" was broadcast, Director Li called the magazine and set the release date of "Bao" 2. He also asked "Wuxia" magazine if they could promote in the latest issue of the magazine the news that the second part of the TV series "Bao", adapted from "The Great Song", would be released on the Z Province Satellite TV Station on a certain date.

Director Li promised that they would indicate at the beginning of the TV series that the TV series was adapted from the work "The Years I Was a Constable in the Song Dynasty" serialized by "Wuxia" magazine.

This is equivalent to fighting each other.

Previously, the TV station contacted Jiang Ning through the magazine and publishing house, and both sides have contact information.

Editor-in-Chief Bao from the magazine was overjoyed when he heard the news. He also called Director Li Ang to tell him the good news and asked him, "Should we increase the first print run of next week's "Wuxia"?"

After "Bao" was taken off the screen, the first print quantity of "Wuxia" had been adjusted with the withdrawal of "Bao". With the reduced first print quantity, they would observe the market conditions. Now that the second "Bao" is being released, they also have to make corresponding adjustments.

Li Ang had not expected that the second installment of Bao would be released so soon. While he was impressed by the efficiency and courage of Director Li of the TV station, he also said, "For this week's layout, put the release of the second installment of Bao, adapted from Da Song, on the cover, and use the entire front page for promotion. Also, ask the TV station to send a promotional photo, make it into a poster, and put the poster inside the plastic cover of Wuxia and release it together!"

This was not only a blessing to the TV station in Province Z, it was a win-win situation. At the same time, he also called the publishing house and told them about it.

The TV station first found the publishing house, and then the publishing house found the TV station. So the publishing house had long known that the TV drama copyright of Ning Meng's "The Great Song" had been sold and was in full swing of filming, so it would definitely not be released during the winter vacation. But they didn't expect that the TV station would move so quickly. As soon as "Xiang Shuai" was released, it was immediately released on "Bao" 2. The 5,000 autographs that Ning Meng had signed before had all been made into a hardcover edition of the first and second volumes of "The Great Song" by the printing factory. At the same time, they asked the TV station for promotional posters and printed another 200,000 copies of the two-in-one hardcover edition without signatures but with posters and bookmarks. While the printing was going on here, the contract for printing was sent to No. 1 Middle School as an express delivery.

Jiang Ning was the last one to know that the second part of "Bao" would be released soon.

She didn't care much about it. After reading the contract carefully and finding no problems, she signed her name and sent it back.

After the latest issue of "Wuxia" was released, along with the magazine, there were two big posters. One of them was the big title on the poster that everyone saw: "The second part of the TV series "Judge Bao", adapted from "The Years I Was a Constable in the Song Dynasty", will be broadcast on Z Province Satellite TV at 8 pm on February 20. Stay tuned!" ', below is a TV series promotional poster, and the other one is printed with the name "Da Song" but only features Zhan Zhao and the female lead. They are all posted in prominent locations on various newsstands. In many bookstores in the northern market, such promotional posters are also posted in prominent locations.

In this way, both readers of "The Great Song Dynasty" and original viewers of "Judge Bao" saw the news.

Audiences who have not read "Judge Bao" from "The Great Song Dynasty" were curious about the content of the original work when they saw that "Judge Bao" was adapted from "The Great Song Dynasty". Those who had extra money and were willing to buy books bought one to read first out of curiosity. Readers who have read "The Great Song Dynasty" and audiences who have also read "Judge Bao" were excited to see that their favorite work was adapted into "Judge Bao" which they also liked, and they were waiting for Saturday to come.

At this time, TV serials are generally broadcast during prime time on weekday evenings, while prime time on weekend evenings is reserved for variety shows.

However, the Z Province TV station currently does not have any high-rated variety shows or talk shows. The ratings it previously attracted were all due to the TV series "Judge Bao", which also makes the Z Province TV station more inclined to TV series rather than variety shows in program selection.

Other stations give way to variety shows during their prime time on weekends, but not the station in Province Z. They are eager to finish broadcasting the low-rated TV series that they bought at the end of last year, and then put on "Bao" 2. If it hadn't just finished, Director Li would have even asked the station to change the broadcast time of this TV series to daytime.

Many people in Wucheng also paid attention to this news. What surprised even more people was that "The Song Dynasty" was actually made into a TV series, and it was made into "Justice Bao".

People at that time still had a vague idea about the first and second parts. After seeing the promotional poster saying that "Justice Bao" 2 was adapted from "The Song Dynasty", word spread and somehow it became that "Justice Bao" was adapted from "The Song Dynasty".

"Ah? 'Judge Bao' is adapted from this book?" So more and more viewers of "Bao" went to bookstores and newsstands to buy this book.

As they watched, they first discovered, Huh? Isn't it at all? Then I thought it was pretty good, so I continued watching.

No. 4 Middle School is a school with mostly day students, and many of the students are locals. The school teachers often take the students to the nearby moat to sketch, and the access control is not particularly strict.

He Qiaosheng was originally a reader of "The Great Song". After knowing that Ning Meng was from Wucheng, he became a die-hard fan of "The Great Song". Whenever a martial arts novel was released, he would buy it as soon as it was released. Naturally, he also saw that "The Great Song" was going to be made into a TV series "Justice Bao". As a fan of "The Great Song", he felt proud and wanted to congratulate Ning Meng as soon as possible, but he couldn't find her.

After hesitating for a long time, he ran to the guard room of No. 2 Middle School, holding the latest issue of "Wuxia" magazine in his hand, and asked the guard with a red face: "Can you help me call Ma Dongmei from your school?"