Chapter 145: Red Envelopes
The time officially entered 1997.
Since the beginning of the new semester, Jiang Ning seldom went to school and usually stayed in the store typing.
Manager Qian called her and said that a number of shops in the apartment complex were being put up for sale and asked her if she wanted to buy any. Of course Jiang Ning wanted to buy some, and she bought two more shops and also bought an apartment in the newly built community behind Jiangbai School.
She remembered watching an interview with a host in her previous life. Because of her high income, this host bought herself an apartment every month to reward herself from 1997 to the millennium. So over the years, she bought more than 70 apartments in Beijing, retired early after she reached her prime, and lived a wonderful life where she could work when she wanted to and not work when she didn't want to.
Jiang Ning is not able to buy a house every month at the moment, but he can still buy several houses a year.
In particular, there is a bargain like Hudong in the Shanghai Stock Exchange, which is not available in Beijing.
The busiest street in front of Jiangbai School is not a good place to rent a shop, although there are no shops to be found. There are many small vendors here. They rarely rent shops, but set up stalls on both sides of the road, forming a night market. It is very busy and prosperous at night.
It was the beginning of spring, and a storefront was vacant, so Jiang Ning signed a three-year contract, paid the rent, and invited Grandpa Jiang to the street. On the first day of the students who came to apply for the Shanghai University of Science and Technology, they heard the sound of "Jiangnan Garment Factory, Jiangnan Garment Factory..." echoing throughout the street.
They all walked into Jiang Ning's store curiously.
The early inventory of Uncle Wang Yong's factory had long been consumed by Jiang Ning's store in Wucheng. The clothes sold in Jiang Ning's store now were all this year's new models. Although they were left over from the order fair of manufacturers in Guangzhou, they were still new models. When they were sold in Shanghai, they did not look tacky at all, but rather very fashionable.
These college students who just arrived for the Chinese New Year have the most money at this time. Some of them came from less affluent areas and did not have two good clothes on them. Seeing that the clothes sold in this store were so cheap and the quality was much better than those sold in the night market, they all walked into this store and bought one each.
Ever since learning that Jiang Ning had entered winter camp and had no time to write, Wang Yong, who had already accumulated a large amount of manuscripts, reduced the number of words published each week, from more than 20,000 words per week to just over 10,000 words. This made the readers who were used to having their fill growl in hunger and called "Wuxia" to ask it to serialize more content. As a result, they learned from "Wuxia" that Ning Meng was very busy recently and had no time to write.
Readers began to guess what Ning Meng was busy with.
"Maybe he is busy with some case?" Now everyone generally thinks that Ning Meng's job is a criminal police within the system.
Although the language of "White Snake's Cultivation of Immortality" is more humorous than that of "The Song Dynasty", the thinking mode of the little white snake is definitely not something that a young person can write. The image of the old villain cannot be written without working in the system for more than ten or twenty years.
When young people write about their protagonists, they all think about traveling around the world with a sword. None of them are as sinister as the protagonist created by Ning Meng.
Now, the little white snake has completely refined the Emperor's Liquid, survived the transformation calamity, and become a fairy-like little girl who does not look like a demon cultivator, but rather like a fairy.
The map also changed from the Ten Thousand Mountains to the World of Cultivation.
But even though she became a little girl with an air of fairy, she was still an old scheming woman, who understood the essence of playing the pig to eat the tiger and making a fortune in silence. All those who came to rob her of her money and sex eventually became her supplies. She practiced in the cultivation world for another thousand years, and had been practicing to the late stage of transformation. When she was about to ascend, she suddenly felt that she still had a cause and effect to repay. She counted with her fingers and found that she was still in the mortal snake stage and was almost eaten by her natural enemy. When she was injured, she was rescued by a herbalist, and she needed to go to the human world to repay her gratitude.
Here it comes, here it comes! The plot of "New White Snake" is here.
Just when everyone thought they were about to see White Snake, the little white snake actually ran directly to the human world, took in a big black carp from the West Lake as her younger brother, and went about making money in an honest way.
After making money, didn’t Xu Xian want to open a pharmacy? open!
Doesn’t Xu Xian want to study medicine? arrange!
Xu Xian wants to get married? Marry him!
A trip to the mortal world lasts no more than a hundred years for mortals. During the hundred years, a plague came, and the little white snake found magical herbs to rid the world of the plague. Then a flood came, and the world was flooded everywhere, and the world was extremely desperate.
The little white snake and the big green carp transformed into their original forms and kept rescuing people in the water. They sent them to the top of the mountain and then continued to rescue people.
At first, humans were extremely scared and thought they were going to be killed by the snake, but unexpectedly they were saved by the white snake.
Someone was the first to shout out, "It's the White Dragon!" as he watched the giant white snake rising and falling in the waves to save people.
As soon as the word "Bai Long" came out, the little white snake felt a little itchy on both sides of its forehead. It rubbed and scratched it on the reef, and then touched it with its tail. It seemed that two big lumps appeared. The little white snake thought that it had accidentally bumped into something while rescuing people. Although its flesh and blood had long been trained into steel bones, there was no other explanation except this.
However, after the lump grew on her head, she inexplicably awakened her first innate magical power, which was related to water. A light bulb went off in her mind, and she went to sort out the water veins in the world and eliminate the flood.
After combing out the water veins for 9981 days, she finally succeeded in combing out the flood. When the golden light of merit descended, the two small bumps on the top of the little white snake's head suddenly sloped out and became two forked small horns. At the same time, she also awakened her second magical power, which was to make clouds and rain.
So, during the hundred years that the little white snake guarded Xu Xian, she was also guarding millions of people on earth. When there was plenty of water, she combed the water veins, and when there was drought, she made clouds and rain.
Her figure moved between the clouds, and she used magic and her innate magical powers to gather water from rainy areas to dry and rainless areas. Once, someone saw her figure controlling the clouds and rain in the air and called out to the dragon three times.
Maybe it was because she had accumulated enough merit, but after being called the Dragon God three times by the people on earth, the two small forked horns on her forehead suddenly stretched out like deer antlers. At the same time, both sides of her abdomen began to itch, as if something was about to grow out.
People on earth built a 'Shenlong Temple' for her and called her 'Shenlong'.
On the day the temple was completed, the little white snake... no, it should be called the little white dragon now, finally grew four dragon claws on its body and turned into a dragon.
For many years, the little white dragon protected Xu Xian from illness and disaster, and kept him safe and happy. She also protected the human world from a hundred years of good weather and harvest. When Xu Xian passed away suddenly, a dragon roar resounded through the sky. She felt her bottleneck loosen, and the thunder tribulation of ascension finally arrived.
Click!
The latest issue is gone again.
Readers actually follow Ning Meng's rhythm and feel their blood boiling, especially when they see the white snake turning into a dragon, and the white dragon turning into a dragon, they feel so excited and thrilled, as if with Ning Meng's words, they are also possessed by the little white snake, following it step by step, from a mortal snake without any cultivation, who could only survive cautiously every day, to a little snake demon who, although swallowed countless emperor's liquids, still dared not wander outside, and could only hide in the cave at the bottom of the cliff, silently practicing hard, and now, it turns into a dragon when encountering wind and clouds!
They originally thought that the little white snake was going to go to the human world to find Xu Xian to pledge her love to him, fall in love with him, and have children, and was suppressed under the Leifeng Pagoda.
To be honest, thinking of such a plot, those who followed the little white snake to fight monsters and level up, had a great time from beginning to end, and never felt suffocated. But as long as they thought that such a powerful snake had to go to the human world to give birth to a monkey for a human man, and had to be coaxed by Xu Xian to drink realgar wine, reveal its true form, and be suppressed by Fahai under the Leifeng Pagoda, being tortured day and night, the readers felt unbearable.
Their snake sister doesn't even mention the mere mortal men on earth. The handsome men in the world of immortal cultivation are all lined up waiting for our snake sister to pick. It's just that the snake sister doesn't like them. But if the snake sister likes any of them, let me take them!
What about realgar wine? Our Sister Snake has seen all kinds of immortal poisons in the world of immortal cultivation. How could she not recognize just realgar wine? Do you think our Snake sister’s brain was eaten by Xu Xian?
And what about Fahai? Our Snake Sister can give him only one hand and one foot, and can she beat him a hundred times?
They had never imagined that following the little white snake to the mortal world to repay their gratitude was not only a way to repay their gratitude, but also a way to cultivate immortality. Not only did the little white snake not flood the Jinshan Mountain, but when the flood came, it turned into a dragon and then into a dragon.
Although the latest issue ends here, readers still enjoy reading it.
So cool!
After they were done having fun, they suddenly realized, huh? Isn’t the article “White Snake’s Cultivation of Immortality” the prequel to “The Legend of the New White Snake”?
What about promising yourself to me? What about the flooding of Jinshan Mountain? What about suppressing Leifeng Pagoda?
But after watching "White Snake's Journey to Immortality", I went to watch "The Legend of the New White Snake". It's still the White Snake, and she also has a strong heart of Taoism and is determined to become an immortal. But with so many ways to repay a favor, why did White Snake choose to give herself to a mortal man and fall in love with him? Still have children? And he was imprisoned under Leifeng Pagoda?
This made the audience who had watched "White Snake" in the past two years and followed it with great interest, suddenly unable to bear the way White Snake repaid her gratitude.
However, some people also said on the Internet that White Snake's way of repaying her gratitude was to choose to come to the human world to overcome her emotional tribulation and to temper her state of mind.
Isn’t it said in “White Snake’s Cultivation of Immortality”? If you want to ascend, you need not only your physique, but also your comprehension, your heart of Tao, and a perfect state of mind, all of which are indispensable.
White Snake is good in every way, but she had spent the previous thousand years practicing in the mountains, where the environment was too simple. All she did was fight with the demon cultivators. She had the ability to fight, but lacked the tempering of her mind. That’s why the Bodhisattva asked her to come to the human world to repay her gratitude. All the suffering she experienced was actually to temper her mind and make it complete.
"Look, didn't she ascend to heaven all of a sudden in the end?"
The two white snakes, their different ways of repaying gratitude, and their stories of repaying gratitude immediately sparked heated discussions on the Internet.
Some netizens like the way White Snake repays her gratitude. After all, she had a sweet love affair with Xu Xian. There are both male and female characters in this film. Some male viewers even said that a woman’s life will be incomplete if she doesn’t get married. Only after White Snake experienced this, her life is complete.
This passage was severely criticized by a large number of readers of "White Snake's Cultivation of Immortality" in the forum. These readers included both men and women, and some female readers even criticized it more harshly than male readers. They directly started cursing in the BBS forum about the view that "a woman is complete only after getting married and having children."
"The little white snake is a snake, it has reproductive isolation, there's no way it can get pregnant. The little white snake's goal has always been to ascend to heaven and become an immortal!" followed by a bunch of dirty words that cannot be written.
In 1997, closed places were still very closed, but open places were more open than you could imagine. Many outstanding women had long since awakened to their feminine consciousness and had many thoughts about life. Their ideas were advanced and avant-garde, and they were no longer limited to "women" themselves.
So they particularly like the part where the little white snake repays her gratitude and turns into a dragon.
It was like turning on a switch in their mindset and giving them a different perspective.
Yes, the little white snake can transform into a dragon.
The little white snake didn’t fall in love and have children, she actually turned into a dragon!
Also to repay a favor, White Snake pledged her life to help him overcome the emotional tribulation; Little White Dragon protected the people of the world and transformed himself into a dragon.
The introduction of this new plot directly made the article "White Snake's Cultivation of Immortality" a masterpiece in the hearts of countless readers.
What surprised Jiang Ning was that a film and television company actually came to him and wanted to buy the film and television rights of "White Snake Cultivation", reportedly wanting to adapt it into a movie.
"The Legend of the New White Snake" was released in 1992, and "Green Snake" was released in 1993. These two films, both the TV series and the movie versions, have become the pinnacle. It is difficult to write a better work on the theme of "White Snake" than "White Snake" and "Green Snake". I didn't expect that there would be buyers for the film and television rights of "White Snake".
Jiang Ning has been staying in Shanghai for some time to buy a shop and a house. Currently, only Grandpa Jiang is at Wucheng's landline. Once everything is ready here, Grandpa Jiang will be invited over. The business in the store has been good recently, and Grandpa Jiang is not willing to leave Wucheng for Shanghai, where he is unfamiliar with the place.
He is now familiar with his neighbors, and everyone who sees him greets him and calls him: Old Daddy.
This is all because Jiang Ning is now famous in Wucheng. The business of the store is good, so he doesn't have to worry about his granddaughter's mortgage.
Jiang Ning asked him to go to her big villa in Shanghai, hoping to use the warm floor heating to relieve the soreness in his legs from the winter cold, but Grandpa Jiang was unwilling to go.
He was afraid that one day his granddaughter would not be able to repay the loan and the house would become someone else's.
Therefore, Grandpa Jiang had no sense of belonging to the villa and the house in Shanghai from the bottom of his heart. He felt that they could become someone else's at any time. In order to prevent his granddaughter from wasting so much money, he could only work hard to sell clothes. Every time he sold a piece, he felt more secure.
He also didn't understand why his granddaughter wanted to take out a loan to buy a house in Shanghai when she was going to study at university in Beijing.
Wang Yong and Grandpa Jiang do not speak the same language and can only contact Jiang Ning via email.
The Internet cafe environment in Shanghai is much better than that in Wucheng. After a severe crackdown, Internet cafes are now normal places to surf the Internet. Although there are still many people smoking, it is not as chaotic as before.
Jiang Ning saw his new email when she finished typing and sent him an email. After opening it, she found that someone wanted to buy the copyright. After leaving the Internet cafe, she called Wang Yong.
He gave Wang Yong the newly rented address and said, "I don't have a landline right now, so I can only contact you through email. If anyone really wants to buy it, just come find me here."
Wang Yong dutifully sent the new address Jiang Ning gave him to the film and television companies that wanted to buy the copyright of "White Snake".
The one who was interested in the film and television rights of this work was the famous director himself. The famous director was in Beijing, and when he knew that she was in Shanghai, he did not take the slow green train, but flew directly to Shanghai, and then took a taxi to Jiang Ning's newly rented shop in front of Shanghai University of Science and Technology.
It was Manager Qian who was responsible for the decoration of the shop.
The decoration is also very simple, mainly just painting the walls white, laying white floor tiles, and installing a few iron racks.
Because the things had not been moved in yet, the room was empty with only her there.
Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang are still selling clothes in Wucheng, and Grandpa Jiang’s store is now too busy for him to handle by himself.
When they saw Jiang Ning, they were also surprised. They looked at the address in their hands, and then looked at the house number on the wall. After confirming that it was this place, they asked her: "Excuse me, is Ning Meng here?"
So they listened to the voice of this little girl, who was no more than sixteen or seventeen years old, as clear and transparent as jade: "I am."
When they were thinking about buying the film and television rights to this work, they inquired about the author of "White Snake" and learned that her previous work was adapted into the second and third parts of "Judge Bao". They also bought the physical book of "The Song Dynasty" and naturally saw the debate about her gender on the Internet. The more unified and authoritative statement on the Internet is that she is a police officer in her thirties or forties.
They thought so before they met her, but they didn't expect her to be so young.
Jiang Ning is now 1.65 meters tall. Maybe because she grew so fast, even though she ate a lot at every meal, she just didn't gain weight. All the nutrients went to her head, making Jiang Ning look thin and tall. Because they were talking about work, she didn't have the friendly smile like she usually had when facing her classmates. The moment she raised her eyes to look at them, her temperament was very cold and sharp.
The one who came to discuss the film and television rights was the big director himself who had his eyes on the film and television rights of this story. When he walked in and saw the little girl's profile for the first time, he just thought that the little girl had a perfect profile. The moment she turned her head and looked at him, the director thought, isn't this the little white snake he was looking for?
This is exactly like the little white snake in the book, now entered into reality.
The more the director watched Jiang Ning, the more he liked her.
As expected of the author of "White Snake's Cultivation of Immortality", he highly suspected that the image of the little white snake was written based on himself?
This is what the director thought and asked.
Jiang Ning answered him: "I wrote it according to my own understanding of White Snake."
She felt that no matter whether it was a snake or a snake demon like White Snake who was devoted to Taoism, her way of repaying the favor would never be to pledge herself to the other person or engage in any kind of love affair.
So, the moment she saw Grandpa Jiang watching "The New White Snake", this inspiration suddenly flashed in her mind.
At this time, the status of directors and actors had not been raised as high as it had been after the millennium. When facing Jiang Ning, the big directors did not have a high attitude. They just talked about what kind of movie he wanted to make, just like an ordinary person who came to discuss work.
He took out the latest issues of "Wuxia", which serialized the story of the White Snake transforming into a dragon.
He felt that he was tired of watching just love stories, whether it was the love story between White Snake and Xu Xian or the one between Green Snake and Fahai. When he saw the content of these episodes, an inspiration suddenly came to his mind. He wanted to use the IP of "White Snake", which is still popular, to shoot a completely different "Legend of White Snake".
He told her his ideas for the movie, and the reason he went into such detail was that he actually wanted Jiang Ning to play the role of the White Snake herself.
Jiang Ning was just like the White Snake in his imagination, both in appearance and temperament.
Moreover, Jiang Ning's appearance is very photogenic. She is a typical beauty with good bone structure and skin.
Because the meeting place was chosen to be the street connected to the back door of Shanghai University of Science and Technology, the director thought Ning Meng was a student of Shanghai University of Science and Technology.
Jiang Ning listened to the director talk about his ideas for the movie, but in fact Jiang Ning didn't care about it. He just asked him: "Name a price."
The director choked, wondering if Jiang Ning didn't understand what he wanted to express.
Of course, he knew that the second part of "Justice Bao", adapted from Lemon Meng's "The Song Dynasty", achieved a high viewership rate of over 50% last year, which can be said to be a big hit. The third part was broadcast during the winter vacation this year. Although the ratings were not as good as the first and second parts, it also had a viewership rate of over 30%.
With these two high-rated dramas in the past, the film and television copyright fees for "White Snake's Journey to Immortality" cannot be low.
Just like last year, it was sold to Z Province TV station for 8,000 yuan, making Z Province TV station a fortune, but she didn't even get to drink the soup, at most she drank a bowl of boiled water. Who wouldn't be jealous of such a rate of return? Aren’t you jealous?
In particular, since the self-produced drama "Bao Er" by Province Z TV station dominated all the ratings after "The Legend of Xiang Shuai" last year, other TV stations have seen the benefits of self-produced dramas. This year, countless good self-produced dramas have emerged. The more famous ones, such as "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo", "Water Margin", "The Secret History of Xiaozhuang", "The Yongzheng Dynasty", "A Generation of Prime Ministers", etc., are all enduring classic dramas.
"Bao San" can carve out a path among so many excellent TV dramas. In addition to the fact that the TV station in Province Z seized the traffic of "Judge Bao", the story and story structure of the book "The Great Song" itself are exciting enough. Otherwise, it would not have been able to maintain such ratings under the siege of so many popular dramas this year. This in itself shows that the story of "The Great Song" is strong enough.
Jiang Ning listened to him talking a lot but didn't give a quote. She thought he was just trying to make big promises and use her copyright for free. After listening to him talk so much, she became a little impatient.
Seeing that there was no excitement on her face, only impatience, the director quickly stated the price.
When Jiang Ning heard the price, he stopped and the smile returned to his face.
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