Chapter 158
The boy who asked the question reflexively thought that Ning Meng was also on the stage.
Among the people who came to Beijing for the promotion, in addition to the female lead who played the White Snake, Xu Xian, Fahai, the male snake demon, and Xiaoqing all came to the scene. The readers had already matched these people with the characters in the movie, so they looked at the people they had never seen before, and smiled at the stage and asked: "I wonder which one is Teacher Ning Meng. I am your loyal reader. I bought all three of your books, "I am a Constable in the Song Dynasty", "I am a White Snake Cultivator", and "I am the Commander of the Jinyiwei". I brought them here today. I would like to ask Teacher Ning Meng to sign them, is it okay?"
Everyone's eyes were on the stage, wanting to see which one Ning Meng was.
In the end, no one on the stage stood up to admit that they were from Ningmeng.
Director Yu held the microphone to his lips and continued with a smile: "Ning Meng is here today, but she's not on the stage." He looked at the audience in the auditorium and said with a smile: "She is sitting among you right now."
The crowd was in an uproar, looking left and right at each other to see who was Ning Meng.
"Oh my god, you can't be Ning Meng?" Everyone smiled and pointed at their friends.
Jiang Ning and Song Peifeng also looked at each other and smiled, then laughed at each other.
The boy who asked the question also turned his head and looked at the huge audience at the back, then said loudly: "Who is Teacher Ning Meng? Can you stand up and sign an autograph for me?"
Ning Meng did not answer him. Instead, Director Yu answered the boy and said with a smile, "It is not convenient for Teacher Ning Meng to answer you this question, but I can answer it." He said, "Before coming to Peking University, I also called Teacher Ning Meng. After all, as you know, Teacher Ning Meng is more famous than me."
The audience burst into laughter, and the atmosphere changed from awkward to relaxed.
The director continued, "I chose Peking University as my first stop for the roadshow. In addition to the fact that Ms. Ning Meng is a Peking University student, I also wanted to leverage her popularity to help our White Snake crew boost the box office."
His tone was very calm, and the audience listened attentively.
"Is there some reason why Teacher Ning Meng didn't agree?"
"No." Director Yu smiled and shook his head. "Ms. Ning Meng told me that a teacher who doesn't show up may have a better publicity effect than a teacher who shows up. What do you think?"
The boy who asked the question never expected that this would be the reason. He was stunned for a moment, but quickly realized that the publicity strategy of the crew and Lemonmeng was amazing.
Indeed, a teacher Ning Meng who has not appeared and still maintains a sense of mystery will have a stronger presence than a teacher Ning Meng who has appeared.
At this moment, the boy who asked the question actually felt that he was worthy of being their junior at Kyoto University. He had a quick mind and understood publicity and human hearts.
The microphone was quickly taken over by the next girl, who asked Director Yu: "Director Yu, can you tell us whether Ning Meng is our junior or senior? You know, in the previous online war, a netizen said that if Ning Meng was a girl, he would stand upside down and eat something unspeakable. I and the majority of netizens are curious and looking forward to this matter."
Director Yu was very good at keeping people in suspense, saying, "I think it would be better if she told you this herself." Director Yu cleverly brought the topic back to the film itself, saying, "Before filming began, I strongly invited her to play an important role in the film. Her personal image and temperament were very consistent with the temperament and image of the character in the film. Unfortunately, she was at a critical stage in her life at that time."
As everyone knows, this critical stage should refer to the college entrance examination.
I didn't expect that Ning Meng was actually a high school student before, and not some old policeman in the system. This has been made very clear from what Director Yu said just now. He said that the script of this movie was based on the outline framework and tone provided by Ning Meng, and that Ning Meng's image and temperament are very consistent with the image of an important character in the movie.
Director Yu is very good at wordplay. He originally just wanted to invite Ning Meng to audition for the role of White Snake, but here he said yes, inviting her to play the role of White Snake directly.
This is obviously said intentionally for publicity effect.
Sure enough, this one sentence immediately aroused the interest of the audience.
Through Director Yu's words, readers and viewers learned a very important piece of information about Ning Meng: 'Ning Meng's image and temperament are very suitable for a very important role in the movie "White Snake", and Director Yu wants him to play this important role.'
You know, the important characters in the movie, combined with Ning Meng's age and identity as a freshman, the number of people who fit her role is easy to guess at once.
The heroine is White Snake, the supporting actor is Xu Xian, and Mingyue is Fahai’s disciple.
These three characters, whether it is the female lead, the supporting male, or the cannon fodder Mingyue, are all so handsome.
Not to mention the female lead, who was carefully selected from thousands of female college students.
The actor who plays the supporting male role Xu Xian is also handsome and has a gentle temperament.
Not to mention the cannon fodder Mingyue, who is such an existence that the audience wishes the director would release all the images of this character so that they can lick them all.
What does it mean if Ning Meng can play any of these three roles?
If Ning Meng were a woman, she would be as beautiful as a fairy!
If Ning Meng were a man, he would be so handsome that it's inhumane!
What kind of beauty could make the director want her to play these three important roles? No matter how handsome he is, can he be more handsome than Mingyue?
So which role does Director Yu want Ning Meng to play?
I have to say, a director is a director and he knows how to hook the hearts of the audience and readers.
The readers and audiences below were so itchy and scratching their heads because of Director Yu's intrigue, but Director Yu just wouldn't say anything and instead talked about the movie "White Snake". The audience below didn't want to keep asking Ning Meng.
After all, we are here today to promote the movie "White Snake", not Lemon Studios.
But today's publicity effect is very good.
In addition to the fact that the film itself is well-made and full of laughs during the Lunar New Year period, the film itself is not just a popcorn movie. The film has a lot of laughs and depth, and is worthy of being adapted from "White Snake Cultivation". Unlike the previous White Snake series of movies and TV series, which focused on the relationship between the White Snake and the Green Snake, this time the focus is on the avenue. As a movie released during the Lunar New Year period, it is a great movie to watch with family and friends during the Chinese New Year.
A group of college students, led by Peking University students and supplemented by some students from other schools who infiltrated Peking University, have become fans of "White Snake's Cultivation of Immortality" and spontaneously wrote film reviews of "White Snake's Cultivation of Immortality" on the Internet. In the end, there is only one conclusion: it is worth watching and is very good.
This made many netizens surfing the Internet and fans of the book "White Snake's Cultivation of Immortality" want to go to the cinema to watch it.
However, what caused such a heated discussion online was not these film reviews, but what many people who were at Peking University that day heard from the director of "White Snake" about how he tried hard to invite Ning Meng to play an important role in "White Snake" but was rejected.
He also emphasized Director Yu's original words: "The temperament and image are very consistent with the temperament and image of an important character."
Then netizens speculated which role Director Yu wanted him to play, the female lead White Snake, Xu Xian, or Ming Yue.
Everyone felt that Xu Xian and Ming Yue were more likely to play the roles, because as the heroine was the undisputed heroine of the whole play, the director could not have asked a high school student who had not yet entered college to play the role, and who had no acting experience and could not support a large-scale film production. So after analysis, they felt that Xu Xian and Ming Yue were more likely to play the roles.
Although Xu Xian is strictly speaking the male protagonist, in this movie Xu Xian is simply the background of the White Snake and his presence is quite weak.
Not to mention Mingyue, whose total shots are probably less than three minutes, and she dies very cleanly in the ending.
It was Lemon Meng’s extremely high appearance that directly boosted the popularity of the first roadshow of "White Snake".
Amid the heated discussion among netizens, a faint message came in the middle, reminding them: "Have you forgotten that there might be another disciple of Fahai - Qingfeng?"
Qingfeng is the actor who plays Tong Jingang in the movie.
Tong Jingang plays center in the school basketball team. He is strong and muscular, and has dark skin from playing basketball for many years. With his height, he stands behind Fahai and next to Mingyue. With the big movie screen, he looks even taller. In contrast with Mingyue and under the director's lens, the character of Qingfeng is as strong and huge as a black tower.
This weak voice continued to remind them weakly: "If he didn't look like Qingfeng, but was as good-looking as Xu Xian, Mingyue, or Xiaobai, then why didn't Ning Meng appear? Could it be... because he is too ugly and not suitable to appear?"
When everyone thought of this possibility and put Qingfeng's image like a black tower into their minds, they felt sick!
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
"The director has already said that he is invited to play an important role! The key point is: important!" One netizen emphasized the word "important": "Is the role of Qingfeng important?"
"Well..." The weak voice continued to weakly refute on the Internet: "Why is it not important?"
"He's just a cannon fodder who appeared for less than three minutes. How can he be important?"
Some netizens were dissatisfied: "You also included Mingyue, who also appeared for less than three minutes. Why did you list Qingfeng, who appeared for about the same time as Mingyue, as cannon fodder?"
Regardless of whether people think that Ning Meng is extremely handsome or extremely beautiful, the most beautiful woman on earth, or as some netizens think, she is extremely ugly and dares not show her face, in short, the first stop of the promotion of "White Snake" was very successful and well-placed, and the popularity and discussion of the movie rose all of a sudden.
There are also some small voices that have been buried in these two waves of discussion, that is, "Qingfeng is just a little stronger, he is not ugly, he is not to the extent that he is hiding and dare not show it to others, right?"
However, such a rational voice is destined to be buried among the two extreme voices.
Some netizens, after noticing that this matter has aroused such heated discussion on the Internet, remembered what Director Yu said, that this publicity strategy was proposed by Ningmeng.
This has made many people believe that Ning Meng might not really be an old policeman in the system, but a top student from Peking University.
After all, such intelligence and such a publicity strategy are not something that an ordinary person can come up with casually.
But people who have watched "The Song Dynasty" still insist that even if Ning Meng is not an old police officer in the system, there must be someone who works as a police officer in the system among her relatives, friends and relatives, and this person must be very close to her. If he is not, he will not tell her so many criminal investigation details and story details.
This further reduces the size of the character "Jiang Ning".
The freshmen of the 1997 Peking University had relatives working in the public security system and were too beautiful or too tall and strong.
All of a sudden, among the freshmen, all those whose family members were in the system, those who were very beautiful or handsome, or those who were too tall and strong, received special attention from the seniors and freshmen.
It is much easier to accept that you can reasonably suspect that the handsome guy or beautiful girl around you is Ning Meng than to suspect that the tall and strong man around you is Ning Meng.
After all, the actor who plays Qingfeng is just tall and strong, not ugly, so there is nothing to be ashamed of. Therefore, Peking University students generally believe that Ning Meng is too beautiful or too handsome.
Most of the students in Beijing University are focused on studying, but there is a small number of students who are bored. They want to find Ning Meng. So, after counting the handsome men and beautiful women and strong men in each department, they interviewed and checked one by one according to whether their family members or relatives are in the system...
Especially when interviewing the roommates of these handsome guys and beautiful girls. After all, if a person maintains a writing intensity of more than 3,000 words a day for a long time, others may not notice it in life, but the roommates who live with them will definitely notice it.
There are also many handsome guys and beautiful girls who took the initiative to say that it was not them. In the suspicious eyes of their roommates and classmates, they insisted: "I am really not Ning Meng!"
I also want to find out who this bastard is. He is so secretive and now everyone suspects me.
In any case, this Peking University roadshow promotion was very successful.
During this roadshow, Director Yu discovered that the audience really liked the character of "Ming Yue", or rather, the actor who played Ming Yue. During the interview, Ming Yue was mentioned many times, and asked why the actor who played Ming Yue did not come.
The director naturally told the truth: "He is a college student, and it is his final exam time, and he is preparing for the final exam."
Only then did everyone realize that this actor was actually a college student.
Because of the audience's attention to Jiang Bai, the director also called Jiang Bai to invite him to help promote the film, and of course paid him a promotional fee.
The next promotional location happens to be in Shanghai.
But Jiang Bai was not very interested. The winter vacation at the end of the year was when his business was at its best. On a busy day, he could earn three to four thousand yuan a day. Jiang Bai was not willing to run publicity campaigns just for such a small fee.
But Tong Jingang wanted to go, and came to visit Jiang Bo on the weekend. Tong Jingang, who happened to hear Director Yu's call, winked at Jiang Bo and nodded wildly, saying silently: "Go, go, go!"
Jiang Bai hesitated for a moment, then nodded and agreed to help promote the roadshow. Tong Jingang helped Jiang Bai a lot. To put it bluntly, the relationship between the two was even closer than that between him and his brother Jiang Song.
He said to the director, "Director Yu, I still owe a lot of foreign debts, and I have to continue working during the winter vacation. I'm afraid I can't follow the promotion for too long."
Director Yu was puzzled. With Ning Meng's best-selling book with a total sales volume of nearly 10 million, the royalties from several best-selling books with a total sales volume of several million, and the film and television copyrights of several books, their family should not have owed a lot of foreign debts. But when he thought of Jiang Bai's crazy part-time job during the summer vacation, he just thought that the Jiang family owed too much foreign debts and had not paid them off. No wonder Ning Meng, a high school girl, wrote more than 1.8 million words in two years to write a novel despite her tight academic schedule. It turned out that they were short of money.
Jiang Bai had to choose between making money and helping Tong Jingang. Although Jiang Bai reluctantly chose to help Tong Jingang, he still made an agreement with him: "I must be back before the 25th day of the first lunar month. My sister still has a lot of loans and mortgages waiting for me to pay off."
Those days are the peak period of business in the year, and countless migrant workers will come back during those days. As long as he manages the ten days at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, he can basically make 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.
Tong Jingang knew how stingy this guy was. Jiang Bai was so stingy that he actually left a lot of money unearned. In order to let him participate in the roadshow, he actually agreed to join the publicity team and brought him along as a burden. Tong Jingang was so happy that he jumped onto Jiang Bai's skinny back and said, "Don't worry, I will definitely help you sell well when I come back and pay our sister back!"
Good man, he didn’t even consider his own bear-like weight and almost crushed Jiang Bai to the ground.
He excitedly put his arm around Jiang Bo's shoulders and said, "Come on, come on, I'll treat you to a meal!"
Jiang Bo slapped him away with disdain, "It's too expensive and it's not as clean and delicious as cooking it yourself. I'm not going."
He would rather cook it himself, which is clean, hygienic and cheap.
Tong Jingang knew his character, so he went to buy some roast duck from the school gate and then used the duck bones with the meat scraped off to cook duck bone porridge.
It's the end of the year, and Jiang's father and mother, who have been busy in Shenzhen for a year, are preparing to go back home, because a new house was built this year, and they haven't seen it yet. They are anxious to see their new house, but after seeing the deserted scene when they returned home last year, Jiang's father and mother are not in a hurry to go back immediately this year. Instead, they called Aunt Jiang and asked her to help them prepare some New Year's goods. They also called Wang Ailan and asked her to help her make some rice, flour and rice cakes, and she would give her the money when she went back. They also called Aunt Jiang and asked her to see if there was anything that needed to be bought in the new house, and they would come back to buy it.
Afterwards, he called Jiang Bai again and asked him when he would go back. As expected, Jiang Bai had to work during the winter vacation and would not go back yet.
"Then when are you going home?" Afraid that Jiang Bai would spend the New Year outside like he did last year, Jiang's father said, "Don't worry about tuition. Your mom and I can still work. We made a lot of money selling lunch boxes this year. We have enough money to pay for your and Ningning's tuition. Tell Ningning not to stay out too late. No matter what, you have to go home for the New Year."
Jiang Bai was silent for a moment. He didn't know what his sister was thinking or where she would spend the New Year, but selfishly speaking, he wanted to go home for the New Year.
Hometown is their roots. No matter what they do outside, as Jiang's father said, they have to go back for the New Year. There are ancestral graves at home to worship their ancestors. They did not go back last year, and they cannot not go back this year. If they don't go back, they will be criticized.
As a boy, Jiang Bai was taught by his father since he was young to remember the location of every grave of his ancestors. In the future, they would inherit the responsibility of tomb sweeping in their hometown and be responsible for sweeping the graves of their ancestors.
This story has been passed down from generation to generation.
Jiang Song has had a lively personality since childhood. When his father Jiang was teaching them, Jiang Song would go to pick blackberries that grew in the mountains in winter, dig bamboo shoots, dig two forsythia seedlings to take home, or go to play with his familiar friends. Only Jiang Bai listened carefully to what his father said every time.
Therefore, he has a sense of responsibility in his heart, a burden that he cannot unload, and he has to take on the responsibility of offering sacrifices to his ancestors.
So does Grandpa Jiang.
He is the eldest in the family. For the past few decades, he had been the one who took his younger brothers and sons to visit the ancestor graves. Last year, he did not go back. He felt very uncomfortable, and all he could think about were the graves and his old friends in his hometown.
It doesn't matter if he lives outside or in the city during normal times, but when the New Year comes, he wants to go back. He wants to go back to the land where he was born and raised, to the place where he will be buried a hundred years later.
He called Jiang Ning and told her that Jiang's father had provided them with tuition fees and that Jiang's father had asked them to go home for the New Year.
Jiang Ning was silent for a while, then smiled and said, "I understand."
She knew she couldn't avoid it.
Last year, she was selfish for once and followed her heart, and reluctantly let her second brother and grandfather accompany her to Shanghai for the New Year. She did not go back, but this year, she knew that her grandfather and second brother must go back.
She herself must go back as well.
Last year she was still training in the training team. If she doesn't go back this year, her life will be better because she was admitted to Peking University, and her family is willing to send them to school. The situation of the rural girls who supported their education will become the same as before, or even worse than before. So she not only has to go back, but also go back happily.
To return home in glory.
After hanging up the phone, she couldn't help but smile, and didn't think it was a big deal.
In fact, after she was admitted to a very good university in her previous life, Jiang's mother never beat her when she went back. Although her words were still a bit harsh, she didn't just speak to her like that. She treated every member of the Jiang family equally except Jiang Song and her mother's family, and spoke in a sarcastic tone. She was suppressed by Jiang's father, and later she even said less sarcastic words, and began to cry and appease others.
Everyone in the village spoke to her very politely. Even when the brigade had a dinner party, they would invite her to sit at the main table. Even if she did nothing but sit there and eat, the cadres in the brigade would still be polite and full of compliments to her.
Of course, they didn't need to please a younger generation. They just wanted her, the most promising girl in the village, to help their children and younger generations in the future.
At this moment, an idea suddenly came to her mind.
In her previous life, she was a leader in the provincial capital. After the road was opened, it only took more than two hours to drive from their home to the provincial capital. Taking the high-speed rail was even faster and it only took half an hour to reach Wucheng.
Because of the convenient transportation and close proximity, she comes back every Chinese New Year.
What if in this life, she doesn't go back to the provincial capital to take the exam, but stays in the capital to take the civil service exam?
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