Chapter 211
After reading the previous part of the script written by Jiang Ning, we finally got to the part about "flood fighting and disaster relief" which she wrote in detail. Because Jiang Ning had actually participated in flood fighting and disaster relief, and had also cooperated with the local government and the army that went to fight the floods, this part she wrote made people feel as if they were actually there. Producer Li is a very emotional middle-aged man. He actually took off his glasses in the middle of the script and wiped away his tears before continuing to watch.
After watching it, I said with emotion: "I thought the previous plot of Ning Meng was full of spirit, but when I saw the later part, I realized that Ning Meng is worthy of being a top student of Peking University." Not only is the plot touching, but the scene in which the leader said on the river embankment during this year's flood fighting process, "I will not retreat until the flood recedes," was incorporated into the script, so that when the audience sees this scene in the TV series, they will immediately think of the scene in which the leader and the people advance and retreat together on the river embankment in the raging flood.
That was to promote the great leader, highlighting the fact that he went deep into the disaster area and worked diligently and cared for the people.
And it’s good if it’s written in a touching way that makes people cry. A good script or a good TV series should have both laughter and tears.
It was after reading Jiang Ning's script that Producer Li officially brought Jiang Ning into the screenwriter team of "White Snake". Her name will also appear in the screenwriter column at the end of the TV series.
If Jiang Ning wants to enter this industry in the future, this credit as a screenwriter for a TV series co-produced with CCTV would be a very good resume.
The script reading session lasted for more than an hour. When the president of the literature club saw Director Li praising Jiang Ning, he was so curious that he stood up and refilled their tea cups. While refilling the tea, he took a look at the script they had placed on the table.
They didn't want to offend Producer Li and other teachers who worked at CCTV. Seeing Jiang Ning reading Teacher Tang Jiang's script, and their own script and Teacher Yuan Feng's script being left unused, they came over and asked Jiang Ning softly, "Junior sister, do you need me to make a few more copies of the script? We also want to learn from the teachers."
Jiang Ning raised his eyes to look at Producer Li, who looked up at the head of the Literature Club and said, "I don't know what to call you?"
The president of the literature club hurriedly introduced himself: "My last name is Lei, Lei Tianhua."
"Comrade Xiao Lei." Producer Li smiled and drank a cup of tea, then put down the cup and said, "Originally, this script reading meeting was a confidential meeting within our company. These scripts are going to be filmed soon." He said, "We will have further cooperation on this script of Ning Meng's. What do you think?"
This means that you cannot give them copies.
Indeed, their script study session was originally private and confidential, and Kyoto University arranged for students from the literature club to come and study, and he couldn't but give face to his old friend from Kyoto University. But if they also wanted the script, what if they took the script and sold it to other TV stations in advance, and the other TV stations filmed it first?
The rejected president of the literature club did not feel embarrassed. He originally thought that Jiang Ning looked young, so he wanted to see if he could get a copy of the script. He did not mean to take over other people's scripts. He wanted to see what their scripts were about and how they were written. He wondered if he could offer some opinions or suggestions, show his talent, and get Director Li's favor. If he could work for CCTV in the future, it would be a good career path for them.
There are tens of thousands of students at Peking University. Except for those who go abroad to study, most of the remaining students are doing very well. However, there are very few who can stay in Beijing, enter CCTV, and then further enter the Central Government, and have the opportunity to get close to the big guys.
But Producer Li has been in this business for a long time and has seen a lot, including some veteran screenwriters who steal the work of newcomers' scripts. He was originally a little unhappy about the students who joined their private study sessions as auditors, and now when he saw this young man was so tactless and still wanted to read their scripts, he frowned.
After pouring them some water, the president of the literature club returned to his seat and listened to their discussion.
After a while, everyone finished reading the script. When Producer Li saw that everyone looked up from the script or put it down, he asked, "Have you all finished reading? Tell us what you think first? Then tell us what can be improved or integrated in the other party's script?"
He singled out screenwriter Yuan Feng, whose script was the least impressive, and said, "Teacher Yuan Feng, can you please tell me what you think first?"
Even though they were all colleagues at CCTV, or even his subordinates, when outside, Producer Li always gave his colleagues face and called them "teacher".
Teacher Yuan Feng put down the script in her hand and said with a smile: "The theme of "White Snake" has been remade many times. In addition to the two well-known movies "White Snake" and "White Snake" and "Green Snake", there are actually..." She cited some remakes of "White Snake" TV series in Hong Kong and Taiwan that were not popular, and said: "We are shooting a TV series, and there are already ready-made successful examples. I think it is safer and more secure to refer to the successful experience of "White Snake"."
Producer Li tapped her with his pen and said, "You, you don't have any sense of adventure at all."
Teacher Yuan Feng smiled.
Since they started working at CCTV, the first lesson they learned was "stability".
Taking unconventional approaches is not suitable for people in the system.
That's why the love storyline is almost identical to that in "White Snake". Of course, there are many differences in the details. For example, in order to cater to the tastes of today's audiences, in the choice of Fahai, she referred to the Fahai played by Zhuo Ge in "Green Snake" and could choose a handsome young man to play the role.
Who stipulated that Fahai must be an old man?
Producer Li said: "Since we bought the copyright of this work from Ningmeng, we hope to have some innovation in it. If we write it according to your script outline, how can we embed the 'flood prevention and disaster relief' part? It will just be flooding Jinshan Mountain."
There is nothing wrong with Yuan Feng’s writing style and he is talented, but his political sensitivity is a little lacking.
Then he asked her, "What do you think of Teacher Tang Jiang's script? Is there anything that needs to be improved?"
When talking about Teacher Tang Jiang's script, Teacher Yuan Feng fell silent for a while.
Because teacher Tang Jiang's script was unexpectedly well adapted. Although her theme was the little white snake going down the mountain to gain experience and "save the world", she added many plots of family, friendship, and love, such as the friendship between the white snake and the green snake, Xu Xian's love for the white snake, the family affection between Xu Xian's sister and Xu Xian, Xiaoqing falling in love with Fahai and breaking Fahai's mood, etc. It was vivid and interesting, and the plot was something that current audiences would like to accept.
So she was asked to evaluate Teacher Tang Jiang's script. She originally wanted to compete for the position of chief screenwriter, but after reading Teacher Tang Jiang's script, she knew that this time the chief screenwriter would definitely be Teacher Tang Jiang.
She smiled and said, "The descriptions of family, friendship, and love could be more detailed."
Producer Li smiled and nodded, then asked Teacher Tang Jiang: "Teacher Tang, what do you think?"
Teacher Tang Jiang smiled calmly: "The emotional line is what Teacher Yuan is good at."
Producer Li asked Jiang Ning again: "Does my friend Ning Meng have any opinions?"
Jiang Ning thought of some of the fairy tale dramas he had watched in his previous life, whether it was "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", "Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms", "Flower Thousand Bones", etc., all of which emphasized a sense of fate. In the story of "White Snake", the past and present lives of the White Snake and Xu Xian, although it was said to be a matter of repaying a favor, was actually also a sense of fate.
She said: "How about adding some sense of fate to the plot? What they thought was a love tribulation and a repayment of gratitude was actually arranged by the gods. Xu Xian was originally a disciple of the gods in heaven and could not ascend to heaven. The gods calculated that the little white snake was destined to be the little white snake, so they arranged for Xu Xian to become the little white snake's destined love tribulation. As long as the little white snake ascends to become an immortal, Xu Xian, as the little white snake's husband, will also become an immortal with her."
In this passage, the ending of "White Snake" is actually that both the husband and wife become immortals.
Jiang Ning smiled and said, "Since we emphasize the sense of fate, let's break this sense of fate. My fate is in my own hands!"
Jiang Ning said: "God wants you, White Snake, to fall in love with Xu Xian, but Little White Snake breaks this fate by clearing the water veins of the world and creating merits to save the world!"
"Without a man in your heart, you will naturally become a god when you draw your sword!"
It was the first time that Producer Li heard this sentence. He felt it was a bit offensive at first, but when he thought about it carefully, it was really wonderful! I couldn't help but clap my hands in joy.
Teacher Yuan Feng thought about the scene for a moment, and suddenly felt that she was not good at writing emotions. She frowned and said, "In this case, the plot is complicated, but the emotional line is difficult to write."
Jiang Ning smiled and said, "It's a story about you loving me, I love her, and she loves the world and wants to ascend to heaven. We can arrange for Xu Xian to have a childhood sweetheart who grew up with him and loves him. The childhood sweetheart likes Xu Xian, and Xu Xian's good brother likes the childhood sweetheart."
As Jiang Ning was talking, Producer Li and Screenwriter Yuan Feng were taking notes.
The president and members of the literature club were sitting nearby, watching the junior schoolmate, who was several years younger than them, talking freely in front of Director Li and the others without any stage fright.
This script reading session lasted until lunch at noon. Everyone decided that Tang Jiang would be the main screenwriter, with Yuan Feng as the auxiliary screenwriter. The main plot would be based on Tang Jiang's detailed outline, and they began to write the second draft of the script.
All the copies of the script for "The Naked Running Little White Turtle" written by Jiang Ning were returned to Jiang Ning, except for the one written by Producer Li.
Everyone in the literature club was extremely curious about the contents of the script, but Producer Li said that it was a script for further cooperation with Jiang Ning, so naturally he couldn't just show it to them. Finally, a few people took Producer Li and his friends to the Peking University cafeteria for dinner.
They also wanted to invite Producer Li and his team to dinner, hoping that Producer Li would do them a favor so that they could build a good relationship in the future, but who are Producer Li and his team? We all eat at public expense, so why would we ask them to treat us? They all smiled and said, "We are here to work, and our meals are reimbursed. How can we ask you students to treat us?"
Jiang Ning also smiled and said, "I am also a Peking University student after all. I am fortunate to be invited by Teacher Li to join the screenwriter team of "White Snake". If anyone wants to invite you, it should be me."
After determining the general direction, screenwriters Tang Jiang and Yuan Feng began the formal creation of the script. There was nothing wrong with the "Flood Control and Disaster Relief" chapter written by Jiang Ning, except that it needed to be more closely connected with the plot written by screenwriter Tang Jiang. The process of "Flood Control and Disaster Relief" could be filmed according to the script written by Jiang Ning.
After Producer Li and his team went back, Jiang Ning continued to do as before, attending classes during the day and returning to the rental house to write at night.
While Jiang Ning and his team were writing the script, Producer Li and the director were also busy. They had to start determining the leading actors for the cast.
Although the specific script has not been written yet, Mr. Tang Jiang's script has already roughly outlined the important characters and provided brief biographies of the characters.
Other child actors can be found later, but they still have an idea of the main actors, such as the female lead, Xiaoqing, Xu Xian, Fahai, the wolf demon and other roles.
Otherwise, by the time someone finds something they like, the job will already be taken, and they will be in trouble.
Producer Li was flipping through the first draft of the White Snake script written by screenwriter Tang Jiang, and said to the director, "I remember the actor named Ming Yue in White Snake, is he Ning Meng's brother? I think he has a good image, and if there is no problem, his image and temperament can play Xu Xian. Which school is he from? Send him an audition invitation."
The director also felt that the actor's image and temperament were suitable. They also attended the Wanhua Film Festival, met the actor in person, and knew that the actor's skin was white enough.
Xu Xian is the image of a gentle and refined pretty boy. Jiang Bai's looks and temperament make him look like Xu Xian without saying a word. Once he puts on the costume, he becomes a living Xu Xian, especially when he smiles. After all, he is a young actor and still retains the immaturity and shyness of a newcomer. This is a kind of clear temperament that is rare in the film and television industry. After filming too many scenes, it is difficult to have that kind of pure, clear and stupid look in the eyes.
As for the female lead, they plan to look for one in the PLA Art Academy.
After all, it is a self-produced drama produced by CCTV. The students of the PLA Art Academy have good pedigree, so they can feel more at ease using it.
Jiang Bai didn't expect that he is so popular now. The crew of "Jin Yi Wei" just came to find him, and the crew of "White Snake" also came to invite him.
That’s CCTV!
Tong Jingang's hands were shaking when he heard the news: "Isn't our sister too successful? She actually sold "White Snake" to CCTV. Doesn't that mean it will be broadcast on CCTV in the future?"
In this era, the position of CCTV in the hearts of Tong Jingang and Jiang Bai is completely different.
When they were young, CCTV was the world on TV, as far away from them as the stars.
But now, the star in their dreams suddenly contacted them and told them that they could act in CCTV's self-produced dramas. In the future, they might appear on CCTV and be seen by more audiences, just like they had seen "The Story of the Stone" and "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" on CCTV when they were young.
Jiang Bai feels that ever since he met the director of the "White Snake" crew in the store and started his summer intern career, his life has been like entering a legendary martial arts novel. He has become the male protagonist with constant adventures. First, the movie "White Snake" was a big hit and became the highest-grossing movie of the year. Then he became the second male lead in "The King's Guards" and was actually the official partner of the female lead. He won the "Most Popular Actor at the Wanhua Film Festival" and now he is sitting at home and CCTV is coming from the sky.
He blinked his eyes, somewhat unconvinced that he would be so lucky, and said to Tong Jingang: "Pinch yourself and see if you are still dreaming."
Tong Jingang really twisted his thigh and screamed in pain: "Grass (a kind of plant)! This is not a dream!"
The two young men were jumping and dancing with joy in Jiang Ning store!
Jiang Bai was relatively reserved, but the corners of his lips couldn't stop rising. Tong Jingang was really like a gorilla, running and jumping everywhere, and he wanted to fly into the air and wave his fists to show his excitement.
After jumping, he jumped onto Jiang Bai's back and said, "Brother! When you become rich and powerful, don't forget me!"
Jiang Bai staggered under his weight and almost fell. He quickly threw the unconscious guy down: "Tong Jingang! Can you keep track of your weight?"
Tong Jingang has no idea about what an agent is right now. He has never thought about sharing or charging any fees for all the work he has done for Jiang Bo. He just wants to follow his brothers and see if he can get a supporting role.
Now that your brother has become famous, how can you not help your good brother who has shared the good and bad times with you?
Because Producer Li wanted to make another children's drama version of "The Legend of White Snake", he asked Jiang Ning to write the subsequent script and give it to him when the time comes. Jiang Ning has been secluded in his rental house to write the second draft of the "White Snake" script.
However, a rumor suddenly spread on the Peking University campus that the mysterious "Ning Meng" who had never appeared in public was actually Jiang Ning from the School of Mathematics at Peking University.
Someone also posted a photo of her walking under the ginkgo tree on campus on an online forum, saying that she was Ning Meng.
A lot of her information has also been exposed on the Internet, such as her name and age. Based on her age, people can infer her age and academic level when she wrote "The Great Song Dynasty".
The netizen who posted the message quickly deduced that "Ningmeng" must be a team, not just her alone, and that she is trying to create the persona of a "beautiful writer".
It’s true, this photo that this person took secretly and uploaded to the Internet is really beautiful. Not only is the person beautiful, but the artistic conception is also beautiful. It’s late autumn, the warm yellow sunshine, the golden ginkgo leaves, and a girl wearing a light brown coat is strolling in such an artistic conception. The girl’s entire face can’t be seen in the photo, only a side profile, but the outline of that side profile is amazing!
This must have been taken by someone with a certain level of photography skills.
The person who posted the message might also be a student of Peking University, otherwise he wouldn’t know Jiang Ning’s information so completely and could also take photos of her walking on the Peking University campus.
Soon, resourceful netizens found out that Ningmeng was the IMO gold medal winner who appeared on CCTV's "News Broadcast" a year ago.
[As we all know, before participating in IMO, one has to go through a long period of training and competition. During that time, she was training in the training team every day. How could she have the time to write "White Snake"? You know, like "The Great Song Dynasty", "White Snake" had more than 20,000 words per week during its serialization period. From the first issue to the last issue, there was no gap in the writing. So who was writing "White Snake" during her training and competition period? 】
Netizens posted the entire timeline of Jiang Ning's participation in the training team and competitions, which is almost "confirmed" that "Ning Meng" is a team.
Lemon Tree’s readership is so huge and popular that this post quickly went viral on the Internet.
At this time, another netizen posted a group of photos. All the photos were of Wucheng No. 1 Middle School standing in a circle. [Congratulations to our school student Jiang Ning for winning the first prize in the provincial physics competition] [Congratulations to our school student Jiang Ning for winning the first prize in the provincial chemistry competition] [Congratulations to our school student Jiang Ning for winning the first prize in the provincial mathematics competition]
There are many banners and pictures at the back, all of which are the honors Jiang Ning received during his time at school.
The netizen who posted the photo said: [If the 'Ning Meng' you are talking about is Jiang Ning from our school, I can only say that she is still a legend in our high school that no one can surpass! 】
[If someone else is 'Ning Meng', I believe she has a team behind her, but if it is Senior Sister Jiang Ning, I believe she is 'Ning Meng', Senior Sister Jiang Ning is our eternal God! 】
[Don't say that she has no timeline. Let me ask you, in the same amount of time, can you participate in math, physics and chemistry competitions at the same time, and get more than 700 points in school, and win the IMO gold medal? Just because you can't do it doesn't mean Senior Sister Jiang Ning can't do it! Don't compare geniuses with us ordinary people.
Then someone sent out her midterm and final exam results in school, and she ranked first in all of them by a huge margin.
In other words, at that time she was not only participating in competitions in mathematics, physics and chemistry, but also did not fall behind in her schoolwork.
Netizens were originally eating the melon that "Ningmeng" was a team, but as more and more information came out, they felt that something was wrong.
According to the timeline of Ningmeng's competitions and training, Jiang Ning really does not have time to write "White Snake" anymore, but netizens have discovered that where the hell does she have the time to participate in so many competitions, and how can her school grades be so good?
It turns out that Jiang Ning was not only the winner of the national CMO first prize and the IMO international gold medal at that time, but she also participated in physics and chemistry competitions at the same time, and won the first prize in the provincial physics competition and the first prize in the provincial chemistry competition.
Probably in order to fully prepare for IMO, she was no longer included in the subsequent physics and chemistry competitions. She should have been in winter camp at that time.
After reading Jiang Ning's resume, netizens have forgotten that 'Ningmeng' is a team thing, and instead exclaimed "Awesome!"
This was not the end. Soon, someone posted screenshots of news videos showing that she had been doing disaster relief throughout her entire summer vacation.
The silence from netizens was deafening.
[Wow, that’s awesome!] 】
[This... this is a god! 】
Is this really something that one person can sit on? Is it true that she doesn't have a team behind her? 】
He Qiaosheng, who has always loved surfing the Internet and especially has been following Jiang Ning's news, also saw this post and immediately ran out to refute it, and revealed: [When "The Great Song" was first serialized, she was just a high school student, a little girl from a mountain village in a remote and ancient town. Where did she get her team from? Some people also say that "The Great Song" was written by her parents who are in the system and was named after her. As far as I know, Jiang Ning's parents are both old farmers who work hard in the fields. 】
He Qiaosheng had previously revealed on the Internet that "Ning Meng" was a high school girl. Although this revelation was quickly drowned out by the vast Internet at the time without a ripple, later as the news that "Ning Meng" was admitted to Peking University came out, the authenticity of this revelation was confirmed, and the person who revealed it also gained a certain degree of fame among "Ning Meng"'s readers.
Now this ID has appeared again, and the authenticity of his revelations is very high. All of a sudden, netizens became more curious about whether "Ningmeng" is a team or Jiang Ning alone.
Jiang Ning didn't know that her identity had been exposed on the Internet. It was Song Peifeng who got the news first and rushed back from Tsinghua University to the house they rented outside the campus to tell Jiang Ning about it.
Jiang Ning, who was in seclusion, opened the online forum after learning about this. The post had dozens of pages of replies, containing all kinds of true and false revelations.
There was also a person who claimed to be Jiang Ning’s classmate who broke the news: “Jiang Ning often stays out all night and seems to have a boyfriend living with her outside the school. This can be confirmed by many people at Peking University and many people must have seen it. 】
Song Peifeng also frowned as he looked at the revelations in the post: "Do you want to find out who posted it and delete it?"
Jiang Ning turned her gaze from the computer back to him, smiled and leaned towards him, "Yes."
In fact, when she saw the post, she knew roughly who posted it.
Before this, only a few people in the dormitory knew her identity, but this identity information was not spread out.
Even if Jiang Ning herself doesn't care whether it is exposed or not, without Jiang Ning's consent, the girls in dormitory 401 still consciously keep Jiang Ning's identity confidential. Even if it gets out one day, it will be Jiang Ning herself, not them. If Jiang Ning wants to make it public, she will do it herself.
Now that her identity had just been revealed to those in the literature club, information about her real identity had been leaked.
The person who leaked the news about her probably investigated her. It was no secret that she had won the IMO Gold Award. Perhaps through the IMO Gold Award, he suddenly thought that the time when she participated in the competition and the closed training conflicted with the serialization period of "White Snake", so he suddenly became excited and came out to "expose the fake".
The identity information of the poster behind the scenes was not difficult to find. Song Peifeng found a classmate from the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University to help find the poster's IP address. The IP address was from an Internet cafe not far from Peking University. He probably thought that by exposing other people's privacy online and being anonymous, others would not be able to find him.
But in this era, people still know too little about this new thing called the Internet, and they don’t know that others can find him by tracing his IP address.
Then we found the registration list of the Internet cafe where he went online and the time when the post was made on the Internet, and we were able to accurately identify the poster.
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