Chapter 7676
Qin Shumin had been staring at the young face in front of her for a while. Every time Jiang Ning looked up from the contract, she would immediately avoid her eyes, pretending to be drinking tea calmly, lowering her head to take a sip of water, and then couldn't help looking at her again.
Jiang Ning had short, fine hair, and perhaps because she was looking down at the contract, the drooping hair occasionally covered her drooping eyelashes. Unlike most girls who had long, curly eyelashes, her eyelashes were long and straight, adding a bit of sharpness to her originally gentle face, making her brows look even colder.
I don’t know if it’s because of the cold weather, but she was wearing a thick down jacket, and her entire body, including her neck, was wrapped in a scarf, leaving only her fair face. I don’t know if it was because her hair was too dark, or her skin was too fair, but the black and white contrast made the girl look as cold as ice and snow. She had a high nose bridge, and her rosy lips seemed to be outlined with a lip liner, with sharp edges and corners.
At some point, Jiang Ning suddenly raised his head, and her peeking gaze was caught by Jiang Ning. She was startled and coughed twice to cover up her embarrassment of being caught peeking. She tried to remain calm and coughed again: "Teacher Ning Meng, what do you think of this contract?"
They came sincerely to purchase the film and television copyrights and the right to adapt the works. There were no traps in the contract, but Jiang Ning still added some clauses. For example, the general film and television copyright was further broken down into TV drama copyrights. The rest of the film and television copyrights, online drama copyrights and other copyrights still belonged to the author Jiang Ning. The authorization period was only five years. If no filming project was established within five years, the author had the right to resell it to other people and units. This was also clearly stated in the contract. There were also some other detailed clauses that were added to the contract.
Qin Shumin looked at it and didn't think there was any problem, so the two of them quickly signed the contract.
By the evening, Qin Shumin had already taken the train back to the provincial capital, holding the autographed book given to her by Ning Meng, and she was still a little dazed.
She felt that Ning Meng's actual age should be older, but after seeing Ning Meng, she felt that Ning Meng should be like that. When facing her, she could not regard Ning Meng as a teenage girl at all, and even felt pressured.
She let out a long sigh and looked out the window at the falling snow in the night.
When she returned to the provincial capital, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening and there was only one bus left from the train station. She staggered all the way back home and handed the contract to Director Li the next day.
Director Li was very satisfied with her efficiency. When Qin Shumin saw Director Li took the contract and glanced at the key terms, she turned directly to the signature page and said, "Now that the copyright contract is signed, you should take your people to screenwriter Chen to learn how to write a script."
Qin Shumin saw Director Li flipping through it casually and directly assigned her a script task. She couldn't help but said, "Director, don't you take a closer look at the contract?"
Director Li thought there was some problem with the contract, so he frowned slightly and read it carefully. As he read, he found something wrong. Looking at the ID number on the signature page, his frown deepened.
He looked up from the contract and asked Qin Shumin: "Xiao Qin, is this ID number written wrong? Are you sure you didn't find the wrong person?"
The age written on Jiang Ning’s ID card is too old, so he is sixteen years old.
Qin Shumin's face finally broke into a smile, a smile that looked like a successful prank, her eyebrows curved, "Director, are you surprised?"
Director Li frowned even more deeply when he heard this: "Are you sure you didn't make a mistake? Don't let Ning Meng come to sue us if the time comes."
Qin Shumin smiled and said, "I have confirmed with the publishing house and the magazine that Jiang Ning is really Ning Meng."
When seeing the similarities between the names Ning Meng and Jiang Ning, Director Li thought that Jiang Ning was Ning Meng's family member, but he didn't expect Qin Shumin to directly say that it was her.
The content of "The Great Song Dynasty" is not only about criminal investigation, nor is it just a simple martial arts novel. The court affairs behind it are turbulent and complicated. Although it only reveals the tip of the iceberg, it does not seem like something that a teenage girl who is still in an ivory tower can write.
But there is never a shortage of talented players in this world. Out of caution, Director Li still called "Wuxia" and the publishing house to confirm that Jiang Ning and Ning Meng were the same person. After that, Director Li no longer worried about whether Ning Meng was Jiang Ning, and actively promoted the project of the second part of "Judge Bao".
The original screenwriter who had watched "The Great Song" also quickly contacted the TV station and expressed his willingness to take the job. However, because their original crew spoke Cantonese, they needed translators and assistant screenwriters to assist him in adapting "The Great Song". He felt that the role of the heroine in "The Great Song" was very outstanding, and that this role did not need to be removed during the adaptation. Instead, the emotional drama could be developed for Zhan Zhao, and the original female lead could be allowed to play the heroine. In this way, an actress who was suitable for the heroine's age was needed to play this role.
When Qin Shumin heard the original screenwriter say that the role should match the age and image of the original heroine, her first reaction was to ask Jiang Ning to play the heroine.
Her appearance and age are so similar to the heroine in the original novel. In addition, the original heroine herself is a time traveler, and she has a calm and indifferent temperament that only an adult possesses.
However, this matter did not receive the support of the director, screenwriter, station director and others.
A big part of the reason why the station director did not support her idea was that Jiang Ning was a high school student and the winter vacation was too short, so she did not have enough time to finish filming a whole feature-length TV series.
Qin Shumin had no choice but to give up.
The original screenwriter handed the emotional part between the male and female protagonists to Qin Shumin and several assistants she found. This is a very common collaboration in script writing. Usually, the script of a TV series is completed by several screenwriters, some screenwriters are responsible for the court and the rivers and lakes, and some screenwriters are responsible for the emotional drama.
As a reader of "The Song Dynasty", Qin Shumin naturally also supported the pairing of the heroine and Zhan Zhao. While reading the novel, her mind was full of fantasies about the emotional interactions between the heroine and Zhan Zhao. Unfortunately, the author did not satisfy the ideas of readers like her, and focused on writing the case, leaving the emotions as vague as possible. Now she can finally write down all the interactions she thought of between them, and she was a little excited for a moment.
When they were writing the script, everyone in the costume team also held a copy of the original novel "The Great Song Dynasty". According to the description of costumes in "The Great Song Dynasty", they also consulted professors from the history department of the provincial university and students from the Fashion Design College to make suitable costumes.
Because there is a ready-made plot, the screenwriter can adapt it very quickly. The main thing to do is to cleverly combine the court and underworld cases with the emotional drama.
Taking into account the importance of the heroine in the hearts of mainland readers of "The Song Dynasty", and the large number of CP fans, when the screenwriter adapted the content, the original heroine was adapted into the heroine's role.
The heroine is the daughter of a captain of police under the Kaifeng government. When Zhan Zhao and his colleagues were investigating a case, they encountered a bottleneck. However, the daughter of a captain of police under them reminded them of a clue, and they quickly found a breakthrough and solved the first case. Zhan Zhao then came into contact with the heroine.
The adapted heroine has a lively and cheerful personality, and is quite chivalrous. She likes criminal investigation and solving cases very much, but is restricted by her identity as a woman, so she disguises herself as a man and goes out to investigate cases with her father. She is very smart, and is eager to solve the case to prove herself. Whenever she encounters a case, she takes the lead, wanting to solve the case before the famous Bao Gong and Zhan Zhao, and wants to compete with them. In the end, they cooperate with each other and solve one case after another.
Jiang Ning and the original screenwriter are not very good at writing love scenes. When writing the love line of "Bao", the original screenwriter did not include any love scenes. He only wrote an adjective like "Emperor Yang of Sui and Xiao Meiniang were debauched, licentious and immoral", and left the rest to Qin Shumin and her small team.
Soon, the original screenwriter brought Xiao Qin from the TV station and several young people to write the script for the first case, and Xiao Qin was chosen to play the female lead.
Qin Shumin has just graduated for a year. She is only 23 years old, with big eyes and a small face. She looks sweet and fresh. Compared with Jiang Ning, she is less cold and sharp, but more lively and lovely. She is suitable for the role. However, when she was guessing the role, she couldn't help but think of Jiang Ning's image in her mind, and unconsciously imitated the temperament displayed by Jiang Ning. This also made her always have a contradictory sense of sweetness and coldness alternating during the filming, which fits the image characteristics of the time-travel heroine in the original work.
However, in the second part of "Justice Bao", there is no obvious plot showing that the heroine is a time traveler. However, in the process of investigating the case, the heroine used modern criminal investigation methods and language, all of which were used verbatim. If you are familiar with the criminal investigation methods of the Song Dynasty, you will know that the heroine is obviously a modern time traveler.
This is a hidden foreshadowing that the screenwriter didn't mention.
The director then led the actors to start filming the first case.
The efficiency of filming is very high these days. The script is written and edited while filming. At the same time, voice actors have to be arranged to do dubbing, insert music, etc. In just one week, the first episode of the second part of "Judge Bao" was edited.
Such efficiency is a common phenomenon in this era. Even in this year, a director in Hong Kong completed shooting a phenomenal movie in just seven days.
Jiang Ning and his friends have been in Shanghai for a week, and there are only a few days left until the Chinese New Year. The doctor also said that Grandpa Jiang does not need to be hospitalized, and he just needs to come for regular checkups. The main thing is to take medicine and recuperate.
Grandpa Jiang was thinking about going back to his hometown for the New Year. He had been lying in the hospital for a week. He really couldn't lie still any longer, so he packed his things long ago: "I'm fine, I feel very well. The doctor said I can go home and recuperate." He grabbed his packed luggage and said: "Let's go, let's go home quickly, I still have to cut the grass on the grave of your great-grandfather and great-grandmother!"
There is a custom in their hometown that on New Year’s Eve, they have to go to the mountains to sweep the tombs and worship their ancestors during the day.
In the past, Grandpa Jiang worked as a forest ranger. Every year, he would sweep the graves, cut grass on the graves, and visit the graves of his great-grandparents and ancestors. This habit does not mean that he will no longer be a forest ranger, and it cannot be changed in a short time.
The youngest son of my great uncle had already gone back. When he returned home, he found no one at home. Then he heard from his neighbors that his parents had become forest rangers in the mountains. He was confused, wasn’t his uncle a forest ranger?
People who were born at the foot of the mountain are not unfamiliar with the mountains at their doorsteps. They just put down their backpacks and run up the mountains.
My uncle and aunt had been waiting for their sons to come back in the mountains for a long time, but as usual, the eldest son did not come back, so only the youngest son came.
My aunt looked up at my smiling face and said in her accent, which was very different from the local accent, "Are you back? Are you hungry? Mom caught a pheasant and stewed it for you to eat with noodles."
"No, there's no need to stew the chicken. I don't even know how long it will take. Mom, just make me a bowl of noodles. You and Dad can keep the chicken." Jiang Guoliang didn't bother to be polite with his mother. He lifted the lid of the pot on the stove, found a gourd ladle to scoop water into the pot, and did it all himself, ensuring he had enough food and clothing.
His aunt didn't stop him. She followed him in with a smile, took out a box of homemade rice flour and soaked it in boiling water.
She was not tall, only as tall as Jiang Guoliang's shoulders, but her two sons were both tall and each one was more handsome than the other.
The youngest son graduated two years ago and is not young anymore. His uncle and aunt couldn't help but ask him if he had a girlfriend. Jiang Guoliang was anxious inside, but said nonchalantly, "Hey, I still think of myself as a child. Is he dating? Let's wait another two years!"
In rural areas, men over 25 are considered unwanted bachelors. Jiang Guoliang will be 26 after the Chinese New Year, a true bachelor.
He was anxious in his heart, but the house in his hometown was an old brick and earth structure, and he had to squeeze into the company dormitory with his colleagues. Although he had worked for two years and saved some money, it was not enough to buy a house in the town where he taught. How could he get married?
It just so happened that both he and his roommate were single, so they were not in a hurry since they had another one to keep them company.
There was no place to stay on the mountain, so he followed Uncle Jiang to patrol the mountain, then came down the mountain in the evening. When he had nothing to do, he went to Jiang's house to play with Jiang Song.
He and Jiang Song are only six years apart in age. Jiang Song used to follow him around and play together when they were young. There were few boys in the village who went to school, so Jiang Guoliang couldn't play with other people in the village. Whenever he came back, he would look for Jiang Song.
There are many customs in the countryside. In addition to going to the mountains to sweep tombs and worship ancestors on New Year's Eve, in this place, no matter how badly they do outside, they have to go home for the New Year. So if someone owes you money, you should go to their house and wait a few days before the New Year, and you will definitely find them.
In the past few years, Jiang's father and mother had been hiding in a small house in the mountains, and they didn't dare go home to celebrate the New Year on New Year's Eve. Sometimes, on the first day of the New Year, there were people coming to the Jiang family to collect debts. This year, they finally didn't have to hide from their debts outside, and they were all excitedly preparing for the New Year. However, after the New Year's Eve of sending off the Kitchen God, none of the three children had returned home, and the couple looked a little listless.
When he heard that his cousin was looking for Jiang Song, he said with a worried look on his face: "I don't know where he went. He didn't come back on the day of the Little New Year."
Jiang Guoliang was a little surprised: "Jiang Song hasn't come back yet?" Jiang Song loves to play as much as he does, and he likes to be in a lively environment. If it were this time of year in previous years, he would have gathered his friends to chase rabbits all over the mountains and fields. Why hasn't he come home yet at this time this year?
"Yeah." Jiang's father stood at the door of his house, looking towards the ferry unconsciously: "I don't know where the child ran off to." He then asked Jiang Guoliang: "Did Songzi call you?"
"You didn't call me? I thought you got into college."
When talking about the college entrance exam, Jiang's father was silent for a while and said, "He has always set high standards for himself. When filling out the application form, he was asked to fill in conservative second and third choices, but he refused to listen. In fact, his college entrance exam score was good enough for him to go to college, but he was unwilling to repeat a year."
Speaking of his eldest son, Dad Jiang is really worried about his disobedience.
Jiang Guoliang had no choice but to persuade him: "Songzi people are smart and clever, they will be good wherever they go."
Jiang's father and mother also think so, and the couple are full of confidence in their eldest son.
Jiang's mother also stretched her head and tiptoed to look in the direction of the ferry, and asked Jiang's father: "Has Songzi still not called back?"
"There was no phone call or letter. I went to the brigade headquarters every day to ask, but there was no news. The people in the brigade headquarters didn't know and thought Songzi was missing!"
This sentence made Jiang's mother furious: "Bah! If he disappeared, my Songzi would not disappear. He is just too sensible." Jiang's mother said: "Maybe he didn't make any money in the past six months and was embarrassed to come back!" She sighed deeply again, "In fact, why do we need him to make money? The family debts have been paid off. As long as he comes back safely, it's better than anything else."
Thinking of the three children who were not around, Jiang's father sighed helplessly: "It's almost the New Year, and the children of other families have returned home one after another, but there are three of us, and none of them are here. If Baizi didn't come back, we would understand, because he has to go to school, but he didn't even see Ningning during the winter vacation."
When talking about this, Jiang's mother got angry: "Didn't you let them go to school? Are they all right now?" She wanted to say that it was the same as the two at Uncle Grandfather's house, but Jiang Guoliang was here, so it was difficult to say so. She just said irritably: "None of them came back, right?"
Jiang Guoliang had no idea that his second sister-in-law was talking about him, and said with a smile: "Second sister-in-law, don't worry, Songzi comes back every year, and she might be home in the evening! Ningning..." He paused, "Maybe she will stay in Wucheng to work?"
He knew how much his second brother and sister-in-law valued sons over daughters, and he was very satisfied that they could let his niece go to high school.
Father Jiang thought about it and agreed. He said, "If they don't come back, they will at least send a letter back, right? Doesn't that make us worried?"
"That's enough!" Jiang Ma interrupted him impatiently: "They don't worry about it themselves, why should you worry about it?"
After waiting for a few more days, it was already the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, and New Year's Eve was approaching. Dad Jiang looked towards the ferry every day, looking so eager. Not to mention Jiang Song and Jiang Ning, even Jiang Bai was nowhere to be seen. He was really anxious now: "It's already the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, and Baizi should have been on winter vacation, so why haven't we seen anyone? Even if Ningning is working, she should be on vacation by now, right?" Even Grandpa Jiang didn't know where he had gone. He was really anxious.
Mother Jiang snorted coldly. She didn't care at all whether these two people came back or not.
She stretched her head and looked towards the ferry again, hoping to see her eldest son walking home from the ferry. When she didn't see Jiang Song, she turned around and walked home without any energy, and happened to see Jiang Hehua walking down.
To prevent floods, the people in the Linhe Brigade tried to build their houses as high up the mountain as possible. The brigade secretary's house was at the top, and the Jiang family lived at the bottom of the village. When Jiang's mother turned around, she came face to face with Jiang Hehua who was coming down from above.
Jiang Hehua, who was always arrogant and a bit indifferent to others, curled her lips at Jiang Ma for a rare moment, smiled slightly, and called out, "Hello, Second Aunt."
"Lotus?" Jiang's mother would beat and scold her own daughter, but was very polite to other people's daughters. She smiled and asked, "Where are you going?"
Going further down, you will see Jiang Qinqin’s home, the old well at the entrance of the village, as well as fields, ditches, and a hydropower station.
"Is Ningning back? I'm here to play with Ningning." She stood at the steps of the Jiang family's house and looked inside.
Those who lived in the lower part of the village would build a 1.5-meter waterproof platform when building their houses. This platform was only a few centimeters lower than Jiang Hehua. The Jiang family didn't turn on the lights, so the house was pitch black and nothing could be seen.
When Jiang Ning was mentioned, the smile on Jiang's mother's face couldn't help but fade. She frowned and said, "How do I know her? I haven't seen her since the winter break started. I don't know where she went!"
Wild girl, wild girl. People in this place generally like to call girls playing outside "wild outside", which means they are particularly naughty and playful.
Jiang Hehua was a little surprised and said, "You haven't come back yet? That's impossible. We've been on vacation for several days. In Wuzhong, we don't let you stay in the dormitory after the vacation."
She frowned slightly with some worry, and comforted Jiang Ma, saying, "Second Aunt, don't worry too much. Ningning's No. 1 Middle School is probably different from our Wu Middle School. They can also live in the dormitory during the winter vacation, right?" She seemed a little puzzled and asked, "By the way, it's winter vacation now, why does Ningning want to live in the dormitory and not come home? The New Year is just a few days away, and I rushed back as soon as the holiday started. I wanted to go play with Ningning."
She said with some regret: "Then Auntie, I'm leaving." She waved her hand and went to Jiang the pianist.
Originally, she wanted to ask Jiang Ning whether the Jiang Ning who ranked first in the joint entrance examination of No. 1 Middle School was hers. But she didn't come back, so it was useless to ask Jiang's mother.
Jiang's mother, on the other hand, was originally in a bad mood because Jiang Song didn't come back for the New Year. After hearing what Jiang Hehua said, she felt more and more upset. She was so angry that she threw things around the house and said, "What's the point of raising such a girl? She's only fifteen years old, and she's already out there and not coming back. What can we expect from her in the future?"
She was making hand-rolled noodles. She added some saccharin to the noodles, kneaded them into dough, and then cut them into French fries and fried them in a frying pan. Locally, they were called fried fruit. She also rolled them into thin slices, cut them into triangles, added some salt and black sesame seeds, and fried them. When guests came during the New Year, she could take out some of these fried desserts and serve them to the guests.
I don't know if it's because Jiang's mom has no talent in cooking, but none of the three children in the family wanted to eat the fried desserts that Jiang's mom made. During the Chinese New Year, they all wanted to go to Uncle Jiang's parents' house to get some food, but they didn't want to eat the fried dough fruits made by Jiang's mom. In the end, they had no choice but to eat them all.
The fried fruits she made were harder than stone, and even the bones that dogs chewed on were too harsh on their teeth.
As she rolled the noodles with a rolling pin, she became angry, and the angrier she became: "What's the point of making these things every year? I have three children to support, and there's no one around during the New Year. No one will eat these even if I make them!" Her nose felt sore, and tears fell one by one on the back of her hand. She felt aggrieved and sad.
She didn't know what she had done wrong, and she gave birth to such a disobedient daughter to take revenge on her. The daughter didn't know how much she loved her mother.
Dad Jiang was in the kitchen making sweet potato syrup and rice candy, which were rare delicacies for rural children during the Chinese New Year. They could be eaten until April or May of the following year, until the syrup softened and the rice candy became mushy.
He thought of making more, and when his three children come back, he would take more for each of them when they go out next year, so that they can take out some to fill their stomachs when they are hungry.
The young people who had gone out to work in the village had returned one after another, and every household was bustling with activity. Only the Jiang family was deserted, with none of the three children.
Seeing that the Jiang family had no lively atmosphere at all, and that no one, young or old, was around, the neighbors laughed at Jiang's father and said, "Big man, your children will not be like your uncle's family, flying away after getting into college, right?"
"Of course not. Even if the phoenix has grown wings, can it still stay in our small place? They all want to fly to the big cities. Didn't you see those educated youth back then who abandoned their husbands and children, wives and daughters to go back to the city? Look, who would come here now?" Some elderly women in the village said with a sigh and smiled.
"It doesn't matter if he flies away, but I'm afraid he will be like his uncle's Guoan and never come back. That would be a waste of time!"
These words made even Mr. Jiang, who had a relatively calm temperament, feel extremely uncomfortable. He couldn't muster any energy at all during the New Year. One of the couple was irritable and kept throwing things around and complaining at home all day long, while the other couldn't muster any energy to do anything and just sighed.
He wanted to go to Wucheng No. 1 Middle School to see what had happened. Why were Jiang Bai and Jiang Ning still not home on the 28th of the year? Nothing happened outside, right? But what could go wrong studying outside?
Of course, Jiang Bai was fine. He and Tong Jingang were carrying a large bag of winter clothes off the roof of the minibus. They found an intersection in Shuibu Town and put two clothes hangers on the floor. One of them was ironing clothes with an iron. He connected a power strip from Aunt Jiang's house, put some water in the iron, and flattened the ironing board to prepare for ironing clothes. The other one took apart the clothes one by one, hung them on the clothesline, turned on the speaker, and pressed the recorder. Suddenly, the whole block was filled with Tong Jingang's rough and heroic voice: "39, 49, all 39, 49! Sale!"
Before the New Year, Shuibu Town does not distinguish between markets and no markets, it is a market every day. Young men and girls who have returned from working outside the town all gather in Shuibu town. Some are getting married, some are engaged, some are dating, some are on blind dates, some can afford it and some can't, all of them stroll around the market with some money in their pockets. The end of the year is the end of the year when Shuibu town has the best business and the highest prices of the year. There are all kinds of uncles and aunts who come to the town to buy New Year's goods, and they are shoulder to shoulder. They spend all the things that they usually don't want to eat, use or buy at the end of the year.
Jiang Ning helped Grandpa Jiang get off the minibus when they saw a crowded place ahead. Tong Jingang's Mandarin, which was very characteristic of Wucheng, could be heard: "Jiangnan Clothing Warehouse! Jiangnan Clothing Warehouse! Closed down! Closed down! The bastard Director He! The bastard Director He! He ran away with his sister-in-law! He ran away!"
Just by listening to the sound, you can imagine how saliva was flying when he was shouting this part, how excited he was, and how his voice was almost breaking.
In their area, whenever they go out to work, they are basically taken to garment factories, electronics factories, toy factories and other places in the south. Regardless of whether they are boys or girls, as soon as they graduate from elementary school or middle school, they will first follow their master to learn how to make clothes for a year, and then go to work in a garment factory the following year.
The young people who had just returned from working at the Jiangnan Garment Factory two days ago and were strolling around the streets of their hometown couldn't help but wonder if they had heard it wrongly after hearing the sound coming from the loudspeakers!
What went bankrupt? Who ran away with my sister-in-law?
Their factory director actually ran away with his sister-in-law! ? ? ?
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