Chapter 9696
The adaptation of "Bao Er" is not a blind adaptation. When the original screenwriter adapted "Bao Er", he had to connect it with the plot of "Bao Yi", such as the court struggles, the roles of the Grand Tutor, the Prime Minister, the Emperor, etc. Because the plot of the TV series was changed to the perspective of Bao Zheng and Zhan Zhao, a lot of fighting and martial arts routines were added in the process of investigating the case.
The case is still the same case, but it seems that it has nothing to do with what they experienced. It can only be said that it has nothing to do with reality.
They are the investigators of these cases, so they feel that each case is somewhat similar to the unsolved cases of their team. However, the murderers of each case are actually independent. When they see cases that are not related to them, they will not have the sense of déjà vu of "I have seen this case before". Moreover, the process of investigating the cases is written from the perspective of the heroine and the captains of the police. It focuses more on the psychological dynamics of the heroine and the captains of the police when they discover clues while investigating the cases. Unless the murderer happens to see the case that he has committed, he basically will not associate it with real cases.
Generally, criminals try to keep a low profile after escaping, and hide in remote places. Few people would choose to read magazines like "Martial Arts". First of all, the word "Martial Arts" is contrary to them. Even if they accidentally come across a copy of "Martial Arts", martial arts is a serialized journal, and they will not read every issue.
In addition, there are too many elements of people's livelihood and martial arts during the Song Dynasty. When readers who are not in the public security system read this novel, they feel the same as when they read "Justice Bao", "Lu Xiaofeng" and "Di Renjie". Who would substitute "Lu Xiaofeng", "Judge Bao" and "Di Renjie" into their own real cases? At most, you will feel that the author writes very professionally.
After watching two episodes of "Justice Bao", Wu Gongan and his friends still felt unsatisfied and took out "The Song Dynasty" to read again.
Through the novel "The Great Song Dynasty", they have solved three cases, and they are currently looking at the fourth case.
The fourth case is very interesting. It tells the story that during the investigation, the heroine and her companions discovered that the county magistrate of a certain county had been killed long ago. The current county magistrate turned out to be the murderer who impersonated the county magistrate and had been impersonating him for many years. However, due to the remoteness of the place and the slow speed of information transmission, no one had discovered that the county magistrate was a fake.
The heroine and her companions were tracking a fugitive to the local area. After a series of investigations and fights, they finally discovered the secret of the county magistrate. When the county magistrate's secret was discovered, people would naturally be sent to hunt them down. The heroine and her companions were chased all the way into Kaifeng with this secret and delivered the news to Kaifeng Prefecture.
When Jiang Ning was writing the novel, she was able to write the first few cases according to the plot she had originally set, because the plot was something she could control but sometimes not controllable. The reactions and words of each character, plus she was very busy at a certain time, and it was inevitable that she would get stuck when she was rushing to finish the manuscript. Once she got stuck, the plot would go out of control, and unknowingly, some plots would deviate from her original outline and become completely different from reality. In addition, not every case was adapted from a real case, and she would constantly modify and revise the plot according to the direction of the plot to make it more in line with the logic of the society and the court at that time, so that it had nothing to do with the plot in reality and the adaptation was completely unrecognizable.
Maybe the murderer himself didn't know that the case was related to him after reading the book. The fact is that the book only writes about the protagonist investigating the case, and too many supporting characters appear in the process. Each supporting character has his own story line, and then there are some Jianghu events mixed in. The murderer actually appears only when the truth is revealed and the murderer is arrested. Because it is a martial arts novel, the murderer is either a Jianghu person or an unexpected person hiding in Kaifeng City.
This is not controlled by the author's own will. When Jiang Ning was writing, he just wrote whatever came to his mind at the time, and he didn't have time to revise it later. Each issue was sent out after it was finished. When it came to Wang Yong, he would not revise the manuscript for Jiang Ning. If he had the ability to revise the manuscript for Jiang Ning, he could have written it himself. What if he made random changes and the revisions didn't match what Jiang Ning wrote later? At most, I would proofread her work for typos and punctuation.
When Jiang Ning recalled these plots, the next time he could do was to try his best to bring the loosened plots back to the main line. This way, except for the first three or four cases, Wu Gongan and his friends would still be familiar with them. When they looked through the later cases, they saw such bizarre cases that were completely antique, in line with the characteristics of the Song Dynasty and full of martial arts style. While Wu Gongan and his friends watched them with relish, they sometimes wondered if they were thinking too much and whether this was just a coincidence.
But to say it was a complete coincidence, isn't that too much of a coincidence?
He couldn't help but look up at his colleagues.
Like him, these colleagues also read novels with great interest. Judging from their expressions and usual behavior, it is really hard to imagine that one of them is the author of "The Great Song Dynasty".
When they first read the novel, they were very sure that the author was one of them, but after learning about the magazine "Wuxia", new doubts arose.
The magazine "Wuxia" is a weekly magazine, that is, it is published every week. After following it for so long and buying every issue, they now understand that the magazine serializes about 20,000 words a week. These colleagues are outside with him in the wind and sun every day, and sometimes they don't have time to go home until midnight. Where do they find the time to write?
This made him doubt the civilian staff in the station. The first person he suspected was Xiao Chen in the archives room, the policewoman who bought the "Wuxia" magazine and placed it on the coffee table in the hall.
She worked in the archives and had enough time to write every day. Moreover, as a clerk in their office, she would occasionally overhear them chatting. When they talked about cases, she might be able to write such a plot based on some clues and imagination.
Even though there were too many illogical points in this guess, he really couldn't think of anyone else.
Jiang Ning and Grandpa Jiang also finished watching "Justice Bao". It was the first time for Grandpa Jiang to watch "Justice Bao" and he still felt a little unsatisfied.
The Jiang family also had a 14-inch black-and-white TV, which was bought during the years when Jiang's father ran a chicken farm. It was the only one in the village at the time and was quite impressive. However, Grandpa Jiang lived alone in the mountains. Except during the double-harvest period when he could go down the mountain to help harvest grain, he had to sleep in the rice field at night to watch over the rice. The rest of the time he stayed in the mountains to patrol the mountains and had no chance to watch TV at all.
So even though the Jiang family had a TV, he rarely watched it. Most of the time he listened to the show on the radio.
After watching two episodes of the TV series in one go, Grandpa Jiang couldn't help but ask, "How come it's over so quickly?"
Jiang Ning got up and tucked Grandpa Jiang in, then turned off the TV: "There will be a rerun tomorrow morning. If you want to watch it, you can watch it tomorrow. Now go to sleep."
Grandpa Jiang's biological clock is very stable. When he was a forest ranger, he was alone in the mountains and did not have to patrol at night, so he went to bed very early. This was the first time he watched TV so late. He started snoring within a few minutes of lying down.
Jiang Ning also returned to school.
The curfew of No. 1 Middle School is 7 o'clock. At the beginning, the security guard strictly enforced it. But now, because he is familiar with Jiang Ning, he knows that Jiang Ning's grandfather opened a shop next door. Every time Jiang Ning goes out, she does not go somewhere else, but goes to her grandfather's shop to help her grandfather. In addition, Jiang Ning had ranked first in the whole school before. After the security guard knew that she was the first in the county, he didn't say much about her coming back early or late.
Seeing Jiang Ning coming back so late, the security guard who had just finished watching Justice Bao asked, "Why did you come back so late? Come back earlier next time, okay?"
The security guard was lying on the bed and had to get up with his coat on to open the door for Jiang Ning. When Jiang Ning returned to the dormitory, the big iron gate under the dormitory was still open. The big iron gate was locked at 10 o'clock every night.
Director Li was watching "Justice Bao" at home with his wife. At that time, a group of staff were also watching the show in front of the TV. After watching the second episode, the editor was very satisfied with his editing and was now waiting for tomorrow's ratings.
It was only after Qin Shumin started filming the drama that she realized how hard it is to be an actor. Because they had to rush the release of the drama before "Xiang Shuai" was finished and there was no other popular TV series to follow it, they had to work overtime every day. Sometimes an actor could only sleep three or four hours a day. When filming the scenes in spring and summer, they had to hold ice or snow in their mouths to prevent hot air from coming out of their mouths when they spoke.
Qin Shumin also suffered from tonsillitis, sore throat, and runny nose, which were some signs of a cold. At this time, she was wearing a thick military coat and huddled in front of the TV with a group of main creative members, drinking brown sugar ginger tea. After watching two episodes of the TV series, she really couldn't bear it anymore and went back to her room and fell into a deep sleep.
Before going to bed, she was still thinking that after filming "Bao Er", she no longer wanted to act in a movie. Wouldn't it be nice to have her own show, be a behind-the-scenes person, or be a host?
It was not until the next morning, when she was in a deep sleep, that someone gently woke her up.
She opened her eyes dazedly: "Are we going to start filming?"
Her assistant brought her a fever-reducing pill and said, "Sister Minmin, you have a fever. Take the medicine quickly."
Qin Shumin is a full-time employee of the TV station. Although her two assistants have completed their internship period, they are currently only contract workers and usually call Qin Shumin "sister".
Qin Shumin was dizzy from the fever, and it took her a while before she remembered to ask, "Have the ratings for the show we starred in yesterday come out?"
Director Li was also asking, "How were the ratings yesterday?"
"Director, last night's ratings were as low as 15% and as high as 27%!" The TV station staff all sounded joyful.
This is certainly not comparable to the phenomenal 77% viewership rating achieved by "The Legend of Xiang Shuai" during the winter vacation, but no one can say that the ratings for "Bao Er" were low at the beginning. In fact, when "Judge Bao" was broadcast on their channel last year, the highest rating was 51%, which was already a very high rating.
At this time, the ratings of many TV programs generally remained below 20%.
The highest ratings set by the TV series they bought during the winter vacation was when "Justice Bao" had just ended. It reached 30% at the beginning, but then it kept declining and finally couldn't even maintain 5%. It struggled around 1% every day. Almost all the viewers went to watch "The Legend of Xiang Shuai" on Apple TV.
This is also the reason why Director Li is so anxious to shoot the second part of "Judge Bao". From the original highest ratings of over 50%, it can no longer maintain even 1%. Such a gap would make anyone anxious when seeing it.
Now that "The Legend of Xiang Marshal" has been taken off the screen, even if other TV stations buy the copyright and rebroadcast it, the first wave of premieres of "The Legend of Xiang Marshal" was originally premiered in the evening and rebroadcast during the day. It has already been rebroadcast once and the popularity has passed. Even if other TV stations rehash the old drama later, it is impossible for the popularity to suddenly explode to such a terrifying level of 77% like it did during the winter vacation.
In addition, the TV station had been warming up for several days during prime time, and "Wuxia" magazine had been on hold for several days. The first part of "Judge Bao", which had more than 200 episodes, really accompanied too many people for too much time. This also led to the fact that many viewers still remember this TV series to this day, which led to the 15% viewership ratings at the beginning.
The subsequent "Bao Er" was able to achieve a peak audience rating of 27%, which shows that it has great potential and momentum. Not only did it not decline, but it actually increased.
Of course, this must be due to the old audiences who stayed behind from "Bao Yi", which also shows that "Bao Er" is indeed well made.
Fifteen percent to twenty-seven percent, although it still has not reached last year's exaggerated 51%, it is much better than the one percent during the winter vacation.
Director Li finally breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Continue to observe tomorrow's ratings."
Some TV series reach their peak right from the start, like the drama they aired during last year’s winter break, but some dramas start off at a lower level but gain more and more momentum. They are not sure which type “Bao Er” will be now, and can only wait and see.
Qin Shumin also received a call from the TV station and learned that the TV series ratings started at 15 and then rose to 27. She finally smiled in relief and fell into a deep sleep again. She slept until two in the afternoon before waking up.
She was away this morning, so her part couldn't be filmed. The director could only film other actors' parts first and then reshoot her part later.
Different from the people at the TV stations, the readers of "Wuxia" and "Da Song" who were watching TV couldn't help but laugh excitedly after seeing the small words at the beginning of the TV show, 'This drama is adapted from Ning Meng's work "My Years as a Constable in Da Song", pointing at the words on the TV and shouting to their parents: "Mom! Mom! Look, this is the book I read, it was adapted into "Judge Bao"! I said "Judge Bao" was adapted from the novel I read, right? Look, look, you still accuse me of reading idle books every day!"
This kind of scene happened in many families. Many parents were not readers of "Wuxia" and "Da Song", but they were viewers of "Judge Bao". When they saw this line of small words at the beginning of "Judge Bao", they nodded and said, "Let me have a look at your book."
Li Ang and Wang Yong from the magazine have also finished watching the first two episodes of "Bao Er". Z Province Station is a satellite TV station. Even if they are far away in Tianjin and Guangzhou, they can watch Z Province Station. Except for the rural areas that are still using the most primitive antennas to search for channels, the televisions in towns and cities have all been replaced with digital antennas this year, which can search for more channels, even channels in Hong Kong Island and Taiwan Island.
The impact of the recently released "Bao Er" on the sales of the physical books of "Wuxia" and "Da Song" has not yet been seen, so they can only wait and see what the market conditions will be like in the future.
Li Ang also talked to Editor-in-Chief Bao in Guangzhou about increasing the first print run for the next issue depending on the situation.
Early on Sunday morning, Tong Jingang came to Grandpa Jiang's shop and asked Grandpa Jiang: "Grandpa Jiang, how is the TV? Is it still watchable? Did you watch "Justice Bao" last night?"
Tong Jingang is also a reader of "Wuxia". He not only reads "Da Song", but also other works serialized in "Wuxia". His favorite is not even "Da Song", but martial arts novels written from a male perspective. However, due to the heavy schoolwork, he reads relatively few. The reason he knew that the second part of "Judge Bao" was broadcast last night was because of the two promotional posters of "Wuxia" posted on the door of the grocery store at the gate of their school. The posters said that "Judge Bao", adapted from "Da Song", a work serialized by "Wuxia" magazine, was released yesterday. The font was so big that he could see it every morning and evening. It was also because of this that he moved the unused TV in his room to Grandpa Jiang after school yesterday.
There were no classes this morning and he had nothing to do at home, so he ran to Grandpa Jiang's shop early in the morning. Jiang Ning was concentrating on typing, and Tong Jingang sat and chatted with Grandpa Jiang. Grandpa Jiang, a quiet man, became talkative under the guidance of Tong Jingang and talked about "Justice Bao" which he watched last night.
Jiang Ning heard their conversation, took the time to turn around and said, "There will be a replay at nine o'clock this morning!" Then he turned around and continued typing.
Soon Jiang Bai came over from the cafeteria with breakfast, and a few people ate breakfast while waiting to watch the rebroadcast of "Bao Er".
There were also many people who did not see "Bao Er" last night due to something else, and some who missed it because they did not know it was released. They were all waiting in front of the TV on Sunday morning, waiting for the replay this morning.
Jiang Bai was not idle while they were waiting. He cleaned the store inside and out and started ironing clothes.
He has no interest in watching TV series, his only interest is making money.
He usually comes to the store to help whenever he has time and hardly wastes any time. The little he does is not worth the high salary his sister pays him every month, so he just hopes to do more and more!
When it was past eight o'clock and guests started to arrive one after another, Tong Jingang was talking to Grandpa Jiang, Jiang Ning was concentrating on typing, and Jiang Bai was working.
It was not until nine o'clock that the replay began and Jiang Ning had finished typing. Several people were watching TV, and only Jiang Bai was busy.
When customers came in and found that "Judge Bao" was playing in the store, they didn't leave. There were no small stools, so they either stood or sat sideways on Grandpa Jiang's bed. After a while, there were five or six customers standing behind and watching.
In other words, Grandpa Jiang was not a germaphobe and did not mind. On the contrary, since they were all guests, he warmly invited them to sit down. He even pulled the bed open a little, letting Tong Jingang and Jiang Ning sit inside, while the guests sat outside the bed.
Jiang Ning had already watched it once last night and didn't want to watch it again, so she went outside to iron clothes with Jiang Bai.
Some customers felt embarrassed to just watch TV without buying clothes, so they quickly bought a piece of clothing and then went inside to look.
People passing by outside saw that other stores were deserted, but this store was crowded, so they curiously poked their heads in to take a look. They first looked at the clothes, and then found that they were all watching TV series inside. Then more and more people crowded in, and Grandpa Jiang's bed was full of people.
The lady boss of the egg cake shop was curious about what was going on. When she found out that the show was playing next door, she went home, brought out the TV, placed it at the door, unplugged the antenna, and sat at the door to watch "Judge Bao". After a while, the customers who could not squeeze into Jiang Ning's shop found that the lady boss's house next door was also playing "Judge Bao". So they bought two yuan worth of egg cakes and sat on the long bench that the lady boss had specially prepared for them to watch TV.
Soon, the TVs in every household on the whole street were playing "Justice Bao".
Some shops are small and there is no room for a few customers to stand inside, so some people simply move the TV to the lobby and play TV series there to attract customers.
Most of those who are attracted by the TV and cannot look away are students from No. 1 Middle School and Wu Middle School. They do not have classes on Sundays, especially the senior high school students, who only have half a day off. As the social atmosphere is chaotic now, they dare not wander around other places. They just walk around the streets near the school and then stay to watch TV.
Except for some locals who are particularly stingy and want to save electricity, who will watch TV at other people's homes, most of the locals will watch TV at their own homes.
After finally finishing the two episodes in the morning, someone quickly noticed: "Hey! It's adapted from "I'm a Constable in the Song Dynasty"!"
"What is "Being a Constable in the Song Dynasty?" The students in No. 1 Middle School and Wuzhong all focus on studying. No matter how high the first print run of "Wuxia" is, it is only two or three million. Many people have never read "Wuxia" and don't know about "The Song Dynasty".
“That’s the one. There’s a picture on the wall of the bookstore next to our school. It’s the one with the male lead Zhan Zhao! It’s so good!” A student who has watched “The Song Dynasty” recommended it.
If you were to ask where there are the most bookstores, it would definitely be near the school. There are several bookstores on this street. Some of them are not orthodox bookstores like Xinhua Bookstore, but some bookstores that serve as both small shops and magazines and tutorial books. After watching the first and second episodes of "Justice Bao", they were still not satisfied. They had to attend evening self-study classes and could not watch the two episodes in the evening, so they went to look for the "Wuxia" magazine that their classmates mentioned. While reading the magazine, they found that there were physical copies of "The Song Dynasty" for sale.
The New Year had just passed, and every student's pocket was still full. Girls who could afford miscellaneous books bought a physical copy of "The Great Song Dynasty" directly from the bookstore at the school gate. Those who didn't have much money could buy the first volume and I would buy the second volume, and then we would exchange the volumes.
Some students did not have no money to buy extracurricular books, but were reluctant to buy them. So they went to the nearby rental bookstores and asked if there were any books for rent, and sure enough, there were.
There are not only physical books, but also magazines.
"Wuxia" was selling so well before, and the physical book of "Da Song" was also selling very well. Many people stopped reading after reading the magazine, so the people who rented books went to collect them. They bought back a lot of martial arts magazines at low prices and put them in a row on the bookshelf, from the first issue of last year to the last issue of this year. They were arranged in chronological order and there was not enough space to put them in a long grid. There was also a pile of books underneath, so the people who rented books had to find them themselves.
By the evening, more viewers were waiting in front of the TV, awaiting the release of "Bao Er".
I have to say that Director Li is really good at seizing opportunities.
He did not release "Bao Er" immediately after "Legend of Xiang Shuai" was taken off the screen. Instead, he waited for the popularity of "Xiang Shuai" to cool down for a few days. The audience happened to be in a window period after finishing watching a TV series. They had nothing to watch and were still reminiscing about "Xiang Shuai". Then he decided to release it.
After a few days of playing gg and whetting the audience's appetite, the popularity of "Xiang Shuai" cooled down again, and then "Bao Er" was aired this Saturday. This attracted a large number of original "Xiang Shuai" viewers to "Bao Er". By Sunday night, the audience who had no good TV series to watch were attracted to "Bao Er" again.
Director Li and the TV station staff were all at the station on Sunday, and as soon as the morning replay ended, the staff quickly came up to report the replay ratings.
The staff couldn't hide their joy on their faces: "The lowest ratings in the morning were 10%, and the highest ratings were 23%!"
It’s no wonder that the staff were so happy with the replay’s ratings.
Generally speaking, the ratings of a rerun are lower than those of the premiere, but the ratings of their rerun were not much lower than the premiere.
For example, the drama they aired during the winter vacation had a peak viewership of over 30% during the first broadcast, but only a few percent during the reruns. That was a really precipitous drop.
The replay has such ratings, which means that after the third and fourth episodes are aired tonight, the ratings should not drop too much, or they can maintain the current ratings.
After the ratings were reduced to only 1% during the winter vacation due to "Xiang Shuai", all the staff of Z Province TV Station are very satisfied to be able to maintain the current ratings.
Especially since this is their station's first self-produced drama.
There are many TV stations producing their own dramas now, but few of them are really popular, such as "Desire" and "The Story of the Editorial Department" a few years ago, "A Native of Beijing in New York" the year before last, last year's popular Shanghai dialect drama produced by Shanghai TV, and another station's very popular self-produced drama. But if you count carefully, the ones that can be called extremely popular can be counted on two hands.
Although their Z Province TV station was also producing its own dramas, they did not have a reliable director and were short of funds. It was not easy to gain fame and achieve results with the first drama. Therefore, Director Li chose again and again in choosing the first self-produced drama. It was also by chance that when their station did not know what to shoot, "The Song Dynasty" had just started serialization and was seen by Qin Shumin of their station, who recommended "The Song Dynasty" to him.
Coincidentally, at the end of this year, a phenomenal hit drama "Xiang Shuai" came out, forcing him to make a quick decision, and he chose "Bao Er".
Director Li did not go home in the afternoon. He sat in the screening room with the staff and watched all three or four episodes. When episodes three and four were broadcast in the evening, they were already at home.
Even though they had already watched it once at noon, when they watched it again in the evening, Director Li and his colleagues still enjoyed it very much. The original work was well written, the script was well adapted, the actors performed well, the director filmed it well, and the editing was well!
Director Li asked his wife what she thought of the filming of "Bao Er" and whether it was good.
Director Li's wife looked at his head, which was almost bald due to anxiety, and nodded with a smile, saying, "Not bad, very good-looking." She then pointed at the female lead on TV and said, "Is this girl from your station? She's so pretty, why didn't you arrange for her to be the host before?"
Provincial TV stations are different from local TV stations. The relationships between them are complicated. It is impossible for a newcomer like Qin Shumin with no background to have her own program in a place like a provincial TV station as soon as she arrives.
There are so many seniors waiting ahead of her? How can it be her turn?
If it weren't for the fact that she was the one who recommended the book "The Great Song Dynasty" this time, and she was the one who signed the contract with the author of "The Great Song Dynasty", and had read "The Great Song Dynasty" and understood "The Great Song Dynasty", and the chief screenwriter happened to receive the task from above and had no time to write the script of "The Great Song Dynasty", plus she herself is sweet and beautiful, Director Li wants to train her, and other people with connections already have their own shows and can't leave, it would not be Qin Shumin's turn at all.
This is also the reason why Qin Shumin worked so hard. She had a fever and was sick. She only rested for one morning and started filming again in the afternoon. However, she did not stay up late at night like others. She took medicine and fell into a deep sleep. The script was temporarily handed over to two assistant screenwriters.
She was young and could handle it. She had a good sleep and felt much better when she woke up. After putting on makeup, her sick look was no longer obvious. She started filming overtime again.
By Monday, the ratings for the third and fourth episodes of "The Song of Song" were released.
The lowest point is 24 percent and the highest point is 36 percent!
There was joy in the office!
Director Li also waved his fist excitedly. After three or four episodes, it was stable, and the rest would basically be stable.
Director Li really wanted to continue broadcasting two episodes at a time, but unfortunately, after the editors have been editing day and night these days, there are only more than 20 episodes in stock. One episode a day is barely enough, but if it is two episodes a day, the filming crew will not be able to keep up.
Several screenwriters have been working overtime to write the script. Qin Shumin's two assistants and the assistant to the chief screenwriter have also joined in the creation and rushed out the later scripts. In terms of shooting, different plots can be shot repeatedly in one scene. The shooting speed is also increasing, but it is still impossible to achieve two episodes a day. This is an impossible task.
Director Li could only bear the pain and air only one episode at 8 o'clock on weekdays, and then wait anxiously for the ratings to come out on Monday.
Under the guidance of Jiang Ning and Tong Jingang, Grandpa Jiang can now operate the TV by himself. After Jiang Ning and Jiang Bai returned to school for evening self-study, Grandpa Jiang turned on the Z Province Channel by himself and watched TV while lying on the bed.
After watching one episode, Grandpa Jiang thought there was still one to go, so he kept waiting. However, this was the time for his biological clock to go to bed, and before he had even waited for a while, Grandpa Jiang fell asleep. In the middle of the night, he was suddenly awakened by the sound of music. He saw a big round ball on the TV, and as the music sounded that the show had ended, Grandpa Jiang got up, turned off the TV, and continued to sleep.
He goes to bed early and wakes up early in the morning. At five o'clock, when it is still light, he wakes up, opens the rolling door, brushes his teeth, washes his face, and then irons his clothes, imitating his grandson.
At seven o'clock, Jiang Ning came to bring him breakfast. After breakfast, there was not much business, so he continued to sit in front of the TV, waiting to watch "Judge Bao".
He thought he had fallen asleep last night and missed the next episode of "Judge Bao", but it turned out there was only one episode today.
Many viewers also thought that the TV station had made a mistake. Why were there two episodes a day in the previous two days, but only one episode yesterday? So I called the TV station to ask, but to my surprise, the TV station staff said, "You are right, only two episodes will be broadcast on weekends, and only one episode on weekdays."
Many viewers were so angry that they asked, "Can't we afford the electricity bill?"
"Last year there were two episodes a day, why is there only one episode this year?"
"I was just getting excited about it, but it's over! Is this how you TV station people do things?"
The TV station’s audience hotline was flooded with calls.
The harsher the audience curses, the happier Director Li is.
The ratings on Monday were slightly lower than those on Saturday and Sunday, but Director Li had anticipated this decline, because junior and senior high school students watched less of the show. This group of student viewers have to attend classes during the day and evening self-study classes at night. Only elementary school students who have finished their homework can watch one episode.
It can be said that airing one episode on a weekday is very friendly to both working people and primary school students who have to go to school. They can go to bed after watching it. However, it is not very friendly to many idle people who do not need to go to work.
Over at the TV department, after experiencing a cold winter for the entire winter vacation, the TV distributors who had previously cooperated with them, seeing that they had just launched the new series "Justice Bao II", finally returned to their Z Province TV station from Apple TV, and called one after another to reserve their prime-time TV programs in the evening. Director Li was so happy that the few remaining strands of hair on his head were finally saved.
At the same time, after a few days of release, the influence of "Bao Er" on the publication of books by "Da Song" finally began to show.
In the first two days, this influence was not obvious. Although the beginning and the end of the TV series' sequence both stated that the TV series was adapted from "The Song Dynasty", the font was small and few viewers paid attention to this line of words. But after watching it for a few days, some viewers began to notice this line of words. Some people complained that the TV series was broadcast too slowly, with only one episode a day, and they couldn't wait to buy the book.
As I watched, I realized, huh? The book and the TV show are a little different, right?
The protagonists of the TV series are Bao Zheng, Zhan Zhao and the heroine, but the book is written directly from the perspective of the heroine. They thought Zhan Zhao would appear soon, and when they had almost finished reading a book without realizing it, they suddenly realized, huh? Where is Zhan Zhao? Where did Zhan Zhao go?
Never mind, the book is interesting anyway.
When they have nothing to do, they read books during the day and watch TV series at night, and they treat books and TV series as two separate works.
Wu Gongan and his colleagues are not so busy these days, and they still have time to catch up on an episode of a TV series in the evening. He is currently watching the fourth case of "The Great Song Dynasty". Up to this point, the plot of "The Great Song Dynasty" has nothing to do with reality. It seems that you cannot substitute it into reality at all. It can be said that it is completely separated from reality.
Because it was a case of a fake county magistrate, he couldn't think about it in reality. No matter the names of the characters or the names of the places in the book, they were all pseudonyms. The names were also quite fancy and difficult to pronounce, with some meanings like Ximen Chuxue and Sikong Zhaixing. How could there be someone with such a name in real life? There is no such place at all.
When he went to bed at night, he was thinking about the plot of the novel and chewing on these pseudonyms in his mouth. As he was reading, he suddenly felt something was wrong and sat up abruptly.
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