Chapter 9797
As the saying goes, the accent changes every ten miles.
In their province, the dialect is so diverse that it varies from place to place. It was not until televisions became popular and different versions of Mandarin became common that everyone was able to communicate without any hindrance. But at that time, when many rural families did not yet have a television in every household, many people who were born and raised in the countryside, even after they had televisions and listened to Mandarin every day, still could not speak it.
Public Security Wu is not from the provincial capital. He came from a town below and rose up step by step through meritorious service. He has been on the front line of criminal investigation for many years and often has to deal with the towns and villages below. He also speaks a lot of local dialects.
Just now when I was reading the names of people and places in the book, I felt that the author was imitating Gu Long's naming style but did not do it well. The names were fancy and difficult to pronounce, and somewhat like Meng Bingdie. Before going to bed, I was still reciting these names and found them funny. But as I was reciting them, I suddenly felt that something was wrong. Aren't the pronunciations of these names just the transliteration of a certain town's dialect?
If a name that sounds like the transliteration of this place is a coincidence, then what about the fact that all place names and personal names sound like the transliteration of dialects?
No matter how quaint the place name may be when it is packaged in words, if it is read in the local dialect... Wu Gongan immediately discovered the highlight.
He had been to this county before. The county magistrate seemed to be an official from Beijing, which meant he was not a local. If he remembered correctly, he had come to this county to serve as the county's local official last year. It had only been about half a year.
If this is true, it would be a big case.
He hoped he was wrong, but the more he chewed on these names, the more he felt that he might have discovered something extraordinary.
But how did Ning Meng know about this?
At present, these cases are really unrelated. Some are not only unrelated, but even the date of publication of the articles and the date of the case are not right, as if there is a kind of foresight.
How is this possible?
Because they were busy investigating cases, and the murderers they caught every time were indeed the real murderers, they did not specifically investigate Ning Meng's identity. They just thought he was a colleague of theirs. Since he didn't want to say it and wanted to write novels as a side job, they just waited for him to reveal himself. Now, he was uncertain again.
No matter how outrageous this matter was, he had been working in criminal investigation for so many years and knew that reality was always more outrageous and absurd than people imagined.
Because this matter involved an official from Beijing who was their local official, he didn't even dare to tell his colleagues. This matter was really too big, and he wanted to investigate first to see if he could find the body first.
In fact, when Jiang Ning saw the case file, he also found it outrageous, and that was several years later. In other words, after killing the real county magistrate, the murderer stayed in this position for six or seven years. It was not until 2002 that his identity was exposed and the case was solved.
After she knew the influence of "Wuxia", she thought about it: what if a murderer saw "Wuxia" one day and happened to see the crime he committed, and thought it was the same crime he committed, so he ran away early? So when she was writing, she intentionally weakened this part of the plot and tried to focus the main plot on the protagonists, so that even if people saw this case that seemed a bit déjà vu, it would be difficult to relate it to reality.
For example, in this case, when she was writing, she knew that the murderer was from another place and did not understand the local dialect, so when using place names and pseudonyms, she simply used the local dialect. For example, outsiders would never guess that the "Shilepo" said by locals does not mean a hillside, but "knee". The various pronunciations are even more different from Mandarin. For example, the Mandarin "zhong" is pronounced "xin" in the local dialect, and the pinyin b is pronounced x in the local dialect.
The various dialects are transliterated and non-locals will not understand. Even among locals, many people will not apply the novels to reality.
Unless you are the investigator of these cases.
As for what happens after the true identity is known, please, now TV dramas have it written at the beginning: This story is purely fictional and any similarity is purely coincidental.
Grandpa Jiang's shop is not busy on weekdays. Since he got a TV, Grandpa Jiang started watching TV in the shop every day to kill time.
Now various channels are still broadcasting "Xiang Shuai" in rotation. No matter which channel you jump to, "Xiang Shuai" is being broadcasted.
But only the Z Province Satellite TV Station was broadcasting "Bao Er" exclusively, so soon, they watched "Xiang Shuai" on this channel and that channel, but they would definitely watch it on the Z Province TV station during the prime time every night.
Grandpa Jiang was not very interested in watching the disjointed "Xiang Shuai". He liked to watch "Judge Bao" from the first episode, one episode every night, and fall asleep right after finishing it.
The same is true for many middle-aged and elderly audiences.
Originally, "Xiang Shuai" only attracted young audiences, but this time "Bao Er" cleverly added a female lead, so that a large number of young female audiences were also attracted by "Bao Er". After all, although "Xiang Shuai" is good, I have watched it twice during the winter vacation, and it is no longer fresh.
So, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday...
Except for a slight drop in the ratings on Monday, it remained stable on Wednesday and Thursday and even showed a steady upward trend. On Friday night, the ratings of "Bao Er" suddenly exploded, jumping from a low of 26% to a high of 40%!
Although it did not attract all the audiences who had watched "Xiang Shuai" before, it still attracted a large number of them.
On Fridays, since there is no evening self-study, the junior high school and high school students go home and can watch an episode of a TV series. They sit in front of the TV with their parents and watch "Judge Bao". Young people who like to watch "Xiang Shuai" will also choose to watch it at other time periods.
The self-produced drama of Province Z TV also attracted the attention of directors of other TV stations.
Last year, the director of the Shanghai TV station, which produced a local dialect drama and sold well and made a lot of money, couldn't help but say, "This Z Province TV station is too clever, directly taking the copyright of "Justice Bao" to shoot a second series, is this considered a self-produced drama?"
For their station, not only are the screenwriters, directors, and actors all from their own station, but even the language they use is the local language of Shanghai. When other stations buy the copyright of their self-produced dramas, they have to dub the actors first. This is considered to have set a precedent for dialect dramas, and they also promoted Shanghai's humanities, economy, national policies, etc. through TV dramas.
The staff member next to him couldn't help but remind him: "But Director, the ratings have exceeded 40!"
"So what? Who hasn't turned 40 yet?" Last year, their self-produced drama, although only 20 episodes, had a peak viewership rating of 43.62%, which directly knocked the then-hot drama "Three Kingdoms" off the hook, causing the ratings of the then-hot drama "Three Kingdoms" to drop below 10%.
The television market in this era was not like that of later generations. Various TV series, online dramas, and movies were everywhere, and various variety shows emerged in an endless stream, giving audiences a dizzying array of choices.
At that time, because there were few programs and the mainland's self-produced dramas had only just started a few years ago, the audience's choices were limited. If a TV series was well made, it would be very easy to get high ratings, with ratings of 30 to 40 percent being common. Examples of these include "Fragrant Marshal" this winter and "Return of the Pearl" two years later, both of which were phenomenal hit dramas.
After seeing the self-made drama of Province Z, Province S seemed to have opened up new ideas and asked its staff: "Province Z has produced "Bao Er", do you think we can also produce a second season of "Xiang Shuai"?"
In fact, this drama "Chor Liuheung" is not the first time it has been filmed. As early as 1979, TVB filmed "Chu Liuheung", and later Taiwan also filmed "The New Adventures of Chor Liuheung". However, the only really popular one was "The Legend of Chor Liuheung" starring Qiu Guan. Later, two more movies with Chu Liuheung as the protagonist came out. Even if you can really get Qiu Guan to star in the sequel, the question is whether you can buy the copyright of this drama.
The fact that the TV station in Province Z was able to obtain the various copyrights of "Bao" was a result of a variety of coincidences.
But seeing that the ratings of "Bao Er" were so high, there were really some TV stations that didn't know what to shoot and wanted to take the same shortcut as the Z Province TV station and inquire about the copyright of the sequel to "Xiang Shuai".
The ratings of the Saturday morning reruns were not high. Even though young people had already watched "Hercules" once, they still liked to watch it at home during the holidays.
At that time, entertainment options were limited. The more fashionable students would go to the ice rink to skate, while the more literary students would go to the bookstore to read.
Generally speaking, only a few people would choose to go ice skating at places like the skating rink, while the majority of students would go to bookstores to read.
Before they entered the bookstore, they saw a poster in the most conspicuous position at the entrance of the bookstore, with photos of Zhan Zhao and the heroine of the second part of "Judge Bao" printed on it. On it was written in large letters "My Years as a Constable in the Song Dynasty" and below it were small words, "It has been adapted into the second part of "Judge Bao" and will be broadcast on Z Province Satellite TV at 8 o'clock in the evening."
They didn't have any books to read at the moment, but when they saw this picture magazine and thought of the second volume of "Justice Bao" they had seen last night, they walked over curiously, picked up a book from the most conspicuous place in the bookstore, sat at the bottom of the shelf, half squatting and half sitting to read.
Some people just took the book and stood in front of the bookshelf, reading with the pages vertically. Many people nearby were reading "The Great Song Dynasty".
There were people who didn't know what was going on, but when they came in and saw so many people reading "The Song Dynasty", they curiously followed suit and went to watch it.
Once you start watching this, you can’t stop.
They have been reading martial arts novels for such a long time, but this is the first time they have read a martial arts novel about time travel. It is so immersive!
No matter boys or girls, they can't stop reading this book. Some boys even want to write a novel about a man who travels back to the ancient Song Dynasty and becomes a constable. They want the hero to be a powerful figure, become good friends with Zhan Zhao, become sworn brothers with Bai Yuting, marry a princess, and reach the peak of his life!
There are also girls who want to write a story about a heroine who travels back to the Song Dynasty and falls in love with Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang. Oh, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang are both so charming, which one should I choose?
After finishing the first volume, they felt a little hungry, so they put the books back, went out for lunch, and came back to continue reading the second volume.
Some people brought their own food and water and planned to hang out in the bookstore. They read until around 7pm, when the bookstore was about to close. Then they remembered, "Judge Bao will start at 8pm!"
Only then did I hurriedly buy the second volume that I had not finished reading, went home and sat in front of the TV waiting for "Bao Er" to be broadcast.
After watching two episodes in a row, the middle-aged and elderly audiences who had been following the show episode by episode before were satisfied and went to bed. The young boys and girls who had bought the book during the day but did not finish reading it lay in bed with the lights on and continued to watch "The Song Dynasty".
I stayed up all night to finish reading it, and then went to look for the third volume.
When I asked, I found out there was no third volume.
When the readers who were enjoying the book heard that there would be no third volume, they were anxious: "How can there be no third volume? When will the third volume be available?"
The publishing rights of "The Great Song Dynasty" have all been signed to the publishing house. The publishing house only needs to pay her royalties according to the price, first print run, and royalty points of each book. There is no need to sign a copyright contract every time. However, if additional prints are required, an additional print contract must be signed.
When the hardcover edition of the second volume was released, the third volume was also being prepared. This weekend, Jiang Ning received another 5,000 book page bookmarks for her to sign.
This was already agreed upon in the original copyright contract. She couldn't help with the promotion at school, but every time the book came out she would need to sign 5,000 copies of her name as autographed copies.
Wang Yong was not there and it was too troublesome to sign books, so the publishing house sent bookmarks and book pages to her for her to sign, and then sent them back to the publishing house.
Although not as many as 5,000 books, 5,000 bookmarks is still a considerable amount.
The addresses Jiang Ning left behind were all the addresses of the stores, and the publishing house also expedited the delivery of the documents directly to the stores. On Saturday, when Jiang Bai and his classmates were in class, Jiang Ning was in the store stamping and signing, and her hands were almost broken from writing.
Grandpa Jiang didn't know what his granddaughter was writing, he just watched with a smile. Later, he simply took Jiang Ning's seal and came over to help her stamp it, allowing Jiang Ning to concentrate on signing.
On Sunday morning, Jiang Bai and his friends were on holiday in the store, so Jiang Ning simply took the remaining signature pages to the dormitory. He Xiaofang was the only one in the dormitory, and both of them sat quietly on their beds, "studying hard."
He Xiaofang was really studying hard, while Jiang Ning was signing autographs.
The fact that the man came to her house to propose marriage during the Chinese New Year made her feel as if a whip full of poisonous thorns appeared behind her, urging her to keep running forward, for fear that if she ran a little slower, the thorny whip would hit her and drag her into a dark cliff where she could not see the light of day.
Except for the time for eating and going to the toilet every day, she studies.
It’s just that her learning efficiency is not high. Even though she studies so hard, her results in the opening exam are still at the bottom of the class, only slightly better than Liu Ping.
Liu Ping really spent the entire winter vacation making money and did not study at all. But He Xiaofang was at home, and she studied whenever she had free time.
Her performance in science was a big drag on her.
She has basically given up on physics and chemistry, and plans to choose liberal arts directly in the arts and science division next year. She will now spend her time studying physics and chemistry on English and mathematics, which are a bit difficult for her to learn.
Her English has been improving steadily, but when it comes to math, her brain is like a brick. No matter how hard she tries, it still gets stuck. Even though she has already learned a question, she will be completely unable to solve it if the question type is changed.
Many times, she wanted to cry while learning.
She looked up at Jiang Ning in the mosquito net, who was still concentrating on writing and scribbling something on a piece of draft paper from time to time.
Jiang Ning is the number one in the county, with such good grades, so smart, and so hardworking. What reason does she have to complain about not studying?
Her second sister has already paid her tuition for two semesters, more than 1,400 yuan. She has absolutely no way of giving up on the path of studying, otherwise she would be sorry for the huge amount of tuition her second sister paid for her. She must get into university! She must live up to the huge tuition fees her second sister paid for her!
Jiang Ning spent two days signing all the signature pages and sent them to the publishing house by express delivery. After receiving the signature pages she sent, the publishing house quickly sent them for binding.
The 200,000 additional prints signed with Jiang Ning have been slowly consumed after the broadcast of "Bao Er". The third volume must be released quickly while the popularity is high. If there is time, the fourth volume should also be released during the release of "Bao Er" to maximize profits.
The first part of "Judge Bao" lasted for more than 200 episodes, and I don't know how many episodes "Judge Bao II" will have.
They have already inquired with the TV station. The drama is being filmed and broadcast at the same time. There are only more than 20 episodes in stock. It is probably unlikely to shoot too many episodes. It will probably be like "Xiang Shuai", where it would be great if it could be broadcast with 50 episodes.
Many TV dramas at that time only had a dozen or twenty episodes.
For example, last year’s hit self-produced drama produced by Shanghai TV only had a total of twenty episodes.
If one episode is broadcasted a day, it will be finished in twenty days. Even if Saturdays and Sundays are avoided, it will only be enough for one month.
Not to mention there are a bunch of TV series with ten or eleven episodes.
So a week later, Jiang Ning received another 5,000 signature pages and bookmarks.
If she hadn't bought a computer and put it in the store, she could go to the store to write for forty to fifty minutes every evening after school, and she would have had two weeks free.
It was also because of the time she had after school every evening that she had time to spare on the weekends to sign autographs.
She thought that the number of autographs she had signed was already very large, but compared to the total sales volume of her "The Great Song Dynasty", it was too little!
As soon as her two-in-one hardcover edition of volumes 1 and 2 was released, it was sold out immediately. Not only were there enough copies for old readers, but even new readers who came with the release of "Bao Er" did not have enough copies to buy.
Many old readers have already bought Volumes 1 and 2, or one of Volumes 1 and 2, so there is no need for them to buy the two-in-one hardcover edition. However, new readers have never bought it before. Readers who are not short of money will buy it directly when they hear that there is a signed hardcover edition, regardless of whether it is a two-in-one or not.
This has resulted in many wealthy old readers who want to buy a signed hardcover book for their collection being unable to find it on the market and can only buy it at a high price in the second-hand market.
A book that originally sold for only twenty yuan was sold for two or three hundred yuan in the second-hand market.
Many booksellers and bookstores called the publishing house and asked them to print more hardcover signed editions.
The publishing house also wants to print more hardcover editions, but they can't just print more whenever they want. Others don't know, but the publishing house knows Jiang Ning's real identity. She is a student in a key high school, and the school is closed. Except for Saturdays and Sundays, she can't even be seen at other times. Five thousand signed copies are already the limit she can sign.
No matter how many there are, they can’t do anything!
The publishing house at that time was still very conscientious and had no intention of ghostwriting Jiang Ning to stimulate sales.
The sales of "The Great Song" are already high enough.
He Qiaosheng also failed to get a signed hardcover copy of "The Great Song Dynasty".
Five thousand signed books may sound like a lot, but when spread out across the national market, the number of signed books that each city can get is very limited. Basically, as soon as they arrive, they are either bought by acquaintances or snapped up as soon as they appear on the bookshelf.
Those who managed to grab the signed version of "The Great Song" are basically people living in cities, mostly young people. They either have computers at home or go to Internet cafes to surf the Internet, and show off in online forums that they got the hardcover signed version of "The Great Song".
If one shows off, the other will show off too.
And there are those who come to show off that they have two copies, huh? Are you angry?
People are so bored at that time, but such a small thing actually caused a stir in online forums.
There are also readers who bought the first signed book and said: "Although I don't have the hardcover version, I also have a signed copy of Ningmeng!"
So one by one they posted their signed books on the forum, and readers who truly loved "The Great Song" asked them if they were willing to resell them.
Some are willing and some are unwilling.
Some people who didn't understand what was going on asked what "The Great Song" was and why so many people were watching it.
As a result, a group of netizens who didn't know about "The Great Song Dynasty" were introduced to the physical books of "The Great Song Dynasty", "Justice Bao II" adapted from "The Great Song Dynasty", and the magazine "Wuxia" which serialized "The Great Song Dynasty".
This has led to another wave of hot sales for "The Song Dynasty" and "Wuxia" offline.
After reading the latest issues of "The Great Song" and "Wuxia", this group of new readers especially watch the TV series adapted from "The Great Song".
As a result, the ratings, which had been stable between 20% and 40%, suddenly began to increase slowly, and one day they suddenly broke through the 40 mark and continued to rise.
The TV station staff went to report the good news to Director Li early in the morning: "Director, Director, our ratings yesterday have broken the highest ratings of Shanghai TV's self-produced dramas last year. Yesterday's highest ratings reached 45.69%!"
Even Director Li was surprised and asked blankly, "What happened? Did the rerun of "Xiang Shuai" on another channel get taken off the air?"
The TV station staff also didn't know, but he knew whether "Xiang Shuai" had been released or not: "Xiang Shuai has not been released yet."
"Go check what's going on!"
Qin Shumin has been filming on the set recently and has no time to go online, so she has no idea why the ratings suddenly rose.
She hadn't had a full night's sleep for many days in a row, and sometimes she couldn't even tell whether she was Qin Shumin or the heroine of "Bao".
The ratings of "Bao" are still rising slowly.
Finally, a new employee who was surfing the Internet at the station said to Director Li uncertainly: "Could it be related to this thing in the online forum?"
He opened the online forum on his computer and showed Director Li the online discussion about "The Great Song Dynasty".
Director Li really didn't expect there would be such an unexpected surprise. So far, the highest ratings of this drama have exceeded the two most popular dramas produced by other TV stations last year. Although it has not reached the highest record of 51% set by the first "Bao", it has stabilized at around 30 to 40%, and the fluctuation has gradually become smaller.
This wave can be said to be stable. As long as there are no particularly big mistakes in the future, or there is a sudden super hit drama like "Xiang Shuai" broadcast during this year's winter vacation, the subsequent ratings of "Bao Er" will basically not fluctuate too much.
The drop in popularity of the drama during the winter vacation really scared him.
The drop from 30% to less than 1% of the box office is frightening just thinking about it.
"Bao Er" is currently still being broadcast in Province Z. The TV fees during the prime time every night are almost enough to recover the cost of filming the show, not to mention the TV fees for the next few months and the TV fees for the rebroadcast period, as well as the subsequent broadcast fees if other stations come to buy the show.
It can be said that buying the TV drama copyright and adaptation rights of this drama from Ningmeng for 8,000 yuan is really worth it!
To use a phrase from the Internet in later generations: I won!
Not only did the TV station win, but the publishing houses and magazines also made a lot of money thanks to the release of "Bao Er".
The total sales of "Wuxia" this month directly exceeded 3.8 million copies.
After the first part of "Justice Bao" was taken off the screen, they adjusted the first print run, and the total monthly sales basically remained at around 2.6 million copies. It has not exceeded 3 million copies for a long time. But as soon as "Judge Bao 2" was released, their total sales increased by 1 million copies. How could the magazine not be excited and surprised?
You know, a magazine with a monthly sales volume of one million copies is already a best-selling magazine.
"Wuxia" can now be said to be among the top-selling magazines among all magazines.
Even the publishing house had not expected that the total sales of the three volumes of a serialized novel that "Wuxia" magazine had approached them for cooperation in order to open up the northern market would have approached the five million mark, becoming the best-selling book of all the books published by their publishing house.
This also brought Jiang Ning considerable benefits.
Even Jiang Ning herself had not expected that the reason she started contributing articles was to raise money for tuition fees and to have a steady source of living expenses. She had the idea to write a long criminal investigation article after listening to the show "There is a Justice Bao in Kaifeng" on the street, which actually brought her so much income.
There is one villa and six large apartments. The third volume has been released and the fourth volume is also in production. The publisher wants to release the books while "Bao Er" is still in theaters.
If they were just trying to ride on the popularity of the first season of "Bao", then "Bao 2" is no longer just riding on the popularity of the show. Instead, it is the popularity brought by "Da Song" itself. Its own popularity even fed back to "Bao 2", directly pushing the ratings of "Bao 2" to over 45 and approaching the 50 mark.
The generous royalties in the passbook also made Jiang Ning worry about the subsequent mortgage issue.
A mortgage of 5,000 yuan may not be a problem for someone 20 years later, but for people at that time, a family’s savings is only 5,000 yuan.
And now, the savings of Jiang's father and mother, who have settled down in Shenzhen, have finally exceeded 5,000 yuan.
They really didn't expect that selling lunch boxes near the train station could make them more money than working on a construction site.
What they rented was not a new-style house, but an old house built by locals, a bungalow. It used to be inhabited by local families, but now all the locals have moved into commercial housing. This row of houses has been rented to outsiders like them who come here to work. Jiang's father and mother rented the one at the edge. They bought a large coal stove that can hold nine coal briquettes at a time, and a small coal stove that can hold three coal briquettes, which they use for cooking. They put them next to the house during the day and carry them under the eaves when it rains.
There is a large pond at the door, which can be used for washing clothes and vegetables.
After experiencing the initial language barrier, Jiang's father still bought all the necessary pots, pans, and utensils. He also found out that there was a wholesale vegetable market not far away. The vegetable prices were much cheaper than those in ordinary vegetable markets. So Jiang's father bought a second-hand tricycle. He got up at three o'clock every morning and rode the tricycle to the wholesale market to buy vegetables. Jiang's mother washed clothes and cleaned the rental house.
Jiang Ma is efficient. Every day when Jiang Ba comes home from buying vegetables, Jiang Ma washes them carefully. The neighbors know that they sell food, so when Jiang Ma washes the vegetables, they watch her secretly to see if she washes them cleanly.
When others sell food, they have a lot of ingredients, and some of them are not washed at all, or they are just dipped in water and picked up. But Jiang Ma washes them very carefully and cleanly.
As soon as Dad Jiang arrived here, he gave his homemade snail meat sauce to his neighbors and landlord. There was not much, just one bowl for each family to try.
It’s not much, but it’s a token of my heart. Although I’m still stumbling in my words, my smile is my eternal passport.
When Jiang's father was at home, he liked to look at cookbooks. As long as the children were at home and he had time, he liked to prepare some delicious food for the children. This time he went out, he also brought the cookbook back. After paying the rent, buying a stove, pots and pans, coal briquettes, disposable lunch boxes and other things, they didn't have much money left. With limited funds, he couldn't make any big dishes. He just used ordinary vegetables, chicken bones, pork ribs, two meat dishes and two vegetable dishes, plus a box lunch. The ones with pork ribs were one dollar and fifty cents each, and those without pork ribs were one dollar each. He rode his tricycle to sell them near the train station every day.
At first they wanted to serve three meals a day, but later they found that they could not cope with it, so they gave up breakfast and focused on lunch and dinner.
The neighbors around them noticed that the couple prepared the food very cleanly. Sometimes when they came back from work tired and didn't want to cook, they would buy food from Jiang's father and mother.
Jiang's father and mother were not the only ones selling boxed lunches near the train station. At the beginning, Jiang's father and mother gave away a large spoonful of snail meat sauce when you bought a boxed lunch, which attracted many customers. After the snail meat sauce ran out, Jiang's father was afraid that he could not compete with others, so he bought a large steel barrel. Every day he went to the wholesale market, bought two large bones and chicken bones, and boiled them in the large steel barrel from evening until noon the next day. The bone soup was so rich and fragrant that all the neighbors came to him to ask for some soup, and he never refused anyone. This large steel barrel full of bone soup was given to the guests for free. Whoever wanted to drink it could scoop it out themselves.
At first, Jiang's mother opposed him wasting money. Although two bones and chicken bones did not cost much money, it would add up to a considerable amount of money over the years, plus the cost of coal briquettes. They only made a few cents from a box of lunch, and they spent so much money. Jiang's mother thought Jiang's father was a big fool.
But Jiang's father insisted. He cooked the meals, bought the vegetables, and made the soup. After frying a few times without success, Jiang's mother also stopped. She soon discovered the benefits of Jiang's father's doing this.
It was winter when they first came to Guangzhou. They put the food into lunch boxes and rode their bikes over. By the time they sold the food, the food was a little cold. No matter how good the cooking skills were, the food would not taste good. However, those who had shops near the train station could keep hot water under the food, or simply heat it on the stove so that it was always hot and available for consumption.
After having Jiang Dad's hot soup, those who were reluctant to buy water at first heard that he had free hot soup, so they came over to drink the soup. When they scooped it with a big spoon, there were several big bones and whole chicken bones underneath. The chicken bones were boiled into pieces, and they could scoop up a lot of chicken bones with one spoon to chew.
When guests came, Jiang's father also spoke to the guests in broken Mandarin, telling them how clean Jiang's mother washed the vegetables and how careful they were about hygiene when cooking: "Many families don't wash the vegetables and just cook them. How can they eat them? We don't dare to eat the dishes cooked by outsiders, so we have to cook them ourselves. Who knew that the neighbors would come to eat at my house when they saw how clean it was? Isn't it just selling boxed lunches?"
Father Jiang has a handsome appearance, is tall and mighty, but his smile carries a kind of honesty that makes people unconsciously willing to trust him, plus his cooking skills are really good.
Soon, in addition to the travelers who hurried to and from the train station every day, he also had a group of regular customers. Nearby shop owners and workers were willing to buy lunch boxes from his tricycle stall.
Every day when Jiang's father was selling lunch boxes, he would keep his eyes on the entrance to the train station, trying to find Jiang Song.
They never imagined that Jiang Bai's final exam would come in his hometown.
In Jiang Bai's heart, the importance of the final examination has always been greater than the college entrance examination, because after the final examination, he can get a high school diploma.
For a long time, he had planned to stop studying after the college entrance examination and go out to work after getting his diploma.
Even though he has changed his mind now, he still attaches great importance to the college entrance examination.
Previously, Shanghai High School sent him a lot of test paper sets and asked him to do them. If he didn’t know how to answer them, he could call them.
Now Jiang Bai no longer needs to review the test papers given to him by his teacher from Wucheng No. 1 Middle School in class. He mainly reviews the test papers from Shanghai City.
If you don't practice this thing regularly, you will feel uncomfortable when you suddenly get a test paper that is different from the one here. But after practicing it many times and having an adaptation period, you will find that these things are universal.
All the test papers of No. 1 Middle School were sent by the principal of the middle school from the key high schools in the provincial capital, and their admission rates were almost synchronized with those of the key high schools in the provincial capital with the best admission rates.
Jiang Bai wondered if the teacher in Shanghai was afraid that he wouldn't be able to adapt, so he gave him a simpler test paper than the one given by No. 1 Middle School.
He went to Shanghai to take the college entrance examination by himself. Perhaps because he knew that he would be back soon, he did not feel nervous. However, in a strange city, a strange school, with strange classmates around him, he habitually had a cold and expressionless face, a cold expression, and a stern temperament.
The examination venues were separated, and students from different classes were not in the same examination room. Many people were surprised, wondering when such a handsome guy appeared in their school and why they had never seen him before. Everyone turned around to look at Jiang Bai.
It is true that Jiang Bai's current attire, let alone in Wucheng, even in Shanghai, has lost all of his former rustic air. He sat in the examination room with a cold temperament, and even the invigilator could not help but look at him a few more times.
Jiang Bai was used to being watched in Wucheng, and now he had trained himself to remain calm when being watched. When the test papers were handed out, he just focused on writing. After he finished, he checked, and if there was nothing wrong, he handed in the paper and left.
This happened for several games in a row.
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