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Soon, Wang Yong's contract was sent over, in duplicate, both with the magazine's seal.

She looked at it carefully, and it was the same as the contract she signed for "The Great Song". She signed a single copy, and the various copyrights were clearly written in detail. Except for the increase from 1,000 words to 300 words, there was basically no change.

Jiang Xi saw that there was no problem, so he signed the contract and sent it to Wang Yong.

After Wang Yong received the contract, he could serialize "White Snake" in "Wuxia".

After the serialization of "The Great Song", there was only one issue left. In order to promote Xi Meng's new work, the magazine directly printed a big gg word on the cover, "Xi Meng's latest masterpiece! "The Years I Was a White Snake Cultivator"'.

Readers thought that "The Great Song" had been finished, but it turned out that "The Great Song" was not finished, and his new work appeared right after.

Many people have no interest in White Snake, and they read this article purely because they were attracted by the word "cultivation". Some readers read this article because they saw the word "cute", but they were attracted by the beginning.

At the beginning, the heroine found herself in a closed space, and then tried to break the shell, and found herself in an egg.

Such an opening is really something they have never seen before. How can this cute have so many wonderful ideas? Other martial arts works start with either a blood feud or encountering a peerless master, and he is turned into an egg.

This angle is so novel. In a sea of ​​martial arts novels, something different suddenly appeared, which made readers remember it immediately.

As they read on, they unknowingly read to the end, the first issue, where the little white snake was saved by the herbalist. Only then did readers realize that this was the "Legend of the White Snake" currently being broadcast on Apple TV? Is

this also a martial arts novel?

However, because there was a criminal martial arts novel written by Meng before, and the name was "Xiu Xian", they thought that the latter part was a love novel like "White Snake". Male readers were not very interested in this, but female readers liked it very much.

Unexpectedly, after the second issue was released, the little white snake, who was still an ordinary snake in the previous issue, became a demon because of the encounter with the Emperor's Plasma that appears once every sixty years.

One Emperor's Plasma can increase one's cultivation by sixty years. Many animals and plants are ignorant and passively accept this thing that falls from the sky like moonlight. However, after the Emperor's Plasma fell on it, the little white snake found that it was a good thing. It kept receiving the Emperor's Plasma all night and swallowed it actively. Then, because it swallowed too much, it fell into a deep sleep. After waking up, it found that the brothers and sisters around it could speak.

Survival in the demon world has always been cruel. After other snake demons found this weak little snake, they wanted to dominate the little white snake.

Click, the second issue was interrupted here again.

The readers who had just seen the taste were going crazy. They had tasted some of the taste from the golden fingers buried by the cute little snakes. The other little snakes only got one drop of the Emperor's Liquid, but the little white snake had been swallowing it all night. If these little snakes wanted to bully the little white snake, they would definitely be hit hard by the little white snake, right?

They would hit back hard, right?

The face-slapping plot was about to come. At the critical moment, the magazine was actually interrupted here. It was simply inhuman!

They called the magazine's editor-in-chief one after another, asking the magazine to serialize more in one issue and stop searching.

At the same time, letters like snowflakes also flew to the "Martial Arts" magazine.

The magazine was also in trouble because they had to take over "The Song Dynasty". After receiving the manuscript from Xi Meng, the magazine rushed to finish it and had no extra manuscripts. Jiang Xi also went to the store to write for 40 minutes every evening and sent it directly to Wang Yong after finishing it. After a week, there were only about 20,000 words. In order to promote "White Snake", the magazine tried to serialize as much as possible to retain readers first. They did not keep any of the manuscript sent by Xi Meng and serialized it all.

Li Ang also discovered why when other martial arts novels were serialized in their magazines, many readers chased after them and lost sight of them, and the sales of the magazines were getting lower and lower, but the readers of "Da Song" written by Xi Meng could read every issue and follow it so steadily.

It's not that their magazine company is not a good person, it's really Xi Meng who is not a good person. Xi Meng is just a dog who interrupts chapters. No matter which issue they serialize, if you go to read it, she can make it a climax chapter for you.

They discovered that the products of Xi Meng must be high-quality. Although they are completely different from traditional martial arts writing, they are still good to read.

Li Ang and his team were scolded by phone calls every day, but they were so happy that they said, "Keep pushing this article in the best position!"

After the completion of "The Great Song", Director Li and his team had already reduced the first print run of "Wu Xia". Even though "White Snake" has a steady trend of taking over "The Great Song", Director Li Ang and his team still dare not be too optimistic. The Great Song is just like the previous TV series "Xiang Shuai", it is too phenomenal, and its explosion is also due to too many coincidences.

Even if "White Snake" is also like "The Great Song", it took advantage of the popularity of "New White Snake", but this drama was a hit two years ago after all. Now Apple TV is just rehashing it, and its popularity cannot be compared with "Judge Bao" which was newly broadcast last year.

After nearly a month of searching, Public Security Wu finally found the body of the real county magistrate across provinces.

The reason why it took so much time was because the scene of the first murder was not in the local area. Even though the book used phonetic pseudonyms with local accents, he couldn't figure out which two words were translated because the characters were different. He looked for clues bit by bit. Even if he found the right place in another province, the specific burial site was written very vaguely. Just when he was about to think that he had made up too much about the case written by Xi Meng and wanted to give up, he finally got a definite clue and took his criminal investigation team members to dig out the body.

After that, they did not make it public, but secretly looked for the family of the real county magistrate and asked them to identify the body.

This case was finally solved after more than half a year, which was more than six years earlier than the world Jiang Xi originally knew.

The reason why Jiang Xi knew that this case was solved was because this case was too special. An official sent down from Beijing could actually be replaced by the murderer. He served as the county magistrate for more than half a year and no one knew about it. After the case was solved, the media reported it and Jiang Xi saw it in the news.

Wu Gongan had already been promoted to the captain because of several cases he solved before. This time he was directly promoted to the political commissar of the Public Security Bureau.

Obviously, his name was registered above. Although his current bureau is a little small, the political commissar belongs to the deputy county level, and the next promotion is the director.

Even Wu Gongan's wife did not expect that he would be able to rise to the top in his career in middle age, rising from an instructor in the criminal investigation brigade to the 'deputy county level'.

Now, everyone in their criminal investigation brigade has four physical copies of "Da Song", and the magazine "Wu Xia" in the office is piled up thickly. They did not buy them at newsstands, but subscribed to "Wu Xia" magazine for a year. Every new issue of the magazine would be sent directly to their bureau as soon as it appeared.

Now they study "The Song Dynasty" every day when they have nothing to do, hoping to find some clues from it.

Unfortunately, they studied the case later for a long time but didn't find anything. It looked like an ordinary fictional case in the martial arts world.

Political Commissar Wu also watched the latest issue of "Martial Arts" and found that "The Song Dynasty" had ended.

People from other magazines all hoped that "The Great Song" would be finished soon, but only Wu Zhengwei and his team hoped that "The Great Song" would not be finished, and that they should write more and more. No matter who the author behind it was and how he got these clues, he could remind them in this way, which was a good thing for them as criminal detectives, as well as for the deceased and their families. They didn't have time to investigate the case, so why bother to find out who the person who reminded them of the clues was?

He still had some regrets, wishing that "The Great Song" could be written forever, but he didn't expect it to be finished so soon.

Thinking of this, his eyes fell on the archives again, looking at Xiao Chen who was quietly sorting files in the archives, and then his eyes fell on the new work "The Years of White Snake Cultivation" by Meng Meng, and he read it unconsciously.

Regardless of whether it is related to the case or not, the people in their bureau have already developed the habit of watching Meng Meng's latest works every week.

Jiang Bai's second and third mock exam scores are better and better. Jiang Meng also helps him analyze which school to fill in the application form based on Jiang Bai's third mock exam scores.

For their candidates, the policy of filling in the application form before the college entrance examination has not been reformed, so after the third mock exam, he has to go to Shanghai to fill in the application form first.

This time he went to Shanghai, he stayed there until the end of the college entrance examination before returning. In order to take care of his diet, Grandpa Jiang closed the store and went with him.

Before they left, Jiang Xi reminded Jiang Bai: "Ask directly your class teacher or school teachers at Shanghai High School where there are houses to rent. It would be best if it is close to the school so that you can eat in the school cafeteria every day. If not, it would be best if the house you rent has a kitchen."

The area around the house Jiang Xi bought is still under construction and it is a mess. Not only is the environment noisy and not suitable for college entrance examination candidates to live in, but her house currently only has one apartment that has been renovated. The villa and other apartments are either not renovated yet or are still pre-sale properties. They are also far away and are not suitable for their current residence at all.

After the third year of high school, almost all the houses near No. 1 Middle School were rented out. Many parents who care about their children's grades would rent a house near the school to take care of their children's studies. Generally, the father would stay outside to work or do farm work, and the mother would come to school to accompany the children.

Some would accompany the children for the entire school year, while some would come to take care of the students in the last month.

In Jiang Bai's case, he especially needed someone to help him with his studies and solve his three meals a day diet problem.

Jiang Xi couldn't leave, and Jiang's father and mother couldn't be contacted. Grandpa Jiang's cooking was disgusting, so there was no choice but to invite Aunt Jiang to come.

But Aunt Jiang has never been out of Shuibu Town in her life. Apart from Jiangjia Village and her mother's home, she has never been to Wucheng, let alone a strange place like Shanghai. She is illiterate and cannot speak the language. She is afraid that she will get lost when she goes out to buy vegetables and will not know how to get back.

This is indeed a very realistic problem.

Aunt Jiang is really afraid.

Uncle Jiang also does not let Aunt Jiang go out, and asks Grandpa Jiang to find Aunt Jiang.

Aunt Jiang can't leave because of the business in the store every day. Although she lives under the same roof with her parents-in-law, she has a separate family and there are two children in the family who need to be taken care of.

Uncle Jiang and his three cousins ​​have currently taken on the work of building houses in Xinjie, Shuibu Town, and they can't leave until the work is finished.

In the end, there was no choice, and it was Grandpa Jiang who accompanied Jiang Bai to Shanghai.

With Grandpa Jiang around, Jiang Bai felt like a mainstay, and he might have to take care of Grandpa Jiang in return, which made him stand up unconsciously, taking Grandpa Jiang to Shanghai by bus, and then to the high school where he was enrolled.

I don't know if it was because he bought a house in Shanghai, even though the house hadn't been sold yet and he hadn't seen the property certificate, Jiang Bai still had an inexplicable sense of belonging to this city, and he was not as afraid to leave Wucheng as before.

This city is still strange, and the people are also strange, but as long as he thinks of Grandpa by his side, he will not be alone soon, and his sister, Grandpa, and Tong Jingang will all come here. He will not be alone, and he will not be confused or uneasy.

Grandpa Jiang cannot enter the school, so he waits at the gate of the school.

Jiang Bai found his class teacher and received his college entrance examination application form. According to what he had discussed with his sister before, he filled in Shanghai University of Science and Technology as the first choice. There

is basically no need to think about the first-tier schools in Shanghai. Jiang Bai has fallen behind too much in the past two years. Even with the progress this year, he has entered the top 100 in the last three mock tests, so there is no hope for the first-tier schools.

Jiang Xi asked him to try East China University of Science and Technology as his first choice, but Jiang Bo was not confident enough. He did not want to take risks like Jiang Song, and he wanted to be more stable.

Jiang Song was too confident at the beginning, and he filled in the school too well, so he did not get into the university, and he did not want to repeat the exam.

In Jiang Bo's mind, as long as he could get into the university, it would be great to have a university to study in.

This is a very common choice in this era, because of the policy of filling in the application first and then taking the college entrance examination, there are even cases in this era where the top scorer in the college entrance examination did not get into the double first-class universities, but chose a very ordinary school instead. They were all afraid that they would not perform well in the college entrance examination and would not be able to study in the university, so they wanted to be stable.

This policy certainly has both advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantage is that it leaves many students who could have entered very good schools with lifelong regrets; the advantage is that high-quality students are not concentrated in the top schools, but many less famous schools also have some very high-quality students.

Not every family has the ability to let them repeat their studies, and not everyone has the opportunity to repeat their studies.

Jiang Bai himself did not want to repeat his studies at all, and he did not have the opportunity to repeat his studies.

After a busy day, Jiang's father suddenly remembered and asked Jiang's mother when he was sleeping in bed at night: "Ailian, is Bozi going to take the college entrance examination?"

He got up at 3 o'clock every day to buy vegetables, and he had to make soup and stew rice when he came back. He could only take a nap in bed when Jiang's mother washed vegetables and prepared food. At 9:30, he had to get up to continue cooking and preparing lunch boxes for lunch. He didn't have a rest in the afternoon and went to prepare lunch boxes for dinner. He had to work until 8 or 9 o'clock every night before going home.

Day after day.

In such a busy time, he even forgot when Jiang Bo's college entrance examination was.

Jiang's mother did all the cleaning at home, and the couple went out to sell lunch boxes together. Jiang's mother was tired after a day's work, and when she heard what Jiang's father said, she said unhappily, "How would I know that?"

"Didn't you accompany Songzi to school for a while last year? When did Songzi take the college entrance examination last year?"

As for Jiang Song, Jiang's mother remembered it very clearly: "July 7th."

Jiang's father was surprised, "Then Baizi will take the college entrance examination next month!" He sat up and said, "I forgot about it because I was so busy. Why don't you go back tomorrow and come back after Baizi finishes the college entrance examination?"

Selling lunch boxes is really profitable. Although the profit is meager, there are many people coming and going at the train station every day. The dishes he cooks are delicious, and there is free bone soup. Those who are reluctant to buy water or soup will scoop a big bowl of bone soup from him after eating lunch boxes. He has good business every day and makes much more than he did when he worked on the construction site in the past.

Now he is full of thoughts about making money and going back to build a building at the end of the year. He really forgot about Jiang Bai's college entrance examination.

Jiang's mother was so sleepy that she said, "It's OK. It takes three or four days to go back by train. I have to take care of him for a month. He is not a child anymore. How can he not take care of himself when he is so old? Besides, isn't the old man here?"

Jiang's father was worried. After selling lunch boxes the next day, he called the brigade headquarters to ask Jiang's aunt.

After waiting for a while, he called back again. This time, it was Jiang's aunt who answered the phone and told him that Jiang Bai had gone to Shanghai.

Aunt Jiang kept nagging, "Baizi's college entrance exam is such a big deal, you should at least send someone back, right? You were working outside before, and when you heard Jiang Song was going to take the college entrance exam, you both stayed at home, neither of you went out to take care of Jiang Song. Now Baizi is taking the college entrance exam, you should at least send someone back, right? You are all sons, you treat them differently, be careful that Baizi will resent you in the future."

Father Jiang also felt a little guilty, "We came to Shenzhen to look for Songzi but couldn't find him, now we sell lunch boxes here, every day we have to go out to eat. I get up at dawn and go to bed at 9:00 p.m. I am so busy that I would have forgotten about it if I hadn’t suddenly remembered it. "He asked, "Why is the college entrance examination coming up now? Isn’t it still a month away?"

Aunt Jiang sighed, "Before, when Dad came back, he wanted me to go to Shanghai to take care of Baizi for a few days, but I have never been to Wucheng in my life. The farthest place I have been is my mother's home. How could I dare to go to Shanghai to take care of him?" Although her mother's home is in the neighboring county, it is in the countryside and mountains. Every time she goes back to her mother's home, she has to cross mountains and ridges.

In addition, Grandma Jiang is at home, and her eldest daughter-in-law is pregnant again. If she leaves, there will only be Grandma Jiang and a pregnant woman at home, and she is worried.

Jiang's father listened and asked Jiang's aunt in confusion: "What is Baizi doing in Shanghai?"

Jiang's aunt said: "I don't understand either. It seems that Baizi is going to Shanghai to take the college entrance examination, right?"

Jiang's father hung up the phone, and he couldn't figure out why Jiang Bai was going to Shanghai. Could it be that the college entrance examination was over and Baizi was admitted to a school in Shanghai?

But if he was admitted to a school in Shanghai, he could just go to the school to register directly, and he didn't need his sister-in-law to go to Shanghai to take care of him.

Moreover, no matter how ignorant he was, he had also taken the college entrance examination, and he had experienced Jiang Song's college entrance examination last year. At this time, the college entrance examination should not have started yet, let alone the university admission notice.

He really couldn't figure out why Jiang Bai was going to Shanghai to take the college entrance examination. Could it be that his sister-in-law heard it wrong?

This is also possible. After all, my sister-in-law is an uneducated rural woman who has never been to the city in her life. She doesn't understand these things, so it's possible that she heard it wrong.

Maybe his father asked his sister-in-law to go to Wucheng to help take care of Jiang Bai for a few days, but his sister-in-law didn't understand and heard it as Shanghai?