Chapter 145 Red Envelopes in This Chapter
The time officially entered 1997.
Since the beginning of the new semester, Jiang Xi seldom went to school, and usually typed in the store.
Manager Qian called her and said that a batch of shops in the apartment complex were released, and asked her if she wanted to buy them. Jiang Xi of course wanted to buy them, and bought two more shops. She also went to the newly built community behind Jiangbai School and bought a suite.
She remembered that she had seen an interview with a host in her previous life. Because of her high income, this host bought herself a suite every month to reward herself from 1997 to the millennium. So in a few years, she bought more than 70 suites in Beijing, retired early after completing her prime years, and lived a wonderful life of working when she wanted to, and not working when she didn't want to.
Jiang Xi cannot buy a house every month, but he can still buy several houses a year.
In particular, there is a bargain like Hudong in Shanghai, but there is no such bargain in Beijing.
The busiest street in front of Jiang Bai School Gate, although there are no storefronts to be found, it is not a problem to rent. There are many small vendors here. They rarely rent shops, but set up small stalls on both sides of the road, forming a night market, which is very prosperous and busy at night.
It was the beginning of spring, and a storefront was available. Jiang Xi signed a three-year contract, paid the rent, and sold Jiang Ye Ye to the street. On the first day, the students who came to register for Shanghai University of Science and Technology heard the echoes of "Jiangnan Garment Factory, Jiangnan Garment Factory..." on the street
, and walked into Jiang Xi's store with curiosity.
The early inventory of Uncle Wang Yong's factory had long been digested by Jiang Xi's store in Wucheng. The clothes sold in Jiang Xi's store are all new models this year. Although they are left over from the orders from Guangzhou manufacturers, they are also new models. They don't feel tacky at all when they are sold in Shanghai, but they are very fashionable.
These college students who just arrived for the Chinese New Year have the most money in their hands. Some of them came from less affluent areas and don’t have two good clothes on them. Seeing that the clothes sold in this store are so cheap and the quality is much better than those in the night market, they can’t help but walk into this store. You buy one, and I buy one.
Since learning that Jiang Meng had entered winter camp and had no time to write, Wang Yong, who had already accumulated a large number of manuscripts, reduced the number of words he published each week, from more than 20,000 words per week to just over 10,000 words. This made readers who were used to eating their fill growl hungry and called "Wu Xia" to ask "Wu Xia" to serialize more content. As a result, they learned from "Wu Xia" that Meng Meng was very busy recently and had no time to write.
Readers began to guess what Meng Meng was busy with.
"Maybe he was busy with a case?" Now people generally think that Meng Meng's profession is a criminal police within the system.
Although the language of "White Snake Cultivation" is more humorous than "The Song Dynasty", the thinking mode of the little white snake is definitely not something that a young person can write. The image of the old sinister character cannot be written without working in the system for more than ten or twenty years. When
young people write protagonists, they all think of traveling the world with a sword. How can the protagonist in Meng Meng's writing be as sinister as this one
? Now, the little white snake has completely refined the emperor's fluid, passed the transformation disaster, and become a fairy-like girl who does not look like a demon cultivator, but like a fairy.
The map has also changed from the Ten Thousand Mountains to the world of cultivation.
But even though she became a fairy-like girl, she was still an old sly woman, who knew the essence of playing the pig to eat the tiger and making a fortune in silence. All those who came to rob her of her wealth and sex became her supplies in the end. She cultivated in the world of cultivation for another thousand years, and cultivated to the late stage of transformation. When she was about to ascend, she suddenly felt that she still had a cause and effect to repay. She counted with her fingers and found that she was still a mortal snake stage, and was almost eaten by the enemy. When she was injured, she was saved by a herbalist, and she needed to repay her gratitude in the human world.
Here it comes! The plot of "New White Snake" is here.
Just when everyone thought that they were about to see the White Snake, the little white snake went straight to the human world, took in a big black fish from the West Lake as his younger brother, and went to make money in an upright manner.
After making money, didn't Xu Xian want to open a pharmacy? Open!
Didn't Xu Xian want to study medicine? Arrange!
Xu Xian wanted to marry a wife? Let him marry!
A trip to the mortal world is only a hundred years for mortals. During the hundred years, there was a plague. The little white snake found magical herbs to eliminate the plague for the human world. A flood came, and the human world was flooded everywhere, and it was extremely desperate.
The little white snake and the big black fish transformed into their original bodies, kept saving people in the water, sent them to the top of the mountain, and then continued to save people.
At first, humans were extremely scared and thought they were going to die in the snake's mouth, but who knew that they were saved by the white snake.
I don't know who it was, but the first person to shout out, "It's Bailong!"
when the word "Bailong" came out, the little white snake felt itchy on both sides of her forehead. She rubbed it on the reef, scratched it, and touched it with her tail. It seemed that two big lumps had bulged out. The little white snake thought that she had accidentally bumped into something while saving people. Although her flesh and blood had long been trained into steel bones, there was no other explanation except this.
After the lump on her head, she inexplicably awakened her first natural supernatural power, which was related to water. A flash of inspiration came to her mind, and she went to sort out the water veins of the world and eliminate the flood.
After combing the water veins for 9981 days, she finally succeeded in combing the water veins that caused the flood. When the golden light of merit descended, the two small bumps on the little white snake's head suddenly slopped out and became two forked horns. At the same time, she also awakened her second magical power, which was to make clouds and rain.
So, during the hundred years when the little white snake guarded Xu Xian, she was also guarding the millions of people in the world. When there was a lot of water, she combed the water veins, and when there was drought, she made clouds and rain.
Her figure moved between the clouds, using magic and natural magical powers to gather water from places with a lot of rain to areas with drought and no rain. Once, someone saw her figure in the air making clouds and rain, and called the dragon three times.
Maybe it was because she had accumulated enough merits, but after being called the Dragon God three times by the people on earth, the two small forked horns on her forehead suddenly stretched out like deer horns, and at the same time, both sides of her abdomen began to itch, as if something was about to grow out.
The people on earth built a "Dragon God Temple" for her, and called her "Dragon God".
On the day the temple was completed, the little white snake... no, it should be called the little white dragon at this time, the four dragon claws on her body finally grew out, and she turned into a dragon.
The little white dragon protected Xu Xian for hundreds of years, keeping him safe and happy, and also protected the weather and rain for the human world for a hundred years. When Xu Xian passed away suddenly, a dragon's roar resounded through the sky, and she felt her neck loosen, and the thunder tribulation of ascension finally came.
Click!
The latest issue is gone again.
Readers follow the cute rhythm and get excited, especially when they see the white snake transform into a dragon, the excitement and excitement are as if they are possessed by the little white snake along with the cute words, following it step by step, from a mortal snake without any cultivation, who can only live cautiously every day, to a little snake demon who dares not to wander outside even though he has swallowed countless emperors' fluids, and can only hide in the cave at the bottom of the cliff, silently practicing hard, and now, when the wind and clouds turn into a dragon!
They originally thought that the little white snake was going to go to the human world to find Xu Xian to pledge her love, fall in love, have children, and was suppressed under the Leifeng Pagoda.
To be honest, thinking of such a plot, those who followed the little white snake to fight monsters and upgrade all the way, and were happy all the way from beginning to end, never felt aggrieved. As long as they thought that such a powerful snake would go to the human world to give birth to a man, and was coaxed by Xu Xian to drink realgar wine, reveal its true form, and was suppressed by Fahai under the Leifeng Pagoda, being tortured day and night, the readers felt unbearable.
Their snake sister, let alone a mere mortal man in the human world, there are handsome men in the world of cultivation waiting for our snake sister to choose. The snake sister doesn't like them, but if the snake sister likes them, let me do it!
And what about realgar wine? Our snake sister has seen all kinds of immortal poisons in the world of cultivation. How can she not recognize a mere realgar wine? Do you think our snake sister's brain was eaten by Xu Xian?
And what about Fahai? Our Snake Sister gave him one hand and one foot, could she beat him a hundred times?
They never thought that following the little white snake to the mortal world to repay her gratitude was not only a way to repay her gratitude, but also a way to cultivate immortality. The little white snake not only did not flood Jinshan, but when the flood came, she turned into a dragon and then into a dragon.
Although the latest issue ends here, readers can still enjoy it.
It's so cool!
After the fun, they suddenly realized, huh? Isn't the article "White Snake Cultivation" a prequel to "The Legend of the New White Snake"?
What about pledge of love? What about flooding Jinshan? What about suppressing Leifeng Pagoda?
After watching "White Snake's Journey to Immortality", I watched "The Legend of the New White Snake". It's the same white snake, the same strong heart of Taoism, and the same determination to become an immortal. But with so many ways to repay gratitude, why did White Snake choose to pledge her love to a mortal man? And give birth to a child? And was imprisoned under Leifeng Pagoda?
This made the audience who watched "White Snake" two years ago and followed it with relish suddenly unable to look directly at the way White Snake repays gratitude.
However, some people also said on the Internet that the way White Snake repays gratitude is to choose to come to the human world to overcome the emotional tribulation and to temper her state of mind.
Didn't "White Snake's Journey to Immortality" say that? If you want to ascend to heaven, you must not only look at your physique, but also your understanding, heart of Taoism, and a perfect state of mind.
White Snake is good in everything, but she spent the previous thousand years cultivating in the mountains. The environment was too simple. She fought with demon cultivators all the time. She had the ability to fight, but she lacked the tempering of her mind. That’s why the Bodhisattva asked her to come to the human world to repay her gratitude. All the sufferings she experienced were actually to temper her mind and make her mind happy.
“Look, she ascended to heaven in the end?”
The two white snakes, different ways of repaying gratitude, and the stories of repaying gratitude, all of a sudden caused heated discussions on the Internet.
Some netizens like the way White Snake repays gratitude, after all, she had a sweet love affair with Xu Xian. There are both men and women in this movie. Some male viewers even said that if a woman does not get married, her life is incomplete. White Snake’s life is complete after this experience.
This passage was criticized by a large number of readers of "White Snake's Cultivation" in the forum. These readers were both male and female, and some female readers were even more harsh than male readers. They directly cursed in the BBS forum for the view that "women are complete only after marriage and childbirth.
" "Little White Snake is a snake, there is reproductive isolation, and there is no such thing as pregnancy. Little White Snake's goal has always been to ascend to heaven and become an immortal!" followed by a bunch of dirty words that cannot be written. In
1997, closed places were still very closed, and open places were more open than you could imagine. Many excellent women had already awakened to their female consciousness and had many thoughts about life and life. Their thoughts were advanced and avant-garde, and they were no longer limited to "female" itself.
So they particularly like the part where the little white snake repays her gratitude and turns
into a dragon. It's like turning on a switch in their mindset and giving them a different perspective.
Yes, the little white snake can turn into a dragon.
The little white snake didn't fall in love or have children, but she turned into a dragon!
They both repay their gratitude, but Lady White gives herself to him to overcome the emotional tribulation; the little white dragon protects the people of the world and turns into a dragon.
The introduction of this new plot directly makes the article "White Snake Cultivation" a god in the hearts of countless readers.
What surprised Jiang Qi was that a film and television company actually came to buy the film and television copyright of "White Snake Cultivation", reportedly wanting to adapt it into a movie.
In 1992, "The Legend of the New White Snake" was released, and in 1993, "Green Snake" was released. These two films, whether TV series or movies, have reached the pinnacle. It is difficult to write a better story than "White Snake" and "Green Snake" on the subject of "White Snake". I didn't expect that someone would come to buy the film and television rights of "White Snake".
Jiang Qi has been staying in Shanghai to buy a shop and a house. Currently, only Grandpa Jiang is on Wucheng's landline. When everything is done here, he will call Grandpa Jiang over. The business in the shop is good during this period, and Grandpa Jiang is not willing to leave Wucheng for Shanghai, where he is unfamiliar with the place.
He is now familiar with the neighbors. Whoever sees him greets him and calls him: "Old Daddy".
This is all because Jiang Xi is now famous in Wucheng. His store is doing well, so he doesn't have to worry about his granddaughter's mortgage.
Jiang Xi asked him to go to her big villa in Shanghai, hoping to use the warm floor heating to relieve the pain in his legs from the cold winter, but Grandpa Jiang was unwilling to go.
He was afraid that one day, his granddaughter would not be able to pay back the loan, and the house would become someone else's.
So from the bottom of his heart, Grandpa Jiang had no sense of belonging to the villa and the house in Shanghai, thinking that they could become someone else's at any time. In order to prevent his granddaughter from wasting so much money, he could only work hard to sell clothes. Every more piece he sold gave him a greater sense of security.
He also wondered why his granddaughter had to take out a loan to buy a house in Shanghai when she was going to Beijing to study at university.
Wang Yong and Grandpa Jiang did not speak the same language, so they could only contact Jiang Yu through email.
The Internet cafe environment in Shanghai was much better than that in Wucheng. After the crackdown, Internet cafes are now a normal place to surf the Internet. Although there are still many people smoking, it is not as chaotic as before.
Jiang Yu saw his new email when he finished typing and sent him an email. When he opened it, he found that someone wanted to buy the copyright. After leaving the Internet cafe, he called Wang Yong.
He gave Wang Yong the newly rented address and said to Wang Yong: "I don't have a landline now, so I can only be contacted through email. If anyone really wants to buy it, just come find me here."
Wang Yong dutifully sent the new address given to him by Jiang Wei to the film and television companies that wanted to buy the copyright of "White Snake".
The director himself was the one who had his eyes on the film and television copyright of this work. The director was in Beijing. When he knew she was in Shanghai, he did not take the slow green train, but took a plane directly to Shanghai, and then took a taxi to Jiang Qi's newly rented shop in front of Shanghai University of Science and Technology.
The decoration of the shop was still done by Qian Jing.
The decoration was also very simple, mainly just painting the walls white, laying white floor tiles, and installing a few iron racks.
Because the things had not been moved in yet, the inside was empty, and she was the only
one there. Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang were still selling clothes in Wucheng, and Jiang Ye's shop was simply too busy for him alone.
When they saw Jiang Xi, they were also surprised. They looked at the address in their hands, and then looked at the house number on the wall. After confirming that it was here, they asked her: "Excuse me, is Xi Meng here?"
Then they heard the voice of this girl, who was at most 16 or 17 years old, as clear and transparent as jade: "I am."
When they wanted to buy the film and television copyright of this work, they asked about the author of "White Snake" and learned that her previous work was adapted into the second and third parts of "Judge Bao". They also bought the physical book of "Song Dynasty" and naturally saw the debate about her gender on the Internet. The more unified and authoritative statement on the Internet is that she is a public security officer in the system in her thirties or forties.
Before they met her, they also thought so. They didn't expect that she was so young.
Jiang Xi has now grown to 1.65 meters tall. Maybe because she grew so fast, even though she ate a lot every meal, she didn't gain weight. All the nutrients went to her head, making her look thin and tall. Because they were talking about work, she didn't smile as friendly as she usually did when facing her classmates. The moment she looked up at them, her temperament was cold and sharp.
The person who came to discuss the film and television rights was the big director who had set his eyes on the film and television rights of this story. When he entered the door and saw the little girl's profile for the first time, he just thought that the little girl had a perfect profile. When she turned her head and looked at him, the director thought, isn't this the little white snake he was looking for?
This is exactly the little white snake in the book, and it has entered reality.
The more the director watched Jiang Xi, the more he liked her.
As expected of the author of "White Snake Cultivation", he was very suspicious. Did she write the image of the little white snake based on herself?
The director thought so and asked so.
Jiang Xi answered him: "I wrote it according to my understanding of White Snake."
She felt that no matter whether it was a snake or a snake demon like White Snake who was devoted to Taoism, her way of repaying a favor would definitely not be to pledge her body and have a love affair.
So, the moment she saw Grandpa Jiang watching "New White Snake", such an inspiration suddenly flashed in her mind.
At this time, whether it was the director or the actor, their status had not been raised as high as it was after the millennium. When facing Jiang Xi, the big director was not very arrogant. He just talked about what kind of movie he wanted to make, just like an ordinary person who came to discuss work.
He took out the latest issues of "Wu Xia", which were serialized in the episodes of the White Snake turning into a dragon.
He felt that he was tired of watching the love story between the White Snake and Xu Xian, or the episode between the Green Snake and Fahai. When he saw the content of these issues, he suddenly had an inspiration in his mind. He wanted to use the IP of "White Snake", which is still popular, to make a completely different "Legend of the White Snake".
He told her his ideas for the movie. The reason why he said it in such detail was actually that he wanted Jiang Xi to play the role of the White Snake herself.
Jiang Wu, in both appearance and temperament, was exactly like the White Snake he imagined. Jiang
Wu was also very photogenic, a typical beauty with good bones and skin.
Because the meeting place was the street connected to the back door of Shanghai University of Science and Technology, the director thought Wu Meng was a student of Shanghai University of Science and Technology.
Jiang Wu listened to the director's long talk about his ideas for the movie, but Jiang Wu didn't really care about it. He just asked him, "Name a price."
The director choked, wondering if Jiang Wu didn't understand what he wanted to say.
Of course he knew that the second part of "Justice Bao", adapted from the cute "Song Dynasty", had a high rating of more than 50% last year, which can be said to be a big hit. The third part was broadcast during the winter vacation this year. Although the ratings were not as good as the first and second parts, it still had a rating of more than 30%.
With two such high-rated dramas in front, the film and television copyright fees of "White Snake Xiuxian" could not be low.
Like last year, 8,000 yuan was sold to Z Province TV Station, making Z Province TV Station earn a lot of money, but she didn't even get to drink soup, at most she drank a bowl of boiled water. With such a return rate, who wouldn't be jealous? Not jealous?
In particular, since the Z Province TV station's self-produced drama "Bao Er" monopolized all the ratings after "The Legend of Xiang Shuai" last year, other TV stations have seen the benefits of self-produced dramas. This year, countless good self-produced dramas have emerged. The more famous ones, such as "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo", "Water Margin", "The Secret History of Xiaozhuang", "The Yongzheng Dynasty", "A Generation of Prime Ministers", etc., are all enduring classics.
"Bao San" can still carve out a bloody path among so many excellent TV series. In addition to the fact that the Z Provincial TV station seized the traffic of "Bao Qingtian" and tried hard to pull it out, the story and story structure of the book "Da Song" itself are exciting enough. Otherwise, it would not have been able to maintain such a high ratings under the siege of so many popular dramas this year. This itself shows that the story of "Da Song" is strong enough.
Jiang Xi listened to him talking a lot of nonsense, but he didn't quote a price. She thought he wanted to make a big deal and use her copyright for free. After listening to him talk so much, she was a little impatient.
Seeing that there was no excitement on her face, only impatience, the director quickly said the price.
When Jiang Xi heard the price, she stopped and the smile returned to her face.