Chapter 146146

The broadcast of "Bao San" during the winter vacation brought a wave of traffic to "Da Song". The publishing house reprinted it again and again, and Jiang Xi's wallet became fatter again and again.

Jiang Xi sometimes felt that she could live well for several years just by relying on this book.

Because of the huge profits brought to Z Province TV by her previous "Da Song", even though the film and television copyright fees are generally not high now, Jiang Xi still offered a high price of 28,000 for the film and television copyright of "White Snake".

Combined with the current salary, 28,000 is equivalent to hundreds of thousands in more than 20 years.

She remembered that around 2010, she had an author she met on the Internet, and the film and television copyright of a book was only 100,000.

After agreeing on the price, the two of them haggled over the details of the contract.

Jiang Wu's email had a ready-made contract template. She found a printing shop near the school, slightly modified the contract template, and showed it to the director.

The director did not come alone. He also brought an assistant director and an assistant with him. They also brought their own contracts, but the contracts were not as detailed as Jiang Wu's. At Jiang Wu's insistence, the director and his team finally chose to use the contract provided by Jiang Wu and signed the contract.

After everything was signed, the director strongly invited her to audition for the role of "White Snake". The "White Snake" written by Jiang Wu was very different from the White Snake and the White Snake in the movie "Green Snake". It did not have the charm of "Green Snake" and "White Snake" as women.

In the story, the little white snake is a modern person who traveled through time, so it has some human qualities of a dog. But when it comes to the part where the white snake turns into a dragon, the little white snake has more "divinity".

What the director wants is the transformation of the little white snake from human to divine.

The director feels that the author of "White Snake" fits the temperament of the little white snake. She is the author of "White Snake Cultivation", so she knows the characters and the plot better. Her age also fits the role of "little white snake" that he understands.

In "White Snake Cultivation", there is always a "little" in front of the white snake. In addition to the fact that readers have watched it grow from an egg to the dragon it is now, the white snake has cultivated for a thousand years, but the cultivation of more than 1,700 years ago was actually the essence of the moonlight of "Emperor Liuliu", not its own cultivation for a thousand years. So even if it was a big demon with a thousand years of cultivation in the early stage, in the eyes of readers, it is still a "little white snake".

It is not as mature as the White Snake, nor is

it as charming as the white snake in "Green Snake". The little white snake is cunning and simple.

In this regard, whether in terms of age or appearance, the director thinks that the little girl in front of him is very suitable.

Because the contract had been signed, the director began to try his best to express to Jiang Xi what kind of "Little White Snake" he wanted to portray. Jiang Xi nodded repeatedly and even gave the director a lot of suggestions.

After all, a movie pursues not only art, but also commercial value.

Even though Jiang Xi was a passionate writer in her previous life, her thinking was still deeply marked by "looking at interests". For example, how much actual benefit can this matter bring to the people, how much actual benefit can it bring to the government, and how much actual benefit can it bring to herself or the leaders behind her.

All aspects she considered were "interests".

Her advice to the director was to start from the commercial value and how much actual benefit can it bring.

For example, the overall tone of the movie cannot be set too rigid, too red or too professional. In the early stage, the little white snake can be ignorant, practicing and fighting in the mountains, and can be brought out with humorous and funny plots. This section can not only reflect the strength of the little white snake's martial arts, but also use short sentences and fragments to show the little white snake's personality and temperament. Then the little white snake failed to ascend, and went down the mountain to repay her gratitude.

For commercial movies, you can even create a villain for it at this time, such as a big demon who laughs at its failure to ascend and is jealous of her talent. Knowing that she is going down the mountain to repay her gratitude, he follows it all the way down the mountain and makes trouble, but every time it is the villain who suffers.

This villain can exist as a villain, a funny character, and a little partner in the early stage.

Originally, the director only had a vague idea of ​​what he wanted to shoot, but after listening to Jiang Wu, he felt that his whole idea became clear, and even the picture came out. This made him want Jiang Wu to play the "Little White Snake" even more, even if he couldn't participate in the movie, he could become a screenwriter in his writing team.

He even thought that if Jiang Wu himself were to rewrite the script, he might be able to write it very well. After all, Jiang Wu herself really understands the business rules, and she knows how to present the movie in a way that the audience likes.

Even the climax of the movie was inspired by him, when the little white snake transformed into its original form to save people, and was considered a demon by the monk and wanted to catch it. It was saving people, but the monk, as a human, didn't want to save people at this time, but only wanted to get rid of the demon.

Then the little white snake sacrificed itself to save the people in the flood. When it was beaten to death by the monk, the heaven finally gave it the most fair treatment, and the merits from heaven turned into a dragon.

Jiang Xi first set the tone for this movie, which was cheerful and funny. Even in the end, it was a sublimated and glorious plot for the whole movie, which was a slap in the face.

This part of the plot happened to correspond to the plot of the flooding of Jinshan Mountain in "The Legend of White Snake".

The same is a flood, the former is the flooding of Jinshan Mountain, causing countless people to die; the latter is also water, but it ignores the suppression of the monk, and tries its best to rescue the people and sort out the mountains and rivers.

The director wished he had a tape recorder at hand so that he could record everything Jiang Xi said to him, but he also wished he didn't have a pen at hand so that he couldn't write it all down.

Before, all of this was still in the initial stage of the director's inspiration, and he had to discuss with the screenwriter how to adapt the script in detail.

Now, after listening to Jiang Xi, he felt that the main structure of the script was almost completed.

When he finished talking to Jiang Xi, it was already dark, and he still didn't want to say enough, so he wanted to invite Jiang Xi to dinner to listen to her continue.

Jiang Xi didn't expect that the two of them would have such a pleasant conversation. There were a lot of food on this street of the school. Although school had not started yet, many snack bars had already opened early after the eighth day of the Lunar New Year.

Jiang Xi herself didn't think that she was still an underage girl and couldn't eat alone with a man at night. She took the director, assistant director and three people to a small restaurant next to her store and ordered a few dishes.

The director and his friends naturally couldn't let a little girl pay for the meal, so in the end, the meal was still paid by the director and his friends. The restaurant near the school was cheap, and the four of them only spent 20 or 30 yuan.

Before they left, they left Jiang Xi their phone number. Jiang Xi didn't have a landline now, so she gave her email to the director and asked them to send her emails. She would check it every few days.

The director was born in the 1950s. He usually doesn't go online, let alone have an email account. When he heard that Jiang Xi had given him an email account, he had to learn how to go online and apply for an email account.

At this time, because the school was about to start, Grandpa Jiang was reluctant to leave Wucheng because of the good business now. He wanted to come to Shanghai after the Qingming Festival. Anyway, Jiang Xi ordered meals for him from the small restaurant opposite, and it could be delivered to him at a fixed time every day. He was not worried that his grandchildren would not be in No. 1 Middle School and no one would deliver meals to him.

It was true that no one would get him hot water.

Jiang Xi entrusted this matter to the proprietress of a small restaurant next to Wuzhong. They were in the hotel business and had to boil a lot of hot water every day. It was not difficult for her to boil a kettle for Grandpa Jiang.

The school charged one or two grain coupons for a kettle of water. Jiang Xi gave the proprietress 20 cents for a kettle.

The proprietress did not make much money for 20 cents a kettle of water. The main thing she made was the money from the meals she delivered to Grandpa Jiang at noon and in the evening.

One or two meals was not much, but if it was delivered over a long period of time, it would be a lot of money.

Grandpa Jiang and Jiang Bai were in Wucheng during this time, and their business was booming. Jiang Bai was reluctant to leave when school started, and he went back to Shanghai with Tong Jingang to register.

Jiang's father had already deposited the tuition into his bankbook.

In this life, it might be because Jiang Bai and Jiang Qing both got into college, and Jiang Qing got in early. Jiang's father also made money outside, and he was not stingy with his two children. Jiang Bai not only had tuition, but also had 500 yuan for living expenses.

As for Jiang Xi, when he went to her store to meet her and Grandpa Jiang, he stuffed all his private money into her, 3,000 yuan, and then he stopped giving her money because he knew she had money. In addition to the 3,000 yuan he gave her, there was also her own scholarship of 5,000 yuan, and the red envelopes and gifts from relatives and friends, which added up to 500 or 600 yuan. With so much money, not to mention a school year, it was enough for her tuition and living expenses for next year.

Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang took two large bags of clothes back to Shanghai. Jiang Bai came to the store at the school gate early the next morning, preparing to decorate the new store before school started.

The director and his friends were going back the next day, and after thinking about it, he came over and invited Jiang Xi to audition.

Instead of seeing Jiang Xi, I saw a tall and thin guy who looked like a celebrity.

The guy was a little shy, but he smiled when he saw him: "The store has just opened, if you like it, give it a try."

The director looked at him in surprise.

Jiang Bai is now used to dressing himself up as the store's living signboard, and he dresses cool and handsome every day.

The director couldn't help but look him up and down and said, "I'm here to see Jiang Xi, who are you..."

After signing the contract yesterday, the director already knew Xi Meng's real name, so he called Jiang Xi's real name this time.

Jiang Bai suddenly became alert, and the shy smile on his face disappeared. He returned to the cold and alert expression he had in the past when he was in No. 1 Middle School, and asked who they were.

The director introduced himself and said that he was here to invite Jiang Xi to be a member of his writing team.

Jiang Bai also said that he was Jiang Xi's brother.

Even though he had expected this, the director still marveled at the good looks of the siblings.

He looked at Jiang Bai and was already thinking about what kind of characters to add to his movie.

He immediately thought of Zhao Wenzhuo's version of Fahai.

If this young man was asked to play the big monk who was dedicated to exorcising demons... No, he could only play the little apprentice beside the big monk at best.

Jiang Bai was unaware of the middle-aged man's stormy mind. Seeing that he was not here to buy clothes, he sorted out the clothes in the store by himself and hung them one by one on the shop pole. The director watched Jiang Bai concentrate on his work. After all the clothes were hung up, he was very considerate and took out an electric iron to iron the clothes.

Until Jiang Xi came over.

Jiang Xi was not surprised to see Jiang Bai in the store, but was surprised to see the great director.

She thought he had already left Shanghai.

Jiang Xi still refused the great director's invitation to join his screenwriting team. It was not for anything else. After finishing the work here, she and Song Peifeng would go to participate in the IMO competition.

Jiang Xi was surprised that she was selected for IMO.

But it was normal to think about it. In her previous life, she had completed four years of advanced mathematics in college. People in the Mathematical Olympiad competition class basically completed all college mathematics in advance. She had learned more than others in one lifetime, even if those experiences should have been returned when she graduated. But learning is learning, and the understanding shown is higher and the reaction is faster. Sometimes, when studying, she will have a feeling that I have seen this question before, and this feeling is not an illusion.

The director thought she was afraid of delaying her studies at school. After all, college students of this era do pay more attention to their studies. But he still didn't want to give up and said, "The crew is still in the preparation stage. They still need to attract investment and find actors to play other roles. It will probably be summer vacation before the official shooting starts. Two months is enough time to finish your scenes and it won't delay your studies at school."

Jiang Xi pointed at herself: "High school, second year of high school." She didn't say that she had been admitted to a university in advance.

After hearing what she said, the director gave up with regret and hurried back to Beijing.

They have to polish the script first.

Everything was done here, and Jiang Xi also called Wang Yong's uncle and told him that his clothes and shoes would be shipped to the new address in the future.

At the same time, I also called Wang Yong to tell him

that the "White Snake Cultivation" which had been serialized for such a long time was about to end. When Jiang Xi wrote about the white snake turning into a dragon, Wang Yong had already anticipated this after reading the manuscript. Now there are still some manuscripts of "White Snake", but Jiang Xi has no new manuscripts yet.

Jiang Xi has been writing for a year and a half without a break. Even though "White Snake Cultivation" is a holiday article and it is not very brain-intensive to write, the long-term high-intensity coding and learning still makes her feel very tired, especially since she may have to attend closed-door management training again and have no time to write, so she does not plan to start writing for the time being and wants to rest for a while.

If there is a new topic she wants to write about in the future, she will tell him.

In fact, Jiang Xi already had an idea of ​​the next article in her mind. She wanted to write a piece about officialdom.

After more than 20 years, officialdom is not easy to write. There are many excellent officialdom articles, all of which have been harmonized by the Internet.

But in this era, it is a relatively open era. Except for the "cult" that is promoted in the news every day, officialdom articles can be written and published.

Of course, as a senior official, Jiang Xi did not intend to write about darkness. She wanted to write about the leader of her previous life, describing how a female cadre from a second-generation official family, after being demoted to the grassroots, developed the economy step by step, fought wits and courage with officials, fought wits and courage with foreign companies, grasped economic construction, used the power of the government to protect state-owned brands, prevented the already strong state-owned brands in the country from being swallowed up by foreign companies, supported domestic car companies, and finally climbed up step by step.

This story can only be written in this era, and it will not be written in a few years.

Jiang Xi was also thinking, through this story, can she give some lessons for the current economic development, the wrong paths that future generations have taken, and the bloody lessons they have experienced? If she writes these out in advance, can some people see them and avoid some problems, or even give some people some inspiration.

But such a modern officialdom article is not suitable for serialization in "Wuxia".

The core positioning of the "Wuxia" magazine is "martial arts".

"The Great Song" has the elements of the rivers and lakes, and "White Snake Cultivation" is also a fighting and killing type. These two articles can barely be related to "martial arts", but the new article she conceived really has no martial arts elements at all, and is a pure officialdom upgrade flow.

She has to find a suitable serial publication again.

This is not an easy task.

This article, like "White Snake Cultivation", is not a very brain-intensive article for her to write. After all, many of it are things she experienced in her previous life as a leader, some are her own experiences, and many are related to national policies, as well as the government's cooperation with enterprises to compete with foreign enterprises, using national policies to make early arrangements, helping local enterprises to defeat foreign enterprises in battles, and at the same time, various measures are taken to adapt to local conditions and carry out economic construction.

Jiang Xi may really be very talented in writing. Her inspiration rarely dries up. As soon as her brain turns, various inspirations come like a tide, endlessly.

She is so creative that she wishes she had a computer at hand so that she can write out the general framework of the story she has conceived.

After all these arrangements were made, Jiang Wu did not return to Wucheng, so he called Song Peifeng and told him that he would not return to Wucheng, and would fly from Shanghai to Beijing by himself.

There were no planes in Wucheng, so after Song Peifeng received Jiang Wu's call, he took a bus from Wucheng to the provincial capital, and then took a plane from the provincial capital to Beijing. Jiang

Wu had not been to Beijing many times in his previous life, but he had followed the leader to meet the leader's father, a vice-state-level leader, several times.

Jiang Wu's impression of Beijing still remained in the modern international metropolis that was almost built to the seventh ring in his previous life, with all kinds of high-rise buildings standing in the outer ring and the world's largest airport.

But the overall color tone of Beijing today is somewhat like the taxis at this time, with red and yellow tones. Even the warm sunlight seems to have given the city a layer of slow-paced tones.

Taxis at this time have already started at ten yuan, and one yuan per kilometer, which is really not cheap.

Jiang Xi went to ask about the bus fare. If the distance is short, of course it is cheaper to take the bus, but if the distance is far, Jiang Xi calculated that it would be better to take a taxi, and she was carrying a large backpack, so she took a taxi. Sitting in the taxi, she opened the window and looked out the window. There were

some pictorials on the road that commemorated great men some time ago. The whole city was not excited because of the beginning of spring. Instead, because of the death of a great man, the overall tone was silent and sad.

Even the young couple pushing a tricycle selling tea eggs on the roadside looked a little heavy, with no smiles on their faces.

Wucheng might be far away. In her previous life, Jiang Qi was still living in fear, weighed down by the heavy life every day, as if there was no end in sight. She was worried about the tuition fees and the few rice bowls. When she knew about this, her feelings were not as deep as they are now.

She was also infected by the atmosphere of mourning for the great man, and her whole mind calmed down, silently looking at the current capital.

When the taxi arrived at a place, she looked up and saw a large plaque hanging high up. Above the plaque were five shining red stars. Below the red stars were written [Chinese Government - Resuming the Exercise of Sovereignty over Hong Kong - Countdown - July 1, 1997]. Below were three large boxes with electronic numbers in the boxes, indicating how many days were left.

Seeing this, you really felt that you were in 1997.

1997 was the beginning of China's rapid economic development and a period of change in the real estate industry. Jiang Xi came to Beijing and would study and live here for a long time in the future. He happened to have some money in his hand, so he thought about whether he could buy a suite in Beijing.

Even though Jiang Xi had expected it, he still didn't expect that the housing prices in Beijing in 1997 were already ridiculously high.

Fortunately, she didn't plan to buy within the third ring road, but she could consider the third and fourth ring roads