Chapter 158

The boy who asked the question had a conditioned reflex and thought that Ximeng was also on the stage.

Among the people who came to Beijing University for promotion, in addition to the female lead who played the White Snake, Xu Xian, Fahai, the male snake demon, and Xiaoqing all came to the scene. The readers had already matched these people with the characters in the movie, so they looked at the people they had never seen before, and asked with a smile at the stage: "I wonder who is Teacher Ximeng. I am your loyal reader. I bought all three of your books, "I am a Constable in the Song Dynasty", "I am a White Snake Cultivator", and "I am the Commander of the Jinyiwei". I brought them here today. I would like to ask Teacher Ximeng to sign them, is that okay?"

Everyone's eyes were on the stage, wanting to see which one Ximeng was.

As a result, no one on the stage stood up to admit that they were Ximeng.

Director Yu raised the microphone to his lips and continued with a smile: "Ximeng came to the scene today, but she was not on the stage." He cast his eyes on the audience seats in the entire auditorium and said with a smile: "She is sitting among you now."

The crowd was shocked and looked left and right to see who was Ximeng.

"Oh my god, you are not Ximeng, are you?" Everyone smiled and pointed at their friends.

Jiang Xi and Song Peifeng also smiled and looked at each other, and then smiled at each other.

The boy who asked the question also turned his head and looked at the huge audience seats at the back, then said loudly: "I wonder who is Teacher Qing Meng? Can you stand up and sign an autograph for me?"

Qing Meng did not answer him, but Director Yu answered the boy and said with a smile: "Teacher Qing Meng is not convenient to answer you this question, but I can answer it." He said: "Before coming to Peking University, I also called Teacher Qing Meng. After all, as you know, Teacher Qing Meng is more famous than me."

The audience laughed, and the atmosphere changed from awkwardness to relaxation.

The director continued, "I chose Peking University as the first stop of my roadshow. Besides because Teacher Meng is a student of Peking University, I also want to use Teacher Meng's popularity to help our "White Snake" crew boost the box office."

His tone was very calm, and the audience listened attentively.

"Is there a reason why Teacher Meng didn't agree?"

"No." Director Yu smiled and shook his head, "Teacher Meng told me that a teacher who doesn't show up may have a better publicity effect than a teacher who shows up. What do you think?"

The boy who asked the question didn't expect that this was the reason. He was stunned for a moment, and then quickly realized that the publicity strategy of the crew and Meng was amazing.

Indeed, a teacher who is not showing up and still maintains a sense of mystery will have a stronger presence than a teacher who shows up.

The boy who asked the question at this moment actually felt that he was worthy of being their junior at Kyoto University. His brain was quick and he understood publicity and people’s hearts.

The microphone was soon taken over by the next girl, who asked Director Yu: "Then Director Yu, can you tell us whether Xiao Meng is our junior or senior? You know, in the previous online war, a netizen said that if Xiao Meng was a girl, he would eat something unspeakable while standing upside down. I and the majority of netizens are curious and looking forward to this matter."

Director Yu is very good at keeping people in suspense and said: "Regarding this point, I think it would be better if she told you herself. "Director Yu wisely brought the topic back to the movie itself and said, "In fact, before the filming of the movie started, I strongly invited her to play an important role in the movie. Her personal image and temperament are very consistent with the temperament and image of the character in the movie. Unfortunately, she was at a critical stage in her life at that time."

Everyone knows that this critical stage should refer to the college entrance examination.

I didn't expect that Ding Meng was actually a high school student before, not an old policeman in the system. This point has been made very clear from what Director Yu said just now. He said that the script of this movie is based on the outline framework and tone provided by Ding Meng, and that Ding Meng's image and temperament are very consistent with the image of the important role in the movie.

Director Yu is very good at rhetoric. He originally just wanted to invite Ximeng to audition for White Snake, but here he said that he invited her to play the role of White Snake directly.

This was obviously for publicity purposes, and he said so deliberately.

Sure enough, this sentence immediately aroused the interest of all the audience.

Through Director Yu's words, readers and audiences learned a very important information about Ximeng: "Ximeng's image and temperament are very suitable for a very important role in the movie "White Snake", and Director Yu wants him to play this important role."

You know, the important roles in the movie, combined with Ximeng's age and identity as a freshman, the number of people who fit her role is easy to guess at once.

The female lead is White Snake, the male supporting role is Xu Xian, and Fahai's disciple Mingyue.

These three characters, whether it is the heroine, the supporting actor, or Mingyue, the cannon fodder, are simply more handsome than the other.

Not to mention the heroine, who was carefully selected from thousands of female college students.

The actor who plays the supporting actor Xu Xian is also handsome and gentle.

There is no need to say more about the cannon fodder Mingyue, that is a character that the audience wants the director to release all the images of this character so that they can lick them all.

If Ximeng can play any of these three roles, what does it mean?

If Ximeng is a woman, she is simply as beautiful as a fairy!

If Ximeng is a man, he is simply so handsome that he is inhumane!

What kind of beauty can make the director want him to play these three important roles? No matter how good-looking he is, can he be more beautiful than Mingyue?

So which role did Director Yu want Xi Meng to play?

It must be said that a director is a director, and he knows how to hook the audience and readers.

The readers and audience below were simply itching and scratching their ears and cheeks because of Director Yu's hook, but Director Yu just didn't say anything and turned to talk about the movie "White Snake". The audience below couldn't keep asking Xi Meng.

After all, today is to promote the movie "White Snake", not to promote Xi Meng.

But today's promotion effect is very good.

In addition to the film itself being well made, the movie itself is not just a popcorn movie. It has a lot of jokes and depth, and it is worthy of being adapted from "White Snake Cultivation". Unlike the previous White Snake series of movies and TV series, which focused on the relationship between the White Snake and the Green Snake, this time the focus is on the avenue. As a movie released during the Lunar New Year period, it is a good movie to watch with relatives and friends during the Chinese New Year.

A group of college students, led by students from Peking University and supplemented by some students from other schools who have infiltrated Peking University, have become fans of "White Snake Cultivation" and spontaneously wrote reviews of "White Snake Cultivation" on the Internet. In summary, there is only one conclusion, that is, it is worth watching and very good.

This made many netizens who surfed the Internet and fans of the book "White Snake Cultivation" want to go to the cinema to watch it.

However, what caused such a heated discussion on the Internet was not these film reviews, but many people who listened to the director of "White Snake" at the Peking University that day, about how he strongly invited Yu Meng to play an important role in "White Snake" but was rejected. They

also emphasized Director Yu's original words, "The temperament and image are very consistent with the temperament and image of the important role."

Then netizens speculated which role Director Yu wanted him to play, the female protagonist White Snake, Xu Xian, or "Ming Yue".

Everyone thought that Xu Xian and Ming Yue were more likely to play the roles, because the female lead is the undisputed heroine of the whole play, and the director could not have asked a high school student who had not yet entered college to play the role, and who had no acting experience at the time, to support a large-scale movie production. So after analysis, they felt that Xu Xian and Ming Yue were more likely to play the roles.

Although Xu Xian is strictly the male lead, in this movie, Xu Xian is completely the background board of the White Snake, and his presence is quite weak.

Not to mention Ming Yue, the total number of shots may be less than three minutes, and she died very cleanly at the end.

It was the super high appearance value of Xu Meng that directly boosted the popularity of the first road show of "White Snake".

In the heated discussion among netizens, there was a message reminding them: "Have you forgotten that it could be another disciple of Fahai - Qingfeng?"

Qingfeng is the actor of Tong Jingang in the movie.

Tong Jingang is a center in the school basketball team. He is strong and muscular. He has been playing basketball for many years and has dark skin. With his height, he stands behind Fahai and next to Mingyue. In addition, the big screen of the movie makes him look wider. In contrast with Mingyue and under the director's lens, the character of Qingfeng is really as majestic and huge as a black tower.

This weak voice continued to remind them: "If he doesn't look like Qingfeng, but is as good-looking as Xu Xian, Mingyue, or Xiaobai, then why doesn't Ximeng appear? Could it be... because he is too ugly and not suitable to appear?"

When everyone thought of this possibility, and then put Qingfeng's black tower-like image into context, they felt terrible!

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

"The director said that he was invited to play an important role! Emphasize: important!" Some netizens who were inspired emphasized the word "important": "Is the role of Qingfeng important?"

"Well..." The weak voice continued to refute weakly on the Internet: "Why is it not important?"

"She's just a cannon fodder who appeared for less than three minutes, how can she be important?"

Some netizens were dissatisfied: "You also included Mingyue who appeared for less than three minutes, why did you include Qingfeng who appeared for about the same time as Mingyue as cannon fodder?"

Regardless of whether you think that Xiaomeng is so handsome or so beautiful that she is the most beautiful in the world, or as some netizens think, she is so ugly that she dare not show her face, in short, the first stop of the promotion of "White Snake" was very successful and on point, and the popularity and discussion of the movie rose all of a sudden.

There are also some small voices that have been buried in these two waves of discussion, that is, "Qingfeng is just a little stronger, he is not ugly, he is not to the extent of hiding and not daring to come out to see people, right?"

However, such rational voices are destined to be buried in the two extreme voices.

There are also some netizens who, after noticing that this matter has caused such a high level of discussion on the Internet, remembered what Director Yu said, that this publicity strategy was proposed by Meng.

This has made many people believe that Meng may not really be an old policeman in the system, but a top student of Peking University.

After all, such an IQ and such a publicity strategy are really not something that an ordinary person can come up with casually.

But people who have watched "The Song Dynasty" still insist that even if Jiang Meng is not an old police officer in the system, there must be someone in her family, friends and relatives who is a police officer in the system, and this person is quite close to her relatives. If they are distant, they will not tell her so many criminal and story details.

This shrinks the image of "Jiang Meng" again.

The 1997 Peking University freshmen have relatives in the system of public security, and they are too beautiful or too tall.

All of a sudden, among the freshmen, all those whose family members are in the system, who are very beautiful or handsome, or who are too tall and strong, have received the focus of attention from seniors and freshmen.

It is much easier to accept that the handsome and beautiful people around you are cute than to suspect that the tall and strong men around you are cute. After all,

the actor who plays Qingfeng is just tall and strong, not ugly, so there is nothing to be ashamed of. Therefore, Kyoto University students generally believe that the cute man is too beautiful or too handsome.

Most of the students at Kyoto University focus on their studies, but there is a small number of students who are simply bored and want to find some cuteness. So, after counting all the handsome men and beautiful women and strong men in each department, they interviewed and checked them one by one according to their family members or relatives within the system...

especially the roommates of these handsome men and beautiful women. After all, if a person maintains a writing intensity of more than 3,000 words a day for a long time, others may not be able to see it in real life, but their roommates who live with them will definitely notice it.

There were also many handsome men and beautiful women who took the initiative to say that it was not them. In the suspicious eyes of their roommates and classmates, they insisted, "I am really not cute!"

I also want to find out who this turtle grandson is. It's so mysterious. Now everyone is suspicious of me.

Anyway, this Beijing University road show promotion was very successful.

During this road show, Director Yu found that the audience liked the role of "Ming Yue" very much, or rather, the actor who played Ming Yue. During the interview, they mentioned Ming Yue many times and asked why the actor who played Ming Yue didn't come.

The director naturally told the truth: "He is a college student, and it's also the final exam. He is preparing for the final exam."

Everyone knew that this actor was actually a college student.

Because of the audience's attention to Jiang Bo, the director also called to invite Jiang Bo to help promote the film, and of course he paid for it.

The next stop for promotion happened to be in Shanghai.

But Jiang Bo was not very interested. The winter vacation at the end of the year was the best time for his business. When he was busy, he could make three or four thousand a day. Jiang Bo was not willing to go for promotion for such a small amount of promotion fee.

But Tong Jingang wanted to go, and came to visit Jiang Bo on the weekend. Tong Jingang, who happened to hear Director Yu's call, nodded wildly at Jiang Bo and said silently: "Go, go, go!"

Jiang Bai hesitated for a moment, then nodded and agreed to help promote the roadshow. Tong Jingang helped Jiang Bai a lot. To put it bluntly, the relationship between the two was closer than that between him and his brother Jiang Song.

He said to the director, "Director Yu, I still owe a lot of foreign debts, and I have to continue working during the winter vacation. I'm afraid I can't continue with the promotion for too long."

Although Director Yu was puzzled, with the best-selling book of Qing Meng with a total sales of nearly 10 million, the royalties of several best-selling books with sales of millions of copies combined, and the film and television copyrights of several books, their family should not still owe a lot of foreign debts. But thinking of Jiang Bai's crazy part-time job during the summer vacation, he just thought that the Jiang family owed too much foreign debts and had not paid it off. No wonder Qing Meng, a high school girl, wrote more than 1.8 million words in two years to write a novel despite her tight academic schedule. It turned out that they were short of money.

Between making money and helping Tong Jin Gang, Jiang Bai reluctantly chose to help Tong Jin Gang, but he still made an agreement with him: "I must come back before the 25th of the first lunar month. My sister has a lot of loans and mortgages waiting for me to pay back."

Those days are the peak period of the year's business, and countless migrant workers will return on those days. As long as he manages the ten days at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, he can basically make 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.

Tong Jingang knew how stingy this guy was. Jiang Bai, who was so stingy, actually left a lot of money unearned. In order to let him participate in the roadshow, he actually agreed to join the publicity team and brought him, a burden, with him. Tong Jingang was so happy that he jumped on Jiang Bai's skinny back and said, "Don't worry, I will definitely help you sell well when I come back and pay our sister back!"

Good guy, he didn't even look at his own strong weight like a bear, and almost pressed Jiang Bai to the ground.

He excitedly put his arm around Jiang Bai's shoulders and said, "Come on, come on, brother will treat you to a meal!"

Jiang Bai pushed him away with disdain, "It's so expensive and it's not as clean and delicious as what I cook myself. I won't go."

He would rather cook by himself, which is clean, hygienic and cheap.

Tong Jingang knew his character, so he went to buy some roast duck from the school gate, and then used the duck bones that had been shaved clean to cook duck bone porridge.

It was the end of the year, and Jiang's father and mother, who had been busy in Shenzhen for a year, were also preparing to go back home. Because they had built a new house this year, they had not seen it yet. Jiang's father and mother were eager to see their new house, but after seeing the deserted scene when they returned home last year, Jiang's father and mother were not in a hurry to go back immediately this year. Instead, they called Jiang's aunt and asked her to help them prepare some New Year's goods. They also called Wang Ailan and asked her to help her make some rice noodles and rice cakes. She would give her money when she went back.

They also called Jiang's aunt and asked her to see if there was anything they needed to buy in the new house, and they would buy it when they returned. After that, he called Jiang Bai and asked him when he would go back. As expected, Jiang Bai had to work during the winter vacation and would not go back yet.

"Then when are you going back?" Jiang's father said, "Don't worry about the tuition. Your mother and I are still capable. We made a lot of money from selling lunch boxes this year. We can use the money to pay for your and Xiaoxiao's tuition. Tell Xiaoxiao not to stay out too late. No matter what, you have to go home for the New Year."

Jiang Bai was silent for a while. He didn't know what his sister was thinking and where she would spend the New Year, but from his own selfish point of view, he wanted to go home for the New Year. Hometown

is the root. No matter what they are doing outside, just like Jiang's father said, they have to go back for the New Year. There are ancestral tombs at home to worship their ancestors. They didn't go back last year, and they can't not go back this year. If they don't go back, they will be criticized.

As a boy, Jiang Bai was taught by his father since he was young to remember the location of every grave of his ancestors. In the future, they would inherit the responsibility of sweeping the graves of their ancestors.

This matter was passed down from generation to generation.

Jiang Song had a lively personality since he was young. When Jiang's father was teaching them, Jiang Song would go to pick the blackberries that grow in the mountains in winter, dig bamboo shoots, dig two winter jasmine seedlings to take home, or go to play with his friends. Only Jiang Bai listened carefully to what Jiang's father said every time.

So he had a sense of responsibility in his heart, a burden that he could not get rid of, and he had to take on the responsibility of offering sacrifices to his ancestors.

The same was true for Grandpa Jiang.

He is the eldest in the family. For decades, he took his younger brothers and sons to visit the ancestral graves. Last year, he did not go back. He was exhausted and all he could think about was the graves in his hometown and his old friends.

It didn't matter to him whether he lived outside or in the city, but when the Chinese New Year came, he wanted to go back. He wanted to go back to the land where he was born and raised, and to the place where he would rest a hundred years later.

He called Jiang Xi and told her that Jiang's father had provided them with tuition fees and that Jiang's father had asked them to go home for the Chinese New Year.

Jiang Xi was silent for a while before she smiled and said, "I know."

She knew she couldn't avoid it.

Last year, she was selfish and followed her heart. She reluctantly let her second brother and grandfather accompany her to Shanghai for the New Year and she did not go back. But this year, she knew that her grandfather and second brother must go back.

She must go back too.

Last year, she could still say that she was training in the training team. This year, she did not go back because she was admitted to Peking University and her life was better. Her family was willing to let them go to school. The situation of rural girls who were supported by their education would become the same as before, or even worse than before. So she not only had to go back, but also had to go back happily.

She had to return home with wealth and wealth.

After hanging up the phone, she couldn't help but smile, and she didn't think it was a big deal.

In fact, after she was admitted to a very good university in her previous life, when she went back, Jiang's mother never beat her again. Although her words were still a bit sharp, she didn't just speak to her like that. She treated every member of the Jiang family equally except Jiang Song and her mother's family. She was always sarcastic. She was suppressed by Jiang's father, and later she even said less sarcastic words, and began to cry and be gentle.

The whole village spoke to her very politely, and even when the brigade had a dinner, they would pull her to sit at the main table. Even if she did nothing but just sat there to eat, the cadres of the brigade were still polite and complimented her in their conversation.

Of course, they didn't need to please a young man. They just wanted her, the most promising girl in the village, to help their children and young people in the future.

At this moment, an idea suddenly came to her mind. In

her previous life, she was a leader in the provincial capital of her province. After the road was opened, it took no more than two hours to drive from their home to the provincial capital. It was even faster to take the high-speed rail and get to Wucheng in half an hour.

Because of the convenient transportation and the proximity, she would come back every New Year.

What if in this life, she did not go back to the provincial capital to take the exam, but stayed in Beijing to take the civil service exam?