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Jiangjia Village has a very bad habit. During the Spring Festival, people who come back from work outside like to gather together to gamble. Families with children are influenced by this environment and pass it down from generation to generation. It is like a tradition. Children who were originally good will naturally become gamblers when they grow up in this environment.

The second and third wives are slightly better, but the first and fourth wives love gambling very much.

Jiang Wu grew up watching these people and hated gambling. However, because he was surrounded by such an environment and the popular movies like "God of Gamblers", he also brought back dice, saying that he wanted to practice "One Pillar Supporting the Sky", which means stacking the five dice in the cup together, with the top dot being one.

Whoever can shake out "One Pillar Supporting the Sky" or five sixes or five severals will be the most handsome boy in the village.

In order to be the most handsome boy in the village, Jiang Song practiced at home for fun, shaking the dice. Other boys shook the dice for gambling, but he just wanted to show off in front of his friends. His two younger brothers and sisters, Jiang Bo and Jiang Xi, also shook the dice curiously under the influence of Jiang Song, just to shake out "a pillar supporting the sky".

Jiang Bo was just targeting Jiang Song for his strange desire to win. Seeing Jiang Song practicing shaking the dice every day, he also practiced secretly in private, thinking that if he could shake out what his elder brother couldn't, he would be better than Jiang Song.

Jiang Xi saw his elder and second brothers shaking the dice all day long. The children were curious and had a strange desire to win or lose, so the three siblings would shake the dice when they had nothing to do at home.

The dice in the old shop at the entrance of the village and the dice in the mahjong box at home became the "toys" that the three siblings secretly competed with.

So, the three Jiang siblings, Jiang Song wanted to show off in front of the children in the village, Jiang Bo wanted to beat Jiang Song, and Jiang Xi wanted to beat his two brothers. He also thought it was fun, so he would shake the dice in various ways after school.

He also imitated the way in the movies and shook the dice in various ways. Whoever had the more fancy and beautiful movements seemed to win.

This made them develop a habit, that is, the first thing they did when they got the dice was not to gamble, but to show off their skills, using tea cups, bamboo tubes, vinegar dishes, and various tube-shaped objects to shake "a pillar to support the sky", sometimes forming muscle memory.

Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai smiled at each other. There were about seven or eight people at the table. They took the plastic bucket and five dice each brought by the waiter and stuffed them into the black plastic tube.

Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai hadn't played dice for a long time. The first thing they did was to use the plastic bucket with dice to their ears and shake the dice in the tube to feel the sound of them hitting in the plastic bucket.

The music in the KTV box was very loud, and the singing of the female lead and Director Yu covered the sound of the dice shaking in the plastic bucket, so it didn't sound very real.

After Jiang Xi got the dice, she shook it casually and put it on the coffee table. As if she had muscle memory, she shook it a few times on the table and felt that the dice in the plastic tube had been stacked together.

But this was meaningless, because in this game, the dice had to be shaken again after stacking. It was useless to shake them all the way.

Jiang Xi tried to find the feel again. Because the music was too loud, she tried several times but failed to shake out a leopard with five identical points. However, she shook out four dice plus one, or three identical points plus two identical points several times.

She had played this game before, but Jiang Bai had not. After getting the dice, he shook it first, listened to the sound coming from the shaker, and then, as if he had set up a barrier from the people around him, he focused on his own world, shaking the dice carefully, just to stack them into a pile.

Tong Jingang knew about his brother's skill, and he sat between Jiang Bai and Jiang Xi, watching his brother immersed in shaking the dice with a smile on his face.

At this time, the waiter had already brought all kinds of beer, red wine, and foreign liquor into the private room, and asked the investor surnamed Wang: "Mr. Wang, are you all open?"

The investor called Mr. Wang waved his hand excitedly: "Open them all!"

He first poured a full glass of red wine for Jiang Xiao, and then filled glasses of beer for Tong Jingang, Jiang Bai, the screenwriter, Xu Xian, Fahai and other actors, as well as another investor. Finally, it was his turn. He happened to be sitting next to Jiang Xiao, and said proudly: "Let's make it clear first, the loser "Teacher Ximeng has a drink." Then he said to Jiang Xi, "Teacher Ximeng lost. If she doesn't know how to drink, I can drink for her."

Jiang Xi smiled and said, "Isn't that right? I'll have a glass of red wine, and you guys will have a glass of beer?"

The investor surnamed Wang said, "How about this, Teacher Ximeng, you drink a glass of red wine, and we'll have a bottle of beer, how about that?"

The beer was not the 650ml large bottle commonly seen on the market, but a 350ml small bottle. However, even such a small bottle is not a small amount after one bottle.

Jiang Xi nodded with a smile and said, "Okay." He then said to Jiang Bai, "Second brother, Brother Jin Gang, if I lose, I'll ask you to help me drink."

Tong Jin Gang knew that Jiang Bai had a huge capacity for drinking, but he didn't know that the Jiang family members were all huge drinkers who could drink a thousand cups without getting drunk. Jiang Xi and his friends grew up in a jar of rice wine brewed by their family. When they were young, they were ignorant and Jiang Song was very naughty, so they followed Jiang Song and drank rice wine as if it were water when they were thirsty. They patted their chests when they heard this. "Don't worry, sister, leave the drinking to us!"

Investor Wang wanted to cooperate with Jiang Xi, so he didn't dare to offend her. Looking at Tong Jingang and Jiang Bai, he felt that these two country bumpkins were not threatening at all, and didn't take them seriously at all. He looked at another young investor, wanting to let these newcomers who haven't graduated from school know what the rivers and lakes are like.

They didn't mean any harm, they just wanted to have a good time today and drink happily. For Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang, they just wanted them to drink.

They tried to play a round first, and after everyone basically understood the rules, they started to play officially.

Investor Wang started counting.

At the beginning, he didn't count too high, and he called out three twos.

The number reported by the person behind can only be higher than the number reported by the previous person, and cannot be lower than the number reported by the previous person. Xu Xian conservatively called out three threes.

Fahai and the screenwriter were also very conservative and did not dare to exaggerate. They only added a small number to the previous number. But when it was the turn of another investor, this investor and the investor surnamed Wang looked at each other and smiled, and directly opened the dice to four, stretched out four fingers and shook them: "Four twos!"

Next came Jiang Bai, Tong Jingang, and Jiang Xi.

They had two choices, open him, or report the number, and the number reported could only be higher than four twos.

Jiang Bai shouted very calmly, "Four threes."

This was already a very large number. Usually, if you brag to four digits, people would come to reveal your cards. But no one came to reveal Jiang Bai's cards. Even when it came to Tong Jingang, still no one revealed his cards, until Jiang Liu reported four fives.

After hearing her count, the two investors smiled triumphantly, pointed at Jiang Xi's plastic tube, and shouted excitedly: "Open!"

There were eight people present, seven of them were men, and Jiang Xi was the only girl. Who else should they open if not Jiang Xi's? What's the point of opening Tong Jin Gang, Jiang Bai, and the others'?

Jiang Xi's bottom card was opened, but she didn't mind. Instead, she asked them with a smile: "Do you want to open together?"

Both of them didn't believe that Jiang Xi's bottom card was four digits, because if it reached a four-digit bottom card, as long as they didn't encounter a five-digit leopard, they would be able to win steadily. This is also the reason why they dared to open Jiang Xi's bottom card.

They didn't believe that Jiang Xi's bottom card could be bigger than four fives.

Then they excitedly turned over Jiang Xi's bottom card.

Four sixes.

Two investors each got a bottle of beer.

After two rounds, Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang had basically gotten used to the rules. In the first three rounds, it was basically the two investors who were attacking, while Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai were passively defending. In the fourth round, Jiang Bai glanced at Jiang Xi, and Jiang Xi smiled back at him. Then it was not the two investors who were playing tricks on Jiang Xi, but Jiang Bai, who had mastered the rules, who started to fight back, constantly playing back their cards, and hitting the target accurately every time.

Every time he hit the target, Tong Jingang would smile and smooth things over: "Good luck, good luck, my brother has been lucky since he was a child!"

After a few rounds, the others didn't even get a sip of the beer, and all the beer went into the investors' stomachs.

After drinking for a while, the two of them became dissatisfied and shouted, "Beer is not enough, let's go for the red one!"

Because the rules of the game are that the loser in the previous round reports the number first, so every time the investor surnamed Wang reports the number first.

The two investors are usually estimated to be old players. They are drunk and play hard. After playing, they don't care about anything and just start with a big number. They dare to brag about any number, such as three fives, three sixes, and four twos. They play in a suicidal way, just to make Jiang Bo and Jiang Xi drink.

Either you make them laugh, or you report your number. If you report a big number, you will be laughed at, and if you brag too much, you have to drink.

Xu Xian, Fahai and the other two were sandwiched in the middle, watching them happily as if they were in a fight with Jiang Bai and Jiang Qiang. They were not afraid of making trouble and were stirring up trouble in the middle, asking their next investor to either fire him or report a bigger number.

It was really weird. He occasionally raised four or even five digits, pretending to be hesitant and dodging his eyes, and all kinds of drama to make Jiang Bai think that he was exaggerating a small number into a big number. Because Jiang Bai or Jiang Qiang came to fire him, the brothers and sisters would not fire him and continued to report a bigger number.

Then it was his turn to be entangled. Should he open it or not? If

he opened it, he would lose, and if he didn't open it, his brother would lose.

At the end of the game, Director Yu, the female lead, and the girl who played the role of Xiaoqing all joined in and watched from the side. They watched Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai, the two siblings, killing everyone on the game table. But every time, Tong Jingang would say with a smile: "Good luck, good luck, my brother is lucky, and my sister has been lucky since she was a child."

But they were all extremely superstitious. Once or twice, they thought Tong Jingang was humble, but when they won every time from the beginning to the end, the three investors, including Director Yu, couldn't help but have some strange feelings towards Jiang Bai and his sister.

These two were either masters of playing dice, masters of arithmetic, or really unlucky.

For those who make movies and invest, luck is an indispensable part.

During this time, they also changed several people. Xu Xian and the screenwriter stepped down, and Director Yu and another investor, including the actress who played Xiaoqing, all went up to play a few rounds. In the end, the beer, red wine, and foreign liquor basically all went into the stomachs of the three investors and Director Yu.

It is well known that when you drink a single kind of alcohol, you may not get drunk so quickly, but if you mix several kinds of alcohol together, the aftereffect is particularly strong and it is particularly easy to get drunk. Although I don’t know why, many people who drink have tried it and said that it is indeed the case.

After drinking for a while, the three investors and Director Yu were all drunk and didn't know what they were doing. They just shouted instinctively: "Teacher Ding Meng, do you still have the film copyright of "Da...Da...Da Da Song"? Let's sign the contract now and continue shooting! Continue...cooperation!"

"We want to create a...series, the first part! The second part! The...third part!"

"Fuck, the entertainment industry makes money too quickly, invest...invest three million, and give me back more than nine...nine million, what's the difference between this and robbery?" He makes much more money than his father!

The investor surnamed Wang pointed at Jiang Bai, his eyes blurred from drinking: "You...you come to be the leading actor, you...don't worry...I'll support you, you will definitely be famous! Become a big star!" When

the three woke up in the hotel the next day, the film copyright contract for Jiang Xi's "My Years as a Constable in the Song Dynasty" had been signed. This time, the film copyright for "My Years as a Constable in the Song Dynasty" was not a one-time purchase, but a profit sharing.

The investor surnamed Wang looked at the contract in a daze at first, and then he suddenly woke up and read the contract completely.

The investors were still the three of them plus Director Yu. Although Director Yu took a fancy to the movie White Snake and created it himself, his total income at that time was less than 200,000 yuan. He borrowed 300,000 yuan from all his relatives and invested it in White Snake. With his director's fee, he could get about 1.3 million yuan from the box office of White Snake. After paying back the money he borrowed from his relatives and friends, he still had a net profit of 1 million yuan.

The same was true for the other two investors.

The 3 million yuan invested by the investor surnamed Wang was not an ordinary 3 million yuan. He mortgaged a courtyard house under his name, added his own cash, and raised some money from his mother to make up 3 million yuan to invest. His two friends followed suit and invested 1.5 million yuan, and all of them made a profit of more than double the money.

It was just like what they said when they were drunk, just like robbing money. If they were like their fathers, doing business, how long would it take to get such a high return in just half a year?

For this reason, the three of them discussed with Director Yu and the producers to open an entertainment company and specialize in the film industry in the future.

After this special company was opened, the first contract signed was actually a profit-sharing contract.

Jiang Xi used the film copyright of "The Great Song" to invest and received 10% of the total box office of the film "The Great Song".

"Fuck!"

When he saw that it was 10% of the total box office and subsequent copyrights, instead of 10% of the net profit, the investor surnamed Wang cursed directly.

You have to know that the total box office of "White Snake" was more than 40 million, and only more than 20 million could be shared by the three investors and Director Yu, and the other half was with the theaters and publicity and promotion, but his family just happened to have connections with the theaters.

According to the total box office of "White Snake", if Jiang Meng has a share in it, according to the contract, she can get more than 4 million yuan, plus the subsequent copyright fees and peripherals, such as 10% of the disc fee.

He worked hard and finally collected 3 million yuan, but he could not get 10 million yuan. Why should she get 4 million yuan?

The investor surnamed Wang was so angry that he almost laughed.

Although we don’t know how much the next movie "Song Dynasty Police Head" will do at the box office, no one wants a low box office. After all, the higher the box office, the more money they make. But

think about it, why is it so awkward, because the higher the box office, the more money Jiang Meng will get.

Looking at the contract, they dared not refuse to give it, because yesterday at the Wanhua Film Festival, many investors, in front of them, were talking to Jiang Xi about the film copyright of her "The Great Song Dynasty" and the TV drama copyright of "White Snake", and wanted to buy the film and TV drama copyrights of her two books.

If they had not cooperated once before yesterday, they might not have been able to get it.

It was true.

Jiang Xi and his friends slept in the hotel last night. Early in the morning, they took the rented dresses to return the suits and dresses. As

soon as the film festival ended yesterday, they went to change their private clothes. They did not dare to wash these rented suits and dresses by themselves. They have a special dry cleaning shop in their store.

This was the first time that Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang heard that clothes could be washed dry instead of with water.

They were very curious about how dry washing works.

They had been in Beijing for a week and their vacation time was up. After Jiang Xi sent them on the plane, he returned to Beijing University. He did not return to the dormitory, but went directly to class according to the previous schedule.

During this period, the phone in her rented house off campus kept ringing. They were all calls from people who wanted to buy her copyright. They even wanted to reserve the copyright of her next book in advance before it was even issued.

During lunch, the monitor met Jiang Xi in the cafeteria and said to Jiang Xi, "Jiang Xi, where were you at the sports meet? You signed up for an event in the sports meet but you were not there and almost failed. Did you know that Cui Yujie and Liu Yan ran for you?"

Jiang Xi was a little surprised when he heard it, "You said I signed up for an event in the sports meet? What event did I sign up for? Who signed me up for it? Why didn't anyone tell me?"

"You didn't know?" The monitor had already guessed that Jiang Xi was probably being tricked by someone. As for the person who tricked her, who else could it be except Cui Yujie, who was in charge of registration for the girls?

But he didn't expect Cui Yujie to be so outrageous. He secretly signed people up for so many physically demanding activities without even telling the person involved. He didn't even make any preparations, and the person wasn't even in school.

Jiang Xi shook her head and said, "I only know now after hearing what you said."

The monitor said, "You signed up for an event in the sports meet but you are not in school. This matter can be a big deal or a small matter. The counselor asked you to go back to him. You'd better go to the counselor and explain it clearly."

Jiang Xi nodded, and the smile on her face also withdrew: "I will find out about this matter."

Jiang Xi's eyes were filled with frost at this time, as if she had spit on ice. Whether from a workplace perspective or her personal perspective, this kind of behavior of signing up for something in her name without her consent and forcing her to do something is a taboo for her, and has deeply stepped on her bottom line.

She did not hesitate. After dinner, she went to get her film festival invitation letter and went directly to the counselor's office.

The counselor's office may not be the most luxurious, but it is definitely the busiest. Basically, the door is always open, and students will come to him with all kinds of problems.

When Jiang Xi came, the counselor ate in the office.

Seeing that it was her, he pointed to a chair in the office and asked her to sit down. He quickly finished the meal in his mouth, covered his lunch box, drank a sip of water, sat not far from Jiang Xi, put down the water cup, and asked her: "What's the matter with the sports meeting? Why didn't you participate after signing up for the sports event? You were not in school these two days?"

Jiang Xi didn't smile either. She looked at the counselor sternly and said seriously: "I just heard about it from the class monitor in the cafeteria. I found out that someone had signed me up for a sports event without my knowledge or permission, and didn't tell me about it afterwards, so I was shocked. Without knowing about this, I not only missed the sports meeting, but also almost let some sports events in our department go. I will strictly investigate this matter. Who abused and played with power, arbitrarily handled things that were not within their authority, abused power for personal gain, and abused public power for personal gain? If I am not given an explanation for this matter, I will reserve the right to report to the police and file a case. "

The counselor who was originally frowning and asking about the situation heard this and thought, my good man, this skillful accusation has escalated this matter from an ordinary classmate conflict to the level of abuse of power and playing with power.

This is exactly the method used by those politicians in the department.

The counselor was shocked and softened his questioning. He frowned and asked softly, "You don't know anything about this?"

Jiang Wu's eyes were cold and he said coldly, "If the monitor hadn't told me about this just now, I would still be in the dark. This incident has caused me great trouble and harm. It is also very bad to register in my name without my consent. I hope the school can "We must deal with this matter seriously enough and hold those who abuse their power and play with their power accountable!"

The counselor shook his head and said, "The monitor has already told me that Cui Yujie is in charge of the registration of you girls, but I have asked Cui Yujie before, and she said that you registered yourself. I have to call Cui Yujie to find out the whole story." As

he spoke, he picked up the phone on the desk and called Jiang Xi's dormitory.

Beijing University has installed telephones in student dormitories since the late 1980s and early 1990s, but the phones can only receive calls, not make calls. If you want to make a call, you now have to use an IC card that you bought separately to make a call.

There were many people in the dormitory, and Jiang Xi always used the phone and email in the rental house for work, and rarely used the phone in the dormitory.

Cui Yujie had a bad feeling in the past two days, but she told herself in her heart that although she had registered for her, she still didn't run? She ran 3,000 meters, 800 meters, and 400 meters alone. She was already so miserable, what else could she do to her?

Speaking of the sports meeting, she didn't think it was bad for her to register for her without Jiang Xi's consent, and she was the first to feel wronged.

When she heard the dormitory phone ring, her heart suddenly skipped a beat.

It was really expensive to make phone calls, so the dormitory phone rarely rang. Even Shen Xinlan, who made the most calls, used her own mobile phone.

Shen Xinlan was the first girl in her dormitory to have a mobile phone. She had her first mobile phone almost as soon as it came on the market.

At this moment, the phone rang suddenly. She hadn't gotten up to answer it yet. Liu Yan, who was sleeping in the bunk bed and closest to the phone, had already gotten up to answer it. When she heard it was the counselor, Liu Yan put down the phone and called Cui Yujie, "Cui Yujie, it's for you!"

Cui Yujie, who usually had a sense of superiority towards them, asked in a low voice with some irritation, "Who is it?" Looking for me?"

She thought to herself, hoping it was about the literature club or the student union, but her prayers were unsuccessful. Liu Yan said, "It was the counselor who wanted to see you and asked you to go to his office." After a pause, she added, "Jiang Xi is back and is waiting for you in the counselor's office."