Chapter 208 208 [Daily Life]

All the girls in the 401 dormitory gathered around in shock, looking at Jiang Xi with sparkling eyes.

Especially Yu Qianqian, Zhang Min, and Liu Yan.

They were all still working hard for tutoring jobs outside the school. At that time, there was no salted fish, no tutoring groups and communities. If they wanted to find reliable tutoring jobs, they needed to be introduced by seniors in the school, recommended by teachers and counselors in the college, or join some tutoring institutions outside the school.

They had only been in college for a short time, and had just figured out the channels for finding tutoring jobs. They hadn't even met a few people yet, but Jiang Xi had already received a job from Yang Ma.

That's Yang Ma!

Zhang Min was very envious and wanted to ask if she could be brought along. In fact, she was also a good writer, but she was too embarrassed to say it. She blushed and asked, "Can I ask what kind of job it is?"

Jiang Qi said, "It's a small screenwriting job." Looking at Zhang Min's envious eyes, she did not hide it, "I haven't even discussed the royalties yet, so it may be a free job."

Of course, she did not mention the copyright fee of more than 200,000 yuan.

As soon as she mentioned free work, Zhang Min's interest immediately became less. In her dictionary, there is no concept of free work. If there is no money, she will not do it no matter how good the job is.

Yu Qianqian and Liu Yan still think it's amazing. Except for Zhang Min, who has never doubted her future and is always full of confidence, they know very well what it means for Jiang Xi to accept the scriptwriting job from the Central Government at this time.

It means that Jiang Xi has entered the eyes of some people in the Central Government, and Jiang Xi has a higher chance of working in the Central Government after graduation than others.

That is the Central Government. Even if they enter the system after graduation, how can they compare with the Central Government? It is the place closest to the power center, the place with the most opportunities, and the department that directly connects to the sky.

Although they are confident that their jobs after graduation will not be bad, compared with Jiang Xi who has determined his future direction so quickly and clarified the path he wants to take, their future is still vague.

Even now, they have not yet decided whether to work in their own professional field or return to work in the system. They are just college students who have just entered university.

Shen Xinlan is not so envious. She is originally a native of Beijing. Her mother resigned from the system to start her own business. Her future plan is also very clear. She will definitely study abroad in the future. As for whether she will settle abroad in the future, she has no specific plan at present, but no matter what, she has a lot of choices.

She is just like the girls in the dormitory, shocked by Jiang Qing's brain.

Being able to be admitted to Beijing University, they are already the best among thousands of people, but when they arrived at Beijing University and in front of Jiang Qing, they still felt the gap and sighed that they were inferior.

Even after Shen Xinlan went abroad and stayed there for many years, she never doubted whether her motherland would become strong. She never felt inferior to foreigners because of her country's temporary poverty. She was always confident and held her head high because she had seen such excellent people during her college years. There were such excellent people in her country. In places she could not see, there were many people who were as excellent as her and worked silently for their motherland.

In the past many years, even though she had seen many excellent people, or interesting and free souls, there were still very few people who could compare with her roommate.

After Jiang Xi greeted them, she returned to her small rental house and called Wang Yong and the editor at the publishing house to tell them that the film rights to "The Great Song" had been sold and the TV rights to "White Snake" had been bought by the Central Government.

The publishing house and Wang Yong were stunned when they heard the news, and then they were ecstatic.

Central Government! That's Central Government!

This year, due to the popularity of the movie "White Snake", the box office is currently the first this year. At the Wanhua Film Festival during this period, "White Snake" won the Best Picture Award again, and Jiang Bo, who played the supporting role in "White Snake", won the "Most Popular Actor" award. The physical book "The Years I Was a White Snake Cultivator" has been sold like crazy. Now the total sales of several copies of the book are almost catching up with the sales of "Song Dynasty" which has a sales level of tens of millions.

Once the TV series version of "White Snake" is released, the sales of the physical book of "White Snake" are estimated to increase again.

This increase in sales is not the increase in sales of a single work, but will drive the sales of other works written by Meng Meng.

Moreover, what does it mean that "White Snake" was made into a self-produced drama by CCTV?

You know, except for the fact that Mango TV’s ratings broke the 50% mark this year due to the popularity of “Happy Little Swallow”, temporarily surpassing CCTV’s ratings, CCTV’s ratings are still the well-deserved number one in this era in any other time period. It can be said that whatever CCTV broadcasts will be popular.

CCTV is the guarantee of ratings.

With the original influence of “White Snake” and the influence of CCTV, the publisher can already predict that the physical book of “White Snake” will probably surpass “The Song Dynasty” and directly break 10 million.

This is the second work written by Meng Meng that has broken the 10 million mark. There is

also the currently popular “The King’s Guard”. Because of the popularity of this drama, the physical book of “The King’s Guard” has been reprinted again and again.

This time, they directly printed one million copies and shipped them to the whole country. Jiang Xi invested all the royalties he received in the electronic stock, waiting for the arrival of the 519 market next year.

This time, I called them to let them prepare in advance.

The first reaction of the publishing house was: "Teacher Xi Meng, can you give me another 20,000 signed copies? We will make a three-in-one hardcover collector's edition of "The Golden Guards", "White Snake Cultivation", and "Being a Constable in the Song Dynasty"! "The hardcover edition

of a single book has been made, and the collector's edition of a single book has been made, but the three-in-one hardcover collector's edition has not been made yet.

It can only be said that the publishing house has tried every possible way to sell books and make money, but readers just buy into it.

In the sales volume of millions, the number of autographed books is too small.

Every time the autographed books are released, they will rush to buy them. Many enthusiastic fans have collected several sets of autographed books. Some of them are not released yet, so they pre-order a batch through the relationship of bookstore staff. There are very few autographed books that can be circulated to major bookstores across the country.

Some people spend one or two hundred yuan to buy second-hand autographed books for collection.

Other authors with such high sales volume at least have autographing sessions in major cities. In the three years since the release of the book, Ximeng has never held a autographing session.

Although many people are sure that Ximeng is a girl, there are still many readers who are not sure whether Ximeng is a boy or a girl.

After all, they were not Ximeng's roommates. Through Ximeng's real name, the time she entered Beijing University, and her appearance, it was easy to guess her identity. Many people, even if they watched the Wanhua Film Festival, ignored Jiang Xi because the main shots were on the crew and Jiang Bai.

Moreover, not everyone was online in this era. The Internet was still a new thing for many people today. The Internet was not developed and the speed of information dissemination was slow. There were also a large number of paper readers who started following "The Great Song" and preconceived that Ximeng was a man.

Therefore, the demand for Jiang Meng's autographed books in the market is always insufficient. Every time the publisher releases a hardcover edition or a collector's edition, even though many readers know that the autographed edition is only a part of the books, with the same chance of winning a prize, readers who like the books will still buy them, and they will be sold out immediately after they are released.

Jiang Meng smiled and said, "My daytime classes are all full, and I have to write "The Imperial Guards" and new articles at night. Now I have accepted the scriptwriting job for the TV series "White Snake". What do you think?"

When the other party heard that Jiang Meng had accepted the scriptwriting job for CCTV, he became more polite to Jiang Meng.

If Jiang Wu's status as a best-selling author brings profits to the publishing house, then Jiang Wu's current cooperation with the Central Government represents the heights that Jiang Wu may reach in the future. Especially given Jiang Wu's status, the path she may very well take in the future may just be to manage them.

Directors Wang Yong and Li Ang sighed with regret because the serialization of White Snake on Wuxia has ended. The release of White Snake on CCTV did not bring them much benefit in terms of magazine sales, but they were also very happy. Not to mention how much the currently popular The Commander of the Imperial Guards has boosted their magazine sales, the fact that the White Snake movie won awards and the TV series copyright was bought by CCTV itself has brought great influence to their magazine.

This influence can be said to be intangible or tangible.

The intangible reason is that the sales of the magazine did not increase directly during the serialization of "White Snake". The tangible reason is that Jiang Gui is a contracted writer of "Wu Xia" magazine. Several influential movies and TV series on the market are from their "Wu Xia" magazine. This makes more film and television companies think of "Wu Xia" when they are looking for copyright partners. It has produced several hit dramas. Especially now is the hottest time for martial arts. At present, some TV stations have taken a fancy to other martial arts works serialized in "Wu Xia" and are in the stage of copyright agency negotiation.

For this reason, "Wu Xia" magazine has also opened a new department, called the Film and Television Copyright Department, which specializes in the development and incubation of film and television copyrights.

Even Director Li Ang himself did not expect that when he first started this magazine, it was entirely because of his passion for martial arts novels. He wanted to create their own martial arts magazine in the mainland, to provide a platform for the mainland writers and readers who love martial arts and the martial arts industry to publish their martial arts works.

Their magazine has faced the crisis of transformation many times, including now. Although they have gradually opened up the fantasy fairy column, the Jianghu children column, and even opened the "Interstellar Science Fiction" column to warm up for Jiang Xi's next interstellar novel.

But he never thought that in the late 1990s, when the magazine was about to enter the new century, it could open up new businesses and enter new fields.

This is a completely unfamiliar field, from the magazine and book publishing industry to the film and television copyright incubation, but he has a hunch that with the advancement of technology and the popularization of television, there will be more and more film and television works in the future, and this will be a major trend in the future.

And their "Martial Arts" magazine is already at the forefront of this industry.

He seems to have seen the door to a new world.

For Wuxia Magazine, the development of film and television copyright business was an unexpected and brand new track brought by several works of Meng Meng. Because Jiang Wu’s film and television contracts were previously contacted by Wang Yong, and then Wang Yong contacted Jiang Wu. Wang Yong knew the most about Jiang Wu’s copyright contracts. This time, the new film and television copyright department was headed by Wang Yong, a veteran who had been working for three years.

The newly established department is still in the exploratory stage. In terms of cooperation with authors, it is also very practical. There are no pitfalls in the contract. The contract signed with the contracting author is a 20% agency contract. After all, their magazine has already produced popular dramas such as "White Snake", "Judge Bao" and "Golden Guards". In the signing of the contract, it can help the author avoid many pitfalls. Even the signing contract is drafted according to Jiang Qi's original contract, which is much more reliable than their own negotiation of copyright with the film and television parties, and the price is also higher than what they negotiated themselves.

Wang Yong is no longer a newcomer in the workplace, but has been promoted to deputy director and editor-in-chief of the Film and Television Copyright Department!

Because the speed of his promotion was completely linked to Jiang Gui, his uncle was so happy that he gave Jiang Gui's store a new order. It was the leftover goods from a brand foreign trade processing order he had received. This big brand found a domestic OEM factory to process the products, then took the products to a private label, and then sold them to domestic consumers at a brand premium that was more than ten or even twenty times the factory price.

This batch of last-minute orders are all the latest models released by this brand this year. Except for the lack of brand collar labels and OEM labels on the collars, the quality, materials, quality inspection cards, etc. of the rest of the down jackets are all exactly the same. Even the brand fabric linings of the clothes have complete quality inspection labels. This batch of products can be called high-quality goods. Uncle Wang Yong gave them all to Jiang Gui at the lowest price based on cost price and sent them to Shanghai.

Uncle Wang Yong was afraid that Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai didn't understand the value of this batch of down jackets, so he put the brand's promotional brochures, posters, and store prices in a package and sent it to Jiang Bai. In the store, the premium of each down jacket was more than 1,000 yuan higher than the cost price given to Jiang Xi. In this era, it is definitely a luxury item.

Even if Jiang Xi's batch of goods is sold at an extra 100 yuan per piece on the basis of the cost price, many people want it in wholesale. If you increase the price and sell it out, you can make a lot of money.

The more unscrupulous ones will find the factory to put the logo and brand on it, and there is no difference between it and the original order.

In some prosperous commercial streets in Shanghai, such clothes are casually priced at 500-600, 700-800 yuan. Even if you cut the price in half, you still have 300-400 yuan left.

It is not that people of this generation are simple. In fact, people of this generation are no less fashionable and pursue brands than those of 10 or 20 years later. Even many rural students who have been admitted to big cities from the countryside have a very strong sense of self-esteem. They also envy the branded clothes and shoes worn by their classmates, but they cannot afford them because they are short of money.

The batch of goods that Uncle Wang Yong sent to Jiang Wu can be said to be the most suitable for the consumer group of young students. The quality is good enough and the price is not high.

If it were not for Wang Yong, Uncle Wang Yong would not have thought of giving this batch of goods to Jiang Wu.

This was also an unexpected surprise for Jiang Xi.

Her cooperation with Wang Yong, magazines, publishing houses, film and television companies, etc., seemed to have formed a virtuous circle, with each other benefiting from the other.

Don't say that she doesn't need money now that she has made a lot of money. This money is just a drop in the bucket compared to what she wants to do in the future.

Now the street behind Shanghai Polytechnic University is basically rented out, and Jiang Xi and Jiang Bo's shops have also been renovated.

The decoration style is also very simple, just ordinary white floor tiles and white walls.

Jiang Xi bought two shops, the total area of ​​the two shops is about 100 square meters, and the height of the floor is about 5 meters. Jiang Bo's shop is next to Jiang Xi's.

When Manager Qian came to renovate the shop for them, he suggested that they divide the shop into two small floors. The first floor is 2.8 meters high and can be used for daily transactions. The second floor is 2 meters high. It is a bit short for daily life, but they don’t live upstairs. They only use it as a rest room and warehouse at night. This height is not high enough for Jiang Bai and Jiang Yeye to hit their heads. In terms of the choice of bed, there is no need to use the high bed that Grandpa Jiang used to sleep on. Instead, he can choose a lower bed, so that he will not feel oppressed by the high floor. Grandpa Jiang does not need to draw a curtain behind the bed. There is only a narrow and cramped bed. When he goes to the toilet at night, he has to go to the public toilet behind the rented storefront, which is very inconvenient for daily washing.

After two years of development, the interior decoration company managed by Manager Qian has also become a mature design company, which is very good at targeting the actual needs of customers.

For example, Grandpa Jiang has problems with his legs and feet, and his knees will ache when it is cloudy and rainy. Manager Qian suggested that a small space be separated at the back of the store to make a dry and wet bathroom. This way, when Grandpa Jiang wants to wash and go to the toilet during the day, he doesn't have to run upstairs. The upstairs is large enough for sleeping and storage at night, and it can also have a separate bathroom and toilet. As for the choice of stairs, an American-style staircase is chosen, which is more suitable for the elderly to walk on. On the top, there are all sliding glass windows, so that the lighting is better. Even if the floors are a little high or low, the elderly will not feel depressed when sleeping at night.

His brother-in-law now runs a furniture factory. All the shelves in Jiang Xi's store and all the cabinets needed upstairs can be customized from his brother-in-law's factory.

Money must be earned, of course, but the price given is definitely lower than the market price, and the quality is also guaranteed.

Manager Qian first calls Jiang Xi to discuss and sends her the design drawings. After she agrees, all the decoration matters are entrusted to Jiang Bo and Manager Qian.

Jiang Bo is actually much more meticulous than Jiang Xi.

He himself is a science student, and he has more ideas than Jiang Xi about the various electrical wires in the decoration process and some small ideas in life.

Not only the shop, but also the two houses that Jiang Xi bought in this community have been renovated and are currently being ventilated. They only need to be ventilated for three months before Grandpa Jiang can move in.

In order to make Grandpa Jiang's life more comfortable, the two houses in this community are also equipped with floor heating.

Jiang Bai also made some money from filming this year. Not to mention the second male lead in "The King's Woman" in the summer vacation, he also received 10,000 yuan in publicity fees for "White Snake" at a film festival. He won the "Audience's Most Favorite Actor" award, and several investors also gave him a large red envelope. He hasn't even started his winter vacation yet, but his schedule for the winter vacation has been fully booked. One is from the crew of "The Song Dynasty", and some other movies and TV series have also sent him audition invitations.

He himself is not good at and has no patience to deal with these things, but Tong Jingang happens to like and is good at them, and doing these things itself is expanding his network of contacts, so he happily took over all of them and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't like it, I will handle it for you, just focus on your classes!"

Jiang Bai was trained as a closed disciple by a retired old engineer in their department. When he found out that Jiang Bai actually went to act during the holidays, he thought that he was wasting his talent and not doing his job properly, so he usually gave him a lot of homework, so that Jiang Bai's spare time was basically all used to study and stay in the laboratory. Fortunately, he had Tong Jingang to help, not only in work, but also in the daily store and taking care of Grandpa Jiang, he also contributed more.

But for Tong Jingang, who has found the direction of his future career, he never tires of it.

Jiang Bai has now saved enough money for the down payment. Thinking of his sister asking him to buy another house, Jiang Bai simply bought a house here to take care of Grandpa Jiang. This time it is not a pre-sale house, but a ready-made house.

His household registration cannot always be kept in his sister's house. His sister's house is always his sister's house. He always feels weird in his heart. Now that he has bought a house with a blue-stamp household registration and can transfer his household registration to his own house, he is finally relieved and the pressure in his heart is not so great.

He will choose to buy a house behind the school, which is also near the school. It is really suitable for Grandpa Jiang's retirement life.

Grandpa Jiang now feels that he has integrated into this place. Sometimes when Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang come to the store and he is not needed, he will walk around the campus with his hands behind his back, watching the old professors on campus exercising, and then he will exercise with them. This quiet, peaceful, literary environment and the youthful smiles on the faces of the students passing by make Grandpa Jiang feel like he is ten years younger. His physical condition has improved a lot, and his complexion is getting more and more rosy and healthy.

Jiang Bai also likes this kind of environment. Compared with going out to film, he prefers the simple environment of school. He does not need to deal with people. He only needs to stay with machines and instruments every day, which makes him feel safe and comfortable.

His ideal life now has become selling bicycles and motorcycles at the school gate, and he is still working hard for his future bicycle shop.

Alas, I don’t know how many more movies I have to shoot before I can open his bicycle shop and motorcycle shop, or open a car repair shop.

Jiang Bai thinks he can do this well!

The money for purchasing bicycles is not yet available, but Uncle Wang Yong sent a large number of brand OEM down jackets to Jiang Bai’s shop. Because there are too many down jackets sent, Grandpa Jiang’s shop obviously can’t fit them all, so he hung these down jackets with brand labels on them in the shop that was just renovated less than two months ago.

His own shop was empty, so he simply sold the last-minute shoes from the shoe factory next door that Uncle Wang Yong had sent to him. As a result, the originally empty shop was suddenly filled with several down jackets. He also asked Manager Qian's brother-in-law to build some detachable shoe racks on both sides of the wall. The

opening of these two shops can be said to be the first two shops in this newly built back street. Several other shops were still under renovation, which seemed a bit noisy and messy. Originally, there was no business in the back street.

But who made "The King's Woman" still a hit?

The hit of "The King's Avatar" made Jiang Bo famous in Shanghai Polytechnic University. He was treated like a star and people looked at him wherever he went. The clothes in Jiang Bo's shop were selling like crazy and the business was booming.

The back street that was originally deserted became known to students because of the opening of Jiang Bo's shop, and a large number of students suddenly poured in.

Then they discovered a treasure shop!