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Grandpa Jiang looked at the banner that his granddaughter and grandson-in-law had opened.

He didn't know many words, but he happened to know those few words.

Jiang Xi moved his hand to the left again, shaking it like the fairy Zixia ringing a bell: "Ding ding ding ding ding! I wish my beloved grandpa, as blessed as the long-flowing water of the East China Sea!" Then he turned to the right: "Live longer than the immortal pines on the Nanshan Mountains!"

Grandpa Jiang just smiled like a child.

"Happy, everyone is happy! Everyone is happy!" He kept nodding, unable to say anything, and looked at the hotel's private room as if his eyes couldn't see enough.

The private room was about 30 to 40 square meters, with a round table inside, some balloons placed around it, and three banners made by Jiang Xi. She wrote the words on them one by one, and when she wrote them, each word was filled with her most sincere blessings to Grandpa Jiang. There were

many people in the private room, in addition to Xu Xiuli and her roommates, Jiang Bai's tutor and his roommates were also there, filling up the round table, and all of them were seated.

Although Jiang Xi put most of her earnings into the stock market, her continuous income of 40,000 yuan per month from "Wu Xia" magazine allows her to maintain a very comfortable consumption level in her daily life, so today she deliberately ignored the consumption, booked a large private room, and ordered a table of dishes that Grandpa Jiang had never eaten before.

The dishes in Shanghai are generally sweet, and Grandpa Jiang has never been used to them. Because their Linhe Brigade lives by the water, there is heavy water vapor and humidity. Although they don't eat a lot of oil, they like spicy food. They produce something similar to yellow pickled peppers locally, which is very spicy.

Grandpa Jiang also likes spicy food, so most of the dishes today are Sichuan cuisine. Considering some students who don't eat spicy food, some non-spicy dishes are interspersed in the middle.

Grandpa Jiang watched the dishes he had never eaten being served. A waiter came up and explained to Grandpa Jiang how each dish was made. Some of the dishes had some allusions, and he also explained them to Grandpa Jiang.

This was also what Jiang Liu asked for. She knew that Grandpa Jiang liked to listen to these. After listening and eating, he could go back and brag to his old friends. That was his pleasure.

A person who had been an old ox in the eyes of others for most of his life, who had always been silent while listening to others bragging, finally experienced the joy of bragging when he was old.

Jiang Liu respected his joy and tried his best to satisfy his joy.

Grandpa Jiang was really happy to hear this. He listened to the waiter's explanation carefully like a little kid, and he was very interested.

He had no regrets at all. He didn't encounter, see, and eat these when he was young. He just felt extremely satisfied and happy.

It turned out that one day, someone remembered his birthday, and his eldest granddaughter was celebrating his birthday!

Grandpa Jiang smiled from ear to ear.

Jiang Xi actually knew that Grandpa Jiang's ideal birthday celebration should be in his hometown, like Grandpa Zhonghua in the old store next door, with a banquet, children and grandchildren gathered together, everyone knew that he was celebrating his birthday today, and his children and grandchildren all came back in a lively manner. He and Grandma Jiang sat in the upper part of the main hall, and the whole family had a reunion dinner together.

That was the way all the elderly in the village yearned for their birthdays, with the filial piety of their children and grandchildren, and their own secret boasting.

Don't worry, Grandpa, everything you want will be arranged for you in the future.

Today, Grandpa Jiang drank two cups, which was rare. I don’t know if it was because the wine didn’t make him drunk, or what, but when Grandpa Jiang was supported by Tong Jingang and Jiang Baiyi all the way back, his heart was floating, and he felt like he was stepping on clouds. When he

went back home at night, he lay on the bed, his head was groggy, and he couldn’t help but recall his life.

When he was a child, although he had a father, he was not carefree.

His father was a sedan chair driver, serving the landlord’s house day and night, carrying the sedan chair for the landlord.

He was the eldest son in the family, and he knew from a young age that he had to take the responsibility of taking care of the family and his younger brothers and sisters.

In fact, he had an older sister who married a woman named Chen Shimei. She was divorced and couldn't get over it. She drowned herself with her child, which helped the other party to be happy.

It seemed that the first half of his life was full of endless suffering. The extreme, endless, hopeless suffering formed a sharp contrast with the extreme sweetness now, which made Grandpa Jiang feel dazed for a while, as if in a dream.

He fell asleep unconsciously. In his dream, it was no longer the black coal basket that pressed on his back when he was a child and made him unable to straighten his back forever, and the black mine that he could never climb to the end, but the locust trees at the gate of his hometown, the old ox under the locust trees, and a group of old men with smiles on their faces sitting next to them and bragging.

After Grandpa Jiang's birthday, it was already the end of May.

Jiang Xi also sent a gift to He Xiaofang and Xu Xiuli.

Xu Xiuli was fine, she was loved by many people, and friendship was a part of her life, but for He Xiaofang, it was all the feelings she had now!

She wore the watch and birthday card that Jiang Xi gave her, and she laughed and cried, and kept telling her roommates: "This is a birthday gift sent to me by my best friend. It was sent from Beijing. She is studying at Beijing University!"

The watch given by Jiang Xi was not expensive, but it was not very cheap either. In the eyes of students of that era, it was already considered a small luxury. One after another, they came over and said, "Let me see it, let me see it!"

"It's this brand, and it's a women's mechanical watch. It's so beautiful. Your classmates are so nice to you."

He Xiaofang said proudly, "Isn't that right? We were in the same dormitory in high school! She is my best friend!"

When she heard that it was a mechanical watch, He Xiaofang was even happier, because she knew that Jiang Xi gave Jiang Bo a mechanical watch. Does this mean that in Xi's heart, she holds the same position as her brother?

In the evening, Jiang Xi called her and wished her a happy birthday. He Xiaofang felt that everything in her life was worth it at this moment.

She was also remembered by others.

In fact, Producer Li and his team had already brought the "White Snake" crew to Wucheng for filming as early as the end of April.

After half a year of governance, the ancient city of Wucheng seemed to have regained its vitality.

Secretary Song was a very capable secretary himself, otherwise Wucheng would not have been upgraded from a county to a city in a few years, and would not have become the leading place in the vicinity in terms of people's livelihood and economy.

With the help of Jiang Xi in this life, he started his career of building Wucheng in advance.

Compared with the previous Wucheng, which was completely moving towards modernization, building high-rise buildings, completely abandoning the old town and becoming a modern city, the current Wucheng in April and May is simply magnificent.

The first thing that producer Li and his team noticed was the old locust trees that were several decades or even hundreds of years old. The old locust trees had strings of pure white locust flowers hanging down, and the huge tree crowns covered the sky on both sides of the road. Only sporadic spots of light penetrated the dense leaves and strings of flowers and fell on the road, forming spots of light.

The spring breeze blew, and the refreshing fragrance penetrated into people's noses, making people feel refreshed. What

producer Li and his team saw was the most beautiful season in the entire Wucheng.

Wucheng is an ancient town, not only the ancient buildings are well maintained, with white walls and black tiles, but also the water in the moat has been treated and introduced into the Shahe River. Although the water is crystal clear, the green waves formed by the spring breeze reflect the green willow branches sprouting in spring and the wild peach blossoms with unique wildness. In addition, there are natural wetlands, ancient moat walls, and neat and messy flower beds beside the moat.

Spring is here, and all kinds of wild flowers, such as forsythia, rose, and cycas revoluta, are in full bloom.

What is rare is that the sanitary environment in Wucheng is also very good. There are toilets built in the style of ancient times on the roadside. The toilets are not the popular ones now, with long pits separated by brick walls and flushed with water. Instead, they are independent pits, independent flushing tanks, and supervised and cleaned by "directors". After they came to Wucheng, they finally felt the kindness from this small town.

At this time, the construction of new rural areas had just begun, and the toilets in many places were not good to look at. After

the filming of Wucheng by producer Li and his team, they moved to "Wugong Mountain". Jiang Bai naturally wanted to go with them. Fortunately, there were seven days off on May Day.

The section about Wugong Mountain and Wucheng is the one with the most gg, and then there is Yaoba Town.

Yaoba Town is an ancient town with unique beautiful scenery. Except for one part of the ancient town that is on land, the surrounding area is all water, the only difference is the depth of the water.

Yaoba Town has long been cultivating pearls, and there is a pearl factory in the town, but it was not large-scale in the past, and the sales volume of cultivated pearls was not high. They were all circulated to the low-end market. Some of them are irregular in shape, and they cost a few yuan each. They can be sold in bulk here, and they can be cheaper.

But Jiang Gui has opened up a new way for them. Those shells and irregular pearls can cooperate with skin care brands to provide raw materials for pearl powder.

The composition of shells is the same as that of pearls. In fact, after being ground into fine powder, it can also be used as pearl powder.

This year, green nylon nets have been erected around the paddy fields around the town. On the nylon nets, some fat crabs have come out to bask in the sun.

It is not yet the season to eat crabs. These crabs are not big because they have been raised for a short time. It is far from the season to eat them.

However, some lobsters can be served.

So when producer Li and his team came here, they ate the freshest local delicacies, such as chopped pepper fish head, pickled fish, grilled fish, pickled mustard fish, etc., which were just caught from the river. Local delicacies with "fish" as the main feature, as well as this year's freshly baked lobsters.

After the meal, they were taken to the local beautiful scenery on a awning boat.

During the trip, Producer Li and his team could be described as "eating, drinking, playing and filming".

In order to entertain the crew of "White Snake" from CCTV, the leadership team of Wucheng, headed by Secretary Song, and the mayor of Yaoba Town, Jiang, brought out the best of Wucheng and displayed the best style and public security. Wucheng

is not a place where people don't pick up things on the road, but it is much safer than other places where thieves are everywhere and evil forces are entrenched.

This ancient town is really suitable for filming the ancient and quaint "Legend of the White Snake". In addition, the local government arranged a one-stop service for food, drink and accommodation. Producer Li stayed here for more than half a month and took some pictures of various scenes. Some scenes that were originally planned to be filmed in other ancient towns were moved to Wucheng and Yaoba Town because they stayed here for too long, were served too comfortably, and the scenery was too beautiful. It was not

until the beginning of June when the lotus flowers began to bloom that they finally left Wucheng at the invitation of Jiang Guotai and his children, took a bus to Shuibu Town, and then took a boat from Shuibu Town to Linhe Brigade.

Today's Linhe Brigade has really changed a lot.

During the tea picking season when he was recruiting local tea pickers, he was also busy with other things. First, he built a rafting site at the foot of the mountain in Shijian Township, which he had contracted. It was not yet fully built. It was now in the safety inspection stage. He only needed to repair all the dangerous places along the way, and then he could arrange kayaks. At the end of June, it could be opened locally for free, and in the summer vacation, it could be fully open to the surrounding areas to sell tickets for trial play. Because it was still in the promotion stage, according to Jiang Gui’s plan, he didn’t want to make money in the first year. It was free to play, or a symbolic ticket price of 0.9 yuan or 9.9 yuan was charged to attract popularity. People in the surrounding towns had to let people know that there was such a place to play here.

Then there was the farmhouse restaurant in Jiangjia Village.

The best cook in Jiangjia Village was almost universally recognized as Jiang Dabo Niang.

Uncle Jiang's house happened to be very big. If there were tourists coming to eat there, Jiang Guotai suggested that Jiang Hongjun and Jiang Hongbing hang a hotel sign on the front of their house to make it convenient for tourists to come and eat.

As for the accommodation that Producer Li and his team arranged, they naturally agreed with Jiang's father and borrowed his house, which was also the best decorated house in the village.

It happened that his house had many rooms and could accommodate most of the people. If there were still some people who could not stay, they would stay at Jiang Hongjun and Jiang Hongbing's house.

When arranging accommodation for people, Jiang Guotai realized that his house also needed to be expanded.

His house is now a small two-story house, but it is an old-fashioned small two-story house built many years ago. There are not many rooms and the house type is not fashionable. It is okay for an old couple to live in it, but if Jiangjia Village is to be developed, such a house is definitely not acceptable. If it really develops into a tourist attraction in the future, I am afraid that the extra rooms in every household can be used as a hotel to entertain tourists, which is what Jiang Bai mentioned, a homestay.

The more beautiful the layout of a house, the more flowers there are, the cleaner the sanitation, and the better the washing environment, the more popular it will be with tourists.

From this point of view alone, the house of Jiang Dabo's mother's family must be the most popular.

The people of Jiangjia Village finally watched up close how the TV series was filmed.

Jiang Bai was caught up in his schedule and could not take a leave, so his shots were all concentrated.

In fact, the TV series "Legend of the White Snake" has actually come to an end when filming here. The entire TV series is basically in the editing and production stage. Here, only the last few scenes about the blooming lotuses and the lotus leaves need to be filmed. These can be completed through post-editing.

Until June 20th, Producer Li and his team left Jiangjia Village. When they left, everyone took away many cans of beautifully packaged Wugongshan Mingqian tea, all of which were hand-roasted by experienced tea artists with perfect heat.

Producer Li and his team tasted it themselves and also read the test certificate from the authoritative institution in the provincial capital. They knew that Wugong Tea from Wugong Mountain was indeed good, so they agreed to help promote it.

The villagers of Jiangjia Village gave them so many tea leaves as gifts, and they also knew what it meant. Since he wanted to promote and boost the economy of a place by filming a TV series, he would naturally support it with all his strength.

So when he returned to the capital, he gave "Wugong Tea" to his relatives, friends and leaders, and promoted the beauty of this "Wugong Tea".

"Wugong Tea" is really good. Although there is still a certain gap compared to the top tribute tea drunk by the top bosses, this gap is already very small. "Wugong Tea" itself, whether in terms of color, taste, or nutrient content, is a top-grade tea.

The leaders above all drank "Wugong Tea", so naturally the people below all asked what kind of tea it was and started to follow it.

This kind of thing always spreads from the top down.

In order to release the show in the summer vacation, Director Li transferred most of the people in the CCTV logistics editing team to the "White Snake" crew, striving to start broadcasting on CCTV at the rate of two episodes a day on the first day of summer vacation, two episodes in the morning and replay in the afternoon.

With the massacre of last year's Mango TV's self-made drama "Little Swallow" and the popularity of another satellite TV station's "Golden Guard" in the second half of the year, more and more satellite TV stations have begun to join in the production of self-made dramas.

From the hit of Yongqin Dynasty in January, to the explosion of Unbreakable in March, to the massacre of Little Swallow Part 2 at the end of April, the first half of 1999 was like a battle of gods, with one hit drama after another released, and the audiences were very excited.

Among them, Unbreakable and Little Swallow Part 2 were the most popular, and they can be said to have accounted for most of the ratings in the first half of this year.

During the summer vacation, the TV rights of these two dramas were bought by other satellite TV stations, and a new round of rebroadcasts began.

Fortunately, the impact of the initial broadcast of these two dramas has long passed.

CCTV is CCTV after all. The replay ratings of any TV series are far from what CCTV can compare to. It can be said that CCTV's No. 1 TV series in this era has never dropped except for the impact of Mango TV when "Little Swallow" was just released. Not to mention that "Legend of the White Snake" is a big IP with a huge readership and audience. Although there is no concept of IP these days, the meaning is actually the same. With the blessing of CCTV, this TV series has been the leader in the summer vacation as soon as it was released, killing other TV series. It can

be said that the entire summer vacation this year was dominated by "Legend of the White Snake".

This also made the special products of Shahe, such as "Wugong Mountain", "Wugong Tea", Wucheng, and Gorgon Cake, which appeared in "Legend of the White Snake", implanted in the minds of the audience.

Especially the people below, seeing that the leaders above were drinking Wugong Tea, many people went to inquire about the origin of "Wugong Tea", and naturally inquired about "Wugong Mountain" in "Legend of the White Snake".

As a result, the Linhe Brigade welcomed the first batch of tourists and tea merchants.

The publishing house had already signed an agreement with Jiang Qing for more printing, and she had invested all the money in the stock market early on, just waiting for the release of "Legend of the White Snake". Although they had to wait from the beginning of the year until the summer vacation, CCTV never disappoints. With the hot release of the summer TV series "White Snake", all major bookstores, which were the most popular among students in this era and the best place to go during the summer vacation, also sold out "The Years When I Was the White Snake". "White Snake" surpassed the sales of "The Song Dynasty" and "The Imperial Guards" in one fell swoop, and later surpassed them, and also reached the sales mark of tens of millions in one fell swoop.

With the popularity of "White Snake" and the hot sales of physical books, the first two books of Jiang Meng's new work "The Years I Driving Mechas in the Stars" have also been published. However, the sales volume is far less than that of the previous books of Jiang Meng. More male readers like it, and the number of female readers who bought it is less.

Because the book "Stars Mechas" has a lot of science fiction elements, it is very difficult to film "Stars Mechas" with the current level of special effects in China. Therefore, even though many people are attracted by the TV ratings and movie box office of the first three books of Jiang Meng, they did not just buy the TV series and movie copyrights of this book, but instead bought the works of several other popular writers.

The fame of these writers is no less than that of the Meng family in this era. Compared with the works

of StarCraft, the works of these writers not only have a large number of readers and high sales, but are also more suitable for adaptation into movies and TV series. However, the animation copyright and children's drama copyright of "StarCraft" were bought by CCTV again.

As always, the price is not high.

During the summer vacation, the student party is on vacation. The children's drama of "Legend of the White Snake" has already started shooting this summer vacation. The animation version is also in production and should be available soon.

But at the same time, Jiang Meng contacted the publisher for the overseas traditional Chinese copyrights of his books, including "The Song Dynasty", "White Snake Cultivation", "Golden Guards", and "Star Mecha", hoping to sign the overseas traditional Chinese copyrights of these books, most of which are copyrights of Southeast Asian countries.

To Jiang Meng's surprise, the film and television copyright of the book "Star Mecha" was spotted by a famous film company in the United States, who wanted to make it into a science fiction movie.

At first, the other party's attitude was quite arrogant, thinking that as long as he paid, the other party would sell it. After all, it was in beautiful dollars, which might be a small author in the country of flowers, and he had never seen so much money in his life.

The publisher also strongly suggested selling it, so that Jiang Wu's work would not only go abroad and become popular in Southeast Asia, but also be directly promoted to the world and become well-known in the global field.

But Jiang Wu was not short of money, and the other party's arrogant attitude made her very unhappy, so she directly refused.

This surprised the publisher.

The current domestic atmosphere is that there is a kind of inferiority and flattery mentality towards these large foreign companies. When they received such a large company wanting to buy the film and television rights of Jiang Wu's book at a "high price", they were ecstatic. They were not happy about the 20% share of the film and television rights, but once Jiang Wu's book was filmed into a movie by such a large company, then the English version of Jiang Wu's book overseas might also sell like crazy.

Although they have not opened up the book market abroad, they can cooperate with others, which can be regarded as successfully opening up the European market. This is a win-win-win result for their publishing house, Jiang Wu's interests and popularity, and the film and television companies in the United States.

The publishing house really couldn't understand why Jiang Wu disagreed.

Jiang Wu was looking at her many past manuscripts in deep thought.

She said that she never thought that her works would be noticed by large foreign companies in this era and that they would be interested in her film and television copyright.

Regardless of whether others really took a fancy to the film and television copyright of her works, she quickly retrieved all her previous manuscripts from Wang Yong, on the grounds that there was a new plot that conflicted with the previous plot and needed to be revised.

Wang Yong didn't understand why Jiang Wu, who had never mentioned any revisions, suddenly asked for revisions. However, after four years of cooperation, Wang Yong had great trust in Jiang Wu. She said that if there was a new plot, there was a new plot. Wang Yong had no doubts about anything and sent back all the previous manuscripts, ready to receive the new manuscripts she had revised.

So for a whole week, Jiang Wu stayed in her rented house to modify and delete some of the manuscripts, and then checked that there were no problems, and sent the deleted and revised manuscripts to Wang Yong.

Jiang Wu's writing was also very secretive and cautious, and some of her writing was very exaggerated, which always made laymen feel happy and experts frown.

All her writings serve the main plot, so the first thing is to ensure the plot itself, and the rhythm must be good, so that she can secretly implant the things she wants to implant in the work, so these things rarely appear in the early stage, and they appear more in the middle and late stages.

At present, "Star Mecha" has published two volumes, each with 150,000 words, and two volumes with 300,000 words. In Jiang Gui's planned long novel "Star Mecha", it can be said that it has just started, and many plots have not been released yet.

The next issue is only 20,000 words, which is actually very easy to edit. Delete some, and move some of the content from the back to the front, and the problem will be solved. Because there are manuscripts in stock, the magazine will not have any gaps.

During this period, famous technology companies in later generations have actually begun to accept international orders and cooperate with many countries.

Jiang Xi has the cheat of rebirth, and her current achievements are actually not worth mentioning in front of the real geniuses and heroes. In this world, there will always be real heroes and geniuses that people look up to, and they are the ones who truly influence an era.

Jiang Xi thought about it, and packed up and mailed many of her previous manuscripts with private opinions to the email address of this technology company for external releases. She even wrote many things she knew about future technology in more detail. In addition, she studied science in this life and has completed all the courses in her junior year. In her previous life, she knew a lot more about things she heard from others.

Regardless of whether it helped them or not, she had done her best.

Jiang Xi thought that they would never have any contact with the American film company that had been rejected by Jiang Xi before, but she didn't expect that the other company really wanted the film rights of this book. Not only did they dismiss the person who had come to negotiate the rights and transferred him to another place, but the senior executive of the film company also personally brought his assistant and bodyguard to the Flower Country to find Jiang Xi.