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Such a relationship is not just a casual statement. Once acknowledged, their relationship in the future will really become that of very close youngsters in the family.
Before, Producer Li really had not thought about taking in an apprentice, but now that his wife said so, Producer Li was not opposed to taking in an apprentice like Jiang Wu.
Speaking of which, who wouldn't want an apprentice like Jiang Wu who is smart, discerning, perceptive, and politically sensitive? Producer Li immediately said to Jiang Wu happily, "Listen to your master's wife!"
This was to acknowledge this apprentice.
Jiang Wu immediately climbed up the ladder, smiling in a friendly and natural manner: "Then I'll go get two side dishes for Master!"
When she didn't smile, she looked aloof and seemed difficult to approach, but when she smiled, she looked like a kid who was acting coquettishly with his elders, not to mention how intimate he was.
In her previous life, Jiang Wu was insensitive to the opposite sex, and in this life, she only had one person of the opposite sex, Song Peifeng, whom she actively hunted. However, she had never made any mistakes in her relationships with the same sex and elders in both lives, just like when she was born, she put most of her skills on relationships with the same sex and elders, and only a little on relationships with the opposite sex.
But if she were asked to do it again, she would still think it was good.
Jiang Xi patted Song Peifeng's hand and said with a smile: "Peifeng, you stay here and report to Master and his wife on Wu Cheng's work this year. I will go to the kitchen to prepare two side dishes for Master."
Master's wife hurriedly said: "Sit down, sit down. You are a guest here, how can I ask you to cook?"
Jiang Xi's face was full of smiles. Just like a youngster at home, she said coquettishly: "Master's wife, I cook for Master to show my filial piety to him!"
Producer Li, who is not even fifty years old but is called an 'old man', almost spit out his tea and pointed at Jiang Xi and said to Master's wife: "Look, look, I just praised her for her stability, and now her mischievous nature is exposed."
Jiang Xi said coquettishly: "That was in front of Master and Master's wife."
Then, like a happy little deer, she carried salted meat and sausage and walked briskly to the kitchen.
Song Peifeng was amazed and admired her sincerely.
Song Peifeng thought that he could not do the same as Jiang Xi, who was able to get close to the leaders without any show, especially for a girl like her who had no background. In his life and studies, he had seen many girls with the same background as her, but many of them were limited by their strong self-esteem. They were hardworking, diligent, and self-disciplined, including himself.
He was always reserved, perhaps because of the influence of his family education since childhood. He could be good to his subordinates and elders, but he could not be as smart and natural as Jiang Xi.
He did not think that she was flattering at all, but admired her even more.
In fact, from the time she returned to her hometown to provide disaster relief and led the people in her hometown to become rich and prosperous, he already understood her ideals and aspirations. Just like him, he understood even more how difficult it was for someone like Jiang Xi who had no background to take this path.
Her start was a hellish mode, but she managed to hit a king bomb.
Song Peifeng knew that this was an opportunity created by Jiang Xi for him to report to Producer Li what his father had done in Wucheng this year, the changes in Wucheng in the past year, the economic benefits generated, what work plans would be continued this year, etc.
The Song family members in Beijing naturally knew about it, but the meaning of telling the superiors through the mouths of the Song family and reporting it to the superiors through Producer Li was completely different.
Producer Li reported on his work, and what he reported was his achievements last year. Secretary Song of Wucheng was incidental, but can this incidental report negate Secretary Song's achievements in Wucheng in recent years?
Let's not talk about anything else. Before Producer Li came to Wucheng, the public security in the 1990s was so bad and chaotic. Those who often went there to shoot and take pictures knew it best. But Wucheng really cracked down on criminals. What kind of gangsters, what kind of underground casinos, what kind of thieves and robbers, Wucheng didn't say that people would not pick up things on the road, but he didn't see any of these in Wucheng. The whole ancient city was very safe.
And the ancient city style.
This remote town has low financial income, so it is difficult to build an ancient city. This is also a common difficulty in this era, with people from top to bottom equally poor.
However, within the scope of Secretary Song's ability, Wucheng has achieved safety, hygiene, and cleanliness, turning a dirty and messy city into a city like a paradise. They went there in May, and the whole city was filled with the fragrance of locust flowers.
He asked the local people, before Secretary Song came, Wucheng was not like this. At that time, the people of Wucheng urinated and defecated everywhere in the alleys. Not to mention the fragrance of locust flowers all over the city, walking on the street and passing by the entrance of the alley, you can smell the smell of urine from a distance, and this smell permeates Wucheng all year round.
Not to mention public security. If public security was good, there wouldn't have been the crackdowns in 1996 and 1997. During those two years, hundreds of thousands of people were arrested, and tens of thousands of people ate peanuts. But once the crackdown ended, the chaos started again. There are very few people like Secretary Song in Wucheng who have the courage to completely improve the local atmosphere.
There is also the management of the moat, and the development of the tourism economy and industrial economy in the towns.
He didn't go to other places, only Wucheng, Yaoba Town, Shuibu Town, Wugong Mountain and other places. It can be said that the officials and the people were united in their governance, and they were truly building the local area and developing the local economy. If it weren't for Secretary Song's support, Yaoba Town, Shuibu Town, Wugong Mountain and other places would not have developed so smoothly and quickly.
There are people who want to develop in many places, but they are repeatedly strangled. Why?
Because the money is not delivered to them!
Although producer Li is in CCTV, sitting in Beijing, he often goes to the local government to deal with the TV series. For example, when he went to Hangzhou to shoot, many meals and accommodations were arranged by the local government, so he could not avoid dealing with the local government.
As long as producer Li can report these truthfully, Secretary Song's political achievements will not be able to escape.
The master's wife listened to them talking, got up, and went to the kitchen to help Jiang Xi.
Jiang Xi was cutting bacon.
This piece of bacon weighs about three pounds, and is a mixture of fat and lean meat. Knowing that Jiang Xi wanted to find some bacon and sausage to give away, Aunt Jiang hurriedly took out the best bacon in the family and said that she would pickle more for her next year.
If Jiang Xi didn't love Aunt Jiang's cooking skills, Jiang Guotai and Jiang's father would have wanted to find more for Jiang Xi in the village.
Even Jiang Guotai was reminded by Jiang Xi that he could give the black pork raised by his family as a gift to the leaders above. The gift was not expensive and showed intimacy.
Jiang Guotai told Aunt Jiang not to sell the pigs raised next year and keep them for her own use. He took care of everything.
In his previous life, Jiang Guotai built a huge wine cellar for domestically produced wines. This year, he started building a wine cellar in his hometown in advance, preparing to brew ginseng, deer antlers, deer penises, tiger penises, bull penises, and other wines.
Although the names of such wines don't sound very nice, they are extremely popular as gifts.
Of course, the private arrangements are indispensable.
After Jiang Xi asked the master's wife where the items and seasonings in the kitchen were, he pushed the master's wife out of the kitchen, and Song Peifeng naturally came in to help.
This made the master's wife feel better about Song Peifeng, and she smiled and said to producer Li: "These two children look good, especially your little apprentice."
In the adult world, there are feelings, but there are also interests. The master's wife is not someone who comes to her house and finds a little apprentice for her husband.
Long before, Producer Li came back to tell his wife about Jiang Wu. After working with Jiang Wu to promote her hometown, he praised Jiang Wu more than once in front of his wife, saying that she was smart, talented, and had a promising future.
At that time, his wife had already formed a rough image of her.
A girl from a poor village, after being admitted to university, organized classmates and people from the community to donate supplies and return to her hometown for disaster relief when her hometown was hit by a disaster. Just from this point, we can tell that she is definitely not an ungrateful child.
Not to mention, she had just entered college and had already achieved a series of achievements. She also cooperated with CCTV and won the recognition of Director Li. She also took the opportunity to persuade Director Li to promote her hometown and boost the economy of her hometown. How could a girl of eighteen or nineteen do this?
If these were just judging the outstanding and excellent personal abilities of this girl, she could naturally climb up the ladder, even the master's wife herself would sigh.
In the eyes of Director Li and his wife, Jiang Xi's shortcomings were not only not a shortcoming, but a very rare advantage.
Think about it, when she was eighteen years old, she was still working as an educated youth in the countryside with Director Li, and what about this little girl in front of her? She has already recognized the director of CCTV as her master.
Director Li and his wife only had one son in their lifetime. In Beijing, it was very difficult for a lone wolf to survive alone. She really liked this smart girl. If she hadn't already found a partner, she would have wanted to take her home as her daughter-in-law.
Who wouldn't like such a smart girl?
After Song Peifeng came in, Jiang Xi smiled at him. Song Peifeng naturally took over the job of helping out, and Jiang Xi was the chef. She quickly prepared a few home-cooked dishes.
The two of them have been cooking together for a long time. Usually, when they wash the vegetables and cook the dishes, the kitchen has been cleaned up. There is no mess in the kitchen. Jiang Xi puts all the items in the master's wife's house back to their original places without any mistakes.
When Jiang Xi brought out the dishes, the master's wife also went in to get the rice bowls. Seeing these details, she said nothing and liked this little girl more and more in her heart.
After Jiang Xi and the others left, Director Li, who had drunk two glasses, proudly showed off to the master's wife: "My little apprentice
is not bad, right?" The master's wife smiled and said, "More than good, you really picked up a treasure. This little apprentice was found by me for you!"
Director Li couldn't help but laugh, and the couple smiled at each other.
After Jiang Xi came out, Director Li naturally asked about Jiang Xi's next few days. Jiang Xi told him about visiting the two screenwriters Yuan and Tang the next day or the day after tomorrow.
Director Li took a sip of the wine Jiang Xi brought, smiled and said: "When you have time in the future, wait for my call. The production of your animated film "White Snake" is almost done. I will take you to the animation department to take a look and meet some people."
This is really treating Jiang Xi as his junior.
Jiang Xi's reaction was also very quick. He immediately stood up and raised his glass, and his voice was crisp: "Thank you, Master! Thank you, Master's wife!"
After leaving Director Li's house, Song Peifeng was still in shock about his girlfriend. He looked at Jiang Xi with strange eyes.
Jiang Xi turned around and winked at him mischievously with a smile: "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Song Peifeng smiled and pulled her hand. On the winter road in Beijing, the two of them walked hand in hand leisurely like any ordinary young couple of their age. Suddenly, he thought of a sentence he had read in a book. At this time, it was the most accurate to describe her.
"People are like rainbows." His voice was a little low, and his young face was sincere and a little shy.
He was not good at such explicit expressions, but at this time, he was praising her from the bottom of his heart.
Jiang Xi hooked her fingers in his palm, took his hand and smiled at him: "Comrade Xiao Song is the same."
After Jiang Xi and Song Peifeng went back, Jiang Xi went to visit the two screenwriters Yuan Feng and Tang Jiang alone in the next two days. This time, Jiang Xi was not as intimate as when he was at Director Li's house, cooking and toasting. He was just an ordinary young man visiting the old man, bringing some relatively decent but not too expensive New Year gifts.
The two screenwriters Yuan Feng and Tang Jiang were willing to get closer to Jiang Xi. Part of it was naturally because they admired this young man. On the other hand, they also saw that Jiang Xi's future would definitely not be bad after graduation, which was equivalent to making friends in advance.
There are thousands of talented people in Peking University, but it is rare to meet students who have in-depth cooperation with CCTV and good communication skills during school.
In fact, Peking University has never lacked geniuses, especially the School of Mathematics where Jiang Xi is located. It is simply a gathering place for geniuses. Jiang Xi's talent cannot be ranked among them, but they are all scientific research talents and geniuses in mathematics research. In fact, there is little intersection with them. On
the contrary, people like Jiang Xi have more intersections with them. It is clear that he will not take the path of scientific research in the future. More importantly, in addition to "Legend of the White Snake", the animated version of "Legend of the White Snake" will also be broadcast on CCTV's animated program every evening at 5:30. There is also a children's drama of "Star Mecha", which is expected to be released in this summer vacation.
All of a sudden, they have such a deep cooperation with CCTV. It is hard to say whether they will continue to cooperate in the future, or even become colleagues.
How could they not accept such a promising and sensible junior who wanted to visit them?
In fact, Jiang Wu originally just wanted to call to wish them a happy new year. The visit was just a courtesy. After all, he had already visited Director Li. They would know it after asking. But what does it mean to visit Director Li alone but not them? Director Li has a high status and a high level. Is it to curry favor with Director Li?
However, Jiang Wu was really well prepared, and the two screenwriters became closer to Jiang Wu afterwards.
When Jiang Wu visited the two screenwriters Yuan and Tang, Song Peifeng also returned to the Song family in Beijing.
It's not that Song Peifeng didn't want to take Jiang Xi back to the Song family. Isn't it a conflict with her visit to the two screenwriters Yuan and Tang? Besides, Jiang Xi thinks she is still young and she has no plans to get married early. She and Song Peifeng are in love. If she goes to visit the Song family so early, if she and Song Peifeng don't work out in the future, wouldn't that offend people for nothing?
Therefore, at least for now, Jiang Wu has no plans to visit the Song family. His parents are now the officials of Wucheng, so such contact is inevitable, but forget about the Song family in Beijing.
The Song family already knew about Jiang Wu when Jiang Wu donated life jackets to the army through the Song family's channels. They also heard from Secretary Song about what Sun Zi's partner did. They knew that Secretary Song and his wife recognized Jiang Wu very much. They thought that Sun Zi would bring Jiang Wu home when he came back, but they learned from Sun Zi that Jiang Wu recognized the director of CCTV TV Drama Production Center as his master.
The Song family was surprised to hear this: "Li Jimin actually accepted her as his apprentice?"
This master-apprentice relationship is not a casual talk. Once this title is accepted, it is really like accepting a daughter. In the future, Li Jimin's circle of relationships and contacts will all recognize Jiang Wu as a descendant. When Jiang Wu walks outside in the future, she will represent Li Jimin's relationship. This will undoubtedly increase Jiang Wu's weight in the Beijing circle.
How can they not be surprised?
You know, Li Jimin is not an unknown person.
Even though the Song family has heard a lot about Jiang Wu from Secretary Song and Song Peifeng, at this time, Jiang Wu's weight in their hearts has increased.
Song Peifeng actually knew that his grandfather and his family hoped that he would find a wife who was well-matched and could help him in the future, but Song Peifeng had his own ideas.
Life is short. If you can't be with the one you love, what's the fun of life if you can't be with the one you love for half of your life?
After Jiang Xi visited the two screenwriters Yuan and Tang, Song Peifeng was not there, so she went to see the two houses she bought in Beijing. One was finely decorated and the other was simply decorated. Both sets had been renovated. The simply decorated one was still in the ventilation stage, and
the finely decorated one was ready for people to live in at any time. They returned to Beijing early, and there was still a lot of time. Jiang Xi went to the market to buy a lot of things, equipped the finely decorated house with all the home appliances, and then went to the rental house to continue typing.
Because she had a draft for the article "Star Mecha" in her back home, she did not write during the days she was back home to prevent running out of drafts. She had other things to do later, so she would write whenever she found time, 12,000 words a day, without fail.
Originally, she wrote 6,000 words per hour, but after adapting to the current keyboard, her current speed is almost 8,000 words per hour. It is not comparable to the many masters she heard of in her previous life who wrote 10,000 words per hour, but for her, it is enough. Sometimes it takes less than two hours to write 12,000 words, and then she goes to the school gymnasium to practice hurdle jumping.
At this time, there are not many people in the school, but there are people in the gymnasium of Beijing University every day, and Jiang Qi is not special.
She had not thought about achieving any results in sports, nor did she think that she had any talent for sports. However, since she had participated in the college sports meet, she naturally had to practice harder to strive for a good result for her department, her school, and herself, so that her rebirth would not be in vain and she would participate in a sports meet. This was really a rare experience for her.
She had only practiced for two days when Director Li called her and talked to her about the production of the animated film "Legend of the White Snake" and asked her if she had time so that he could take her to see it.
This was actually taking Jiang Xi to meet people.
Since he had recognized Jiang Xi as his apprentice, the relationship between treating his apprentice and treating a younger generation with whom he had worked together was completely different. The identity of a younger generation of cooperation and the identity of Director Li's little apprentice were also completely different in terms of treatment at CCTV.
When Jiang Xi arrived at the CCTV building, Director Li was waiting at the door to pick him up, which was a rare occurrence. This also showed that he valued Jiang Xi.
Jiang Xi did not bring Song Peifeng with him this time, nor was his master's wife. There were only Jiang Xi and Director Li.
Director Li was not old and was very thin. There was no heating at the entrance of the CCTV building. Director Li wore a coat and a scarf, standing in the cold wind, looking elegant and shy.
I don't know if it was because of his experience of going to the countryside when he was young that made his temples turn white prematurely, and he looked more than ten years older than his actual age. As
soon as Jiang Xi saw Director Li, he ran up to him affectionately and called him "Master" very naturally and intimately.
At the same time, he was shy like a little girl and walked obediently beside Director Li.
Director Li smiled warmly and waved to Jiang Xi: "It's cold outside, come in quickly."
Jiang Xi's call of "Master" made the staff on the first floor look at Director Li and Jiang Xi.
They saw Director Li waiting at the door before, and it was obvious that he was here to pick someone up. They thought that the person he was picking up was some important person who could make Director Li wait in the cold wind to pick him up. Unexpectedly, the person who appeared at the door was a little girl who looked only 18 or 19 years old.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Producer Li introduced her openly: "Have you heard of Xi Meng, the author of "Legend of the White Snake"? My wife helped me to recruit her as a little apprentice. The animated film of "Legend of the White Snake" is about to come out. I will take her to the animation department to have a look." He called Jiang Xi again: "Xi Xi, come and meet me,"
and everyone's eyes turned to Jiang Xi again.
They had heard of Xi Meng and knew that she was a student at Peking University. However, they knew her name not because CCTV signed the TV drama copyright of her work "Legend of the White Snake", but because the movie copyright of "Star Robot" was sold for a sky-high price of 1.1 million US dollars. Everyone in their circle knew about it.
People outside didn't know whether the sky-high copyright was true or not, but they were absolutely well-informed and knew it was true.
This was the highest copyright fee ever sold in the country!
What surprised them was that Director Li actually accepted this little girl as his apprentice!
No one would question the relationship between Jiang Xi and Director Li just because she has a pretty face. If there was such a relationship, Director Li would not have brought her to the CCTV building. Moreover, Director Li himself said that this was an apprentice that his wife helped him to accept. Jiang Xi was obviously recognized by Director Li's wife. She has such a high-
priced copyright fee, and has in-depth cooperation with CCTV. She is also a top student of Peking University. This little girl can be said to have everything she needs at such a young age. There is no reason for such a person with a bright future to be eager for quick success and ruin her own future.
Therefore, Director Li really took a fancy to this little girl and accepted her as an apprentice.
Jiang Xi is also very well-behaved. Whenever Director Li introduced someone, she would smile and call the person obediently. She was neither frivolous nor timid, but generous and natural.
Screenwriters Yuan and Tang did not know that Jiang Xi was here today. They said they suddenly heard someone say that Director Li had brought his apprentice here, and they were surprised when Director Li accepted an apprentice. Then they saw Jiang Xi walking in obediently beside Director Li.