Chapter 76

Qin Shumin had been staring at the young face in front of her for a while. Every time Jiang Xi looked up from the contract, she would immediately avoid her eyes, pretending to be calm while drinking tea, lowering her head to sip her saliva, and then couldn't help looking at her again.

Jiang Xi had short, shabby hair. Perhaps because she was looking down at the contract, her drooping hair occasionally covered her drooping eyelashes. Unlike most girls with long and curling eyelashes, her eyelashes were long and straight, adding a bit of sharpness to her originally gentle face, and her eyebrows and eyes looked even colder.

I don't know if it's because of the cold weather, she's wearing a thick down jacket, and her whole body, including her neck, is wrapped in a scarf, leaving only a pale face. I don't know if it's because her hair is too dark, or her skin is too pale, but the black and white contrast makes the girl in front of me feel as cold as ice and snow. She has a high nose bridge, and her bright red lips are as if outlined by a lip line, with sharp edges and corners.

At some point, Jiang Xi suddenly raised his head, and her peeking eyes were caught by Jiang Xi. She was startled and coughed twice to cover up the embarrassment of being caught peeking. She tried to keep calm and coughed again: "Teacher Xi Meng, I wonder what you think of this contract? "

They came sincerely to purchase the film and television copyright and the right to adapt the work. There were no traps in the contract, but Jiang Xi still added some clauses. For example, the general film and television copyright was further divided into TV series copyright. The rest of the film and television copyright, online drama copyright and other copyrights still belonged to the author Jiang Xi. The authorization period was only five years. If no filming project was established within five years, the author had the right to resell it to other people and units. It was also implemented in black and white in the contract. There were some other details, which were also added to the contract.

Qin Shumin didn't think it was a problem after reading it, and the two quickly signed the contract.

Until the evening, Qin Shumin had already sat back on the train back to the provincial capital, holding the signed book given to her by Xi Meng in her hand, and she was still a little dazed.

She thought that Ximeng should be older, but after seeing Ximeng, she thought that Ximeng should be like that. When facing her, she could not regard Ximeng as a teenage girl at all, and even felt pressured. She

took a long breath and looked at the snow falling in the night outside the window.

When she returned to the provincial capital, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening. There was only the last bus left at the train station. She staggered all the way home and handed the contract to Director Li the next day.

Director Li was very satisfied with her work efficiency. Seeing Director Li take the contract, Qin Shumin glanced at the key terms and then turned directly to the signature page. After reading it, she said, "The copyright contract has been signed. You should take your people to screenwriter Chen to learn how to write a script." Seeing

Director Li flipping through it casually, Qin Shumin directly assigned her the script task and couldn't help saying, "Director, don't you take a closer look at the contract?" Director

Li thought there was still some problem with the contract, so he frowned slightly and read it carefully. As he read, he found something wrong. Looking at the ID number on the signature page, his frown deepened.

He looked up from the contract and asked Qin Shumin: "Xiao Qin, is the ID number written wrong? Are you sure you didn't find the wrong person?"

The age written on Jiang Gui's ID card was too high, and he was actually sixteen years old.

Qin Shumin's smile finally blossomed, with a smile of a successful prank, her brows curved: "Director, are you surprised?" Director

Li's brows furrowed even deeper when he heard this: "Are you sure you didn't get the wrong person? Don't let Xi Meng really come to sue us."

Qin Shumin smiled and said: "I have confirmed with the publishing house and the magazine. Jiang Xi is really Xi Meng."

When Director Li saw the similarity between Xi Meng and Jiang Xi's names, he thought that this Jiang Xi was Xi Meng's family member. Unexpectedly, Qin Shumin directly said it was Xi Meng herself.

The content of "Da Song" is not only about criminal investigation, nor is it just a simple martial arts novel. The court affairs behind it are full of twists and turns. Although it only reveals the tip of the iceberg, it is not something that a teenage girl who is still in the ivory tower can write.

However, there is no shortage of talented players in this world. Under caution, Director Li still called "Wu Xia" and the publishing house to confirm that Jiang Xi and Xi Meng are the same person. After that, Director Li no longer bothered about whether Xi Meng was Jiang Xi, and actively promoted the establishment of the second part of "Judge Bao".

The original screenwriter who had watched "The Great Song" also contacted the TV station quickly and expressed his willingness to take the job. However, because their original crew spoke Cantonese, they needed translators and assistant screenwriters to help him adapt "The Great Song". He felt that the role of the heroine in "The Great Song" was very outstanding. In the adaptation, this role could be left out, but the original female lead could be given some emotional drama with Zhan Zhao and play the heroine. In this way, an actress who fits the age of the heroine was needed to play this role.

When Qin Shumin heard that the original screenwriter wanted to fit the age and image of the original heroine, her first reaction was to call Jiang Qing to play the heroine.

In fact, her appearance and age are too close to the heroine in the original work, and the original heroine herself is also a time traveler, and she has a calm and indifferent temperament that adults have.

However, this did not receive support from the director, screenwriter, and station director.

A big part of the reason why the station director did not support her idea was that Jiang Yu was a high school student and the winter vacation was too short, so there was no time to shoot a full-length TV series.

Qin Shumin had no choice but to give up.

The original screenwriter gave the emotional part of the male and female protagonists to Qin Shumin and several assistants she found to write. This is a very common collaboration in script creation. Usually, the script of a TV series is completed by several screenwriters. Some screenwriters are responsible for the court and the underworld, and some screenwriters are responsible for the emotional drama.

As a reader of "The Great Song", Qin Shumin naturally also supported the couple of the heroine and Zhan Zhao. When she was reading, she had imagined the emotional interaction between the heroine and Zhan Zhao. Unfortunately, the author did not satisfy the readers' ideas and focused on writing the case. The emotional aspects were as vague as possible. Now she can finally write in all the interactions she wants between them, and she was a little excited.

When they were writing the script, everyone in the costume team also held a copy of the original work of "The Great Song". According to the costume description in "The Great Song", they also consulted the history professors of the provincial university and the students of the fashion design college to make suitable costumes.

Because there is a ready-made plot, the scriptwriter can adapt it quickly. The main thing to do is how to cleverly connect the court and the emotional drama in the case.

Considering that the heroine of "Song Dynasty" is very important in the hearts of mainland readers, and there are many CP fans, the screenwriters rewritten the original heroine into a lot of roles when rewriting the content.

The heroine is the daughter of a head of the police under the Kaifeng government. When Zhan Zhao and his team were investigating a case, they encountered a bottleneck, but the daughter of a head of the police under them reminded them of clues, and they quickly found a breakthrough and solved the first case. Zhan Zhao also came into contact with the heroine.

The adapted heroine is lively and cheerful, with a bit of chivalrous spirit. She likes criminal investigation and solving cases very much, but due to her identity as a woman, she disguises herself as a man and goes out to investigate cases with her father. She is very smart, and is eager to solve the case to prove herself. Whenever she encounters a case, she takes the lead, wanting to solve the case before the famous Bao Gong and Zhan Zhao, and wants to compete with them. In the end, they cooperate with each other and solve one case after another.

Jiang Xi and the original screenwriter were not good at writing romances. When the original screenwriter wrote the romance of Bao, there was no love story. He only wrote a sentence like "Emperor Yang of Sui and Xiao Meiniang were debauched, licentious and immoral", and left the rest to Qin Shumin and her team.

Soon, the original screenwriter, Xiao Qin from the TV station and several young people, wrote the script for the first case, and chose Xiao Qin to play the female lead.

Qin Shumin has just graduated for a year. She is only 23 years old, with big eyes and a small face. She looks sweet and tender. Compared with Jiang Wu, she is less cold and sharp, but more lively and lovely. She is suitable for the role. However, when she was guessing the role, she couldn't help but think of Jiang Wu's image in her mind, and unconsciously imitated the temperament displayed by Jiang Wu. This also made her always have a contradictory sense of sweetness and coldness alternating during filming, which fits the image characteristics of the time-travel heroine in the original work.

However, in the second part of "Justice Bao", there is no obvious plot that the heroine is a time traveler. However, in the process of investigating the case, the heroine uses modern criminal methods and language, all of which are used verbatim. If you know the criminal methods of the Song Dynasty, you will know that the heroine is obviously a modern time traveler.

This is a hidden foreshadowing that the screenwriter did not say.

The director took the actors to start filming the first case.

The efficiency of filming these days is very high. While filming, the script is written and edited. At the same time, voice actors are arranged to dub, music is inserted, etc. In just one week, the first episode of the second part of "Justice Bao" was edited.

Such efficiency is a common phenomenon in this era. Even in this year, a director in Hong Kong Island shot a phenomenal movie in only seven days.

Jiang Xi and his friends have been in Shanghai for a week. There are only a few days left before the Chinese New Year. The doctor also said that Grandpa Jiang does not need to be hospitalized.

He just needs to come for regular checkups. The main thing is to take medicine and recuperate. Grandpa Jiang is thinking about going back to his hometown for the New Year. He has been lying in the hospital for a week. He really can't lie down anymore. He packed his things long ago: "I'm fine, I'm fine. The doctor said I can go home to recuperate." He grabbed his packed luggage: "Let's go, let's go home quickly. I have to cut the grass on the graves of your great-grandfather and great-grandmother!"

There is a custom in their hometown that on New Year's Eve, they have to go to the mountains to sweep the graves and worship their ancestors during the day.

Grandpa Jiang used to be a forest ranger. Every year, he had to sweep the graves, cut grass on the graves, and go to the graves for his great-grandparents and ancestors. This habit was not that he would stop being a forest ranger, and it was not that he could change it in a short time.

The youngest son of his uncle's family had gone back. When he returned home, he found that no one was at home. Then he heard from the neighbors that his parents were forest rangers in the mountains. He was still confused in his heart. Wasn't the forest ranger his uncle?

People who were born at the foot of the mountain were not unfamiliar with the mountains at their doorsteps. They put down their backpacks and ran up the mountain.

The uncle and aunt had been waiting for their sons to come back in the mountain. As usual, they didn't wait for the eldest son, but only the youngest son.

Auntie looked up at him with a gentle smile on her face, and said in her accent that was very different from the local accent: "Are you back? Are you hungry? Mom caught a pheasant and stewed it for you to eat with noodles."

"No, there's no need to stew any chicken. I don't know how long it will take. Mom, just give me a bowl of noodles. You and Dad can eat the chicken." Jiang Guoliang didn't bother to be polite with his mother. He lifted the lid of the pot on the stove, found a gourd ladle to scoop water into the pot, and did it himself to have enough food and clothing.

Auntie didn't stop him either. She followed him in with a smile, took out a box of homemade rice and noodles, and soaked them in boiling water.

She was not tall, only up to Jiang Guoliang's shoulders, but her two sons were tall and handsome.

The youngest son had graduated two years ago and was not young anymore. His uncle and aunt could not help but ask if he had found a partner. Jiang Guoliang was anxious inside, but said nonchalantly, "Hey, I still think of myself as a child, and I'm already in a relationship? Wait two years!"

In rural areas, if you are over 25, you are considered an overage bachelor. Jiang Guoliang will be 26 when he turns 25, a true overage bachelor.

He was anxious inside, but his house in his hometown was an old brick-and-earth structure, and he had to share a dormitory with his colleagues at work. Although he had worked for two years and saved some money, it was not enough to buy a house in the town where he taught, so how could he get married?

It just so happened that he and his roommate were both single, so they were not in a hurry because they had another person to accompany them.

There was no place to stay in the mountains, so he followed Uncle Jiang to patrol the mountains, and came down the mountain in the evening. He went to Jiang's house to play with Jiang Song.

He and Jiang Song were only six years apart in age. Jiang Song had always followed him around when he was a child. There were not many boys who studied in the village, so Jiang Guoliang could not play with other people in the village. Whenever he came back, he would go to Jiang Song.

There are many customs in the countryside. In addition to going up the mountain to sweep the tombs and worship the ancestors on New Year's Eve, in their place, no matter how badly they did outside, they had to go home for the New Year. So if someone owed money to someone, they would go to their house a few days before the New Year and wait, and they would definitely be able to wait for him.

In the past few years, Jiang's father and mother hid in a small house on the mountain, and they didn't dare to go home to celebrate the New Year on New Year's Eve. Sometimes on the first day of the New Year, there were still people coming to the Jiang family to collect debts. This year, they finally didn't have to hide from debts outside. They were excited to prepare for the New Year. Who knew that the Little New Year's Day, which was the day to send the stove to the prince, had passed, and none of the three children had

returned home. The couple was a little listless. Hearing that the little cousin came to find Jiang Song, he frowned and said: "I don't know where he ran off to. He didn't come back on the day of the Little New Year." Jiang

Guoliang was a little surprised: "Jiang Song hasn't come back yet?" Jiang Song loves to play as much as he does, and he likes the excitement the most. If it was this time in previous years, he would have invited friends to chase rabbits all over the mountains. This year, he hasn't come home yet?

"Yes." Standing at the door of his house, Jiang's father looked towards the ferry unconsciously: "I wonder where this kid has gone?" He asked Jiang Guoliang again: "Did Songzi call you?"

"Didn't he call me? I thought he got into college."

Speaking of college entrance exams, Jiang's father was silent for a while and said: "He has always set high standards for himself. When filling out his second and third choices, he was asked to fill them conservatively, but he refused to listen. In fact, his college entrance examination scores are enough to get him into college, but he was unwilling to repeat a year."

Speaking of his eldest son, Jiang's father was really worried about his eldest son's disobedience.

Jiang Guoliang had no choice but to persuade him: "Songzi is smart and clever, and he will be good wherever he goes."

Jiang's father and mother also thought so, and the couple had full confidence in their eldest son.

Jiang's mother also stretched her head and stepped on her feet, looking in the direction of the ferry, and asked Jiang's father: "Has Songzi not called yet?"

"No phone call, no letter either. I went to the brigade headquarters every day to ask, but there was no news. The people in the brigade headquarters didn't know and thought Songzi was missing!"

This sentence made Jiang's mother furious: "Bah! Even if he is missing, our son Songzi will not be missing. He is just too sensible." Jiang's mother said: "Maybe he didn't make any money in the past six months and was embarrassed to come back!" She sighed deeply again, "In fact, why do we need him to make money? The family debts have been paid off. As long as he comes back safely, it's better than anything else."

Thinking of the three children who were not around, Jiang's father sighed helplessly: "The New Year is coming soon. Children from other families have returned home one after another, but none of the three in our family are missing. If Baizi doesn't come back, we can understand. He has to go to school, but he can't even go to school. "Xingxing is nowhere to be seen during the winter vacation."

When talking about this, Jiang's mother got angry: "Didn't you let them go to school? Are they fine now?" She wanted to say that it was the same as the two children in her uncle's family, but Jiang Guoliang was here, so it was not easy to say that. She just said irritably: "None of them came back, right?"

Jiang Guoliang had no idea that his second sister-in-law was talking about him. He smiled and said: "Second sister-in-law, don't worry. Songzi comes back every year. Maybe she will be home in the evening! Xingxing..." He paused, "Will she stay in Wucheng to work?"

He knew how much his second brother and second sister-in-law valued boys over girls. He was quite surprised that they could let their niece go to high school.

Father Jiang thought about it and agreed with that. He said, "If they don't come back, they will at least send back a letter, right? Doesn't this make us worried?"

"That's enough!" Mother Jiang interrupted him impatiently, "They don't worry themselves, why should you worry?"

After waiting for a few more days, it was already the 28th of December, and New Year's Eve was approaching. Father Jiang looked in the direction of the ferry every day, and he was really eager to see them. Not to mention Jiang Song and Jiang Xiao, even Jiang Bai was nowhere to be seen. He was really anxious now: "It's already the 28th of the year, and Baizi should have been on winter vacation, so why haven't we seen one or two of them? Even if Lingling is working, he should be on vacation by now, right?" Even Grandpa Jiang had disappeared, and he was really anxious.

Jiang's mother snorted coldly. She didn't care whether the two people came back or not.

She stretched her head to look in the direction of the ferry again, hoping to see her eldest son walking home from the ferry. She didn't see Jiang Song, so she turned around and walked home. She happened to see Jiang Hehua walking down.

In order to prevent floods, the people in the river brigade tried to build their houses as high as possible on the mountain. The brigade secretary's house was on the top, and the Jiang family's house was at the bottom of the village. Jiang's mother turned around and happened to face Jiang Hehua who was coming down from the top.

Jiang Hehua, who was always arrogant and somewhat indifferent to others, curled her lips at Jiang Ma for a rare occasion, smiled slightly, and called out, "Hello, Second Auntie."

"Is it Hehua?" Jiang Ma would beat and scold her own daughter, but was very polite to other people's daughters. She smiled and asked, "Where are you going?"

Going further down, it was Jiang Gangqin's home and the old well at the entrance of the village, as well as the fields, ditches, and the water and electricity station.

"Is Xiaoxiao back? I'm here to play with Xiaoxiao." She stood at the steps of Jiang's house and looked inside.

When those who lived in the lower part of the village built their houses, they would build a 1.5-meter waterproof platform. This platform was only a few centimeters shorter than Jiang Hehua. Jiang's house didn't turn on the lights, and the house was pitch black, and nothing could be seen.

When Jiang Gui was mentioned, the smile on Jiang's mother's face faded a little. She frowned and said, "How do you know her? I haven't seen her since the winter vacation started. I don't know where she went!"

Wild girl, wild girl. People in this place generally like to call girls who play outside "wild outside", which means they are particularly naughty and playful.

Jiang Hehua said in surprise, "She hasn't come back yet? That's impossible. We've been on vacation for several days. Our Wu Middle School doesn't let students stay in the dormitory after the vacation."

She frowned slightly with some worry and comforted Jiang's mother, "Aunt, don't worry too much. Xiaoxiao's No. 1 Middle School is probably different from our Wu Middle School. She can live in the dormitory during the winter vacation, right?" She seemed a little puzzled and asked, "By the way, it's winter vacation already. Why does Xiaoxiao want to live in the dormitory? Why doesn't she come home? The New Year is just a few days away. I rushed back as soon as I had the vacation. I wanted to play with Xiaoxiao."

She said with some regret, "Then Aunt, I'm leaving." She waved and went to Jiang Gangqin's house.

Originally, she wanted to ask Jiang Xi whether the Jiang Xi who ranked first in the joint entrance examination of No. 1 Middle School was hers. Since she didn't come back, it was useless to ask Jiang's mother.

Jiang's mother, who was originally in a low mood because Jiang Song didn't come back during the Chinese New Year, became more and more upset after hearing what Jiang Hehua said. She was so angry that she threw things around at home: "What's the point of raising such a girl? She's only fifteen years old and she's out and about. What can we expect from her in the future?"

She was making hand-rolled noodles. She added some saccharin to the noodles, kneaded them into dough, and then cut them into French fries and fried them in a pan. Locals call it fried fruit. There are also thin slices, cut into triangles, add some salt and black sesame seeds, and fry them. When guests come during the Chinese New Year, they can grab some of these fried desserts and serve them to the guests.

I don’t know if it’s because Jiang’s mother is not talented in cooking, but none of the three children in the family want to eat the fried desserts that Jiang’s mother makes. During the Chinese New Year, they all want to go to Uncle Jiang’s parents’ house to get some food, but they don’t want to eat the fried dough sticks that Jiang’s mother makes. In the end, they have no choice but to eat them all by Jiang’s father and mother.

The fried dough sticks she makes are harder than stones, and even dogs chewing on their teeth would find them hard.

She was getting angry as she rolled the dough with a rolling pin, and the more she rolled, the angrier she got: “What’s the point of making these things every year? I have three children, but no one is around during the Chinese New Year. No one will eat them even if I make them!” Her nose was sore, and tears fell on the back of her hand one by one. She felt wronged and sad.

She didn't know what she had done wrong to give birth to such a disobedient daughter to take revenge on her. Other daughters didn't know how much they loved their mothers.

Jiang's father was in the kitchen, making sweet potato syrup and rice candy. These were rare delicacies for rural children during the Chinese New Year. They could be eaten until April or May of the following year, until the syrup softened and the rice candy softened.

He thought of making more, and when the three children came back, each of them would bring more when they went out next year, so that they could fill their stomachs when they were hungry.

The young people who went out to work in the village came back one after another. Every household was bustling, except for the Jiang family, which was deserted. None of the three children were to be seen.

Seeing that the Jiang family was not lively at all and none of the old or young were seen in the house, the neighbors all laughed and said to Jiang's father: "Big man, your children will not be like your uncle's family, flying away after getting into college, right?"

"Of course! Even if the phoenix has wings, can it still stay in our small place? They will all fly to the big cities. Didn't you see those educated youths back then who abandoned their husbands and children and went back to the city? Look, who would come here now?" Some older women in the village said with a smile and sigh.

"It's not a big deal if he flies away. I'm just afraid that he'll be like his uncle's Guoan and never come back. That would be a waste of money!"

These words made even Jiang's father, who had a relatively calm temperament, feel extremely uncomfortable. He couldn't muster any energy at all during the New Year. The couple spent the whole day at home in a bad mood, one of them throwing things around and complaining, while the other couldn't muster the energy to do anything and sighed.

He wanted to go to Wucheng No. 1 Middle School to see what happened. Why didn't Jiang Bai and Jiang Liu come home on the 28th of the lunar year? Could something have happened to them outside? But what could go wrong while studying outside?

Of course, Jiang Bai was fine. He and Tong Jingang were carrying a large bag of winter clothes off the roof of a minibus. They found an intersection in Shuibu Town, put two clothes hangers on the ground, and one of them was using an iron to iron clothes. He connected a power strip from Aunt Jiang's house, put some water in the iron, and flattened the ironing board to prepare for ironing clothes. The other one took apart the clothes one by one, hung them on the clothesline, turned on the speaker, and pressed the recorder. Immediately, the whole neighborhood was filled with Tong Jingang's rough and loud voice: "39, 49, all 39, 49! Sale! "

Before the New Year, Shuibu Town didn't distinguish between markets or not, it was a market every day. All the young men and women who had returned from working in other places gathered in Shuibu Town. Some were getting married, some were getting engaged, some were dating, some were going on blind dates, some could afford to buy and some could not, all had some money in their pockets and strolled around in the market. The best business and the highest prices in Shuibu Town throughout the year were at the end of the year. All kinds of uncles and aunts who came to the town to buy New Year's goods could be found everywhere, shoulder to shoulder. They would spend all the things that they usually wouldn't eat, use or buy at one time at the end of the year.

Jiang Xing helped Grandpa Jiang get off the minibus, and saw a place in front of them that was surrounded by a crowd of people. Tong Jingang's Mandarin, which was very characteristic of Wucheng, came: "Jiangnan Ziyi Cang! Jiangnan Ziyi Cang! It's closed! It's closed! Bastard congratulations to the factory manager! Bastard congratulations to the factory manager! He ran away with his sister-in-law! Ran away!"

Just by listening to the sound, you can imagine how he spitted when he shouted this part, and how excited he was, and his voice was almost broken.

In their place, as long as they go out to work, they are basically taken to the garment factories, electronic factories, toy factories and other places in the south. No matter whether they are boys or girls, they will first learn to make clothes from their masters for a year after graduating from elementary school and middle school, and then go to work in the garment factories the next year.

Just two days after returning from working at Jiangnan Garment Factory, young people strolling the streets of their hometown could not help wondering if they had heard it wrongly after hearing the voice coming from the loud speaker!

What went bankrupt? Who ran away with his sister-in-law?

Their factory director actually ran away with his sister-in-law! ? ? ?