Chapter 97

As the saying goes, every ten miles you go, you can hear different dialects.

In this province, there are really different dialects. There are many dialects, and they are mixed. It was only after the popularization of televisions and various Mandarin dialects that everyone could communicate smoothly. But at that time, when many rural families did not have a television in every household, many rural people who were born and raised in the countryside, even if they had a television and listened to Mandarin every day, still could not speak it. Public

Security Wu was not from the provincial capital. He was promoted from a town below, and he made meritorious contributions little by little. He was always on the front line of criminal investigation, and often had to deal with the towns and villages below. He also knew a lot of local dialects.

Just now, when I was reading the names of people and places in the book, I felt that the author was imitating Gu Long's naming style but didn't do it well. The names were fancy and difficult to pronounce, and they were a bit like Meng Bingdie. Before going to bed, I was still reciting these names and found them funny. But as I was reciting them, I suddenly felt that something was wrong. Aren't the pronunciations of these names just the transliteration of a certain town's dialect?

If it is a coincidence that a name is like the transliteration of this place, then all the names of places and people are like the transliteration of dialects?

No matter how quaint the place names are when they are packaged in words, when they are read in the dialect of this place... Wu Gongan immediately found the highlight.

He had been to this county before, and the county magistrate seemed to be an official from Beijing, which meant that he was not a local. If he remembered correctly, he had come to this county to serve as a local official last year, and it had been only about half a year.

If this was true, it would be a really big case.

He hoped that he was wrong, but the more he chewed on these names, the more he felt that he might have discovered something incredible.

But how did this Meng know about this?

At present, these cases are really unrelated. Not only are some of them unrelated, but even the date of publication of the article and the date of the case are not correct, as if there is a prophetic ability.

How is this possible?

Because they were busy investigating cases, and the murderers they caught were indeed real murderers, they did not investigate Xi Meng's identity specifically, and only thought that he was a colleague of theirs. Since he did not want to say anything and wanted to write novels as a side job, they waited for him to reveal his true colors. Now, he was uncertain again.

Even if this matter was outrageous, he had been doing criminal investigation work for so many years and knew that reality was always more outrageous and absurd than people imagined.

Because this matter involved a parent official from Beijing, he did not even dare to tell his colleagues. This matter was really too big, and he wanted to investigate it first to see if he could find the body first.

In fact, when Jiang Gui saw the case file, she also felt it was absurd, and that was several years later. In other words, after killing the real county magistrate, the murderer stayed in this position for six or seven years until 2002, when his identity was exposed and the case was solved.

After she knew the influence of "Wu Xia", she considered, what if a murderer saw Wu Xia one day, and happened to see the case he committed, and thought it was the same as his own case, and ran away in advance? So when she was writing, she deliberately weakened this part of the plot and tried to put the main plot on the protagonists, so that even if people saw this somewhat déjà vu case, it would be difficult to substitute it into reality.

For example, in this case, when she was writing, she knew that the murderer was from another place and did not understand the local dialect, so when using place names and pseudonyms, she simply used the local dialect. For example, outsiders would never guess that the "Shi Le Po" spoken by locals does not mean a hillside, but "knee". The pronunciation is even more different from Mandarin. For example, the Mandarin "zhong" is pronounced "xin" in the local dialect, and the pinyin b is pronounced x in the local dialect.

Non-locals will not understand the translation of various dialects, and even locals will not apply the novel to reality.

Unless they are the detectives of these cases.

As for what happens after the real identity is known, please, it is written at the beginning of the TV series now: This story is purely fictional, and any similarity is purely coincidental.

On weekdays, Grandpa Jiang's shop is not busy. Since he got a TV, Grandpa Jiang started watching TV in the shop every day to kill time.

Now all the channels are still broadcasting "Hong Kong Justice" in turn. No matter which channel you jump to, it is broadcasting "Hong Kong Justice".

But only the Z Province Satellite TV Station is broadcasting "Bao Er" exclusively. Soon, they may watch "Hong Kong Justice" on this channel and that channel, but they will definitely stay on Z Province TV Station during the prime time every night.

Grandpa Jiang is not very interested in watching "Hong Kong Justice" without a beginning or an end. He likes to watch "Judge Bao" from the first episode, one episode every night, and fall asleep right after watching it.

Many middle-aged and elderly audiences are the same.

Originally, "Hong Shuai" attracted young audiences, but this time, "Bao Er" cleverly added a female protagonist, so a large part of the young female audiences were also attracted by "Bao Er". After all, although "Hong Shuai" is good, I have watched it twice during the winter vacation. No matter how good it is, the freshness has worn off.

So, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday...

except for a slight drop in the ratings on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday stabilized and did not drop again, and even had a steady upward trend. On Friday night, the ratings of "Bao Er" suddenly exploded, and the ratings suddenly exploded, from the lowest point of 26% to the highest point of 40%!

Although it did not attract all the audiences who watched "Hong Shuai" before, it also attracted a large part of them.

On Fridays, since there was no evening self-study, the junior high and high school students went home and could watch an episode of a TV series. They sat in front of the TV with their parents to watch Justice Bao. Young people who liked the show would choose to watch it at other times.

The self-produced drama of the Z Provincial TV Station also attracted the attention of the directors of other TV stations.

Last year, they produced a drama in their own dialect. It sold like hot cakes and made a lot of money. The director of Shanghai TV Station couldn't help but say, "This TV station in Province Z is really taking advantage of the situation. They directly took the copyright of Justice Bao and made a second part. Can this be considered a self-produced drama?"

For a TV station like theirs, not only are the scriptwriters, directors, and actors all from their own station, but even the language used is the local language. Other TV stations bought the copyright of their self-produced dramas and had to dub the actors first. This was a pioneering work in dialect dramas. They also promoted Shanghai's culture, economy, national policies, etc. through TV dramas.

The staff next to him couldn't help but remind him: "But Director, its ratings have exceeded 40!"

"So what? Who hasn't exceeded 40 yet?" Last year, their self-produced drama, although only 20 episodes, had a peak rating of 43.62%, which directly knocked the ratings of the then popular drama "Three Kingdoms" down to less than 10%. The TV market of

this era was not like the later generations, where all kinds of TV dramas, network dramas, and movies are blooming everywhere, and various variety shows are emerging in an endless stream, and the audience is dazzled by the choices.

At that time, there were few programs and the mainland's self-produced dramas had only been in the works for a few years, so the audience had limited choices. If a TV series was well made, it would easily get high ratings, often reaching 30 or 40 percent. Examples include this winter's "Hong Marshal" and "My Fair Princess" two years later, which were both phenomenal hits.

After seeing the self-made drama of Province Z, TV Station S seemed to have opened up new ideas and asked its staff: "Z Province has produced "Bao Er", do you think we can also produce a second part of "Xiang Shuai"? "

In fact, "Xiang Shuai" is not the first time to be filmed. As early as 1979, TVB filmed "Chu Liuxiang", and later Taiwan Island also filmed "The New Legend of Chu Liuxiang", but the real hit was "The Legend of Xiang Shuai" starring Qiu Guan, and then two movies with Chu Liuxiang as the protagonist were released. Even if you can really find Qiu Guan to star in the sequel, the problem is whether you can buy the copyright of this drama. The fact that

TV Station Z was able to obtain various copyrights of "Bao" was also due to various coincidences.

But at this time, seeing that the ratings of "Bao Er" were so high, some TV stations that didn't know what they were shooting wanted to take the same shortcut as the Z Provincial TV Station and inquire about the copyright of the sequel of "Hong Shuai".

The ratings of the replay on Saturday morning were not high. Even if they had already watched "Hong Shuai" once, young people who were on vacation at home still liked to watch "Hong Shuai".

At this time, there were limited entertainment options. The more fashionable students went to the skating rink to skate, and the more literary students went to the bookstore to read.

Generally speaking, there were still a few students who would choose to skate at places like the skating rink, and the majority of students went to the bookstore to read.

Before they entered the bookstore, they saw a picture of Zhan Zhao and the heroine of the second part of Justice Bao printed on a poster in the most conspicuous position at the entrance of the bookstore. On it was a large poster saying "My Years as a Constable in the Song Dynasty", and below it was a small letter saying that it had been adapted into the second part of Justice Bao and would be shown on Z Province Satellite TV at 8pm.

They didn't have any books to read at the moment, but when they saw this poster, they thought of watching Justice Bao 2 last night, and they walked over curiously. They picked up a book in the most conspicuous position in the bookstore, sat at the bottom of the shelf, and read half squatting and half sitting.

Some people took the book directly and stood at the bookshelf, reading with the pages upright. Many people nearby were reading the Song Dynasty.

Some people who didn't know what was going on came in and saw so many people reading the Song Dynasty, so they followed the trend and read curiously.

Once they started reading, they couldn't stop.

They have been reading martial arts novels for so long, but this is the first time they have read a time-travel martial arts novel. It is so immersive!

Boys and girls can't stop reading this book. Some boys even want to write a novel about traveling back to the ancient Song Dynasty to be a head of police. They want the hero to be a powerful figure in the novel, be good friends with Zhan Zhao, become sworn brothers with Bai Yutang, marry a princess, and reach the pinnacle of life!

Some girls also want to write a heroine who travels back to the Song Dynasty and falls in love with Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang. Oh, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang are both so attractive, which one should I choose?

After reading the first volume, they were a little hungry. After putting the book back, they went out for lunch and came back to continue reading the second volume.

Some people brought their own food and water, planning to spend time in the bookstore. They read until 7pm, when the bookstore was about to close. Then they remembered, "Judge Bao will start at 8pm!"

Then they hurriedly bought the second volume they hadn't finished, went home and sat in front of the TV waiting for the second volume to be broadcast.

After watching two episodes in a row, the middle-aged and elderly audiences who had previously followed the show episode by episode were satisfied and went to sleep. The young men and women who bought the book during the day but didn't finish it lay in bed with the light on and continued to read Song Dynasty. After

staying up late to finish the book, they went to look for the third volume.

When they asked, they found that there was no third volume.

Readers who were reading with great interest were anxious when they heard that there was no third volume: "How can there be no third volume? When will the third volume be available?"

The publishing rights of "The Great Song" have been signed to the publishing house. The publishing house only needs to pay her royalties according to the price, first print run, and royalty points of each book. There is no need to sign a copyright contract every time. However, if there is an additional print, a contract for additional print is required.

When the hardcover edition of the second volume was available, the third volume was also being prepared. This weekend, Jiang Qi received another 5,000 bookmarks for her to sign.

This was already agreed upon in the original copyright contract. She couldn't help promote it at school, but every time a book was available, she would need to sign 5,000 books as autographed books.

Wang Yong was not here, and it was too troublesome to sign books, so the publisher sent bookmarks and book pages to her for her to sign, and then sent them back to the publisher.

Although not as many as 5,000 books, 5,000 bookmarks is still a lot.

The address Jiang Xi left behind was the address of the store, and the publisher also sent it directly to the store as an expedited delivery. On Saturday, Jiang Bai and his friends had classes, and Jiang Xi was in the store stamping and signing, and her hands were almost broken from writing.

Grandpa Jiang didn't know what his granddaughter was writing, and he watched happily. Later, he simply took Jiang Xi's seal and came over to help her stamp, allowing Jiang Xi to concentrate on signing.

On Sunday morning, Jiang Bai and his friends were on holiday in the store. Jiang Xi simply took the remaining signature pages to the dormitory. He Xiaofang was the only one in the dormitory. Both of them sat quietly on their beds and "studied hard."

He Xiaofang was really studying hard, while Jiang Xi was signing.

The man who came to her house to propose marriage during the Chinese New Year made her feel as if a whip full of stings appeared behind her, urging her to keep running forward, for fear that if she ran a little slower, the stinging whip would hit her and bring her into a dark cliff.

Except for the time to eat and go to the toilet every day, she was studying.

But her learning efficiency was not high. Even though she studied so hard, her results in the opening exams were still at the bottom of the class, only slightly better than Liu Ping.

Liu Ping spent her entire winter vacation trying to make money and didn’t study at all. But He Xiaofang studied whenever she had free time at home.

Her science grades held her back.

She has basically given up on physics and chemistry, and plans to choose liberal arts next year. She now spends the time she spent studying physics and chemistry on English and math, which are difficult for her.

Her English has been improving steadily, but her math brain is like a brick. No matter how hard she tries, she still can’t solve the problem. She has already learned it, but she can’t solve it at all if she changes the question type.

Many times, she wants to cry while studying.

She looked up at Jiang Xi, who was still concentrating on writing in the mosquito net, and occasionally scribbling something on the draft paper.

Jiang Xi was the first in the county, had such good grades, was so smart, and worked so hard, so what reason did she have to complain about not studying?

Her second sister has already paid her tuition for two semesters, more than 1,400 yuan. She can no longer give up on studying, otherwise she will not be worthy of the tuition her second sister paid for her. She must be admitted to university! She must be worthy of the tuition her second sister paid for her!

Jiang Xi spent two days signing all the signature pages and sent them to the publishing house by express delivery. After receiving the signature pages she sent, the publishing house quickly sent them for binding.

The 200,000 additional prints signed by Jiang Xi before have been slowly consumed after the broadcast of "Bao Er". The third volume must be put on the market while it is hot. If it is in time, the fourth volume should also be put on the market during the release of "Bao Er" to maximize the profits.

The first part of "Judge Bao" was filmed for more than 200 episodes, and it is unknown how many episodes "Bao Er" will have.

They have already inquired with the TV station. This drama is being filmed and broadcasted at the same time. There are only more than 20 episodes in stock. It is estimated that it is unlikely to shoot too many episodes. It is likely to be like "Hong Shuai". It would be very good to have 50 episodes.

Many TV series at that time only have 10 or 20 episodes.

For example, the hit self-made drama of Shanghai TV last year only had 20 episodes in total.

If one episode is broadcasted a day, it will be finished in 20 days. Even if Saturdays and Sundays are avoided, it will only be enough for one month.

Not to mention that there are a lot of TV series with 10 or 11 episodes.

So a week later, Jiang Qi received another 5,000 autograph pages and bookmarks.

If she hadn't bought a computer and put it in the store, she could go to the store to write for 40 to 50 minutes every evening after school. She would have had a window for these two weeks.

It was also because of the time after school every evening that she had the time to set aside her weekends to sign autographs.

She thought that she had signed a lot of autographs, but compared to the total sales of her "The Great Song", it was too little!

Her two-volume two-in-one hardcover edition was immediately sold out as soon as it was released. Not to mention the old readers, the new readers brought by the release of "Bao Er" were not enough to buy it.

Many old readers have already bought volumes one and two, or one of the two volumes, so there is no need to buy the two-in-one hardcover edition, but new readers have never bought it before. Readers who are not short of money will buy it home directly without caring whether it is a two-in-one edition or not when they hear that there is a signed hardcover edition.

This has led to many old readers who are not short of money and want to buy a signed hardcover book for collection, but they can't find it on the market at all, and can only buy it at a high price in the second-hand market.

A book that originally sold for no more than 20 yuan was sold for 200 or 300 yuan in the second-hand market.

Many booksellers and bookstores called the publishing house and asked for more hardcover signed books.

The publishing house also wants to print more hardcover editions, but they can't just print more whenever they want. Others don't know that their publishing house knows Jiang Xi's real identity. She is a student in a key high school, and the school is still closed. Except for Saturdays and Sundays, she can't even see her at other times. Five thousand signed books are the limit she can sign.

If there are more, they can't do anything!

The publisher at that time was still very conscientious. There was no intention to ghostwrite for Jiang Qi to boost sales.

The sales of "The Great Song" were already high enough.

He Qiaosheng did not get a signed hardcover copy of "The Great Song".

Five thousand signed copies sounded like a lot, but if they were distributed to the market across the country, the number of signed copies that could be distributed to each city was very limited. Basically, as soon as they arrived, they were either bought by acquaintances or snatched up as soon as they appeared on the bookshelf.

Those who got the signed version of "The Great Song" were basically people living in cities, mostly young people. They either had computers at home or went to Internet cafes to surf the Internet and show off their hardcover signed copies of "The Great Song" in online forums.

One showed off, and the other showed off too. Some people

even came to show off that they have two copies. Are you angry?

How bored people are these days? Such a small thing has actually caused a stir in online forums.

There are also readers who bought the first signed book and said, "Although I don't have the hardcover version, I also have a cute signed book!"

So one by one, they showed off their signed books in the forum. Readers who really love "The Great Song" asked them if they were willing to resell.

Some were willing, and some were not.

Some people who didn't know what was "The Great Song" and why so many people were reading it.

Therefore, a group of netizens who didn't know about "Da Song" were recommended the physical book of "Da Song", "Bao Qingtian II" adapted from "Da Song", and the magazine "Wu Xia" which serialized "Da Song".

This led to another wave of sales of "Da Song" and "Wu Xia" offline.

After watching the latest issue of "Da Song" and "Wu Xia", these new readers especially watched the TV series adapted from "Da Song".

Therefore, the ratings, which had been stable between more than 20% and 40%, suddenly began to increase slowly, and suddenly broke through the 40 mark one day, and it was still rising.

The staff of the TV station went to report the good news to Director Li early in the morning: "Director, Director, our ratings yesterday have broken the highest ratings of Shanghai TV's self-produced dramas last year. Yesterday's highest ratings reached 45.69%!"

Even Director Li was surprised and asked blankly: "What happened? Was the rebroadcast of "Hong Kong Drama" on another station taken off the air?"

The TV station staff didn't know either, but he knew whether "Hong Kong Drama" was taken off the air or not: "It hasn't been taken off the air yet."

"Go and check what's going on!"

Qin Shumin has been filming on the crew during this period and has no time to go online, so she doesn't know why the ratings suddenly rose.

She hadn't had a full night's sleep for many days in a row. Sometimes she couldn't even tell whether she was Qin Shumin or the heroine of "Bao".

The ratings of "Bao" were still rising slowly.

In the end, a new employee who was online at the station said to Director Li uncertainly: "Could it be related to this thing in the online forum?"

He opened the online forum on his computer and showed Director Li the online discussion about "Da Song".

Director Li really didn't expect such an unexpected surprise. So far, the highest ratings of this drama have exceeded the two most popular dramas produced by other stations last year. Although it has not reached the highest record of 51% of the first "Bao", it has stabilized at around 30% to 40%, and the fluctuation has gradually decreased.

This wave can be said to be stable. As long as there are no particularly big mistakes in the future, or there is a sudden hit drama like "Hong Shuai" broadcasted during this year's winter vacation, the ratings of "Bao Er" will basically not fluctuate much in the future.

The decline in the ratings of the drama during the winter vacation really scared him.

From 30% to less than 1% of the total revenue, it was frightening just thinking about it.

"Bao Er" is still being broadcast in Province Z. Now the TV fees during the prime time every night are almost enough to cover the cost of filming the drama, not to mention the TV fees in the next few months and the TV fees during the rebroadcast time period, as well as the subsequent broadcast fees if other stations buy the drama.

It can be said that it was really worth it to buy the copyright and adaptation rights of the TV drama from Xi Meng for 8,000 yuan!

To use a phrase from the Internet in later generations: It's a win!

Not only did the TV station win, but the publishing house and the magazine also made a lot of money because of the release of "Bao Er".

The total sales of "Wu Xia" this month directly exceeded 3.8 million copies.

After the first part of "Judge Bao" was released, they adjusted the first print run, and the monthly total sales basically remained at around 2.6 million copies. It has not exceeded 3 million copies for a long time. However, as soon as "Bao Er" was released, their total sales directly increased by 1 million copies. How could the magazine not be excited and surprised?

You know, a magazine with a monthly total sales of 1 million copies is already a best-selling magazine.

"Wu Xia" can now be said to be among the best-selling magazines.

Even the publisher did not expect that the total sales of the three volumes of the serialized novel that Wu Xia magazine took the initiative to cooperate with in order to open up the northern market has approached the five million mark, becoming the best-selling book ever published by their publisher. This has

brought Jiang Xi a considerable income.

Even Jiang Xi herself did not expect that she started to contribute articles to raise tuition fees and to have a steady source of living expenses. She had the idea of ​​writing a long criminal story after listening to "There is a Justice Bao in Kaifeng" on the street, which actually brought her so much income.

One villa, six large-area apartments. The third volume has been released, and the fourth volume is also in production. The publisher wants to release the second volume while the second volume is still hot.

If the first volume of the first volume was just a way to ride on the popularity of the first volume, the second volume is no longer a way to ride on the popularity of the first volume. It is the popularity of the Song Dynasty itself. The popularity of the first volume even feeds back to the second volume, directly pushing the ratings of the second volume to over 45 and close to 50. The

generous royalties in the bankbook also made Jiang Qi worry about the mortgage issue.

A mortgage of 5,000 yuan, for 20 years later, is just a mortgage for a house, which is not a problem at all, but for people at that time, the savings of a family is no more than 5,000 yuan.

Now, Jiang's father and mother have settled down in Shenzhen, and their savings have finally exceeded 5,000 yuan.

They really didn't expect that selling lunch boxes near the train station would make more money than working on the construction site.

They rented not a new house, but an old house built by locals. It was a bungalow. It used to be where locals lived, but now all the locals live in commercial housing. This row of houses was rented to outsiders like them who came here to work. Jiang's father and mother rented the one at the end. They bought a large coal stove that can hold nine coal briquettes at a time, and a small coal stove that can hold three coal briquettes. They used it to cook. They put it next to the house during the day and carried it under the eaves when it rained.

There was a large pond at the door, which could be used to wash clothes and vegetables.

After experiencing the initial language barrier, Jiang's father still bought all the pots, bowls, and utensils he needed. He also asked around and found out that there was a wholesale vegetable market not far away. The vegetable prices were much cheaper than those in ordinary vegetable markets. Jiang's father bought a second-hand tricycle and got up at three o'clock every morning to ride the tricycle to the wholesale market to buy vegetables. Jiang's mother washed clothes and cleaned the house. Jiang's

mother was efficient. Every day when Jiang's father bought vegetables, Jiang's mother would wash them carefully. The neighbors knew that they were selling food, so when Jiang's mother washed the vegetables, they would secretly watch her to see if she washed them cleanly.

When other people sell food, they have too many ingredients, and some of them are not washed at all, or they just dip them in water and pick them up. But Jiang's mother is very careful and washes them thoroughly.

When Jiang's father first arrived here, he gave his neighbors and landlords his homemade snail sauce. It was not much, one bowl for each family to taste.

It was not much, but it was a thought. Although there were still some linguistic quirks, the smile was the eternal pass.

When Jiang's father was at home, he liked to read recipes. Whenever the children were at home and he had time, he liked to prepare some delicious food for them. He also brought the recipes back with him this time. After paying the rent, buying a stove, pots and pans, coal briquettes, disposable lunch boxes, etc., they didn't have much money left. With limited funds, he couldn't cook any big dishes. They just had ordinary vegetables, chicken bones, pork ribs, two meats and two vegetables, plus a box lunch. If there was pork ribs, it was 1.5 yuan per portion, and if there was no pork ribs, it was 1 yuan per portion. They rode their tricycles to the vicinity of the railway station every day to sell.

At first, they wanted to cook three meals a day, but later they found that they couldn't afford it, so they gave up breakfast and specialized in lunch and dinner.

The neighbors noticed that the couple kept the ingredients clean, so sometimes when they were tired from work and didn't want to cook, they would buy meals from Jiang's father and mother.

Jiang's father and mother were not the only ones selling boxed lunches near the train station. At the beginning, Jiang's father and mother gave away a large spoonful of snail meat sauce when they bought a boxed lunch, which attracted many customers. After the snail meat sauce was gone, Jiang's father was afraid that he could not compete with others, so he bought a large steel barrel. Every day he went to the wholesale market, bought two large bones and chicken bones, and boiled them in the large steel barrel from the evening until noon the next day. The bone soup was so rich and fragrant that the neighbors came to him to ask for the soup, and he never refused anyone. This large steel barrel full of bone soup was given to customers for free. Whoever wanted to drink it could scoop it out themselves.

At first, Jiang's mother objected to his waste of money. Although two bones and chicken bones didn't cost much, they would add up to a lot of money after years of accumulation. There was also the cost of coal briquettes. They didn't make much money from a box of lunch, and they spent so much money. Jiang's mother thought Jiang's father was a fool.

But Jiang's father insisted. He cooked the meals, bought the vegetables, and made the soup. After frying a few racks to no avail, Jiang's mother calmed down. Soon she discovered the benefits of Jiang's father doing this.

When they first came to Guangzhou, it was winter. They packed their meals into lunch boxes and rode their bikes to sell them at the back. The meals were cold. No matter how good your cooking skills were, the food would not taste good. However, people who had shops near the train station could keep their meals soaked in hot water, or heat them on the stove if they wanted to eat them. They could eat them hot at any time.

After they had Jiang's hot soup, they were reluctant to buy water at first. When they heard that he had free hot soup, they came to drink soup. With a big spoon, they found several big bones and whole chicken bones. The chicken bones were broken into pieces, and they could scoop up a lot of chicken bones with one spoon to chew.

When guests came, Jiang's father also spoke broken Mandarin to the guests, telling them how cleanly Jiang's mother washed the vegetables and how hygienic they were when cooking: "Many families don't even wash the vegetables and just cook them. How can they eat them? We don't even dare to eat dishes cooked by outsiders, so we have to cook them ourselves. How could the neighbors see how clean my family is and come to eat? Aren't we just selling boxed lunches?"

Jiang's father has a dignified appearance, tall and mighty, but his smile carries a kind of honesty that makes people unconsciously willing to trust him, plus his cooking skills are really good.

Soon, in addition to the travelers who hurried to and from the train station every day, he also had a group of regular customers. The nearby shops and workers were willing to buy lunch boxes from his tricycle stall.

Every day when Jiang's father was selling lunch boxes, his eyes would be fixed on the entrance of the train station, trying to find Jiang Song.

They never thought that Jiang Bai's college entrance examination would come in his hometown.

In Jiang Bai's heart, the importance of the college entrance examination has always been greater than the college entrance examination, because after the college entrance examination, you can get a high school diploma.

For a long time, he planned to stop studying after the college entrance examination and go out to work after getting the diploma.

Even though he has changed his mind now, he still attaches great importance to the college entrance examination.

Before, Shanghai High School sent him a lot of test paper sets and asked him to look at them and do them. If he didn't know how to do it, he could call them.

Now Jiang Bai no longer needs to do the test papers given by the teachers of Wucheng No. 1 Middle School in class. He mainly does the test papers of Shanghai.

If you don't practice this normally, you will feel uncomfortable when you suddenly get a different test paper from here, but after doing it many times and having an adaptation period, you will find that these things are universal.

All the test papers of No. 1 Middle School are from the principal of the provincial capital's key high school, which is almost synchronized with the provincial capital's key high school with the best admission rate.

Jiang Bai thinks that the teachers in Shanghai are afraid that he can't adapt, so they give him a simpler test paper than the one issued by No. 1 Middle School.

He went to Shanghai to take the exam alone. Perhaps because he knew he would be back soon, he did not feel nervous. It was just that in a strange city, a strange school, and surrounded by strange classmates, he habitually kept a cold face, expressionless, and cold. The

examination room was divided into different places. Students from different classes were in the same examination room. Many people were surprised. When did their school have such a handsome guy? How come they had never seen him before? Everyone turned around to look at Jiang Bai.

Jiang Bai's current clothes, let alone in Wucheng, even in Shanghai, did not have the rural air that he once had. He sat in the examination room with a cold temperament. Even the invigilator could not help but look at him a few more times.

Jiang Bai was used to being watched in Wucheng, and now he had practiced it. He was as calm as a mountain when being watched. When the test papers were handed out, he just focused on writing. After finishing, he checked it. If there was nothing wrong, he would hand it in and leave.

This happened for several times in a row.