Kaiping Village is a very ordinary small village in Guangdong, and it has been five years since the reform and opening up, and the spring breeze from Shekou and Shenzhen, the two major open up special zones, has gradually blown to this closed small village.

The village has just set up a village-run enterprise this year, which is said to be an enterprise, but in fact, it is just a workshop to help the county's large factories process leftovers. However, it is undeniable that in less than half a year since the establishment of this village-run enterprise, the income of the villagers has increased a lot.

The first television set in the village appeared in the villager Zhao Daguo, and that was two years ago, sent by the Hong Kong relatives of the Zhao family. At that time, it caused a sensation in the whole village, and even people from nearby villages came to watch - this is a color TV.

Since then, Zhao Daguo's color TV has not been turned off, even after the TV program is broadcast, many villagers can watch "snowflakes" for half an hour.

Zhao Daodao and his wife faced this situation, first they were proud, then they became impatient, but in the end they were happy, because he put the TV here and started to charge.

At first, the charge was just to scare off those who watched TV, but the symbolic surname charged five cents per person, and after paying the money, he could watch it all day. As a result, only five cents can't scare people away, and their house is still full every day.

Then the price rose to one cent, two cents, and it was not until the current five cents that the number of people gradually decreased. Up to now, Zhao Daoguo can earn more than ten yuan a day just by watching TV.

With the increase of farmers' income, the number of TVs in the village has gradually increased, and now there are 6 TVs in the village, and they all follow the example of Zhao Daodao.

However, Zhao Daguo's "spectators" have always been very stable, because his TV is the only color TV in the village.

Today, the whole family was still having dinner, and some villagers who had eaten early had already entered the house and waited. I consciously took out five cents and put it in the box next to the TV, and the villagers sat down on the small bench they brought with them, staring at the TV and watching the news broadcast.

By the time Zhao Daodao's wife cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, there were already thirty or forty people sitting in the room.

After the weather forecast ended, people began to talk about the TV series.

"Akang, the White Fuji team is going to play against the Hanada team today, do you think you can win this time?"

"Sure to win, Junko Xiaolu is so powerful!"

"I don't think so, Nanxiang Xiaoxiong's trick 'Meteor Catching the Moon' beat Junko Xiaolu so badly last time."

"Didn't you see the coach let Junko train intensively? Specially trained to deal with the 'Meteor Catching the Moon'. ”

“……”

The villagers are talking about the TV series "Volleyball Girl" introduced by CCTV, which immediately became popular in the mainland after it was broadcast, and Junko Xiaolu has also become a TV idol in the minds of a generation. Many young people also fell in love with volleyball because of this, and some even went to practice volleyball after watching TV dramas.

A few years later, the Chinese people watched the broadcast of the Chinese women's volleyball team girls on TV, and shouted that the Chinese women's volleyball team was not at the level, and they didn't even know how to use tricks like "Thunderbolt in the Clear Sky" and "Meteor Catching the Moon".

It wasn't until later that they saw their team playing against the Chinese team that they realized that they had been deceived. It turns out that not only will the Chinese women's volleyball team not be "a thunderbolt in the clear sky", but the women's volleyball team will not be ...... Now that "Volleyball Girl" is being broadcast in China, most viewers still think that this TV series adapted from comics, the volleyball playing style in it is real.

A young villager stretched out his arm ostentatiously, revealing the Shanghai brand watch on his wrist, looked at it seriously for more than ten seconds, and announced: ""Volleyball Girl" is about to start!" ”

In fact, there is no need for him to remind you, those who often watch TV are familiar with the program broadcast schedule of CCTV.

However, they were soon disappointed, the central station that was supposed to broadcast "Volleyball Girl" actually broadcast a military evening show today.

"What? Yesterday, on July 1st, the party's students said, didn't they just have a party, why did they come again today? One villager complained.

An old man with a wrinkled face said with a smile: "The party is also good-looking, maybe Guo Lanying will come out to sing." ”

"Yes, I just like the song "A Stream of Water Comes a Piece of Mountain". An aunt chimed in.

Several young people were not happy, and asked Zhao Daodao to change to the provincial Taiwan to have a look.

At present, there are no set-top boxes and no satellite antennas, and the people's television sets in the whole country can basically only receive three television stations -- central, provincial, and municipal stations, and some backward localities do not even have city stations.

Zhao Daodao couldn't stand the entanglement, so he changed the TV channel to Guangdong TV. Before he could withdraw his hand to change the channel, a beautiful singing voice came from the TV: "Wait for a thousand years, wait for a ......."

The room immediately fell silent, except for the singing of the television, all eyes fixed on the TV screen.

Zhao Daodao retreated to his seat step by step, but his eyes never left the TV for a second. More realistic special effects, magical spells, gorgeous costumes, and fairy-like beauties than the original...... Just one intro made the villagers in the house stunned.

Until the end of the first episode, when people waited for the ending song to finish, no one got up to go to the bathroom, no one made small talk, and all the attention was on the TV.

"It's over." Zhao Daodao said.

"Isn't that new?" A young man asked reluctantly.

"Probably not." Zhao Daodao himself actually wants to watch the second episode.

Everyone is afraid that they will miss the second episode that may be there, even if Zhao Daodao is not allowed to change the channel even when the advertisement is screened. More than 30 people sat there until the early hours of the morning, when there were a large number of snowflakes on the TV, and then some people left with sighs and sighs.

The next day, in the village-run workshop-style factory, the workers chatted while working.

"Hey, Jinhua, did you watch TV last night?"

"Look, the party on the central station is very good. Zheng Xulan also came out to sing "Shepherd's Song", which sounded so good. ”

"I'm talking about Guangdong TV, let me tell you, Guangdong TV released a TV series last night, which is better than "Volleyball Girl".

"You lie, I heard that "Volleyball Girl" was bought and broadcast by Central TV at a large price, is the TV series of Guangdong TV better than the TV series of Yuben?"

The two were chatting, and a worker next to him suddenly interjected: "It's true, I also watched it last night, the actress who played Bai Suzhen is so beautiful, she looks like a fairy." ”

"You watched it too? I specifically looked at the cast, and the one who played Bai Suzhen was called Zhao Yazhi. ”

"Really? I haven't noticed yet, it turns out that her name is Zhao Yazhi, just listening to the name is good. ”

"Hey, what kind of TV series are you talking about? Could it be that Zhao Yazhi is more beautiful than Zhang Yu and Ding Lan? ”

Zhang Yu and Ding Lan are the heroines of "Lushan Love" and "Shaolin Temple" respectively, and they are the most popular actresses in the mainland in recent years.

"What are Zhang Yu and Ding Lan? Have you ever seen a fairy? Zhao Yazhi's Bai Suzhen is exactly the same as a fairy. ”

"Yes. Ah Hua, don't tell Jin Hua more, she hasn't seen it anyway, let's talk. How did you say that big snake on TV became sincere? Did you really find a snake to play? ”

"Of course it's a real snake, don't you see it spitting out letters? I guess it's mostly zoo snakes. ”

"I guess so. Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing are so powerful, that spell ......"

Not only this small village, after the broadcast of "The Legend of the New White Lady" on Guangdong TV, people everywhere in Guangdong Province sang "Wait for a Thousand Years". At the beginning of the TV series every night, at least eighty percent of the TV sets do not watch the central station, but watch the provincial station, and the ratings of the Guangdong station are increasing steadily.

And the names of Zhao Yazhi and Chen Meiqi are also well-known to many Cantonese people through the identities of Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing. On the contrary, Lin Qingxia, who played Xu Xian in reverse, did not attract much attention - most people don't even know that Lin Qingxia is a woman.

Guangdong is at the forefront of reform and opening up, and Cantonese people are known for their shrewdness, and before the broadcast of "The Legend of the New White Lady" was finished, some Guangdong businessmen began to sell pirated tapes of TV series titles and endings, as well as episodes.

In just over a month, the original pirated cassette of "The Legend of the New White Lady" has sold at least one million boxes in Guangdong. With such a huge sales, if those Hong Kong and Taiwan singers who want to sell platinum results but can't get them know, it is estimated that they will be so angry that they vomit blood.

With the hot sale of pirated tapes, some people finally found out from the subtitles of the TV series that the singers who sang these songs were actually Teresa Teng and Wang Zijun.

What Teresa Teng and Wang Zijun look like, many fans in the mainland have never seen it, but this does not prevent their fame from spreading in private.

Songs such as "The Moon Represents My Heart" and "Childhood" have been spread in the mainland in recent years and have become the enlightenment songs of the new generation of musicians in the mainland. And Wang Zijun and Teresa Teng are also regarded as idols by many young people who like music.

After learning that Wang Zijun and Teresa Teng were the singers of the song "The Legend of the New White Lady", people were surprised to find that Wang Zijun was still the director of this TV series.

Ordinary people only know that the director is very powerful, but people in the mainland are even more surprised, and director Wang Flin is one of the surprised people.

The future director of the CCTV version of "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Three Kingdoms" is having a headache with the preparation and filming of "Dream of Red Mansions" at this time.

There are many film talents in the mainland, but there are few who know how to shoot TV series, and CCTV's TV drama production center has just been established.

And Wang Fulin is one of the few directors who knows how to shoot TV dramas, and after the reform and opening up, he was even sent to Europe by the unit to study the shooting methods of TV dramas.

"The Legend of the New White Lady" is a hit in Guangdong, and people in the industry like Wang Fulin, although they are in Yanjing, have already heard of it.

Unlike last year's version of "Journey to the West", which was criticized for being broadcast on the mainland, and was bombarded and stopped by the people after only a few episodes were broadcast. "The Legend of the New White Lady" is also adapted from Chinese myths and legends, but the show has received little criticism.

Some literati in Guangdong who watched this drama even wrote articles praising it when they liked it.

Even "Yangcheng Evening News" used half a page to report on the hit of "The Legend of the New White Lady" for the first time: "...... since "The Legend of the New White Lady" was broadcast on Guangdong TV, now every time the show is broadcast, there are almost no pedestrians on the streets of Guangzhou. Even if there are people, they are in a hurry, and when they ask where they are going, the answer must be to rush home to watch the "New" drama......"

A writer with the pen name "Xintian" lamented in a magazine: "When I went to the countryside, there was a fellow in my village who was very good at telling stories. At that time, the best way for us educated youth to forget about hunger was to listen to the story. "Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness", "The Case of Bao Gong", "The Legend of the Sea Flower", "The Legend of the White Snake", ...... The fellow used to be a storyteller, and although he was over seventy years old, he told stories with a loud voice...... When I heard "The Legend of the White Snake", I often constructed the image of the White Snake in my mind, and when I watched "The Legend of the New White Lady", I realized that the fictional White Lady appeared in front of my eyes so realistically...... Although Miss Zhao Yazhi is a compatriot from Hong Kong, she has all the beautiful temperament of traditional Chinese female surnames, gentle, beautiful, and kind......"

Zhao Yazhi has long been praised to the sky, especially in the hearts of those bunkers, Zhao Yazhi has become a goddess-like existence.

Naturally, such a big response could no longer be confined to Guangdong, and newspapers in other regions began to report on the situation one after another. Then there were comrades from other provinces and Taiwan, who were sent to Guangdong and Taiwan to inquire about the news, and then rushed to Hong Kong in a swarm.

Jiashi's sales department laughed like crazy, although the mainland's TV stations don't pay much, they can't stand up to many TV stations. Anyway, these TV series are all put in the warehouse, and now they are sold out, and under the small profits and quick turnover, Jiashi can get a considerable windfall income.

It's not just "The Legend of the New White Lady" that was sold, Jiashi's film library was watched over and over again by TV stations around the world, and finally more than a dozen martial arts films, fashion dramas, and historical dramas, including "The Legend of Xiang Shuai", were sold, earning more than two million Hong Kong dollars in vain.

And this is just the beginning, these local TV stations now have no ability to shoot self-made TV series at all, and if they buy it smoothly in the future, Jiashi will have an extra stable income.

Of course, the best-selling is "The Legend of the New White Lady", just looking at the final cast list makes the bosses of those TV stations feel that they have more face.

This TV series was performed by actors from multiple regions, and at that time, Wang Zijun deliberately added suffixes to the names of the cast, such as "Zhao Yazhi (Hong Kong, China)" and "Chen Meiqi (Macau, China)".

When mainland audiences see the cast, their first feeling is that this is an international-level large-scale TV series.

Why? Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, China, and even several Singapore.

This is precisely the reason why the leaders of the television station feel that they have face, and now the mainland does not feel that Taiwan is much reactionary, and although there has been no cross-strait exchange, everyone thinks that Hong Kong and Taiwan are advanced and developed, and there is some blind worship and favorability. Buying a "Legend of the New White Lady" is like buying actors from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Singapore, how can this not make the leaders happy?

Director Wang Fulin watched "The Legend of the New White Lady" under such circumstances, and couldn't help but sigh after watching it, and then decided to go to Hong Kong to invite a costume designer from the "New" drama to come, and everyone studied the costumes of "Dream of Red Mansions" together.

(To be continued)